"So, let us not be blind to our differences - but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved. And if we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal." JFK, June 10, 1963.
Saturday, July 14, 2018
Soon To Be Indicted: Dana Rohrabacher; Mystery "Unnamed" Candidate In Indictment Of 12 Russians & Maria Butina Complaint; Latest "Victim" Of Comedians Sacha Baron Cohen & Jim Carrey; Favorite Of Putin & The NRA...
Art by Jim Carrey
Yesterday's indictment of 12 Russians drops a curious hint about actual collusion in 2016 between Russian agents and a certain American politician... 43(a): "On or about August 15, 2016, the Conspirators, posing as Guccifer 2.0, received a request for stolen documents from a candidate for the U.S. Congress. The Conspirators responded using the Guccifer 2.0 persona and sent the candidate stolen documents related to the candidate's opponent." ThisSmallPlanet believes that the candidate for Congress who received stolen documents from Russia, unnamed in the indictment, is, in fact, Congressman Dana Rohrabacher.
HARLEY'S STATEMENT ON THE REVELATION THAT DANA ROHRABACHER IS PART OF RUSSIAN SPY INVESTIGATION
Newport Beach, CA – Today, Harley Rouda released the following statement in light of the news that Rep. Dana Rohrabacher met with an ally of Vladimir Putin in Russia in August 2015. This revelation matches an account given in an affidavit released by the FBI on Monday against accused Russian spy Maria Butina.
"The news that Dana Rohrabacher is now entwined in an FBI investigation of an accused 'Russian NRA spy' is deeply disturbing. The full truth about the connection between Dana's pro-Russian politics, his 2015 trip to Russia, and Moscow's relationship with the National Rifle Association must be known - that's what every CA-48 family, what every American family, deserves."
"What's already fully known is that Dana Rohrabacher told the Showtime Network he thinks arming children is a good idea. He also has never met a common sense gun reform he liked or an NRA donation that he didn't want to take. This last quarter alone, Dana accepted $1,000 in NRA money. My campaign is not up for sale to the NRA. I will never take a contribution from the NRA and as a member of Congress I will seek to work with Republicans and Democrats to finally make common sense gun safety reform a reality."
One of the more surprising details in Friday's filings was the admission by Gates that even while he was negotiating a possible agreement with Mueller, he lied to investigators. He falsely claimed that Ukraine was not discussed at a March 19, 2013, meeting attended by Manafort, a lobbyist and member of Congress and that a report about the meeting was not sent to clients in the Ukraine.
The lawmaker who attended was Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., his office confirmed. Rohrabacher's press secretary said it was a dinner with longtime acquaintances where "the three reminisced and talked mostly about politics."
"The subject of Ukraine came up in passing," the press secretary, Ken Grubbs, said in a statement.
"It is no secret that Manafort represented (former Ukraine president) Viktor Yanukovych's interests, but as chairman of the relevant European subcommittee, the congressman has listened to all points of view on Ukraine. We may only speculate that Manafort needed to report back to his client that Ukraine was discussed."
======================================== Rohrabacher is up for re-election this November to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he's served since 1989. He's facing a very tough challenge this time from Democrat Harley Rouda in California's 48th congressional district. Being indicted isn't going to help his campaign either.
The indictment says that "on or about" August 15, 2016, the unnamed Congressional candidate (Rohrabacher) asked for and received stolen data about a political opponent from Guccier 2.0, known to be a front for Russian agents. That means that Rohrabacher could (and should!) definitely be charged in the next batch of indictments. It begs the question; if a Congressman could ask for and receive illegal Russian help in an election, is it so far fetched to propose that a presidential candidate did the same? Especially if there already were compromising personal and financial material the Russians had on Trump from the past...
From right: Kolyadin and Torshin, with others including Rohrabacher, second from left
Starting at 9:17 in this video, Russian lawyer Natalya Veselnitskaya of Trump Tower Meeting fame, discusses (in Russian with English subtitles) efforts to influence American politicians like Rohrabacher...
Interestingly, we do know that Rohrabacher was in contact with Guccifer's friend Julian Assange of Wikileaks, during this period, and even visited Assange in hiding at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, one or more times as documented in The L.A. Times on August 16, 2017:
He’s a Member of Congress. The Kremlin Likes Him So Much It Gave Him a Code Name.
Representative Dana Rohrabacher, Republican of California, has come under intense political and investigative scrutiny for his closeness to Russia. Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call, via Associated Press Original on New York Times.com
Mr. Rohrabacher, left, campaigning in 1988 with his friend Oliver North, who was embroiled in the Iran-contra scandal. Mr. Rohrabacher has since served 15 terms. Nick Ut/Associated Press
The story of Mr. Rohrabacher’s transformation from Cold Warrior to pro-Putinist is well worn. A vocal Young Republican in the 1960s, he latched onto Ronald Reagan, California’s Republican governor, and followed him to Washington and a speechwriting job in the White House. Then came the fall of the Soviet Union and a détente in relations with the former superpower. For Mr. Rohrabacher, who claims to have lost a drunken arm-wrestling match to Mr. Putin in the 1990s, the era of good feelings never really ended.
Mr. Rohrabacher has laughed off suggestions that he is a Russian asset, and said in an interview that he did not remember being briefed that the Russians viewed him as a source. The F.B.I. and the senior members of the House Intelligence Committee sat Mr. Rohrabacher down in the Capitol in 2012 to warn him that Russian spies were trying to recruit him, according to two former intelligence officials.
“I remember them telling me, ‘You have been targeted to be recruited as an agent,’” he said. “How stupid is that?”
And yet, as investigators in Washington scrutinize the Russian interference campaign, Mr. Rohrabacher, like an extra in a spy thriller, just keeps showing up — if not quite at the scene of the action, then just off camera.
In April 2016, he was in Moscow, accepting a copy of a “confidential” memocontaining accusations against prominent Democratic donors that would, months later, reappear in Trump Tower when a Russian lawyer who had reported those allegations to the Russian government, Natalia V. Veselnitskaya, sat down with Donald Trump Jr. to deliver a similar document.
Last August he was in London on a quick diversion from an anniversary trip to the Iberian Peninsula to meet Mr. Assange at the fugitive’s sanctuary in the Ecuadorean Embassy. American intelligence agencies believe Mr. Assange acted as a conduit for Russian operatives seeking to release a trove of hacked Democratic emails. Mr. Assange denies the accusation, and Mr. Rohrabacher hoped to broker a meeting with Mr. Trump to allow him to make his case.
Then earlier this year, this time on Capitol Hill, Mr. Rohrabacher dined with Alexander Torshin, the deputy governor of the Russian central bank who has been linked both to Russia’s security services and organized crime. During Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign, Mr. Torshin tried to set up a “backdoor” meeting between Mr. Trump and Mr. Putin, according to an email that has been turned over to Senate investigators.
Mr. Rohrabacher asserted that none of the meetings were untoward or inappropriate, given his chairmanship. Ms. Veselnitskaya and her allies are fighting the Magnitsky Act, which imposed sanctions on Russian officials for human rights abuses, and they deserved a hearing, he said. Russia, he argued, could be a key ally to defeat Islamic terrorists in the Middle East, and under Mr. Putin, the Kremlin has undertaken key reforms back home.
Representative Dana Rohrabacher, Republican of California, has been known for years as one of Moscow’s biggest defenders in Washington. Maria Danilova/Associated Press
Representative Dana Rohrabacher, Republican of California, has come under intense political and investigative scrutiny for his closeness to Russia. Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call, via Associated Press
Mr. Rohrabacher, left, campaigning in 1988 with his friend Oliver North, who was embroiled in the Iran-contra scandal. Mr. Rohrabacher has since served 15 terms. Nick Ut/Associated Press
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