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Trump: I'm Ordering the DOJ to Investigate Whether Obama Ordered Spying for Political Purposes






Greenwald notes, as many others have, that the DOJ is simultaneously leaking all the biographical details needed to identify Stefan Halper, while claiming that it would endanger his life to identify him:

Last night, both the Washington Post and New York Times -- whose reporters, like pretty much everyone in Washington, knew exactly who the FBI informant is -- published articles that, while deferring to the FBI's demands by not naming him, provided so many details about him that it made it extremely easy to know exactly who it is. The NYT described the FBI informant as "an American academic who teaches in Britain" and who "made contact late that summer with” George Papadopoulos and "also met repeatedly in the ensuing months with the other aide, Carter Page." The Post similarly called him "a retired American professor" who met with Page "at a symposium about the White House race held at a British university."

In contrast to the picture purposely painted by the DOJ and its allies that this informant was some of sort super-secret, high-level, covert intelligence asset, the NYT described him as what he actually is: "the informant is well known in Washington circles, having served in previous Republican administrations and as a source of information for the C.I.A. in past years."

Despite how "well known" he is in Washington, and despite publishing so many details about him that anyone with Google would be able to instantly know his name, the Post and the NYT nonetheless bizarrely refused to identity him, with the Post justifying its decision that it "is not reporting his name following warnings from U.S. intelligence officials that exposing him could endanger him or his contacts." The NYT was less melodramatic about it, citing a general policy: the NYT "has learned the source"s identity but typically does not name informants to preserve their safety," it said.

In other words, both the NYT and the Post chose to provide so many details about the FBI informant that everyone would know exactly who it was, while coyly pretending that they were obeying FBI demands not to name him. How does that make sense? Either these newspapers believe the FBI's grave warnings that national security and lives would be endangered if it were known who they used as their informant (in which case those papers should not publish any details that would make his exposure likely), or they believe that the FBI (as usual) was just invoking false national security justifications to hide information it unjustly wants to keep from the public (in which case the newspapers should name him).



Update: The left's new rules, as summarized by Adirondack Patriot:

It's all academic because this is how the left thinks:

1. It is illegal to defeat a Democrat.

2. Anything we do to stop an illegal act is legal and a morally necessary.

3. The only way a Democrat can lose is if someone (in this case, Donald Trump) did something illegal, such as collude with Russians, because no Republican is qualified to legally defeat a Democrat.

4. Everything we do to stop Trump is legal, regardless of the law.

Ben Shapiro, Deep State Defender.



Correction: Red-faced embarrassment -- I got the timeline screwed up here myself. I conflated Misfud's mention of the emails with Halper's (Halper's mention was several months later).

The timeline goes something like this:

April 2016: MISFUD, not Halper, mentions the Russians hacking the emails to Papadoplous

May 2016: Papadoplous mentions this to Downer (the Australian diplomat)

September 2016: Halper asks Papadopolous about the emails (Papadopolous says he doesn't know anything)

I confused the dates and who it was (Misfud, Halper) doing the talking.

I still don't see how mentioning the emails to anyone could be grounds to begin an investigation -- everyone was speculating about the idea that Russians had the emails for months; it was one of the reasons people said Clinton should be indicted -- and I'd like Ben Shapiro to explain that to me.

If talking about the Russians having Hillary's emails is grounds for an official counterintelligence investigation, then the NSA should have been monitoring me and this blog as well. And pretty much everyone I knew.

Who knows, maybe they were/are.

But my jibe about the timeline was all wrong. I'm the one who had to do more research into the specific timeline here.

I also suspect that when all is done we'll find out that Misfud was actually involved in this "investigation," but that's not in evidence yet. It's just my private supposition.

Oh: The FBI has repeatedly lied about the origins of this "investigation." First it was sparked by the Steele Dossier. When the highly dubious and partisan nature of the document was revealed, they edited their story to claim it all originated with this Papadopolous mention of the emails to Downer.

With the FBI and DOJ crabwalking and changing their stories, why should anyone have any faith in their current claims?

Who can say what the FBI's current claim actually is? Have they made an official statement, or does it continue to be put out via not-under-oath leaks to the media?

Posted by: Ace of Spades at 02:25 PM




Comments

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1 This means he knows!!
?
I believe.

Posted by: Derptastic at May 20, 2018 02:27 PM (DB16e)

2 st?

Posted by: I Smell Something Rotten at May 20, 2018 02:27 PM (P3DfN)

3 Fight's on.

Posted by: trev006 at May 20, 2018 02:27 PM (lphAE)

4 drat!

Posted by: I Smell Something Rotten at May 20, 2018 02:27 PM (P3DfN)

5 Roomy.
Im a little nervous.

Posted by: Derptastic at May 20, 2018 02:27 PM (DB16e)

6 i think this is the opening salvo

Posted by: I Smell Something Rotten at May 20, 2018 02:28 PM (P3DfN)

7 get ready for the gloves to come off

Posted by: I Smell Something Rotten at May 20, 2018 02:28 PM (P3DfN)

8 Finally. Let's see what Snoozie does.

Posted by: Tuna at May 20, 2018 02:29 PM (jm1YL)

9 Don't worry, the MFM is still focused on how he miss spelled his wife's name.

Posted by: Colin at May 20, 2018 02:29 PM (yLA6Y)

10 Trump is out of line...this is not who we are!

Posted by: Balless Bill Kristol at May 20, 2018 02:29 PM (yhf6w)

11 Isn't that like asking the BATF to investigate themselves?

Posted by: Infidel at May 20, 2018 02:29 PM (a3OL0)

12 Dis gon' be good.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Slavic Customer Service Rep. at May 20, 2018 02:29 PM (fA1SL)

13 I'm betting that the DOJ will find that Obama and his evil regime did nothing.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at May 20, 2018 02:29 PM (pw+jk)

14 I love our president!

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at May 20, 2018 02:29 PM (4ErVI)

15 ''This means he knows!! ''

Of course he knows. I'm sure he's known for a long, long time. He's a patient man.

Posted by: Tuna at May 20, 2018 02:30 PM (jm1YL)

16 Ka- as they say -boom.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 20, 2018 02:30 PM (oVJmc)

17 Owners of pizza related maps hardest hit.

Posted by: Monk at May 20, 2018 02:31 PM (Wd0WT)

18 But.....STORMY DANIELS!

Posted by: CNN at May 20, 2018 02:31 PM (oVJmc)

19 Hell yes

Posted by: ALH at May 20, 2018 02:32 PM (ywLYf)

20 Extraordinary crimes against the people and the Republic have to be avenged by agents extraordinary...

Hold on to yo' butts!

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Penitent Cylon at May 20, 2018 02:32 PM (lLeln)

21 This goes right to Obama.

Posted by: LGoPs at May 20, 2018 02:33 PM (DK0L4)

22 BUT NOTHING IS GONNA HAPPEN, BECAUSE SNOOZY MCSNOOZERMAN !!!!

Posted by: Schneider's Brown Slave at May 20, 2018 02:33 PM (y3aQB)

23 Glenn Greenwald, ace? Yeah, sure, I get it. But c'm9n...

Posted by: occam's brassiere at May 20, 2018 02:33 PM (cCsPW)

24 I hope this comes to fruition because there are quite a few who need to be jailed.

Posted by: Skip at May 20, 2018 02:33 PM (aC6Sd)

25 Lock them all up and throw away the key

Posted by: ALH at May 20, 2018 02:34 PM (ywLYf)

26 21 This goes right to Obama.
Posted by: LGoPs at May 20, 2018 02:33 PM (DK0L4)

And the Bush and Clinton Crime Families.

Posted by: Monk at May 20, 2018 02:35 PM (Wd0WT)

27 I am extremely upset that Trump would dare question the honesty and integrity of Obama.

Posted by: Kevin Williamson on his period at May 20, 2018 02:35 PM (yhf6w)

28 I will believe it when people start getting frog marched. Sessions has been a huge disappointment.

Sorry to be so cynical.

Posted by: Infidel at May 20, 2018 02:36 PM (a3OL0)

29 But who will investigate?

Posted by: PerfidiousP at May 20, 2018 02:37 PM (cW5Oc)

30 >>>23 Glenn Greenwald, ace? Yeah, sure, I get it. But c'm9n...
Posted by: occam's brassiere

it's the first report to affirmatively claim what has been suspected.

Posted by: ace at May 20, 2018 02:38 PM (8rNrN)

31 Let's keep it down in here.

All this clamoring about may wake our Attorney General.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at May 20, 2018 02:39 PM (53Dys)

32 I hate to be too optimistic that anyone of significance (ie. Hillary, Loretta Lynch, Comey, Obama, etc., etc.) will ever be held to account for their malfeasance BUT a girl can dream. Is it time to go long on Pudding and Popcorn Futures?

Posted by: runningrn at May 20, 2018 02:39 PM (UUnqW)

33 There are an awful lot of people who are on the wring side of history with this.

If I was the media Id be getting in bed with the Trump administration and doing everything possible to protect myself because anyone capable of rubbing 2 or more brain cells together can see the writing on the wall.

Posted by: Mailman at May 20, 2018 02:39 PM (q3k4w)

34 Remember pappy Bush giving the throat shash gesture to Trump?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OUGd7Lt7Z6M

Posted by: Monk at May 20, 2018 02:39 PM (Wd0WT)

35 Prayers for President Trump and family. These are dangerous times. Show no mercy for none shall be given. Destroy them President Trump.

Posted by: cosmic debris at May 20, 2018 02:39 PM (WX+x0)

36 Trump knows there's something there.

He is like the good lawyer who doesn't ask a question unless he knows the answer.

Trump knows.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at May 20, 2018 02:40 PM (53Dys)

37 Barky needs an extended stay at a sunny tropical island resort, all at taxpayer's expense.

Gitmo.

Posted by: The Bugs at May 20, 2018 02:40 PM (vnB5M)

38 Posted by: Infidel at May 20, 2018 02:36 PM (a3OL0)
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at May 20, 2018 02:39 PM (53Dys)
++++
see if you 2 actually stopped the Debbie Downer pant shitting & actually read some stuff excluding Alex Jones you would know Sessions wasn't sleeping

Posted by: Schneider's Brown Slave at May 20, 2018 02:40 PM (y3aQB)

39 Barky needs an extended stay at a sunny tropical island resort, all at taxpayer's expense.

Gitmo.
Posted by: The Bugs


Nah. Put him some place in the Aleutian islands...

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Penitent Cylon at May 20, 2018 02:41 PM (lLeln)

40 This will be Obstruction of Justice!!!!!

Posted by: Robert Mueller at May 20, 2018 02:42 PM (AMIL/)

41 But the one thing I miss the most is Obama and his vaunted integrity...

"Barry loves me this I know, for teh Bloomberg tells me so...little minds to him belong, we are weak but his integrity foo is strong. Yes, Barry loves me, yes, Barry loves me, yes, Barry loves me, teh Bloomberg tells me so.... (to be sung to a favorite Sunday school song with childlike faith...)"

Posted by: runningrn at May 20, 2018 02:42 PM (UUnqW)

42 Alrighty then.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at May 20, 2018 02:42 PM (53Dys)

43 The only question is, can this be followed through? The ordinary mechanisms are badly corrupted--does he have the people lined up to make sure this gets handled right, including (especially!) the courts?

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Penitent Cylon at May 20, 2018 02:42 PM (lLeln)

44 Donnie Two Scoops needs to declassify everything even remotely related to this.

Posted by: Furious George at May 20, 2018 02:43 PM (1Vkvd)

45 I suspect he already has all the evidence he needs via the Mossad, if the DOJ doesn't comply we can all assume they are up to their corrupt eye balls in the illegal spying of Trump?

Posted by: Rose at May 20, 2018 02:44 PM (qHeFI)

46 I was an early supporter of Trump as a FU to both Clinton and general GOP business as usual. Having said that, I had very low expectations of how he'd do, because frankly I never thought he'd be allowed to win. He continues to succeed beyond any reasonable measure. Absolutely love the guy. What many call a crude style is a goddam feature, not a bug.

Posted by: Weasel at May 20, 2018 02:44 PM (MVjcR)

47 Everything related to this, by every Federal employee,
exists as a digital copy. None of it is on paper before
being printed from the digital file.

Why can't an authority with subpoena power say:

"Every fucking digital file will be on my desk in 24 hours or
Federal Marshals will take you into custody for failure to comply"

why not? why the hell not? why keep screwing around?

Posted by: retropox at May 20, 2018 02:44 PM (UagAo)

48 I haven't seen any arrests. Only allegations and stonewalling.

Posted by: Infidel at May 20, 2018 02:44 PM (a3OL0)

49 Good!
Are leftist heads exploding yet?

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 20, 2018 02:45 PM (8iiMU)

50 Valerie Jarret won't look good in an Orange Jumpsuit.

Posted by: garrett at May 20, 2018 02:45 PM (ndLr/)

51 riddle me this; snoozer jumped into his hammock within 24 of takin the at gen job citing the wrong regulation for recusal as provided by ruby rod rosett ta. Was that part of the 8th level uber plan?

Nope

Posted by: cosmic debris at May 20, 2018 02:45 PM (WX+x0)

52 Who would any of you trust to actually get justice? I am glad this is going forward, but it will always end up with "shoot, they didn't INTEND to commit that crime. Gotta let them go."

Posted by: PerfidiousP at May 20, 2018 02:46 PM (cW5Oc)

53 I feel I can speak a little more honestly now. It is time for a straight shooter like James Comey to get to the bottom of this matter...is there any provable intent of wrong doing?

Posted by: Kevin Williamson in a Burqa at May 20, 2018 02:46 PM (yhf6w)

54 Trump wouldn't have kept Sessions around if he was useless.

Maybe you could make the argument that it would look bad for Trump if he dropped the hammer on Sessions especially because of the recusal, but he fired Comey and that caused a shitstorm that he weathered easily.

No, I think Sessions has been busy behind the scenes lining up the ducks for Trump to knock down. It's Good cop/Bad cop on steroids. Or maybe it's Bad Cop/Bad Cop. Whatever the case, Trump has to date given me no reason to doubt his abilities.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at May 20, 2018 02:46 PM (4ErVI)

55 THIS is why Hillary was suppose to win!! NONE of this was ever meant to ever come out! It's funny, but you really would think that the Deep State would turn on her by now for being such an incredible f*ck up for failing to win an election that was handed to her on a silver platter. Look at all the resources she had behind her, and she still couldn't pull it off!

Posted by: runningrn at May 20, 2018 02:46 PM (UUnqW)

56 Love that PDT opens with a salvo on Sunday upsetting the Dems' day off. LOL

Posted by: Tuna at May 20, 2018 02:47 PM (jm1YL)

57 I'll have to ask my boss Rod Rosenstein if we can do that first Mr. Trump

Posted by: Sleepy Sezzzzions at May 20, 2018 02:47 PM (cAnNx)

58 Donald Trump's Presidential Forehead Merkin Stars in

THE BARACKHENATENATOR

'Your Memos. Give Them To Me.'

Posted by: garrett at May 20, 2018 02:47 PM (ndLr/)

59 Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night.
http://tinyurl.com/hjbqqtn

Posted by: Bette Davis at May 20, 2018 02:47 PM (w1zJX)

60
"Investigating the previous administration is not who we are." - Doughface Republicans

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 20, 2018 02:48 PM (aeXVE)

61 I'm confused. Unveiling the depth of corruption in the FBI and CIA is treasonous, is that the charge? Dangerous and bizarre times.

Posted by: Northernlurker lighter less filing at May 20, 2018 02:48 PM (eAMlh)

62 Thermo-nukular War has been declared!

And it's about time.

Posted by: Sharkman at May 20, 2018 02:48 PM (+BKF+)

63 It's funny, but you really would think that the Deep State would turn on her by now for being such an incredible f*ck up for failing to win an election that was handed to her on a silver platter.
------------

It's all CYA now.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 20, 2018 02:48 PM (w1zJX)

64 Same professor Comey was leaking too?

Posted by: PhilDirt at May 20, 2018 02:49 PM (5djUI)

65 Are things finally going to break wide open?!?
Please let it be so.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 20, 2018 02:49 PM (W+vEI)

66 3 2 1 . . .

MSM DECLARES THAT TRUMP HAS OBSTRUCTED JUSTICE BY ORDERING INVESTIGATION!!!!!

Posted by: Sharkman at May 20, 2018 02:49 PM (+BKF+)

67 ''Investigating the previous administration is not who we are." - Doughface Republicans ''

Because some of them were involved.

Posted by: Tuna at May 20, 2018 02:49 PM (jm1YL)

68 I added some of greenwald's report where he makes a fuller argument about the Times and Post virtually IDing Halper, while withholding the name; and of course they're getting this directly from the DOJ or FBI, while those corrupt organizations simultaneously bleat that exposing the name that everyone already knows would somehow endanger him.

In London.

Posted by: ace at May 20, 2018 02:50 PM (8rNrN)

69 65. Break open? You mean like with a machinist's vice and sledge?

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Slavic Customer Service Rep. at May 20, 2018 02:50 PM (fA1SL)

70 There is an executive order already signed that is suppose to drop this week.

Posted by: Monk at May 20, 2018 02:50 PM (Wd0WT)

71 Some poor low level aide is going to jail.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at May 20, 2018 02:51 PM (aljs9)

72 Finished Rant on, well worth watching.

I'll guess Rosenberg will get right on this Tuesday, Dec 29th 2020

Posted by: Skip at May 20, 2018 02:51 PM (aC6Sd)

73 >>Because some of them were involved.



John McCain, White Courtesy Phone.

John McCain.
Please pick up the White Courtesy Phone.

Posted by: garrett at May 20, 2018 02:51 PM (ndLr/)

74 he's not working under cover in Peshewahr, for God's sakes. He's an open CIA/MI6 asset working in intelligence groups in London.

Posted by: ace at May 20, 2018 02:51 PM (8rNrN)

75 DANTON stupid autocucumber

Posted by: Skip at May 20, 2018 02:51 PM (aC6Sd)

76 War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Oatmeal is treason.

Posted by: Paul Krugman at May 20, 2018 02:51 PM (0jtPF)

77 The next six months is going to be like a wild movie that is written, directed, produced, and starring Donald Trump.

Posted by: Mark1971 at May 20, 2018 02:51 PM (xPl2J)

78 So this is the final defense - publicly outing all of the political games that the FBI and CIA were playing is "TREASON!!!!""????

Not even Nixon on his worst days was desperate enough to go there.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 20, 2018 02:51 PM (V2Yro)

79 77. Donald Trump does all his own stunts.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Slavic Customer Service Rep. at May 20, 2018 02:52 PM (fA1SL)

80 Glenn Greenwald. Arbitrator, savoir and presiding judge on all things legal and moral.

Yay!

Posted by: 13times at May 20, 2018 02:52 PM (K3B2k)

81 Historic times, indeed. I've said he's one of only 3 disruptive Presidents. Washington, Lincoln and now PDJT. (Maybe Wilson because he screwed up so much of what we now live with.)

Posted by: Pete Seria at May 20, 2018 02:53 PM (2WfB0)

82 So if this is really war, perhaps PDT will put McSnoozeyface out to pasture?

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at May 20, 2018 02:53 PM (aljs9)

83 I doubt anybody will be prosecuted over this BUT the more the general public is exposed to how awful and corrupt there ruling class are, the better it will be. You may not be able to drain the swamp but you can expose it to the light for the country to see. Do it in a way so there is no ambiguity. Make everything public to review for themselves and not have the MFM filter the information through a leftish haze. Shine a Light, Yo!!

https://youtu.be/the7gV99YRI

Posted by: Puddleglum at May 20, 2018 02:53 PM (wKUFh)

84 They did the same thing to me!

Posted by: Valerie Plame, deep undercover agent extraordiaire at May 20, 2018 02:53 PM (FJXGr)

85 Guess should get out and work on fallen tree some more, movie was a brake. Glad someone brought it up on the movie thread last night. I had seen it before probably not long after it came out.

Posted by: Skip at May 20, 2018 02:53 PM (aC6Sd)

86
"Oatmeal is treason."

Whoa, wait! I had some for breakfast yesterday.

I regret I have but one bowl of apple & cinnamon oatmeal to give to my country.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 20, 2018 02:54 PM (LjusA)

87 SO much good stuff is being crowd-sourced on twitter - I fear a lot will disappear soon as YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter ramps up their pre-midterm narrative-shaping.

Sharyl Attkisson made a detailed timeline:
https://sharylattkisson.com/

Posted by: Lizzy at May 20, 2018 02:54 PM (W+vEI)

88 i said something wrong in a comment: Greenwald wasn't the first to name Halper. NBCNews already did (as his article notes).

That article is very much worth reading, btw.

Posted by: ace at May 20, 2018 02:54 PM (8rNrN)

89 63 It's funny, but you really would think that the Deep State would turn on her by now for being such an incredible f*ck up for failing to win an election that was handed to her on a silver platter.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 20, 2018 02:48 PM (w1zJX)

>>>

She and Bill know many embarrassing things about many of the Deep State denizens, and the Deep Staters know that the Clintons know. That's how she became a Senator and was handed the 2016 nomination on a silver platter.

Posted by: Gref at May 20, 2018 02:54 PM (AMIL/)

90 I regret I have but one bowl of apple cinnamon oatmeal to give to my country.



Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 20, 2018 02:54 PM (LjusA)

I didn't know oatmeal could be for dinner until I married Heidi.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at May 20, 2018 02:55 PM (aljs9)

91 This is where PDT quotes 'Tombstone': "You tell them I'm coming. And I am bringing Hell with me!"

Posted by: jmel at May 20, 2018 02:55 PM (OeWgo)

92 The time is long overdue to start hitting back Hard.

Posted by: LGoPs at May 20, 2018 02:55 PM (DK0L4)

93
So if this is really war, perhaps PDT will put McSnoozeyface out to pasture?

Posted by: Cannibal Bob


Trump: "Jeff, you're just not a wartime consigliere."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 20, 2018 02:55 PM (vO5+Y)

94 Read Sharyl Atkisson's timeline -- very well done, btw. One fact that jumped out at me was Congress passing a surveillance renewal act. Don't know for sure if some of the holes were plugged, but not a good look for them. Would take someone much more analytical than I am, but I do seem to recall that some of the 'national security' excuses were stopped.

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 20, 2018 02:55 PM (MIKMs)

95 This is great!

Posted by: NaughtyPin at May 20, 2018 02:56 PM (fxCK2)

96 Glen Greenwald....

Posted by: runner at May 20, 2018 02:56 PM (/U6eQ)

97 81 Historic times, indeed. I've said he's one of only 3 disruptive Presidents. Washington, Lincoln and now PDJT. (Maybe Wilson because he screwed up so much of what we now live with.)"

I'd add Jackson to that list - easy to forget how disruptive he was because it's been so long - and I'd actually take Washington off it, since as far as America was concerned, he was a huge stabilizing force with widespread support.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 20, 2018 02:57 PM (V2Yro)

98 Posted by: Infidel at May 20, 2018 02:44 PM (a3OL0)
+++++
So unless I pulled a SNOOZY MCSNOOZERMAN is the ongoing investigation by Jon Huber Over??

Posted by: Schneider's Brown Slave at May 20, 2018 02:57 PM (y3aQB)

99 I want to point out that after the first Kim Strassel article in the WSJ, pointing out some of the known facts about Halper, she refused to name him even speculatively.

So Sundance at tct did speculate with his name the next day. Correctly, as it turns out.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 20, 2018 02:57 PM (0ogQG)

100 Trump: "Jeff, you're just not a wartime consigliere."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 20, 2018 02:55 PM (vO5+Y)

THIS! Thanks Hadrian! LMAO!

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at May 20, 2018 02:57 PM (aljs9)

101 Hahaha. I love it.

Barack Mugabe is no different than his comrade in arms Robert. Hope and change baby, Hope and change.

Both whitey hating, law breaking, no talent liars who lucked out and didn't catch a bullet or two on the way up in their respective criminal organizations.

Anyone seen or heard about old Robert since he was taken away to be vaporized?

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 20, 2018 02:57 PM (EoRCO)

102 She and Bill know many embarrassing things about
many of the Deep State denizens, and the Deep Staters know that the
Clintons know. That's how she became a Senator and was handed the 2016
nomination on a silver platter.

Posted by: Gref at May 20, 2018 02:54 PMIf nothing else, they should have stress-related health problems for the next year or so!

Posted by: NaughtyPin at May 20, 2018 02:58 PM (fxCK2)

103 >>>99 I want to point out that after the first Kim Strassel article in the WSJ, pointing out some of the known facts about Halper, she refused to name him even speculatively.

So Sundance at tct did speculate with his name the next day. Correctly, as it turns out.

...

i've been hinting about it since March 25th, too.

Posted by: ace at May 20, 2018 02:58 PM (8rNrN)

104 Like Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday walking toward the OK Corral.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 20, 2018 02:58 PM (+y/Ru)

105 and of course this is all thanks to Chuck Ross, who put this all together. And the Daily Caller published it, to their credit.

Posted by: ace at May 20, 2018 02:59 PM (8rNrN)

106 I guess we're not posting "nood" any more. It took me awhile to realize that the comments had petered out on the last thread.

Posted by: rickl at May 20, 2018 02:59 PM (sdi6R)

107 Trump can declassify anything he wants to, can't he? I mean, if he declassified the latest nuke designs, that would be bad (and lead to impeachment), but it IS within his purview.

Get to declassifying, Mr. President.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 20, 2018 02:59 PM (0ogQG)

108 The reason they are all being so coy is that the deep state hacks must all have been threatening them with prosecution if they said it - so they made it so freakin' obvious that no one could miss who it was. Streisand Effect in action - now the entire COUNTRY knows who it was.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 20, 2018 03:00 PM (V2Yro)

109 It was Chuck Ross who set this all in motion.

I don't even think he relied on any leaks -- I think he just put together scattered clues from articles previously written, but which failed -- possibly deliberately -- to weave them all together.

Posted by: ace at May 20, 2018 03:00 PM (8rNrN)

110 Sessions will need to go, with the next 5 under him as well.

Posted by: Skip at May 20, 2018 03:00 PM (aC6Sd)

111
They did the same thing to me!
Posted by: Valerie Plame, deep undercover agent extraordiaire at May 20, 2018



This. You go, girl.

The way the MSM + Deep State Complex is reporting that this person is a super secret agent who must not be revealed while it's also an open secret who that person is and what he does, just reeks of the way they handled the Plame investigation and subsequent framing of Scooter Libby.

Posted by: Hands at May 20, 2018 03:00 PM (EzdLW)

112 All these weaponized agencies need to be purged. Mercilessly.

There is still some good in this country. And it's worth fighting for.

Posted by: LGoPs at May 20, 2018 03:01 PM (DK0L4)

113 i always thought of pappy Bush as just another politico put in charge of an agency, never an inside man trusted enough to use its resources, but maybe not

Posted by: runner at May 20, 2018 03:01 PM (/U6eQ)

114 108 The reason they are all being so coy is that the deep state hacks must all have been threatening them with prosecution if they said it - so they made it so freakin' obvious that no one could miss who it was. Streisand Effect in action - now the entire COUNTRY knows who it was.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 20, 2018 03:00 PM (V2Yro)

Probably.

Oh, and +1 for the Streisand Effect reference.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 20, 2018 03:01 PM (F5+ro)

115 BUT NOTHING IS GONNA HAPPEN, BECAUSE SNOOZY MCSNOOZERMAN !!!!

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Appoint a special prosecutor?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 20, 2018 03:01 PM (+y/Ru)

116 It's all academic because this is how the left thinks:

1. It is illegal to defeat a Democrat.
2. Anything we do to stop an illegal act is legal and a morally necessary.
3. The only way a Democrat can lose is if someone (in this case, Donald Trump) did something illegal, such as collude with Russians, because no Republican is qualified to legally defeat a Democrat.
4. Everything we do to stop Trump is legal, regardless of the law.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at May 20, 2018 03:01 PM (53Dys)

117
I guess we're not posting "nood" any more. It took me awhile to realize that the comments had petered out on the last thread.

Posted by: rickl


Everyone else knew, we just didn't tell you.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 20, 2018 03:02 PM (vO5+Y)

118 Obama Legacy: Destroyed

Obama: Pending

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 20, 2018 03:02 PM (oVJmc)

119 I think ace hinted at this, but if we put 2 + 2 together here, it looks like maybe it was Jeb who got the ball rolling on all of this.

CIA snitch who was close with HW being used as the snitch points to HW more than Obama or Clinton, no?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 20, 2018 03:02 PM (F5+ro)

120 116-- Very concise and true.

Posted by: ace at May 20, 2018 03:02 PM (8rNrN)

121 Shit's getting real. Has Trump ever made an accusatory tweet that didn't pan out.

Expect it will show that the DOJ/FBI surveillance predated any official authorization. In fact it was used to bootstrap things like the FISA warrant.

Will the MSM talking heads who said months ago that Trump was 25th Amendment crazy to say he was being spied on, now double down?

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 20, 2018 03:02 PM (pV/54)

122 I speculate that the real reason the NYT and Post aren't publicly naming Halper, is that they want someone associated with the Trump Admin to do it - then it can be claimed that that person "outed" Halper. And voila! Calls for a special counsel to investigate the "outing" of Halper.

Just like Plame.

Posted by: Hands at May 20, 2018 03:02 PM (EzdLW)

123 I'd add Jackson to that list - easy to forget how disruptive he was because it's been so long - and I'd actually take Washington off it, since as far as America was concerned, he was a huge stabilizing force with widespread support.

I like to cite Washington because he created the position into something that Congress never intended, ie. something with power. He didn't take any crap from Congress either, so he basically set the stage for every future Exec. That's pretty disruptive to what his "deep state" of the times intended him to be.

Read the book "Mr. President" to see how he did it that lives on to this day.

Posted by: Pete Seria at May 20, 2018 03:03 PM (2WfB0)

124 https://theconservativetreehouse.com
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for all the posters who think Sessions is the problem or part of swamp, Spends rest of the day here & Read, Read & then when you are tired of reading Read a ton more
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then go to DanBongino.com & listen to his podcasts

Posted by: Schneider's Brown Slave at May 20, 2018 03:03 PM (y3aQB)

125 I recall how when the 9/11 trutherism started the easiest way to reject it was saying "there's no way W could have pulled this off and kept it secret!".

However, looking at the growing list of people/federal agencies and outside organizations (Fusion GPS, numerous reporters) involved in this Trump coup, I'm starting to wonder if this was a DC swamp open secret on par with Harvey Weinstein - where almost everyone in that town at least knew some part of it, if not helped facilitate it in some small or not so small way.

Getting back to Sharyl Attkisson, she may be onto something with this tweet:

I think there's a major fallacy in focusing on the 2016 election without understanding the bigger part of the picture: *why* bad actors in intel community were so desperate to not have Trump elected. It's about what could be discovered about the past 10-20 years. Not just 2016.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 20, 2018 03:04 PM (W+vEI)

126 Must be big to have ace posting on s Sunday!!

Posted by: lin-duh at May 20, 2018 03:05 PM (kufk0)

127 Top Secret investigations, sealed warrants, sealed indictments, denunciations . . . Gee, whillikers, Batman. That Russia is sure an enemy of freedom.

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 20, 2018 03:05 PM (MIKMs)

128 15 ''This means he knows!! ''

Of course he knows. I'm sure he's known for a long, long time. He's a patient man.
Posted by: Tuna at May 20, 2018 02:30 PM (jm1YL)

He is. He really is. He seems bombastic, but he is a patient man.

Posted by: m at May 20, 2018 03:05 PM (0bRDi)

129
Obama was transformative like Chester Arthur and Millard Fillmore.
Or maybe Buchanan.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 20, 2018 03:06 PM (4PIaA)

130 This. You go, girl.

The way the MSM + Deep State Complex is reporting that this person is a super secret agent who must not be revealed while it's also an open secret who that person is and what he does, just reeks of the way they handled the Plame investigation and subsequent framing of Scooter Libby.
Posted by: Hands
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See my terrific expose film, "Fair Game". It's on at theaters everywhere.

Posted by: Valerie Plame, deep undercover agent extraordiaire at May 20, 2018 03:06 PM (FJXGr)

131 Must be big to have ace posting on s Sunday!!


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shhhhh !! he thinks it's Monday, we may get a few more posts

Posted by: runner at May 20, 2018 03:06 PM (/U6eQ)

132
Trump needs to clean this out himself. He's the constitutional boss of the executive branch, including DoJ. What he should do is a appoint some independent pit bulls to go in there and clean it out, going up everyone's asses with a microscope, and give them the carte blanch authority to do so.

Preezy can do this. He's the g**damned boss.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 20, 2018 03:06 PM (8O3HH)

133 Jeff Sessions is personally conducting a major investigation into knock-off C-PAP machines and pillows.

He's personally testing each C-PAP and pillow to see if it counterfeit or not.

He's also looking into the sleep number scandal. Apparently, the sleep numbers have been fraudulently inflated. So, if think your sleep number was 8, it's actually 6! And if it was 3, it may actually be 1!

That's dedication, people.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at May 20, 2018 03:06 PM (53Dys)

134 Posted by: Harry Paratestes at May 20, 2018 03:02 PM (F5+ro)
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Jeb is too fucking stupid & to low on totem pole to do it, it was Daddy,GWB Clinton Inc & Barky McFuckstick

Posted by: NOTHING IS GONNA HAPPEN at May 20, 2018 03:07 PM (y3aQB)

135 133 Jeff Sessions is personally conducting a major investigation into knock-off C-PAP machines and pillows.

He's personally testing each C-PAP and pillow to see if it counterfeit or not.

He's also looking into the sleep number scandal. Apparently, the sleep numbers have been fraudulently inflated. So, if think your sleep number was 8, it's actually 6! And if it was 3, it may actually be 1!

That's dedication, people.


Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at May 20, 2018 03:06 PM (53Dys)



He's working on testing the benefits between Sleep Number, Casper, and Memory Foam mattresses.

Posted by: buzzion at May 20, 2018 03:08 PM (cAnNx)

136

The former secretary of education under President Obama, Arne Duncan, is proposing that parents keep their kids home from school until gun laws are changed.

Duncan tweeted this shockingly stupid proposal on Friday in response to a tweet from one of his former employees:

Washington Post:

Duncan said in an interview Saturday that the idea was intended to be provocative but that an aggressive approach like a school boycott is needed if gun laws are ever going to change. He has school-age children and said if this idea were to gain traction, his family would participate.

Lead the way! I'll be right behind you! I promise.

"It's wildly impractical and difficult," Duncan said. "But I think it's wildly impractical and difficult that kids are shot when they are sent to school."

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 20, 2018 03:08 PM (IqV8l)

137 Update: The left's new rules,


Shorter version: heads, I win, tails, you lose.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at May 20, 2018 03:08 PM (yQpMk)

138 I guess we're not posting "nood" any more. It took me awhile to realize that the comments had petered out on the last thread.

Posted by: rickl
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I did a Rot 1.5 when I saw 'Dune' on the Book Thread, and came up with 'Nude'. Cagey.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 20, 2018 03:09 PM (FJXGr)

139 Strzok, the guy who needed an insurance policy in case Trump got elected, was involved in

1) the Hillary investigation. He was the FBI guy who interviewed her. After Paramour Page texted him that Lynch "knows no charges will be brought."

2) the Flynn Frame. He was the FBI guy Sally Yates sent to interview Flynn. Where Strzok changed his 302 report at McCabe's behest to claim that Flynn had lied.

3) the Russian collusion investigation. Strzok opened the counterintelligence investigation of Russian collusion based on Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos, and oversaw the investigation.

4) the Weiner laptop cover-up. Comey sent Strzok to look at the laptop so they could say "nothing to see here, move along."

5) the Mueller investigation. Strzok joined the team, presumably to co-ordinate and carry messages to the rest of the cabal.

Also, Page and Strzok texted that "[President Obama] wants to know everything we're doing."

Strzok can roll up the whole thing. With Page and Priestap and lots of documents corroborating.

One feckin guy sings, and it all comes out.

Mehtinks Trump knows this, and it informs his tweet storm.

Indictments are stubborn things.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 20, 2018 03:09 PM (pV/54)

140 sessions got that senate taint. will not trust him.

Posted by: cosmic debris at May 20, 2018 03:09 PM (WX+x0)

141 What? Ben Shapiro Defends FBI Deep State Spy Inside Trump Campaign -GP


Never trust a #NeverTrump. Never.



Posted by: Snopes at May 20, 2018 03:09 PM (r9UYA)

142 "It's wildly impractical and difficult," Duncan said. "But I think it's wildly impractical and difficult that kids are shot when they are sent to school."
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 20, 2018 03:08 PM (IqV8l)

Yup....ban government schools and keep our chilluns safe from guns, sexual predators and marxists.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 20, 2018 03:10 PM (EoRCO)

143 I didn't know oatmeal could be for dinner until I married Heidi.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at May 20, 2018 02:55 PM


Your tribe didn't know about 'haggis'?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 20, 2018 03:10 PM (DMUuz)

144 How did you find out about the Memory Foam investigation?

Apparently, Sessions is using Memory Foam in GTMO to try to get the detainees to forget that they are terrorists.

Sessions also thinks that Comey used Memory Foam before he testified before Congress, which is why he can't remember shit.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at May 20, 2018 03:10 PM (53Dys)

145 I mean, if he declassified the latest nuke designs, that would be bad (and lead to impeachment), but it IS within his purview.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 20, 2018 02:59 PM (0ogQG)
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not if he was a Demonrat...

that would just be a step towards global peace.

Posted by: redc1c4 at May 20, 2018 03:10 PM (QDw86)

146 I hope they all get nailed to the wall. I wonder if they'll give this to the Marshals (also in DoJ) both prevent the FBI-on-FBI conflict of interest and also because the Marshals have exceptional expertise in locating and apprehending fugitives ...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 20, 2018 03:10 PM (1qrtS)

147 Posted by: Ignoramus at May 20, 2018 03:09 PM (pV/54)
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Priestap is sining for his freedom too

Posted by: NOTHING IS GONNA HAPPEN at May 20, 2018 03:10 PM (y3aQB)

148 I am the law!

Posted by: John Brennan IS Judge Dredd at May 20, 2018 03:11 PM (EzdLW)

149 Obama going down in flames. The very thought of it all breaching the Media's Atlantic Wall of Fictions shall endure for ever and ever. The breath before the plunge.

This is our Cultural and Exiistential Normandy. GODS! Sara, You Magnificent Bastard!

And... I'm spent.

Posted by: 13times at May 20, 2018 03:11 PM (K3B2k)

150
The former secretary of education under President Obama, Arne Duncan, is proposing that parents keep their kids home from school until gun laws are changed.

Can I keep my school taxes at home until they start teaching kids something?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 20, 2018 03:11 PM (lPKhN)

151 118 Obama Legacy: Destroyed

Obama: Pending

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 20, 2018 03:02 PM (oVJmc)


I'm not dead! I think I'll go for a walk.

Posted by: Obamacare at May 20, 2018 03:11 PM (NL6wI)

152 36 Trump knows there's something there.

He is like the good lawyer who doesn't ask a question unless he knows the answer.

Trump knows.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at May 20, 2018 02:40 PM (53Dys)

It's a skill set to be emulated.

Posted by: m at May 20, 2018 03:11 PM (0bRDi)

153 There's a whole lotta people in DC on their knees in front of a porcelain throne about now.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 20, 2018 03:12 PM (C4Cm9)

154 Or another good one: "Cry 'Havoc! And let slip the dogs of war!"

IF Trump quotes Shakespeare right before he eviscerates the Deep State, that would be epic.

Posted by: jmel at May 20, 2018 03:12 PM (OeWgo)

155 If you've gotten tired of All Stormy All the Time

Read about Alexander Pantages, Eunice Pringle and Joseph P. Kennedy (yes, that Joe Kennedy).

https://tinyurl.com/yazkx5a4

The likenesses are remarkable.

Trump = Pantages
Stormy Daniels = Eunice Pringle
CNN = The Los Angeles Examiner
Rudy Giuliani = Jerry Geisler
The DNC = Joe Kennedy

https://tinyurl.com/yd8f9xd9

Posted by: MachiasPrivateer at May 20, 2018 03:12 PM (EMi53)

156 It's wildly impractical and difficult," Duncan said.
"But I think it's wildly impractical and difficult that kids are shot
when they are sent to school."

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 20, 2018 03:08 PM (IqV8l)

Yup....ban government schools and keep our chilluns safe from guns, sexual predators and marxists. Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 20, 2018 03:10 PM (EoRCO)
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Home schoolers must be identified and regulated.

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 20, 2018 03:13 PM (MIKMs)

157 Or another good one: "Cry 'Havoc! And let slip the dogs of war!"



IF Trump quotes Shakespeare right before he eviscerates the Deep State, that would be epic.
Posted by: jmel at May 20, 2018 03:12 PM


Particularly if he does so in the original Klingon.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 20, 2018 03:13 PM (DMUuz)

158
The former secretary of education under President Obama, Arne Duncan, is proposing that parents keep their kids home from school until gun laws are changed.
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Ah. The architect of the Promise Program, and mentor of the carpetbagging school supervisor who allowed the Florida shooting to happen. Their fingerprints (including Obama's) are all over those murders.

Yeah, there's a person to listen to.

More CYA activity. It's like the Clintons claiming Trump was cozy with the Rooskies.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 20, 2018 03:13 PM (7ThJ3)

159 http://bit.ly/2IAdJc2
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"Collusion against Trump" timeline | Sharyl Attkisson

Posted by: NOTHING IS GONNA HAPPEN at May 20, 2018 03:14 PM (y3aQB)

160 >>>>What? Ben Shapiro Defends FBI Deep State Spy Inside Trump Campaign -GP

It's almost as if Lil Scrappy is Deep State too.

Posted by: Monk at May 20, 2018 03:14 PM (Wd0WT)

161 "parents keep their kids home from school until gun laws are changed."

Home school your kids people. One of the classes can be on firearms use and maintenance.

Posted by: f'd at May 20, 2018 03:14 PM (UdKB7)

162 145 not if he was a Demonrat...

that would just be a step towards global peace.

Posted by: redc1c4 at May 20, 2018 03:10 PM (QDw86)


Yup. Didn't B.J. Clinton authorize the transfer of ICBM technology to China? For strictly peaceful purposes, of course.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at May 20, 2018 03:14 PM (NL6wI)

163
Donald Trump is guilty of 2 things:

1. Refusing to lose to a Democrat in a presidential election.

2. Obstructing injustice.

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at May 20, 2018 03:15 PM (Er5TT)

164 I speculate that the real reason the NYT and Post aren't publicly naming Halper, is that they want someone associated with the Trump Admin to do it - then it can be claimed that that person "outed" Halper. And voila! Calls for a special counsel to investigate the "outing" of Halper.



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the other side is already trying, per Greenwald's article, somebody named Benjamin Wittes is claiming exactly that - Trump and David Nunes, you see, revealed intelligence sources !11!11

how original they are

Posted by: runner at May 20, 2018 03:15 PM (/U6eQ)

165 "Treason doth never prosper."

Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at May 20, 2018 03:15 PM (Dp6qK)

166 I think this means that Trump knows exactly what is in the IG's report, and that it is very good for Trump.

So he goes on the attack, finally, knowing that in two weeks everybody's jaws are going to hit the deck when that report comes out.

Posted by: Sharkman at May 20, 2018 03:15 PM (+BKF+)

167 "look into" better translate into we've already got some asses in slings.

Posted by: DaveA at May 20, 2018 03:16 PM (FhXTo)

168 Obama Legacy: Destroyed

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Not at all. Chicago is now on the hook for his public monuments.

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 20, 2018 03:16 PM (MIKMs)

169 If you what to drive Trump h8trs nuts, send them these Trumpy Bear links.

https://youtu.be/i9qv8RSreIM
https://youtu.be/gk1iXI2aUlg

There's a lot more too.

Posted by: Jake Holenhead at May 20, 2018 03:16 PM (9UFns)

170
Oliver Cromwell speech dissolving Parliament would be even better for Trump to use as he dissolved the Deep State:
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It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonored by your contempt of all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice; ye are a factious crew, and enemies to all good government; ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage, and like Judas betray your God for a few pieces of money.

Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you? Is there one vice you do not possess? Ye have no more religion than my horse; gold is your God; which of you have not barter'd your conscience for bribes? Is there a man amongst you that has the least care for the good of the Commonwealth?

Ye sordid prostitutes have you not defil'd this sacred place, and turn'd the Lord's temple into a den of thieves, by your immoral principles and wicked practices? Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation; you were deputed here by the people to get grievances redress'd, are yourselves gone! So! Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors.

In the name of God, go!

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 20, 2018 03:16 PM (8O3HH)

171 ''There's a whole lotta people in DC on their knees in front of a porcelain throne about now.''

We can only hope.

Posted by: Tuna at May 20, 2018 03:16 PM (jm1YL)

172

btw, I see the fbi did a thorough job of rushing down to Sante Fe and doing damage control for the Democrat party.

Fake News is saying "there were no warning signs!" for this piece of shit weirdo kid. And yet...there were.

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at May 20, 2018 03:17 PM (Er5TT)

173 c c linton gave chi coms missle guidance systems

Posted by: cosmic debris at May 20, 2018 03:17 PM (WX+x0)

174 When did the media ever give a rip about national security?

Posted by: Northernlurker lighter less filing at May 20, 2018 03:18 PM (eAMlh)

175 former secretary of education under President Obama, Arne Duncan, is proposing that parents keep their kids home from school until gun laws are changed.

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They're talking about the school shootings were the local, state, and federal government employees aren't performing their duties, right?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - I choose to live my life as a black woman at May 20, 2018 03:18 PM (VgKNm)

176 Dis gon' be good.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Slavic Customer Service Rep. at May 20, 2018 02:29 PM (fA1SL)
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Someone needs to get Mike Pence case of Stoli and an Abrams, stat!

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 20, 2018 03:18 PM (7UxGp)

177 chicoms reeducate muzzies by force fed pork and booze.

Redneck camp, winning.

Posted by: cosmic debris at May 20, 2018 03:18 PM (WX+x0)

178 This is to confirm the DNC's appointment. The transaction will be completed shortly.

Posted by: Muggings Gone Wrong, Inc. at May 20, 2018 03:18 PM (bYkZ0)

179 136
The former secretary of education under President Obama, Arne Duncan, is proposing that parents keep their kids home from school until gun laws are changed.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 20, 2018 03:08 PM (IqV8l)


Since public schools are basically propaganda mills, the more kids kept away from them the better.

Posted by: rickl at May 20, 2018 03:19 PM (sdi6R)

180 "Treason doth never prosper."
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They are all honorable men.

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 20, 2018 03:19 PM (MIKMs)

181 One thing I read today that was an OH SHIT moment for me was when I read at Townhall:

**How the FBI and CIA Restarted the Cold War to Protect Themselves**

I had forgotten that the famous 30 Russians deported from the US occurred only 3 weeks before Trumps inauguration! Jesus, they were poisoning the well in order to promote the idea that the Russians were meddling, as a segue to claiming it was in favor of Trump!

I have no doubt the Russians do all sorts of nasty things all the time, but this is Obama deliberately poking the bear just before he hands off, for supposedly diddling the election via FaceBook! And at the same time he has FBI agent provocateurs in his successors operation, spying on Trumps people as they tried to convince the Russians not to take the bait!

Up until now I have regarded talk of treason and potential capital punishment as over-the-top. I am reconsidering, as I see an outgoing president creating international tensions between nuclear powers, in order to hide his own malfeasance!

Obama is a criminal, period!

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at May 20, 2018 03:19 PM (WDU9h)

182 It's about darned time.
Somebody call Hillary's tailor and get her measured up for that orange suit. Barack, too.

Posted by: budman at May 20, 2018 03:19 PM (imGR/)

183
obama admin CONSPIRED against Donald Trump before the election, and the holdovers from the obama admin are still CONSPIRING against President Donald Trump after the election.


Yes, this is a real, full blown, legit Conspiracy and most likely the biggest, worst government scandal in US history.

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at May 20, 2018 03:19 PM (Er5TT)

184 176. It is the best and only way.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Slavic Customer Service Rep. at May 20, 2018 03:19 PM (fA1SL)

185 Nixon in the threads a lot, here.

(from the previous thread)

318 Well, shit. If all I had to do was say that the Watergate break-in was "just an investigation," things would have been fine.
Posted by: Zombie Richard Nixon at May 20, 2018 02:04 PM (53Dys)

Could you game that out?

Posted by: m at May 20, 2018 03:19 PM (0bRDi)

186 >>It's funny, but you really would think that the Deep State would turn on her by now for being such an incredible f*ck up for failing to win an election that was handed to her on a silver platter.


They can't turn on her now since they've been partnering with the Clintons for years. I imagine if there's one thing the Clintons understand, it's getting leverage over your partners in crime to keep them on their side. For example, Obama had to scuttle the email investigation, since he was emailing her private email account, including classified docs (part of the language in Comey's statement that was softened up by Strzok in his "no intent here!" statement referenced this). Another example is Mueller - he's in the middle of the Uranium One deal. And others in the IC were working for here, as she was in possession of classified docs that she was not read in on; Sid was emailing some that had been presented less than 24 hours earlier. That indicates people high up were essentially committing espionage to keep Hillary in the intel loop.

We may never know how ugly this mess was, but all indications are that the FBI, CIA and DoJ need to be dismantled and rebuilt to get rid of all the rot.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 20, 2018 03:19 PM (W+vEI)

187 i added an update about Ben Shapiro at the post's end.

Posted by: ace at May 20, 2018 03:20 PM (8rNrN)

188

by the way...

the rockets "ANTARES" and Cygnus are set to launch from Virginia at around 4am.

I like the names.

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at May 20, 2018 03:21 PM (Er5TT)

189
In the name of God, go!
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 20, 2018 03:16 PM (8O3HH)

"...and if anyone needs me, I'll be ethnically cleansing Ireland. Cheerio!"

Posted by: Also Oliver Cromwell at May 20, 2018 03:21 PM (bYkZ0)

190
Dorks: What are the significance of those names, Antares and Cygnus?

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at May 20, 2018 03:21 PM (Er5TT)

191 Trump Sun Zhu- Dealing in the art of WAR.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 20, 2018 03:21 PM (C4Cm9)

192 79 77. Donald Trump does all his own stunts.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Slavic Customer Service Rep. at May 20, 2018 02:52 PM (fA1SL)

Hah!

Posted by: m at May 20, 2018 03:21 PM (0bRDi)

193 Someone needs to get Mike Pence case of Stoli and an Abrams, stat!
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 20, 2018 03:18 PM (7UxGp)
+++++++++
Trump might be able to do it himself, sober. But the tanks-on-the-mall approach with a drunk Mike Pence would make for vivid symbolism.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 20, 2018 03:22 PM (hYcqw)

194
Tomorrow on Fake News: The president is demoralizing the intelligence community again!!

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at May 20, 2018 03:22 PM (Er5TT)

195

I wonder if Trump's campaign was the only one that Bronco Bama had his people spy on?

Wouldn't be surprised to find out a couple of other campaigns were spied on, too. That would be delicious.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy likes lobster at May 20, 2018 03:23 PM (GdWl+)

196
Tomorrow on Fake News: "Sources" inside the intelligence departments report somber moods

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at May 20, 2018 03:23 PM (Er5TT)

197 Posted by: Northernlurker lighter less filing at May 20, 2018 03:18 PM (eAMlh)
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I know that was Rhetorical, But NO they never have

Posted by: NOTHING IS GONNA HAPPEN at May 20, 2018 03:23 PM (y3aQB)

198 I just checked yaHOOOooo news and there is nothing about this.

Can't be true. However, Trump! did make a mistake on when he publicly updated us on Melania's condition.

IMPEACH!!!!

Posted by: Bruce at May 20, 2018 03:24 PM (8ikIW)

199 This is worse than Watergate. I hope every single one of these corrupt fuckers ends up in prison for life.

Posted by: Jaqen H'ghar at May 20, 2018 03:24 PM (5fSr7)

200 Getting back to Sharyl Attkisson, she may be onto something with this tweet:

I think there's a major fallacy in focusing on the 2016 election without understanding the bigger part of the picture: *why* bad actors in intel community were so desperate to not have Trump elected. It's about what could be discovered about the past 10-20 years. Not just 2016.

Posted by: Lizzy


TheLibertyBell.com has a big lede linking to:
Attkisson posting the timeline of Obama and his peeps colluding against Trump. It's thorough.


Gitmo or the Aleutians, either one is fine by me.

Posted by: gNewt at May 20, 2018 03:24 PM (A4DFu)

201 "Treason doth never prosper."

Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at May 20, 2018 03:15 PM (Dp6qK)
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because, when it does, none dare call it treason.

Posted by: redc1c4 at May 20, 2018 03:24 PM (QDw86)

202 wonder if Trump's campaign was the only one that Bronco Bama had his people spy on?

-

It wouldn't surprise me in the least to learn that it's why Roberts decided Obamacare was suddenly a tax.

What happens to SCOTUS decisions when it's exposed?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - I choose to live my life as a black woman at May 20, 2018 03:25 PM (VgKNm)

203 I absolutely adore Trump. Not in a 65,000 texts sort of way, but you know what I mean. I pray often for his safety and the safety of his family.

Posted by: washrivergal at May 20, 2018 03:25 PM (dJklA)

204
Watergate??

Watergate was NOTHING. Watergate was blown out of proportion into a LEGEND by the Democrat party.

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at May 20, 2018 03:26 PM (Er5TT)

205 Wouldn't be surprised to find out a couple of other campaigns were spied on, too. That would be delicious.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy likes lobster at May 20, 2018 03:23 PM (GdWl+)
+++++++++++
I'd be shocked if they weren't embedded in and spying on every campaign going back to the first successful Reagan campaign. I suspect they got caught flat-footed by Reagan until too late to change anything, developed their playbook in '84, and then got to work in '88, refining and expanding all along.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 20, 2018 03:26 PM (hYcqw)

206 Gitmo or the Aleutians, either one is fine by me.

Posted by: gNew


Girlyman! I say build the prison atop Kilauea.

Posted by: pep at May 20, 2018 03:26 PM (LAe3v)

207 Ben Shapiro - Deep State Uni-Brow-Party

Posted by: garrett at May 20, 2018 03:27 PM (ndLr/)

208
Trump saying "go easy on Gen Flynn" is the equivalent to Watergate. Much ado about nothing.

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at May 20, 2018 03:27 PM (Er5TT)

209 >>Gitmo or the Aleutians, either one is fine by me.


Bikini Atoll

Posted by: garrett at May 20, 2018 03:27 PM (ndLr/)

210 Make Prison Ships Great Again.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Slavic Customer Service Rep. at May 20, 2018 03:28 PM (fA1SL)

211 85 Guess should get out and work on fallen tree some more
Posted by: Skip at May 20, 2018 02:53 PM (aC6Sd)

You be careful out there.

Posted by: m at May 20, 2018 03:28 PM (0bRDi)

212 Gitmo or the Aleutians, either one is fine by me.
Posted by: gNewt at May 20, 2018 03:24 PM (A4DFu)
++++++++++
Not me. Gitmo, for all of its reputation, is in a paradise. Aleutians are better, but my dad works up there so personally I'd prefer an alternative.

Annex a small chunk of Yukon Territory, near the Alcan and build a penal colony there. They can farm potatoes in permafrost.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 20, 2018 03:28 PM (hYcqw)

213 I am reconsidering, as I see an outgoing president creating international tensions between nuclear powers, in order to hide his own malfeasance!

Obama is a criminal, period!

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at May 20, 2018 03:19 PM (WDU9h)

Hear. Hear.

Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at May 20, 2018 03:29 PM (Dp6qK)

214 What I don't understand is why the AG, knowing this already, has not undertaken an investigation.

Something isn't right here. It shouldn't take public disclosure to get these things going.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 20, 2018 03:29 PM (J5Nd5)

215 I wonder if Trump's campaign was the only one that Bronco Bama had his people spy on?
...
Posted by: BackwardsBoy likes lobste
---------------


Bronco spying on U 2.

Posted by: gNewt at May 20, 2018 03:29 PM (A4DFu)

216 50
Valerie Jarret won't look good in an Orange Jumpsuit.

Posted by: garrett


Valerie Jarrett wouldn't look good in celestial robes and a halo.

Posted by: pep at May 20, 2018 03:29 PM (LAe3v)

217 THIS JUST IN!

We have NEW information about Trump's inflated golf handicap...

Posted by: The MSM at May 20, 2018 03:30 PM (JGBbg)

218 There's a common conflation of (A) Hillary's 33,000 deleted e-mails and (B) the DNC/Podesta hacked e-mails.

Trump and his people were half-jokingly asking the Russians (or anybody else who had them) to turn over A. "A" likely would prove Clinton Pay for Play and more. No matter their provenance, "A" was fair game as they were illegally deleted in the first place -- with the active involvement of Comey's FBI.

"B" wasn't as big a deal as the revelations were ignored by MSM, who used the hacking to build a brief against the Russians and by extension the Trump campaign. There's no evidence that the Trumpsters sought to get "B," but it's conflated with "A"

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 20, 2018 03:30 PM (pV/54)

219 139 Strzok, the guy who needed an insurance policy in case Trump got elected, was involved in....

Strzok can roll up the whole thing. With Page and Priestap and lots of documents corroborating.

One feckin guy sings, and it all comes out.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 20, 2018 03:09 PM (pV/54)

>>>

Could be, probably is what's been going on. If so, then Strzok isn't going to "take one for the Deep State/Anti-Trump/Progressive Team?" Talk about a traitor!

I noticed that the MFM has never broadcast any personal dirt about Stzrok and Page (such as even so much as confirming if they were cheating on their spouses). Like they did on Joe the Plumber and zillions of others who are threats to Progressives and their plans. The MFM must know from DoJ Deep State leakers if Stzrok or others are singing. All very curious at this time.

Posted by: Gref at May 20, 2018 03:30 PM (AMIL/)

220 188

by the way...

the rockets "ANTARES" and Cygnus are set to launch from Virginia at around 4am.

I like the names.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at May 20, 2018 03:21 PM (Er5TT)


I think it's great that Wallops Island is now being used for orbital launches, after decades of being a test facility.

I'd like to watch it, but I'll most likely be asleep then, since tomorrow is a work day.

Posted by: rickl at May 20, 2018 03:30 PM (sdi6R)

221 >>Why? If campaign aides were meeting with Russian cut outs and then bragging about it (see Papadapolous), why would it be scandalous for an informant to meet with him?



Shorter Ben Shapiro:"Trump broke me!"

https://tinyurl.com/y9zolkcr

Posted by: Lizzy at May 20, 2018 03:30 PM (W+vEI)

222 This week will be the beginning of a bad week leading to a even worse summer for Deep State faggits.

Posted by: Monk at May 20, 2018 03:30 PM (Wd0WT)

223 Hey Ben Shapiro. How does ordered logic work dickhead?

Posted by: Marcus T at May 20, 2018 03:31 PM (J5Nd5)

224 Obama has never won a major campaign without dirty tricks and the active help of MSM. Not a one.

Except maybe hapless Mitt, where he didn't need to cheat, but did.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 20, 2018 03:32 PM (pV/54)

225 "The linear progression of time -- how does it work?"

hah.

Savaging little Ben.

Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at May 20, 2018 03:32 PM (Dp6qK)

226
I think it's great that Wallops Island is now being used for orbital launches, after decades of being a test facility.


I never heard of Wallops until today!

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at May 20, 2018 03:32 PM (Er5TT)

227 What I don't understand is why the AG, knowing this already, has not undertaken an investigation.

Something isn't right here. It shouldn't take public disclosure to get these things going.
Posted by: Marcus T at May 20, 2018 03:29 PM (J5Nd5)
++++++++++
If we have learned anything during this saga, it might be that it *does* take public disclosure. If Sessions isn't asleep at the switch and is working with the Boss on a coordinated take-down operation, then this might make sense. You can't go after the deep state without air cover, and Trump's public salvo might be exactly that. You can't so easily suppress and obstruct an investigation (and disclosures from the same) that the President made public.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 20, 2018 03:33 PM (hYcqw)

228 As he was walking out the door, Obama pissed off the Russians and CREATED AN INTERNATIONAL CRISIS in order to obscure his own campaign meddling!

Then he had the IC UNCOVER Trumps attempts to defuse it as collusion with the enemy, and leak it to the media!

Okay, I vote he swings.


Posted by: Ray Van Dune at May 20, 2018 03:33 PM (WDU9h)

229 I wonder if Trump's campaign was the only one that Bronco Bama had his people spy on?

Wouldn't be surprised to find out a couple of other campaigns were spied on, too. That would be delicious.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy likes lobster at May 20, 2018 03:23 PM (GdWl+)


I have to wonder now about the Dem's reluctance to allow anyone to look at their computers in the Awan case.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at May 20, 2018 03:33 PM (Tnhbr)

230 >> "The linear progression of time -- how does it work?"


Do you want skidmarks?

Because. THIS is how you get skidmarks.

Posted by: garrett at May 20, 2018 03:33 PM (ndLr/)

231 Gee, thinking back there was a lot of stuff that came out of nowhere during Romney's run. Think Obama rolled out these methods for Mitt?

It would be interesting to look at that.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 20, 2018 03:33 PM (J5Nd5)

232 whoops I screwed up my rebuttal to Ben Shapiro, completely, and scored an own goal.

Posted by: ace at May 20, 2018 03:33 PM (8rNrN)

233 The linear progression of time -- how does it work?

++++

I find it amusing that the owner of a time machine would ask this question.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 20, 2018 03:33 PM (pvjTE)

234 If I must be in a prison in exile, please make it The Isle of Man.

Posted by: Barry! at May 20, 2018 03:34 PM (Wd0WT)

235 Gitmo or the Aleutians, either one is fine by me.
Posted by: gNewt at May 20, 2018 03:24 PM


What am I, chopped liver?

Posted by: Diego Garcia at May 20, 2018 03:34 PM (DMUuz)

236 What time is it?

https://tinyurl.com/y9kltumw

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 20, 2018 03:34 PM (UiRxW)

237 because, when it does, none dare call it treason.

Posted by: redc1c4 at May 20, 2018 03:24 PM (QDw86)

Which is funny that the effete snob Enron Krugman is out there calling it treason.

Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at May 20, 2018 03:35 PM (Dp6qK)

238 >>>230 >> "The linear progression of time -- how does it work?"


Do you want skidmarks?

Because. THIS is how you get skidmarks.

...

alas, i fucked up. The timeline goes something like this:

April 2016: MISFUD, not Halper, mentions the Russians hacking the emails to Papadoplous

May 2016: Papadoplous mentions this to Downer (the Australian diplomat)

September 2016: Halper asks Papadopolous about the emails (Papadopolous says he doesn't know anything)

I confused the dates and who it was (Misfud, Halper) doing the talking.

Posted by: ace at May 20, 2018 03:35 PM (8rNrN)

239 I'm friends with Ben on Kik.

Posted by: Barry! at May 20, 2018 03:36 PM (Wd0WT)

240 Strzok isn't going to "take one for the Deep State/Anti-Trump/Progressive Team


His ass isn't big enough to take on for the Deep State.

Posted by: Rosie Donnel at May 20, 2018 03:36 PM (A4DFu)

241 Marcus T, there has been extensive investigations going on for the last year.

It is much better to have had Congress as an active part in this. Eliminates the "Trump is a Dictator" argument. The appointment of Huber, by Sessions, makes sure there are no trials in DC.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 20, 2018 03:36 PM (C4Cm9)

242 Hot dogs are my favorite meat.

Posted by: Mitt Everyman Romney at May 20, 2018 03:36 PM (RHEDC)

243 232 whoops I screwed up my rebuttal to Ben Shapiro, completely, and scored an own goal.

Posted by: ace at May 20, 2018 03:33 PM (8rNrN)

++++

Plus, your correction ruined my joke. That's the part that really hurts.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 20, 2018 03:36 PM (pvjTE)

244 Why? If campaign aides were meeting with Russian cut outs and then bragging about it (see Papadapolous), why would it be scandalous for an informant to meet with him?

==

because the informant helped set up the trap ? and then informed on it ?

Posted by: runner at May 20, 2018 03:36 PM (/U6eQ)

245 What am I, chopped liver?
Posted by: Diego Garcia

Don't you have a 6 finger man to look for?


...MSM...Maxine WaterS...

Posted by: Bruce at May 20, 2018 03:36 PM (8ikIW)

246 What I don't understand is why the AG, knowing this already, has not undertaken an investigation.



Something isn't right here. It shouldn't take public disclosure to get these things going.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 20, 2018 03:29 PM
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Trump and sessions had to let this play out or risk stepping on the toes of the IG and Prosecutor that sessions appointed and screwing that criminal investigation up.

I have no doubt that they found out what was going on during the campaign in the last few weeks and months as the IG kept digging and reporting back to DOJ. But Trump has kept his mouth shut until something pops up in the NYT or some other place, then he blasts them.

This is all an attempt to get ahead of what is coming out in the IG report. And if the media is reporting that spying was actually taking place in Trump's campaign we are going to see even worse stuff revealed when the IG report goes public.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at May 20, 2018 03:36 PM (+Dllb)

247 >>What I don't understand is why the AG, knowing this already, has not undertaken an investigation.



Here's my optimistic take on Sessions: He and Trump intentionally had him sit back so that when he does strike, there can be no legitimate accusations of him impeding the Mueller investigation on Trump's behalf. Having Rosenstein do it means it was guided by a non-Trump appointee, which defuses any appearance of partisanship.

Also, having him stand down has been a big ol' rope-a-dope, as it has allowed all the players - Mueller, Rosenstein and the rest to actively attempt their coup while the Horowitz investigation was actively watching them, tracking and documenting their every move.

I'd like that to be true, anyway...

Posted by: Lizzy at May 20, 2018 03:37 PM (W+vEI)

248 Miss me yet?

Posted by: Jeb! at May 20, 2018 03:37 PM (DMUuz)

249 There's a whole lotta people in DC on their knees in front of a porcelain throne about now.

Along, not across.

Posted by: Fox2! at May 20, 2018 03:37 PM (brIR5)

250 >>alas, i fucked up.


Oh - you can get them doing squats, too.

Posted by: garrett at May 20, 2018 03:37 PM (ndLr/)

251 242 Hot dogs are my favorite meat.
Posted by: Mitt Everyman Romney at May 20, 2018 03:36 PM (RHEDC)

You and me both sailor.

Posted by: Barry! at May 20, 2018 03:37 PM (Wd0WT)

252 Sharyl Atkkisson being vindicated after all the stuff she's been victim to restores hope and vanquishes much of my cynicism.

Stalwart Homeric trooper through the thick of it.

Posted by: 13times at May 20, 2018 03:37 PM (K3B2k)

253 214 What I don't understand is why the AG, knowing this already, has not undertaken an investigation.

Something isn't right here. It shouldn't take public disclosure to get these things going.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 20, 2018 03:29 PM (J5Nd5)

It would not surprise me if there already is, and this "formal" announcement is part of the show that this is not Trump using the government to punish his enemies. Guy knows how to put on a great show.

Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at May 20, 2018 03:38 PM (Dp6qK)

254 248 Miss me yet?

Posted by: Jeb! at May 20, 2018 03:37 PM (DMUuz)

++++

Not yet. Why don't you go away some more to see if it kicks in.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 20, 2018 03:38 PM (pvjTE)

255 What time is it?

https://tinyurl.com/y9kltumw
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 20, 2018 03:34 PM (UiRxW)
++++++++++
I am tempted to buy it, but it would be one helluva mixed metaphor...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 20, 2018 03:38 PM (hYcqw)

256 226
I never heard of Wallops until today!

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at May 20, 2018 03:32 PM (Er5TT)


As a test facility, it was established in 1945 and predates Cape Canaveral. In the late 40s and early 50s, instrumented models of the new supersonic airplanes were attached to small solid-fuel rockets and launched. This was because wind tunnels at the time could not model conditions in the transonic region very well. After that period, lots of scientific sounding rockets were launched to study the upper atmosphere, a practice which continues to this day.

Posted by: rickl at May 20, 2018 03:39 PM (sdi6R)

257

Ace shoulda posted a pic of Jeff Sessions wearing a nightcap with this poat.

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at May 20, 2018 03:40 PM (Er5TT)

258 There's no evidence that the Trumpsters sought to get "B," but it's conflated with "A"

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 20, 2018 03:30 PM (pV/54)

Mueller is focusing on Stone and associates to try to establish the former (Podesta/DNC).

Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at May 20, 2018 03:40 PM (Dp6qK)

259 Yes, this is a real, full blown, legit Conspiracy and most likely the biggest, worst government scandal in US history.------------------------------------

I imagine so, but I'm pretty sure this type of thing is SOP for the Democrats/DS.

We only found about it because Trump won, and fights.
Why did John Roberts write the majority opinion on ObamaCare which then mysteriously became the dissent? This isn't a conspiracy theory, mind you. It was reported in Salon of all places. I would guess whatever the reason is is also a pretty fucking big scandal.

Posted by: Mega at May 20, 2018 03:40 PM (rv0Fo)

260 >>It would not surprise me if there already is, and this "formal" announcement is part of the show that this is not Trump using the government to punish his enemies. Guy knows how to put on a great show.



Like he did with McCabe.
He tweeted that shot across the bow about McCabe not making it to retirement, and sure enough, the FBI itself was already in the process of recommending he be fired.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 20, 2018 03:41 PM (W+vEI)

261 regardless, they're all gonna walk.

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at May 20, 2018 03:41 PM (Pg+x7)

262

rickl, how long you think those rockets will be visible to human eye after launch?

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at May 20, 2018 03:41 PM (Er5TT)

263 I am tempted to buy it, but it would be one helluva mixed metaphor...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 20, 2018 03:38 PM (hYcqw)
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I was }{ this close to buying it yesterday.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 20, 2018 03:41 PM (UiRxW)

264 Ace, you are correct is asking if the 'media' are traitors. The are, as a matter of strict fact, traitors. As are most on the commie islamo-sympathizing left.

Posted by: Eromero at May 20, 2018 03:41 PM (zLDYs)

265 Has everyone noticed that meuller's team and their leaks, comey, brennan and Senator mccain and his wife have gone completely silent in the last few days?

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at May 20, 2018 03:41 PM (+Dllb)

266

btw, notice how that fake hero cuck Trey Gowdy has absolutely no interest in any of this?

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at May 20, 2018 03:42 PM (Er5TT)

267 Lizzy, good read.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 20, 2018 03:42 PM (C4Cm9)

268 Very descriptive blog, I enjoyed that bit. Will there be a part
2?

Posted by: Riddleschoolunblocked.Com at May 20, 2018 03:42 PM (MFxkU)

269 Mueller got in so deep that he does not know how gracefully extricate himself from this fiasco; his moves look more and more desperate. He is trying to salvage his reputation, he hasn't accepted that the only way to do it is to shut this shiiit investigation down.

Posted by: runner at May 20, 2018 03:43 PM (/U6eQ)

270 Trump is going on offense bigly! Let's call it Operation Wolverine!
++++
http://bit.ly/2Li3qew

Posted by: NOTHING IS GONNA HAPPEN at May 20, 2018 03:44 PM (y3aQB)

271 Trump has a modus operandi where he gives bad actors a chance to get off the hook. If they blow it, he has license to go medieval on their ass.

Asking Comey to go easy on Flynn, when Trump knew Flynn was getting framed, is an example.

There were many media talking heads who said that Trump was crazy -- 25th Amendment Crazy! -- to say that the Obamans were spying on him during the campaign. Will they double down now?

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 20, 2018 03:44 PM (pV/54)

272 Did shit get real?

On a Sunday?

Posted by: eleven at May 20, 2018 03:44 PM (+lOpA)

273 262

rickl, how long you think those rockets will be visible to human eye after launch?
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at May 20, 2018 03:41 PM (Er5TT)


It depends on where you are. If you're near there, it should be bright and obvious. I've seen a couple launches from there at night from my front yard, which is 170 miles north of the site.

Posted by: rickl at May 20, 2018 03:45 PM (sdi6R)

274 I miss the burning skeleton heads.

Posted by: Weasel at May 20, 2018 03:45 PM (MVjcR)

275 Rest assured, if Trump is "tweeting" this now, he has all the backup information to go along with it. All of it. He is now waiting for the opposition to start circling the wagons this week, see who comes out of the woodwork, what they misdirect to, and what wrong moves they make.

I am expecting the STHTF well in time for the midterms (the good shit, our shit), and am waiting patiently for Trump to start ripping apart/demoralizing the various identity group factions of the Democrat Party. Reminding or informing each of them that the Democrats only want their vote and never deliver.
You will know it when you see it. I would not be surprised if General Eric Republican pulls ahead on the ballot by Septemberish.

Posted by: Mega at May 20, 2018 03:45 PM (rv0Fo)

276 Gitmo or the Aleutians, either one is fine by me.
Posted by: gNewt

Drop him off on Attu (or Kiska) with 2 x 30 day pallets of MREs. Every 30 days, LAPES another pallet on the beach. Pallets dispense one MRE 3 times a day, which may or may not correspond to local morning, noon and evening.

MRE consist is composed by surveying troops, and pulling the least favored types out of general circulation.

Posted by: Fox2! at May 20, 2018 03:45 PM (brIR5)

277 The Hammer of God. 45th

Posted by: cosmic debris at May 20, 2018 03:46 PM (WX+x0)

278 "He is trying to salvage his reputation,"

I believe he can get indicted over the Flynn Frame.

I don't understand his role in Uranium One, except for giving the Clintons a pass.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 20, 2018 03:46 PM (pV/54)

279 A Sunday Ace post, worthy of a part 2, with flaming skulls. The surprise will be that this went on in 2012 with Romney as well. He rolled over after the first debate.

Posted by: Uncle Si at May 20, 2018 03:46 PM (CCX7M)

280 i read the longest blog post last night that laid out a ton of theories, among them...

dnc was hacked by a russian university
dutch alerted fbi
fbi alerted dnc, who sat on it for five days, while they hired cyber-security.
meanwhile wiki tweets they will publish hills emails.
to counter, luccifer2 was created to cast doubt on wiki AND the luccifer stuff came from someone on the east coast on a laptop belonging to vp biden staff.

as it became apparent djt would be (r) nominee, leaks from hills staff to friendly print (wapo, politico) began appearing to create the whole russia!trump meme.

Posted by: concrete girl at May 20, 2018 03:46 PM (TNEdO)

281 Gitmo or the Aleutians, either one is fine by me.

Embrace the healing power of "and".

Posted by: King Solomon at May 20, 2018 03:46 PM (JGBbg)

282 When I was a soldier I had personal political beliefs (I voted for Reagan) but I took great pride in performing my duties apolitically. I considered it a duty and part of my oath. That same ethic should be demanded of every Federal employee and punished by firing - with extreme prejudice) if not adhered to.

Am I hopelessly naive? Fuck it, even if I am, that should be the goal of any honorable American.

Posted by: LGoPs at May 20, 2018 03:46 PM (DK0L4)

283 When I was a mere WeaselPup living in Tallahassee we used to see atmospheric sounding rockets launch from Elgin AFB.

Posted by: Weasel at May 20, 2018 03:47 PM (MVjcR)

284 I think it's great that Wallops Island is now being used for orbital launches, after decades of being a test facility.


I never heard of Wallops until today!

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at May 20, 2018 03:32 PM (Er5TT)
----

Went on a tour of Wallops and would recommend it to any enthusiasts out there.

Also, love that there is something called the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport. Such a mundane name for something so futuristic. Hey, it is the 21st Century after all.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 20, 2018 03:47 PM (qJtVm)

285 CBS News
@CBSNews
At DNC women's forum, Hillary Clinton declares Democrats stand for truth, evidence and facts

Maybe it's a stand-up routine. "Take my felonies, please!"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 20, 2018 03:47 PM (+y/Ru)

286 if meeting with a foreigner for dirt on a political opponent is "illegal" then what the "F" is meeting with Chris Steele?

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at May 20, 2018 03:47 PM (sB8d1)

287
The Sunday of the Long Knives.

Expect our "public intellectuals" and "thought leaders" explicitly to hope for assassination or military takeover.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 20, 2018 03:47 PM (KkX1P)

288 Campaign aides met with Russian cutouts hired by the Hillary Clinton campaign.

Posted by: Wodun at May 20, 2018 03:48 PM (Zrqab)

289 I miss the burning skeleton heads.
Posted by: Weasel at May 20, 2018 03:45 PM (MVjcR)
----
Ummm... I think the word you're looking for "skulls"

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 20, 2018 03:48 PM (UiRxW)

290 Ben Shapiro thought it was hilarious when a SWAT team raided Trump's lawyer.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 20, 2018 03:49 PM (rnAwa)

291 Help a moronic layman out -- is this a big deal? And who would conduct the investigation?

Posted by: joncelli, nominal Lutheran at May 20, 2018 03:49 PM (1FhAQ)

292 Eglin AFB not Elgin

Posted by: Weasel at May 20, 2018 03:49 PM (MVjcR)

293 coluzhion between Hillary and GOPe

Posted by: runner at May 20, 2018 03:49 PM (/U6eQ)

294 "I still don't see how mentioning the emails to anyone could be grounds to begin an investigation -- everyone was speculating about the idea that Russians had the emails for months; it was one of the reasons people said Clinton should be indicted -- and I'd like Ben Shapiro to explain that to me."


Everyone presumed the Russians had the deleted emails (even Strozk, IIRC, makes mention of possible state actors having gotten access). Everything that they have run with says they believe Russia had the emails.

That still does not explain why, little Ben, Misfud - conveniently disappeared - telling a Trump campaign guy the Russian's had them, would cause the early 2016 FBI/CIA descending on the Trump campaign with human intelligence operations, when they didn't even bother to seize and investigate hillary's or the DNC's fucking servers, if they were so g-damned concerned about national security!

I'd like to know what other leads and operations they had going on to pursue Russian meddling/hacking/email propagating, at the time. I expect we will see a distinct lack of interest in anyone other than someone with a connection to Trump.

Ben is an asshole who is playing games with the obvious implications. Stupid dwarf.

Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at May 20, 2018 03:49 PM (Dp6qK)

295 McCain, what does he say about this?
Why hasn't the media reported his position?

Posted by: gNewt at May 20, 2018 03:49 PM (A4DFu)

296 Shapiro should recall the equal balance test before going the tendentious route.

If the FBI started a counter intelligence investigation on the Hillary campaign on no basis whatsoever (a super peripheral volunteer to the campaing's fringe asserting Russia! had some contact with her campaign) then the left would be justifiably outraged.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Vigilance Committee supporter at May 20, 2018 03:49 PM (rBnYq)

297 The Democrat Party is the enemy of everything American. They prove it by word and deed every day and have been doing so for decades.

Posted by: LGoPs at May 20, 2018 03:50 PM (DK0L4)

298 Why dont the nevertrumpers want to clean this out, dont they think it will be much dirtier next time if this is allowed to stay in the system?
It will be one party state venezuela style if this isn't purged.

Posted by: muckrack at May 20, 2018 03:50 PM (RbR1e)

299 I miss the burning skeleton heads.
Posted by: Weasel


Ironic flame-upon-head imagery has been deferred until after Pentecost.

Posted by: mikeski at May 20, 2018 03:50 PM (JGBbg)

300 Is it popcorn time?

Posted by: josephistan at May 20, 2018 03:50 PM (ANIFC)

301 My favorite Wallops launch photo:

http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/space___s/misc/wallops-frog.html

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 20, 2018 03:50 PM (qJtVm)

302 Notice how PDT is calling on the DOJ and not a 2nd special counsel to investigate the DOJ/FBI? Snoozy Sessions has been playing possum, not snoozing. PDT is laying down an artillery barrage to prepare for the release of the OIG report followed by indictments by Huber.

Posted by: Hobo with a laptop at May 20, 2018 03:50 PM (Dgce0)

303 As soon as Ben Shapiro white knighted and started masturbating to fantasies of reattaching Michelle Fields arm back in place I knew I could never take him seriously about anything again.

Posted by: Froderick Wonkensteen at May 20, 2018 03:51 PM (+dsLj)

304 mc crains position is supine and very still

Posted by: cosmic debris at May 20, 2018 03:51 PM (WX+x0)

305 wasn't diego garcia married to frieda kahlo?

Posted by: Adobe Juan Calhoon Kenobe at May 20, 2018 03:51 PM (Nf7ch)

306 290
Ben Shapiro thought it was hilarious when a SWAT team raided Trump's lawyer.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 20, 2018 03:49 PM (rnAwa)

Isn't Shatpiro a lawyer himself?

Posted by: muckrack at May 20, 2018 03:51 PM (RbR1e)

307 In the midst of all this doom unt gloom, here's an upbeat item to cheer The Horde:

Former Secretary of State and 1st Runner Up in the 2016 United States Presidential Election, Hillary Rodham Clinton, will be awarded Harvard University's Radcliffe Medal in Cambridge, which Harvard says honors individuals
whose life and work have had a "transformative impact on society."

Hillary! was chosen because she's a "champion for human
rights," a "skilled legislator" and "an advocate of American leadership"
on the world stage.



Former Secretary of State and 2001 Radcliffe Medalist Madeleine
Albright will deliver a personal tribute to Hillary!, and Massachusetts
Attorney General Maura Healey will take part in a keynote conversation
with Hillary! Friday.

No word on access donations ticket prices, or whether autographed copies of Hillary!'s latest book will be available.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 20, 2018 03:51 PM (DMUuz)

308 And to press an obvious point that many have noted for almost a year (recently making an impression on Andy McCarthy) why hasn't Mueller yet secured the Goddamned DNC server, supposedly "hacked", and forming the entire basis of the "Russia hacked my election" investigation in the first place?

And where's Wasserman's laptop? Has anyone gone over what it shows the head DNC tech people knew or thought about "hacking" and what it also shows about who knew what when about Hillary's obviously illegal private server (as well as showing conspiracy, obstruction and perjury by Abadeen, Mills and others).

Where is DWS's Pakistani tech Awan these days, and why hasn't he been questioned what he knew when about the alleged "hacking" and what he knew about Hillary's server setup?

If in the 1970s it was "follow the money" in our time, it should be "follow the computer trail." It all leads straight to Hillary and the DNC.

Posted by: xnycpeasant at May 20, 2018 03:51 PM (koNhm)

309 we also have to realize the left is insane and any road to making anything anyone associated with trump into a crime is the only path they seek. since there is literally no chance a similar standard will be applied to them, who cares?

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at May 20, 2018 03:52 PM (sB8d1)

310 After all the fuss about Crossfire Hurricane a few days ago, and all the Rolling Stones puns in the comments here, I'm still shocked that no one (I'm pretty sure) has yet said "Mother's Little Halper".

Posted by: Dr. Weevil at May 20, 2018 03:52 PM (jGvNH)

311 The FBI knew Manafort was working with and for the Podesta Brothers when he had his Ukraine contacts, the very cause for his present indictment. Why then aren't they investigating the Podestas alongside Manafort/Gates and the Hillary campaign right alongside the Trump campaign?

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Vigilance Committee supporter at May 20, 2018 03:52 PM (rBnYq)

312 300 Is it popcorn time?
Posted by: josephistan at May 20, 2018 03:50 PM (ANIFC)

I have my Hitachi Wand plugged in and a gallon of lube.

Posted by: Not Stromy Daniels at May 20, 2018 03:52 PM (Wd0WT)

313 "And to press an obvious point that many have noted for almost a year (recently making an impression on Andy McCarthy) why hasn't Mueller yet secured the Goddamned DNC server, supposedly "hacked", and forming the entire basis of the "Russia hacked my election" investigation in the first place? "

becuase mueller has not investigated russian "collusion" or anything related to what the clinton campaign complained about but was rather a fishing expedition from the start, enabled by rosenstein.

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at May 20, 2018 03:53 PM (sB8d1)

314 "Treason doth never prosper."
=====

They are all honorable men.

-
Who, me?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 20, 2018 03:53 PM (+y/Ru)

315 289 I miss the burning skeleton heads.
Posted by: Weasel at May 20, 2018 03:45 PM (MVjcR)
----
Ummm... I think the word you're looking for "skulls"
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 20, 2018 03:48 PM (UiRxW)


lol

Posted by: eleven at May 20, 2018 03:53 PM (+lOpA)

316 >>Where is DWS's Pakistani tech Awan these days, and why hasn't he been questioned what he knew when about the alleged "hacking" and what he knew about Hillary's server setup?


The Awan hearing keeps getting rescheduled - Luke Rosiak, God bless him, has been all over this story. With the most recent postponement he was wondering who was assisting Swan in getting this done.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 20, 2018 03:54 PM (W+vEI)

317 I have this theory that Barky has pics of Mittens sucking cock backstage at an Angel concert and is using it to force Romney to run again.

Posted by: f'd at May 20, 2018 03:54 PM (UdKB7)

318 "Ben Shapiro thought it was hilarious when a SWAT team raided Trump's lawyer."

is there anyone in the judiciary or legal community that cares about the end of lawyer=client privilege for the sake of political games?

sad?

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at May 20, 2018 03:54 PM (sB8d1)

319 284
Went on a tour of Wallops and would recommend it to any enthusiasts out there.

Also, love that there is something called the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport. Such a mundane name for something so futuristic. Hey, it is the 21st Century after all.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 20, 2018 03:47 PM (qJtVm)


I went on the tour when I was a kid in the 60s. I was disappointed that there were no launches while I was there.

Here are a couple of lectures about Wallops Island history:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtKa3mtdf2Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHvTcTe8-ko

There are other videos on YouTube as well.

Posted by: rickl at May 20, 2018 03:54 PM (sdi6R)

320 @313
You know and I know, and yes the question is for this audience rhetorical. But its a point that could and should be made clearly for the general public. Really, Trump should immediately order to secure all the forensic evidence, which even the DNC couldn't spin to "obstruction" (how could one "obstruct" by getting even more evidence)?

Posted by: xnycpeasant at May 20, 2018 03:55 PM (koNhm)

321

The FBI knew Manafort was working with and for the Podesta Brothers when he had his Ukraine contacts, the very cause for his present indictment. Why then aren't they investigating the Podestas alongside Manafort/Gates and the Hillary campaign right alongside the Trump campaign?

==

remind me how was he working on behalf of podesta bros in Ukraine ?

Posted by: runner at May 20, 2018 03:55 PM (/U6eQ)

322 A Joe Scarborough music hit would go great with this post.

Posted by: Monk at May 20, 2018 03:55 PM (Wd0WT)

323 Why? If campaign aides were meeting with Russian cut outs and then bragging about it (see Papadapolous), why would it be scandalous for an informant to meet with him?


Maybe I'm getting the timeline wrong, too, but here's my question:

Why was there an informant embedded in the campaign in the first place? Was the informant already embedded prior to Papadapolous "bragging"? If so, then it might appear Ben is begging the question.

Posted by: Hands at May 20, 2018 03:55 PM (EzdLW)

324 The Russians owned the ISP Hillary's private server used to get to the internet, via a Luxembourg cut out company, so every single email she sent or received flowed through a Kremlin owned gateway before it got to its intended destination.

Did the FBI open a counter intelligence investigation of that hugely concerning national security fact? If not, why not?


Posted by: Huck Follywood, Vigilance Committee supporter at May 20, 2018 03:55 PM (rBnYq)

325 I have my Hitachi Wand plugged in and a gallon of lube.
Posted by: Not Stromy Daniels at May 20, 2018 03:52 PM (Wd0WT)
+++++++++++
If things pan out properly, you're gonna need a bigger boat: https://tinyurl.com/y9ctjtv2

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 20, 2018 03:55 PM (hYcqw)

326 NOOD -- I think most of the horde went to talk about food

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 20, 2018 03:56 PM (5Yee7)

327 And to press an obvious point that many have noted
for almost a year (recently making an impression on Andy McCarthy) why
hasn't Mueller yet secured the Goddamned DNC server, supposedly
"hacked", and forming the entire basis of the "Russia hacked my
election" investigation in the first place?



And where's Wasserman's laptop? Has anyone gone over what it shows
the head DNC tech people knew or thought about "hacking" and what it
also shows about who knew what when about Hillary's obviously illegal
private server (as well as showing conspiracy, obstruction and perjury
by Abadeen, Mills and others).



Where is DWS's Pakistani tech Awan these days, and why hasn't he
been questioned what he knew when about the alleged "hacking" and what
he knew about Hillary's server setup?



If in the 1970s it was "follow the money" in our time, it should be
"follow the computer trail." It all leads straight to Hillary and the
DNC.



Posted by: xnycpeasant at May 20, 2018 03:51 PM (koNhm)


THIS x 1000

Posted by: LGoPs at May 20, 2018 03:56 PM (DK0L4)

328 remind me how was he working on behalf of podesta bros in Ukraine ?

Posted by: runner at May 20, 2018 03:55 PM (/U6eQ)
======================their firm employed him. that's why the firm closed down.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Vigilance Committee supporter at May 20, 2018 03:56 PM (rBnYq)

329 Posted by: Diego Garcia at May 20, 2018 03:34 PM (DMUuz)

Diego Garcia, like Ascension Island, is British territory. Gitmo is ours.

Posted by: Fox2! at May 20, 2018 03:57 PM (brIR5)

330 "Who hacked the DNC server" was part of Mueller's mandate, as he took over the FBI investigation of it.
But we know he hasn't done a goddamn thing about it, wanting the conclusion of 17 agencies to go down as the official record.

It's amazing that the physical fates of the DNC server and the Weiner laptop are publicly unknown, and not even asked about by MSM

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 20, 2018 03:57 PM (pV/54)

331 their firm employed him. that's why the firm closed down.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Vigilance Committee supporter at May 20, 2018 03:56 PM (rBnYq)

that's what I am asking, what was he doing for them in Ukraine ?

Posted by: runner at May 20, 2018 03:57 PM (/U6eQ)

332

McCain, what does he say about this?


*Beep* ala Capt. Pike.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy likes lobster at May 20, 2018 03:57 PM (GdWl+)

333 Strozk and Page are singing like birds.
It's the only reason they are still on the payroll.

Posted by: navybrat, chillin' and thrillin' at May 20, 2018 03:58 PM (w7KSn)

334 At DNC women's forum, Hillary Clinton declares Democrats stand for truth, evidence and facts
------------------
And they sit for rising black employment and American citizens murdered by illegals.

Posted by: Mega at May 20, 2018 03:58 PM (rv0Fo)

335 TREAT HER LIKE A LADY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmXkFyH2Vl0

Posted by: The Cornelius Brothers w/ Sister Rose at May 20, 2018 04:00 PM (ndLr/)

336 Posted by: Huck Follywood, Vigilance Committee supporter at May 20, 2018 03:56 PM (rBnYq)
+++++
NAH!!!, That Podesta Firm is dirtier than Manafort

Posted by: NOTHING IS GONNA HAPPEN at May 20, 2018 04:00 PM (y3aQB)

337 Odd how some of the key players have been silent lately, huh?

No more quotes from Comey or Brennan. I guess all that shit doesn't pass muster with their defense attorneys.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 20, 2018 04:00 PM (J5Nd5)

338 Food thread always makes me hungry. Can we talk about snail sex or something else?

Posted by: f'd at May 20, 2018 04:02 PM (UdKB7)

339 Posted by: navybrat, chillin' and thrillin' at May 20, 2018 03:58 PM (w7KSn)
++++
Page got fired about 10 days ago Strzok is still singing as is Priestap

Posted by: NOTHING IS GONNA HAPPEN at May 20, 2018 04:03 PM (y3aQB)

340 that's what I am asking, what was he doing for them in Ukraine ?

Posted by: runner at May 20, 2018 03:57 PM (/U6eQ)
========================Can't recall; it's ancient history anyway (ten years ago). Ask google, not me. Something faintly nefarious, in partnership with other bad people. The DOJ investigated it at the time and decided not to indict, but Mueller changed that judgment so as to pressure Manafort/Gates (as Judge Ellis noted). But where are their original co-defendants?

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Vigilance Committee supporter at May 20, 2018 04:04 PM (rBnYq)

341 And given the Cohen and Manafort precedents, I think Trump/Sessions should be ordering DOJ no-knock raids on Perkins Coie and Fusion GPS.

Seize their files, computers and put yellow tape around their offices. Incidentally they would of course be totally shut down for business, forced to spend a fortune to laywer up while watching all their clients jump like rats off a sinking ship.

Play by their rules.

Posted by: xnycpeasant at May 20, 2018 04:04 PM (koNhm)

342 I find the food thread depressing, since I don't have the cooking gene.

Posted by: rickl at May 20, 2018 04:04 PM (sdi6R)

343
292 Eglin AFB not Elgin
Posted by: Weasel at May 20, 2018 03:49 PM


Thanks for the correction, Weasel.

I was about to have to get a bit pedantic, as an 11 year veteran of VPS!

Posted by: Spun and Murky at May 20, 2018 04:05 PM (4DCSq)

344 "Strozk and Page are singing like birds. "

Singing to whom?

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at May 20, 2018 04:05 PM (H8QX8)

345 A real tell will be if the MSM talking heads ignore Trump's tweet storm.

The only angle I can see is they're claiming that the President shouldn't order DOJ investigations of political opponents, and avoid any discussion of the merits of Trump's charges.

The dumb ones will double down on Trump's being paranoid crazy, and how can he negotiate with Fat Boy while carrying our nuclear football.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 20, 2018 04:06 PM (pV/54)

346 Pint being Ace, the email conversation was a pretext for an op that was already conceived or partially in motion.

I don't think we know everything yet.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 20, 2018 04:08 PM (J5Nd5)

347 "It's amazing that the physical fates of the DNC server and the Weiner laptop are publicly unknown, and not even asked about by MSM"

i have a strong suspicion that everyone, including the media, knows where they are and who is sifting through them

Posted by: artemis at May 20, 2018 04:08 PM (AwPyG)

348 Can't recall; it's ancient history anyway (ten years ago). Ask google, not me. Something faintly nefarious, in partnership with other bad people. The DOJ investigated it at the time and decided not to indict, but Mueller changed that judgment so as to pressure Manafort/Gates (as Judge Ellis noted). But where are their original co-defendants?

=

you brought it up , not google, that is why I asked you. I recall Manafort's work with one of the Ukranian parties during their elections, and then - as a separate matter, Podestas working with someone there, but do not recall Manafort working or being employed by Podesta for his work with Ukraine, or being in any way tied to Podesta.

Posted by: runner at May 20, 2018 04:08 PM (/U6eQ)

349 "As soon as Ben Shapiro white knighted and started masturbating to fantasies of reattaching Michelle Fields arm back in place I knew I could never take him seriously about anything again."

Yes, that did it for me too. Mind boggling bad judgment. Like a little kid.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at May 20, 2018 04:08 PM (H8QX8)

350 The Russians owned the ISP Hillary's private server used to get to the internet, via a Luxembourg cut out company, so every single email she sent or received flowed through a Kremlin owned gateway before it got to its intended destination.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Vigilance Committee supporter
------------------------------


Man o Manischewitz that sounds delicious.
Will you share a citation of that?

Posted by: gNewt at May 20, 2018 04:09 PM (A4DFu)

351 The Michele Fields thing was just like the Chelsea! thing and the Meghan McCain thing and now the meghan markle thing--they are trying to find a person to be a celebrity rallying-point

Posted by: artemis at May 20, 2018 04:11 PM (AwPyG)

352 It's amazing that the same splooge-covered laptop that houses secrets which can take down the Clinton-Obama-Brennan-Comey Cabal houses a collection of mini-me Weiner dick pics.

Shit you can't make up.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 20, 2018 04:13 PM (pV/54)

353 A fitting repository.

Posted by: gNewt at May 20, 2018 04:13 PM (A4DFu)

354 Posted by: gNewt at May 20, 2018 04:09 PM (A4DFu)
==========================

It was from this site I learned it, back years ago when the events surrounding Hillary's server were first unfolding. It'll take some time to find again.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Vigilance Committee supporter at May 20, 2018 04:15 PM (rBnYq)

355 Why does everyone assume that it was only the Russians who hacked Hillary's emails? or the DNC server? There are dozens of other players with sufficient capability to do so - why wouldn't they?

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at May 20, 2018 04:15 PM (o7l6R)

356 What the Reagan Campaign did was try to get the inside scoop on Carter policy. Every campaign does that--and every reporter, too, Reagan was just trying to win an election, not rig one. So don't let them tell you 'Everyone does it.' Bullshit.

Reagan wasn't trying to wiretap and frame Jimmy Carter and Carter wasn't trying to wiretap and frame Reagan. There is a connection, though; Hillary got the "RUSSIA!"-hoax model from the Iranian October Surprise-hoax.

President Trump was wrong about one thing, though. He recently said the Mueller probe was one year old. The Mueller Hoax is merely a continuation of Brennan/Comey Coup cooked up in the Oval Office over two years ago.

Watergate was a footnote compared to this seditious conspiracy. And unlike Watergate, the #FakeNews today are helping the perps tape the door locks, erase the audio tapes and craft the Inoperative Statements.

And now they're twisting slowly, slowly in the wind.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at May 20, 2018 04:19 PM (Ndje9)

357 "And given the Cohen and Manafort precedents, I think Trump/Sessions should be ordering DOJ no-knock raids on Perkins Coie and Fusion GPS"

that this hasn't happened makes me feel like a second class citizen.

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at May 20, 2018 04:21 PM (sB8d1)

358 356 The Gipper Lives

I like it.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 20, 2018 04:21 PM (hyuyC)

359 you brought it up , not google, that is why I asked
you. I recall Manafort's work with one of the Ukranian parties during
their elections, and then - as a separate matter, Podestas working with
someone there, but do not recall Manafort working or being employed by
Podesta for his work with Ukraine, or being in any way tied to Podesta.

Posted by: runner at May 20, 2018 04:08 PM (/U6eQ)
First, it hardly matters at all what they were doing together. But since you care, here's the first link that popped up in the thousands of returned hits. Just do your own search and you will no doubt find hours of happy reading.

https://tinyurl.com/y8qmtryz

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Vigilance Committee supporter at May 20, 2018 04:21 PM (rBnYq)

360 "The FBI has repeatedly lied about the origins of this "investigation." First it was sparked by the Steele Dossier. When the highly dubious and partisan nature of the document was revealed, they edited their story to claim it all originated with this Papadopolous mention of the emails to Downer."

someone bragging about having the emails that hillary lost sparks an investigation into *that* person?

what?

This makes no sense.

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at May 20, 2018 04:22 PM (sB8d1)

361 Also, to be honest, hasn't every deepstate swamp creature known this day was coming once Trump won the election?

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at May 20, 2018 04:23 PM (sB8d1)

362 One fib we were sold is that no one hacked Hillary's home brew secret server, But it was only because of hack of Sid Vicious that turned up an e-mail from that server that publicly disclosed HRC was using that server.

Another fib was that it was only the Russians that could have hacked the DNC and Podesta. FFS, Podesta himself got phished, and there's evidence that the DNC hack had to be an inside job because of the recorded download speed.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 20, 2018 04:25 PM (pV/54)

363 "I still don't see how mentioning the emails to anyone could be grounds to begin an investigation -- everyone was speculating about the idea that Russians had the emails for months; it was one of the reasons people said Clinton should be indicted -- and I'd like Ben Shapiro to explain that to me."

lol. and mueller wanted to question trump about his public joke about "if anyone has the emails...maybe russia? let us know" as if that's crime.

The underlying, insane, idea that talking to foreigners who may have dirt on someone is somehow bad itself has to be demolished.

I watched SNL last night, and the 4 minutes of it that were watchable were...meh...but the trump stuff, they're -get this- all in on the idea that merely meeting with russians, is itself evil.

uhhh, what a world they weave...

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at May 20, 2018 04:26 PM (sB8d1)

364 Tony Podesta left the firm on October 30, 2017, after finding out about increased scrutiny of the firm
+++++
the Podesta Group is mentioned in the indictment as one of the companies that lobbied on behalf of the Ukrainian government for Manafort and Gates. On that day, Tony Podesta stepped down as head of the Podesta Group.[15]

Posted by: NOTHING IS GONNA HAPPEN at May 20, 2018 04:26 PM (y3aQB)

365 "FS, Podesta himself got phished, and there's evidence that the DNC hack had to be an inside job because of the recorded download speed."

first, obviously you owe an apology to all 17 intel agencies who devoted untold hours investigating this...you're clearly anti-intellgience community.

second, mueller hasn't looked into any of this because he was never interested in it.

there needs to be a special counsel to audit the first special counsel.

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at May 20, 2018 04:27 PM (sB8d1)

366 Also, to be honest, hasn't every deepstate swamp creature known this day was coming once Trump won the election?

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at May 20, 2018 04:23 PM
-----------------
I bet they thought it would never come out this quick and that rosenstien and meuller would stall and stall long enough for the Statue of Limitations clock to run out and everyone would say....never mind.

Either that or they thought hillary was such a lock to win that they didn't even think that far ahead.

If I was strozk or some other high ranking FBI/DOJ guy that was in on this plot I would have ran to the IG and thrown myself on their mercy asking for immunity to spill my guts.

But that's just me and I would have never got involved in anything like this in the first place.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at May 20, 2018 04:29 PM (+Dllb)

367 "question trump about his public joke about "if anyone has the emails...maybe russia? let us know" "

And Katy Tur immediately asked Trump "doesn't that give you pause that you're consorting with a foreign government." The joke went over her tits.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 20, 2018 04:30 PM (pV/54)

368 I believe Devin Nunes outsmarted Rat Rosenstein by turning down the Friday meeting (w/DOJ). Furthermore, Nunes is correct...Rat Rosenstein had no intention of giving Nunes the info he was seeking regarding the August 17 memo to Mueller clarifying his "role" vis-a-vis his SC powers.

Nunes rightly has come to the conclusion that the meeting was merely cover for the NYT & WaPo cover stories....that the FBI/DOJ were spying on the Trump campaign in order to save us from ourselves, or whatever this idiocy is that the MsM is trying to push. Obviously, nothing has changed regarding selective leaking from DOJ/FBI deep state operators. Do you smell desperation? I do.

Posted by: NOTHING IS GONNA HAPPEN at May 20, 2018 04:30 PM (y3aQB)

369 The joke couldn't have gone over my head. My reflexes are too fast. I would have caught it.

Posted by: Katy Tur's Tits at May 20, 2018 04:31 PM (pV/54)

370 "FS, Podesta himself got phished, and there's evidence that the DNC hack had to be an inside job because of the recorded download speed."
++++
Zombie Seth Rich applauds vociferously

Posted by: NOTHING IS GONNA HAPPEN at May 20, 2018 04:32 PM (y3aQB)

371 Podesta himself got phished, and there's evidence that the DNC hack had to be an inside job because of the recorded download speed.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 20, 2018 04:25 PM (pV/54)

It wasn't recorded download speed, it was file write times. That evidence is inconclusive, as the files could be downloaded to a device, and then copied locally to give that evidence of write times.

Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at May 20, 2018 04:32 PM (Dp6qK)

372 And Katy Tur immediately asked Trump "doesn't that give you pause that you're consorting with a foreign government." The joke went over her tits.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 20, 2018 04:30 PM (pV/54)

-

It would be interesting to know when they were given the story.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - I choose to live my life as a black woman at May 20, 2018 04:34 PM (VgKNm)

373 Unless sessions unrecuses himself, his recusal specifically removes him from "all matters" dealing w the "elections." That's why wittes referenced rosenstein and wray; they would be the "investigators," G-d help us.

Posted by: Ever at May 20, 2018 04:35 PM (OLS0m)

374
TheLastRefuge
Finally!! #TheBigUgly

The zippo is airborne..

Posted by: NOTHING IS GONNA HAPPEN at May 20, 2018 04:35 PM (y3aQB)

375 Unless sessions unrecuses himself, his recusal specifically removes him from "all matters" dealing w the "elections." That's why wittes referenced rosenstein and wray; they would be the "investigators," G-d help us.
+++
have you done any reading about Jon Huber??

Posted by: NOTHING IS GONNA HAPPEN at May 20, 2018 04:36 PM (y3aQB)

376 @371 I stand corrected.

But at best the Russians are suspects. Someone here said that it's like coming home to find a burgled home with a strange empty can of Fosters in the hallway, and then saying the Aussies did it.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 20, 2018 04:36 PM (pV/54)

377 I continue to believe that the best punishment for Ex-President Cock-Curious would be to spend the rest of his life stranded on a deserted island with only Mooch as company.

Likewise Hillary stranded with Bill. No underaged pussy available for Bill and no alcohol for Hillary.

Posted by: Sharkman at May 20, 2018 04:37 PM (+BKF+)

378 isn't this, in a way, an attempt by trump to obstruct justice...I mean, right?

--the SNL,NYT,CNN writers' rooms, all at once.

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at May 20, 2018 04:37 PM (sB8d1)

379 >>Likewise Hillary stranded with Bill. No underaged pussy available for Bill and no alcohol for Hillary.


And no lube for the Obamas.

Posted by: garrett at May 20, 2018 04:38 PM (ndLr/)

380 But at best the Russians are suspects. Someone here said that it's like coming home to find a burgled home with a strange empty can of Fosters in the hallway, and then saying the Aussies did it."

yeah, even worse than that...or maybe just like that...there's plenty of spoofing software out there, so easy a caveman can use it.

It's like saying clark kent couldn't be superman because superman doesn't wear glasses.

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at May 20, 2018 04:39 PM (sB8d1)

381 Brennan responds with a warning to Yertle and Eddie Munster:

https://tinyurl.com/ybtvvz83

Shit's getting real.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at May 20, 2018 04:39 PM (4ErVI)

382 trump's order to investigate spying on his campaign should conflict out rosenstein as well. maybe also mueller.

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at May 20, 2018 04:42 PM (sB8d1)

383 381
Brennan responds with a warning to Yertle and Eddie Munster:



https://tinyurl.com/ybtvvz83



Shit's getting real.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at May 20, 2018 04:39 PM (4ErVI)

The orwellian mentality of Brennan is amazing.
His corruption being exposed is a threat to democracy!?

Posted by: muckrack at May 20, 2018 04:44 PM (RbR1e)

384 Brennan responds with a warning to Yertle and Eddie Munster:



https://tinyurl.com/ybtvvz83



Shit's getting real.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at May 20, 2018 04:39 PM
----------------------------
He also sent a veiled threat to Trump in a tweet where he referenced Cicero:
"Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

Marcus Tullius Cicero, (106-43 BC)"
Cicero was assassinated for speaking up about the corrupt Emperors of Rome and wanted a return to the Republican style of Government.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at May 20, 2018 04:45 PM (+Dllb)

385 Likewise Hillary stranded with Bill. No underaged pussy available for Bill and no alcohol for Hillary.

Put em on an island together. Bill and Hill and Barry and Hairy.

Posted by: Shep at May 20, 2018 04:45 PM (UdKB7)

386 @381 Brennan's tweet in full:

"Senator McConnell & Speaker Ryan: If Mr. Trump continues along this disastrous path, you will bear major responsibility for the harm done to our democracy. You do a great disservice to our Nation & the Republican Party if you continue to enable Mr. Trump's self-serving actions."

Why is this addressed to McConnell and Ryan?

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 20, 2018 04:46 PM (pV/54)

387 Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at May 20, 2018 04:45 PM (+Dllb)
++++
that is why the VSG PDT has his own security detail

Posted by: NOTHING IS GONNA HAPPEN at May 20, 2018 04:46 PM (y3aQB)

388
Why is this addressed to McConnell and Ryan?

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 20, 2018 04:46 PM (pV/54)

Partners in crime?

Posted by: muckrack at May 20, 2018 04:47 PM (RbR1e)

389 Why is this addressed to McConnell and Ryan?

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 20, 2018 04:46 PM (pV/54)

He has dirt on them.

Ryan is resigning. McConnell chi-com dirt is out. Is there more?

Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at May 20, 2018 04:49 PM (Dp6qK)

390 "Senator McConnell & Speaker Ryan: If Mr. Trump continues along this disastrous path, you will bear major responsibility for the harm done to our democracy. You do a great disservice to our Nation & the Republican Party if you continue to enable Mr. Trump's self-serving actions."

wow, he needs a better lawyer. he should remain silent, as it is within his rights.

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at May 20, 2018 04:50 PM (sB8d1)

391 yeah, can someone tweet that to him?

"you need a better lawyer. You should remain silent, as it is within your rights"

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at May 20, 2018 04:51 PM (sB8d1)

392 Why is this addressed to McConnell and Ryan?

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 20, 2018 04:46 PM (pV/54)

Yeah, what's with that?

The DOJ is not in Congress' bailiwick.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 20, 2018 04:52 PM (8iiMU)

393 "He also sent a veiled threat to Trump in a tweet where he referenced Cicero:"

The benefits of a classical education.

Posted by: Zombie Hans Gruber at May 20, 2018 04:53 PM (pV/54)

394 Brennan's afraid they'll reveal his plan to make Islam the official state religion.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 20, 2018 04:53 PM (gm9yG)

395 The DOJ is not in Congress' bailiwick.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 20, 2018 04:52 PM (8iiMU)

Oversight is, as is committee assignments, and impeachment proceedings.

Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at May 20, 2018 04:53 PM (Dp6qK)

396 Brennan is making a lot of public thinly-veiled threats of late.

Someone should tweet/ask him whether he will be taking the fall for Bronco.

Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at May 20, 2018 04:54 PM (Dp6qK)

397 *adds Brennan to list of people whose graves will be pissed on before I go*

Posted by: Sharkman at May 20, 2018 04:55 PM (+BKF+)

398 384
He also sent a veiled threat to Trump in a tweet where he referenced Cicero:
"Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

Marcus Tullius Cicero, (106-43 BC)"
Cicero was assassinated for speaking up about the corrupt Emperors of Rome and wanted a return to the Republican style of Government.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at May 20, 2018 04:45 PM (+Dllb)


Sure sounds like a threat to me. Is that actionable?

Posted by: rickl at May 20, 2018 04:55 PM (sdi6R)

399 rudy says comey should be prosecuted? sure, sure...get em all. Give them the Flynn treatment,.

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at May 20, 2018 04:55 PM (sB8d1)

400 392 The DOJ is not in Congress' bailiwick.

I thought brennan was suggesting impeachment/conviction. which is a scary thought to think former head of the spooks is directing Congress to impeach a President.

Posted by: Ever at May 20, 2018 04:59 PM (OLS0m)

401 I thought brennan was suggesting impeachment/conviction. which is a scary thought to think former head of the spooks is directing Congress to impeach a President.

Posted by: Ever at May 20, 2018 04:59 PM (OLS0m)

It is status quo for the IC, says Schumer.


http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/ 312605-schumer-trump-being- really-dumb-by-going-after-intelligence-community

Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at May 20, 2018 05:04 PM (Dp6qK)

402 >>He also sent a veiled threat to Trump in a tweet where he referenced Cicero:
"Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

Marcus Tullius Cicero, (106-43 BC)"
Cicero was assassinated for speaking up about the corrupt Emperors of Rome and wanted a return to the Republican style of Government.




Holy sh#t that is messed up.
I would think Brennan's call to Ryan and McConnell may be veiled so only they know what he really means (given spying on Trump, is it too much of a leap that he and Obama have the goods on them too? In hindsight, sure looks like Bob Menendez was burned for fighting the Iran deal).

Posted by: Lizzy at May 20, 2018 05:04 PM (W+vEI)

403 Brennan is a useful idiot.

He is exactly the type to not know that he is nothing more tha a Tool and as such he is disposable / replaceable.

Posted by: garrett at May 20, 2018 05:06 PM (ndLr/)

404 As expected, MSM spin is that Trump is improperly asking the DOJ to attack his political enemies. Avoid the merits.

NYT is already ballistic.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 20, 2018 05:07 PM (pV/54)

405 This is interesting to: Carter Page tweeted Halper and included screenshot of an email from him. Think he's telling him he has documented all of their contact?

https://twitter.com/carterwpage/status/
998131289063591936

Posted by: Lizzy at May 20, 2018 05:09 PM (W+vEI)

406 If they were really worried about who ended up with Hillary's e-mails they would have arrested Hillary for letting so many people, down to the lowliest pervert in NYC, have access to them.

The only interest I think they really have in the e-mails is that there will likely be a lot of stuff that they allowed Hillary to scrub which would come to light if someone else had them. The Russians knowing all of that and using it against us is one thing. But Trump having it and exposing them is another. They would do anything to stop that from happening (especially during a campaign) since it would threaten their cozy, incestuous clique, and nothing is more important to them than their own comfort and power. It had to really shake them to have thousands of people chanting, "lock her up!" Everyone involved in the wrongdoing had a stake in those e-mails staying hidden, or getting out in front of the news if they were found and that can lead to desperate actions.

Once they started investigating a presidential campaign there was no going back and it snowballed after that point. So I guess maybe that is an additional theory of how this all happened to go with the idea that it was all just a pretext and set-up from the start. I am not sure which I believe. Maybe some of both depending on who the player is in the farce. But it seems like there could certainly be more than one motivation at work here. At the very least it helps explain why they chose such a flimsy and ridiculous pretext to justify spying.

They are telling us what they were afraid of, just lying about why. They feared Trump having that information more than they did Putin having it because if Trump had it we would have it, and that just wouldn't do at all.

Posted by: thatch at May 20, 2018 05:09 PM (DVIuX)

407 "404 As expected, MSM spin is that Trump is improperly asking the DOJ to attack his political enemies. Avoid the merits.

NYT is already ballistic."

well, duh, we're at war here. The left's usual insanity, projection, is at play as they're incensed at someone allegedly doing that which they know they've done.

step 1. deny you spied on trump
step 2. ok, fine, admit you spied on trump
step 3. whoa, you can't investigate your political opponents!

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at May 20, 2018 05:10 PM (sB8d1)

408 I have been calling for Trump to do this from the get go.

Once Sessions recused himself and Obama appointee Rosenstein assumes the role of AG, you knew these fucks would stonewall any attempts to properly investigate themselves.

What I see happening is Trump states issuing EOs, the FIB and DOJ tell him to go poundsand, Trump shit cans Sessions and Rosenstein, he names someone already confirmed as AG and away we go.

Posted by: Kreplach at May 20, 2018 05:12 PM (UfMVm)

409 >>NYT is already ballistic."


Have to assume this is exactly what Trump wants - he's been playing them via twitter for over a year now. LOL!

Recall how he first tweeted about the wiretapping a little before 4:00am on a Saturday morning. He's just now messed up the Sunday of the MSM who are no doubt scrambling to counter him.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 20, 2018 05:14 PM (W+vEI)

410 As expected, MSM spin is that Trump is improperly asking the DOJ to attack his political enemies.

The old 'I Know You Are, But What Am I' gambit: 'Trump was spied on. Wanting to know why is partisan and dishonest.'

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 20, 2018 05:14 PM (oVJmc)

411 "They feared Trump having that information more than they did Putin having it"

A lot of foreign money got laundered through the Chelsea Legacy Foundation. I haven't found a serious analysis of where that money went. There's evidence that it was used to pre-game Hillary's campaign (e.g. Sid Vicious was on payroll). I suspect bribes were made to D super-delegates who went for Hillary before the campaign started (this made it impossible for a regular candidate to get funding.) And the kids of MSM got cushy jobs.

There's a lot of exposure

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 20, 2018 05:14 PM (pV/54)

412 step 3. whoa, you can't investigate your political opponents!

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at May 20, 2018 05:10 PM (sB8d1)

It's "just for their own safety"...

Posted by: muckrack at May 20, 2018 05:15 PM (RbR1e)

413 Trump already has proof in the OIG report and other sources. He doesn't need the DC DOJ.

The jokes on them.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 20, 2018 05:17 PM (pV/54)

414 413
Trump already has proof in the OIG report and other sources. He doesn't need the DC DOJ.



The jokes on them.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 20, 2018 05:17 PM (pV/54)

Probably , he works very systematic.

Posted by: muckrack at May 20, 2018 05:19 PM (RbR1e)

415 Have we started the fire?

Posted by: Monk at May 20, 2018 05:21 PM (Wd0WT)

416 As expected, MSM spin is that Trump is improperly asking the DOJ to attack his political enemies.

As I said the other night, the Left is now projecting projection.

Posted by: rickl at May 20, 2018 05:29 PM (sdi6R)

417 As expected, MSM spin is that Trump is improperly asking the DOJ to attack his political enemies. Avoid the merits.

NYT is already ballistic.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 20, 2018 05:07 PM (pV/54)
++++
Because the Slim Slimes & most of the Boston,NYC & D.C. media is in the deep state's back pocket

Posted by: NOTHING IS GONNA HAPPEN at May 20, 2018 05:30 PM (y3aQB)

418 Trump shit cans Sessions and Rosenstein, he names someone already confirmed as AG and away we go.
++++
& this is why you don't have a fucking clue abourt what is happening ! any AG has to be confirmed by Senate

Posted by: NOTHING IS GONNA HAPPEN at May 20, 2018 05:34 PM (y3aQB)

419 Popcorn futures soar as Big Week begins!

Bring on the Big Ugly!

Posted by: The Garbone at May 20, 2018 05:37 PM (9dH/8)

420 Rosenstein will investigate the investigation he was a part of?

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 20, 2018 05:39 PM (oVJmc)

421 They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind.

Posted by: NOTHING IS GONNA HAPPEN at May 20, 2018 05:39 PM (y3aQB)

422 Glenn Greenwald, ace? Yeah, sure, I get it. But c'm9n...

I believe the AoSHQ Stylebook lists Even as Glenn Greenwald's first name. As in 'Even Glenn Greenwald admits ...'.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at May 20, 2018 05:41 PM (yQpMk)

423 I have a vision of Trump sitting down with Mueller and turning tables to lay down a hand of Aces.

"I've known all the dirt on all you corrupt fucks for a year. Guess what, I fired your cocksucking pal Comey because he was the most corrupt fuck to hold major office ever, except for Brennan, and I've got all the dirt on him. And on you. You want me to keep talking under oath? I'll stop, but first ..."

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 20, 2018 05:43 PM (pV/54)

424 http://bit.ly/2LgCqfl
++++
Tracybeanz on Twitter: "1. I am about to blow your minds with this thread.

Posted by: NOTHING IS GONNA HAPPEN at May 20, 2018 05:43 PM (y3aQB)

425 "Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

Marcus Tullius Cicero, (106-43 BC)"



I must admit that I look forward to the day that Chuck Schumer's severed hands are nailed to the doors of the Senate.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at May 20, 2018 05:45 PM (yQpMk)

426 https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/998242710824869888.html
+++++
Threadreader version is much easier to read

Posted by: NOTHING IS GONNA HAPPEN at May 20, 2018 05:49 PM (y3aQB)

427 418 & this is why you don't have a fucking clue abourt what is happening ! any AG has to be confirmed by Senate

No the Vacancies Act would permit PDT to place Scott Pruitt in that position (bc he has been Senate confirmed.) And, that's one of the reasons the left has accused Pruitt of malfeasance, his ability to take over the AG position.

Posted by: Ever at May 20, 2018 05:53 PM (OLS0m)

428 Posted by: Ever at May 20, 2018 05:53 PM (OLS0m)
++++
Not if the Head was fired

Posted by: NOTHING IS GONNA HAPPEN at May 20, 2018 06:05 PM (y3aQB)

429 http://bit.ly/2IA8OaO
+++++
Nunes: If Informant Reporting Is True, It Is a 'Absolute Red Line,' 'This Is Over' | Breitbart

Posted by: NOTHING IS GONNA HAPPEN at May 20, 2018 06:07 PM (y3aQB)

430 I wonder how close Hillary is to a full on psychotic break. She's not stopped campaigning in years. She's physically coming undone before our eyes. Whatever ailment she suffers from cannot continue to be concealed from the public. Her alcoholism. Her meds. It's all building to a soft sigh, a bottle of pills clattering on a tiled floor and a cold, limp hand dangling from a bed mattress.

And when she does finally faulter and fail? Her lackeys will slip away as the press devour her like a pack of wilding hyena.

And she knows it. All in stark relief.

I'm thirsty. Anyone want a ice cold Fresca?



Posted by: 13times at May 20, 2018 06:27 PM (K3B2k)

431 If I had writing chops I'd write a tale with a set of of the plotters hoist on their own petards. Hillary OD's. Huma runs to the ME and ends up married to a lout cuz no one else would have her. Barky flees to Indonesia and is again shunned by local muslims. Brennan and Clapper in Leavenworth. A bunch of high end journolists are not just fired but sued for slander and end up in places like Minneapolis writing the local fashion and culture columns with assignments like covering the state fair.

Posted by: PaleRider, simply irredeemable at May 20, 2018 06:35 PM (84F5k)

432 This is all so unexpected and shocking. I may need to lie down.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 20, 2018 06:42 PM (/tuJf)

433 432 This is all so unexpected and shocking. I may need to lie down.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 20, 2018 06:42 PM (/tuJf)

Wondering where you went. I figured you'd checked into the mental ward with cognitive dissonance overload.

Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at May 20, 2018 06:43 PM (Dp6qK)

434 Well that was fast....


Rod Rosenstein asks DOJ inspector general to review possible Trump campaign infiltration


http://tinyurl.com/ya4f74ha

Posted by: Tami at May 20, 2018 06:46 PM (Enq6K)

435 Well that was fast....


Rod Rosenstein asks DOJ inspector general to review possible Trump campaign infiltration


http://tinyurl.com/ya4f74ha
Posted by: Tami at May 20, 2018 06:46 PM (Enq6K)


I wonder if Rosie had a "fuck THIS shit" moment this afternoon and is rolling over on The Dem-Media Complex Conspiracy.

Posted by: filbert at May 20, 2018 06:49 PM (953wK)

436 Wondering where you went. I figured you'd checked into the mental ward with cognitive dissonance overload.

Why would I do anything other than I did, have a great day on the ocean watching the Volvo boats head for Europe.

None of this is the least bit surprising. This is exactly what I thought would happen.

You want kabuki? I give you Donald Trump and Jeff Sessions pretending this entire thing isn't staged.

Hint, it is.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 20, 2018 06:50 PM (/tuJf)

437 I give you Donald Trump and Jeff Sessions pretending this entire thing isn't staged.

Hint, it is.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 20, 2018 06:50 PM (/tuJf)

I think that was my first post in this thread.

Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at May 20, 2018 06:54 PM (Dp6qK)

438 I wonder how close Hillary is to a full on psychotic break. She's not stopped campaigning in years. She's physically coming undone before our eyes. Whatever ailment she suffers from cannot continue to be concealed from the public. Her alcoholism. Her meds. It's all building to a soft sigh, a bottle of pills clattering on a tiled floor and a cold, limp hand dangling from a bed mattress.

And when she does finally faulter and fail? Her lackeys will slip away as the press devour her like a pack of wilding hyena.

Posted by: 13times at May 20, 2018 06:27 PM (K3B2k)

God, what a wonderful scenario. I orgasmed at least twice. I'm going to smoke a cigarette in the after-glow of good sex.

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at May 20, 2018 06:55 PM (9BLnV)

439 Apropos of nothing, Bastille Day is comes up in mid-July.

Posted by: andycanuck at May 20, 2018 07:28 PM (Evws/)

440 Avenge me!

Posted by: zombie marilyn monroe at May 20, 2018 07:31 PM (Evws/)

441 I'm so dyslexic I thought he said Misfud and I'm like who is that. So I clicked on a link from TheLibertyDaily and find out it's Mifsud. Well, of course.

Well, he's gone now.

Posted by: gNewt at May 20, 2018 07:44 PM (8u+2n)

442 While Mifsud's efforts to introduce Papadopoulos to various Russia connections do not necessarily raise any red flag, the same cannot be said of Mifsud's statement that on a trip to Russia they told him they had dirt on Clinton and thousands of her emails.

Posted by: gNewt at May 20, 2018 07:59 PM (8u+2n)

443 Why the urgency on behalf of the IC and their enablers at NYT and WAPO to identify Halper as the spy? Because what Halper did, and who he is, is much easier to defend that what Mifsud did. Mifsud was the set-up man. Halper's role was to be that of the reliable old-hand who discovers that Papadop knew long ago that the Russkies had the harridan's emails (and probably entire copies of her rogue server's hard drives. As did everyone else, by the, including the FBI.) It's a modified limited hangout in which Halper is THE one and only spy, doing God's work.

Posted by: nickk at May 20, 2018 08:08 PM (1CaiA)

444 So, if Trump can't order the DOJ to investigate his "political enemies", aren't they admitting that the DOJ/FBI/Mueller are political?

Posted by: Marc at May 20, 2018 08:09 PM (2lzgF)

445 Rod Rosenstein asks DOJ inspector general to review possible Trump campaign infiltration
++++
Now how much you waanna bet Michael Horowitz already has the Evidence ?

Posted by: NOTHING IS GONNA HAPPEN at May 20, 2018 08:23 PM (y3aQB)

446 I think this week is gonna be fun on here

Posted by: NOTHING IS GONNA HAPPEN at May 20, 2018 08:41 PM (y3aQB)

447 So, if Trump can't order the DOJ to investigate his "political enemies", aren't they admitting that the DOJ/FBI/Mueller are political?
Posted by: Marc at May 20, 2018 08:09 PM (2lzgF)


It is only political if you don't treat the perp as any other nameless faceless who having done the same thing (i.e.: the crime, not the person) would be doing hard time. It is political if you investigate the person without a crime, or not investigate the crime because of the person.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at May 20, 2018 08:46 PM (Eu5eZ)

448 The "insurance policy" is the SESs dropping nuggets that, like personally picking targets for drone strikes, Obama is behind and running the whole show.

Cannot let Chocolate Jesus go down, that would be "political".
So you got to let his lieutenants go too.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at May 20, 2018 08:49 PM (Eu5eZ)

449 Clearly, the informant is H.R. Pufnstuf

Posted by: SMOD at May 20, 2018 09:13 PM (e8kgV)

450 Posted by: SMOD at May 20, 2018 09:13 PM (e8kgV)
++++
Nah .... The Magic Flute

Posted by: NOTHING IS GONNA HAPPEN at May 20, 2018 09:15 PM (y3aQB)

451 http://bit.ly/2KFEbBu
++++
Stelter Says He Didn't Vote For Hillary | The Daily Caller

Posted by: NOTHING IS GONNA HAPPEN at May 20, 2018 09:17 PM (y3aQB)

452 Nothing of consequence will happen.
No one of any importance will be arrested or even held accountable.
There will be plenty of sturm und drang, furious tweeting, fulmination by Ingraham and Hannity, slam-dunk reporting by Sara, etc etc. But no one of any consequence will pay any price.
A thought experiment: Try to imagine going online and learning that Hilary Clinton has been indicted for destroying 30000 emails that were under subpoena. Can you? No, you love to entertain the idea in the abstract, but you know, sadly, that cannot and will not ever happen.
Don't fool yourself. Some people are above the law. You aren't, but some are. And they know it.
How utterly convenient that we have the most invisible, somnolent and ineffective AG in memory.

Posted by: Major1 at May 20, 2018 10:00 PM (oohAZ)

453 For DECADES people like me have pointed out the demorats have appointed and tainted American agencies to full leftist polarizations, while occasionally pretending it was the Republicans were doing such to coverup just how bad the demorats were corrupting our government. Kicking out Christians, appointing czars and jihad muslims to positions of power and invasions of our highest secrets. How long it take us to move beyond useful/denial fools ? ? ?
Demorats investigating demorat abuses of power to investigate Trump and frame him for what demorats are openly known to have done ? URANIUM 1 ?

Posted by: ron n. at May 20, 2018 11:34 PM (MBrFx)

454 "wartime consigliere"
God almighty. If people could please just shut-up with "Godfather" references already.
God Almighty what an almost stupid movie. God almighty, to just hear references to it as being something *profound*. "Wartime consigliere!" Oh. My. God! That is almost not profound! What the FUCK. Do. You. Mean. By. That?
No, seriously. What. The. FUCK. Do. You. Mean. By. That?

In the world of US politics out of the White House, the way Donald Trump rolls, what the fuck does "wartime consigliere" mean? Or is it just a bunch of internet guys trying to sound tough, yet wise?
Well - I know this the ultimate willow of being willowed, but what. do. you. mean?

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Intelligence Officials Eye Blogs for Tips
They Done Found Us Out, Cletus: Intrepid Internet Detective Figures Out Our Master Plan
Shock: Josh Marshall Almost Mentions Sarin Discovery in Iraq
Leather-Clad Biker Freaks Terrorize Australian Town
When Clinton Was President, Torture Was Cool
What Wonkette Means When She Explains What Tina Brown Means
Wonkette's Stand-Up Act
Wankette HQ Gay-Rumors Du Jour
Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider
My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty
Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA
An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear
The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report!
Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet
The House of Love: Paul Krugman
A Michael Moore Mystery (TM)
The Dowd-O-Matic!
Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)
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