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Admiral Mike Rogers announced his retirement on January 5, 2018, thus bringing an end to a nearly four-year tenure as head of the NSA.
Which is somewhat remarkable given the Obama Administration tried to fire him well over a year ago.
In late 2016, the Washington Post reported what I thought an unusual story – though I lacked the information to grasp the full import at the time:Continue Reading
I’ve been working on another more lengthy post, but decided it worthy to pause for a quick update as much is transpiring.
The Daily Caller is reporting that Devin Nunes has received all Department of Justice and FBI documents it possesses on the Trump Dossier. I’ve not yet seen secondary confirmation.
The committee was able to review Friday all FBI and DOJ documents on the Trump dossier, former MI-6 British agent Christopher Steele who authored the dossier, and Fusion GPS, the political opposition firm that hired Steele. DOJ also provided any Obama administration applications to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court based on the dossier, which could approve the surveillance of the Trump transition team or Trump associates, according to a source with direct knowledge of the case.Continue Reading
On December 28, 2017, House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes sent a blistering letter to Deputy AG Rosenstein with a deadline response of January 3, 2018.
In the evening of January 3, 2018, Nunes received a reply.
Nunes wants answers to the origin of the FBI investigation that ultimately led to the National Security Division of the DOJ assembling a FISA request to engage in surveillance of the Trump Campaign.
The FBI Counterintelligence Division began an official investigation into the Trump Campaign in mid-to-late July 2016.Continue Reading
Representative Jim Jordan has been one of the few in Congress willing to ask tough questions that many of us want answers to.
He has done so during Congressional Committee Sessions – requiring the questions and answers to become part of Congressional record.
Now he is asking those same questions in a more public forum.Continue Reading
On December 30, 2017, the New York Times ran a story claiming that drunken remarks made by George Papdopoulos – NOT the Trump Dossier – led to the opening of the FBI Investigation into Russia-Trump.
Their story was widely criticized.
Andrew McCarthy wrote a strongly worded article that tore into the NYT’s narrative. The folks at theconservativetreehouse put together an excellent Twitter thread that was sent directly to NYT’s Maggie Haberman, exposing the many flaws inherent in the article. I wrote about flaws in the article as well.
Yesterday, the Times decided to double-down on their claims, this time running an Op-Ed, The Republican’s Fake Investigation, by Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch – the founders of Fusion GPS.Continue Reading
We have a winner!!
The Least Self-Aware Tweet of 2017 Award goes to…
Ben Rhodes – Obama’s “Foreign Policy Advisor”, architect of the spectacularly disastrous Iran Nuclear Deal & failed fiction writer.
Rhodes sent out the following missive after several days of Iranian protests against the ruling Mullahs.Continue Reading
A tweet with a picture of the late edition New York Times cover caught my eye for two reasons. The lead story the Times was pushing…and the important story the Times was ignoring.Continue Reading
An unlikely source has been at the forefront of discoveries surrounding the DNC’s Russia-Trump Narrative. Senator Lindsey Graham.
Yeah. I know… But it’s true nevertheless.
And Senator Graham just confirmed what many of us have been saying for some time.
The Trump Dossier, created by Fusion GPS, was used by the DOJ/FBI to obtain a FISA Warrant to spy on the Trump Campaign.Continue Reading
On December 8, 2017, House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes gave an interview to Fox News. He made a number of notable comments:
We have had an ongoing investigation into DOJ [Department of Justice] and FBI since mid-summer for both FISA [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court] abuse and other matters that we can’t get into too much. But it is very concerning.
I believe there’s evidence that abuses have occurred.
I hate to use the word corrupt, but they become so dirty that, who is watching the watchmen? Who is investigating these people? There is no one.
We have no evidence of Russian collusion between the Trump campaign.
On December 28, 2017, Nunes sent a blistering letter to Deputy AG Rosenstein:Continue Reading
I first came across the name Bill Priestap in early April 2017, as I was going through House Intelligence Committee testimony given by James Comey on March 20, 2017:Continue Reading