The US files its Brief in the Flynn appeal. It’s signed by some heavy hitters – including IG Noel Francisco. “This Court should issue a writ of mandamus compelling dismissal.” Full doc: The Constitutional power to prosecute belongs to the Executive. The Federal Rules, “read against the backdrop of that constitutional principle, required the district court to grant the US …
June 2, 2020 – Hillary Clinton loses her appeal, order stands to testify on private server and Benghazi emails
(…) The hearing in the D.C. Circuit came in the case Judicial Watch v. Clinton, a public records case involving a request for State Department documents and communication about the 2012 terror attack at the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya. U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed in the attack. The case also involves Clinton’s use of …
June 2, 2020 – Appellate Court hearing on Clinton email testimony – Clinton seeks to block court order requiring her to testify
“Judicial Watch today announced that a hearing will be held on June 2, by teleconference, in U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit regarding former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s efforts to avoid testifying, under oath, about her emails. Clinton’s former Chief of Staff, Cheryl Mills, also seeks to avoid giving testimony. The appellate court is considering Clinton …
June 3, 2020 – Rosenstein and McCabe accuse each other of lying in Russia hoax
(…) During Rosenstein’s testimony, McCabe issued a statement saying the former DAG was giving “false” testimony about his recollection regarding former FBI Director James Comey’s memos about his interactions with President Donald Trump. Interestingly, both men accuse each other of lying, pointing the finger at one another, in one of the biggest hoaxes in modern political history. They lied to …
June 3, 2020 – Four issues highlight how Lindsey Graham’s Senate hearings are a Deep State cover operation
“The testimony of former Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein is now complete and we are able to make an honest assessment into the motives and intents of the Senate Judiciary Committee; and specifically Chairman Lindsey Graham. Without a doubt, it is now clear Senator Lindsey Graham is executing the familiar chaff and countermeasure approach to cover-up the former administration surveillance abuses. …
June 5, 2020 – Lisa Page debuts on MSNBC as a paid legal analyst
The notoriously political DOJ lawyer who was assigned to FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, Lisa Page, has joined notoriously political DOJ lawyer Andrew Weissmann as a paid MSNBC analyst. The media are not even pretending anymore. Laughably, the media assembly of highly partisan DOJ and FBI officials continues. However, apparently the left-wing media does not think the American electorate will see …
June 5, 2020 – Senator Ron Johnson to issue subpoenas re Crossfire Hurricane, State Dept contacts w/Steele, and unmaskings
Republican-led Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee authorizes SenRonJohnson to issue subpoenas FBI Crossfire Hurricane, State Dept contact author “Steele Dossier” and unmasking by former government officials. +30 names READ @CBSNews pic.twitter.com/34g4q8hz6w — Catherine Herridge (@CBS_Herridge) June 5, 2020
June 9, 2021 – Trump releases letter from former US Attorney that claims AG Barr pressured him not to investigate PA voter fraud in 2020 presidential election
After former Attorney General William Barr said there was no widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election, former President Donald Trump’s chances of overturning election results were effectively killed. Many felt that if Trump’s own AG was unable to support his claims of election fraud, the accusations must not have much merit. However, Trump released a letter Monday he said proves Barr …
June 9, 2020 – ODNI Ratcliffe declassifies Annex A, part of the Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) of Russian meddling in 2016 Election
Senators Grassley and Johnson release an unredacted copy of Annex A, a 2-page report included in the January 7, 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) of Trump Russia collusion during the 2016 Election. Please see this timeline entry for an update on this document. (Grassley’s letter doesn’t provide the clearest of docs so you may want to go to the archived …
June 10, 2020 – Clinton Foundation whistleblowers say Bill Gates negotiated a $100 billion contact tracing deal 6 months before coronavirus pandemic
“Famed Clinton Foundation investigators John Moynihan and Larry Doyle have the Justice Department and IRS — as well as the Clinton Cartel — running for cover. The investigative duo just quietly dropped a massive bomb on all parties, as detailed exclusively on the Thomas Paine Podcast. Listen Above And now the FEDs are scurrying to help cover up yet another …
June 10, 2020 – The Clinton Foundation whistleblowers give first interview since their congressional hearing and share many fine details
Some notes: Moynihan, Doyle, and Michael Moore discuss the corrupt deal between the Clinton AIDS Initiative (CHAI) and Ranbaxy Laboratories who produced and distributed worthless AIDS medicines. The FBI raids Ranbaxy in May 2013, yet even after the raid and during the ensuing investigation, Deborah Birx continues to give them taxpayer funds knowing they were producing useless medicines. In April …
June 10, 2020 – FBI knew Steele’s Russia research was connected to Clinton, Dems from earliest interactions
“Notes and emails that have been kept so far from Senate investigators show the FBI knew from its earliest interactions with Christopher Steele in July 2016 that his Russia research project on Donald Trump was connected to Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party. (…) While the headlines since that report have mostly focused on FISA abuses, Senate investigators have also zeroed …
June 11, 2020 – Flynn Case: 85 Lies, Contradictions, Oddities, and Unusual Occurrences
“The case of Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn is inevitably heading toward its conclusion. While the presiding district judge, Emmet Sullivan, is trying to keep it going, there’s only so much he can do, chiefly because there’s nobody left to prosecute the case after the Department of Justice (DOJ) dropped it last month. In the latest developments, the District of Columbia appeals …
June 11, 2020 – DNI Ratcliffe declassifies “Annex A” the supportive documents for 2017 Intel Community Assessment
“DNI John Ratcliffe has declassified the Appendix to the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA). [Source Document Here] The appendix known as “Annex A” was the material the FBI and CIA did not include in the body of the ICA; however, it was used to brief congress. There was always suspicion that “Annex A” was the ridiculous claims by FBI source …
June 12, 2020 – Flynn prosecutor Van Grack’s inexperience shows in his drafting of important case documents
(…) “I didn’t figure this issue out — I think the credit goes to Margot Cleveland at The Federalist — but Van Grack was not accurate in his unnecessarily precise drafting of the “Factual Statement” in support of the plea, especially given that he knew that there was “wiggle room” in the actual words used by Gen. Flynn in both …
June 12, 2020 – Devin Nunes discusses FBI top lawyer Dana Boente as “a witness to FBI corruption”
“HPSCI Ranking Member Devin Nunes has an interview on OAN news to discuss FBI legal counsel Dana Boente and his exit from the FBI this month. As Nunes notes Mr. Boente is at the center of an information flow which put him in a position to know the underlying evidence. As an outcome of that position Boente is either a …
June 12, 2020 – Lawyer for Flynn judge says ‘no reason’ to think the court won’t eventually dismiss the case
“A lawyer representing the judge overseeing the Michael Flynn trial suggested Friday that the court will eventually dismiss the case against the former Trump national security adviser, arguing that the judge’s decision to call in outside opinions on the matter was merely an issue of seeking advice before the probable dismissal. The lawyer, Beth Wilkinson, made the acknowledgment during a …
June 14, 2020 – Sergei Millian tweets he may publish his correspondence with James Wolfe and suggests there was an attempt to cover up Senate Intel Cmte “misdeeds”
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June 15, 2020 – Twitter hires former FBI attorney James Baker who played a key role surveilling the Trump campaign
“Twitter announced Monday that it has hired the former FBI lawyer who approved key steps taken during the investigation into the Trump campaign, including the decisions to surveil former campaign aide Carter Page and to use an FBI agent to secretly monitor Michael Flynn during a national security briefing for the campaign. James Baker will serve as deputy general counsel …
June 17, 2020 – Clinton to President Trump: ‘go away quietly’ and ‘stop messing with our country’
“Unsuccessful presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has hit out at President Donald Trump saying the country and the world is “desperately in need for a change in the American Presidency”. Ms. Clinton told Sky News UK the President tried to characterise the “peaceful protesters” in Washington DC as “thugs” when he sent in the national guard to clear them from the …
June 18, 2020 – Grassley wants more information from DoD official James H. Baker and media leaks to Ignatius
“The Iowa Republican on Thursday sent a follow-up letter to the Department of Defense’s Office of Net Assessment Thursday asking about the actions of James Baker, its director since early 2015. ONA is the Pentagon’s internal think tank, gaming out military and other geopolitical scenarios decades into the future. Last month, a Defense Department official denied allegations that Baker leaked classified information …
June 18, 2020 – The fifth redacted name in Rosenstein’s second scope memo is Walid Phares
“An interesting new discovery amid revelations into the background motives of President Obama to weaponize the intelligence apparatus against his political opposition. Today former Trump campaign foreign policy advisor Walid Phares identified himself as the fifth target in the August 2, 2017, Rosenstein scope memo. [The redacted section above] With this admission/discovery a more interesting background makes sense. (Via John Solomon) (…) Phares …
June 19, 2020 – Attorney General Bill Barr removes SDNY attorney Geoffrey Berman and he refuses to leave
“Officially it’s being called a “resignation” according to the Associated Press. However, all the right Lawfare “beach friends” are going bananas as the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Geoffrey Berman, is being replaced. (DOJ Announcement Here) According to the DOJ release Berman is being replaced by the nomination of Jay Clayton, currently the Chairman of the Securities and …
June 19, 2020 – DOJ national security official, David Laufman, was the “mastermind” behind the strategy to “weaponize” FARA against Trump team
“Newly released documents reveal the FBI never had even preliminary evidence of a Trump campaign conspiracy with Russia, and instead used a rarely enforced statutory relic – the Foreign Agents Registration Act – as the legal rationale for opening investigations in 2016-2017 and surveilling Trump campaign aides. On July 31, 2016, the FBI opened a counterintelligence probe of the Trump …
June 20, 2020 – The “standoff” between AG Barr and NY US attorney Berman is short-lived and ends in his termination
“This morning there were headlines in the NYT and WaPo — and Twitter was ablaze — about a “standoff” between AG Barr and US Attorney Berman. (…) But developments this afternoon are that AG Barr has released a letter he wrote to “former” US Attorney Berman setting forth for public consumption their meeting yesterday, what was discussed with regard to …
June 22, 2020 – Ukraine officials release new audio tapes of Joe Biden and Petro Poroshenko discussing the firing of Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin
“There is a new recording of Joe Biden and former Ukrainian President Poroshenko. The first recording came out in May and it involved Biden getting Viktor Shokin fired and the second in which Poroshenko asked for help from Biden to keep Alexander Onyshchenko away from the FBI. Now, here’s a strange coincidence. Both men were later allegedly poisoned. Onyshchenko was …
June 23, 2020 – DOJ reveals discovery of new Strzok notes that are exculpatory to General Flynn
“In the latest twist, the Justice Department disclosed to a federal court Tuesday it has located a new page of notes from Peter Strzok, the former lead FBI agent in the Russia collusion investigation, that are exculpatory to former national security adviser Michael Flynn. Acting U.S. Attorney Michael Sherwin informed U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan of the discovery in a …
June 24, 2020 – Appeals court rules against Flynn judge; Judge Rao writes scathing rebuke of Judge Wilkins dissenting opinion
“In all my years of appellate practice, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a non-US Supreme Court appellate opinion that so thoroughly demolishes a dissenting opinion as this one. Judge Rao could not have done better in writing the opinion, and it should be required law school reading. In addition, Judge Wilkins’ dissenting opinion is so off-the-mark that I believe …
June 24, 2020 – DOJ Whistleblower John Elias admits he sought job with Democrats during Trump impeachment
“A Justice Department official turned whistleblower appeared caught off-guard Wednesday when Republican Rep. Doug Collins pressed him in a House Judiciary Committee hearing about his efforts in 2019 to work for House Democrats during the Trump impeachment saga. John Elias, chief of staff to the Justice Department’s assistant attorney general in the antitrust division, reluctantly conceded at the hearing that …
June 24, 2020 – Newly released Strzok notes show Biden raised ‘Logan Act’ in Oval Office discussion about Flynn
“Former Vice President Joe Biden mentioned the “Logan Act” during an early January 2017 Oval Office discussion about the investigation into retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, newly released notes suggest. It’s not fully clear what Biden said about the 1799 law, but Flynn’s legal team said “it appears” he “personally raised the idea” during a meeting between former President Barack Obama, …
June 25, 2020 – Devin Nunes discusses Peter Strzok notes that tie Obama and Biden to Flynn targeting
Devin Nunes appears for a short interview with Martha MacCallum to discuss the latest information in/around the background investigation of the Michael Flynn case. (Conservative Treehouse, 6/25/2020)
June 26, 2020 – New Secret Service records show Hunter Biden took 411 flights, visited 29 Countries, including 5 visits to China yet none to Ukraine
“New Secret Service records show Hunter Biden’s significant overseas travels during the first part of the Obama-Biden administration. Judicial Watch investigators uncovered records from the U.S. Secret Service showing that, for the first five and a half years of the Obama administration, Hunter Biden traveled extensively with a Secret Service protective detail. During the time period of the records, the son of …
June 30, 2020 – Bruce Ohr meets with Senate Judiciary Committee behind closed doors
“Justice Department official Bruce Ohr is on Capitol Hill Tuesday, answering questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee behind closed doors, Fox News has learned. The former associate deputy attorney general is one of dozens of individuals the committee subpoenaed earlier this month as part of their investigation of the Russia probe and the FBI’s abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) …