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Dec 18 2019

FISC Presiding Judge Rosemary Collyer Blasts FBI in Response to Evidence of FISA Fraud – Likely More Unreliable Applications…


Re-Posted from The Conservative Tree House on December 17, 2019 by 

To fully understand today’s response order (pdf here) from FISA Presiding Judge Rosemary Collyer to the DOJ/FBI, a little background context is needed.

As we noted, last weekend HPSCI ranking member Devin Nunes dropped the gloves and essentially stated the DOJ/FBI were conspiring against U.S. citizens with the wilful participation of the FISA court.  This was a stunning, albeit unreported, development.

Nunes change in posture is important because he outlined that without severe corrective action the FISC should be dismantled.  Additionally, on the specific issues of fraudulent applications to the FISC, in February  2018 Devin Nunes and former Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte had prior communication to Judge Collyer with warnings.  Very strongly worded warnings and concerns.  So there’s a history on this exact issue.

In their prior communication Judge Collyer, representing the judicial branch, downplayed the warning of the legislative branch, and told Nunes and Goodlatte to work it out with the executive branch.   The developments over the FISA fraud now stand against that context.

Today, Judge Rosemary Collyer responds to the DOJ and FBI about the inspector general investigation and subsequent findings. [pdf here – and full embed below] Having read her writings, and understanding that everything FISC is classified, it is possible to see between the lines she writes.

Collyer outlines in her order how the DOJ-NSD and FBI reported issues to the FISC in October and November prior to the IG report release.  Essentially, Collyer implies the DOJ informed the court that additional FISA applications should now be considered unreliable as a result of the FBI Office of General Counsel compromise (Kevin Clinesmith):

The Oct/November DOJ notification led to a December 5th order by Judge Collyer.

On December 9th, when the IG report was made public, the FISC was given a declassified version of the report and was able to review for the first time.  It was from that IG review that Collyer was able to establish the full context of the fraud upon the court.  The court was given no advanced notification as to the totality of fraud upon the FISC other than a preliminary ‘head’s up’ on the OGC Clinesmith compromise.

As a result of the IG report, Collyer is now telling the DOJ to declassify her response of December 5th, because she is going to make it public.  Judge Collyer is not asking the ODNI (ostensibly now AG Bill Barr), to declassify her response – she is telling him to declassify it.

Here’s the full opinion/order from Collyer:

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The bottom line is without actual legal accountability for the fraud, everything is just a matter of words without consequence.   Judge Collyer is angry, but so what… is she going to hold anyone accountable?  Thus the frustration outlined by Devin Nunes last weekend.

Judicial opinions, strongly worded letters, court orders, insufferable justifications, and government promises of corrective actions are meaningless when real Americans are harmed by gross abuses of power.

Devin Nunes had it right on Sunday…. shut down the FISA court!

Dec 18 2019

President Trump Letter to Speaker Pelosi: “You are declaring open war on American democracy”…


Re-Posted from The Conservative Tree house on December 17, 2019 by 

President Donald Trump sends a seven-page letter to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi outlining the executive concerns with the bastardization of a legislative impeachment process that will forever change the landscape of our constitutional republic.

…”You are turning a policy disagreement between two branches into an impeachable offense – it is no more legitimate than the executive branch charging members of congress with crimes for the lawful exercise of legislative power”…

[pdf link is HERE and full letter embed below]

Dec 18 2019

House Rules Committee Constructs Rules for Wed Impeachment Vote – 2:00pm ET Livestream


Re-Posted from The Conservative Tree House on December 17, 2019 by 

The House Rules Committee is constructing the rules that will govern the House of Representatives’ vote on the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump tomorrow. The House Rules Committee is led by Democrat Rep. Jim McGovern.

The rules and procedures debate is following along party lines.

PBS Livestream Link – Fox News Livestream Link

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Dec 17 2019

Resist Gun Confiscation!


MOLON LABE

Virginia Governor Ralph Northam has a plan to confiscate guns in his state. He uses the usual friendly catchwords such as “common sense” gun control and “gun safety” and the “enough is enough” argument.

In order to ‘help’ people, the authoritarians insist on trampling on our Constitution, which they consider an antique standing in the way of their power. They bypass our Bill of Rights by enacting their own laws. Laws limiting free speech. Laws that steal your hard-earned money. Laws that take away your ability to defend yourself and your family. Laws that prevent you from resisting government tyranny.

In order to take away freedom, the Virginia governor and his Democrat-controlled legislature plan on banning on ‘assault’ weapons as well as limiting handgun purchases.

This should come as no surprise—especially considering that Northam is aligned with the billionaire Michael Bloomberg.

For decade the left have conducted gun control in seemingly small and ‘reasonable’ steps. This kind of incrementalism will lead to a total gun ban and an end to our Second Amendment. This is what the globalists, the UN, and Democrats want. Once we’re disarmed, it will be over and our slavery will become complete.

It is the duty of all citizens to defend our rights. When tyrants want to trample on our rights with their ‘laws’ (that cannot usurp our Constitution) then it’s our duty to speak out loudly against such laws and actively disobey them. I commend the patriots in Virginia who are declaring their counties to be ‘sanctuaries’ for the Second Amendment.

Our Fourth Amendment is already gone. They want to limit our free speech with their damnable ‘hate speech’ laws. They want control over our health with their damnable mandatory vaccination laws. They want our guns. Our weapons are our last defense against a capriciously insane government that tramples on our freedom.

The gun grab in Virginia is a trial balloon, a test of America’s resolve to protect our second amendment.

It’s time to rebel against the tyrants.

—Ben Garrison

Dec 17 2019

Home Schooling Rising As Alternative to Vaccines


Armstrong Economics Blog/Disease

Re-Posted Dec 17, 2019 by Martin Armstrong

My concern about this vaccine movement is straight-forward – NOBODY IS ABOVE THE LAW! Why do Pharmaceutical Companies need absolute immunity if the vaccines they are forcing on children are safe? There should be testing of the children who have died to determine what combination of vaccines and in what order they might become lethal weapons to certain children.

When you go to a doctor, they ask you right away are you allergic to any medicine or anything in particular. They do NOT do that with children starting to vaccinate them at birth. There is a lower safety standard when it comes to vaccines and children. You should not find out if your child is allergic to something because it killed them.

Vaccines should not be mandated. Kids come home from school and are always bringing various colds they then share with the parents. Vaccines do not create a perfect world. End the absolute immunity and then perhaps the Pharmaceutical Companies just might actually do what they are supposed to do – ensure their vaccines are safe. Why pay for that research if they can never be sued?

Most states do allow families to claim religious exemptions to mandated vaccinations, but that is changing and the Pharmaceutical Companies have been bribing politicians around the country to end even the freedom of religious exemptions. New Jersey would have joined New York, California, Maine, Mississippi, and West Virginia as states requiring that all children enrolled in school be vaccinated unless they have a valid medical reason. These are the states that demonstrate how corrupt governments are within those states. Three of the most tax abusive states are included; California, New York, and New Jersey. If you have small children, and you will NEVER be able to retire in these states, it is time to starting looking for alternatives.

The New Jersey Legislature, at the last minute, postponed the vote on what would be one of the strictest vaccine laws in the nation. New Jersey postponed a final vote on a bill that would have ended religious exemptions to vaccine requirements for students enrolled in any school or college, public or private.

California, which claims it is liberal, is actually very authoritarian. It is one of only a few states that does not allow parents to opt-out of vaccines due to their religious beliefs. California actually rejects the First Amendment and the freedom of religion. This is really strange for a state that protects illegal aliens and is anti-Trump but not children. If we follow the money from Pharmaceutical Companies, it demonstrates that California will flip if you pay-off the politicians.

Interestingly enough, I had not really paid much attention to the Church of Scientology. I knew it began in Southern California. One night I went to a high-end steak restaurant in Tampa named Berns, which is rather famous. I discovered that even Tom Cruise moved from California to Clearwater, Florida a few miles from where I live. I had found out only because we had the same sports car and people thought I was Cruise when I pulled into a restaurant (the disappointment on their faces when I got out was overwhelming). Nonetheless, Scientology’s largest headquarters and religious retreat was created in Clearwater, Florida which is the largest Church of Scientology in the world. They escaped the vaccines and the taxes of California, which I found interesting.

Besides chasing out a lot of famous people, California has also set a new record. As of the end of June the school year, there were 6,741 home-schooled kindergartners without their vaccine shots in California, compared with 1,880 in the 2016-17 school year, according to state data. The loop-hole people are moving toward is home-schooling.

It just seems like the first step with the Pharmaceutical Companies is to REPEAL their absolute immunity and REPEAL absolute vaccine requirements. The standard vaccines that have been around for decades are one thing. As I said, I was vaccinated as were my children. But there were no way 70+ vaccines back then. Perhaps less is better. They should provide the statistics on each vaccine and let the parent decide. Major life-threatening diseases are one thing. All of these other vaccines may be just too much.

 

Dec 17 2019

If Vaccines are Safe Why Did Congress Eliminate Your Right to Sue Pharmaceutical Companies?


Armstrong Economics Blog/Corruption

Re-Posted Dec 17, 2019 by Martin Armstrong

COMMENT #1: Thank you so much for your blog on “Pharmaceutical Companies & Buying Immunity”. We are dealing with the same laws trying to be passed in Oregon. There is so much hatred towards those that don’t fully vaccinate in our society. My brother-in-law (who is a MD) and his family will not visit us anymore because we have administered either none or very few vaccines on our three kids. It really feels like we are the Jewish people during WWII.

Thank you for speaking up!
DW
COMMENT #2:  Hi Martin,
I was wondering if you could comment further on the topic of vaccines. I’m personally very concerned about the way Democrats seem to purposely conflate the anti-vaccination movement with people who are simply against giving the state the power to enforce mandatory vaccinations. I am not against vaccines, I’m just against the PERVERSE INCENTIVES that come along with government mandated mass vaccination programs. Do you think they consciously lie when they group anti-vaxxers and anti-government types together, or are they just so stupid or ideologically blind that they can’t even tell the difference anymore?
From my understand the scientific rationale for mandatory vaccination is the theory of “herd immunity”, which argues that as many people as possible need to be vaccinated in order to protect those who can not be vaccinated for medical reasons. I have read criticisms of this theory that argue long term herd immunity can not be artificially induced through vaccinations, but rather only through natural exposure to infectious diseases. I don’t know what to believe, but I do know that it is easy to be skeptical of the scientific justifications for government overreach these days, considering the absurdly transparent motives and biases behind the so-called “science” of anthropocentric climate catastrophism.
It seems to me that the relationship between human immune system and infectious diseases is just as much of a non-linear dynamic system as other aspects of nature, and that the theory of artificially induced herd immunity may be based on a simplistic linear model of that relationship.
Thanks Martin,
CG

REPLY:

When the Democrats try to switch the debate and call these people anti-government, they are deliberately attacking the messenger because they do not want to address the crisis since all you have to do is follow the money. They are putting children at risk ONLY because the Pharmaceutical Companies have a huge lobby. The press will not defend the people. They should ask any politician who makes statements against the anti-vaccine movement if they accept money from any drug-related company or lobby.

The entire design of Socrates is based upon the realization that there are so many variables and combinations that attempting to reduce the economic prospects for the future to a single cause and effect is absolutely impossible. The same is true when you have this many vaccines. I was vaccinated and I had my children vaccinated. But I do not recall it being more than 10 basic shots like polio for example. There was no vaccine for the measles back then.

There are way too many combinations when you have 70+ vaccines and that creates a complete unknown that no drug company bothers to investigate. The drug companies have been relieved of ALL liability thanks to Congress. They can even deliberately kill people and never be charged or sued. That is UN-AMERICAN!!!!!

I drink probably 8 to 10 cups of coffee a day and will even have one by my bed at night. Caffeine has never had an effect on me but I have friends who get jitters on just a half-cup. We are all different and it is ABSURD to subject children to this without testing the combination of vaccines and what they may do to a particular child. Children have died and others have been seriously injured. Nobody is testing to see whether certain combinations of vaccines become lethal to some children.

If your brother-in-law is being such a brain dead person who refuses to listen, then don’t worry. You should not associate with that type of person anyhow. He obviously believes whatever the pharmaceutical companies tell him because he probably gets some sort of kick-back for making particular recommendations. There are plenty of economists who preach the standard nonsense and are never right.

It is very simple. If this was all nonsense, then there would be no need to run to Congress to get absolute immunity from lawsuits. That removes any responsibility for a product that does not apply to any other business. This like saying the bank can just take your money and you have no right to sue them. I doubt people would keep their money in a bank if that was the law

Dec 17 2019

Maria Bartiromo Discussing Spygate: “People Will Be Prosecuted for Crimes Against a Sitting President”…


Re-Posted from The Conservative Tree House on December 16, 2019 by 

Decide for yourself why this was needed.  On the eve of Trump’s impeachment the Trusty Planners join with the Tick Tockers on Fox News.  We know Bill Barr will appear on Fox tomorrow to justify his lack of action.   CTH has a pretty good grasp of what’s going on.  Millions of battered conservatives still don’t see it.  Codependent no more.

At a key point in the interview Ms. Bartiromo says:

…”the lies are real, people will be prosecuted, and you are looking at crimes; not only against Carter Page, but against a sitting president”…

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How incredibly tragic is it with all the documents and communications that Barr & Durham can see today, that they have not taken action BEFORE the House can brand President Trump with the words “Impeached President” for the rest of eternity.

Amid all the shameful conduct from Washington DC over decades, the purposeful inaction by a lying U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr will forever cement his place in history.

Dec 17 2019

AG Bill Barr Chooses to Protect Rosenstein Over Full Disclosure in Flynn Case…


Re-Posted from The Conservative Tree House on December 16, 2019 by 

Regardless of whether you would support or not support the vigorous defense of Michael Flynn, I would hope we would all agree a fulsome discovery of all relevant background material is a cornerstone of justice appropriately applied.

With that in mind it is concerning how Attorney General Bill Barr would prefer to keep DOJ conduct against Flynn hidden from public review.  Consider…

♦Would it be valuable for Federal Judge Emmet Sullivan to know the FBI was discussing how to “lock in” charges against [Flynn] in a “formal chargeable way”?

(text message link)

♦Would it be valuable for Federal Judge Emmet Sullivan to consider how Special Counsel Robert Mueller requested DAG Rod Rosenstein to provide leverage against [Mike Flynn Jr] to coerce a plea against Michael Flynn in the second scope memo?

(page 12 and 13 of Weissman report)

♦Would it be relevant for the purposes of Judge Emmet Sullivan to consider how former National Security Advisor Susan Rice was portraying Lt. General Flynn, as a target for intelligence community concern, prior to President Trump taking office?

[…]  From a national security perspective, however, President Obama said he wants to be sure that, as we engage with the incoming team, we are mindful to ascertain if there is any reason that we cannot share information fully as it relates to Russia.

[Redacted Classified Section of Unknown length]

The President [Obama] asked Comey to inform him if anything changes in the next few weeks that should affect how we share classified information with the incoming team. Corney said he would. (link)

~ Susan Rice Memo to File

♦ Would it be important for Flynn’s defense to have the full and unredacted text messages of the investigators and accusers against Michael Flynn as they plotted their strategy?

♦ Would it be important to know what “classified briefing material” would be “in the interests of fairness” to Lt. Gen Michael Flynn?

If you find yourself saying: yes, regardless of support for or against Flynn, it would be fair and in the correct course of justice for all relevant evidence to be known to both the public and defense….  Then ask yourself why isn’t that view held by AG Bill Barr?

Attorney General Bill Barr was granted the power to declassify all five of the examples cited above which directly relate to the prior DOJ and FBI motives in their investigation of Michael Flynn…. there are many, many more.  Yet, AG Bill Barr has done nothing to provide that fulsome discovery.

AG Bill Barr doesn’t need a court order to provide the truth.  Currently the prosecution of Michael Flynn is directly under Bill Barr’s authority.  Heck, the President of the United States has authorized Bill Barr to declassify any/all material that may be needed in the honest search or truth and justice.  And Bill Barr has done absolutely nothing.

But it’s actually worse.  AG Barr has gone to court to argue he is under no obligation to provide the declassified material to anyone; for anything.

In a September 2019 court filing, surrounding a FOIA case seeking access to the fully unredacted Carter Page FISA application, the DOJ clarified the position of the DOJ as it pertains to President Trump’s May 2019 declassification authority. (pdf available here)

The DOJ highlights that President Trump did not order AG William Barr to declassify anything.  Instead, according to the official position of the DOJ, President Trump “delegated authority” to the Attorney General to determine *if* anything should be declassified:

[Source – pdf]

At the time of the DOJ position I stated “whether AG Bill Barr does actually declassify anything is open to debate.  The current odds remain slightly less than 50/50; however, those odds could diminish significantly if the impeachment effort is successful.”

In hindsight I hate my own prescience.

On Wednesday President Trump will be impeached by the House of Representatives.  One of those articles of impeachment declares President Trump is guilty of “obstruction of congress.”

There’s a strong likelihood that after the impeachment vote President Trump will not be able to declassify anything lest he be accused of obstructing his own impeachment.  This is the same legal catch-22 President Trump faced in September 2018 when DOJ Rod Rosenstein advised (threatened) the President that any action he took at the time to declassify material would be considered “obstruction” of the Mueller investigation.

Strange how those legal Lawfare principles seem to resurface in a circular fashion, and always to the detriment of the person seeking justice.  Thus the purpose behind the name “Lawfare”; using the law in political warfare.

Returning to the current case in point, it has seemed clear from his decisions that AG Bill Barr was focused on protecting former Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein from the consequences of his narrow-minded efforts throughout 2017 and 2018.  The lack of action to declassify material related to the prosecution of Lt. General Michael Flynn seems to indicate that protecting Rosenstein is a higher priority that stopping an injustice against Flynn.

This is the state of our union in 2019.

I don’t pay attention to the distracting high-constitutional words of AG Barr, I look at his actions….  By withholding information from the public; and specifically by withholding the scope memos that authorized the investigations of 2016, 2017 and 2018; the United States Attorney General is willing to let a man hang simply to protect his institutional comrade.

With that institutional disposition clearly evident, what do you think AG Bill Barr will do when it comes to hiding evidence of institutional corruption that would clearly support President Donald Trump?

In criminal law, seminal jurist William Blackstone said: “It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.”

In AG Barr’s modern interpretation: “it is better that one innocent man suffer than have guilty institutions be discovered.”

Dec 17 2019

Judge Sullivan Denies Flynn Motion for Brady Material, Schedules Sentencing for January 28th….


Re-Posted from The Conservative Tree House on December 16, 2019 by 

In an order released moments ago, Federal Judge Emmet Sullivan has denied all of the Brady requests by the Flynn defense lawyer and summarily rejected the position of defense counsel.  Flynn sentencing is scheduled for January 28th, 2020.

Judge Sullivan relies heavily on the Mueller report and finds: the case was adequately predicated and authorized by Rod Rosenstein; the original guilty plea to Judge Contreras was appropriately informed; the government followed all appropriate notifications for Brady material; the evidence of Flynn’s guilt is accurately demonstrable to the guilty plea Mr. Flynn accepted; and there was no prosecutorial misconduct.

Here’s the ruling:

It is somewhat interesting how the list of material for declassification is a portion of the brady material.  By withholding the classification material (particularly the Susan Rice memo to file) Attorney General William Barr has built the gallows upon which Flynn will hang….

Dec 16 2019

IMPECHMENT – Big Risk for Democrats


Armstrong Economics Blog/Politics

Re-Posted Dec 16, 2019 by Martin Armstrong

The House vote on Impeaching Trump may be the stake through the heart of the Democratic Party. Most of the people newly elected were extremely left and they remain vulnerable when they barely made it to Congress, like AOC. This will be a test for the moderates v the extremists and if the moderates vote on party lines rather than the facts, many will be putting their own seats in jeopardy come 2020. Those in favor of impeachment come in at 4.5% and 45.8% of Americans favor removing him from office. It is a very heated debate in the Democratic party.

When the Republicans impeached Bill Clinton, it did not go well for them Newt Gingrich who championed the impeachment lost his seat. What is clear is that Trump would not be removed from office. He may even test the claims before the Supreme Court. Here we have Obama and Biden using the FBI to investigate Trump during the election. This can be a major blow to the Democratic Party which goes a long way to splitting the party.

If the FBI made that call to ask if Ukraine would investigate Biden and his withholding money unless they fired the prosecutor who was investigating the company that hired his son, there would be NO ISSUE! Trump did not interfere with an investigation as did Biden, he simply asked to investigate and report if there were any illegal acts. That was nothing compared to Hillary funding the dossier that began the entire Russian investigation.

CNN Theft of IMF Money – Sep. 1, 1999

It was the Clintons foe gave the wink and the nod to the bankers who set out to take over Russia by blackmailing Yeltsin with the $7 billion they got him to take from the IMF loans and divert to Geneva through Bank of New York. Indeed, CNN reported the money was taken from the IMF and only sanitized their reporting to protect the Clintons later by dropping any reference to the IMF. Yeltsin turned to Putin August 9th, 1999 when he realized he was set up by the New York Bankers and thus Putin knew full well Hillary had given the wink and the nod.

Congress is well aware of the U.S. banker’s attempt to interfere in the Russian elections and passed a resolution prohibiting any American to be questioned by Russians for they knew full well that they had dirty hands. When someone is guilty, they typically blame someone else. That seems to be why the Democrats have preferred to restart the cold war because Hillary was defeated.

In the complaint used by the Democrats for impeachment, the claimed whistleblower is protected and that does not comport with Due Process of Law. In a Trial, that person will be called to testify. If the Democrats try to withhold that, I would suspect it will go to the Supreme Court. You have an absolute right to face your accuser in a democracy. This protected whistleblower said they did not understand Trump’s request that Ukraine locates and turn over a server used by the DNC during the 2016 presidential election. He defends the Democrats and claims it was subsequently examined by CrowdStrike, a U.S. cybersecurity firm. Then-FBI Director James Comey stated that the DNC had denied the FBI’s requests to examine the breached servers. Comey then said at the time that the FBI and DNC agreed to let the private firm CrowdStrike access the servers and share the findings with investigators. That is completely insane. So the FBI would allow a private company to investigate someone and then indict that person without ever verifying the investigation itself?

Honestly, there are many questions that would rise to the Supreme Court for this will be the trial of the century. They cannot hide the server that is now part of the whistleblower’s complaint nor can they hide the whistleblower and prevent them from testifying in a trial in the Senate. This is like some medieval trial that completely denies the Due Process of Law.