May 14, 2019

State Department: US trying to remove protesters from Venezuelan Embassy in DC

Source: CNN

US law enforcement on Monday started the process of trying to remove protesters from the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, a State Department official said.

The move to evict the protesters from the embassy came after a group of US anti-war activists began moving into the embassy last month.
Medea Benjamin, one of the founders of the anti-war group Code Pink, previously told CNN that diplomats from the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro had given them access to the embassy before the diplomats left as the standoff unfolded between Maduro and Venezuelan opposition leader and self-proclaimed interim President Juan Guaido.

Venezuela's Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs for North America Carlos Ron denounced the removal of protestors on Monday. "The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has not authorized the entry of police officers into the former Embassy building in Washington, DC. This intrusion is yet another violation of international law by US authorities and an aggression against Venezuela," Ron, a Maduro official, said on Twitter.
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The State Department said in response to the embassy protests that it was the US position that Guaido's government had legal authority over the embassy, not Maduro's sitting government in Venezuela. The department on Monday encouraged "the remaining unauthorized individuals to vacate the building and to conduct any future protest peacefully and through legal means."

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/13/politics/venezuelan-embassy-washington-dc/index.html

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CodePink or CodePutin? All the stuff going on in the world and they make their stand for Maduro? Idiots.

May 3, 2019

Martha Stewart went to prison for obstruction without an underlying crime.

nuff sed.
Or read more:
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2019/mar/25/martha-stewart-donald-trump-can-there-be-obstructi/

May 2, 2019

Spot the Tell: The exact moment Barr lied to Congress. Criminal perjury. (Timestamped)

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IF THE TIMESTAMP DOESN'T WORK, GO TO 1:07:20
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Pelosi: Barr committed a crime by lying to Congress

During a closed-door meeting on Thursday, Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused Attorney General William Barr of committing a crime by lying to Congess.

“We saw [Barr] commit a crime when he answered your question,” Pelosi told Rep. Charlie Crist (D-Fla.) during a private meeting Thursday morning, according to two sources present for the gathering.

Pelosi’s comment was an apparent reference to Barr’s response to Crist last month during an appropriations hearing, in which the attorney general said he was not aware of any concerns that special counsel Robert Mueller’s team might have expressed about his four-page summary of Mueller’s findings.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/02/nancy-pelosi-william-barr-lied-to-congress-1298314