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The wheels continue to come off TRUMP!RUSSIA!COLLUSION!-Top FBI 'Russiagate' Official Took Secret Payments From Russian Oligarch: DOJ

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Monday, January 23, 2023 2:12 PM

SIGNYM

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Top FBI 'Russiagate' Official Took Secret Payments From Russian Oligarch: DOJ

Monday, Jan 23, 2023 - 11:04 AM

A former top FBI counterintelligence official - in fact, the guy who received the tip that supposedly kicked off the Trump-Russia investigation - has been arrested and charged with violating US sanctions on Russia by taking secret payments from a Russian oligarch in order to investigate another oligarch.
Charles McGonigal, the former head of counterintelligence for the FBI’s New York office.Greatdecisions.tv

Federal prosecutors in Manhattan charged Charles McGonigal, former special agent in charge of the FBI's New York counterintelligence desk, with taking secret payments from Oleg V. Deripaska - which violated US sanctions by agreeing to help the Russian billionaire, who himself was indicted last year on sanctions charges. McGonical notably retired in 2018.

During his days in counterintelligence, McGonical was responsible for supervising and participating in investigations of Russian oligarchs, including Deripaska.

The indictment unsealed in Federal District Court in Manhattan on Monday charges the former F.B.I. official, Mr. McGonigal, with one count of violating U.S. sanctions, one count of money laundering and two conspiracy counts. -NY Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/23/nyregion/fbi-money-laundering-charl
es-mcgonigal.html


According to his lawyer, "Charlie served the United States capably, effectively, for decades," adding "We have closely reviewed the accusations made by the government and we look forward to receiving discovery so we can get a view on what the evidence is upon which the government intends to rely


MORE AT https://www.zerohedge.com/political/top-fbi-russiagate-official-took-s
ecret-payments-russian-oligarch-doj


I included a link to the NYT article just for you THUGR, bc you're too stupid or lazy to follow up. So you can hardly complain.

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Monday, January 23, 2023 2:17 PM

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Monday, January 23, 2023 2:40 PM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly


While they are at it, arrest Bill Barr, Trump's attorney general:

What do you get when an attorney general covers up presidential obstruction?
Aug 26, 2022

On Wednesday, the Department of Justice finally released a memo that explained former Attorney General Bill Barr’s decision not to prosecute Donald Trump in connection with the Mueller Report. With that revelation, one big mystery has been solved: We now know why Democratic and Republican appointed federal judges excoriated Barr for dishonesty in hiding the memo and distorting Mueller’s report. The memo is flat-out wrong on the facts and the law. Bill Barr’s Memo https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22187568-20190324-memorandum-t
o-ag-from-dag-re-mueller-report-review


For example, Mueller presented powerful evidence that Trump repeatedly told his first White House Counsel Donald McGahn to tell lies about the investigation, including creating a false written record. The Mueller report made a compelling case that these actions could support a reasonable inference of obstruction of justice. Yet the memo says “none of these instances indicate that the president sought to conceal evidence of criminal conduct.” That conclusion beggars belief. https://www.justice.gov/archives/sco/file/1373816/download

The memo also says that the former president’s grooming witnesses before they testified and then turning on them if they implicated him did not qualify as obstruction. Tell that to former Trump attorney Michael Cohen, who was the subject of repeated presidential intimidation targeting him and his family before his 2019 House Oversight Committee testimony.
(Michael Cohen claims that President Trump is threatening his family. Trump made ominous innuendos about Cohen’s father-in-law. https://www.vox.com/2019/1/23/18194719/trump-michael-cohen-father-in-l
aw-threat
)

The memo speaks of all this in mild terms, as Trump “appearing to praise or condemn” witnesses, when he was actually doing much worse. Trump’s behavior went so far as dangling pardons to his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort (who later received one). The memo bends the facts so far that it breaks them.

Its treatment of the law is as bad. The notion that there are no comparable legal precedents to justify prosecution, as the memo claims, is laughable. I co-wrote an almost 200 page report in 2018 laying them all out. (Presidential obstruction of justice: The case of Donald J. Trump https://www.brookings.edu/research/presidential-obstruction-of-justice
-the-case-of-donald-j-trump-2nd-edition
/ )

For instance, both that report and the memo focus on the same key case: United States v. Cueto (1998). In Trump’s case like in Cueto, someone was under investigation and attempted to interfere with that investigation by taking acts that would have been legal but for corrupt intent. The prosecution in Cueto was held lawful and so would one have been here. The evidence of obstruction that Mueller documented would have resulted in charges for anybody else who did not occupy the Oval Office. Barr gave Trump special treatment—and not because the law or the facts merited it.

But inside access is not needed to see that something is rotten here. It was always puzzling how this memo was submitted just two days after Barr received the 400-page Mueller report. How could he and his colleagues possibly process all of that information in 48 hours and come to such a weighty decision not to prosecute? That apparent hastiness was always an indication that Barr’s goal was to cover-up — and not uncover — the truth. But now that we have the memo that is even more clear.

More at https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/08/merrick-garland-barr-memo-
trump-lesson-doj.html


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Monday, January 23, 2023 2:47 PM

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While they are at it, arrest Bill Barr, Trump's attorney general:



Go right on ahead.

No sweat off my ball sack if that fat turd never sees the light of day again.

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Monday, January 23, 2023 2:58 PM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly


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While they are at it, arrest Bill Barr, Trump's attorney general:



Go right on ahead.

No sweat off my ball sack if that fat turd never sees the light of day again.

The same could happen to Trump because the FBI asked Trump and then he lied to FBI:

Did Robert Mueller ask Trump about Ukraine? Yes:
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f. What role, if any, did you have in changing the Republican Party platform regarding arming Ukraine during the Republican National Convention? Prior to the convention, what information did you have about this platform provision? After the platform provision was changed, who told you about the change, when did they tell you, what were you told about why it was changed, and who was involved?

g. On July 27, 2016, in response to a question about whether you would recognize Crimea as Russian territory and lift sanctions on Russia, you said: "We'll be looking at that. Yeah, we'll be looking." Did you intend to communicate by that statement or at any other time during the campaign a willingness to lift sanctions and/or recognize Russia's annexation of Crimea if you were elected?

What consideration did you give to lifting sanctions and/or recognizing Russia's annexation of Crimea if you were elected? Describe who you spoke with about this topic, when, the substance of the discussion(s).

What were Trump’s answers? Nothing, which is extremely odd because the GOP platform was rewritten to give Putin everything he would ever want:
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Trump’s Response to Question IV, Part (f)
I have no recollection of the details of what, when, or from what source l first learned about the change to the platform amendment regarding arming Ukraine, but I generally recall learning of the issue as part of media reporting. I do not recall being involved in changing the language to the amendment.

Trump’s Response to Question IV, Part (g)
My statement did not communicate any position.

See page 437 of 448 “Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election”
https://www.justice.gov/archives/sco/file/1373816/download

Trump made change to the GOP platform that he doesn’t talk about. See changes to 2016 gop platform ukraine
https://www.google.com/search?q=changes+to+2016+gop+platform+ukraine

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Monday, January 23, 2023 3:59 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


While they're at it, they could arrest the FBI's and DHS's and DOJ's entire upper echelons, and sack the entire CIA and State Dept.

Gonna need a big broom to clean up DC!


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Monday, January 23, 2023 5:12 PM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly


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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
While they're at it, they could arrest the FBI's and DHS's and DOJ's entire upper echelons, and sack the entire CIA and State Dept.

Gonna need a big broom to clean up DC!

Man who rested feet on desk in Pelosi’s office on Jan. 6 found guilty on 8 counts. He faces up to 20 years in prison for the top charge of obstructing an official proceeding.

Meanwhile, DOJ won't charge Trump.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/23/politics/richard-barnett-pelosi-office-
january-6/index.html


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Monday, January 23, 2023 7:07 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
While they're at it, they could arrest the FBI's and DHS's and DOJ's entire upper echelons, and sack the entire CIA and State Dept.

Gonna need a big broom to clean up DC!

Man who rested feet on desk in Pelosi’s office on Jan. 6 found guilty on 8 counts. He faces up to 20 years in prison for the top charge of obstructing an official proceeding.



That's all for show. He'll appeal and get nothing but some community service.

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Meanwhile, DOJ won't charge Trump.


Because there's nothing to charge him with.

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Monday, January 23, 2023 7:08 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
While they're at it, they could arrest the FBI's and DHS's and DOJ's entire upper echelons, and sack the entire CIA and State Dept.

Gonna need a big broom to clean up DC!


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If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake




You're going to need at least a power washer for that job. The ones they use on the Tarmac of an Aircraft Carrier.

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Tuesday, January 24, 2023 8:15 AM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly


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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
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Originally posted by second:
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
While they're at it, they could arrest the FBI's and DHS's and DOJ's entire upper echelons, and sack the entire CIA and State Dept.

Gonna need a big broom to clean up DC!

Man who rested feet on desk in Pelosi’s office on Jan. 6 found guilty on 8 counts. He faces up to 20 years in prison for the top charge of obstructing an official proceeding.



That's all for show. He'll appeal and get nothing but some community service.

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Meanwhile, DOJ won't charge Trump.


Because there's nothing to charge him with.

Richard Barnett got charged and convicted for obstructing an official proceeding of Congress just because he placed his feet on Nancy Pelosi's desk. Why? Barnett doesn't have as many good lawyers as Trump will. The DOJ is just average to below average lawyers who are afraid to prosecute somebody with lawyers better than the DOJ can hire.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/23/politics/richard-barnett-pelosi-office-
january-6/index.html


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Tuesday, January 24, 2023 10:35 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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Richard Barnett got charged and convicted for obstructing an official proceeding of Congress just because he placed his feet on Nancy Pelosi's desk. Why? Barnett doesn't have as many good lawyers as Trump will. The DOJ is just average to below average lawyers who are afraid to prosecute somebody with lawyers better than the DOJ can hire./b]



You post so much bullshit that once in a blue moon you post an entire comment that is correct.

Isn't math wonderful?

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Sunday, March 5, 2023 6:49 AM

JAYNEZTOWN


Pissgate 4Chan is finally over!??

Buzz Feed, Gawker, CNN type gossip?



The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with Pulitzer-prize winning investigative reporter Jeff Gerth on the failure of the U.S. press to report the true story during the Trump-Russia saga.

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-chris-hedges-report-podcast-wit
h-203


The news of Pissgate refers to claims that Donald Trump hired prostitutes to "perform a urination show" on a bed in the Moscow Ritz Carlton Hotel, where Barack and Michelle Obama once slept during an official trip to Russia. Originally put together as opposition research by the Clinton campaign and Democratic party, to take down Bernie or Biden politically?

The Steele dossier is discredited in the United States, some newspapers in Great Britain United Kingdom of Britbongistan still appear to believe that it is genuine and that the evidence against it is Russian disinformation.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/01/20/kremlin-accused-laying-fal
se-trail-linking-sergei-skripal-ex
/

"The entire Steele Dossier was sourced from a guy who puts ink on paper for money....He was not a highly placed source inside Russian intel....He was a hack at a bar with his friends laughing up his sleeve at Christopher Steele and selling him baloney like it was filet mignon....For money....Steele knew it....The FBI knew it....The DNC knew it....The Hillary Clinton campaign knew it....Only you didn’t know it”

https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/igor-danchenko-who-is-he/

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