Adam Schiff on the case (updated, because the new posts were too good not to place here)

"Goodman notes that Schiff’s office said Schiff suspected the call was “bogus” from the beginning and reported it to authorities afterward. But in a recording of the eight minute conversation, Goodman adds, Schiff appeared to take the call seriously and emails from the Democrat’s staff to the fake politician afterwards said he had found it “productive.' ”

Rich Terrell

Power Line  "The Daily Mail’s Alana Goodman reports on one piece of the investigative work ranking House Intelligence Committee member Adam Schiff has performed in search of the Trump campaign’s collusion with Russia and posts the companion audio below. This is great stuff. I can’t wait for the customary press conference." . . .

. . . “There were pictures of naked Trump,” one of the pranksters told Schiff, explaining that they were obtained by Putin’s goddaughter."Schiff asks: “And the materials you can provide to the committee and to the FBI, would they corroborate this allegation? … So you have recordings… where they’re discussing the compromising material?”“Obviously we would welcome the chance to get copies of those recordings,” Schiff tells them. “So we will try to work with the FBI to try to figure out how we can take copies of those… I’ll be in touch with the FBI about this, and we’ll make arrangements with your staff. I think it would be best to provide these materials to both our committee and the FBI. We’ll make arrangements between my staff and yours on how to facilitate that.” . . .

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Update:  Adam Schiff Fooled by Russian Pranksters Claiming Putin Had Nude Photos of Trump  . . . "Another important thing that this story makes clear is that foreigners can apparently get direct access to the upper echelons of the Democratic Party power structure and influence their investigations disturbingly easily. If Democrats can’t even do a basic Google search to see who the chairman of the Ukrainian parliament actually is before clearing an imposter to speak to a top-level House member with access to classified information, then how can we trust them to competently investigate anything of significance?"

Update: "This is just too ironic… in fact, it’s hilarious."

"This was first dug up by The Atlantic, but they didn’t disclose how Schiff’s staff member went about pursuing the information after the call. Schiff’s office said the congressman suspected the call was ‘bogus’ from the beginning and reported it to authorities afterward. Really? Because it sure doesn’t look that way. "

So who is Rheanne Wirkkala?

Rheanne Wirkkala

Policy Director, Minority*, U.S. House of Representatives, Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

Washington, District Of Columbia

Government Administration

Current	U.S. House of Representatives
Education	Yale University

*Minority = Democrats = Adam Schiff

"Guess Where That $1.7 Billion Obama Gave The Iranians? You Guessed It, Right To Terrorists"

Weasel Zippers

Washington Times  "The U.S. government has traced some of the $1.7 billion released to Iran by the Obama administration to Iranian-backed terrorists in the two years since the cash was transferred.

"According to knowledgeable sources, Iran has used the funds to pay its main proxy, the Lebanon-based terrorist group Hezbollah, along with the Quds Force, Iran’s main foreign intelligence and covert action arm and element of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.

"The U.S. money supplied to Iran as part of an arms settlement dating back to the 1970s also has been traced to Iran’s backing of Houthi rebels seeking to take power in Yemen. Iran has been supporting the Yemen rebels as part of a bid to encircle and eventually take control of Saudi Arabia.

"The intelligence tracing the American funds to Iranian-backed terrorists is likely to further fuel President Trump’s effort to undo the Iran nuclear deal, the Obama administration’s main foreign policy initiative codified in the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, as the Iran nuclear deal is called.

"Despite promises to reject the deal during the presidential campaign, Mr. Trump announced in January the U.S. would not pull out of the Iran nuclear accord for now. But the president criticized the transfer of money to Tehran and signaled that Washington is going after Iran’s funding of terrorism." . . .

After #BLM Olympic Skater Shani Davis Attacks ‘White’ US Teammate, He Gets Brutal Karma

An unerasable legacy of Barack Obama. 

Rebecca Diserio  "United States speedskater Shani Davis seems to have heavy “Black Lives Matter” delusions. Davis is making negative headlines for Team USA after he decided to viciously attack his fellow teammate, US luge bronze medalist Erin Hamlin. What’s his beef with Hamlin? She’s white, and she’s just been given an honor he says is pure racism at work. Well, now he is looking like a fool as he got a dose of well-deserved, brutal karma."

"It was a feel-good story for a few hours: luge veteran Erin Hamlin got the chance to enter her last Olympics carrying the US flag into the opening ceremony of the Pyeongchang Games, winning that distinction after a vote by some of her fellow athletes. But, then, US speedskater Shani Davis had to ruin it for everyone, pulling the race card.

. . . "With that, the entire process was called into controversy. In a tweet posted to Davis’ account, he said the process by which Hamlin won was executed “dishonorably,” and included a reference to Black History Month, raising the question of whether the speedskater was suggesting Hamlin got the nod due to pure racism.

. . . 

"But, there’s one part of this controversy that is going to make you really understand just how delusional and racist Davis really is, and it has to do with how Erin Hamlin was picked in the first place.

.  .  . "When a decision couldn’t be made, a coin was tossed and Hamlin was awarded the honor,” reports Yahoo News.

"So, Shani Davis is implying that the coin toss was racist. Wow. Most Americans are shaking their heads as they contemplate how sick the entire Black Lives Matter movement has made our country." . . . 

. . . "Shani Davis is what happens when we live under a race-baiting president like Barack Obama who basically said Trayvon Martin could have been his son and judges cops as guilty before any trial occurs, like in Ferguson, Missouri. Well, thank God for that coin toss. Now, patriotic Americans can be proud as Erin Hamlin holds Old Glory high at the opening ceremonies in South Korea."

Guess what we'll be seeing at the Olympics. TD

Take the 'Racist Xenophobe' Quiz: Who Said This About Illegal Immigration?

Larry Elder

"Which alleged "racist xenophobe" made these statements about illegal immigration?
"Those who enter the country illegally and those who employ them disrespect the rule of law, and they are showing disregard for those who are following the law. We simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented (and) unchecked, and circumventing the line of people who are waiting patiently, diligently and lawfully to become immigrants in this country."

A) Adolf Hitler
B) Donald Trump
C) Barack Obama

"Answer: Then-Sen. Obama, news conference, 2005

"Our administration has moved aggressively to secure our borders more by hiring a record number of new border guards, by deporting twice as many criminal aliens as ever before, by cracking down on illegal hiring, by barring welfare benefits to illegal aliens."

A) Joseph Stalin
B) Donald Trump
C) Bill Clinton

"Answer: President Clinton, State of the Union address, 1995

"If making it easy to be an illegal alien isn't enough, how about offering an award to be an illegal immigrant. No sane country would do that, right? Guess again."
. . . 
Full article here.

"Not long ago, both Democrats and Republicans advocated safe, secure borders and an immigration policy of admitting immigrants who benefit, not burden, Americans. Que paso?"

Carter Page: Agent 000

Ann Coulter  "If you’ve been watching MSNBC and, consequently, have no idea what was in the CONTROVERSIAL! DISPUTED! AMATEURISH! memo released by the House Intelligence Committee (the “Nunes memo”), here is a brief summary:

"The Hillary Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee paid a Trump-hating British private eye, Christopher Steele, to produce a “dossier” on Trump, relying on Russian sources.

"The Department of Justice used the unverified dossier to obtain a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant against Carter Page, an alleged “foreign policy adviser” to Donald Trump and the last frayed thread of the Russian collusion story. The FISA court was not told who had paid Steele to create the “salacious and unverified” dossier – in the words of the showboating former FBI Director James Comey – much less about Steele’s personal hatred of Trump.

"After 18 months of steely-eyed investigation, the only parts of the dossier that have been “confirmed” are bland factual statements – Moscow is a city in Russia – while the untrue parts are anything having to do with Trump or his associates.

"As New York Times national security reporter Matthew Rosenberg explained to MSNBC’s easily excited Chris Hayes last March:

“Both journalists and others who had copies of it for a long time have not been able to report much of it out. We’ve heard that, you know, the FBI and the Intelligence Community believe about 30 percent of it may be accurate, but most of that 30 percent, if not all, has been non-Trump stuff.”

"Four points:" . . .

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Scary to consider She Who Would Have Been President

FBI Missed Clinton Emails Openly MARKED Classified, Wanted To Conclude Probe Before IG Caught Mistake

"The FBI didn’t flag that some emails from Hillary Clinton’s private email server were marked classified with a “(C)” when they were sent — something that seemingly would have been one of the first and most obvious checks in an investigation, and one that FBI agents instantly recognized put the facts at odds with Clinton’s public statements.
"The Intelligence Community Inspector General noticed it after the FBI missed it, texts between FBI agent Peter Strzok and his mistress, FBI lawyer Lisa Page, reveal. “Holy cow,” Strzok wrote, “if the FBI missed this, what else was missed?' ” . . .

Photo Of Man Using Body To Shield Stranger From Vegas Shooter Went Viral, Then We Learn His Identity

American Overlook

. . . "Cobos did what he was trained to do – protect innocent Americans from terrorists like Paddock. As the murderer shot thousands of rounds of ammunition upon the crowd of 22,000 music lovers, he had little regard for human life.

"Cobos on the other hand still had hope. And as he shielded the young woman from the bullets, he kept her eyes covered. He didn’t want her to have nightmares from all the dead bodies and blood around them.

"Moments after the photo was taken, Cobos led the woman behind a nearby car where they sought protection from Paddock’s bullets.

"After rescuing the woman, Cobos then used his belt as a tourniquet to help curb the bleeding other victims had. Beyond that, he also used his fingers to block bullet holes and prevent bleeding. He was a true hero when duty called.

"Since the nightmarish country concert, Cobos has told his close relatives and friends that he heard bullets ricocheting off the ground. Paddock was aiming for him, but the Army soldier managed to evade the murderer’s bullets.

"As you can imagine, this image has stirred up a lot of emotions for people across the internet. Here were a few shared on MailOnline.

“To him and anyone else who showed bravery of the highest level that night, medals of honor should be given. And knowing Trump, I bet he will be happy to do it.”
“I only hope I would display the courage this man did – kudos!!!!!!!” . . .

FISA-gate Is Scarier than Watergate; "The press used to uncover government wrongdoing. Today’s press is defending it"

American Thinker cartoons

National Review  "The Watergate scandal of 1972–74 was uncovered largely because of outraged Democratic politicians and a bulldog media. They both claimed that they had saved American democracy from the Nixon administration’s attempt to warp the CIA and FBI to cover up an otherwise minor, though illegal, political break-in. 

"In the Iran-Contra affair of 1985–87, the media and liberal activists uncovered wrongdoing by some rogue members of the Reagan government. They warned of government overreach and of using the “Deep State” to subvert the law for political purposes.

"We are now in the midst of a third great modern scandal. Members of the Obama administration’s Department of Justice sought court approval for the surveillance of Carter Page, allegedly for colluding with Russian interests, and extended the surveillance three times.

" But none of these government officials told the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that the warrant requests were based on an unverified dossier that had originated as a hit piece funded in part by the Hillary Clinton campaign to smear Donald Trump during the current 2016 campaign. 

"Nor did these officials reveal that the author of the dossier, Christopher Steele, had already been dropped as a reliable source by the FBI for leaking to the press." . . .

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/456183/fisa-memo-scarier-watergate

Obama Knew About Details of Clinton Email Probe

"Keep this in mind: During the timeframe of the worst of the [IRS] scandal, then-IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman visited the Obama White House 157 times."

Pelosi celebrates her grandson's racial self-hatred in marathon House speech

Thomas Lifson  "It was inevitable that when speaking for 8 straight hours on the House floor, Nancy Pelosi would spout some crazy nonsense. But I was not prepared for what only can be called a depraved celebration of racial self-hatred. The muddled state of her thinking was on display when she spoke praise of her grandson wishing he were not white. Tucker Carlson captured the pathetic nature of her celebration of racial self-hatred when she said:" . . .

I’m reminded of my own grandson. He had a very close friend whose name is Antonio, is he from Guatemala. And he has beautiful, tan skin, beautiful brown eyes. And the rest. And this was such a proud day for me because when my grandson blew out the candles on his cake, they said did you make a wish? And he said yes, I made a wish.
I said what is your wish? He said I wish I had brown skin and brown eyes like Antonio. So beautiful. So beautiful. The beauty is in the mix.

. . . "Applying the same logic to her sample of one, Pelosi ought to conclude that the last several decades of nonstop idealization of nonwhites and denigration of Caucasians has had harmful effects on her grandson. Unfortunately for her, the impetus behind that racism is her own party’s drive for power by means of the left’s creating and then exploiting racial resentment among minorities, who then give their loyalty to Democrats as their presumed protectors from the evil Caucasoids around them." . . .

Pelosi urges no budget deal without protection for Dreamers

Chris Matthews: Republicans Attack Pelosi Because She’s an ‘Ethnic’ Person   "When did Pelosi become an ethnic person? It’s not as if she’s a Native American like Elizabeth Warren."

Black Caucus Members Refuse To Denounce Hate Group Leader Louis Farrakhan

Daily Caller

"Twenty-one members of the Congressional Black Caucus facing questions about their ties to Nation of Islam chief Louis Farrakhan have all refused to condemn the hate group leader.

"The CBC, it was recently revealed, held a secret meeting with Farrakhan in 2005 but hid it from the public to avoid controversy. Twenty-one members of the caucus today were part of the caucus at the time of the secret Farrakhan meeting. All 21 declined to denounce Farrakhan when asked by The Daily Caller.

"The Nation of Islam is so extreme that even the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center recognizes it as a hate group, citing the group’s “theology of innate black superiority over whites and the deeply racist, anti-Semitic and anti-gay rhetoric of its leaders.”

"Farrakhan has praised Hitler, claimed Jews are “Satantic” and said that white people “deserve to die,” among other racist and anti-Semitic statements." . . .

 (RELATED: John Lewis Claims Trump’s’‘DNA’ Makes Him Racist [VIDEO])

New FBI Texts Implicate Obama. You can tell you've struck his nerve when he says........

Rush Limbaugh  "RUSH: We now have more evidence via the text messages from Strzok and Lisa Page that this is all about Obama. That everything here is about protecting Obama, not just Hillary, in order to protect Obama. And I’m talking about the corruption that was the Obama presidency and specifically the corruption of the intelligence agencies and the FBI, well, the entire DOJ.

"And I think one of the primary reasons they all wanted Hillary to win was to make sure we never knew any of what we now do know. That was the primary goal of having Hillary Clinton win was to be able to continue to mask and cover up and hide what Obama and his administration had been doing."

Chris Wallace is interviewing Obama. Question: “Some people are worried that the decision how to handle the case…” This is the Clinton email story. “Some people are worried that the decision how to handle the case will be made on political grounds, not legal grounds. Can you guarantee to the American people, Mr. Obama…? Can you direct the Justice Department to say Hillary Clinton will be treated as the evidence goes. She will not be in any way protected?”
OBAMA: I can guarantee that. And I can guarantee that not because I give, uh, Attorney General Lynch a directive. That is institutionally how we have always operated. I do not talk to the attorney general about pending investigations. I do not talk to FBI directors about pending investigations. We have a strict line, uh, and always have maintained it through this, previous presidents.
WALLACE: So just to button this up —
OBAMA: I guarantee it.
WALLACE: You?

OBAMA: I guarantee you that there is no political influence in any investigation conducted by the Justice Department or the FBI, not just in this case, but in any case.

WALLACE: And she will be —
OBAMA: Full stop! Period!
WALLACE: And she will be treated no differently?
OBAMA: Guaranteed. Full stop. Nobody gets treated differently when it comes to the Justice Department because nobody is above the law.
WALLACE: Even if she ends up as the Democratic nom —
OBAMA: How many times do I have to say it, Chris?* Guaranteed.
RUSH: Right. How many times did he say it? All right. Now let’s go to the next bite. Same show, April 10, 2016, Wallace says, “Last October, you said that Hillary Clinton’s private email server did not jeopardize national secrets. Since then we’ve learned that over 2,000 of her emails contain classified material. Twenty-two of the emails contained top secret information. Can you still say flatly that she did not jeopardize America’s secrets?”
OBAMA: Here’s what I know: Hillary Clinton was an outstanding secretary of state.
. . . 
OBAMA: She would never intentionally put America in any kind of jeopardy.
. . . 
OBAMA: And what I also know because I handle a lot of classified information, uh, is that there’s classified and then there’s classified. There’s stuff that is really top secret top secret —
. . . 
OBAMA: — and there’s stuff that is being presented to the president or the secretary of state that you might not want on the transom, uh, or, you know, going out over the wire but is basically stuff that you could get in open source.

"RUSH: Okay. So let’s put this all together. Strzok texts, her to him, “We gotta get Comey fully up to speed because POTUS wants to know everything.” Meanwhile, Obama said, “Nah! There’s never, never any crossover. I never tell the DOJ what to do. I don’t care! I never interfere. There’s a line that we don’t cross. Guaranteed we don’t cross it. We never do cross it. I never tell Lynch; I never do anything.” But yet Lisa Page tells Strzok, “We gotta be thorough. POTUS wants to know everything.' ”

All text above from The Rush Limbaugh Show

 *Obama does not like to be challenged. One tell he has when an interviewer irritates him is to begin his answer with "Look......" 

Tony Branco

Also here: Newly-released Strzok-Page lovebird text messages: 'potus wants to know everything we're doing'  By Thomas Lifson.

Up until the present moment, Barack Obama has been missing in all the discussions of surveillance misbehavior. And most curiously, Obama has been almost invisible, staying quiet, and not using his expensive Washington, DC mansion (shared with [Valerie] Jarrett) as a base for leading the opposition to President Trump, as many of us expected him to do. 

Are progressives really smarter, as Jimmy Kimmel claims?

Steve Deace

"Newly appointed progressive prophet Jimmy Kimmel said this week, “It just so happens that almost every talk show host is a liberal and that’s because it requires a level of intelligence.”

"Want to test that theory? Is it true that being a progressive makes you smarter, as Kimmel claims? Fair enough. By their fruits you will know them.

"So let’s look at their fruits.

"*Comedian Sarah Silverman said during a telethon to support abortions — hosted by something called Lady Parts Justice — that a pro-life conscience law “would make her want to eat an aborted fetus.” Such a MENSA-level comment was made during a super smart game called “abortion charades,” which featured a woman wearing a vagina costume. Because apparently cannibalism is the new four-dimensional chess.

"*MSNBC “reporter” Katy Tur made it condescendingly clear that “choice” is a theory you only get to use for killing babies, not having them. " . . .

"*A man dressed as woman harassed a woman who was defending sexual assault victims, and the weird dude was awarded the win from the SJW cult. Actress Rose McGowan, who helped call out Harvey Weinstein, was speaking about her new book when a trans-splainer interrupted her and told her that wearing a dress when you have a penis is a much tougher cross to bear than being raped.  . . .