Wednesday, May 8, 2019

Sharyl Attkisson: How Attorney General Barr could change the federal culture of corruption in 60 days


Summary:

It would be an amnesty for whistleblowers.  Question:  Why should whistleblowers need amnesty?

Think about it. 

Attkisson doesn't think this proposed amnesty will happen, though.

Some of the comments on Free Republic are interesting. 




Tuesday, May 7, 2019

Powerline blog: A letter to William Barr


Comment:

I will summarize:  it says stay strong, Mr. Barr.




Monday, May 6, 2019

Time out

Updated,

5.6.19:

12:04 pm:

Here's another thought for youse people to consider---a hypothetical.  If I believed that Trump colluded with the Russians, and the Mueller report said that they couldn't find anything, then I would be PISSED.  Not at Barr, but at Mueller for failing to find the evidence.  Here they are, spending 30 million buckos, and they cannot find anything?  After putting up evidence that anybody in pajamas could refute in a few hours while sitting at their laptops?  I would be definitely PISSED--- at Mueller.  I'd be asking questions, like, what the hell is wrong with you????!!!!  Are you effing blind?
Were you born stupid, or did it take a lot of practice?

Here's yet another thought.  Those who say they believed Trump colluded are lying.  For if they really believed Trump colluded, they would be pissed, but they are NOT.  They aren't even saying much about collusion at all.  It is all about obstruction.

But there wasn't any obstruction either, because if there were, Trump would be GONE.  GOP RINOS are so eager to abandon Trump that if they really did find something, they would be headed so fast towards the exits that people would get trampled.

Maybe the lefties should consider the truth for once.  After you lie so much, people stop believing you.

7:09am:

A quick post to note something that I've been thinking about.

For two years this Russian collusion thing has been kept alive.  It was already in existence when Mueller was hired nearly two years to this day.

What does this mean?  It means that this process is moving way too damned slow.  Before you know it, we will be in an election year.  Yet, this thing is still alive.  It should have been dead two years ago.

I am realizing that all of this is all ground that was previously covered.  For instance, the forensics of the alleged hack was uncovered two years ago.  The business about setting PapaD up was over two years ago.  Even James Comey admitted that the Steele Dossier was unverified and salacious.  But without it, there is no FISA warrant on Carter Page.  This information had been out there more than two years as well.

Why is this still alive????

We are now getting into territory that we should have been traversing two years ago.  But two years ago, the GOP controlled the House and the Senate.  Why wasn't anything done then?

I'm not sure that the GOP wants to win any more today than they did two years ago.  That's why nothing is happening.  Or one of the reasons.  The other is that DC is hopelessly corrupt.


The FBI’s Trump-Russia Investigation Was Formally Opened on False Pretenses

The FBI’s Trump-Russia Investigation Was Formally Opened on False Pretenses


comment:

The devil, you say.

Whatever clued him in on that???

Anyway, he still claims a Russian hack, when it almost certainly wasn't.

He did manage to say that Mueller fabricated a few things.  Well, dog my cats if that ain't a surprise to me.

I thought the Russians were coming, but they aren't, or so it seems.

Well, the sarcasm is a bit much, but NRO is a bit never Trumpy.  If they can see the fraud in this Mueller investigation, then maybe they won't stay blind forever.  It is progress.  Sort of.



Listen to "Joseph diGenova"

I've heard of this guy, but this is the first time I have listened to him at length.

I came across this video through the comments section of this post at CTH.  That website is chock full of interesting info, I guaran-frickin'-tee you.  But what surprised me is that Robert Ringer is in on this.  Why does this surprise me?  I kinda figured Ringer was a bit soft.

There's a lot of hope for Barr out there.  People are counting on him, I suspect.  Maybe a little too much.




Sunday, May 5, 2019

Is there a problem with the timeline with respect to the alleged Russian hack of the DNC servers?


You got Mifsud telling PappaD about the hacked emails on or about 4/26/16.  However, Julian Assange does not mention the impending leak until JUNE.  It was after this date that the DNC claimed that they were hacked.

In addition, the forensic evidence shows the data was on a mass storage device in LATE MAY.

If there was a hack, how did Mifsud know about it so soon?  Or even before the DNC knew about it?

Julian Assange hadn't even published it yet in the Wikileaks.  Nobody seems to know about it except for Mifsud.  Or have I gotten it wrong?  Here's a video showing the timeline.

Mifsud goes to Russia just prior to telling PapaD about the emails.  If Mifsud was British Intel, then the DNC was supposedly hacked prior to that date.  These dates don't match up.  Something's wrong here, boss.


Baltimore Sun ( 2017 ) : "Emails were leaked, not hacked"

Updated,

5.5.19:

Confirmation that the NSA could have evidence of a leak, if there was one.  In fact, if the NSA had this information, it would be proof positive of a Russian hack.  There was no such proof, meaning that there was no hack.

In addition, there is other evidence that shows that it was copied on to a storage device.  All of that in this linked article.


4.30.19:

6:30 am:

Of course, tech experts said that the emails weren't hacked for the past year and a half at least.  This can potentially be documented in more ways than one.  The speed of the transfer was too high for a hack, for one thing.  The evidence could be stronger for a leak than a hack, which raises the question of Seth Rich's murder.

Why?  Well, if there was a "collusion" amongst the Democrats to murder Rich and to keep the hack claim alive, then Rich had to die, and this had to be kept a secret.

I mean, if you can sell conspiracy as "collusion", then why can't the shoe go on the other foot?

5:30 am:

An additional comment here:

If the NSA picks up everything,  and the hack's existence would leave a trace without a doubt,  then somebody at the NSA knows that the email hack claim is true or false without much of a doubt.

In other words, somebody at the NSA knows if the DNC claims are a fraud, or if they are truthful.

Likewise, somebody could contradict the Mueller Report if the emails really were hacked.  That means that the NSA is in a position to undermine the report and the entire Mueller probe could be exposed as a fraud providing that the hack wasn't a hack.


4.29.19:

An angle that I haven't heard before.  This two year old ( more than two years actually ) article says that the NSA would have the evidence of a hack, if there was one.  Since the Mueller Report didn't refer to any NSA evidence, then it must be a leak, not a hack.  Yet, the Mueller crew insists that the emails were hacked.

Furthermore, the report of the alleged hack was in July 2016.  The investigation into "conspiracy sold through the media as collusion" had been ongoing long before that.

What was the predicate for the investigation?  Seems like I read something about the time of Horowitz's report last year what it was, but I don't recall.

Anyway, here's the link to the editorial in the Baltimore Sun, of all places.  That is, it is from Baltimore, a city in a deep blue state.

3:44 pm:

It looks like the investigation began before Trump got the nomination.

Trump clinched nomination late May 2016, so it had to be earlier than this.

4:04 pm:

McCabe said last year that it was the PapaD affair that started the investigation.  That would have been in March 2016 at the earliest.  But there may have been an abuse of the NSA intercepts that started the whole thing.  This would have definitely been a no-no.  The rest is supposedly a cover for doing what they were supposed to be doing in the first place.

Admiral Rogers got the NSA abuses stopped during the transition.