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Former Trump legal team spokesman plans to tell Mueller that Hope Hicks hinted at concealing explosive emails about the Trump Tower Russia meeting.

Mark Corallo, the former spokesman of President Donald Trump's legal team, plans to tell the special counsel Robert Mueller that a key White House aide may have sought to obstruct justice last year.

According to The New York Times, Corallo plans to describe a conference call with the White House communications director, Hope Hicks, and Trump last year in which Hicks may have hinted at concealing crucial emails that are relevant to the Russia investigation.

The emails were related to a June 2016 Trump Tower meeting, between several Russia-linked individuals and members of the Trump campaign, that is under heavy scrutiny from Mueller and congressional investigators.

The conspiracy theories surrounding FBI agent Peter Strzok may have just taken a big blow.

It turns out that the FBI agent who many conservatives believe secretly plotted to take down President Donald Trump may have actually helped get the president elected.

CNN has obtained emails that show that FBI agent Peter Strzok co-wrote the first draft of the letter that then-FBI Director James Comey sent to Congress in October 2016, announcing that the bureau was reopening an investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails.

That letter set off a political firestorm just 11 days before the presidential election and hurt Clinton at the polls — so much so that it may have swung the election in favor of Trump.

This development potentially throws a wrench in conservative theories that Strzok sought to undermine Trump in the run-up to the election, and that special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation is tainted by anti-Trump bias.

And according to a source familiar with Strzok’s thinking, CNN reports, the former FBI agent not only drafted the letter about reopening Clinton’s email server investigation, but also supported reopening the investigation.

Misty » 01 Feb 2018 6:49 pm » wrote:
Well there goes that theory.

Misty » 01 Feb 2018 6:49 pm » wrote:
Well there goes that theory.

roadkill » 01 Feb 2018 6:51 pm » wrote:

Misty » 01 Feb 2018 6:49 pm » wrote:
Well there goes that theory.

CNN

In other news...

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government ... n=20180201

Huey » 01 Feb 2018 6:55 pm » wrote:
If you keep it up she will resort to baby trump humping the wall.

roadkill » 01 Feb 2018 6:56 pm » wrote:

Huey » 01 Feb 2018 6:55 pm » wrote:
If you keep it up she will resort to baby trump humping the wall.

It's OK...she needs the excitement.

Misty » 01 Feb 2018 3:36 pm » wrote:

Termin8tor » 01 Feb 2018 2:36 pm » wrote:Look at the cowardly liar.

A minor ethics problem happens frequently in any administration.

You babble about things like that while dishonestly denying huge abuses of power and felonies by your party.

That jackass is so **** predictable.
A 'minor ethics problem.'


Using one's government position to enrich yourself or your family is NOT a 'minor ethics problem.'
It's called corruption.

But I guess it only matters when a Democrat does it.
45 could be caught with a dead hooker or a live boy in his bed and you pinheads would call that a 'minor problem.'

Misty » 01 Feb 2018 6:49 pm » wrote:The conspiracy theories surrounding FBI agent Peter Strzok may have just taken a big blow.

Well there goes that theory.

Misty » 01 Feb 2018 6:30 pm » wrote:Apparently Mark Corallo was so concerned that he was witnessing an attempt to obstruct justice, that he resigned.

I would ask my buddy Clem why he thinks that 45 went to such lengths to concoct a story that the Trump Tower meeting with Russians was about adoption, if he had nothing to hide.
But he won't answer that question, so I won't bother.

Misty » 31 Jan 2018 5:23 pm » wrote: I guess that's a yes then.
Nunes once again carrying water for the WH just like he did with his little midnight run stunt.
If he is working with the WH on this, that sounds pretty much like a conspiracy to obstruct justice.

GOP case: FBI probe based on tainted evidence linked to Clinton
BY JOHN SOLOMON
Congressional Republicans are seeking to make the case that the FBI’s investigation into President Trump’s campaign and possible collusion with Russia was based on flawed or politically tainted evidence connected to partisans loyal to Hillary Clinton.
The House Intelligence Committee memo spearheaded by Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) that is the talk of Washington will be at the center of the argument. The release of that four-page memo is expected as early as Friday.


Another document — an eight-page criminal referral filed with the Justice Department by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) — is also part of the GOP case....


Republicans believe both documents will back up arguments that evidence used to justify the FBI’s probe came from partisans loyal to Clinton, sources said. They are also expected to play into arguments from some Republicans that special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russia is based on false information.....


The GOP's arguments that the FBI investigated on flimsy evidence will zero in on ex-British intelligence operative Christopher Steele, whose unverified dossier of Trump allegations gave enormous momentum to the probe during the bitterly fought 2016 presidential election, say sources familiar with the memo.


They will argue the FBI failed to critically assess the political motives and credibility of Steele and did not fully disclose that evidence came from Clinton supporters as it sought to get permission from courts for surveillance warrants.


“The fact that half to three-quarters of the evidence the FBI used to unleash the most awesome of surveillance powers upon Donald Trump’s inner circle came from sources tied directly to his Democratic opponent should worry us all, especially when that happened during an election,”
said one senior Republican directly familiar with the evidence, describing the party’s core concerns.


“The FBI allowed itself to be used by Clinton partisans to parlay single-sourced, mostly unverified evidence into a counterintelligence probe with clear weaknesses that weren’t disclosed,” the source added.

The GOP's arguments that the FBI investigated on flimsy evidence will zero in on ex-British intelligence operative Christopher Steele, whose unverified dossier of Trump allegations gave enormous momentum to the probe during the bitterly fought 2016 presidential election, say sources familiar with the memo.


They will argue the FBI failed to critically assess the political motives and credibility of Steele and did not fully disclose that evidence came from Clinton supporters as it sought to get permission from courts for surveillance warrants.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administrat ... to-clinton

Misty » 01 Feb 2018 6:30 pm » wrote:

According to The New York Times, Corallo plans to describe a conference call with the White House communications director, Hope Hicks, and Trump last year in which Hicks may have hinted at concealing crucial emails that are relevant to the Russia investigation.

Apparently Mark Corallo was so concerned that he was witnessing an attempt to obstruct justice, that he resigned.

I would ask my buddy Clem why he thinks that 45 went to such lengths to concoct a story that the Trump Tower meeting with Russians was about adoption, if he had nothing to hide.
But he won't answer that question, so I won't bother.

Misty » 01 Feb 2018 10:03 pm » wrote:That's funny.
I thought the WH said that McCabe was not fired.

Also I believe that some ARE arguing that it's factually inaccurate.

45's FBI Director said that he has "grave concerns about material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo’s accuracy."

That kind of sounds like he's saying that it is factually inaccurate.

U.S. intel officials probe ties between Trump adviser and Kremlin

U.S. intelligence officials are seeking to determine whether an American businessman identified by Donald Trump as one of his foreign policy advisers has opened up private communications with senior Russian officials — including talks about the possible lifting of economic sanctions if the Republican nominee becomes president, according to multiple sources who have been briefed on the issue.

The activities of Trump adviser Carter Page, who has extensive business interests in Russia, have been discussed with senior members of Congress during recent briefings about suspected efforts by Moscow to influence the presidential election, the sources said.

After one of those briefings, Senate minority leader Harry Reid wrote FBI Director James Comey, citing reports of meetings between a Trump adviser (a reference to Page) and “high ranking sanctioned individuals” in Moscow over the summer as evidence of “significant and disturbing ties” between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin that needed to be investigated by the bureau.
[.......]
Page came to the attention of officials at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow several years ago when he showed up in the Russian capital during several business trips and made provocative public comments critical of U.S. policy and sympathetic to Putin. “He was pretty much a brazen apologist for anything Moscow did,” said one U.S. official who served in Russia at the time.
[.......]
Page showed up again in Moscow in early July, just two weeks before the Republican National Convention formally nominated Trump for president, and once again criticized U.S. policy.

At the time, Page declined to say whether he was meeting with Russian officials during his trip, according to a Reuters report.

But U.S. officials have since received intelligence reports that during that same three-day trip, Page met with Igor Sechin, a longtime Putin associate and former Russian deputy prime minister who is now the executive chairman of Rosneft, Russian’s leading oil company, a well-placed Western intelligence source tells Yahoo News.

That meeting, if confirmed, is viewed as especially problematic by U.S. officials because the Treasury Department in August 2014 named Sechin to a list of Russian officials and businessmen sanctioned over Russia’s “illegitimate and unlawful actions in the Ukraine.”

Misty » 01 Feb 2018 10:35 pm » wrote:This article is from September, 2016 which shows that Carter Page was on the radar of intelligence officials before 45 was briefed on the Steele dossier in January, 2017 and before it became public.

So it looks like intelligence officials had every right to look into Carter Page.
Not to mention the fact that in 2014 a FISA warrant was issued on Carter Page because he was cavorting with three Russian spies who were attempting to recruit him.

That FISA warrant has probably been renewed several times since 2014.
Only now when Rod Rosenstein renewed it has it become a big scandal.

Misty » 01 Feb 2018 10:35 pm » wrote:This article is from September, 2016 which shows that Carter Page was on the radar of intelligence officials before 45 was briefed on the Steele dossier in January, 2017 and before it became public.

Misty » 31 Jan 2018 2:38 pm » wrote:I wonder if the memo mentions the fact that the original FISA warrant was issued on Carter Page two years before the campaign, because he was being recruited by Russian spies?

The FISA court would not have renewed it without probable cause.

Dan Siddons
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10:27 AM - Feb 1, 2018

A U.S. Army veteran and green card holder with a felony drug conviction began a hunger strike Wednesday to protest his likely deportation, after a federal court denied his appeal to remain in the U.S., where he has lived since age 8.

Miguel Perez Jr., 39, a Chicago resident who served two tours of duty in Afghanistan and recently finished a prison term on a drug conviction, had sought to remain in the U.S., arguing his life would be in danger if he were deported to Mexico, where drug cartels target veterans with combat experience to work on their behalf, or else.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/loca ... ssion=true