Tag: Politics

Daily Check-In 03/21/2018

Wednesday March 21st.  First day of Spring.

FDoS

 

 

CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA AND FACEBOOK

 

So, Cambridge Analytica is under so much scrutiny, the Mercer’s are trying to move everything over to a new company called Emerdata, but in the process they were caught, and their ties to Erik Prince have come forward.

This is big.

One major part of a conspiracy is getting everyone together for a common purpose.  Who’s involved, and how do they know each other?  How do they communicate?

Years ago, in an argument with someone who turned out to be a Russian Troll (I didn’t know it at the time, but is was during the ClimateGate scandal).  I posited what I call the Lunch Theorem of Conspiracies to debunk their claims of a global conspiracy of climatologists trying to rig data to cripple the oil industry.  It goes like this…

If the members of the conspiracy have not met for lunch at some point, there is not a conspiracy.

Lunch is one of the most basic tasks of existence, yet coordinating groups of people to eat together is a pain in the ass.  Something always goes wrong where one party has something that comes up, or someone doesn’t want to eat with someone else in the group, or just as everyone agrees to ribs, the vegan shows up.

A conspiracy to steal the Presidency is much more advanced than getting lunch, and one thing that’s always racked my brain was how do all of these people and parts fit together.  When did they have lunch?  Who hosted lunch?

Seeing that CA worked with parties connected to Erik Prince makes things like the Alfa Bank Server described in Daily Check-In 02/20/2018 fall into place.

 

MUELLER AND RUSSIA

Mueller has been looking into Trump’s ties to CA for a while, but this story coming out now shows that he’s far ahead of the game.

Active FBI Director Andrew McCabe had investigated Attorney General Jeff Sessions for possible perjury charges and his connections to Russia.  Let me repeat that.

THE FBI DIRECTOR WAS FIRED BY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL TWO DAYS BEFORE RETIREMENT AFTER INVESTIGATING THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR POSSIBLE FELONIES.

 

AUSTIN

I mentioned yesterday in Daily Check-In 03/20/2018 about how fast the bomber could be found with the data available from a logistics company.

The terrorist was a home-schooled religious extremists who likely was radicalized further online.  The only thing missing at this point is a red cap.

 

#NEVERAGAIN

The March For Our Lives is this Saturday.  Find a location near you.

 

STORMYWATCH, FROM THE STORMCENTER 6000 METEOROPORNOLOGICAL CENTER

I’ve decided to include all of the sex-related issues and lawsuits under Stormywatch.

 

WHITE HOUSE CHAOS

Sometimes I wonder how much doesn’t get out.  Other times, I wonder how much they have to drink to make their jobs tolerable.  20 years from now there will be a spike in failing livers from the D.C. area that need replaced.

 

CONSERVATIVES, NOT NATIONALISTS; OR, HOW NOT TO GOVERN

“A big part of Breitbart’s success was that there was a niche to be filled that Fox News was not able to fill at that point,” said Faris, who co-authored a study on the conservative media ecosystem during the election. But now, with Fox‘s primetime hosts having fully embraced the president, he says, “The role, the importance of Breitbart is diminished.”

Gee, who would have thought that more women are leaving the Party that attacks a woman’s right to safe medical care, reproductive choice, belittles their opinions and endorsed a misogynist and rapist as President.

 

TRUMP ORG AND CORRUPTION, FROM THE WATER IS WET DEPARTMENT

  • Republican National Committee spent $271K at Trump’s businesses last month: report
  • Donald Trump Jr. Had an Affair With Aubrey O’Day During Vanessa Marriage 
  • Donald Trump Jr. Pushed ‘Blatantly Illegal’ Project In India, Former Official Says — ‘Trump, Inc.’ Podcast

    The Trumps’ first India project, in Mumbai, was halted in early 2012 after investigators found significant “irregularities.” The investigators had been tipped off by a state lawmaker who suspected a $100 million fraud scheme and warned of “gross violations” in the project’s plans. Authorities revoked the building’s permits. A few months later, in April 2012, Trump Jr. traveled to Mumbai and, along with partners, met with a top official there to try to get the project restarted. Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan declined.

    The Trumps were back in India in 2014, after a new government came into power, Narendra Modi’s BJP. The Trump Tower Mumbai — a gold-hued skyscraper that the Trump Organization bills as “unlike anything you have ever seen”—is now slated to finished next year. It is one of five Trump-affiliated projects currently under development in India.

     

  • Kushner’s N.J. Trump Tower Got $200 Million Loan From Citigroup

    Trump Bay Street, a New Jersey luxury apartment tower part-owned by Kushner Cos., received a $200 million loan from Citigroup, according to two people familiar with the deal.

    It’s a coup for Kushner Cos. and their partner KABR Group, which need the funds to repay a construction loan that came due in September, as well as individual Chinese investors who put $50 million in the building through a visa-for-investment program. The companies had trouble finding lenders last year after Jared Kushner’s sister traveled to China, Bloomberg reported at the time.

 

 

 

 

  • Summons Issued For Trump In Emoluments Case

    A lawsuit filed by D.C. and Maryland against President Trump over his alleged business conflicts has been expanded to include Trump in his personal capacity as a businessman, which means that a summons has been sent to perhaps the most famous address in Washington: 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

What I really like about this lawsuit is that it comes from two Local AG’s suing on behalf of hotels in their jurisdictions that are losing business to Trump Org.

 

CAN WE GET BACK TO POLITICS?

 

 

RUMOR MILL:  NADER GETS IMMUNITY AND FACEBOOK RAGE

Dr. Dena has a very good, in-depth, and emoji-filled thread about George Nader, Elliot Broidy, and who Nader can deliver.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The knives are out for Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and his cronies.  Each and every shitty thing he’s done, said, place he’s been to or shitty person he’s hung out with is coming to the surface.

Two of the themes going around are Zuckerberg’s money ties to Russia, which I’ve covered before, and his Presidential ambitions.

During 2017, there was a lot of talk about how he was angling for a possible Presidential campaign in either 2020 or 2024.  He was traveling around the country, hanging out with politicos, and had claimed that he “found God”.

I was always suspicious of that move myself.  Zuckerberg was an outspoken atheist for years.  Being an atheist in America is becoming a little more accepted, but they’re still one of the least trusted groups in the country.  Saying that one doesn’t believe in a diety is political suicide in America.  Meanwhile, proclaiming one’s faith is almost a prerequisite for drawing voters.  It’s not enough to quietly believe, but one has to be loud and obnoxious about it.

So, when Zuckerberg said that he “found God,” my first thought was “Fuck, is that obnoxious shit going to run for office?”  Then, he went on a tour of the Midwest states like Iowa and Kansas.  That confirmed it for me.

Now, he’s in a world of shit, and I hope it gets worse.  Facebook’s business model is selling data.  We’re not users of Facebook, we’re the commodity.

 

That’s it for today.  I’m running behind today, and a little tired.  I’ve been playing with a different format the last few days, mainly because I’m grabbing a lot of news articles about groups of subjects.  One thing that bothers me with modern reporting is the mini-story.  500 words about one sound byte from another report, then another 500 words about another sound byte, then another article, and so on and so on.  I’m over 2200 words right now, but I’m also long-winded.  I’ll see how this format works for another day or so.  I’ll keep it if I like it.  If not, I’ll use it when needed.

 

Thank you, and have a good one.

 

“Without Journalists, it’s just propaganda.”

– Katy Tur

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Daily Check-In 03/20/2018

Tuesday March 20th.

 

CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg ghosted recently, and spent the last couple months selling off stock.  The U.S. and U.K. want him to appear before their governments to answer questions.  And I’ve talked before about his taking Russian money, and screwing over Ukraine.

Massachusettes, New Jersey, New York, U.K., and U.S. governments are investigating CA.  Probably a dozen more states will join in by the end of the week.

Ted Cruz and Thom Tillis used CA to win their most recent elections.

Spicy has the paperwork to show they took their services.

The Mercer family gave CA a ton of money to push their right-wing agenda, and to attack democracy around the world.

Remember when I talked about Steve Bannon flipping on the Mercer family and CA to avoid the death penalty? (Check Daily Check-In 01/05/2018 in the Rumor Mill for that one.). Hearing these accusations about CA’s work come from the Mainstream Media, and the near complete absence of Steve Bannon adds a little credence to those rumors.  Of course, Daily Check-In 02/15/2018 had Bannon interviewing with Mueller for 20 hours to further keep Bannon from getting charged with capital crimes.

Yes, I’m talking about the death penalty.  This is just the beginning.

HOLY FUCK, MARK WARNER JUST IMPLICATED THE RUSSIANS IN BREXIT!  I’ve mentioned more than a few times before that the Russians were involved in Brexit, and that Cambridge Analytica played a major role in it.

 

MUELLER AND TRUMP-RUSSIA

The leader of the Free World does not congratulate a dictator on winning a rigged, sham election.

Fox News Commentator Ralph Peters, a retired Lt. Colonel, quit the company after a decade on the air.

“Fox News is assaulting our constitutional order and the rule of law… Fox has degenerated…to a mere propaganda machine for a destructive and ethically ruinous administration”

I first mentioned on Daily Check-In 9/21/2017 some rumors that Fox News was under investigation for pushing Russian propaganda, per Louise Mensch at Patribotics.  Since then, I’ve seen several stories leaning that way, including the Seth Rich lawsuits and Fox News’s constant disinformation.

As far as Mueller, the Republican leadership in Congress says that they don’t need legislation to protect Mueller because “Trump gave them assurances that he won’t try to fire Mueller.”  MOTHER FUCKER, HE DONE TRIED TWICE ALREADY.

But, this does answer a question I had about Paul Ryan.  How full of shit does a spineless person have to be to sit up?  ANSWER:  This much.

 

TRUMP’S LEGAL TEAM

Ted Olson has been approached multiple times in the last year, and once again gave Trump the “Thanks, but no thanks” treatment.

Here’s the problem with Trump and lawyers; he’s incapable of taking their advice.  Trump views anyone taking his money as an inferior, not an expert brought in to perform a special skill.  He can’t take their advice or counsel.  Instead, he sees their job as to listen to him, follow his orders, and make his will reality.

Plus, he doesn’t pay his bills.  There’s a lot of crap that a lawyer will put up with, but unpaid bills are not on that list.

Given all of that, any surprise why the best lawyers are avoiding him like the plague?

 

STORMYWATCH, FROM THE STORMCENTER 6000 METEOROPORNOLIGICAL CENTER

Stormy passed a polygraph, Karen McDougal’s suing National Enquirer, and Summer Zervos’s lawsuit is going forward.  Oh, and Trump’s Lawyer that needs his own Lawyer can’t keep his mouth shut.

I have to ask a question.  At first, it was going to be a joke, but the more I think about it, I think this might be a question that gets an actual answer.

How many women are needed to achieve class action status?

 

AUSTIN

Austin

Earlier today, a bomb detonated in the San Antonio FedEx facility.  Two people suffered minor injuries.  It was determined that the package that detonated was shipped from and destined for Austin, TX, about 80 miles away.  Upon further investigation, another device was found in a station in Southern Area of Austin, near the Airport.  According to law enforcement, both packages were shipped at the same time from the other side of the city, by the same person.  This information helped law enforcement get surveillance footage of a person of interest.

So, how did San Antonio get involved with this if the package was being shipped from one side of Austin to the other?

Logistics companies like FedEx, UPS, US Postal Service and Amazon operate on a hub-spoke model, like airports.  There might not be enough volume to justify a flight from Seattle, WA to Columbus, OH, but there’s more than enough for a Seattle to Chicago and Chicago to Columbus.  This is how we end up with layovers, because it’s cheaper and faster for the airline to move people to a hub and reroute from there than it is to schedule special flights every day from A to B.

That’s how a package going from one side of Austin to the other made a 160 mile (260 km) round trip.  There isn’t enough guaranteed volume across town to justify the trip, but there are guaranteed trips every day to and from San Antonio.

Also, I hope no one reading this ever gets the urge to make bombs and ship them, but don’t use a major shipper like FedEx, UPS, Amazon, or USPS to deliver the bombs.  These companies track EVERYTHING.  They have to keep track of millions of packages per day.  They know who paid for it, who handled it, who loaded it on the truck, who drove the truck, who delivered it, who signed for it, who requested a tracking update on it, and who left special delivery instructions like ‘leave under doormat.”

Hopefully, this will lead to catching the person right away, before anyone else gets hurt.

 

#NEVERAGAIN

Another kid is dead today.  Two more are in the hospital, and the “Enthusiasts” are going hurt themselves patting themselves on the back because the kid was killed by a security guard/cop in the school, and that the kids was too young to buy the gun used, so gun laws wouldn’t help.

Gimme a fucking break.

Most likely, it was daddy’s gun.  Did dad have his gun locked in a safe?  Did he have the ammo stored away?

And what would happen if that guard missed?  Bullets fly until they hit something, whether it’s the target, the wall behind it, or a kid behind the wall.

 

COLD WAR 2.0

HOLY FUCK, MARK WARNER JUST IMPLICATED THE RUSSIANS IN BREXIT!  I can’t stress enough how fucking big this is.

 

CWGBTP (Can we get back to politics?)

One thing I’m semi-thankful for is the blatant incompetence of the people in charge during this attempted slide into Authoritarianism.  If they were good at their jobs or solving problems, who knows where we’d be now?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RUMOR MILL:  AUSSIES ARE ON IT

This one comes from Louise Mensch and Pete Evans (@911CORLEBRA777).

Australian parties deny using data firm Cambridge Analytica 

On the surface, this seems pretty innocuous. Senior members of Cambridge Analytica came to Australia and met with senior officials of the two largest parties, but nothing happened.  Both parties got the pitch, but decided not to pursue CA for the next election.

Seems simple, right?  Well, not so much.

According to this tweet thread, this was part of an Intelligence Operation executed by Australian Secret Intelligence, ASI.  Both political parties went into the meetings with CA, and recorded the whole thing.

That’s right.  They pulled in politicians to work an op, and recorded everything.

I’m still skeptical about rumors like these, but Peter’s been on point for a lot of stories.

Remember, Australia is part of Five Eyes, the Intelligence sharing group that consists of the Aussies, the Kiwis, the Brits, the Yanks, and the Canucks.  Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States, and Canada.  What we see, they see, and vice versa.

 

That’s it for today.  My next non-daily article will be about gun control.  Specifically, some ideas and thoughts I’ve had for a while, as well as some criticisms about the plan.  Gun control is a touchy subject for a lot of people, and there’s been a couple generations of marketing and propaganda to make people think that nothing can be done.  I’ve got a few ideas, and I’ll write them up this week.  I hope.

 

Thank you, and have a good one.

 

“Without Journalists, it’s just propaganda.”

– Katy Tur

 

Daily Check-In 03/19/2018

From the weekend and Monday, March 19.

 

CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA

Late Friday Night, Facebook announced that they were suspending Cambridge Analytica for not deleting user data.  At first, that sounded bad, but more like a flimsy excuse.

Turns out it was a whole hell of a lot worse.  Cambridge Analytica did a lot worse than just not delete data.  They stole user data, used it to manipulate voters, and have attacked  Democracy around the world, and the Brits are telling everyone about it.

It started Saturday when a whistleblower named Christopher Wylie, a former Director of Research at Cambridge Analytica, dropped a bombshell when he went on the record about CA’s data practices, and how they acquired their data from a quiz app that scrubbed users for not just their data, but everyone on their friends list as well that didn’t put their accounts on security lockdown.  They averaged 300 profile grabs per use of the quiz.  This led to over 50 MILLION USER PROFILES ending up in CA’s hands.

Let me say that again.  50 MILLION USER PROFILES.

They then took that data and plugged that into their algorithms to see how people think, what they like, how they thing, what motivates them, what they support, what they don’t like, what their friends like, how politically active they are, and who they’re likely to vote for.

With that data, they could use micro target ads with hyper accuracy for maximum effect.  They would run two ads against two different people, even in the same household.

As if that wasn’t bad enough, the same channel in Britain, Channel 4, ran an undercover exposé showing some of the dirty tricks that CA would use in elections around the world.  Honeypots, entrapment, fake news, they did it all.

Tomorrow, Channel 4 is running another segment, where Cambridge Analytica brags about getting Donald Trump elected.

That much sounds terrible, but it gets worse.

Dr. Alexander Nix, the CEO of Cambridge Analytica, testified before British Parliament that he has never worked with the Russians, but that was not true.  Nix’s company Cambridge Analytica and their parent company SCL worked with Lukoil, a Russian oil giant.  This started back around 2014 or 2015.  SCL and CA often swapped employees back and forth, depending on the job at hand.  Lukoil was asking about political data in the United States.

Why was a Russian oil company interested in voting demographics for the United States back in 2014 and 2015?

Facebook, meanwhile, is trying to play this like they’re innocent and just found out about this.  Bullshit.  They knew about CA having this data back in 2015, and didn’t check that the data was deleted in 2016.  By that time CA had made multiple copies of the user data.

And yes, it gets even worse.

Cambridge Analytica was approached by Corey Lewandowski back in 2015 to work for the Trump Campaign, but they were already working with Ted Cruz.  Remember how Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekha didn’t join the Trump Campaign until later on? That’s because they were pushing Ted Cruz, but once Trump won the nomination and Paul Manafort was on the way out, they joined him, and put their resources in the fight as well.  Those resources included Kellyanne Conway and VP of Cambridge Analytica, Steve Bannon.

As bad as this is, keep in mind that this is only one piece of the puzzle.  This is just part of the targeting mechanism.  They pointed out who to target with propaganda, and what would work best.  Someone else **cough**Russia**cough** made the propaganda, and worked to find out who couldn’t be swayed, and how to stop them from voting.

Daily Check-In 11/06/2017 shed some light on Facebook’s investment.  Because of the Paradise Papers, we know that Yuri Milner was a cut-out for Putin and his banks.  They own Facebook.

 

TRUMP VS MUELLER

Saturday morning, Trump started attacking Robert Mueller directly, and one of his lawyers said that the probe should end and that Mueller should be fired.  When I saw this, my first reaction was “Golly Gee Willickers, did Cheeto Mussolini get some bad news?”

Turns out yes, not only did I say Golly Gee Willickers, but it turns out that Mueller’s team had sent Trump’s lawyers a list of topics that will be brought up when they interview.

Not if.  When.

The questions that Mueller’s team sent Trump seem to focus on Obstruction of Justice.

Axios has learned that special counsel Robert Mueller has focused on events since the election — not during the campaign — in his conversations with President Trump’s lawyers. The top two topics that Mueller has expressed interest in so far: the firings of FBI director James Comey and national security adviser Michael Flynn.

This is interesting for two reasons.

First, if Mueller’s asking about the firing of these two men, he has more than enough information to nail Trump for Obstruction of Justice, and wants to see what Trump and his legal team say or do.  Remember, Bobby Three Sticks ain’t asking a question he doesn’t already have the answers to.  He wants to see what Trump leaves out.

Second, by focusing the interview on Obstruction of Justice, he’ll lull Trump into a false sense of security.  Mueller has enough evidence on every possible front, but Obstruction of Justice is the low-hanging fruit, and possibly the easiest to prove.

 

TRUMP ORG AND KUSHNER CORRUPTION

Also over the weekend, we started getting leaks about the depth of the corruption of the Trump and Kushner companies.

We got confirmation of Kushner Companies meeting with Qatari officials, Trump’s Indian partner being accused of a $147 million fraud, and the wife of the Israeli Prime Minister being indicted for lying about spending more than $100,000 on takeout food.

But the most fun story from the weekend is Jared Kushner’s companies being investigated in New York for failing to properly file Rent Control paperwork for thousands of tenants.  Then, after not filing this paperwork, Jared’s companies jacked up the rent, forcing these tenants out.

Ok, Rent Control is legislation in New York City that prevents landlords from raising rent on certain properties and leases past a certain amount, if at all.

These are state and local crimes, and he’s under investigation by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.

Remember, from GTKYG-Pardon Limitations, State crimes cannot be pardoned by the President.

 

#NEVERAGAIN

The March For Our Lives is this Saturday, at multiple sites across the world.  One of the kids confirmed that they’re working with local groups to set up Voter Registration drives at the marches.

 

COLD WAR 2.0

For those not familiar, Jeremy Corbyn is the leader of the Labour Party, one of Britain’s major political parties.  He’s also got his tongue so far up Putin’s ass he can taste what he had for breakfast.

He is just as compromised as Trump.

 

McCABE

It’ll be interesting to see how crazy things get.  I wonder if the Intelligence Community will release some incriminating information.

 

FIRING FALLOUT

All of these came out over the weekend.  Aside from the Leahy Letter, let’s look at these stories.

Jeff Sessions is called a liar with multiple witnesses verifying.

Ivanka is tied into the investigation by her connections to the corruption at Trump Org.

Paul Ryan is tied to insider trading.

This is the IC’s way of saying “We know, and soon will everyone.”

 

WHITE HOUSE CHAOS

 

STORMYWATCH, FROM THE STORMCENTER 6000 METEOROPORNOLOGICAL CENTER

As much as I hate saying it, there are dick pics.

 

IN OTHER NEWS

Three members of the Congressional Black Caucus have called for the bombings in Austin, Texas, to be classified as ongoing terrorist attacks. They also called for officials to determine whether the bombings are “ideologically or racially motivated.”

 

RUMOR MILL:  THE BRITS ARE ON FIRE AND PISSING OFF THE DEEP STATE

I noticed a couple things this weekend.

First, either the British are done waiting for things to finish up in America, or they got the go-ahead to unleash Hell upon the Russians those that supported them.  Notice how many links there are in this post from British places, like Channel 4 or The Guardian?  And a lot of those deal with Americans, not Brits.

I’ve got a hypothesis on this.

They had these stories ready to go for a while, but for one reason or another, they were sat on. Some person from MI5 or MI6 told them not to run these stories until they got the word.  Saturday morning GMT time, they get a weird text, “The Bird Is The Word”.  They finish up their tea, then make a couple calls, and tell them to unleash the first wave of stories.

Either that, or some “Deep State” people got pissed and talked to the Press.

By the way, I hate the term Deep State, but I’m using it here to describe the professional men and women that have spent their lives serving the United States of America, doing the ugly work.  They just want to keep their heads down, do their job, and retire, while hopefully making the world a little better in the process.

So, imagine how pissed they are hearing about Andrew McCabe getting fired two days before retiring with a full pension.

They’re pissed.  They know the system better than the Trump’s, and they know how to make their lives a living hell.  And they’ll do it.

Finally, Louise Mensch says get ready for CA’s links to Russian Propaganda.  We’ll be hearing about that soon.

 

That’s it for today.  Cambridge Analytica is the first smoking gun.  This is where the narrative changes from “Did they?” to “How did they?”

Cambridge Analytica ties to the IRA and the troll farms.  The troll farms made the propaganda, and CA helped figure out who to show it to.  I’ve described many times the use of the hacked voter rolls and the RNC database, Spectrum Health, and Alfa Bank.  Combine this with Lukoil working with CA, and this puzzle makes more sense.

But here’s the scary part…

The NRA has their own database of their members.  They were targeted by CA.  Heavily targeted by CA.  But why?  Was it just for voting for Trump, or something else?

Did the Russians and Trump try to radicalize some Americans through the use of propaganda?

I hope not, but I don’t put it past them for trying.

 

Thank you, and have a good one.

 

“Without Journalists, it’s just propaganda.”

– Katy Tur

 

 

Unfinished Business

Last week on Daily Check-In 03/12/2018, the Republicans of the House Intelligence Committee ended their investigation into the Russian Interference in the 2016 election, saying that they found “no evidence of collusion” between the Russians and Donald Trump’s campaign.

The Democrats on the committed called Bullshit.

On Tuesday, Daily Check-In 03/13/2018, the Democrats on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), a.k.a. the House Intelligence Committee, released a 21 page memo describing everything the Republicans either refused to investigate, actively interfered with, or purposely stonewalled.  While in any normal universe, this would be front page news for a week and a half, it wasn’t even in the top 10 stories of the week.  Fuck, it wouldn’t even qualify as Top 5 of the weekend.

As I promised multiple times this week, here’s a breakdown of the Status of the Russian Investigation.

 

BREAKDOWN

  • Appendix A:  Lines of inquiry that the Republicans shot down.
  • Appendix B:  A list of more than 30 key witnesses that they didn’t interview
  • Appendix C:  More than 20 entities that they haven’t request information from yet.
  • Appendix D:  More than 15 people and entities that blew off the committee in one way, shape, or form.

 

APPENDIX A: UNANSWERED QUESTIONS

The Democrats feel there are unanswered questions concerning the following areas that the Republicans either wouldn’t follow up on, or refused to dig into.

  • Hacking and dissemination of campaign emails.
  • Campaign knowledge of the hack.
  • Russia’s intermediaries.
  • Elections security.
  • Social media campaign.
  • Financial leverage.
  • Money laundering and foreign payments.
  • Post-election efforts and Obstruction of Justice.

 

APPENDIX B: KEY WITNESSES THE MAJORITY REFUSED TO INTERVIEW

Here’s a list of witness that the Republicans on the HPSCI flat out refused to interview.

  • Reince Preibus, Former RNC Head and White House Chief of Staff.
  • Stephen Miller, Speechwriter and Policy Advisor, likely knew about the June 9 meeting.
  • Kathleen (KT) McFarland, Member of the Trump Transition Team and Flynn’s Deputy National Security Advisor.  She was the go-between for the Transition Team and Mike Flynn when Flynn was on the phone with Sergei Kislyak.
  • Sean Spicer, Former White House Press Secretary.
  • Kellyanne Conway, White House Communications Advisor.  Worked with Peter Smith on his attempts to get HRC’s emails.
  • Tera Dahl, Diplomatic Outreach Coordinator.  What did she know about Page and Papadopoulos?
  • Daniel Scavino, Jr., Trump’s Social Media Director.
  • Joseph “Keith” Kellogg Jr., National Security Council and original member of the Trump Foreign Policy Team, along with Page and Papadopoulos.
  • Joseph E. Schmitz, member of the Trump Foreign Policy Team.
  • Sam Nunberg, former member of the Trump Campaign, student of Steve Bannon and Roger Stone.  Recently testified before Mueller’s grand jury.
  • George Nader, adviser to the Emirati Crown Prince and Erik Prince.  Recently became a cooperating witness.
  • Marshall Billingsea, member of the Trump Transition Team who expressed worries about Flynn’s Russian contacts.
  • Federal Bureau of Investigations staffers, past and present.
  • Dimitri Simes, CEO of Center for the National Interest, the Conservative Think Tank that hosted the Mayflower Meeting.
  • Clea Mitchell, former attorney for the NRA.  Introduced in Daily Check-In 03/15/2018.
  • Maria Butina, Alexaner Torshin’s protegé, started the Russian group “Right to Bear Arms”.
  • Johnny Yenason, member of RtBA, worked with Maria Butina and Alexander Torhsin.
  • Sergei Millian, Check Out Daily Check-In 11/17/2017 for his background.  He was supposedly a source in the Steele Dossier and was a Russian contact with George Papadopoulos back in April 2016.
  • Natalia Veselnitskaya, Russian Attorney and Spy from the June 9 Trump Tower Meeting.
  • Roman Beniaminov, was at the June 9 meeting.
  • Bijan Kian, worked with Flynn Intel Group and Turkey.  Daily Check-In 11/22/2017 has a link to him being a person of interest for Robert Mueller.
  • Simona Mangiante, George Papadopoulos’s wife.  She claims to know what he was up to.
  • John Szobocsan, worked with Peter Smith.
  • Allen Garten, counsel for Trump Organization who likely knows abut the June 9 meeting.
  • Alan Weisselberg, CFO of Trump Organization.
  • Mark Corallo, former White House Counsel, quit over the cover-up of the June 9 meeting.
  • Duetsche Bank, Trump’s ATM and chosen bank for Russians looking to launder money to the west.
  • Trump Campaign Digital Operation, like Avi Berkowitz and Theresa Hong.
  • Cambridge Analytica, including Rebekha Mercer, Alex Taylar, and Julian Wheatland.
  • Darren Blanton, worked with Steve Bannon.
  • Jon Iadonisi, did social media work for the Trump Campaign, as well work for Flynn and Turkey.
  • Aaron Nevins, blogger who messaged Guccifer 2.0 (Russian Government Hackers) and received stolen mails from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
  • National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS).
  • CrowdStrike, specifically the two employees who supported the DNC and interfaced with the FBI.

 

APPENDIX C:  DOCUMENT REQUESTS

The following entities have documents that the Democrats would like to see, but the Republicans declined to ask for.

  • Duetsche Bank
  • General Services Administration (GSA)
  • Snapchat
  • Imgur
  • Reddit
  • Tumblr
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Google
  • Kushner Companies and Observer Media
  • Bayrock Group
  • Estate of Peter Smith
  • KLS Research, LLC
  • Colt Ventures
  • VizSense Inc. and White Canvas Group
  • Russian-American Chamber of Commerce in the USA
  • DMP International LLC
  • Cendyn
  • Bridges LLC
  • Right to Bear Arms
  • Center for Political Affairs
  • Ritz Carlton
  • Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts
  • ACU Strategic Partners

 

APPENDIX D:  COMPULSORY PROCESS

The following people and/or entities pulled everything from telling the HPSCI to fuck off to declining to work with them.  The Democrats want to force them to cooperate, which is well within their power.  The Republicans didn’t feel like it.

  • Donald Trump, Jr.
  • Michael Cohen
  • Jared Kushner
  • Corey Lewandowski
  • Stephen Bannon
  • Hope Hicks
  • Jeff Sessions
  • Erik Prince
  • Randolph “Randy” Credico.  Daily Check-In 12/13/2017 has Roger Stone outing him as his go-between with Julian Assange.
  • Lee Stranahan.  Employed by Sputnik.
  • Twitter
  • WhatsApp
  • Apple
  • White House
  • Phone and other communications records.

 

CONCLUSION

Assuming the contents of this letter are true, then the Republican decision to end the investigation into an attack on the United States is either the grossest act of partisan in modern history, a coordinated effort with the White House to end the investigation prematurely, an act of sabotage to protect themselves from from uncovering uncomfortable truths, or all of the above.

Not only does this letter tell us what the Democrats wanted to investigate, but also what they will likely investigate if and when they come to power in the House.  The kind of obstruction at play here only lasts as long as the Republicans stay in power.  The Democrats would restart these investigations within 48 hours of obtaining a majority in the House.

Yet another reason to vote this November.