President Trump Is Housecleaning at DHS, It Is Also Time to Clean the Democrat House of Corruption

IT'S SPRING CLEANING TIME AT DHS, BUT WHEN WILL HILLARY & CO CRIMES BE SPRING CLEANED? Since Congress is offering no help, President Trump is beefing up his Department of Homeland Security to deal with the southern border invasion -- it's his obligation as Commander-in-Chief. • • • KIRSTJEN NEILSEN OUT AT DHS AND KEVIN McALEENAN IS IN. The Daily Caller reported : "President Donald Trump announced Sunday that Kirstjen Nielsen is resigning as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, bringing an end to an at-times rocky relationship between the two. Trump said on Twitter that Kevin McAleenan, the current commissioner of US Customs and Border Protection, will take over as acting homeland security secretary. The announcement came shortly after Nielsen met with Trump privately at the White House to discuss her future. Trump and Nielsen have battled behind the scenes over the administration’s immigration policy and efforts to build a wall on the southern border. That tension reached its breaking point in the days after Trump abruptly pulled the nomination of Ronald Vitiello to head US Immigration and Customs Enforcement." • Nielsen has been in the administration since Trump’s inauguration, first serving as chief of staff to John Kelly, the first homeland security secretary. Nielsen served as Kelly’s deputy when he joined the White House as chief of staff. She was confirmed as DHS secretary on Dec. 6, 2017. • The Daily Caller says : "Commissioner Kevin McAleenan is a veteran border official, according to the Associated Press." Fox News reported : "Administration officials told Fox News on Sunday that Nielsen’s background in cybersecurity made her a poor fit to handle border issues, while McAleenan best fits Trump’s requirement of being the 'toughest cop' on the frontier. Sources told Fox News that Nielsen had been viewed as resistant to some of the immigration measures pushed by the President and his aides, specifically related to protected status for some refugees and policies at the border. A senior administration official told Fox News that National Security Advisor John Bolton long felt that Nielsen was not the right person for the job....On Friday, Trump confirmed he had withdrawn the nomination of acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Ron Vitiello to become the permanent head of the agency, telling reporters that 'Ron’s a good man, but we’re going in a tougher direction, we want to go in a tougher direction.' Administration sources tell Fox News that the withdrawal of Vitiello's nomination was the first step in Trump's plan to control the border crisis. The second step was asking for Nielsen's resignation." • The Washington Examiner had this to say about Kevin McAleenan on Monday : "Homeland Security Department officials who served during the Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations say President Trump’s pick to temporarily oversee the agency, Kevin McAleenan, is the best possible fit for the job. Citing McAleenan's unique background as a career law enforcement official and lawyer who is not prone to make rash decisions, five DHS officials who served in top positions from the early 2000s to 2017 described his demeanor as a good counter to that of Trump....David Lapan, DHS press secretary at the start of the Trump administration, described McAleenan as a “consummate professional” who is 'even-keeled,' 'measured,' and 'smart.' 'His demeanor is much more indicative of his background as a lawyer,' Lapan told the Washington Examiner....McAleenan earned a juris doctor degree from the University of Chicago Law School and practiced in California until 2001. He applied to join the FBI after the September 11 terrorist attacks but was recruited as director of a new office, US Customs and Border Protection’s Office of Antiterrorism. He worked his way up through CBP during the Obama administration, spent two years in the private sector, and returned to government shortly before being nominated to his post atop CBP in 2017. Thomas Winkowski, a former acting CBP commissioner and acting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement director who served in the George W. Bush and Obama years, said that McAleenan has strong credibility with Congress because he has already been confirmed and has a sound reputation. 'I think he’s very capable from the standpoint of maneuvering through difficult problems and difficult issues,' Winkowski said. 'There’s no doubt in my mind that the issues that face the new acting secretary are daunting, but I think he certainly is the right choice to begin the process to bring some fresh eyes to the department and looking at these problems.' David Danelo served as executive director of policy and planning for CBP during President Barack Obama’s tenure and worked alongside McAleenan. Danelo described McAleenan as the 'most practical security professional that has ever led DHS in terms of his level of experience' in law, trade, and security operations. Danelo said the incoming DHS leader has the knowledge to focus on counterterrorism issues 'more effectively' than any previous secretary. Danelo said McAleenan also understands DHS does not create immigration laws, it carries them out." Former acting ICE Director Tom Homan worked directly with McAleenan during the 2014 unaccompanied minor surge at the southern border. He said McAleenan has a “great” relationship with Mexico and believes he might be able to get Mexico to do more to help Central American migrants trying to pass through the country for the US. • David Lapan, according to the Examiner, warned that "one area of concern is McAleenan being only well versed in customs and border operations, while a DHS secretary must oversee cybersecurity, disaster response, federal protection, citizenship and visa applications, the Secret Service, and Coast Guard. However, he said being that Trump’s focus is border security, promoting a border expert to the top of the department makes sense." • The number of employees who report to McAleenan as acting secretary would essentially quadruple from 60,000 to 240,000. Given that employee load, and the sprawling list of radically different areas that have been fed into DHS, perhaps it is time to seriously reconsider what the DHS mission really is and outsource to other executive departments the areas that don't fit that mission. For example, why not send the secret Service back to the Treasury Department? The Secret Service has been limping along in DHS. Now would be a good time to put it back where it belongs. • • • THE HEAD OF SECRET SERVICE ASKED TO STEP DOWN. As part of his Spring Cleaning at DHS, President Trmup has asked US Secret Service Director Randolph Alles to step down. Fox News reported on Monday that : "Randolph Alles was reportedly told to have an exit plan in place as part of a leadership transition at the Department of Homeland Security....Sources told Fox News on Monday that Alles was notified 10 days ago to 'prepare an exit plan,' in a signal that a transition in leadership at the Department of Homeland Security was imminent. Alles was told that he should be prepared to leave his post as head of the Secret Service as part of that transition. 'United States Secret Service director Randolph 'Tex' Alles has done a great job at the agency over the last two years, and the President is thankful for his over 40 years of service to the country,' White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said in a brief statement Monday....A law enforcement official told Fox News that, inside the agency, the news of Alles' departure came as a surprise. Alles’ departure comes on the heels of Nielsen’s resignation and, according to a source, has nothing to do with the recent Mar-a-Lago incident, in which a woman was arrested at the President’s Florida property after allegedly carrying two Chinese passports and malware." • Newsmax wrote on Monday that President Trump, seeking re-election in 2020, "has taken a hard line toward immigration since becoming president in January 2017, and the issue may be a central theme in next year's election." • • • THE PRESIDENT'S GUTSY CALL ON VITIELLO. The Washington Times reported on Monday : "President Trump’s move to dump his pick to lead ICE surprised lawmakers on Capitol Hill and some officials at the Department of Homeland Security, but it’s drawing glowing praise from a key group of employees who say the President’s decision showed courage. The National ICE Council, the labor union that represents 6,000 Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportation officers, had tried to sink Ronald D. Vitiello’s nomination to be the agency’s director. It appeared Mr. Vitiello was going to see Senate action, until Mr. Trump stepped in late last week and pulled the nomination, saying he wanted to go in a tougher direction. The decision caught many in Homeland Security by surprise -- including, reportedly, Mr. Vitiello himself. But the ICE Council said the President made the right call and 'demonstrated integrity and a personal commitment to fixing problems within our failing federal agencies rarely if ever seen in the D.C. swamp. When Ronald Vitiello clearly demonstrated an inability to effectively lead the agency, President Trump stepped in and made a change. That’s how it’s supposed to work. That’s leadership. That’s how Americans want their government to work,' the ICE Council said Monday." • • • ANOTHER GUTSY CALL -- BY DEVIN NUNES -- AS THE CLEAN-UP OF THE ANTI-TRUMP ILLEGAL CABAL STARTS IN EARNEST. Liberty Headlines wrote on Monday : "Representative Devin Nunes, R-Calif., the ranking minority member of the House Intelligence Committee, said he has prepared eight criminal referrals for Attorney General William Barr. Nunes didn’t specify whom he had named, but he did note that five of the referrals were for direct attempts to mislead or lie to Congress. The other three were more complicated, he said, referring to them as 'conspiracy' crimes -- like lying to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court, leaking classified information and manipulating intelligence. 'We think they’re pretty clear, but as of right now this is, this may not be all of them, but this cleans up quite a bit,' he said. It’s likely these referrals are for individuals involved in the Russian collusion hoax debunked by the recent Mueller Report. As chairman of the Intelligence Committee under the previous, Republican-led Congress, Nunes headed the investigation into corruption at the Justice Department, FBI and other intelligence agencies. Last year, under threat of subpoena, he referred more than 40 people for public testimony -- including Fusion GPS founders Glenn Simpson and Thomas Catan, and former FBI agent Daniel Jones. Many of those on the list were tied directly to a Clinton smear campaign via the infamous Steele Dossier -- a collection of 17 memos full of unverified claims about President Donald Trump’s ties to Russia. • Why did Nunes wait to make the referrals? He said former Attorney General Jeff Sessions‘s recusal in the investigation hindered the ability to advance the cases : “ 'We couldn’t really send these criminal referrals over without an attorney general in place,” he told Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures. 'So we are prepared this week to notify the attorney general [Barr] that we are prepared to send those referrals over and brief him if he wishes to be briefed.' " • Liberty Headlines says : "Originally commissioned as opposition research by Hillary Clinton’s law firm, the Steele Dossier’s salacious allegations found their way through back-channel communications to the upper echelons of the FBI, which used them to justify investigating and eavesdropping on Trump campaign staffers. Left-leaning outlets such as the New York Times, CNN and BuzzFeed also were tipped off to the classified investigation and reported on it in January 2017. Former FBI Director James Comey later acknowledged leaking information to the media in the hopes of triggering the special-counsel investigation. Obama-era CIA Director John Brennan and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper also have fallen under recent scrutiny over possible media leaks." • Western Journal Conservative Tribune focused on Comey, Rosenstein, Yates, and McCabe : "Ever since the release of Attorney General William Barr’s synopsis of the Mueller report, Representative Devin Nunes -- the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee -- has been talking about criminal referrals for acts committed during the 2016 presidential campaign and its aftermath. Now, the California congressman is making it clear just how many people he’s going after -- and former FBI Director James Comey is just one of those who has a reason to sweat. In an appearance on Fox News on Sunday, Nunes said he’d sent eight criminal referrals to Barr, the latest sign that high-level Republicans were going on the offensive in the wake of the Mueller report. Nunes told Fox News he’d been working on the referrals for over two years : "“There are three (referrals) that I think are more complicated....So, on the first one, is FISA abuse and other matters. We believe there was a conspiracy to lie to the FISA court, mislead the FISA court by numerous individuals that all need to be investigated and looked at that, and we believe the (relevant) statute is the conspiracy statute.” Conservative Tribune says : "That likely referred to the use of the 'Trump Dossier' -- assembled as opposition research funded by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee -- to obtain a warrant in a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court against a Trump campaign official. Nunes later said that “we’ve had a lot of concerns with the way intelligence was used” in the probe into the Trump campaign and possible collusion with the Russians. • Nunes then explained to Fox News : "The second conspiracy one is involving manipulation of intelligence that also could ensnarl many Americans. The third is what I would call a global leak referral. So, there are about a dozen highly sensitive classified information leaks that were given to only a few reporters over the last two-and-a-half-plus years. So, you know, we don’t know if there’s actually been any leak investigations that have been opened, but we do believe that we’ve got pretty good information and a pretty good idea of who could be behind these leaks.” Conservative Tribune stated : "The 'horrific' leaks Nunes referred to involved Trump’s conversations with major world leaders as well as the transcripts of former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn’s phone calls. 'I think it’s impossible to ignore,' Nunes said. 'If the Mueller team was busting people for lying to the FBI -- there are some pretty simple times when people lied to Congress for the sole purpose of obstructing our investigation.' The criminal referrals also might involve more than one person. In fact, Nunes said that a conspiracy referral could ensnare 'a dozen, two dozen people.' ” • According to Conservative Tribune : "There are a few individuals we can possibly guess will be among those referred. Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen is being investigated for lying to Congress....House Intelligence Committee Chairman Representative Adam Schiff, a California Democrat, who was suspected by Donald Trump Jr. when it came to leaking his closed-door testimony before the committee. Fox News reported that in January, Trump Jr. said 'there’s a 99.9 percent chance (House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff is) the guy' who leaked the 2017 testimony, adding that he 'came out of testimony 8 at night and CNN is running quotes from noon on about my testimony, you know, in the House Intelligence Committee. I mean, that has to say something about what is going on and who they are. Since (Schiff has) never met a camera he didn’t love, I would bet a lot of money that it was him.' ” BUT, Conservative Tribune says : "The FISA warrant, however, might be of more concern to Democrats, particularly when it comes to Comey....Others who have reason to sweat? Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. They all signed FISA warrant applications." • • • OBAMA-ERA CORRUPTION HANGS OVER THE SWAMP LIKE A FOG. On Tuesday, WND reported that Judicial Watch "has released 422 pages of FBI documents showing evidence of 'cover-up' discussions related to Hillary Clinton’s unauthorized email system within the company that managed it : "A Platte River Networks email sent in December 2014 says : 'Its [sic] all part of the Hillary coverup operation I’ll have to tell you about it at the party.' The documents obtained by Judicial Watch also show Intelligence Community Inspector General Charles McCullough forwarding 'concerns' about classified information contained in the Clinton emails. Judicial Watch also obtained Clinton’s 2009 classified information Non-Disclosure Agreement bearing her signature. And documents show Platte River Networks’ use of BleachBit on the Clinton server to delete files. The program was downloaded on March 31, 2015, according to a computer event log. Over the next half hour it was used to delete the files on the server at a time when they were under subpoena." • WND quotes emails and handwritten notes written in June and July 2015 from the Office of the Intelligence Community Inspector General discuss 'concerns' over classified information on the server : "A redacted sender writes to State Department Official Margaret 'Peggy' Grafeld that “inadvertent release of State Department’s equities when this collection is released in its entirety -- the potential damage to the foreign relations of the United States could be significant. ICIG McCullough forwards the concern, saying: ‘Need you plugged in on this.' The sender writes : 'While working with this inspector, I have personally reviewed hundreds of documents in the HRC collection. I can now say, without reservation, that there are literally hundreds of classified emails in this collection; maybe more.' ” • The Gateway Pundit reported on March 28 about findings in a transcript of Nellie Ohr's testimony that was released by Representative Doug Collins : "In December 2017 the head of opposition research firm Fusion GPS admitted in a court filing that his firm paid Nellie Ohr, the wife of senior Justice Department official Bruce Ohr, to help dig up damaging information on then-candidate Donald Trump. The connections between Nellie Ohr and the ‘Spygate’ scandal were hidden at a distance for months. As noted previously at TGP, Nellie Ohr is a Communist sympathizer connected to Russia as well as a corrupt Never-Trumper. Author Diana West at the American Spectator posted an article on Nellie Ohr last year. Nellie Ohr is 'the 'Dossier' spying scandal’s woman in the middle.' : 'To one side of Ohr, there is the Fusion GPS team, including fellow contractor Christopher Steele. To the other, there is husband Bruce Ohr, who, until his 'Dossier'-related demotion, was No. 4 man at the Department of Justice, and a key contact there for Steele.' What’s more revealing about Nellie Ohr is the men in her life are protecting her involvement in the Russia scandal : 'Notably, the 'Dossier' men in her life have tried to shield Ohr from public scrutiny, even at professional risk. Her husband, as the Daily Caller News Foundation reports, failed to disclose his wife’s employment with Fusion GPS and seek the appropriate conflict-of-interest waiver, which may have been an important factor in his demotion from associate deputy attorney general late last year. Under Senate and House questioning, Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson consistently failed to disclose Nellie Ohr’s existence as one of his firm’s paid Russian experts, let alone that he hired her for the red-hot DNC/Clinton campaign Trump-Russia project. Even Christopher Steele may have tried to keep Nellie Ohr 'under cover.' Steele, put forth as the 'Dossier' author ever since its January 2017 publication in BuzzFeed, does not appear to have let on to his many media and political contacts that he had 'Dossier'-assistance from at least two fellow Fusion GPS Russian experts, Nellie Ohr and Edward Baumgartner. Baumgartner, interestingly, was a Russian history major at Vassar in the 1990s when Nellie Ohr taught Russian history there.' It appears that the men in Nellie’s life did all they could to prevent Nellie Ohr from being outed for being involved in the Dossier because she also has links to the CIA and therefore to John Brennan." • Fox News also covered the revelations in the Collins-released Nellie Ohr testimony transcript : "March 28. Nellie Ohr, the wife of Justice Department official Bruce Ohr, did extensive opposition research on Trump family members and campaign aides while working for the firm behind the salacious anti-Trump Dossier in 2016, according to a newly released transcript of her closed-door interview with Congress....While she largely did not work on the Dossier itself, her research included looking into alleged relationships between then-candidate Donald Trump and Russian organized crime, the interview shows. She revealed that she was also instructed to conduct research on members of the Trump family, as well as individuals associated with the Trump campaign : 'I was asked to research Trump’s family broadly in connection with any -- any Russian connections,' Ohr stated, adding that she 'did some research on all of them, but not in much depth.' Ohr explained that she researched Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump, specifically their 'travels.' She added that she was looking 'to see whether they were involved in dealings and transactions with people who had suspicious pasts, or suspicious types of dealings.' Ohr also testified that she was asked to research members of the campaign including former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, former campaign aide Carter Page and former national security advisor Michael Flynn. Ohr noted that, in her research, she found that Page traveled to Moscow to speak at a university about 'better relations' between Russia and the US. With regard to the research on Flynn, Ohr said she was asked to look into 'any relationships he might have with Russia.' Ohr said that through her research, it 'became evident that he had a relationship with Turkey as well.'....Ohr also testified that when she was hired by the firm’s co-founder Glenn Simpson, he was aware that her husband was a high-level Justice Department official. Bruce Ohr was a key contact inside the Justice Department for ex-British spy Christopher Steele, who authored the anti-Trump Dossier, which was commissioned by Fusion GPS and funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee through law firm Perkins Coie....Meanwhile, the transcript also confirmed details Fox News reported earlier this year -- that Ohr, her husband, and Steele met at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC, the day before the FBI launched its counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign." • The President in late March vowed to release the full and unredacted FISA warrants and related documents used by the FBI to probe his campaign and Page : “I have plans to declassify and release. I have plans to absolutely release," Trump said during an exclusive interview on 'Hannity'..."I have some very talented people working for me, lawyers, and they really didn't want me to do it early on....A lot of people wanted me to do it a long time ago. I'm glad I didn't do it. We got a great result without having to do it, but we will. One of the reasons that my lawyers didn't want me to do it, is they said, if I do it, they'll call it a form of obstruction." Trump added : "At the right time, we will be absolutely releasing." • DC Whispers reported on April ' that : "OBAMA Kept The Scheme Going overseas. House lawmakers are zeroing in on a meeting that German chancellor Angela Merkel held with President Obama at a key moment as one of the FISA warrants against Trump was set to expire. Lawmakers are aware of the role of foreign governments in collaborating with US intelligence agencies in the Trump investigation as recently as 2017 -- see above. Germany provided information beginning in 2015 to aide British spies and the Obama administration in compiling the Christopher Steele 'Dossier.' Obama had been called out by the Drudge Report for visiting foreign leaders in Europe in the spring of 2017 right before President Trump visited those leaders in Europe. It turns out that one of those Obama meetings is now under scrutiny on Capitol Hill. Deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein gave a redacted document to Representative Devin Nunes, showing two major redactions about the creation of the Trump 'Dossier' and the launch of FISA warrants and Robert Mueller’s investigation during the 2016 campaign. The redactions were : 'the name of a country and the name of a foreign agent who supplied information.' Now we know: the country is Germany and the foreign agent was either Angela Merkel or someone who worked for Angela Merkel in foreign intelligence. 'The redacted sections will be referencing one of the European countries and agents that share SIGINT (signal intelligence) to US Intelligence,' says Chuck Marler, a longtime agent of the FBI Special Surveillance Group under Robert Mueller, who is an official whistleblower in this case. SIGINT countries were involved in sharing information that helped the Christopher Steele Dossier to come together. The Guardian reported in an amazingly under-covered article: “Over the next six months, until summer 2016, a number of western agencies shared further information on contacts between Trump’s inner circle and Russians, sources said. The European countries that passed on electronic intelligence -- known as sigint -- included Germany, Estonia and Poland. Australia, a member of the 'Five Eyes' spying alliance that also includes the US, UK, Canada and New Zealand, also relayed material, one source said.” • • • DEAR READERS, we are also getting the first revelations from topnotch investigative reporter John Solomon about how Vice President Joe Biden's son was active in Ukraine and the Vice President shut down Ukriane investigations relating to his son's business ventures there. NOW, we find out from Western Journal Conservative Tribune on Monday that John Solomon has new Ukraine information : "Kostiantyn Kulyk is a Ukrainian prosecutor. He says that money was illegally spent by a former Ukrainian president on donations to Democrats. He’d like to present his evidence in the United States. The problem, according to Kulyk, is that the United States won’t let him in. In a commentary piece published Monday by TheHill, investigative journalist John Solomon reports that Kulyk told him about 'evidence of wrongdoing by American Democrats and their allies in Kiev, ranging from 2016 election interference to obstructing criminal probes. But, they say, they’ve been thwarted in trying to get the Trump Justice Department to act,' Solomon wrote. 'We were supposed to share this information during a working trip to the United States,' Kulyk said in an interview. 'However, the (US) ambassador blocked us from obtaining a visa. She didn’t explicitly deny our visa, but also didn’t give it to us.' The State Department apparently isn’t terribly interested in hearing Kulyk’s evidence, which Solomon wrote implicates businessmen in the orbit of former pro-Russian Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych in illegal spending on American elections with 'money spirited unlawfully out of Ukraine and moved to the United States.' The businessmen, according to Kulyk, 'authorized payments for lobbying efforts directed at the US government,' Solomon wrote. 'In addition, these payments were made from funds that were acquired during the money-laundering operation,' Kulyk told Solomon. 'We have information that a US company was involved in these payments.' Solomon wrote that Ukrainian officials believe that company is linked to 'one or more prominent Democrats.' Kulyk also said that the country’s anti-corruption authority covered up payments made to a Democrat, according to Solomon. 'In the course of this investigation, we found that there was a situation during which influence was exerted on the (anti-corruption authority), so that the name of (the American) would not be mentioned,' Kulyk said, according to Solomon. Accepting money from a foreign power, of course, is illegal for American politicians. The report by Solomon comes after a report last week in which Solomon detailed the fact in 2015 and 2016, then-Vice President Joe Biden put pressure on Ukrainian officials to fire a prosecutor who was investigating a natural gas company that had Biden’s son, Hunter, serving on its board. 'Ukraine is infamous for corruption and disinformation operations; its police agencies fight over what is considered evidence of wrongdoing. Kulyk and his bosses even have political fights over who should and shouldn’t be prosecuted. Consequently, allegations emanating from Kiev usually are taken with a grain a salt,' Solomon wrote in that report. As if to prove the point, Kulyk himself has come under investigation for allegedly enriching himself illicitly while in office, according to a report by the London Post, a 5-year-old UK news outlet that, judging by its headlines and news slant, has a decidedly leftish take." BUT, according to the Conservative Tribune : "That the investigation didn’t prevent Kulyk from being promoted might say a lot about how serious the grounds for it are -- or how serious Ukraine’s corruption problem really is, it’s tough to tell. However, judging by Solomon’s reports, the evidence in the case of the 2016 election seems to be much stronger than Ukraine internal politics, or inter-office backstabbing. '(M)any of the allegations shared with me by more than a half-dozen senior Ukrainian officials are supported by evidence that emerged in recent US court filings and intelligence reports,” Solomon wrote last week. That evidence includes '(s)worn statements from two Ukrainian officials admitting that their agency tried to influence the 2016 US presidential election in favor of Hillary Clinton,' including 'leaking an alleged ledger showing payments to then-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.' There was also evidence that Ukrainian contacts had passed dirt on Donald Trump to Democrats in Washington during the 2016 campaign, Solomon wrote. This isn’t surprising, either, inasmuch as a portion of the 'Trump Dossier' assembled by the political research firm Fusion GPS and paid for by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee came from a member of Ukraine’s parliament, according to a Daily Caller report in February. Ukraine prosecutors say that they would prefer to come to the United States to present the evidence of the allegations than to hand them over to the FBI, in part because it’s believed the FBI is in league with anti-corruption officials in Ukraine, Solomon wrote in Monday’s piece. 'It is no secret in Ukrainian political circles that the NABU (the Ukraine anti-corruption agency) was created with American help and tried to exert influence during the US presidential election,' Kulyk told him. Apparently, though, no one at the Departments of State and Justice is interested. 'It’s like no one at DOJ is listening. There is some compelling evidence that should at least be looked at, evaluated, but the door seems shut at both State and Justice,' one American lawyer familiar with the case told Solomon. As for the State Department, it told Solomon it couldn’t comment on whether the visas had been held up. 'Visa records are confidential under US law; therefore, we cannot discuss the details of individual visa cases,' a State Department spokesperson said. Solomon’s article is a compelling read, and it’s the second piece in as many weeks to indicate troubling ties between Ukraine and American politicians, particularly on the left side of the aisle." • It is past time to investigate all the tentacles of the Obama administration's and Hillary Clinton's anti-Trump criminal cabal. Whatever Paul Manafort did in Ukraine, it is now strongly suggested that the Obama administration did much worse things. Investigations by career bureaucrats, some of whom are suspects in the cabal, cannot get to the bottom of the corruption by Democrat politicians during the Obama era. Devin Nunes is doing hugely important work and being inordinately courageous in calling out these criminal acts. He deserves our full support.