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Brookings Institute President Placed on Leave After FBI Affidavit Accidentally Released

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By Hans Mahncke (originally published June 8, 2020)

A newly released FBI affidavit implicates the president of the Brookings Institution, retired four-star Marine Gen. John Allen, in an alleged backchannel effort in 2017 to lobby then-Trump administration national security adviser H.R. McMaster, as well as other U.S. government officials, on behalf of the government of Qatar.

Allen is alleged to have made false statements and concealed documents from the FBI in connection with his lobbying efforts.

He has been put on leave by Brookings, whose website states: “As of June 8, 2022, John R. Allen is on leave from the Brookings Institution.”Continue Reading

Disrespect for a Nation – The NFL’s Epic Fail

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The NFL has experienced a number of particularly bad – and self-inflicted – years when it comes to Public Relations.

This time, the NFL, Commissioner Goodell and Company have outdone themselves.

Sunday was a fiasco.

President Trump brought an issue that’s been irking many a NFL fan to a head with remarks during a speech followed by these tweets:Continue Reading

The Pending IG Report & Strzok Texts

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6-7-18 UPDATE:

The Inspector General’s Report should be released imminently. Anytime between now and Friday – absent further postponement of the Inspector General’s scheduled testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Examining the Inspector General’s First Report on Justice Department and FBI Actions in Advance of the 2016 Presidential Election is currently scheduled for June 11, 2018 at 2:00pm EST.Continue Reading

Surreal Revelations from the Mueller Investigation

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The revelations keep on coming.

On December 4, 2017, in The Inspector General’s Quiet Investigation, I discussed how the uncovering of demoted FBI Agent Peter Strzok’s activities was tied to a little noticed – but crucial – investigation by Michael Horowitz, the Inspector General.

The details surrounding Strzok were not only alarming – they verged on the unbelievable. That one man could be involved in so many utterly crucial aspects of events over the past 18 months seemed difficult to accept.

Almost as if there was a concerted effort to blame everything surrounding Clinton, Team Obama and the Russian Investigation onto one man…Continue Reading

Durham Court Filing Reveals DOJ Inspector General Horowitz Withheld Key Evidence From Special Counsel

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By Jeff Carlson & Hans Mahncke

Originally Published 1/27/22

A court filing by special counsel John Durham revealed that Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General Michael Horowitz concealed crucial information from Durham in connection with the ongoing prosecution of Michael Sussmann, a former attorney to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign. 

The Jan. 25 filing also reveals that Horowitz failed to disclose that his office is in possession of two cellphones used by former FBI General Counsel James Baker. The phones may contain information that’s important to the Sussmann case, as well as to a separate criminal leak investigation of Baker that Durham personally conducted between 2017 and 2019.Continue Reading

Durham Court Filing Reveals DOJ Inspector General Horowitz Withheld Key Evidence From Special Counsel

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By Jeff Carlson & Hans Mahncke

Originally Published 1/27/22

A court filing by special counsel John Durham revealed that Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General Michael Horowitz concealed crucial information from Durham in connection with the ongoing prosecution of Michael Sussmann, a former attorney to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign. 

The Jan. 25 filing also reveals that Horowitz failed to disclose that his office is in possession of two cellphones used by former FBI General Counsel James Baker. The phones may contain information that’s important to the Sussmann case, as well as to a separate criminal leak investigation of Baker that Durham personally conducted between 2017 and 2019.

Horowitz first came to public prominence in June 2018 when he issued a report on the FBI’s actions leading up to the 2016 presidential election. Horowitz followed up in December 2019 with another report on the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation and the bureau’s pursuit of a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant on Trump campaign aide Carter Page.Continue Reading

A Trumpian Evolution

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If you have been following my posts you can probably discern pretty quickly that I am a fan of President-Elect Trump. If you’ve read carefully – especially the earlier posts – you will see it wasn’t always this way. It took some evolving. It wasn’t until my 26th post – Quietly Enthusiastic – that I realized I had completely come around and was fully supportive of Trump’s candidacy. I don’t agree with everything Trump puts forth – especially on some trade issues – but I am firmly in the Trump camp.

At this point some disclosure is warranted. I entered the high yield market back in 1989 – working first as an analyst and then assistant portfolio manager – at an institution that held a significant presence in the high yield market. This meant that we obtained one-on-one meetings for any deal making its way through the HY market – and Trump was reasonably active back in those days. It also meant we were generally offered the chance to meet privately with any HY issuer at the various conferences we would attend each year. While I do not know the man on a personal level, I’ve met Trump on a few occasions and have had several internal institutional meetings with him – all of them in relation to deals he had brought or was bringing into the high yield market. These meetings occurred years ago – primarily during the 90’s – and involved several other individuals from my institution as well. I found Trump to be bright yet somewhat brash, friendly and cordial yet somewhat boastful – gregarious with a noticeably large personality. In all honesty, I viewed him as almost a caricature. Continue Reading

Hidden Messages in GOP Report Reveal How Scientists Shaped Narrative on COVID-19 Origins

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By Hans Mahncke (originally published on July 12, 2023)

On July 11, we reported that House Republicans released two text messages (pdf) that show that a group of prominent scientists conspired to dismiss the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic in order to protect China.

It has now emerged that those messages are part of a much larger trove that was apparently being held back by House Republicans. The additional messages contain some of the most significant evidence to date that there was an orchestrated coverup of the origins of COVID-19.Continue Reading