Just Don't Call It "Spying"

The NY Times learns more about Crossfire Hurricane, the FBI effort to totally not spy on the Trump campaign:

F.B.I. Sent Investigator Posing as Assistant to Meet With Trump Aide in 2016

WASHINGTON — The conversation at a London bar in September 2016 took a strange turn when the woman sitting across from George Papadopoulos, a Trump campaign adviser, asked a direct question: Was the Trump campaign working with Russia?

The woman had set up the meeting to discuss foreign policy issues. But she was actually a government investigator posing as a research assistant, according to people familiar with the operation. The F.B.I. sent her to London as part of the counterintelligence inquiry opened that summer to better understand the Trump campaign’s links to Russia.

The American government’s affiliation with the woman, who said her name was Azra Turk, is one previously unreported detail of an operation that has become a political flash point in the face of accusations by President Trump and his allies that American law enforcement and intelligence officials spied on his campaign to undermine his electoral chances. Last year, he called it “Spygate.”

She was working with Stefan Halper and may have gone along so that, in the event of a trial, she could be the FBI witness and somewhat preserve Halper's anonymity.

A nod to the obvious here, my emphasis:

The decision to use Ms. Turk in the operation aimed at a presidential campaign official shows the level of alarm inside the F.B.I. during a frantic period when the bureau was trying to determine the scope of Russia’s attempts to disrupt the 2016 election, but could also give ammunition to Mr. Trump and his allies for their spying claims.

AG Barr knew, or made a lucky guess recently:

Mr. Barr reignited the controversy last month when he told Congress, “I think spying on a political campaign is a big deal.” He backed off the charged declaration later in the same hearing, saying: “I think spying did occur. The question is whether it was adequately predicated. And I’m not suggesting that it wasn’t adequately predicated. But I need to explore that.”

Mr. Barr again defended his use of the term “spying” at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday, saying he wanted to know more about the F.B.I.’s investigative efforts during 2016 and explained that the early inquiry likely went beyond the use of an informant and a court-authorized wiretap of a former Trump campaign adviser, Carter Page, who had interacted with a Russian intelligence officer.

“Many people seem to assume that the only intelligence collection that occurred was a single confidential informant” and the warrant to surveil Mr. Page, Mr. Barr said. “I would like to find out whether that is in fact true. It strikes me as a fairly anemic effort if that was the counterintelligence effort designed to stop the threat as it’s being represented.”

Apparently the effort was less anemic than we have been told so far.

Comments

[clarice]

(P.S. smacking it doesn't work, but you can feel you did something.)

[Another Bob]

Pulling down both sides of the release Lyle?

[Narciso79]

Even in the limited hangout they still paint page as being guilty of being a businessman, unlike whatever parasite Podesta is.

[Melinda]

Clarice-

Am I incorrect in believing Weissman left a paper trail of his beliefs through his arguments up the appeals process? I think that would be plenty traceable.

[Melinda]

Excuse me.

‘A matter of public record’

[Manuel Transmission]

JMH, WOW! Just finished your recommended documentary on the East Africa treasure find. Beautifully done. My only lingering question is whether having a large ship like that would normally have been in that region after circumnavigation all around Africa. If so, then Egyptians going to Polynesia or Carthaginians going to America doesn’t seem so far fetched.

[Melinda]

Gee, once again my imagination isn’t big enough for reality.

(Movie’s queued up, btw)

[Narciso79]

But there would need to be evidence of those two voyages the Chinese and Norse incursions are more possible

[Melinda]

Not if there were ice.

[Narciso79]

I was intrigued with his first work about the Graham Hancock's first item about the ark.

[JM Hanes]

clarice:

I've just discovered the acrobatic snow leopard:

They don't just loll around in trees, they hang from branches sorta, kinds like bats too!

[Another Bob]

Hmm... Trump just tweets “no more investigations”.

Wonder what me means by that?

This could be bad. Very bad.

[Captain Hate]

Patterico recommends this fellow loon:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/05/bill-barrs-performance-was-catastrophic/588574/

[Another Bob]

me > he

[clarice]

Melinda--are you speaking of the similar arguments in the Enron case? If so, certainly--the SCOTUS made short shrift, BTW in Weissman's Kafkaesque reading of the law-- too late to save Arthur Anderson, a fine , honorable accounting firm.

[Narciso79]

Well it seems as solid as their previous attempts to understand female biology about a decade ago.

[Narciso79]

Ironically under khuzaimi at the sec and holder at justice they didmt even try to go after Any of the main players they did a half heart go at fab (lme) and went after sac, who was very near beer.

[MJW]

Tom R: Please explain you’re logic to declare my point completely illogical?

They are close friends for the past 30 years, Their wives teach a Sunday school class together so they see each other at church every Sunday. Why wouldn’t they talk business?

BTW since Barr’s memo was addressed directly to Rosenstein I think another possible scenario is Mueller gave Weissman’s legal strategy to Rosenstein who he reported to and RR is the one who gave it to Barr.

Do you actually imagine Mueller was free to go around revealing the special counsel office's legal strategies to his buddies?

[Melinda]

Yes, exactly that route. Like a serial liar would keep at the same lie.

That had a paper trail and Barr could easily cite it. That’s the background for his earlier oped, nothing secretive, all public knowledge.

Busy day in the AM. G’night all!

[Narciso79]

That was re the subprime cartel, I don't think that was about principle they just disnt care to even try to bring mayor players to justice

[Narciso79]

Then again having read the valukas inquest into Lehman bros less of this story makes sense.

[Threadkiller]

Lyle, the slide only has to go back far enough to relieve tension between it and the releases. AB asks a great question about both sides.

If you are able to move both release tabs to the bottom of their channels and the slide isn't coming off, there is a problem. The magazine is removed?

[JM Hanes]

Man Tran:

I thought the series of the objects being raised from the floor were spectacular and spectacularly beautiful! My reaction was so much like yours, but now comes the spoiler (alas) which I didn't figure out on my own. I just went looking for more pix of the fabulous finds only to discover that the whole thing was pure fiction! it's the imaginary backstory of a the an exhibition Hirst mounted in Venice.

Why Did This Artist Spend 10 Years Creating a Fake Shipwreck? I didn't have time to find a comprehensive article on the exhibition itself, but here's a google image results page.

I was so disappointed at first. The Venice show was widely panned ("disastrous!"), but I've ended up thinking that the whole thing has a special kind of brilliance.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

I think that's a Clouded Leopard, JM.

[JM Hanes]

Man Tran:

Meant to say, I hope you didn't mind my letting you get the wrong impression, but I was actually glad, I didn't know beforehand myself, so I decided not to say anything first.

[Narciso79]

Professional idiot:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/05/02/sir-mark-sedwill-has-much-power-fault-theresa-may/

[JM Hanes]

Ignatz:

Yes, it is a Clouded Leopard, which apparently my subconscious didn't want to type.

Thanks for the correction. I'm impressed that you recognized it.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--(P.S. smacking it doesn't work, but you can feel you did something.)--

Smacking it frequently does work, though often only temporarily.
If I ever wanted to know the mileage on my old truck, all it needed was a nice whack on the dashboard.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

When you talked about a Snow Leopard hanging around in trees it prompted my memory, JM.

[Narciso79]

That seems like a lot

https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1122144/Adolf-Hitler-WW2-nuclear-weapon-Nazi-Germany-nuclear-reactor-uranium-cubes-world-war-two

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--I was in Sacramento a few weeks ago and thought of driving 120 through Yosemite on the way home (the very long way around)but figured that the pass on the back side might still be closed.--

Still closed right now, Matt, as are the two next ones north.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--If you or anyone else can tip me I’d be appreciative.--

Get rid of your Glock.
Hope you appreciate the tip. :)

[Narciso79]

Why would they design a weapon with that kind of a flaw, I thought the glock was more easy to handle?

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Ah, yes! And after time at the range I had a slice of pepperoni pizza and a Li'l Debbie cherry pie from the local Nice 'n Easy, washed down with a cold bottled Frappuccino.--

For five bucks I won't tell anonamom you said that.
Payola or I'm letting the cat out of the bag.

[JM Hanes]

Leonardo, always in the last place you look:

(Cropped to portrait image)

"A sketch of a bearded man lost in thought, preserved for 500 years among the papers of Leonardo da Vinci, has now been identified as a rare portrait of the Renaissance master himself. Found on one of hundreds of sheets of Leonardo drawings held in Britain’s Royal Collection since the reign of Charles II, the ink head is believed to be only the second likeness of Leonardo to survive from his lifetime."

What an extraordinary collection the English royals have; it's a shame they basically seem to be cultural dunces.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Lastly, my take on Mueller.
He has straddled his entire career that twilight boundary between fully incompetent and barely adequate. He has however learned the tricks of clenching his teeth to look strong jawed, seldom smiles and combs his hair in his best junior G-man style which is all it takes to look impeccably tough but fair in a town full of botoxed, pince nezed, guess-who-just-ate-the-canary grinning dunces.

He is not particularly ideological and is a dullard so is easily manipulated by a sharpy like Weisman.

He's been swimming in the raw sewage of the Deep State for so long he thinks he's swimming in punch. If he is, he's just one of the many turds in the bowl.

Because he is an ideological nullity he believes in process and the law even at the expense of justice.

[Narciso79]

Well that kind of fit many of the shortcuts he took from Boston to bcci to anthrax investigation.

[Manuel Transmission]

JMH, thanks for not revealing the true story. I prolly would have skipped it and missed the beautiful photography.

I had the back story of the Central America gold find running in my head, so that made it even more believable. But it puts the early navigation back to square one.

[Narciso79]

So the priorities were 1) make sure la cosa nostra doesn't revive 2) keep our gulf allies happy 3) dont raise any questions.

[Narciso79]

This is me, being pragmatic instead of values clarifying

[JM Hanes]

Man Tran:

I'm so relieved, because I was having serious second thoughts!

[jim nj]

HOR committee questioning an empty chair?

Clint Eastwood did it first and better.

Putting a chicken near the chair while eating chicken out of an antique KFC bucket. Juvenile delinquency.

If the Democrats on the committee weren't brain-damaged they would have realized that Barr comes out a winner in such idiocy.

The theatrics may encourage some fringe types, but any thinking person would recognize the farcical, juvenile proceeding as a clown show.

Try as they may the Democrats have lost the initiative and are on the back-foot.

As some of you have commented there is a lot of stuff happening in a potential counter-offensive.

Democrats were so caught up in the Mueller thing, that they didn't pay enough attention to the referrals to the DOJ that the Republicans have made over the last year and continue to do.

Testimony made before Congress isn't jiving with comments made elsewhere.

When Trump starts the declassification procedure more detrimental information will enter the arena.

There are so many potential targets out there already under referral or about to be, that I think criminal prosecutions aren't the only hazard. I think there will be adequate evidence to support civil suits also, including defamation suits against media types.

[jim nj]

https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/441726-alan-dershowitz-barr-is-right-mueller-is-wrong

[jim nj]

https://nypost.com/2019/05/01/barr-exposed-the-rampant-desperation-of-trumps-foes/

[jim nj]

https://spectator.org/thelma-nadler-and-louise-schiff/

Interesting analogy.

[anonamom]

thread from Sean Davis of The Federalist about the spying:

https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1124018191653593093

Sean Davis
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Verified account

@seanmdav
15h15 hours ago
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This is just the tip of the iceberg. Obama's FBI lied about when they started targeting Trump and his campaign, they lied about spying, they lied about the dossier, they lied about their motivations, and they lied over and over again to the FISA court.

[jim nj]

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/05/03/big-news-verified-by-noaa-poor-weather-station-siting-leads-to-artificial-long-term-warming/

This is big news. NOAA has replicated the effects of poor siting of weather stations that Anthony Watts, with many volunteers, posited many years ago.

Very good read as an argument against the basic data underlying the supposed warming trends.

[MissMarple2]

From midnight last night:

Donald J. Trump
‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump
5h5 hours ago

OK, so after two years of hard work and each party trying their best to make the other party look as bad as possible, it’s time to get back to business. The Mueller Report strongly stated that there was No Collusion with Russia (of course) and, in fact, they were rebuffed.....

...at every turn in attempts to gain access. But now Republicans and Democrats must come together for the good of the American people. No more costly & time consuming investigations. Lets do Immigration (Border), Infrastructure, much lower drug prices & much more - and do it now!
7,412 replies 9,637 retweets 41,587 likes

[peter]

Jimnj, what does "siting" mean?

[anonamom]

Maybe I'm expecting too little? What is it, 69% of public want this spying investigated???

And if, in fact, the enormous surveillance powers of our intelligence agencies were usurped by the Obama administration to spy for years before the election on the opposing political party, then the implications go far beyond just one election and one presidential candidate. If that happened, then there can be no doubt that, when candidate Obama promised to “fundamentally transform America,” he really meant it. If Obama’s “fundamental transformation” involved not only the atrocious harassment and intimidation of the Tea Party patriots by his Internal Revenue Service, but also included surveillance state spying on the Republican Party generally, there must be no question about whether the deep state actors should be punished for their actions.

Think about it. The Watergate burglary was a bungled attempt by the Committee to Re-Elect President Nixon to break into Democrat headquarters to plant listening devices in the telephones. The burglary failed, but the national outrage at the mere attempt drove Nixon from office and sent members of his administration to prison. As bad as that was, at least the Nixon campaign didn’t corrupt the FBI and CIA to do its dirty work. So it is that, if our official law enforcement and intelligence agencies were co-opted by the Obama administration to illegally spy on American citizens and the opposition party, this will be the worst governmental scandal and threat to our civil liberties in the history of the nation.

If Joe diGenova is right, the very survival of the rule of law and our constitutional republic mandates that these treasonous thugs — no matter how highly placed in the Obama administration — be exposed, charged, and imprisoned.

https://spectator.org/listen-to-joe-digenova/

[MissMarple2]

Bill Mitchell
‏Verified account @mitchellvii
4m4 minutes ago

Something has changed.

Republicans are naming names.

Until this week, criminal referrals have been anonymous and Trump spoke in general terms of "traitors" spying.

Now Nellie Ohr is named and Trump accuses Comey himself of leading spying.

We're getting close.
===========================
I thought this a good observation.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/05/03/mohammed-number-one-name-baby-boys-berlin-2018/

[MissMarple2]

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/05/boom-president-trump-drops-bomb-on-james-comey-he-was-spying-he-was-i-think-one-of-the-people-leading-the-efforts-on-spying-video/

This has the video clip where he makes the accusation and also the transcript.

[MissMarple2]

Rudy Giuliani
‏Verified account @RudyGiuliani
7h7 hours ago

I consider Judge Napolitano to be a friend so I write this with regret. An obstruction case where there is no proof of an underlying crime is questionable. If you add to it nothing actually obstructed, there’s no case. Judge reconsider your position. This is a Weismann.

[MissMarple2]

Reuters Top News
‏Verified account @Reuters
19m19 minutes ago

Japan's Abe signals shift on North Korea, says will meet Kim without conditions: media http://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-japan-abe-idUSKCN1S90K1?utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_content=5ccc045de506e700010729bb&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter …

[MissMarple2]

https://www.wthr.com/article/flood-approaching-and-topping-1993-levels-some-places

Mississippi River.

[anonamom]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xSPehgRbOo&feature=player_embedded

Rebbi from Saturday's shooting at WH yesterday --Day of Prayer.

He has a wonderful answer to "where we go from here."

[MissMarple2]

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/congress/stephen-moore-attacks-on-my-character-have-become-untenable

[President-Elect Jim,SunnyvaleCA]

Regarding weather station siting ... I didn't click the link yet but as I recall Watts and his guys started checking locations where automated stations were located. The devices collect temperatures, rainfall, perhaps wind speeds...
Some were located above the asphalt of urban tennis courts or where air conditioning heat exhaust blew on them or by concrete walls that radiated heat and so on.
Instead of praising the volunteers for revealing weaknesses in the siting, the locations were classified and removed from public view.

Later "government researchers" created mathematical models to adjust the years of faulty readings. After the models were applied most of the hottest years in the history of the planet were concentrated in recent times.

At least, that's how I remember it.

[Threadkiller]

Something has changed.

Dear Bill Mitchell, Sessions was fired and Trump raised the Barr.

Easy.

[MissMarple2]

anonamom,

Thank you so much for finding that clip of the Rabbi. I saw him at the White House Day of Prayer event but all I posted was the entire thing, which was an hour.

I like the idea of a Moment of Silence, too. So does the President, judging from his reaction.

[MissMarple2]

Paul Sperry
‏ @paulsperry_
9h9 hours ago

BREAKING: On the same day Halper and Peter Strzok's honey-pot FBI investigator struck out framing Papadopoulos and Trump campaign in their London sting ops, Strzok texted Lisa Page: "I have no good, awful, shitty terrible (work news) ...I'm upset." They then discussed on iMessage

[MissMarple2]

https://www.post-gazette.com/business/career-workplace/2019/05/02/U-S-Steel-to-spend-1-billion-on-Mon-Valley-Works/stories/201905020023

This is an article from yesterday, but it has more details.

[MissMarple2]

Statement of facts for the plea agreement for Jerry Lee, the CIA agent who was spying for the Chinese:

https://www.scribd.com/document/408459630/Lee-Statement-of-Facts

[MissMarple2]

ChuckGrassley
‏Verified account @ChuckGrassley
19h19 hours ago

Senate just confirmd 100th judge nominated by PresTrump I held hrings for 99 of 100 Continuing record brking Pres/GOP success Strict constructionists that read law/constitution as written instead of what suits their political goals is good4 country& thats what trumps noms stand 4

[MissMarple2]

Brad Parscale's statement on the New YorkTimies article about the FBI spying on the Trump campaign:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D5l2WrbXsAUfFJh.png:large

(Sorry. It's a screen cap because that is all I see on Twitter.)

[MissMarple2]

An interesting chart, showing the numbers of Democrat faculty members for every Republican in 25 academic fields:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D5njZIIUEAEFKVM.jpg:large

[MissMarple2]

On this #NationalDayOfPrayer, and being it is #ThrowbackThursday, I’m sharing this behind the scenes photo that I took of @realDonaldTrump and @mike_pence in 2016, prior to getting off the plane and heading to an event.... pic.twitter.com/GjedbYUnMZ

— Dan Scavino🇺🇸 (@DanScavino) May 3, 2019

Photo at the link.

[MissMarple2]

White House Counsel Emmett Flood's 5-page letter to Attorney General Barr concerning the Mueller report:

https://www.scribd.com/document/408443675/Flood-letter-to-Barr-on-Mueller-report#from_embed

[MissMarple2]

Things that make other things make sense....

Alexandra Chalupa and Michael Avenatti.https://t.co/3Un4RZZXEU pic.twitter.com/9o2Rra04qX

— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) May 3, 2019

Links go to an article in The Hill and a picture of Alexandra Chalupa and Michael Avenatti sharing a laugh.

[MissMarple2]

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1123766701185748995.html

Thread contents: Project Hammer, Nellie Ohr, Strzok's promotion and who ordered it, etc. Very interesting.

[jim nj]

Peter and Jim, Sunnyvale,

Siting refers to emplacement of weather stations in specific locations. As Jim reports Anthony Watts and a group of volunteers did a survey of weather stations in the US.

Most of the sites were stationary, originally located in green-field environments. They hadn't been moved, but other things had encroached on their sites. Paved parking lots. Buildings, some with AC heat ex-changers blowing on the weather stations.

Those kinds of things would effect daytime readings, of course, but they effected nighttime readings even more because the nearby heat sinks were giving off energy after the sun went down.

Additionally, some of the weather stations had never been sited correctly in the first place. Think of a weather station perched on top of a black tar roof in the middle of a city or town.

It was a scandal that was suppressed. Anthony and his crew were amateurs interfering with professionals.

At the time there was an argument that the underlying data was being massaged with older temperatures pushed down and newer reading pushed up. The massaged data showed a more clear-cut warming trend. Anthony's data showed that the recent data may have already been skewed to show warmer results.

Which brought the current regime of temperature adjustments to existing temperature readings under attack.

Anthony, in effect, disputed the adjustments made to existing data and showed flaws in the un-adjusted data.

[MissMarple2]

https://twitter.com/GregRubini/status/1123766701185748995

This is the original thread from which my 6:40 post was derived. I am posting it because the comments have some additional and interesting information.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.businessinsider.com/us-accuses-china-steal-military-technology-2019-5?r=US&IR=T

[MissMarple2]

https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/02/lindsey-graham-democrats-trump-family/

Lindsey Graham Says Democrats Are Out To Destroy Trump And His Family

[MissMarple2]

Rabbi Goldstein of Chabad of Poway just called @realDonaldTrump "a mensch par excellence"❤️ pic.twitter.com/ZODInKVaR6

— Wojciech Pawelczyk 🇵🇱 (@PolishPatriotTM) May 2, 2019

Video at link.

[Another Bob]

MM, invited that Trump tweet last night.

I hope it isn’t about offering the dems a deal to drop the whole thing.

[Another Bob]

Wow, no coffee and autocucumber..

MM, I noted that Trump tweet last night.

I hope it isn’t about offering the dems a deal to drop the whole thing.

[MissMarple2]

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/441860-mccarthy-says-nadler-lied-not-barr

[jimmyk]

Iggy last night had Mueller pegged exactly, until this:

Because he is an ideological nullity he believes in process and the law even at the expense of justice.

Flood's letter (linked by Clarice at the end of the last page and now MM at 6:31) shows that Mueller actually ignores process and the law in order to damage people he doesn't like, or who he thinks (or wishes) are guilty of something or other but can't prove it. Everyone should read the letter, though many of the points have been made more succinctly by Dershowitz and others.

Flood notes that "none of the Report's Volume II complied with the ... governing legislation...." (emphasis in original). I kind of wish Barr had refused to release Volume II on those grounds, but in the end maybe it won't matter.

[jim nj]

Peter,

Further to the above I've been looking at

https://wattsupwiththat.com

for more than 15 years, it's very hard, no, impossible to believe in global warming if you follow him and his world-class contributors.

Many of the websites that opposed him were funded by environmental groups with money to burn. They spent a lot of time and money to trash Anthony, but they folded and he's still here.

386,067,826 hits over the lifetime of the site.

[Captain Hate]

Stephen Moore's withdrawal points out that there are too many gutless cowards in the GOP pseudo party.

[MissMarple2]

Another Bob,

He's been saying the same thing for months about immigration, infrastructure, etc.

The democrats have boxed themselves in and are not going to do anything that their nut case base would see as losing.

I am not a bit worried. He knows they will come after his family if he backs down.

[James D.]

Weissman made very similar arguments on obstruction in the Arthur Anderson case -- the one he lost 9-0 in the supreme court.

The thing is, so what?

Yes, the SC smacked him down, but the damage was done. He ruined some lives, destroyed billions of dollars of wealth, cost thousands of people their jobs. And he paid no price for it. He kept his job at the DoJ, kept his lavish lifetime taxpayer-funded pension, and then go to go back to DoJ under Obama to wreck more innocent lives.

Just like Mueller. He drove an innocent man to suicide and cost the taxpayers millions of dollars? Oh, well. We all make mistakes. He let Whitey Bulger murder half a dozen people while in prison? Can't make an omemet without breaking some eggs. He's still a straight shooter, right?

WHEN do these people pay a price for their actions and the tremendous damage they've done?

[jimmyk]

Stephen Moore's withdrawal points out that there are too many gutless cowards in the GOP pseudo party.

And all it takes is four gutless cowards in the Senate to kill a nomination, an easy hurdle.

[MissMarple2]

jimmyk,

I read last night that Romney was behind killing Moore's nomination.

[MissMarple2]

Alexandra Chalupa and Michael Avenatti, part 2. This Instagram shows that the previous photo wasn't simply a coincidence:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D5owMLNXkAE7nxs.jpg:large

[Captain Hate]

Not that I'm justifying a single fucking thing that Weissmann did as part of a lawless and rogue DOJ against Arthur Anderson, which was covered in great detail by Sidney Powell and wouldn't have happened without some very unethical federal judges, but most of the employees were scarfed up by the remaining big accounting firms like Price Waterhouse. The work that AA performed still needed to be done just not by Arthur.

[Captain Hate]

Miss Marple,

Dudley DoRight Romney was the first person I thought of. Did he run to the cameras to say he was "sickened" by it? The country showed wisdom by not electing that empty suit as President. Fuck Utah in particular.

[MissMarple2]

Captain Hate,

I agree with your sentiments 100%!

I have gotten to the point I cannot even stand to look at him.

I would bet cash money that if you toted up actual charitable contributions, President Trump would beat him by a country mile.

Is Mitt foregoing his salary?

Probably not, or we would have heard about it.

[jim nj]

Romney is the reincarnation of Flake.

[MissMarple2]

Mark Meadows
‏Verified account @RepMarkMeadows

Incredible. Now confirmed: “FBI Sent Investigator Posing as Assistant to Meet With Trump Aide in 2016”

It’s absolutely not a coincidence that these leaks are coming out now. The FBI knows Bill Barr is investigating. The IG report is coming. They’re worried. We’re getting closer.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/actor-baldwin-says-trump-fooled-all-these-flyover-americans

[henry]

The strain of African swine fever spreading in Asia is undeniably nasty, killing virtually every pig it infects by a hemorrhagic illness reminiscent of Ebola in humans. It’s not known to sicken people, however.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-02/pig-ebola-virus-sends-shock-waves-through-global-food-chain

[jimmyk]

Another great quote from that Flood letter:

The SCO instead produced a prosecutorial curiosity--part "truth commission" report, part law school exam paper.... [T]he report is laden with factual information that has never been subject to adversarial testing or independent analysis. That information is accompanied by a series of inexplicably inconclusive observations.... This species of public report has no precedent in the history of special/independent counsel investigations.

The irony is that Comey pulled a similar stunt with Hillary, though it was only verbal, and was justly criticized for it. In that case, though, Comey was floundering because he'd been pushed into pretending to reopen the case by the NY FBI office, when all he'd wanted to do was sweep Hillary's crimes under a very large rug.

[MissMarple2]

henry,

That pig ebola virus is pretty frightening.

[Narciso79]

Yes but my further investigation notes aa became Accenture, other parts were scarfed by HSBC, much like the carve up of hollinger conrad blacks enterprise which left weaker components ie turned the sun times into a shell.

[clarice]

Gorgeous leopard.
Yes, Iggy--he's tall and from St Paul and floats on a sea of merde with no awareness of anything much.Rather like his classmate John F Kerry. Figureheads by height and background with no respect for details, facts or purpose.

[Robin, eff 'em all]

jimmyk,

I read last night that Romney was behind killing Moore's nomination.,/I>

Who was saying they opened his sealed divorce records? At this point, Trump has no choice but to take the administrative state down HARD. So many fine people have risked their future and families by working for Trump, he owes them a fight to the death. I think he knows it. It's not just about his family.

Thank you everyone for supporting my business endeavor. I love printing textiles and making them into something useful for people. The first round of orders should be arriving today - I hope you love them!

[Captain Hate]

Anybody know anything about Kelly Craft, nominated for UN Ambassador?