SENATE JUDICIARY: Comey Testifies On FISA Renewal & Not The Ex Parte Russian Election Interference Origins

"I disagree with your preamble."

"I do not agree with your predicate."

James Comey

Whatever you do, do not tell them that all the information the committee seeks is already public.

Ssssshhh... "Legal Geniuses" (trademark pending) at work...

#maytheheavensfall

Intel chief releases Russian disinfo on Hillary Clinton that was rejected by bipartisan Senate panel

Former top officials were aghast at the move by John Ratcliffe, the director of national intelligence.

The assessment claims that Hillary Clinton personally approved an effort during the 2016 election “to stir up a scandal against U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump by tying him to Putin and the Russians' hacking of the Democratic National Committee.” | Jeenah Moon/Getty Images

Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe on Tuesday declassified a Russian intelligence assessment that was previously rejected by Democrats and Republicans on the Senate Intelligence Committee as having no factual basis, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

The extraordinary disclosure, released to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) earlier Tuesday, rankled Democrats, who said the move effectively put Russian disinformation into the public sphere in order to boost President Donald Trump’s unsubstantiated claims about the government’s efforts to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 election.

“It’s very disturbing to me that, 35 days before an election, the director of national intelligence would release unverified Russian rumint,” or rumor intelligence, Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Mark Warner (D-Va.) told reporters.

And several former senior intelligence officials described Ratcliffe’s move as incendiary and irresponsible, given the manner in which he was publicly releasing unverified information that originated from a foreign adversary.

The assessment claims that Hillary Clinton, then a Democratic candidate for president, personally approved an effort “to stir up a scandal against U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump by tying him to Putin and the Russians' hacking of the Democratic National Committee.” But in his letter to Graham, Ratcliffe noted that the U.S. intelligence community “does not know the accuracy of this allegation or the extent to which the Russian intelligence analysis may reflect exaggeration or fabrication.”

The Senate Intelligence Committee issued five reports on Russia’s sweeping effort to meddle in the 2016 election to boost Trump, ranging across thousands of pages. The panel was made aware of that allegation early on in its investigation, and quickly dismissed it, the sources said.

“I’m very, very proud of the bipartisan work of the Intelligence Committee — three and a half years, five volumes — and that work speaks for itself,” Warner said.

According to Ratcliffe, former CIA Director John Brennan briefed former President Barack Obama on the Russian assessment, which included the allegation that Clinton approved the plan to tie Trump to the hack of the DNC after it was proposed by one of her foreign policy advisers.

Asked about Ratcliffe’s claims, Nick Merrill, a spokesperson for Clinton, said in a text message that the allegations were “baseless bullshit.“

Nick Shapiro, Brennan’s former deputy chief of staff at the CIA, said Ratcliffe “should be ashamed of his blatant politicization of his position.”

After receiving pushback against the declassified material, Ratcliffe said in a statement: “To be clear, this is not Russian disinformation and has not been assessed as such by the Intelligence Community. I’ll be briefing Congress on the sensitive sources and methods by which it was obtained in the coming days.”

Graham responded to his critics later Tuesday, saying that the veracity of the Russian intelligence assessment was irrelevant.

“I’m not saying whether it’s true or not,” Graham told reporters. “I’m asking Democrats, do you give a damn whether the FBI investigated it, or do you just care only about investigating Trump?”

When pressed on why he released the information even though it was unverified, Graham called it “the ultimate double standard.”

“They took the whole damn country through hell for two and a half years — and is it far-fetched to believe that the Clinton campaign would do something like this after Christopher Steele?” Graham said referring to the author of an unverified dossier of claims about Trump’s connections to Russia.

A former senior intelligence official said it was “a surprising choice to release this information — that is not new and that seems unconfirmed — now and in an unclassified letter,” adding: “I don’t know what good purpose is served.”

It has long been known that the Russians were trying to stir up false narratives about Clinton through similar avenues.

Another former senior intelligence official said Brennan would frequently brief Obama on Russia’s actions regardless of whether it was about Trump or Clinton, adding that Brennan also wanted to “demonstrate the extent of the U.S. intelligence community’s ability to collect against Russia.”

In recent days, Trump’s allies have been dripping out several disclosures related to the FBI’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, and other information aimed at denigrating Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.

Graham’s committee will hear from former FBI Director James Comey on Wednesday as part of that sweeping GOP-led probe. Graham also announced on Tuesday that former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe will testify before the panel next week. McCabe agreed to appear voluntarily, according to an aide. McCabe’s lawyer said earlier Tuesday that he was being denied access to his old files that he says are necessary for him to prepare for his testimony.

The president’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., was among those on the right who spotlighted Tuesday’s disclosure, writing on Twitter: “The Russia hoax was Hillary’s plan, and the Obama-Biden White House was briefed on it.”

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Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness: Fraud Against The Court - Sally Yates, Michael Flynn & FISA

They still do not get it, which makes it all that much sweeter when they final do.

#maytheheavensfall

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Tales Of The New Crown: Will Valerie Caproni Heed Her Own Message On Public Corruption Sent To Sheldon Silver?

Judge Valerie Caproni sent a powerful message to New York office holders on public corruption, but, will she heed her own wisdom, considering the fact that she was mean to my Sweetie?

I doubt it.

#maytheheavensfall

Ex-New York assembly speaker Sheldon Silver sentenced to 6 1/2 years

Sheldon Silver 

"This was corruption pure and simple,” the judge said while sentencing the man who was once one of the three most powerful state officials.

NEW YORK — Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was sentenced Monday to 6 1/2 years in prison in the corruption case that drove him from power as a judge said she hoped to “send a message to Albany.”

U.S. District Judge Valerie E. Caproni sentenced Silver, 76, for the third time, acknowledging that a man who was once one of the three most powerful state officials came closer than ever before to properly expressing remorse.

But she said it remained unclear as to whether “he really gets it,” and she shaved only six months off the seven-year prison sentence she announced in 2018, ignoring claims by Silver’s defense lawyer that he could die if he contracts COVID-19 in prison. She also fined him $1 million.

“This was corruption pure and simple,” Caproni said.

"But, everyone was doing it."

She said she hoped the sentence was “long enough to send a message to Albany,” though she added that the 17 to 22 years in prison called for by federal sentencing guidelines was “draconian.” Caproni said Silver must report to prison Aug. 26.

She described how Silver had changed his statements to her at each sentencing, going from an insistence that he did no harm at his first to a “self-pitying” approach at the second and finally to acknowledging his wrongful conduct this year.

Before Caproni announced the sentence, Silver stood and repeated parts of a handwritten letter he had written to the judge, though not the part in which he told her to spare him a sentence that might cause him to die in prison.

He said he had done a lot of good things over the decades as his power grew in state government, where he spent 21 years as Assembly speaker.

“I destroyed that legacy that I built over 35 years,” he said, blaming his downfall on “improper, selfish and ethically indefensible” behavior that grew from a sense of entitlement.

Last week, Caproni denied Silver’s request to be sentenced remotely because of the coronavirus. Masked spectators were kept apart in a large courtroom which they entered only after undergoing a temperature check and answering COVID-related questions at the courthouse entrance.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Daniel Richenthal urged Caproni to impose the same seven-year sentence she levied for bribery and extortion crimes before a federal appeals court ordered a new sentencing after tossing out three counts.

Silver was ousted as speaker in 2015 and convicted later that year, but appeals have so far kept him out of jail. His original conviction was overturned on appeal but Silver was convicted again in 2018.

In court papers, Silver’s lawyers had asked for leniency, saying Silver was an obese man in his 70s with a history of cancer, chronic kidney disease and other health problems that make him among those most at risk of dying from COVID-19.

Caproni, though, said the death rate of the population outside prison was approaching the death rate inside and it seemed that prisons were improving at adjusting to the threat of the illness.

“I do not want Mr. Silver to die in prison either,” she said.

In the part of the case that survived the appeal process, Silver was convicted in a scheme that involved favors and business traded between two real estate developers and a law firm. Silver supported legislation that benefited the developers. The developers then referred certain tax business to a law firm that paid Silver fees

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Doug Collins Goes To CPAC

Hey, Dougie, send my love to Cernovich, Ingraham & Pirro,

*Routing for you*

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The DNI Saga Introduces Susan Rice

First, this happened....

The U.S. Has No Intelligence Director - Sue Gordon Resigns - Who's Next?

Then, this happened...

Richard Grenell

Trump Names Richard Grenell as Acting Head of Intelligence

Then, this happened....

NSC staffer and FISA abuse report author becomes top aide to acting spy chief Richard Grenell

Then, this happened...

Trump says he's considering Doug Collins for DNI post; GOP rep says not interested

Then, this happened...

Susan Rice: Grenell is a ‘hack,’ who turned intel community into Trump re-election tool

Then, this happened...

'Good men and women don't last long': Former top Navy SEAL who oversaw the Osama bin Laden raid criticizes Trump, defends ousted intelligence chief's service

But is seems this is still happening as of the time of this post.

ODNI must be really busy, busy, busy.

https://www.dni.gov/index.php/who-we-are/leadership/director-of-national-intelligence

Joseph Maguire

Joe McGuire

The Honorable Joseph Maguire assumed the role of Acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI) on Aug. 16, 2019.

Prior to serving as Acting DNI, Maguire served as the sixth director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC). In this role, Maguire bolstered NCTC’s relationship with the White House and Congress. He also spearheaded a reorganization to merge three main areas of focus for the CT mission to better align the end-to-end management of CT operations against the most pressing threat of terrorists gaining and using WMD. As NCTC Director, he also served as the National Intelligence Manager for Counterterrorism, responsible for integrating and coordinating all intelligence collection and analysis on CT targets.

Prior to his confirmation as NCTC Director, Maguire served as president and CEO of the Special Operations Warrior Foundation, a non-profit organization whose philanthropic mission is to support combat-wounded and hospitalized special operations personnel, as well as the families and dependents of fallen special operators.

He took this position after leaving his role as Vice President at Booz Allen Hamilton, which was his first job upon retirement from active duty in 2010, after a 36-year career as a Naval Special Warfare Officer (SEAL). He commanded at every level, including the Naval Special Warfare Command.

While on active duty, Vice Admiral Maguire served as NCTC’s Deputy Director for Strategic Operational Planning from 2007 to 2010 and represented the Center as a part of the National Security Council’s Counterterrorism Security Group. In this role, he led the development of the government’s most senior-level strategies and operational plans for CT, as well as the unbiased, objective evaluation of the progress in achieving the goals and objectives of those strategies.

He earned his bachelor’s degree from Manhattan College and a master’s degree in National Security Affairs with a major in Scientific and Technical Intelligence from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA. While in the Navy, Maguire was a national security fellow at the John F. Kennedy School at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA. He was born in Brooklyn, NY, and remains an avid fan of the New York Yankees.

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DOJ: Inspector General Michael Horowitz Testifies On FISA & Whistleblowers

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Housatonic Live: P 17.1 : George Webb interview with PFC Bergy - Part 1 with Visual Exhibits (HITS mod)

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I prefer to just call it child welfare propaganda and I even made up a song and dance to go with it.

This is about Interactive Internet Activity (IIA).

I prefer to call it the work of the Smarty Pants in the Ivory Tower on the Hill.

They like to think they know everything.

How do I know?

I like to watch them watch me.

It is fun, but whatever you do, never let them know that I know.....sssshhhhhh......

The Celestial Goddess of the Woodshed must entertain herself, you know.

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DOJ & OIG: Statement by Attorney General William P. Barr on the Inspector General's Report of the Review of Four FISA Applications and Other Aspects of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane Investigation & Report

There is much more to come because there are the Ethics Referrals and all the other District Referrals from the OIG, including Durham, Huber, Mueller, SDNY, and the Detroit Grand Juries.

Oh. and Vladimir Putin has the other side of all of that which no one wishes to discuss, the trafficking of tiny humans.

And we have yet to find out how this all started...

Attorney General William P. Barr issued the following statement:

OIG FISA Report - Crossfire Hurricane 

"Nothing is more important than the credibility and integrity of the FBI and the Department of Justice.  That is why we must hold our investigators and prosecutors to the highest ethical and professional standards.  The Inspector General’s investigation has provided critical transparency and accountability, and his work is a credit to the Department of Justice.  I would like to thank the Inspector General and his team.

The Inspector General’s report now makes clear that the FBI launched an intrusive investigation of a U.S. presidential campaign on the thinnest of suspicions that, in my view, were insufficient to justify the steps taken.  It is also clear that, from its inception, the evidence produced by the investigation was consistently exculpatory.  Nevertheless, the investigation and surveillance was pushed forward for the duration of the campaign and deep into President Trump’s administration.  In the rush to obtain and maintain FISA surveillance of Trump campaign associates, FBI officials misled the FISA court, omitted critical exculpatory facts from their filings, and suppressed or ignored information negating the reliability of their principal source.  The Inspector General found the explanations given for these actions unsatisfactory.  While most of the misconduct identified by the Inspector General was committed in 2016 and 2017 by a small group of now-former FBI officials, the malfeasance and misfeasance detailed in the Inspector General’s report reflects a clear abuse of the FISA process.

FISA is an essential tool for the protection of the safety of the American people.  The Department of Justice and the FBI are committed to taking whatever steps are necessary to rectify the abuses that occurred and to ensure the integrity of the FISA process going forward.

No one is more dismayed about the handling of these FISA applications than Director Wray.  I have full confidence in Director Wray and his team at the FBI, as well as the thousands of dedicated line agents who work tirelessly to protect our country.  I thank the Director for the comprehensive set of proposed reforms he is announcing today, and I look forward to working with him to implement these and any other appropriate measures.

With respect to DOJ personnel discussed in the report, the Department will follow all appropriate processes and procedures, including as to any potential disciplinary action."

Review of Four FISA Applications andOther Aspects of the FBI's CrossfireHurricane Investigation 

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What Do Rashida Tlaib, Ethics & FEC Have In Common? #PerkinsCoieSucks

Q: What do Rashida Tlaib, Ethics & FEC have in common?

A: Perkinsoiesucks

It seems Rashida Tlaib, et al, have a disregard for due process because there exists multiple, ongoing investigations pertaining to the 13th Congressional District, but then again, we are dealing with "Legal Geniuses" (trademark pending).

Taken from the Office of Congressional Ethics Referral:

The decision to pay Rep. Tlaib a salary from the campaign remained a source of concern for Rep. Tlaib, and thus for her campaign staff, throughout her campaign. Ultimately, the campaign paid Rep. Tlaib $45,500.00 between May 7, 2018 and December 1, 2018. 

The OCE requested an opportunity to interview Rep. Tlaib in order to address her potentially problematic salary payments. Rep. Tlaib declined to interview with the OCE. Likewise, campaign staff members with knowledge of her receipt of salary payments also declined to interview with the OCE.

It also seems Rashida and her co-conspirators do not believe they must be transparent, since the Michigan Attorney General's Office is busy, busy, busy!

It also seems NPG VAN has bank routing information for DNC campaigns.

In the bank transactions, I see "ACH/BANKCARD MERCH DEP". Are there any other entities other than NGP VAN that has the campaigns routing numbers to make transactions? - There is one transaction for a withdrawal of $2,500 on 5/11/18... it just didn't seem to match other financial activities of NGP VAN that I could see. The Credit Union couldn't tell me any more than what I can see on the on-line transactions.  p65 ref.

I am in utter shock...nah, not really.... J'ai dit une bêtise.

Brian Svoboda of Perkins Coie Sucks is representing Rashida.

#perkinscoiesucks

Brian also represented Conyers, but, now he has died, which means he no longer has

Brian lied.

Brian is a co-conspirator.

https://ethics.house.gov/sites/ethics.house.gov/files/20190829%20COE%20Response%20Letter%20%28Review%20No.%2019-4114%29.pdf

At least we now have a cursory understanding of her motivation to impeach Trump.

Here are the Exhibits of her Ethics Referral.

If only Trump would stop obstructing justice and pull that House Ethics Committee referred DOJ IG Report from his backpocket, we would at least find out why she is an illegitimately elected, but hey, what do I know?

I know the Horowitz FISA IG Report is to be released December 9, 2019.

I know Trump is obstructing justice because there is an Order of Protection for the Whistleblower from the Highest Authority.

Rashida knows who the Whistleblower is.

Someone should ask her to identify the whistleblower, because the information is already public knowledge, in the public record.

Let us sit back, and enjoy cocktails and popcorn to see what happens next because all those freshmen candidates Nancy propped up the those 2018 Congressional Districts by and through the techniques of gerrymandering, are going ahead full steam with the impeachment.

(This is the part where Nancy Pelosi sells Rashida down the river.)

#maytheheavensfall

Ethics panel extends probe; report says Tlaib likely misused campaign funds

"I did nothing wrong because I am a Legal Genius."

The House Ethics Committee said Thursday it's extending an investigation into Rep. Rashida Tlaib and released a report that alleged there's "substantial reason to believe" she misused campaign funds.

The report from the Board of the Office of Congressional Ethics focused on payments Tlaib's campaign made to the Detroit Democrat after the Nov. 6, 2018, election but before she took office. The report recommended the matter receive further review and even suggested the committee subpoena the freshman lawmaker and three campaign staffers.

Tlaib has denied wrongdoing.

Under federal regulations, candidates are generally allowed to receive salary payments from their own campaigns. However, one of the many conditions for those payments is they must be for work performed through the date of the general election.

"Rep. Tlaib, through her counsel, argues she complied with these conditions; however, several documents provided to the OCE by Rep. Tlaib suggest otherwise," the report said. "Specifically, documents provided to the OCE indicate Rep. Tlaib was paid for work she performed after November 6, 2018 — the date of the general election."

Tlaib received a $2,000 payment on Nov. 16 and a $15,500 payment on Dec. 1, according to the report. The other payments she received from her campaign — $28,000 total — occurred before the election.

The report included an email from Tlaib's campaign treasurer to campaign staff. The email said "for most of us" the pay period for Dec. 1 checks was  "Nov. 16, 2018 to December 31, 2018."

The OCE board unanimously recommended further review of the allegation that Tlaib converted campaign funds to personal use. A press release from the House Ethics Committee said "in order to gather additional information" the committee will review the matter.

"... Out of fairness to all respondents, and to assure the integrity of its work, the committee will refrain from making further public statements on this matter pending completion of its initial review," said a statement from top members of the House Ethics Committee.

The Ethics Committee is evenly divided among five Democrats and five Republicans, though it is chaired by Democratic Rep. Ted Deutch of Florida.

A formal response from lawyers for Tlaib called the report "unprecedented." The response noted the House is looking into events that occurred before Tlaib took office and that are traditionally handled by the Federal Election Commission.

Tlaib's lawyers said the payments that occurred after the election were "to catch up on the salary which she had accrued, but had theretofore been withheld."

In a statement, Tlaib said she had to leave her job as a civil rights attorney to campaign for the U.S. House in 2018 while raising two sons as a single mother. Federal regulations allowed her to receive a salary, and she "received the minimum salary payments necessary for me to meet my personal financial obligations, while ensuring that the campaign reserved the resources needed to reach voters," the freshman lawmaker said.

Tlaib's statement added, "I look forward to the Ethics Committee’s prompt resolution of this matter in my favor, and I hope my experience will clear more room for people like me to run for office by availing themselves of FEC innovations that level the playing field, like paying a non-incumbent candidate salary or covering childcare expenses with campaign funds, so that financial privilege is not a prerequisite to participate in our democracy."

Office of Congressional Ethics Referral of Rashida Tlaib OCE Review No. 19-4114 by Beverly Tran on Scribd

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INTELLIGENCE: Hearing On Mueller Report - 6-12-2019

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JUDICIARY: House Judiciary holds hearing on Oversight of the Foreign Intel Surveillance Act

With a number of GOP lawmakers anxiously awaiting the DOJ inspector general's report on the origins of the Russia investigation, the House Judiciary Cmte takes a look at oversight of the FISA act. Deputy Attorney General for the National Security Div Brad Wiegman, Deputy Assistant FBI Director for the Counterterrorism Div Michael Orlando, and Susan Morgan of the NSA testify.

Witnesses

Mr. Brad Wiegmann 
Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice, National Security Division

• Wiegmann Truth in Testimony
• Wiegmann Bio

Mr. Michael Orlando 
Deputy Assistant Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Counterterrorism Division

• Orlando Truth in Testimony
• Orlando Bio

Ms. Susan Morgan
National Security Agency

• Morgan Truth in Testimony

Documents

• Witness List
• Joint witness statement submitted by Mr. Wiegmann, Mr. Orlando, and Ms. Morgan

116th Congress

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Nunes Coins Whistleblowergate To Forget About Watergate

Whistleblowergate?

I wonder if this is another one of those transposable models through co-optimization, in reference to Watergate grand juries.

Holding FISC accountable to address the DOJ OIG FISA report?

Who is Mifsud?

The Youtube purge?

And a few other issues he could have raised with the assistance of a Google search.

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Cocktails & Popcorn: What comes First - Declassification Or Unsealment?

Can you feel the chaos?

#sayhisname

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Cocktails & Popcorn: Awan 911 - The Webb Report - Chapter One - Page Four

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Cocktails & Popcorn: September 10, 2019. Flynn Trial Recap - Fireworks - Prosecution Lost The 302s

We are dealing with "Legal Geniuses" (trademark prnding).

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Cocktails & Popcorn: Sayoc Gets 20 Years For Threatening A Public Official - A New Sentencing Baseline For Being Mean To My Sweetie

It is not funny to wish death upon anyone, particularly my Sweetie.

Cocktails & Popcorn: When Snail Mail Attacks Go Horribly Wrong - Another Transposable Model Of The Legal Geniuses

Florida Man Who Mailed Bombs To Democrats, Media Gets 20 Years In Prison

Cesar Sayoc, the Florida bodybuilder and nightclub bouncer who mailed inoperative pipe bombs to prominent Democrats and media figures seen as critical of President Trump, was sentenced to 20 years in prison by a federal judge in New York on Monday.

Sayoc, 57, had been arrested in October 2018 and pleaded guilty in March to mailing 16 improvised explosive devices to 13 targets around the country, including 11 current or former U.S. government officials, in the weeks prior to the 2018 congressional elections.

"I wish more than anything I could turn back time and take back what I did," Sayoc told U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff. "But I want you to know, Your Honor, with all my heart and soul, I feel the pain and suffering of these victims."

Sayoc blamed his behavior on his mental illness and excessive use of steroids, adding, "I should have listened to my mother, the love of my life."

According to a statement released by U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman in March, Sayoc's intended victims were former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Cory Booker, former CIA Director John Brennan, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, CNN, Robert De Niro, Sen. Kamala Harris, former Attorney General Eric Holder, former President Barack Obama, George Soros, Thomas Steyer and Rep. Maxine Waters.

None of Sayoc's devices exploded. At his sentencing hearing Monday, Sayoc said that although his homemade devices looked like pipe bombs, he did not intend for them to explode.

Sayoc's attorneys, all federal public defenders, argued that Sayoc was motivated by his obsession with Trump and his anger at Democrats, whom he blamed for the vandalism of his van, which displayed Trump stickers.

Rakoff concluded that the design flaws in Sayoc's bombs were intentional and indicated that he did not intend to actually harm his victims.

A sobbing Sayoc thanked the judge when he announced the 20-year sentence. Prosecutors had sought a life sentence.

Cesar Sayoc Pleads Guilty to 65 Felonies for Mailing 16 Improvised Explosive Devices in Connection with October 2018 Domestic Terrorist Attack

Sayoc Pleaded Guilty to 65 Felonies, Including Use of Weapons of Mass Destruction and Interstate Mailing of Explosives

Cesar Altieri Sayoc, aka “Cesar Randazzo,” “Cesar Altieri,” and “Cesar Altieri Randazzo,” pled guilty today to a 65-count Superseding Information in Manhattan federal court before U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff.  In connection with the guilty plea, Sayoc admitted to mailing 16 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) to 13 victims throughout the country, including 11 current or former U.S. government officials, and that he intended to use the IEDs as weapons and to cause injuries.  Assistant Attorney General John C. Demers for the National Security Division, U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman for the Southern District of New York, Assistant Director Michael McGarrity of the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division, Assistant Director in Charge William F. Sweeney, Jr. of the FBI’s New York Field Office and Police Commissioner James P. O’Neill of the NYPD made the announcement.

“Cesar Sayoc has admitted to acts of domestic terrorism that are repulsive to all Americans who cherish a society built on respectful and non-violent political discourse, no matter how strongly held one’s views,” said Assistant Attorney General Demers.  “Our democracy will simply not survive if our political discourse includes sending bombs to those we disagree with.  I applaud the efforts of so many in our law enforcement community whose alertness and tirelessness led to the prompt arrest of the defendant before he was able to injure anyone, as well as those whose efforts led to today’s plea.”

“For five days in November 2018, Cesar Sayoc reigned terror across the country, sending high-ranking officials and former elected leaders explosive packages through the mail,” said U.S. Attorney Berman.  “Thankfully no one was hurt by these dangerous devices, but his actions left an air of fear and divisiveness in their wake.  Sayoc has taken responsibility for his crimes, and will soon be sentenced to significant time in prison.”

“This case shows that the FBI will be tenacious in pursuing all those who wish to intimidate those they disagree with by threatening violence,” said Assistant Director Michael McGarrity of the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division.  “When it comes to identifying and stopping those who terrorize our communities, we won’t hesitate to bring the full force of our combined resources of the FBI and our partners.”

“Sayoc's crimes were intended to incite fear among his targets and uncertainty among the general public, leading to a significant deployment of various law enforcement resources in a nationwide search to find him,” said Assistant Director Sweeney.  “When called upon, our FBI JTTFs across the country—along with our partner agencies—did what we do best, working swiftly, and side by side, to bring him to justice.  Unlike most of our investigations, this case played out in plain view from beginning to end.  The announcement of today's plea is as good a time as any to remind the public that our JTTFs are working behind the scenes on a daily basis, in much the same way, to keep our communities safe.”

“The NYPD and our law enforcement partners will continue to work tirelessly to keep New York City safe from threats of terror,” said Commissioner O’Neill.  “I commend the members of the New York Joint Terrorism Task Force, and the Southern District of New York for their work in this case.”

According to the allegations in the Complaint, Superseding Information, other court filings, and statements made during court proceedings: 

In October 2018, Sayoc mailed from Florida 16 padded envelopes, each containing an IED, to addresses in New York, New Jersey, Washington, D.C., Delaware, Atlanta, and California.  Sayoc packed each IED with explosive material and glass shards that would function as shrapnel if the IED exploded.  Sayoc also attached to the outside of each IED a picture of the intended victim marked with a red “X.”  As Sayoc admitted today during his plea, he designed the IEDs for use as weapons and mailed them understanding that they were capable of exploding and causing injuries and property damage.  In alphabetical order, Sayoc’s intended victims were former Vice President Joseph Biden, Senator Cory Booker, former CIA Director John Brennan, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, CNN, Robert De Niro, Senator Kamala Harris, former Attorney General Eric Holder, former President Barack Obama, George Soros, Thomas Steyer, and Representative Maxine Walters.  Between Oct. 22 and Nov. 2, 2018, the FBI and the U.S. Postal Service recovered all of the 16 IEDs mailed by Sayoc.

The FBI arrested Sayoc in Plantation, Florida, on Oct. 26, 2018—less than five days after the October 22 recovery of the first IED, which Sayoc mailed to Soros in New York.  The FBI seized a laptop from Sayoc’s van, which contained lists of physical addresses that match many of the labels on the envelopes that Sayoc mailed.  The lists were saved at a file path on the laptop that includes a variant of Sayoc’s first name:  “Users/Ceasar/Documents.”  A document from that path, titled “Debbie W.docx” and bearing a creation date of July 26, 2018, contained repeated copies of an address for “Debbie W. Schultz” in Sunrise, Florida, that is nearly identical, except for typographical errors, to the return address that Sayoc used on the packages.  Similar documents bearing file titles that include the name “Debbie,” and creation dates of Sept. 22, 2018, contain exact matches of the return address used by Sayoc on the 16 envelopes. 

Sayoc’s laptop also revealed extensive Internet search history related to his investigation of the intended victims and his desire to injure or kill them.  For example, Sayoc conducted the following Internet searches, among others, on the dates indicated in 2018:

• July 15: “hilary Clinton hime address”
• July 26: “address Debbie wauserman Shultz”
• Sept. 19: “address kamila harrias”
• Sept. 26: “address for barack Obama”
• Sept. 26: “michelle obama mailing address”
• Sept. 26: “joseph biden jr”
• Oct. 1: “address cory booker new jersey”
• Oct. 20: “tom steyers mailing address”
• Oct. 23: “address kamala harris”

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Sayoc, 57, of Southern Florida, pled guilty to four sets of charges related to each of the 16 IEDs:  (1) sixteen counts of using a weapon of mass destruction; (2) sixteen counts of interstate transportation of an explosive device; (3) sixteen counts of conveying a threat in interstate commerce; and (4) sixteen counts of the illegal mailing of explosives with the intent to kill or injure another.  Sayoc also pled guilty to using an explosive to commit a felony, which relates to felonies committed in connection with the use and mailing of all 16 IEDs.  A chart identifying the charges and maximum penalties applicable to Sayoc is below.

Counts	Charge	Penalties Per Count
1 – 16	Using a weapon of mass destruction	Maximum per count: life
17 – 32	Interstate transportation of an explosive	Maximum per count: 10 years
33 – 48	Conveying a threat in interstate commerce	Maximum per count: 5 years
49 – 64	Illegal mailing of explosives with intent to kill or injure another	Maximum per count: 20 years
65	Carrying an explosive during the commission of a felony	Mandatory minimum: 10 years to run consecutively to any other sentence imposed

The maximum and minimum potential sentences in this case are prescribed by Congress and are provided here for informational purposes only, as any sentencing of the defendant will be determined by a judge.  The defendant is scheduled to be sentenced before Judge Rakoff on Sept. 12, 2019.

Mr. Demers and Mr. Berman praised the outstanding efforts of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s New York Joint Terrorism Task Force, which principally consists of agents from the FBI and detectives from the New York City Police Department and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.  Mr. Demers and Mr. Berman also thanked the U.S. Attorney’s Offices for the Southern District of Florida, the District of Columbia, the District of Delaware, the District of New Jersey, the Central District of California, the Eastern District of California, the Northern District of California and the Northern District of Georgia for their assistance in the investigation.  

Assistant U.S. Attorneys Sam Adelsberg, Emil J. Bove III, Jane Kim, and Jason A. Richman are in charge of the prosecution, with assistance from Trial Attorney David Cora of the Counterterrorism Section of the Department of Justice’s National Security Division.

Sayoc Plea Agreement - 3-18-2019 by Beverly Tran on Scribd

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SENATE JUDICIARYl: FBI Director Wray Testifies On Stealin' Children, Land & Votes - Without Details Because Mueller Has Yet To Testify

"It takes a special kind of person to get up everyday and put their life on the line for someone they do not know."

Christopher Wray

7-23-2019

From what I am gathering from this hearing is the question of whether or not the U.S. is ready for Russia to "up its game" on interfering in the 2020 election.

Well, you know I took this in a completely different direction.

Is the U.S. prepared to present its case with Russia to interfere in the 2020 election with legal action?

See, the DOJ has a long standing history of not taking any legal action during a political election cycle which is why the Democrats are fast-tracking their campaign because we are in Detroit.

But, what if another nation initiates legal action pertaining to the 2016 election interference by going back at lest 10 years?

No one is speaking upon the possibility of another nation initiating action.

I do not know why because the U.S. likes to do those Public Private Partnerships all the time, but hey, what do I know?

Wray is talking about taking it down to the local level because the people are not just putting their lives on the line, but also our public servants, like the FBI.

USA Freedom Act Section 215 is about to sunset.  It deals with accessing business records through FISC, unlike a National Security Letter.

CHILD WELFARE TRANSLATION:  YOU CANNOT MAKE UP STUFF TO GET AN EX-PARTE ORDER TO SNATCH A KID BECAUSE THERE MUST BE DUE PROCESS IN THE COURT, NOT AN ADMINISTRATIVE DECISION AND IF YOU LIE, THE FEDS CAN SNATCH YOUR BUSINESS DOCS TO CIRCUMVENT THAT "BEST INTERESTS OF THE CHILD" PRIVACY CRAP TO STOP YOU & HOLD YOU ACCOUNTABLE FOR TRAFFICKING TINY HUMANS, WHICH INTERFERES WITH ELECTIONS.

Durbin is asking about the FBI not taking seriously enough racial extremist attacks.

Wray states that the FBI does not investigate ideology and focuses on violence.

What was not raised in discussion on home grown domestic terrorism is propaganda.

Extremist conduct is inspired by foreign actors through PayPal, Patreon, and Youtube Superchat called *investigative-jounalists*.

For the right monthly subscription price, you can get just about anyone who is desperately trying to keep their lights and water on, to regurgitate just about any talking points you want.

Then, if you really want to launch a #coloredrevolution, you can go to the universities and specialized junior spies for hire websites and find your latest and greatest spokestoken.

Racism is a manufactured belief, where, for the right price, you can even interfere in an election.

It seems the FBI Tipline turned out to be a FBI "dump site".

Wray clarified the difference between a background investigation and a criminal investigation.

Human trafficking was questioned about the FBI progress.

Not one damn word on Foster Care & Adoption.

They are calling child trafficking "medival".

I identify child trafficking as what built this great, christian nation.

Wray drops some juicy tidbits on foreign NGOs taking over our graduate research in our universities, then stealin' the research through Public Private Partnerships which is funded through Social Impact Bonds with Medicaid from their Predicitive Modeling Crappy Programs in Child Welfare, by omitting this vast, new territory of modern day trafficking tiny humans, because Mueller has yet to testify.

Instead, he focuses on China snatching our intellectual resources from the universities, but did not mention Detroit Patent and Trademark Office, because Mueller has yet to testify.

Grassley wanted to know about whistleblower information on national security and election interference, and what the FBI did wrong.

I am going to answer this one.

The FBI was having some personal issues of disbelief because they were using Predictive Modeling Crap to do Behavioral Analysis on The Sacred Snitchers*, and, as such, spent too much time trying to rule out why The Sacred Snitchers were doing what they were doing, instead of looking at the stuff the Sacred Snitchers were screaming and crying about, for over a decade, but we are in Detroit, now, so everything is peachy keen.**

Corporate Shape Shifters was addressed along with campaign finance, but no one spoke upon propaganda.

Propaganda has no political affiliation, remember?

Booker question Black Extremism Ideology and NOBLE.

U.S. Senate Judiciary Testimony of FBI Director Wray 7-23-2019 by Beverly Tran on Scribd

*The Sacred Snitchers cannot be identified because Mueller has yet to testify.

**Predictive Modeling Crap excludes any and all exogenous variables dealing with Love and uses lots of other dumb, stereotyped, made up, fake ass, endogenous variables, like Race, too.

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Cocktails & Popcorn: July 14th, 2019 Epstein's Russian Retreats, Deripaska Takes Over After Epstein Arrested. Flynn FISA - The Race To Declassification In Detroit

The Mueller testimony to House Judiciary has been rescheduled for July 24, 2019, the same date of the Detroit NAACP 2020 Presidential Campaign Kickoff.

The Detroit Democratic 2020 Presidential Candidates Debate seamlessly opens up right after the NAACP event.

Alas, Trump continues to obstruct justice by failing to remove the IG Report from his backpocket, for classified reasons, of course.

Putin has a similar backpocket obstruction dilemma with declassification.

But, what if everything was unsealed before the Flynn-Kian sentencing?

What if everything was unsealed during Mueller's testimony to Judiciary?

What if Mueller never gets a chance to testify to Judiciary due to the Detroit-Grand Rapids Grand Juries unsealings, but, hey, what do I know?

I know I have to make sure Hamtramck watches this one!

I also wonder what is Dawud Walid up to, now-a-days?

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Cocktails & Popcorn: Barr v. Mueller - Which House Judiciary Member Will Be The First To Have A Psychotic Break In Hearings?

Bill!

Dude!

Why do you have to try and block all my fun?

Come on, you know I am running some predictive models to see who will be the first House Judiciary Member to have a psychotic breakdown when Mueller refuses to #sayhisname.

I deserve some restitution since the Committee has been sitting on my paychecks for the last 10 years.

Geeze.

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Cocktails & Popcorn: McQuade Got Frothy With Barr

"Sip sours slowly, as to not to make messes."

Oh my!

Barb is quite frothy.

We could easily solve all of this if Trump would just pull that IG report, which is obstructing justice in his back pocket.

#NeedMoreChaos

William Barr Delivers Chilling Message to FBI for Trump

A third probe into the origins of the Russia investigation, even to pacify the paranoid president, may cause real harm.

If you come at the king, you best not miss.

That’s the message Attorney General William Barr is sending to FBI agents, whether intentionally or not. Barr has authorized yet another investigation into the FBI’s conduct probing links between Russian election interference and the Trump campaign. Even though two other entities are already investigating the same matter, reports indicate that Barr has appointed Connecticut U.S. Attorney John Durham to investigate the origins of the Russia probe.

In doing so, Barr is playing into the hands of President Donald Trump, who has already characterized Durham’s assignment as an investigation into “how that whole hoax got started.”

The most charitable interpretation of Barr’s behavior in defense of Trump is that he believes strongly in a “unitary executive,” where the president can order any investigation he wants. But in his quest to protect the presidency, Barr is damaging our national security. His complicity in Trump’s efforts to disparage the FBI will make it more difficult for agents to do their jobs and could discourage investigations of those in power.

Certainly, the FBI, like any other government agency, should be subject to scrutiny. If you were to ask most FBI agents about internal investigations, they would tell you that they welcome such probes when done in good faith because they ensure not only accountability but also public trust.

Following the FBI’s aggressive surveillance of civil rights activists and war protesters in the 1960s and ’70s, safeguards and approval requirements were created to prevent such abuses. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court was created to provide independent oversight of wiretaps conducted in the name of national security. The Domestic Investigations Operations Guide was created to provide detailed operational and approval requirements for each investigative step. FBI personnel are subject to DOJ’s Office of Professional Responsibility, which investigates allegations of misconduct.

The FBI also has its own inspection division to conduct routine audits of compliance with polices and practices.

But the current outcry about the use of FISA surveillance and informants to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 election is not sufficient predication for a criminal investigation. Those techniques are routinely and appropriately used in counterintelligence investigations against foreign adversaries. Former FBI general counsel James Baker has been speaking out about the FBI’s work on the Russia investigation, stating that the investigation was not a “coup” against President Trump, but instead was “about Russia. It was always about Russia. Full stop.” Failing to investigate Russian interference would have been a breach of the FBI’s duty.

Even use of the so-called Steele dossier in the FISA application for surveillance of Trump campaign adviser Carter Page is not the scandal that some describe. The dossier, compiled by a former British intelligence agent to be used as opposition research by Hillary Clinton’s campaign against Trump, was properly described as such in the FISA application, such that the FISA court had complete and accurate information when it authorized the surveillance. Judges, including those on the FISA court, are capable of discounting information based on potential biases as long as they are disclosed in the application, as they were here.

In addition, material from the Steele dossier provided only a portion of the facts included in the 66-page application that was used to establish probable cause to obtain surveillance authorization from the FISA court. Renewals of the application were approved from Trump-appointed Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. There is no evidence in the public record that the FBI abused the FISA process in this investigation.

Nonetheless, last year, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions asked DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz to investigate potential abuses in the FISA process following complaints by Republican lawmakers. Sessions later asked Utah U.S. Attorney John Huber to pursue any criminal conduct relating to the same matter, along with other matters relating to Clinton.

It is unclear why Barr does not simply await those results rather than appoint a new prosecutor to undertake another investigation. If Barr had wanted to expand the scope of the prior investigations, he could have done so without appointing a new investigator. If he were simply replacing Huber with Durham, who, by all accounts is a highly respected and experienced investigator, then he should say so.

Instead, Barr has created the appearance that he is launching another investigation to appease Trump.

But there is a significant downside to such a tactic. Barr’s appointment of Durham advances the Trump narrative that the FBI is run by a “deep state” that is engaged in a witch hunt and a hoax.

Barr has already contributed to the partisan conspiracy theory with the language he used at his press conference to announce the release of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report in April. Barr repeatedly used Trump’s talking point of “no collusion,” a term Mueller specifically said he was avoiding. Barr made things worse in his subsequent congressional testimony, when he used the word “spying” to describe the FBI’s tactics in the Russia probe. Despite his protestations that the word is not a pejorative term, and that “spying” is a word used by the media, it is not a word that government officials use to describe court-authorized surveillance.

Contrast Barr’s performances with the recent congressional testimony of FBI Director Christopher Wray. Wray rejected Barr’s use of the term “spying” as “not the term I would use.” Wray also stated that he did not have any evidence of any illegal surveillance into the Trump campaign. Trump responded by tweeting: “The FBI has no leadership . . . The Director is protecting the same gang . . . that tried to . . . overthrow the President through an illegal coup.”

Even after seeing this treatment, Barr continues to appease Trump, who campaigns on the narrative that he is victim of the deep state. Trump has called the FBI “a disgrace” that is “in tatters.” Harming the reputation of the FBI will make it more difficult for the FBI do the important work it does every day. When an agent knocks on a door for tips in a kidnaping case, will the resident help someone from an agency the president has warned him about? When an FBI agent testifies at the trial of a sex trafficker, will a juror trust that he is telling the truth? By disparaging the FBI, the president makes our country less safe. Barr is compounding the problem by contributing to this false narrative.

In addition to harming the effectiveness of the FBI, Barr’s complicity in Trump’s tactics may also have a chilling effect. By advancing the “investigate the investigators” mantra, Barr may cause the FBI to flinch next time it perceives a threat from powerful people within the government. He is incentivizing the FBI to sit idly by in the face of national security threats. The risk is that under Barr’s leadership, the FBI’s new motto might become “he who does nothing does nothing wrong.”

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