[ April 19, 2024 ]
Disgraced FBI official Peter Strzok may ignore a subpoena to testify before the House Judiciary and Oversight Committees next Tuesday. Strzok’s attorney, Aitan Goelman, was questioned by CNN’s Chris Cuomo on Thursday evening and said his client might not comply.
Goelman: My client will testify … soon. Somewhere, sometime. We just got this subpoena today, so I don’t know whether we are going to be testifying next Tuesday in front of these two particular House sub-committees.
Cuomo: Why isn’t it an automatic yes, Aitan?
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You can almost hear Bill Clinton uttering those words. Imagine President Trump’s reaction to hearing that statement. And, we are left to wonder how in the world Goelman could say that with a straight face.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) also spoke to CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. Schiff has been somewhat quiet since the release of the dueling House Intelligence Committee memos in February. We wish he had stayed that way. He calls Republican Reps. Trey Gowdy (SC), Devin Nunes (CA), Mark Meadows (NC) and Jim Jordan (OH) the “Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.”
Schiff: Sadly, here we have all too many members of Congress willing to prostrate themselves before the executive and give him anything he wants.
He was asked by Blitzer to name names:
Schiff: The four horsemen of this apocalypse have been Devin Nunes and Trey Gowdy, Mark Meadows and Jim Jordan. They have been leading the charge requiring the Justice Department to give them the materials that can be leaked or fed or misrepresented, like the infamous Nunes memorandum, in the service of the President.
Nothing is as it seems. Are we in Wonderland?
(Video, including both Goelman’s and Schiff’s remarks below.)
As I read through posts I’d written in January and February, it struck me that not much has changed. Although there have been several significant revelations over the last few months, the case that should have been wrapped up so as not to interfere with the midterm elections shows no signs of ending. In fact, it was reported on Thursday that Mueller added more investigators to his team.
The Hill’s report:
Officials added that this could be a sign that Mueller is prepared to step away from the probe and leave it in the hands of a larger team of prosecutors, officials said.
Mueller’s team, currently composed of 17 federal prosecutors, is handling a large amount of casework associated with the yearlong investigation into Russian meddling and possible collusion with the Trump campaign.
More money is being directed toward the Justice Department’s permanent investigations rather than Mueller’s temporary probe, according to recent expense statements.
Mueller’s team spent $7.7 million from May 2017 through March. The Justice Department has spent $9 million through the same time frame.
The Washington Post reported late last month that several additional Mueller team members were specifically assigned to the indictments of 13 Russian nationals.
Those cases are expected to continue long after the probe into Trump campaign collusion is finished, according to the report.
So the Mueller investigation grinds on. Public approval for it has waned. A recent poll showed that approval has dropped from 48% in March to 41% in June. And Alan Dershowitz reminded us this poll was taken before the Department of Justice IG report was released which was highly critical of, although not necessarily incriminating, to DOJ and FBI officials.
Isn’t it time for the American people to receive a progress report on this probe? After all, we are footing the bill. How long will it continue? We understand that they want to deal with the indictments of the Russian nationals and other peripheral individuals, but we need answers to the most important questions of all.
Has the portion of the case relating to Trump’s alleged collusion with the Russians been resolved?
If they cannot, or more likely will not, answer that question, can we at the very least, gain some assurance that Mueller won’t deliver an “October surprise” in the form of a damning report on the President?
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20 Comments
5 years ago
Gowdy growing a pair, or hedging his bets?
5 years ago
He is typical crooked Lawyer of the crooks so he has to say what he says. But If you look at Benghazi “investigation” and the fact that nothing came out of it , his statement gains more credulity than it would.
Clinton mafia still active after Trump takeover as they kill another witness to email investigation http://tinyurl.com/y8p9cv5l
They know their hold overs in FBI / DOJ /NSC will help them out !
Unless they are totally purged including Left/Liberal judges to keep out their bias …its uphill task to prosecute them.
5 years ago
He’s partially correct, it’ll just be more DC Kabuki theater. Call me when some of these creeps start living behind bars…
5 years ago
Without indictments, all of this is meaningless posturing. When the trump crowd yells “Lock her up”, they mean it. They know of her sell out of the country.
5 years ago
Reply to
Warmac9999
This thing used the reports of his own leaks as an excuse to investigate the opposition presidential candidate to defeat him, and yet even his level will probably walk,or at worse get a slap on the wrist. Only Mueller is pursuing (framing) the little guys to give or make up something with which he can work up the ladder to Trump. And you can find something on anyone who has made any waves in society. And the NeverTrumpers will make sure he won’t be stopped. You’re right that is may be no more than political dog and pony, which the attorney is suggesting. We mean it but they don’t care.
5 years ago
Strzok tried to overthrow the Presidential election
– and almost succeeded
– it is this kind of bizarre partisan thinking
– that is feeding the Democrat #WalkAway movement
– https://twitter.com/hashtag/walkaway
5 years ago
STRZOK IS A SEDITION LIAR AND A TYRAITOR TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE U S A! HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN NAILED A LONG TIME AGO! HE AND HIS ATTORNY ARE JUST PLAYING GAMES AND SMIRKING AT THE CONGRESS! TIME TO WIPE HIS SMIRK OFF!
5 years ago
Reply to
Dick Ellis
Strzok is showing a big middle finger to everybody. He thinks he is too smart.
5 years ago
You conservatives and Republicans NEED to get PROGRESSIVE with these liars and loons. Ignore what they say and just go on the OFFENSIVE with them.
They are just mocking you with lies and nonsense. GO AFTER THEM before they get away!
5 years ago
Reply to
Alleged-Comment
The conservatives are impotent, not street fighters. They cannot win over traitors fighting for their power, money and life. Look at the majority of GOP in Congress. They block any effort to do something. Congress has power when the power wielding agencies are submitted to Constitution. But Obama subverted the power wielding agencies and hay are massively populated by traitors. The only institution that Trump had success with is the CIA. Haspel is silent but surely cleaning the CIA from 8 years of converted to Islam Brenner traitor. This is the only hope to win over the Coup DE Tat implemented by Obama. But Obama came up on the wave caused by the decades of American values disintegration by implanted Political correctness. Just think about it POLITICAL, not any other correctness. Just the name POLITICAL means political dictatorship. Dictatorship is held in place by relying on the power wielding Institutions. This is what Kenyan Arab Obama had been taught very well and as a talented person implemented with his sweet smile and Iron Hand.
I am afraid now it too late to overthrow the junta. To do this a leader should be a revolutioner in his mind ready for violence, as Washington and Lincoln had been. Trump sincerely believes in elections and nonsense like this. Revolutions against dictators are not made by elections. Dictatorships use pseudo-elections to legalize their rule, but not the other way around.
5 years ago
Reply to
Alex
In your estimation, are their plans proceeding as planned or are things falling apart and desperation is setting in. How do you see this playing out going forward – out of all the potentials, what do you see as the most likely.
5 years ago
Do we see any Russians anywhere?
5 years ago
Pardon my ignorance, but given the inflammatory nature of those text messages between Strzok and his slut paramour, just who is it that is “preening before their most radical conspiracy-minded constituents”?
“Nothing is covered up that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known. Whatever you have said in the dark shall be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in private rooms shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.” — Luke 12:2-3
5 years ago
“Not a search for truth.” Just a chance to “preen and posture before their most radical, conspiracy minded constituents.” Sounds like the Mueller investigation in a nutshell. This guy projects a lot, especially after his client used a government issued phone to engage in partisan political activities, a violation of the Hatch Act, and conspired to lie to the FISA Court to get a warrant, a crime and a civil rights violation.
5 years ago
What else is new the criminal left playing the victim card. You would think they would try a different tactic instead of this old worn out strategy. They have nothing to stand on.
5 years ago
Greetings!
Subpoena, “under penalty”; is NOT a request, an invitation or suggestion; it is a demand, an order and a requirement that must be “obeyed” by EVERYONE, regardless of one’s “position” in life, and failure to adhere must result in the immediate issuance of a warrant for the subjects arrest.
Tuesday will be a “litmus test”, and if Mr. Strzok, and perhaps his attorney, decide that “failure to appear” is their option, and a subsequent arrest warrant is not issued, “We” will know, without a doubt, that the “elites” are not bound by the same “laws” as we are and the “deep state” participants are in fact untouchable, leaving the “masses” with practically no “alternative”.
Regards
5 years ago
His client, Mr. Strozk was CAUGHT red handed pre-meditating the interferance of an American election; and a COUP attempt against the President.
The only cure for this “disease” is to throw him, the deep state, and the Democrats out this year!
5 years ago
Strzok would look good in pinstripes. And Mueller couldn’t find the ocean if he was standing on the beach.
5 years ago
Once again The Geller Report turns itself into a mere cheerleader for Trumpism and abandons its anti-jihadist focus. That’s what we’re here for, not this tripe.
