The media has been pounding the Rob Porter story for over a week.  Mr. Porter was accused of spousal abuse.  It appears that the FBI told the White House about this as early as last summer, but nothing was done until recently.  Liberals are howling with outrage that someone like this had a security clearance.  They are screaming about the importance of vetting people before they are given access to classified information.  They are right about this, but they are forgetting something vital.  They ignored this issue during the entire Obama administration.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/01/congress_to_investigate_if_the_fbi_denied_ben_rhodes_interim_security_clearance.html

Ben Rhodes wasn’t even granted interim security clearance during Obama’s transition.  It is not clear he ever did get a security clearance.  He is the advisor who helped the Obama administration mislead the American public about the Iran Nuclear deal.  The main stream media showed little interest then and even less interest now.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2012/08/huma_abedin_and_security_clearances.html

Huma Abedin is a classic example of someone who should not have been given a security clearance.  The press did not care.  No one appears to have ever seen her Standard Form 86.  It is quite simple.  If Huma Abedin told the truth about her family, she should have been denied a security clearance.  If she did not tell the truth about her family, she should have been denied a security clearance.  Now we know that Huma Abedin was, at best, even more extremely careless with national security than her boss Hillary Clinton.  She put highly classified e-mail on her pervert husband’s laptop.  The same laptop seen by a sex worker Anthony Weiner seemed to hire whenever Huma was out of town.

If we really start investigating security clearances, then the problems with Rob Porter pale in comparison to the serious disregard for this during the Obama administration.  Yes, we should ask why he was given a security clearance.  We should make sure that rules are followed before we give classified information to people who may represent a risk to national security.  If this does happen, this may result in the most destructive boomerang of all for liberal democrats.

TDM

On December 7, 2017, Judge Rudoph Contreras was recused from the Michael Flynn case. Contreras was the judge who took Flynn’s guilty plea:

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/07/michael-flynn-judge-sentencing-287001

Clarice Feldman wrote an interesting article about this on February 13, 2018:

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/02/the_great_flynn_case_mystery.html

“as the evidence mounts that the warrant was improperly granted, someone – perhaps the chief judge of the district – removed him from further participation in the case, likely because Contreras approved the warrant and its extension.  If the warrant was improperly issued, all the evidence it garnered is tainted.”

One will note thatJudge Emmet G. Sullivan was the judge who tossed out the felony conviction of Ted Stevens.  Sadly this happened after Stevens had died.  The Judge reamed the prosecutors for failing to produce evidence that would have exonerated Stevens.  He also changed the way he did things.  He no longer expected federal prosecutors to do the right thing, the started demanding it in writing.  In this case on December 12, 2017, shortly after this case was assigned to him he compelled the prosecution to immediately turn over all exculpatory material regarding this case:

“Finally, if the government has identified any information which is favorable to the defendant but which the government believes is not material, the government shall submit the material to the Court for in camera review.”

On January 31, 2018, the sentencing hearing for Michael Flynn was delayed at the request of Special Counsel Robert Mueller:

https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/31/politics/robert-mueller-michael-flynn/index.html

So was the case regarding George papadopoulos which was delayed from February to mid-April.  Note that both men are charged with lying to the FBI.  If the Nunes and Grassley memos are accurate, the FBI may have lied to the FISA court.  How exactly do you convict someone for allegedly lying to someone who has shredded their own credibility?  Remember the FBI does not record interviews so the “lied to the FBI” allegation is totally dependent on the credibility of the 302 documents.

The main stream media is totally ignoring this.  That is further evidence that this really matters.

TDM

On March 30, 2017 James Comey testified before congress. He was asked why he didn’t brief congress on the Russia counterintelligence operation for several months.

https://youtu.be/HlXXZQgh72Y

Comey was asked who made the decision to not tell congress. He said it was by the head of counterintelligence. That would be E.W. Bill Priestap, FBI Director of Counterintelligence. It looked like Comey was throwing Priestap under the bus. Perhaps Priestap figured that out, because it now looks like he has been working with congressional investigators.

Devin Nunes specifically mentioned Bill Priestap in his memo. Last night, on Judge Jeanine, Congressman Chris Stewart seemed to confirm that Priestap was “cooperating.”

The Conservative Tree House discussed this in the following article:

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/02/10/game-over-judge-jeanine-interview-with-hpsci-rep-chris-stewart/

If Priestap is cooperating, then this investigation just entered a very dangerous stage. There is the old story about the business owner who hired a plumber to fix his boiler. The plumber arrived, drilled one hole and then charged the business owner $200. The owner was outraged: “All you did was drill one hole, why would I owe you $200?” The plumber responded: “I only charged you $20 to drill the hole, I charged you $180 for knowing where to drill the hole.”

The Republicans have tons of documented, emails and text messages. It would take them forever and a day to search through this mountain of information for the one or two things that matter. But, if someone like Bill Priestap was telling them where to drill, that would change everything. Perhaps, just perhaps, Bill Priestap saw the bus headed straight for him and he wisely decided to become the bus driver instead.

We can all remember other criminal conspiracies that were exposed because of one inside source. Boss Tweed, who ran Tammany Hall in New York City was exposed when his regular accountant, James Watson was kicked in the head by a horse during a sleighing accident. When he died the job given to the Matthew J. O’Rourke, who was a secret operative for Tweed rival Sheriff James O’Brien.  The Boss Tweed network, that had seem invincible, disappeared at the speed of light.

Right now, I’d bet on the bus driver.

TDM

It has been obvious for a long time that the Clintons and Obamas absolutely despise each other. In 2008, in a rare moment of truth, Bill Clinton described Obama’s campaign as “Give me a break. This whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I’ve ever seen.” Clinton quickly backtracked when people like Al Sharpton tore into him and accused Clinton, correctly, of being racist.  Clinton backtracked and pretended this was only about Obama’s position regarding the Iraq war.  That is and was absurd, but CNN accepted it as gospel.

Hillary also mocked Obama:  “The sky will open, the light will come down, celestial choirs will be singing, and everyone will know that we should do the right thing, and the world would be perfect.”

The Daily Wire reported in 2016 that Michelle Obama hates Hillary:

https://www.dailywire.com/news/4855/apparently-michelle-obama-hates-hillary-clinton-amanda-prestigiacomo

The New York Post published an article titled: The feud between the Obamas and the ‘Hildebeest’

Outwardly, they put on a show of unity — but privately, the Obamas and Clintons, the two power couples of the Democratic Party, loathe each other.

“I hate that man Obama more than any man I’ve ever met, more than any man who ever lived,” Bill Clinton said to friends on one occasion, adding he would never forgive Obama for suggesting he was a racist during the 2008 campaign.

The feeling is mutual. Obama made ­excuses not to talk to Bill, while the first lady privately sniped about Hillary.

Yet is sure looks like Obama went out of his way to protect Hillary Clinton from prosecution.  The question is: why?

http://dcwhispers.com/going-obama-red-line-fbi-cia-nsa-media-etc-will-not-cross/#AgIUHpBksdcJBQkW.97

This article, un-confirmed, says that the Clintons have convinced anyone and everyone that should they go down, so too will Barack Obama.  It sure looks like the Clintons and the Obama’s have their own MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) treaty. The MAD treaty between the Soviet Union and the United States may have prevented nuclear war.  Neither side was willing to risk annihilation.  But what if one of the participants is facing destruction from someone else.  Wouldn’t they be tempted to take down their hated enemy with them?

One of my favorite cartoons is of a pool of quick sand.  There is a hand sticking up out of the mud, flipping the bird.  The caption says: “There goes a bitter young man.”  That is exactly the way I expect the Clintons to depart. We are not there yet, and with the Clinton’s long history of dodging justice, we may never get there. But for now it looks like Hillary and possibly Bill may finally be headed toward destruction.  The charges are too serious, they are too well-documented and there are some serious people in charge of this investigation.  Obama is no longer in a position to provide any protection, even if he wanted to do that.  The DNC has already moved on from Hillary.  She is “so” yesterday.  There are more and more signs that the DNC is more than willing to throw Hillary under the bus.  The question is whether or not they will try to take Obama down with them?

One thing is predictable.  If the Clintons go down, there is zero chance they will even consider just doing the right thing and accept responsibility for their own actions.

TDM

Other than the little guy taking a bath in a kitchen sink, I am not a big fan of rats.  They smell bad, spread disease and don’t appear to have a constructive role in the environment.  But they are very good at one thing.  They let you know if things are really, really, bad.  When the rats start deserting the ship, the end is near.

The rats are deserting the FBI ship.  Every day more and more documents are surfacing.  Each one is increasingly bad for the liberal left, the Clintons and Obama.  Remember all those documents proving collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia?  Probably not, because there aren’t any.  Zero, nada, zip, zilch.  Remember all those text messages between the Trump campaign and Russia?  Probably not, because there aren’t any.  Zero, nada, zip, zilch.

Just this week two more senior FBI officials decided to quit.  It is interesting to note that this is the second wave.  There were reports of a previous wave of resignations at the FBI in October 2016.

www.wnd.com/2016/10/resignations-letters-piling-up-at-fbi/

I don’t usually post articles by WND, but this one makes a lot of sense in view of recent revelations.  It appears that Comey was under tremendous pressure by both sides.  Career FBI agents wanted him to indict Hillary Clinton.  Loretta Lynch and Obama were allegedly furious with him for reporting on the Hillary Clinton e-mails.  The article even says Lynch’s own wife was pissed at him.

This begs the question.  Who is James Comey and at what point will he be tempted to tell the truth.  Everyone is assuming that his cryptic texts were aimed at Peter Strzok et al protecting the cover-up.  But what if he was writing about the people who were exposing the cover-up.  Comey clearly dropped the ball, but this may be much more complex than anyone imagines.

Example:  December 31, 2017:

“Here’s hoping 2018 brings more ethical leadership, focused on the truth and lasting values,  Happy New Year, everybody,”

Liberals rejoiced assuming he was taking a shot at Trump.  What if he was talking about them

TDM

Yesterday the FBI informant agent on Uranium One testified for the first time.  It does not appear that anyone other than Fox News noticed.  He testified in front of three Congressional committees, the Senate Judiciary, House Oversight and House Intelligence.  Sara Carter reported on this.  Her source is impeccable, it is the attorney for Mr. Campbell:

https://saraacarter.com/fbi-informant-uranium-one-breaks-silence-today/

“He recounted numerous times that the Russians bragged that the Clintons’ influence in the Obama administration would ensure CIFIUS approval for Uranium One. And he was right.

The immediate problem is that this looks and smells like the truth.  It is hard to imagine Russia giving all those millions to the Clinton Foundation and paying Bill Clinton $500,000 for one speech if they did not believe this.  Since the deal was approved it is hard to argue they were wrong.

The significance of this is earthshattering.  It is hard to describe this as other than treason.  How, exactly, could one do more damage to our national security than to help Russia secure our Uranium under false pretenses?  If the reports are accurate it is worst than that.  This uranium may have been sold to Iran to help them develop nuclear weapons they promise to use against us.

That begs the question: “what would it take for the main stream media to bother reporting on this?”

Perhaps I am wrong, but I suspect that FBI Director Christopher Wray, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Attorney General Sessions are engaged in criminal investigations that are likely to result in result in indictments, trials and likely imprisonment.

We always knew the main stream media was hopelessly biased.  Now we’re confronted with the reality that their bias may be exceeded by their incompetence.  They are literally blind to the obvious.

Fox News was delivering bombshell reports every Friday.  Now they seem to happen every day.  The Main stream media has no news at all so it re-runs old discredited stories and pretends they are breaking news.  Things are starting to move faster and faster.  It is only a matter of time before the next news report is of someone being frog marched out of the room after being served with an indictment.  At that point even, the main stream media will notice, but it will be far too late.

TDM

My brother Doug once built a boomerang from a design published in Popular Science.  He just missed one minor detail.  The Popular Science boomerang was made out of balsa wood.  We lived in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan where there was no balsa wood.  So my brother made his out of oak.  We went to the local ball field where Doug stood on home plate and threw the boomerang toward center field, it was a beautiful thing, until it climbed rapidly, then turned around and took direct aim at us.  We both ran for cover from a boomerang that had morphed into a deadly weapon.  Democrats know that feeling today.

The whole point of the Russian Collusion investigation was to dig up dirt on Donald Trump.  First, to prevent him from getting elected.  Second, when that failed, to remove him from office.  Ironically this all started when John Conyers, Jr. and Elijah E. Cummings asked Michael E. Horowitz, Inspector General of the DOJ to investigate FBI leaks about the Hillary e-mail scandal.

Today, a text between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page was released which laid this scandal directly at the feet of the President of the United States.  However, the President in trouble is not Donald Trump, it is Barack Obama.  This is reported on numerous websites:

Lisa Page wrote to Peter Strzok on September 2, 2016 about prepping Comey because “potus wants to know everything we’re doing.”

It there is any corroborating evidence, this means the President of the United States, Barack Obama, was guilty of obstructing justice and of lying to the American people.  Obama’s own public statements to Chris Wallace during an interview are an admission that he knew it would be obstruction of justice for him to be involved in the Hillary Clinton e-mail case:

https://news.grabien.com/story-flashback-obama-insists-he-doesnt-get-involved-fbi-investiga

OBAMA: “I can guarantee. I can guarantee that not because I give Attorney General [Loretta] Lynch a directive, that is institutionally how we have always operated. I do not talk to the Attorney General about pending investigations. I do not talk to FBI directors about pending investigations. We have a strict line and always have maintained it. I guarantee it. I guarantee that there is no political influence in any investigation conducted by the Justice Department or the FBI, not just in this case but in any case. Period. Nobody gets treated differently when it comes to the Justice Department because nobody is above the law.”

WALLACE: “Even if she ends up as the Democratic nominee?” 

OBAMA: “How many times do I have to say it, Chris? Guaranteed.”

I wonder how CNN is going to spin this one.  The real problem for Democrats is that this is so obviously true.  This is more than a stain on President Obama, it is a stain on the main stream media.  The media that refused to even consider the possibility that Obama was abusing power, even though there was a mountain of evidence.  The media that was more than willing to accuse Donald Trump of something, nearly every day since he was elected President of the United States.  This is about to go off like a nuclear bomb and it is impossible to predict the full extent of the damage.

There is ton of high level blood in the water and the sharks are already circling.  We are about to see a full-fledged feeding frenzy that will make Watergate look under reported.  Many people have assumed that Hillary Clinton would get away with it, again.  I wouldn’t take that bet this morning.

TDM

The following article explains the significance of a FBI 302 Interview memo:

https://grandjurytarget.com/2017/05/18/what-is-an-fbi-302-the-problematic-nature-of-fbi-agents-interview-memos/

Official DOJ policy is to not record witness interviews.  Seriously?  At a time when almost every police car has a dash cam and many officers are wearing body cams the FBI is relying on hand written notes and selective memory.  That is absurd.

Now combine that with hints that the FBI may have deliberately altered a 302:

September 20, 2016.

Peter Strzok: “thing is, there are VERY inflammatory things in the 302s we didn’t turn over to Congress (because they were relevant to understanding the focus of the investigation) that are going to come out in the FOIA and absolutely inflame congress. I’m sure Jim and Trisha and Dave and Mike are all considering things like that play out as they talk among themselves.”  

It gets worse.  It turns out the FISA warrant against Carter Page was a Title 1 FISA warrant.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/02/02/inside-the-hpsci-memo-a-key-distinction-being-conflated-title-i-vs-title-vii/

 To spy on Americans through a FISA court, the FBI must show the target is an “agent of a foreign power,” not merely in contact with a foreign power. The law makes it difficult to show someone is an “agent of a foreign power” to make sure it is not misused to spy on Americans.

The law does not allow the FBI to call an American an “agent of a foreign power” unless they can show the person “knowingly engages in clandestine intelligence gathering activities for or on behalf of a foreign power” AND the nature of their activity is criminalized.

If it is true that the FBI deliberately filed false information to get a Title 1 FISA Warrant and they may have deliberately redacted a 302, this could have a significant impact on a lot of cases.  In 2010 the SFPD Crime Lab had to be shut down because one employee went rogue and compromised the lab:

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/SFPD-Crime-Lab-Case-From-A-Z-91434379.html

“It’s real hard to build a good reputation and it’s very easy to destroy it,” said Ralph Keaton, executive director of the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors. “And it takes even longer to rebuild it.”

The fallout from San Francisco’s lab scandal is still unfolding and experts say it could take years to clean up, especially if authorities fail to establish which criminal cases were compromised.

By the way this all happened on Kamala Harris’s watch when she was District Attorney for San Francisco.

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Judge-rips-Harris-office-for-hiding-problems-3263797.php

San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris‘ office violated defendants’ rights by hiding damaging information about a police drug lab technician and was indifferent to demands that it account for its failings, a judge declared Thursday

No wonder the FBI desperately tried to suppress the Nunes FISA memo.

Predictably the main stream media is either oblivious to the obvious or they simply do not care.  They should care.  We should all care.  Remember this all started when Devin Nunes reported that our intelligence agencies were unmasking intelligence reports on U.S. citizens.  A Title 1 warrant would allow surveillance of anyone who had any contact with Carter Page.  Since he was a minor member of the Trump campaign, this may have been used to authorize surveillance on the entire campaign staff.

This explains why Devin Nunes spent so much time on one FISA warrant.  It is why Democrats are so desperate to discredit him.  If Hillary Clinton had been elected President, we would know none of this.  This is all going to come out, sooner rather than later because for the first time the main stream media is admitting something is important.  Even their attempts to discredit the memo are very dangerous for those involved because Democrats cannot survive a real investigation.  At some point the truth will become obvious even to those currently trying desperately to ignore it.

TDM

The entire main stream media is finally reporting on the FISA warrant issued to conduct surveillance on Carter Page.  That alone is devastating to Democrats, because for the first time it is universally acknowledged that this is significant.  The problem before was that the main stream media did zero investigation.  Nothing negative about Democrats mattered.  Everything negative about Donald Trump was a crisis.  They can no longer do that after the weeklong hissy fit they threw to try and block this memo from becoming public.  Now they are trying to discredit the memo.  If it turns out the memo is accurate then the mainstream media has crawled way out on a limb and then cut if off underneath themselves.

Adam Schiff and other Democrats claim that the following statement in the Nunes memo is inaccurate:

Here is what Nunes says in his memo:

“Furthermore, Deputy Director McCabe testified before the Committee in December 2017 that no surveillance warrant would have been sought from the FISC without the Steele dossier information.”

The problem for Democrats is that they have just made this statement even more important.  They are betting the farm on this and it looks like a dumb bet.  Numerous Republicans who attended this hearing say that this statement accurate.  They report that McCabe said this several times.  That is consistent with the leaks that came out after this hearing.

https://legalinsurrection.com/2017/12/lawmakers-frustrated-by-mlawmakers-frustrated-by-mccabe-testimony-on-trump-dossier-hillaryccabe-testimony-on-trump-dossier/

McCabe told the panel that the FBI worked hard “to verify the contents of the anti-Trump ‘dossier’ and stood by its credibility.  However, he could not tell the lawmakers if “the bureau had been able to verify the substantive allegations in the dossier, or even identify a substantive allegation that had been corroborated.”

When asked which part of the dossier was true, McCabe only pointed to the part “that the unpaid, low-level Trump foreign policy advisor Cater Page visited Moscow in July 2016.

McCabe could not remember when he learned that the Hillary Clinton campaign had funded the dossier.

No one even hinted that McCabe said the Russia Dossier wasn’t important, instead he said he stood by its credibility.  That is totally inconsistent with the Schiff theory that the Russian Dossier wasn’t material to the FISA warrant.  Why would McCabe be desperate to defend a document that didn’t matter?  Conversely, Schiff arguing that the Russian Dossier wasn’t necessary to get the warrant is an admission that the Russian Dossier has zero credibility.

Nunes says he is open to releasing the transcript of Andrew McCabe’s testimony about the FISA application.  Once again it looks like the Republicans are the ones who have the facts and the Democrats are the ones resorting to smoke and mirror.  The big difference is that now even Democrats admit that if Nunes is right, the FBI colluded with the Hillary Clinton campaign to obtain an illegal FISA warrant and that is extremely important.  For the first time in years, the main stream media is admitting that a Democratic scandal is a big deal.

By the way, McCabe is lawyering up and there are reports that Christopher Wray has a “newly minted and hush internal task force.”

https://truepundit.com/fbis-mccabe-lawyers-fisa-memo-looms/

That makes sense because Wray doesn’t want another special counsel and if he isn’t outraged by what McCabe did, he should be.

Democrats cannot survive a real investigation regarding a lot of things.  The main stream media has been looking the other way for all things Obama and Clinton for a long time.  Those days are over and that is the more than significant.

TDM

Democrats have been describing the release of the Nunes memo as a clear and present danger to the United States. In doing this, they just magnified the significance of the memo. We can expect a Democratic memo trying to repair the damage, but this is likely to consist primarily of other documents that are actually irrelevant. For example Peter Strzok did help write the second letter Comey released regarding the Hillary Clinton e-mails. Democrats argue that this proves he was not pro-Hillary. It is an absurd argument likely to be ignored by everyone but CNN.

The bottom line is this. The Hillary Clinton campaign paid Fusion GPS for the Russia Dossier. This was compiled by Christopher Steele, who is on the record as despising Trump and being desperate to prevent him from being President. Steele met with Yahoo news and leaked the same information to them that he typed in his dossier. The New York Times published a story reporting these “facts” from an unnamed source. The FBI used this dossier to get a FISA warrant to spy on Carter Page which allowed them to spy on the entire Trump campaign and transition team. They also cited the New York Times article, based on the same questionable source, as corroborating evidence in support of the FISA warrant. Many of the “sources” used by Steele were paid informants with direct connections with Russia. In summary this is smoking gun evidence that the Hillary Clinton campaign colluded with Russia to influence a Presidential election.

Expect a lot of smoke and mirrors from CNN. They had Jane Harman and Mike Rogers on today, both trying to defend the intelligence agencies. However, neither of them described this chain of events as remotely acceptable. Neither of them disputed any of the facts. They were only upset that this impugned the integrity of the system itself. But Nunes did not impugn the entire system; he just said that in this specific instance the system was abused by senior members of the FBI. Mike Rogers said that if the FISA court believes that they were misled by the FBI, they will be absolutely furious. I think that will be the next shoe to drop. I wouldn’t be surprised to see the FISA court respond very strongly to this memo. Don’t be surprised if they throw Andrew McCabe under the bus. If it is a choice between defending the court’s integrity and the integrity of Andrew McCabe, the decision will be really easy.

Democrats are also arguing about what McCabe actually testified to in a closed-door hearing. One will note just this week Adam Schiff materially misrepresented what was said in an Intelligence Committee meeting only to be rebuked by the actual transcript. CNN would be wise to avoid getting out over its skis on anything said by Adam Schiff. In addition, Nunes has a copy of the actual FISA warrant so he KNOWS the facts here. It is unlikely that the exact words spoken by McCabe are even material. The FISA warrant speaks for itself.

What will ultimately make this worse is that Republicans appear to be sitting on a mountain of evidence of abuse by the FBI and other intelligence agencies and this appears to be the tip of the iceberg. The captain of the Titanic can provide guidance on the dangers of ignoring the size of an iceberg.

TDM