Trey Gowdy Comey’s Definition Of A Leak Is ‘What The Rest Of Us Call A Felony’
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Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy says former FBI Director James Comey is distorting the definition of an information “leak” to suit his own purposes.
The South Carolina congressman told Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Thursday night that Comey was twisting the facts in an interview with Fox’s Bret Baier earlier that evening.
Comey was trying to convince Baier that he had not really “leaked” his memos of meetings with President Donald Trump to the media but had simply shared personal correspondence that could be seen as no different than a private “diary.”
That didn’t wash with Gowdy, who told Carlson that Comey “has a definition of the word leak that no one else has.”
Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy says former FBI Director James Comey is distorting the definition of an information “leak” to suit his own purposes.
The South Carolina congressman told Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Thursday night that Comey was twisting the facts in an interview with Fox’s Bret Baier earlier that evening.
Comey was trying to convince Baier that he had not really “leaked” his memos of meetings with President Donald Trump to the media but had simply shared personal correspondence that could be seen as no different than a private “diary.”
That didn’t wash with Gowdy, who told Carlson that Comey “has a definition of the word leak that no one else has.”
“What he says is a leak is what the rest of us call a felony,” Gowdy insisted. “Leaking is disclosing a confidential conversation, which is exactly what he did.”
Comey claimed Wednesday on CNN that he did not leak memos, but that he “asked a friend to communicate the substance … one unclassified memo to the media.”
CNN host Anderson Cooper pressed him.
“I think of a leak as an unauthorized disclosure of classified information,” Comey said.
“That’s it?” Cooper replied.
The DOJ inspector general is examining whether Comey violated any laws or regulations governing the release of classified information to the media or public.
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Mosul, IRAQ –Several bodies of Islamic State members were found as security troops confiscated tunnels that were used by the militant group, south of Mosul, the Security Media Center said.
In a statement, Brig. Gen. Yahia Rasool, the spokesperson for the center, said “the military intelligence found many tunnels that were used by ISIS in a village in Hammam al-Alil region in Mosul. The tunnels were used as shelters to treat the wounded.”
The troops, according to Rasool, “found inside the tunnels several bodies of IS members, who were injured without being treated during the liberation battles.”
Also, officials at Iraq’s Nineveh province have warned that senior Islamic State leaders were still in hiding at tunnels in the city of Mosul, the birthplace of the extremist group’s self-proclaimed “caliphate.”
Iraqi News reported that Hossam al-Abbar, a member of the Nineveh Province Council, was quoted saying in press statements that senior ISIS members were still hiding in underground tunnels in the western regions of Mosul, adding that those regions are of tough geography that makes it difficult to detect those tunnels.
The banks of Tigris River have become a hideout for the militants who entrench in tunnels well-hidden in the middle of the jungles, according to Abbar.
Nineveh officials have recently warned that several ISIS members were moving in the province with fake IDs.
AFF reported that one policeman was killed and three others were wounded as a bomb attack targeted their police vehicle in western Anbar, a security source was quoted as saying.
Speaking to Basnews website on Monday, the source said, “An explosive charge targeted a police vehicle carrying policemen between Rawa and Anah districts, west of Anbar.”
“The blast left a policeman killed and three others wounded,” the source said, adding that the troops were on a mission to secure agricultural lands and villages between Rawa and Anah districts, Iraqi News reported.
He pointed out the bomb is believed to be left over by ISIS militants.
“Security forces immediately rushed to the blast site and started combing the area in search for other bombs on site,” he noted.
At least twelve ISIS militants died Thursday when an underground tunnel they were using collapsed in the town of Tal Afar, west of Nineveh, a paramilitary leader said.
Speaking to Alsumaria News, Jabbar al-Maamouri, a commander at the Popular Mobilization Forces, said the militants scurried to the tunnel escaping an air strike. “The strike hit the tunnel’s opening, killing all inside, according to the information we have,” Maamouri stated.
The militants raised alert among members to extract the buried corpses, and did manage to the some out, he said, adding that the group had escalated the digging of tunnels which had usually been used as escape routes or for assaulting security forces, Iraqi News reports.
Tal Afar is 65 kilometers west of Mosul, and is home to a mixed Turkmen and Arab population. Iraqi forces recaptured Mosul, Islamic State’s former capital, early July after more than eight months of U.S.-backed offensives.
Iraqi PM Haider al-Abadi and his defense officials have marked Tal Afar as their next target of anti-Islamic State action. Iraqi defense officials said recently that warplanes were carrying out raids on the enclave in preparation for the ground invasion which is yet to be scheduled.
Tal Afar has reportedly seen divisions among Islamic State leaderships, with occasional news telling of power conflicts and dissents among leaders, as well as attempts by some militants to flee the anticipated battle field.
Since Iraqi forces launched a wide-scale campaign to retake Mosul in 2016, paramilitary troops managed to isolate the town from the Syrian borders and from the rest of Nineveh.
Despite the group’s crushing defeat at its main havens across Iraq, Islamic State continues to launch sporadic attacks against troops with security reports warning that the militant group still poses a threat against stability in the country.
The United Nations says nearly five million people have been displaced and more than 11 million are in need of humanitarian assistance since Islamic State militants took over large areas of Iraq in 2014 to proclaim a self-styled “Islamic Caliphate”.
Border Patrol Hits Stash House, Inside They Discover Why America Desperately Needs The Wall
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Liberals love to put on a big show of how much they adore illegal immigrants.
They greet them with signs at the border, saying “Refugees are welcome here” while harassing American citizens who dare to disagree with them.
But their attitude is actually endangering many of the illegal immigrants they claim to love so much.
Images of liberal protesters welcoming these criminals are blasted on the news, causing many Mexican, Central American, and South American citizens to believe that once they get to the border they’ll simply be let in.
Unfortunately for them, our border doesn’t work that way, and many illegal immigrants don’t even make it far enough to find this out.
Thousands of people who attempt to reach the US every year wind up in the hands of human and drug traffickers, who kidnap them, steal their belongings, and demand ransom from their family members.
A recent raid in Texas uncovered the harsh truth of what the lawless policies of the left lead to, and the dangerous criminals they’re emboldening with their talk of open borders.
From Breitbart:
“Border Patrol agents assigned to the Weslaco Station received a tip on a possible human smuggling stash house near Edcouch, Texas.
The responding agents discovered nearly 40 migrants crammed into a small house in filthy conditions.
Agents from the Rio Grande Valley (RGV) Sector teamed up with Hidalgo County sheriff’s deputies on April 19 to take charge of the suspected human smuggling stash house.
As the law enforcement officials approached, numerous people began climbing out windows and exiting the rear doors, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials on Thursday.
As the agents secured the facility, they discovered 29 males crammed inside. A search of the area led to a total of 39 migrants being taken into custody.”
While this find is a win for Border Patrol agents, the truth is that they can find 39 illegal immigrants at about any Home Depot parking lot.
The tax money wasted setting up this elaborately choreographed sting seems excessive when so many areas in America are overrun with illegal immigrants in plain sight.
But a deported illegal is a deported illegal, and all of those rounded up during this raid were sent packing. Maybe if these raids were broadcast to those south of our border, these people would stop attempting to invade us.
It’s time for these illegal immigrants to return home and take their chances in their countries of origin, rather than risk being enslaved by traffickers or deported by us.
But only a wall can truly keep these criminals and invaders out. After hearing about this raid, Trump should order the wall to be ten feet higher!
Hawaii volcano could erupt after 250 earthquakes recorded in 24 hours
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HAPPENING NOW DOJ Denies GOP’s Request to View Details of Mueller’s Probe
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After months of stonewalling, the Department of Justice has officially denied the House Freedom Caucus’ request to view Robert Mueller’s memo, which details the scope and duration of the Russia probe.
This lack of transparency clearly shows they’re hiding something big.
The Department of Justice sent a letter to the leaders of the House Freedom Caucus on Monday declining their request to see the unredacted version of a memo detailing the scope of the special counsel’s Russia probe.
In the letter, obtained by the Washington Examiner, Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd writes: “Although we are working to accommodate the requests of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in a number of oversight matters, we cannot provide the requested information pertaining to the Special Counsel’s ongoing investigation consistent with longstanding principles of investigatory independence.”
Turning over the unredacted memo would “threaten the integrity” of Mueller’s investigation, the letter reads.
It would also violate Justice Department policy of “against confirming or denying information about active investigations,” wrote Boyd.
Trump-aligned Reps. Mark Meadows, of North Carolina, and Jim Jordan, of Ohio, told Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein last month in a private meeting that they wanted to see the unredacted version of the August 2017 memo that details the scope of Robert Mueller’s investigation, CNN reported late Tuesday.
The heavily-redacted and classified August 2, 2017, memo signed by Rosenstein was made public in April in court filings as part of Mueller’s ongoing criminal case against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
In the memo, Rosenstein empowers Mueller to investigate allegations that Manafort “committed a crime or crimes by colluding with Russian government officials” to interfere in the 2016 presidential election.
The request from Meadows and Jordan — and subsequent denial by the Justice Department — adds new fuel Republican lawmakers’ accusations that the department is stonewalling its numerous requests for documents.
But on Tuesday, Rosenstein — a Republican who was handpicked by Trump — sent a message the Congress that he will adhere to the rule of law when it comes to demands.
“There have been people who have been making threats privately and publicly against me for quite some time and I think they should understand by now the Department of Justice is not going to be extorted,” he said at an event in Washington.
[ Rod Rosenstein responds to impeachment rumors: The DOJ ’is not going to be extorted’ ]
In response, Meadows tweeted : “If he believes being asked to do his job is ‘extortion,’ then Rod Rosenstein should step aside and allow us to find a new Deputy Attorney General — preferably one who is interested in transparency.”
The Washington Post reported this week Meadows and the House Freedom Caucus had drafted articles of impeachment against Rosenstein.
Earlier Wednesday, Trump threatened to “get involved” in in facilitating the turning over of documents to Congress.
“A Rigged System – They don’t want to turn over Documents to Congress,” Trump tweeted . “What are they afraid of? Why so much redacting? Why such unequal ‘justice?’ At some point I will have no choice but to use the powers granted to the Presidency and get involved!”
Trump did not describe which committee requests he was referring to, though there have been numerous requests in the last few months.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., issued a subpoena to the Justice Department in March, seeking various documents, including on the FBI’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server and alleged abuse of surveillance powers during the 2016 election.
The Justice Department missed Goodlatte’s subpoena deadline in early April, and Trump railed against the department on Twitter , accusing them of “slow walking.”
At the time, a Republican House Judiciary Committee aide told the Washington Examiner that they were working with the Justice Department to take “immediate steps to comply with the subpoena and produce documents to the Committee.”
The Justice Department last month did turn over a document requested by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, who had wanted to see the document he said prompted the FBI’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
In a statement on the deadline, April 11, Nunes thanked Rosenstein, but warned his committee’s subpoenas from last year “remain in effect.”
The Intelligence Committee subpoenaed the FBI on Aug. 24, 2017 for a broad range of documents, including the two-page originating document, commonly called the Electronic Communication, or EC.