Exclusive BAD WOLF?

[MARIS61]

Are you talking about the man hired by the Republican controlled Senate in 1988?

Can't find your readers?

 

[theprunetang]

The Conway jibe is pure DNC misogyny, and those are clearly Swamprats being absorbed by Trump.

I don't pay attention to what people tell me to think. In my personal opinion, Conway is like a shrieking harpy. She gives me shivers, and not the pleasant variety.

 

[Lanny]

Can't find your readers?

Aha, avoiding the question.

 

[MARIS61]

Prosecutors want 2-year prison term for ex-Senate Intel staffer James Wolfe in leak case

By Samuel Chamberlain | Fox News

James Wolfe, center, in June 2017. Prosecutors have asked he be sentenced to two years in prison. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Federal prosecutors asked a judge to sentence James Wolfe, the former director of security for the Senate Intelligence Committee, to two years in prison for lying to the FBI about leaking classified information to reporters.

"Wolfe was entrusted by two branches of government," prosecutors said in a sentencing memo filed in federal court in Washington on Tuesday. "He abused that trust by using his position to cultivate relationships with reporters ... and offering to serve as a confidential source. Wolfe then lied, and lied persistently, about his actions and his relationships to the FBI agents who were investigating an unauthorized disclosure of classified information."

Prosecutors said Wolfe was in regular contact with four reporters who covered the committee, in violation of Senate rules. He also maintained a yearslong personal relationship with one reporter, previously identified in news reports as Ali Watkins of The New York Times. According to the memo, Wolfe repeatedly lied about his relationship with Watkins (identified in the document as Reporter #2) until he was "confronted with photographs of himself together with [her], some of them during foreign travel." When Wolfe was asked why he didn't disclose his relationship with Watkins when he was first asked about it, the document said he responded: "Why would I?"

Wolfe reportedly added that he believed he would have lost his job had he made the admission.

James Wolfe and New York Times reporter Ali Watkins.

According to the memo, Wolfe told another reporter (identified as Reporter #3) on Oct. 16, 2017, that he had served someone with a subpoena to appear before the committee to be interviewed about potential ties between Russia and the Trump campaign. After the story was published, prosecutors said, Wolfe told her, "Good job!" and "I'm glad you got the scoop," in messages on the encrypted app Signal.

The subject of the subpoena was not identified, but the dates match up to multiple media reports that former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page was subpoenaed by the committee.

Eight days later, Wolfe messaged the same reporter to say Page would testify in a closed hearing before the committee. When the reporter emailed Page for confirmation, prosecutors said Page emailed the committee to complain about the leak. A committee staffer responded to Page with an email telling him that Wolfe "could 'assist you in entering the building discreetly.'"

Wolfe pleaded guilty in October to a single charge of knowingly making a false statement in the three-count indictment against him. Prosecutors argued that though there was no evidence Wolfe had disclosed classified information, he had caused "significant disruption to a governmental function and significantly endangered the national security."

In their own sentencing memorandum filed Tuesday, Wolfe's attorneys argued their client shouldn't serve any time behind bars. They said he deeply regretted his actions and violating his marital vows.

The defense memo included a letter from three high-ranking senators: Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr, R-N.C.; Vice Chairman Mark Warner, D-Va.; and Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., another member of the panel.

"Jim has already lost much through these events, to include his career and reputation, and we do not believe there is any public utility in depriving him of his freedom," the senators wrote.

Wolfe is scheduled to be sentenced on Dec. 20, his 58th birthday.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pr...senate-intel-staffer-james-wolfe-in-leak-case

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

 

[julius]

I was hoping that this was about Doctor Who.

To say I'm disappointed would be an understatement.

 

[Lanny]

Pedantic Fake News purveyor Wolf Blitzer.

Discredited tabloid hack "author" Michael Wolff.

Crudely clueless "comedy" writer Michelle Wolf.

Dr Who fans know what I'm saying here.

"Blitzer has won awards, including the 2004 Journalist Pillar of Justice Award from the Respect for Law Alliance, and the 2003 Daniel Pearl Award from the Chicago Press Veterans Association. His news team was among those awarded a George Foster Peabody Award for coverage of Hurricane Katrina, an Alfred I. DuPont Award for coverage of the 1999 Southeast Asian tsunami, and an Edward R. Murrow Award for CNN's coverage of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.

In November 2002, he won the American Veteran Awards' Ernie Pyle Journalism Award for military reporting. In February 2000, he received the Anti-Defamation League’s Hubert H. Humphrey First Amendment Freedoms Prize. In 1999, Blitzer won the International Platform Association's Lowell Thomas Broadcast Journalism Award. Blitzer won an Emmy Award for his coverage of the Oklahoma City bombing. Blitzer was also part of the CNN team that was awarded a Golden ACE award for their 1991 Gulf War reporting. In 1994, American Journalism Review cited him and CNN as the readers' choice for the Best in the Business Award for network coverage of the Clinton administration.

In May 1999, Blitzer was awarded the honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters by the University at Buffalo. On May 20, 2007, Blitzer was awarded the honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters by the George Washington University at their undergraduate commencement exercise.[25] On May 23, 2010, Blitzer was awarded the honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters by Niagara University at their undergraduate commencement exercise. Also, on May 14, 2011, he received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Penn State University. On September 25, 2011, Blitzer was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters by the University of Hartford. On May 10, 2014, Blitzer received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Howard University."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_Blitzer

 

[andalusian]

 

[MARIS61]

A slap on the wrist for a Deep State Wolf:

Department of Justice
U.S. Attorney’s Office
District of Columbia
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, December 20, 2018
Former U.S. Senate Employee Sentenced to Prison Term on False Statements Charge
Longtime Director of Security for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Admitted Lying to FBI About Disclosing Information to Reporter

WASHINGTON – James A. Wolfe, 58, of Ellicott City, Maryland, the former Director of Security for the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), was sentenced today to two months in prison for making a false statement to the FBI during the course of an investigation into the unlawful disclosure of classified national security information.

The announcement was made by Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers, U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu for the District of Columbia, and Special Agent in Charge Timothy M. Dunham of the Counterintelligence Division of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.

Wolfe pled guilty on Oct. 15, 2018, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, to one count of making a false statement. Under the plea agreement, the government moved to dismiss two remaining false statements counts at sentencing. In his proffer, Wolfe admitted to the conduct underlying one of the two dismissed counts.

In addition to the prison time, the Honorable Ketanji Brown Jackson ordered that Wolfe pay a $7,500 fine. She also ordered that he complete four months of supervised release following his incarceration. During that time, he is to perform 20 hours of community service a month.

At the time Wolfe made the false statement to the FBI, he was the Director of Security for the SSCI, a position he held for more than 28 years. As SSCI Director of Security, he was entrusted with receiving, maintaining, and managing classified national security information provided to the SSCI by the Executive Branch of the United States.

According to a statement of offense filed at the time of the plea, the FBI opened an investigation in April 2017 into the unauthorized disclosure of classified national security information that had appeared in a specific article published by a national news organization. In December 2017, during the course of the investigation, Wolfe was interviewed. Wolfe was asked specifically about whether he had been in contact with any reporters and, if so, who those reporters were, and what were the nature and extent of those contacts and the means by which those contacts occurred.

By his guilty plea, he admitted making false statements to the FBI concerning whether he had provided unclassified, but not otherwise publicly-available, information to reporters. Specifically, on Oct. 16, 2017, and again on Oct. 24, 2017, Wolfe provided a particular reporter with non-public information concerning a witness who had been subpoenaed to testify before the SSCI. Wolfe also admitted making false statements to the FBI about his contacts with three additional reporters, including one of the authors of the aforementioned article.

Wolfe was indicted in June 2018. The investigation into this matter was conducted by the FBI’s Washington Field Office. The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Jocelyn Ballantine and Tejpal S. Chawla and Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Laura Ingersoll of the District of Columbia, with assistance from the Counterintelligence and Export Control Section, National Security Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/...sentenced-prison-term-false-statements-charge

 

[Lanny]

A slap on the wrist for a Deep State Wolf:

Department of Justice
U.S. Attorney’s Office
District of Columbia
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, December 20, 2018
Former U.S. Senate Employee Sentenced to Prison Term on False Statements Charge
Longtime Director of Security for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Admitted Lying to FBI About Disclosing Information to Reporter

WASHINGTON – James A. Wolfe, 58, of Ellicott City, Maryland, the former Director of Security for the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), was sentenced today to two months in prison for making a false statement to the FBI during the course of an investigation into the unlawful disclosure of classified national security information.

The announcement was made by Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers, U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu for the District of Columbia, and Special Agent in Charge Timothy M. Dunham of the Counterintelligence Division of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.

Wolfe pled guilty on Oct. 15, 2018, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, to one count of making a false statement. Under the plea agreement, the government moved to dismiss two remaining false statements counts at sentencing. In his proffer, Wolfe admitted to the conduct underlying one of the two dismissed counts.

In addition to the prison time, the Honorable Ketanji Brown Jackson ordered that Wolfe pay a $7,500 fine. She also ordered that he complete four months of supervised release following his incarceration. During that time, he is to perform 20 hours of community service a month.

At the time Wolfe made the false statement to the FBI, he was the Director of Security for the SSCI, a position he held for more than 28 years. As SSCI Director of Security, he was entrusted with receiving, maintaining, and managing classified national security information provided to the SSCI by the Executive Branch of the United States.

According to a statement of offense filed at the time of the plea, the FBI opened an investigation in April 2017 into the unauthorized disclosure of classified national security information that had appeared in a specific article published by a national news organization. In December 2017, during the course of the investigation, Wolfe was interviewed. Wolfe was asked specifically about whether he had been in contact with any reporters and, if so, who those reporters were, and what were the nature and extent of those contacts and the means by which those contacts occurred.

By his guilty plea, he admitted making false statements to the FBI concerning whether he had provided unclassified, but not otherwise publicly-available, information to reporters. Specifically, on Oct. 16, 2017, and again on Oct. 24, 2017, Wolfe provided a particular reporter with non-public information concerning a witness who had been subpoenaed to testify before the SSCI. Wolfe also admitted making false statements to the FBI about his contacts with three additional reporters, including one of the authors of the aforementioned article.

Wolfe was indicted in June 2018. The investigation into this matter was conducted by the FBI’s Washington Field Office. The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Jocelyn Ballantine and Tejpal S. Chawla and Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Laura Ingersoll of the District of Columbia, with assistance from the Counterintelligence and Export Control Section, National Security Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/...sentenced-prison-term-false-statements-charge

So, lying to the FBI really is wrong. Is that what you're saying?

 

[julius]

So, lying to the FBI really is wrong. Is that what you're saying?

Not if they tricked you into lying.

 

[stampedehero]

Wolfman Jack
View attachment 20467

One of the most famous Wolves ever. He broadcast from Mexico.

 

[Lanny]

One of the most famous Wolves ever. He broadcast from Mexico.

I thought he broadcast from LA.

 

[Lanny]

Not if they tricked you into lying.

When you say 'tricked' do you mean telling the subject that he/she could be subject to prosecution for breaking the law? Well, that would explain why so many of Trump's minions lied to the FBI.

 

[julius]

When you say 'tricked' do you mean telling the subject that he/she could be subject to prosecution for breaking the law? Well, that would explain why so many of Trump's minions lied to the FBI.

WHERE ARE YOUR EMAILS, HILLARY!?

 

[stampedehero]

I thought he broadcast from LA.

He started in Mexico. That raspy voice is unforgettable.

 

[MARIS61]

Outside the Beltway


Naomi Wolf’s New Book a Complete Misunderstanding

An author's greatest nightmare unfolded on live radio.
James Joyner · Saturday, May 25, 2019 · 68 comments

Naomi Wolf is living an author’s greatest nightmare. And doing it as well as possible.

When she went on BBC radio on Thursday, Wolf, the author of Vagina and the forthcoming Outrages: Sex, Censorship, and the Criminalization of Love, probably expected to discuss the historical revelations she’d uncovered her book. But during the interview, broadcaster Matthew Sweet read to Wolf the definition of “death recorded,” a 19th-century English legal term. “Death recorded” means that a convict was pardoned for his crimes rather than given the death sentence.

Wolf thought the term meant execution.

There’s a shocking silence on-air after Sweet says he doesn’t think Wolf is right about the executions Outrages delves into. Sweet looks at the case of Thomas Silver, who, Wolf wrote in her book, “was actually executed for committing sodomy. The boy was indicted for unnatural offense, guilty, death recorded.” Silver, as Sweet points out, was not executed.

“What is your understanding of what ‘death recorded’ means?” Wolf asked him on-air, mere moments after he had already explained to her how Old Bailey, London’s main criminal court up until 1913, defined it. Sweet pulled up his own research — news reports and prison records — showing the date that Thomas Silver was discharged.

Death recorded, he says, “was a category that was created in 1823 that allowed judges to abstain from pronouncing a sentence of death on any capital convict whom they considered to be a fit subject for pardon.” And then the blow: “I don’t think any of the executions you’ve identified here actually happened.”

Before Sweet delivered the punch, Wolf was audibly ready to speak about the “several dozen” similar executions she noted in her book, many of which rely on her completely wrong understanding of the term “death recorded.” But there is no historical evidence that shows anyone was ever executed for sodomy during the Victorian era, Sweet said on Twitter. Which means … much of the premise of Wolf’s entire book is just false.

Wolf cited on Twitter historical findings from a peer-reviewed article written by A.D. Harvey, a historian who’s been labeled a hoaxer. (He deceived the public into thinking that Charles Dickens and Fyodor Dostoyevsky met once and created several online personas and an entire fake community of academics.)

—-Yelena Dzhanova, The Intelligencer, “Here’s an Actual Nightmare: Naomi Wolf Learning On-Air That Her Book Is Wrong“
Wow. That’s simply mortifying. It is, I suppose, a peril of being the sort of author that Wolf represents: a talented writer who lights on a topic of interest and then cranks out a book, rather than an expert in a subject that writes within their field.

Her publisher is standing by her in the most bizarre way possible:

The book hits U.S. stands on June 18, according to the Amazon listing. A Houghton Mifflin Harcourt spokesperson offered this statement: “While HMH employs professional editors, copyeditors, and proofreaders for each book project, we rely ultimately on authors for the integrity of their research and fact-checking. Despite this unfortunate error we believe the overall thesis of the book Outrages still holds. We are discussing corrections with the author.”

The entire premise of the book is wrong. Now, it remains true that homosexuals have been treated horribly over a span of centuries, including by the medical community and the legal system. But it’s not true that we were until recently executing people for it in the West.

For her part, though, Wolf is handling it with grace:

To her absolute credit, Wolf is taking this on the chin. On Twitter, Wolf and Sweet appear cordial. There’s a tweet from Sweet that indicates Wolf is going to look into her research and make necessary corrections. And a thread in which Wolf thanks Sweet for correcting her and promises to review “all of the sodomy convictions on Twitter in real time so people can see for themselves what the sentences were and what became of each of these people.”

I’m not sure what else she can do at this point. But it’s far better than doubling down on an embarrassing error.


UPDATE (10:12): It gets worse. It turns out that the book derives from her 2015 Oxford doctoral dissertation. So it’s not just Wolf and her HMH editors that have failed here but her Oxford advisors.

 

[Lanny]

And don't forget Virginia Wolf.

Woolf

 

[Lanny]

He started in Mexico. That raspy voice is unforgettable.

I loved the Guess Who and I loved that song.

 

[MARIS61]

Another book of lies exposed and instantly shot down by the Mueller team. It appears the disgraced "author" has committed a felony by forging a fake DOJ document and presenting it in his 2nd libelous smear of the POTUS.

Mueller’s office shoots down key claim in Michael Wolff’s new book 'Siege'

By Brian Flood | Fox News

Controversial author Michael Wolff’s “Siege: Trump Under Fire” is already under fire itself.

Controversial author Michael Wolff’s upcoming book, "Siege: Trump Under Fire," reportedly claims that Robert Mueller drew up an obstruction of justice indictment against President Trump – but a spokesman for Mueller says the claim is wildly inaccurate.

Now "Siege” already has something in common with its predecessor "Fire and Fury,” the 2018 best-selling book about the first year of Trump's presidency, which came under fire both for its sourcing and claims.

MICHAEL WOLFF MAY HAVE FAKED TECH ISSUE TO AVOID QUESTION ABOUT TRUMP AFFAIR RUMOR HE STARTED

Wolff’s follow-up anti-Trump book is scheduled to hit book stores on June 4 but The Guardian obtained an early copy. "Siege” claims that Mueller “drew up a three-count obstruction of justice indictment against Donald Trump before deciding to shelve it,” according to The Guardian’s Edward Helmore.

According to Helmore, Wolff reports that Mueller’s office planned to charge the president with “influencing, obstructing or impeding a pending proceeding,” “tampering with a witness, victim or informant” and “retaliating against a witness, victim or informant” but eventually decided to "shelve" it. While The Guardian reporter says he viewed the document, Mueller’s office denies that it even exists.

“The documents described do not exist."

— Mueller spokesman Peter Carr
“The documents described do not exist," Mueller spokesman Peter Carr told Fox News.

LIBERAL MEDIA FINALLY TURNING ON 'DISGRACEFUL' ANTI-TRUMP AUTHOR MICHAEL WOLFF

Wolff was accused of misrepresenting his levels of access and fabricating events for “Fire and Fury,” and it appears "Siege” will face similar accusations as Mueller’s team claims a key document isn’t authentic.

The Special Counsel’s report did not make a traditional prosecutorial judgment on the obstruction investigation and did not try to determine whether or not the president committed a crime, so documents claiming otherwise are presumably fabrications.

“Questions over the provenance of the documents will only add to controversy and debate around the launch of Wolff’s eagerly awaited new book,” Helmore wrote. “The document is the most significant aspect of Wolff’s new book.”

Wolff's first book ignited a media firestorm as it included negative claims about the president and his family -- namely that some in the administration questioned his mental fitness. At the time, both Trump and White House press secretary Sarah Sanders blasted the book, describing it as a "complete fantasy" and "work of fiction."

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"I never spoke to him for book," Trump tweeted in Jan. 2018. "Full of lies, misrepresentations and sources that don’t exist."

MICHAEL WOLFF WASN’T WITH TRUMP ON ELECTION NIGHT. THOSE WHO WERE PROVE HIS BOOK WRONG

Sanders said during a 2018 press briefing, “The book is mistake after mistake after mistake… I’m not going to waste my time or the country’s time going page by page correcting [the book].”

While promoting the first book on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” Wolff said he was “absolutely sure” that President Trump was currently having an extramarital affair and teased that his book reveals the mistress if you “read between the lines.”

Internet sleuths quickly pointed to then-United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, who was forced to deny the speculation and many media members seemed to turn on the author because of the speculation after initially treating him like an anti-Trump hero. Wolff eventually admitted he didn’t know if Trump was having an affair and once appeared to pretend his audio malfunctioned to avoid the topic during an interview.

It will be interesting to see how seriously the mainstream media takes “Siege” with all the baggage that now surround claims made by Wolff, who was initially the toast of the industry when promoting “Fire and Fury.”