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FBI raids home of Clinton whistleblower

Working for the Democratic Party: Despite being protected under whistleblower laws, and despite his demonstrated cooperation with congressional committees, the FBI raided the home of Clinton whistleblower on November 19, spending six hours rummaging through his house.

FBI agents raided the home of a recognized Department of Justice whistleblower who privately delivered documents pertaining to the Clinton Foundation and Uranium One to a government watchdog, according to the whistleblower’s attorney.

The Justice Department’s inspector general was informed that the documents show that federal officials failed to investigate potential criminal activity regarding former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Clinton Foundation and Rosatom, the Russian company that purchased Uranium One, a document reviewed by The Daily Caller News Foundation alleges.

The delivered documents also show that then-FBI Director Robert Mueller failed to investigate allegations of criminal misconduct pertaining to Rosatom and to other Russian government entities attached to Uranium One, the document reviewed by TheDCNF alleges. Mueller is now the special counsel investigating whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia during the 2016 election.

“The bureau raided my client to seize what he legally gave Congress about the Clinton Foundation and Uranium One,” the whistleblower’s lawyer, Michael Socarras, told TheDCNF, noting that he considered the FBI’s raid to be an “outrageous disregard” of whistleblower protections.

Sixteen agents arrived at the home of Dennis Nathan Cain, a former FBI contractor, on the morning of Nov. 19 and raided his Union Bridge, Maryland, home, Socarras told TheDCNF.

There is significantly more at the link. It appears most obviously that the FBI here was used to harass and intimidate this man, simply because he has taken action that threatens Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party.

I wonder once again if our legally elected president, mandated by the Constitution to run this agency, is really in charge, or if we have an agency run by its employees for political purposes, completely out of control. To me it sure looks like the latter. If Trump was the fighter he portrays himself to be, there would be wholesale firings over this raid, today.

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20 comments

  • Cotour

    I now expect that the Senate will execute referrals for lying to the Congress for: James Comey, Hillary Clinton, Huma Abadin, Loretta Lynch, Lisa Page, Peter Strzock, McCabe, Bruce Ohr and the many, many other government employees that sat in front of the Congress AND LIED.

    https://www.dailycaller.com/2018/11/30/richard-burr-intel-criminal-referrals-michael-cohen/

    Or is their a separate set of laws for the public and government employees? Or is that a rhetorical question?

    This in time must all be rectified, and who is the only politically empowered person that would dare rectify it? There’s only one answer to that, one person and doing it will in many ways re-found and reset America. Fail to do so and we are not on a good trajectory, not good at all.

    Even if they are all pardoned after allocuting to their misdeeds, IT must be done.

  • Cotour

    Repost:

    THE DEEP STATE BECOMES EVEN MORE DESPERATE

    A government whistle blower who provided evidence to Congress that reveals Robert Mueller’s involvement in the Uranium One deal and his refusing to investigate the Clinton Foundation who received $145 million dollars into its coffers from the Russians for Secretary Of State Hillary Clinton’s facilitating the deal where the U.S. sold 20 percent of its uranium to the Russians.

    https://www.dailycaller.com/2018/11/29/fbi-whistleblower-clinton-uranium/

    The FBI raids the whistle blowers house and search it for six hours. Which to me is harassment and creating a sense of fear.

    I have pointed out many, many times in the past that Robert Mueller and him being the Special Prosecutor is counter intuitive because he is plainly conflicted in a maximum way and involved with protecting 1. The Clinton’s and the Clinton Foundation, and 2. Involved directly in shielding the Russians and their Clinton deal scheme.

    Mueller and his special investigation are fraudulent from its creation, instigated by none other than………wait for it………..JAMES COMEY! Who Trump via Rosenstein, another conflicted party, justly fired from the FBI leadership position. Both Mueller and Comey are conflicted on this issue and many, many others.

    So what do you think should happen here?

    This is far from over, pure political warfare of the first order.

  • Cotour: Please do not repost your comments.

  • Cotour

    The comment is more appropriate here rather than where I originally posted it, I was a bit ahead of you on the story.

  • Cotour: I don’t care that you linked to it before I did. I don’t want comments reposted. Period. Do it again and I’ll delete it.

    You can repost the link without reposting the comment.

  • Cotour

    Will do, no reposting.

  • Tony Davis

    I agree, these folks involved in these pay to play scandals must be punished or we lose our country. Simple as that.

  • Cotour

    Forget subpoena’s, there needs to be an indictment. A subpoena is a nicety, Comey has clearly violated many of his fiduciary responsibilities, and lying to Congress is just the beginning of his offences.

    https://ca.news.yahoo.com/hearing-set-comeys-challenge-house-subpoena-145344460–politics.html

    At some point there must be a moment where it is all broken down and flushed out. And again, even if they all get pardons after their allocution. They can plead mass hysteria.

    South Africa had something similar so the country could move on after aparthide and all of the abuse of power, murders and so forth.

    But the Democrats will refuse to agree to do so and so they will insist to be beat into political submission in some manner.

  • Orion314

    D5 , it won’t be long now, what with GRUB I , finally, shaking hands with Bezelebulb, we all will soon find out how things shake out. There are so many evil with so much power , yet, so so few good , with so little power, except lip service. I’m an old man , with 1 inch of hope left…

  • wayne

    Total tangent—but I’ll throw it in here:
    George H.W. Bush, dead at 94. (I assume we’ll have a week long Event, but the news media will insist on attacking Trump 24/7.)

    Orion314:

    “The Second Coming”, W. B. Yeats
    https://youtu.be/KP7-mXNYhDE
    2:03

    “Turning and turning in the widening gyre
    The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
    Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
    Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
    The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
    The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
    The best lack all conviction, while the worst
    Are full of passionate intensity.”

  • wayne

    V for Vendetta:
    “The Revolutionary Speech”
    https://youtu.be/KKvvOFIHs4k?t=66

    “…how did this happen? Who’s to blame? Well, certainly there are those who are more responsible than other’s, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told if you’re looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror…”

  • Orion314

    Wayne, thanks for the post, yet, when it comes to poetry, i’m a complete idiot. I grok about 10 %
    50 years ago, my old dead teachers were so proud to jam that in my face. The important lesson they really drove home to me was, Inferiors demand respect, because they can never earn it. Amazing, lessons hard learned a half a century ago, and , now , in the 21sr Century., fresher than ever..Things fall apart , the center does not hold. at least , the USAF taught me the meaning of that, the hard way…Cheers

  • Max

    Whistle blowers protections are window dressing, look at Joullian lassage, Whitey Bolger, and I wonder if they can tell the truth about the John F Kennedy assassination now that one of the leading actors is dead, George Bush Senior.
    Thanks Wayne, it does tie in to the subject.

  • wayne

    Orion314-
    Good stuff.
    (Not Mr. Poetry Guy myself, but there are some Classic’s that speak to the ages. Everything worth saying, has been said before but people smarter than me.)

    pivoting….
    “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner”
    Randall Jarrell 1945

    “From my mother’s sleep I fell into the State,
    And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.
    Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life,
    I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters.
    When I died, they washed me out of the turret with a hose.”

    Max–
    Har. Yow, we just got done bashing the flat-earth people! Let’s not go down the rabbit hole with JFK!
    (“Oswald, from the book depository, with a rifle.”)

  • Cotour

    And Jackie Kennedy crawls to the rear trunk hood to retrieve JFK’s brains and not into the front. Where was Oswald positioned again?

    Now does that really make physics sense to you, Wayne if the shooter is located behind and far above the victim? Really? (The answer is NO, its not physically possible) Or, presented with the reality of it all in front of your own trusting eyes you just can not imagine the depravity and political practicality of it all?

    List for me some other government controlled explanations to history altering events that you also fully and completely agree with.

    https://youtu.be/q6K4eV5x3Vo

    (I hate watching this clip, but I force myself to review it from time to time as a reminder about what this is really all about that we ultimately discuss here. And I suppose that Khashoggi is the most recent example of the exercise of similar power in the real world)

    JFK’s wound and his ejected brains are due to a wound from the front and the side and not from the rear and above. Wrap your intact brain and the reality of the event around it and see what is plain to see (Even though you personally hate the depraved truth about it, as do I).

  • wayne

    Cotour–
    Come on! The flat-earther’s are nuts, but JFK was shot from the front?!

    “Oswald, from the Depository, with a rifle.”

    Travel outside of NYC, get a rifle, and shoot it at a watermelon. You’ll see the exact effect that you claim is ‘not physics.’

    “Slow Motion video of bullet impacts”
    [1 million fps]
    by Werner Mehl from Kurzzeit
    https://youtu.be/QfDoQwIAaXg
    9:59

  • wayne

    Cotour–
    Don’t confuse the (fake, made-up, mostly lies) Movie, with reality!!

    “JFK: Back and To The Left”
    https://youtu.be/9MLc0udf_74
    3:53

    The Zapruder film is only a partial record of reality– Oswald’s first shot was already on its way, before Zapruder started filming.

  • Cotour

    Wayne, I suppose this will be one of those things that we will go on about until it is no longer tolerated, but simply:

    1. There was definitely a shooter from the rear, no doubt, who put a round through the back and the throat of the president. Who ever it was. Oswald? Very possibly, no doubt.

    2. The head shot however and the effects of it indicate that the shot came from the front and the side and not the rear and above.

    This picture, and again I do not like looking at these but I force myself and I apologize if anyone is disturbed by them but this is reality.

    https://tse3.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.L5Ili6CM2tfjkTx1BNk0mAHaF7&pid=15.1&P=0&w=195&h=157

    The forensic picture clearly indicates, as does the film clip, that the shot indeed came from the front and the side. Notice the clear entry point in the skull at the front of the skull and how it removed and ejected to the rear the chunk of bone on a flap hinged in the rear (Opened from the front, pressure relief, ejection, and the bone is held on a flap by the attached skin). And then the presidents wife crawled to the REAR of the limo to retrieve the chunk of brain from the trunk.

    There is no possible way that that particular wound and its effects were made from behind and above. The math and the physics can not produce it.

    Its plain as the nose on your face, no movies, no confusion. I ask you again, how many history altering reports about those events that the government produced do you also fully believe?

    What ever the other complexities about motive that went on or did not go on are what they are and they do not really concern me in the context of just understanding who shot who and where the bullets came from to produce the effects that they produced.

    Anyone else please feel free to weigh in on this subject.

  • Cotour

    Wayne;

    Interesting, a worthwhile listen. One of the trauma doctors on site at at Parkland Hospital and JFK’s side in the operating room tells his story about which way the bullets came from. 4 to 5 inch hole in the BACK of the presidents head. That is only accomplished front to back, small entry, big exit. In this case the bullet enters just above the right brow, and the shock wave peels off some of the skull and then exits through the back with a chunk of the brain ejected to the trunk. Which was retrieved by his wife. The doctor himself says that the presented forensics are incorrect and altered from his own first hand account.

    https://youtu.be/pPcH1RNMC6M

    I ask you again, how many history altering event reports that the government produces and has total control over do you believe?

  • Cotour

    HILLARY: GABBARD GROOMED BY RUSSIANS

    And it looks like they already “Groomed” you, Hillary.

    (If women had stones she would hold a world record. The most duplicitous, corrupt and dangerous politician in all of American history without doubt)

    Hillary, do you not rememeber the $145 MILLION DOLLARS that was paid to you and your husband into your fraudulent pay to play “Foundation”, FROM THE RUSSIANS, at the same time that the Uranium One deal was going down! And that is only one deal that I am aware of, how many other country’s paid their tribute to you for when you became the president?

    https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/us/cash-flowed-to-clinton-foundation-as-russians-pressed-for-control-of-uranium-company.html

    Bought and paid for, or should I say “Groomed”?

    How do you know someone like Tulsi Gabbard is a great threat to Hillary and the DNC agenda? Because they are telling you who is the great threat. Not Bernie, not Warren, not “Beto”, not Booker, they are all of no consequence at all and none of them will ever come close to becoming the president. Hillary only singles out Gabbard, and Gabbard pushes back hard and calls Hillary out for what she is in reality a “Corrupt, warmonger”.

    None of the others would ever dare be so bold as to deliver such a direct and devestating blow to Hillary. They all still fear her, and with good cause.

    Tulsi is tonight learning to sleep with one eye open.

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