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Here’s what changed after Trump’s big meeting with Rosenstein and Wray on Monday
May 22, 2018 | Samantha Chang |
President Donald Trump met with Deputy U.S. Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray on May 21, a day after he demanded that the DOJ investigate if the Obama FBI had embedded a spy inside his 2016 campaign to rig the election for Hillary Clinton.
After the meeting, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders issued a statement announcing that WH chief of staff John Kelly and Congressional leaders will review the documents that the FBI has refused to turn over to the House Intelligence Committee for months.
Deputy US Attorney General Rod Rosenstein (left) and FBI director Christopher Wray. (DOJ file photos).
“Based on the meeting with the President, the Department of Justice has asked the Inspector General to expand its current investigation to include any irregularities with the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s or the Department of Justice’s tactics concerning the Trump Campaign,” Sanders said.
“It was also agreed that White House Chief of Staff Kelly will immediately set up a meeting with the FBI, DOJ, and DNI together with Congressional Leaders to review highly classified and other information they have requested.”
So far, President Trump has not demanded the release of the relevant documents to Congress, as long as appropriate personnel get to review the documents.
The ball was set in motion on May 20, when President Trump tweeted: “I hereby demand… that the Department of Justice look into whether or not the FBI/DOJ infiltrated or surveilled the Trump Campaign for Political Purposes – and if any such demands or requests were made by people within the Obama Administration!”
I hereby demand, and will do so officially tomorrow, that the Department of Justice look into whether or not the FBI/DOJ infiltrated or surveilled the Trump Campaign for Political Purposes - and if any such demands or requests were made by people within the Obama Administration!
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- In response, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein (an Obama holdover) issued a statement saying, “If anyone did infiltrate or surveil participants in a presidential campaign for inappropriate purposes, we need to know about it and take appropriate action.”
The Deputy Attorney General issued the following statement tonight: “If anyone did infiltrate or surveil participants in a presidential campaign for inappropriate purposes, we need to know about it and take appropriate action.”
Rosenstein’s alternative would have been to refuse President Trump’s demand by resigning, but that was clearly too much to hope for, since the Washington Swamp doesn’t voluntarily drain itself.
As BizPac Review has reported, Congressman Devin Nunes — the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee — has repeatedly asked the Justice Department to let his committee see the documents related to the Obama FBI’s secret investigation of the Trump campaign when he was a private citizen.
The FBI has refused to release the documents, even though the House Intel Committee has oversight of the agency.
Underscoring the FBI’s hypocrisy is the fact that operatives involved in spying on Trump aides leaked details of the classified operation to the New York Times and the Washington Post while stonewalling Congressional demands for information.
Robert Mueller and James Comey were both FBI director under Barack Obama.
Predictably, Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer slammed Trump, calling his demand for an investigation into Obama’s probable weaponization of the FBI “abusive.”
“That he would issue such an absurd and abusive demand based on no evidence shows just how little regard the president has for the rule of law,” Schumer puffed on the Senate floor.
Republicans pointed out that the DOJ and FBI are not above the law, and should turn over relevant documents to the House Intel Committee, whose job it is to make sure that they don’t abuse their powers.
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“I applaud the President’s leadership and push for transparency, and I hope the Department of Justice will follow suit by making the relevant documents available to Congress,” Congressman Mark Meadows said in a statement. “While a referral to the Inspector General is a step in the right direction, the Department has an obligation to comply with Congressional requests for oversight. Their attempt to circumvent this responsibility will not go unnoticed.”
President Trump has thrown down the gauntlet amid growing public outrage over Robert Mueller’s sham investigation, which has cost taxpayers $10 million but has produced no evidence of collusion or obstruction.
Judge Jeanine Pirro blasted Attorney General Jeff Sessions for blithely allowing the corruption at the DOJ and the FBI (which he oversees) to fester, saying his inaction makes him the “most dangerous man in America.”
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OPEN LETTER TO TRUMP ON GOOGLE-FACEBOOK-AMAZON THREAT
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OPEN LETTER TO TRUMP ON GOOGLE-FACEBOOK-AMAZON THREAT
Exclusive: Joseph Farah lays out case for presidential action against Digital Cartel
Published: 2 hours agoimage: http://www.wnd.com/files/2016/09/Joseph-Farah_avatar.jpg
Dear President Trump:
I want to commend you on calling out the anti-trust practices of Amazon.com, which is threatening the very existence of other smaller, independent shippers across the nation.
While Americans obviously like the convenience and innovation Amazon has demonstrated as a company, it has far exceeded the threshold of becoming a monopoly that will eventually, once all vestiges of competition in e-commerce and fulfillment are effectively squashed, demand from consumers extortionist prices while exploiting its own workers beyond any acceptable American standards.
Though government action of this kind should always be circumspect and restrained, Amazon’s unfair business practices have been ignored by Washington for too long.
But the problem is much bigger than Amazon when it comes to the new cartel emerging among online mega-giants.
That two companies – Google and Facebook – now control 75 percent or more of the digital advertising marketplace is of even greater concern because it threatens the very spirit of the First Amendment in an increasingly nationalized media environment.
Not that long ago, the federal government routinely reviewed media cross-ownership efforts in individual local and regional markets to ensure that news and opinions were not controlled by a single company and a single political and cultural point of view. Yet, today, Google, its wholly owned subsidiary YouTube, and Facebook have become the principal source of news distribution – a powerful gatekeeper, with a common leftist worldview, that actively shows contempt for dissenting voices, especially those on the right as well as faithful Christians and Jews.
If not checked during your administration, America may never regain its diversity of media voices as many independent efforts like my own pioneering effort in the online world will be strangled by these entities’ systemic, organized campaign to destroy us.
As you know, the independent media played a significant role in the 2016 election in bringing forth viewpoints that were scarcely heard elsewhere among the din of Hillary-mania. Since your election, Google, YouTube and Facebook have waged an unrelenting war of unfair trade practices against the independent media that threatens its very existence.
Congress and regulatory agencies have shown little understanding and awareness of just how serious this threat has become. With dissenting media voices out of the picture, America’s heritage of free speech, freedom of the press and freedom of religion will be reduced to little more than well-intended but meaningless words on parchment.
At least two of these giant corporations have decided recently to employ the leftist extremist organization called the Southern Poverty Law Center to serve as a kind of speech and content police force to set standards for online searches, algorithms and visibility on the internet – what has become the new national and international public square.
While some other nations welcome this control and even encourage it to stamp out viewpoints with which they disagree, that is not the American way.
I call on you today to set up a presidential commission to investigate these giants for these business practices that are not just unfair but detrimental – and even lethal – to the interests of a free and open society.
The hour is late.
If not you, who? If not now, when?
With great appreciation for your efforts to Make American Great Again, please do not overlook the increasingly dark influence exerted by speech codes on the national and international level by these powerful mega-corporations that threaten to transform the American ideal of free and open society into something resembling the Stalinist-style model of the average U.S. university campus.
I am at your disposal, along with my independent media colleagues, all of whom face the same existential threat at the hands of this politically motivated cartel, to brief you or your representatives.
Sincerely,
Joseph Farah
founder and chief executive officer of WND.com, WND Books, WND Films
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2018/05/open-letter-to-trump-on-google-facebook-amazon-threat/#5lmdzCTSJow0JpJY.99
Monday, May 21, 2018
Confirmed: John Brennan Colluded With Foreign Spies to Defeat TrumpThe American Spectator
April 19, 2017, 12:04 am
This is the open scandal that Congress should investigate.