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Jan 26 2018

Reflections after over 7 Decades of Acquiring Knowledge from Academia and Real life.


I was always way to smart for my own good and, because I was an Alpha Male, it took a while to get myself under control.  So after I graduated from Ohio University in 1965 after taking every economics course the school offered and getting an A in all save one course, economic history where I got a B because what could those old guys possibly know so I didn’t really pay attention,  I was drafted. Well now my real education started so the government needing lots of young Lieutenants talked me into applying for Officers Candidate School (OCS) and of course I accepted and I went to the last class that was actually trying to make good officers, meaning that we only graduated about half the class of some 220 plus that started.  That class was composed of either college gads or existing army Non Commissioned Officers (NCO’s) so we were the best there were. I graduated in the top  15% as I remember it

After getting my Commission (O5 331 798, today SSN) I went to Jump school and then to Special Warfare training  and by the fall of 67′ I was a First Lieutenant Green Beret (MOS 31542, today 18A) and on my way to Vietnam. I was assigned as Executive Officer (XO) of Special Force camp A-341 (today it would be ODA-341) Bu Dop in III Corps on the Cambodian border. It was a hot area as the infiltration into the south was in full press in preparation for what was to be TET at the end of January 1968 (Google it).  After two months of steady combat on patrols our camp was attacked and I and two other Green Berets were blown up when rounds hit an ammo dump. While in the hospital in the states I experience something that changed me forever.

On the night of December 7/8 1967 I was mortally wounded (all mortal wounds don’t kill you immediately). I was medivaced and sent to a hospital in Texas where I meet the grim reaper soon after arriving. He told me he was coming for me but I told him I wasn’t ready, he laughed at me and said he was going to come anyway. I told him it didn’t matter whether he came or not I just wasn’t going with him. But he wasn’t to be denied and so he visited me every night in the form of a large Bengal tiger and we battled all night for the rights to my soul. He was a very vicious and determined tiger and he tried his best to rip my soul from my body with his sharp teeth and claws but I was strong and stubborn and I would not let go. This battle lasted for two months and he chewed me down to 95 pounds from the 185 I was but in the end I prevailed and he disappeared and I was not dead and he had to settle for taking the souls of the two men who were standing next to me in Vietnam. God bless them I have still not forgotten them and hope to join them again some day in the not to distant future.

As I stated when I started to write this post I was a bit arrogant in the beginning and I was prideful of my intelligence and I had dismissed the belief in any GOD. But what I experienced in the previous paragraph showed me that my mind was totally dependent on my sensory input and that when something changed the input (shock from the wounds) that would change my world and I would slip into another reality and the worse part was I did not know I was in that dream. Those dreams were real!

Why does this matter well It taught me humility and the fact that once you have died and come back there was nothing on this earth that could ever bother me again; except maybe piss off my wife (that is not a good thing to do).  The other thing it taught me took a bit longer as a couple of decades later in the 90’s I started to do research on why we were in Vietnam since it was such disaster to the country (I lost over 58,000 brothers), how could that have happened.

My Team in Nam

Well now that research opened a real bag of worms!

It started with reading a bunch of books had been written by then and since I was a former Green Beret I used those old record as a start. Back in the day Green Berets were trained to be dropped behind enemy lines and start Guerilla resistance operations against who we would be fighting; much as the WW II OSS as that was our heritage.  Each group had a specific area of the world that we studied in detail and language training always part of the training.  So why was this important, we’ll its very simple; we were trained in methods to bring down a sitting government in another country; this presupposes that we are at war with them. The reason Green Berets were in Vietnam was the military assumed that if we were trained to be guerillas we would be good at fighting them. That might have been true, in theory, but it would have also been required that the Green Berets were running the show not the regular army and that the operation was not micro manage by the politicians.  But enough on that disaster, its a story for another day.

So back to my story, so after I had read several dozen books on the war I came to the conclusion that our government had no clue what they were doing or even how to do what they thought they were doing.  Along the way before I actually understood that I did write a book about my experiences in Vietnam, albeit from a naive point of view.  After finishing my first round of research I wrote a second book on how to prevent another Vietnam which obviously no one read as we are now in another long war with no end in sight.

In 1997 one of my daughters bought me a books as she knew I loved reading about history politics and government it was called The Fourth Turning and it was written by William Strauss and Neil Howe, who were the ones that coined the terms Generation X and the Millennials. This book should be read by everyone as it has predicted very accurately all that has happened over the past 21 years. So especially after 9/11 and then the economics crash of 2008 I was reading extensively about everything I could get my hands on on climate change the war on terror and politics. below is a sample.

I have read four anthologies on Moral or Political Philosophy which are: Classics of Political & Moral Philosophy first and second Editions by Steven M. Cahn, History of Political Philosophy Third Edition by Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey, On Politics by Alan Ryan and my favorite Natural Right and History by Leo Strauss. I have also read Smith’s The Theory of Moral Sentiments and most of the other better individual works from St. Tomas Aquinas, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau and of course Plato and Aristotle to name a few. Related but not directly is Alexis De Tocqueville’s Democracy in America one of the best books ever written on why America is great.

Just A sample of my books.

With a major in economics I have read and studied Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations, Karl Marx Capital Vol I, II, and III, and John Maynard Keynes The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money and lastly Milton & Rose Friedman’s Free To Choose.

But before I continue, but keep in mind that I now have a deep distrust of the Federal government (both parties), I was designing fuel cells for the Department of Defense (DOD) before 9/11 and since I was working in the energy field and since I also thought global warming was a real concern since environmental issues. pollution, were real I thought I would read up on the subject. Since I had worked at GE building electric vehicles I have good knowledge in energy related issues and it wasn’t hard to find the sources to get caught up on the subject. So I started to read about global warming, as it was then called, and the more I read the more I saw that something was seriously wrong . I will say that I was surprised at what I found as I am a very technical person who watched on TV man walk on the moon and I never suspected that science had been taken over by the politicians. But I will tell you now with certainty that what we are being told about climate is a total fabrication. I did take Climatology in college by the way.

What I writing here now is a prelude to a book I’m now writing on Moral Philosophy and I think I will finish it by the end of next month. When I do I’ll start putting sections or chapters on my blog so I will be able to get my view out. It is in line with the started purpose of my blog to inform the public to the best of my ability on current subjects.

I will add one more thing as a teaser — if you remember I explained when I started writing this post how back in the late 60’s the US Military taught me how to bring down a government. Now just so it isn’t misunderstood that is a massive effort that one person can not do and I am a bit to old for that kind of work. What I am saying is that since I was trained to do something its easy to see when that training is being used somewhere.

My Office

More to come later.

Jan 26 2018

Controversial FBI Officials Linked To Wall Street Journal and Washington Post Leaks…


Re-Posted from The Conservative Tree House on January 26, 2018 by

There has been a great deal of speculation about FBI Agent Peter Strzok and FBI Attorney Lisa Page leaking to media in their efforts to shape stories conducive to their pro-Clinton/anti-Trump efforts. Prior reporting showed the strong possibility Page and Strzok were leaking to the Wall Street Journal.

“Article is out, but hidden behind paywall so can’t read it,” Page texted Strzok on Oct. 24, 2016.

“Wsj? Boy that was fast,” Strzok texted back, using the initials of the famed financial newspaper. “Should I ‘find’ it and tell the team?” (link)

Some new information today, and some additional research, and we can not only confirm the prior suspicions outlined by John Solomon (The Hill) – but we also discover the actual Wall Street Journal reporter they were leaking to.

Yesterday Senator Chuck Grassley released a series of text messages between Page and Strzok (full pdf here). Within the release there is a portion of messaging where Lisa Page is identified on the phone with “Devlin” (see page #5 – screen grab below):

[Peter Strzok is ‘INBOX’ and Lisa Page is “OUTBOX’]

It now appears the “Devlin” in question is former Wall Street Journal National Security reporter Devlin Barrett, currently with The Washington Post.

Here’s why? On October 28th, 2016 (as above), at the exact time the re-opening of the Clinton investigation hit the media news-cycle, Page and Strzok were texting.  From the released messaging we see at 5:19pm Lisa Page is on the phone with “Devlin”:

♦Page: 5:19pm “Still on the phone with Devlin. Mike’s phone is ON FIRE.”

♥Strzok: 5:29pm “You might wanna tell Devlin he should turn on CNN, there’s news on.”

♦Page: 5:30pm “He knows. He just got handed a note.”

♥Strzok: 5:33pm “Ha. He asking about it now?”

♦Page: 5:34pm “Yeah. It was pretty funny. Coming now.”

At 5:36pm Devlin Barrett tweets:

Apparently the “per sources” reference is FBI Attorney Lisa Page and FBI Agent Peter Strzok leaking to Wall Street Journal reporter Devlin Barrett.

Looking back upon the released text messages, and comparing them to reporting by Devlin Barrett, another specific article jumps out.

On October 23rd, 2016, Devlin Barrett reported on a scoop:

“Scoop: McAuliffe PAC gave $467,500 to campaign of wife of senior FBI official who oversaw Clinton email probe” (link)

(Tweet Link) and (Story Link)

This October 23rd, 2016, “scoop” aligns with the internal text messaging discussion between Agent Peter Strzok and FBI Attorney Lisa Page who were discussing James Comey’s chief-of-staff James Rybicki recommending that FBI Asst. Director Andrew “Andy” McCabe should be recused from the Hillary Clinton investigation.

From the messaging the recusal was discussed mid-through-late October 2016:

00:52am …”if it’s a matter similar to those we’ve been talking about lately”…

It looks like the sourcing for the exclusive report by Devlin Barrett, on the controversy of Andrew McCabe and his financial connections to Clinton/McAuliffe, was again Lisa Page and Peter Strzok; key people within the Hillary Clinton email investigation.

A third likely connection related to the relationship between Strzok, Page and Devlin Barrett comes after Barrett leaves the Wall Street Journal and begins working for The Washington Post.

Barrett’s use of Page and Strzok on this story is actually quite odd because the story is about Page and Strzok.

On December 15th, 2017, after the revelations behind the Mueller investigation having to remove Agent Strzok and Attorney Page as a result of the Inspector General outlining their extreme political bias, the couples text messages were immediately part of the story.

One of the Barrett Washington Post stories was about those messages between the couple communicating via phones “that can’t be traced”.

National security journalist Devlin Barrett wrote a story specifically using “sources” to explain the context of the Page/Strzok message about phones was to hide the affair:

(Twitter Link and WaPo Story Link)

By Devlin Barrett – Two senior FBI officials who texted each other about President Trump and Hillary Clinton relied on work phones to try to hide their romance from a spouse and made the bureau’s probe of Clinton’s private email server their cover story for being in such close contact, according to people familiar with the matter.

The two officials, senior FBI lawyer Lisa Page and senior counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok, are the subjects of an internal investigation that has roiled the FBI and emboldened its Republican critics who have accused the bureau of political bias. Had Page and Strzok used personal phones instead, people close to case say, it’s unlikely their text messages would have come to the FBI’s attention.

The texts, a trove of which were released by the Justice Department this week, have raised questions about the FBI’s investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server while she was secretary of state and special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s probe of whether any Trump associates coordinated with Russian officials to interfere with the presidential election. Page and Strzok, who have declined to comment, were involved in both.  (read more)

In this example there’s a really odd dynamic about using the subject of the article as a source of information on the subject of the article.  “According to people familiar with the matter”, is likely to be Peter Strzok and Lisa Page themselves.

That’s perhaps the weirdest example of journalistic ethical juxtaposition in the past few months.   Again, “sources say” now appears to be reporter Devlin Barrett writing an article based on direct information from Lisa Page and Peter Strzok who were the subjects of the story.  Obviously they would have a vested legal interest in shaping/spinning that story in a very specific direction.

Knowing that DOJ/FBI Attorney Lisa Page and FBI Agent Peter Strzok were key sources for Barrett’s stories at the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post, you can go through all of his old articles at both publications and clearly identify stories were Strzok and Page  were leaking to him.

Lastly, knowing Strzok and Page were key DOJ/FBI investigators on: #1) the Hillary Clinton investigation; #2) the Trump/Russia Counterintelligence Investigation; and, #3) the Robert Mueller investigation; and knowing they were leaking to the media to shape the outcomes of their own investigative narrative in each example; it makes you wonder who else within the DOJ and FBI team was also leaking to the media.

Then again, FBI Director James Comey was doing the same thing.

It seems to be a strange way to run a department that depends on integrity.

https://www.scribd.com/embeds/370009743/content?start_page=1&view_mode=&access_key=key-iNJAqLswhZHrfFuNQfXk

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Jan 26 2018

House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte Discusses Justice Department Corruption…


Re-Posted from The Conservative Tree House on January 26, 2018 by

House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte is a key figure in the overall investigation and reform effort needed within the U.S. Justice System because the House Judicial Committee holds primary oversight over the U.S. Department of Justice.

By statutory construct the DOJ and FBI are directly and primarily accountable to Chairman Bob Goodlatte and the House Judicial Committee, on all matters.  This primary oversight structure is why Chairman Goodlatte and DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz are working so closely during the ongoing justice department investigation.

Chairman Goodlatte appears on Sean Hannity television show to discuss one of the more concerning and troubling recent revelations about the FBI; and their investigative bias within the Hillary Clinton investigation and subsequent surveillance on her political opponent Donald trump.

It is interesting this text sequence from FBI agent Peter Strzok happens on the same day (September 10th, 2016) that Hillary Clinton made her infamous “Basket of Deplorables” remark. –SEE HERE–

We leaned on Treeper  DaveNYviii ‘s exceptional research here as a summary guide.  [THREAD HERE]

♦The FD-302 is an FBI form that is used to document interviews/interrogations. It details questions asked and answers given as well as who was present during the interview.

♦The FD-1023 is an FBI form that is uses to document meetings between FBI and sources. It does not necessarily discuss what was said. It is also called a CHS Report. (Confidential Human Source).

The 1023 gives extensive detail about the informant and what is to be asked, as well as ‘by whom’ and ‘where’ and ‘when’.  However, it does not give the informants answers or details of the meeting. That is where the 302 comes in.  The 302 reveals the content of interview, as well as identifies all participants.

The investigative 302’s and 1023’s would identify people involved on both sides; the informants (sources) and the DOJ/FBI personnel in contact with the sources. This is a critical part of the investigative material needed to understand what was taking place during the FBI investigation.

Remember the investigative batting order:  Nunes first (Intelligence Community), Grassley 2nd (FBI and Steele Dossier), Goodlatte 3rd (DOJ via OIG), and IG Horowitz is clean-up with his year-long investigative evidence.  Each committee chair has a specific role to play in the investigative outline and breaking down all of the inherent issues.

Jan 26 2018

Mueller is After Trump to Obstruction not Russia


Armstrong Economics Blog/Politics

Re-Posted Jan 26, 2018 by Martin Armstrong

 

Robert Mueller is trying to build a possible obstruction case to take down Trump. There is no case for a conspiracy with Russia. Mueller is certainly not a fan of Trump as the rumors paint it in Washington. Nothing would crown his career more than taking down a president.

Trump is often his own worst enemy. He clearly does not understand the legal system. Granted, he knew there was no Russian connection. If there had been, it would have been leaked to CNN and it would be around the world months ago. Mueller, in my opinion, has abused his entire authority for he was charged to investigate a Russian connection. That failed, so he has to find something to do to justify all the money he gets.

Trump had ordered the firing last June of Mueller according to leaks. He eventually backed-off after the White House counsel threatened to resign rather than carry out the directive. This is being called the “West Wing Confrontation” and Mueller learned about the episode in the process of interrogating former and current senior White House officials.

Mueller is examining a possible obstruction case to bring down Trump and chalk one up for the Bureaucrat team. The real question is rather blunt. Is this now a personal vendetta since there was no Russian connection? If a special prosecutor is appointed to investigate let’s say you killed someone and that proves to be false, should they then make a case against you for tax evasion just so they win something? Is that abuse of power itself? Seems to me Congress should be investigating Mueller for abuse of power.

Jan 25 2018

Chairman Chuck Grassley Releases New Batch of FBI Text Messages and Questions FBI Director Chris Wray


Re-Posted from The Conservative Tree House on January 25, 2018 by

Senator Chuck Grassley, Chairman of Senate Judiciary Committee, releases a new batch of text messages between FBI Agent Peter Strzok and DOJ/FBI Attorney Lisa Page (full pdf).

In the text exchange Peter Strzok is ‘INBOX’ and Lisa Page is ‘OUTBOX’

https://www.scribd.com/embeds/370009743/content?start_page=1&view_mode=&access_key=key-iNJAqLswhZHrfFuNQfXk

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Additionally, Chuck Grassley sends a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray (full pdf) with questions about the substance surrounding the Text Messages.

https://www.scribd.com/embeds/370009680/content?start_page=1&view_mode=&access_key=key-ATGhBTuHjbPvhlu2GbHW

Jan 25 2018

IG Michael Horowitz Informs Grassley, Goodlatte and Nunes of FBI Text Recovery…


Re-Posted from The Conservative Tree House on January 25, 2018 by

Always remember the batting order: Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes was first up; closely coordinating with Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (2nd up); closely coordinating with House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte (3rd up); all of them coordinating with the DOJ Office of Inspector General Michael Horowitz (clean up).  This is a long developed plan.

In order to carry out the entire reform operation, communication is made through public letters. Sunlight is part of the strategy.  Questioning each other publicly and answering each other publicly is part of the strategy… the media is not used to this. Deception needs whispers. Deception doesn’t like transparency.

IG Michael Horowitz shares his responsive letter to Grassley, Nunes and Goodlatte (pdf link here).  Pay attention to Page#1 second paragraph, and the last paragraph on page two:

(pdf link)

Beginning Page #1, Paragraph #2: Inspector General Michael Horowitz is openly responding to Senator Grassley, saying the FBI told his office the exact same thing about losing the Strzok and Page text messages.

However, in paragraph #3 Horowitz states as a result of the congressional action; and as a result of Attorney General Jeff Sessions responsive engagement therein; his office received the pressure (help) it needed to get DOJ/FBI forensic tools activated to find the texts.

Reminder:

(LINK to Back Story)

This is exactly why the White Hats (Nunes, Grassley, Goodlatte and Horowitz) are communicating publicly.  They are using public pressure, ie. outrage therein, upon the DOJ and FBI to force compliance.

The White Hat team are telling us, the public, what is going on.  We are responding to what is going on.  Our response to the sunlight is causing changes in behavior. That internal (amid themselves) and external (with public) communication collaboration is needed because the entities within the DOJ and FBI are working against investigative interests.

Those who have participated with the historic corruption within the DOJ and FBI are trying to stop oversight from exposing their activity.  The oversight is smartly using public sunlight to expose the road-blocks; this approach puts the internal corruption team on their heels.

It is critical to understand how this intensely modern-era communication plan is using social media (and new-media leverage), to working around the traditional U.S. media who align with the Black Hats in the DOJ and FBI.

We noted this strategy early in December.  I’m repeating it here for added emphasis:

The text messages between FBI Agent Peter Strozk and his mistress, FBI lawyer Lisa Page, were originally released to Fox News and CBS. SEE HERE and SEE HERE.

The messages reflect a strong bias against President Trump. However, the bigger story is not the anti-Trump bias within the text communication, the BIGGER story is why the Department of Justice, Office of Inspector General (OIG), began even looking at Agent Peter Strozk’s communication in the first place.

Remember, the original mandate by the Inspector General’s office was initiated to review and discover any politicization of the FBI and/or DOJ officials.

After news broke of Strzok’s removal from investigative duty within the FBI counterintelligence unit, what the OIG responding statement said was for 11 months the Dept of Justice OIG office has been investigating the politicization within the DOJ and FBI and deciding if the actions, or lack of action, was driven by the political ideology of the participants therein:

 

(pdf Link)

In essence the IG began looking for any investigative issues that might show how political bias might have resulted in manipulated or changed investigative outcomes. Potentially those outlined issues are brutally unethical, and most likely unlawful. Emphasis:

“The January 2017 statement issued by the Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General (OIG) announcing its review of allegations regarding various actions of the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation in advance of the 2016 election stated that the OIG review would, among other things, consider whether certain underlying investigative decisions were based on improper considerations and that we also would include issues that might arise during the course of the review.

The OIG has been reviewing allegations involving communications between certain individuals, and will report its findings regarding those allegations promptly upon completion of the review of them.”

It was within this IG investigation that SOMETHING pointed the investigative agents in the direction of FBI Agent Peter Strzok. What that something was and is remained an unknown variable in early December as the stories first broke. The outcome of the subsequent OIG inquiry led to Agent Strzok being removed mid-summer from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team.

There was some precipitating event that led the IG to investigate the communication of FBI Agent Strzok. That precipitating event or behavior is where the real story lies, and not in the downstream collection –and current release– of biased text messages between Strzok and his mistress FBI Attorney Lisa Page who worked for Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe.

Against the backdrop of current activity, and knowing there is a newly established special joint task force within the DOJ and FBI to identify leaks, we can reasonably speculate Agent Strzok was caught while the IG was investigating politicization, and the DOJ/FBI leak task force was hunting intelligence “leakers“.

As Judicial Committee Representative Jim Jordan rightly outlined, Agent Strzok would not likely be removed because he had biased text messages with his mistress. So long as that bias did not interfere with his work duty, there is no inherent issue.  Strzok was not in a position of supervision over Lisa Page so they could encounter like rabbits to their black-hats desire if their relationship was known by FBI leaders.  [Though there could be a blackmail angle specifically due to the counterintelligence nature of Strzok’s job.]

If FBI Agent Strzok was a “leaker” to the media, or worse, well, that becomes an entirely different kettle-o-fish. It appears from the text messages both Strzok and Page were leaking to The Washington Post and Politico. Getting caught as a leaker is likely the original reason Strzok was removed and reassigned to the HR post; not necessarily the bias; those discoveries came later.

The bias, writ large, becomes an issue later when there’s evidence of action taken as a result of that bias.  Agent Peter Strzok leaking information to the media; his changing the outcome of an FBI investigation into a political ally, Hillary Clinton; and his investigative involvement in the Trump Russia Conspiracy, via the Steele Dossier and FISA-702 abuse; and his role in targeting political opposition, well, that’s the real issue evident here.

AUGUST 2017 – […] A former FBI agent who worked with Strzok on and off over several years in the bureau’s counterintelligence division said that Strzok’s move to HR means he has now been separated from counterintelligence work altogether.

[…] Strzok’s departure also came one week after The Washington Post reported that Mueller had obtained a search warrant to raid the home of President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort. The Post report cited “people familiar with the search,” prompting questions about whether anyone on Mueller’s team had leaked the existence of the search warrant to the Post. (link)

Which leads us to the next headline story, EARLY DECEMBER 2017, that dovetails into this ideological weaponization by FBI/DOJ/DC officials leaking to the media.

Donald Trump Jr. has now written a letter of complaint to the House Rep. K. Michael Conaway, a Texas Republican who is heading the House Intelligence inquiry into Russian election interference. Don Jr’s outline specifically focuses on the erroneous leak to CNN about the content of a received email; and requests an investigation into how the leak took place:

The Washington Times reports:

[…] Republicans suspect that the staff of Rep. Adam Schiff, California Democrat, leaked the erroneous “scoop” to CNN. They say his staff regularly leaks, with CNN being a favorite, with a spin that is not accurate.

Mr. Schiff, who is a big fan of the discredited Trump dossier, appeared on TV afterward. Mr. Futerfas said he misrepresented his client’s testimony.

[…] Mr. Futerfas’s implication is that the leakers let the story catch fire on social media and other venues before correcting it.

“Ranking Member Schiff and his staff do not leak classified or confidential information, and any disclosure of non-public information by the congressional committees undertaking investigations is singularly unhelpful,” Mr. Schiff said in a statement. “It is imperative that all investigations into Russia’s covert political interference campaign operate with appropriate discretion and refrain from publicizing information for short-sighted political gain.” (read more)

Having some idea of how these DC investigative practices work, it is highly doubtful that Don Jr’s attorney self-initiated that complaint on his client’s behest.

There is a strong possibility the investigative unit, the new leak task-force, and/or the IG office, needs that initiating complaint in order to continue targeting the potential subjects of the leaks.

Given the recent activity surrounding the House Intelligence Committee, there is a better than good likelihood Minority Chairman Adam Schiff is one of the targets; and if the pattern exhibited within the Strzok investigation is followed, Schiff’s communications might also be monitored within the net as it is cast.

FBI Agent Peter Strzok’s former boss was Bill Priestap, FBI Asst. Director in charge of Counterintelligence. [The same Bill Priestap James Comey stated was the person who decided not to tell congressional oversight of the investigation] Bill Priestap’s boss was FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. McCabe was also Lisa Page’s boss. Directly above McCabe in the chain-of-command was FBI Director James Comey.  The Chief Legal Counsel for the entire unit was James Baker.

Notice how things are seeming to gain speed within the daily/weekly discovery cycles?

Jan 25 2018

Representative Matt Gaetz Discusses #ReleaseTheMemo


RE-Posted from The Conservative Tree House on January 24, 2018 by

Amid the latest Democrat dismissive statements surrounding evidence of FBI and DOJ having a ‘secret society’ of anti-Trumpers, and bias in Mueller’s FBI probe, Representative Matt Gaetz discusses events with Tucker Carlson:

Jan 25 2018

Report: DOJ Has Found and Is Recovering Missing FBI Text Messages…


Re-Posted from The Conservative Tree House on January 24, 2018 by

According to a Fox News exclusive report the Department of Justice has found the missing text messages between Agent Peter Strzok and FBI Attorney Lisa Page, and is in the process of recovering them.

(FOX NEWS) Fox News’ Sean Hannity said Wednesday night on “Hannity” that the Justice Department has started recovering some of the missing texts between FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, citing DOJ sources.

Federal law enforcement officials had notified congressional committees that a technical glitch affected thousands of FBI cellphones between Dec. 14, 2016 and May 17, 2017. This meant that 5 months’ worth of texts would be missing from Strzok and Page, both of whom are under scrutiny after it was revealed that the former members of special counsel Robert Mueller’s team exchanged anti-Trump texts during the 2016 presidential campaign.

Hannity said sources at the DOJ told him they have begun to recover some of the texts from that time period. Specific content from those texts has not been released.

The missing messages have caused problems for the Justice Department inspector general’s office.

Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Ron Johnson, R-Wis., and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, have sent a letter to Inspector General Michael Horowitz noting that the IG’s office said on Dec. 13 that it had all the messages between Strzok and Page between Nov. 30, 2016, and July 28, 2017.

Lawmakers later learned of the five-month gap.

The lawmakers said they wanted the IG’s office to “reconcile” those two points.

The five-month stretch of missing messages covers a period of time that includes President Donald Trump’s inauguration, the firings of National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and FBI Director James Comey and the standing-up of former FBI Director Mueller as special counsel to investigate alleged Trump campaign collusion with Russian officials during the 2016 election.  (link)

Jan 25 2018

Mueller to Interrogate Trump Under Oath – Comey Never Did That to Hillary


Armstrong Economics Blog/Politics

RE-Posted Jan 25, 2018 by Martin Armstrong

Robert Mueller’s investigation has climbed all the way up to Donald Trump himself. He is now demanding to interrogate Trump under oath in hopes of getting him on a perjury charge as he desperately tries to take him down on an obstruction of justice charge chalking one up for the Bureaucrats he has been protecting.

When Hillary was questioned by Comey, he didn’t even take notes. That is NEVER done and it was intentional to ensure she would NEVER be charged with anything. Mueller is clearly taking the direct opposite approach. He is obviously positioning himself to try to take Trump down on obstruction of justice since he cannot show he conspired with Putin. This is all about trying to Impeach Trump, and it is in accordance with the totally arbitrary rules for Impeachment that demonstrate there is no real rule of law in such matters.

This is how corruption is played out in the JUST-US Department. It is never about ethics or the rule of law. It is about how to win at all costs on anything even when they are dead wrong. The probe that was supposed to be about Russia interfering with the US elections turns into charging people with tax evasion and everything other than the purpose of the probe.

There is just no rule of law anymore. Comey and Mueller are former Department of Justice colleagues, and they have a work-related friendship. That is not considered to be a conflict of interest. Both are just bureaucrats and like the police, they need not be best friends to have each other’s back. There should have been ZERO contact. Working together is still a conflict of interest. Typically, even a CEO spends more time with his personal assistant than his wife even if there is no affair on the side. We all spend more time with the people we work with than typically anyone else. But of course, they do not consider Mueller working with Comey a conflict. Had he NOT known him at all, he would have charged Comey with leaking documents to the press with is also a felony.

This has been a war of Bureaucrats against Trump – make no mistake about that. He is not one of “THEM” and they only want career politicians in Washington. All others please get out. Mueller is out to overthrow the White House if he can.

Meanwhile, Senator Ron Johnson confirms that informant’s text messages infer there are bias issues in the FBI against Trump. He confirmed also that others are saying they have additional information about a secret society within the FBI trying to sabotage Trump to take him down as an outsider. There is clearly a war going on inside the bureaucracy and it is all about keeping control in Washington.

Jan 25 2018

The DEEP STATE


Armstrong Economics Blog/Conspiracy

Re-Posted Jan 25, 2018 by Martin Armstrong

COMMENT:  Hi Martin:

Thanks for the great conference in November–I really enjoyed it.

I thought you might want to use this quote some time, which would well relate to the present FBI scandal. It comes from Wm. Penn, whose “Some Fruits of Solitude” is included in Book 1 of the Harvard Classics Five Foot Shelf of Books. (The three authors in book 1 are Ben Franklin, John Woolman, and Wm. Penn)

Each sentence or idea in the “Solitude” is numbered. The one that I wanted send to you is no. 354.

354: The Prince cannot be preserv’d, but where the Minister is punishable: For People, as well as Princes, will not endure “Imperium in Imperio” (meaning An Empire within an Empire).

 JTB
REPLY: Yes, we have a very DEEP STATE and it is trying to defend itself by taking down Trump. They are completely destroying our future. They only see their own power and to hell with democracy, ethics, or God. It is all about them.