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Saturday, December 9, 2017

Is The FBI Corrupt Or Only Part Of It?

Justice Official Demoted as House Investigators Subpoena Records of His Fusion GPS Meetings

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by KRISTINA WONG7 Dec 20172,031

A senior Justice Department official was demoted on Wednesday amid an ongoing House intelligence committee investigation into his contacts with Fusion GPS, the firm responsible for the Trump dossier, according to Fox News.

Bruce G. Ohr, who was until Wednesday associate deputy attorney general, met during the 2016 campaign with the author of the dossier, Christopher Steele, according to evidence obtained by committee investigators.

Ohr also met “shortly after” the election with Glenn Simpson, co-founder of Fusion GPS, investigators also found.

Congressional sources told Fox News that Simpson and Ohr met sometime around Thanksgiving last year, when President-elect Trump was in the process of selecting his cabinet, and discussed over coffee the anti-Trump dossier, the Russia investigation and what Simpson “considered the distressing development of Trump’s victory.”

The meetings raise questions over the extent to which the FBI cooperated with Fusion GPS on the the Trump dossier, which was paid for by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee as opposition research. According to the Fox News report, Steele and Ohr have known each other since 2006, and Steele put Ohr in touch with Simpson.House investigators are trying to find out how the FBI used the dossier, and whether the FBI used the dossier to launch the FBI’s investigation into the Trump campaign, or to obtain a surveillance warrant against members of the Trump campaign, and whether it ever paid for the dossier, as some reports have said.House investigators are now seeking more information from the FBI on the contacts between Ohr and Steele, and between Ohr and Simpson. Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) issued a new subpoena Thursday regarding Ohr and his files, according to Fox News.

While Ohr is no longer associate deputy attorney general — a position that put him four doors down from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, he will remain director of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF), a program overseeing the attorney general’s drug strategy.

The Justice Department official characterized the demotion as normal: “It is unusual for anyone to wear two hats as he has done recently. This person is going to go back to a single focus — director of our organized crime and drug enforcement unit. As you know, combating transnational criminal organizations and drug trafficking is a top priority for the attorney general.”

But Ohr’s demotion marks the second time within months that the Justice Department and the FBI have disciplined a senior official “for misconduct” connected to the Russia probe, according to Fox News.

Peter Strzok, a high-ranking FBI official, was dismissed from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team in July for sending anti-Trump text messages to another colleague on the team with whom he was having an extramarital affair.

Disclosure of the texts came only this week, to the New York Times and the Washington Post, as the Justice Department agreed to make Strzok available to the committee for testimony.

The leaks were reminiscent of leaks revealing that the Clinton campaign and the DNC had funded the dossier — just before the committee forced Fusion GPS to hand over financial records by subpoena.

Strzok also played a key role on the Hillary Clinton email investigation and was also behind a language change in a statement that would later exonerate her.

This Is How A Class Gentleman Handles Despicable Comments About His Daughter

Chelsea Handler Calls Sarah Huckabee a Prostitute, Dad Has a Few Words for Her

BY BEN MARQUIS
DECEMBER 8, 2017 AT 3:48PM

Chelsea Handler is a terribly unamusing liberal “comedian” who has allowed herself to become entirely consumed with visceral hate for all things related to President Donald Trump, his family and his administration.

Though she proclaims herself to be a feminist and often spouts off about the need for women to stand together to fight the “patriarchy,” she will ruthlessly attack any and all females who happen to be conservative, or God forbid, work for the president.

Case in point is the manner in which she viciously slandered White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders during the Dec. 1 episode of her Netflix program “Chelsea,” during which she essentially called Sanders a prostitute, according to NewsBusters.

Speaking with former Clinton administration lawyer and stalwart defender of Democrats, Lanny Davis, the conversation turned to what they believed were “alternative facts” being espoused by the White House. Davis was most likely referring to White House adviser Kellyanne Conway, but Handler used the opportunity to slander Sanders.

“That harlot that they are dressing up and trolloping out every day?” Handler asked, referring to Sanders. “I mean, one day she has no makeup on at all, the next she’s got 6-foot-long eyelashes, cleavage, and summer whore lipstick all over her face. Can you believe what they’ve turned her into? A proper trollop.”

For those unfamiliar with the word “trollop,” it is defined by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary as: “a vulgar or disreputable woman; especially : one who engages in sex promiscuously or for money.”

Perhaps the “vulgar or disreputable” woman who uttered the demeaning term should take a look in the mirror, but we digress.

As most of our readers are well aware, Sanders’ father is former Arkansas governor and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee. One might think he would be quite angry at his daughter being called a “whore,” and utterly destroy the person who had leveled such baseless accusations against his daughter.

However, while Huckabee was indeed upset by Handler’s remarks about his daughter, he spoke out not in anger, but out of sadness for Handler and the miserable life she no doubt leads to have left her so consumed with rage at all times.

According to Independent Journal Review, Huckabee responded to Handler’s smear of Sanders during an appearance on “Fox & Friends.”

“The things that Chelsea Handler said were vile and vulgar. I’m surprised that there were not women on the left who at least had the decency to call her out for this,” Huckabee said. “But I know you’re probably expecting me to be very angry about it, but truthfully, when I read what she said and then I watched it, I felt sorry for her.”

“I feel sad for Chelsea Handler. She seems like a very angry and bitter person,” he continued. “Look, she’s almost as old as me. So this is at a point of her life she needs to start mellowing out. And she seems to be just in a rage.”

“And the sad thing about it, she boasts about the two abortions she had at 16,” the Baptist minister said. “I think in many ways, she’s jealous of my daughter. My daughter has a husband who loves her and is wonderful to her. My daughter has three delightful children. She’s a happy, balanced person.”

“She enjoys life. She’s a pretty straight-laced person, goes to church and lives a life Chelsea Handler has never known,” Huckabee said of his daughter. “And I really think that there’s something deep inside of Chelsea Handler that says, ‘Gee, I’ve missed out on a lot. I could be raising children, but I aborted them.'”

“I know that’s harsh, but look, I’m not angry at her,” he continued. “I feel for her, I truly feel sorry for her. And I feel that she’s lashing out at a life that she just doesn’t understand and has never been able to embrace. And that’s sad.”

“So no reason to be angry at Chelsea,” Huckabee concluded. “Pray for her that she’ll find some peace, because she doesn’t have it right now. It’s pretty evident by her tone of voice that she’s an angry, bitter and frankly lonely person.”

That, good readers, is how one completely disarms and takes down an enraged opponent — with love and kindness and pity that reveals who they really are.

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Did Taxpayers Only Pay For Democratic Congressmen's Claims?

Democrat outraged to learn taxpayers paid $220,000 sexual harassment claim against him

Dec 8, 2017 9:58 pm

Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.) says he is outraged to learn that a settlement was made on his behalf to pay $220,000 to a claim of sexual harassment. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Rep. Alcee L. Hastings (D-Fla.) was accused of sexual harassment and the settlement cost the taxpayer $220,000, a report from Roll Call claimed Friday.

What were the accusations?

A former congressional staff member named Winsome Packer claimed that the representative “touched her, made unwanted sexual advances, and threatened her job.”

She was stationed in Vienna and was required to travel with Hastings to other foreign countries. She said in her lawsuit that Hastings repeatedly asked to stay at her apartment or to visit her hotel room. Packer also said he frequently hugged her, and once asked her what kind of underwear she was wearing.

She filed a complaint with the Office of Compliance in 2010, and sued Hastings in 2011. That lawsuit was dismissed in 2012, and an ethics investigation in the matter was dismissed in 2014. However, the settlement came through the Senate Chief Counsel for Employment from the treasury.

What was Hastings response?

In a statement to Roll Call Friday, he called the accusations “ludicrous” and said he didn’t even know about the settlement previously.

“Until this evening, I had not seen the settlement agreement between the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) and Ms. Packer,” he said. “This matter was handled solely by the Senate Chief Counsel for Employment. At no time was I consulted, nor did I know until after the fact that such a settlement was made.”

“I am outraged that any taxpayer dollars were needlessly paid to Ms. Packer,” he said.

Trump Knows How To Push Dems Buttons

Melania And Karen Are Just Normal People. No Pretense Here!

Internet Explodes Over Melania Lunch That Would Have Left Michelle Freaking

First Lady Melania Trump Stops At A Texas Whataburger

BY V SAXENA
DECEMBER 8, 2017 AT 11:19AM

First lady Melania Trump unintentionally drew wide attention to herself Wednesday when, during a visit to coastal Texas alongside second lady Karen Pence and Texas first lady Cecilia Abbott in order to meet with those affected by Hurricane Harvey, she stopped at a Whataburger restaurant to grab herself a sandwich.

“Ms. Trump, Second Lady Karen Pence and their team visited the flagship location of Whataburger in Corpus Christi,” Fox News reported. “Her aide Stephanie Grisham tweeted a photo of Trump ordering her lunch at the counter.”

By Friday this photo had made it to practically every corner of the internet.

Look:

To be clear, former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama ate plenty of burgers during their eight years in the White House.

The difference is Michelle had a habit of lecturing others about what they should eat, whereas Melania has displayed no such propensity.

Plus, Melania seems to have better taste in burgers then Michelle: When I searched Google for examples of Michelle dining at Whataburger, I found none.

Even professional food critics have praised Whataburger. Just this week, food critics Nick Wiger and Mike Mitchell, the hosts of the “Doughboys” podcast, visited a Whataburger in Huntsville and were taken aback, to put it lightly.

“The first time I had Whataburger, I really didn’t get it, and I compared it to Burger King,” Mitchell later said to the Dallas Observer. “This was my second time having Whataburger, and now I get it. I get it.”

So does Melania, apparently, though it remains unclear if Michelle would have as well.

During Melania’s trip Wednesday to Texas, she and Karen also reportedly treated their press pool to lunch, according to USA Today reporter Julie Garcia:

ABC News noted that they wound up spending the first part of the day “in Corpus Christi meeting with first responders who worked on the Hurricane Harvey relief effort” and the latter portion in Rockport meeting “with a family whose home was destroyed in the storm.”

“They also visited the family’s new Manufactured Housing Unit, provided by FEMA, which will serve as the family’s temporary residence until they can move into a new, rebuilt home,” ABC News reported. “The women also visited an elementary school and food bank.”

H/T Sarah Palin

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