A Slow Day for Russiagate

Therefore, probably a pretty good day for America. First off, Eric Felten at RCP, Susan Rice's Testimony on Being Out of Russiagate Loop Doesn't Add Up. Liars gonna lie. Given the choice of believing James Comey or Susan Rice, I choose NOTA.

So Rice was among those told by James Comey about Crossfire Hurricane within weeks of the investigation’s launch. Yet she told the House Intelligence Committee under oath that “I think it's important for everybody to understand: We were not informed by Director Comey or the Attorney General that there was an active investigation of anybody in the Trump orbit.”

Reached by RealClearInvestigations, Rice spokesperson Erin Pelton said that Rice’s testimony was true: “As Ambassador Rice wrote in her book and stated to Congress, she was not briefed by the FBI or the Department of Justice on the existence of an FBI investigation into allegations of collusion between Mr. Trump’s associates and Russia, nor was she informed of any FISA applications sought by the FBI in its investigation.” Pelton said Rice “only learned of the fact of this investigation after leaving office, when FBI Director Comey testified before Congress to that effect.”

The spokesperson offered no comment, however, about Comey’s assertion to the inspector general that he had told Obama, Rice, and the others about Crossfire Hurricane shortly after the investigation’s launch in the summer of 2016.

Via Wombat's In The Mailbox: 07.30.20 (Evening Edition), Da Lid outs another liar, Valerie Jarrett Tries To Tap Dance Around Durham Investigation Questions-She Fails. The video was previously  highlighted in Reclaiming My Russiagate Time

“That’s not how it works. Jarrett answered,” That’s not how our investigations work. But we leave that to the intelligence community to bring forward information and the dossier, I would imagine would be one piece of a much bigger puzzle,” Jarrett responded. “If you’re saying is it important to make sure that there isn’t influence and actually the Mueller report didn’t conclude there wasn’t any wrong-doing. He was explicit in saying quite the opposite.”

Oh my, she was Obama’s closest advisor and she couldn’t read? The Mueller report said that there was no one in America that colluded with the Russians.

I believe that’s known as a deflection.

And speaking of lying liars and the lies they spin, Ace,  Paul Sperry: Christopher Steele Funneled $5000 Per Month to His Primary Subsource, Noted Gutter-Drunk Igor Danschenko, Through a Russian-Run DC Contractor as a "Ghost Employee"

BREAKING: Steele funneled payments of some $5,000/mo to his primary dossier source Igor Danchenko through a Russian-run D.C. contractor where Danchenko was a "ghost employee," in a special "arrangement" that raises questions how they reported income to IRShttps://t.co/6UgN5lFFJO

— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) July 31, 2020

5 grand a month for drunken bullshit? Sign me up. I'll call myself a journalist. I'll even report it on my taxes.

And sadly, as Breitbart reminds us, Still Not Free: Full D.C. Circuit to Hear Judge’s Appeal in Michael Flynn Case

The Kafkaesque trial of former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn continues, as the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit agreed to hear Judge Emmet Sullivan’s appeal from a decision by a three-judge panel ending the case.
Last month, in a 2-1 decision, the D.C. Circuit granted Flynn’s request for a writ of mandamus compelling Sullivan to dismiss the case after the Department of Justice filed a motion requesting that the charges against Flynn be withdrawn.

Flynn had pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI in December 2017, after allegedly failing to tell agents about details of his conversations with the Russian ambassador during the presidential transition. But over time, evidence emerged that the investigation against him had been tainted by political bias. Attorney General William Barr asked U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Jensen to review the prosecution, and he found exculpatory evidence of FBI bias had been withheld from Flynn’s defense.

New documents handed over to the defense suggested that the FBI had not actually believed Flynn was guilty, and that his guilty plea had been the result of a plea bargain, made under pressure, whose terms had not been provided to the court.

But Judge Sullivan resisted the withdrawal of the charges, and invited amicus briefs to challenge it. He called on retired Judge John Gleeson, who had already publicly stated that he believed Flynn was the beneficiary of political intervention.

Flynn’s attorney, Sidney Powell, went to the D.C. Circuit to obtain a writ compelling Sullivan to dismiss the case. The Department of Justice also filed a motion arguing for the writ to be granted. Judge Naomi Rao wrote the opinion for the majority, noting that the effort by a judge to continue a prosecution transgressed the constitutional separation of powers, and that this was not the rare kind of case where judicial inquiry was warranted due to suspicion of executive corruption.

Sullivan — cheered by anti-Trump prosecutors and legal analysts — would not let it go, and a majority of the judges of the D.C. Circuit agreed to rehear the case — an extremely unusual circumstance of the judiciary refusing to letting a case end.

The court’s order sets oral arguments August 11, and parties are to address whether there are “no other adequate means to attain the relief,” suggesting that a presidential pardon might be Flynn’s only way out, rather than exoneration at trial.

If the DC Circus finds an excuse to throw this back in Judge Sullivan's hand, our system is truly broken. He's clearly biased and unfit.