The New York Times is desperately trying to deflect attention away from the Trump Dossier. They are foaming at the mouth about George Papadopoulos.  This is not exactly news. It is all based on a plea bargain signed by Papadopoulos in October. There is absolutely nothing new here.

The following CNN article includes the signed agreement by Papadopoulos:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/30/politics/george-papadopolous-trump-guilty/index.html

The timing is all wrong. Papadopoulos met the “professor” on or about March 14, 2016.

On or about April 26, 2016 he met the professor for breakfast. Following is a description of what the professor said:

During this meeting, the Professor told defendant PAPADOPOULOS that he had just returned from a trip to Moscow where he had met with high-level Russian government officials. The Professor told defendant PAPADOPOULOS that on that trip he (the Professor) learned that the Russians had obtained “dirt” on then-candidate Clinton. The Professor told defendant PAPADOPOULOS, as defendant PAPADOPOULOS later described to the FBI, that “They [the Russians] have dirt on her”; “the Russians had emails of Clinton”; “they have thousands of emails.”

Here is what CNN and the New York Times either missed or just didn’t tell you. Most hacked DNC e-mails were written after April 29, 2016. Of the 27,500 DNC e-mails, fewer than 7,000 predate April 29th.

It is extremely unlikely that this professor was talking about the DNC e-mails. If anything, he was talking about e-mails obtained by Russian Intelligence from Hillary’s illegal unsecured e-mail server. If the FBI had this information, it should have alerted them to the very real threat that highly classified e-mails processed by the Clinton personal server had been compromised by Russian intelligence. It certainly did not justify seeking a FISA warrant to spy on Trump campaign officials.

It would also be interesting to know how the FBI confirmed that Papadopoulos was lying. Was the breakfast with the Russian professor recorded? If so, by whom. I doubt that the Russian professor gave a statement to the FBI or anyone else. Was someone else at this meeting? If so, who was that? There are more questions than answers here

In addition, even if the story is true, it would not justify the FBI investigating the Trump campaign regarding collusion with Russia. According to this report the Trump collusion investigation did not start until after the DNC e-mails were released by WikiLeaks on July 22, 2016. Conveniently that was shortly after James Comey’s press conference exonerating Hillary Clinton by pointing out her criminal negligence.

The WikiLeaks e-mails were not e-mails from Hillary Clinton, they were e-mails by top officials at the DNC. Here is an article in the Washington Post listing the most damaging e-mails:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/07/24/here-are-the-latest-most-damaging-things-in-the-dncs-leaked-emails/?utm_term=.5f0a075d6720

They weren’t even about Hillary Clinton. They were about the bias within the DNC mocking both Bernie Sanders and Barack Obama. If the FBI did open an investigation into alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia because of this meeting by Papadopoulos with the assumption that this was about the DNC Server those involved should all be fired for incompetence and stupidity.

Once again, one must wonder if the main stream media really this stupid or are they desperately hoping we are this stupid.  It is increasingly obvious that they are beyond desperate.

TDM

Perhaps it is just me, but lately it seems like every Friday another FBI bombshell is dropped.  The Friday before Christmas FBI General Counsel James A Baker was reassigned.  Today, thanks to Judicial Watch, the FBI is releasing 2,800 e-mails from Huma Abedin that were found on Anthony Weiner’s laptop.  That would be the same laptop Weiner was using to sext underage girls.  These e-mails are likely to be heavily redacted.  This is a huge problem for Hillary Clinton.  If they aren’t redacted, they are likely to be more than a little embarrassing.  If they are redacted this is clear evidence that they contained highly classified information.  Odds are they will both be heavily redacted and still embarrassing.

I worked in secure facilities where there was access to highly classified information.  Everyone in that facility took security very seriously.  There were no waste baskets; every piece of paper was put into a burn bag.  We used to joke that the highest classification was “burn before reading.” No one ever considered removing classified information from this facility.  I can’t even imagine anyone sending a classified e-mail on an unsecured server.  But this wasn’t just an unsecured server; this was a server that was almost certainly compromised.  There were reports that Anthony Weiner had over 650,000 e-mails on that server.  At least some of them allegedly involved inappropriate communication with underage girls.  Odds are extremely high that Weiner’s laptop was hacked.  That is bad enough, but what makes this worse is that Huma Abedin admittedly printed copies of these e-mails because Hillary liked to read them in print. If you read my previous blogs about Huma Abedin it is easy to see why she should never have been granted a security clearance.  Huma Abedin could have easily provided copies of highly classified documents to almost anyone.  It is a case study in how to be grossly negligent with regard to highly classified information.

Every member of FBI senior management involved with the original investigation of the Hillary Clinton e-mail server has been removed.  At the time of the Comey statement “exonerating” Hillary by called her only extremely careless rather than grossly negligent there were several reports that FBI agents working on the investigation were furious.  Following is a report by Fox News

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/10/13/fbi-doj-roiled-by-comey-lynch-decision-to-let-clinton-slide-by-on-emails-says-insider.html

Note the following quote from this article:

“No trial level attorney agreed, no agent working the case agreed, with the decision not to prosecute — it was a top-down decision,” said the source, whose identity and role in the case has been verified by FoxNews.com

In addition, the source said: “It was unanimous that we all wanted her [Clinton’s] security clearance yanked.”

How, exactly, does one run for President if one can’t qualify for a security clearance?

The FBI has a totally new management team.  It would be naïve to expect them to reach the same conclusions as the Comey group.

TDM

The following article from the conservative tree house reminded me of when I watched the Evelyn Farkas interview back in March:

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/12/26/my-oh-my-latest-reports-of-fbi-doj-counterintelligence-operation-evelyn-farkas-statements-take-on-new-light/

It is extremely important to put this interview in context. On March 21, 2017 Devin Nunes received a phone which caused him to take immediate action. He switched cars and did not tell his team where he was headed. He was on his way to the White House where an unnamed source took him into one of the most secure rooms in the world and showed Nunes information so secret that it could only be observed in that location.

Devin Nunes holds a press conference on March 22, 2017 saying that he saw evidence that there was surveillance of the Trump transition team and possibly Donald Trump himself. He then wen to the White House to brief Donald Trump. No one really knows what Nunes saw in that room. No one knows what he told Trump.

On March 27, 2017 Evelyn Farkas gave this stunning interview:

I was urging my former colleagues, and, and frankly speaking the people on the Hill [Democrat politicians], it was more actually aimed at telling the Hill people, get as much information as you can – get as much intelligence as you can – before President Obama leaves the administration.

Because I had a fear that somehow that information would disappear with the senior [Obama] people who left; so it would be hidden away in the bureaucracy, um, that the Trump folks – if they found out HOW we knew what we knew about their, the Trump staff, dealing with Russians – that they would try to compromise those sources and methods; meaning we no longer have access to that intelligence.

So I became very worried because not enough was coming out into the open and I knew that there was more. We have very good intelligence on Russia; so then I had talked to some of my former colleagues and I knew that they were also trying to help get information to the Hill.” [ie. Democrat politicians] (link)

At the time I wondered why this interview was not recognized as a bombshell. I now believe a lot of people knew the significance of this. However, unlike Democrats on the hills, Republicans did not discuss this with the press. Instead, they acted.

We know that Nunes was running an investigation and he wasn’t informing his Democratic colleagues. He was justified in doing that because Farkas had publicly admitted that Democrats on the hill were active members of the conspiracy. We know that the OIG had been running an investigation since January 2017. There are hints of other, more secret, investigations. On May 16, 2017 President Trump interviewed Robert Mueller. Since Mueller was not eligible to be Director of the FBI, it was probably about something else. On May 17, 2017, Mueller was appointed special counsel to oversee the investigation into ties between Trump’s campaign and Russian officials.

Following is a link to the letter appointing Mueller:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/05/17/us/politics/document-Robert-Mueller-Special-Counsel-Russia.html

Read this letter carefully. Perhaps the main stream media and Democrats on the hill totally missed the significance of this appointment. It is vital to realize that this was AFTER Nunes had viewed that information in the White House and it was AFTER Farkas stupidly admitted that there was a conspiracy and incredibly she implied that President Obama was in on it.

Was Mueller there to investigate links between the Trump campaign and Russia? Probably not, because by this time everyone knew there was no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. If he wasn’t investigating this, what would be the point? Mueller would be able to investigate the potentially illegal surveillance of the Trump transition team and the coordinated leaks of classified information by Democrats on the hill. He could even employ some of the top suspects and allow them to incriminate themselves.

What if everyone, and I do mean everyone, has had this all wrong from day one. We may soon know.

TDM

Tuesday afternoon James Baker was the General Counsel for the FBI.  He accompanied FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe to the House Intelligence Committee meeting.  He was obviously there to provide a legal defense shield for McCabe.

It didn’t go well. McCabe reportedly had to admit that the only thing the FBI has confirmed about the Russia Dossier is that Carter Page did visit Russia.

Vanity Fair accidently published a story that demonstrates why Carter Page could not possibly been involved in colluding with Russia:

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/12/federal-court-urges-carter-page-to-please-go-away

Carter Page, a man so deeply incompetent that a Kremlin agent who tried to recruit him reportedly gave up, telling his colleagues that Page was “an idiot.”

McCabe allegedly gave testimony that is charitably described as inconsistent with testimony by other witnesses.  And, by the way, he couldn’t remember seeing critical documents that allegedly were signed by him.

This is documented by the following article in Fox News:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/12/20/mccabe-draws-blank-on-democrats-funding-trump-dossier-new-subpoenas-planned.html

It is being reported that McCabe suddenly announced plans for an early retirement.  That seems like a wise decision, but based on the recent tweets by President Trump, he may not be given that opportunity.  Remember, Trump really likes to fire people.

This is bad enough, but there is more. McCabe may have incriminated James A. Baker, the lawyer sitting next to him. He was asked whether James A. Baker was authorized to speak to the media about the Steele Dossier and the underlying ‘counterintelligence’ operation.  McCabe said that Baker would not be authorized to take such action.

Apparently neither McCabe or Baker realized that the person asking that question had evidence that Baker was in communication with Mother Jones reporter David Corn prior to the election.  David Corn is the one who broke the story about the Russia Dossier.  By Friday, James A. Baker was reassigned from his position as FBI General Counsel.

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/22/trump-dossier-fbi-james-baker-david-corn-mother-jones-316157

The liberal left is trying to downplay this story, but when you get reassigned from the top legal position in the FBI two days before Christmas that is beyond bad. In addition, the Washington Post story has a classic non-denial denial.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fbis-top-lawyer-said-to-be-reassigned/2017/12/21/2ac76640-e6b5-11e7-833f-155031558ff4_story.html?tid=ss_tw-amp&utm_term=.1f80ca2eb9fb

Apparently Baker “hopes” he didn’t leak classified information.  Wow!

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein testified that Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General (OIG) is going to release 1.2 million pages of documents on January 15, 2018.

We can expect one of two things to happen, if these documents confirm what appears to be obvious.  There will either be a special prosecutor appointed to pursue indictments or a criminal probe directed by Attorney General Jeff Sessions.  We can also count on the House Intelligence Committee issuing subpoenas and asking a lot of tough questions.  Clearly the OIG and the House Intelligence Committee are working together.

https://www.npr.org/2017/12/20/572195727/politico-reporter-says-obama-administration-derailed-hezbollah-investigation

It appears the necessary house cleaning at the FBI is over.  Several agents have been reassigned, McCabe has announced his retirement and James A. Baker, FBI General Counsel was removed.  Just this week Sessions announced opening probe of Uranium One and more recently of the alleged obstruction of justice regarding Hezbollah.  The timing of these announcements is significant. Now that certain key players have been benched, the DOJ appears to be gearing up to take this on.  Attorney General Jess Sessions is now in charge.

An interesting question is whether Mueller is part of the problem or part of the solution.  In addition Bill Priestap, who was right in the middle of everything, is not being mentioned.  More than one person has noticed this:

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/12/how_husbands_and_wives_figure_in_the_latest_government_scandal_revelations.html

We may all learn a lot more about Bill Priestap in the near future, either as the target of an investigation or as the ultimate whistle blower.  Either way, it is not exaggerating to say this could be the biggest political scandal in the history of the United States.

Sir Walter Scott:  “Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.”

TDM

A few weeks ago, I wrote that there appeared to be a secret investigation of the FBI and that I suspected it was run by Devin Nunes.  That has just been confirmed by the following article.  This is not from a right-wing blog but rather from someone who despises Nunes:

https://www.lipstickalley.com/threads/devin-nunes-at-it-again-running-his-own-secret-investigation-into-muellers-russia-probe.1363241/

The article reports that Republicans on the Intelligence Committee have been holding secret meetings without the knowledge of their Democratic colleges.  Clearly the Republicans do not trust the Democrats on the Intelligence Committee.  That alone should be cause for alarm.  This committee has a charter to be non-partisan.  Allegedly the goal of this secret committee was to investigate corruption and conspiracy in the upper ranks of federal law enforcement.  Based on recent reports, they may have found exactly that.

Incredibly liberal Democrats still believe this is an effort to attack the FBI, to attack Robert Mueller, to undermine the investigations and the FBI to discredit them in advance of bombshell finding of Russian collusion. The problem with that theory is that there is zero evidence of the Trump campaign colluding with Russia but there is evidence of the FBI and the Hillary Campaign colluding with Russia.

There are now reports about the hearing with Andrew McCabe.  This obviously did not go well. I saw the pictures of McCabe arriving for his hearing surrounded by a contingent of FBI lawyers. This seems clear evidence that there is still a group of very senior people in the FBI who strongly support McCabe and are desperately trying to provide cover for him.  James Rosen reported on the hearing and it is stunning:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/12/20/mccabe-draws-blank-on-democrats-funding-trump-dossier-new-subpoenas-planned.html

McCabe was described as friendly to the Democrats, but he was unable to help Democrats build a case for obstruction of justice regarding Donald Trump.  McCabe tied to say that the FBI stood by the anti-Trump Dossier but apparently the only thing he could verify was that Carter Page had traveled to Moscow.  The FBI did not need any dossier to obtain that information.

It is starting to look like this investigation has flipped.  The FBI is famous for asking questions for which it already knows the answer to try and lure suspects into committing perjury.  This time it may have been the Intelligence Committee who already knew the answers to the questions and it was McCabe who did not know the answers.   The following comment is extremely important:

“Congressional investigators tell Fox News that Tuesday’s seven-hour interrogation of Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe contained numerous conflicts with the testimony of previously witnesses.”   It is important to note the description of this as an interrogation.

This appears to have been very different from the open-door hearings where each member of the committee is given five minutes of air time, often used solely for political posturing.  Trey Gowdy led the questioning. He is a skilled prosecutor and that makes this a very dangerous interrogation for Andrew McCabe if he is less than truthful.  If this report is true, someone is lying.  McCabe appears to be suffering from a Clintonian level of selective amnesia.  He can’t seem to recall key events, including situations where there are documents that allegedly have his signature.

It would be naive to assume that Jeff Sessions, Rod Rosenstein and Christopher Wray are unaware of the significance of this.  Perhaps they have distanced themselves from both the OIG investigation and the House Intelligence committee investigation for good reason.  They know Democrats will try and paint any criticism of people in the FBI as an attempt to distract from the Russia collusion investigation.  They are now able to take strong action if appropriate.  All three of them have said they will take appropriate action when the “investigations” are complete.  Maybe, just maybe, there are some real patriots in position ready, willing and able to take strong action to protect our democracy and the rule of law.  We better hope and pray that is true, because the alternative is unthinkable.

TDM

Andrew McCabe testified for eight hours in a closed session of the House Intelligence Committee.  Unlike the hearing with Donald Trump Jr., where there was a leak a minute, there have been zero leaks from this session.  Even Adam Schiff, the prime suspect for leaks from this committee, had very little to say other than that “McCabe has been a professional FBI Agent” and that Schiff does not understand “the calls of some to fire him.”

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/12/the_importance_of_no_leaks_after_mccabe_testified_for_8_hours_before_house_intelligence_committee.html

Republicans aren’t saying anything.  Politically that does not make sense.  But it does make sense if people are now focused on criminal punishment rather than the glory of short term political advantage.  Skilled prosecutors do not outline their full case at a press conference.  They save it for the jury.  The Democrats do not have any real evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, so they are trying the case in the court of public opinion.  Republicans appear to have hard evidence regarding obstruction of justice within the FBI. There is evidence that the Hillary e-mail server investigation has reopened.  No one is talking about that either.

The DOJ has dealt with other cases were high officials committed treason.  If FBI agents plotted to remove a U.S. President by using obviously fake information to investigate his administration, that would also be treason. Aldridge Ames was a CIA Agent who sold secrets to Russia.  Robert Hanssen was an FBI Agent who also spied for Russia.  It took eight years to find Ames and then build a case to convict him.  It took a long time to find Hanssen, but they had learned from Aldridge Ames.  In December 2000 they started surveillance of him, he was arrested on February 18, 2001.  Both men will spend the rest of their lives in a Super Max prison.

There are many signs that the investigation is nearing an end.  Unlike the Russia collusion narrative fueled by anonymous sources usually discredited, there have been very few leaks about this investigation.  Instead critical documents were legally provided to congressional committees just prior to public hearings.  None of those documents have been discredited.  In fact, none of those documents are even disputed. Sometimes silence is golden and if you are an FBI agent who betrayed your country now is the time to become very very afraid.

TDM

The Mueller Investigation, the House Intelligence Committee Investigation and the Senate Intelligence Committee investigations are all roaring toward a conclusion. In addition the Office of the Inspector General i(“OIG”) investigation of the FBI is also coming to a close. The results are almost certain to be devastating for Democrats and it is a largely self-inflicted wound. The OIG investigation was begun at the request of Democrats who were hoping to find evidence that Comey was unfair to Hillary Clinton during the e-mail scandal. Comey also welcomed the investigation because he clearly thought his testimony in front of congress would make him a folk hero. They were both incredibly wrong. The OIG has found serious problems with the way Comey handled the e-mail scandal. It has also apparently discovered the damaging text messages sent by FBI Agent Peter Strzok and others. It has been reported that the investigation regarding Hillary Clinton’s e-mails has been reopened. The only thing that both Republicans and Democrats agree on regarding this whole mess is that Comey messed up. He will be lucky to avoid criminal liability.

So far there has been zero evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. There is, however, evidence that the allegations of collusion were based on leaks by Democrats, possibly FBI agents, with no factual support. There is evidence that the top investigators on Mueller’s team were hopelessly compromised. Two of them have already been fired. This means that even if they did uncover a smoking gun, it wouldn’t matter anymore. Both Mueller and Rosenstein know that. Rosenstein allowed the text messages regarding Peter Strzok to be released to the press, knowing that he would be asked about this in a public hearing. He said that the OIG approved this decision. We can assume that Robert Mueller also approved of this decision. It would be foolish for Democrats to believe that Mueller is running a witch hunted with a mission to destroy Trump. He may be on a mission to restore integrity to the FBI. The release of these texts hint that the FBI and the OIG already has all the documentation it needs.

Rosenstein said he has faith in Robert Mueller and he is the right person to lead this investigation. He did not express such support for the members of this investigation who demonstrated such obvious bias. Rosenstein also said that Sally Yates was wrong when she refused to obey an executive order issued by President Donald Trump regarding the travel ban. That was an incredible statement, because Rosenstein reported to her at the time. He said the rule of law and the constitution were more important than Ms. Yates personal opinion about President Trump.

Democrats are clearly panicked. They are trashing Rosenstein for releasing those text messages. That is an admission that these are extremely damaging. Today Trey Gowdy said he would be surprised if Andrew McCabe is still employed by the FBI by the time of his scheduled appearance before the House Intelligence Committee. That appearance is scheduled for December 22, 2017, next Tuesday. Wow!

Democrats are in the process of being hoisted by their own petard. This is an idiom traced back to William Shakespeare meaning “to be harmed by one’s own plan to harm someone else.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petard

Stay tuned. This could be an explosive weekend.

TDM

Judge Roy Moore graduated from High School in 1965. He was admitted to West Point and graduated in 1969. He was deployed to Vietnam as the commander of the 188^th Military Police Company. He was discharged from the U.S. Army as a captain in 1974. He then attended the University of Alabama School of law. He graduated in 1977 with a JD degree. He then went to work as a lawyer and later as a prosecutor.

This means that by the time Judge Moore completed his education at West Point, his service in Vietnam and his education in Law School, he was 30 years old. Now any of you who graduated high school in 1965 think back about the girls you knew in your high school class. Imagine returning home, really for the first time, twelve years later when you were 30 years old.   You look up some of the girls you remember from high school. You quickly discover that a high percentage of the “good” girls are married and several of them already have children. In 1970 the median age of first marriages was 22.5 for men and 20.6 for women. Even now the average is 28.4 for men and 26.5 for women.

People remain oblivious to the sacrifice paid by a lot of Vietnam Veterans. In addition to getting shot at, we missed at least four years of our life. These were critical years. The years our fellow class mates used to graduate college. A majority of them were married, had graduated college, were in the workforce and probably owned their first home. By the time Roy Moore graduated from Law School he had sacrificed 12 years of his life.

Who did you expect him to date? Many of the girls age 19 to 24 were in college. Certainly the girls that would be interested in someone who had graduated from West Point and the University of Alabama would be in college. They would naturally be dating other college students. It is quite possible that Roy Moore started dating young girls because there simply weren’t many girls close to his own age that were available.

It is interesting that no one in the main stream media or the RINO Republicans figured this out. I do not know what will happen in the election today. What is clear is that if Roy Moore loses, every Republican running in a major election will be slammed with a similar hit piece, just before the election. In some cases the allegations will be true. In other cases they will not be true. In all cases it will be an attempt by the main stream media to defeat conservative candidates. At least one of Roy Moore’s accusers has admitted to forging a document.  One should also not ignore something obvious.  The other guys accused of sexual misconduct seem to continue the same pattern for their entire lives.  I believe the most recent allegation against Roy Moore happened over 34 years ago.  We can only hope that the good citizens of Alabama are not this naïve.

TDM

Prior to the battle of Midway, the U.S. suspected the Japanese Navy had picked Midway as their next target.  But the problem was the target was identified only by a code name.  The decision was made to send a public unencrypted broadcast from Midway saying they have problems with their water system.  The Japanese fell for it hook, line and sinker.  They sent an encrypted message to Yamato which proved that Midway was the target.  The United States set up an ambush at Midway and that battle literally changed the war.

Both Attorney General Jeff Session and FBI Director Wray have said there are ongoing investigations of the FBI including investigation of leaks.  They also said this investigation is not being conducted by the DOJ and the FBI.  We know that there is an investigation by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) but I believe that someone else is conducting a secret and very effective investigation.

Last summer there were numerous stories published in the main stream media that turned out to be false.  This is exactly what one would expect to happen if there was a truly independent leak investigation.  Fake or even real classified documents would be distributed through normal channels.  A slightly different version of the same document would be given to each person.  This would make it easy to identify the primary source of any leak.  This would be a classic spy vs spy operation.  In the last couple of weeks, this has rapidly escalated.

Private e-mails sent and received by members of the Mueller investigation using the FBI server have been disclosed.  Obviously these people thought those e-mails were secure.  They were, but someone legally gained access to those e-mails and no one in the FBI even knew it happened.

There was a report claiming Michael Flynn would testify that Trump ordered him to contact Russia during the election.  Oops.  It was after the election, when it was Flynn’s job to do that.

There was a report that Mueller issued subpoenas for Trump’s Deutsche Bank records.  The White House easily provided documents proving this was not true.

There was a report that Donald Trump Jr. had received an e-mail from WikiLeaks on September 4, 2016.  The real e-mail was dated September 14, 2016, after the DNC e-mails had been released to the public.

All three of these incidents involve highly classified information given only to a handful of people.  It looks like someone was deliberately given false information, not provided to anyone else.  This was information too tempting to ignore.  By leaking this to the press, this person may have self-incriminated.

I believe this is about to explode.  Several things provide hints that this investigation is nearly complete.  Devin Nunes, Chairman of the Intelligence committee, has resurfaced.  On December 7, 2017 Nunes was fully exonerated by the ethics committee.  Nunes is one of the few people who could have gained access to the FBI server, legally, without telling anyone.  This caused me to research Nunes with regard to his personal timeline.

On March 21^st, 2017, Nunes received a private phone call.  He sent his staff home, switched cars and went to the White House.  There he met with an informant who showed him highly classified documents in a secure location.  Nunes gave a press conference reporting this without bothering to inform Democrats on the Intelligence Committee.  The next day he personally briefed President Donald Trump and then gave another press conference.    Shortly after this left wing groups filed a complaint with the ethics committee.  Nunes publicly said this was a sham designed to block him from investigating.  His exoneration on December 7, 2017 is full vindication of Nunes.

It would be really interesting to know what information was provided to Nunes on March 21, 2017.  We only know what he chose to tell us.  Even Nunes’ staff was not in that meeting.  We only know that he considered this so important that he requested a personal meeting with President Donald Trump.

One of the democrats on the Intelligence Committee said it looked like Nunes was running his own intelligence operation.  In retrospect, that may be right.   All we know is that things were being investigated and the Mueller investigation has been rocked to its core.  We know that the main stream media has issued several reports, based on “reliable sources” that have turned out to be totally inaccurate.  The main stream media has been humiliated.  Trump poured salt on the wound by hammering them for fake news.  What people failed to understand is that the people leaking those stories may have believed them to be true.  If someone like Nunes was running an undercover sting operation, that is exactly what would happen.

This appears to be happening at the speed of light.  It’s a beautiful thing.

TDM

At this point Trump probably hopes that the Mueller investigation continues.  That would be smart, because this investigation is hopelessly compromised.  Following are the conflicts that are already documented.  By the time I finish writing this, there will probably be more.

Peter Strzok   He was dismissed from investigation for anti-Trump e-mails.  He was involved in everything.

Lisa Paige (His mistress)  Also worked for Mueller investigation.  Not totally clear why she left.

Melissa Hidgman (His wife).  Works for another agency.  Facebook pages trashing Trump have been deleted.

Andrew Weissman  Attended Hillary Clinton’s planned election night victory party  Very high up in DOJ.  Has reputation for abuse of power as a prosecutor.

Bruce G. Ohr  High level DOJ official with knowledge of Dossier.    Will testify next week.

Andrew McCabe  Temporary Director of FBI after Comey was fired.  His wife received huge sums from Terry McAuliffe.  If he is compromised, everything is compromised.

Aaron Zebley  Consultant who set up Hillary’s e-mail server.

Everyone, including Democrats should be demanding that Mueller resign.  They won’t because first they would have to grow a conscience.  There is no sign of that happening.

It gets worse.  The judge who presided over the guilty plea by Michael Flynn, Judge Rudolph Contreras,has been recused from that case.  Several people have pointed out that Contreras is also a FISA judge and some suspect he may have signed off on the FISA warrant used against Trump campaign officials.  We don’t know why he was recused, we just know that this happened.

FISA warrants are highly secret, but it appears as though two were requested by the DOJ regarding Trump campaign officials.  One was allegedly requested in July, but was denied by a FISA judge.  Since it is reported that 99% of FISA warrant requests are routinely approved, this is unusual.  In October a second , more narrow, FISA request was presented and it was approved.

The are numerous people claiming this FISA warrant was based on the fake Russian Dossier paid for by the Hillary Clinton campaign.  If that is true, it is beyond earthshaking.  This would be smoking gun proof that the Obama administration lied to a federal court.  Many of the people whose finger prints are all over this potentially illegal FISA warrant are now working for Mueller.

Mike Rogers , Director of the NSA, visited Donald Trump in the Trump tower shortly after the election.  The next day Trump moved his transition team from the Trump Tower to his New Jersey Golf Course.  Perhaps Rogers warned him that this was necessary.  Mike Rogers was severely criticized for this meeting.  Defense Secretary Ash Carter and Director of National Securing recommended that Obama fire Rogers.  He was not fired.  He is the current Director of the NSA.

Mike Rogers said that he had only moderate confidence in the conclusion that Russia was trying to help Donald Trump during the election.  He said that when he looked at the data, for each of the other judgments there were multiple sources and he could exclude every other alternative.  But with regard to this assessment it didn’t have the same level of sourcing and the same level of multiple sources.

It is clear that someone is investigating the investigators and they are striking gold.  In the meantime the search for evidence of the Trump campaign colluding with Russia is still non-existent.

Incredibly, Democrats and the main stream media continue to ignore this story.  They still pretend that Trump is in trouble.  Unless there is some strong evidence we are all missing that is absurd.

In addition it has just been documented that liberal democrats used similar tactics to try and destroy conservatives in Wisconsin.  Prosecutors used false information to file fake charges because they were angry at election results.  Someone blew the whistle on them and the investigators were investigated.  Multiple courts, including the Wisconsin Supreme court, shut down the witch hunts with extreme prejudice:

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2017/12/07/wisconsin-john-doe-n2419287

It sure looks like the entire Russian Collusion investigation and the Special Prosecutor is using a script borrowed from the abuse of power by prosecutors in Wisconsin.  This is unbelievable, even for liberal democrats.  It is not just wrong, it is unbelievably stupid.  It confirms our worst fears.  Liberals in Wisconsin apparently had no problem with illegally using prosecutors to file false charges against political opponents.  The standard seems to be that when liberals lose, anything necessary to remove conservatives from power is acceptable.  We cannot rule out the distinct possible that liberal Democrats in cooperation with some very senior people in the DOJ did the exact same thing in a failed attempt to remove Trump..  Since there is and has been zero evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, this is sadly a believable explanation.  This should not be a partisan issue.  If this is true it represents a clear and present danger to all of us.

TDM