Pete Strzok has caught something very sinister in testimony

[Grasswire2]

[link:http://

Link to tweet

?s=20&t=8EwZ3Iw-AWsxa5ifGPaYtA|

[Achilleaze]

1. REPUBLICAN traitors planning their ATTACK on America

and American democracy. The Republican War on Truth marches on, having crawled out of the Republican Moral Cesspool.

[onecaliberal]

2. Can you say conspiracy to prevent the peaceful transfer of power, conspiracy to overthrow

The United States government. The scary thing is they have installed a lot of them everywhere.

[onecaliberal]

31. No question. They were already an authoritarian government.

From my view, the DOJ is still protecting piss wig and many of his co conspirators.

[MineralMan]

3. It'd be great if you'd correct the spelling of his name

in the title. It's right there at the top of his tweet. Thanks.

[Grasswire2]

4. done, dad. nt

[MineralMan]

5. Thanks. He deserves to have his name spelled correctly, I think.

[Grasswire2]

6. no comment on the content? wow. nt

[MineralMan]

7. It's good that this came out. That's my comment.

[alphafemale]

18. If DU is to be reliable you should be grateful someone allowed you to correct an error

Don't be petulant about it.

[Grasswire2]

28. "allowed me"??

Please. Get over this.

[A HERETIC I AM]

33. Well, since folks are busting your chops about the structure of your post.....

Allow me!


I would suggest using the "Preview" feature more diligently, and removing the superfluous URL crap that clutters up posts,

(You aren't the only one, not by a long shot! LOTS AND LOTS of Du'ers do this)

Everything after the "Status/" [bunch of numbers] and preceding the question mark (?) is relevant to the linked post, but the question mark and AFTER is NOT!!

status/1517870970828210176?s=20&t=wPpJPg29EWFg2Nfyj0-WHg

When you post such a link, use the preview feature and look to see what part of the URL still shows up, and then highlight and DELETE IT! That way it won't clutter up your post.

Like this;

Link to tweet

See?? No ?andbunchofothercrap hanging around under the Tweet you are featuring.

Simple.

[Grasswire2]

43. I do that all the time.

My finger just hit post as it hit preview. And I immediately went to correct. And in that same fraction of sixty seconds, someone thought to correct a spelling error rather than comment on the news.

Good Lord. Now people have to wade through this slush to find the story.

[A HERETIC I AM]

50. LOL....

I just figured I would pile on, since everyone else was having such a good go at it!




LOL....

[alphafemale]

34. Yes. Acting insulted if someone points out an error you can correct is immature.

Just correct it and move on.

[Grasswire2]

45. LOL.

Are we done yet?

[erronis]

12. Snide response - unneeded. DU is a bit of a news organization. Many of us rely on it.

Even minor errors can detract from the content. It's better just to correct and not raise a fuss.

[Grasswire2]

14. I was on my way to correct, before someone felt it necessary to step in.

And now, another interruption of the news.

[Grasswire2]

15. If you will notice, MM interrupted in the same MINUTE my post was made. nt

[MineralMan]

37. Nine minutes later.

I saw it, read it, then politely suggested that you correct the spelling of the man's name. You corrected it, and I was about to self delete my suggestion, but you posted a snark.

Think about using correct spelling of people's names in thread titles. It matters. Really.

[Torchlight]

41. Sounds serious.

[Grasswire2]

46. LOL.

At least the thread gets bumped and bumped and bumped.

[erronis]

16. Thanks. We all like to chime in - sometimes with value

and sometimes with less.

I appreciate your postings.

[Joinfortmill]

8. Traitors

[Novara]

9. So they assumed the FBI would help them steal the presidency

Sounds about white.

[dem4decades]

10. Seeing they're not doing much investigating now, it was a pretty good assumption.

[Frustratedlady]

11. What "deputy" are they referring to? How encrypted is SIGNAL and can it be

read by the FBI, if there are any left who aren't tainted. Popping up in these issues isn't good for their department. I see the SS was also brought up today as being in need of a cleaning out.

[erronis]

13. Signal should be totally impervious to decryption. All messages are encrypted end-to-end.

Unlike quite a few others that store unencrypted content on their servers (Telegram, etc.)

Now, I believe that many governments are working on quantum computers that will be able to eventually decrypt most messages. From various news reports, these governments are scarfing up all transmissions and will apply the quantum decryption techniques when available. --- Don't expect your secret ink, magic decoder ring to protect you in a few years.

Yes, the USSS needs to be investigated. But who do we trust to do this? Who will police the police?

[Frustratedlady]

19. Thanks for the explanation. Beyond my pay grade, but I get the general idea.

And they were so worried about Hillary's emails?

[ancianita]

29. But it's not. It is for most of us, for our use, and

it was for a couple of years, but now sophisticated means exist to surveil targeted users.

Once the U.S. govt. froze out NSO -- an Israeli based company that tried to sell its product, Pegasus, to law enforcement and intell agencies -- a new firm is being used, this time through the Israeli govt itself. Ehud Barak sits on its board, and so its marketing seems to be more legitimate.

Paragon, it's called. Its core tech focusses not on seizing complete control of phones, but on hacking encrypted messaging systems like Telegram and Signal. It has sold to offices within the U.S. government.

Evil nor not, it sells to a narrow list of countries with uncontroversial human rights records.

Here's Ronan Farrow's long article that includes this info.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/04/25/how-democracies-spy-on-their-citizens

Quantum computing isn't even needed, apparently.

[HariSeldon]

38. The surveillance "big boys" don't usually tackle the encryption

Encrypted data means nothing to the human brain...it always has to be decrypted somewhere on a device for presentation to a human, and that's where the state-level actors play. They'll install software on the target device that intercepts text as it goes to be rendered on the screen or scrape the screen and use OCR to reconstruct the info. I wrote software that did the information interception for banks on the (bank owned) terminals they issued to their employees, so I know a bit about this.

This, by the way, is definitely a FAFO situation: CFAA can put you behind bars in federal prison for five years if you do this on computing devices without authorization.

[certainot]

17. strzok was a major punching bag for team limbaugh regarding hacked communications with girlfriend

lisa page. i can't even remember what they were outraged about but strzok was very high in counter russian intelligence and i wonder if that was fed to them by the kremlin - using limbaugh again, in this case to set up the trump -russian connection as a 'liberal deep state' coup attempt /russian hoax. limbaugh seemed to be getting all sorts of inside info and started the 'liberal deep state' meme right after, actually days before the trump inauguration. he attacked the women's march as an obama /soros joint operation with paid protestors. said obama was staying in DC to oversee the coup, etc. wherever he was getting the script from required a fair bit more imagination that the stephen miller's, cannons, etc have and i wouldn't be surprised if it was kremlin. limbaugh was always right in front of the story as details and characters changed and excuses for trump had to be made

[SunSeeker]

20. Yep. On the bright side, Limbaugh is rotting in Hell now. nt

[Arazi]

21. Zero doubt Peter Strzok was targeted for removal by Russia

#Traitor and Putin needed him gone asap so the banshees were given the intel and directed to destroy him.

He was (is?) way too knowledgeable about the machinations from the Kremlin in US affairs

[Kid Berwyn]

32. Strzok knew Semion Mogilevich was into Trump.

From Natasha Bertrand in The Atlantic:

By the early 2000s, a third of the buyers of Trump Tower’s most expensive condos were Russia-linked shell companies or individuals from the former Soviet Union—including Eduard Nektalov, a mob-connected diamond dealer from Uzbekistan, and David Bogatin, a Russian-émigré mobster who specialized in bootlegging gasoline. Bogatin’s brother was involved in an elaborate stock fraud with the top Russian mob boss Mogilevich, who himself is allied with Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov—another Russian mob leader who ran an entire gambling and money-laundering network out of Unit 63A in Trump Tower, just three floors below Trump’s own residence.(Tokhtakhounov was a VIP attendee at Trump’s Miss Universe pageant in Moscow just seven months after the gambling ring was busted by the FBI.) Trump’s own sons have boasted of the Trump Organization’s dependence on Russian money. “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets,” Donald Trump Jr. said in 2008. “We don’t rely on American banks,” Eric Trump reportedly told a golfing buddy in 2014. “We have all the funding we need out of Russia.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/08/trumps-top-targets-in-the-russia-probe-are-experts-in-organized-crime/569056/

[certainot]

40. limbaugh was trumps neighbor, dinner, partner, golf partner and being ablle to feed llimbaugh was

the key to radicalizing the GOP to get a guy like trump in.

strzok ought to get into the kremlin talk radio angle - manafort was mccain campaign co-chair and limbaugh would not support mccain until minutes after he picked palin minutes before the start of the limbaugh show, on the eve of what would have been a disastrous GOP convention without limbaughs support.

mccain wanted lieberman or pawlenty. plain was being courted by russian oill and gas....

trump could have been the guy channeling russian money to limbaugh

[erronis]

22. emptywheel has been following the debacle of strzok's media/gov't actions

https://www.emptywheel.net/?s=strzok

It's a sordid tale. Very hard to unravel even this far onward.

[certainot]

39. wow.

[SunSeeker]

23. Enforcing compliance with the vote of the fake electors, would be my guess. nt

[Kid Berwyn]

26. Trump purged FBI of Russia counterintelligence experts, inc. Strzok.

From just the other year…

Trump’s Top Targets in the Russia Probe Are Experts in Organized Crime

Some of President Trump’s favorite targets in the Russia probe have spent their careers in the Justice Department and the FBI investigating organized crime and money laundering, particularly as they pertain to Russia.

NATASHA BERTRAND
The Atlantic, AUG 30, 2018

Bruce Ohr. Lisa Page. Andrew Weissmann. Andrew McCabe. President Donald Trump has relentlessly attacked these FBI and Justice Department officials as dishonest “Democrats” engaged in a partisan “witch hunt” led by the special counsel determined to tie his campaign to Russia. But Trump’s attacks have also served to highlight another thread among these officials and others who have investigated his campaign: their extensive experience in probing money laundering and organized crime, particularly as they pertain to Russia.

snip...

Trump’s latest obsession is with Bruce Ohr, a career Justice Department official who spent years investigating Russian organized crime and corruption—an expertise he shared with another Trump target named Christopher Steele, the former British intelligence operative who provided valuable intelligence on Russia to the State Department and the FBI’s Eurasian Organized Crime Task Force prior to authoring the Trump-Russia dossier in 2016. Ohr and Steele met in 2007, according to The New York Times, and stayed in touch as a result of their shared interests and mutual respect. Trump has tweeted about Ohr nearly a dozen times this month alone, complaining about his relationship with Steele and Ohr’s wife’s past work for Fusion GPS—the opposition-research firm that hired Steele in 2016 to research Trump’s Russia ties.

snip...

Trump’s fixation with seeing Ohr ousted from the Justice Department could be perceived as yet another attempt to undermine the credibility of the people who have investigated him. It could also be interpreted as an attack on someone with deep knowledge of the shady characters Trump and his cohort have been linked to, including Semion Mogilevich, the Russian mob boss, and Oleg Deripaska, a Russian aluminum magnate close to Putin who did business with Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort. (Incidentally, another Manafort associate, the Ukrainian billionaire Dmitry Firtash, admitted that he only managed to be in business because Mogilevich allowed him to be, according to a leaked 2008 State Department cable.) Ohr was involved in banning Deripaska from the U.S. in 2006, due to his alleged ties to organized crime and fear that he would try to launder money into American real estate. Nearly a decade later, Ohr and the FBI sought Deripaska’s help in taking down overseas criminal syndicates.

Snip...

The president has denied having any business ties to Russia, and his dream of building a Trump Tower Moscow never materialized. But his links to Russian oligarchs and mobsters from the former Soviet Union have been documented: Millions of dollars from the former Soviet Union flowed into Trump’s developments and casinos throughout the 1990s, as the journalist Craig Unger has chronicled, as oligarchs looked for a place to hide their money in the West. The Trump Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, was once known as a hot spot for Brooklyn mobsters associated with the Russian Mafia, and quickly became the “favorite East Coast destination” of the top Russian mob boss Vyacheslav Ivankov, according to the 2000 book Red Mafiya: How the Russian Mob Has Invaded America. It was also repeatedly cited by the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network for having inadequate money-laundering controls.

Continues...

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/08/trumps-top-targets-in-the-russia-probe-are-experts-in-organized-crime/569056/

Traitor Trump, as PRESIDENT, targeted the FBI Witch Hunters who were tracking Putin and his Mafiya.

[Warpy]

27. We know Clark to be a rabid loyalist who wanted the election overturned

His rise at the DOJ had been stymied. It seems the FBI also told him no.

I'm wondering what it would have taken to make him realize how tiny a minority within government he and his idol represented.

[soldierant]

30. We need to figure out how to say

There is nothing wrong with being partisan when one's opposition is treasonous and sttempting to destroy America" in such a way that they can't turn it back on us. Mallory McMorrow might be able to come up with something.

[dalton99a]

35. Kick

[Snoopy 7]

36. don't forget

before Biden entered race they were saying 'the FBI was like a trump faturnity'

[IcyPeas]

42. how much more of this can we take?

every day a new bombshell

every single one of them were in cahoots... from radio station blabbermouths to local politicians to senators and congresspeople to the prezident.

[llashram]

44. our government

law enforcement and possibly the military have still a lot of cleaning out of rat-infested pockets of trump vermin to do, I think. These RW rats are going to continue to try to turn America into a fascist and again a racist country that will be openly celebrated probably as a holiday... White supremacy runs so deep, that another conflict with armies will happen again? And all it took to reach this point in our history was 4years of a clown puppeteered by foreign and domestic traitors. DAMN!!!

[Torchlight]

47. Every day, I become aware of new tentacles to this beast

If brought up by anyone other than my father, I think I might have thrown my hands up in despair by now, but as a history prof., he taught me patience will often outlast the absurd.

[Grasswire2]

48. and the media can't keep up with the revelations...

...and most outlets don't even want to, or try.

[UpInArms]

49. Thank you for posting

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