2/6/18 The Grassley/Graham Memo
Dear Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein and Director Wray:
Attached please find a classified memorandum related to certain communications between Christopher Steele and multiple U.S. news outlets regarding the so-called "Trump dossier" that Mr. Steele compiled on behalf of Fusion GPS for the Clinton Campaign and the Democratic National Committee and also provided to the FBI.
Based on the information contained therein, we are respectfully referring Mr. Steele to you for investigation o f potential violations o f 18 U.S .C. § 1001, for statements the Committee has reason to believe Mr. Steele made regarding his distribution of information contained in the dossier.
MEMO
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo...0Referral).pdf
18 U.S .C. § 1001
TITLE 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
PART I - CRIMES
CHAPTER 47 - FRAUD AND FALSE STATEMENTS
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, whoever, in any
matter within the jurisdiction of the executive, legislative, or
judicial branch of the Government of the United States, knowingly
and willfully -
(1) falsifies, conceals, or covers up by any trick, scheme, or
device a material fact;
(2) makes any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent
statement or representation; or
(3) makes or uses any false writing or document knowing the
same to contain any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent
statement or entry;
http://trac.syr.edu/laws/18/18USC01001.html
DOJ Press Release - Russian Indictments
Office of The Inspector General - Treasury Dept
Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about the IRAN DEAL Money, is in this Report
http://www.treasury.gov/about/organi...%20Inquiry.pdf
Dear Chairman Hatch:
This responds to your letter dated September 13, 2016, which requested our review of the Department of the Treasury’s (Treasury) January 19, 2016 payment to the Islamic Republic of Iran (Iran). In brief, one payment, of approximately $1.3 billion, was made from the Judgment Fund...This single payment was made by Fiscal Service through the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (FRBNY) to De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB). We were able to confirm this single payment through review of source documents. DNB was provided instructions to convert the $1.3 billion into Euro banknotes and disburse up to three payments to an agent of Central Bank of Iran (CBI) on or before specified dates.
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Source documents providing evidence of the transactions between DNB, and CBI and its agent were not available to us and therefore not reviewed by our Office.
And, pertaining to the DOJ
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We requested documentation to support DOJ’s assertion. As of the date of this letter we have not received this documentation.
And,
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.On November 4, 2016, we sent a letter to DOD Office of Inspector General requesting confirmation from its department that no other source of funds was available to make the interest payment. As of the date of this letter we received a response from the DOD Office of Inspector General that they are working on responding to our request.
Lots of secrecy
Which begs the Q questions...
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Where did it end up?
What was the purpose?
Who was suppose to win the election of 2016?
Why was the Iran deal kept from Congress and placed at the highest level of classification?
Meaning, a United States Senator could NOT review the deal but other foreign powers could.
How much money was hand delivered by plane(s)?
Why in cash?
Where did the plane(s) actually land?
What was the cover?
Who paid for BO to attend Harvard?
Why would this occur pre-political days?
Who was the biggest contributor to the CF?
The graphic is the key.
Why does the MSM push conspiracy w/o investigation?
Who controls the MSM?
What does the word 'conspiracy' mean to you?
Has the word 'conspiracy' been branded to mean something shameful in today's society?
The world cannot handle the truth.
This pill cannot be swallowed by most.
Risk in painting this picture.
THE SUM OF ALL FEARS.
Q
The GOP Intl Committee’s Response to the Schiff Memo
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The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board’a response - Dem Memo
Democrats for Eavesdrop Abuse
Their intel memo confirms the FBI used Clinton research to spy on Carter Page.
Feb 25, 2018
https://www.speakupwny.com/forums/at...5&d=1519653183
The House Intelligence Committee on Saturday released the long-awaited Democratic response to allegations the FBI abused its surveillance powers during the 2016 election. Committee Chairman Devin Nunes owes ranking Democrat Adam Schiff a thank you for assisting his case.
The 10-page Democratic memo begins by declaring that “The FBI and DOJ officials did not ‘abuse’ the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) process, omit material information, or subvert this vital tool to spy on the Trump campaign.” Yet the facts it lays out show the opposite.
In particular the memo confirms that the FBI used an opposition-research document paid for by the Hillary Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee as part of its application to surveil Carter Page, who was associated with the Donald Trump campaign.
Democrats dispute the degree to which the FBI relied on the dossier created by opposition-researcher Christopher Steele in applying for its FISA court order, but that’s beside the point. If the FBI had as much “compelling evidence” and “probable cause” as the memo asserts, it would not have needed to cite the Steele document. And the Democrats do not dispute that the Steele dossier was the FBI’s only source in its initial FISA application for its allegation that Mr. Page met with suspect Russians in Moscow in July 2016.
The Democratic memo makes no attempt to rebut the widely reported news that former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe told Congress that the FBI would not have sought a surveillance warrant without the dossier. Democratic Rep. Jim Himes claimed on “Fox News Sunday” that Mr. McCabe never said that, but then why not put that in the memo?
The Democratic memo also confirms that the FBI withheld from the court the partisan provenance of the dossier. Democrats even provide, for the first time in public, the precise language the FBI used in its initial application in a long, obfuscating footnote.
Democrats say the FBI told the FISA court that a “law firm” [Clinton/DNC firm Perkins Coie] hired “an identified U.S. person” [oppo-research firm Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson ] to “conduct research regarding Candidate #1s ties to Russia.” The “identified U.S. person” then hired “Source #1” [Mr. Steele] to do the research. The footnote ends: “The FBI speculates that the identified U.S. person was likely looking for information that could be used to discredit Candidate #1’s campaign.”
Speculates? Likely? Could? The dossier was paid for by actors whose overriding purpose was to defeat Mr. Trump. Nowhere do Democrats say the FBI used the words “political” or “partisan” or “campaign,” much less Clinton or Democratic National Committee.
The Democratic memo claims the FBI acted “appropriately” in not “revealing” the name of an “entity” in a FISA application, but this is laughable. The FBI sometimes masks identities to preserve sources and methods, but the Steele dossier was a pastiche of gossip and rumor based on Mr. Steele’s contacts. Disclosing his partisan funders would have betrayed no important intelligence sources but would have given the court reason to ask the FBI for more credible information before granting an eavesdrop order.
Messrs. Steele and Simpson briefed their media friends in September and October about their dossier, despite FBI prohibitions. The FBI nonetheless falsely told the court that Mr. Steele wasn’t the source of a Yahoo News article that it used as additional evidence in its application. While the Democratic memo repeatedly refers to Mr. Steele’s reporting as “reliable” and “credible,” it confirms that the FBI fired Mr. Steele after it found he hadn’t told the truth about his media spinning.
The Democratic memo devotes considerable space to smearing the hapless Mr. Page, as if he’s some kind of master spy and the Rosetta Stone of the Trump-Russia story. Yet no one has offered proof that he colluded with the Russians, and he hasn’t been indicted.
Democrats also make much of the fact the FBI started looking into the Trump campaign in July 2016 but didn’t receive “Steele’s reporting” until “mid-September.” So what? The issue here is the fairness and honesty of the FISA application in late October (not the investigation), and what matters is that the FBI didn’t move on the FISA application until after it received the dossier.
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The only definitive evidence of political “collusion” so far is that the Clinton campaign paid Mr. Steele to troll his Russian sources for dirt on Donald Trump. The FBI then used this dirt as a reason to spy on Mr. Page and anyone he was communicating with. Imagine how the press would be playing this story if the roles were reversed?
3/8/18 New Executive Order helps rehab criminals
...To further improve public safety, we should aim not only to prevent crime in the first place, but also to provide those who have engaged in criminal activity with greater opportunities to lead productive lives. The Federal Government can assist in breaking this cycle of crime through a comprehensive strategy that addresses a range of issues, including mental health, vocational training, job creation, after-school programming, substance abuse, and mentoring. Incarceration is necessary to improve public safety, but its effectiveness can be enhanced through evidence-based rehabilitation programs. These efforts will lower recidivism rates, ease incarcerated individuals’ reentry into the community, reduce future incarceration costs, and promote positive social and economic outcomes.
Sec. 2. Policy. It is the policy of the United States to prioritize efforts to prevent youths and adults from entering or reentering the criminal justice system. While investigating crimes and prosecuting perpetrators must remain the top priority of law enforcement, crime reduction policy should also include efforts to prevent crime in the first place and to lower recidivism rates. These efforts should address a range of social and economic factors, including poverty, lack of education and employment opportunities, family dissolution, drug use and addiction, mental illness, and behavioral health conditions. The Federal Government must harness and wisely direct its considerable resources and broad expertise to identify and help implement improved crime prevention strategies, including evidence-based practices that reduce criminal activity among youths and adults. Through effective coordination among executive departments and agencies (agencies), the Federal Government can have a constructive role in preventing crime and in ensuring that the correctional facilities in the United States prepare inmates to successfully reenter communities as productive, law-abiding members of society.
Sec. 3. Establishment of the Federal Interagency Council on Crime Prevention and Improving Reentry
Read more here...
https:// http://www.whitehouse.gov/presidenti...oving-reentry/
Petition: Internet Bill of Rights
Please sign and make sure to check your email to verify signature...Needs 93,114 signatures by April 3, 2018 to get a response from the White House
"Internet forums and social networks which provide free access to the public are a digital place of assembly, and individuals using such methods for public communication should not be subjected to censorship due to political beliefs or differing ideas. Conservative voices on many large public website platforms are being censored, based solely on a differing opinion. Some of these platforms further employ tracking mechanisms for monitoring an individual's digital history, which can be used to censor the individual's public communication through various censorship practices, sometimes without knowledge or awareness. These actions directly violate personal liberty and stand at contrast with the bill of rights.
We the people demand action to bring our digital future into the light."
petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/internet-bill-rights-2
UPDATE: This "Version 2" Petition was started because version 1 appeared to not be gaining an adequate number of signatures and time ran out. There was speculation that signatures were not being counted correctly and/or thwarted promotion shenanigans were suspect. We are seeing the SAME thing again with Version 2 DESPITE INCREASED EFFORTS including targeted and aggressive promotion on Twitter, Facebook and the Chans
2 Attachment(s)
Núñez Statement on Russian Collusion Investigation
1 Attachment(s)
OIG Announces Review of DOJ & FBI Practices
5 Attachment(s)
Jeff Sessions letter to Congress RE Huber as Prosecutor With IG Horowitz
2 Attachment(s)
OIG has the secure cloud storage file from Hillary's private server
The IG has the Datto node, which was backing up all of Hillary's secret server unbeknownst to the Hillary camp. They had completely forgotten about it!
https://www.speakupwny.com/forums/at...8&d=1522820390
https://www.speakupwny.com/forums/at...9&d=1522820407
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Rod Rosenstein - High Noon - TODAY 4/5/18