Durham Has Subpoenaed and Called in Witnesses Before a DC Grand Jury

[EE_]

Yawn...

HUGE! Via John Solomon: Durham Has Subpoenaed and Called in Witnesses Before a DC Grand Jury
By Cristina Laila
Published April 11, 2020 at 9:10pm

US Attorney General Bill Barr appointed US Attorney from Connecticut John Durham last May to investigate the origins of Spygate.

Award-winning investigative reporter John Solomon told Sean Hannity on Friday’s podcast that he knows of few witnesses who have appeared before a DC grand jury.

John Solomon told Hannity he believes that Durham’s charges will start with Kevin Clinesmith, the lawyer who fraudulently changed a document to deceive the FISA court.

“What about all the people that signed the FISA applications knowing…none of it was verified?” Hannity asked Solomon.

John Solomon said he doesn’t believe Comey, McCabe, Rosenstein, Yates and others will be prosecuted for signing the FISA applications, however they still may not be in the clear.

John Solomon did say that John Durham is focusing on false testimonies based on the grand jury subpoenas.

“It’s possible that some people who gave false representations to Congress could get prosecuted for those false representations,” he added.

Comey, McCabe and Brennan all lied to Congress.

The DOJ IG report released in December confirmed former CIA Director John Brennan did indeed rely on the phony dossier for the ICA report on so-called Russian interference in the 2016 election.

John Brennan claimed in a May 2017 testimony under oath that Hillary’s phony dossier didn’t factor into the Intelligence Community’s Assessment report on Russian interference of the 2016 presidential election.

Brennan told Trey Gowdy during his testimony when asked if the CIA relied on the dossier, “No. Because we — we didn’t. It wasn’t part of the corpus of intelligence information that we had. It was not in any way used as a basis for the Intelligence Community assessment that was done. It was — it was not.”

Comey also perjured himself.

In 2017, fired FBI Director James Comey testified to Congress that he decided not to recommend charges in relation to handling of classified information after the FBI interviewed Hillary Clinton on July 2, 2016 — However, a report released later revealed Comey penned a memo exonerating Clinton in the Spring.

Will Comey, McCabe and Brennan get indicted for lying to Congress?

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/huge-via-john-solomon-durham-subpoenaed-called-witnesses-dc-grand-jury/

[monty]

K
Yawn...

HUGE! Via John Solomon: Durham Has Subpoenaed and Called in Witnesses Before a DC Grand Jury
By Cristina Laila
Published April 11, 2020 at 9:10pm

US Attorney General Bill Barr appointed US Attorney from Connecticut John Durham last May to investigate the origins of Spygate.

Award-winning investigative reporter John Solomon told Sean Hannity on Friday’s podcast that he knows of few witnesses who have appeared before a DC grand jury.

John Solomon told Hannity he believes that Durham’s charges will start with Kevin Clinesmith, the lawyer who fraudulently changed a document to deceive the FISA court.

“What about all the people that signed the FISA applications knowing…none of it was verified?” Hannity asked Solomon.

John Solomon said he doesn’t believe Comey, McCabe, Rosenstein, Yates and others will be prosecuted for signing the FISA applications, however they still may not be in the clear.

John Solomon did say that John Durham is focusing on false testimonies based on the grand jury subpoenas.

“It’s possible that some people who gave false representations to Congress could get prosecuted for those false representations,” he added.

Comey, McCabe and Brennan all lied to Congress.

The DOJ IG report released in December confirmed former CIA Director John Brennan did indeed rely on the phony dossier for the ICA report on so-called Russian interference in the 2016 election.

John Brennan claimed in a May 2017 testimony under oath that Hillary’s phony dossier didn’t factor into the Intelligence Community’s Assessment report on Russian interference of the 2016 presidential election.

Brennan told Trey Gowdy during his testimony when asked if the CIA relied on the dossier, “No. Because we — we didn’t. It wasn’t part of the corpus of intelligence information that we had. It was not in any way used as a basis for the Intelligence Community assessment that was done. It was — it was not.”

Comey also perjured himself.

In 2017, fired FBI Director James Comey testified to Congress that he decided not to recommend charges in relation to handling of classified information after the FBI interviewed Hillary Clinton on July 2, 2016 — However, a report released later revealed Comey penned a memo exonerating Clinton in the Spring.

Will Comey, McCabe and Brennan get indicted for lying to Congress?

You beat me to it. I’ll delete mine

[Amanda]

Yawn...

HUGE! Via John Solomon: Durham Has Subpoenaed and Called in Witnesses Before a DC Grand Jury
By Cristina Laila
Published April 11, 2020 at 9:10pm

US Attorney General Bill Barr appointed US Attorney from Connecticut John Durham last May to investigate the origins of Spygate.

Award-winning investigative reporter John Solomon told Sean Hannity on Friday’s podcast that he knows of few witnesses who have appeared before a DC grand jury.

John Solomon told Hannity he believes that Durham’s charges will start with Kevin Clinesmith, the lawyer who fraudulently changed a document to deceive the FISA court.

“What about all the people that signed the FISA applications knowing…none of it was verified?” Hannity asked Solomon.

John Solomon said he doesn’t believe Comey, McCabe, Rosenstein, Yates and others will be prosecuted for signing the FISA applications, however they still may not be in the clear.

John Solomon did say that John Durham is focusing on false testimonies based on the grand jury subpoenas.

“It’s possible that some people who gave false representations to Congress could get prosecuted for those false representations,” he added.

Comey, McCabe and Brennan all lied to Congress.

The DOJ IG report released in December confirmed former CIA Director John Brennan did indeed rely on the phony dossier for the ICA report on so-called Russian interference in the 2016 election.

John Brennan claimed in a May 2017 testimony under oath that Hillary’s phony dossier didn’t factor into the Intelligence Community’s Assessment report on Russian interference of the 2016 presidential election.

Brennan told Trey Gowdy during his testimony when asked if the CIA relied on the dossier, “No. Because we — we didn’t. It wasn’t part of the corpus of intelligence information that we had. It was not in any way used as a basis for the Intelligence Community assessment that was done. It was — it was not.”

Comey also perjured himself.

In 2017, fired FBI Director James Comey testified to Congress that he decided not to recommend charges in relation to handling of classified information after the FBI interviewed Hillary Clinton on July 2, 2016 — However, a report released later revealed Comey penned a memo exonerating Clinton in the Spring.

Will Comey, McCabe and Brennan get indicted for lying to Congress?

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/huge-via-john-solomon-durham-subpoenaed-called-witnesses-dc-grand-jury/

Yes, yawn...wake me up when somebody is in handcuffs....
Sorry to be so negative, but I seriously think NOTHING will happen...they just keep baiting us with this BS, trying to get us to hope that maybe this time...sorry, the whole freaking govt. is totally CORRUPT and EVIL!!!

[SWRichmond]

This will be just another limited hangout. No one important will be charged. All the deals have already been made.

Prison is for us, never for them.

[BrewTech]

This will be just another limited hangout. No one important will be charged. All the deals have already been made.

Prison is for us, never for them.


Hard to argue with actual, provable patterns in reality.

[monty]

Jim Hoft “ John Brennan is main focus of Durham investigation” ~ Gateway Pundit (http://thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/breaking-john-brennan-main-focus-durham-investigation-intel-officers-already-testified/)

BREAKING: John Brennan Is Main Focus of Durham Investigation – Intel Officers Have Already Testified


Jim Hoft

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According to former US Attorney Joe diGenova, current US Attorney John Durham started bringing in witnesses under oath in front of a grand jury. And according to Joe, the key focus of the Durham investigation is currently John Brennan.

Former US Attorney Joe diGenova was on the Howie Carr Show (https://howiecarrshow.com/). After Carr shared that the Wall Street Journal reported that the Durham investigation was still ongoing, diGenova shared the following about what he knew about the John Durham investigation:
One of the more interesting revelations is what I have confirmed with my sources, is that John Brennan is in fact the focus, the main focus of the investigation. And, a number of former intelligence officers have been interviewed and apparently testified about a series of questions involving the production of the famous assessment done after the election which of course was a phony assessment.

It was a constructed document. It was not in fact an assessment of anything and that is very interesting because they are looking at what Brennan did and what he asked other people to do in terms of that and some other things as well. So apparently Mr. Durham has not been deterred by the virus.


After Carr reminded the listeners what assessment diGenova was speaking about, diGenova said this:

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They [Durham and his team] are clearly looking at abuse of power. In other words, were the resources of the CIA illegally used to undertake domestic terrorist investigations? Were the resources of the CIA used to illegally create a plot to either falsely lead FBI officials into a scheme or to conspire with FBI officials to deny certain people their civil rights.


Let’s hope Brennan and all the coup operatives are brought to justice very soon. This cannot come soon enough.



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[monty]

Jim Hoft “ John Brennan is main focus of Durham investigation” ~ Gateway Pundit (http://thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/breaking-john-brennan-main-focus-durham-investigation-intel-officers-already-testified/)

BREAKING: John Brennan Is Main Focus of Durham Investigation – Intel Officers Have Already Testified


Jim Hoft

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According to former US Attorney Joe diGenova, current US Attorney John Durham started bringing in witnesses under oath in front of a grand jury. And according to Joe, the key focus of the Durham investigation is currently John Brennan.

Former US Attorney Joe diGenova was on the Howie Carr Show (https://howiecarrshow.com/). After Carr shared that the Wall Street Journal reported that the Durham investigation was still ongoing, diGenova shared the following about what he knew about the John Durham investigation:
One of the more interesting revelations is what I have confirmed with my sources, is that John Brennan is in fact the focus, the main focus of the investigation. And, a number of former intelligence officers have been interviewed and apparently testified about a series of questions involving the production of the famous assessment done after the election which of course was a phony assessment.

It was a constructed document. It was not in fact an assessment of anything and that is very interesting because they are looking at what Brennan did and what he asked other people to do in terms of that and some other things as well. So apparently Mr. Durham has not been deterred by the virus.


After Carr reminded the listeners what assessment diGenova was speaking about, diGenova said this:

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They [Durham and his team] are clearly looking at abuse of power. In other words, were the resources of the CIA illegally used to undertake domestic terrorist investigations? Were the resources of the CIA used to illegally create a plot to either falsely lead FBI officials into a scheme or to conspire with FBI officials to deny certain people their civil rights.


Let’s hope Brennan and all the coup operatives are brought to justice very soon. This cannot come soon enough.



http://youtu.be/k-yLF0WLZak




What is the message behind the faggot parade? These people are sick.

[Cebu_4_2]

Is this why we have another 2 weeks quarantine?

[monty]

Jim Hoft Gateway Pundit Breaking

BREAKING: Former FBI General Counsel James Baker Has Flipped! Durham is Building Conspiracy Case on All of Those Who Lied to the Court! (https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/breaking-former-fbi-general-counsel-james-baker-flipped-durham-building-conspiracy-case-lied-court/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=websitesharingbuttons)

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Published April 29, 2020 at 8:59pm
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Former US Attorney Joe diGenova was on the Howie Carr Show (https://howiecarrshow.com/) this week and he provided some more inside information regarding General Flynn’s case and the unraveling of the coup to remove President Trump from office.


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Former US Attorney was on with Howie Carr again this week and he dropped some more bombshells about the current investigation of the investigators involved in removing President Trump and his team from office.

diGenova discussed the Durham investigation and said at the 5:30 mark that Durham is building a conspiracy case and anyone who lied to the court will be indicted for obstruction of justice charges:
The bottom line is this, it’s unfolding and what’s happening is, what Durham is actually doing is he’s painting a picture and not everyone of these acts is going to be a specific separate crime. But they are going to be, what’s called overt acts in a conspiracy. One to defraud the United States government. One to deny the civil rights of Trump and Flynn and Page and a bunch of other people.


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At the 8:55 mark deGenova drops another bomb when discussing the notes that were released today (https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/breaking-handwritten-fbi-notes-unsealed-framed-flynn-goal-truth-admission-get-lie-can-prosecute-get-fired/?ff_source=Twitter&ff_campaign=websitesharingbuttons) that show the government was actively working to frame General Flynn:
DiGenova: You know Baker is now working with Durham. James Baker the former General Counsel.

Carr: He’s flipped?

DiGenova: Who was a target, is now understandably cooperating because he was looking at a boat load of criminal charges. Once these notes were discovered, and by the way, these were the notes that [FBI Director] Chris Wray and Dana Boente did not want turned over.



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At the 10:30 mark, diGenova discussed the General Flynn case that is falling apart on the Mueller gang as we speak. Hero General Flynn was set up and framed by Obama’s Deep State. He was illegally spied on and coerced into a guilty plea by the Mueller gang and his then attorneys by threatening to arrest and indict his son. Neither Flynn or his son committed any crimes.

During a status hearing before his sentencing date, the judge overseeing his case went crazy, accusing General Flynn of treason. deGenova explains:
I have no idea what’s in the mind of Judge Emmet Sullivan who used to seem like he was a really disinterested kind of noble guy. He proved that right in the Ted Stevens case. But his comments during the final status hearing before he set a sentencing date for General Flynn were so awful and so fundamentally stupid and we found out, we did an analysis, my Victoria and I did an analysis of the statements he made on the record. We got the transcript.

Remember when he came out and he accused the General of committing treason and started asking him a series of questions that the prosecutors, who were fumbling, they didn’t know how to answer him? He said in a series of statements, the judge did, exact words, line for line that Rachel Maddow had said the night before on her show when commenting on the upcoming Flynn hearing. It’s scary and if that’s what this guy is looking at before he comes out on the bench, he came out after a break and apologized for using the word treason, but his conduct since then has been bizarre. I don’t know whether the guy’s sick, old or not ready for prime time anymore. It seems to be a disease that’s prominent in Washington DC. Biden can’t talk. Pelosi can’t talk. The judge in the Flynn case can’t talk. It’s amazing.


deGenova went on to suggest that the President is going to pardon Roger Stone or do something before he’s put in jail. The judge in that case, Amy Berman Jackson, was horrible, as we’ve reported numerous times at this news site.

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Obama’s crooks in the Deep State FBI, DOJ and Intel communities cannot go to jail soon enough. If they committed treason, they should be dealt with promptly.



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fwiw- Honestly, at this point, I just don't even care anymore, now that I'm fighting for my life everyday, as the bankers are setting up their digital slave grid.

And it feels like just when people are finally getting sick of the criminal government, they throw out some info like this, just to keep some people hoping that just maybe somebody will go to jail. For me, I'll believe it when I see it. Same for Barr coming out saying something like warning/telling the US attorney's to be watchful of violations of civil liberties during the corona hoax- yeah, right , like he gives a crap about the people and the law. That's just more BS so, BSer Hannity can go on TV and sling some more BS, telling the braindead that see "Barr cares about the law" (I had BSer Hannity on last night, and he said something like that)

Sorry to be so negative, but I've really had it and feel like we have been played and now we are being set up for destruction.

[Dachsie]

"For me, I'll believe it when I see it."

For me, I won't believe it when I see it...

because what we see is NOT what we get.

Miscellaneous comment: Please stop using the words INSANE, CRAZY, and SICK

to describe these entities that are bound to creating a one world death and slavery system for all.

These entities are EVIL and have sold their souls to the EVIL ONE. Being labeled as sick is just one of the perks that goes along with working for the Devil as it makes the evil work easier to do.

___________

I realize God can use bad people for good, but Durham was U S Attorney for Connecticut when Sandy Hook Hoax went down and he went right along with that evil scam. Only God can find a use for that entity!


Suggestions for survival.

Stop imbibing television.
Stop imbibing mainstream outlets on Internet.
Stop spending your money at Walmart and Amazon.
Support small and local goods and services and barter labor when you can.
Have a credit card but keep the balance at zero and only use for when you absolutely are forced to.
Use cash and participate in the underground economy as much as possible, but operate with highest standards of ethics in all of your dealings. Keep cash alive and well and maybe that is how we can forestall the mark of the beast.
Stay away from alcohol and drugs, including prescription drugs as much as possible. Stay in control of your own God given faculties.
Network with those you trust and that will be a dwindling size network. Distrust of others is being programmed into us now, bigtime.

Pray without ceasing and pray for the needs of others and try to help others any way you are able.

God is still on his throne and prayer changes things.

No King but Jesus.

[monty]

Great information to pass on especially the young folks:


Suggestions for survival.

Stop imbibing television.
Stop imbibing mainstream outlets on Internet.
Stop spending your money at Walmart and Amazon.
Support small and local goods and services and barter labor when you can.
Have a credit card but keep the balance at zero and only use for when you absolutely are forced to.
Use cash and participate in the underground economy as much as possible, but operate with highest standards of ethics in all of your dealings. Keep cash alive and well and maybe that is how we can forestall the mark of the beast.
Stay away from alcohol and drugs, including prescription drugs as much as possible. Stay in control of your own God given faculties.
Network with those you trust and that will be a dwindling size network. Distrust of others is being programmed into us now, bigtime.

Pray without ceasing and pray for the needs of others and try to help others any way you are able.

God is still on his throne and prayer changes things.

No King but Jesus.

[keehah]

John Solomon told Hannity he believes that Durham’s charges will start with Kevin Clinesmith, the lawyer who fraudulently changed a document to deceive the FISA court.


TeaParty.org: Unbelievable: Deep State FBI Agent Who Faked Evidence To Spy On Trump Campaign Gets… Probation?! (https://www.teaparty.org/unbelievable-deep-state-fbi-agent-who-faked-evidence-to-spy-on-trump-campaign-gets-probation-461463/)

Out of the many big names fingered for their involvement in the disgraceful Spygate scandal, one single FBI official—just one—has been charged for the treasonously unethical manner in which the investigation into candidate, then President Donald J. Trump was conducted.

Now, this agent has gotten off with a mere slap on the wrist.

Kevin Clinesmith, Infowars reports, was given a year of probation.

Oh, and community service.

So this man who fabricated evidence against a duly elected American president in an investigation that would later lead to an effort to get him removed from office can, you know, give back.

Wow.

“Clinesmith worked at the FBI General Counsel’s Office (GCO) and was assigned to Crossfire Hurricane, the probe of Trump’s alleged ties with Russia during the 2016 election,” Infowars reports.

“In that capacity, he altered an email from the CIA that described [2016 Trump campaign adviser Carter] Page as a source for the spy agency, to say he was ‘not’ a source – enabling the FBI to request a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant against Page as a ‘Russian agent’ – and, through him, spy on the Trump campaign, transition and presidency,” they continue.

The former intelligence official was sentenced on Friday by federal Judge James Boasberg —who Infowars notes also sits on the FISA court, interestingly enough—to 12 months probation, 400 hours of community service, and a $100 fine.

NPR: Ex-FBI Lawyer Sentenced To Probation For Actions During Russia Investigation (https://www.npr.org/2021/01/29/962140325/ex-fbi-lawyer-sentenced-to-probation-for-actions-during-russia-investigation)

Judge James Boasberg, who currently presides over the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in addition to sitting on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, agreed that Clinesmith's actions had harmed the surveillance court's reputation and forced reforms at the FBI.

But Boasberg said in his view, Clinesmith "likely believed" that the information he inserted into the email was true, and that he was just "taking an inappropriate shortcut" to save himself some work...

On top of that, Boasberg said, it's unclear the warrant wouldn't have been signed even without the altered email since there were "other significant errors and omissions" beyond Clinesmith's.

A lengthy report from the Department of Justice inspector general documented at least 17 errors and omissions in the surveillance application on Page.

[keehah]

realclearinvestigations.com: DC Bar Restores Convicted FBI Russiagate Forger to ‘Good Standing’ Amid Irregularities and Leniency (https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2021/12/16/dc_bar_lets_convicted_fbi_russiagate_lawyer_back_i n_good_standing_as_court_cuts_him_more_slack_80796 4.html#:~:text=A%20former%20senior%20FBI%20lawyer% 20who%20falsified%20a,felon%2C%20according%20to%20 disciplinary%20records%20obtained%20by%20RealClear Investigations.)

December 16, 2021
A former senior FBI lawyer who falsified a surveillance document in the Trump-Russia investigation has been restored as a member in "good standing" by the District of Columbia Bar Association even though he has yet to finish serving out his probation as a convicted felon, according to disciplinary records obtained by RealClearInvestigations.

The move is the latest in a series of exceptions the bar has made for Kevin Clinesmith, who pleaded guilty in August 2020 to doctoring an email used to justify a surveillance warrant targeting former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.

Clinesmith was sentenced to 12 months probation last January. But the D.C. Bar did not seek his disbarment, as is customary after lawyers are convicted of serious crimes involving the administration of justice. In this case, it did not even initiate disciplinary proceedings against him until February of this year — five months after he pleaded guilty and four days after RealClearInvestigations first reported he had not been disciplined. After the negative publicity, the bar temporarily suspended Clinesmith pending a review and hearing. Then in September, the court that oversees the bar and imposes sanctions agreed with its recommendation to let Clinesmith off suspension with time served; the bar, in turn, restored his status to "active member" in "good standing."

Before quietly making that decision, however, records indicate the bar did not check with his probation officer to see if he had violated the terms of his sentence or if he had completed the community service requirement of volunteering 400 hours.