AZBeauty
Stop lyin' nicca.
In his book, he describes himself as a bagboy for the FBI? Is that what you're telling me?
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In his book, he describes himself as a bagboy for the FBI? Is that what you're telling me?
ExodusNirvana
Change is inevitable...
Senator Mark Warner bets Trump will face impeachment:
Evidence suggests that Climate Change is driven by human actions
But that means nothing since the average fukktard in this country does'nt believe it
I :clapemoji: want :clapemoji: results :clapemoji:
Tony D'Amato
It's all about the inches
Its 3 kind of Republicans. 1)your selfish Republican that just wants to make as much money as possible. 2) Your dumb religious republican. 3)Your dumb religious Republican that wants to make as much money as possible.
LHilla
Pro
Bash Susan Rice for not accepting a Republican-only session that got initiated based on your baseless/proven false claims of illegal wiretapping/surveillance, brehs.
Read his story, and you'll understand
Basically he was working at a family business after kinda failing to get into the Navy post 9/11. The family business sold maps and other random information about policy and specialized books. A Russian "diplomat" stops by the store one day. Then the FBI stops by to ask what the diplomat wanted to know. Then Navali indulges in his pseudo-spy fantasies and starts feeding the diplomat information from the FBI as a means of baiting the "diplomat"
Long story short, he helps to bust the Russian spy acting as a diplomat.
Thats it.
Mantis Toboggan M.D.
Drink wolf cola
It's the same way these same voters will mindlessly support each and every piece of legislature that takes us in a more fascistic direction that poisons our food, harms our school system, puts more people in jail over needless shyt, and hurts the economy, but the moment someone speaks up about these or some war for oil it becomes "then go live in Cuba or North Korea" or some other place like that completely unaware that people signing away their freedoms is a slope that the people never get to climb back up. These people actually believed when dubya went on tv and claimed al qaeda and the taliban "hate us for our freedom". The mostCognitive dissonance is powerful
The same people who scrutinized Obama's vacation costs, but justify how Trump spent more on vaca's in a month than Obama did in a year
The same people who say Trump's done more in 100 days than Obama did in his entire presidency, but Trump's 100 day plan has almost completely failed
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out here all at the same time brehs
thing is that these are usually the children of World War Two veterans or children of people opposed to the Vietnam war. Multiple generations brainwashed.US Congressman talks Russian money laundering with alleged ex-spy in Berlin
(CNN)These days, most American officials would be reluctant to disclose any connection to Russia, much less a meeting with an alleged former Soviet spy whose alleged role in lobbying on behalf of Kremlin interests was recently called out by the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
But Dana Rohrabacher, a Republican representative from California, openly acknowledges such a meeting with Rinat Akhmetshin.
It lasted between 15 and 20 minutes and took place the night of April 11 in Berlin, at the lobby bar of the Westin Grand Hotel, according to two eyewitnesses and Rohrabacher.
The topic of discussion: A high-profile Russian money laundering case and related sanctions on Russia.
"We were on our way in and [Akhmetshin] was there," Rohrabacher told CNN.
Just one week before the meeting, Senator Charles Grassley had written a letter to John Kelly, the Secretary of Homeland Security, describing Akhmetshin as "a Russian immigrant to the United States who has been accused of acting as an unregistered agent for Russian interests and apparently has ties to Russian intelligence." Grassley was requesting "all information" on Akhmetshin's immigration history.
Rohrabacher himself described Akhmetshin to CNN as someone with "an ulterior motive" who is "involved with people who've got an agenda" and has "international connections to different groups in Russia." When asked if he thought Akhmetshin was still connected to the Russian security services, Rohrabacher said: "I would certainly not rule that out."
Akhmetshin declined to comment for this story. He previously told Politico: "Just because I was born in Russia doesn't mean I am an agent of [the] Kremlin."
In the past, he has described his business as "strategic communications," according to a civil court filing. Akhmetshin said his clients "are national governments or high ranking officials in those governments."
'I think we've been sold a bill of goods'
Rohrabacher was in Berlin as part of a tour to examine the legalization of marijuana in Europe. Rohrabacher, a 14-term congressman from Orange County, openly supports legalization. It's unclear why Akhmetshin was there.
The congressman told CNN that he cannot recall exactly what was said in the lobby, or at a subsequent dinner he attended with more than a dozen people, including Akhmetshin.
The focus, according to two eyewitnesses in the hotel lobby, was a U.S. federal money-laundering case in New York. The government is targeting Prevezon Holdings, a Cyprus company that has invested in Manhattan real estate and which prosecutors allege was the receptacle for some of the $230 million stolen from Russian taxpayers in 2007. Rohrabacher acknowledged to CNN that the case came up in conversation with Akhmetshin.
The case is set to go to trial later this month after being beset by over a year of surreal sideshow controversies and delays. A prominent lawyer for the defense was thrown off the case owing to a perceived conflict of interest. More recently, one of the U.S. attorney's key witnesses, Russian lawyer Nikolai Gorokhov almost died when he plummeted from his Moscow apartment in March, a day before he was due to appear in a Russian court to present new evidence.
But Rohrabacher told CNN that he remains "skeptical" as to the premise of the case, which he believes may be propaganda designed to "create hostility and belligerence toward Russia."
The alleged tax fraud led to the 2012 Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act, a landmark human rights act named for the lawyer who tried to expose the theft before being arrested and allegedly tortured prior to his death in a Moscow prison in 2009.
The Magnitsky law has so far been used to sanction 39 Russians implicated in the theft and coverup.
The Russian government maintains that the lawyer died of a "heart attack," despite the Russian Presidential Human Rights Council's finding that Magnitsky was "completely deprived of medical care before his death" and that "there is reasonable suspicion to believe that the death was triggered by beating Magnitsky."
At several points in the interview with CNN, Rohrabacher suggested that Magnitsky may have been fatally interrogated in an effort to get him to confess to where he had stashed the stolen money — a narrative that better tracks with a Russian government theory that Magnitsky committed the crime he first brought to the government's attention.
"The thrust of Rohrabacher and Akhmetshin's discussion," one of the eyewitnesses at the hotel bar said, was that the facts of the case "were all an elaborate hoax" orchestrated by William Browder, an American-born former client and the CEO of Hermitage Capital Investment, once the largest portfolio manager in Moscow until he and his business were driven out of the country. Magnitsky was Browder's lawyer.
As Browder tells it in his bestselling memoir Red Notice, Hermitage's corporate documents were stolen by crooked police officers in the Russian Interior Ministry in 2007. These officers, Browder alleges, were also under the employ of a man they had previously investigated for another financial crime: Dmitry Klyuev, an ex-convict and suspected head of a transnational crime syndicate known as the Klyuev Group.
The group supposedly used the stolen documents to re-register three of Hermitage's subsidiary companies. Third party companies also owned by Klyuev then "sued" those stolen subsidiaries.
Judges found in every case in the plaintiff's favor. And with the aid of complicit tax officers in Moscow, this group was able to cite the dummied-up corporate losses from litigation in justifying the $230 million refund — the largest in Russian history. It was processed in a single day, on Christmas Eve, 2007.
The U.S. Department of Justice, in its criminal complaint against Prevezon, supports this version of events.
"I think we've been sold a bill of goods," Rohrabacher told CNN. "This could well be a situation where you've got an American billionaire [Browder] who's been able to manipulate the situation in order to protect his own activities. That may be the case. I'm not making that charge."
In an emailed statement to CNN, Browder responded to Rohrabacher's accusation. "More than a dozen independent law enforcement agencies around the world have investigated this case and arrived to the same conclusion," Browder wrote. "Sergei Magnitsky was a victim of the massive corrupt scheme which goes high up in the Russian government. It is very suspicious for Rohrabacher to ignore those findings and publicly contradict them."
Rohrabacher has advocated in Congress to have "Magnitsky" stricken from the broader version of the law, known on the Hill as "Global Magnitsky" because it would address human rights abuses from any foreign country, not just Russia.
"I'm not an opponent of the Magnitsky law," Rohrabacher maintained. "I'm an opponent of calling it the Magnitsky Act because that case may not reflect" what actually happened, he said.
He said that if the jury in the Prevezon case sides with the US government, he "might" change his mind.
In November of last year, Politico named Rohrabacher "Putin's favorite congressman" owing to his persistent role in Congress as a lone defender of Russian government behavior and a personal admirer of Vladimir Putin, with whom he playfully arm-wrestled in Washington, D.C. in the 1990s, when Putin was still a relatively unknown deputy mayor of St. Petersburg.
"We have a huge double standard with Russia when it comes to prisoners and other things," Rohrabacher told CNN, adding that the Russian intelligence services' interference in the U.S. election was no different from the NSA's "bugging [German Chancellor Angela] Merkel's phone."
Trading babies for sanctions
Casting doubt on the accepted wisdom of this far-reaching corruption story in order to rescind the sanctions imposed in the dead lawyer's name has been a staple of Russian foreign policy for more than five years.
On May 7, 2012, his first day back in office as Russia's president, Putin signed a decree making one of the Kremlin's prime objectives with respect to foreign policy "to work actively in prohibiting imposition of unilateral extraterritorial sanctions of the United States of America against Russian legal entities and individuals."
Since then, a raft of "counter-sanctions" against various U.S. officials and politicians have been issued by the Kremlin, whose most notorious retaliatory measure took the form of a ban on Americans seeking to adopt Russian orphans — a proscription now dangled by Moscow as something that might be lifted if and when Magnitsky sanctions are repealed.
Browder and Senator Grassley have suggested Akhmetshin may be one of the Russian government's U.S.-based facilitators for having those sanctions repealed.
Rohrabacher, for his part, denies knowing Akhmetshin well at all, describing him as "no friend of mine. He's just this guy who pops up."
Even still, Akhmetshin visited Rohrabacher in his office in May 2016, a day before the House Foreign Affairs Committee was due to mark up the Global Magnitsky Act. Akhmetshin had recently been hired as a lobbyist for a group called the Human Rights Accountability Global Initiative (HRAGI), which purports to seek the removal of the Russian adoption ban.
HRAGI was founded by Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Russian lawyer for Denis Katysv, the legal owner of Prevezon Holdings. In other words, it is Katysv's $14 million that the US is looking to confiscate as ill-gotten gains. And it is Katysv who stands to benefit if Prevezon is acquitted.
In April 2016, Rohrabacher traveled to Moscow and met with Konstantin Kosachev, the chairman of the International Affairs Committee in the Federation Council, Russia's equivalent to the U.S. Senate. Kosachev then facilitated a meeting with other Russian officials who gave the congressman a letter which described the campaign to shift the perception of Magnitsky: "Changing attitudes to the Magnitsky story in the Congress...may change the current climate in interstate relations. Such a situation could have a very favourable response from the Russian side on many key controversial issues and disagreements with the United States, including matters concerning the adoption procedures." (Italics added.)
As a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs committee, Rohrabacher's meeting with an accused ex-Soviet operative turned controversial lobbyist in the onetime cockpit of Cold War espionage is likely to draw scrutiny.
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How much more brazen can these people be/?!?!?!?!?!?!
http://www.businessinsider.com/pent...-clearance-of-a-trump-white-house-aide-2017-5
The Pentagon just pulled the top secret clearance of a Trump White House aide
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The Pentagon this week suspended the security clearance of a White House National Security Council analyst that U.S. officials say was the target of political retribution by government bureaucrats opposed to President Trump's appointees.
Adam S. Lovinger, a 12-year strategic affairs analyst with the Pentagon's Office of Net Assessment (ONA), has been on loan to the NSC since January when he was picked for the position by then-National Security Adviser Michael T. Flynn.
Lovinger was notified in a letter from the Pentagon on Monday that his Top-Secret, Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS-SCI) clearance had been suspended and that he had to return to the Pentagon.
The letter cited unspecified outside activities by Lovinger. The notice said the suspension was approved by Kevin Sweeney, chief of staff for Defense Secretary James Mattis.
One official said Lovinger was targeted by Trump opponents because of his conservative views and ties to Flynn, specifically his past association with the Flynn Intel Group, Inc., a consulting business.
Flynn was forced out as national security adviser in February after top-secret intelligence communications intercepts were disclosed to the press revealing he had discussed U.S. sanctions with Russia's ambassador to the United States, Sergey Kislyak.
Disclosure of the clearance suspension followed a report in the Washington Free BeaconMonday stating the security clearance process at the White House has been politicized by government officials opposed to Trump and his advisers.
Suspending or revoking clearances is a frequent tactic used by government officials to sideline officials whose views and policies they oppose.
Documents disclosed last year revealed the FBI in 2009 had rejected issuing an interim security clearance for Ben Rhodes, who eventually would be granted access to top-secret intelligence as former President Obama's deputy national security adviser for strategic communications.
Lovinger is the second NSC staff official under Trump to lose his clearance. In February, Robin Townley, an African affairs specialist on the NSC staff, was denied a TS/SCI clearance by the CIA. Townley, a former Defense Intelligence Agency analyst, had worked with Flynn in the past.
Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. James Brindle denied that the security clearance was suspended as a result of political retribution. "This is a personnel matter that we do not discuss," he said.
Spokesmen for the NSC did not return emails seeking comment. Lovinger could not be reached for comment.
Lovinger, a lawyer, is expected to challenge the clearance suspension. But the process is expected to take months and could prevent him from continuing to work on the NSC staff.
Officials familiar with the matter said Lovinger's clearance was suspended after he wrote several memos criticizing the director of the Office of Net Assessment, James H. Baker.
According to the officials, the clearance dispute appears to involve a bureaucratic turf battle, as well as a larger, behind-the-scenes effort by anti-Trump officials in the national security bureaucracy to neutralize key Trump aides.
Lovinger is senior director for strategic assessments at the NSC. In that position, he has proposed shifting the Office of Net Assessment from the Pentagon to the White House, where it was located when established during the Nixon administration.
Lovinger wrote a memo to current National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster on the need for a net assessment capability within the NSC.
Net assessments are highly classified reports that assess foreign threats and U.S. capabilities. Unlike intelligence estimates that are focused solely on foreign targets, assessments include details of U.S. strategic vulnerabilities. The assessments are used by national security leaders for strategic planning.
Lovinger, who holds a doctorate in law, also has been an adjunct professor at Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy and McDonough School of Business.
At ONA, Lovinger specialized in issues related to U.S.-India relations, the Persian Gulf, and sub-Saharan Africa. He also worked as a Pentagon general counsel focusing on reconstruction in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to his Georgetown biography.
Other aides on the NSC staff said to be targeted by anti-Trump officials include Lovinger's supervisor, Kevin Harrington, deputy assistant to the president for strategic planning, and Ezra Cohen-Watnick, senior director for intelligence programs.
Cohen-Watnick was present during the recent review of intelligence documents at the White House by Rep. Devin Nunes (R., Calif.), chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Nunes has charged the intelligence documents exposed improper electronic surveillance of Trump and members of his transition team by the Obama administration.
Baker has come under fire from critics for his role in managing ONA, until recently headed for several decades by Andrew Marshall, who was considered one of the U.S. government's premier strategic thinkers.
Emails made public from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private server revealed last fall that Clinton had arranged meetings in 2009 between senior State and Pentagon officials and Jacqueline Newmyer Deal, a close friend of Chelsea Clinton and long-time contractor for ONA.
Deal is head of the defense consulting group Long Term Strategy Group and has received millions of dollars in contracts from ONA for studies such as "On the Nature of Americans as a Warlike People." Another study the group completed for ONA was called "War and the Intellectuals." It concluded that American elites hold stronger anti-war attitudes than the general public.
The Pentagon has defended the Long Term Strategy Group's studies for ONA.
The group's work "has consistently informed ONA's internal analysis and they continue to be a responsive vendor," ONA said in an October statement. "The firm, however, is just one of 90 sources that ONA has commissioned work from over the past decade."
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