Hannity: "Operation Crossfire Hurricane" is now "Operation Boomerang" 5/2/19 - "Objective Medusa" - John Solomon

[Orlylicious]

In the incredible alternative reality of Sean Hannity and Fox News, which effectively means Donald, "Act II" has begun. Sean has been pushing for weeks about "investigating the investigators" and Bill Barr (doesn't he look like John Goodman? it's scary) just gave him an orgasm. In Sean's world, everybody involved is going to jail, Comey first, so there can be "equal justice under the law". So now, Sean says "Operation Crossfire Hurricane" has turned into "Operation Boomerang" because it's going to criminally ensnare all the people involved with it. It's frighting.

NY Times from May of last year:

Code Name Crossfire Hurricane: The Secret Origins of the Trump Investigation
Days after the F.B.I. closed its investigation into Hillary Clinton in 2016, agents began scrutinizing the presidential campaign of her Republican rival, Donald J. Trump.
By Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman and Nicholas Fandos
May 16, 2018

WASHINGTON — Within hours of opening an investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia in the summer of 2016, the F.B.I. dispatched a pair of agents to London on a mission so secretive that all but a handful of officials were kept in the dark.

Their assignment, which has not been previously reported, was to meet the Australian ambassador, who had evidence that one of Donald J. Trump’s advisers knew in advance about Russian election meddling. After tense deliberations between Washington and Canberra, top Australian officials broke with diplomatic protocol and allowed the ambassador, Alexander Downer, to sit for an F.B.I. interview to describe his meeting with the campaign adviser, George Papadopoulos.

The agents summarized their highly unusual interview and sent word to Washington on Aug. 2, 2016, two days after the investigation was opened. Their report helped provide the foundation for a case that, a year ago Thursday, became the special counsel investigation. But at the time, a small group of F.B.I. officials knew it by its code name: Crossfire Hurricane.

The name, a reference to the Rolling Stones lyric “I was born in a crossfire hurricane,” was an apt prediction of a political storm that continues to tear shingles off the bureau. Days after they closed their investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server, agents began scrutinizing the campaign of her Republican rival. The two cases have become inextricably linked in one of the most consequential periods in the history of the F.B.I.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/16/us/p ... ation.html

Wikipedia has it too, never really thought about the name but clearly Sean & Donald think of it constantly.

Crossfire Hurricane was the code name for a covert counterintelligence investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) into links between Trump associates and Russian officials and suspected coordination between the Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign and the Russian government's interference in the 2016 United States elections.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossfire ... stigation)

What's scary is they have Bill Barr and a conservative SCOTUS majority. It breaks my heart people didn't get out and vote in 2016, but the bottom line is everyone who's commented said the investigation was appropriate. Once again the GOP is trying a BENGHAZI! and gosh I hope people are sick of that and remember for next year's election.

This isn't official so link may go down but this is the full episode from last night, only made it to 3:26 with the graphic "trouble for COMEY?" and the crawl "AG BARR ASSIGNS U.S. ATTORNEY JOHN DURHAM TO INVESTIGATE THE ORIGINS OF THE RUSSIA PROBE"

[Dolly]

Off Topic

............. and Bill Barr (doesn't he look like John Goodman? it's scary)

[Orlylicious]

Classic Dolly!

Here's what "Fox News Insiders" are being fed, this has gone on all month, Hannity on 5/2:

Hannity: Trump-Russia 'Witch Hunt' Over, 'Criminal' Probes of FISA Warrants, Clinton Emails Beginning

Sean Hannity said that after Attorney General William Barr's testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday, the Trump-Russia "witch hunt" is "completely over."

Hannity said Barr confirmed what he has been reporting for the past two years, but no mainstream media outlets are reporting it.

"Barr admitted during Wednesday's hearing everything we have reported the last two years and that full criminal investigations into the Deep State actors in the Clinton email scandal and FISA warrant controversy are now just beginning," said Hannity.

He accused the media and Democrats of "desperately trying to revive what is now a dead, fake, phony narrative" after the end of the Mueller probe.

"The hate-Trump media mob were wrong. They lied to the American people, and they continue to lie to the American people. They perpetrated a hoax. They pushed conspiracy theories. They lost and Operation Crossfire Hurricane has now turned into Operation Boomerang. Barr will bring equal justice and equal application of our laws to the American people," he predicted.

"They missed the biggest story in their lifetimes, and we can confirm the criminal investigations of the Deep State are, in fact, underway, in a major way," he said.

https://insider.foxnews.com/2019/05/02/ ... ts-clinton

He's repeated it verbatim since then. Donald watches every night. Now Big Bill Barr starts a third investigation (these innocent civil servants should be able to sue for legal fees if the government isn't paying for their defenses).

This is going to go on for months. Hannity is in love with "Operation Boomerang". Hope it's another HUGE Benghazi pie-in-the-face moment for him and the other "hate-for-profiteers" at Fox News. John Solomon, whom Sean always refers to as a hard hitting reporter, is actually billed (and in tiny letters chyroned on the slides) as "Opinion Columnist". He isn't even considered a journalist. Which is lucky since there's no journalism involved.

[fierceredpanda]

Barr does kind of look like John Goodman, but Goodman has already provided his impersonation of a Trump Administration official. His version of Rex Tillerson was awesome. I don't know that I could find a Barr impression as amusing without reflecting on what damage Barr is doing to the rule of law. Tillerson was just a buffoon.

[SLQ]

Goodman has already played Barr on SNL.

[DrIrvingFinegarten]

What "Democratic misbehavior"?

Hillary has already been investigated more than anyone ever and they found nothing.

If the people looking into the Russian interference obtained FISA warrants, by definition the investigation could not be illegal. FISA is pretty much abuse-proof.

[bob]

If the people looking into the Russian interference obtained FISA warrants, by definition the investigation could not be illegal. FISA is pretty much abuse-proof.

Conservatives have told themselves the story that the applications for the FISA warrants were based soley on the Steele dossier.

[DrIrvingFinegarten]

If the people looking into the Russian interference obtained FISA warrants, by definition the investigation could not be illegal. FISA is pretty much abuse-proof.

Conservatives have told themselves the story that the applications for the FISA warrants were based soley on the Steele dossier.

Yes. If that were all it were, there would have been no FISA warrant.

[Lani]

If the people looking into the Russian interference obtained FISA warrants, by definition the investigation could not be illegal. FISA is pretty much abuse-proof.

Conservatives have told themselves the story that the applications for the FISA warrants were based soley on the Steele dossier.

Yes. If that were all it were, there would have been no FISA warrant.

Yeah, once upon a time. We now live in a fact free country.

[Orlylicious]

Insufferable Dan Bongino is hosting Hannity tonight... they are going wild on Donald's EO declassifying investigation documents. Didn't Donald say the Mueller investigation was over? Of course Hannity's show has been leading with it all week, including multiple reports by John Solomon, whom Sean calls an "investigative reporter" but all his stories in the Hill call him "Opinion Contributor". Wonder why Sean doesn't mention that? Anyway, this distraction will keep the Trumpers engaged and smelling blood until they realize it's a bust then they'll get mad at something else.

BREAKING….. IT’S HAPPENING! President Trump Calls on DOJ to Declassify Intel Related to Spying on Trump Campaign
by Jim Hoft May 23, 2019 356 Comments

President Trump released a statement on Thursday night ordering declassification of the intelligence related to the spying on the Trump Campaign in 2016.

This is breaking news…

President Trump: “Today, at the request and recommendation of the Attorney General of the United States, President Donald J. Trump directed the intelligence community to quickly and fully cooperate with the Attorney General’s investigation into surveillance activities during the 2016 Presidential election. The Attorney General has also been delegated full and complete authority to declassify information pertaining to this investigation, in accordance with the long-established standards for handling classified information. Today’s action will help ensure that all Americans learn the truth about the events that occurred, and the actions that were taken, during the last Presidential election and will restore confidence in our public institutions.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/0 ... -campaign/

[Orlylicious]

Rudy Guliani (who just turned 75) was just on with Ed Henry (he's such an obnoxious little creep with a tiny little mouth like Donald) subbing for Martha McCallum on Fox News, it was typically awful but what stood out is he uses the same "BOOMERANG" line about how this is going to BACKFIRE on the Deep State.

Apparently Hannity is going to go nuts on his monologue tonight. Gee, maybe he should apologize to Hillary, he went through Benzhazi, Uranium One and emails and no one was charged. And Jim Comey's press conference was much worse than Mueller was today.

But they are determined, over and over Hannity repeats that they are all going to jail ANY DAY NOW. Declassification was proof!

Either we're all wrong and something terrible happened, or any shred of credibility of all those jokers (including the ridiculous Sara Carter and John Solomon, whom Sean always calls "investigative reporter for The Hill" but if you look at his byline, he's an "Opinion Contributor"). Sean surely must want to know this info so he doesn't mislead his audience, right? Bueller?

Amazing his viewers keep lapping it up, he's another con man like Dopey Donald.

[Orlylicious]

Well, Sean was indeed nuts, only made it about 7 minutes.

He kicks off with his #1 ratings and then is enraged for a while. Not official link so may go down but if you want to hear that "ACT I IS OVER" and "ACT II is just beginning" (chyrons even), here it is.





Guess which dopey viewer was watching?





And he retweeted (which probably should not happen, she's a campaign worker, sigh) Kayleigh, premiering what they want to drag into 2020.

[Orlylicious]

Maybe tomorrow sez Hannity:

[Orlylicious]

No shoes so far... vile Dan Bongino was on for Hannity tonight, skipped it. Washington Examiner:

DOJ inspector general completed FISA abuse investigation: GOP congressman
by Jerry Dunleavy July 02, 2019 12:41 PM

The Justice Department inspector general's investigation of potential abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is complete, a Republican congressman said, though a report on its findings might not be released for a month. House Judiciary Committee member John Ratcliffe of Texas said Monday he’d met with DOJ watchdog Michael Horowitz about his FISA abuse report last week. Ratcliffe said in a Fox News interview they’d discussed the timing, but not the content of his report and Horowitz “related that his team’s investigative work is complete and they’re now in the process of drafting that report.”

“I would expect that a draft of that would be completed in short order,” Ratcliffe said.The DOJ inspector general’s investigation, launched in March 2018, has centered on whether the FBI and DOJ filing of four FISA applications and renewals beginning in October 2016 to surveil former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page was abuse of the FISA process. The applications relied heavily upon an unverified dossier compiled by British ex-spy Christopher Steele, who was hired by Fusion GPS. The opposition research firm was hired by Marc Elias of the Perkins Coie law firm at the behest of the Clinton presidential campaign.

Ratcliffe said he was doubtful that Horowitz’s report would be made available to the public or the Congress anytime soon. “He did relay that as much as 20% of his report is going to include classified information, so that draft report will have to undergo a classification review at the FBI and at the Department of Justice,” Ratcliffe said. “So, while I’m hopeful that we members of Congress might see it before the August recess, I’m not too certain about that.”
***
Horowitz had reportedly been “homing in” on [Christopher] Steele for months, and sources close to Steele expressed his willingness to meet with Horowitz in June. Other possible targets of the DOJ inspector general inquiry likely included the approvers and signers of the four FISA warrant applications and renewals from October 2016 through June 2017, including former FBI Director James Comey, former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, and the former Acting Attorney General and now current FBI General Counsel Dana Boente, the only signer of a Page FISA application who is still in office.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news ... ongressman

CNS News runs the same quotes and adds:

Two months ago, Attorney General William Barr launched a second investigation, asking U.S. Attorney John Durham to look into the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation.

Rep. Ratcliffe said he thinks the Horowitz and Durham investigations will produce "significant" results.

And a lot of folks are looking forward to Bob Mueller's testimony on July 17, coming up, but Bob Mueller's going to talk about collusion that didn't exist -- about obstruction that the attorney general found didn't exist. You can ask Bob Mueller ten times in ten different languages, and I don't think there are going to be any new facts; I don't think there are going to be any new conclusions.

But Michael Horwitz and his findings and John Durham and his findings, those are going to be significant. Those relate not to Trump misconduct, but potential Obama misconduct.

Look, you know, Jim Comey says they did everything right, even though...you've got a lead investigator who promised to stop, wanted to prevent him (Trump) from becoming president. He had a deputy director (Andrew McCabe) who lied under oath on multiple occasions and was criminally referred and...Director Comey himself leaked private conversations with the president. He has a different definition of the word proud, when he says he is proud of all of that work. But we'll find out. Michael Horwitz, I do think that his findings will be significant...because it presents a real potential problem for the Democrats.

Right now we already know, Bob Mueller has told us, that a Democratic administration started an investigation into a conspiracy with Russia that did not exist. That's bad enough.

It would be a whole lot worse if it turns out that that same Democratic administration continued that investigation by breaking rules at the FISA court. If that happens, you can pretty much put a pin in any impeachment balloon, because it would be hard for the Democrats to say, well, we started an investigation that we shouldn't have. We continued it by breaking the rules, but we want to impeach a president for trying to obstruct that investigation that never should have started.

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/su ... cted-weeks

They have been gushing this bullshit for over a year, ginned their people up... not sure what happens if they don't get the blood they've been promised. As Addie pointed out, Breitbart's traffic is down 75%... either people are satisfied, or they have lost interest because nothing they were promised happened. Keeping these sorts of "investigate the investigators" campaign going may be fatiguing Trump voters, and a lot of them were non political, they just came out for Donald. Will they bother to do it again?

[Turtle]

This is a lot like the dinar RV gurus who always seem to have something in the news to point to that explains how it is gonna happen any day now.

[Slim Cognito]

Just my arrogant opinion, but I'm fairly confident, if they'd found evidence damning Obama's administration for the investigation, it would have leaked like a screen door in a sailboat. Congressional committees aren't known for tight lips.

Brings to mind Huber's investigation into HRC, the big build-up to his presentation the GOP senate demanded, and then abruptly cancelled the night before, I'm assuming because Huber told them he didn't find any dirt on Clinton.

[Notorial Dissent]

Just my arrogant opinion, but I'm fairly confident, if they'd found evidence damning Obama's administration for the investigation, it would have leaked like a screen door in a sailboat. Congressional committees aren't known for tight lips.

Brings to mind Huber's investigation into HRC, the big build-up to his presentation the GOP senate demanded, and then abruptly cancelled the night before, I'm assuming because Huber told them he didn't find any dirt on Clinton.

If there was ACTUAL information/facts on this it would be all over the news, and particularly FAUX, and they would be crowing it from the rooftops, and yet crickets......

[bob]

Even all-talk Larry Klayman has publicly noted Hannity's repeated "ANY DAY NOW!" routine.

[Notorial Dissent]

Maybe Hannity and the ex-pretend-Kommandant can schedule a joint pressersince I am expecting the actual announcement at about the same time.

[Orlylicious]

Hannity has a "studio audience full of experts" on tonight as he once again insists they need to "investigate the investigators". If you haven't been following, this is a primer of the fantasy he's been blowing out of his ass for two years. He's on he radio THREE HOURS during the day talking trash and narrows it down to the most incendiary, nasty hour he can for Faux News. After all this buildup, what will his fans do when nothing happens? They are already going nuts on what they are saying is Donald's cave on the Census... Sean is always having to be on the defense. He's aging really fast.

Old Hannity.JPG

Not an official link so may be taken down but there's lots of "Hannity 7/12" on YouTube. He thinks it's a golden opportunity for Republicans to destroy Mueller's credibility on 7/24.

[Slim Cognito]

About that "Boomerang of Justice" logo - I picture Hannity slinging it at Mueller, missing wildly and the damn thing circles back and knocks Hannity on his ass.

[Orlylicious]

Great image Slim!

[Orlylicious]

Now it's September. From Jim Hoft's Gateway to hot young boys Pundit, if you look through it, this report was going to be March, then for sure April, then undoubtably May, then June, now September. So we have some time before panicking:

IG Horowitz to Release Report with Evidence Comey Conducted “Counterintelligence” of Trump on the Sly – Had Covert Agent in White House
Cristina Laila by Cristina Laila July 22, 2019 123 Comments

DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz is expected to release his report in early September showing evidence indicating that former FBI Director James Comey was misleading Trump about being a target of an investigation.

According to investigative reporter Paul Sperry, Comey was running a “counterintelligence assessment” on Trump on the sly. Comey didn’t even need to keep files or get surveillance warrants on Trump, he may just have covertly made Trump the subject of investigation by spying on him incidentally. Comey of course denies he did this in book ‘A Higher Loyalty.’

Comey had an agent inside the White House reporting back to the FBI about Trump and his aides, sources tell Paul Sperry.

James Comey refused to say publicly that Trump was not under investigation, something he reassured Trump in private, but never declared publicly.

It is now being revealed why Comey privately said under oath twice that Trump wasn’t under investigation, yet refused to come out and say it publicly.

Via Paul Sperry’s Real Clear Investigations report:

Now an answer is emerging. Sources tell RealClearInvestigations that Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz will soon file a report with evidence indicating that Comey was misleading the president. Even as he repeatedly assured Trump that he was not a target, the former director was secretly trying to build a conspiracy case against the president, while at times acting as an investigative agent.

Two U.S. officials briefed on the inspector general’s investigation of possible FBI misconduct said Comey was essentially “running a covert operation against” the president, starting with a private “defensive briefing” he gave Trump just weeks before his inauguration. They said Horowitz has examined high-level FBI text messages and other communications indicating Comey was actually conducting a “counterintelligence assessment” of Trump during that January 2017 meeting in New York.

In addition to adding notes of his meetings and phone calls with Trump to the official FBI case file, Comey had an agent inside the White House who reported back to FBI headquarters about Trump and his aides, according to other officials familiar with the matter.

The agent, Anthony Ferrante, who specialized in cyber crime, left the White House around the same time Comey was fired and soon joined a security consulting firm, where he contracted with BuzzFeed to lead the news site’s efforts to verify the Steele dossier, in connection with a defamation lawsuit.

Knowledgeable sources inside the Trump White House say Comey carved out an extraordinary new position for Ferrante, which allowed him to remain on reserve status at the FBI while working in the White House as a cybersecurity adviser.

“In an unprecedented action, Comey created a new FBI reserve position for Ferrante, enabling him to have an ongoing relationship with the agency, retaining his clearances and enabling him to come back in [to bureau headquarters],” said a former National Security Council official who requested anonymity.

“Between the election and April 2017, when Ferrante finally left the White House, the Trump NSC division supervisor was not allowed to get rid of Ferrante,” he added, “and Ferrante continued working — in direct conflict with the no-contact policy between the White House and the Department of Justice.”

Horowitz, just like Barr and Durham, is focusing on the shady January 2017 meeting that took place between Comey, the intel chiefs and president-elect Donald Trump in the Trump Tower New York.

On January 5th, 2017, then-FBI Director James Comey held a secret meeting in the Oval Office before he traveled to Trump Tower New York to brief president-elect Donald Trump on the Hillary-funded junk Russia dossier.

This unusual meeting to discuss the dossier and the FBI’s Russia investigation that took place in January of 2017 in Obama’s White House was discovered in February of 2018 by then-Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA).

Among the people in the meeting was Barack Obama, James Comey (FBI Director), Susan Rice (NatSec Advisor), Sally Yates (Deputy Attorney General), James Clapper (DNI Chief), John Brennan (CIA Chief) and then-Vice President Joe Biden.

The next day on January 6th, 2017, Comey headed over to Trump Tower, New York and briefed then-president elect Donald Trump on the salacious parts of the Russia dossier — Comey lied to Trump and told him he was not under investigation and that he had nothing to worry about — by this time, one FISA warrant on Carter Page had already been granted and the FBI presented the fake dossier to the FISA judges as credible intel.

IG Horowitz has reviewed hihg-level FBI text messages and other means of communications that indicate the FBI many have used this briefing at Trump Tower as part of their reason to carry out a “counterintelligence assessment” op against Trump and all of his senior staff (Pence, Priebus and Flynn) who attended the briefing.

Paul Sperry reports that after FBI agent Anthony Ferrante left his position, a series of Obama holdovers continued to make sure Ferrante still had access to the White House even though it was in direct conflict with the “no-contact policy” between the White House and the DOJ.

Read Paul Sperry’s full report at Real Clear Investigations here.

BREAKING: Inspector General Has Evidence Comey Really Was Investigating Trump — On the Sly https://t.co/glzv8sNh1R

— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) July 22, 2019

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/0 ... tent=daily

[Orlylicious]

OK! Now, really, really it's starting to happen, Sean's "high level sources" (but not Donald, he laughed) and Sara Carter (I've been looking for a single story she's ever written that's been correct, I can't find one, if you see one please let me know) said her "senior sources" said the same.

So This Is It! I bet Jim Hoft had a woody writing this post. BTW Jim, you, your friends, and Donald have already shocked the Conscience of a Nation. People doing their jobs won't shock anybody except no show Donald appointees like Ben Carson and Kelly Kraft.

Sean Hannity: My Sources are Telling Me the DOJ Investigation of Spygate “Will Shock the Conscience of a Nation” (VIDEO)
by Jim Hoft August 6, 2019 394 Comments


Sean Hannity told his audience again on Tuesday that when the DOJ investigation on FISA abuse and the Spygate scandal on Trump is complete — “It will shock the conscience of a nation.” Sean had this to say during his first segment tonight.

Sean Hannity: My sources are telling me… At the end of this investigation, my sources are telling me today and tonight, Everything that we have been telling our viewers, by say no later than the fall, it’s all going to be revealed to the American people… I know for some of you this is taking a long time. I know the wheels of justice sometimes move slowly. The issue of Mueller is gone, done and finished. The issue of thee abuse of power and corruption is not only just started, they are deep into discovering the things that we have told you on this program. Everyone of them will be proven to be true. every single solitary report.

Sean Hannity then went on to drop this bomb in his next segment:

I have my sources confirming to me tonight at very high levels. And by the way, it’s not Trump. I have high level sources telling me tonight, that by the time that Attorney Durham is done with his job, and the Attorney General is done with his job, and the investigation is complete adding into it Inspector General Horowitz, it will shock the conscience of a nation. That is a quote.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/0 ... ion-video/


What do you think? Realist, it time for ? Sean's been so dang accurate!

[Foggy]

I have to assume he's talking about the pee hooker tape.