White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows appears on Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo to discuss current political events. Meadows outlines the Sudan peace agreement with Israel, the Trump economic policy contrast with the Biden campaign agenda on energy, and the larger issues with the Biden bribery scheme.
Toward the end of the interview Ms. Bartiromo asks Meadows if FBI Director Chris Wray and CIA Director Gina Haspel will be fired in a second term. Obviously Meadows hedges, but does express disappointment for their “lack of transparency”. (Implication = YES)
Michael Flynn’s defense attorney, Sidney Powell, and Judicial Watch President, Tom Fitton, appear for an interview and discussion with Lou Dobbs. In the latest Flynn case developments Judge Emmet Sullivan has again delayed his decision by asking the DOJ to file additional affirmations to the court that all documents are valid and accurate.
Additionally, both Fitton and Powell discuss the bigger picture of the Biden bribery scandal and how the DOJ and FBI continue to showcase corruption in defense of the DC system. The entire apparatus of our judicial system is now in a metastasized state of systemic corruption. The hiding of the Hunter Biden laptop shows the severity of it.
As Fitton says the FBI can no longer be trusted and the entire system needs to be taken down to brass-tacks. President Trump has to find a way from the outside to use his office to go nuclear on the entire judicial system.
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When Tom Fitton warns Tony Bobulinski to stay away from the FBI… I have to say it reminds me of six former career federal officials in DC -with deep personal knowledge of the FBI- who warned me personally (in July) to never step foot in any FBI office regardless of their enticements, statements, assurances or promises.
Six completely independent former FBI/DOJ officials with no skin in the proverbial game; at four completely random times; told me there is nothing about those DC institutions that is not 100% corrupted by extreme political influence. Flynn is also their hostage.
U.S. Senator Ron Johnson, chair of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, releases the following statement:
Last night Mr. Bobulinski held a press conference outlining his knowledge of presidential candidate Joe Biden being the recipient of payments/bribes from foreign governments through his son Hunter Biden’s arrangements with several entities. Mr. Bobulinski noted he was willing to pass along the additional evidence in his possession to the FBI including his cell phones and electronic records. Apparently that process is taking place.
The current public evidence shows Hunter Biden was essentially the bagman for the Biden family; and various foreign business interests paid money into Hunter’s accounts as a pass-through to pay-off Joe Biden for his influence on policy that supported their financial interests. Joe Biden is fully exposed within the sworn statement by Tony Bobulinski.
An interesting DC storyline surrounding Senate Judiciary Vice-Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, and the lack of support for her based on party backlash, highlights an interesting shift in 2016 that few paid attention to. First, the current story:
(Via CNN) – Senate Democratic leaders on Tuesday pointedly refused to say if they supported California Sen. Dianne Feinstein staying in her post as the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, sidestepping questions about the veteran party elder after she praised Republicans’ handling of the confirmation proceedings for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett.
[…] “I’ve had a long and serious talk with Sen. Feinstein,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told reporters when asked if he was looking to make changes atop the powerful committee. “That’s all I’m going to say about it right now.” (read more)
2020 Democrats are not happy with Senator Feinstein for not pushing the party narrative to seek and destroy SCOTUS nominee, Judge Amy Coney Barrett. This helps highlight the 2016 motive to remove Feinstein from the vice-chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Today in Prescott, Arizona, President Trump hit his victory stride for the home-stretch. Go back and watch the entire rally if needed and you’ll see.
There are moments, inflection points per se’, that are not unique to President Trump but are uniquely President Trump. We have now entered a very specific phase of the 2020 campaign with a confident, purposeful and focused candidate. First, watch this:
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What President Trump expressed in that moment is very typically Trump.
Accepting that AG Bill Barr is likely to do nothing, he moves quickly through the disappointment phase, finds no value in dwelling there, and shifts into optimal solutions mode. This is a character trait of Donald Trump that has made him successful through life.
Several years ago, WolfMoon accurately described this trait as “optimal solutions” Trump. Assess, evaluate, move strategically, stride confidently. This shift is specifically pertinent at this moment because it comes as an outcome of a very positive momentum shift.
One would have to be intellectually obtuse to think former President Barack Obama was unaware his Vice-President, Joe Biden, was raking in tens-of-millions from his use of Hunter Biden as family bagman while lobbying foreign governments.
With that in mind; and considering all of the downstream consequences from the original selection of Joe Biden as the VP candidate; and considering how those in power now have the tool of the NSA database to control political offices; how long has the intelligence apparatus been involved in selecting the U.S. presidential candidates?
On June 3, 2020, former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee to discuss his role in how Main Justice was operating while Andrew Weissmann’s special counsel was in charge. What he said in that hearing never quite made sense until yesterday.
Those who closely followed the arc of the Weissmann/Mueller investigation; and those who joined us in following that investigation; already knew the SCO was in complete control from May 2017 to April 2019. Everything taking place inside the DOJ in the two years of the Mueller/Weissmann probe was completely and unequivocally controlled by the Weissmann team. Few journalists have ever grasped the ramifications of that control.
That control included every release and non-release of information during their two year tenure. However, Rosenstein’s tone when questioned about the scope memos he authorized during the special counsel time-frame was very odd in that June hearing.
Rosenstein had a very guilty conscience and it was on full display as he attempted to justify his action. You see, there was always a missing scope memo from October 20, 2017, that no-one in the DOJ ever discussed. The nature of the scope memo was mentioned by Weissmann and Mueller in part of their Russia report; but until yesterday it was hidden.
Here is the only mention of the October 20, 2017, scope memo prior to yesterday:
I’m not going to spend a great deal of time on this release, because the Ohr 302’s were previously released, except to point out some interesting aspects.
First, the timing, content and sequence of the specific documents being released are interesting. Almost like someone is paying attention. The original release of the Bruce Ohr 302 interview notes was in August 2019 to Judicial Watch. The release today is of the same information in a better quality.
Secondly, in both sets of released documents the name Dan Jones has been redacted. It appears the redaction is made under the auspices of “sources and methods”; however, Jones was a former SSCI lead staffer, so the redaction appears to be one of institutional concern and self-preservation.
The last interview of Bruce Ohr (May 15th, 2017) took place two days prior to the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller. Throughout the interviews Bruce was acting as the go-between from his both his wife Nellie at Fusion-GPS and Fusion’s contract agent Christopher Steele.
Third, The content of the December 2016 thumb-drive given to Bruce by Nellie is discussed within the interview notes but not released.
An interesting note from Catherine Herridge today outlines that DOJ official Bruce Ohr resigned from the FBI shortly before being terminated as a result of the IG report on his activity:
OPR received a referral from another Department entity regarding allegations that a senior Department attorney failed to apprise his supervisor of his interactions with a law enforcement agency and a source concerning the subject matter of an ongoing high-profile investigation.
Although the attorney eventually recognized the need to inform his supervisor, who was overseeing the investigation, of his involvement and provided some information about the general topic, the senior Department attorney failed to provide a complete disclosure of his role as a conduit of information between the source and the law enforcement agency. As a result, the supervisor was unaware of the attorney’s activities related to the investigation until learning of them through other means.
To provide some context for this letter, even beyond what is stated by Senators Grassley and Johnson, it is worthwhile remembering the 300 pages of text messages between FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and his DOJ lawyer Lisa Page were originally revealed in March of 2019. Catherine Herridge reported on two of those pages.
Today Grassley and Johnson send a letter [pdf here] asking FBI Director Chris Wray to stop stonewalling congressional oversight and provide the text messages. Within the letter the senators outline a few examples highlighting how McCabe and Page were coordinating FBI leaks to their media allies during a key and critical time-frame:
Those 2016 text messages were during the time when an internal argument was taking place about the need for McCabe to recuse himself from the reopening of the Clinton email investigation because he tried to bury the Weiner laptop emails for 28-days in October.
