Blackmail...

Barr is correct on both counts, there was snooping on the Trump campaign, and  an ongoing intelligence investigation became public.

The abuse of power here is what happened after Trump won the election. This is when the investigations themselves and other kinds of surveillance were disclosed to the press. Details about incoming National Security Adviser Michael Flynn’s conversations with the Russian ambassador during the presidential transition leaked. So did the FBI’s probe of Trump associates and their contacts with Russia, along with the existence of the surveillance warrant on Page himself.  

The New York Times reported in early 2017 that, in the days and weeks leading up to Trump’s inauguration, intelligence and White House officials distributed intelligence on contacts between Russia and Trump associates far and wide.


Brennan briefed was then-Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, who a few days later released a letter to then-FBI director James Comey, urging him to make public intelligence about the Trump campaign and Russia. 

After the election, Brennan became a TV pundit and used his platform to accuse Trump of treason and claim the Russian government was blackmailing him. 
[Eil Lake, Bloomberg]

Beto...

Give it...

Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts said that she would not participate in a Fox News town hall, calling the media outlet “a hate-for-profit racket.” 

Ms. Warren accused the network of giving “a megaphone to racists and conspiracists” and providing cover for corruption.

The Democratic National Committee announced it was boycotting Fox News as a potential primary debate partner. 

But since, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., participated in a Fox News town hall. And other presidential candidates, have since agreed to town halls on the network.

Sanders' Fox News town hall earned the highest ratings of any candidate town hall this cycle.

Warren didn't describe the other networks.    Just a thought.

Economy...

Hold...

Let us stop Barr before opening Pandora's box. Last chance to stop him is now before 2020 blow up in the face of the Dems..

There is a lot of rumors about "Spying" on the Trump clan during the political season of 2016. This would be the worst act against a political candidate for the president of the United States of America. This may be as close to what Richard Nixon did, spying on the Dems in the "Watergate" fiasco. Now the shoe appears to be in the other foot.
Just a thought.

Stop...

This must stop no matter what.

Muller's..

The Dems had hoped for a good outcome of the Muller's report. Yet that hope is dashed.  Now they are fighting for the aftermath, knowingly that they are getting nowhere.

The goal is really to avoid doing anything of value fo the bebefben of the American people.

"We are looking for the truth."  "We will the request the unredacun-Report." Etc.

List...

Mayor de Blasio is defending his move to expand the list of crimes that let the city turn suspects over to Immigration Customs Enforcement.

Seven additional offenses that include child sex trafficking and patronizing child prostitution were added.
De Blasio said the change remains in line with the original 2014 bill, which was meant to only impact those convicted of serious crimes.

"We do not believe for minor offenses that anyone should be torn away from their family, but if someone has committed one of these serious and violent crimes and has gone through the full legal process and is convicted, that’s would be grounds for cooperation with ICE."

Child sex trafficking and child prostitution were not the first on the list?

A day late and a dollar short. 

Just a thought.

Fraud...

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Cuomo said the Metropolitan Transportation Authority approved overtime hours for workers but “we never authorized fraud and theft and criminality.”

He went on to question why MTA management ​did not step in and put an end to the practice of billing for excessive overtime costs.

​This is not a new issue for the MTA. They have been criticized for years on lack of an effective time and attendance system. Why didn’t they change it? Why didn’t they fix it? There’s no excuse in my opinion​,” Cuomo said, adding he agreed with MTA chairman Patrick Foye for the need to appoint an independent investigator.

​”Find out A- the extent they can, how widespread the fraud, or possible fraud, is, and B, explain to the MTA what management system has failed that has allowed this to go on and didn’t catch it​,” he said.

Cuomo has been in the office for eight years, neglected the MTA as much as it deteriorated to that level, and now pointing the figure at someone else.   

Fish...

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and FBI have released a joint security advisory warning of a new strain of malware being used in North Korean cyberattacks.

Dubbed Electricfish, the malware was uncovered while the departments were tracking the activities of Hidden Cobra, a threat group believed to be state-sponsored and backed by the North Korean government.

Hidden Cobra has been connected to a variety of attacks against financial institutions, critical industrial players, and targets chosen for valuable intellectual property worldwide

The description of Electricfish is based on one malicious 32-bit Windows executable. After reverse engineering the sample, the malware was found to contain a custom protocol which permits traffic to be funneled between source and destination IP addresses.

"The malware can be configured with a proxy server/port and proxy username and password," the advisory reads.