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Confirmed: Clinton operative Sidney Blumenthal helped spread Russia collusion fever before the election

The Clintons created a media and law enforcement echo chamber of Russia collusion.

by William A. Jacobson

Earlier this week we wrote about the possible involvement of Clinton operative Sidney Blumenthal in feeding information to Christoper Steele, author of the infamous Clinton/DNC funded dossier. That dossier formed a key part of the FBI’s presentation to the FISA court to obtain a warrant to surveil Carter Page.

Devin Nunes has a new target: Jonathan Winer, the Obama State Department’s special envoy to Libya, and longtime Senate aide to John Kerry. Winer received a memorandum written by political activist Cody Shearer and passed it along to Christopher Steele, the former British intelligence official who had compiled his own dossier on Donald Trump.

The release of last week’s House Intelligence Committee memo accusing the FBI of surveillance abuses marked the end of the first phase of Nunes’s investigation into the probe of alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election. Now, the committee chair told Fox News on Friday, the probe is moving into “phase two,” which involves the State Department. His focus is on the dossier compiled by Shearer, and passed along by Winer, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

That Blumenthal was the source of the information passed on to Winer appeared to be confirmed by Trey Gowdy in an interview with Martha McCallum, Trey Gowdy suggests Clinton operative Sidney Blumenthal fed info to Steele weeks before election:

Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., strongly implied to Fox News Tuesday night that Clinton family confidant Sidney Blumenthal was a key link in a chain of information that helped create the controversial Trump-Russia dossier.

Gowdy told Fox News’ “The Story” that “when you hear who … one of the sources of that information is, you’re going to think, ‘Oh my gosh, I’ve heard that name somewhere before.’”

When host Martha MacCallum asked if he was referring to Blumenthal, Gowdy answered, “That’d be really warm. You’re warm, yeah.”

Winer has published an Op-Ed at WaPo in which he confirms his involvement with Blumenthal, though he downplays its significance, Devin Nunes is investigating me. Here’s the truth.

… In the summer of 2016, Steele told me that he had learned of disturbing information regarding possible ties between Donald Trump, his campaign and senior Russian officials. He did not provide details but made clear the information involved “active measures,” a Soviet intelligence term for propaganda and related activities to influence events in other countries.

In September 2016, Steele and I met in Washington and discussed the information now known as the “dossier.” Steele’s sources suggested that the Kremlin not only had been behind the hacking of the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign but also had compromised Trump and developed ties with his associates and campaign.

I was allowed to review, but not to keep, a copy of these reports to enable me to alert the State Department. I prepared a two-page summary and shared it with Nuland, who indicated that, like me, she felt that the secretary of state needed to be made aware of this material.

In late September, I spoke with an old friend, Sidney Blumenthal, whom I met 30 years ago when I was investigating the Iran-contra affair for then-Sen. Kerry and Blumenthal was a reporter at The Post. At the time, Russian hacking was at the front and center in the 2016 presidential campaign. The emails of Blumenthal, who had a long association with Bill and Hillary Clinton, had been hacked in 2013 through a Russian server.

While talking about that hacking, Blumenthal and I discussed Steele’s reports. He showed me notes gathered by a journalist I did not know, Cody Shearer, that alleged the Russians had compromising information on Trump of a sexual and financial nature.

What struck me was how some of the material echoed Steele’s but appeared to involve different sources.

On my own, I shared a copy of these notes with Steele, to ask for his professional reaction. He told me it was potentially “collateral” information. I asked him what that meant. He said that it was similar but separate from the information he had gathered from his sources. I agreed to let him keep a copy of the Shearer notes.

Given that I had not worked with Shearer and knew that he was not a professional intelligence officer, I did not mention or share his notes with anyone at the State Department. I did not expect them to be shared with anyone in the U.S. government.

But I learned later that Steele did share them — with the FBI, after the FBI asked him to provide everything he had on allegations relating to Trump, his campaign and Russian interference in U.S. elections.

The Clintons created a media and law enforcement echo chamber of Russia collusion.

Hillary’s campaign and the DNC paid for the Steele dossier. Other Clinton operatives, such as Sidney Blumenthal and Cody Shearer, were spreading similar accusations and sharing information with Steele. Steele was also feeding accusations to the media. Employees of the FBI and possibly other agencies who hated Trump used that information both before and after the election.

In assessing the threats that Hillary and Trump posed to our liberty, respectively, in October 2016 I wrote that Hillary represented the greater threat because Hillary was “a systemic threat.”

I was right.

‘Sinking’ Pacific Island Actually Getting Bigger Shock

by JAMES DELINGPOLE

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Tuvalu – the Pacific island group often cited by climate alarmists as the nation most immediately at risk from rising sea levels caused by ‘global warming’ – is not sinking after all.

In fact it’s getting bigger, scientists now admit.

A University of Auckland study examined changes in the geography of Tuvalu’s nine atolls and 101 reef islands between 1971 and 2014, using aerial photographs and satellite imagery.

It found eight of the atolls and almost three-quarters of the islands grew during the study period, lifting Tuvalu’s total land area by 2.9 percent, even though sea levels in the country rose at twice the global average.

Co-author Paul Kench said the research, published Friday in the journal Nature Communications, challenged the assumption that low-lying island nations would be swamped as the sea rose.

“We tend to think of Pacific atolls as static landforms that will simply be inundated as sea levels rise, but there is growing evidence these islands are geologically dynamic and are constantly changing,” he said.

“The study findings may seem counterintuitive, given that (the) sea level has been rising in the region over the past half century, but the dominant mode of change over that time on Tuvalu has been expansion, not erosion.”

If only they’d done their study a bit earlier they could have saved a lot of alarmists a lot of worry.

As recently as last year, anxious wonks produced a paper for the World Bank arguing that the situation in Tuvalu (pop. 11,000) and nearby Kiribati (pop.107,000) was so dire that Australia and New Zealand should open their doors to the fleeing refugees.

According to the paper:

“The worsening impacts of climate change have provided a new moral imperative for providing open access.”

In 2007, Grist went so far as to cite Tuvalu of one of climate change’s most “tragic” victims.

‘Climate Change in Tuvalu’ even has its own Wikipedia page. It records possibly Tuvalu’s greatest moment of glory on the international stage when it seized the opportunity at the 2009 Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen to grandstand about its terrible plight.

In December 2009 the islands stalled talks at United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, fearing some other developing countries were not committing fully to binding deals on a reduction in carbon emission, their chief negotiator stated “Tuvalu is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to climate change, and our future rests on the outcome of this meeting.”[57] When the conference failed to reach a binding, meaningful agreement, Tuvalu’s representative Ian Fry said, “It looks like we are being offered 30 pieces of silver to betray our people and our future… Our future is not for sale. I regret to inform you that Tuvalu cannot accept this document.”[58]

Fry’s speech to the conference was a highly impassioned plea for countries around the world to address the issues of man-made global warming resulting in climate change. The five-minute speech addressed the dangers of rising sea levels to Tuvalu and the world. In his speech Fry claimed man-made global warming to be currently “the greatest threat to humanity”, and ended with an emotional “the fate of my country rests in your hands”.[59]

Tuvalu’s plight also formed part of the basis for arguably the most hysterical fake news claim in the history of climate alarmism: the UN’s prediction that by the end of 2010, climate change would have created “50 million environmental refugees”.

The UN has since removed the claim from most of its websites. Happily, it can still be glimpsed in the Guardian archives:

Rising sea levels, desertification and shrinking freshwater supplies will create up to 50 million environmental refugees by the end of the decade, experts warn today. Janos Bogardi, director of the Institute for Environment and Human Security at the United Nations University in Bonn, said creeping environmental deterioration already displaced up to 10 million people a year, and the situation would get worse.

“There are well-founded fears that the number of people fleeing untenable environmental conditions may grow exponentially as the world experiences the effects of climate change,” Dr Bogardi said. “This new category of refugee needs to find a place in international agreements. We need to better anticipate support requirements, similar to those of people fleeing other unviable situations.”

In reality, the total number of environmental refugees fleeing climate change so far around the world is close to zero.

But that hasn’t stopped a few chancers from trying it on…

Seventeen people from the Pacific – including 11 from Tuvalu and five from Kiribati – have already made refugee claims in New Zealand, citing climate change as part of their basis of claim. None have been successful (four have yet to be determined and 13 have been rejected) because the refugees convention does not recognise climate change as grounds for protection.

To climate skeptics, the fact that Tuvalu is not drowning will come as no surprise whatsoever.

Their favorite sea levels expert – Nils-Axel Mörner – has written numerous papers on the subject.

In 2012, he wrote:

In Tuvalu, the President continues to claim that they are in the process of being flooded. Yet, the tide-gauge data provide clear indication of a stability over the last 30 years.

The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018: What’s In the McConnell-Schumer Budget Deal

by SEAN MORAN

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The McConnell-Schumer budget deal, known as the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018, funds the federal government for two years and features some of the largest increases in government ever.

Here are some of the larger items in the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018:

1. Spending limits created by the Budget Control Act of 2011 will be raised by about $300 billion over the next two years.
2. Defense spending will be raised by $80 billion in the current fiscal year and by $85 billion next year.
3. Domestic spending will increase by $63 billion this year and by $68 billion next year.
4. Congress will suspend the debt limit through March 2019, putting the next debt limit vote past the 2018 midterm elections.
5. $20 billion for additional infrastructure programs such as surface transportation, rural water, and wastewater systems.
6. $6 billion to fight the opioid crisis.
7. $4 billion for college affordability programs to help police officers, teachers, and firefighters.
8. $90 billion in disaster aid for Texas, Florida, and Puerto Rico.
9. The bill repeals Obamacare’s Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), which was designed to limit Medicare costs.
10. A ten-year extension of the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), which is four years longer than the previous spending bill passed last month.
11. The two-year spending bill excludes funding for President Donald Trump’s proposed southern border wall. President Trump asked for $25 billion over several years to build the southern border wall.
12. The bill does not include any legislation addressing Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) illegal aliens, much to the dismay of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).

Read the entire Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 here.

Trump Victories Reduce #NeverTrump to Self-Righteous Scolds over Stormy Daniels

by JOHN NOLTE

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The cult of #NeverTrump proved they are the worst experts ever with their unceasing bellowing of proclamations that said there was no way Donald Trump could win the nomination, much less the presidency.

The cult of #NeverTrump then proved they are nothing less than lying grifters with their snide sniffs about how Trump is not a TrueCon, even as he closed year one with a record more conservative than Ronald Reagan’s.

And so, after a two-year face job at the hands of Reality, all these provincial snobs have left is to pose as masters of their own self-regard with moralistic posturing over Stormy Daniels, and worse, the hurling of self-righteous recriminations against those of us who choose not to join in on the posturing.

For those of you who do not know, Stormy Daniels is the porn star who says she did not have an extra-marital sexual encounter with Trump in 2006.

Yes, you read that correctly — Daniels says she did NOT sleep with Trump.

The president backs her story. However, Daniels has said in the past that she did have the affair, but… you may have also noticed that Daniels enjoys publicity, which includes flirting with Senate runs in Louisiana and, most recently, a coy post-State of the Union appearance with Jimmy Kimmel. The Wall Street Journal claims Trump paid her $130,000 in hush money. Trump and Daniels say no. Bottom line: we have no idea what happened.

Nevertheless…

“Why Are Social Conservatives Silent on Trump’s Porn-Star Affair,” harrumphedNational Review’s Thurston Goldberg III.

“Conservatism once: Character counts. Conservatism today: Mulligans for sale!” blared former cruise director Tony Kristol.

“Someone needs to ask Mike Pence about [Stormy Daniels] every single time he gives a press conference, ” exclaimed Bret Stephens of the failing New York Times that lost $58 million last quarter.

“[Evangelicals believe] the Book of Poontang … says thou shalt allow The Donald to f*ck porn stars and let him get away with it,” swaggered Rick “Does Trump Pay You More For Anal” Wilson.

That is just a taste from this tribe of sore losers who have run out of reasons to bitterly cling to their anti-Trump dogma. Which means that all these neocon men have left is to try and shame social conservatives and evangelical leaders for committing the sin of — get this — forgiveness.

Oh, and the additional sin of… not being judgmental.

How so very unChristian of us to not cast stones.

The Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins has taken the brunt of the #NevertTrump’s scorn for saying of Trump’s libertine tendencies, “We kind of gave him—‘Alright, you get a mulligan. You get a do-over here.’”

“Mulligans by the dozen,” snarked David “The Gun Grabber” Frum.

“From the moral majority to the mulligan majority,” cried Twitter’s Tony Kristol.

“What happened to evangelicals,” squeaked MSNBC’s Charlie Sykes.

If there was a way to make this point without sounding stuffy, I would, but… Did Christ not crawl up on that cross to grant each of us a mulligan? And are we not supposed to be like Christ? And what exactly is Christ-like about stoning a man over something he might or might not have done 12 years ago? What Christian good does this serve?

None.

Sorry, but to do such a thing is much more in keeping with the Pharisees, not Christ.

Moreover, the anti-science #NeverTrumpers are actually asking us to take the fake news media as gospel. That is how far gone these crybabies are.

Here is the only “good” that could come from hurling the stones handed to us by #NeverTrump…

1. You would earn the good opinion of #NeverTrump: Even though #NeverTrump is a gang of smug, judgmental, tribal, egotistical, blowhard sellouts, the coveting of their “good opinion” would never serve as a mark against you in the quest for eternal life.
2. You get to virtue signal: Not only does casting pious stones against others confirm just how precious your virtue is, nothing demonstrates just how super awesomely pure you are than using gossip as an excuse to be the demonic mainstream media’s useful idiots.
3. CNN and Politico might quote you! Oh, the warm bath of affirmation when Big Media finds your backstabbing worthy of a mention. You might even get to be on TeeeeVeeee! “Hi, mom, I know I’m being used like a three-dollar whore by the worst people in the world, but I’m now someone cuz I’m on MSNBCeeee!”

#NeverTrump knows Hillary Clinton is a pro-infanticide extremist, knows she is the most corrupt politician in generations, knows she sought to personally destroy countless women exploited by her husband; and still these Vichy Republicans spent every precious minute of the 2016 general  election doing everything in their wicked power to make that she-monster president — and worse, to bestow the honor of being America’s first First Gentleman on an accused-rapist who turns young interns into Oval Office humidors.

So you’ll pardon me if I go elsewhere for my Christianity 101 lessons.

Trey Gowdy says Democrats might have booby-trapped their FISA memo

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In an effort to make Republicans and President Donald Trump appear to be unfair and dishonest, Democrats may have included highly classified information in their memo, to combat Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) memo, on FISA court abuses in the surveillance of President Trump campaign worker Carter Page. This will effectively make it seem as though there’s something Republicans are trying to hide from the American people.

South Carolina Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy called them out on it on Tuesday when he appeared on Fox News’ The Story with Martha MacCallum.

Contrived Controversy

Rep. Gowdy told MacCallum that Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and his Democrat colleagues included information in their memo that they knew would have to be redacted in order to create a controversy that made it appear that Republicans were hiding information from the American people.

“I think the Democrats are politically smart enough to put things in the memo that require either the [FBI] or the Department of Justice to say it needs to be redacted. Therefore, it creates this belief that there’s something being hidden from the American people,” he said, The Washington Examiner reported.

“Unfortunately, we are in an environment where you would include material that you know has to be redacted and you know responsible people are going to redact just so that questions will be asked,” he added.

Gowdy said that the Democrat memo does not negate the facts in Rep. Nunes memo and was created to confuse Americans.

“A little bit of it is also just creating so much dust and cloud that people just give up and say, ‘Well you’re saying x and you’re saying y.’ I’m just going to tune out,” he said.

The Dossier Is The Key

Rep. Gowdy told MacCallum that Rep. Nunes memo proved that there would be no Russia investigation if the unverified dossier, compiled by a former British spy and paid for by Democrats, was not given to the FISA courts.

And it is one reason he is happy that he is retiring from politics.

“One of the reasons I can’t wait to go into another line of work is the relativism — that we don’t apply the same standard, that Democrats will wail and cry and gnash teeth over something they think Republicans have done, and they are more than happy to turn a blind eye if their own team does it,” he told MacCallum.

“There is not a snowball’s chance in purgatory that [an] attorney general Adam Schiff, or Attorney General Loretta Lynch would be looking into a fact pattern for President [Hillary] Clinton. [Former President Barack] Obama absolved her of any criminality in her most recent probe before the investigation was over,” he said.

He also suggested that longtime Clinton friend Sidney Blumenthal is the man who gave information to Steele.

“When you hear who the source, one of the sources of that information is, you’re going to think, oh, my gosh, I’ve heard that name somewhere before,” he said. “Where could it possibly have been?”

“I’m trying to think of how Secretary Clinton defined him,” he told MacCallum. “I think she said he was an old friend who emailed her from time to time.”

MacCallum asked if it was Blumenthal and Gowdy responded “That would be really warm. You’re warm.”

WASHINGTON SECRETS

FBI texts: Clinton email aide Huma Abedin sought immunity — or would take the '5th'

by Paul Bedard

In this June 10, 2016 file photo, top Clinton aide Huma Abedin walks ahead of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton following a private meeting at Clinton's home in Washington. Clinton and Huma discussed sending a secure cell phone to the secretary of state by FedEx or a personal courier, according to emails released Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016. The State Department said either approach would have been acceptable, if the telephone was rendered inoperable for the journey. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Hillary Rodham Clinton’s closest aide, Huma Abedin, likely threatened to take “the 5th” if she didn’t get immunity to talk to a grand jury, according to a newly released batch of phone texts between two pro-Clinton, anti-Trump FBI officials.

The texts just released by Sen. Ron Johnson’s Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee revealed that the threat came in December 2016, after it was thought the Clinton email probe was dormant but one focusing on her husband’s sexting to a 15-year-old girl was ongoing.

The texts do not give much context, other than mentioning a grand jury. Just before the election, there was a renewed focus on Abedin because Clinton emails were found on the computer of her estranged husband, eventually sentenced to two years for sexting the teen.

But a month before the new text revealing the demand from Abedin’s lawyers, the FBI closed the link between the Weiner computer and the Clinton case.

In his text, agent Peter Strzok wrote colleague and lover, FBI lawyer Lisa Page, about Abedin.

Writing on Dec. 13, Strzok texted, “Talked to DoJ about HA interview. Told them we had to interview, no immunity. They said they thought that would get counsel to the point of saying she’s either taking the 5th in the Gj or you need to give her immunity. I said that’s fine, please have discussions to get the decision to that point and I would run up the chain.”

“HA” is said to refer to Abedin.

Abedin had immunity in the earlier Clinton investigation, raising questions about whether another had been convened or if it was related to Weiner. Strzok and Page, however, were working the Clinton case.

The Justice Department recently said it was reopening the Clinton email probe.

Abedin has been tied to Clinton for years and was with her always during the presidential campaign.

She was previously interviewed by the FBI and is said to have cooperated. Unclear is why she would then want immunity as the text suggested her lawyers were demanding.

The new batch of texts from Johnson’s committee shows the political bias of the FBI in Clinton’s favor. Others showed that former President Obama was keeping up with the probe.

They are in addition to a House GOP memo on the Russia election influence probe targeting the Trump campaign that show a similar anti-Trump bias.

Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner's "Washington Secrets" columnist, can be contacted at pbedard@washingtonexaminer.com

Dreamers Threaten Congress, We’ll Leave the United States if No DACA Deal Is Reached
BY BENJAMIN ARIE

It might be the worst “Mexican standoff” in history. As the deadline to renew the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program approaches, some illegal immigrants are issuing a bizarre ultimatum: Pass a deal to extend DACA, or else… we’ll leave the country.

Which is, of course, exactly what the law says anyway. “Dreamers” have already been living in the country illegally for years, but now apparently think that threatening to leave will somehow motivate Congress to give them what they want.

If a DACA extension isn’t passed, “I will leave. I will leave America as soon as possible,” illegal alien Alex Velez declared to CNN. She and her sister Daniela are due to have their protected status expire on March 6.

Like the classic joke about being let go from a job — “You can’t fire me, I quit!” — the Velez sisters and other Dreamers seem to think that threatening to leave a country where they are staying illegally will somehow motivate lawmakers to keep them.

“I want to be able to leave on my terms. I’m not going to be waiting for anyone to come for me,” Alex Velez stubbornly stated.

That raises the obvious question: Why, then, has she and so many others waited in the U.S. for so long already?

If Velez has declared that she will “leave America as soon as possible,” why didn’t she do that a long time ago? It was “possible” for years. Nobody was forcing her to stay.

Alex and Daniela are both adults but have known that they were in America illegally since they were in middle school, after their parents overstayed visas from Venezuela.

They both have two different countries to fall back on, being dual citizens of Ecuador and Venezuela, according to CNN. Ecuador is considered a safe and stable country that is a popular eco-vacation destination, and the sisters have family there.

Yet despite knowing that they were illegal aliens for years and boasting about “leaving on their own terms,” it apparently never occurred to these Dreamers to prepare a backup plan.

In fact, the Velez’s took complete advantage of their illegal status in the U.S., and despite their current demeanor seemed to have never considered that they might have to leave.

“Alex will be abandoning the $10,000 in tuition she’s paid and the two years’ worth of community college credits she’s built up in her pursuit to become a veterinary technician,” said CNN.

Remember, this was years after they found out that they were in the country illegally. This alien spent $10,000 in a country where she is not a citizen, knowing full well she might not be able to stay, and is now throwing a tantrum because that might not have been a great investment.

This, in a nutshell, is the problem so many Americans have with DACA: The absolute sense of entitlement.

There is plenty of room for sympathy to the situation of Dreamers, especially those who were so young when they came to the U.S. that they barely remember the trip.

However, the frustration of young illegal immigrants should perhaps be directed at their parents, not the country which has been incredibly lenient and has already taken in millions of refugees.

Instead of gratitude for getting out of hellholes like Venezuela or crime-ridden streets in Mexico, however, a disturbing number of illegal aliens seem to have only contempt, and carry the flags of other countries as they march and protest against the same nation they refuse to leave.

It’s become a parody, and a situation that the left has been all too eager to use for political advantage… but the American people have noticed.

Sen. Mark Warner Traded Secret Texts with Russian Oligarch's Lobbyist Linked to Hillary

BY DEBRA HEINE

The top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee communicated through phone calls and text messages last spring with a lobbyist for a Russian oligarch in order to gain access to Christopher Steele, the former British spy who wrote the salacious and unverified anti-Trump dossier.

Senator Mark Warner (D-Va.) texted back and forth with lobbyist Adam Waldman, who runs the Endeavor Group -- which has ties to (surprise!) Hillary Clinton -- while leading the Senate Intelligence Committee's investigation into President Trump's alleged ties to Russia with his Republican colleague North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr.

In one text to the lobbyist, the senator expressed a desire to "not have a paper trail" of his messages. He suggested in another text that he did not want Burr or any other senator included in the discussions.

Waldman signed a $40,000 monthly retainer in 2009 and 2010 to lobby the U.S. government on behalf of Russian billionaire Oleg V. Deripaska.

Before retaining the Endeavor Group, Deripaska had "employed beltway lobbyists close to John McCain, including his former campaign manager Rick Davis," according to a 2009 article in Harper's.

Endeavor’s partners include Lorrie McHugh-Wytkind, formerly “Communications Director for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and Deputy Press Secretary for Media Affairs and Operations for President Bill Clinton,” and its advisers include  Bruce Babbitt, Secretary of the Interior under Bill Clinton and a Hillary supporter during the Democratic presidential primaries.

Deripaska is reportedly a "court oligarch" of Putin’s Kremlin, and is "expected to put up cash and execute state projects when called upon."

A 2006 U.S. embassy  cable published by  Wikileaks described him as "among the 2-3 oligarchs Putin turns to on a regular basis" and "a more or less permanent fixture on Putin's trips abroad."

He had his visa revoked by the State Department in 2006 amid concerns about his links to organized crime, which he has denied.

President Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, worked for Deripaska for a few years more than a decade ago, allegedly to advance the interests of Putin.

The text messages between Senator Warner and Adam Waldman were obtained exclusively by Fox News.

"We have so much to discuss u need to be careful but we can help our country," Warner texted Waldman on March 22, 2017.

"I'm in," Waldman texted back to Warner.

Steele assembled the infamous dirty dossier of unverified information that was used by FBI and Justice Department officials in October 2016 to get a warrant to conduct surveillance on former Trump adviser Carter Page.

At first, Steele seemed open to appearing before the committee under certain conditions. But as more information about his role in creating the discredited dossier came out, he increasingly got cold feet.

Secrecy seemed very important to Warner as the conversation with Waldman heated up March 29, when the lobbyist revealed that Steele wanted a bipartisan letter from Warner and the committee’s chairman, North Carolina Republican Sen. Richard Burr, inviting him to talk to the Senate intelligence panel.

Throughout the text exchanges, Warner seemed particularly intent on connecting directly with Steele without anyone else on the Senate Intelligence Committee being in the loop -- at least initially. In one text to the lobbyist, Warner wrote that he would "rather not have a paper trail" of his messages.

An aide to Warner confirmed to Fox News that the text messages are authentic. The messages, which were obtained from a Republican source are all marked "CONFIDENTIAL" and are not classified, were turned over to the Senate panel by Waldman last September.

The text exchanges began on March 16, 2017, with Waldman texting, "Chris Steele asked me to call you."

Warner responded, "Will call tomorrow be careful.”

The records indicate that Warner and Waldman had trouble connecting by phone for a few days.

On March 20, Warner texted Waldman, requesting help with getting in touch with Steele.

"Can you talk tomorrow want to get with your English friend," Warner texted.

"I spoke to him yesterday," Waldman texted.

The two men appear to have finally connected about Steele by phone on March 22, according to the records.

"Hey just tried u again gotta give a speech but really want to finish our talk," Warner texted.

The two continued to text and communicate by phone, and Waldman, at one point, texted that Steele "wanted a bipartisan letter requesting his testimony first."

Waldman also said that Steele didn't want word leaking to the media that they were talking.

Warner also expressed concern about their conversations leaking, even suggesting in one text that he did not want his colleague Burr or any other senator included in the discussions: "Ok but I wud (sic) like to do prelim call u me and him no one else before letter just so we have to trail to start want to discuss scope first before letter no leaks."

Becoming Illegal
Actual letter from an Oregon resident sent to his senator

The Honorable Mr. Ron Wyden)
731 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington D.C.

Dear Senator Wyden,

As a native Oregonian and excellent customer of the Internal Revenue Service, I am writing to ask for your assistance. I have contacted the Department of Homeland Security in an effort to determine the process for becoming an illegal alien and they referred me to you.

My primary reason for wishing to change my status from U.S. Citizen to illegal alien stems from the bill which was recently passed by the Senate and for which you voted.

If my understanding of this bill is accurate, as an illegal alien who has been in the United States for five years, all I need to do to become a citizen is to pay a $2,000 fine and income taxes for only three of the last five years.

I know a good deal when I see one and I am anxious to get the process started before everyone figures it out.  Simply put, those of us who have been here legally have had to pay taxes every year, so I'm excited about the prospect of avoiding two years of taxes in return for paying a $2,000 fine. Is there any way that I can apply to be illegal retroactively? This would yield an excellent result for me and my family because we paid heavy taxes in 2014 and 2015.

Additionally, as an illegal alien I could begin using the local emergency room as my primary health care provider. Once I have stopped paying premiums for medical insurance, my accountant figures I could save almost $10,000 a year.

Another benefit in gaining illegal status would be that my daughter would receive preferential treatment relative to her law school applications, as well as 'in-state' tuition rates for many colleges throughout the United States for my son.

Lastly, I understand that illegal status would relieve me of the burden of renewing my driver's license and making those burdensome car insurance premiums. This is very important to me, given that I still have college age children driving my car.  If you would provide me with an outline of the process to become illegal (retroactively if possible) and copies of the necessary forms, I would be most appreciative. Thank you for your assistance.

Your Loyal Constituent,
(hoping to reach 'illegal alien' status rather than just a bonafide citizen of the USA )

Dale B. Rilyeu
Lebanon , OR

 
G’ day…Ciao…
Helen and Moe Lauzier

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