If you read the absolute contempt with which Lisa Page refers to Pete Strzok after she broke up with him--which iirc was almost immediately after they both got kicked off the Mueller team--it's not too hard to come away with an impression of a woman who never liked the guy and was only banging him in order to bypass the chain of command between McCabe and Strzok. Iow, McCabe had her use her feminine whiles to seduce the number 2 man in counterintelligence so that McCabe wouldn't have to go through Priestap, the number 1 man. Just a theory.
I cut Session some slack. I think he was a naive boy scout who didn't realize that he had to fight back against constant attempts to play him. Elephant Ass Barr was corrupt but maybe the least horrible guy Trump could get confirmed by a highly corrupt U.S. Senate. That does't let Barr off the hook and none of his ex post facto attempts at image restoration will amount to squat. I hope he swings from a rope at Gitmo. It'd better be a thick rope for a circumferentially challenged pig like him.
While we all knew about Sussman's peddling the hoax a second time--to the CIA--in Feb 2017, this article about testimony on Friday afternoon is the first clear indication that CIA officials (unlike their far-more-receptive FBI counterparts) were none-too-pleased about potentially being played.
Insofar as, per TechnoFog and SWC last fall, it was likely an EDVA judge who ruled on overcoming a/c privilege on the billing records, Sussman's (i.e., his clients') persistence in pressing this crap across the Potomac to an unhappy CIA might have been his (and their) undoing.
"Insofar as, per TechnoFog and SWC last fall, it was likely an EDVA judge who ruled on overcoming a/c privilege on the billing records, Sussman's (i.e., his clients') persistence in pressing this crap across the Potomac to an unhappy CIA might have been his (and their) undoing."
Interesting point I overlooked, thanks.
I've wondered if there is a federal case for defrauding the govt to be made in EDVA, just in the hope of a more balanced jury.
The description of Sussmann's jury is unsettling to say the least. Having all this work so far hinge on a bunch of unhinged WDC Dems must give Durham's team ulcers.
While I'd be happy if Hillary were indicted & locked up for the rest of her squalid life, it is almost over already. Otoh, these squirrelly lessers in FBI & DOJ are fairly young & were certainly intending to make a lifelong career in the govt bureaucracy. I am glad that their reps have been permanently soiled. At the least, they shd not work in govt ever again. I think that much has been accomplished. Not what I want, but I recognize the value of it.
I hope that not only their reputations but their orange jump suits are soiled. If they aren't dealt with by firing squad or hanging I hope they spend the rest of their days in a prison cell for which every expense is spared.
As much pleasure as it would give me to see Hillary actually pay for the incalculable damages that her despicable conduct has done to the country, I think it would be even nicer to see that smug, arrogant little jerk Peter Strozk get what he so richly deserves. That condescending little smirk of his when he testified before Congress is permanently burned into my memory!
Don’t get me wrong, I’d get up on a chair and start clapping if Comey, Rosenstein, Weismann and McCabe along a very long list of “usual suspects” were to be hauled in, but Strozk’s conduct was just so in your face that it begs you to just reach out and slap the crap out of him!!
Oh, now I’ve gone and done it, probably wind up on a special list for being outraged over the conduct of some sniveling little bureaucrat, let alone for wanting to slap him.
What I remember is how in moments of anger while testilying he flushed red with actual horn shapes showing up in the blush of color on his forehead. I've never seen that in another human being before. Talk about your give aways.
No, Japanese emoji from the verb 笑う warau - to laugh.
Embedded Japanese 'hiragana' generator in Mac OS.
The Japanese practically invented emojis, and with the doublebyte characters required, it's easy to program. There are hundreds accessible with keystrokes.
I don't appreciate that at all. I put a helluva lot of time and effort and thought into my writing. If you're going to respond like that, go the hell somewhere else.
I apologize. I thoroughly enjoy your writing and look forward to each of your posts. It has just been so frustrating to keep reading for so many years about this crooked wicked woman and seeing Hillary sitting there fat and happy laughing at us. I’ve been following her crooked career since she was First Lady to Bill in Arkansas. I knew an attorney who had the misfortune of working with her at the rose law firm in Little Rock. He told me stories about what a miserable person she was then.
My father and grandfather were east Arkansas local politicians.
I watched Bill Clinton and Hillary from their early years. When my father was an state level elected official rep he worked with Bill, who screwed them all. Until his dying day, my father would tell everyone what a slimeball Bill Clinton was.
I was in WDC in the federal govt when Clinton won in 1992, and I warned all my celebrating Dem friends that they were amoral scum that were potentially very dangerous to the nation and their party. Only one Dem bud had the same apprehensions, everyone else seemed to think he had saved them. Never mind it was Ross Perot's ego, certainly not Bill Clinton.
Watching the carnage their actions generate over decades has made me loath US politics like nothing else.
No. I was in business in NJ. Sold some nursing homes to a company represented by rose law firm. The attorney came out to nj for the closing and we’re sitting around bs’ing and asked him if he knew Hillary. He said they had her locked away in a corner office so she wouldn’t have any contact with actual clients because she was dumb as dirt and you never knew what she’d say. She was only there because Bill’s salary as Gov was peanuts and she had to have a decent income plus she was a rainmaker as govs wife. Nobody liked her.
Let me explain. This substack and the prior blog have become, essentially, a full time job for me. It eats into my time to a disturbing extent--I actually have other things that occupy my time. I read every single comment--not just some. I do that because I feel that I owe that much to anyone who takes time out of their life to read what I write and to comment. I used to try to respond to every comment, but I can't do that any more. OTOH, I think I have ideas on offer, based on past experience, that are worth serious consideration--agree or disagree. I wouldn't be writing if I didn't believe that. Disagreement is fine, but dismissive "blah, blah, blah" comments don't cut it. I'm as frustrated as anyone, but I strive to evaluate developments objectively and keep an even keel. If I have a short fuse at times, well ...
Solomon and Patel are friends from what I've seen. Patel frequently appears with Solomon in his podcasts, so it isn't a surprise Solomon's reporting echoes what Patel is now stating publicly.
Solomon and a handful of his ilk were the only reporters that actually listened to Kash Patel and Devin Nunes when they were under fullbore assault by most of the world's media and most of Congress for trying to find the truth of it all.
Meanwhile, the NYT got Pulitzer for its spoonfed coverage of Russiagate, and, speaking to one of their key Asia correspondents, filled their coffers and funded his retirement from the huge upswing in subscriptions it drove. He sad pointblank, it might have been shit journalism but it was great for business.
Solomon and Sharyll Atkinson were surveilled by the feds, had their lives threatened, eventually lost their MSM jobs and had to strike out on their own, on their own nickel, at great personal risk. Without their courage, professionalism, modern comms and social media like this Substack we wouldn't know a damn thing about any of it. Witness Elon Musk tweeting late last week that Robby Mook testifying that Hillary signed off on feeding the Alfa Bank bs was 'the first time' he'd heard anything about it.
Such professionalism under pressure builds strong bonds, and both being conservative surely doesn't hurt.
I recently saw where Sharyll Atkinson stated that the FBI tried to plant child porn on her husband's computer/electronic device. The Deep State is a sinister and evil enemy. Elon Musk is their latest target.
Good point. No, that has nothing to do with naming the source in court--there's no reason not to do that. This is weird because, after all, how can the FBI conduct a professional investigation without access to the source? It's all part of how sketchy the opening in Chicago was.
What's interesting about this is that it appears that when Hellmann and the NYO did their job, someone at HQ pulled strings to keep this hoax alive by getting Chicago to open an investigation.
Yes. He was the highest non-political appointee--meaning, he was the highest official there who didn't need to be confirmed by the Senate. He had past connections to Andy McCabe and Lisa Page, which he used in peddling the Steele material (past connections to Steele, too).
If you read the absolute contempt with which Lisa Page refers to Pete Strzok after she broke up with him--which iirc was almost immediately after they both got kicked off the Mueller team--it's not too hard to come away with an impression of a woman who never liked the guy and was only banging him in order to bypass the chain of command between McCabe and Strzok. Iow, McCabe had her use her feminine whiles to seduce the number 2 man in counterintelligence so that McCabe wouldn't have to go through Priestap, the number 1 man. Just a theory.
Jeff Session and William Barr, two names that will live in infamy……
These guys were supposed to be on our side and yet………
I cut Session some slack. I think he was a naive boy scout who didn't realize that he had to fight back against constant attempts to play him. Elephant Ass Barr was corrupt but maybe the least horrible guy Trump could get confirmed by a highly corrupt U.S. Senate. That does't let Barr off the hook and none of his ex post facto attempts at image restoration will amount to squat. I hope he swings from a rope at Gitmo. It'd better be a thick rope for a circumferentially challenged pig like him.
While we all knew about Sussman's peddling the hoax a second time--to the CIA--in Feb 2017, this article about testimony on Friday afternoon is the first clear indication that CIA officials (unlike their far-more-receptive FBI counterparts) were none-too-pleased about potentially being played.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/sussmann-told-cia-similar-client-lie-in-2017-durham-says
Insofar as, per TechnoFog and SWC last fall, it was likely an EDVA judge who ruled on overcoming a/c privilege on the billing records, Sussman's (i.e., his clients') persistence in pressing this crap across the Potomac to an unhappy CIA might have been his (and their) undoing.
"Insofar as, per TechnoFog and SWC last fall, it was likely an EDVA judge who ruled on overcoming a/c privilege on the billing records, Sussman's (i.e., his clients') persistence in pressing this crap across the Potomac to an unhappy CIA might have been his (and their) undoing."
Interesting point I overlooked, thanks.
I've wondered if there is a federal case for defrauding the govt to be made in EDVA, just in the hope of a more balanced jury.
The description of Sussmann's jury is unsettling to say the least. Having all this work so far hinge on a bunch of unhinged WDC Dems must give Durham's team ulcers.
Thanks.
Thank YOU, Mark, for your outstanding coverage on this and Ukraine, in particular!
While I'd be happy if Hillary were indicted & locked up for the rest of her squalid life, it is almost over already. Otoh, these squirrelly lessers in FBI & DOJ are fairly young & were certainly intending to make a lifelong career in the govt bureaucracy. I am glad that their reps have been permanently soiled. At the least, they shd not work in govt ever again. I think that much has been accomplished. Not what I want, but I recognize the value of it.
I hope that not only their reputations but their orange jump suits are soiled. If they aren't dealt with by firing squad or hanging I hope they spend the rest of their days in a prison cell for which every expense is spared.
As much pleasure as it would give me to see Hillary actually pay for the incalculable damages that her despicable conduct has done to the country, I think it would be even nicer to see that smug, arrogant little jerk Peter Strozk get what he so richly deserves. That condescending little smirk of his when he testified before Congress is permanently burned into my memory!
Don’t get me wrong, I’d get up on a chair and start clapping if Comey, Rosenstein, Weismann and McCabe along a very long list of “usual suspects” were to be hauled in, but Strozk’s conduct was just so in your face that it begs you to just reach out and slap the crap out of him!!
Oh, now I’ve gone and done it, probably wind up on a special list for being outraged over the conduct of some sniveling little bureaucrat, let alone for wanting to slap him.
What I remember is how in moments of anger while testilying he flushed red with actual horn shapes showing up in the blush of color on his forehead. I've never seen that in another human being before. Talk about your give aways.
😈
Screenshot?
No, Japanese emoji from the verb 笑う warau - to laugh.
Embedded Japanese 'hiragana' generator in Mac OS.
The Japanese practically invented emojis, and with the doublebyte characters required, it's easy to program. There are hundreds accessible with keystrokes.
Great reporting. This is like paint by numbers
Blah blah blah. Indict Hillary. Then we can wake up
I don't appreciate that at all. I put a helluva lot of time and effort and thought into my writing. If you're going to respond like that, go the hell somewhere else.
I apologize. I thoroughly enjoy your writing and look forward to each of your posts. It has just been so frustrating to keep reading for so many years about this crooked wicked woman and seeing Hillary sitting there fat and happy laughing at us. I’ve been following her crooked career since she was First Lady to Bill in Arkansas. I knew an attorney who had the misfortune of working with her at the rose law firm in Little Rock. He told me stories about what a miserable person she was then.
Please accept my apology
Joe
Joe you from Arkansas?
My father and grandfather were east Arkansas local politicians.
I watched Bill Clinton and Hillary from their early years. When my father was an state level elected official rep he worked with Bill, who screwed them all. Until his dying day, my father would tell everyone what a slimeball Bill Clinton was.
I was in WDC in the federal govt when Clinton won in 1992, and I warned all my celebrating Dem friends that they were amoral scum that were potentially very dangerous to the nation and their party. Only one Dem bud had the same apprehensions, everyone else seemed to think he had saved them. Never mind it was Ross Perot's ego, certainly not Bill Clinton.
Watching the carnage their actions generate over decades has made me loath US politics like nothing else.
No. I was in business in NJ. Sold some nursing homes to a company represented by rose law firm. The attorney came out to nj for the closing and we’re sitting around bs’ing and asked him if he knew Hillary. He said they had her locked away in a corner office so she wouldn’t have any contact with actual clients because she was dumb as dirt and you never knew what she’d say. She was only there because Bill’s salary as Gov was peanuts and she had to have a decent income plus she was a rainmaker as govs wife. Nobody liked her.
I made more money as a mid-level US Army Captain than he made as Governor of Arkansas.
Every time he was elected - first AG, then Governor, lost to Frank White for a 2 yr term, re-elected - she was promoted at Rose.
They didn't even bother to hide or delay it more than weeks.
Let me explain. This substack and the prior blog have become, essentially, a full time job for me. It eats into my time to a disturbing extent--I actually have other things that occupy my time. I read every single comment--not just some. I do that because I feel that I owe that much to anyone who takes time out of their life to read what I write and to comment. I used to try to respond to every comment, but I can't do that any more. OTOH, I think I have ideas on offer, based on past experience, that are worth serious consideration--agree or disagree. I wouldn't be writing if I didn't believe that. Disagreement is fine, but dismissive "blah, blah, blah" comments don't cut it. I'm as frustrated as anyone, but I strive to evaluate developments objectively and keep an even keel. If I have a short fuse at times, well ...
Tx. No, I've never given any thought to monetizing this. Man on a mission!
Solomon and Patel are friends from what I've seen. Patel frequently appears with Solomon in his podcasts, so it isn't a surprise Solomon's reporting echoes what Patel is now stating publicly.
Solomon and a handful of his ilk were the only reporters that actually listened to Kash Patel and Devin Nunes when they were under fullbore assault by most of the world's media and most of Congress for trying to find the truth of it all.
Meanwhile, the NYT got Pulitzer for its spoonfed coverage of Russiagate, and, speaking to one of their key Asia correspondents, filled their coffers and funded his retirement from the huge upswing in subscriptions it drove. He sad pointblank, it might have been shit journalism but it was great for business.
Solomon and Sharyll Atkinson were surveilled by the feds, had their lives threatened, eventually lost their MSM jobs and had to strike out on their own, on their own nickel, at great personal risk. Without their courage, professionalism, modern comms and social media like this Substack we wouldn't know a damn thing about any of it. Witness Elon Musk tweeting late last week that Robby Mook testifying that Hillary signed off on feeding the Alfa Bank bs was 'the first time' he'd heard anything about it.
Such professionalism under pressure builds strong bonds, and both being conservative surely doesn't hurt.
I recently saw where Sharyll Atkinson stated that the FBI tried to plant child porn on her husband's computer/electronic device. The Deep State is a sinister and evil enemy. Elon Musk is their latest target.
Good point. No, that has nothing to do with naming the source in court--there's no reason not to do that. This is weird because, after all, how can the FBI conduct a professional investigation without access to the source? It's all part of how sketchy the opening in Chicago was.
What's interesting about this is that it appears that when Hellmann and the NYO did their job, someone at HQ pulled strings to keep this hoax alive by getting Chicago to open an investigation.
I didn’t see Bruce Ohr mentioned here, but wasn’t he DOJ?
Yes. He was the highest non-political appointee--meaning, he was the highest official there who didn't need to be confirmed by the Senate. He had past connections to Andy McCabe and Lisa Page, which he used in peddling the Steele material (past connections to Steele, too).
Lynch succeeded Holder in 4/15.
But, I have it on reliable authority that she was so distracted with grandchildren and golf that she couldn't possibly have been in on this.