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Friday, Mar. 9, 2018
All Gave Some~Some Gave All
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A real love affair…
As the GOP defends the rights of our citizens, the Democrats seem hell bent on defending everyone but our citizens…
Whose side are you on?
John Kerry OFFICIALLY Under Investigation; Here’s What We Know…
Former Secretary of State John Kerry is officially under investigation for his role in handling the discredited Steele dossier.
According to Fox News contributor Sara Carter, the House Intelligence Committee launched a probe into Kerry’s “possible role” in elevating the salacious dossier to trigger the Russia investigation.
In Rep. Devin Nunes’ memo, it was revealed that senior officials at the Justice Department and FBI used the dossier compiled by former MI6 intelligence officer Christopher Steele to obtain a warrant from the FISA Court to spy on President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign.
Steele was hired by the Clinton-connected firm Fusion GPS to commission the anti-Trump hit piece.
Obama allies in the DOJ and FBI also failed to notify the court that Clinton’s 2016 campaign and the Democratic National Committee paid Fusion GPS more than $9 million to fund Steele’s efforts.
This entire scheme triggered the Russia investigation against Trump, and the Committee wants to know what Kerry knew about the dossier and if he took any action with it.
Nunes said he believes Clinton ally Jonathan Winer gave Kerry — who was leading the State Department — the dossier after he had met with Steele.
When Kerry reviewed the memos from Steele’s dossier, Nunes said he has reason to believe he then handed it over to Obama-Clinton confidants at the FBI and DOJ.
This laid the foundation for the Russia probe and the Trump-Russia collusion theories.
During an interview on Feb. 7 with Fox News, Nunes told host Laura Ingraham that Kerry had been briefed by Winer on Steele’s dossier as well as a “second dossier” compiled by Clinton ally Cody Shearer.
”There were comments over the weekend from people from within the State Department that said John Kerry had been briefed on the dossier–the new dossier whatever this new dossier is and that they also provided it to the FBI,” Nunes said.
.@DevinNunes: "[Republicans] were begging the #Obama administration to do something about the Russia problem, and they ignored us." pic.twitter.com/1wFlAzcjHe
— Fox News (@FoxNews) February 7, 2018
Nunes and GOP lawmakers are gearing up for phase two of their investigation into abuses of power in the Obama administration.
Kerry officially being under investigation proves that the highest levels of the Obama administration likely played a role in using the dossier to launch the Russia probe against Trump.
Defying Expectations, American Businesses Added 235,000 Jobs in February
by JOHN CARNEY
AFP
The jobs market is red hot right now.
The jobs market is red hot right now.
American businesses added 235,000 jobs in February, ADP and Moody’s Analytics said Wednesday. January’s private sector payroll number was revised upward to 244,000 from the initial report of 234,000.
That was far more than the 195,000 expected by economists.
“The job market is red hot and threatens to overheat,” Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s, said in a statement. “With government spending increases and tax cuts, growth is set to accelerate.”
The economy has added more than 200,000 jobs in seven out of the last 12 months, roughly the period in which President Trump has held office.
Russia Scandal: Did Hillary Clinton Run FBI's Trump Investigation?
Aussie Downer: You might not know the name of Alexander Downer, but you should. The former Australian Foreign Minister and current Australian ambassador to the United Kingdom, Downer is the person who actually started the ball rolling in creating the anti-Trump dossier. And, it turns out, he's a Clintonite.
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Downer sat down for a pint or two in a London pub with former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos back in 2016. Papadopoulos claimed to Downer that the Russians had some nasty information on Hillary Clinton.
Downer subsequently told the FBI. And the FBI then began investigating not Clinton, but possible ties between the Trump campaign and the Russians.
When it became known that a foreign diplomat had informed the FBI, it was treated as if it was a simple act of diplomatic chivalry by an ally tipping us off to dirty tricks by the Russians.
It turns out it's a bit more complicated than that. In fact, as The Hill has reported, Downer is a Clintonista, and signed over $25 million in Australian government funds to the Clinton Foundation to fight AIDs in Southeast Asia. It was one of the biggest gifts ever to the foundation.
Today, nation after nation that once tapped their taxpayers to give money to the Clintons on the assumption that she would be president are walking away from the scandal plagued global Clinton charity, which has been shown to be a front for enriching the Clinton family. The Clinton Foundation today is a shell of its former self.
Meanwhile, the plot thickens further, as Lifezette.com's Mark Tapscott reports that Downer "is himself closely tied to a Chinese firm experts say is deeply involved in espionage against America."
Tapscott notes that just last month, the heads of the six main U.S. spy agencies warned Americans not to use equipment made by Huawei, a chinese maker of smartphones.
"We're deeply concerned about the risks of allowing any company or entity that is beholden to foreign governments that don't share our values to gain positions of power inside our telecommunications networks," FBI Director Chris Wray told members of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
The Australian, a newspaper down-under, reports that Downer became a member of the board of directors of Huawei's Australian unit all the way back in June of 2011. So Downer is himself compromised, as everyone who exists in the Clinton web appears to be.
Recall, now, that Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Democratic National Committee both ponied up to have former British spy Christopher Steele gin up a phony dossier on Donald Trump, to be used as the basis for the current ongoing investigation of ties between the Trump campaign and the Russians.
And that former FBI Director James Comey dutifully took the dossier to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to approve a wiretap of former minor Trump aide Carter Page, as the entry point into a much larger investigation of Trump's entire campaign.
As of today, that year and a half old investigation has yielded nothing, but has taken down a bunch of peripheral players in and around the Trump administration on technical violations of the law.
What neither the FBI nor the Mueller investigations revealed to the public or Congress was that the FISC application to spy on Page was based on information from four Clinton supporters: Steele, Downer, former Clinton Foundation employee and Clinton administration official Sidney Blumenthal, and Clinton dirty tricks operative Cody Shearer. Journalist Michael Isikoff's reporting on the matter was also used, but it turned out to be sourced from Christopher Steele.
In short, the whole investigation — all of it — was a product of Clinton and her followers, both inside and outside of the FBI and Justice Department.
Let's put this all together. Downer, a Clinton supporter, tells the FBI that the Russians have dirt on Hillary, based on a conversation with a Trump adviser. The FBI launches an investigation.
Hillary Clinton pays a former British spy to dig up dirt on Donald Trump, with Russian officials' help. The resulting dossier is used as a pretense for launching a spying operation against Trump.
Meanwhile, Comey and a variety of high-level openly anti-Trump FBI officials, including James Strzok and Bruce Ohr, collude to drop the investigation into Hillary Clinton's clear breaches of the law with the unsecured, homebrew email server she used while secretary of state. Intelligence officials later say it was almost certain that Clinton's server was hacked by either the Russians, the Chinese or both.
The entire "investigation" of Trump, start to finish, seems to have been propelled by Hillary Clinton and her minions. At some point, Congress, which is responsible for this corrupt and likely illegal mess, should step in and end it by either defunding Mueller, forcing him to focus on the original aims of the investigation, or by simply shutting it down.
If not, it's likely to end up with trumped up charges, pun intended, against a sitting president and demands for his impeachment.
DiGenova: Strzok, Clapper Ignored Possible Hack of Hillary's Server 'With Consent of Obama'
Former U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Joe diGenova said Tuesday that key Obama administration officials ignored reports of a possible breach of Hillary Clinton's private email server in order to protect the 2016 presidential candidate.
DiGenova said that not only did FBI Agent Peter Strzok and then-Director of National Intelligence Jim Clapper ignore the possible hack, but that they did so "with the consent of the president (Obama)."
Tucker Carlson said technicians found discrepancies in metadata contained in the email server, which may indicate it was hacked or tampered with.
DiGenova said that when Clapper found out the server may have been compromised, he was required by law to do a "damage assessment" to ascertain whether hacking occurred.
The former prosecutor said Clapper did no such thing, and that such action may have provided cover for Strzok - who was working on the related FBI investigation - to decline to investigate further as well.
DiGenova also agreed with Reps. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) and Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) that a second special counsel is needed in order to properly investigate alleged FISA court abuses.
BREAKING: Jeff Sessions Makes MASSIVE Announcement About Obama’s “Fast & Furious” Program
On Wednesday, the Department of Justice is set to FINALLY RELEASE the hidden documents from Obama’s ridiculous “Fast & Furious” program to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
This will lead us to more answers about what really went on with this “Gun Running” scandal, and why it was even allowed in the first place.
Department of Justice Enters Into Conditional Settlement Agreement to Produce Fast and Furious Documents to House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
Today, the Department of Justice entered into a conditional settlement agreement with the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and will begin to produce additional documents related to Operation Fast and Furious. The conditional settlement agreement, filed in federal court in Washington D.C., would end six years of litigation arising out of the previous administration’s refusal to produce documents requested by the Committee.
In announcing the settlement, Attorney General Sessions said:
“The Department of Justice under my watch is committed to transparency and the rule of law. This settlement agreement is an important step to make sure that the public finally receives all the facts related to Operation Fast and Furious.”
As The Hill points out, the “Fast and Furious” program allowed criminals to purchase guns in Phoenix-based gun shops in order to track them into Mexico.
Sean Hannity notes that this sensitive material had been previously withheld by Holder and former President Barack Obama, who used “executive privilege” to conceal the documents from the American people.
During this scandal, the ATF lost track of more than 1,400 guns during the course of the operation, which totaled 70 percent of the number sold. (Thanks, Obama).
ALERT: If You See a Red Light on Someone’s Porch, Here’s What It Means…
There’s a town where porches are lit up in red. There’s a sad reason behind these red porch lights; it’s rather bittersweet. If you see one…this is what it means…
When the Kansas City Fire Department lost two of their own, the local community came together in solidarity to show their respects for the firefighters who put their lives on the line every day.
October 12 was the deadliest day in KCFD history in the more than 25 years. Larry Leggio and John Mesh, two veteran firemen, died while fighting a fire in a large apartment building when the second floor collapsed.
The two deceased men were not the only casualties during the firefight – two men were hospitalized and two other were injured from fiery projectiles.
October 12 was the deadliest day in KCFD history in the more than 25 years. Larry Leggio and John Mesh, two veteran firemen, died while fighting a fire in a large apartment building when the second floor collapsed.
The two deceased men were not the only casualties during the firefight – two men were hospitalized and two other were injured from fiery projectiles.
Leggio, the son of a firefighter, leaves behind his wife and mother. Mesh, who also comes from a family of firefighters, is survived by his wife and four daughters.
“It’s devastating,” said Teresa Brown, who lost everything in her second-floor apartment. “My mind’s been concentrating on those firefighters.”
The local neighborhood has shown their support by printing hats with a new logo designed to honor the fallen heroes. They also turned to social media and created a fundraiser to help.
Now people are turning their porch lights red to honor the fallen men.
“We want to show the families that they have a whole community behind them. That they’re not alone in this, and then also just to show everyone else that we appreciate what they do,” said Kelsey Jantsch, a firefighter’s fiancee.
Prayers to the families affected by this loss… God Bless our first responders.
Media Says TX Dems Got Record Turnout, Ignore That What GOP Got Was Even Better
BY BEN MARQUIS
Ever since President Donald Trump took office, Democrats and their allies in the media have hyped an upcoming “bluewave” of Democrat electoral success in the 2018 midterm elections.
Some in the mainstream media have even gone so far as to suggest that they could “turn Texas blue,” even as Republicans have dominated the state for at least the past two decades.
But following the Texas primary election results on Tuesday, even The Associated Press was forced to essentially admit that the glowing media predictions of a Democrat wave were little more than wishful thinking, at least in the state of Texas.
In a typical midterm election year, but especially when the presidency and Congress are controlled by the same party, the incumbent party’s voters suffer from a lack of enthusiasm while the “out” party is generally much more enthusiastic to take back control — take the rise of the tea party in 2010, for example.
However, it appears that Democrat enthusiasm was no match for the sheer number of Republicans in Texas, nor those voters’ determination to keep the state red. Even though Democrats saw more than a million voters cast a ballot for the primary election — the most since 2002 — that number was dwarfed by a record turnout of more than 1.5 million Republican primary voters, higher than the record 1.48 million in 2010.
In fact, Breitbart noted that incumbent Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, who the liberal media and Democrats have long despised and hoped to oust from office, received 1.3 million votes in a race against four GOP challengers.
Meanwhile, progressive leftist Democrat Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke, who the liberal media have heaped lavish praise and attention upon as their greatest hope to unseat the conservative Cruz, received a mere 641,311 votes in a race against two other Democrat opponents.
To put things in even greater perspective, Cruz actually received more votes than the entirety of all Democrat votes cast statewide.
This despite O’Rourke out-raising Cruz in campaign donations thus far and a greatly increased turnout by Democrats in early voting, which gave the party a lead heading into primary day.
Politico’s election results coverage showed a similar occurrence in regard to the gubernatorial race, as incumbent Republican Gov. Greg Abbott easily obtained 90 percent of the Republican vote — more than 1.3 million votes overall — against two other GOP candidates.
Meanwhile, the top two Democrat challengers — former Dallas Sheriff Lupe Valdez and Houston businessman Andrew White — received just over 715,000 votes combined in a race which contained a total of nine challengers. They will face a runoff in May to decide who will challenge Abbott in November.
The Democrat media will no doubt continue to hype the higher than average turnout for Democrats in the Texas primary while they ignore the even higher Republican turnout, and will search long and hard for any sort of sign of momentum that can be applied nationwide as we head toward November.
To be sure, the Democrat Party has a chance to pick off a few seats here and there around the country, and it is possible that they may even manage to change a red state into blue … but it won’t be Texas, at least not this go-round.
That said, those possible gains could easily be countered by Republicans picking off the seats of vulnerable Democrats in solid red states, and if the left continues to push unpopular gun ban proposals, mock tax cuts that help working class Americans and offer no message other than “resistance,” they may even lose a few of their own “safe” seats as well.
The incredible amount of hype from the media regarding Democrat turnout in Texas, while ignoring even higher turnout among Republicans, is yet another example of why so many Americans have lost trust in the media, and why they will most likely be utterly shocked when their preferred party loses once again in November.
Some in the mainstream media have even gone so far as to suggest that they could “turn Texas blue,” even as Republicans have dominated the state for at least the past two decades.
But following the Texas primary election results on Tuesday, even The Associated Press was forced to essentially admit that the glowing media predictions of a Democrat wave were little more than wishful thinking, at least in the state of Texas.
In a typical midterm election year, but especially when the presidency and Congress are controlled by the same party, the incumbent party’s voters suffer from a lack of enthusiasm while the “out” party is generally much more enthusiastic to take back control — take the rise of the tea party in 2010, for example.
However, it appears that Democrat enthusiasm was no match for the sheer number of Republicans in Texas, nor those voters’ determination to keep the state red. Even though Democrats saw more than a million voters cast a ballot for the primary election — the most since 2002 — that number was dwarfed by a record turnout of more than 1.5 million Republican primary voters, higher than the record 1.48 million in 2010.
In fact, Breitbart noted that incumbent Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, who the liberal media and Democrats have long despised and hoped to oust from office, received 1.3 million votes in a race against four GOP challengers.
Meanwhile, progressive leftist Democrat Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke, who the liberal media have heaped lavish praise and attention upon as their greatest hope to unseat the conservative Cruz, received a mere 641,311 votes in a race against two other Democrat opponents.
To put things in even greater perspective, Cruz actually received more votes than the entirety of all Democrat votes cast statewide.
This despite O’Rourke out-raising Cruz in campaign donations thus far and a greatly increased turnout by Democrats in early voting, which gave the party a lead heading into primary day.
Politico’s election results coverage showed a similar occurrence in regard to the gubernatorial race, as incumbent Republican Gov. Greg Abbott easily obtained 90 percent of the Republican vote — more than 1.3 million votes overall — against two other GOP candidates.
Meanwhile, the top two Democrat challengers — former Dallas Sheriff Lupe Valdez and Houston businessman Andrew White — received just over 715,000 votes combined in a race which contained a total of nine challengers. They will face a runoff in May to decide who will challenge Abbott in November.
The Democrat media will no doubt continue to hype the higher than average turnout for Democrats in the Texas primary while they ignore the even higher Republican turnout, and will search long and hard for any sort of sign of momentum that can be applied nationwide as we head toward November.
To be sure, the Democrat Party has a chance to pick off a few seats here and there around the country, and it is possible that they may even manage to change a red state into blue … but it won’t be Texas, at least not this go-round.
That said, those possible gains could easily be countered by Republicans picking off the seats of vulnerable Democrats in solid red states, and if the left continues to push unpopular gun ban proposals, mock tax cuts that help working class Americans and offer no message other than “resistance,” they may even lose a few of their own “safe” seats as well.
The incredible amount of hype from the media regarding Democrat turnout in Texas, while ignoring even higher turnout among Republicans, is yet another example of why so many Americans have lost trust in the media, and why they will most likely be utterly shocked when their preferred party loses once again in November.
CNN Admits: U.S. Town Where Guns Are Required Has Had Only 1 Murder in 6 Years
by AWR HAWKINS
CNN admitted in a report on March 6, 2018, that a Georgia town requiring gun ownership has only seen one murder in six years and maintains a violent crime rate of less than two percent.
CNN reports that Kennesaw, Georgia, adopted an ordinance in 1982 requiring the head of every household to “maintain a firearm.”
CNN suggested the law requiring gun ownership is not actually enforced, but it simultaneously reported that the town of Kennesaw has only witnessed one murder in the past six years. In other words, just the common knowledge that guns are in the hands of law-abiding citizens appears to restrain the actions of criminals.
Kennesaw Police Department Lt. Craig Graydon said, “It was meant to be kind of a crime deterrent.”
At the same time, Graydon noted that widespread private gun ownership is just part of the reason for the town’s violent crime rate of less than two percent. He described the requirement to own a gun as part of “the whole picture.”
But Mayor Derek Easterling (R) focused on armed law-abiding citizens, stating, “If you’re going to commit a crime in Kennesaw and you’re the criminal — are you going to take a chance that that homeowner is a law-abiding citizen?”
News of Kennesaw’s low violent crime rate and the fact that they have only seen one murder in six years come at a time when Democrats in D.C. are working their hardest to further restrict the ability to own firearms.
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News, the host of the Breitbart podcast Bullets with AWR Hawkins, and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. Sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange.
Shock Claim: John McCain Associate Wanted Senator to ‘Confront’ Trump with ‘Pee’ Dossier, Make Him Resign
by AARON KLEIN
Allison Shelley/Getty
NEW YORK — An extensive New Yorker profile cites a former national-security official claiming that a longtime associate of John McCain sent by the Arizona senator to obtain the infamous anti-Trump dossier hatched a plan whereby McCain would use the document to confront President Donald Trump and get him to resign.
David J. Kramer, a former State Department official and close McCain associate, received a copy of the largely-discredited dossier directly from Fusion GPS after McCain expressed interest in the document, the Washington Post previously reported. McCain then reportedly passed the dossier directly to FBI Director James Comey.
In the magazine profile, released this week and titled, “Christopher Steele, the Man Behind the Trump Dossier,” the New Yorker reported on Kramer’s alleged plan for McCain to use the dossier to compel Trump to step down following his 2016 presidential victory. An attorney for Kramer denied there was such a plan.
New Yorker staff writer Jane Mayer reports:
The week before Thanksgiving, Wood briefed McCain at the Halifax International Security Forum. McCain was deeply concerned. He asked a former aide, David Kramer, to go to England to meet Steele. Kramer, a Russia expert who had served at the State Department, went over the dossier with Steele for hours.
After Kramer promised to share the document only with McCain, Steele arranged for Kramer to receive a copy in Washington. But a former national-security official who spoke with Kramer at the time told me that one of Kramer’s ideas was to have McCain confront Trump with the evidence, in the hope that Trump would resign. “He would tell Trump, ‘The Russians have got you,’” the former official told me. (A lawyer for Kramer maintains that Kramer never considered getting Trump to resign and never promised to show the dossier only to McCain.) Ultimately, though, McCain and Kramer agreed that McCain should take the dossier to the head of the F.B.I.
Kramer reportedly recently invoked the Fifth Amendment to get out of testifying before the House Intelligence Committee regarding the dossier.
The New Yorker profile related that “Steele arranged for Kramer to receive a copy in Washington,” referring to the dossier. The magazine did not report exactly who passed the dossier copy to Kramer.
Last month, the Washington Post reported that Kramer received the dossier document directly from Fusion GPS after McCain expressed interest in the dossier.
Those details marked the clearest indication yet that McCain may have known that the dossier originated with Fusion GPS, meaning that he may have knowingly passed on political material to the FBI.
It has not been been clear whether McCain was aware of the origins of the dossier when he hand delivered the unsubstantiated document to Comey.
It is still not clear whether McCain knew that Fusion GPS’s anti-Trump work resulting in the dossier was funded by Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) via the Perkins Coie law firm.
McCain has not responded to multiple Breitbart News requests seeking comment on the matter.
McCain has not responded to multiple Breitbart News requests seeking comment on the matter.
The details about McCain’s involvement were buried toward the end of a nearly 4,100-word February 6 Post article titled, “Hero or hired gun? How a British former spy became a flash point in the Russia investigation.”
The article was an extensive report describing the work done by Steele, who was contracted by Fusion GPS to produce the dossier. The Post article followed the release of a four-page House Intelligence Committee memo alleging abuse of surveillance authority allegedly utilizing the questionable dossier.
According to the Post, Steele originally sought out Sir Andrew Wood, a former British ambassador to Moscow and friend of Steele, for advice prior to the election concerning his alleged research into Trump.
In mid-November, following Trump’s victory, Wood reportedly turned to Steele to discuss whether additional steps were necessary to ensure the U.S. government was aware of Steele’s charges about Trump and Russia.
Wood said that he then reached out to Kramer, who was known for his close ties to McCain, according to the Post.
The Post cited Wood explaining that Kramer had arranged for Wood to meet McCain in December 2016 on the sidelines of a security conference in Canada. There, Wood described detailing Steele’s claims at the meeting with McCain, telling the Arizona senator that he could arrange for the politician to review the purported research.
“I told him, ‘I know there’s a document. I haven’t read it, but it seems to me that it’s reliably set up,’” Wood told the Post.
Wood described McCain as being “visibly shocked,” and expressing interest in reading the full report.
Ten days after the Canada meeting, Kramer met Steele at Heathrow Airport in London and then went to Steele’s home, where the McCain associate spent several hours reviewing the dossier claims, according to people familiar with the events who spoke to the Post.
The Post relates that Kramer then received a physical copy of the dossier directly from Fusion GPS Co-Founder Glenn R. Simpson:
Back in Washington, Kramer received a copy of the dossier from Simpson and completed the handoff to McCain. In a private meeting on Dec. 9, McCain gave Comey the dossier — passing along information that Steele had provided to the FBI earlier in the year.
Shortly before Inauguration Day, Comey briefed Trump on the document, alerting him to what the FBI director would later describe to Congress as a report that contained “salacious, unverified” information that was circulating in the media.
The Post’s reporting marks the first public description of McCain’s associate, Kramer, as having received the dossier directly from Fusion GPS.
In a New York Times oped in January, Simpson and fellow GPS Co-Founder Peter Fritch wrote that they helped McCain share their anti-Trump dossier with the Obama-era intelligence community via an unnamed “emissary.”
“After the election, Mr. Steele decided to share his intelligence with Senator John McCain via an emissary,” the Fusion GPS founders related. “We helped him do that. The goal was to alert the United States national security community to an attack on our country by a hostile foreign power.”
Simpson did not write that he directly handed the dossier to any “emissary.” It was not clear from the obscure phraseology in the Times oped whether McCain knew Fusion GPS was behind the dossier or whether the unnamed “emissary” was even aware of Fusion GPS’s connection to the document. The Post’s revelation about Kramer reportedly receiving the dossier from Simpson sheds new light on the topic.
A January 11, 2017 statement from McCain attempted to explain why he provided the Steele dossier to the FBI but did not mention how he came to possess the dossier or whether he knew who funded it.
“Upon examination of the contents, and unable to make a judgment about their accuracy, I delivered the information to the director of the FBI,” McCain said at the time. “That has been the extent of my contact with the FBI or any other government agency regarding this issue.”
Kramer was reportedly directed to meet with Steele in London by McCain, who then received copies of the Trump-Russia dossier and delivered them to the Arizona senator upon returning home. McCain then gave the dossier to the FBI in December 2016.
Also, Fox News, which saw the British court documents related to a civil lawsuit, reported that Steele testified that an arrangement was made whereby Fusion GPS would use Kramer to deliver hard copies of the dossier to McCain, who in turn gave the dossier to the FBI.
It is still unclear why McCain needed to deliver the dossier to Comey last December. By then, according to the House memo, the FBI had not only already launched an investigation into Trump’s campaign partially utilizing the dossier but Comey himself had two months earlier signed an application using the dossier to obtain a FISA warrant on Carter Page, who briefly served as a volunteer foreign policy adviser to Trump’s campaign.
Shortly after McCain gave Steele’s dossier to Comey, the FBI chief updated then President-Elect Trump and President Obama on the dossier in a classified briefing.
As Breitbart News documented, Comey’s dossier briefing to Trump was subsequently leaked to the news media, setting in motion a flurry of news media attention on the dossier, including the release of the document to the public. The briefing also may have provided the veneer of respectability to a document that had been circulating for months within the news media but widely considered too unverified to publicize.
Aaron Klein is Breitbart’s Jerusalem bureau chief and senior investigative reporter. He is a New York Times bestselling author and hosts the popular weekend talk radio program, “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio.” Follow him on Twitter @AaronKleinShow. Follow him on Facebook.
Dem. Gov. Calls Thousands of NRA Voters in His State Part of ‘Terrorist Org’
By Chris Agee
The governor of Connecticut added (man who put the Nut in Nutmeg State) his voice to the continued national debate over gun control with deeply critical comments directed at the National Rifle Association.
Gov. Dannel Malloy, a Democrat, said Monday that the powerful gun lobbying organization had become a “terrorist organization” in recent years.
He claimed that the NRA embraced more nuanced positions in previous generations but has since moved to the extreme.
“The NRA today is a far cry from the NRA that in 1999 said that teachers shouldn’t carry weapons in schools,” Malloy said. “Or in the ’90s said we should have universal background checks. They have in essence become a terrorist organization.”
He went on to denounce NRA decisions that left no room for differing opinion.
“You want to make safer guns? We will boycott your company,” he said. “That’s who they are. That’s what they do.”
In a statement to the Washington Examiner, NRA spokesperson Jennifer Baker dismissed Malloy’s comments as evidence of “political stunts and childish name calling” she believes have replaced meaningful discussion on the topic of guns in America.
“The NRA is comprised of over five million law-abiding citizens, many of whom are teachers, doctors, policeman, farmers, moms and dads residing in Connecticut,” she said. “So let’s be clear, Gov. Malloy just called tens of thousands of his constituents terrorists.”
As WTIC reported, Malloy is not the only Connecticut Democrat using the current national climate to rail against the NRA.
Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin recently pushed for a statewide measure that would strip the NRA from a law including it as a recognized provider of gun-safety training needed to obtain a firearm permit in Connecticut.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Peter Lumaj reacted to statements by both men, which he called “outrageous and embarrassing!”
Gov. Dannel Malloy, a Democrat, said Monday that the powerful gun lobbying organization had become a “terrorist organization” in recent years.
He claimed that the NRA embraced more nuanced positions in previous generations but has since moved to the extreme.
“The NRA today is a far cry from the NRA that in 1999 said that teachers shouldn’t carry weapons in schools,” Malloy said. “Or in the ’90s said we should have universal background checks. They have in essence become a terrorist organization.”
He went on to denounce NRA decisions that left no room for differing opinion.
“You want to make safer guns? We will boycott your company,” he said. “That’s who they are. That’s what they do.”
In a statement to the Washington Examiner, NRA spokesperson Jennifer Baker dismissed Malloy’s comments as evidence of “political stunts and childish name calling” she believes have replaced meaningful discussion on the topic of guns in America.
“The NRA is comprised of over five million law-abiding citizens, many of whom are teachers, doctors, policeman, farmers, moms and dads residing in Connecticut,” she said. “So let’s be clear, Gov. Malloy just called tens of thousands of his constituents terrorists.”
As WTIC reported, Malloy is not the only Connecticut Democrat using the current national climate to rail against the NRA.
Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin recently pushed for a statewide measure that would strip the NRA from a law including it as a recognized provider of gun-safety training needed to obtain a firearm permit in Connecticut.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Peter Lumaj reacted to statements by both men, which he called “outrageous and embarrassing!”
Peter Lumaj@PeterLumajMalloy and Bronin comments on @NRA are outrageous and embarrassing! See my response below:
1:48 PM - Mar 7, 2018
Bronin expanded on his position in comments he made Tuesday evening.
“The idea that the NRA should be recognized as a voice for gun safety is ridiculous,” he said.
Bronin went on to ridicule the thought of allowing NRA-affiliated trainers to determine which residents of the state are qualified to carry a firearm.
“If the NRA had its way we wouldn’t be permitting in the first place,” he said. “This is an organization that opposes universal background checks despite the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans and even a large number of NRA members support universal background checks.”
His position has also elicited a response from the group, this time in the form of a statement from NRA Institute for Legislative Action spokesperson Catherine Mortensen.
“No organization in the world does more to promote the safe and responsible use of firearms than the NRA,” she said. “The NRA’s Basics of Pistol Shooting course is the best training available for anyone seeking to carry a concealed firearm for self-protection. By eliminating the NRA training and standards for Connecticut’s permit holders, Mayor Bronin is putting politics above the safety of Connecticut citizens.”
“The idea that the NRA should be recognized as a voice for gun safety is ridiculous,” he said.
Bronin went on to ridicule the thought of allowing NRA-affiliated trainers to determine which residents of the state are qualified to carry a firearm.
“If the NRA had its way we wouldn’t be permitting in the first place,” he said. “This is an organization that opposes universal background checks despite the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans and even a large number of NRA members support universal background checks.”
His position has also elicited a response from the group, this time in the form of a statement from NRA Institute for Legislative Action spokesperson Catherine Mortensen.
“No organization in the world does more to promote the safe and responsible use of firearms than the NRA,” she said. “The NRA’s Basics of Pistol Shooting course is the best training available for anyone seeking to carry a concealed firearm for self-protection. By eliminating the NRA training and standards for Connecticut’s permit holders, Mayor Bronin is putting politics above the safety of Connecticut citizens.”
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