CRN Politics

By Barry Secrest

We've seen the questions all too often, regarding whether or not Hillary Clinton and John Podesta, with their extensive ties in colluding with the Russian government, will be investigated or not.

From the Russian Uranium One scheme arranged by Clinton and her State Department, and Podesta's collusive role of sitting atop numerous Russian business boards, along with quite a few Democrat lobbyists, to Hillary Clinton's  national intelligence drop-server, which most intelligence officials now agree was virtually assured as having been penetrated by many (if not almost all foes) of the US Government, due to its having been uniquely unsecured.

Then, there was the sharp disagreement taking place between former Democrat officials DNC  and Obama's DHS, over whether or not the Democrats denied official US law enforcement investigators to access hacked DNC servers to determine the severity of the breach.

Now, why would the DNC deny entry to US law enforcement's efforts to assist them in matters of server security and then even deny that the offer was ever made, despite direct evidence to the contrary?

Moreover, despite all of the political rhetoric bouncing between both sides of the political fence, most of us, even keen watchers, have yet to view the special counsel letter of appointment signed by Deputy Director, Rod Rosenstein, along with the actual scope of the letter describing the investigative parameters.

As you can see in the letter located at the top of the page, none of us were ultimately disappointed in what we feared would probably be the case, and so it certainly is. The scope of the investigation states:

" Any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump"

The directive further lays out "matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation."

Notice that these passages dare not allude to anything that may arise "indirectly" from the investigation, and therein lies the rub, it would appear.

It seems that the reason most of us have not seen the letter is most likely due to the fact that the letter severely limits the scope of the investigation only to Trump and his 2016 campaign members.

But, then, if the investigative scope is limited only to Trump and his campaign, does that not also automatically mean that if actual collusion took place outside of the special letter's investigative scope of Trump & staff, then whoever actually was truly involved, including certain "Deep State" members of the US government, will ultimately go unapprehended or even investigated?

Bingo!

President Trump, and many others, including judicial experts, have indicated that the investigation amounts to what could only be described as a medievally prescribed "witch hunt,"  even as time continually moves forward and more details come to light.

Mueller is appointing only Clinton and Democrat establishment political class member attornies & Clinton campaign donors which are comprised of anti-Trump Democrat party stalwarts.

Further, Mueller is already heavily mired in a massive conflict of interest, with his BFF James Comey, a star witness, whose presence in the case, under most circumstances including even jury duty scenarios, would represent a classic case of an extreme conflict of interest.

Mueller's investigation, unless the scope is widened significantly, appears to be limited only to those, who we can now see, have less than nothing to do with any of the true instances of actual collusion with the Russians.

Almost as a bow-tie on top, we've also recently learned that a senior member of the Department of Justice has also been appointed to serve on Meuller's staff, according to the Washington Times: 

"One of the lawyers whom special counsel Robert Mueller has hired to investigate President Trump is pulling double duty, still working part time as a deputy solicitor general in the Justice Department. 

The curious arrangement may not pose a direct conflict of interest, ethics analysts said, but it does leave Michael Dreeben on a team investigating Mr. Trump even as he serves as the executive branch’s attorney overseeing the Justice Department’s criminal docket before the Supreme Court."

These facts, as more and more Americans, have learned, are a simple testament to how the ongoing US Deep State manipulations seem to always be stacked against non-political-class Americans, in general, including, now; the President of the United States, specifically.

Now, it further bears noting, that members of both the ruling political class and the media, notwithstanding, aren't even making an effort at trying to cover their illicit biases especially when it comes to conflicts of interests.

CRN Politics

By Barry Secrest

The Senate  Judiciary Committee appears to be moving ever closer, in its goal to ferret out all the actors responsible for what could only be described as integrated collectivist efforts towards destabilizing the US government under Trump, in further aims to root Trump of his position as president, in favor of a more globally-inclined player.

According to Fox News "The company that created a discredited dossier for President Trump’s campaign rivals and was later used by the FBI in its probe of possible links between Trump and Russia has its own Kremlin connection, this from powerful U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley."

FusionGPS is a Leftist organization so secretive that its website consists of only one page containing two short paragraphs, meaning that their funding is not based on any sort of conventional marketing which naturally means, therefore, that their revenue consists of more secretive, back-channel approaches into the "Deep State" world of disinformation.

In that regard, according to a complaint filed with the Justice Department, Fusion GPS headed the pro-Russia campaign to kill the Globalist Magnitsky Act, which imposes sanctions on Russians designated as human rights abusers."

But, it gets better.

Fusion GPS was founded by three former reporters for the Wall Street Journal with direct connections to the Kremlin.

This then means that three former journalists for the equally powerful Wall Street Journal, a CFR Member publication known for its disdain of Trump while favoring Hillary Clinton,  were direct agents of the Kremlin just before releasing the Trump Dossier document to Soros puppet, Sen. John McCain.

McCain, an avowed enemy of Trump, is the globalist senatorial actor who actually gave the fake Trump dossier to intelligence officials. McCain's involvement within all of this is the thing that has most likely been lost, somewhere in the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Soros, also a member of the CFR and a primary financier of Hillary's campaign, has been sponsoring efforts to destabilize both the US 2016 election and the US government, itself, through violent riots and open borders protests, was also a primary donor/instigator in the Ferguson protests, which saw both significant loss of life and property destruction.  

According to the Website Helena:

"Prior to founding FusionGPS,  writer Glenn Simpson worked for The International Assessment and Strategy Center which was founded by Arthur Waldron, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. 

Glenn Simpson

"FusionGPS founder Simpson also lived and studied in the Soviet Union.The Council on Foreign Relations is a DC think tank with a very muddy and controversial agenda most of which involve regime change and instigation of coups."

However, these connections, at least on their face, seem to wholly displace the more prevalent theory, mired within the straits of convention with one much more insidious, but which makes a great deal more sense.

It has been our observation, from the start, that Russia, has played the fool rather brilliantly throughout all of the Trump-Russia-collusion narrative scenarios, and has actually achieved its real and ultimate goal.

By using both the conventional & willingly complacent media and the Democrat political establishment, Russia has achieved its goal of completely hindering the new Trump administration.

Trump's "Make America Great Again" agenda is seeking to bring back America to its former positioning as leader of the Free World in matters both economic and international, in nature.

This goal neither squares with either Russia nor the Council on Foreign Relations, of which, states Global Research, in 1975, that powerful CFR insider and former Judge Advocate General of the US Navy, Admiral Chester Ward,wrote in his book entitled Kissinger on the Couch concerning the ultimate aim of the Council on Foreign Relations: 

"[The CFR has as a goal] submergence of US sovereignty and national independence into an all-powerful one-world government… this lust to surrender the sovereignty and independence of the United States is pervasive throughout most of the membership… In the entire CFR lexicon, there is no term of revulsion carrying a meaning so deep as "America First." 

Russia seems to have played a role in the interests of weakening the new US president while pretending to be an indirect ally, which seems to be supported by accounts of administrative insiders of virtually all former US presidents seeking to initially befriend the Russian leader and reach at least a form of parity with his political aims.

In effect,  it was Deep State members of the US government, including actors in US INTELLIGENCE AND US LAW ENFORCEMENT ENTITIES who were indirectly colluding with the Russians, rather than members of the Trump administration, which seems to fit the narrative going forward far more logically.

The rest of the story comes to us from the New York Post and writer  Paul Sperry:

The Senate Judiciary Committee earlier this month threatened to subpoena the firm, Fusion GPS after it refused to answer questions and provide records to the panel identifying who financed the error-ridden dossier, which was circulated during the election and has sparked much of the Russia scandal now engulfing the White House.

What is the company hiding?

Fusion GPS describes itself as a “research and strategic intelligence firm” founded by “three former Wall Street Journal investigative reporters.” But congressional sources say it’s actually an opposition-research group for Democrats, and the founders, who are more political activists than journalists, have a pro-Hillary, anti-Trump agenda. 

 “These weren’t mercenaries or hired guns,” a congressional source familiar with the dossier probe said. “These guys had a vested personal and ideological interest in smearing Trump and boosting Hillary’s chances of winning the White House.”

Fusion GPS was on the payroll of an unidentified Democratic ally of Clinton when it hired a long-retired British spy to dig up dirt on Trump. In 2012, Democrats hired Fusion GPS to uncover dirt on GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney. And in 2015, Democrat ally Planned Parenthood retained Fusion GPS to investigate pro-life activists protesting the abortion group.

More, federal records show a key co-founder and partner in the firm was a Hillary Clinton donor and supporter of her presidential campaign.

In September 2016, while Fusion GPS was quietly shopping the dirty dossier on Trump around Washington, its co-founder and partner Peter R. Fritsch contributed at least $1,000 to the Hillary Victory Fund and the Hillary For America campaign, Federal Election Commission data show. His wife also donated money to Hillary’s campaign.

Property records show that in June 2016, as Clinton allies bankrolled Fusion GPS, Fritsch bought a six-bedroom, five-bathroom home in Bethesda, Md., for $2.3 million.

Fritsch did not respond to requests for comment. A lawyer for Fusion GPS said the firm’s work is confidential.

Sources say Fusion GPS had its own interest, beyond those of its clients, in promulgating negative gossip about Trump.

The Senate Judiciary Committee is also investigating whether the FBI has wrongly relied on the anti-Trump dossier and its author, Christopher Steele — the old spy who was hired by Fusion GPS to build a Russia file on Trump — to aid its ongoing espionage investigation into the Trump campaign and its possible ties to Moscow.

The FBI received a copy of the Democrat-funded dossier in August, during the heat of the campaign, and is said to have contracted in October to pay Steele $50,000 to help corroborate the dirt on Trump — a relationship that “raises substantial questions about the independence” of the bureau in investigating Trump, warned Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa. 

Senate investigators are also demanding to see records of communications between Fusion GPS and the FBI and the Justice Department, including any contacts with former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, now under congressional investigation for possibly obstructing the Hillary Clinton email probe, and deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe, who is under investigation by the Senate and the Justice inspector general for failing to recuse himself despite financial and political connections to the Clinton campaign through his Democrat activist wife.

Senate investigators have singled out McCabe as the FBI official who negotiated with Steele. 

Like Fusion GPS, the FBI has failed to cooperate with congressional investigators seeking documents.

Steele contracted with Fusion GPS to investigate Trump’s ties to Russia starting in June 2016, whereupon he outlandishly claimed that Hillary campaign hackers were “paid by both Trump’s team and the Kremlin” and that the operation was run out of Putin’s office. He also fed Fusion GPS and its Hillary-allied clients incredulous gossip about Trump hating the Obama's so much that he hired hookers to urinate on a bed they slept in at the Moscow Ritz-Carlton, and that Russian intelligence recorded the pee party in case they needed to blackmail Trump."

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CRN Politics

By Barry Secrest

Unveiling this story, from 2011,  which belongs in the column of "what they're not telling you" seems more appropriate than ever, now that the left is essentially losing their minds over the GOP's partial repeal and correction of an already failed Obamacare.

Six years ago, today, in 2011, we reported the discovery, via Fox, that the Democrats' poorly executed error in the wording of the law, back in 2010, would result in an unintentional widening of Medicaid that would cost American taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars, unaccounted for in the original scoring of the bill.

It goes without saying that perhaps now would not be the best time to bring up the fact that the error originated from none other than self-described "Master Legislator"  &  "politically astute" speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, who was primarily in charge of the massive legislative goof-up, within the US House.

So, is she truly worth all the trouble?

In fact, that accidental widening of Medicaid is one of the very things that the GOP & Trump are looking to correct with their repeal and replacement of Obamacare and the correction to Medicaid.

It's this correction of the Dems' very expensive mistake that is what essentially has the Dems screaming bloody murder.  They apparently do not wish for their mistake to be corrected; imagine that.

But, the Democrats, supposedly, have forgotten about their grievous error, which was never truly accounted for in budgeting, and which also goes to why Obamacare is failing much earlier than originally anticipated.

The story, in our archives from June 23rd, 2011, was originally written by Shannon Bream of Fox News and appears below:

"Back in March 2010, then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif, uttered the now-famous words, "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy." Pelosi was talking about the health care law, and it appears she was right about the fact that it was full of unknowns.

It turns out that, due to a glitch in the law, roughly three million middle-income Americans could wind up on Medicaid - which was designed to assist the country's poorest citizens.

"It's gonna cost about $450 billion over 10 years," Senator John Barrasso. R-Wyo., who is also a surgeon, warns. Barrasso says it's yet another burden for average Americans. "Who's gonna pay for that - the taxpayers, people who are paying their bills every day," he says.

Democrats acknowledge there is a problem within the health care law that could have an unintended impact on Medicaid.

"I do think that between now and 2014, sooner rather than later, we should go back and take another look at this," Congressman Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., said Wednesday. Van Hollen also admitted that the potential snafu was discussed while the health care law was being drafted. It stems from a problem about how the word "income" is defined under the law now - and how that definition is set to change.

Richard S. Foster, Chief Actuary for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, says it's a worry that keeps him up at night. "We need to do something about this," he said.

The Obama administration, via a blog, concedes there is trouble. Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary Richard Sorian wrote, "We are concerned that ... some middle-income Americans may be receiving coverage through Medicaid, which is meant to serve only the neediest Americans." As for what HHS plans to do, Sorian says, "We are exploring options to address this issue."

The issue of millions of additional Medicaid participants was hardly the only health care headache for the administration on Wednesday. Several House GOP lawmakers went public with their demand to know more about who has - and hasn't - been granted a waiver from the law's requirements - and why. Led by Congressman Tim Huelskamp, R-Kan., the group sent a letter to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on June 2. Today - they announced they have yet to receive a response.

"If Obamacare is so good, if it is so good, why all the waivers?" Huelskamp asked. He also lamented the administration's "lack of transparency."

On Friday the administration announced that no more waivers will be considered after September 22. That promise made no difference to Congressman Joe Walsh, R-Ill., who said, "Regular folks around the country are still going to be stuck ... because they don't have the power or influence to get an exemption."

CRN Politics

By Barry Secrest

Rasmussen Polling, which has been slated as one of the top polling firms for 2016 in terms of accuracy, has released its latest poll on President Trump’s popularity.

The stunning polling numbers show a virtual voter mandate of 50% approval, which starkly belies the sniping narrative of the Deep State-controlled traditional media.

No doubt, many within both the inner beltway and the urgently co-opted mass media, and of course the shadow government, will be stunned and dismayed to learn that their withering invective, aimed directly at Trump, has had little if any overall effect on how the American people see their duly-elected leader.

Trump, with his staunchly conservative/pro-America agenda, has smashed into the “red line” of Obama’s negatively transformative post-America agenda & is effectively shredding the former president’s architecture of US decline.

Trump’s agenda, as most Americans are only now beginning to realize, is in full opposition to the globalist aims of the Deep State and its efforts in conjunction with both the unelected elite and UN Agenda’s 21 and 30.

These UN aims are consigned, in part, towards a planetary redistribution of both wealth & power to be divided among the nations and the primary loser in this impetus, is America, itself.

The rest of the story from Rasmussen:

“The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 50% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Fifty percent (50%) disapprove.

This is the first time the president’s overall approval rating has hit the 50% mark since late April. His approval rating has ranged from a high of 59% in late January shortly after he took office to a low of 42% in early April.

The latest figures include 31% who Strongly Approve of the way Trump is performing and 42% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of -11. (see trends).

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