The number of FBI background checks conducted last month for people attempting to purchase firearms shattered the previous all-time record, and experts say the surge in gun sales was directly tied to current events rocking the United States.
&#8220;The new coronavirus pandemic, civil unrest after the killing of George Floyd and the ensuing movement to defund police are bringing in new buyers worried about their personal safety, according to buyers, store owners and gun experts,&#8221; The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/background-checks-a-metric-for-gun-sales-hit-all-time-high/2020/07/01/a5e6fe8c-bbdb-11ea-97c1-6cf116ffe26c_story.html">reported</a>. &#8220;In June, background checks for firearms were up 136%, compared to a year earlier &#8230; background checks in June for civilians seeking a license to carry were the highest since the FBI began conducting checks 20 years ago.&#8221;
FBI statistics that were <a href="https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/nics_firearm_checks_-_month_year.pdf/view">released</a> at the start of the month showed that 3,931,607 background checks were processed last month, which is by far the most ever recorded. The previous all-time record was set in March – when parts of the U.S. began going into shutdown over the coronavirus – when 3,740,688 were conducted.
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Firearm sales in June were the highest monthly sales since data collection began in 1998: 3.9M firearms sold. <a href="https://twitter.com/phil_wellesley?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@phil_wellesley</a> and Robin McKnight explore the trend, as well as potential causes and consequences. <a href="https://t.co/X7ZdI0zP3X">https://t.co/X7ZdI0zP3X</a> <a href="https://t.co/WKRchQ07SK">pic.twitter.com/WKRchQ07SK</a>
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The Journal reports that dealers estimate that some 40% of sales have been going to first-time buyers, &#8220;an increase over the normal average of about a quarter,&#8221; and are claiming that many of the new buyers &#8220;are people who say they never thought they would own a firearm and were previously critical of those who did.&#8221;
The surge in gun sales comes as the U.S. has experienced a wave of violent riots in response to the death of George Floyd. The riots have spanned from Los Angeles to New York City, and ultimately led to calls from leftist activists and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-ilhan-omar-defund-minneapolis-police-theyre-cancer-we-dont-want-your-damn-reforms">Democrat</a> <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nyc-proposed-budget-would-cut-1-billion-from-nypd-aoc-it-isnt-enough">politicians</a> to defund the police. Violent crime has <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/deadly-weekend-in-seattle-chicago-minneapolis-as-new-york-city-reports-uptick-in-shootings">surged</a> in inner cities in the days and weeks following the riots and the demonization of law enforcement officials.
Social media was flooded with images of rioters destroying police cars that were abandoned by law enforcement officials, looters <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/woman-in-l-a-begs-alleged-looters-to-stop-this-is-going-to-get-trump-re-elected">stealing</a> items from stores, and criminals <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/police-officers-hit-by-cars-shot-beaten-in-numerous-cities-on-monday-night-amid-violent-riots">attacking</a> law enforcement officials by hurling objects at them and even running them over.
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POLICE CARS DESTROYED: Rioters destroy a line of police cars, ghost riding them into each other and setting them on fire in West Philadelphia. 
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One gun buyer told the Journal that he was applying for a permit because he feared that law enforcement officials would not be able to protect him, saying, “I don’t want to ever shoot anybody ever. But if I had to duck and shoot back in self-defense, at least I’d have a chance.”
John Kingdon, a registered Democrat who has been a gun control activist in the past, told the paper that he purchased a semi-automatic pistol just a couple of months ago, saying, “If I had a hard time getting police to respond to me when we weren’t in a pandemic, what about now?”
British media personality Piers Morgan, who opposes the Second Amendment, derided the surge in Americans engaging in their constitutionally protected right, writing on Twitter: &#8220;Just when you thought the news couldn&#8217;t [be] more depressing&#8230;8.3 million guns have been sold in the United States since March, meaning 2020 is on course to be the biggest year for gun sales in American history.&#8221;
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BREAKING: Just when you thought the news couldn&#39;t more depressing&#8230;8.3 million guns have been sold in the United States since March, meaning 2020 is on course to be the biggest year for gun sales in American history.
&mdash; Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) <a href="https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/1278382083837235211?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 1, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Riots, Violent Crime, ‘Defund Police’ Push Surged In June. Gun Sales Exploded To All-Time High, FBI Data Suggests.

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An attorney for former national security adviser Michael Flynn says new documents show the FBI knew Flynn wasn’t trying to lie during his January 24, 2017, interview, yet they concocted a criminal case against him anyway.
Bloomberg <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-10/flynn-judge-gets-reprieve-as-court-weighs-new-dismissal-hearing">reported</a> that the U.S. Department of Justice gave Flynn 14 new pages of documents, which his attorney, Sidney Powell, said in a filing amounts to prosecutorial misconduct.
“These documents establish that on January 25, 2017 &#8212; the day after the agents ambushed him at the White House &#8212; the agents and DOJ officials knew General Flynn’s statements were not material to any investigation, that he was ‘open and forthcoming’ with the agents, that he had no intent to deceive them, and that he believed he was fully truthful with them,” Powell wrote in the filing.
The new documents contained FBI memos from early 2017 that allegedly show the people who interviewed Flynn didn’t believe he was a Russian agent, which was the crux of the investigation against him.
“The docs reveal prosecutors’ internal debates over whether to bring charges against Flynn. In one, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Tashina Gauhar described agents assessments of Flynn after speaking to him, saying they believed he had been ‘forthright’ about his conversations with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak and that there was no indication of any deliberate attempt at deception,” the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/07/11/flynn-defense-team-says-documents-show-prosecutorial-misconduct/">reported</a>.
Powell’s filing argued that the “FBI determined that General Flynn believed what he was telling the agents was the truth.”
Powell further argued that even though FBI agents didn’t think Flynn was a Russian agent and that he was not trying to lie during his interview, former U.S. Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates and former DOJ official Mary McCord “made two trips to the White House to get Flynn fired,” Bloomberg reported.
“The filing also says former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe met with Vice President Mike Pence to convince him that Flynn had lied to him. Powell says the new evidence supporting Flynn was unearthed by Jeffrey Jensen, a U.S. Attorney in Missouri who is leading a review of the FBI’s handling of the Flynn case,” the outlet continued.
The charges against Flynn <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-doj-dropping-criminal-case-against-michael-flynn">were dropped</a> on May 7, citing “a considered review of all the facts and circumstances of this case, including newly discovered and disclosed information.” The DOJ argued that Flynn’s January 2017 interview was “untethered to, and unjustified by, the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation into Mr. Flynn” and “conducted without any legitimate investigative basis.”
Flynn had pleaded guilty several times to lying about his conversations with Kislyak, something Democrats and the media use against him without noting that people often plead guilty despite being innocent for a number of reasons. Flynn met with the FBI without an attorney present, and FBI agents had a transcript of his phone call while Flynn did not. Though the charges were dismissed, U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan has tried to keep them alive despite an appeals court telling him to drop the case.
In response to the newly released evidence, President Donald Trump tweeted on Saturday, &#8220;New documents just released reveal General Flynn was telling the truth, and the FBI knew it!&#8221;
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New documents just released reveal General Flynn was telling the truth, and the FBI knew it! <a href="https://twitter.com/OANN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@OANN</a>
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1281932578048614402?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 11, 2020</a></blockquote>
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New Documents Suggest FBI Knew Flynn Wasn’t Trying To Deceive, Trump Responds

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FBI Director Chris Wray warned of the extreme national security threat that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) poses to the United States and highlighted the level of resources that America is devoting to combatting criminal activity in the U.S. that can be traced back to China.
In an interview on Fox News&#8217; &#8220;Special Report&#8221; with anchor Bret Baier, Wray said that China was the greatest threat to &#8220;America’s innovation to economic security and to our democratic ideas.&#8221;
&#8220;Just to give you some context for that. Just as we’re sitting here having this conversation – the FBI has over 2,000 active investigations that trace back to the government in China,&#8221; Wray said. &#8220;And that’s – a little more context on that – that’s about a 1300% increase in terms of economic espionage investigations with the Chinese nexus from about a decade ago.&#8221;
&#8220;This is not about the Chinese people or Chinese Americans. This is about the Chinese government and the Chinese Communist Party,&#8221; Wray said. &#8220;And they are pursuing a campaign of intellectual property thief, economic espionage, cyber intrusions that target businesses – big and small – all across the country and our academic research institutions. And they do it not just through traditional government officials, which they certainly do, but also through what we sometimes call non-traditional collectors, which can be businessmen, high-level scientists, high-level academics – people like that. All of whom are in different ways incentivized to steal American innovation and confidential information to take back to China.&#8221;
Wray said that China is trying to steal information from nearly all types of businesses regardless of size or the industry that they are in.
&#8220;The FBI is opening a new counterintelligence investigation that ties back to China every 10 hours,&#8221; Wray later concluded. &#8220;So you put some of those things – and that’s sort of just the tip of the iceberg.&#8221;
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<blockquote>BRET BAIER, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: Director Wray, thanks for being here.
CHRISTOPHER WRAY, DIRECTOR OF THE FBI: Thank you.
BAIER: There are a lot of topics we want to talk about and cover here with you. I want to talk about first foreign influence in this country. The Justice Department recently indicted a professor at Harvard for lying about his relationship with the Chinese government. For people who don’t know about China and what they&#8217;re trying to do in the U.S., how much is China doing? How much is China spying in the U.S.?
WRAY: Bret, there’s not a country that presents a broader, more comprehensive threat to America’s innovation to economic security and to our democratic ideas than China does. Just to give you some context for that. Just as we’re sitting here having this conversation – the FBI has over 2,000 active investigations that trace back to the government in China.
BAIER: 2,000?
WRAY: And that’s – a little more context on that – that’s about a 1300 percent increase in terms of economic espionage investigations with the Chinese nexus from about a decade ago.
BAIER: So how much of that economic espionage – how much is it government espionage?
WRAY: Well that’s the thing that a lot of people don’t really understand about the Chinese government. This is not about the Chinese people or Chinese Americans. This is about the Chinese government and the Chinese Communist Party. And they are pursuing a campaign of intellectual property thief, economic espionage, cyber intrusions that target businesses &#8212; big and small &#8212; all across the country and our academic research institutions. And they do it not just through traditional government officials, which they certainly do, but also through what we sometimes call non-traditional collectors which can be businessmen, high-level scientists, high-level academics – people like that. All of whom are in different ways incentivized to steal American innovation and confidential information to take back to China.
BAIER: So in the 30s and 40s, the Soviet Union, for example, had more than 100 spies in the State Department. Is espionage a real problem in the U.S.? What is China doing on that front?
WRAY: Well traditional espionage is certainly – the old spy versus spy thing is still very much a phenomenon in today’s world. But we’re much more focused in many ways on the economic espionage which targets American businesses and hurts American jobs, American consumers. And it’s everything from Fortune 100 companies to startups. It’s agriculture. It’s high tech. It’s aviation. It’s health care. As I said before, it’s our academic research institutions.
BAIER: Are they taking an interest in elections?
WRAY: They certainly have an interest in influencing our political thought – our policies – to try and shift them in a more friendly, pro-China, pro-Chinese Communist party direction. And so sometimes that gets wrapped up in election issues.
BAIER: Is the FBI in charge of the investigation of the origins of the coronavirus?
WRAY: We certainly have a role in looking into the origins of the coronavirus.
BAIER: Are you getting closer?
WRAY: I would say, at this point, there’s nothing to add to what the intelligence community has already said publicly on that. There’s still insufficient information to really know exactly how the virus emanated from Wuhan.
BAIER: When you say that China’s active – when there is a crisis – for example, the protests after the George Floyd killing &#8212; are you seeing foreign intervention to kind of stir up chaos inside the U.S.?
WRAY: We have certainly seen in the past a variety of foreign adversaries looking to amplify controversy in this country. And they use state media. They use social media. Some of that is through propaganda, some of that&#8217;s through disinformation, some of that&#8217;s through just fake information. And we are looking carefully at the prospect of foreign influence or foreign interference in all of the protests and activities that have occurred over the last few weeks. &#8230;
The sheer volume of the threats that face this country is remarkable. So just to give you a flavor of it. In the past few months alone, our joint terrorism task forces have thwarted potential terrorists attack in Tampa, in New York, in Cleveland, in Kansas City. Then you had COVID come in, right? And we probably got over 400 COVID-19 fraud investigations open. We have probably in the last year something like 1,500 kids that the FBI has recovered or rescued from child sexual exploitation or human trafficking. We talked about China before. The FBI is opening a new counterintelligence investigation that ties back to China every 10 hours. So you put some of those things – and that’s sort of just the tip of the iceberg.</blockquote>
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FBI Director: We’re Opening New Investigations Into China Every 10 Hours, Have Over 2,000 Cases

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On Wednesday, controversial race activist Al Sharpton contended the FBI findings concerning an apparent &#8220;noose&#8221; found in NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace&#8217;s garage stall were incorrect, calling for further investigation.
As noted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-fbi-concludes-no-federal-crime-committed-in-bubba-wallace-noose-case">The Daily Wire</a> on Tuesday, the FBI concluded that Mr. Wallace, who is black, was not the victim of a hate crime, noting that the garage pulley in question has been used in the garage since last fall, long before Wallace was assigned the stall.
“It was a noose, so the question is even if they did not know that Bubba Wallace was going to use that stall, why was a noose in the stall?” Sharpton <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/al-sharpton-calls-for-further-investigation-into-nascar-noose-incident-i-do-not-think-we-have-seen-closure/">said</a> on MSNBC airwaves.
“I do not think we’ve seen closure in this particular inquiry,&#8221; he added.
National Review editor Charles C. W. Cooke called Sharpton&#8217;s commentary &#8220;<a href="https://twitter.com/charlescwcooke/status/1275751344096382977">Deeply irresponsible</a>,&#8221; in a Wednesday morning tweet.
On Tuesday, NASCAR published the following statement regarding the FBI findings into the alleged incident:
<blockquote>“The FBI has completed its investigation at Talladega Superspeedway and determined that Bubba Wallace was not the target of a hate crime. The FBI report concludes, and photographic evidence confirms, that the garage door pull rope fashioned like a noose had been positioned there since as early as last fall. This was obviously well before the 43 team’s arrival and garage assignment. We appreciate the FBl’s quick and thorough investigation and are thankful to learn that this was not an intentional, racist act against Bubba. We remain steadfast in our commitment to providing a welcoming and inclusive environment for all who love racing.”</blockquote>
According to Sharpton, Wallace is also not satisfied by the FBI findings: “Clearly, from what we just saw from Bubba Wallace, it does not seem he, who is the victim and possible target in this matter seems to be satisfied with this,&#8221; the activist said during the MSNBC appearance.
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As noted by <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/al-sharpton-calls-for-further-investigation-into-nascar-noose-incident-i-do-not-think-we-have-seen-closure/">National Review</a>, Wallace told NBC earlier Wednesday morning, “The photo evidence I’ve seen and have in my possession [shows] it was a garage pull that was a noose. It was definitely in the shape of a noose. It wasn’t a functioning noose.&#8221;
Sharpton is not the only one seemingly unsatisfied with the FBI findings. Former &#8220;SportsCenter&#8221; anchor and left-wing activist <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jemele-hill-stands-by-suggestion-nascar-is-for-racists-after-fbi-debunks-noose-theory-it-was-a-noose">Jemele Hill</a> emphasized Tuesday night that the garage pulley &#8220;Was. A. Noose,&#8221; and perhaps directed at someone else.
&#8220;I. Was. A. Noose,&#8221; Hill posted via Twitter. &#8220;They (the FBI) just don’t believe it was directed at Bubba Wallace.&#8221;
&#8220;I know facts nor (sic) context is your strong suit, but do try to keep up,&#8221; she added, directing her remarks to OAN&#8217;s Liz Wheeler.
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Sharpton not ready to give up on the NASCAR “noose” story: &quot;It’s clear what a noose represents … And then did someone know that it was in the stall when they did belatedly assign Bubba there? &#8230; I do not think that we’ve seen closure in this particular inquiry.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/xzq5hQIWC5">pic.twitter.com/xzq5hQIWC5</a>
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Al Sharpton Contends FBI Probe Into NASCAR ‘Noose’ Wrong, Wants Further Investigation

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An additional page of notes believed to be written by ex-FBI agent Peter Strzok pertaining to former national security adviser Michael Flynn have been found by prosecutors.
The notes were mentioned by Acting U.S. Attorney Michael Sherwin in a new court filing, though the notes themselves were not included in the filing. Journalist John Solomon <a href="https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/breaking-doj-reveals-discovery-new-strzok-notes-flynn">reported</a> on his website Just the News that the notes from Strzok were believed to have been written in early January, before the FBI spoke to Flynn and accused him of lying.
&#8220;This page of notes was taken by former Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok. While the page itself is undated; we believe that the notes were taken in early January 2017, possibly between January 3 and January 5,&#8221; Sherwin wrote in his court filing to U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan, who has refused to dismiss charges against Flynn even though the U.S. Department of Justice <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-doj-dropping-criminal-case-against-michael-flynn">dropped its case</a> against Flynn. An appeals court on Wednesday <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-appeals-court-orders-judge-to-drop-charges-against-michael-flynn">ordered</a> Sullivan to drop the charges against Flynn.
“A source directly familiar with the discovery of the document told Just the News they include one paragraph of notes believed to be taken around Jan. 4, 2017, the date Strzok relayed a request from FBI leadership to the lead agent in the Flynn case asking him not to shut down the investigation as had been planned. The notes are ‘highly exculpatory,’ the source said, declining to describe them more fully because they are under seal,” Solomon reported.
As Solomon wrote, the FBI had concluded there was “no derogatory” information found to charge Flynn with a crime after the former Trump adviser was investigated for five months. When the FBI agent in charge of the probe recommended it be closed, Strzok jumped in to save it.
“Strzok relayed a message from the ‘7th floor’ leadership of the FBI to hold off closing the case, leading to a controversial decision to seek an interview with Flynn that eventually led to criminal charges and a plea deal,” Solomon reported.
Documents unsealed earlier this year included notes written by former FBI general counsel James A. Baker questioned why Flynn was being interviewed when the probe was about to be shut down. Baker asked if the Flynn interview was about “Truth/Admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired?”
As The Daily Wire previously reported, fired FBI director James Comey admitted that the FBI interview with Flynn didn’t follow standard protocol. The FBI knew what Flynn discussed with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, yet they brought him in for questioning anyway. The FBI had a transcript of Flynn’s phone call; Flynn did not. Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI but has since tried to rescind that plea. Others who have lied to the FBI, such as former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, were never charged.
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Justice Department Finds New Notes From Peter Strzok Regarding Michael Flynn Believed To Be ‘Highly Exculpatory’

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NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace appeared on CNN on Tuesday night for an interview after federal investigators <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-fbi-concludes-no-federal-crime-committed-in-bubba-wallace-noose-case">concluded</a> that there were no crimes committed over allegations that a noose had been left in Wallace’s garage stall.
When asked how he was doing after the FBI found that there was no hate crime, Wallace responded that he was &#8220;pissed,&#8221; saying that he is angry because people are questioning his character over the incident.
&#8220;And as a person, Don, that doesn’t need the fame, doesn&#8217;t need the hype, doesn&#8217;t need the media, I could care less,&#8221; Wallace said. &#8220;I could give two craps about that.&#8221;
After explaining the series of events that led to him finding out about the noose, which apparently was a garage pull rope that had been tied that way at least a year ago, Wallace responded to people who questioned his story by saying, &#8220;One thing you’ll never take away from me is how 100% I am. How raw I am, how real I am. And how I’ll shoot it to you straight each and every time because that&#8217;s how I was brought up and that&#8217;s what I stand by and in my statement on Sunday night. This will not break me.&#8221;
&#8220;None of the allegations of being a hoax will break me or tear me down,&#8221; Wallace continued. &#8220;Will it piss me off? Absolutely. But that only fuels the competitive drive in me to shut everybody up, to get back out on the race track next weekend in Pocono and showcase what I can do behind the wheel. Tremendous amounts of BS, whatever it is that you want to say, you won&#8217;t break me, you won&#8217;t tear me down. Again, I will still stand proud of where I&#8217;m at.&#8221;
&#8220;I have been racing all my life. We have raced out of hundreds of garages. They never had garage pulls like that,&#8221; Wallace claimed. &#8220;People that call it a garage pull and put out videos and photos of knots being in as their evidence, go ahead. But from the evidence that we have, that I have. It’s a straight up noose. The FBI has stated that it was a noose, over and over again. NASCAR leadership has stated it was a noose. I can confirm that. I actually got evidence of what was hanging in my garage over my car, to confirm that it was a noose.&#8221;
Later, when asked if he was worried about backlash, Wallace said, &#8220;You get backlash every day. We talked about that. Whatever, I’m used to it. It stings a little bit worse when they are trying to test your character and take something away from me that’s false. But the backlash will always be there. It doesn’t matter if we provide 100% facts and evidence, photo evidence. People are going to photoshop it to make me look like the bad person at the end of the day.&#8221;
&#8220;I will always have haters, I will always have the motivators to go out there and to try to dethrone me from the pedestal that I am on,&#8221; Wallace continued. &#8220;For all the kids that are watching and that want to be in sports, just know that you will automatically become or be put on a pedestal. Whether you like it or not. That happens when you have a voice and you have a platform. People are going to try to take that away from you with all their power. They will lose sleep over making sure you don’t succeed. So you have to be strong, always keep your head on a swivel, and always watch your back.&#8221;
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<blockquote>CNN&#8217;s DON LEMON: I want to hear from Bubba Wallace himself. He is back with me tonight. Bubba, good evening to you. I think you have handled this like a champ. And I’m appreciative that you came to speak to us tonight because we first talked about the Confederate flag on this show and many other issues. So again, thank you. So much has happened in the last few hours. The federal investigation shows this wasn’t a hate crime. Talk to me about what’s going through your head? How are you feeling right now?
NASCAR DRIVER BUBBA WALLACE: I’m pissed. I’m mad because people are trying to test my character and the person that I am and my integrity and they’re not stealing that from me but trying to test that. And as a person, Don, that doesn’t need the fame, doesn&#8217;t need the hype, doesn&#8217;t need the media, I could care less. I could give two craps about that. To sit there and read and that&#8217;s my problem, I&#8217;m reading too much into it, investing too much time into it.
LEMON: Don&#8217;t, don&#8217;t, don&#8217;t do that.
WALLACE: I know. I’m trying hard not to and after tonight I’ll probably turn my phone off tonight. Unfortunately until about 7:30 A.M. When interviewing start again. But Don, to hear my side of the story and I don’t mean to steal your spotlight on the show, but my side needs to be heard. I don’t know what time it was about 5:30-6:00 on Sunday evening after the race has been called, garages are closed. Crews, my crew was on a plane back to North Carolina. We were I was about it go out to dinner with a couple fellow competitors and we were talking about what time to leave and where we were going and I get a phone call from the president Steve Phelps. And it&#8217;s a phone call, Don, that I’ll never forget. It’s one of those calls where you can automatically tell within the first couple seconds that something is wrong. And it immediately made me think of, what did I do? What am I getting suspended for? What did I say wrong in an interview? Whatever it was, I’m thinking bad things that I had done. Whatever I said. &#8230; He walks down and opens the door. And the look that he had on his face, alerted me in a way I’ll never forget as well and I&#8217;m still thinking like, okay what did I do, let me know. And mind you I got to the racetrack at 10:00. And slept all day. Just because that’s what we were able to do. Go to the motor home. I’m not allowed to be in the garage. The conversation that I had with Steve Phelps was I would say, and I’m speaking for him — I would say one of the hardest things if not the hardest thing he’s ever had to tell somebody. Tears rolling down his face. Choked up on every word that he was trying to say that the evidence that he had brought to me that a hate crime was committed. And I immediately thought my family was in danger. And so I was about ready to call my mom and dad and make sure everybody was okay. It was in the garage stall where our car was at. I was kind of like taken back and not really comprehending everything. &#8230; But I never seen the noose. I never reported it. I was going to dinner.
LEMON: Let me jump in. No one is accusing you of doing anything wrong. The knuckle heads who are criticizing you, &#8230; fair minded people are not accusing you of doing anything wrong. You were simply reacting to what NASCAR what the head of NASCAR told you happened. Listen, this is how I feel about it. People can think what they want. Did NASCAR get it wrong? I shouldn’t say that. Did they jump the gun maybe, yes. I am extremely happy with what I think most Americans are, what NASCAR is doing. And I think in this environment and I have said it before, this hyper charged environment that we should all cut each other some slack, okay? Because if NASCAR hadn’t done the right thing and didn’t act the way they did people would be criticizing them for moving slowly. And so, I think what they said was we are investigating. And they investigated. And found out that it wasn’t a hate crime. So, did they perhaps act quickly? Yes. Did they get wrong, somewhat. I think that people will forgive them for the mistake because of the times that we’re in. And so I think that you have conducted yourself in — amazingly. So, I don&#8217;t think you should be worried about that. I think you and NASCAR should pick up from here and go on and continue to do what you’re doing. You have the support of team members and NASCAR. And so, look at this as something that happens when you are evolving and changing. Everything is not perfect. I mean that about everyone. We&#8217;re in such a hypercharged environment with the coronavirus, with racism, with watching people die on television, with seeing Confederate flags that were banned. Let’s not forget the people feel the way a certain kind of way about you and the flag. So I don’t think that you should feel badly about what happened.
WALLACE: I know. I’m with you on that. I appreciate the words. You talk about it earlier the people who don’t want to hear the truth and — people that want to know me and get to know me the new fans that have come into the sport I appreciate it. One thing you’ll never take away from me is how 100% I am. How raw I am, how real I am. And how I’ll shoot it to you straight each and every time because that&#8217;s how I was brought up and that&#8217;s what I standby and in my statement on Sunday night, this will not break me. None of the allegations of being a hoax will break me or tear me down. Will it piss me off? Absolutely. But that only fuels the competitive drive in me to shut everybody up, to get back out on the race track next weekend in Pocono and showcase what I can do behind the wheel tremendous amounts of BS, whatever it is that you want to say, you won&#8217;t break me, you won&#8217;t tear me down. Again, I will still stand proud of where I&#8217;m at.
LEMON: You&#8217;re going to continue to be out front, right?
WALLACE: That&#8217;s it. That&#8217;s all you got to do.
LEMON: I mention this when we talk about the flag. The reports of the noose came on the same day. This is why you can understand what happened. On the same day we saw a Confederate flag flying over Talladega that said &#8220;defund NASCAR,&#8221; there were people who had flags on their trucks and on their cars and across the the street. Do you think the controversy over that flag issue affected the response to the incident?
WALLACE: We were worried about as I say &#8216;we&#8217; I say NASCAR was worried about Talladega. It’s one of the best to go to. We always tell new fans and family and friend that Talladega&#8217;s one of the races you need to go to because of the atmosphere. I love going there. We had that circled on the radar with everything going around let’s be extra careful. That definitely intensified everything that went on. And unfortunate that everything played out the way it did. But there has some parallels to that, for sure.
LEMON: Have you seen ropes like that hanging from garages? Is that typical?
WALLACE: Don, the image I have and I have seen of what was hanging in my garage is not a garage pull. I have been racing all my life. We have raced out of hundreds of garages. That never had garage pulls like that. People that call it a garage pull and put out videos and photos of knots being in as their evidence, go ahead. But from the evidence that we have, that I have, it’s a straight up noose. The FBI has stated that it was a noose, over and over again. NASCAR leadership has stated it was a noose. I can confirm that. I actually got evidence of what was hanging in my garage over my car, to confirm that it was a noose. And never seen anything like it. It’s not something — I talked to the crew chief, I said, is this something like — I want to make sure we weren’t jumping the gun. &#8230; This is something that took time.
LEMON: What are you saying? Are you saying that you don’t believe — do you believe it was intended for you in that way? Or are you — what are you saying?
WALLACE: It was a noose. Whether tied in 2019 or whatever. It was a noose. So it wasn’t directed to me. Somebody tied a noose. That’s what I’m saying. It is a noose.
LEMON: Yeah. Let me just read from NASCAR here, they said, &#8216;We appreciate the FBI&#8217;s quick and thorough investigation and are thankful to learn that this was not an intentional racist act against Bubba. We remain in the commitment to provide a welcoming and inclusive environment for all who love racing. What do you think about that? It seems like NASCAR has your back. Are you worried about the backlash?
WALLACE: You get backlash every day. We talked about that. Whatever, I’m used to it. It stings a little bit worse when they are trying to test your character and take something away from me that’s false. But the backlash will always be there. It doesn’t matter if we provide 100% facts and evidence, photo evidence. People are going to photoshop it to make me look like the bad person at the end of the day. I will always have haters, I will always have the motivators to go out there and to try to dethrone me from the pedestal that I am on. For all the kids that are watching and that want to be in sports, just know that you will automatically become or be put on a pedestal. Whether you like it or not. That happens when you have a voice and you have a platform. People are going to try to take that away from you with all their power. They will lose sleep over making sure you don’t succeed. So you have to be strong, always keep your head on a swivel. And always watch your back. Stand up for what’s right.
LEMON: Let me ask you this, because I felt this before as someone in the position as sometimes the only African-American in the room. And on the job. Do you feel like you’re on the ledge by yourself because you’re the only one speaking out? I haven’t seen representatives of NASCAR, not to be critical of them, on television. You know what I’m saying?
WALLACE: Yeah. I don’t feel alone. I don’t. I have had really good conversations with numerous amounts of drivers. &#8230; This is about what you feel in your heart. I feel like there’s a ton of support. We have seen everybody come together on Monday. That was one of the coolest things that I have ever been able to be a part of. Not saying that I wanted that. Drivers wanted to do that and show support of me and now it kind of looks bad, but it doesn’t.</blockquote>
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One accused arsonist learned the hard way that if you&#8217;re going to wear your new shirt to torch a cop car, you may want to think twice about leaving a product review for your new threads.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Philadelphia Police Department used Instagram, LinkedIn, and a photo left in a review on the e-commerce site Etsy to locate and arrest a woman shown hurling what appears to be &#8220;flaming debris&#8221; into a Philadelphia Police Department vehicle during a May 30th protest, ostensibly honoring the memory of George Floyd, a black man who died while in the custody of Minneapolis police.
<a href="https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/instagram-etsy-sale-tattoo-how-fbi-found-woman-accused-of-torching-ppd-cars/2436832/">According to NBC Philadelphia</a>, &#8220;Lore-Elisabeth Blumenthal, 33, faces two counts of felony arson &#8230; She is accused of setting the police cars alight during the first day of protests in Philadelphia, which began peacefully but gave way to mass looting and destruction as the day wore on.&#8221;
Blumenthal was pictured gearing up to toss flaming garbage into one police car and then again battering a second vehicle with a piece of lumber. In the photos, she is wearing a shirt that says, “Keep the immigrants, deport the racists,&#8221; and is sporting several visible tattoos.
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ARRESTED FOR RIOTING: US Attorney’s Office says photos show 33yo Lore-Elisabeth Blumenthal setting <a href="https://twitter.com/PhillyPolice?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PhillyPolice</a> car on fire. She’s also accused of torching a police SUV during City Hall riot on 5/30. Blumenthal (Philadelphia) faces federal charges, up to 10yrs in prison <a href="https://twitter.com/6abc?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@6abc</a> <a href="https://t.co/gI05jhJVaA">pic.twitter.com/gI05jhJVaA</a>
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An eagle-eyed FBI agent spotted both Blumenthal&#8217;s slogan shirt and her &#8220;peace sign&#8221; tattoo in footage aired on local news stations.
&#8220;FBI Special Agent Joseph Carpenter said in an affidavit of probable cause that he first saw Blumenthal holding a burning piece of a police barricade and shoving it into a Philadelphia Police Department SUV while watching aerial footage of the protests on the news,&#8221; the NBC affiliate reported. &#8220;A video posted to Vimeo and sent to the FBI by the Department of Homeland Security also allegedly captured the moment.&#8221;
A Google search turned up Blumenthal&#8217;s shirt as a sale item on Etsy, an e-commerce website devoted largely to selling handmade crafts and vintage items. Lo and behold, a shopper from Philadelphia, with the username &#8220;alleycatlore&#8221; had posted a five-star review for the shirt that read, ”Fast shipping, thanks very much!”
&#8220;Having found a person from Philadelphia, agents then searched &#8216;alleycatlore&#8217; on Google and with it found another online profile, &#8216;Lore-Elisabeth&#8217; on the online fashion store Poshmark,&#8221; a local Fox affiliate added. &#8220;With a new search term &#8216;Lore Elisabeth Philadelphia,&#8217; law enforcement officials found a LinkedIn profile for a woman who is a massage therapist in Philadelphia.&#8221;
That LinkedIn profile led to a website, which featured a video showing a suspiciously familiar woman with a peace sign tattoo giving a massage. That site had a phone number and other contact information for Blumenthal.
&#8220;Blumenthal was charged with the arson of two police vehicles and is currently in federal custody,&#8221; Fox Philadelphia reported late Wednesday.
The FBI says the system of tracking users through social media is called “open source intelligence” and can be very successful, particularly when suspects are of an age where social media use is ubiquitous.
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Former Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell said that his decision to declassify numerous documents related to the Russia investigation came from a place of wanting to be transparent with the American people because &#8220;transparency is never political.&#8221;
&#8220;The Russian investigation had all sorts of red flags from the beginning,&#8221; Grenell told Fox News on Sunday. &#8220;And when you look at the transcripts, when you look at the declassified footnotes from some of the investigations, it&#8217;s clear that there were multiple people from multiple agencies that were raising red flags.&#8221;
&#8220;However, what was really sad to me is that those red flags and those voices were pushed aside, classified, and never shown to the public. And so very few people knew the truth. And the silence from those people was really shocking,&#8221; Grenell continued. &#8220;And so what I wanted to do was be transparent. Transparency is never political. Transparency is what the American people demand. And it&#8217;s what Washington, D.C., is very uncomfortable with.&#8221;
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<blockquote>MARIA BARTIROMO, SUNDAY MORNING FUTURES ANCHOR: My next guest did more to expose government corruption than most Washington insiders have done in years.
Ric Grenell, as acting director of national security, declassified 53 important witness transcripts that told us so much about the origins of the Russia probe.
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RICHARD GRENELL, FORMER ACTING U.S. DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE: The Russian investigation had all sorts of red flags from the beginning.
And when you look at the transcripts, when you look at the declassified footnotes from some of the investigations, it&#8217;s clear, Maria, that there were multiple people from multiple agencies that were raising red flags.
However, what was really sad to me is that those red flags and those voices were pushed aside, classified, and never shown to the public. And so very few people knew the truth. And the silence from those people was really shocking.
And so what I wanted to do was be transparent. Transparency is never political. Transparency is what the American people demand. And it&#8217;s what Washington, D.C., is very uncomfortable with.
BARTIROMO: I remember a text that Peter Strzok sent to his then girlfriend Lisa Page, and he says: &#8220;Our sisters are leaking like mad,&#8221; our sisters being the CIA.
We had Ron Johnson on the other day, a couple weeks ago here on this program, and his investigation is centering on the transition of power from the Obama administration to the Trump administration. And during that transition, when Trump was fully in place, there were 125 leaks during the first 126 days of the administration.
When you compare that to the Obama first 126 days, there were eight leaks, eight, vs. 125. Bush, nine leaks vs. 125. Leaking classified data is a felony, right?
GRENELL: Totally.
And Senator Ron Johnson is doing a really great job. So is Senator Grassley. They are really focused on trying to get to the truth.
I think that transition period is key. And it&#8217;s why, once Donald Trump won the election in 2016, all the way through to Inauguration Day, that period of time is when we know who is coming into the White House. We know the team, like General Flynn and his team and President Trump, that&#8217;s when we&#8217;re supposed to have the Obama administration or the current administration begin to hand off and have a transition time.
That&#8217;s why we have an election in November and an inauguration in January. It&#8217;s for a peaceful transition of power. That was blown by the Obama administration. And I just don&#8217;t think that unmasking during the transition period is appropriate, especially at the levels that they did.
And we even had Joe Biden, the vice president of the United States at the time, unmasking in this transition period. And I believe it was in January, when they literally were on the downslope to Trump&#8217;s inauguration.
This is inappropriate. I think you can make the argument for unmasking at other times. But to unmask during this transition period, to me, is another level. And it really shows how the beginning of the excuse of why Hillary Clinton lost, how this was developed.
They were so shocked that Donald Trump won that it must have not have been because the American people just freely chose Donald Trump, but because of some other thing.
And, remember, we had 67 Democrats refuse to come to the inauguration, the peaceful transition of power.
BARTIROMO: That&#8217;s right.
GRENELL: You know, Maria, if that would have happened in another country, the State Department would have called it out and said, this is unacceptable.
BARTIROMO: Right, which is why I think people are not going to trust the FBI or the top of the CIA until they see accountability.
GRENELL: Look, what I will say is, is, I really encourage people to read the footnotes.
When you read these footnotes, you clearly see that the intelligence community, not just the FBI, but multiple agencies, knew that the charges were flimsy or that the Russians from the very beginning were wreaking havoc on the process by pushing propaganda into the Steele dossier.
People knew this, Maria. There were red flags from the very beginning. And those voices within the intelligence community were pushed aside or classified, or both, and most people never saw the warning signs. And that&#8217;s exactly the problem, I think, that we have to drop back and solve.
BARTIROMO: Do you believe there is a deep state?
GRENELL: Look, I think that what I would say is, is that there are incredible public servants within the intelligence community who themselves are really annoyed by the bad apples.
There&#8217;s no question that we have specific people, and it&#8217;s more than just a few, who are in jobs, using their political bias to manipulate the process. There&#8217;s no question of that. And it happens on both sides of the aisle.
BARTIROMO: Yes.
You dealt with these guys. You dealt with Adam Schiff a lot. And you were trying to be transparent and declassify this stuff. But he stopped you, right?
I remember interviewing Nunes and Ratcliffe. They had sent letters to Adam Schiff, saying, we want this and we want that. We sent a letter to the FBI. We want these documents. They were not releasing them.
GRENELL: That was a process that I couldn&#8217;t believe was stopped.
To be honest, it shouldn&#8217;t have been. It should have been released a long time ago. It was overclassified. And our country suffered because it was overclassified.
BARTIROMO: Yes.
GRENELL: I will say, when dealing with the Hill, somebody like Senator Mark Warner, who I had a phone call scheduled to walk him through the reform efforts that I was going to do, and he canceled that phone call, and then refused to schedule the call.
So I never spoke to him the entire time that I was there, even though he was the lead Senate Democrat on the intelligence community. Never spoke to him. Tried several times.
But then I would see him go public and say that: Grenell is not coordinating with me. Grenell is not coordinating with the appropriate committees. And they would slam me.
Look, this is the ways of Washington, is that they say one thing and they do another. The American people are really outraged by this type of stuff.
BARTIROMO: They really are.
GRENELL: I stayed silent and tried to just take the hits.
But the fact of the matter is, I think that it&#8217;s wrong.
BARTIROMO: Yes.
As we wrap up here, John Ratcliffe is your successor as the director of national intelligence. Are there other things that should be declassified that Congressman Ratcliffe is going to be overseeing?
What&#8217;s most important that we don&#8217;t know yet, Ric?
GRENELL: Look, I think that this entire Russian investigation, the beginning of it, how it was developed needs to &#8212; somebody needs to look at what is classified and whether or not that needs to come clean.
We started that process. I have coordinated with John. He&#8217;s a great guy. He&#8217;s really focused and smart on getting to the truth. He&#8217;s removing politics from the equation, and just looking at the facts and what needs to be done.
So, I have great faith in our new director of national intelligence, John Ratcliffe.
BARTIROMO: We so appreciate your work for this country, Ric. Thank you sir.
GRENELL: Thanks, Maria.</blockquote>
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Richard Grenell On Declassifying Russia Investigation Documents: ‘Transparency Is Never Political’

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Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein was at the red-hot center of the Robert Mueller probe into the phantom menace of Donald Trump&#8217;s collusion with the Russians. He testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on June 3.
You may not know that happened. ABC, CBS and NBC ignored it that night. PBS gave the story 55 seconds. NPR gave it 4 minutes, but those minutes sounded bizarre.
Anchor Mary Louise Kelly said: &#8220;May I start with an observation? Does this seem a little out of left field? With everything going on in the country right now, senators are focused today on the Russia investigation?&#8221;
Reporter Philip Ewing replied, &#8220;The short answer for that is, politics.&#8221;
The ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts devoted 2,202 minutes of coverage to the Trump-Russia collusion conspiracy theory from Jan. 21, 2017, to Feb. 10, 2019. When the Senate Intelligence Committee announced on Feb. 12, 2019, that there was no collusion? There was zero coverage on ABC, CBS and NBC.
The short answer for that? Politics.
These networks, alongside the &#8220;prestige&#8221; print press, CNN and MSNBC, obsessed about Russian-collusion claims 24/7 for more than two years. It was never &#8220;out of left field.&#8221; It was the fiercely beating heart of the &#8220;news&#8221; product. The media repeatedly questioned the legitimacy of President Trump&#8217;s election and even welcomed bald-faced lies about Trump being a Russian agent. &#8220;Bombshell&#8221; after &#8220;bombshell&#8221; led to claims that collusion was going to end Trump&#8217;s presidency early. Now the papers bury the story on the inside pages.
Under questioning from senators, Rosenstein claimed he was not well-informed at all about everything the FBI — under his direct supervision — was doing to railroad Team Trump. Sen. Ted Cruz asked him if he knew that the primary source behind the Steele dossier disavowed it as rumors and hearsay. He said no. Did he know the Steele dossier was funded through the Democratic National Committee? No. But that partisan pile of hearsay was used repeatedly to authorize spying on former Trump campaign aide Carter Page.
Cruz claimed what the Obama-Biden team did to undermine the Trump campaign, the Trump transition team and the Trump administration made Watergate pale by comparison. This would explain why the partisan networks skipped over this. They have labored to ensure that Trump — just like George W. Bush before him — was designated as the &#8220;worse than Watergate&#8221; president.
When Sen. Lindsey Graham asked if Rosenstein would agree in retrospect that, by August 2017, there was ultimately &#8220;no there there&#8221; to support the &#8220;concept that the campaign was colluding with the Russians,&#8221; Rosenstein responded, &#8220;I agree with that general statement.&#8221; But no one in that department, and no one in the press, backed down and stopped pushing a false collusion narrative.
The crowning audacity after the Rosenstein hearing came from MSNBC star Rachel Maddow, the Collusion Queen and Duchess of the Dossier. Without uttering the words &#8220;dossier&#8221; or &#8220;Rosenstein,&#8221; she complained that 53 new subpoenas would be issued to investigate the origins of this get-Trump conspiracy. With a megaton of chutzpah, she lamented this is designed to &#8220;create an air of criminality around Vice President Biden and the whole Obama administration in time for the election in November.&#8221;
A politicized &#8220;air of criminality&#8221; still wafts over the Trump administration, thanks to the &#8220;objective&#8221; media. But they offer no apologies, no retractions, no admissions of fault on the overall Russia mess. Their drumbeat of collusion &#8220;news&#8221; turned out to be &#8230; &#8220;fake news.&#8221;
Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. To find out more about Tim Graham, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.

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An FBI lawyer who was dismissed from the special counsel investigation into Russian collusion has been hired as a legal and national security analyst for MSNBC.
Lisa Page, whose anti-Trump texts with fired FBI agent Peter Strzok got her removed from Robert Mueller’s investigation into whether President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign colluded with Russia to steal the election, was announced as MSNBC’s latest hire Friday evening.
“JUST ANNOUNCED: <a href="https://twitter.com/MSNBC">@MSNBC</a> welcomes Former FBI Lawyer <a href="https://twitter.com/NatSecLisa">@NatSecLisa</a> as an NBC News &amp; MSNBC National Security &amp; Legal Analyst,” the channel’s public relations account tweeted.
As Mueller investigated the Trump campaign (he ultimately discovered no evidence of collusion, despite years of media headlines claiming the opposite), text messages between Strzok and Page became public in a June 2018 Inspector General’s report. The two employees were having an affair (Page is married) and sent each other texts expressing anti-Trump sentiments in early August 2016 – ahead of the election. At one point, Page asked Strzok if Trump would become president. Strzok responded: “No. No he won’t. We’ll stop it.” The pair also discussed an “insurance policy” for if Trump were to win the election.
Following the release of the text messages, Page resigned from the FBI. Strzok was removed from Mueller’s investigation.
In December 2019, Page sued the Department of Justice and the FBI after Trump mocked her texts with Strzok at a campaign rally. Page claimed Trump made “fake orgasm” noises when he mocked her (he used a breathy voice, but did not make a “fake orgasm” noise), and portrayed herself as a victim, The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/read-it-anti-trump-fbi-lawyer-sues-justice-department-fbi-after-trumps-fake-orgasm">reported</a>.
In her lawsuit, Page claimed the DOJ and FBI violated the Privacy Act by disclosing her text messages.
“The Privacy Act was enacted to protect individual privacy interests,” the complaint read. “Agency records can, and often do, contain highly sensitive personal information, including documentation of criminal history, medical records, financial transactions, personnel actions, private conversations, personal contacts, and other sensitive material. As relevant here, the statute bars the DOJ, the FBI, and other federal agencies from disclosing a covered record ‘about’ an individual unless an exception applies or the individual who is the subject of the record consents in writing to the disclosure. See 5 U.S.C. § 552a. The statute contains no general exception permitting an agency to disclose covered records to the media.”
As The Federalist <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/06/06/ex-fbi-lawyer-lisa-page-makes-debut-as-msnbc-legal-analyst/">reported</a>, “MSNBC commentators have defended both Page and Strzok over the years by dismissing their text messages as merely personal criticisms, separate from their FBI work.”
Page is also not the only disgraced intelligence community official to get rewarded with a television contract. Former Director of the CIA, John Brennan, received a national security and intelligence analyst gig at NBC News and MSNBC. Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who was found to have lied to the bureau, received a contract with CNN as an analyst. Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper also received a CNN contract.
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MSNBC Hires Disgraced Ex-FBI Lawyer Lisa Page As An Analyst

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On Sunday, appearing on Fox News’ “America’s News HG” with host Sandra Smith, GOP Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn issued a harsh warning to the instigators and perpetrators of violence and looting across the nation, stating that they should expect “to get a knock on your door from the FBI.”
Smith triggered Blackburn’s remarks by noting that many of the peaceful protests around the nation after the death of George Floyd on May 25 after a Minneapolis police officer knelt on Floyd’s neck had turned violent over the last few days. She asked Blackburn for her response, prompting Blackburn to say:
<blockquote>It is heartbreaking to see this, and Sandra, as your previous guest was just saying, the Department of Justice, your state bureaus of investigation, they&#8217;re going to figure out who is behind all of this. And I was listening to that interview I was thinking there&#8217;s been a lot said about contact tracing to do with coronavirus and contact tracers being hired. Let me tell you something: That is nothing compared to the contact tracing that is going to take place with all of these riots. These people tried to go out the last couple of nights and burn down America, and I will tell you, law enforcement is going to figure out who organized it, who has put this money behind it to give these Antifa members what they need.
So if you&#8217;ve been on social media and you&#8217;ve been saying “I know friends that went to the protest; I know friends that went to the riots,” you&#8217;re probably going to get a knock on your door from the FBI or, in Tennessee, the TBI, and they&#8217;re going to want to know what you know.</blockquote>
As <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/marsha-blackburn-george-floyd-riots-antifa-tennessee-fbi">Fox News</a> noted, “Tennessee was among the many states which activated the National Guard over the weekend, as California, Georgia, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, Ohio, Texas, Utah and Washington state also called for such assistance while protests spiraled out of control.”
On Saturday, Attorney General William Barr <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-attorney-general-it-appears-some-violent-riots-driven-by-far-left-extremists-using-antifa-like-tactics">warned</a> that the Department of Justice, including the FBI, would  pursue those who crossed state lines to foment violence and looting. He stated:
<blockquote>Unfortunately, with the rioting that is occurring in many of our cities around the country, the voices of peaceful protest are being hijacked by violent radical elements. Groups of outside radicals and agitators are exploiting the situation to pursue their own separate and violent agenda.
In many places, it appears the violence is planned, organized, and driven by anarchistic and far left extremists, using Antifa-like tactics, many of whom travel from out of state to promote the violence. We must have law and order on our streets and in our communities, and it is the responsibility of the local and state leadership, in the first instance, to halt this violence. The Department of Justice (including the FBI, Marshals, ATF, and DEA), and all of our 93 U.S. Attorneys across the country, will support these local efforts and take all action necessary to enforce federal law … In that regard, it is a federal crime to cross state lines or to use interstate facilities to incite or participate in violent rioting.  We will enforce these laws.</blockquote>
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Senate Impeachment Trial Of President Trump

Tennessee Sen. Blackburn Warns Rioters: Expect A ‘Knock On Your Door From The FBI’

Marsha Blackburn

President Donald Trump announced late on Wednesday afternoon that he directed the FBI and Department of Justice to investigate the death of George Floyd after Floyd died in police custody earlier this week.
&#8220;At my request, the FBI and the Department of Justice are already well into an investigation as to the very sad and tragic death in Minnesota of George Floyd,&#8221; Trump wrote on Twitter. &#8220;I have asked for this investigation to be expedited and greatly appreciate all of the work done by local law enforcement. My heart goes out to George’s family and friends. Justice will be served!&#8221;
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&#8230;.I have asked for this investigation to be expedited and greatly appreciate all of the work done by local law enforcement. My heart goes out to George’s family and friends. Justice will be served!
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1265774770877902848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 27, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Floyd, 46, died on Monday after he was handcuffed and pinned to the ground by law enforcement officers in an incident that sparked widespread outrage after video of the incident went viral on social media.
&#8220;The arrest of Mr. Floyd took place on Monday evening. The Minneapolis Police Department said in a statement that officers had responded to a call about a man suspected of forgery,&#8221; The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/us/george-floyd-minneapolis-death.html">reported</a>. &#8220;The police said the man was found sitting on top of a blue car and &#8216;appeared to be under the influence.'&#8221;
The Times added that videos that surfaced online of the incident did not show what happened prior to the police officers pinning Floyd on the ground.
The Minneapolis Police Department identified the four police officers involved in the arrest as Derek Chauvin, Thomas Lane, Tou Thao and J. Alexander Kueng.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said on Tuesday that all four police officers were fired.
&#8220;Four responding MPD officers involved in the death of George Floyd have been terminated,&#8221; Frey wrote in a tweet. &#8220;This is the right call.&#8221;
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Four responding MPD officers involved in the death of George Floyd have been terminated.
This is the right call.
&mdash; Mayor Jacob Frey (@MayorFrey) <a href="https://twitter.com/MayorFrey/status/1265359374010273792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 26, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The Star Tribune <a href="https://www.startribune.com/protests-continue-in-minneapolis-and-oakdale-with-looting-reported-at-lake-street-target/570816112/">reported</a> that protesters responded to the incident by allegedly rioting and looting local stores.
&#8220;Protesters, including some apparent looters, kept up their presence outside Minneapolis’ Third Precinct police headquarters Wednesday night, some of them throwing rocks and bottles at police,&#8221; The Star Tribune reported. &#8220;At the nearby Lake Street Target store, looters were seen leaving the store with items that included large TVs. No police officers were there as of 6:45 p.m.&#8221;
Attorney Ben Crump was retained by the family and released the following statement: &#8220;We all watched the horrific death of George Floyd on video as witnesses begged the police officer to take him into the police car and get off his neck. This abusive, excessive and inhumane use of force cost the life of a man who was being detained by the police questioning about a non-violent charge. We will seek justice for the family of George Floyd, as we demand answers from the Minnesota Police Department. How many &#8216;while black&#8217; deaths will it take until the racial profiling and undervaluing of black lives by police finally ends?&#8221;
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MEDIA ALERT: I have been retained to represent the family of George Floyd, the man killed by Minneapolis Police on May 25. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/JusticeForFloyd?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#JusticeForFloyd</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ICantBreathe?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ICantBreathe</a> <a href="https://t.co/OkQeBwIlf1">pic.twitter.com/OkQeBwIlf1</a>
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President Trump Participates In Signing Ceremony For H.R. 2, Agriculture Improvement Act Of 2018

‘Justice Will Be Served!’: Trump Announces He Has Directed FBI, DOJ To Investigate Death Of George Floyd

A federal judge has hired a high-powered attorney after refusing to dismiss charges against former national security adviser Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn after the Justice Department requested to drop the case.
U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan retained Washington D.C. lawyer Beth Wilkinson to argue in front of a federal appeals court why Sullivan was right to reexamine <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-doj-just-dropped-its-case-against-flynn-here-are-some-of-the-key-moments">Flynn’s case</a> before dropping the charges, a source told <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/federal-judge-hires-high-powered-dc-attorney-to-defend-his-actions-in-flynn-case/2020/05/23/9cae4d5e-9d0c-11ea-ac72-3841fcc9b35f_story.html">The Washington Post</a>. A panel on the D.C. Court of Appeals has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/d-c-court-of-appeals-takes-extraordinary-measure-in-flynn-case-orders-judge-to-respond-to-dismissal-request">demanded</a> that Sullivan explain his decision to reject the DOJ request.
Wilkinson has represented a series of prominent officials in high-stakes legal battles. She represented Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh during his Senate confirmation battle when several women made unsubstantiated accusations of sexual assault against him.
FBI Director Christopher Wray ordered an internal investigation into the Flynn case that will determine whether any FBI agents or officials abused their powers in probing Flynn, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-director-wray-opens-internal-investigation-into-how-bureau-handled-michael-flynn-case">Fox News</a>.
“Although the FBI does not have the prosecutorial authority to bring a criminal case, the Inspection Division can and will evaluate whether any current onboard employees engaged in actions that might warrant disciplinary measures,” the FBI announced on Friday.
The DOJ motion to drop its case against Flynn on May 7 after court documents unsealed in April revealed that the FBI’s top brass had interfered in an FBI probe into Flynn in January 2017 to hold the case open despite having little, if any, reason to do so. The documents also indicated that FBI officials sought to trap Flynn in a Jan. 24, 2017 interview into either lying to federal agents or admitting to breaking an obscure 1799 law. Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI in December 2017, but asked to rescind his guilty plea earlier this year.
After Sullivan refused to drop the case, the judge took the unusual step of asking a retired federal judge to essentially prosecute a case that Attorney General William Barr felt lacked enough evidence to make. Sullivan appointed John Gleeson, a former mafia prosecutor, to pursue the charges against Flynn in the absence of the DOJ’s team. Gleeson is also weighing whether Flynn should be charged with perjury for proclaiming innocence after already pleading guilty.
Flynn’s attorney Sydney Powell <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/flynn-attorney-denounces-travesty-of-justice-after-judge-refuses-to-dismiss-case">blasted</a> Sullivan’s decision to keep the case against Flynn open after the Justice Department decided to stop prosecuting the case.
“This travesty of justice has already consumed three or more years of an innocent man’s life — and that of his entire family. No further delay should be tolerated or any further expense caused to him and his defense,” Powell wrote in a court filing. “This Court should enter the order proposed by the government immediately.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-offered-to-pay-christopher-steele-significantly-for-dirt-on-michael-flynn-and-other-trump-associates">FBI Offered To Pay Christopher Steele ‘Significantly’ For Dirt On Michael Flynn And Other Trump Associates</a>
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Flynn Judge Retains D.C. Attorney To Justify Decision To Keep Case Open, Report Says

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The FBI offered Christopher Steele – the man who wrote the salacious and debunked Steele Dossier on President Donald Trump while he was a candidate in 2016 – a significant amount of money to create another document. The new dossier would include dirt on former national security adviser Michael Flynn and other Trump associates.
The Daily Caller’s Chuck Ross <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2020/05/20/christopher-steele-michael-flynn-svetlana-lokhova-cambridge/">reported</a> that the offer, which was made during an FBI meeting with Steele on October 3, 2016, was mentioned in the Department of Justice’s Inspector General’s report that was released in December 2019. Ross noted that this revelation has received little to no media attention.
“But it might have new significance following the recent release of government documents that show that Steele peddled an unfounded rumor that Flynn had an extramarital affair with a Russian woman in the United Kingdom,” Ross reported. “It is not clear how and when Steele came across the rumor, or if it was the result of the FBI asking him to look into Flynn.”
The FBI offered to pay Steele “significantly” to gather intelligence for three aspects of their Crossfire Hurricane probe into four Trump campaign associates. One avenue the FBI wanted Steele to look into was “Additional intelligence/reporting on specific, named individuals (such as [Carter Page] or [Flynn]) involved in facilitating the Trump campaign-Russian relationship.”
The FBI also wanted Steele to find “any individuals or sub sources” that could “serve as cooperating witnesses to assist in identifying persons involved in the Trump campaign-Russian relationship.”
Steele was given information about Crossfire Hurricane and its targets: George Papadopoulos, Paul Manafort, Carter Page, and Michael Flynn. The IG report noted that some FBI agents felt Steele was given too much information.
Steele’s worked seemed to be centered around a rumor that Flynn had an affair with a Russian woman years earlier. That woman, an academic named Svetlana Lokhova, sued media outlets and the FBI informant she says defamed her by spreading the false rumors. Lokhova, The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/russian-academic-accused-having-improper-contact-ashe-schow">reported</a>, was accused of being a Russian spy and carrying on an affair with Flynn after they met at a Cambridge Intelligence Seminar in 2014. Flynn attended a dinner with people who attended his speech. Lokhova was among the group. From that, Lokhova said, a rumor was launched that she had an affair with Flynn, and multiple media outlets ran with it in an attempt to smear Flynn and then-incoming President Trump.
It should be noted that by October 2016, the FBI knew that Steele’s reporting was flawed. The Bureau ended its relationship with Steele at the end of the month due to Steele’s leaking of information to the press and lying about it – though Steele was never charged with lying to federal agents, even though that was the crux of the charges against Flynn.
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Christopher Steele

FBI Offered To Pay Christopher Steele ‘Significantly’ For Dirt On Michael Flynn And Other Trump Associates

On Thursday, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered a federal judge to respond to the petition of President Trump&#8217;s former national security adviser to drop the charges against him after the Justice Department submitted a motion to throw out the case in light of newly disclosed evidence.
Earlier this week, retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn’s attorney Sydney Powell &#8220;filed an <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/drops-doj-case-against-michael-flynn-in-wake-of-internal-memo-release" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">emergency writ of mandamus</a> to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals seeking that the prosecution against Flynn be dismissed as the Justice Department has requested, and for Judge Emmet Sullivan to be taken off the case,&#8221; <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/federal-appeals-court-judge-flynn-case-dismiss">Fox News</a> reported Thursday.
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered Sullivan Thursday to respond to Flynn&#8217;s petition by June 1 and asked the Department of Justice to respond &#8220;in its discretion&#8221; within that period.
&#8220;Writs of mandamus are extraordinary remedies, which are appropriate when there has been a &#8216;usurpation of judicial power&#8217; that is &#8216;clear and indisputable,'&#8221; Fox News notes.
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-doj-just-dropped-its-case-against-flynn-here-are-some-of-the-key-moments">The Daily Wire</a> has chronicled, the Justice Department filed a motion on May 7 to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-doj-just-dropped-its-case-against-flynn-here-are-some-of-the-key-moments">dismiss</a> the case against Flynn &#8220;after a considered review of all the facts and circumstances of this case, including newly discovered and disclosed information.&#8221; Among that newly disclosed information was evidence that the interview upon which the case was built was effectively a &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ag-barr-fbi-tried-to-trap-flynn-i-believe-comey-was-driving-it-was-part-of-pattern-against-trump">perjury trap</a>,&#8221; as Attorney General William Barr has described it.
The case against Flynn, The Associated Press has underscored, was &#8220;one of the signature cases brought by special counsel Robert Mueller,&#8221; whose exhaustive, multi-million-dollars investigation ultimately concluded that there was no substantive evidence of any &#8220;collusion&#8221; between the Trump campaign and Russia.
Though the Justice Department moved to toss out the case, Judge Sullivan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia tabled the motion, instead opening the case up for amicus briefs from interested parties.
Flynn&#8217;s attorney has blasted Sullivan&#8217;s move as a &#8220;travesty of justice&#8221; and a flagrant abuse of power. &#8220;This travesty of justice has already consumed three or more years of an innocent man’s life — and that of his entire family. No further delay should be tolerated or any further expense caused to him and his defense,&#8221; Powell wrote in a <a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.191592/gov.uscourts.dcd.191592.204.0_2.pdf">court filing</a> responding to Sullivan&#8217;s decision. &#8220;This Court should enter the order proposed by the government immediately.&#8221;
Attorneys general of 15 states appear to agree with Flynn and his attorney, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/several-attorneys-general-demand-judge-drop-flynn-case-disrobes-the-judiciary-of-its-cloak-of-impartiality">signing an amicus brief</a> this week calling on Sullivan to support the DOJ&#8217;s motion &#8220;because such punditry disrobes the judiciary of its cloak of impartiality.&#8221; The court &#8220;lacks authority to exercise judgement over a decision that constitutionally belongs to the executive branch,&#8221; said attorneys general from Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Utah and West Virginia filed in the briefing filed Monday.
In an interview with <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/attorney-general-william-barr-on-michael-flynn-obamacare-and-coronavirus-restrictions-transcript/">CBS News</a> on May 7, Barr explained why he ordered that Flynn&#8217;s case be dismissed. “It’s on the question of materiality that we feel really that a crime cannot be established here because there was not, in our view, a legitimate investigation going on,” he said. “They did not have a basis for a counterintelligence investigation against Flynn at that stage, based on a perfectly legitimate and appropriate call he made as a member of the transition.”
Asked by Herridge if &#8220;the counterintelligence case against General Flynn was simply left open to lay a trap for lying,&#8221; Barr said, “Yes.&#8221;
&#8220;I think a very important evidence here was that this was not a bona fide counterintelligence investigation – was that they were closing the investigation in December,&#8221; he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ag-barr-fbi-tried-to-trap-flynn-i-believe-comey-was-driving-it-was-part-of-pattern-against-trump">explained</a>. &#8220;They started that process. And on January 4th, they were closing it. They initially tried some theories of how they could open another investigation, which didn’t fly. And then they found out that they had not technically closed the earlier investigation. And they kept it open for the express purpose of trying to catch, lay a perjury trap for General Flynn.&#8221;
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Mike Flynn

D.C. Court Of Appeals Takes ‘Extraordinary’ Measure In Flynn Case, Orders Judge To Respond To Dismissal Request

Andrew Weismann, lead prosecutor for ex-special counsel Robert Mueller, is headlining a fundraising event for former Vice President Joe Biden.
On June 2, Weismann will sit down with former New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram for a virtual “fireside chat” and fundraiser for Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee. Weismann was effectively Mueller’s right hand throughout the ex-special counsel’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and alleged collusion with the Trump campaign.
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Andrew Weissmann, former lead prosecutor on Mueller’s special counsel team, is headlining a June 2nd virtual fundraiser for Biden. <a href="https://t.co/3lq7ld5m0u">pic.twitter.com/3lq7ld5m0u</a>
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President Trump and critics of the Russian collusion conspiracy were vocal critics of Weismann and others on Mueller’s team throughout the special counsel investigation. Trump characterized Mueller’s team of prosecutors as agenda-driven Democratic agents who were willing to bend or discard the truth in order to get at Trump.
President Trump’s campaign is already preparing to use the Weismann event in campaign attack ads against Biden and the Democratic Party, as well as to bolster Trump’s claim that he has been a target of unfair investigations since he took office.
Trump campaign digital director Gary Coby confirmed as much in response to Axios’ Jonathan Swan.
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“It’s no surprise that a guy who tried to take down the President through the sham impeachment would also help Joe Biden’s campaign,” Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh told <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/lead-mueller-team-prosecutor-hosting-biden-fundraiser">the Washington Examiner</a>. “It doesn’t get any swampier than this: trying to stage a partisan coup against the President and then raising money for his political opponent.”
In October 2017, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/31/us/politics/andrew-weissmann-mueller.html">The New York Times</a> profiled Weismann, calling him Mueller’s “legal pit bull.”
“If Mr. Mueller is the stern-eyed public face of the investigation, Mr. Weissmann, 59, is its pounding heart, a bookish, legal pit bull with two Ivy League degrees, a weakness for gin martinis and classical music and a list of past enemies that includes professional killers and white-collar criminals,” the Times reported.
Weismann had a history of political engagements that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-prosecutor-step-down-mueller-probe-ashe-schow">aroused</a> suspicions from many of the president’s defenders and from skeptics of Mueller’s investigation. On election night in 2016, Weismann attended then-Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton’s election night party.
Weismann led the team of prosecutors arguing the case against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. Manafort was eventually convicted on eight counts of financial fraud.
In December 2018, Trump criticized Weismann directly over Twitter and suggested that the prosecutor’s biases were corrupting the special counsel investigation.
“Will Robert Mueller’s big time conflicts of interest be listed at the top of his Republicans only Report. Will Andrew Weissman’s horrible and vicious prosecutorial past be listed in the Report. He wrongly destroyed people’s lives, took down great companies, only to be overturned, 9-0, in the United States Supreme Court. Doing same thing to people now. Will all of the substantial &amp; many contributions made by the 17 Angry Democrats to the Campaign of Crooked Hillary be listed in top of Report,” Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-opens-fire-mueller-comey-new-revelations-joseph-curl">wrote</a>.
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Mueller’s No. 2 Headlines Fundraiser For Joe Biden

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Joe Biden

Former national security adviser Susan Rice was allegedly instructed by the Obama White House to write her controversial memo about the Oval Office meeting that she had with numerous top Obama officials, including President Obama himself, about then-incoming national security adviser Michael Flynn.
Rice wrote the memo on January 20, 2017, which was President Donald Trump&#8217;s first day in office, about the meeting that she had in the Oval Office two weeks prior.
Fox News correspondent Gillian Turner <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rice-penned-inauguration-day-email-at-white-house-counsels-direction">reported</a> Wednesday that Rice&#8217;s team confirmed to Fox News that &#8220;she was directed by White House Counsel to write the Jan 20, 2017 memorandum documenting an Oval Office meeting in which President Obama [and] National Security officials discussed Michael Flynn.&#8221;
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&#8220;The meeting took place on January 5, 2017, and involved Rice, Obama, and Vice President Biden, the administration’s top political hierarchy on national-security matters, along with Obama’s top law-enforcement and counterintelligence officials, deputy attorney general Sally Yates (soon formally to take the acting AG role she was already performing), and FBI director James Comey,&#8221; former U.S. Attorney Andrew McCarthy <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-rice-cya-memo-unredacted/">wrote</a> Wednesday. &#8220;Prior redactions had already demonstrated that the meeting’s central purpose was to discuss the rationale for withholding intelligence about Russia from the incoming Trump national-security team.&#8221;
Rice&#8217;s declassified &#8220;TOP SECRET&#8221; memo from January 20, 2017, stated:
<blockquote>On January 5, following a briefing by IC leadership on Russian hacking during the 2016 Presidential election, President Obama had a brief follow-on conversation with FBI Director Jim Comey and Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates in the Oval Office. Vice President Biden and I were also present.
President Obama began the conversation by stressing his continued commitment to ensuring that every aspect of this issue is handled by the Intelligence and law enforcement communities &#8220;by the book&#8221;. The President stressed that he is not asking about, initiating or instructing anything from a law enforcement perspective. He reiterated that our law enforcement team needs to proceed as it normally would by the book.
From a national security perspective, however, President Obama said he wants to be sure that, as we engage with the incoming team, we are mindful to ascertain if there is any reason that we cannot share information fully as it relates to Russia.
Director Comey affirmed that he is proceeding &#8220;by the book&#8221; as it relates to law enforcement. From a national security perspective, Comey said he does have some concerns that incoming NSA Flynn is speaking frequently with Russian Ambassador Kislyak. Comey said that could be an issue as it relates to sharing sensitive information. President Obama asked if Comey was saying that the NSC should not pass sensitive information related to Russia to Flynn. Comey replied &#8221;potentially.&#8221; He added that he has no indication thus far that Flynn has passed classified information to Kislyak, but he noted that &#8220;the level of communication is unusual.&#8221;
The President asked Comey to inform him if anything changes in the next few weeks that should affect how we share classified information with the incoming team. Comey said he would.</blockquote>
Attorney General William Barr debunked the notion that there was anything wrong with the communication Flynn had with the Russian ambassador.
&#8220;That call, there was nothing wrong with it whatever,&#8221; Barr <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/attorney-general-william-barr-on-michael-flynn-obamacare-and-coronavirus-restrictions-transcript/">said</a>. &#8220;In fact, it was laudable. He&#8211; and it was nothing inconsistent with the Obama administration&#8217;s policies. And it was in U.S. interests. He was saying to the Russians, you know, &#8216;Don&#8217;t escalate.&#8217; And they asked him if he remembered saying that, and he said he didn&#8217;t remember that.&#8221;
McCarthy later noted how, as more and more information becomes declassified, Rice has continued to change her story, writing: &#8220;Rice has gone from claiming to have had <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/susan-rice-resurfaced-2017-comments-deny-knowledge-trump-team-surveillance-flynn" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">no knowledge</a> of Obama administration monitoring of Flynn and other Trump associates, to claiming <a href="https://freebeacon.com/national-security/flashback-susan-rice-said-i-know-nothing-unmasking-trump-officials/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">no knowledge</a> of any unmaskings of Trump associates, to <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4882138/Rice-ADMITS-unmasking-Trump-officials-UAE-meeting.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">admitting she was complicit</a> in the unmaskings, to — now — a call for the recorded conversation between retired general Michael Flynn and Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak to be released because it would purportedly show that the Obama administration had good reason to be concerned about Flynn (y’know, the guy she said she had no idea they were investigating).&#8221;
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Obama White House Instructed Susan Rice To Write Her Memo About The Oval Office Meeting On Flynn, Report Says

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Two Senate committees are expanding their investigations into the Obama-era scandal that involved surveilling members of the Trump campaign, which Attorney General William Barr has said amounts to &#8220;spying,&#8221; saying that they have reason to believe that they are becoming increasingly concerned that the surveillance started before the FBI&#8217;s &#8220;Crossfire Hurricane&#8221; investigation.
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chairman Ron Johnson and Finance Committee Chairman Charles Grassley wrote a letter to Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell asking for the declassification of &#8220;additional information related to the unmasking of Americans around the time of the 2016 election, but also to expand the scope of our request to include information as early as January 2016.&#8221;
&#8220;Based on our investigation and recent press reports, we are increasingly concerned that the surveillance of U.S. persons affiliated with the Trump campaign began earlier than the opening of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation in late July 2016,&#8221; the letter continued. &#8220;It has become evident that the FBI, and possibly members of the U.S. Intelligence Community, were focused on U.S. persons affiliated with the Trump campaign in early 2016, if not even earlier.&#8221;
&#8220;Again, the best way to resolve these issues is to determine the truth, and to make clear to the American people what did and did not occur,&#8221; the letter concluded. &#8220;For these reasons, we respectfully request that you make available to us, as soon as possible, all information regarding the “unmasking” of U.S. persons affiliated with the Trump campaign requested by members of President Obama’s administration from January 2016 through January 2017.&#8221;
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Grassley and Johnson are dramatically expanding their request for Obama era unmasking records. 
They want records on all Trump associates from Jan. 2016-Jan. 2017, saying they are &quot;increasingly concerned&quot; that surveillance began before Crossfire Hurricane<a href="https://t.co/KO2r72RmyC">https://t.co/KO2r72RmyC</a> <a href="https://t.co/RNtnuOk9Ss">pic.twitter.com/RNtnuOk9Ss</a>
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The demand for more information comes after last week&#8217;s bombshell revelation that numerous Obama officials, including then-Vice President Joe Biden, unmasked then-incoming national security adviser Michael Flynn.
Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/grenell-releases-list-of-officials-who-sought-to-unmask-flynn-biden-comey-obama-intel-chiefs-among-them">reported</a>:
<blockquote>
The list was declassified in recent days by Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell and then sent to GOP Sens. Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson, who made the documents public. The roster features top-ranking figures including then-Vice President Joe Biden &#8212; a detail already being raised by the Trump campaign in the bare-knuckle 2020 presidential race where Biden is now the Democrats&#8217; presumptive nominee.
The list also includes then-FBI Director James Comey, then-CIA Director John Brennan, then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and Obama&#8217;s then-chief of staff Denis McDonough.</blockquote>
Obama officials, including disgraced former FBI Director James Comey, thought that there was something wrong with Flynn&#8217;s phone calls with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
Attorney General William Barr debunked that notion earlier this month, <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/attorney-general-william-barr-on-michael-flynn-obamacare-and-coronavirus-restrictions-transcript/">saying</a> that Flynn made “a perfectly legitimate and appropriate call he made as a member of the transition.”
“Let me say that, at that point, he was the designated national security adviser for President-Elect Trump, and was part of the transition, which is recognized by the government and funded by the government as an important function to bring in a new administration,” Barr continued. “And it is very typical, very common for the national security team of the incoming president to communicate with foreign leaders.”
“And that call, there was nothing wrong with it whatever. In fact, it was laudable. He– and it was nothing inconsistent with the Obama administration’s policies,” Barr concluded on the matter. “And it was in U.S. interests. He was saying to the Russians, you know, ‘Don’t escalate.’ And they asked him if he remembered saying that, and he said he didn’t remember that.”
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Senators ‘Dramatically Expanding’ Probe Into Obama-Era Scandal, Think Surveillance May Have Started ‘Even Earlier’ Than 2016

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Ron Johnson

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FBI agents determined to discover evidence that President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign colluded with Russia to steal the election used selective leaks to the media to justify continuing its investigation.
Chuck Ross, an investigative journalist at the Daily Caller News Foundation, has <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2020/05/18/fbi-crossfire-hurricane-leaks-donald-trump-russia/">outlined</a> five examples of the FBI using so-called news hooks to advance its probe into the Trump campaign. In one of the most extreme cases, fired FBI Director James Comey actually used a media leak to push for the appointment of a special counsel. That special counsel, Robert Mueller, spent two years investigating claims of Russian collusion and found no evidence to suggest the Trump campaign worked with the hostile nation to win the election.
“Prominent media outlets played a key role in advancing the now-debunked theory that the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government. Much of that media manipulation centered around the infamous Steele dossier, which the Clinton campaign and DNC funded,” Ross reported. “Christopher Steele, a former British spy, briefed numerous reporters, the FBI, Department of Justice (DOJ), State Department and think tank officials on his dossier. The FBI’s possession of the dossier itself would eventually serve as a news hook that allowed Steele’s unverified allegations to make their way into public view.”
It was Comey who used the dossier to advance the investigation. He briefed incoming President Trump on the dossier’s existence, thereby allowing the media to report on the dossier and launch the narrative that Trump colluded with Russia. The FBI then used those media reports to advance its probe into the incoming Trump administration.
Former FBI agent Peter Strzok used the publication of the dossier to interview more people who worked with Trump, texting his lover, former FBI attorney Lisa Page, that he and other agents were discussing whether to use the published dossier “as a pretext to go interview some people.”
“Weeks after the dossier was published, two FBI agents would investigate former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos for the first time. Court documents show that the investigators initially told Papadopoulos that they wanted to speak to him about an associate, Sergei Millian, who had been identified in the media as a possible unwitting source for the dossier,” Ross reported.
In another instance, the “FBI also seized on a seemingly illegal leak of classified information to the media in order to advance its investigation of Michael Flynn,” Ross continued.
As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-list-of-obama-officials-involved-in-unmasking-michael-flynn-revealed-the-list-includes-joe-biden">reported</a>, Flynn’s phone call with then-Russian ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kislyak was leaked to The Washington Post, who questioned whether Flynn violated an obscure U.S. law known as the Logan Act during the conversation. Fired FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe would use the Post article to interview Flynn – without an attorney. FBI agents who interviewed Flynn had a transcript of Flynn’s phone call, while Flynn did not. Flynn was accused of lying to the FBI, though it now appears as though he simply didn’t recall details exactly as they happened, since his phone call with Kislyak was unremarkable and had taken place a month before the FBI interviewed him. The Department of Justice has since dropped charges against Flynn for lying to the FBI.
The final example Ross noted was the numerous news reports used to further the FBI’s investigation into former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
“Applications for FISA orders that the FBI submitted on Page in 2016 and 2017 show at least three areas where news reports about the Trump aide were used to open up new lines of inquiry or to make the case that he was working for Russia,” Ross reported.
Claims that Page orchestrated a change to the 2016 GOP platform regarding Ukraine and that he was a Russian agent were eventually debunked, though the FBI ignored obvious evidence that was never the case to begin with, a DOJ Inspector General <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ig-report-here-are-the-17-specific-inaccuracies-and-omissions-in-the-fbis-fisa-warrants-against-carter-page">found</a> in December 2019.
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How The FBI Used The Media To Push Its Russia-Collusion Narrative

On Monday, Attorney General Bill Barr and FBI Director Chris Wray slammed Apple for refusing to help them unlock the iPhones of the terrorist who launched a deadly terror attack at a Florida naval base last December. The two men announced that after they finally unlocked the phones, cellphone evidence showed the terrorist who launched the attack had been in contact with al Qaeda operatives for years.
The assailant, a Saudi military trainee who opened fire on the Naval Air Base Station in Pensacola and murdered three U.S. sailors while injuring eight other people, possessed iPhones, but in January, when the Department of Justice asked Apple to help unlock the phones, Apple refused.
Barr <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/attorney-general-william-p-barr-announces-updates-findings-investigation-december-2019">stated</a>:
<blockquote>Four months ago, I announced that this shooting was an act of terrorism.  I also publicly asked Apple to help us access the locked contents of the two iPhones belonging to the deceased terrorist (assailant’s name). It was clear at that time that the phones were likely to contain valuable information.  Indeed, (assailant) attempted to destroy both phones, even going so far as to disengage from the gunfight long enough to fire a bullet into one.
Within one day of the shootings, the FBI sought and obtained court orders, supported by probable cause, authorizing the FBI to search the contents of both phones as part of its investigation.  The problem was that the phones were locked and the FBI did not have the passwords, so they needed help to get in.  We asked Apple for assistance and so did the President.  Unfortunately, Apple would not help us unlock the phones.  Apple had deliberately designed them so that only the user — in this case, the terrorist — could gain access to their contents.
Today, I am pleased to announce that, thanks to the relentless efforts and ingenuity of FBI technicians, the FBI finally succeeded in unlocking (assailant’s) phones.  The phones contained information previously unknown to us that definitively establishes (assailant’s) significant ties to Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), not only before the attack, but before he even arrived in the United States.  We now have a clearer understanding of (assailant’s) associations and activities in the years, months, and days leading up to the attack.</blockquote>
Barr continued:
<blockquote>While the FBI’s hard work has led to an important breakthrough in this case that should be celebrated, I must also express my great disappointment that it took over four months and large sums of taxpayer dollars to obtain evidence that should be easily and quickly accessible with a court order.
Apple made a business and marketing decision to design its phones in such a way that only the user can unlock the contents no matter the circumstances.  In cases like this, where the user is a terrorist, or in other cases, where the user is a violent criminal, human trafficker, or child predator, Apple’s decision has dangerous consequences for public safety and national security and is, in my judgment, unacceptable.
Apple’s desire to provide privacy for its customers is understandable, but not at all costs.  Under our nation’s long-established constitutional principles, where a court authorizes a search for evidence of a crime, an individual’s privacy interests must yield to the broader needs of public safety.  There is no reason why companies like Apple cannot design their consumer products and apps to allow for court-authorized access by law enforcement while maintaining very high standards of data security.  Striking this balance should not be left to corporate boardrooms.  It is a decision to be made by the American people through their representatives.</blockquote>
Wray added, “The evidence we&#8217;ve been able to develop in from the killer&#8217;s devices shows the Pensacola attack was the brutal culmination of years of planning and preparation my a longtime AQAP associate.” AQAP refers to al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, and has “long been considered the global network&#8217;s most dangerous branch and has attempted to carry out attacks on the US mainland,” the <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8331475/FBI-finds-evidence-al-Qaeda-tie-2019-Florida-naval-base-shooting-NYT.html">Daily Mail</a> reported.
Wray added that the difficulty FBI technicians had in unlocking the phones was “hard to overstate.” He said, “We received effectively no help from Apple. We canvassed every partner and company out there that may have had a solution, but none did, so we did it ourselves. Unfortunately, the technique that we developed is not a fix for our broader Apple problem &#8211; but it has made a huge difference in this investigation. While we&#8217;re thanking FBI technicians, we should also be thinking about the cost of all that work. Public servants already swamped with important things to do to protect the American people had to spend all that time just to access evidence that we had court-authorized search warrants for months ago.&#8221;
Wray continued by noting the delay in unlocking the phones “seriously hampered this investigation. Finally getting our hands on the evidence (the assailant) tried to keep from us is great &#8211; but we really needed it months ago, back in December.” He theorized that contacts of the assailant now had months to “concoct and compare stories with co-conspirators, destroy evidence, and disappear. As a result, there&#8217;s a lot we can&#8217;t do at this point that we could have done months ago.”
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