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Correction: An earlier version of this story erroneously stated that the FBI employee being investigated for altering a document worked underneath former Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok. The employee was a low-level lawyer in the Office of General Counsel and did not report to the deputy assistant director.
I haven't followed this part of the show [who's Peter Strzok?], so I don't know its meaning in the grand scheme. Seems more like one of your regular fake news stories, but somebody took interest, so maybe you guys can clarify if this shit's for real.
Have fun
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-- Dr. Johnson
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday November 22 2019, @08:10PM (10 children)
LOL!
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Friday November 22 2019, @08:31PM (9 children)
Really! He's just another table lamp. What's the deal?
Okay, I googled [wiki'd] him.. Still so what? Just part of your circus, another distraction. The Lisa Page thing is a nice touch. What's a novel without a love interest?
You know, all the accusations against the GOP half of the party were never in doubt, these are things we expect from the party in general, but you guys have a way of mucking up the whole works, so they end up walking away after all the appeals are done, your little scorecard notwithstanding.
Anyway, carry on
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday November 22 2019, @08:40PM (6 children)
Correct, Peter Strzok is definitely just a distraction.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Friday November 22 2019, @08:48PM (2 children)
As are all the others put in front of the camera. A real shit show, doing nothing about the self inflicted incumbency problem. Everybody wants to go back.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 22 2019, @10:04PM (1 child)
Sanders 2020!
Rip the troll mask off fustakrakrich!!! Whatta shill, whatta buffoon.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Saturday November 23 2019, @06:55AM
Told you a thousand times, Oprah!
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 22 2019, @10:26PM (2 children)
It is just some grass, don't mind the insurance policy involving charlie who turned white when he heard about Trump investigating Biden's plundering of Ukraine.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 22 2019, @10:35PM (1 child)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_OK_to_be_white [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 23 2019, @01:10AM
Being the type who believes the only answer to bad speech is more speech, I think if I saw one of those, I would be tempted to post beside it, "It's ok to be a wise Latinx trans lesbian."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 22 2019, @10:23PM
The Hand and Glave is, fortunate for us, it is on the side of the working man.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 23 2019, @12:44AM
The US government should not be altering interview records in order to then prosecute people for testimony that disagrees with the altered interview records. This is criminal.
People have been convicted because of this. Those convictions, which happen to be the ones DeathMonkey loves to gloat about, are going to be overturned.
Hopefully the government workers will themselves be prosecuted for their crimes, but it barely seems possible to prosecute a democrat in DC. They clearly feel a sense of immunity.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 22 2019, @11:36PM (25 children)
The smoking gun that puts DNC dollars in Sondland's pocket! [nytimes.com]
In fact, it was the DNC who lent him the money to start his hotel business, and installed him as a mole in GOP circles for *decades*.
And it was George Soros who shelled out the $1,000,000 that Sondland gave to the Trump inaugural fund.
And the moment Sondland left his hearing on Wednesday, Chelsea Clinton was waiting in his (DNC paid for) limousine to suck his cock. And yes, she swallowed.
Do you?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 22 2019, @11:49PM
Yes. Romney, Kerry, Biden, Pelosi at least are involved. Schiff, I don't get what he is worried about yet. Maybe it is indirectly due to Ed Buck?
Anyone over 100 IQ without their hand in cookie jar would be in favor of the republicrats going down long term. It is the side effects we are worried about.
Clinton = Sejanus
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/research/panics/ancient-panics/financial-panic-of-33ad/ [armstrongeconomics.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 22 2019, @11:55PM
You appear to suffer from syphilis
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 23 2019, @02:10AM (21 children)
What's wrong ari?
Don't like to hear the truth? As the article I linked states:
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 23 2019, @06:37AM (20 children)
Fact 1: Hunter Biden was hired in May 2014 by Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian natural gas company, at a time when his father Joe Biden was Vice President and overseeing US-Ukraine Policy. Here is the announcement. Hunter Biden’s hiring came just a few short weeks after Joe Biden urged Ukraine to expand natural gas production and use Americans to help. You can read his comments to the Ukrainian prime minister here. Hunter Biden’s firm then began receiving monthly payments totaling $166,666. You can see those payments here.
Fact 2: Burisma was under investigation by British authorities for corruption and soon came under investigation by Ukrainian authorities led by Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin.
Fact 3: Vice President Joe Biden and his office were alerted by a December 2015 New York Times article that Shokin’s office was investigating Burisma and that Hunter Biden’s role at the company was undercutting his father’s anticorruption efforts in Ukraine.
Fact 4: The Biden-Burisma issue created the appearance of a conflict of interest, especially for State Department officials. I especially refer you to State official George Kent’s testimony here. He testified he viewed Burisma as corrupt and the Bidens as creating the perception of a conflict of interest. His concerns both caused him to contact the vice president’s office and to block a project that State’s USAID agency was planning with Burisma in 2016. In addition, Ambassador Yovanovitch testified she, too, saw the Bidens-Burisma connection as creating the appearance of a conflict of interest. You can read her testimony here.
Fact 5: The Obama White House invited Shokin’s prosecutorial team to Washington for meetings in January 2016 to discuss their anticorruption investigations. You can read about that here. Also, here is the official agenda for that meeting in Ukraine and English. I call your attention to the NSC organizer of the meeting.
Fact 6: The Ukraine investigation of Hunter Biden’s employer, Burisma Holdings, escalated in February 2016 when Shokin’s office raided the home of company owner Mykola Zlochevsky and seized his property. Here is the announcement of that court-approved raid.
Fact 7: Shokin was making plans in February 2016 to interview Hunter Biden as part of his investigation. You can read his interview with me here, his sworn deposition to a court here and his interview with ABC News here.
Fact 8: Burisma’s American representatives lobbied the State Department in late February 2016 to help end the corruption allegations against the company, and specifically invoked Hunter Biden’s name as a reason to intervene. You can read State officials’ account of that effort here
Fact 9: Joe Biden boasted in a 2018 videotape that he forced Ukraine’s president to fire Shokin in March 2016 by threatening to withhold $1 billion in U.S. aid. You can view his videotape here.
Fact 10: Shokin stated in interviews with me and ABC News that he was told he was fired because Joe Biden was unhappy the Burisma investigation wasn’t shut down. He made that claim anew in this sworn deposition prepared for a court in Europe. You can read that here.
Fact 11: The day Shokin’s firing was announced in March 2016, Burisma’s legal representatives sought an immediate meeting with his temporary replacement to address the ongoing investigation. You can read the text of their emails here.
Fact 12: Burisma’s legal representatives secured that meeting April 6, 2016 and told Ukrainian prosecutors that “false information” had been spread to justify Shokin’s firing, according to a Ukrainian government memo about the meeting. The representatives also offered to arrange for the remaining Ukrainian prosecutors to meet with U.S State and Justice officials. You can read the Ukrainian prosecutors’ summary memo of the meeting here and here and the Burisma lawyers’ invite to Washington here.
Fact 13: Burisma officials eventually settled the Ukraine investigations in late 2016 and early 2017, paying a multimillion dollar fine for tax issues. You can read their lawyer’s February 2017 announcement of the end of the investigations here.
Fact 14: In March 2019, Ukraine authorities reopened an investigation against Burisma and Zlochevsky based on new evidence of money laundering. You can read NABU’s February 2019 recommendation to re-open the case here, the March 2019 notice of suspicion by Ukraine prosecutors here and a May 2019 interview here with a Ukrainian senior law enforcement official stating the investigation was ongoing. And here is an announcement this week that the Zlochevsky/Burisma probe has been expanded to include allegations of theft of Ukrainian state funds.
Fact 15: The Ukraine embassy in Washington issued a statement in April 2019 admitting that a Democratic National Committee contractor named Alexandra Chalupa solicited Ukrainian officials in spring 2016 for dirt on Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort in hopes of staging a congressional hearing close to the 2016 election that would damage Trump’s election chances. You can read the embassy’s statement here and here. Your colleague, Dr. Fiona Hill, confirmed this episode, testifying “Ukraine bet on the wrong horse. They bet on Hillary Clinton winning.” You can read her testimony here.
Fact 16: Chalupa sent an email to top DNC officials in May 2016 acknowledging she was working on the Manafort issue. You can read the email here.
Fact 17: Ukraine’s ambassador to Washington, Valeriy Chaly, wrote an OpEd in The Hill in August 2016 slamming GOP nominee Donald Trump for his policies on Russia despite a Geneva Convention requirement that ambassadors not become embroiled in the internal affairs or elections of their host countries. You can read Ambassador Chaly’s OpEd here and the Geneva Convention rules of conduct for foreign diplomats here. And your colleagues Ambassador Yovanovitch and Dr. Hill both confirmed this, with Dr. Hill testifying this week that Chaly’s OpEd was “probably not the most advisable thing to do.”
Fact 18: A Ukrainian district court ruled in December 2018 that the summer 2016 release of information by Ukrainian Parliamentary member Sergey Leschenko and NABU director Artem Sytnyk about an ongoing investigation of Manafort amounted to an improper interference by Ukraine’s government in the 2016 U.S. election. You can read the court ruling here. Leschenko and Sytnyk deny the allegations, and have won an appeal to suspend that ruling on a jurisdictional technicality.
Fact 19: George Soros’ Open Society Foundation issued a memo in February 2016 on its strategy for Ukraine, identifying the nonprofit Anti-Corruption Action Centre as the lead for its efforts. You can read the memo here.
Fact 20: The State Department and Soros’ foundation jointly funded the Anti-Corruption Action Centre. You can read about that funding here from the Centre’s own funding records and George Kent’s testimony about it here.
Fact 21: In April 2016, US embassy charge d’affaires George Kent sent a letter to the Ukrainian prosecutor general’s office demanding that Ukrainian prosecutors stand down a series of investigations into how Ukrainian nonprofits spent U.S. aid dollars, including the Anti-Corruption Actions Centre. You can read that letter here. Kent testified he signed the letter here.
Fact 22: Then-Ukraine Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko said in a televised interview with me that Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch during a 2016 meeting provided the lists of names of Ukrainian nationals and groups she did want to see prosecuted. You can see I accurately quoted him by watching the video here.
Fact 23: Ambassador Yovanovitch and her embassy denied Lutsenko’s claim, calling it a “fabrication.” I reported their reaction here.
Fact 24: Despite the differing accounts of what happened at the Lutsenko-Yovanovitch meeting, a senior U.S. official in an interview arranged by the State Department stated to me in spring 2019 that US officials did pressure Lutsenko’s office on several occasions not to “prosecute, investigate or harass” certain Ukrainian activists, including Parliamentary member Leschenko, journalist Vitali Shabunin, the Anti-Corruption Action Centre and NABU director Sytnyk. You can read that official’s comments here. In addition, George Kent confirmed this same information in his deposition here.
Fact 25: In May 2018, then-House Rules Committee chairman Pete Sessions sent an official congressional letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo asking that Yovanovitch be recalled as ambassador to Ukraine. Sessions and State confirmed the official letter, which you can read here.
Fact 26: In fall 2018, Ukrainian prosecutors, using a third party, hired an American lawyer (a former U.S. attorney) to proffer information to the U.S. government about certain activities at the U.S. embassy, involving Burisma and involving the 2016 election, that they believed might have violated U.S. law. You can read their account here. You can also confirm it independently by talking to the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan or the American lawyer representing the Ukrainian prosecutors’ interests.
Fact 27: In May 2016, one of George Soros’ top aides secured a meeting with the top Eurasia policy official in the State Department to discuss Russian bond issues. You can read the State memos on that meeting here.
Fact 28: In June 2016, Soros himself secured a telephonic meeting with Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland to discuss Ukraine policy. You can read the State memos on that meeting here.
(Score: 2) by shortscreen on Saturday November 23 2019, @10:25AM (2 children)
This looks like copypasta from the moonofalabama article but with the links and many of the dates removed. You also left out the part where Burisma (in Jan 2017 when they are no longer being investigated) donates $100,000 or more to the Atlantic Council.
It's interesting to note re: fact 6 that the court order to seize Zlochevsky's assets occurred less than a month before Uncle Joe's tantrum.
Zlochevsky was part of the Yanukovich government and was accused of handing out gas permits to benefit himself. So it was natural for him to be targetted by the prosecutor when opposition government came in (thanks to the US). This is the only thing that explains why Biden even had to ask more than once to get the investigation dropped.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 23 2019, @12:05PM
Alabama moon? Never heard of it.
https://johnsolomonreports.com/responding-to-lt-col-vindman-about-my-ukraine-columns-with-the-facts/ [johnsolomonreports.com]
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Saturday November 23 2019, @04:53PM
Here's the original timeline I posted elsewhere previously [moonofalabama.org].
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 23 2019, @05:51PM (16 children)
Your "facts" have no backup.
In fact, all you say each time is "You can see...here."
Yes, it is in your comment. But referring to your own statement seems quite self-serving.
You'll forgive me (not that I care if you don't) if I don't take some unsubstantiated bullshit from some random asshole (that's you, in case you were confused) on the interwebs as gospel.
If I wanted to read this kind of garbage, I'd go here [facebook.com].
See how that link thing works? Troll better next time, asshole.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 23 2019, @06:00PM (15 children)
Those are John Solomons facts, not mine. It did not paste well.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 23 2019, @06:09PM (14 children)
You posted it here. And without attribution, too.
As such, you own it here.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 23 2019, @07:26PM (1 child)
There is no saving these mentally compromised fools. At this point I think they'll believe fake news bullshit to their graves as that lets them preserve their martyrdom. I think the better move is to just say "That isn't reality," pity their mistakes, and move on.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 23 2019, @07:58PM
Fake news such as? What entry in that list is wrong?
The truth is that free money from the fed has allowed the growth of all sorts of wasteful activities, especially by the government. It seems the collapse is near w negative interest rate appearing all over the world, but who knows. Anyway, when that time comes you can be sure that the people who listen to cia propaganda networks will not last long.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 23 2019, @07:53PM (11 children)
Attribution is here: https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=34769&page=1&cid=923795#commentwrap [soylentnews.org]
You can also find it by simply searching part of the text. Sorry if that upsets you.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 23 2019, @08:11PM (10 children)
I'm not upset.
I am amused that you are repeating the talking points of the guy who published documented lies about Ukraine, American diplomats and other bullshit back in March.
The interviewee whose lies Solomon published recanted his false accusations.
As such, I don't take anything Solomon has to say seriously.
Not that you care about that, as it feeds your prejudices/world view, so it must be true right?
I prefer facts. And I'm perfectly willing to change my mind when presented with actual, documented *facts*.
And so we are at an impasse [youtube.com]. Game on Vizzini!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 23 2019, @08:31PM (2 children)
So... You have no quibble with any of the facts. LOL., can't even point to one you think is wrong. Someone here is an idiot.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 23 2019, @08:38PM (1 child)
I'm not quibbling at all. It's *all* bullshit. Is that clear enough for you Vizzini?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 23 2019, @08:45PM
Amazing, how you can't argue with any of the facts and when you attempt to present a fact it is false. There is no helping you, I tried.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 23 2019, @08:42PM (6 children)
Your fake fact:
The true fact:
The story about recanting is false:
https://johnsolomonreports.com/the-real-ukraine-controversy-an-activist-u-s-embassy-and-its-adherence-to-the-geneva-convention/ [johnsolomonreports.com]
You believe FAKE NEWS. Every single time I check one of these claims it is FALSE. 100% of the time. You are in for quite a surprise.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 23 2019, @09:38PM (5 children)
Lutsenko said:
https://www.unian.info/politics/10520715-ukraine-prosecutor-general-lutsenko-admits-u-s-ambassador-didn-t-give-him-a-do-not-prosecute-list.html [unian.info]
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/11/19/20971075/rudy-giuliani-john-solomon-ukraine-impeachment-trump [vox.com]
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-10-01/former-ukrainian-president-poroshenko-trump [latimes.com]
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/11/19/20971075/rudy-giuliani-john-solomon-ukraine-impeachment-trump [vox.com]
https://apnews.com/20cfc75c82eb4a67b94e624e97207e23 [apnews.com]
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/12/us/politics/john-solomon-ukraine-fox-news-the-hill.html [nytimes.com]
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https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/yovanovitch-impeachment-hearing/card/1573829953 [wsj.com]
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/11/19/20971075/rudy-giuliani-john-solomon-ukraine-impeachment-trump [vox.com]
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 23 2019, @10:12PM (4 children)
So you are going to stick with the story it is recanted? You are so fucked up that you trust fake news over the responses of the person themselves. Thanks for the retitrement money!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 24 2019, @12:32AM (3 children)
This *is* the response of the person (Lutsenko) himself [unian.info]:
Trolling moron.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 24 2019, @01:46AM (2 children)
What does recant mean?
(Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 24 2019, @02:07AM (1 child)
Failing the second attempt? Twice? Before even trying? I mean, because if you tried, it would be recouldn't.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 24 2019, @10:42PM
You smell bad, lol. I can smell you through the internet.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 23 2019, @02:17AM
I definitely want to hear the unbiased opinions of the D.C.-based strategic intelligence firm Fusion GPS. Thanks, NYT.