DOJ: At Least Two of FBI’s Four FISA Warrants ‘WERE NOT VALID’

By Debra Heine

In a December letter to the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, the Justice Department officially determined that at least half of the secret surveillance applications the FBI sought to spy on former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page were illegal.

BOMBSHELL REPORT: "Whistleblower" Eric Ciaramella Directly Linked with Biden Effort to Fire Ukraine Prosecutor

If you're not following Stephen McIntyre on Twitter (@ClimateAudit), please do so now. That's an order. Now that formalities are out of the way, I want to share some highlights from McIntyre's amazing research that ties the alleged "Whistleblower" Eric Ciaramella to Joe and Hunter Biden. The efforts of the "whistleblower" may be more motivated about covering up his own activities than anything else.

4/ be that as it may, there had been a sea change in US attitudes towards Shokin between Sep 25, 2015 and Feb 16, 2016. Biden's position is that Shokin's firing was over "concerns about corruption and ineptitude", "widely shared by Western allies". pic.twitter.com/v0m8Gb5Y7Z

— Stephen McIntyre (@ClimateAudit) November 10, 2019

THE PUPPET-MASTERS: Is China Orchestrating the Democrats` Faux Impeachment Scheme?

Last Thursday, a caller into the Mark Levin Show made a brilliant point: Joe Biden has been completely compromised by Red China, and perhaps other foreign interests. His family members, and perhaps Biden himself, have significant personal wealth now controlled by Beijing.

While his troubled son Hunter may have forfeited his "board seat" (as an aside, how many no-show jobs does this clown have?), his ownership stake in the $1.5 billion "hedge fund" appears to remain in force. The typical fee that managers would charge for these assets would be typically be between $15 and $30 million a year. Nice work if you can get it. And you can't, because your last name isn't that of a powerful Democrat politician.

Biden isn't the only one beholden to China. John Kerry's stepson is a partner in Rosemont Seneca, the investment firm that "partnered" with the Bank of China to create a $1 billion investment fund called Bohai Harvest RST (BHR). As Peter Schweizer notes:

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The Power of Democrat Projection

By Victor Davis Hanson

The only Trump “crime” was in his winning an election he was not supposed to win. So after the election, prior illegal acts were redefined as legal, and legal ones as illegal.

Strangest among all the many melodramas of the last two weeks were the blaring headlines that President Trump had dared to talk with the Australian Prime Minister—and referenced the role of foreign governments and in particular Australia in U.S. electoral politics in 2016.

Given the hue and cry of Democrats in the last three years, they should have been delighted that the president was peremptorily warning foreign nations to cease to currying favor with presidential candidates and asking them to hand over what information, if any, they had of past “collusion.” In fact, they were outraged and once again returned to “collusion” charges, as if Trump were subverting the 2020 election.

Untangling the ‘Collusion’ Web

By Roger Kimball

Most people reading this will know Sir Walter Scott’s famous couplet (from the narrative poem Marmion):

Oh, what a tangled web we weave
When first we practise to deceive!

Less well known, but undeservedly so, is the excellent completing couplet by J. R. Pope, published under the sly title “A Word of Encouragement”:

But when we’ve practiced for a while,
How vastly we improve our style!

Indeed. You really have to give it to the suits in Barack Obama’s intelligence services and Department of Justice (many of whom, of course, are still strutting about in Donald Trump’s administration). It was quite a web they wove, and tangled with complexity. Yet their prodigious practice also made it nearly impenetrable to anyone not inside their charmed circle.

What if the FBI Had Probed Obama for Collusion with Iran?

That’s the question Lee Smith poses at The Wall Street Journal in a thought experiment that lays bare the greatest scandal in American scandal, #Spygate:

The Federal Bureau of Investigation reportedly opened a counterintelligence investigation in 2017 to find out if President Trump was a Russian agent. What if the FBI had similarly looked into whether President Obama was an agent of Iran?

Counterintelligence agents would have examined the target’s personal and professional networks. The FBI investigated at least four Trump campaign figures for supposed ties to Russia. Only one, Mike Flynn, worked in the administration, and for less than a month. The Obama administration had a few senior officials with personal ties to Iran.

As Smith points out, Obam’s consigliere, Valerie Jarrett, is Iranian-born and apparently led a series of secret negotiations with the world’s foremost terror state. And Secretary of State John Kerry’s daughter was said to have had close ties to the son of Iran’s foreign minister.

By the FBI’s Trump standards, those suspicions would have led to wiretaps of Obama, Jarrett and others.

AN OPEN LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT: How You Can Take the Fight to the Deep State

Dear President Trump,

I know you are courageous. I know you are a patriot. I know you care deeply about the future of this nation. Therefore I have addressed this request to you and you alone.

As is well known, the tangled web of the federal bureaucracy and national media have produced an embedded administrative state that some term the "Deep State".

Through administrations of both parties, in good times and bad, the size and scale of the federal leviathan has grown completely unchecked.

And like a living organism, it has, over time, developed its own survival instinct.

Among its defensive tactics are the collective set of crimes known as "Spygate", which represents the weaponization of Obama intelligence and law enforcement agencies against you. Starting in 2015, deep state actors embedded in CIA, DOJ, DNI and FBI leadership positions launched simultaneous campaigns more suitable for a South American dictatorship than the United States.

The first such campaign was an effort to exonerate Hillary Clinton for her egregious and clearly criminal mishandling of huge troves of classified information. The second, of course, was the attempt to first prevent you from winning the presidency and then, immediately upon your victory, to have you impeached or removed from office. The latter scheme includes the Mueller special counsel itself, which is simply a second phase of the scheme to entrap Trump administration officials in various "collusion" scandals.

Many pro-administration pundits believe that all you can do is wait for the outcome of the deeply conflicted Mueller probe, which has suffered forced attrition due to a variety of untoward bias and prejudice. Once the special counsel report has been delivered, you could choose to declassify key assets that document the criminality of those behind Spygate.

But there is another way.

Use the Clintons to take the Deep State to the Woodshed

DEVIN NUNES: His Growing List of Names, Including One Victoria Nuland

By Jeff Carlson

Nunes referred seventeen highly recognizable names to the joint task force of Committees on Oversight & Government Reform and the Judiciary for open-setting interviews.

On July 2, 2018, Nunes added ten names to his list in a follow-up letter, expanding it to twenty-seven individuals (complete list w/descriptions at bottom). The new names are:

• Elizabeth Dribble
• Jonathan Finer
• Colin Kahl
• Kathleen Kavalec
• Lewis Lukens
• Shailagh Murray
• Victoria Nuland – See, New Details of Victoria Nuland’s Role in the Steele Dossier
• Jake Sullivan
• Thomas Williams
• Jonathan Winer

Note that names cut off at a certain political level. Below Sally Yates at DOJ. Below Comey at FBI. Below Kerry at State.

NIXING THE IRAN DEAL: Where was this concern when Obama abandoned agreements with Ukraine, Israel, Poland,etc.?

The hard left ideologues crowing that Trump has thrown the word of the United States into disrepute through his actions on the Iran deal are, simply, nuts. Never mind that Iran continues to develop ballistic missiles, foment terror worldwide, and fund chemical attacks on civilians in Syria. No, never mind that.

This deal was not America's because Obama refused to take the treaty deal through Congress. He used a pen and a phone, just like Trump.

Hilarious. Where was this concern when Obama abandoned agreements with Ukraine, Israel, Poland, and countless other allies? Where was this when Obama abandoned his own red line on Syria to not endanger the Iran deal? https://t.co/GdACwDxinz

— (((AG))) (@AG_Conservative) May 8, 2018

OOPS: Comey Accidentally Reveals Someone is Concealing Hundreds of Thousands of Clinton Emails

Thanks to the tireless Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch, we now know that there are roughly 200,000 or more previously unknown Hillary Clinton emails that were hidden by the Obama administration from a federal judge. During his utterly boring interview on 60 Minutes, the egomaniacal former FBI director accidentally blurted out the truth:

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: It's l-- it's led your critics to say that the FBI, for several weeks, sat on the knowledge that they had several thousand Hillary Clinton emails...

...JAMES COMEY: --of thousands on Anthony Weiner's laptop. And I don't know the answer to that criticism. I don't know whether the Bureau team could have moved faster to-- to bring it to me for a decision. All I know is that they did bring it to me on the morning of October 27th...

HOGAN’S ZEROES: The "I Know Nothing" Dossier Gang

By Daniel Greenfield

"I know nothing," isn't just the motto of Sergeant Schultz. It's also the Clinton motto. And Christopher Steele, the Brit whom the Clinton campaign hired to find out things for them, also knows nothing.

Or at least that's the theme of the sprawling New Yorker profile of Steele, his dossier and his associates.

Steele, Jane Mayer, its authoress, tells us, is a brilliant researcher and we should take his word about all his allegations involving President Trump. Even the ones that aren't true and don't make any sense.

DIGENOVA: We Need a Grand Jury Now. We Need Our FBI Back.

Joseph E. diGenova is a founding partner of diGenova & Toensing, LLP. He has served as United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, Independent Counsel of the United States, Special Counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives, Chief Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, and Counsel to the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. The following is adapted from a speech delivered on January 25, 2018, at Hillsdale College’s Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship. Get your free print subscription to Imprimis now.

Over the past year, facts have emerged that suggest there was a plot by high-ranking FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ) officials in the Obama administration, acting under color of law, to exonerate Hillary Clinton of federal crimes and then, if she lost the election, to frame Donald Trump and his campaign for colluding with Russia to steal the presidency. This conduct was not based on mere bias, as has been widely claimed, but rather on deeply felt animus toward Trump and his agenda.

EPIC FAIL BY THE NEW YORKER: 6 Unintended Revelations From the Christopher Steele Puff Piece

By Chuck Ross

• A New Yorker profile of dossier author Christopher Steele provided several new revelations
• MSNBC host Rachel Maddow touted it as a “staggering piece of reporting”
• Trump has denied the dossier claim, calling it “disgusting”

A new profile of dossier author Christopher Steele provided several new revelations about the creation of the salacious and unverified dossier.

The piece, from New Yorker reporter Jane Mayer, was widely hailed by mainstream and left-leaning journalists. MSNBC host Rachel Maddow touted it as a “staggering piece of reporting,” citing it as the biggest bombshell in the revelation that Steele wrote a memo alleging the Kremlin intervened to block President Donald Trump from selecting Mitt Romney as his secretary of state.

The piece does reveal numerous previously unknown facts about Steele and the dossier. Not all of the facts are favorable to the former MI6 officer and his infamous report:

SURFACING LIKE U-571: Obama’s Secret Involvement in the Clinton Foundation Scandals

By Charles Ortel

Last week, former President Barack Obama claimed his eight years in the Oval Office were "scandal-free". The remarks seemed, charitably, one part Clintonian (depends what "scandal" and "free" mean) and another part delusional (Editor: See the complete list of Mr. Obama's "historic firsts").

Today, the strategy of getting captured corporate media to repeat unvetted wishful thinking falls flat because Americans like the quick work President Donald Trump has made of reigniting growth in after-tax paychecks. More of us question Obama's success fables spun during eight long years, too. We want and deserve answers to tough questions.

RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA: More Ties Between Democrats and Russian Oligarchs Poised for Exposure

By Chuck Ross

The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee is requesting an interview with a Washington-based lobbyist who served as an intermediary between a Democratic senator and two key figures in the Russia investigation, dossier author Christopher Steele and Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.

“The nature and extent of the relationship between Mr. Steele, Mr. Deripaska, and you are of potential relevance to the Committee’s work,” Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, wrote Monday to the lobbyist, Adam Waldman.

Waldman emerged earlier this month as a figure in the Russia investigation after it was revealed that he exchanged text messages last year with Virginia Sen. Mark Warner regarding Steele and Deripaska.

Anti-Semitism's New Home in America

No, not David Duke or the other 0.0001% kooks. A much more mainstream home. Benjamin Weingarten reports:

A recent Pew poll indicates a staggering divergence in views on #Israel vs the Arabs of Palestine between Republicans and Democrats in America. Increasingly, Israel is becoming a one-party, Republican, issue. How and why did this happen? THREAD https://t.co/jhgJlkvzIT pic.twitter.com/dS3vuzkItv

— Benjamin Weingarten (@bhweingarten) February 22, 2018

SPOT ON: Trump Demands Prison for Clinton Aide Huma Abedin

By Mathew Vadum

President Trump is demanding former top Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin be imprisoned for violating national security protocols and that an investigation be opened into former FBI Director James Comey.

At 7:48 a.m. Tuesday President Trump tweeted:

Crooked Hillary Clinton’s top aid[e], Huma Abedin, has been accused of disregarding basic security protocols. She put Classified Passwords into the hands of foreign agents. Remember sailor[’]s pictures on submarine? Jail! Deep State Justice Dep[ar]t[ment] must finally act? Also on Comey & others[.]

With the connivance of the Obama administration, Abedin and Clinton also purloined call logs, scheduling documents, and files described as “Muslim Engagement” from the Department of State when they left their jobs there. They labeled the government-owned documents “private.” Clinton also took with her a physical file of what has been described as “the log of the Secretary’s gifts with pictures of gifts,” which may contain proof of bribes provided to Clinton. 

ABSOLUTELY BRUTAL: Obama’s Iran Deal in Perspective

Based on a Twitter thread by Stealth Jeff‏

Just a reminder: Josh Meyer pulled back the curtain not just on Obama's sabotaging of Project Cassandra with his investigative report; he also helped clarify exactly what this Iranian regime really is: a gang of criminal thugs.

Not only has the Iranian regime been exporting terrorism by shipping weapons and manpower to various proxy wars around the region; it's also been funding and supporting itself through a very lucrative world wide trade in illegal narcotics such as cocaine.

Before Obama, this criminal regime was being held in check. Obama spent eight years implementing a radical policy in which an Iranian backed nuclear hegemony over the Middle East was a foregone conclusion; it could only be 'managed' or delayed, not stopped.

WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Iran-Backed Syrian Forces Now Just 7 Miles From Israeli Border

By The Tower

Syrian troops supported by Iranian-backed militias and Hezbollah are on the verge of capturing a rebel-held village at the foot of Mt. Hermon, just seven miles from the border with Israel, The Times of Israel reported Wednesday.

Rebels in the village of Mugr al Meer report that they are being attacked by “heavy bombardments and artillery fire” from Syrian troops and their Iran-backed allies. The Syrian army reports that it has surrounded the village at the foot of Mt. Hermon, which “commands the Golan Heights.”

NEW BIN LADEN DOCUMENTS: Obama Concealed Al Qaeda-Iran Ties to Save His Insane Nuke Deal

By Joseph Klein

The CIA released on Wednesday approximately 470,000 files of materials from the trove recovered during the May 2011 raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The materials include internal documents, practice reels for public speeches, audio correspondence, and imagery gathered or generated by al Qaeda for a variety of purposes.

"Today’s release of recovered al-Qaeda letters, videos, audio files and other materials provides the opportunity for the American people to gain further insights into the plans and workings of this terrorist organization," said CIA Director Mike Pompeo. "CIA will continue to seek opportunities to share information with the American people consistent with our obligation to protect national security."