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June 12, 2023

Silene at sunrise.

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21 comments:

wendybar said...: "Or the corporate journalists who every day have their friends in the FBI and CIA call them and pass them classified information, now acting aghast that someone would carelessly handle classified information.

Everything in DC is classified. They play leaking games with it daily.

Russiagate was nothing other than CIA and FBI - Jim Comey and John Brennan's friends - leaking classified information to the WP and NYT for completely political motives.

None was prosecuted. Nobody cares who leaked NSA transcripts of Flynn and Kislyak.

Leon Panetta leaked classified docs to Zero Dark Thirty producers for a pro-Obama movie. Obama's CIA Director David Petraeus gave the most sensitive docs in the USG - names of covert agents - to his mistress. Hillary and Biden had them strewn over their house.

It's all a joke." - Glenn Greenwald; 6/12/23, 12:48 PM
WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...: wow cool. What are those?

they look like flower alien pods. Lovely.; 6/12/23, 12:52 PM
Sydney said...: Love the way the light hits them in the first photo.; 6/12/23, 1:27 PM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: Tara Reade's attorney released additional information about the DOJ subpoenas used to intimidate her and the warning she got from Congress in April that her arrest "was imminent." What does our Russian expert Inga say about those developments? Maybe Inga can offer a defense of Dark Brandon's fascist response to the pain of a woman he raped and laughed about.; 6/12/23, 1:54 PM
Humperdink said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 6/12/23, 2:36 PM
Humperdink said...: Anyone recall a Biden aide or staff member being raided by the FBI using a SWAT team? Asking for a friend.; 6/12/23, 2:40 PM
Humperdink said...: Trump throws down the gauntlet. Today from his Truth Social account:

"NOW THAT THE “SEAL” IS BROKEN, IN ADDITION TO CLOSING THE BORDER & REMOVING ALL OF THE “CRIMINAL” ELEMENTS THAT HAVE ILLEGALLY INVADED OUR COUNTRY, MAKING AMERICA ENERGY INDEPENDENT, & EVEN DOMINANT AGAIN, & IMMEDIATELY ENDING THE WAR BETWEEN RUSSIA & UKRAINE, I WILL APPOINT A REAL SPECIAL “PROSECUTOR” TO GO AFTER THE MOST CORRUPT PRESIDENT IN THE HISTORY OF THE USA, JOE BIDEN, THE ENTIRE BIDEN CRIME FAMILY, & ALL OTHERS INVOLVED WITH THE DESTRUCTION OF OUR ELECTIONS, BORDERS, & COUNTRY ITSELF!"; 6/12/23, 2:46 PM
wendybar said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 6/12/23, 5:03 PM
wendybar said...: Funny, who stayed SILENT when he shouldn't have, but is spouting off today like the Progressive hypocritical Deep Stater that he is showing himself to be...

"Trump Attorney General William Barr revealed in an interview with Fox News Sunday host Shannon Bream on Sunday that he was intimately involved in the Biden Ukraine bribe FD-1023 investigation in the summer of 2020. Bream did not press Barr on why he failed to inform the American people in the months leading up to the presidential election that Joe Biden had been credibly accused of taking a $5 million bribe from the Ukrainian energy firm Burisma when he was vice president to influence U.S. foreign policy in Ukraine and get a prosecutor who was investigating Burisma fired at the time Biden’s son Hunter was serving on the board of Burisma.

The apparent purpose of Bream’s interview was to have Barr attack President Trump over the classified documents prosecution. The questions about the FD-1023 were an afterthought at the tail end of the interview with Bream not mentioning that Joe Biden himself was accused of taking a $5 million bribe or that it involved Burisma."
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/trump-attorney-general-william-barr-reveals-he-had/; 6/12/23, 5:04 PM
tim in vermont said...: Congress should immediately convent an impeachment hearing, since it seems like doing that gives Congress access to whatever the hell it wants, even stuff that five years ago, we would have all thought were protected by attorney client privilege. Since they have been going after Trump, we find out that that's just a thin tissue of protection that any prosecutor can simply swipe away with a fantasy or a conspiracy theory.

My goodness, recordings of Joe and Hunter.... Calling Rosemary Woods!

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/grassley-foreign-national-who-allegedly-bribed-joe-hunter-biden-has-recordings-them

Democrats are just laughing though, because they know for a fact that we have a two sided justice system, one for their enemies, and one for their friends. Democrats have not just won an election, but "seized power," and they know it.; 6/12/23, 5:17 PM
tim in vermont said...: " Maybe Inga can offer a defense of Dark Brandon's fascist response to the pain of a woman he raped and laughed about."

Inga has already explained to us that all of Bill Clinton's victims wanted it, I mean who wouldn't right? So sure, Trump is put on trial in New York City and the jury is told that even an "unwanted peck on the cheek" is sexual assault, and still they didn't find that he had done even that, but if that's the standard, then surely an unwanted bout of hair sniffing, and surely, based on Tara's mother's call to Larry King which was made at the time, *something* happened, surely unwanted hair sniffing also counts as sexual assault.; 6/12/23, 5:21 PM
tim in vermont said...: Still smokey, BTW. I was just looking at the US Open coverage in Los Angeles, and their air quality is pristine compared to Vermont right now.; 6/12/23, 5:23 PM
tim in vermont said...: Despite extraordinarily intense coverage of all aspects of Hillary Clinton’s emails, all commentary to date (to my knowledge), even the underlying FBI Report, has paid little to no attention to the destruction of Huma Abedin’s emails, also stored on the Clinton server. Further, even with the greatly increased interest in Huma’s emails arising from the discoveries on Anthony Weiner’s laptop, speculation has mostly focused on the potential connection to deleted Hillary emails, rather than the potentially much larger tranche of deleted Huma emails from the Clinton server (many of which would, in all probability, be connected to Hillary in any event.)
Both Hillary and Huma had clintonemail accounts. Huma was unique in that respect among Hillary’s coterie. (Chelsea Clinton, under the pseudonym of Diane Reynolds, was the only other person with a clintonemail address.)
The wiping and bleaching of the Clinton server and backups can be conclusively dated to late March 2015. All pst files for both Hillary and Huma’s accounts were deleted and bleached in that carnage. . - ClimateAudit 2016

If this isn't obstruction of justice, what is? But Reuters explains that the circumstances are "very different," you see, Trump has an 'R' after his name, which is all that is required to whip up 37 felonies.

And you guys believe this China did the virus all by its lonesome as a bioweapon and we need to fight them in a war because, you know, our trusted media tells us so! Our press is completely captive of the regime.; 6/12/23, 5:32 PM
wendybar said...: DC_Draino
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People are missing something big in this Senator Grassley bombshell

The reference to the 17 audio recordings was *redacted* when shown to House members

Some people in the FBI are about to be in big trouble w/House Republicans

They just got caught hiding evidence

"Sen. Chuck Grassley took to the floor Monday to say that the foreign national has 17 audio recordings to back up the bribery claim: 15 between him and Hunter Biden and 2 with then-Vice President Joe Biden."
https://twitter.com/ColumbiaBugle/status/1668374538885689346?s=20; 6/12/23, 6:36 PM
Sally327 said...: I wonder if Jack Teixeira should consider his prosecution to be politically motivated. He's the 21 year old MA National Guardsman who is currently sitting in jail awaiting trial for posting classifed documents on some gamer site. He's been refused bail.

If Trump shouldn't be prosecuted, why should this kid be hung out to dry?; 6/12/23, 7:02 PM
Eva Marie said...: Robert Barnes postulates that the real reason for the Trump indictment is to give Biden a justification for pardoning himself and his family. Win or lose, he can let the healing begin by the very bipartisan act of pardoning Trump, Trump associates, deep state actors, his own family members and himself.; 6/12/23, 7:04 PM
Original Mike said...: "The reference to the 17 audio recordings was *redacted* when shown to House members"

I saw that. What possible (legitimate) reason could the FBI have for that redaction?; 6/12/23, 7:54 PM
wendybar said...: Sally327 said...
I wonder if Jack Teixeira should consider his prosecution to be politically motivated. He's the 21 year old MA National Guardsman who is currently sitting in jail awaiting trial for posting classifed documents on some gamer site. He's been refused bail.

If Trump shouldn't be prosecuted, why should this kid be hung out to dry?

6/12/23, 7:02 PM

Ask Hillary and Joe Biden.; 6/12/23, 8:31 PM
tim in vermont said...: Can Joe Biden pardon away the taxes he owes on all of those bribes?

"Some people in the FBI are about to be in big trouble w/House Republicans"

Oh my.; 6/13/23, 5:53 AM
tim in vermont said...: Remember when Hillary wrote on her email server she kept in her bathroom, in thinly disguised terms, about that Iranian guy who helped us spy on Iran's nuclear program and when the emails came out, the Iranians took him from his cell and hanged him?; 6/13/23, 5:57 AM
boatbuilder said...: If only the Republicans could find a House member brazenly dishonest enough to invent a fake transcript of the recordings of the President and then pretend to read those fake transcripts on the floor of the House. Then they could impeach the President based on the fake transcript.

Isn't that how things work these days?; 6/13/23, 6:37 AM