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UNBELIEVABLE: Fusion GPS Founders Continue Their Lies – Claim AG Barr Twisted Mueller Report Beyond Recognition

Fusion GPS Founders and hacks, Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch, had the gall to place an oped in the UK’s far-left Guardian entitled Britain needs its own Mueller report on Russian ‘interference’.  In their piece they share the unreal.  It’s like they’re from another universe and the DOJ IG report never came out on Monday [emphasis and numbers added]:

Fusion GPS, conducted much of the early investigations into Russia’s support of the Trump campaign, aided by our colleague Christopher Steele, the former head of MI6’s Russia desk. While our initial focus was on Russian meddling in US politics, it has since become increasingly clear that Britain’s political system has also been deeply affected by Russian influence operations.

There the similarities end. For the past three years, the US has undergone a messy and boisterous effort to understand the extent of Russian influence on the 2016 election and beyond. There have been multiple congressional investigations with the power to compel documents and testimony from witnesses. There was a two-year investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller.

After mostly ignoring the issue during the election campaign itself, the US media have made up for lost time by digging deeply into Russian interference and the extent of the Trump campaign’s complicity [1].

All of these investigations have been imperfect. The congressional investigations often devolved into farce as Trump’s political allies decided to investigate the investigators instead of Russia’s attack.[2]  The Mueller report’s damning findings were obfuscated by lawyerly language and twisted beyond recognition by Trump’s loyal attorney general.[3]  Mueller interpreted his mandate narrowly, leaving crucial questions unanswered.[4]

But the process did produce an avalanche of documents and testimony, a great deal of it public, that has aided understanding of what occurred. That makes it harder for Russia to reprise its attack. The Mueller report’s main finding – that Russia had engaged in a “sweeping and systematic” campaign to elect Trump – was unambiguous and thoroughly documented.[5]  So too was Mueller’s clarion call for Americans of all political persuasions to wake up to the continuing threat of Russian interference in its politics.

In Britain, the official response has consisted largely of denial. Consumed by bitter divisions over Brexit and public spending, it took years longer than it should have for parliament to conduct an investigation of Russian penetration of British politics. Even now, the government has suppressed its findings until after the election – an unconscionable decision given the importance to the democratic system itself.

Many US institutions have shown more backbone and independence than their UK counterparts. Some of those who served in the Trump administration, such as the British-born Fiona Hill and Lt Col Alexander Vindman, have been willing to stand up in public and tell the truth, despite intimidation from the president and his allies. In the UK, the courageous whistleblowers needed to expose Russian influence have yet to emerge.

What a pile of garbage.  These guys are perhaps the biggest liars in the entire Russia collusion sham. 

They admittedly hired Christopher Steele who created a bogus dossier that we now know was false in January 2017, and in spite of this knowledge, Obama’s Deep State FBI, DOJ and Intel Community pushed this Fusion GPS piece of garbage on the American people and used it in an attempted coup to remove President Trump from office.

These two goons who put the US and President Trump through hell over the past 3 years claim:

1. Russian interference and the extent of the Trump campaign’s complicity.

As we now know there was no complicity between the President and Russia.  The whole thing was made up by perhaps Simpson himself.  The IG report released this past week confirmed that it was all made up.  Steele’s only sub-source in the Steele dossier said it was “word of mouth and hearsay” and a “conversation that[he/she] had with friends over beers”.  It was total garbage.

Trump had no relationship with Russia and 6 of 8 of the incidents noted in the Mueller report where there was contact between the Trump campaign and ‘Russians’ were set-ups by the Deep State.

The IG report states the comments from the sub-source:

2. The congressional investigations often devolved into farce as Trump’s political allies decided to investigate the investigators instead of Russia’s attack.

The gall of these guys.  They made millions and put America through hell for three years because of the lies they spread from the beginning.  The only farce in this discussion is Fusion GPS.

3. The Mueller report’s damning findings were obfuscated by lawyerly language and twisted beyond recognition by Trump’s loyal attorney general. 

What an absolute lie.  AG Barr should sue these guys for slander.  For all we know, and based on reports, the AG’s interactions with the bogus Mueller gang report were limited.  The AG redacted almost nothing in the Mueller report.  To claim that the AG twisted the Mueller report with lawyerly language is unsupported and clearly just another Fusion GPS lie.  What goons.

4. Mueller interpreted his mandate narrowly, leaving crucial questions unanswered.

This too is incorrect and therefore slanderous.  One of the key arguments that we made for three years was that Mueller’s special counsel was unconstitutional because the law requires a scope limited to a crime but Mueller and his gang looked into everything.  They went back and indicted Paul Manafort for tax evasion from years ago and for not filling out FARA forms which are literally almost never prosecuted before the Mueller investigation started to do so.  Only a few of the individuals who hadn’t completed FARA documents were prosecuted over the past few decades.

5. The Mueller report’s main finding – that Russia had engaged in a “sweeping and systematic” campaign to elect Trump – was unambiguous and thoroughly documented.

What a bunch of bull.  This remark is repeated even by Republicans, but it couldn’t be further from the truth.  The original sin that supposedly started this sham was that the DNC was hacked by the Russians.  To this day we have never seen evidence of this.  Actually what is proven in public, the WikiLeaks emails from the Clinton campaign released before the 2016 election, show that the emails were not even hacked.  This key point Roger Stone was not allowed to present during his case in front of corrupt Obama Judge Amy Berman Jackson.

We reported on May 11, 2019, that Roger Stone and his legal team requested the report from Crowdstrike, the firm connected with the Deep State who reportedly did inspect the DNC server after emails were released by WikiLeaks.  This report was used by the FBI and the Mueller gang as support that the DNC was hacked by Russia.

Stone’s position was that if the Mueller team and the FBI did not inspect the DNC server, then how can they know that the server was hacked. This logical argument makes sense –

The Mueller team fought back against the Stone team and argued that it was not necessary to see the documents that support that Russia hacked the DNC –

We’ve been saying for months that the entire Russia collusion delusion is a sham. To date there has been no information reported that ascertains that the DNC was hacked by the Russians. No reports to date show that the DNC server was inspected by the Mueller team and the FBI. Since this is the case, there is no way the Mueller team can claim the server was hacked.

Since there is no proof that the emails were hacked, the reports that Russians were involved in the collusion delusion evaporate. This would have destroyed the entire Russian sham make-believe case. Our reporting has been confirmed by others in the Intelligence community.

Next we reported that NSA Whistle blower and cyber security expert Bill Binney looked at the DNC data leaked by WikiLeaks and determined that it was definitively not hacked, it was copied to a disk or flash drive.

Former NSA employee and whistle blower, Bill Binney, reviewed the leaked emails provided online and they show that the data coming from the DNC was not hacked but rather copied to a disk or flash drive!

Binney said:

The problem with the Mueller report and the Rosenstein indictment is it’s all based on lies. I mean the fact they’re still lying about the, saying the DNC was hacked by the Russians and the Russians gave it to WikiLeaks.

Well, we had some of our people and our group, the VIPS, the Veteran Intelligence Professionals, look at the data that WikiLeaks posted on the DNC data. They actually posted the DNC data…

…that entire set of data was read to a thumb drive or a CD Rom then physically transported. Now this is what Kim Dotcom is saying. This is what Julian Assange basically was inferring. Others have been saying the same things.”

It’s clear the DNC was not hacked and it’s more likely a disgruntled insider like Seth Rich copied the files to a disk drive than that the Russians hacked the DNC.

We next posted more arguments against Mueller’s assertion that the DNC was hacked by Russians. A cybersecurity expert by the name of Yaacov Apelbaum posted an incredible report earlier this year with information basically proving that the DNC was not hacked by the Russians.

Apelbaum’s first argument is this –

According to the WaPo (using CrowdStrike, DOJ, and their other usual hush-hush government sources in the know), the attack was perpetrated by a Russian unit lead by Lieutenant Captain Nikolay Kozachek who allegedly crafted a malware called X-Agent and used it to get into the network and install keystroke loggers on several PCs. This allowed them to see what the employees were typing and take screenshots of the employees’ computer.

This is pretty detailed information, but if this was the case, then how did the DOJ learn all of these ‘details’ and use them in the indictments without the FBI ever forensically evaluating the DNC/HRC computers? And since when does the DOJ, an organization that only speaks the language of indictments use hearsay and 3rd parties like the British national Matt Tait (a former GCHQ collector and a connoisseur of all things related to Russian collusion), CrowdStrike, or any other evidence lacking chain of custody certification as a primary source for prosecution?

A second point by Apelbaum is –

… that three of the Russian GRU officers on the DOJ wanted list were allegedly working concurrently on multiple non-related projects like interfering with the 2016 United States elections (both HRC and DNC) while at the same time they were also allegedly hacking anti-doping agencies (Images 2-3).

Above are pictures of the individuals the FBI says were working on both the DNC/HRC email hacking and the Olympic doping projects.

The same guys were working on both projects which is all but impossible. (Do we really know if they’re even Russians?)

Apelbaum argues –

The fact that the three had multiple concurrent high impact and high visibility project assignments is odd because this is not how typical offensive cyber intelligence teams operate. These units tend to be compartmentalized, they are assigned to a specific mission, and the taskforce stays together for the entire duration of the project.

Next Apelbaum questions the Mueller gang’s assertion that the ‘hacker’ named Guccifer 2.0 was a Russian –

Any evidence that Guccifer 2.0 is Russian should be evaluated while keeping these points in mind:

  1. He used a Russian VPN service to cloak his IP address, but did not use TOR. Using a proxy to conduct cyber operations is a SOP [Standard Operating Procedure] in all intelligence and LEA [Law Enforcement Agency] agencies. [i.e. Russia would have masked their VPN service]

  2. He used the AOL email service that captured and forwarded his IP address and the same AOL email to contact various media outlets on the same day of the attack. This is so overt and amateurish that its unlikely to be a mistake and seems like a deliberate attempt to leave traceable breadcrumbs.

  3. He named his Office User account Феликс Эдмундович (Felix Dzerzhinsky), after the founder of the Soviet Secret Police. Devices and accounts used in offensive cyberspace operations use random names to prevent tractability and identification. Why would anyone in the GRU use this pseudonym (beside the obvious reason) is beyond comprehension.

  4. He copied the original Trump opposition research document and pasted it into a new .dotm template (with an editing time of about 2 minutes). This resulted in a change of the “Last Modified by” field from “Warren Flood” to “Феликс Эдмундович” and the creation of additional Russian metadata in the document. Why waste the time and effort doing this?

  5. About 4 hours after creating the ‘Russian’ version of the document, he exported it to a PDF using LibreOffice 4.2 (in the process he lost/removed about 20 of the original pages). This was most likely done to show additional ‘Russian fingerprints’ in the form of broken hyperlink error messages in Russian (Images 4 and 5). Why bother with re-formatting and converting the source documents? Why not just get the raw data out in the original format ASAP?

Apelbaum next discusses Guccifer 2.0 –

In June 21, 2016, Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai from Vice Motherboard interviewed a person who identified himself as “Guccifer 2.0”. During their on-line chat session, the individual claimed that he was Romanian (see transcript of the interview below). His poor Romanian language skills were later used to unmask his Russian identify.

…I’m not a scientific linguist nor do I even know where to find one if my life depended on it, but I’m certain that you can’t reliably determine nationality based on someone impersonating another language or from the use of fake metadata in files. This elaborate theory also has the obvious flaw of assuming that the Russian intelligence services are dumb enough to show up to an interview posing as Romanians without actually being able to read and write flaunt Romanian.

After providing a couple more examples of why the Russian story doesn’t stick, Apelbaum closes with this –

The bottom line is that if we want to go beyond the speculative trivia, the pseudo science, and the bombastic unverified claims, we have to ask the real tough questions, mainly: is Guccifer 2.0 even the real attacker and how did he circumvent all of the logs during several weeks of repeated visits while downloading close to 2 GB of data?

Finally, we know that WikiLeaks has stated numerous times that Russia did not provide them with the emails they leaked in 2016 and Julian Assange has stated that WikiLeaks had nothing to do with Russia.

But of course the Mueller gang never interviewed WikiLeaks in an effort to determine how they received the Clinton emails. Of course the Mueller team could not risk WikiLeaks saying the emails were not received from Russia which would destroy their Russia hacked the DNC fairy tale.

Judge Amy Berman Jackson did not allow Roger Stone to destroy the ‘Russia Collusion’ sham once and for all. As a result of her sham court case a good man who befriended President Trump is now convicted on totally bogus charges.  

It certainly appears from the above Guardian article that there is nothing Fusion GPS and the Deep State won’t do and nothing they won’t make up!

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Former CIA Operations Officer: DOJ IG’s FISA Abuse Report Provides Concrete Evidence that Russia Hoax Was a “Deliberate Covert Attempt to Overthrow the Democratic Process”

A former CIA Operations Officer claims the FISA Abuse report provides ample evidence that the Russia Hoax was a covert operation planned and executed by Obama’s Deep State.

Charles S. (Sam) Faddis, Senior Partner – Artemis, LLC is a former CIA operations officer with thirty years of experience in the conduct of intelligence operations. He claims the recently released FISA Abuse report clearly shows that the Russia Hoax was a planned and executed covert operation.

Faddis says –

The essence of a coup, which some might refer to as covert action, is the hidden hand. One does not announce that a foreign power is overthrowing the government and installing a new government. One pulls strings as if from behind a curtain, making events that are all part of a carefully orchestrated plan appear disconnected, spontaneous and serendipitous.

As I read through the recently released IG report for the second time, as someone with a great deal of experience in military and intelligence matters, I see that hand everywhere.

Per the IG report, a single report is delivered to the FBI in the summer of 2016. It concerns a meeting between a cooperative contact of a foreign intelligence service and a junior level employee of the Trump campaign, George Papadopoulos. The report relates what are frankly very amorphous comments by Papadopoulos concerning the Russian government and its alleged possession of information on Hillary Clinton.

On any other day this report would command no attention whatsoever. The source in question has no track record of any kind with the FBI. Papadopoulos has been employed by the Trump campaign for perhaps 90 days at this point, and there is no reason to believe he has contacts of significance in the Kremlin.

Not on this occasion. This one report from a foreign intelligence service goes directly to the top of the FBI. The Director himself, James Comey is briefed. A full investigation is launched. Multiple confidential human sources are tasked. Wiretaps are ordered. A task force is organized. Crossfire Hurricane is born.

Faddis is right.  There are numerous oddities in the Crossfire Hurricane investigation that would make no sense in a case where an investigation is on the up and up and not a covert hoax. 

Per the FISA Report, “The other agency” (which we now know refers to the CIA) notified the FBI in August of 2016 that Carter Page had a relationship with it, before the first FISA warrant was ever filed:

This was important because if the Deep State had shared this in the FISA application obtained to spy on candidate and President Trump, the application would never had been approved because this would have provided rationale for Carter Page interacting with Russians.  He was interacting with Russians on behalf of the CIA!  Also, it’s very odd that this only became an issue in the last FISA warrant?

There are also some very curious footnotes in the IG report. The reports were incomplete… for example, the April 7th renewal signed by Comey and Boente and Judge Conway was missing some information.  The Woods File (support file) for the renewal number 2 of the Carter Page FISA application contain pieces of paper that say “Strat Plan”, “New 302”, “Feb. Article” and “March Article”:

The June 29th renewal signed by McCabe and Rosenstein was also incomplete:

The “new 302” referred to in there might be the Carter Page 302s, which weren’t even included in the FISA app….[You would think that the only interview from the notorious Russian spy would have been mandatory and included in the FISA application?]  And not one person thought to question it?  What’s more, the FBI questions Carter Page, but there was not even one question as to his prior work with “the other agency”?  Also, did they stop Page from testifying in order to make certain no testimony emerged about Page’s prior status with the CIA…he only is allowed to testify after all the warrants had played out.

There are numerous other examples of activities that clearly show the Russia Hoax was a coup.

Faddis concluded his post stating:

The FBI did not conduct an investigation of Donald Trump and his associates that ultimately proved to be based on false information and continue that investigation long past the time it should have been shut down simply because some people made some errors in judgment or some procedures need to be changed. That investigation was simply the most visible piece of a deliberate, covert attempt to overthrow the democratic process. The perpetrators of that crime have yet to be brought to justice and identified. Let’s hope that happens soon.

The Russia Collusion Hoax was an outrage and a lie.  It was a coup against the President of the United States and the citizens of the United States.  It was a biased, calculated, corrupt crime.

Hat tip Hanna and D. Manny

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Press gulps as Team Trump unleashes a full-sail 2020 re-election plan

With the TV cameras focused on the impeachment of President Trump ahead of its inevitable failure, some of the savvier swamp journalists have cast a sidelong glance at how the Trump campaign is doing. At least two of them could only see a helluva strong campaign.

Here’s Jonathan Swan and Margaret Talev at Axios:

President Trump’s re-election campaign wields more money, staff, infrastructure and advanced digital operations than the Democratic competitors — and a fan base that hears “impeachment” as a rallying cry.

Here’s Maggie Haberman & Co. at the New York Times:

And while Mr. Trump himself has rued the fact that impeachment might tarnish his legacy, his top political advisers presented the unfolding proceeding as nothing but a boost to the campaign in every metric it measures, from volunteer recruitment to small-dollar donations.

“It lit up our base,” [campaign operative] Mr. [Brad] Parscale said. “They see their vote is trying to be stolen from the 2016 election.”

He added that impeachment meant that it took “less advertising” to fill up the stadiums where Mr. Trump holds rallies, and that it “puts money in our bank and adds volunteers to our field program.”

Well, yeah. Had to be painful for them to report this, which would explain why the Times buried the painful details deep at the bottom of the story.

Axios had a good list of “takeaways,” from the briefing, which apparently the Trumpsters, led by Jared Kushner and Brad Parscale, were confident enough to let reporters hear about, which included the smart move to purge state organizations of #NeverTrump clowns in leadership positions (who’d want to volunteer for Trump in states under such leadership?), a focus on “tiny” counties in the flyover disdained by leftists, which includes a plan to win Minnesota this time, a plan to encourage voters who sat home in the midterms because Trump’s name wasn’t on the ballot, a plan to win the black and Latino vote, a savvy use of impeachment to sell campaign merchandise and motivate voters, a plan to use tech techniques to capture data from rallies and another plan to turn every Trump rally into “a four or five day event” in the locations where they happen.

Both reports said the Trump campaign was swimming in money, nearly a hundred million dollars, most of it from those low-dollar donors Democrats otherwise claim that they ”own.”

Axios was able to swallow hard and man up to report these things, but the Times could barely stand it. It reported far fewer of the juicy Axios details dear to the hearts of political junkies, and focused instead on whataboutism, throwing out the argument again and again that Democrats were just as motivated as Trumpsters.

You can see who’s more likely to get the scoop on election night and who’s more likely to show the long face of an unpleasant surprise. And the networks aren’t even paying attention to this, so they’ll likely be most surprised of all.

The only picture that came out from both reports is that Trump is running a helluva confident campaign and has a very strong plan to do the Reagan-Mondale thing and win practically every state come November.

It’s good news for Trump Republicans. No wonder the lion’s share of the reporters are miring themselves in that useless impeachment story and avoiding this powerful Trump re-election plan something fierce. 

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With the TV cameras focused on the impeachment of President Trump ahead of its inevitable failure, some of the savvier swamp journalists have cast a sidelong glance at how the Trump campaign is doing. At least two of them could only see a helluva strong campaign.

Here’s Jonathan Swan and Margaret Talev at Axios:

President Trump’s re-election campaign wields more money, staff, infrastructure and advanced digital operations than the Democratic competitors — and a fan base that hears “impeachment” as a rallying cry.

Here’s Maggie Haberman & Co. at the New York Times:

And while Mr. Trump himself has rued the fact that impeachment might tarnish his legacy, his top political advisers presented the unfolding proceeding as nothing but a boost to the campaign in every metric it measures, from volunteer recruitment to small-dollar donations.

“It lit up our base,” [campaign operative] Mr. [Brad] Parscale said. “They see their vote is trying to be stolen from the 2016 election.”

He added that impeachment meant that it took “less advertising” to fill up the stadiums where Mr. Trump holds rallies, and that it “puts money in our bank and adds volunteers to our field program.”

Well, yeah. Had to be painful for them to report this, which would explain why the Times buried the painful details deep at the bottom of the story.

Axios had a good list of “takeaways,” from the briefing, which apparently the Trumpsters, led by Jared Kushner and Brad Parscale, were confident enough to let reporters hear about, which included the smart move to purge state organizations of #NeverTrump clowns in leadership positions (who’d want to volunteer for Trump in states under such leadership?), a focus on “tiny” counties in the flyover disdained by leftists, which includes a plan to win Minnesota this time, a plan to encourage voters who sat home in the midterms because Trump’s name wasn’t on the ballot, a plan to win the black and Latino vote, a savvy use of impeachment to sell campaign merchandise and motivate voters, a plan to use tech techniques to capture data from rallies and another plan to turn every Trump rally into “a four or five day event” in the locations where they happen.

Both reports said the Trump campaign was swimming in money, nearly a hundred million dollars, most of it from those low-dollar donors Democrats otherwise claim that they ”own.”

Axios was able to swallow hard and man up to report these things, but the Times could barely stand it. It reported far fewer of the juicy Axios details dear to the hearts of political junkies, and focused instead on whataboutism, throwing out the argument again and again that Democrats were just as motivated as Trumpsters.

You can see who’s more likely to get the scoop on election night and who’s more likely to show the long face of an unpleasant surprise. And the networks aren’t even paying attention to this, so they’ll likely be most surprised of all.

The only picture that came out from both reports is that Trump is running a helluva confident campaign and has a very strong plan to do the Reagan-Mondale thing and win practically every state come November.

It’s good news for Trump Republicans. No wonder the lion’s share of the reporters are miring themselves in that useless impeachment story and avoiding this powerful Trump re-election plan something fierce. 

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DOJ Refuses To Release Records On Imran Awan, Citing ‘Technical Difficulties’ And A Secret Case, Court Docs Show

Actual case or just excuse not to turn over the records?

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The Department of Justice is withholding documents about the Imran Awan cybersecurity scandal by saying there is an ongoing, secret case related to matter, according to court papers.

Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit Nov. 7, 2018, for 7,000 pages of Capitol Police records related to the cybersecurity investigation, and Aug. 2, the DOJ agreed to begin producing records by Nov. 5.

That deadline came and went with no records being produced; on a Nov. 13 phone call, the DOJ said “technical difficulties” had resulted in a delay, Judicial Watch stated in a court filing.

The DOJ later changed its story and said it was actually withholding documents “pursuant to an Order issued by the Honorable Tanya S. Chutkan who is presiding over a related sealed criminal matter,” prosecutors said in a Dec. 5 filing.

“The ‘difficulties’ in providing responsive material was [sic] due to the unexpected and unique set of facts described above that was out of control of the Defendant. Defendant’s only motivation was to maintain the integrity of the sealed matter as much as possible,” assistant U.S. Attorney Benton Peterson said in the filing.

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Barr gets the word out about the Deep State

Investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson has an excellent rundown at the Epoch Times of all the statements Attorney General William Barr has been making from various media appearances, noticing the patterns in what he’s putting out there.

She calls him suddenly “chatty” which of course the guy is not, making the point that he’s releasing a lot of information with a hard purpose. What did she find? That there are quite a few unpleasant coming attractions for the deep state as the Russiagate scandal unfolds and more reports are set to come out:

Here’s a sample:

1. Don’t expect Durham’s findings to be announced before late spring or summer 2020.

2. The FBI did spy on the Trump campaign. That’s what electronic surveillance is.

3. Regarding the FBI’s actions in surveilling Trump campaign associates, it was a “travesty” and there were “many abuses.”

4. From “day one,” the FBI investigation generated exculpatory information (tending to point to the targets’ innocence) and nothing that corroborated Russia collusion.

5. It’s a “big deal” to use U.S. law enforcement and intelligence resources to investigate the opposing political party, and I cannot think of another recent instance in which this happened.

She has 24 such tightly written summarizing points and it’s an excellent read indeed. 

Conclusion? It’s not going to end well for the deep state, which is the rightful response to see, given the federal abuses of power within. It’s part of a pattern of deep state corruption and didn’t start with Trump. One reason Attkisson is so savvy to the skulduggery is that the Obama administration illegally spied on Sharyl herself, which she is suing the government to open the files on the matter. She has a GoFundMe page for those legal costs and it’s a worthy cause for helping to drive a stake into the heart of deep state.  

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Investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson has an excellent rundown at the Epoch Times of all the statements Attorney General William Barr has been making from various media appearances, noticing the patterns in what he’s putting out there.

She calls him suddenly “chatty” which of course the guy is not, making the point that he’s releasing a lot of information with a hard purpose. What did she find? That there are quite a few unpleasant coming attractions for the deep state as the Russiagate scandal unfolds and more reports are set to come out:

Here’s a sample:

1. Don’t expect Durham’s findings to be announced before late spring or summer 2020.

2. The FBI did spy on the Trump campaign. That’s what electronic surveillance is.

3. Regarding the FBI’s actions in surveilling Trump campaign associates, it was a “travesty” and there were “many abuses.”

4. From “day one,” the FBI investigation generated exculpatory information (tending to point to the targets’ innocence) and nothing that corroborated Russia collusion.

5. It’s a “big deal” to use U.S. law enforcement and intelligence resources to investigate the opposing political party, and I cannot think of another recent instance in which this happened.

She has 24 such tightly written summarizing points and it’s an excellent read indeed. 

Conclusion? It’s not going to end well for the deep state, which is the rightful response to see, given the federal abuses of power within. It’s part of a pattern of deep state corruption and didn’t start with Trump. One reason Attkisson is so savvy to the skulduggery is that the Obama administration illegally spied on Sharyl herself, which she is suing the government to open the files on the matter. She has a GoFundMe page for those legal costs and it’s a worthy cause for helping to drive a stake into the heart of deep state.  

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Nigel Farage’s Gamble Pays Off: Corbyn’s Labour Destroyed

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage was attacked both by elements within his own party and by Conservatives during the general election campaign when he declared a “unilateral leave alliance”, but his gamble has paid off as the hard-left Labour party were crushed at the polls.

While the Brexit Party had originally intended to contest nearly every seat nationwide, a last-minute gamble by party leader Nigel Farage to stand down candidates who would have been opposing sitting Conservative Members of Parliament appears to have been a crucial moment int he campaign.

Mr Farage was bitterly criticised within his own party for the move, particularly by the candidates and campaigners in seats being stood down, with some even going so far as to accuse the Brexit campaigner of a betrayal.

Mr Farage was also the target of pressure from the Conservatives, disappointed he hadn’t stood down all candidates nationwide — although they themselves refused to stand aside in seats where the Brexit Party may have had a better chance of toppling Labour that them.

Listen: Breitbart London editor Oliver Lane discusses the election result and Nigel Farage’s influence in the vote with Alex Marlowe on Breitbart News Daily

The critics asserted that Mr Farage had torpedoed his own party to achieve nothing — and expressed fears up until the very last day of campaigning that the decision to stand candidates in 276 seats around the country would split the pro-Brexit vote, depriving the Tories of a majority and handing the keys of No. 10 to Jeremy Corbyn.

Yet Jeremy Corbyn’s increasingly hard-left Labour party suffered a historic defeat Thursday, with results running in over the early hours of Friday morning confirming the party experienced its worst electoral performance since 1935.

In part, this was down to Farage’s gamble on not standing against the Conservatives. This is the first election in a decade where the Conservatives have been able to stand in held seats without being opposed by either UKIP or the Brexit Party — freeing up activists to campaign elsewhere.

Also apparent was the impact of the Brexit Party not on the Conservative vote in marginal seats, but on Labour instead. Top Corbynite John McDonnell noted the trend as the results came in overnight.

He told Sky News: “If you look at what’s happened in most of the seats — particularly in the Northern seats — the votes showed shifts have been from Labour to the Brexit Party rather than the Tories.

“We just couldn’t get through the Brexit argument, basically.”

Farage had repeatedly assured critics that in many seats the Brexit Party would take more votes from Labour than from the Conservatives, making Prime Minister Johnson’s party more likely to take them.

None of this is to minimise the obvious importance of the Conservatives themselves in this campaign — the contrast between the 2017 and 2019 election campaigns has remarkable.

In the former, Theresa May, a Remainer turned lukest-of-luke-warm Brexiteer, had been selected as party leader almost by mistake after Boris Johnson pulled out of the competition over a personal feud with Michael Gove — now a member of his Cabinet.

Clearly unable to appear sincere enough over Brexit to animate the electorate, May killed predecessor David Cameron’s already small majority in a spectacularly calamitous election.

Boris Johnson, on the other hand, has radiated enthusiasm and energy since day one: not a guarantee of good leadership, but a quality that has clearly resonated with the voters.

His campaign has also been sharp-edged and keenly fought — the social media effort in particular, featuring post-ironic memes orientated at millennial voters, grabbed headlines for its often unexpected and surprising nature.

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Church Pays Off $18K Worth of Community’s School Lunch Debt

A church in Virginia recently helped pay off $18,000 worth of its neighbor’s school lunch debt in Stafford and Spotsylvania Counties.

Jerry Williams, the missions pastor at the church known as The Mount, said the congregation wanted to be part of relieving their community’s debt, according to the Free Lance-Star.

“We recently found out about this need, and we thought it would be great to give back and lift this burden,” he stated, adding that “ten percent of everything that comes in, we make sure goes back out beyond our walls.”

The $18,000 donation eliminated all $10,400 worth of debt at four elementary schools in the Stafford County Public Schools district.

However, Williams said even though the money did not take care of every school in the district, the church does not plan on abandoning its efforts anytime soon.

“We wish we could have paid all lunch debt in Stafford, but we found out that would be about $40,000. We plan on chipping away at that,” he noted.

In Spotsylvania County, the church paid off about $6,518.22 of the district’s negative balance, according to district spokeswoman René Daniels.

“We are very appreciative of our community partners,” she stated.

The church also prepares backpacks full of school supplies for children and volunteers with several local ministries.

On December 2, Williams posted a video of himself to Facebook just before he presented the check to Stafford County.

“We did not do this for recognition, but to let others know of this need and encourage others to bloom where they are planted,” he said.

The church’s Facebook page stated that its mission is to make a difference in the world, adding that it is “willing to take risks to invite, gather, give and volunteer to reach One More person.”

“The Mount exists to Reach One more For Christ. We are For One More!” the page concluded.

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Venezuela: Dictator Maduro Seeks Criminal Corruption Charges Against President Guaido

Lawmakers supporting Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro filed charges Thursday against President Juan Guaidó for what they called a “looting campaign” of corruption by opposition leaders, apparently a first step to imprisoning the president.

Guaidó himself recently announced his administration would launch an investigation into senior members accused of stealing money from funds sent them intended as humanitarian aid for Venezuelan refugees in Colombia. Guaidó denied any involvement and insisted that he would bring to justice anyone misappropriating funds.

The group of lawmakers filing their grievances with Maduro’s Attorney General Tarek William Saab accused Guaidó and his team of stealing profits from Citgo Oil, the U.S. corporate entity affiliated with Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), the state-run oil company. Given that Guaidó is legally the president of Venezuela and Maduro is not, the administration of President Donald Trump granted Guaidó control over Citgo.

The Maduro lawmakers also demanded an investigation into the corruption that Guaidó himself exposed among his ranks in pursuit of criminal repercussions for the president.

“We received this grave accusation made public … which will reveal that whole long list of corruption that involves Juan Guaidó and other lawmakers,” Saab said on Thursday, according to Maduro’s state-run media service.

Humberto Calderón Berti, a former ambassador now leading the charges against Guaidó, claimed that the head of Guaidó socialist Popular Will party, the former longtime political prisoner Leopoldo López, was the head of “this criminal mafia” allegedly splitting Citgo profits “like it was their personal loot.”

Juan Guaidó became the president of Venezuela legally in January, following the “inauguration” of Maduro that month. Maduro claims legitimacy through winning the May 2018 presidential election – an election in which he banned non-approved leftist candidates and engaged in widespread fraud to silence the opposition. At the time, opposition leaders also urged supporters not to vote in the election to take away any claims to legitimacy, resulting in the lowest turnout for a presidential election in history.

In the event of a “rupture in the democratic order,” in which a sitting president refuses to vacate the office, the Venezuelan constitution allows the legislature, the National Assembly, to appoint an interim president tasked with organizing elections as soon as possible. The National Assembly gave that honor to Guaidó, accepted by most of Latin America and the free world as the legitimate head of the state of Venezuela.

Maduro has refused to yield power to Guaidó and maintains control over the nation’s armed forces, making it impossible for Guaidó to exercise any of his constitutional powers. Many in the upper ranks of the military are tied to Maduro through participation in the Cartel de los Soles, a multicontinental drug trafficking syndicate run by Venezuelan soldiers. Extensive evidence also ties Maduro to profits from ties to the Iranian-Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah through his former vice president, Tareck El Aissami. El Aissami is currently the Minister of Industries for Maduro, meaning he controls the nation’s oil and gold supplies.

Despite Maduro’s supporters accusing Guaidó of stealing oil profits, years of evidence – some revealed by former chavista socialists – suggests that Maduro’s United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) has long made PDVSA money disappear through graft. As early as 2016, members of the National Assembly found evidence of $11 billion missing from PDVSA coffers unaccounted for.

Guaidó has not personally faced any accusations of corruption, though he himself revealed evidence of some of his deputies stealing funds meant to help starving Venezuelans. In June, Guaidó identified staffers Kevin Rojas and Roxana Barrera as having stolen at least $90,000 dollars from funds meant to help Venezuelans soldiers defecting from the Maduro loyalist armed forces in Colombia. Tarek William Saab, the attorney general, claimed that the missing money was public Venezuela funding and that Guaidó had stolen it; Guaidó clarified that it was private charity funding, he had nothing to do with it, and he would see to prosecuting those implicated.

In early December, Guaidó announced that he would open yet another investigation into reports that some in his administration had ties to businessman Alex Saab, a Maduro ally, and that they had lobbied in his favor.

“We have ratified the measures to fight corruption and we are going to investigate any activity that has threatened the sacred interests of Venezuelans,” Guaidó announced on Twitter. “We have risen immediately, as a sign that we do not tolerate any act of this nature.”

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Mystery Donor Drops Gold Coin Worth over $1K in Salvation Army Kettle

A Salvation Army bell ringer in Noblesville, Indiana, recently found a coin worth more than he ever imagined inside his red kettle.

Salvation Army volunteer James Bond said he was very surprised when he discovered a 1915 100 Corona Austrian gold coin worth $1,500 among the folded bills and pocket change, according to the Indianapolis Star.

“It is really cool. I hear about that stuff in the news, but now it’s with me, so I feel like I’m part of this big thing that people really care about,” he said.

Bond said he began ringing the bell when he was in need of a job. Now, he does it because “it just made sense to me that I can ring a bell and make a difference.”

“It just means so much,” said Salvation Army spokesman, Sam Hyde, of the anonymous donor’s gift. “It means that they went out of their way to do something extra special.”

The Salvation Army has been in operation since its establishment in 1865 and assists nearly 23 million Americans annually with finding jobs, caring for the elderly, serving veterans, and overcoming poverty, according to its website.

The site continued:

The Salvation Army, an international movement, is an evangelical part of the universal Christian Church. Its message is based on the Bible. Its ministry is motivated by the love of God. Its mission is to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and to meet human needs in His name without discrimination.

Hyde said although 2019 has been a tough year for the organization, the generous gift has brought “a huge jolt to our fundraising efforts.”

Thanksgiving weekend, another mysterious donor dropped a gold South African Krugerrand coin worth $1,200 into a red kettle in Springfield, Ohio.

Ryan Ray, development director of the Springfield Salvation Army, said the individual has done the same thing for the past five years.

“To the gold coin bandit, I just want to say thank you on the behalf of the Salvation Army and on the behalf of the community for doing something so amazingly unique and compassionate,” he concluded.

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