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Thank you for your hard work on this. It is appalling that our intelligence agencies have been using police state tactics. I don't have a lot of confidence that they will be held accountable at this point, but it sure would be nice to see.

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DOJ is still pressing the criminal case against Bijan Kian (Rafikian) and Ekim Alptekin related to Flynn's commercial contract with the Flynn Intel Group related to Turkey. Trump inexplicably did not pardon Kian or Alptekin before leaving office even though he pardoned Flynn in the same case (although I'm beginning to question if the DOJ Office of the Pardon Attorney slow-walked the pardons the same way the OLC slow-walked and killed a bunch of Trump's final Executive Orders).

(Hope this isn't viewed as spamming) If you want to read up on the status Bijan Kian's case, I wrote it up in the article (nothing has changed to date):

https://twpundit.com/2021/01/04/pardon-watch-the-case-of-bijan-kian/

I also wrote up an article on Ekim Alptekin's status and also gives all the details of the FIG commercial contract (the story is pretty wild to say the least):

https://twpundit.com/2021/01/07/pardon-watch-the-case-of-k-ekim-alptekin/

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Been following that closely and waiting to see what the court of appeals does. I figure they'll make public their decision soon. Really unfortunate those pardons weren't issued. They were well-deserved.

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Hopefully it'll be good news for Bijan, but I doubt it with 2 of the 3 judge panel being Obama appointees, and EDVA is every bit as politized as SDNY and DC.

But even if that does happen, that doesn't do Alptekin any good. He still hasn't presented himself for trial, so DOJ would need to drop the case. And there's need way in hell a Biden DOJ is willingly going to drop a pending criminal complaint that has Flynn listed as "Person A" in it. Dude is just screwed.

I was worried Alptekin would get left off the list not being a US citizen. I am simply floored Bijan wasn't pardoned. I mean if Flynn was granted a full pardon because of a "partisan pursuit of an innocent man", how does that not apply to his business partner under investigation in the exact same case for the same thing? (smh)

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I didn't know you were suspended from Twitter.

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Yep ... got taken out in the Big Tech Purge the same day as Flynn and Powell (so I'm in good company). I'm on Telegram under the same handle if you need to tell me something (I follow you there). Parler too (Parler will be up tomorrow, I'm on the Parler Jury and they've been telling us to get ready). Also @protonmail.

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Mueller was a drooling vegetable. It was the Weiseman investigation.

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not holding my breath Durham will be non partisan. both he and bill barr are swamp creatures.

remember when some AG's & fed prosecutors including Durham pushed for a criminal investigation of CIA torture during the Bush years under the obama admin? only to close the investigations w/o recommending prosecution of parties involved in the deaths of detainees?

Statement of Attorney General Eric Holder on Closure of Investigation into the Interrogation of Certain Detainees - https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/statement-attorney-general-eric-holder-closure-investigation-interrogation-certain-detainees

the politically connected violate the law with impunity - whether its torture, murder, evidence tampering, you name it.

seeing probation as the punishment for kleinsmith committing FRAUD when he changed the meaning of the CIA's message Re: carter page- how can anyone think there will be ANY accountability for the fraud & circus the country was subjected to with russiagate?

the main stream media successfully ran a smoke screen with attacks that "Bill Barr was acting as Trump's personal attorney". Barr was always a swamp creature just like everyone trump appointed around him. trump is a weak megalomaniac - operating in self interest more than working to enact actual change.

the DOJ can be a burst dam of leaks to protect itself and hurt trump when it wants - but also have a vice-grip-like control when it wants; exhibit A = keeping a lid on the fact that the FBI had a multi year long investigation into Hunter's business dealings in China+ Ukraine DURING TRUMP's first impeachment trial.

bush/cheyne are unfortunately correct. the constitution is just a piece of paper - totally meaningless in the country today. there is no rule of law, just selective enforcement depending on who holds the reigns of power.

techno- thanks for the great reporting!

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R. Mueller & His Team and all who aided it, Are all Guilty of High Treason!!!

All should be HANGED!!!

COMMUNIST SYMPATHIZING ANTI AMERICAN ANTI CONSTITUTIONAL RAT BASTARDS!!!🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻

UP YOURS ASSHOLES

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Commies R us.

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KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK! EVIL NEVER SLEEPS! IT WILL TAKE ALOT WORK TO STOP THEM!

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I always suspected it was...I mean they all went to Italy...Mufsid hid out in Italy, Barr and Pelosi and Gang went to Italy....and then there were the missing servers in Ukraine (I think Trump took them) They housed- rumor was the bank accounts and locations of all the laundered money they took for 8 years of Obama...Trump kept saying he was going to DECLAS- but that was just to scare them- this is evidence for the TRIAL. GITMO has a courtroom with rows and rows of desks with computers, a 3 Handicap cells that allow a van to drive into to deliver the prisoner.... that is not for terrorists, John Solomon says a MOLE is working with Durham- a high up MOLE....THIS AIN'T OVER

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Can someone make sure and tell Durham that there may be a mole?

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Oops ... just found a slight correction that needs to be made in your story. Bijan Kian was a member of the Flynn Intel Group, but not Ekim Alptekin. He was the client that hired the FIG and the Mueller team smeared him as "the shadowy Turkish businessman" that acted as a go between between Flynn and the Turkish government ... an outright lie.

https://rumble.com/vbd8nf-ekim-alptekin-discussing-woolseys-kidnapping-allegations.html

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Wasn't it the other way around? That:

'Ciaramella would later be alleged to have filed that whistleblower complaint, based on Alexander Vindman's leaked account of Trump's call with the Ukrainian President (which Vindman sat in on)' ?

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In other words,,,,, what is it you are trying to say? Use 3 sentences or less please, I don't want to read a book.

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The “Durham Report” is a fantastical tale that conservatives tell themselves to get some hope and relief from the unremitting bad news about our beloved, once-free government. No veteran prosecutor or his staff members will risk their entire careers, let along families and future, to expose this corruption. Mene mene, tekel, upharsin.

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