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Mueller Investigation One Year Old,
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Gina Haspel confirmed as CIA director, first woman to lead agency
by Adam Shaw
{ foxnews.com } ~ Gina Haspel was confirmed Thursday as CIA director, becoming the first woman to lead the agency... and overcoming initial Democratic opposition regarding her role in post-9/11 interrogation and detention practices. The Senate voted 54-45 to confirm President Trump's nominee, with six Democrats supporting and two Republicans defecting. Haspel, whose nomination was endorsed by the Senate Intelligence Committee a day earlier, previously was deputy director and has spent her career with the agency. Haspel earned emphatic support from GOP lawmakers as well as intelligence community members from both Democratic and Republican administrations... http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/05/17/gina-haspel-confirmed-as-cia-director-first-woman-to-lead-agency.htmlExclusive: Judge to rule on release
of special counsel's contacts with media
by JONATHAN EASLEY
{ thehill.com } ~ A federal judge will rule next week on a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from a conservative group... that wants access to correspondences that special counsel Robert Mueller’s team has had with the media. Freedom Watch founder Larry Klayman and Joseph Dugan, the lawyer representing the special counsel, will appear in Washington district court on May 24 at 10:30 a.m. for a status conference with Judge Emmet Sullivan. The Hill viewed the relevant court filings, which are reported here for the first time. Klayman filed the initial FOIA request with the special counsel, the Justice Department and the FBI on Jan. 2, arguing that the correspondences needed to be revealed because the special counsel’s office was leaking to the media to bolster its criminal cases....
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DOJ Inspector General Report on
liar-Clinton Email Investigation Completed And To Be Released
by Jim E
{ thepoliticalinsider.com } ~ The completion of a long-awaited watchdog report on the FBI and DOJ’s liar-Hillary Clinton investigation during the 2016 presidential campaign... has put Washington on edge, as the clock counts down to its potentially explosive release. “We’re all anxiously awaiting this report,” Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, told Fox News’ “Hannity.” Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz announced the draft report was done in a letter to members of Congress on Wednesday. He did not say when the results of the review will be officially released to the FBI, DOJ and congressional committees. Former D.C. bureau chief for Investor’s Business Daily Paul Sperry has, apparently, knowledge of the report, and he’s indicating that the Inspector General believes there may have been criminal wrongdoing in the FBI’s investigation of the liar-Clinton email server... https://thepoliticalinsider.com/ig-report-fbi-clinton-completed-released/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=criticalimpact&utm_campaign=TPI_Afternoon_Newsletter_5_17_2018&utm_content=4b4ea4948726422aa6473c7b9fa19141&source=CI .
Rush Limbaugh: ‘I Know Who FBI’s Inside Source Is’
by Matt
{ thepoliticalinsider.com } ~ “I now know who the spy is. I know now know who the FBI was running in the Trump campaign... I don’t think I’m gonna give you the name of the spy, but I’m gonna tell you everything the spy has done” began a monologue from Rush Limbaugh earlier this week. Limbaugh was referencing a bombshell Wall Street Journal report from Kimberly Strassel, which reported that the FBI had an inside source within the Trump campaign, and this was before they began working with the anti-Trump dossier author, former British spy Christopher Steele. All the details we have as for who the spy could be is that they have connections to the CIA, FBI, DOJ, and is the U.S. citizen, but also has connections to foreign intelligence. El Rushbo thinks he has an idea. According to his theory, it has to do with George Papadopoulos, who the New York Times credits with sparking the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation into Donald Trump that has since been replaced by the Robert Mueller special counsel... https://thepoliticalinsider.com/rush-limbaugh-fbi-inside-source/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=criticalimpact&utm_campaign=TPI_Afternoon_Newsletter_5_17_2018&utm_content=4b4ea4948726422aa6473c7b9fa19141&source=CI.
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Mueller Investigation One Year Old, Still No Collusion
by Thomas Gallatin: President Donald Trump marked the one-year anniversary of the Robert Mueller special investigation by writing, “Congratulations America, we are now into the second year of the greatest Witch Hunt in American History…and there is still No Collusion and No Obstruction. The only Collusion was that done by Democrats who were unable to win an Election despite the spending of far more money!” Indeed, the fact remains that after a year of investigating, no evidence of any Trump/Russian collusion has been presented by Mueller’s team of Hillary Clinton donors. Witch hunt? Clearly seeking to ratchet up the pressure on the Mueller investigation in order to bring it to a quick end, Rudy Giuliani, now Trump’s lead attorney, stated yesterday, “This case is essentially over. … [Mueller’s team is] just in denial.” Giuliani also noted that Mueller acknowledged the investigation would follow Justice Department guidance and not seek an indictment against Trump. That’s really not news, though, as it does not preclude Mueller from recommending that the House pursue impeachment. But over what?
Speaking of Congress, the Senate Judiciary Committee released a report that seemed to contradict last month’s House report. In short, the Senate concluded that the U.S. intelligence community did indeed believe the Russian government ran a sophisticated and extensive effort to interfere in the 2016 election, and that the Kremlin aimed to help Trump and hurt liar-Clinton. However, this report in no way even purports to provide evidence for any collusion conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia. Rather it simply agrees with the intelligence community’s assessment that Moscow was working to interfere in the election. There is no news here, despite Leftmedia attempts to drum it up.
But what is more revealing was yesterday’s release of transcripts from the Senate Judiciary Committee’s closed-door hearing with those involved in the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting with a Russian attorney. It’s significant because that meeting was supposedly the smoking gun upon which the collusion narrative hung — that and the liar-Clinton-funded dossier. And what we find is that the meeting was a giant nothingburger. There is no evidence of collusion. In fact, as Hot Air’s Ed Morrissey argues, “If Mueller doesn’t care about this testimony becoming public … it suggests that the Trump Tower meeting doesn’t matter to the Russian-collusion track — and without the Trump Tower meeting, that track seems pretty narrow.” ~The Patriot Post
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