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    Glenn at the Chalkboard Breaking Down The Ukraine Scandal into Digestible Bites

    Step-by-Step Clarity On Ukraine’s role in our politics...
    As Glenn says, stay for the end - the ending is really good (and, is actually, the beginning of exposing it all) - good background moving forward AND, he doesn’t even mention the Crowdstrike hot topic...



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    No Subpoena Power w/o Vote/EO Stops Healthcare Bill for Illegals/8Chan Coming Back

    /Hillary suggests “legal” ways to get Trump/Marine Corp Reserve Activated/what’s next?

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    There’s a PAINful Relationship Between Two News Stories That Came Out Today

    1) Durham, initially charged with investigating the “origins of the Mueller Investigation” has expanded the scope and budget due to what he has been finding, and, 2) Declassifed reports from the FISC shows that the FBI and unauthorized contractors conducted “tens of thousands of improper/illegal searches of raw intelligence data bases” violating 4th Ammendment protections in 2015 &2016 to March 2017.


    Fox News previously reported that Durham would be reviewing the days leading up to the 2016 election and through the inauguration.

    However, based on what he has been finding, Durham has expanded his investigation adding agents and resources, the senior administration officials said. The timeline has grown from the beginning of the probe through the election and now has included a post-election timeline through the spring of 2017, up to when Robert Mueller was named special counsel.

    Attorney General Bill Barr and Durham traveled to Italy recently to talk to law enforcement officials there about the probe and have also had conversations with officials in the U.K. and Australia about the investigation, according to multiple sources familiar with the meetings.
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dur...expanded-scope

    2)

    It is within this time-period where ongoing DOJ and FBI activity transfers from the Obama administration (Collyer report) into the Trump administration (Boasberg report).

    It cannot be overemphasized as you read the Boasberg opinion, or any reporting on the Boasberg opinion, that officials within DOJ and FBI are/were on a continuum. Meaning the “small group” activity didn’t stop after the election but rather continued with the Mueller and Weissmann impeachment agenda.

    Remember, the 2016 ‘insurance policy’ was to hand Mueller the 2016 FBI investigation so they could turn it into the 2017 special counsel investigation. Mueller, Weissmann and the group then used the ‘Steele Dossier’ as the cornerstone for the special counsel review. The goal of the Mueller investigation was to construct impeachment via obstruction. The same players transferred from “crossfire hurricane” into the Mueller ‘obstruction‘ plan.
    The court concluded that the FBI had been improperly searching a database of raw intelligence for information on Americans—raising concerns about oversight of the program, which as a spy program operates in near total secrecy.
    https://theconservativetreehouse.com...abase-queries/

    The revelation that contractors illegally accessed NSA raw intelligence isn’t new to those who follow Q posts - Q told us about this as early as 1/29/18 and again last April...

    Relevent Q posts (here at Post #113) and (here From Posts #2559 - #2561


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    Epstein’s Modeling Agency Pimp, Jean Luc Brunel, is Selling Assets and Cooperating



    In a court filing submitted in one of her defamation case, former Epstein sex slave Virginia Roberts described Brunel's relationship with Epstein.

    “Jeffrey Epstein has told me that he has slept with over 1,000 of Brunel’s girls, and everything that I have seen confirms this claim,” Giuffre said.





    'He would bring young girls (ranging from ages as young as twelve) to the United States for sexual purposes and farm them out to his friends, especially Epstein,' stated one filing.

    'Brunel would offer the girls "modeling" jobs. Many of the girls came from poor countries or impoverished backgrounds, and he lured them in with a promise of making good money.'

    In one instance, according to claims made by former Epstein sex slave Virginia Roberts in court filings, Brunel provided Epstein with three French girls who were all aged 12 for his birthday.


    https://www.thedailybeast.com/epstei...lls-off-assets

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...Lkr1I4MTehxAco
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    Journalist, John Solomon & Others’ Communications “monitored” by U.S. Intelligence

    This wasn’t the first time; Q posted on it here at Post #2612

    Starting at 2:45...



    During an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity, Nunes talked about a letter by former GOP congressman Pete Sessions to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that he said raised concerns that former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch was "not serving the Trump administration well" and was removed from her post earlier this year.

    "We also have concerns that possibly they were monitoring press from different journalists and others," Nunes said. "That we don't know, but we have people who are giving us this information and we're going to ask these questions to the State Department and hopefully they're going to get the answers before she comes in on Friday."

    “What I've heard — and I want to be clear — there's a difference. What I've heard is that there were strange requests, irregular requests to monitor not just one journalist, but multiple journalists. Now perhaps that was OK. Perhaps there was some reason for that — that it can be explained away. But that's what we know and that's what we're going to be looking into," the California Republican said.
    Solomon appeared on the show after Nunes and also preached caution. He said he "received multiple contacts from the intelligence community suggesting that there may have been inappropriate monitoring of my communications" but added that it's not yet clear what exactly transpired and that what may have happened was just monitoring of his social media.

    "I think we need to dig in more. Ambassador Yovanovitch should be given an opportunity and Secretary of State Pompeo should tell us what happened," Solomon said.

    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/n...or-journalists
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    Lou Dobbs Asks “What Has Happened With The Weiner Laptop” the DNC Server + more



    Interesting that Trump retweeted the video here on Twitter ...
    https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/...212341760?s=21

    You can also watch it here on Fox Business - “Lawyers weigh in on Dems’ closed door impeachment proceedings” - Video link: - https://video.foxbusiness.com/v/6095402782001/
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    Barr & Durham Came Back From Italy With CIA Asset/5 Eyes Spy, Joseph Mifsud’s Phones

    How do we know this? Sidney Powell filed a motion asking for the phones’ data, claiming it will exonerate her client, Mike Flynn. It seems possible that Mifsud has flipped and is cooperating (he has been, and remains, in hiding and it was even reported by DNC lawyers that he could be dead, before resurfacing and asking for police protection). The Daily Beast reported on the Barr/Durham Italy trip, during which they viewed a taped Mifsud Deposition




    But unlike her previously filed motion to compel, here Powell seeks evidence “that has only recently come into its possession.” And the evidence sought? The data and metadata from two Blackberry devices used by Joseph Mifsud.

    While Powell’s latest motion barely equaled two pages, the implications are multi-pronged and monumental.

    That the U.S. government has only recently obtained possession of a pair of smartphones used by Joseph Mifsud tells us two things: that Attorney General William Barr and U.S. Attorney John Durham’s probe into the origins of the Russia-collusion hoax is both serious and successful, and that the Crossfire Hurricane targeting of President Trump and former special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation were neither.

    After all, Mifsud was the man whose tip to young Trump volunteer advisor George Papadopoulos, that the Russians had dirt on Hillary Clinton, supposedly formed the basis for the FBI to launch Crossfire Hurricane’s targeting of the Trump campaign in late July 2016. Yet no one bothered to interview Mifsud until six months later, when he traveled to D.C. to speak at a conference sponsored by the State Department.

    And then the FBI let him go, later blaming Papadopoulos for their inability to properly question the purported Russian agent. Mueller seemed equally uninterested in Mifsud—a strange position to take toward a putative enemy agent.

    In contrast, Barr and Durham seemingly considered Mifsud key to understanding the Russia-collusion investigation. At least their reported trip last month to Italy suggested as much, with the Washington Post repeating the news that while there, “Barr and U.S. Attorney John Durham were played a taped deposition from when Mifsud reportedly applied for police protection.”

    The timing of the Italy trip, Powell’s motion, and her assertion that the government only recently came into possession of Mifsud’s two smartphones, all suggest Barr and Durham returned stateside with the evidence—something a serious investigation into potential Russia collusion back in 2016 would have already looked at.

    It would be an impossibility for our government to cordially obtain Mifsud’s smartphones if he were truly a Russian agent. If he were, he’d not hand over his smartphones to the United States or allow the Italian government to do so.

    Powell’s revelation that the government has Mifsud’s two Blackberries goes deeper, too: It connects to the shocker Powell shared in a previous court filing—that Mifsud attended the Russia Today dinner in Moscow on December 17, 2015, where Flynn was photographed with Vladimir Putin. That dinner marks a second connection between Trump campaign folks and Mifsud, with Papadopoulos as the other.

    In her motion, Powell suggests Mifsud had been tasked against Flynn, seeking, along with other agents, to arrange “—unbeknownst to him—‘connections’ with certain Russians that they would then use against him in their false claims.” But Powell is handicapped in making this argument, because the prosecution refused to turn over much of the evidence she seeks to defend her client.

    Federal prosecutors have not said no to providing Mifsud’s smartphone data, at least not yet. Instead, in response to Powell’s request for the data, the government told her that “if we determine that they contain information that is discoverable or that is relevant to sentencing, we will produce them to you.”

    This response proves intriguing and triply so. First, the prosecutors speak of deciding, which suggests that they have not yet reviewed the smartphones. That raises an interesting possibility—that Barr and Durham are controlling the investigation of the investigators and they had yet to see the smartphones or data. Yet Powell knew about the phones, suggesting she has a well-placed source sympathetic to Flynn’s plight, or outraged by the political and prosecutorial abuse on display in this case, or both.

    Read the rest of the article here - https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/17...s-smartphones/

    Q posted on Mifsud here at #2363



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    Huawei To Hell



    https://www.oann.com/oan-to-debut-st...n-on-saturday/

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    That time when the Pope Participated in Pagan “Pachamama” Allowed Idols Into Vatican

    It all started the first week in October 2019; the Amazon Synod started with a Mass. After it ended, an informal group met with the Pope and brought to the floor of St. Peter's Basilica – right in front of the Altar of the Confession – a canoe with a statue of a seated naked pregnant woman. It was a representation of the goddess Mother Earth, adored by Indians in South America under the name of Pachamama.



    The group, including Pope Francis, walked forward in a chaotic "procession" carrying that goddess, enthroned in her canoe, to the building where the Amazon Synod meetings would take place.

    Arriving at the Synod Assembly, the goddess was placed directly in front of the Pope's table, below, where it remained in the sight of all those who are taking part in the sessions of the Bishops.



    If all these ceremonies at the Vatican in honor of the goddess Pachamama do not constitute acts of idolatry, then words have lost their meaning.
    https://traditioninaction.org/Revolu...qFOkyXE5ocL5Cs

    Cue the outrage...



    “What is going on in the Vatican?” is the piercing question of Christian Geyer. “Is Christianity under the Jesuit Pope turning into a collective movement of a one world religion, which translates Universalism from ‘Catholic’ (all-encompassing) into ‘planetarian’ (biosphere)? Does a monotheistic religion here lose its face?”
    Geyer is not the only prominent German journalist who shows himself concerned about the recent developments in Rome. Paul Badde – the Rome-based journalist of EWTN who worked for more than thirty years for German national newspapers, first the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, then Die Welt – commented already on October 11 on the presence of pagan symbols in Rome. He says that there is much “fraud” in what is going on these days, “enraging many people in Rome.”

    With regard to this “fraud” Badde mentions the “adoration of ‘Pachamama,’ Mother earth, whose wrath, according to the now much-invoked ‘indigenous wisdom,’ once in a while also wants to be appeased with the help of an infanticide.” For Badde, “it is the old fear of the pagans [‘Heidenangst’ – mortal fright], which reappears in this fraud, whose high priests have crossed the ocean [to Rome] in first-class-flights.”
    https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/p...-vatican-synod

    How did it all end? Someone “stole” the pagan idols out of the Vatican and threw them in the river!
    @1:55



    The Vatican spokesperson, Paulo Ruffini, condemned the theft of “Mother Earth” as an embarrassment and insult to indigenous people, while everyday Catholics are rejoicing in what they view as a pagan idol taken out of the House of God and destroyed.



    Video of the press conference is here... https://twitter.com/church_militant/...547294721?s=21

    More on Twitter...including the Vatican’s PR spinning it as “inculturation, ecological conversion, and the rights of nature”...



    They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is forever worthy of praise! Amen. - Romans 1:25
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    Coup Interupted - House Republicans Storm Schiff’s SCIF




    What happened next?

    Impeachment war: Democrats threaten GOP with ethics charges for barging into closed proceeding


    What a Schitt Show

    When the uninvited Republicans entered the room, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, who is overseeing the proceeding, got up and left, and took Cooper, the witness, with him. Partisan bickering then ensued before the GOP interlopers were escorted out.

    “We simply very calmly walked into the room, sat down, and were ready to hear the proceedings,” Waltz said. “Adam Schiff got up and left — with the witness.”
    Lawmakers almost never file ethics complaints, particularly across party lines.

    “This witness is an official from the Department of Defense,” Byrne said, referring to Cooper. “They said if you stay in here, we are going to file an ethics complaint against you.

    “That shows it is a sham. They try to weaponize our ethics system against us when we try to exercise our authority.”
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    Blowing the Cover off the “Whistleblower” - He’s a Brennan/CIA DeepState ResisterSpy






    Digital Soldiers have gathered information and gave it all to
    “In Pursuit of Truth” video Producer...




    Here is the “Masterpiece” Video...(which YouTube, subsequently censored)


    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-VKzO7...ature=youtu.be


    There’s a couple people mentioned in the video that Q had posted on..

    McMaster and Ezra Watkins Cohen here at #553-555

    McMaster also here at #603

    Ezra Watkins Cohen is here at Post # 2691
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    Durham Alleges Criminality - Changes Russia Hoax “Review” To Criminal Investigation



    NYT Reports that DOJ Durham probe has “shifted” from an administrative review of the Russia investigation “to a criminal inquiry.”

    The Change in Status Gives Investigators Ability to Subpoena Witnesses, Use Grand Jury
    “For more than two years, President Trump has repeatedly attacked the Russia investigation, portraying it as a hoax and illegal even months after the special counsel closed it. Now, Mr. Trump’s own Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into how it all began.

    Justice Department officials have shifted an administrative review of the Russia investigation closely overseen by Attorney General William P. Barr to a criminal inquiry, according to two people familiar with the matter. The move gives the prosecutor running it, John H. Durham, the power to subpoena for witness testimony and documents, to impanel a grand jury and to file criminal charges.

    …] The move also creates an unusual situation in which the Justice Department is conducting a criminal investigation into itself.

    Mr. Barr’s reliance on Mr. Durham, a widely respected and veteran prosecutor who has investigated C.I.A. torture and broken up Mafia rings, could help insulate the attorney general from accusations that he is doing the president’s bidding and putting politics above justice.

    It was not clear what potential crime Mr. Durham is investigating, nor when the criminal investigation was prompted. A Justice Department spokeswoman declined to comment.

    Federal investigators need only a “reasonable indication” that a crime has been committed to open an investigation, a much lower standard than the probable cause required to obtain search warrants. However, “there must be an objective, factual basis for initiating the investigation; a mere hunch is insufficient,” according to Justice Department guidelines.


    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/201...investigation/





    Q quotes Bill Barr here at Post #2361. A few other related posts here at 2342 -2346

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    Sidney Powell Asks Court To DISMISS “Orchestrated” Case Against General Mike Flynn




    'Mr. Flynn will ask this Court to dismiss the entire prosecution based on the outrageous and un-American conduct of law enforcement officials and the subsequent failure of the prosecution to disclose this evidence.'

    Earlier this week, Michael Flynn’s star attorney, Sidney Powell, filed under seal a brief in reply to federal prosecutors’ claims that they have already given Flynn’s defense team all the evidence they are required by law to provide. A minimally redacted copy of the reply brief has just been made public, and with it shocking details of the deep state’s plot to destroy Flynn.

    Powell’s 37-page brief pivots between showcasing the prosecution’s penchant for withholding evidence and exposing significant new evidence the defense team uncovered that establishes a concerted effort to entrap Flynn. Along the way, Powell drops half-a-dozen problems with Flynn’s plea and an equal number of justifications for outright dismissal of the criminal charges against Flynn.

    ‘The Upper Echelon of the FBI Met to Orchestrate It All’
    You can read the article here...

    https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/25...michael-flynn/

    FBI Attorney Lisa Page Edited Flynn FBI 302 Report – Then Lied to DOJ About Edits!

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    Some Excerpts From the Wall Street Journal



    House Democrats have discarded the Constitution, tradition and basic fairness merely because they hate Mr. Trump. Because the House has not properly begun impeachment proceedings, the president has no obligation to cooperate. The courts also should not enforce any purportedly impeachment-related document requests from the House. (A federal district judge held Friday that the Judiciary Committee is engaged in an impeachment inquiry and therefore must see grand-jury materials from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, but that ruling will likely be overturned on appeal.) And the House cannot cure this problem simply by voting on articles of impeachment at the end of a flawed process.
    The Senate’s power—and obligation—to “try all impeachments” presupposes that the House has followed a proper impeachment process and that it has assembled a reliable evidentiary basis to support its accusations. The House has conspicuously failed to do so.
    The effort has another problem: There is no evidence on the public record that Mr. Trump has committed an impeachable offense. The Constitution permits impeachment only for “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.” The Founders considered allowing impeachment on the broader grounds of “maladministration,” “neglect of duty” and “mal-practice,” but they rejected these reasons for fear of giving too much power to Congress. The phrase “high crimes and misdemeanors” includes abuses of power that do not constitute violations of criminal statutes. But its scope is limited.
    More fundamentally, the Constitution gives the president plenary authority to conduct foreign affairs and diplomacy, including broad discretion over the timing and release of appropriated funds. Many presidents have refused to spend appropriated money for military or other purposes, on grounds that it was unnecessary, unwise or incompatible with their priorities.
    Further, there is credible evidence that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 presidential election at the request of senior Obama administration officials. The Justice Department is investigating this as part of its broader inquiry—now a criminal investigation—into efforts to target the Trump campaign in 2016 and beyond. It is certainly legitimate for the president to ask Ukraine to cooperate.
    It’s legally irrelevant that a criminal investigation may be politically beneficial to the president. Virtually all exercises of constitutional discretion by a president affect his political interests. It would be absurd to suggest that a president’s pursuit of arms-control agreements, trade deals or climate treaties are impeachable offenses because they benefit the president or his party in an upcoming election.
    If the House impeaches Mr. Trump because it disapproves of a lawful exercise of his presidential authority, it will in effect have accused him of maladministration. The Framers rejected that amorphous concept because it would have allowed impeachment for mere political disagreements, rendering the president a ward of Congress and destroying the executive’s status as an independent, coequal branch of government. If the House impeaches on such grounds and the Senate concludes it has jurisdiction to conduct an impeachment trial, it should focus first and foremost not on the details of Mr. Trump’s foreign policy, but on the legal question of whether the conduct alleged is an impeachable offense.

    Alexis de Tocqueville observed in 1835: “A decline of public morals in the United States will probably be marked by the abuse of the power of impeachment as a means of crushing political adversaries or ejecting them from office.” What House Democrats are doing is not only unfair to Mr. Trump and a threat to all his successors. It is an attempt to overrule the constitutional process for selecting the president and thus subvert American democracy itself. For the sake of the Constitution, it must be decisively rejected. If Mr. Trump’s policies are unpopular or offensive, the remedy is up to the people, not Congress.



    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opini...ion/ar-AAJn6gw
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    For techies - the inner workings of 8kun web development...





    As 8kun’s lights flickered on for the first time Saturday, Watkins told Twitter followers that the new rollout would take a few days to become stable.

    “That first wave of visitors totally crushed our servers,” said Watkins.

    And that’s not the only issue 8kun faces. While the platform now exists out of the reach of wantonly censorious corporations, anyone can attack an open-source protocol. Loki’s developers cited denial of service (DoS) as a particular threat, though there are multiple vectors of attack. Worse for Watkins, since Loki is still in a test phase, the developers aren’t actively attempting to prevent a torpedoing of the network, preferring to remain neutral.

    “The risk is that if we cannot defend against the attack then our presence will be on and off until we figure out how to defend it,” Watkins said. While he’s working on technical defenses now, he knows that after deployment, he will have to “react to the next attack.”

    Still, Watkins is optimistic.
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