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Whistleblower!
The Treasury Department Spied on Flynn, Manafort, and the Trump family says whistleblower.
President Barack Obama’s Treasury Department regularly surveilled retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn’s financial records and transactions beginning in December 2015 and well into 2017, before, during and after when he served at the White House as President Donald Trump’s National Security Director, a former senior Treasury Department official, and veteran of the intelligence community, told the Star Newspapers.
We have known this since 2017/2018. The Mueller Hoax was a hoax well before he publicly admitted it. Dan Bongino was screaming about this as the biggest scam in American History two years ago!
There were obviously plenty of patriotic leakers in the DOJ/FBI trying to combat the dirty cops at the top. Because it was all leaked out. Someone inside leaked the text messages between Strzok and Page which exposed it all. Grassley has wanted answers for over two years. And still nothing.
There has always been a double standard for political scandal. Republicans get prosecuted. Democrats get nada. Perhaps this may change: Graham sets a vote on subpoena for Comey.
A tale of two investigations matters II
Published in General
Barr and his boys had best take care of things, cleaning out the Augean Stables, or the American people surely will.
U.S. Attorney General William Barr leaves his house after Special Counsel Robert Mueller found no evidence of collusion between U.S. President Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia in the 2016 election in McClean, Virginia, U.S., March 25, 2019. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
Does AG Barr have a food taster?
Graham is holding a hearing on whether to subpoena witnesses, which will take another hearing to decide which witnesses, which will take another hearing to decide when to have the first hearing………….. Graham is the epitome of a man who speaks loudly and carries a little stick. I just can’t listen to him anymore. This important whistleblower was not covered by WAPO or the Times, but by the Ohio Star. It’s a good thing @colombo has a keen eye, along with Sundance, or nobody would know about this lady.
Graham should get a sub committee together to design and order the commemorative subpoena signing pens for the entire Senate Judiciary Committee.
I’d add that it’s critical that subpoenas and indictments start flying to shake lose some of these reluctant witnesses. If you’re working in government and watching this corruption, they are guilty to a lesser degree but guilty as well.
This is a powder-keg and some semblance of justice is critical before things get out of hand.
Let’s see if the MSM labels this whistleblower a patriotic American . . .
Truth.
I’m sure this time it won’t be
#believeallwhistleblowers
Neither
#shieldallwhistleblowersfromscrutiny
Yes, just like they believe all women until Joe Biden’s involved.
The guy that needs a food taster is Grenell. He is the one breaking open the secret stash of documents.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-to-name-loyalist-richard-grennell-to-acting-director-of-national-intelligence
I don’t understand why American Conservative doesn’t like him.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/grenell-the-toxic-ambassador/
The author:
Daniel Larison is a senior editor at TAC, where he also keeps a solo blog. He has been published in the New York Times Book Review,
Is there a more left wing publication ?
recommended that Trump recall Grenell last year after the fracas that he caused, and that makes even more sense now. A competent president would replace Grenell with someone who has some idea how to talk to German officials and the German public without insulting them. We all know Trump won’t do that, not least because he seems to place no value on maintaining a good relationship with one of our biggest trading partners and closest allies.
Aha ! A nevertrumper ! Another plus for Grenell.
Grenell, not unlike Trump, has mastered the art of pissing off all the right people.
The mystery here is what is Daniel Larison, who attacks Grenell for not sucking up to the Germans, doing as a senior editor at The American Conservative. Founder Pat Buchanan must be spinning in his grave.
Did you mean your last statement as a joke? Pat is still with us.
Hysterium: My father would turn over his grave if he saw me like this.
Pseudolus: Your father is alive.
Hysterium: Well, this will kill him!
— from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Rubin has a great interview with Grenell here,
Grenell by the way is Gay, which just goes to show you how much Trump hates gay people, which of course is he doesnt.