WikiLeaks just tweeted a torrent file after weeks of cryptic messages which many have interpreted to be an ultimatum to the deep state that they release files related to 9/11 and/or Hillary Clinton. Earlier this week, the FBI released a 42 page PDF entitled “Hillary R. Clinton Part 07 of 07” which contained several references to the “7th floor” (deep state), as well as the fact that the FBI was never meant to handle a case this large. Perhaps the release wasn’t exactly what Wikileaks wanted? Either way, looks like they’re set to release the password Tuesday at 9AM EST.
Washington Post employee Itai Ozderman, 35, was arrested after his Gaithersburg, MD home was raided by Montgomery County Police on February 22nd at around 6 a.m, according to court documents. Ozderman is charged with impersonating an ICE officer on several occasions throughout Falls Church, VA.
When the warrant was served on Feb. 22 at Ozderman’s home in the 100 block of Elmira Lane, court documents say 10 weapons, including handguns, assault rifles, and a shotgun, were recovered.
Sources tell ABC7’s Kevin Lewis that Ozderman impersonated an ICE officer throughout Falls Church, Va. on more than one occasion. According to sources, Ozderman would ‘patrol’ while wearing a bullet proof vest with an ICE placard and a Baltimore County police badge. –WJLA
Ozderman, an I.T. engineer at the Washington Post, is currently out on bond. No word on whether this alleged #FakeAgent is still employed with one of the original MSM outlets responsible for the term #FakeNews permeating the public lexicon.
The unhinged left is in full damage control mode over the Obama wiretap scandal. We already know that the propagandists at CNN, MSNBC, WaPo, and their tentacle brethren across the MSM spectrum take marching orders from the left, so it comes as no surprise that the New York Times and CNN are madly scurrying to frame the wiretapping scandal as a “Conspiracy Theory.”
An aside: Did you know that the CIA invented the term in 1967 to discredit information outside the scope of the government’s carefully crafted narratives? It’s a form of propaganda – quite literally (as revealed in a 1976 FOIA request):
To employ propaganda assets to and refute the attacks of the critics. Book reviews and feature articles are particularly appropriate for this purpose. The unclassified attachments to this guidance should provide useful background material for passing to assets. Our ploy should point out, as applicable, that the critics are (I) wedded to theories adopted before the evidence was in, (II) politically interested, (III) financially interested, (IV) hasty and inaccurate in their research, or (V) infatuated with their own theories
Today’s propaganda is brought to you, once again, by the letters C.N.N. after radio host (and former Chief of Staff to Reagan’s Attorney General) Mark Levin laid out an exceedingly compelling argument that Obama employed “police state tactics” against Trump, which he expounded on in an interview with Fox News:
In propagandistic response, CNN’s deep state dick rider Brian Stelter penned a lame response, attempting to frame the whole thing as a conspiracy theory – and specifically calling out Mark Levin:
An incendiary idea first put forward by right-wing radio host Mark Levin is now burning across Washington, fanned by President Trump’s tweets and a huge number of supportive commentators and websites — even though the facts don’t back up the conclusion. –MegaChoad
In response, Levin roasts the shit out of Stelter:
OPEN LETTER TO CNN’S BRIAN STELTER, YOU ARE THOROUGHLY DISHONEST.
I simply put together the stories that YOUR profession reported, on the public record. Do you deny there were two FISA applications? Do you deny the first was turned down? Do you deny the second was approved? It’s called the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. It is about surveillance. The fact that we cannot discern all the details because of the secrecy, except for what the media have revealed and selective leaks by the government, should cause you to want to know more, not to trash those who point it out.
Levin emailed me, "Do you deny there were two FISA applications?" I replied: "I don't know. You don't know. The reporting is very murky." https://t.co/uSyUgooRl0
Mark Reed Levin (/ləˈvɪn/; born September 21, 1957) is an American lawyer, author, and the host of syndicated radio show The Mark Levin Show. Levin worked in the administration of President Ronald Reagan and was a chief of staff for Attorney General Edwin Meese. He is president of the Landmark Legal Foundation, has authored six books, and contributes commentary to various media outlets such as National Review Online. On September 1, 2015, Levin was named Editor-in-Chief of Conservative Review.
Brian Stelter:
Brian Stelter (born September 3, 1985) is the senior media correspondent for CNN and the host of Reliable Sources. Previously he was a media reporter for The New York Times and the editor of TVNewser. Also a Gigantic choad.
Shall we review Mark Levin’s argument?
1. June 2016: FISA request. The Obama administration files a request with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) to monitor communications involving Donald Trump and several advisers. The request, uncharacteristically, is denied.
2. July: Russia joke. Wikileaks releases emails from the Democratic National Committee that show an effort to prevent Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) from winning the presidential nomination. In a press conference, Donald Trump refers to Hillary Clinton’s own missing emails, joking: “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing.” That remark becomes the basis for accusations by Clinton and the media that Trump invited further hacking.
3. October: Podesta emails. In October, Wikileaks releases the emails of Clinton campaign chair John Podesta, rolling out batches every day until the election, creating new mini-scandals. The Clinton campaign blames Trump and the Russians.
4. October: FISA request. The Obama administration submits a new, narrow request to the FISA court, now focused on a computer server in Trump Tower suspected of links to Russian banks. No evidence is found — but the wiretaps continue, ostensibly for national security reasons, Andrew McCarthy at National Review later notes. The Obama administration is now monitoring an opposing presidential campaign using the high-tech surveillance powers of the federal intelligence services.
5. January 2017: Buzzfeed/CNN dossier. Buzzfeed releases, and CNN reports, a supposed intelligence “dossier” compiled by a foreign former spy. It purports to show continuous contact between Russia and the Trump campaign, and says that the Russians have compromising information about Trump. None of the allegations can be verified and some are proven false. Several media outlets claim that they had been aware of the dossier for months and that it had been circulating in Washington.
6. January: Obama expands NSA sharing. As Michael Walsh later notes, and as the New York Times reports, the outgoing Obama administration “expanded the power of the National Security Agency to share globally intercepted personal communications with the government’s 16 other intelligence agencies before applying privacy protections.” The new powers, and reduced protections, could make it easier for intelligence on private citizens to be circulated improperly or leaked.
7. January: Times report. The New York Times reports, on the eve of Inauguration Day, that several agencies — the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Treasury Department are monitoring several associates of the Trump campaign suspected of Russian ties. Other news outlets also report the exisentence of “a multiagency working group to coordinate investigations across the government,” though it is unclear how they found out, since the investigations would have been secret and involved classified information.
8. February: Mike Flynn scandal. Reports emerge that the FBI intercepted a conversation in 2016 between future National Security Adviser Michael Flynn — then a private citizen — and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. The intercept supposedly was part of routine spying on the ambassador, not monitoring of the Trump campaign. The FBI transcripts reportedly show the two discussing Obama’s newly-imposed sanctions on Russia, though Flynn earlier denied discussing them. Sally Yates, whom Trump would later fire as acting Attorney General for insubordination, is involved in the investigation. In the end, Flynn resigns over having misled Vice President Mike Pence (perhaps inadvertently) about the content of the conversation.
9. February: Times claims extensive Russian contacts. The New York Times cites “four current and former American officials” in reporting that the Trump campaign had “repeated contacts with senior Russian intelligence officials. The Trump campaign denies the claims — and the Times admits that there is “no evidence” of coordination between the campaign and the Russians. The White House and some congressional Republicans begin to raise questions about illegal intelligence leaks.
10. March: the Washington Post targets Jeff Sessions. The Washington Post reports that Attorney General Jeff Sessions had contact twice with the Russian ambassador during the campaign — once at a Heritage Foundation event and once at a meeting in Sessions’s Senate office. The Post suggests that the two meetings contradict Sessions’s testimony at his confirmation hearings that he had no contacts with the Russians, though in context (not presented by the Post) it was clear he meant in his capacity as a campaign surrogate, and that he was responding to claims in the “dossier” of ongoing contacts. The New York Times, in covering the story, adds that the Obama White House “rushed to preserve” intelligence related to alleged Russian links with the Trump campaign. By “preserve” it really means “disseminate”: officials spread evidence throughout other government agencies “to leave a clear trail of intelligence for government investigators” and perhaps the media as well.
Stelter’s piece is pissant yellow journalism, while Levin lays out a comprehensive timeline and a case for police state tactics. Can you spot the difference?
Deutsche Bank ($DB) CEO John Cryan just can’t catch a break. After navigating the beleaguered bank through a $7.2 Billion toxic US mortgage settlement last December – contributing to a net loss of $2.1 Billion in Q4’16, and a $10 Billion Russian money-laundering settlement in January – it appeared that the bank’s troubles were behind them. Shares rallied back fiercely after hitting their lowest price in over 20 years last September over fears that the German government wouldn’t provide a bailout – should one be required, though it looks like the party may be over.
The bank just announced plans to raise 8 Billion Euros ($8.5 Billion USD) via special rights offering in order to shore up it’s core asset ratio – it’s fourth raise since 2010, and something which CEO John Cryan had previously declared a last resort. In total, they will have raised 30 billion Euros ($32 Billion USD) – more than their current market cap of $26.8 Billion (USD). Yikes. Shares fell almost 7% in early trading Monday
In a letter to employees, Cryan said everything’s under control (the plane is only missing a wing and a few engine bits):
We expect proceeds of around 8 billion euros from this. According to the future capital rules this would enable us to reach a core capital ratio of approximately 14 percent and remove a major source of uncertainty. That should make us significantly more attractive for our clients. -Source
How cool!
Deutsche is also walking back 2015 plans to spin off it’s Postbank subsidiary of retail banks – instead merging it with DB’s main private and commercial banking business, and they are re-integrating their market trading operations with corporate / investment banking.
Perhaps it’s best to raise money now while they still can – considering Marine Le Pen is currently leading the polls in the upcoming French election. If she wins, Frexit will happen – which means the European Central Bank safety net (which France and Germany primarily fund) will likely disintegrate, and EU member nations may be forced to revert to their pre-Euro currencies (notwithstanding desperate measures, such as a two-Euro system). Picture an old timey black and white movie where an obviously miniaturized set train derails. Perhaps this will be the price of returning to borders, language, and culture – as we all work through the new normal.
The Deutsche Bank announcement comes on the heels of Italy passing legislation in December to enable a nearly 9 Billion Euro state bailout of their largest bank – Monte dei Paschi, as opposed to reliance on the ECB.
Nothing to see here… just European banks trying to un-fuck themselves before they’re out of options.
You know why Batman is never arrested? Because he gets the fuck out of dodge before the cops show up. Based Stick Man, on the other hand, couldn’t sit idle while Berkeley cops did next to nothing all day as degenerate children maced old men and threw eggs at homeless advocates. As Antifa scum grew increasingly violent, one man – Based Stick Man, AKA the “Alt-Knight” AKA Spruce Wayne, whose real name is Kyle Chapman – whacked the shit out of a masked man-child.
Do you think it’s a coincidence that American flag is RIGHT in the shot? Fuck no – Kek willed this from the heavens. Unfortunately, the forces of evil have temporarily prevailed, and Stick Man was arrested for his gallantry:
FBI Director James Comey is an interesting guy. On one hand, it appears he’s spent the latter part of his career shilling for the Clintons; earning $6 Million dollars in one year as Lockheed’s top lawyer – the same year the egregiously overbudget F-35 manufacturer made a huge donation to the Clinton Foundation. Comey was also a board member at HSBC shortly after NY AG at the time Loretta “tarmac” Lynch let the Clinton Foundation partner slide with a slap on the wrist for laundering drug money. No joke.
Then there was the kangaroo court FBI investigation of Clinton’s private server – in which Comey recommended not prosecuting Hillary despite admitting horrendous breaches of protocol that would have landed any other Federal employee in prison. At that point in the timeline, democrats loved him!
But wait – mysteriously, Comey then went seemingly rogue; re-opening the investigation into Hillary’s private server a week and a half before the election, only to find no wrongdoing the day before polls opened. The Clinton camp has openly blamed Comey for contributing to Hillary’s loss – though they haven’t clarified if he’s ever spoken with a Russian ambassador, or where Comey’s actions rank in the whole blame game.
So – I don’t really know what to make of James Comey. His historical shilling for the Clintons and the establishment are at direct odds with the FBI’s investigative merry-go-round against Hillary – which has been blamed for doing serious harm to Hillary’s campaign. What we do know is that Trey Gowdy was in a meeting with Comey last week, in which the FBI director said not to trust anonymous sources from the NY Times and the Washington Post:
So, color me skeptical at today’s New York Times piece quoting anonymous sources who claim James Comey has asked the Department of Justice to publicly refute Trump’s assertions that Obama tapped his phones.
WASHINGTON — The F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, asked the Justice Department this weekend to publicly reject President Trump’s assertion that President Barack Obama ordered the tapping of Mr. Trump’s phones, senior American officials said on Sunday.
I’m not even going to link to the article. NYT is #FakeNews, and this looks like damage control.
Also, if we’re going to quote anonymous sources willy nilly, I see your Comey insider and raise you a mousey liberal journalist with an Obama White House insider who says that the wiretaps totally happened:
Plus, Brett “Bitchslapper” Baier cornering Paul Ryan with news of the wiretap – which Ryan didn’t refute:
NOW I’m hearing whispers from EXTRA anonymous sources that Loretta Lynch and the DOJ may have ordered the wiretaps – not Obama; which makes the whole clandestine Bill Clinton tarmac meeting all the more shady looking:
At this point, if Loretta Lynch actually ordered the wiretaps, are we to honestly believe that it wasn’t at the behest of Obama? And if not – if Lynch’s DOJ tapped the Trump campaign at the request of the Clintons, it’s an entirely different kettle of fish. I imagine that a Presidential candidate co-opting the United States Department of Justice into covertly monitoring their opponent might be a big no-no.
A curious thing happened Seven days before Obama left the White House. No, not a shady arms deal with Kenya – that happened on Barry Hussein’s last day. I’m talking about a major change in the order of succession at the DOJ in the event Jeff Sessions recused himself from the Russia investigation. Instead of Acting Deputy Attorney General Dana Boente who would have ordinarily take over, Obama, without explanation, changed the law to skip over the Deputy AG position – instead providing his own list of U.S. Attorneys to take the case.
The man Obama placed at the head of the line of succession is D.C.’s U.S. Attorney Channing Phillips, who is quite cozy with President Obama and his attorney general, Eric Holder. He is a former senior adviser to Holder, and he stayed on to work under Obama’s next AG Loretta Lynch before Obama appointed Phillips D.C.’s U.S. attorney in 2015. –Weekly Standard
Perhaps Obama assumed Sessions would ultimately have to recuse himself due to his involvement in the campaign? Or maybe the former President knew in advance about this witch hunt over Sessions and the Russian Ambassador. It was also a safe bet for Obama to assume that Trump wouldn’t keep Boente around after the election (which he isn’t, as Trump has appointed US Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein to the position – with his confirmation hearing next week).
Did Obama think the Trump administration wouldn’t notice? Whatever the case, Trump signed an Executive Order restoring the line of succession.
Angry unemployed children, AKA Antifa, held another Trump protest today in Berkeley, CA. It’s Trump’s fault of course that they took out 6 figure student loans and haven’t been approached by numerous employers to put those English majors to work.
Unlike the UC Berkeley riots which shut down a Milo Yiannopoulos speech, several Trump supporters showed up today to counter-protest the Antifa idiots – resulting in civil discourse.
Just kidding, an elderly Trump supporter and a homeless advocate were attacked:
This may be it folks; Watergate 2.0 is here. Finally an appropriate scandal worthy of the stupid ‘gate label.
Last night on Fox, Paul Ryan sat down with Brett Baier – who asked Ryan to opine on new bombshell revelations that the Obama administration made two requests to wiretap Trump and his associates. Tellingly, Ryan acts like he doesn’t know what Baier is talking about, then keeps robotically returning to the talking point that no evidence of collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign was found.
Baier: There’s a report that [in] June 2016, there’s a FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court) request by the Obama administration to monitor communications involving Donald Trump and several campaign officials. They get turned down, and then in October they renew it, and they do start a wiretap at Trump Tower
Ryan: Well, again… [stammers] and like I said, nobody in congress has been presented with any evidence to the contrary of what you just said.
Baier: So you believe it to be true?
(long pause)
Ryan: Yeah, that… that, we have seen no evidence that anybody in this campaign, um, or any other American was in on it with the Russians to meddle in our elections. We know they meddled. Russia’s an adversary, and that’s something we have to work to counteract.
Baier: I got it, but the point is that the Obama administration was pretty aggressive – a couple of FISA requests.
Ryan: No, I hear your point, but I’ve seen nothing of that – nothing come of that. That’s my point.
Obama responded by calling it “unequivocally false”
Neither @barackobama nor any WH official under Obama has ever ordered surveillance on any US Citizen. Any suggestion is unequivocally false pic.twitter.com/qF04X3NUvq
Let's not forget in 2013 Obama had Fox News reporter James Rosen's phone tapped, calling him a "co-conspirator" under the Espionage Act. https://t.co/AWyoPrq5G7
And for those who want to argue semantics – whether Obama ordered the wiretaps directly or not:
Watergate has always been mired in controversy over whether or not Nixon actually ordered the break-in; evidence going both ways exists, yet it was enough to impeach Nixon:
Who ordered it? “There is no evidence,” Dean writes, “in all the Nixon-Watergate-related conversations that anyone in the White House had advance knowledge that Liddy was going into the Watergate.” –MSNBC
…the articles of impeachment drawn up against Nixon by the House Judiciary Committee in 1974, the “smoking-gun” tape that forced him to resign, did not link him to the original order for the break-in, they link him only to the cover-up afterward. –The Observer
We’re not talking about an impeachment, of course… Just one more nail in the coffin of credibility within the Democratic party as all their narratives unravel.
Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) appeared on Fox’s First 100 Days Thursday evening after a closed door briefing earlier in the day by FBI director James Comey concerning the agency’s investigation into claims of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
The interview begins with host Martha MacCallum mentioning that Congressman Adam Schiff (D-CA), who attended the same meeting, was “rattled” over the lack of information Comey gave concerning Russian involvement in the election.
Gowdy, on the other hand, seemed shocked at Schiff’s apparent lack of enlightenment:
Jim Comey did more today to update us than I have ever had done in the 6 years I have been there, and for Adam to treat it that way – that dismissively, clearly he and I were in two separate rooms this morning.
I have never heard a Federal law enforcement agent give, with that degree of particularity and detail, an update on an inquiry. As you may recall, I was a federal prosecutor for 6 years, so I have talked to lots of FBI agents. He went so far beyond what any other administration official has ever done, whether it’s Eric Holder, Loretta Lynch, or his predecessor Robert Muller – they never gave us this level of detail and specificity. Hebent over backwards.
When pressed on whether or not FBI Director Comey revealed any new information in light of [former CIA Director] John Brennan and [former Director of National Intelligence] James Clapper finding no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians, Gowdy deflected – citing the confidential nature of the briefing. He did, however, make a statement concerning the New York Times ($NYT) and Washington Post – publications included in what President Trump and top advisor Steve Bannon refer to as the media “opposition party”:
I will tell you this – to the extent people are relying on media reports, whether it’s the New York Times or the Washington Post, upon which to base their factual assertions, I would tell them to be very very careful. I’m not gonna say any more than that, other than to say that the person leading the investigation on behalf of the Untied States government, the head of the FBI, listen to what he has to say – don’t listen to anonymous sources who leak classified information which, oh by the way, is also against the law. Between Jim Comey and a reporter from the New York Times, give me Jim Comey.
Takeaways: Rep. Gowdy clearly heard a lot of things he liked during the closed door session, while deflated Democrat Rep. Adam Schiff did not. Second; FBI director Comey obviously discussed the dissemination of leaked classified information to the mainstream media – to the extent that Gowdy, an attorney and former prosecutor, is advising people who rely on the leaks to be “very, very careful” in doing so.
Watch below:
? Trey Gowdy after FBI Dir Jim Comey meeting: Don't listen to the New York Times or WaPo's anonymous sources, Jim Comey has the real scoop? pic.twitter.com/ONfBJgax0v
