SSHoya
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Post by SSHoya on Nov 16, 2017 20:20:41 GMT -5
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Post by hoyarooter on Nov 16, 2017 20:41:34 GMT -5
Because nepotism is alive and well in the White House?
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Post by hoyarooter on Nov 16, 2017 20:56:02 GMT -5
LMAO. But consider that this came from the Washington Fake News Post. Isn't that the paper's new name? How far the mighty have fallen since the days of Watergate.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2017 13:50:10 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Nov 17, 2017 19:24:17 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Nov 20, 2017 7:24:32 GMT -5
Special counsel Robert Mueller asked the Justice Department within the past month to turn over a wide array of documents as part of its ongoing investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, ABC News reported Sunday. This will be Mueller's first records request to the Justice Department, the very agency that is overseeing the probe. His team is particularly interested in materials that relate to Trump's dismissal of former FBI Director James Comey and Attorney General Jeff Sessions's decision to recuse himself from the Russia probe earlier this year, a source who was told about the request informed ABC News. thehill.com/homenews/administration/361150-mueller-requested-doj-hand-over-documents-amid-russia-probe-reportIs Trump still only a subject or has he become a target of the Mueller investigation given the evidence discovered since June 2017? lawfareblog.com/targets-and-subjects-criminal-investigations
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Post by SSHoya on Nov 20, 2017 15:28:47 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2017 12:29:06 GMT -5
So we have gone from "there were no contacts with the Russians" to 70, and counting....
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2017 17:25:48 GMT -5
OMG... 😯
On the cloudy spring morning of May 10, just an uneasy day after the president’s sudden firing of F.B.I. director James B. Comey, who had been leading the probe into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian operatives, a beaming President Trump huddled in the Oval Office with Sergey Lavrov and Sergey Kislyak.
And, no less improbably, Trump seemed not to notice, or feel restrained by, the unfortunate timing of his conversation with Russian officials who were quite possibly co-conspirators in a plot to undermine the U.S. electoral process. Instead, full of a chummy candor, the president turned to his Russian guests and blithely acknowledged the elephant lurking in the room. “I just fired the head of the F.B.I.,” he said, according to a record of the meeting shared with The New York Times. “He was crazy, a real nut job.” With the sort of gruff pragmatism a Mafia don would use to justify the necessity of a hit, he further explained, “I faced great pressure because of Russia. That’s taken off.” Yet that was only the morning’s perplexing prelude. What had been an unseemly conversation between the president and two high-ranking Russian officials soon turned into something more dangerous.
“I get great intel,” the president suddenly boasted, as prideful as if he were bragging about the amenities at one of his company’s hotels. “I have people brief me on great intel every day.”
He quickly went on to share with representatives of a foreign adversary not only the broad outlines of the plot to turn laptop computers into airborne bombs but also at least one highly classified operational detail—the sort of sensitive, locked-in-the-vault intel that was not shared with even Congress or friendly governments. The president did not name the U.S. partner who had spearheaded the operation. (Journalists, immediately all over the astonishing story, would soon out Israel). But, more problematic, President Trump cavalierly identified the specific city in ISIS-held territory where the threat had been detected.
As for the two Russians, there’s no record of their response. Their silence would be understandable: why interrupt the flow of information? But in their minds, no doubt they were already drafting the cable they’d send to the Kremlin detailing their great espionage coup.
So why? Why did a president who has time after volatile time railed against leakers, who has attacked Hillary Clinton for playing fast and loose with classified information, cozy up to a couple of Russian bigwigs in the Oval Office and breezily offer government secrets?
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Post by SSHoya on Nov 24, 2017 5:27:36 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2017 14:06:09 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Nov 29, 2017 6:21:44 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2017 18:33:41 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2017 10:19:46 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2017 10:36:59 GMT -5
1/24: Flynn lies to FBI about interactions w/Russian govt 1/26: Yates warns WH Flynn compromised 1/27: Trump asks Comey for loyalty 1/30: Trump fires Yates 2/13: Flynn resigns after WashPost reports Yates warned of blackmail risk 2/14: Trump asks Comey to drop Flynn probe
Based on his level of exposure he must be giving Mueller something really nice to only have to plea to that one charge
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Post by SSHoya on Dec 1, 2017 10:59:42 GMT -5
This can't be true! Trump was only going to hire only the best people!! Lock him up! Lock him up!! (Flynn is not only a dishonest he is stupid -- as a former head of DIA he didn't think that Kisylak's telephone lines may have been subject to electronic surveillance? Makes you wonder what else FISA ELSUR has picked up on Trump Jr., Kushner, et al?)
Imagine if Obama's National Security Adviser had lasted 3 weeks in office before resigning and ended up pleading guilty. The hypocritical Republicans would have been drafting articles of impeachment.
This accounts for Trump becoming unhinged on Twitter this past week.
Next up, Trump, Jr., Kushner? For those who are old enough to remember Watergate, this investigation is moving at warp speed by comparison.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2017 11:15:48 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Dec 1, 2017 11:26:24 GMT -5
To paraphrase Senator Howard Baker during Watergate: "What did the candidate know and when did he know it?" My fear now is that Trump will resort to a "wag the dog" moment with respect to North Korea in order to distract and attempt to garner some support (through exacerbating a national security crisis) from the two thirds of America who recognize what a disaster Trump is as President. Trump is truly dangerous and can only hope that Mattis/McMaster rein him in.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2017 11:58:23 GMT -5
Trump was at Mar a Lago on Dec 29.
On top of the Trump news that he directed Mike Flynn to make contact with the Russians., "Senior Trump transition team" would likely include the Vice President who led the transition team.
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Post by blueeagle on Dec 1, 2017 12:08:48 GMT -5
Lock him up?
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