Tuning into the McCabe hearing.

Lindsey Graham is still boasting that CIA unmasked Hillary long before they unmasked Mike Flynn. He's legit complaining that Hillary ran a campaign and the CIA didn't

Whitehouse now explaining to Lindsey Graham that tying an opponent to a foreign country is not a criminal act. "If you look at CI investigation, obvious difference is that there were contacts bt RU intel operatives and campaign operatives."
"I don't think the FBI has any business interfering into that kind of campaign debate, you would be besides yourself with anger if FBI investigated Trump for trying to tie Biden to China."
Now Graham is talking about how Coffee Boy said working with Russia would be treason which 1) means that he thinks Roger Stone committed treason and 2) he demonstrably lied in that interview.
Now Lindsey claiming that the dossier created the impression that Trump was in bed with Russia, and not his open requests for Russian help.
Mike Lee now misrepresenting what Bill Priestap's notes say.
McCabe: It is common to discuss b4 an interview to discuss how interview might turn out. One possibility is that subject might be deliberately deception. You talk though how to deal with that.
Now Lee complaining that Flynn didn't get a 1001 warning.

McCabe should note that Flynn admitted to knowing it's a crime to lie to the FBI, under oath.
Mike Lee on the "lured into" theory.

Lee: You threatened to elevate Flynn's call with Kislyak to General Counsel if he got counsel.

McCabe: Premise of question absolutely false. Did not threaten Flynn.
Mike Lee asking who knew of problems in Page application before first application.

Um. The problems were in the 2nd and 3rd renewals, dummy.
It's really be nice if a single one of the GOP Senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee, especially @SenMikeLee who actually knows this stuff, actually knew what the FBI Director certification does.
@SenMikeLee I mean, I'm really happy Lee wants to reform the process.

It'd be helpful if he understood it first.
Chuck Grassley now betraying that he doesn't understand how the Carter Page application stacks up against others (it was better as far as Woods File).
McCabe's blowing the answers to Grassley about whether anyone ORDERED anyone else to keep the Flynn case open.
Lindsey Graham is discovering that sometimes FBI doesn't know how reliable its informants are.
Lindsey can't seem to decide whether Danchenko is a Russian agent (as he claimed improperly last time) or totally reliable.
Cruz: Are you referring to the LOgan Act theory?

McCabe: No sir, we found the kind of direct contact that we were looking for.

Cruz: Logan Act.

McCabe: We didn't use the Logan Act.
Cruz doubles down claiming that the Logan Act was basis for Flynn investigation.

McCabe tries to correct him.
McCabe said there was no discussion of the Logan Act.

Cruz cut him off. He continues to cut him off.

McCabe: When we initiated case against Flynn.

Cruz interrupts again.
McCabe fucked up again: accepting Cruz' premise that his contact with the press was leak.
Lindsey trying to interrupt McCabe as he explains that Flynn lied about his contacts with Kislyak.

Lindsey: The Biden Administration, believing they have won.
Lindsey now claims that FBI surveilled Flynn. That's false, of course.
Lindsey now complaining that Trump didn't get a defensive briefing.

THE WEEK that they gave the generalized one, Mike Flynn was secretly inking a contract with Turkey, while getting a classified briefing.
Also, the reason FBI didn't give a defensive briefing to Trump abt the Coffee Boy and Carter Page is BECAUSE THE CAMPAIGN FIRED BOTH OF THEM BC OF THEIR TIES TO RUSSIA.
Josh Hawley grilling McCabe abt a text he sent that was PROBABLY about Russian interference but DOJ hasn't let him review his texts, and Hawley is furious that he doesn't remember a 4 year old text.
Blackburn basically just asked McCabe when he stopped beating his wife, except his wife is the FBI.
Blackburn: How long have you known Christopher Steele?

McCabe: I've never met him.

Blackburn: I think you've known him for two decades.
We're 2.75 hours into this hearing and the alterations of Andrew McCabe's notes have not come up once.
We're also into our 4th hearing on this and not a single GOPer on SJC appears to know what the FBI Director certificate is about.
Lindsey seems unaware that there were two PUBLIC investigations of Hillary that were reported during the campaign.

Curious.
LOLOL.

Kennedy is now demanding that the Deputy Director of FBI do informant vetting personally.
Now Kennedy is furious bc McCabe won't talk about Danchenko, whose identity hasn't been declassified by FBI yet.
Nope. The fact that Billy Barr's DOJ altered McCabe's notes didn't come up at all in this hearing.
Lindsey again pretending the investigation was all about the dossier, which of course it wasn't.
Again, not a single solitary GOP Senator knows what the FBI Director's declaration does in a FISA application.

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Since everyone is writing abt Julian Assange today, some posts:

The Growing WikiLeaks Conspiracy [Indictment]

https://t.co/i3dNE6lnl7

This talks about the superseding CFAA charge that Assange boosters are generally silent or worse about.

Three Inconvenient Truths about a Hypothetical Trump Pardon for Julian Assange

https://t.co/FDl2KMJV8x

1) It may not work
2) It would have to pardon other crimes
3) That would include Trump's own corruption

Rat-Fucker Rashomon: Getting the "Highest Level of Government" to Free Julian Assange

https://t.co/oNr8YgXbhk

On the pardon discussions with Trump that WikiLeaks doesn't want you to know about.

The Minh Quang Pham Precedent to the Julian Assange Extradition

https://t.co/1i7yErl0sC

The UK extradited a guy whose primary crime (at the time) was doing graphic design for AQAP.

Julian Assange's First Witness, Journalism Professor Mark Feldstein, Professes to Be Unfamiliar with the Public Record on Assange

https://t.co/sl0sasWgeu

WikiLeaks boosters are lying, cynically, abt what changed between 2013 and 2017.
Breaking: Not only does John Solomon continue to include more and more false claims in his propaganda, but after 4 years of "reporting" on FISA he still doesn't know what FBI Director signs to on FISA.


In reality, this is what John Solomon's "SMOKING GUN" says:

Steele was considered reliable (true!), his sources were in a position to report on what they reported on (true!), the reporting corroborated stuff in the report [that, btw, is mostly classified]


This paragraph, for example, includes 3 lies and one exaggeration: First, CIA informed FBI that until 2011, they asked Page questions about the RU intelligence officers trying to recruit him.


That does NOT cover the most alarming thing he did in 2015 or one RU intelligence officer that Page did not tell the CIA about while still an approved contact.

USG had gotten opinions about Steele that weren't entirely favorable (but unsurprising for operations officer), but this is before questions abt source network.
gonna live tweet this.

Mark Meadows explains at the beginning that Cleta is not attorney of record but she's been involved.


Trump (who lied abt his inauguration size) says he knows he won bc of rally size.

Trump starts by describing that current margin is what "everyone agrees on."

Trump repeatedly claims that people went to vote but weren't allowed to bc a ballot already cast.

Maybe ... they had already voted? I think he just narced out a bunch of people trying to double vote.

Trump accuses "Ruby Freeman" of being a vote hustler.

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What does "patriots in control" mean?
What would that "look like" in reality?


So a massive adult film star in all his glory is included in an official FBI government filing


Hunter Biden's book is categorized as "Chinese


TIME admits to "conspiracy" to "not rig, rather


A "pillow guy" has military-grade intercepts detailing the IP addresses and device MAC IDs of EVERY incursion into every county in the
So let's see a show of hands: how many of you even knew Huber was digging into the Clinton Foundation? While he was assisting Horowitz in his digging into the FISC/Steele Dossier/Fusion GPS/Perkins Coie/DNC/Hillary campaign stuff?


I'm sure Huber is coming to DC *only* to discuss Clinton Foundation things with Meadows and his committee.

He for certain, like, won't be huddling with Horowitz or that new guy, Whitaker while he's in town. That would NEVER HAPPEN. [wink wink wink!] 😉

I just spent a year and a half telling you they will SHOW YOU what they are REALLY DOING when they are READY.

Not before.

No matter how much whining is done about it.

I'm exhausted but it's worth it.

Now you know why they're f**king TERRIFIED of Whitaker, the closer tapped by Trump to come in late for the hysterical fireworks that will ensue soon.

Look who's suddenly fund raising for his legal defen- er, I mean, ha ha - his reelection campaign!
Here we go. Tag 4 des Impeachments. Trumps Verteidigung.


Es wird argumentiert, dass Trump nur habe sicherstellen wollen, dass die Wahl fair abgelaufen sei. Die Verteidigung zeigt Clips einzelner Demokraten, die der Zertifizierung von Trumps Stimmen 2016 widersprechen. (Dass es 2016 keinen von Obama gesandten Mob aufs Kapitol gab?Egal!)

Die intellektuelle Unehrlichkeit ist so unfassbar, ich weiß kaum, wo ich hier überhaupt anfangen soll; so viele fucking Strohmänner auf einmal.

Die Verteidigung spielt random Clips, in denen Demokraten “fight” sagen, fast zehn Minuten lang. Weil Trump 20mal am 6. Januar “fight” gesagt hat. Dies ist kein Witz. Komisch, dass sonst die Folge nie war, dass ein Mob das Kapitol gestürmt hat und Pence hängen wollte


“Dieser Fall geht um politischen Hass” Ich mein, ja. “Die House Managers hassen Donald Trump.”

So close.

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A THREAD ON @SarangSood

Decoded his way of analysis/logics for everyone to easily understand.

Have covered:
1. Analysis of volatility, how to foresee/signs.
2. Workbook
3. When to sell options
4. Diff category of days
5. How movement of option prices tell us what will happen

1. Keeps following volatility super closely.

Makes 7-8 different strategies to give him a sense of what's going on.

Whichever gives highest profit he trades in.


2. Theta falls when market moves.
Falls where market is headed towards not on our original position.


3. If you're an options seller then sell only when volatility is dropping, there is a high probability of you making the right trade and getting profit as a result

He believes in a market operator, if market mover sells volatility Sarang Sir joins him.


4. Theta decay vs Fall in vega

Sell when Vega is falling rather than for theta decay. You won't be trapped and higher probability of making profit.
Great article from @AsheSchow. I lived thru the 'Satanic Panic' of the 1980's/early 1990's asking myself "Has eveyrbody lost their GODDAMN MINDS?!"


The 3 big things that made the 1980's/early 1990's surreal for me.

1) Satanic Panic - satanism in the day cares ahhhh!

2) "Repressed memory" syndrome

3) Facilitated Communication [FC]

All 3 led to massive abuse.

"Therapists" -and I use the term to describe these quacks loosely - would hypnotize people & convince they they were 'reliving' past memories of Mom & Dad killing babies in Satanic rituals in the basement while they were growing up.

Other 'therapists' would badger kids until they invented stories about watching alligators eat babies dropped into a lake from a hot air balloon. Kids would deny anything happened for hours until the therapist 'broke through' and 'found' the 'truth'.

FC was a movement that started with the claim severely handicapped individuals were able to 'type' legible sentences & communicate if a 'helper' guided their hands over a keyboard.