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To: Brumar89 who wrote (1043867)	12/20/2017 10:35:18 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575426

Train Lovers Who Pushed for New High-Speed Route Killed in Amtrak Crash Derailment was on brand new track, on the first "revenue" run on it. So much for the 'our infrastructure is crumbling' nonsense. President Blowshard leaped to exploit this tragedy for his unneeded trillion dollar boondoggle - we need to rebuild our infrastructure he said. Lesson: Don't believe anything he says. REUTERS Two of the passengers killed in Monday’s fatal Amtrak derailment in Washington state were train enthusiasts and members of a group called All Aboard Washington, which lobbied for the new Amtrak rail route. In total, three people died after Train 501, which was speeding at 80 miles per hour in a 30-mile-per-hour zone, when it entered an S-curve along the newly completed route and derailed. Dozens of the 80 passengers on board were injured. The train was on its first ever revenue ride on that route. Lloyd Flem, executive director of All Aboard Washington, described the organization as both “shaken” and “busy” in the aftermath of the crash. thedailybeast.com

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1043867)	12/20/2017 4:28:39 PM
From: Broken_Clock	1 Recommendation Recommended By locogringo Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575426

yeah, because we all KNOW we can trust the DOJ..... Judge Declares Mistrial In Bundy Case, Says Government Willfully Withheld Evidence by Tyler Durden Dec 20, 2017 1:37 PM 0 SHARES In a shocking verdict, Judge Gloria Navarro dismissed jurors Wednesday, declaring a mistrial in the Bundy Ranch case saying U.S. prosecutors willfully withheld critical and "potentially exculpatory" evidence from the defense. Seemingly confirming what Cliven Bundy's son said during his opening statement: "The indictment and grand jury testimony is full of lies. Truth has been blocked in previous trials. Listen closely - we will try to get you the truth. The truth will set me free and I’m counting on you to help me see that." As AZCentral.com reports, Navarro cited five key pieces of information that prosecutors did not disclose: records about surveillance and snipers at the Bundy Ranch; unredacted FBI logs about activity at the ranch in the days around the standoff; threat assessments about the Bundys dating to 2012; and internal affairs reports about the BLM. Navarro methodically laid out her reasoning for about an hour, citing legal standards and case law, before delivering her ruling. She said the evidence that was withheld could have been favorable to the accused and could have affected the outcome of the case. Navarro stopped short of dismissing charges against the four men. It is unclear whether the case will be retried because Navarro did not rule whether the mistrial was with or without prejudice. Navarro suspended the trial two weeks ago and warned of a potential mistrial after prosecutors for the first time disclosed several documents that appeared to support defense claims about the government's use of video surveillance and sniper teams during the standoff. Prosecutors have long maintained the FBI was not involved in the standoff and that no video surveillance or sniper teams were used. They charged defendants with making false claims about snipers and videos to incite militia in the runup to the standoff.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1043867)	12/20/2017 4:44:20 PM
From: Broken_Clock	1 Recommendation Recommended By locogringo Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575426

The FBI and DOJ are coming unglued with their lies.... === McCabe draws blank on Democrats’ funding of Trump dossier, new subpoenas planned By James Rosen, Jake Gibson \| Fox News FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe grilled on Capitol Hill Todd Piro reports on FBI deputy director's 7.5 hours of testimony. EXCLUSIVE: Congressional investigators tell Fox News that Tuesday’s seven-hour interrogation of Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe contained numerous conflicts with the testimony of previous witnesses, prompting the Republican majority staff of the House Intelligence Committee to decide to issue fresh subpoenas next week on Justice Department and FBI personnel. While HPSCI staff would not confirm who will be summoned for testimony, all indications point to demoted DOJ official Bruce G. Ohr and FBI General Counsel James A. Baker, who accompanied McCabe, along with other lawyers, to Tuesday’s HPSCI session. The issuance of a subpoena against the Justice Department’s top lawyer could provoke a new constitutional clash between the two branches, even worse than the months-long tug of war over documents and witnesses that has already led House Speaker Paul Ryan to accuse DOJ and FBI of “stonewalling” and HPSCI Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., to threaten contempt-of-Congress citations against Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray. “It’s hard to know who’s telling us the truth,” said one House investigator after McCabe’s questioning. Fox News is told that several lawmakers participated in the questioning of McCabe, led chiefly by Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C. Bruce G. Ohr was demoted at the DOJ for concealing his meetings with the men behind the anti-Trump 'dossier.' (AP) Sources close to the investigation say that McCabe was a “friendly witness” to the Democrats in the room, who are said to have pressed the deputy director, without success, to help them build a case against President Trump for obstruction of justice in the Russia-collusion probe. “If he could have, he would have,” said one participant in the questioning. Investigators say McCabe recounted to the panel how hard the FBI had worked to verify the contents of the anti-Trump “dossier” and stood by its credibility. But when pressed to identify what in the salacious document the bureau had actually corroborated, the sources said, McCabe cited only the fact that Trump campaign adviser Carter Page had traveled to Moscow. Beyond that, investigators said, McCabe could not even say that the bureau had verified the dossier’s allegations about the specific meetings Page supposedly held in Moscow. The sources said that when asked when he learned that the dossier had been funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee, McCabe claimed he could not recall – despite the reported existence of documents with McCabe’s own signature on them establishing his knowledge of the dossier’s financing and provenance. The decision by HPSCI staff to subpoena Ohr comes as he is set to appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is conducting its own probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election. Until earlier this month, when Fox News began investigating him, Ohr held two titles at DOJ: associate deputy attorney general, a post that placed him four doors down from his boss, Rosenstein; and director of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF), a program described by the department as “the centerpiece of the attorney general’s drug strategy.” Ohr will retain his OCDETF title but was stripped of his higher post and ousted from his office on the fourth floor of “Main Justice.” Department officials confirmed that Ohr had withheld from superiors his secret meetings in 2016 with Christopher Steele, the former British spy who authored the dossier with input from Russian sources; and with Glenn Simpson, the founder of Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm that hired Steele with funds supplied by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee. Subsequently, Fox News disclosed that Ohr’s wife Nellie, an academic expert on Russia, had worked for Fusion GPS through the summer and fall of 2016. Glenn Simpson, shown here, met with DOJ official Bruce Ohr in 2016. Former FBI Director James Comey, testifying before the House in March, described the dossier as a compendium of “salacious and unverified” allegations against then-candidate Donald Trump and his associates. The Nunes panel has spent much of this year investigating whether DOJ, under then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch, used the dossier to justify a foreign surveillance warrant against Page, a foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign. DOJ and FBI say they have cooperated extensively with Nunes and his team, including the provision of several hundred pages of classified documents relating to the dossier. The DOJ has also made McCabe available to the House Judiciary Committee for a closed-door interview on Thursday. The Justice Department and FBI declined to comment for this report.