More Fake News From The Lefts : NYT Publishes Fake Mueller Firing Story



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NYT Publishes Fake Mueller Firing Story 2 Hours After New Clinton Scandal Exposed

The New York Times published a fake news story on Jan. 25 claiming that President Trump tried to fire special counsel Robert Mueller and that senior White House lawyer Don McGahn tried to quit because of it. CNN followed up, claiming the White House was “in turmoil as CNN confirms Trump tried to fire Robert Mueller.”

The story was quickly debunked, however. CBS reported on Jan. 27 that Trump did not give an order to fire Mueller. It claims Trump discussed the issue, and noted three areas where Mueller could have conflicts of interests in his role, but never gave any orders. CBS also reported that while McGahn did allegedly threaten to quit, it wasn’t about Trump and Mueller.

Elizabeth Harrington of Fox News speculated that the New York Times published its debunked story to detract from the release of text messages from the disgraced FBI agent who conducted the interviews with Hillary Clinton in her email scandal. The New York Times piece was published just two hours after Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) released the text messages of former FBI Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page discussing going easy on Hillary Clinton in the email scandal investigations.

Trump also responded to the claims, telling reporters according to the Associated Press, “Fake news, folks. Fake news. Typical New York Times fake stories.”
German TV Show Altered Volume of Boos During Trump Speech

German news program Tagesschau altered the volume in a video so that viewers could hear booing when President Donald Trump criticized dishonest news reporting during a Jan. 26 speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

“It wasn’t until I became a politician that I realized how nasty, how mean, and how vicious the press can be,” Trump stated in the video. The audio in the Tagesschau version can be heard changing, and a mix of boos and applause can be heard.

Tagesschau admitted in a tweet, translated from German, that, “We have actually made the sound a bit louder, so that you can hear the boos.”

Other German news outlets pointed out the issue. Der Tagesspiegel quoted Bild Editor-in-Chief Julian Reichelt saying it would be, “Hard to imagine that you would have done the same to applause.”

Why the Memo Is So Significant

Information known so far shows threat to the very foundation of our democracy

 

 

A House Intelligence Committee memo that is set to become public has set off intense speculation about its exact contents.
Those who have seen it, described it as “shocking” and as a threat to our republic.

Major news organizations, including The New York Times, have worked around the clock to discredit the memo ahead of its release, writing it off as a conspiracy theory. However, these are the same media organizations that have pushed the unproven narrative that Trump colluded with the Russian government for over a year.

So what do we know so far?

We know for a fact that the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee paid Fusion GPS, through law firm Perkins Coie, to produce an opposition research document on then-presidential candidate Donald Trump.
We also know, through the reporting of award-winning national security reporter Sara Carter, that the FBI used the so-called Trump Dossier, to obtain a FISA surveillance warrant to spy on the Trump team.

It is also a fact that top FBI officials, including Peter Strzok, the lead FBI agent on both the Hillary Clinton email server and the Trump campaign case, sent numerous text messages to FBI lawyer Lisa Page showing a clear bias in favor of Clinton and against Trump.
Strzok later went on to become part of Robert Mueller’s special counsel team, but was fired after the biased text messages had been uncovered by the Department of Justice inspector general.

We also know for a fact that top Obama officials, including his National Security Adviser Susan Rice, and his ambassador to the UN, Samantha Power, made dozens if not hundreds of so-called unmasking requests for the identities of members of Trump’s team during and after the elections.

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This type of spying on Americans had been detailed in a declassified top-secret NSA report published in April 2017. The report shows that so-called minimization and targeting procedures aimed at avoiding Americans being spied on were systematically violated by the NSA and the FBI under the Obama administration.

We also know for a fact that there were numerous leaks from the Obama administration to media organizations pushing the false Russia collusion narrative. Former FBI Director James Comey testified under oath before Congress in June last year that most of the reporting based on these anonymous intelligence leaks was incorrect.

We also know that former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who had overseen a report investigating the alleged Russian interference in the 2016 elections, has repeatedly said, including under oath before Congress, that no evidence was found of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government.
We also know for a fact, based on court documents in the UK, that former British spy Christopher Steele, who had been hired by Fusion GPS to produce the Trump dossier, had given secret briefings to media organizations on at least two occasions. These media included The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, The New Yorker, and Yahoo News.
We also know from court documents filed by the House Intelligence Committee that Fusion GPS made direct payments to journalists who covered Russia related matters.

These facts alone paint a frightening picture. One of a presidential candidate working hand in hand with a sitting administration and the most powerful law enforcement and intelligence agencies in the world against her political opponent.

When the memo is released, we will surely learn more facts about this scandal.
The difficult question Americans will face is how we address this grave threat to democracy itself.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) sees this memo as tied to the future of the United States as we know it. In a statement released by his office, he said, “There is no higher priority than the release of this information to preserve our democracy.”
If the memo indeed shows that there was a conspiracy to use state power to aide a favored political candidate and to attempt to destroy her opponents’ candidacy, then it will have revealed that we have entered a dangerous new era in American history in 2016—one that people will have to be held accountable for.

There Are Real Cigarette Smoking Men Inside FBI

FBI Agents See McCabe Resignation as Step Toward Freeing Agency From Politics

Agency was dragged into politics under former Director James Comey and Deputy Director Andrew McCabe

Andrew McCabe resigned from his position as deputy director of the FBI on Jan. 29, just hours before the Senate approved the release of a memo that allegedly shows the FBI using its powers for political motives that protected Hillary Clinton and sought to undermine President Donald Trump.

The shakeup at the top of the FBI is being framed by some politicians and legacy news outlets as an attack on the agency itself, with former Attorney General Eric Holder stating on Twitter that “Bogus attacks on the FBI and DOJ [Department of Justice] to distract attention from a legitimate criminal inquiry does long term, unnecessary damage to these foundations of our government.”

A veteran FBI agent, though, says that for many FBI agents, the claims of Holder and others couldn’t be further from the truth.

“The truth is that agents are very smart people. They realize the attacks from the White House are not directed at the rank and file, but clearly directed at the elite,” said Marc Ruskin, author of “The Pretender: My Life Undercover for the FBI,” who spent 27 years in the agency.

Ruskin said that among the community of former and retired FBI agents, they largely believe the agency had been dragged into politics by former FBI Director James Comey, and that this politicization of the agency continued under McCabe.

“For every agent who defends Comey there are ten who are angry with the bureau being allowed to be manipulated for political purpose,” he said.

“The belief of the rank and file FBI agents and retired agents is that the politicization of the FBI which occurred over the past couple years with Comey, McCabe, and others is essentially being cleansed,” Ruskin said.

“This is clearing house and getting the FBI back to its role as a neutral agency free from political influence,” he said.

Clearing the FBI of political influence was also raised by Frank Gaffney, president of the Center for Security Policy. He stated in an email that for those who admired the FBI “and understand its important role in protecting national security and public safety,” Jan. 29 was a red letter day.

McCabe, Gaffney said, “epitomized the politicization of the Bureau’s senior management that has hampered its performance under former directors Robert Mueller and James Comey and undermined the American people’s confidence in the organization.”

He noted that the memo allegedly exposes “politically motivated domestic surveillance and other malfeasance” that took place in the FBI under McCabe’s watch.

According to Ruskin, to properly understand the shakeup and its perceptions within the FBI, it’s important to understand the divide between FBI management and the agents on the ground.

Most bureaucracies use a pyramid system of management, where employees often enter at the bottom, then make an effort to rise through the ranks. Ruskin noted, “The FBI is not like that. Most agents enter at the bottom rung, and most want to stay at the bottom rung.”

Many who enter the FBI, he said, do so out of a desire for adventure or for a sense of justice. When advancing their careers, Ruskin said, “They want to get into more complex investigations, and instead of handling routine cases they handle major white collar or organized crime cases.”

The agents who go into the FBI management, however, are often of a different breed. “The agents who go into management are often the ones who aren’t the best street agents,” Ruskin said. “They’re the ones who aren’t very comfortable on the street or can’t develop rapport. Once they’re in management they try to claw and crawl their way to the top.”

Because of this difference in goals, there are two starkly different cultures in the FBI between agents on the ground and those who go into management.

“Agents are very dedicated to the truth and to finding the bad guys,” Ruskin said. “The other culture is of desk jockeys trying to advance their careers and rise to the next level. They’re trying to not rock the boat, and to not do anything that would inhibit their rise to the top.”

“Guys like McCabe were known for being notorious for destroying anybody who got in the way. Many perceived him to be a martinet who crushed anyone who got in his way,” Ruskin said.

McCabe, he said, was known as a micromanager who enjoyed power and pushed around those beneath him, but also had a sycophant nature who looked to appease the supervisors above him. Ruskin said, “They aren’t going to be any tears shed by his departure, particularly to the people who he viewed as obstacles in his steady climb upwards.”

“Understanding there are these two cultures—the management culture and the rank and file street culture—you’ve got to understand the rank and file are not bothered by the commentary on the politicization,” Ruskin said. “They don’t feel they’re being targeted. They understand that they and management are two different animals, and an attack on management is not an attack on the rank and file.”