DeepState Durham played us all for fools.

He had no intentions of doing anything. Read the whole story: 

Substack: Durham Played You For A Fool!

John Durham and Bill Barr finally ran out of the clock on Spygate. Why are you surprised?

By Emerald Robinson.

It’s the summer of 2022 — and where are all those Durham indictments you were promised? And where's that much-discussed Durham report? Do you know that you’ve been played for a fool yet — or are you still watching Fox News? Maybe you need another year to figure out the entire game. Maybe you still believe Bill Barr! Didn’t that legendary windbag tell us that the wheels of justice grind very slow but justice is coming?
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...the Durham investigation was simply the clean-up phase of Spygate disguised as an investigation of Spygate. This was perfectly obvious at the time — and it remains obvious today. It doesn’t take two years for the DOJ to prosecute its targets. You know that — right? Just ask Roger Stone. When the DOJ really wants to prosecute you, it’s easy to tell because two dozen special agents in SWAT gear appear at your door in a pre-dawn raid with a CNN camera crew already stationed across the street.
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Durham kept you high on the hopium for four years.

Those handwritten notes from the FBI Michael Flynn interview. "What is our goal? ...get him to lie?"

The Washington Times: Get Flynn to lie.

Bombshell documents unsealed late Wednesday revealed that top FBI officials viewed the goal of interviewing former national security adviser Michael Flynn in 2017 as to “get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired.”

A handwritten note included in the documents disclosed that agents wanted to get Flynn to “admit breaking the Logan Act,” which restricts communication between private citizens and foreign governments, and catch him in a lie.

It is not immediately clear who authored the note, but Fox News reported it was written by former FBI general counsel James A. Baker.

More at: Townhall and @ Techno Fog.

Documents at Scribd (4pages).

Screen shots from FOX News Laura Ingraham's Wednesday night program:

U.S. State Department offering a reward of up to $15 million for information related to Nicolas Maduro.

U.S. News and World Report: U.S. Announces Reward up to $15 Million for Venezuela's Maduro.

The move came as the U.S. Justice Department announced charges against Maduro and others on narco-terrorism.

CBS News: U.S. charges Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and top officials for drug trafficking scheme.

Attorney General William Barr announced the unsealing of superseding indictments in federal court in New York and South Florida against Maduro and other Venezuelan officials, alleging they orchestrated a "narco-terrorism conspiracy" spanning more than two decades.

"As alleged, the Maduro regime is awash in corruption and criminality. Maduro and his defendants have betrayed the Venezuelan people and corrupted Venezuela's institutions," Barr said during a "virtual" news conference in Washington, D.C.[.]

USA MacPaper: Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro charged in U.S. drug trafficking inquiry.

"The Maduro regime was propped up by a sham judiciary and a corrupt military," Assistant Attorney General Brian Benczkowski said, adding that the defense minister authorized regular and enormous shipments of cocaine destined for the U.S.

U.S. Attorney John Durham expanding scope of his investigation; probing wider timeline.

Twitchy: John Durham has expanded his investigation, probing a wider timeline than previously known.

Here’s a quick exclusive Tuesday night from Fox News’ Jake Gibson, who says multiple sources tell him that U.S. Attorney John Durham, who is tasked with investigating the origins of the 2016 Russian collusion hoax and the intelligence community’s role in it, is expanding his investigation and widening his timeline.

    1/2 EXCLUSIVE- John Durham, the US Attorney reviewing the origins of the 2016 counterintelligence investigation into Russia and the Trump campaign is probing a wider timeline than previously known, multiple senior administration officials tell @BretBaier and myself.

    — Jake Gibson (@JakeBGibson) October 8, 2019

    2/2 Durham has expanded his investigation according to multiple senior administration officials. The timeline has grown from the beginning of the probe through the election and now includes a post-election timeline through the Spring of 2017

    — Jake Gibson (@JakeBGibson) October 8, 2019

    JUST IN: John Durham, the US Attorney reviewing the origins of the 2016 counterintelligence investigation into Russia and the Trump campaign is probing a wider timeline than previously known, according to multiple senior administration officials – via @BretBaier & @JakeBGibson

    — Sean Langille (@SeanLangille) October 8, 2019

This must please the DEMS, huh? They always favor expanding and widening the scope of never-ending investigations, especially when it's directed at their political opponents. And since No One Is Above The Law, The DEMS will fully cooperate, and be as transparent as they demand from others, with Durham and Company. Right?

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Twitchy Archived

Is Declass coming this week? Public release of sealed indictments?

Via I Love My Freedom:

Coleman Hughes, Quilette columnist, heckled and booed at reparations hearing chaired by DEM Rep. Steve "KFC" Cohen.

The Blaze: Coleman Hughes booed in DEM Steve "KFC" Cohen hearing.

...things turned chaotic after a columnist for Quilette, who has written for National Review and Spectator, and who is African American, spoke in opposition to reparations.

His dissent was not well-received. In fact, the chair had to gavel for order.

Because Mr. Hughes' statement didn't fit The Narrative and wasn't what Cohen wanted to hear, Little Stevie "KFC" couldn't resist a snide quip.

Shortened clip below. Full version here (6 mins).

BYOKFC...

Background: Adventures with Steve "KFC" Cohen.

Mueller says with certainty...he will return to private life.

Washington Examiner: Mueller says he is resigning from DOJ; returning to private life. Other words more ambiguous.

"...if we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime we would have said so."

He threw some Red Meat to the Liberal Impeachment Chorus. Expect a new level of Triggered.

"We chose those words carefully and the work speaks for itself and the report is my testimony. "

448 pages of carefully chosen words.

Tweet from President Donald Trump:

Big Jerry gonna keep on rolling:

The Independent: Mueller just told the world Trump is a criminal. Now Congress must impeach him.

It's the subtext. Rather, what Mueller didn't say is what he really said.
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UPDATE - Breitbart: John Brennan, "the cry for impeachment will increase."

Wednesday on MSNBC, former CIA director John Brennan predicted special counsel Robert Mueller’s statement on his Russia probe would increase the “cry for impeachment.”

Brennen said, “I think Bob Mueller’s public statement today is going to give momentum to those who want to move forward with impeachment hearings. I think there can be no doubt about Mr. Mueller’s message that the obstruction of justice issue is not resolved, and that there needs to be follow-up action on it.”

Brennan...he's up to his eyes in his own barrel of...crap.

"Cover-Up" the bestest buzzword put into play by DEMS since "Impeach".

Ooooooooh...the DEMS drag out "Cover Up" as their latest catchphrase because..."impeach" has lost its shock-value? What took 'em so long?

My favorite gin blossom DEM is Steny Hoyer, who sobered up long enough to parrot DEM talking points. Washington Examiner:

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said Tuesday that most House Democrats aren’t demanding immediate impeachment but aim to show the country that President Donald Trump is hiding something big.

“The big issue that I think needs to be made to the American people is that this president is conducting one of the biggest cover-ups of any administration in the history of the United States[.]”

 

 Steny Hoyer; Wasting Away in Margaritaville

Jerry Nadler calls AG Barr "a liar."

CNBC: Nadler: "Probably no impeachment[.]"

John Harwood: Despite Bill Barr saying over and over, “no collusion.”

Jerry Nadler: Bill Barr is just a liar. And, he’s just representing the president.

The second clear conclusion is, there are 12 episodes of obstruction of justice. Beyond all that is the basic question: They’re trying to say that Congress, representing the American people, can’t get information, and therefore, can’t function. The effect of that is to make the president a monarch, to make him a dictator. And that’s what we’ve got to fight.

Go chow another 10,000 calorie snack, FatMan.

Even John Oliver calls Steve Cohen's KFC antic "pathetic".

The Daily Beast: Steve Cohen's KFC stunt "pathetic", says John Oliver.

It was ‘just tragic for so many reasons,’ argued the late-night comedian.
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“Yeah, we get it. You’ve made that painfully obvious. And it gets even more pathetic,” explained Oliver. Because the Barr hearing was at 9:30 a.m., and because the nearest KFC didn’t open until 10:30 a.m., Cohen—as The Daily Beast reported—“bought the chicken the night before and kept it in his fridge.”

“Which is just tragic for so many reasons,” said Oliver. “One, he’s biting into leftover KFC—or, as it’s more commonly known, ‘trash.’ And two, that means this adult man probably lay in bed all night thinking about how fucking awesome his chicken joke was going to be—and he was completely wrong about that.”

From my friend Molson:

Thanks, Molson!

I have a question for anyone knowledgeable with symbolatry.

Does anyone know the meaning of the symbol on the ring of Cohen's right hand? It must mean something. What, though? Anyone?

Left-enlarged. Right top as is; Right bottom reversed 180 degrees.

Is AG Barr about to expose the Mother of All Scandals?

Via Hans100 @SomeFreedomDude by way of Pamela Geller

Geller Report: Bill Barr to expose Spygate and the Democrat-Media Russia Collusion Complex is panicking.

It was Barr’s comments about spying on the Trump campaign, and his pledge to investigate that spying, that explains the frenzy to take down Barr. That spying, regardless of whether lawful, has the potential to be a scandal that could touch deep into the Obama administration, and some former officials who loom large in the anti-Trump resistance.
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Barr is the single greatest threat to the Democrat-Media Russia Collusion Complex. That’s why Democrats, with help from the mainstream media, will spare no effort to tarnish Barr as a way of discrediting the investigative train that is rolling down the tracks.

Steve Cohen enjoys arse chicken. Barr laughs.

CNN: DEM Steve Cohen KFC stunt not finger licking good.

Cohen enjoyed a helping of Colonel Sanders' finest at around 9 a.m. and later told reporters, "Chicken Barr should have showed up today... It's a sad day in America."

Probably NSFW (language, situations) - why take a chance?

Found via Devil's Advocate @GBusstheNotorio.

AG William Barr PWNS Libs in today's Senate Hearing.

AG William Barr PWNED both DEM Senators Richard Blumenthal and the covetous Kamela Harris, one of the 937 DEM 2020 candidates running for president.

It's obvious from their questioning of Mr. Barr that neither Blumenthal or Harris have read the 400-plus page report of their Beloved-Hated-Beloved-Hated-Beloved-now Ambivalent-soon to be hated again-Patron Saint Robert Mueller.

In the clip, Blumenthal is seated behind the nameplate of Hawaii's DEM Senator Crazy Mazie Hirono. Harris managed to locate the right seating placement - good for her! Well...someone likely helped her find the way there.

Business Insider via AOL: Dems tell William Barr he should resign.

It's amazing (not really) at how quickly The Libs demand someone - in this case AG Barr - resign, when, like misbehaving, petulant children, the Dems don't get their way.

How many years did we hear from The Libs that, "we'll have to wait until The Mueller Report is concluded"?

Mueller finally wraps it up. The Libs didn't like that Barr held a news conference prior to releasing Mueller's findings. Had Barr not had a press conference, he'd have been accused of lacking transparency and attempting to obfuscate his interpretations on Mueller's Report. Barr was in a No-Win situation - as is anyone when it comes to dealing with Liberals - no matter what he did or didn't say, or do or didn't do, prior to releasing Mueller's report.

A much less redacted Mueller report is available for these elected public SERVANTS to read, yet it's reported only Rep. Doug Collins, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, and Sen. Lindsey Graham, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, opted to view it.

Why haven't The Libs read it? Because it contradicts the illusionary story they so desperately want to believe.

Because the results of Mueller's investigation didn't clearly prove, "Trump = Guilty", The Libs lost interest in it. Instead, they pursue odious and loathsome personal attacks against anyone who won't play with them in their fictional narrative world that doesn't exist. Because what they wanted was something Mueller couldn't authenticate, not even circumstantially.

The NY Post: Dems’ pathetic posturing at Barr hearing wasted everyone’s time. Well, this is what Libs do best; waste time. When they're not deflecting onto others what they are guilty of themselves and busy covering up their own ethical and legal infractions.

Barr won't appear at Thursday's House panel. Good! All of these Libs can pound sand. Tons of desert sand. And Class 5 gravel.
 
It appears it's still good market-timing for getting into popcorn commodities.

You Tube full clips:

Barr - Blumenthal

Barr - Harris
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Typos (I noticed) fixed; 5-2-2019

49,000 Hillary Emails Found

The Epoch Times: Former FBI Official: Clinton Emails Found in Obama White House.

E.W. “Bill” Priestap, the FBI’s former assistant director for counterintelligence, admitted that messages to and from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on her private email system were found in the Obama White House, government watchdog Judicial Watch announced April 23.

Priestap also admitted that the FBI found nearly 49,000 emails from the private Clinton email system on the laptop computer owned by former Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.), the husband of Huma Abedin, Clinton’s deputy chief of staff and a longtime close personal aide.

“This astonishing confirmation, made under oath by the FBI, shows that the Obama FBI had to go to President Obama’s White House office to find emails that Hillary Clinton tried to destroy or hide from the American people,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement announcing Priestap’s admission.
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In addition to the Executive Office of the President in the Obama White House, Priestap said such emails were found from the State Department, the Secret Service, and the Williams & Connolly LLP law firm, as well as Clinton aides Bryan Pagliano, Cheryl Mills, Heather Samuelson, Jacob Sullivan, and Justin Cooper.

Oh...those missing Hillary emails. They were nothing but unofficial, personal family stuff like the dates of her next Illuminati meeting and whose turn it is to bring the human blood sacrifices yoga classes and daughter Chelsea's wedding. Uh - we've all seen images of Hillary over the past ten years. Is there anyone who believes she partakes in yoga?

You can bust and break electronic equipment, but The Ether can't be destroyed. NSFW - Language:

From Office Space (same NSFW language)

Other reading on the Judicial Watch-Hillary Emails story at Phil at Bustedknuckles.

Regarding The Mueller report, we learn at 90 Miles From Tyranny that Mueller hid Clinton phone sex.

Dems feign outrage; planning big grandstanding theatrical production.

I predicted this would happen.

Newsweek: Pelosi and Schumer demand Mueller testify before congress.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer issued a joint statement calling for special counsel Robert Mueller to publicly testify before Congress[.]

I asked in an earlier post how long it would take for Libs to hate Robert Mueller...again. Bob, aren't you happy to have associated with these wonderful, fact-based, rational people? They loved you, they hated you, they loved you, they hated you, they loved you. Now, they're back to hating you.

Newsweek: Fat Jerry Nadler issues a subpoena for the unredacted Mueller Report.

“My committee needs and is entitled to the full version of the report and the underlying evidence consistent with past practice,” Nadler, a Democrat from New York, said in a statement with the subpoena. “The redactions appear to be significant. We have so far seen none of the actual evidence that the special counsel developed to make this case.”

And there it is, we have it - the special word invoked by Dems when they want something: "Entitled."

Nadler can view the full, unredacted report. All he has to do is waddle his fat, butterball ass down to the Department of Justice and he can read the full unredacted Mueller Report. Just like Sandy Berger did with the classified documents regarding the 9/11 report.

Business Insider: Total redactions in Mueller Report between 6% and 12%.

ProPublica, hardly a Right-leaning organization, puts the percentage of redactions at SIX percent:

Let's pin the percentage at 9%, midpoint between 6 and 12. That's nothing, although it is a percent that is exceedingly higher than a tip Bernie Sanders would leave at a restaurant.

Fervid Grandstanding and Whining. No ONE does this better than Dems.

All 435 House seats are open come the 2020 election and 34 of the 100 seats in the Senate. It's time to oust the Dems. Every single one of them.

TRUMP/MAGA 2020

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Fixed typos 4/19/2019

The Mueller Report is coming. Collusion Truthers at fever pitch. D.C. Doctors notice rise in Xanax prescriptions.

Hoo Boy...The Mueller Report! Soon...very soon.

Bloomaberg: AG William Barr press conference prior to releasing Mueller Report. NY DEM Jerry Nadler doesn't approve of Barr's press conference prior to the release. That is so. Fucking. Sad. Poor Jerry. Have a sammich with a Big Gulp and learn patience, Jeeeeerrrrrry.

Marketwatch: Will the The Mueller Report impact the stock market?

ABC 7 LA: What you won't see in the redacted report.

And Salon, of course...Salon... Already pitching the "cover-up" narrative.

Liberal Hysteria now surpassing previously established epidemic level of derangement.

The Liberal Reaction we expect from AG William Barr's Release on The Mueller Investigation

AG William Barr's release of the Mueller Investigation is scheduled for release on Thursday morning. Barr said there will be redactions and color-coded references explaining the redactions. I'd guess both Barr's report and Mueller's investigation will contain copious amounts of footnotes or other addendum and a list of references that spans the distance from the sun to Pluto.  Maybe there will be artist sketches, clip art, cartoon figures, charts or diagrams for the Liberals. Maybe there will be an audio version of the report narrated by the dulcet and coherent tones of Bernie Sanders. If I had to listen to the audio version, I'd prefer hearing it read by Otis Campbell, but that's just me.

Whatever doesn't fit the Liberal Narrative from Barr's report will be regarded and labeled a cover-up, a scheme to "protect" President Donald Trump or the Libs will blame William Barr, Robert Mueller, James Comey - or someone else (the Mossad? Gilligan? Fearless Leader? No, no, no. Moose AND Squirrel!) - instead of accepting the report for what it is.

ABC News: Barr and Mueller "old friends" for 30 years and Muller worked with Barr on the report's release. 

The Libs will focus on what is not in the report. They will tell us that what's not in the report is "very deeply concerning" to them (key word, "deeply")  and that Barr didn't attain the "level of transparency they established."

What's not in the report, evidence supporting of -- take your pick;  Trump-Russia/Russia-Wikileaks/Russia-Russia/Russia-Other/Russia-The Pod People -- collusion, will be where the Libs steer their narrative. A compliant media will happily be the galactic echo chamber.

Redacted information in Barr's report will be for the usual, acceptable legal standards and reasons -  national security, international security/foreign relations, protecting and preventing the publication of the names of private citizens and anonymous sources - will be met by Libs with great skepticism. Deep, deep skepticism. And concern. A lot of Liberal "concern" will occur. Oh, how Libs normally love anonymous sources, except when those sources fail to uphold the Liberal Narrative.

Jump with me here. Why does Julian Assange continue steadfastly denying Russia being part of Wikileaks and the emails of Hillary Clinton and John Podesta? Could it be because it's true? Assange has nothing to lose, and so much to gain, if he stated, "yes, it was Russia." Yet he's never said that. Wikileaks doesn't have a high failure rate.

Assange has hinted that his source was Seth Rich, whose murder remains unsolved. Rich worked for the DNC and he supported the 2016 Dem presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. You can do your own searches on Seth Rich-Julian Assange. Don't forget to include Guccifer 2.0 and Fancy Bear in your searching. The number of actors in this production are many, yet, there is no indication of one distinct person whose name doesn't appear in The Cast of Characters of Russian Collusion; Donald Trump.

The varying degrees of accuracy, skepticism and opinion of the Rich-Assange relationship, if any, is as contentious as it is conspiracy. But we do know this: Rich supported Sanders. Rich was murdered. Shortly after his murder, Wikileaks dumped a lot of intel. The timing...coincidental? Assange is not the only one linking Seth Rich to Wikileaks. Where's a good Liberal Conspiracy Theorist when you really need one?

We'll also be treated to just how quickly these literate, "luminary", hellbent Liberal Collusion "Truthers" will read the Barr Report. Remember, Barr rightly allocated enough time to review the Mueller investigation in order to provide an accurate, unbiased, factual analysis with its foundation a legal interpretation. Start the stopwatch the moment the Libs are handed the Barr Report and track how much time they take to issue...well, I was going to write...a coherent and rational response. But that, I think, is setting our expectations of the Libs far too high. Deeply, concerningly too high.

It will take some time for anyone and everyone to read the Barr-Mueller Report. Any immediate, knee-jerk reaction from The Left fixating on what's not in the report - evidence of Trump/Russia/Election/Collusion - will be recognized for the the partisan ploy it is.

Remember the original allegation that Donald Trump would claim the election is rigged if Hillary Clinton won? Remember the allegation was that not respecting the results of the election is a direct threat to our democracy? Remember when we were told we accepted the results of presidential elections even though we may not have liked them? Remember when candidates who lose sometimes start complaining that they got cheated? Remember...?

What do you think the Liberal reaction to the Barr Report will be like? Please chime in and leave a comment.

AG Barr should April Fool's prank Pelosi.

Nancy Pelosi's phone rings; she answers: "Hello." On the line is AG William Barr.

AG Barr: I have the full, un-redacted Mueller report ready for you.

Pelosi: Really?

Barr: Nah, April Fool's. (Hangs up phone).

Pelosi: (Ponders if he really has the full, un-redacted Mueller report ready for her. Phones Cortez, describes Barr phone call to her).

Cortez: "Who dis?"

Pelosi and Cortez look up April Fool's Day on Wikipedia. Both of them, still confused and perplexed, consult their staffers. Staffers spend hours explaining and diagramming Barr's call to Pelosi.

Hours, days, weeks, months later...

Patrick Leahy - William Barr, "What about emminent domain?"

William Barr spars with Vermont's U.S. Senator Pat Leahy, who, turns 79 in March. And, do you realize he's been in the Senate since 1975? Think it's time, there Pat, to hang it up? 

Great responses from Barr.

Leahy is the same guy who asks this question.