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					<description><![CDATA[One would think the whole &#8220;Russia collusion&#8221; media action line would have been put to bed in 2017. But if there&#8217;s one thing we know for sure; journalists, like teachers, enjoy the myth of their never being wrong even though their functional level of intelligence can (and should) always be questioned. With the recent revelation [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://rumble.com/voycn3-cnns-camerota-admits-no-evidence-of-russia-collusion.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img decoding="async" class="alignright wp-image-19800 size-medium" title="CNN's Camerota Admits No Evidence of Russia Collusion" src="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Camerota-Sununu-150x84.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="84" srcset="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Camerota-Sununu-150x84.jpg 150w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Camerota-Sununu.jpg 700w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /></a>One would think the whole &#8220;Russia collusion&#8221; media action line would have been put to bed in 2017. But if there&#8217;s one thing we know for sure; journalists, like teachers, enjoy the myth of their never being wrong even though their <a href="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/2017/02/18/yes-todays-air-journalists-untrained-political-hacks/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">functional level of intelligence</a> can (and should) always be questioned.</p>
<p>With the recent revelation of Special Counsel <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/feb/13/jim-jordan-durham-filing-shows-spying-trump-was-wo/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Durham&#8217;s court filings</a> that have pretty much, using the left&#8217;s favorite conversation-crusher, &#8220;debunked&#8221; the whole Trump-colluded-with-Russia-to-steal-the-2016-election-from Hillary fiction, the media got the official cue to look the other way in response to Tucker Carlson&#8217;s breakdown of the falsehood they (and Democrats) inflicted on Donald Trump, President Trump, his supporters and the nation for years.</p>
<p><iframe title="YouTube video player" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Hb-fQTm_fP0" width="750" height="422" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"><span data-mce-type="bookmark" style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;" class="mce_SELRES_start">﻿</span></iframe><br />
<a href="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/MM-Carlson.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img decoding="async" class="alignright wp-image-21758 size-medium" src="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/MM-Carlson-150x96.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="96" srcset="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/MM-Carlson-150x96.jpg 150w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/MM-Carlson.jpg 750w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /></a>Leave it to Media Matters and the predictable others to ignore the bulk and substance of the segment and possibly point to a dead guy who can&#8217;t offer any clarification or even facts.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span style="color: #808080;">The NYT/CNN/NBC axis flooded the zone every time Robert Mueller scratched his nose. They spent hours and hours deciphering his every sneeze. Actual criminal indictments from Durham of Hillary’s lawyer or FBI operatives — crimes that created Russiagate — barely merit an article.</span><br />
<span style="color: #808080;">—</span> <a href="https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1492862178067685376" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Glenn Greenwald, 2/13/22</a></p>
<p>There are many consistencies when it comes to how this whole Durham investigation is playing out. One being that whenever there&#8217;s bad news for a Republican, there&#8217;s always someone who&#8217;ll leak that damaging info to an eager liberal media to disseminate. But when there&#8217;s bad news about a Democrat, nothing is leaked and if it is, it&#8217;s downplayed by the press. Aside from court filings that are public record, there&#8217;s been enough radio silence that the media&#8217;s been able to portray Durham as much ado about nuthin&#8217;&#8230; until now.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Lesley-Stahl.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright wp-image-15521 size-medium" title="Leslie Stahl, 60 Minutes interview with President Trump" src="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Lesley-Stahl-150x84.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="84" srcset="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Lesley-Stahl-150x84.jpg 150w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Lesley-Stahl.jpg 700w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /></a>This is also where the media has itself stuck in the proverbial box where they have to either admit they were played by Hillary Clinton, her campaign and the DNC, or they knew Donald Trump never colluded with the Russians during his 2016 campaign and throughout his term as president. The latter is probably closer to the truth and the world saw how they were all in for the pro-Hillary/Democrat narrative.</p>
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The media really can&#8217;t admit they were suckers for Hillary&#8217;s disinformation as that would place an even bigger storm cloud over their already pitiful reputation for impartiality and honesty, but alas, that appears to be the only plea they can cop. As they gaslight the world claiming to be fair and impartial, their only remaining option is to admit to being overpaid, and in some cases, multi-millionaire suckers.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/CNN.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-medium wp-image-5263 alignright" src="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/CNN-150x85.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="85" srcset="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/CNN-150x85.jpg 150w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/CNN-500x282.jpg 500w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/CNN.jpg 600w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /></a>They&#8217;ll claim, despite no evidence ever being found, to have relied on impeccable &#8220;<a href="https://rumble.com/vpatgd-cnn-sources-garbage-in-garbage-out.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sources and methods</a>&#8220;, which we all know cannot be questioned&#8230; until this one time. They&#8217;ll claim, despite no evidence ever being found, there was no reason to believe that Hillary Clinton, her campaign, the Obama administration, the FBI, CIA, and federal employees would EVER make up such an elaborate scheme to win a presidential election and once lost, sabotage a presidential administration. They&#8217;ll claim, despite no evidence ever being found, their instincts pointed to a direction that we all now know to be incorrect and as they are human, should be willing to look past this minor blip in judgment.</p>
<p>Why will the media seek such forgiveness? Because it&#8217;s not over.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><strong><a href="https://nypost.com/2022/02/13/most-democrats-want-hillary-clinton-investigated-for-any-role-in-russiagate-scandal-poll/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Most Democrats want Hillary Clinton investigated for any role in Russiagate scandal: poll</a></strong></p>
<p><a href="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/NYTimes-Wapo.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright wp-image-21761 size-medium" src="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/NYTimes-Wapo-150x162.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="162" srcset="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/NYTimes-Wapo-150x162.jpg 150w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/NYTimes-Wapo.jpg 634w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /></a>We don&#8217;t know how many people in the media have been hauled in to testify in front of Durham&#8217;s grand jury. It stands to reason that players currently under investigation may have passed on slanderous information to members of the media for rapid circulation; information known to be false yet published anyway. It&#8217;s not a crime for a First Amendment-protected journalist to distribute lies, but it sure can put a dent in a resume and public reputation to his or her employer. The chances are pretty small that so many supposedly smart people could have gotten it all so wrong, thus it stands to reason too many were happily all-in on pushing false stories on the Donald Trump they collectively hated. They had no problem amplifying falsehoods that resulted in many people having to lawyer-up and some even seeing the inside of a jail cell.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Vox.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright wp-image-21749 size-medium" title="Vox graphic" src="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Vox-150x100.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="100" srcset="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Vox-150x100.jpg 150w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Vox-360x240.jpg 360w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Vox-600x400.jpg 600w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Vox.jpg 750w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /></a>As the Durham investigation nears its conclusion, look for legacy media so-called journalists and anchors try and paint a scenario where they just may have gotten inadvertently ensnared by bad opposition research and tactics. You know, we all make mistakes and they always remind us that Americans are very forgiving people. They will soon try and demand we forgive them because they&#8217;re all we have when it comes to getting news we can trust.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><strong><a href="https://youtu.be/hnt2G0lyPCo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hillary Clinton waves off questions about whether she spied on Trump in 2016</a></strong></p>
<p>Take their word for it&#8230; IF they talk about it at all.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[Simply because they worked with President Trump, they were politically targeted and persecuted under color of law. Steve Bannon, a former chief White House strategist, is charged with one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering, each of which carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Simply because they worked with President Trump, they were politically targeted and persecuted under color of law.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><a href="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Trumppersecuted.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-16598 size-full" title="Bannon, Manafort, Stone, Flynn, and Papadoupolos" src="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Trumppersecuted.jpg" alt="" width="2066" height="300" srcset="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Trumppersecuted.jpg 2066w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Trumppersecuted-150x22.jpg 150w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Trumppersecuted-800x116.jpg 800w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Trumppersecuted-768x112.jpg 768w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Trumppersecuted-1536x223.jpg 1536w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Trumppersecuted-2048x297.jpg 2048w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 2066px) 100vw, 2066px" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #808080;"><strong>Steve Bannon</strong>, a former chief White House strategist,</span> <a class="gnt_ar_b_a" href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/08/20/ex-trump-adviser-steve-bannon-charged-build-wall-fraud-scheme/5615675002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-t-l="|inline|intext|n/a">is charged with one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering</a><span style="color: #808080;">, each of which carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span style="color: #808080;">Trump’s former campaign chairman <strong>Paul Manafort</strong> was sentenced to a combined 7.5 years in prison, but he was released to home confinement in May because of the health risks posed by the coronavirus pandemic in federal prison.</span></p>
<p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="padding-left: 40px;"><span style="color: #808080;"><strong>Roger Stone</strong>, a longtime Republican political operative who advised Trump during the campaign, was convicted of lying to Congress and obstructing its investigation into Russian election meddling and sentenced to three years in prison. Last month,</span> <a class="gnt_ar_b_a" href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/07/14/roger-stone-trump-clemency-ally-wipes-away-probation-fine/5433533002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-t-l="|inline|intext|n/a">Trump commuted the sentence</a> <span style="color: #808080;">of his longtime confidant, just days before Stone was set to report to prison.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span style="color: #808080;"><strong>Michael Flynn</strong>, Trump’s former national security adviser pleaded guilty in December 2017 to lying to investigators about meetings with Russians while in the White House. He cooperated with Mueller under a plea agreement.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span style="color: #808080;"><strong>George Papadopoulos</strong>, a foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign,</span> <a class="gnt_ar_b_a" href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/11/26/papadopoulos-begins-prison-sentence/2112574002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-t-l="|inline|intext|n/a">served 14 days in prison</a><span style="color: #808080;"> and was ordered to pay a $9,500 fine and complete 200 hours of community service</span><span style="color: #808080;">.</span><br />
<span style="color: #808080;">&#8212;</span> <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/08/20/how-many-trump-advisers-were-criminally-charged-steve-bannon-makes-7/5616793002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">USA Today, 8/20/20</a></p>
<p>We know that some of these people were set up by federal law enforcement and in at least one case, documents that could have exonerated one was altered and submitted to give a false impression of guilt. The person who committed that breach of trust and federal crime is now asking for leniency so he doesn&#8217;t have to go to prison.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span style="color: #808080;"><a href="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Klinesmith.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright wp-image-16602 size-medium" title="&quot;Resistance&quot; Clinesmith" src="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Klinesmith-150x69.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="69" srcset="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Klinesmith-150x69.jpg 150w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Klinesmith-800x367.jpg 800w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Klinesmith-768x353.jpg 768w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Klinesmith.jpg 1148w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /></a>Kevin Clinesmith made a grievous mistake. By altering a colleague’s email, he cut a corner in a job that required far better of him. He failed to live up to the FBI’s and his own high standards of conduct. And he committed a crime. Kevin pled guilty and accepts full responsibility. He deeply regrets his conduct and apologizes to all those who have been affected—including his former colleagues, the FBI, the DOJ, the Court, the public, and his family.</span></p>
<p>Not specifically to Carter Page; the man he tried to have imprisoned by his &#8220;grievous mistake&#8221;. Now, cue the violins&#8230;.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span style="color: #808080;"><a href="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/KevinClinesmith.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright wp-image-16603 size-medium" title="Kevin Clinesmith" src="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/KevinClinesmith-143x150.jpg" alt="" width="143" height="150" srcset="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/KevinClinesmith-143x150.jpg 143w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/KevinClinesmith.jpg 634w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 143px) 100vw, 143px" /></a>Since the inception of the government’s investigation, Kevin has been devastated personally and professionally. And the financial and emotional costs of this ordeal have had a profound impact on him and his family.<br />
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<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span style="color: #808080;">As a result of his conduct, Kevin has lost his career and professional identity. He no longer works for the FBI and his conviction likely precludes him from ever working for the federal government again, let alone in his chosen field of law enforcement and intelligence, which was his true passion since college. Moreover, Kevin has lost his livelihood. His non-attorney job prospects are also bleak. For one thing, he will likely be unable to qualify for a security clearance, which will significantly hinder his ability to obtain a private sector role relating to national security, where his skills and competencies lie. Indeed, since leaving the FBI, despite his best efforts Kevin has been unable to find work. As a result, he and his family have and will continue to suffer financially, as evidenced by their negative monthly cash flow.<br />
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<p>Michael Flynn would probably ask Clinesmith how it feels?</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span style="color: #808080;">A sentence that includes incarceration is therefore unnecessarily harsh because it would expose Kevin to a greater risk of severe illness caused by COVID-19. On the other hand, a sentence of probation—which would be the most appropriate sentence even if there were no </span><span style="color: #808080;">pandemic—would limit the risks that COVID-19 presents to Kevin as well as prison inmates and staff.</span><br />
<span style="color: #808080;">&#8212;</span> <a href="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Clinesmith-sentencing.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Sentencing memo for Kevin Clinesmith, 12/3/20</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Carter-Page.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright wp-image-16601 size-medium" title="Carter Page" src="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Carter-Page-150x84.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="84" srcset="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Carter-Page-150x84.jpg 150w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Carter-Page.jpg 700w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /></a>When Clinesmith altered a federal document intent on framing Carter Page, did he consider the potential prison time he be sentencing an innocent man to serve? With all the lawyering-up and the costs associated with having to defend himself, did Clinesmith consider Page had suffered enough? Did Clinesmith consider Page&#8217;s life being &#8220;devastated&#8221; and his reputation ruined?</p>
<p>Obviously not, as Clinesmith&#8217;s action dictated. These actions, along with the persecution of those in the Trump orbit, show that those involved with the attempted sabotage of his 2016 campaign and presidency had no inhibitions when it came to ruining the livlihoods of those they sought to attack and showed no restraint when it came to their ability to deprive the politically innocent of their freedom.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Mueller1.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright wp-image-4949 size-medium" title="Robert Mueller" src="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Mueller1-150x85.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="85" srcset="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Mueller1-150x85.jpg 150w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Mueller1-500x282.jpg 500w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Mueller1.jpg 600w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /></a>People like Peter Strzok, Andrew McCabe, John Brennan, James Clapper, and especially Robert Mueller <em>(who has a <a href="https://www.bostonherald.com/2018/04/13/carr-robert-mueller-mum-on-fbi-scandal-in-boston/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">documented record</a> of intentionally sending the innocent to prison)</em>, are horrible human beings. They have no problem sleeping at night after knowing they can weaponize their personal politics and use the power of federal law enforcement to financially ruin their accused but also technically sentence some to death in prison just because they can.</p>
<p>Clinesmith deserves no leniency because deliberate failure to upload the laws and Constitution of the United States should be considered the callous breaking of a blood oath. Should the day ever come where the #resistance coup-plotters ever face long-overdue justice, they should be sentenced harshly, without mercy, and to the fullest extent of the law.</p>
<h2><span style="color: #ff9900;">UPDATE</span></h2>
<p><span style="color: #808080;"><strong><a href="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Trump.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright wp-image-17185 size-medium" src="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Trump-150x216.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="216" srcset="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Trump-150x216.jpg 150w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Trump.jpg 634w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /></a></strong></span>The two-tier justice system strikes again.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span style="color: #808080;"><strong>Former FBI attorney Kevin Clinesmith, 38, received the sentence of 12 months probation (and 400 hours community service)</strong> from U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg Friday during a video hearing.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span style="color: #808080;">Clinesmith admitted that in June 2017 he sent an altered email to an FBI agent that indicated a target of court-ordered FBI surveillance, former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, was &#8220;not a source&#8221; for the Central Intelligence Agency. The statement, passed along as the FBI was applying for a third extension of surveillance of Page, made Page&#8217;s actions seem more suspicious by downplaying his past cooperation with the CIA.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span style="color: #808080;">The sentencing hearing featured an impassioned speech from Page, in which the energy industry analyst complained that his life was turned upside down by the media firestorm that followed public disclosure of the fact that he was a focus of the FBI probe into potential Russian influence on the Trump campaign.</span><br />
<span style="color: #808080;">&#8212;</span> <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/29/fbi-lawyer-trump-russia-probe-email-463750" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Politico, 1/29/21</a></p>
<p>They can make the lives of Americans hell but we can&#8217;t make their lives any more uncomfortable than necessary.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span style="color: #808080;"><a href="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Nunes.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright wp-image-17192 size-medium" title="Rep. Devin Nunes" src="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Nunes-150x78.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="78" srcset="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Nunes-150x78.jpg 150w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Nunes.jpg 474w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /></a>Rep. Devin Nunes and other Republicans blasted the probation sentence with no prison time for ex-FBI lawyer</span> <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/durham-investigation-kevin-clinesmith-probation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kevin Clinesmith</a><span style="color: #808080;">, who pleaded guilty to fraudulently altering a CIA email during the FBI’s flawed pursuit of surveillance against former Trump campaign associate Carter Page.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span style="color: #808080;">Nunes, the former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee who</span> <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/devin-nunes-presidential-medal-of-freedom" target="_blank" rel="noopener">unearthed</a> <span style="color: #808080;">a host of problems with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act process in the Trump-Russia investigation, told the Washington Examiner that <strong>“once again, we see a two-tiered system of justice where average Americans get investigated and imprisoned based on fake media narratives like ‘Russian collusion’ while government officials who perpetuated these abuses get off scot-free.”</strong> He added: <strong>“The FBI, DOJ, and judicial system need to regain Americans’ trust, and this absurd sentencing won’t help.”</strong></span><span style="color: #808080;">. </span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span style="color: #808080;">Other Republicans also expressed outrage at the judge&#8217;s decision.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span style="color: #808080;">&#8220;This sentence is absolutely despicable,&#8221; Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, told the Examiner.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span style="color: #808080;">&#8220;An FBI agent falsified evidence in one of the Bureau&#8217;s most important investigations ever and a slap on the wrist isn&#8217;t going to cut it,&#8221; Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., said in a statement.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span style="color: #808080;">Sasse added, &#8220;this isn&#8217;t traffic court&#8221; and argued, &#8220;America only works if the truth matters, if lying has consequences, and if public servants are held accountable for breaking the laws.&#8221;</span><br />
<span style="color: #808080;">&#8212;</span> <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/nunes-two-tiered-system-ex-fbi-lawyer-dodges-prison-time-carter-page-email" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washington Examiner, 1/29/21</a></p>
<p>See how it works?</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[We were told (literally) for YEARS that there was all this &#8220;evidence&#8221; that Donald Trump, his campaign, Transition Team and later his Administration &#8220;colluded&#8221; with the Russians to help him defeat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election. It turns out, NONE of what Schiff, Democrats and their parrot media was true regarding &#8220;Russian collusion&#8221;, [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We were told <em>(literally)</em> for YEARS that there was all this &#8220;evidence&#8221; that Donald Trump, his campaign, Transition Team and later his Administration &#8220;colluded&#8221; with the Russians to help him defeat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election.</p>
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<p>It turns out, NONE of what Schiff, Democrats and their parrot media was true regarding &#8220;Russian collusion&#8221;, at least when it comes to who was actually doing the colluding.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span style="color: #808080;"><a href="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Adam-Schiff.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright wp-image-12851 size-medium" src="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Adam-Schiff-150x87.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="87" srcset="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Adam-Schiff-150x87.jpg 150w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Adam-Schiff-500x291.jpg 500w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Adam-Schiff.jpg 700w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /></a>Current Intel Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) has apparently been</span> <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/05/05/house-republicans-accuse-schiff-of-blocking-russia-probe-transcripts/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">pushing to prevent the release</a> <span style="color: #808080;">— perhaps because he for years has claimed he saw “direct evidence” of Trump-Russia collusion that neither the FBI nor even Mueller’s endless probe ever found. <strong>It seems that none of the 53 witnesses interviewed by the committee — including Obama officials Jim Clapper, Loretta Lynch, Sam Power, Susan Rice, Sally Yates and Andrew McCabe — said they’d seen any evidence of collusion.</strong></span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span style="color: #808080;">Indeed, it looks like the only “evidence” the FBI ever had was the hearsay claims <em>(which various Russians were paid to make)</em> in the opposition-research dossier that Hillary Clinton’s campaign commissioned — a fact that the FBI and Justice Department concealed from the courts even as it was the only basis for their wiretap requests.</span><br />
<span style="color: #808080;">&#8212;</span> <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/05/07/michael-flynn-case-collapse-latest-sign-russiagate-was-a-complete-fraud/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">New York Post, 5/7/20</a></p>
<p>As U.S. Attorney John Durham wraps up his investigation, hopefully we&#8217;ll find out who ALL the players were in this coup d&#8217;etat that was nearly pulled off and holds them responsible for all of the collateral damage done.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span style="color: #808080;"><a href="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Limbaugh.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright wp-image-12871 size-medium" title="Rush Limbaugh" src="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Limbaugh-103x150.jpg" alt="" width="103" height="150" srcset="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Limbaugh-103x150.jpg 103w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Limbaugh.jpg 385w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 103px) 100vw, 103px" /></a>Folks, we lost the House of Representatives because of this. We lost two years, 2-1/2 years of an agenda being implemented. Who knows what other damage resulted to this country because of this, and half of the country — statistically half of the country — was believing every word of this. We had news organizations winning Pulitzer Prizes for their reporting on this.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span style="color: #808080;">Remember, they spent years reporting this four and five times a day every day, seven days a week for two years. New York Times, Washington Post, Times, CNN, MSNBC. And the whole time they knew it was all a lie. They knew there was nothing to it. It was entirely made up, and the plot hatched in the Obama Oval Office.</span><br />
<span style="color: #808080;">&#8212;</span> <a href="https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2020/05/08/vindication-day-on-the-russia-hoax-and-coup-against-trump/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Rush Limbaugh, 5/8/20</a></p>
<p>Adam Schiff should be removed from office, if not in handcuffs and people need to go jail so this never happens to another American ever again.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[One would think when it came to choosing someone to investigate the actions of the President of the United States and his former campaign staff that every attempt would be make to assure the American people said investigation was thoroughly impartial and those running the investigation were of the utmost of integrity. One of the [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One would think when it came to choosing someone to investigate the actions of the President of the United States and his former campaign staff that every attempt would be make to assure the American people said investigation was thoroughly impartial and those running the investigation were of the utmost of integrity.</p>
<p>One of the <span style="text-decoration: underline;">very first questions</span> asked of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller, a man we repeatedly hear is of the highest integrity, should have been how can we trust that you&#8217;ll be fair to all involved when you appear to have slept very well knowing that you once left innocent men in prison for years?</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span style="color: #808080;"><a href="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Mueller.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright wp-image-4945 size-medium" title="Robert Mueller" src="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Mueller-116x150.jpg" alt="" width="116" height="150" srcset="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Mueller-116x150.jpg 116w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Mueller-500x647.jpg 500w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Mueller.jpg 600w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 116px) 100vw, 116px" /></a>For the record, Mueller did not railroad four innocent men into prison – two onto death row – for a Chelsea murder they did not commit back in 1965. That frame job was handled by the Boston office of the FBI, where at one point at least six G-men were taking payoffs from organized crime. <strong>Everyone knew the four men were innocent, but the FBI wanted them to rot in prison, so the scandal would not be revealed.</strong></span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span style="color: #808080;">Fast forward to 2006. Mueller is now the FBI director. <strong>After 35 years in the can, two of the four innocent men are dead, the other two have finally been freed.</strong> The four men or their estates are suing the feds for wrongful imprisonment. It is not a frivolous lawsuit – they will eventually win a judgment of $102 million.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><strong><span style="color: #808080;">The plaintiffs – the victims – are trying to get the necessary information from the crooked FBI now run by Mueller about how they were framed. But Mueller absolutely stonewalls the release of the information.</span></strong><br />
<span style="color: #808080;">&#8212; </span><a href="https://www.bostonherald.com/2019/01/30/howie-carr-muellers-hands-dirty-in-old-fbi-frame-up/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Howie Carr, 1/30/19</a></p>
<p>How is that relevant? Well, if government officials are comfortable letting anyone sit in jail for crimes they didn&#8217;t commit and those government officials are willing to commit illegal acts to keep that person incarcerated, we are all at high risk.</p>
<p>During the course of the Mueller probe, supposedly looking for Donald Trump&#8217;s 2016 presidential campaign collusion with Russia, many people were were ensnared in perjury traps, prosecuted for &#8220;process crimes&#8221;, and with one they had to go back many years and prosecuted him for &#8220;crimes&#8221; that dozens <em>(if not more)</em> of wealthy financiers do on a daily basis but are unscathed because they probably donate to the right political party&#8217;s officeholders.</p>
<p>Finally, the much-anticipated <a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?462628-1/robert-mueller-congressional-testimony" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">testimony of Robert Mueller</a> produced a tired old man who clearly didn&#8217;t do much of the work, thus couldn&#8217;t speak as to the contents of the report that bears his name. It didn&#8217;t go unnoticed.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span style="color: #808080;"><a href="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Mueller1.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright wp-image-4949 size-medium" src="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Mueller1-150x85.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="85" srcset="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Mueller1-150x85.jpg 150w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Mueller1-500x282.jpg 500w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Mueller1.jpg 600w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /></a>According to several people who used to work for him, he was not in peak form Wednesday. He said up front that he would not go beyond the language of</span> <a class=" vilynx_listened" href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/read-text-full-mueller-report-n994551" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">his 448-page report</a><span style="color: #808080;">. But he declined even to read passages of the report. And, surprisingly, he did not seem conversant in the details of his investigation, repeatedly referring questioners to the language of the report without saying in his own words what it meant.</span><br />
<span style="color: #808080;">&#8212;</span> <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/bob-mueller-struggling-democrats-don-t-get-their-trump-gotcha-n1034146" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">NBC News, 7/24/19</a></p>
<p>While the media willfully reported the Democrats&#8217; simple-to-recite talking points: attack on our democracy, no one else could get away with it, etc., the important points made by Republicans will be more than absent during most of the post-hearing coverage&#8230;.</p>
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<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span style="color: #808080;">Mueller’s handiwork may be exposed for glaring omissions that, when brought to public light, leave key questions unanswered, especially about how the FBI’s unprecedented probe of the Trump campaign started.</span><br />
<span style="color: #808080;">&#8212;</span> <a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/454409-robert-mueller-soon-may-be-exposed-as-the-magician-of-omission-on-russia" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Hill, 7/23/19</a></p>
<p>Democrats rely on the misinformation and/or underreporting by their media so far too many are outraged that any nation would try and interfere with our elections. It&#8217;s sad that so many liberal Democrats are totally clueless that <a href="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/2015/03/19/team-obama-has-and-continues-to-meddle-in-foreign-elections/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">election interference BY the United States</a> of foreign elections has been done for decades and they&#8217;ll know many of those involved.</p>
<p>For the many hours of the hearing, coordinated Democrats led off by praising Mueller&#8217;s service to his country and work as special counsel. But if a man can have no problem knowing people are falsely imprisoned just so he and his buddies and continue to make a good taxpayer-funded income with perks and pension, then we&#8217;re not talking about anyone who can be trusted, especially leading an investigation in search of a crime involving the president.</p>
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		<title>DeepStateCoup: Now Democrats Want to Protect &#8216;Sources and Methods&#8217;&#8230;?</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Fat-and-comfortable career law enforcement officials at the FBI and DOJ had no problem with pre-dawn raids for subjects of their Trump campaign, &#8220;Russian collusion&#8221; so-called investigation. They had no problem forcing people like Lieutenant General Michael Flynn to put his home up for sale so he could defend himself in court. They had no problem [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/ComeyBrennanClapper.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright wp-image-256 size-medium" title="James Comey, John Brennan, and James Clapper" src="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/ComeyBrennanClapper-150x87.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="87" srcset="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/ComeyBrennanClapper-150x87.jpg 150w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/ComeyBrennanClapper-768x448.jpg 768w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/ComeyBrennanClapper-500x292.jpg 500w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/ComeyBrennanClapper.jpg 885w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /></a>Fat-and-comfortable career law enforcement officials at the FBI and DOJ had no problem with <a href="https://saraacarter.com/armed-fbi-agents-arrest-roger-stone-in-predawn-raid/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">pre-dawn raids</a> for subjects of their Trump campaign, &#8220;Russian collusion&#8221; so-called investigation. They had no problem forcing people like Lieutenant General Michael Flynn to <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5468467/Michael-Flynn-puts-820-000-Northern-Virginia-home-sale.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">put his home up for sale</a> so he could defend himself in court. They had no problem selectively enforcing crimes to ensnare and imprison <a href="https://reason.com/2019/03/11/here-is-what-paul-manafort-was-convicted/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">people like Paul Manafort</a> whose only real offense was his three or four months working on the Trump campaign. They had no problem using a discredited <a href="https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/409817-russia-collusion-bombshell-dnc-lawyers-met-with-fbi-on-dossier-before" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">&#8220;dossier&#8221;</a> to issue FISA warrants so they could entrap others who worked on Donald Trump&#8217;s campaign and later attempt to derail his presidency.</p>
<p>Subsequent &#8220;investigations&#8221; by the Democrat-led House of Representatives put an emphasis on &#8220;transparency&#8221; and demanded EVERYTHING in the Mueller report, including the 2% redacted court-protected grand jury testimony, be made public.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Comey-Tweet.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright wp-image-2850 size-medium" title="@Comey Tweet" src="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Comey-Tweet-150x98.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="98" srcset="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Comey-Tweet-150x98.jpg 150w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Comey-Tweet.jpg 500w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /></a>But now that the president was found to have done nothing alleged by the Democrats and their media, and an Inspector General&#8217;s coming report may show that pro-Hillary Democrats within federal law enforcement may have tried to rig the election against Donald Trump and subsequently derail and hamstring his administration, and wants <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trump-says-everything-will-be-declassified" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">EVERYTHING regarding the investigation declassified</a>, transparency is now something deemed &#8220;dangerous&#8221; by those involved and &#8220;sources and methods&#8221; must be protected.</p>
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<p>Many of whom were engaged, in what essentially was a coup d&#8217;etat, now know what it feels like to have federal law enforcement breathing down their necks, the potential cost of having to hire high-priced lawyers just to keep them free on bond, and have their lives and reputations turned upside down and damaged beyond repair.</p>
<p>The only difference is that those they pursued with the full weight of the federal government behind them were either innocent or entrapped. Those pro-Hillary #DeepState career federal law enforcement employees abused their power, assumed Hillary Clinton would win and none of their activities would ever be revealed, and now THEY are facing the very possible prison fate they cavalierly imposed on others.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[Call it yet the latest example of the taxpayer-funded steamroller, called our Just Us Department: a steamroller that can ruin lives during investigations that increase federal prosecutor profiles on their way up the chain. We’re witnessing in real time an underbelly of our government that would’ve been sight unseen had Hillary Clinton won the presidency: [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Call it yet the latest example of the taxpayer-funded steamroller, called our Just Us Department: a steamroller that can ruin lives during investigations that increase federal prosecutor profiles on their way up the chain. We’re witnessing in real time an underbelly of our government that would’ve been sight unseen had Hillary Clinton won the presidency: the push to enforce the <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/951" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">unregistered foreign agent</a> law that many well-connected are even bothered with.</p>
<p>That is, until a few were introduced to the world of candidate-and-now President Donald Trump. They are now an insignificant means to an end for his removal from office.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><a class="cb-lightbox fs-lightbox-element" href="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Flynn.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-132211" src="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Flynn-150x100.jpg" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" srcset="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Flynn-150x100.jpg 150w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Flynn-768x512.jpg 768w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Flynn-500x333.jpg 500w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Flynn-360x240.jpg 360w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Flynn-600x400.jpg 600w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Flynn.jpg 1160w" alt="" width="150" height="100" /></a><span style="color: #808080;">Michael Flynn pleaded guilty late last year to lying about the subject of conversations he had with high-ranking Russian officials after President Donald Trump won the election, but before he took office. “<strong>All along you were an unregistered agent of a foreign country while serving as the national security adviser to the president of the United States</strong>,” U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan said at Tuesday’s hearing. “<strong>Arguably, that undermines everything that flag over here stands for.</strong>”</span><br />
<span style="color: #808080;">—</span> <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/18/judge-admonishes-flynn-ahead-of-sentencing-1068033" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Politico, 12/18/18</a></p>
<p><a class="cb-lightbox fs-lightbox-element" title="Judge Emmet Sullivan of the U.S. District Court for D.C. May 27, 2009" href="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Sullivan.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright wp-image-132220 size-medium" title="Judge Emmet Sullivan of the U.S. District Court for D.C. May 27, 2009" src="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Sullivan-150x91.jpg" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" srcset="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Sullivan-150x91.jpg 150w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Sullivan-500x302.jpg 500w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Sullivan.jpg 616w" alt="" width="150" height="91" /></a>While the media in-concert shouted-out U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan’s admonishment to Flynn that “<a href="https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C2GCEA_enUS760US760&amp;source=hp&amp;ei=pmYZXPnOJonysQWV0r-oBw&amp;q=Flynn+You+sold+your+country+out&amp;btnK=Google+Search&amp;oq=Flynn+You+sold+your+country+out&amp;gs_l=psy-ab.3...1768.3714..4251...0.0..0.164.1133.0j8......0....1j2..gws-wiz.....0..0j35i39j0i131j0i3.j_SsOa0-lA8" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>You sold your country out</strong></a>”, they’re selectively omitting his “walking back” the statement.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span style="color: #808080;">“<strong>I made a statement about Mr. Flynn acting as a foreign agent in the White House</strong>,” he said. Sullivan added that he realized that was incorrect.</span></p>
<p>The left, ever since the initial indictment of former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn, has played fast and loose with his being guilty of some form of treason. They kinda’ need <em>(again)</em> to read up on what they talk about before going there.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><a class="cb-lightbox fs-lightbox-element" title="Benedict Arnold" href="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Benedict-Arnold.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright wp-image-132218 size-medium" title="Benedict Arnold" src="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Benedict-Arnold-150x113.jpg" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" srcset="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Benedict-Arnold-150x113.jpg 150w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Benedict-Arnold-768x576.jpg 768w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Benedict-Arnold-500x375.jpg 500w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Benedict-Arnold-80x60.jpg 80w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Benedict-Arnold.jpg 857w" alt="" width="150" height="113" /></a><span style="color: #808080;">Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.</span><br />
<span style="color: #808080;">—</span> <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2381#" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">18 U.S. Code § 2381 – Treason</a></p>
<p>Not sure what war enemy we’re engaged with that Michael Flynn offered aid-and-comfort to but the selective enforcement of the law with regards to “foreign lobbyists” is jacked.</p>
<p>Anyone who’s spent any time in and around Capitol Hill knows that lobbyists bring millions of dollars aimed at politicians in office and those who wannabe. Anyone in the DOJ or FBI need be very wary that those they hassle today could either be placed in the chain of command above them or have the ability to affect their department as a whole or even individually later.</p>
<p>Thus, the <a href="https://www.justice.gov/nsd-fara" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA)</a> is widely blown off until something blows up they can’t avoid… or people involved are those federal law enforcement deems worthy of targeting. Collateral human damage under said target is something these prosecutors are callously indifferent to no matter how many lives are damaged.</p>
<p>For the most part, high-profile documented enforcement of FARA can total the number of fingers in less than two hands.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><a class="cb-lightbox fs-lightbox-element" title="Bijan Kian and Michael Flynn" href="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Bijan-Kian-Michael-Flynn.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright wp-image-132212 size-medium" title="Bijan Kian and Michael Flynn" src="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Bijan-Kian-Michael-Flynn-150x104.jpg" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" srcset="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Bijan-Kian-Michael-Flynn-150x104.jpg 150w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Bijan-Kian-Michael-Flynn-500x347.jpg 500w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Bijan-Kian-Michael-Flynn.jpg 634w" alt="" width="150" height="104" /></a><span style="color: #808080;">Bijan Kian and Ekim Alptekin are accused in an indictment of conspiring to “covertly and unlawfully” influence U.S. public opinion and politicians, all while concealing that the Turkish government was directing their work. The campaign came during the final months of the 2016 presidential campaign while Flynn was a top surrogate for Trump’s campaign. Both men are charged with conspiracy and acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government. Alptekin is also charged with lying during an interview with the FBI.</span><br />
<span style="color: #808080;">—</span> <a href="https://www.apnews.com/6e4dfd935c4a408b8383402f4d9a54e9" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Associated Press, 12/17/18</a></p>
<p>Had it not been for Flynn’s involvement with Donald Trump, Kian and Alptekin would be living their lives here today just fine.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><a class="cb-lightbox fs-lightbox-element" title="Maria Butina" href="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Maria-Butina.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright wp-image-132213 size-medium" title="Maria Butina" src="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Maria-Butina-150x100.jpg" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" srcset="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Maria-Butina-150x100.jpg 150w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Maria-Butina-768x512.jpg 768w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Maria-Butina-500x333.jpg 500w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Maria-Butina-360x240.jpg 360w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Maria-Butina-600x400.jpg 600w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Maria-Butina.jpg 800w" alt="" width="150" height="100" /></a><span style="color: #808080;">A Russian gun rights activist pleaded guilty Thursday to conspiring with a senior Russian official to infiltrate the conservative movement in the United States as an agent for the Kremlin from 2015 until her arrest in July. In plea papers, prosecutors agreed to drop a second count against Russian national Maria Butina of violating a law that requires foreigners working for their government to register with the U.S. Justice Department. There is no suggestion in the documents that Butina was employed by the Russian intelligence services, but violations of the law are considered more serious than a separate law that requires registration by paid lobbyists for foreign entities.</span><br />
<span style="color: #808080;">—</span> <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/russian-maria-butina-pleads-guilty-in-effort-to-forge-kremlin-bond-with-us-conservatives/2018/12/13/c27f2d26-fe4f-11e8-ad40-cdfd0e0dd65a_story.html?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.a3550d0a6ea7" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Washington Post, 12/13/18</a></p>
<p>Had it not been for the shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School and the expected, yet amped-up ire against the NRA, Butina would be living her life here today just fine.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><a class="cb-lightbox fs-lightbox-element" title="Nisar Ahmed Chaudhry" href="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Nisar-Ahmed-Chaudhry.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright wp-image-132214 size-medium" title="Nisar Ahmed Chaudhry" src="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Nisar-Ahmed-Chaudhry-150x85.jpg" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" srcset="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Nisar-Ahmed-Chaudhry-150x85.jpg 150w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Nisar-Ahmed-Chaudhry.jpg 480w" alt="" width="150" height="85" /></a><span style="color: #808080;">The prosecution of Nisar Ahmed Chaudhry reflects what current and former Justice Department officials say is an aggressive enforcement strategy against unregistered foreign agents that began even before special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation exposed a shadowy world of international influence peddling. The effort comes amid revelations about Russian attempts to meddle in the 2016 presidential election and a stream of high-profile foreign-agent filings from President Donald Trump’s associates.</span><br />
<span style="color: #808080;">—</span> <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2018-05-22/justice-dept-beefing-up-enforcement-of-foreign-lobbying-law" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">US News, 5/22/18</a></p>
<p>Had it not been for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign defeat and looking for anyone and everyone else to blame, Chaudhry would be living his life here today just fine.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><a class="cb-lightbox fs-lightbox-element" title="Department of Just Us" href="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/DoJustUs.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright wp-image-116836 size-thumbnail" title="Department of Just Us" src="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/DoJustUs-100x100.jpg" sizes="auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px" srcset="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/DoJustUs-100x100.jpg 100w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/DoJustUs-150x150.jpg 150w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/DoJustUs-125x125.jpg 125w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/DoJustUs.jpg 494w" alt="" width="100" height="100" /></a><span style="color: #808080;">Federal law requires people to disclose to the Justice Department when they lobby or perform other political activities in the U.S. on behalf of foreign governments. But the Justice Department has rarely brought criminal cases, choosing instead to encourage people to comply with the law rather than prosecute them when they fail to do so.</span><br />
<span style="color: #808080;">—</span> <a href="https://www.firstpost.com/world/pakistan-man-nisar-ahmed-chaudhry-pleads-guilty-in-rare-foreign-agent-case-in-us-4460123.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Firstpost, 5/8/18</a></p>
<p>Is this another case of fat and comfortable federal employees not doing their job unless it will result in higher pay and greater retirement benefits? The case could be made.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><a class="cb-lightbox fs-lightbox-element" title="Hillary Clinton and John Podesta" href="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Hillary-and-John-Podesta.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright wp-image-108915 size-medium" title="Hillary Clinton and John Podesta" src="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Hillary-and-John-Podesta-150x99.jpg" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" srcset="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Hillary-and-John-Podesta-150x99.jpg 150w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Hillary-and-John-Podesta-500x329.jpg 500w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Hillary-and-John-Podesta-360x240.jpg 360w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Hillary-and-John-Podesta-600x400.jpg 600w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Hillary-and-John-Podesta.jpg 759w" alt="" width="150" height="99" /></a><span style="color: #808080;">While both firms disclosed the work to Congress under less-rigorous domestic lobbying rules, John and Tony Podesta did not initially register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act. The indictment alleges that was done intentionally — by routing the money through a Brussels-based nonprofit — “to minimize public disclosure of their lobbying campaign” that “was under the ultimate direction” of Viktor F. Yanukovych, the Russia-aligned former president of Ukraine, his party and his government.</span><br />
<span style="color: #808080;">—</span> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/10/us/politics/john-tony-podesta-mueller-russia-investigation.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">New York Times, 11/20/17</a></p>
<p>There are too many partisans within the Justice Department to ever let any details of Democrat/Clinton malfeasance see the light of day. See: “<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/us/cash-flowed-to-clinton-foundation-as-russians-pressed-for-control-of-uranium-company.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Uranium One</a>“….</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span style="color: #808080;">The U.S. government charges Victor Podobnyy, an alleged Russian intelligence operative in New York City and two other Russian operatives for acting as unregistered agents of a foreign government, after it had broken up a Russian spy ring aimed at seeking information on U.S. sanctions. Federal prosecutors include the Russian intelligence effort to recruit Carter Page as part of the government’s evidence.</span><br />
<span style="color: #808080;">—</span> <a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/11/a-timeline-of-carter-pages-contacts-with-russia.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Slate, 11/7/17</a></p>
<p>Had it not been for Carter Page’s low-level position on the Trump for President campaign, Podobnyy would be living his life here today just fine.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><a class="cb-lightbox fs-lightbox-element" title="Paul Manafort" href="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Paul-Manafort.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright wp-image-125254 size-medium" title="Paul Manafort" src="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Paul-Manafort-150x100.jpg" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" srcset="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Paul-Manafort-150x100.jpg 150w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Paul-Manafort-500x333.jpg 500w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Paul-Manafort-360x240.jpg 360w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Paul-Manafort-600x400.jpg 600w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Paul-Manafort.jpg 750w" alt="" width="150" height="100" /></a><span style="color: #808080;">“The U.S. Department of Justice has only brought six criminal FARA prosecutions since 1966 and it has secured only one conviction during this period,” said Kevin Downing, Paul Manafort’s defense attorney. “It is far from clear what activity triggers a requirement to file a report as a foreign agent.”</span><br />
<span style="color: #808080;">—</span> <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/06/politics/manafort-mueller-podesta-mercury/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CNN, 11/6/17</a></p>
<p>Had it not been for his very brief stint at the helm of the 2016 Trump campaign, Manafort would be living his life today just fine.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><a class="cb-lightbox fs-lightbox-element" title="Huma Abedin" href="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Huma-Abedin-and-Hillary-Clinton.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright wp-image-109377 size-medium" title="Huma Abedin" src="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Huma-Abedin-and-Hillary-Clinton-150x84.jpg" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" srcset="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Huma-Abedin-and-Hillary-Clinton-150x84.jpg 150w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Huma-Abedin-and-Hillary-Clinton-768x432.jpg 768w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Huma-Abedin-and-Hillary-Clinton-500x281.jpg 500w" alt="" width="150" height="84" /></a><span style="color: #808080;">New Abedin emails released to Judicial Watch this week show that Huma Abedin</span> <a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/new-abedin-emails-reveal-hillary-clinton-state-department-gave-special-access-top-clinton-foundation-donors/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">served as liaison</a> <span style="color: #808080;">between Clinton Foundation donors, including foreign governments, and the State Department. When foreign donors had difficult in getting appointments with Mrs. Clinton through normal State Department channels, Clinton Foundation executive Douglas Band would email Huma Abedin, and poof! the doors would open as if by magic. Donald Trump has criticized this as “pay for play.” But it also raises questions as to whether Huma Abedin and Mrs. Clinton were in fact serving as unregistered agents for foreign powers who sought to impose their anti-freedom agenda on the United States.</span><br />
<span style="color: #808080;">—</span> <a href="https://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/presidential-campaign/292310-huma-abedins-ties-to-the-muslim-brotherhood" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Hill, 8/23/16</a></p>
<p>Had it not been for her husband’s attention-getting debauchery while having a potential president’s ear, Huma would be living her life today just fine.</p>
<p>And not many of these “unregistered foreign agents” met with much scrutiny during most of the Obama administration.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><a class="cb-lightbox fs-lightbox-element" title="Russian spies, 2010" href="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/2010-Russian-spies.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright wp-image-132215 size-medium" title="Russian spies, 2010" src="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/2010-Russian-spies-150x113.jpg" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" srcset="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/2010-Russian-spies-150x113.jpg 150w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/2010-Russian-spies-80x60.jpg 80w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/2010-Russian-spies.jpg 370w" alt="" width="150" height="113" /></a><span style="color: #808080;">All 10 suspected Russian spies who pleaded guilty in a federal court in New York have been flown out of the United States and are now headed for Russia. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on July 8 refused to comment on the case, saying, “I am going to refer all inquiry about this matter to the Justice Department.” U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said on July 8 that the “extraordinary” case had taken years of work, “and the agreement we reached today [July 8] provides a successful resolution for the United States and its interests.”</span><br />
<span style="color: #808080;">—</span> <a href="https://www.rferl.org/a/Russian_Spy_Suspects_Plead_Guilty_In_Likely_Swap_Deal/2094860.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Radio Free Europe, 7/9/10</a></p>
<p>They plead guilty and served no jail time, in fact they got to go home. This shows how seriously being an “unregistered foreign agent” is really taken, that is until you have any kind of association with someone Democrats don’t like, if not downright hate.</p>
<p>They’ll use the almost unlimited prosecutorial budget of the federal government to attack your reputation, invade the privacy of your home at their whim, force you to incur hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt to defend yourself in court proceedings, and as you may be that little fish they don’t really want, you may have to spend a few days in jail because of flimsy charges and/or prosecutorial funny business, if at all.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[If you didn’t think the so-called #DeepState isn’t scared shitless about the possibility that President Trump may soon declassify all documents relating to the Russian collusion ruse, remember: only they are allowed to screw people’s lives and even send anyone they want to prison. It’s not supposed to happen to THEM and now that it’s [&#8230;]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you didn’t think the so-called #DeepState isn’t scared shitless about the possibility that President Trump may soon declassify all documents relating to the Russian collusion ruse, remember: only they are allowed to screw people’s lives and even send anyone they want to prison. It’s not supposed to happen to THEM and now that it’s a distinct possibility, they are fighting back to save their arrogant, fat and comfortable asses.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><a class="cb-lightbox fs-lightbox-element" title="President Trump" href="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Donald-Trump.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright wp-image-130316 size-medium" title="President Trump" src="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Donald-Trump-150x100.jpg" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" srcset="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Donald-Trump-150x100.jpg 150w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Donald-Trump-768x513.jpg 768w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Donald-Trump-500x334.jpg 500w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Donald-Trump-360x240.jpg 360w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Donald-Trump-600x400.jpg 600w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Donald-Trump.jpg 800w" alt="" width="150" height="100" /></a><span style="color: #808080;">In court filings last week <strong>the Department of Justice deployed what could be the nuclear option in its latest effort to prevent President Trump from declassifying information regarding FISA warrants</strong> used to spy on his campaign aide Carter Page: It is claiming that such a move would interfere with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span style="color: #808080;">This is the first time the <strong>DOJ has explicitly made this argument implying personal peril for the president, since interference could open Trump to charges of obstruction of justice</strong>. Until now, the department has argued that declassifying the documents threatened national security.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span style="color: #808080;">In the </span><a href="https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5013785/Show-Temp.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">178-page</a><a href="https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5013785/Show-Temp.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> co</a><a href="https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5013785/Show-Temp.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">urt</a><a href="https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5013785/Show-Temp.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> document</a><span style="color: #808080;">, DOJ officials said they had “determined that disclosure of redacted information in the Carter Page FISA documents could reasonably be expected to interfere with the pending investigation into Russian election interference.”</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span style="color: #808080;"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright wp-image-116836 size-medium" src="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/DoJustUs-150x150.jpg" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" srcset="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/DoJustUs-150x150.jpg 150w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/DoJustUs-100x100.jpg 100w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/DoJustUs-125x125.jpg 125w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/DoJustUs.jpg 494w" alt="" width="150" height="150" />That rationale has heightened suspicions among congressional investigators that <strong>the special counsel is being used to prevent the disclosure of possible FBI abuses and crimes committed during the Russia probe</strong>.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span style="color: #808080;">“The obstruction trap was built into the special counsel,” a congressional investigator told RCI, speaking, like the two other sources in this article, only on condition of anonymity.  <strong>“If Trump fires Mueller, or Rosenstein, or declassifies documents [embarrassing to the FBI] it’s likely to bring an obstruction charge.”</strong></span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span style="color: #808080;">And that would mean double jeopardy for Trump. <strong>“Obstruction is the instrument the Democrats are likely to use to impeach Trump if they win the House,”</strong> said the congressional source.</span><br />
<span style="color: #808080;">—</span> <a href="https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2018/10/26/doj_ties_a_trump_fisa_release_to_obstruction.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Real Clear Investigation, 10/26/18</a></p>
<p>Now you can understand why the 2018 midterm elections are so important, especially to the left.</p>
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<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><a class="cb-lightbox fs-lightbox-element" title="Gayle King on CBS This Morning, 10/26/18" href="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Gayle-King-102618.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright wp-image-130333 size-medium" title="Gayle King on CBS This Morning, 10/26/18" src="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Gayle-King-102618-150x84.jpg" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" srcset="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Gayle-King-102618-150x84.jpg 150w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Gayle-King-102618-500x280.jpg 500w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Gayle-King-102618.jpg 748w" alt="" width="150" height="84" /></a><span style="color: #808080;">A lot of people feel the way you do, Senator, that words matter. <strong>Why don’t a group of you all get together and just confront him and say, you know, “Mr. President, this is not helping. You’ve got to stop it”?</strong> So many people come on this program and say what you’re saying, “This is wrong, this is bad. What are we going to do?” It’s very tit for tat. <strong>But I know there are people that feel, a lot of people that feel the way you do in very powerful positions. Why don’t a group of you just confront him and just say stop it?</strong></span><br />
<span style="color: #808080;">—</span> <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/warner-i-dont-think-the-president-understands-that-words-matter/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CBS This Morning co-host Gayle King to Senator Mark Warner (D-VA), 10/26/18</a></p>
<p>It looks like the message has been sent again because President Trump hasn’t gone away, despite earlier warnings.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><a class="cb-lightbox fs-lightbox-element" href="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Schumer.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-130342" src="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Schumer-150x83.jpg" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" srcset="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Schumer-150x83.jpg 150w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Schumer-500x278.jpg 500w, https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Schumer.jpg 547w" alt="" width="150" height="83" /></a><span style="color: #808080;">Let me tell you, <strong>you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday to get back at you.</strong></span></p>
<p><em>“They have six ways from Sunday to get back”</em> at the President of the United States… wow.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;"><span style="color: #808080;">So, even for a practical, supposedly hard-nosed businessman, he is being really dumb to do this.</span><br />
<span style="color: #808080;">—</span> <a href="https://twitter.com/MaddowBlog/status/816472819747852288" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Senator Chuck Schumer, Rachel Maddow Show, 1/3/17</a></p>
<p>It’s not about who the people want to represent them but about saving those within the federal government from <a href="https://www.blackandblondemedia.com/2018/02/18/liberals-will-never-admit-wrong-trump-russia-collusion/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">the peril they created for themselves</a> and a media so willing to collude with them to remove a president they didn’t authorize.</p>
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