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Mueller Gets Bad News, He Deserves This
Benjamin Welton
The chorus of disquiet around special prosecutor Robert Mueller has only continued to grow as more and more Americans learned all about his involvement in the Uranium Scandal.According to Fox News, many Republicans in Congress have openly called for Mr. Mueller to resign or face termination due to his many conflicts of interest.
Even the typically moderate and staid Wall Street Journal used their Editorial page to request that Mueller be given his walking papers.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie recently went on Fox News in order to give his support to the idea of Mueller’s termination.
“If the facts that you just laid out are true, then somebody with Bob Mueller’s integrity will step aside and should — if in fact those facts, as you laid them out, are true,” he said.
President Trump has also joined the fray by tweeting: “It is now commonly agreed, after many months of COSTLY looking, that there was NO collusion between Russia and Trump. Was collusion with HC!”
The final line of the president’s tweet is in reference to both the recent findings concerning the Uranium One deal, and the creation of the “Trump Dossier.”
Back in the mid-2000s, after Frank Giustra, a Canadian mining executive, donated millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation, Former President Bill Clinton helped grease the wheels of a deal that ultimately saw Giustra win control of most of Kazakhstan’s uranium deposits.
With this in hand, Giustra bought into the multi-national corporation Uranium One, which at the time owned twenty-percent of America’s uranium supply.
Years later, when Vladimir Putin decided to corner the world’s uranium market, he leaned on President Clinton to help Rosatom, a Russian company with ties to the Kremlin, purchase Uranium One. Mr. Clinton flew to Moscow, gave a $500,000 speech, then met with Russian businessmen involved in the deal.
At the same time, Mueller’s FBI began investigating Russian espionage of the Clintons, as well as money laundering, bribery, and kickback schemes — all of which could be connected back to the Uranium One buyout.
Ultimately, then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton cast the deciding vote as the chair of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States. The Obama administration, which knew all about the FBI’s findings, decided to give Rosatom control of Uranium One and twenty-percent of America’s uranium.
Mr. Mueller’s FBI decided to suppress their own findings in order to keep this deal as quiet as possible. During the days before the Uranium One deal was finalized, Mr. Mueller flew out to Russia in order to hand deliver samples of highly enriched uranium (HEU) found in the Republic of Georgia.
Then, during the 2016 election, a GOP donor named Paul Singer decided to hire Fusion GPS in order to create a smear dossier against Donald Trump (Singer is a supporter of Marco Rubio). Singer and his media arm, the Washington Free Beacon, were joined by Mrs. Clinton, the FBI, and the DNC, all of whom paid big bucks to get their hands on the now-discredited dossier.
This dossier was the reason why Americans have had their phones tapped and their mailboxes flooded with subpoenas. Mr. Mueller is therefore not only guilty of being compromised, but he is guilty of relying on “fake news” in order to conduct his investigation.
CNN Gives Democrats Horrific News, This Just Happened
Frank Spear
Is it possible that top Democrats had no idea where the seemingly fake “Trump dossier” came from? As more people start asking questions, the answer seems to be “How could they not know?”
John Podesta and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.,) both have talked to investigators in Congress about whether or not they knew anything about the hiring of Fusion GPS, a firm that focuses on gathering intel for opposition research. They both denied the claims, perjuring themselves.
CNN said, “Their remarks to congressional investigators raise the stakes in their assertion that they knew nothing about the funding because it’s against the law to make false statements to Congress.”
Many reporters are saying that the two are in big trouble. They are admitting that they knew nothing about it, despite mounting evidence suggesting otherwise.
We are only at the beginning of this investigation, and it is expanding every single day. As we learn more information, the Left seems to be falling into full-blown panic mode.
Everyone denies that they knew anything about this — the DNC, Hillary Clinton, James Comey, the Podestas, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and even the FBI, who used a dossier that was, quite frankly, nonsense.
This is not even including the 72,000 pages of Clinton emails that were just uncovered. There’s a high probability that the release of additional emails will suggest or directly prove more wrongdoing and criminal behavior on behalf of the Clintons.
CNN went on to say that Podesta was accompanied by his lawyer, and perhaps not so ironically, the general counsel for the Clinton Campaign, Marc Elias.
There are two New York Times reporters who stated that they believe that the Clinton campaign, including Elias, were well aware of the scandal, and actively worked to cover it up.
If that is the case, it would mean that more than likely, the DNC was directly tied to the dossier. If the DNC knew about this, that means Schultz likely knew as well. That makes the entire Democrat party complicit in this situation, whether they realize it yet or not.
Furthermore, the connection between Fusion GPS and the Podesta group is undeniable, so this would also make it impossible for Podesta to deny that he had any knowledge of the dossier.
It would appear that they have perjured themselves by denying that they had any involvement. Mueller announced Friday that the first charges have come out, and more details will be released Monday.
As we wait to see what Monday brings, Schultz, Podesta, Clinton, and most Democrats are likely nervous about what is coming their way. They opened a can of worms by implying that President Trump had involvement with Russia in any way. Now, it is time for them to answer the same questions they have posed to President Trump for almost a year. There is a good chance that they are all nervous and denying that they know anyone for a reason. Guilt seems almost inevitable at this point, based strictly on the evidence presented.
Obama’s Campaign Paid $972,000 To Law Firm That Secretly Paid Fusion GPS In 2016
Since April of 2016, Obama's campaign organization has paid nearly a million dollars to the law firm that funneled money to Fusion GPS to compile a dossier of unverified allegations against Donald Trump.
By Sean Davis
Former president Barack Obama’s official campaign organization has directed nearly a million dollars to the same law firm that funneled money to Fusion GPS, the firm behind the infamous Steele dossier. Since April of 2016, Obama For America (OFA) has paid over $972,000 to Perkins Coie, records filed with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) show.
The Washington Post reported last week that Perkins Coie, an international law firm, was directed by both the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Hillary Clinton’s campaign to retain Fusion GPS in April of 2016 to dig up dirt on then-candidate Donald Trump. Fusion GPS then hired Christopher Steele, a former British spy, to compile a dossier of allegations that Trump and his campaign actively colluded with the Russian government during the 2016 election. Though many of the claims in the dossier have been directly refuted, none of the dossier’s allegations of collusion have been independently verified. Lawyers for Steele admitted in court filings last April that his work was not verified and was never meant to be made public.
OFA, Obama’s official campaign arm in 2016, paid nearly $800,000 to Perkins Coie in 2016 alone, according to FEC records. The first 2016 payments to Perkins Coie, classified only as “Legal Services,” were made April 25-26, 2016, and totaled $98,047. A second batch of payments, also classified as “Legal Services,” were disbursed to the law firm on September 29, 2016, and totaled exactly $700,000. Payments from OFA to Perkins Coie in 2017 totaled $174,725 through August 22, 2017.
FEC records as well as federal court records show that Marc Elias, the Perkins Coie lawyer whom the Washington Post reported was responsible for the payments to Fusion GPS on behalf of Clinton’s campaign and the DNC, also previously served as a counsel for OFA. In Shamblin v. Obama for America, a 2013 case in federal court in Florida, federal court records list Elias as simultaneously serving as lead attorney for both OFA and the DNC.
OFA, which managed Obama’s successful reelection campaign in 2012, retooled after that campaign to focus on enacting the president’s agenda during his final term in office. The group reorganized again after the 2016 election and planned to use its staff and resources to oppose President Donald Trump. During the entire 2016 campaign cycle, the group spent only $4.5 million, according to FEC records.
Federal records show that Hillary Clinton’s official campaign organization, Hillary For America, paid just under $5.1 million to Perkins Coie in 2016. The DNC paid nearly $5.4 million to the law firm in 2016.
The timing and nature of the payments to Perkins Coie by Obama’s official campaign arm raise significant questions about whether OFA was funding Fusion GPS, how much Obama and his team knew about the contents and provenance of the dossier long before its contents were made public, and whether the president or his government lieutenants knowingly used a partisan political document to justify official government actions targeting the president’s political opponents named in the dossier. According to the Washington Post, Fusion GPS was first retained by Perkins Coie on behalf of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign in April of 2016.
At the same time that Hillary’s campaign, Obama’s campaign organization, and the DNC were simultaneously paying Perkins Coie, the spouse of one of Fusion GPS’s key employees was working directly for Obama in the West Wing. Shailagh Murray, a former Washington Post reporter-turned-political operative, was serving as a top communications adviser to Obama while the Obama administration was reportedly using information from the dossier to justify secret surveillance of Trump campaign staff. Murray is married to Neil King, a former Wall Street Journal reporter who was hired by Fusion GPS in December of 2016. While at the Wall Street Journal, King worked alongside Fusion GPS’s core team, even sharing bylines with Glenn Simpson, the Fusion GPS executive who personally hired Steele to probe Trump’s alleged Russia connections.
The importance of the dossier funded by Democrats, commissioned by Fusion GPS, and compiled by Steele, is difficult to overstate given that its contents were reportedly briefed to both President Obama and then-President-Elect Trump. The dossier was eventually published in full by BuzzFeed on January 10. On January 12, according to CNN then-FBI Director James Comey had briefed Trump on the allegations in Steele’s dossier. Steele admitted in court filings that he had shopped much of the information in his dossier to numerous media outlets beginning in September of 2016.
Fusion GPS, which has been accused of illegally operating as an undisclosed agent of foreign governments, is currently facing multiple congressional inquiries into its activities and its clients. Bill Browder, whose attorney was allegedly murdered by Russian authorities after publicizing explosive allegations of Russian fraud and money laundering, alleged in congressional testimony last July that Fusion GPS was paid by Russians to undermine U.S. sanctions against the country. Late last week, Fusion GPS reportedly struck a deal with U.S. House investigators regarding a federal subpoena of the firm’s bank records. And in September, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), who serves as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, reportedly requested that the U.S. Treasury Department’s financial crimes unit provide his committee with all suspicious activity reports related to Fusion GPS’s bank transactions.
Following reports of Perkins Coie’s role in funneling money to Fusion GPS, the Campaign Legal Center, a nonpartisan campaign finance watchdog, filed a complaint with the FEC alleging that the secret funding schemes violated federal campaign disclosure laws.
Fusion GPS is also facing a separate defamation suit in federal court related to claims in the dossier. That case, which was brought by three Russian businessmen who claim to have been libeled in the Steele dossier, was filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., in early October. Fusion GPS is yet to respond to those allegations in court.
Sean Davis is the co-founder of The Federalist.
Gingrich: Clintons May Be 'Destroyed' by Russia Story They Created
(Fox News)
By Eric Mack
The Russia collusion story was started by Democrats – specifically the Clintons, according to Newt Gingrich – and now they might ultimately be destroyed by it, the former House Speaker wrote in a Fox News op-ed this weekend.
"At first, I assumed the liberal elites were simply driven by their inability to accept that the American people elected Donald Trump as their 45th president," Gingrich wrote. "Now, I have another theory: The Trump-Russia story is meant to serve as a pure distraction aimed at masking real corruption by the Clinton political machine."
Gingrich's column outlined the investigative, financial, and political trail that included Hillary and Bill Clinton's Russia dealings, including one related to a uranium, media coverage attacking President Donald Trump while glossing over the Clinton connections, and recent revelations the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton's campaign helped fund the Russian dossier produced by "supposed opposition research" contractor Fusion GPS.
"The great irony of all this though, is that the Clintons started the so-called Russian collusion scandal, and in the end, they may be the ones destroyed by it," Gingrich's op-ed concluded.
Gingrich's piece laments the fact the Russian collusion investigation was directed by the left and "has been desperately working for months to find any shred of evidence that Donald Trump had even the slightest connection to Russia."
"Despite having the full support of their friends in the media, they have consistently failed to find anything substantive," Gingrich wrote.
Report Reveals CNN’s Close Ties to Trump-Smearing Firm Fusion GPS
by KRISTINA WONG
CN
As more details emerge about the murky swamp that funded Fusion GPS’s work on the salacious Trump dossier, a new report reveals CNN’s own ties to the smear-for-hire firm.
CNN’s justice correspondent Evan Perez, who has reported extensively on the Russia investigation and the Trump dossier, is close personal friends with Fusion GPS’s founders, according to a report by the Daily Caller.
Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson and Perez both worked at the Wall Street Journal together and regularly co-authored national security stories.
Thomas Catan, another Fusion co-founder, also worked as a reporter for the Journal at the same time as Perez and Simpson. A third co-founder, Peter Fritsch, was Perez and Simpson’s senior national security editor.
Simpson and Fritsch left the Journal in 2011 to launch Fusion, and Perez went to CNN in 2013. Another Journal reporter, Neil King, joined Fusion in December 2016.
The Daily Caller discovered Facebook postings that showed the closeness of Perez to Fusion GPS’s founders.
One photo posted by Perez shows King and another man at a bar near the Washington Nationals stadium in August 2016.
Another photo from September 2015 shows Perez, King, and Fritsch together.
The same year Fritsch co-founded Fusion, Perez posted photos from a fishing trip he took with Fritsch.
“At no point in Perez’s reporting did he disclose his close ties to the Fusion GPS operatives,” the Daily Caller reports.
Interestingly, it was Perez who reported that the dossier was used by the FBI to get a surveillance warrant on Trump campaign associates.
The Wall Street Journal‘s editorial board seemingly rebuked its own former reporters in a piece earlier this month that accused the Beltway media of being complicit in a coverup with Fusion GPS: “Americans don’t need a Justice Department coverup abetted by Glenn Simpson’s media buddies.”
The Daily Caller report also notes that Simpson’s wife, Mary Jacoby, bragged about his role in the dossier, saying, “some people still don’t realize what Glenn’s role was in exposing Putin’s control of Donald Trump.”
The report also points out CNN anchor Jake Tapper’s coverage of the dossier has been “relatively soft.”
For example, on Wednesday, Tapper asserted that “some of the details [of the dossier] have been proven accurate.” In the past, he has pointed out that at least one key claim in the dossier was false — that Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen went to Prague last August to meet with Kremlin operatives.
CNN also incorrectly reported that former FBI Director James Comey had never told Trump he was not under investigation — whereas Comey himself admitted to doing so during testimony.
Later, two CNN reporters and an editor were fired and forced to retract a report after it was challenged by Breitbart News.
Fusion GPS is coming under mounting scrutiny, after it was revealed last week that Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee hired Fusion GPS to look into ties between Trump and Russia in April.
After that, Fusion GPS hired ex-British spy Christopher Steele, who produced the dossier filled with salacious claims that have been unverified to date. His sources for the dossier reportedly included Russian government sources, raising the possibility that the dossier was part of a Russian disinformation campaign.
A report on Friday by the Washington Examiner said Paul Singer, a funder of the Washington Free Beacon and Sen. Marco Rubio’s presidential campaign, initially hired Fusion GPS to conduct opposition research on Trump, but abandoned the effort after the GOP primary election.
Fusion GPS also has a reputation of smearing Americans for corrupt overseas clients.
The founder of the Human Rights Foundation, Thor Halvorssen, called Fusion GPS “highly paid smear experts” in written testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee. He said the company went after him after he criticized a corrupt Venezuelan company that Fusion GPS worked for, the Daily Caller notes.
A former Human Rights Foundation associate, Alek Boyd, said Fusion GPS falsely accused him of being a pedophile, sexual deviant, and drug addict.
“Fusion is basically a pen-for-hire shop, whose owners are prepared to concoct completely spurious stories that are fed to media contacts developed over years of legitimate work in reputable outlets,” Boyd told the outlet.
Perhaps it was the testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee of Bill Browder, who championed sanctions against Russia for corruption, that carried the most weight.
Browder revealed during testimony how Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya had hired Fusion GPS through Baker Hostetler, to conduct a smear campaign against him and his lawyer Sergei Magnitsky after they exposed Russian corruption.
“Veselnitskaya, through Baker Hostetler, hired Glenn Simpson of the firm Fusion GPS to conduct a smear campaign against me and Sergei Magnitsky in advance of congressional hearings on the Global Magnitsky Act,” Browder said in a written statement.
“He contacted a number of major newspapers and other publications to spread false information that Sergei Magnitsky was not murdered, was not a whistleblower, and was instead a criminal. They also spread false information that my presentations to lawmakers around the world were untrue,” he told senators.
REPORT: Barack Obama Paid Nearly $1 Million To Firm That Created Fake Trump Dossier
by DC Whispers
Another layer of the rotten onion that is Washington D.C. has been uncovered. Check out the following from a just-released report by The Federalist:Since April of 2016, Obama’s campaign organization has paid nearly a million dollars to the law firm that funneled money to Fusion GPS to compile a dossier of unverified allegations against Donald Trump.
Former president Barack Obama’s official campaign organization has directed nearly a million dollars to the same law firm that funneled money to Fusion GPS, the firm behind the infamous Steele dossier. Since April of 2016, Obama For America (OFA) has paid over $972,000 to Perkins Coie, records filed with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) show.
The Washington Post reported last week that Perkins Coie, an international law firm, was directed by both the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Hillary Clinton’s campaign to retain Fusion GPS in April of 2016 to dig up dirt on then-candidate Donald Trump.
…OFA, Obama’s official campaign arm in 2016, paid nearly $800,000 to Perkins Coie in 2016 alone, according to FEC records. The first 2016 payments to Perkins Coie, classified only as “Legal Services,” were made April 25-26, 2016, and totaled $98,047. A second batch of payments, also classified as “Legal Services,” were disbursed to the law firm on September 29, 2016, and totaled exactly $700,000. Payments from OFA to Perkins Coie in 2017 totaled $174,725 through August 22, 2017.
FEC records as well as federal court records show that Marc Elias, the Perkins Coie lawyer whom the Washington Post reported was responsible for the payments to Fusion GPS on behalf of Clinton’s campaign and the DNC, also previously served as a counsel for OFA. In Shamblin v. Obama for America, a 2013 case in federal court in Florida, federal court records list Elias as simultaneously serving as lead attorney for both OFA and the DNC.
—————Let us summarize the above increasingly troubling picture:
***The law firm hired to initiate the false Trump dossier during a presidential campaign was receiving funding by the then sitting President of the United States. This same law firm has strong ties not only to Obama for America, but the DNC.
***The Obama White House used the fake dossier that it helped to finance to order the illegal surveillance of the Trump campaign. A sitting president was spying on an opposing candidate via the taxpayer-funded resources of the FBI, CIA, etc. This kind of act is stunningly illegal.
***Now a bit of explanation on why such activities so often utilize the services of law firms. The Clintons have been particularly adept at this practice over the years. Those in power use law firms in order to establish attorney-client privilege. It is a powerful wall of defense against investigations – a firewall if you will. Barack Obama appears to have been working hand-in-hand with Hillary Clinton and Perkins Cole to attack then-candidate and later President-Elect, Donald Trump and using taxpayer funds to do so.
The above story is the first verifiable link between Barack Obama and the growing stink of the fake Trump dossier. Whispers suggest more such links are soon to follow. It should be the #1 news story at this moment but the Establishment Media is doing all it can to push these revelations aside. Don’t let them succeed. Educate. Share. Enlighten.
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Obama’s Campaign Paid $972,000 To Law Firm That Secretly Paid Fusion GPS In 2016
Since April of 2016, Obama's campaign organization has paid nearly a million dollars to the law firm that funneled money to Fusion GPS to compile a dossier of unverified allegations against Donald Trump.
By Sean Davis
Former president Barack Obama’s official campaign organization has directed nearly a million dollars to the same law firm that funneled money to Fusion GPS, the firm behind the infamous Steele dossier. Since April of 2016, Obama For America (OFA) has paid over $972,000 to Perkins Coie, records filed with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) show.
The Washington Post reported last week that Perkins Coie, an international law firm, was directed by both the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Hillary Clinton’s campaign to retain Fusion GPS in April of 2016 to dig up dirt on then-candidate Donald Trump. Fusion GPS then hired Christopher Steele, a former British spy, to compile a dossier of allegations that Trump and his campaign actively colluded with the Russian government during the 2016 election. Though many of the claims in the dossier have been directly refuted, none of the dossier’s allegations of collusion have been independently verified. Lawyers for Steele admitted in court filings last April that his work was not verified and was never meant to be made public.
OFA, Obama’s official campaign arm in 2016, paid nearly $800,000 to Perkins Coie in 2016 alone, according to FEC records. The first 2016 payments to Perkins Coie, classified only as “Legal Services,” were made April 25-26, 2016, and totaled $98,047. A second batch of payments, also classified as “Legal Services,” were disbursed to the law firm on September 29, 2016, and totaled exactly $700,000. Payments from OFA to Perkins Coie in 2017 totaled $174,725 through August 22, 2017.
FEC records as well as federal court records show that Marc Elias, the Perkins Coie lawyer whom the Washington Post reported was responsible for the payments to Fusion GPS on behalf of Clinton’s campaign and the DNC, also previously served as a counsel for OFA. In Shamblin v. Obama for America, a 2013 case in federal court in Florida, federal court records list Elias as simultaneously serving as lead attorney for both OFA and the DNC.
OFA, which managed Obama’s successful re-election campaign in 2012, retooled after that campaign to focus on enacting the president’s agenda during his final term in office. The group reorganized again after the 2016 election and planned to use its staff and resources to oppose President Donald Trump. During the entire 2016 campaign cycle, the group spent only $4.5 million, according to FEC records.
Federal records show that Hillary Clinton’s official campaign organization, Hillary For America, paid just under $5.1 million to Perkins Coie in 2016. The DNC paid nearly $5.4 million to the law firm in 2016.
The timing and nature of the payments to Perkins Coie by Obama’s official campaign arm raise significant questions about whether OFA was funding Fusion GPS, how much Obama and his team knew about the contents and provenance of the dossier long before its contents were made public, and whether the president or his government lieutenants knowingly used a partisan political document to justify official government actions targeting the president’s political opponents named in the dossier. According to the Washington Post, Fusion GPS was first retained by Perkins Coie on behalf of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign in April of 2016.
At the same time that Hillary’s campaign, Obama’s campaign organization, and the DNC were simultaneously paying Perkins Coie, the spouse of one of Fusion GPS’s key employees was working directly for Obama in the West Wing. Shailagh Murray, a former Washington Post reporter-turned-political operative, was serving as a top communications adviser to Obama while the Obama administration was reportedly using information from the dossier to justify secret surveillance of Trump campaign staff. Murray is married to Neil King, a former Wall Street Journal reporter who was hired by Fusion GPS in December of 2016. While at the Wall Street Journal, Kingworked alongside Fusion GPS’s core team, even sharing bylines with Glenn Simpson, the Fusion GPS executive who personally hired Steele to probe Trump’s alleged Russia connections.
The importance of the dossier funded by Democrats, commissioned by Fusion GPS, and compiled by Steele, is difficult to overstate given that its contents were reportedly briefed to both President Obama and then-President-Elect Trump. The dossier was eventually published in full by BuzzFeed on January 10. On January 12, according to CNN then-FBI Director James Comey had briefed Trump on the allegations in Steele’s dossier. Steele admitted in court filings that he had shopped much of the information in his dossier to numerous media outlets beginning in September of 2016.
Fusion GPS, which has been accused of illegally operating as an undisclosed agent of foreign governments, is currently facing multiple congressional inquiries into its activities and its clients. Bill Browder, whose attorney was allegedly murdered by Russian authorities after publicizing explosive allegations of Russian fraud and money laundering, alleged in congressional testimony last July that Fusion GPS was paid by Russians to undermine U.S. sanctions against the country. Late last week, Fusion GPS reportedly struck a deal with U.S. House investigators regarding a federal subpoena of the firm’s bank records. And in September, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), who serves as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, reportedly requested that the U.S. Treasury Department’s financial crimes unit provide his committee with all suspicious activity reports related to Fusion GPS’s bank transactions.
Following reports of Perkins Coie’s role in funneling money to Fusion GPS, the Campaign Legal Center, a non-partisan campaign finance watchdog, filed a complaint with the FEC alleging that the secret funding schemes violated federal campaign disclosure laws.
Fusion GPS is also facing a separate defamation suit in federal court related to claims in the dossier. That case, which was brought by three Russian businessmen who claim to have been libeled in the Steele dossier, was filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., in early October. Fusion GPS is yet to respond to those allegations in court.
Sean Davis is the co-founder of The Federalist.
ALERT: Powerful Republican Drops Mueller Bombshell, People Are Shocked
Jeff Charles
Republican lawmakers are once again calling on Special Counsel Robert Mueller to step down.Ever since Mueller was appointed as special prosecutor in the investigation into allegations that the Russian government interfered in the 2016 election, members of the GOP have expressed concerns about his close relationship to former FBI Director James Comey.
“The federal code could not be clearer – Mueller is compromised by his apparent conflict of interest in being close with James Comey,” Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) said in an interview with Fox News on Friday. All of the revelations in recent weeks make the case stronger.”
Republican critics of Mueller have renewed their calls for his resignation because of information that surfaced this week that caused many to question the actions of the FBI — and Mueller’s impartiality in conducting his investigation.
The anti-Trump dossier, which was compiled by former MI6 spy Christopher Steele, was funded by the Democratic National Committee, as well as Hillary Clinton’s campaign. The FBI — which was being run by Robert Mueller at the time — received the content of the dossier and allegedly used it to obtain a warrant to conduct surveillance on former Trump advisor Carter Page. Additionally, the Bureau offered to pay Steele’s firm to gather intelligence on the relationship between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.
On top of the revelation about the dossier, the authorities are also looking into a deal that enabled Rosatom, a Russia-owned energy company, to purchase Uranium One, a Canadian firm. This deal enabled the Kremlin to obtain 20% of the United States’ uranium reserves. The FBI had evidence showing that Uranium One was involved in illicit activities, including extortion and bribery. The deal should never have been approved by the government if the FBI possessed this evidence. Interestingly enough, Clinton was on the inter-agency panel that approved Rosatom’s purchase of Uranium One.
Mueller’s relationship with former FBI Director James Comey has also raised eyebrows. While both Comey and Mueller deny that they have a close relationship, GOP lawmakers aren’t buying it. The fact that the two worked together for a number of years is concerning to Mueller’s critics, given the fact that Comey was previously conducting the Russia probe when he was fired by President Trump.
Mueller’s relationship with former FBI Director James Comey has also raised eyebrows. While both Comey and Mueller deny that they have a close relationship, GOP lawmakers aren’t buying it. The fact that the two worked together for a number of years is concerning to Mueller’s critics, given the fact that Comey was previously conducting the Russia probe when he was fired by President Trump.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie — a former federal prosecutor — stated that Mueller should consider resigning.
Outgoing New Jersey GOP Gov. Chris Christie, a former federal prosecutor and Trump ally, also suggested Friday that Mueller consider stepping aside. “If the facts that you just laid out are true, then somebody with Bob Mueller’s integrity will step aside and should — if in fact those facts, as you laid them out, are true,” he said.
Members of the GOP have also been concerned about Mueller’s team, which is made up largely of Democrats who have donated large sums of money to Democrat politicians. The makeup of Mueller’s staff have caused some to question whether or not the investigation is nothing more than a witch hunt.
The special prosecutor filed charges with a grand jury on Friday. The nature, and target of the indictments are not yet known. However, it is not likely that these charges will distract the American public from concerns about Mueller’s impartiality.
Trey Gowdy Uncovered The Awful Secret The FBI Tried To Bury About Hillary
Trey Gowdy has been on the trail of Hillary Clinton’s wrongdoing since Benghazi.Trey Gowdy has been on the trail of Hillary Clinton’s wrongdoing since Benghazi.But he has been thwarted by a powerful cover-up.
Now’s he’s uncovered the dark secret the FBI used to shield Hillary from prosecution.
Gowdy – in his role as Chairman of the Oversight Committee – announced hearings into the FBI’s conduct during the 2016 election that will include why former Director James Comey drafted a letter clearing Clinton of criminal wrongdoing before the investigation into her emails was complete.
Now’s he’s uncovered the dark secret the FBI used to shield Hillary from prosecution.
Gowdy – in his role as Chairman of the Oversight Committee – announced hearings into the FBI’s conduct during the 2016 election that will include why former Director James Comey drafted a letter clearing Clinton of criminal wrongdoing before the investigation into her emails was complete.
The Washington Examiner reports:
“Rep. Trey Gowdy plans to grill former FBI Director James Comey about his decision-making as part of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s decision to re-examine the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server.
“Have to, won’t we?” the South Carolina Republican told the Washington Examiner when asked about interviewing Comey.
Gowdy chairs the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which has opened a joint investigation with the Judiciary Committee in order to review the Justice Department’s handling of the politically charged investigation. Gowdy is particularly concerned that “the decision to charge or not charge [Clinton] was made before all the witnesses were interviewed,” but he emphasized that the investigation topics are structured in a nonpartisan way.
“Of the six things we listed with specificity, three of them are things Democrats gave a big damn about last fall,” said Gowdy. “So, the question is, do they still? And three of them are things that Republicans cared about a lot last year, and the question is, do they still?”
The committees announced the investigation Tuesday morning, with an emphasis on Comey and why the FBI decided what information to reveal and when. Questions include whether the FBI made the right decision to say in public that Clinton’s team was “extremely careless” in its handling of classified information, which Democratic critics protested was a breach of DOJ protocol. But the committee will also ask about the parallel refusal to confirm during the campaign that some of President Trump’s campaign associates faced investigations over their apparent ties to Russia.”
But there is a new wrinkle in this story that will also demand Comey be grilled by Gowdy.
According to the Washington Post, the FBI was set to pay Christopher Steele – of the famous Trump-Russia dossier – to continue digging into Trump at the same time Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democrat National Committee was paying him to dredge up opposition research on Trump.
The Post reports:
“After the election, the FBI agreed to pay Steele to continue gathering intelligence about Trump and Russia, but the bureau pulled out of the arrangement after Steele was publicly identified in news reports.”
Gowdy should demand Comey to answer for why the FBI was willing to pay someone connected to both the Russians and Hillary Clinton to dig up dirt on another party’s Presidential nominee.
It’s an unbelievable revelation that federal law enforcement was being used to spy on Barack Obama’s political opponents.
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