Attorney General Barr Calls for an Investigation into the Origins of the Investigation, to Prevent Future Abuses of Government Power.
I have nothing to say about Assange that hasn't already been said. Reaction to the passive coverage is really just noise that a fake democracy makes when the topic is not permitted in the first place.
On anotther note, I did notice that domestic media is pinging a topic today that has been forbidden by the monopolies in recent years:
Attorney General Barr: ‘spying did occur’ in probe of Trump campaign
William Barr says he plans to launch a review, saying, 'I think there was probably a failure among a group of leaders there in the upper echelon.'
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"A failure among leaders in the upper echelon?" Ya think? Of course, everyone talking about it is pretending that this is the first time they have ever considered such a thing. And, they are shocked, they say.
In the House, heads of hair spontaneously combusted; people were running down the halls of Congress with fire extinguishers. The Senate was relatively calm, but people in the Senate have a lot less hair,
In his first appearance on Capitol Hill since taking office, and amid intense speculation over his review of special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia report, Attorney General William Barr told a House Appropriations subcommittee on Tuesday that he believes "spying" occurred during a campaign probe of Trump associates and singles out the "upper echelon" of the FBI.
Then, on Wednesday, Attorney General Barr told the Senate Appropriations Committee said he thought “spying” on a political campaign occurred in the course of intelligence agencies’ investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 election – which is a startling assertion by the nation’s top law enforcement official.
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Barr’s surprising comments provide fresh ammunition to those who see the Russia investigation as an illegitimate ploy to derail Trump’s presidency. Barr wants to review how the FBI launched the counterintelligence investigation. Barr's investigation into the origins of the Russia probe is separate and has a different focus than the long-running Office of Inspector General investigation into the Justice Department's handling of the Russia investigation.
“I think spying on a political campaign is a big deal. It’s a big deal,” said Barr, noting that there are long-held rules to prevent intelligence agencies from collecting information on domestic political figures.
“I’m not suggesting that those rules were violated, but I think it’s important to look at that,” he said. “I’m not talking about the FBI necessarily but intelligence agencies more broadly.”
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"Spying" has a special meaning in legislative and law enforcement worlds
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., gasped: “You’re not suggesting that spying occurred?”
Unthinkable, right? These are the early hours, when everyone is trying to fix the narrative for their own benefit. For his part, Barr is going out of his way to exonerate the FBI, which is part of the DOJ.
I want to make it clear this is not launching an investigation of the FBI. This is focused on understanding investigative steps taken by the FBI in the summer of 2016, and how FBI leaders decided in 2017 to open an investigation into then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
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Barr is focusing on counterintelligence investigations that was conducted during the summer of 2016. Some of these have raised concerns within the Justice Department that it is too easy to open an investigation. Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions became a victim of a probe because he did not disclose an encounter with the Russian ambassador in 2017. No charges were filed. The question is whether the spying on Sessions was adequately predicated or was it an abuse of authority based on bias. Barr said, "I feel I have an obligation to make sure government power is not abused."
Barr’s comments sparked an immediate response from the House, where the Judiciary and Oversight committees jointly spent the bulk of 2018 looking into the FBI’s conduct during its probes of Trump’s campaign and Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while she was secretary of state.
Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C, a close ally of the president’s, cheered Barr’s plans to look into allegations of spying, calling it “massive” and in line with evidence the GOP-led investigation uncovered.
Barr said that he wanted to understand whether there was “unauthorized surveillance” of political figures.... “I am not saying that improper surveillance occurred. I am saying I am concerned about it, and I am looking into it. That is all.”
At another point, Barr remarked that he did not understand why, if intelligence officials believed there was a danger of Russian figures trying to make inroads with Trump associates, the FBI did not warn the Trump campaign about those specific risks.
“If I were attorney general and that situation came up, I would say, ‘Yes, brief the target of the foreign espionage activity,’” Barr said. “I want to satisfy myself that there were no abuse of law enforcement and intelligence powers.”
More and more Americans are recovering from the frightening propaganda of the Russia Hoax that was relentlessly pushed on them by the media monopolies. It was all another lie, like the "Gulf of Tonkin" in Vietnam or the "Hidden WMDs" in Iraq — to manipulate them into accepting the funneling of vital government revenues into the pockets of the war profiteers — Congress' most generous campaign donors. The People are told their lives and desires are a drain on the war budget, and they must deepen their sacrifices and reduce the quality and length of their own lives. The government's psychopathic global destruction has never benefited the People or their nation. It makes the world a dangerous place for them to be.
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It only happens
on days that end with y.
Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.
Sounds like a purge is coming.
But to be fair, the FBI has been putting out Hummingbird feeders for a LONG time.
(Obscure political history joke. If you get it, you are well informed or understand how to use google.
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I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
I am neither well informed,
, nor interested in using Google...but I'm okay with that.
I found this via Duck Duck Go: https://www.hunker.com/13404321/when-to-put-hummingbird-feeders-out-in-n...
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
This will go nowhere
Barr is not appointing a special counsel and whomever is in charge of it won't have subpoena power to compel people to testify. Plus he has said that Obama's role in it gets a pass. Same with Hillary.
I'm thinking that with everything that has happened it's time to put a cork in the Q phenomenon. Trumps supporters have been coddudled into believing that Trump really was going to drain the swamp and go after Hillary and Obama for trying to overthrow him, but if that was going to happen Trump has had plenty of time to do it. I'm wondering how the MAGAs will handle this betrayal? This group might have more cajoles to rise up than people on the other side. If they do then I don't think Trump gets reelected. The arrest of Assange is something they were told wouldn't happen. Heh, some are saying that Trump is rescuing him from his captivity.
I admit that I followed Q for awhile and I'm still glad I did because I learned a lot of stuff about what happens behind the scenes in the government.....
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
On the leash
Not a problem. The Q thingy will just be dragged out with more and more arcane gobbledygook. Anything to keep the Q-believers on the hook and out of the streets. Once Trump is re-elected, they can then drop all the pretenses and Q will have served the purpose.
I’m guessing
they’ll handle it the same as the Dems handled eight years of Obama’s empty suit and grand bargains:
Idolizing a politician is like believing the stripper really likes you.
Exactly
none of this is going anywhere. It is and has been theater all along. And the deep state is in charge more than ever. Barr is like Mueller, very very deep state. He is not there to clean up anything. He is there to prevent anything from being cleaned up.
I stayed with Q for nearly a year and learned a lot of stuff from his posts, particularly the ones early last year. I quit reading the posts regularly last fall. Still, I believe there was always value from many of the Q posts. However, you are correct that the warrant for Julian Assange's arrest proves that Q was never about overthrowing the deep state because Assange's real sin was exposing the evils of the deep state.
And now Trump is disavowing any knowledge of Julian Assange. We have all been warning about how things were going to get much worse without really knowing that they had already gotten much worse. We are living the future now and it is not going to get better because most Americans still do not care.
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
I would beg to differ on your premise of the
people not caring, it was the great empty suit that
robbed the people of all hope and any change
So first the libs/progressives/moderates got burned, now it's
the turn of the right establishment and ilk to get burned with
the winners being the right wing nut jobs. IOWs the minority
of the minority have won.
But yes the future and what liberals feared is upon us
I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish
"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"
Heard from Margaret Kimberley
Thank you
for enhancing upon my comment. You are very correct.
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
Thanks gg, I get it right every so often
I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish
"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"
Heard from Margaret Kimberley
Trump and Hillary are on the same side.
. He's a professional wrestler. This is Tag Team. And it's all an act.
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
OK, I'm going to stick my neck out on this...
...and state the following:
1.) I've done a LOT of political campaign media work in my career. At least 25 campaigns. And, the higher-up the campaign goes (i.e.: presidential, senatorial, gubernatorial, congressional, and big city mayoral races, etc.), the more frequently it occurs. And, I've been involved in this stuff--on and off, more lately, quite "off"--but I know this...
2.) Most major races include significant surveillance (not just "opposition research") activities. Most of the time, the very existence of these efforts is totally occurring out of sight/out of mind of 99.9% of the political organization's staff.
3.) Phones get "swept" once a week, or once a month, at the very least.
4.) Former or friendly (currently working) FBI, or similar agents, private detectives and off-duty cops are frequently hired for this type of work, as well. And, then there are "the specialists."
THIS SHIT REALLY DOES HAPPEN, HUNDREDS, IF NOT THOUSANDS OF TIMES PER DAY...if you're in any police, investigative or intelligence entity in the U.S....you just dial it in (if you're working with the right person, at least), and you get everything--and I mean EVERYTHING--you would ever want to know about anyone, right on down to the raw text of their phone calls...and they "...don't need no stinkin' warrants," either! They just make shit up as to how they acquired the info...a/k/a "PARALLEL CONSTRUCTION" (starts around 15:30, in the video, below)....
5.) But, nowadays, surveillance is "baked-in" to our government. It's there for the taking, just by utilizing existing systems, already in place in our surveillance state. There's "AT&T's Hemisphere Project," the DEA, the NSA, the FBI, and on and on...they ALL have access to these platforms...and, it's just too tempting to NOT be utilized by the powers that be. Why? Because it's all in place. ALL. THE. TIME. And, it's far more pervasive than 99.9% of the public even realizes, today, as Bill Binney reminds us, as recently as the past couple of weeks, "PARALLEL CONSTRUCTION" (starts around 15:30, in the video, below) occurs throughout our law enforcement entities, all around the country, every day! How does this happen? There's direct access to all of this data via our country's "FUSION CENTER NETWORK," where all of this information is shared by our nation's most senior intelligence agencies, all the way down to the--yes--state police, and local police departments, as well. But, don't take my word for it...here's Bill Binney to explain (from less than a couple of weeks ago)...
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjHs-E2e2V4]
So, if you think our government doesn't already know "everything it needs to know," you are kidding yourself. Of course the Dems spied on the G.O.P. And, vice versa. And, of course our government (intelligence and law enforcement agencies, etc.) spies on those organizations, as well, along with virtually every other person in the U.S. Why? Because. They. Can.
And, you bet your sweet ass that EVERY freakin' U.S. Attorney General over the past couple of decades knows this, as well as every senior prosecutor in every freakin' federal court district in this country, too. But, listen to Bill Binney, in the video, just above. Listen to everything he says. It IS all spot-on.
"Freedom is something that dies unless it's used." --Hunter S. Thompson
thanks for posting this video with Binney and Abby again
it's just necessary to listen to it several times.
So, Ossis are right to be cynical and paranoid about
how, after all their trouble defeating and exposing the Stasi, the price of “freedom” is now having to accept that they live under a U.S.-run high-tech around-the-clock surveillance system a thousand, million, or billion times greater than anything the Stasi could have ever imagined.
yes, unfortunately they are right to be cynical and scared,
though I doubt that the U.S.-run high-tech around-the-clock surveillance system is the only one that is greater than anything the Stasi could have ever imagined.
If around the clock surveillance systems are used everywhere (which I believe is the case) then in the end nobody can see the
trees/truth for theforest/system. Realizing that, I would say to myself that it's not worth to get paranoid.I am a lay person, who is not into research. I can't see the trees and so I can't see the truth. And the forest is thick and too dark to understand anything for sure ... speaking for myself only, of course.
I watch through this video and
May be it helps also some folks here, there is enough english in it. Unfortunately not a narrator in English."
Videoanalyse zu Julian Assange "Er wusste, dass es nicht gut ausgehen würde
At least now, the public will know what is happening in its
political system.
Which is why Russia never hacked the DNC server.
With all the surveillance by the alphabet soup security agencies, no way in hell Russia could have hacked anything without them knowing it. They would have enough proof to nuke Russia.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
That Trump hasn't released the evidence proving that
tells me that he might be in on the scam. If Russia had hacked the DNC computers then like you say the NSA could prove it.
Plus he could have released the original FISA warrant that will show what evidence the FBI used to get it.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
There is no evidence that the DNC was ever hacked.
There is profound physical evidence that it was not.
Only two people can prove that: Seth Rich and Julian Assange. They have been eliminated.
Assange released Vault 7 when he was denied immunity to testify before the House Investigation Committee. Vault 7 explains the fake "Russian" clues dropped into DNC files by CrowdStrike.
Russia has nothing to do with any of this. A careful look at the Skripal case will bring you to the same conclusion.
Russia and China are forced to nuke up. The world, acting together, could stop this very quickly. All they need to do is to stop using the US Dollar as a trading currency. That was true when I got here. It is the only sure thing left.
The world looks the same to the psychopaths as it did 500 years ago. It is filled with inferior weak brown people. Their resources are there for the White Northern Europeans to take and use. Russia is their only potential protector. The Russians are an indigenous people. Americans are a golem; they have no indigenous lands. The American people built this.
Perhaps Vonnegut was right. Our purpose is to build a radioactive refueling station on the outskirts of this galaxy.
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The political system is what it is because the People are who they are. — Plato
Shaheen been taking acting lessons?
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/373508-gop-senators-question-unusual...
Sounds like Nixon, making sure his taping system got him saying
“but that would be wrong, that’s for sure,” taking care to enunciate loudly and clearly every word.
lol. It's the end of the republic if Barr doesn't release
the Mueller report! The kids are getting angry at the democrats for not doing everything they can to get the report released. What should democrats do? Not lob softball questions at Barr. Take him to court. Why wasn't this already in motion the minute Mueller said he was finally finished? The democrats need to, should do, better do....
Gee it's too bad that one of the people who could do that was just arrested today and that the group that wants the report stolen and posted online cheered his arrest. Sob.
Oh noes!
Bill Barr Is the Most Dangerous Man in America
This is all I'm able to read because it's behind a paywall. I'm sad. But why might it be the end of the republic? Because Barr is going to look into who was spying on Trump's campaign. If people did some research they would find that most of the information on this has already been posted. Hey! Here's an idea. They can look through our archives and find everything right here on this little blog because we have posted as much information that was available. Should I leave them a note?
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
it takes impressive irony-proofing to produce
people who are simultaneously raving about our right to see the Mueller report on corruption in the 2016 campaign, and slavering for Assange's head because he subverted our democracy by, you know, giving us information about corruption in the 2016 campaign.
I can write the response for them, though: "IT'S NOT THE SAME!!! IT'S NOT THE SAME!! APPLES AND ORANGES!!!"
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
Did Hillary color outside the lines?
Obama? The FBI, CIA or the NSA?
The tone of this woman was what drove the kids crazy.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
this lady shaheen is making not only the kids crazy
I am a grown up and she made me doubt the sanity of her assholish mind.
The Fox news headline
for this story on Weds. read "Dems rage against Barr".
My mind keeps wanting to change that to "Dems rage behind bars".
A girl can hope, can't she?
"Don't go back to sleep ... Don't go back to sleep ... Don't go back to sleep."
~Rumi
"If you want revolution, be it."
~Caitlin Johnstone
When I saw the quote
I didn't think of Rumi. I thought of the original "Invasion of the Body Snatchers".
Sadly, very old sci fi movies did predict the future, except that the threat didn't come from outer space. It came from our government.
And it's not just
our bodies that they're snatching, but mostly our minds.
"Don't go back to sleep ... Don't go back to sleep ... Don't go back to sleep."
~Rumi
"If you want revolution, be it."
~Caitlin Johnstone
So what is it now, Bill Barr the most dangerous guy
(added something)
or not?
I am frigging not getting anymore what the heck everybody claims.
I wished I were smarter.
It's all about Trump's
Russian birth certificate, I'm pretty sure.
Orwell: Where's the omelette?
“Obama, Brennan, and Clapper walk into a Barr …” Hoo boy. n/t
Good one!
Barr is the prince of pardons
In fact we have him to thank for the Elliot Abrams pardon...setting him up today for more war crimes in Venezuela and around the world.
https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2019/01/16/trump-ag-pick-barrs-tro...
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211522658
So pardon me if I don't trust this past (1970's) CIA operative to reveal anything we don't already know in the next act of the Kabuki theater.
Meanwhile...there's more drilling permits, more judges appointed, more federal land raped and pillaged, more.....
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
"Past" CIA operative?
Isn't it "once a spook, always a spook"?
There is no justice. There can be no peace.
scary ain't it?
BOO!
edit to add:
I got to thinking after hearing an interview with Binny that some people seem to escape?
what about Ray McGovern, Bill Binny, Kevin Shipp, Ed Snowden, Chelsea Manning, John Kiriakou...perhaps some escape the shackles?
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
That's certainly a criterion we'd apply --
to Gloria Steinem...
"The war on Gaza, backed by the West, is a demonstration that the West is willing to cross all lines. That it will discard any nuance of humanity. That it is willing to commit genocide" -- Moon of Alabama
Ding ding ding! We have a winner.
Barr and Mueller did this same routine during Iran-contra, our little theater of the absurd. And back then Kerry was the earnest but inevitably failed investigator.
I think Obama ordered the spying on the Trump
campaign and he and the Dems used the Russia crap as a cover.
That's why Nancy Pelosi is practically screaming into the microphone about Barr.
"Without the right to offend, freedom of speech does not exist." Taslima Nasrin
It would be amusing to see --
Nancy "impeachment is off the table" Pelosi get worked up about anything.
"The war on Gaza, backed by the West, is a demonstration that the West is willing to cross all lines. That it will discard any nuance of humanity. That it is willing to commit genocide" -- Moon of Alabama
Don't invest too much in the personalities.
Obama may very well have ordered the spying on Trump. Or perhaps Clinton did it without him. It doesn't matter. Who knows if there is a suggestion box at Langley for corporatists to offer plot suggestions.
I would think that this whole thing was planned long before it happened. Who knows? Maybe Hilz and Donnie were both in on it and knew how it was going to end long before it started.
I will be curious to see what happens with Gregory Craig, an insider who has been a player in the performances we've been given. He's just been indicted for his work with Yanukovich in Ukraine, not Russia. Craig played Richard Helms' lawyer in defense of the overthrow of Allende. He was John Hinckley's lawyer in that assassination attempt. Defended William Kennedy Smith against rape charges, was director of Mad Albright's policy planning at State. Was among the lawyers examining a blue dress in Bill Clinton's defense against impeachment. Elian Gonzalez. Gave the telecommunications industry legal immunity from prosecution for the niceties of handing over information to the NSA et al.
In short, Craig has been a lifetime member of this troupe of actors on the national security stage. His career has been as a spear carrier in the line at the back of the stage. Now it appears he's getting an important in the next act.
There are some (on both sides) who see this as necessary:
"Barr’s surprising comments provide fresh ammunition to those who see the Russia investigation as an illegitimate ploy to derail Trump’s presidency." I was glad when Dims threw, "Russia!! collusion!! OMG! at the Repugs. After 12 years of hate on Obama and the Clinton impeachment craze, I was proud of 'em, especially against the hated REDS! This is all circus I think. I think the real story is the US Treasury. From Reagan to Bush II and now Trump, Repugs are cutting taxes with increased spending. And implementing Treasury busting nation-building wars all over, e.g., Iraq, Afganistan, Somalia, etc. And it seems since 2000 they have been actively trying to bankrupt the country so they can end all social programs and all that entails. Fuck. Dystopia anyone?
So at the end of the day it's only Orange Man Bad?
Yes he is. But there is more sh*t going on here, imho.
There is ample public evidence how the OHO Admin with the assistance of the DNC and HRC "colluded" to do what they did. FISA, Cambridge Academic, Australian "ambassador" at a bar after 8 or 10 drinks....FFS. I'm too tired at this point to link all the stories from all the sites, you can Google as well as I.
When I forestall and delay the takeoff of my private plane so I can talk to the AG on the tarmac about our grandchildren, I'll get back to you.
The MSM is shocked, horrified that the things they reported on, suddenly are news?
Oh my.
Prof: Nancy! I’m going to Greece!
Nancy: And swim the English Channel?
Prof: No. No. To ancient Greece where burning Sapho stood beside the wine dark sea. Wa de do da! Nancy, I’ve invented a time machine!
Firesign Theater
Stop the War!