DOJ Appoints Robert Mueller as Special Counsel - Jerome Corsi Rejects Plea Deal

[Deranged Rhino]

 

Senate Intel is the swampiest committee on the hill. Both sides of the aisle.

[Deranged Rhino]

 

[Nanker]

6 hours ago, 3rdnlng said:

 (for her)

FDAU. 

[Deranged Rhino]

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/06/james-wolfe-leak-investigation-journalists-double-standard/

[Deranged Rhino]

In light of Wolfe's arrest and indictment, let's flashback to this post on Barium meals...

On 12/9/2017 at 12:22 PM, Deranged Rhino said:

Fake News = Barium Meals for Leakers

 

In light of the bogus CNN and DB stories this week I wanted to point out another interesting connection to these phony stories and Flynn's Leak Killers. Namely, the concept of barium meals, a technique used by intelligence officers to find out who is leaking information.  The idea is simple: 

 

(From Patriot Games - though Clancy did not invent this method:)

 

"Each summary paragraph has six different versions, and the mixture of those paragraphs is unique to each numbered copy of the paper. There are over a thousand possible permutations, but only ninety-six numbered copies of the actual document. The reason the summary paragraphs are so lurid is to entice a reporter to quote them verbatim in the public media. If he quotes something from two or three of those paragraphs, we know which copy he saw and, therefore, who leaked it."

 

Let's step back to the CNN story first. What's interesting to note is not just that the story was false but that the LEAK was real. CNN (and MSNBC as well as other media outlets who ran with the story) claimed two independent sources verified this story first. While CNN's initial report made it SOUND as if they had seen the email themselves, in walking back the story later in the day CNN admitted they had never read the email and were instead relying on their two sources recollection of what they read. 

 

CNN clearly has been relying on leaks from Democrats on the House and Senate intelligence committees since the investigations opened. Note too that the MSNBC reporter who ran with the ball is a known CIA plant who was fired for running his stories by CIA first: 

 

 

Now, remember back to my thesis: this isn't really Dems vs GOP, it's CIA v DIA. Flynn, Rogers and the MI team assembled by both against the corrupt elements within the CIA that have hijacked our foreign policy and domestic agendas for years. Trump surrounded himself very early on with some of the finest military intelligence officers in the world. Officers who had spent their careers battling these very same corrupt elements within the CIA itself. 

 

CNN and MSNBC both ran with a leak or leakers (likely) from either the House or Senate Intel committees, and/or the CIA itself. Let's remember, the fact the CNN story missed (confusing the 4th with the 14th) changed the ENTIRE spin of the story. By claiming the email was sent ten days earlier, it allowed CNN and everyone else to breathlessly speculate for hours that this was the smoking gun to prove collusion. All it took to change an innocuous email into a smoking gun was fudging the date. 

 

Which brings us back to Barium Meals. The purpose of these barium meals is to leave a treat that's too tasty for a leaker to resist. One that confirms the agendas they're working to serve. Exactly like this story and the DB story (which shares a lot of the same characteristics). That's how the game works, that's how a canary trap is set and sprung.  Both of these false stories represent, I believe, barium meals designed to identify leakers on the House and Senate committees as well as inside the CIA (based on the Dilanian connection).

 

Why are they coming out one after the other? Why the spike in dramatically wrong stories that seem to tilt the narrative back towards collusion in the days following Flynn's deal?

 

Because the IG report is wrapping up and Flynn's network is making their final push to identify the leakers. The pump was primed. Flynn plead guilty, he had flipped. The ones pushing the narrative believe they have it all lined up to finally go their way - so when a too-good-to-resist email comes on their radar they RACE to leak it to their connections in the media and in turn, out themselves as leakers to Flynn's spooks. 

 

That means I would expect a steady diet of barium pills to surface as "fake news" between now and when the IG report is released officially. So stay sharp. Double check any headline that seems too good to be true. 

 

Things are heating up. 

 

Now, read this to see how the plan worked on just one of the 26 leakers:

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/06/08/the-bigger-story-behind-the-james-wolfe-indictment/

 

Flynn's network of leak hunters and pluggers pulled off one of the most successful counterintelligence operations in history. It'll be years before most people catch up to that fact, but this thing has been a well planned, well executed operation years in the making. 

 

... And it's not done yet. 

[3rdnlng]

57 minutes ago, Deranged Rhino said:

In light of Wolfe's arrest and indictment, let's flashback to this post on Barium meals...

 

Now, read this to see how the plan worked on just one of the 26 leakers:

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/06/08/the-bigger-story-behind-the-james-wolfe-indictment/

 

Flynn's network of leak hunters and pluggers pulled off one of the most successful counterintelligence operations in history. It'll be years before most people catch up to that fact, but this thing has been a well planned, well executed operation years in the making. 

 

... And it's not done yet. 

I think it's time to buy stock in Orville Redenbacher. It will be a real pleasure to watch these criminals get hoisted by their own petards.

[Azalin]

22 minutes ago, 3rdnlng said:

I think it's time to buy stock in Orville Redenbacher. It will be a real pleasure to watch these criminals get hoisted by their own petards.

 

It's too bad that "petards" isn't a synonym for "scrotum".

[3rdnlng]

1 minute ago, Azalin said:

 

It's too bad that "petards" isn't a synonym for "scrotum".

 

[Nanker]

OUCH!!!

[/dev/null]

1 hour ago, 3rdnlng said:

I think it's time to buy stock in Orville Redenbacher. It will be a real pleasure to watch these criminals get hoisted by their own petards.

 

is "hoisted by their own petards" a fancy way of saying double tap suicide?

[B-Man]

MORE MUELLER MADNESS

Ken Vogel gives us the New York Times take on the superseding indictment of Paul Manafort alleging obstruction of justice. It comes in Vogel’s story on the new charges against Manafort and his previously unnamed Russian associate, Konstantin V. Kilimnik. The previously pending charges against Manafort of course had nothing to do with the synthetic collusion hyseteria over the 2016 election. Neither does the alleged obstruction of justice in connection with the previously pending charges.

 

 

This is how Vogel puts it in the third paragraph of his story: “The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, has not publicly sought to connect Mr. Kilimnik or Mr. Manafort to Russian meddling in the 2016 election, but Friday’s indictment of Mr. Kilimnik could carry symbolic significance nonetheless.”

 

 

I think that is a stretch. Vogel hears the indictment singing “Something’s Coming,” Tony’s fantastic first-act song West Side Story. Indictments do not carry symbolic significance in any meaningful sense. For me, however, Vogel’s paragraph carries symbolic significance. It signifies a mutation of Mueller madness infecting the journalists cheering him on.

 

[Tiberius]

Lawfareblog has a nice takedown of Trump's latest idiocy concerning the special council. 

https://www.lawfareblog.com/terrible-arguments-against-constitutionality-mueller-investigation

 

Quote

 

In an early-morning tweet last week, President Trump took aim once again at Special Counsel Robert Mueller, but with a brand new argument: “The appointment of the Special Councel,” the president typed, “is totally UNCONSTITUTIONAL!”

 

He didn’t explain what his argument was, or where he got it, but a good guess is that it came from some recent writings by a well-respected conservative legal scholar and co-founder of the Federalist Society, professor Steven Calabresi. Unfortunately for the president, these writings are no more correct than the spelling in his original tweet. And in light of the president’s apparent embrace of Calabresi’s conclusions, it is well worth taking a close look at Calabresi’s argument in support of those conclusions.

Calabresi has made his argument in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, on a Federalist Society teleconference and in a more detailed paper he styles as a “Legal Opinion.” He contends that all of Special Counsel Mueller’s work is unconstitutionally “null and void” because, in Calabresi’s view, Mueller’s appointment violates the Appointments Clause of the Constitution, Article II, Section 2, Clause 2.

 

 

"The Appointments Clause distinguishes between two classes of executive-branch “officers”—principal officers and inferior officers—and specifies how each may be appointed. As a general rule, the clause says that “Officers of the United States”—principal officers—must be nominated by the president and appointed “with the Advice and Consent of the Senate.” At the same time, however, the Appointments Clause allows for a more convenient selection method for “inferior officers”: It goes on to add, “but the Congress may by law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of law, or in the Heads of Departments.”' 

[Logic]

Walter Shaub, former director of the Office of Government Ethics, on Twitter today:

 

 

"Our President conveys legitimacy on the mass murdering head of a gulag nation in exchange for recycled platitudes, alienates our closest allies, praises the world’s autocrats and our homegrown white supremacists, jeopardizes our economy with threats of a trade war, commits atrocious human rights violations at our border, lets his family profit to the tune of tens of millions from outside businesses while they serve in the White House on nepotistic appointments (and seek to deprive those with pre-existing conditions of healthcare), freely accepts emoluments, trashes the government ethics program, and subverts our justice system.

 

We’ve spent tens of millions of tax dollars on his visits to his properties, where he frequently golfs and always promotes his businesses. His cabinet emulates his behavior as the infection seeps ever deeper into institutions intended to protect democracy and resist corruption. Our diplomatic agency has been gutted and our longstanding military alliances have been frayed. Serious questions have arisen as to the influence of Trump’s finances on his policy decisions in specific instances, but the majority in Congress looks the other way and prefers to investigate his investigators and his vanquished political rival.

 

Our high court upholds a state’s effort to deprive our most vulnerable citizens of the most basic right guaranteed by a republic — the right to vote — while consistently preventing states from putting an end to the mass slaughter of school kids and others. Allies of our president are concerned that his alleged “lawyer,” who acts more like a business associate than a legal representative, may “flip” (something that can only happen among criminals), so they have openly challenged the legitimacy of any potential inquiry into criminality beyond the scope of foreign election interference, such as money laundering.

 

Meanwhile, no one is seriously looking into the effect of foreign inference on the last election or the extent to which vote tallies or registration records may have been affected (we simply don’t know), and even less is being done to safeguard the next election against the inevitable attack. Some respectable types dismissively paint those who emphasize the seriousness of the threat to our republic as alarmists. Trump’s enablers, in and out of government, titter or tsk about his many gaffs but normalize his behavior more every day.

 

The situation is bad. Don’t underestimate it."

[Deranged Rhino]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/06/12/rosenstein-threatened-to-subpoena-gop-led-committee-in-chilling-clash-over-records-emails-show.amp.html?__twitter_impression=true

[Tiberius]

7 minutes ago, Logic said:

Walter Shaub, former director of the Office of Government Ethics, on Twitter today:

 

 

"Our President conveys legitimacy on the mass murdering head of a gulag nation in exchange for recycled platitudes, alienates our closest allies, praises the world’s autocrats and our homegrown white supremacists, jeopardizes our economy with threats of a trade war, commits atrocious human rights violations at our border, lets his family profit to the tune of tens of millions from outside businesses while they serve in the White House on nepotistic appointments (and seek to deprive those with pre-existing conditions of healthcare), freely accepts emoluments, trashes the government ethics program, and subverts our justice system.

 

We’ve spent tens of millions of tax dollars on his visits to his properties, where he frequently golfs and always promotes his businesses. His cabinet emulates his behavior as the infection seeps ever deeper into institutions intended to protect democracy and resist corruption. Our diplomatic agency has been gutted and our longstanding military alliances have been frayed. Serious questions have arisen as to the influence of Trump’s finances on his policy decisions in specific instances, but the majority in Congress looks the other way and prefers to investigate his investigators and his vanquished political rival.

 

Our high court upholds a state’s effort to deprive our most vulnerable citizens of the most basic right guaranteed by a republic — the right to vote — while consistently preventing states from putting an end to the mass slaughter of school kids and others. Allies of our president are concerned that his alleged “lawyer,” who acts more like a business associate than a legal representative, may “flip” (something that can only happen among criminals), so they have openly challenged the legitimacy of any potential inquiry into criminality beyond the scope of foreign election interference, such as money laundering.

 

Meanwhile, no one is seriously looking into the effect of foreign inference on the last election or the extent to which vote tallies or registration records may have been affected (we simply don’t know), and even less is being done to safeguard the next election against the inevitable attack. Some respectable types dismissively paint those who emphasize the seriousness of the threat to our republic as alarmists. Trump’s enablers, in and out of government, titter or tsk about his many gaffs but normalize his behavior more every day.

 

The situation is bad. Don’t underestimate it."

And he is holding a summit in the near future with the very foreign leader that helped him win the election. 

 

Now what could they have to talk about about prior to the mid terms? 

 

Ready for a Putin like government here with fraudulent elections from now on? 

[DC Tom]

17 minutes ago, Logic said:

Walter Shaub, former director of the Office of Government Ethics, on Twitter today:

 

 

"Our President conveys legitimacy on the mass murdering head of a gulag nation in exchange for recycled platitudes, alienates our closest allies, praises the world’s autocrats and our homegrown white supremacists, jeopardizes our economy with threats of a trade war, commits atrocious human rights violations at our border, lets his family profit to the tune of tens of millions from outside businesses while they serve in the White House on nepotistic appointments (and seek to deprive those with pre-existing conditions of healthcare), freely accepts emoluments, trashes the government ethics program, and subverts our justice system.

 

We’ve spent tens of millions of tax dollars on his visits to his properties, where he frequently golfs and always promotes his businesses. His cabinet emulates his behavior as the infection seeps ever deeper into institutions intended to protect democracy and resist corruption. Our diplomatic agency has been gutted and our longstanding military alliances have been frayed. Serious questions have arisen as to the influence of Trump’s finances on his policy decisions in specific instances, but the majority in Congress looks the other way and prefers to investigate his investigators and his vanquished political rival.

 

Our high court upholds a state’s effort to deprive our most vulnerable citizens of the most basic right guaranteed by a republic — the right to vote — while consistently preventing states from putting an end to the mass slaughter of school kids and others. Allies of our president are concerned that his alleged “lawyer,” who acts more like a business associate than a legal representative, may “flip” (something that can only happen among criminals), so they have openly challenged the legitimacy of any potential inquiry into criminality beyond the scope of foreign election interference, such as money laundering.

 

Meanwhile, no one is seriously looking into the effect of foreign inference on the last election or the extent to which vote tallies or registration records may have been affected (we simply don’t know), and even less is being done to safeguard the next election against the inevitable attack. Some respectable types dismissively paint those who emphasize the seriousness of the threat to our republic as alarmists. Trump’s enablers, in and out of government, titter or tsk about his many gaffs but normalize his behavior more every day.

 

The situation is bad. Don’t underestimate it."

 

Wow.  That is gatorstupid.

[row_33]

8 minutes ago, DC Tom said:

 

Wow.  That is gatorstupid.

 

walter can go and suck it

 

[Tiberius]

Just now, DC Tom said:

 

Wow.  That is gatorstupid.

To a Trumptard it sure is. 

 

 

[Deranged Rhino]

3 minutes ago, DC Tom said:

 

Wow.  That is gatorstupid.

 

They've been clinging to one narrative for so long - despite there being no evidence to support it, just the affirmations from their echo chambers led by known liars (whose records are ignored) - that they can't turn back now. I've tried for over a year to provide a ladder to climb out of the disinformation cloud. Some took it, others burned it because their pride and ego are more important than truth. 

 

Some people are going to have a tougher time than others with what's to come. 

[Tiberius]

3 minutes ago, Deranged Rhino said:

 

They've been clinging to one narrative for so long - despite there being no evidence to support it, just the affirmations from their echo chambers led by known liars (whose records are ignored) - that they can't turn back now. I've tried for over a year to provide a ladder to climb out of the disinformation cloud. Some took it, others burned it because their pride and ego are more important than truth. 

 

Some people are going to have a tougher time than others with what's to come. 

You won't, you'll just make up some new BS, or better yet, just wait and go with the new lies Trump vomits out