Tunnel Wall: Oct 26, 2017

Thursday, October 26, 2017

Some posts on Uranium One

FBI Informant in Uranium One case cleared to testify . . . "The Clinton Foundation received $145 million in donations laundered through foreign countries just prior to the sale of 20% of the United States uranium reserves to Russia.

Clinton calls the investigations “bologna” that has “been debunked.” The informant’s testimony will surely test her assertion.

President Trump Personally Lifted the Gag Order on the Informant . . . "A recent letter indicates that the Clinton campaign and the DNC paid for the research but Hillary Clinton, John Podesta, and Debbie Wassermann-Schultz have all denied any knowledge of the dossier or the money they used to pay for it.
"Mark Stewart, general counsel for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, testified three days ago that Christopher Steele, the author of the Dossier, has been working as a contractor for the FBI for years.
"The FBI has been contracting out to a potentially compromised individual apparently – a foreign spy. Why isn’t the FBI using their own people to investigate? They use foreign spies close the Kremlin to do their work? I guess there is a lot we don’t understand."

Pelosi Forgets, Then Laughs At Investigation Into Hillary Clinton’s Involvement In Uranium Sales To Russia…

Adam Schiff: Uranium One Probe Part of a Distraction Pushed by White House, Fox, Breitbart "Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, is not enamored with the idea of that body poking around on the Uranium One deal — investigating the actions of then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as it relates to a Uranium transfer to Russia. And he thinks he knows why the investigation is happening in the first place."

These are the people running this nation

Why Trump Is Right about North Korea

The National Interest

"In terms of defending the homeland from Kim Jong-un, President Trump’s risk calculus is spot-on."

"The portrayals of both North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and U.S. president Donald Trump as bombastic egoists reacting emotionally seem to have become hackneyed as tensions continue to rise on the Korean Peninsula. But reducingthe sophomoric rhetoric between the two men to mere chauvinistic posturing fails to reveal the genius underlying the Trump administration’s pressure campaign.

"President Trump’s tweets, while drawing the ire of both sides of the aisle, shatter the North Korean image of Kim Jong-un and force him to react from a position of weakness on terms dictated by the United States. To understand why Trump’s rhetoric is so effective, one must consider the president’s target audience.

"Kim Jong-un spent his early life in Switzerland, and was thrust into the spotlight prematurely due both to his father’s death and to the various inadequacies and indiscretions rendering his two elder brothers unfit to lead. To compensate for the twentysomething’s inexperience and lack of notoriety, North Korean officials began a relentless campaign to create the supreme myth of their new supreme leader. In an effort to reverse the growing resentment towards senior leaders brought on by his father’s reclusiveness and the memory of the terrible famine of the 1990s, through which the current generation came of age, Kim Jong-un was modeled as the reincarnation of his grandfather, Kim Il-sung.

"Prior to taking power, the younger Kim attended the Kim Il-sung Military Academy to establish his military bona fides before being commissioned a four-star general . . ." Michael McLaughlin

Donald Trump Jr. Suggests The DOJ Is Vindictively Going After Hillary Clinton

Interesting conversations to come around the Trump Thanksgiving table.

LawNuze

"President Donald Trump‘s older son today sent a tweet suggesting that the Department of Justice was being used to go after his father’s one-time political rival Hillary Clinton.

"While linking to a Fox News story titled, “DOJ lists gag order, allows FBI informant to testify on Russian Uranium Deal in front of Congress,” Donald Trump Jr. added his own brief bit of commentary. He simply wrote:

Happy birthday Hillary. 🎂

"The story Trump Jr. linked to concerns the broader scandal currently engulfing the Clintons, their foundation, and key figures in the Barack Obama administration after recent revelations that Obama’s Department of Justice and FBI kept mum for years as Russian criminals routed millions to the Clinton Foundation while seeking and receiving a favorable decision for Moscow on an energy project.

"The scandal has created an appearance of impropriety for the Obama-era officials involved.

"David Klion, a former editor for Al Jazeera America, perhaps summed up the mood of liberal Americans likely to be frustrated by Trump Junior’s mean-spirited tweet." . . .

The apple didn't fall too far from the tree I guess

Is a media reckoning looming for Hillary?

Thomas Lifson

"Conservatives who despise the MSM often forget that journalists are human beings, too, and one thing that journalists hate is being played for patsies. People go into journalism in part to demonstrate their penetrating acumen, able to explain to others what really is happening. Being played in public threatens their self-concept.

"The mainstream media may be populated by progressives, but there are residual pockets of professional integrity left. There are signs that blinders may be slipping from the eyes of some at the pinnacle of MSM prestige, now that they know that they have been manipulated and deceived.

"For example, Callum Borchers, a reporter not an opinion journalist for the Washington Post, called out the Hillary campaign for double dealing after Buzzfeed first published the Steele Dossier that we now know Hillary’s people paid for." . . .

Tell me again, why does Hollywood pat itself on the back?

americanthinker.com

Hollywood's image of itself as morally enlightened has been destroyed
. . . "The popularity of Communism in Hollywood, and Jane Fonda’s visit to Hanoi during the Vietnam War, didn’t much alter Hollywood’s view of itself either. If you asked movie people to describe their politics, they’d say it boils down to supporting the underdog, and maybe opposing war. Who was a bigger underdog than the ragtag North Vietnamese forces against a massive industrialized army? Jane Fonda won an Oscar before she went to Hanoi to cheer for our enemy, and she won another one just seven years later. As for the Reds and fellow travelers who attained many positions of power and influence in the movie business, to Hollywood the only real scandal there was the McCarthyite reaction that sidelined some highly talented people. The blacklisted Hollywood Ten became underdogs, victims of oppression and hence icons within the business. At no point did Hollywood as a whole question its own patriotism." . . .
Full article at National Review