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Post by SSHoya on Mar 28, 2017 6:31:32 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2017 10:01:31 GMT -5
From the article linked above:
Yates and another witness at the planned hearing, former CIA director John Brennan, had made clear to government officials by Thursday that their testimony to the committee probably would contradict some statements that White House officials had made, according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The following day, when Yates’s lawyer sent a letter to the White House indicating that she still wanted to testify, the hearing was canceled.
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Key point: Source says Yates & Brennan made clear they'd contradict some WH statements. Next day, hearing canceled
Looks like the WH couldn't put the kibosh on Yates, didn't want to claim executive privilege, so Nunes decided to do it for them....
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Post by SSHoya on Mar 28, 2017 10:40:47 GMT -5
From the article linked above: Yates and another witness at the planned hearing, former CIA director John Brennan, had made clear to government officials by Thursday that their testimony to the committee probably would contradict some statements that White House officials had made, according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The following day, when Yates’s lawyer sent a letter to the White House indicating that she still wanted to testify, the hearing was canceled. _________ Key point: Source says Yates & Brennan made clear they'd contradict some WH statements. Next day, hearing canceled Looks like the WH couldn't put the kibosh on Yates, didn't want to claim executive privilege, so Nunes decided to do it for them.... Can't tell whether WH Counsel McGahn ever responded to the letter and agreed with the waiver argument. But as you note, Nunes simply cancelled the hearing so it doesn't matter at this point. Spicer at press conference just stated that WH Counsel never responded to Yates's letter thus really can't say that WH squashed it or whether the WH had any real executive privilege claims it could have asserted.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2017 12:51:46 GMT -5
Since the White House/Spicer says it hopes Yates testifies, next question is for Nunes — when is the new date for Sally Yates to testify publicly?
On the Senate side...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2017 13:02:51 GMT -5
Times: When Donald Trump met Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany earlier this month, he put on one of his most truculent and ignorant performances. He wanted money — piles of it — for Germany’s defense, raged about the financial killing China was making from last year’s Paris climate accord and kept “frequently and brutally changing the subject when not interested, which was the case with the European Union.” This was the summation provided to me by a senior European diplomat briefed on the meeting. Trump’s preparedness was roughly that of a fourth grader. He began the conversation by telling Merkel that Germany owes the United States hundreds of billions of dollars for defending it through NATO, and concluded by saying, “You are terrific” but still owe all that dough. Little else concerned him. Trump knew nothing of the proposed European-American deal known as the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, little about Russian aggression in Ukraine or the Minsk agreements, and was so scatterbrained that German officials concluded that the president’s daughter Ivanka, who had no formal reason to be there, was the more prepared and helpful. (Invited by Merkel, Ivanka will attend a summit on women’s empowerment in Berlin next month.) Merkel is not one to fuss. But Trump’s behavior appalled her entourage and reinforced a conclusion already reached about this presidency in several European capitals: It is possible to do business with Trump’s national security adviser, Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, with Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, and with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, but these officials are flying blind because above them at the White House rages a whirlwind of incompetence and ignorance. Trump’s United States of America has become an unserious country, the offender of the free world. mobile.nytimes.com/2017/03/28/opinion/the-offender-of-the-free-world.html?_r=3&mtrref=undefined&assetType=opinion&referer=Sounds safe
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2017 18:12:34 GMT -5
At least 15 Manafort-linked bank accounts in Cyprus investigated for possible money laundering. www.nbcnews.com/news/world/manafort-linked-accounts-cyprus-raised-red-flag-n739156Manafort — whose ties to a Russian oligarch close to President Vladimir Putin are under scrutiny — was associated with at least 15 bank accounts and 10 companies on Cyprus, dating back to 2007, the sources said. At least one of those companies was used to receive millions of dollars from a billionaire Putin ally, according to court documents. Banking sources said some transactions on Manafort-associated accounts raised sufficient concern to trigger an internal investigation at a Cypriot bank into potential money laundering activities. After questions were raised, Manafort closed the accounts, the banking sources said. _________ And.... Trump could really clear up a lot of this and prove it's all "fake news" by releasing his tax returns...
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Post by SSHoya on Mar 29, 2017 6:50:50 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2017 12:23:21 GMT -5
Makes Sense Potus would talk tough to our Nato allies at every opportunity while never saying a bad thing about Putin/Russia that's helping arm the Taliban. Especially considering how he's right about the fact they (Putin) are fighting terrorism..
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Post by SSHoya on Mar 29, 2017 14:11:26 GMT -5
Just watched the SSCI press conference with Sens. Warner and Burr. Sounded serious and bipartisan. Just shutdown HPSCI as it is useless with Nunes as chair. Let SSCI do the job.
And isn't it a Editeding joke that the WH can't (or won't) find out who signed Nunes into the WH?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2017 10:44:27 GMT -5
Expert at Senate intelligence hearing tells Senator Rubio that his 2016 presidential campaign suffered from Russian media manipulation.
Intel chairman says Russia hired more than 1000 hackers to create fake, anti-Clinton news in key states, won by Trump.
Sen. Rubio suggests that Russia is using a "blitzkrieg of information warfare… to pit Americans against one another."
Stunning exchange at Senate Intel:
Q: GOP Sen - ‘Why do Russia active measures work?
A Intelligence expert Clinton Watts:- “Because Trump embraces them."
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Post by hoyainspirit on Mar 30, 2017 10:50:56 GMT -5
Expert at Senate intelligence hearing tells Senator Rubio that his 2016 presidential campaign suffered from Russian media manipulation. Intel chairman says Russia hired more than 1000 hackers to create fake, anti-Clinton news in key states, won by Trump. Sen. Rubio suggests that Russia is using a "blitzkrieg of information warfare… to pit Americans against one another." Wow!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2017 12:28:36 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2017/03/30/us/politics/devin-nunes-intelligence-reports.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share&_r=02 White House Officials Helped Give Nunes Intelligence Reports A pair of White House officials played a role in providing Representative Devin Nunes of California, the Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, with the intelligence reports that showed President Trump and his associates were incidentally swept up in foreign surveillance by American spy agencies. The revelation that White House officials assisted in the disclosure of the intelligence reports — which Mr. Nunes then discussed with President Trump — is likely to fuel criticism that the intelligence chairman has been too eager to do the bidding of the Trump administration while his committee is supposed to be conducting an independent investigation of Russia’s meddling in the last presidential election. ____________________ One of them used to work for Nunes, the other for Flynn and Trump team wasn't monitored, it was foreigners talking about them... So Nunes put on this big show to brief the White House on information he received from the White House..
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Post by SSHoya on Mar 30, 2017 14:00:19 GMT -5
30-year old snot-nosed kid is a "Senior Director of Intelligence". The Trump WH is a joke. Kid has a B.A. from Penn in 2008 and other than that, I can't find anything that indicates why he has his position (he is a friend of Kushner) and is not McMaster's choice. McMaster tried to fire him. McMaster as an Army General should NOW insist this guy be fired. If he doesn't it means Trump has McMaster's balls in jar in the Oval Office. www.politico.com/story/2017/03/trump-national-security-mcmaster-overrule-236065WSJ also reporting thst Flynn is seeking immunity in exchange for testimony. Drip . . . drip . . drip. . .Potential violation of FARA for not registering as a foreign agent ex post facto? 18 USC 1001 false statement on SF-86 or statement to FBI for obstruction charge? thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/326639-flynn-offers-to-testify-on-russia-ties-in-exchange-for-immunityFlynn, the same guy who said re: HRC's email investigation when Clinton staffers asked for immunity that you don't ask for immunity unless you committed a crime.
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Post by SSHoya on Mar 31, 2017 7:58:26 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2017 9:59:18 GMT -5
Friendly reminder this all started because of a tweet and has snowballed because the President is incapable of admitting a lie/mistake. Many people theorized about this scenario so this should surprise no one. People are who they are. Trump has never been an ethical/moralistic person.
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Post by TC on Mar 31, 2017 12:00:39 GMT -5
I feel like Mike Pence is getting a bad rap with this won't-be-in-the-same-room-with-a-woman-not-his wife thing. If I was serving a President being blackmailed with Russian Kompromat (which is usually pictures of not-your-wife) and I was next in line, I'd be super paranoid too.
I'm not even being sarcastic. I think that honeypots are something he should be legit worried about at this point.
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