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Desantis - Nunes is Right to Hold Sessions
in Contempt - He's Showing Contempt for America
{ rickwells.us } ~ Rep Ron DeSantis agrees with Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes that it is time for House Republicans... to hold the obstructionist AG Jeff Sessions in contempt for his continued stonewalling in order to protect the guilty of his own departments, DOJ and FBI, as well as the State Department, some Intelligence employees and much of the liar-nObama regime. DeSantis says Sessions and his DOJ and FBI “have shown nothing but contempt for us in our oversight prerogatives, which really is getting the American people the truth, as we’re elected by the people. So if they’re going to show us this level of contempt, we should hold them in contempt. And unless you’re willing to attach a sanction to non-compliance, you will continue to play this song and dance over and over again.” He says, “I think Chairman Nunes is exactly right. He’s really one of the few chairman hear that Trey Gowdy, Bob Goodlatte, Chuck Grassley, Richard Burr? who are actually putting his foot down and saying this is enough. So let’s set that contempt hearing. And here’s the thing, Lou, if you do that and show you’re willing to do it, I think they end up producing the documents, because he wouldn’t want to go through that.”....
Time to Shut Mueller Down
by JED BABBIN
{ spectator.org } ~ This column has, to date, not analyzed the manifest problems with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation... of President Trump for two reasons. First, because it fell outside my national security/foreign policy strike zone. Second, because many others — especially my friend Andy McCarthy of National Review Online and Kim Strassel of the Wall Street Journal — have done an excellent job of performing that task, I could not see how I could add value to what has been done. Now, because of the passage of time and the occurrence of events, the first reason for my forbearance is no longer true, which leads me to believe that the second is undermined too greatly. For the same reasons, it is necessary to conclude that Mueller’s investigation has to be brought to an end. The Mueller investigation has gone on so long and is absorbing so much of the president’s time and attention that it is creating a deleterious effect on national security. One-time Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort has been indicted in two different federal courts on separate charges. Manafort, supposedly a cooperating witness in Mueller’s investigation, suffered a pre-dawn raid and search of his home on Mueller’s orders, a harsh tactic normally reserved for serial killers, drug traffickers and mafia dons who might destroy evidence... https://spectator.org/time-to-shut-mueller-down/?utm_source=American+Spectator+Emails&utm_campaign=07787ae424-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_05_07&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-07787ae424-104608113 .
Disturbing Message About liar-Hillary’s
Server Found in FBI Office Storing It
by JOE SAUNDERS
{ westernjournal.com } ~ For Americans suspicious of liar-Hillary Clinton and her supporters hidden in the federal government... WikiLeaks is the gift that keeps on giving. During the 2016 presidential campaign, it was the slow drip of revelations from WikiLeaks that helped doom the liar-Clinton candidacy by exposing its rigging of the Democrat primary process and publicizing the machinations of liar-Clinton campaign manager John Podesta. Now, WikiLeaks is publicizing revelations about the FBI “investigation” of liar-Clinton’s private email server when she was secretary of state that should be setting off alarm bells all over the country. Buried in FBI files released under Freedom of Information Act requests is a nugget WikiLeaks posted on Twitter Saturday that makes the entire FBI liar-Clinton probe more than a little suspect... https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/disturbing-message-hillary-server/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=minutemennews&utm_campaign=weeklypm&utm_content=libertyalliance.
Budgetary Stewardship – VSG POTUS
Team: “Recission Request” Forthcoming
by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ “Today, senior administration officials will hold a background briefing to preview the Presidents historic rescission request to Congress... The special message to Congress will be delivered Tuesday, May 8, 2018. The briefing will be conducted via conference call at 6:00 PM EDT tonight. The information will be embargoed until 9:00 PM EDT this evening.” In essence the administration is preparing to enter into a spending discussion with congress. The White House is actually trying to eliminate unnecessary federal spending. FULLSTOP. Yes, that’s what happens when a businessman, committed to financial stewardship, takes over as executive and reviews spending. The basic point of “recission” is simple. The Omnibus spending bill contained too much unneeded spending on non-essential budgetary items. A Very Stable Genius President approved the Omnibus to gain the needed financing for the military....
The 5 Wildest Images From Hawaii’s Volcanic Nightmare!
by Andrew West
{ constitution.com } ~ Hawaii, normally a tropical paradise on everyone’sbucket list, has been transformed in recent days into a nightmare of ash, fire, lava, and sulfur... as Mount Kilauea begins what looks to be a lengthy eruption event. Local authorities are helpless to stem the tide of the encroaching Hell, and there are some concerns over a massive tsunami event being triggered by an enormous landslide on the island state’s eastern edge. In our modern world of connectivity, this sort of event doesn’t occur without plenty of access to the experience, and this once-in-a-lifetime eruption is being captured by locals and tourists alike in remarkable ways....
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Judge Smacks Down Mueller's 'Unfettered Power'
by Thomas Gallatin: Federal Judge T.S. Ellis blasted Robert Mueller’s special investigation during a Friday hearing in its case against President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort. Ellis, a Ronald Reagan appointee, took Mueller team lawyer Michael Dreeben to task for prosecutorial overreach, lecturing, “If I look at the indictment [against Manafort], none of that information has anything to do with links or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of Donald Trump. So I don’t see what relation this indictment has with anything the special prosecutor is authorized to investigate.” Manafort was indicted by the Mueller investigation on 18 counts of tax- and bank-fraud-related changes, none of which are directly tied to any Trump/Russia collusion conspiracy. Ellis made it clear that he saw through the special prosecution’s ruse, asserting that the charges raised against Manafort were obviously intended as a means “to exert leverage on a defendant so that the defendant will turn and provide information on what is really the focus of the special prosecutor.”
Dreeben insisted that the charges against Manafort were within Team Mueller’s “investigatory scope.” Ellis merely scoffed, however, firing back, “My question to you was, how does bank fraud and these other things that go back to 2005, 2007 — how does that have anything to do with links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of Trump?” In reply, Dreeben once again referenced the scope of investigation granted by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein: “We are not limited in our prosecution authority to crimes that would fit within the precise description that was issued in this public order.” Ellis retorted, “I have that right here, and I’m glad you raised it because 75% of it is blocked out, redacted. Why don’t I have a full copy of it?”
Dreeben said that the judge only needed to see the scope of Rosenstein’s memo that was pertinent to Manafort. But Ellis rejected that answer and accused the special prosecution of seeking “unfettered power” in a quest to target Trump: “You don’t really care about Mr. Manafort’s bank fraud. You really care about what information Mr. Manafort can give you that would reflect on Mr. Trump or lead to his prosecution or impeachment or whatever. That’s what you’re really interested in.” Bingo. Ellis then ordered Dreeben to return in two weeks with an unredacted Rosenstein memo or provide a better explanation of why not.
If the judge throws out the charges against Manafort, it would throw a major wrench into Mueller’s efforts to build a collusion case against Trump. It already shines the spotlight on the Justice Department’s concealment practices that have been justified as necessary in order to protect national security and ongoing investigations. However, all the recent unredacted documents have shown an agency with leadership keen on protecting themselves from public scrutiny rather than any actual national security issues. It will be interesting to see if Mueller’s team meets the demands of Judge Ellis, who very effectively called out this charade for what it is. ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/55802
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