Nunes: FBI Continues Stonewalling on Requests to Disclose Which Persons Were "Unmasked" In Reports They Circulated

Nunes said last Wednesday that the FBI had not said whether it would respond to the committee's March 15 letter. He told THE WEEKLY STANDARD on Tuesday that the agency was still not cooperating, and that he did not know why.
"We're still having an issue there," he said. "I'm trying to get to the bottom of that."
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The committee letter specifically requested the names of any unmasked U.S. persons related to the Trump or Clinton campaigns whose identities were disseminated from June 2016 to January 2017. They also asked for the names of agencies or officials that requested or authorized the unmasking and dissemination of that information.

Posted by: Ace at 04:16 PM

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1 And that means Comey is hip deep in the leaks.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at March 30, 2017 04:06 PM (le7jz)

2 Oneth?

Posted by: Roland THTG at March 30, 2017 04:07 PM (QM5S2)

3 top 10?

Posted by: random ~~lurker~~ commenter at March 30, 2017 04:07 PM (+tRIN)

4 Read exactly what happened with Trumps healthcare bill and how the Caucus tried to make an ass out if him and lied about the content;

http://tinyurl.com/mxc8bsu

I hardly ever agree with Rove and he's obviously not Trumps biggest fan.

But I dare you to avoid punching a kitten when you're done reading.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 30, 2017 04:07 PM (9IM0p)

5 cool beans

Posted by: random ~~lurker~~ commenter at March 30, 2017 04:07 PM (+tRIN)

6 Hey, top ten. Suppose corgis should be called.

Posted by: Vanceone at March 30, 2017 04:09 PM (HcgJZ)

7 Th

Whew made top 10...

Posted by: Toddler at March 30, 2017 04:09 PM (5YQ72)

8 More leaks than a two day Depends diaper.

Posted by: Max Power at March 30, 2017 04:09 PM (q177U)

9 NINE!

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at March 30, 2017 04:09 PM (6gk0M)

10 The SCoaMF hides in Tahiti.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at March 30, 2017 04:10 PM (QQ+il)

11 "We're still having an issue there," he said. "I'm trying to get to the bottom of that."

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It's a mystery.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 30, 2017 04:10 PM (mC1ZI)

12 Marcus T, that article is behind a pay wall.

Posted by: navybrat at March 30, 2017 04:10 PM (rnOcr)

13 I hardly ever agree with Rove

That's twice in two threads so the trend is bad.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at March 30, 2017 04:10 PM (QQ+il)

14 Nunes Nunes

Posted by: Mork from Ork at March 30, 2017 04:11 PM (IqV8l)

15
The SCoaMF hides in Tahiti.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at March 30, 2017 04:10 PM (QQ+il)

This. I wonder what ValJar is up to?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 30, 2017 04:11 PM (PY9jH)

16 Nothing to see here. Big nothingburger.

Say, what about those gold Easter Eggs that Trump and the First Lady are offering? Talk about over-the-top gilding!!!! Elevensies!

Posted by: MSM at March 30, 2017 04:11 PM (DMUuz)

17 10 Hides the salami...

Posted by: steevy at March 30, 2017 04:11 PM (r/0kC)

18 Who was the FBI deputy something something who's wife was given $700,000 by the Clinton organization for a political run in VA? It wouldn't surprise me if he is part of this stonewalling.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 30, 2017 04:11 PM (/tuJf)

19 The Obama Administration was as transparent as the solid-lead-concrete-steel shielding at the NORAD headquarters under the Rockies.

Posted by: zombie at March 30, 2017 04:11 PM (DQ4Fv)

20 I'm not sayin it's Russians?
But it's Russians.

Posted by: Mortimer, FINISH HER! at March 30, 2017 04:11 PM (fLMbU)

21 He told THE WEEKLY STANDARD on Tuesday that the agency was still not cooperating, and that he did not know why.

I'd be going thru the FBI and firing/transferring every cocksucker to Alaska that even looked sideways at me. Cooperate or pack your bags, you're moving!

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2017 04:12 PM (4Utw1)

22 scoamf isn't hiding anything but his prod, from what I hear. man only island.

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at March 30, 2017 04:12 PM (o4kib)

23 I'm hungry and I have to make dinner. I'm quite sure that every one of you are waiting upon all of my Life Choices, so I told you that.

Suckle my spare ribs.

*static*

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at March 30, 2017 04:12 PM (6gk0M)

24 >>>>The SCoaMF hides in Tahiti.
.
.
.Yep and for eight years and two months he couldn't keep his mouth shut but. now he is rigged for silent running.

No way he wasn't aware of any of this. He has gone into hiding because comey or someone else (Schiff) tipped him off on what was coming.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at March 30, 2017 04:12 PM (le7jz)

25 More leaks than a two day Depends diaper.
Posted by: Max Power at March 30, 2017 04:09 PM

BT, DT. Whew!

Posted by: Hillary! at March 30, 2017 04:12 PM (DMUuz)

26 18
Who was the FBI deputy something something who's wife was given $700,000
by the Clinton organization for a political run in VA? It wouldn't
surprise me if he is part of this stonewalling.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 30, 2017 04:11 PM (/tuJf)

Andrew McCabe. Is he still at the FBI?

Posted by: Tami at March 30, 2017 04:12 PM (Enq6K)

27 This. I wonder what ValJar is up to?

Third knuckle in mooch?

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2017 04:12 PM (4Utw1)

28 "17 10 Hides the salami..."

I love that game!!!

Posted by: Shep Smith at March 30, 2017 04:13 PM (OD2ni)

29 These hard drives and servers won't bleach themselves you know. Give me some time.

Posted by: FBI Comey at March 30, 2017 04:13 PM (nN3W/)

30 Comey is a shit weasel. And now I'm off to Sam's Club.

Later.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 30, 2017 04:13 PM (PY9jH)

31 Rove is behind a paywall if it's WSJ. Can we haz some other link?

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at March 30, 2017 04:13 PM (o4kib)

32 31 Rove is behind a paywall if it's WSJ. Can we haz some other link?
Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at March 30, 2017 04:13 PM (o4kib)

================

Does Googling the title of the article and going through a link not work?

Maybe looking at the cached version?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 30, 2017 04:14 PM (mC1ZI)

33 So the Dems/MSM can pund away at Nunes character and hound him into resigning his House committee chairmanship?

Oh, why would they let him twist in the wind like that?!?

Posted by: Lizzy at March 30, 2017 04:14 PM (NOIQH)

34 we cannot tell you who unmasked those individuals, because we will be indicted. please forgive us

Posted by: FBI politcal hacks at March 30, 2017 04:14 PM (c6/9Q)

35 This is all about shielding Ben Rhodes. Val Jar is too smart too leave finger prints.

Posted by: Benji Carver at March 30, 2017 04:14 PM (OD2ni)

36 Comey looked rather uncomfortable at that hearing last week. He also looked like he was telegraphing something with his body language at times. Am I reading to much into this?

Posted by: JoeF. at March 30, 2017 04:14 PM (7uYFy)

37 Suckle my spare ribs.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at March 30, 2017 04:12 PM

KC or Memphis style?

Baby don't got back?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 30, 2017 04:15 PM (DMUuz)

38 >>Who was the FBI deputy something something who's wife was given $700,000
by the Clinton organization for a political run in VA? It wouldn't
surprise me if he is part of this stonewalling.

Isn't that dude #2, right after Comey at the FBI?

Posted by: Lizzy at March 30, 2017 04:15 PM (NOIQH)

39 "We're still having an issue there," he said. "I'm trying to get to the bottom of that."

They may find a bottom is at the bottom of all it. Hello Tahiti

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 30, 2017 04:15 PM (493sH)

40 Move it along...nothing to see here

Posted by: Officer Comey at March 30, 2017 04:15 PM (qJhUV)

41 Known Unknowns:

What does Trump have up his sleeve? His infamous tweet may not have been impulsive.

Can the Trumpsters identify specific leakers? If so, they'll get indicted with extreme prejudice.

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 30, 2017 04:15 PM (SIY7D)

42 8 More leaks than a two day Depends diaper.
Posted by: Max Power at March 30, 2017 04:09 PM (q177U)

I know...

*hic*

...r-r-r-right?

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at March 30, 2017 04:16 PM (rxiJx)

43 >>>>
Suckle my spare ribs.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1) (T) at March 30, 2017 04:12 PM

KC or Memphis style?

Baby don't got back?
.
.
.Saw a T shirt at the McKinney Trade Days with a picture of a Boston Pork Butt that said.....

I can't deny I like big butts.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at March 30, 2017 04:16 PM (le7jz)

44 >>Andrew McCabe. Is he still at the FBI?

That's the guy and according to the goggle machine, yep, still there.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 30, 2017 04:16 PM (/tuJf)

45 It's not the crime, it's the cover up... and the stonewalling.

But only if it's a Republican who committed the crime.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at March 30, 2017 04:16 PM (ZFUt7)

46 >>This is all about shielding Ben Rhodes. Val Jar is too smart too leave finger prints.

I'm sure it's more than Rhodes, but nailing Rhodes would be an excellent start.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 30, 2017 04:16 PM (NOIQH)

47 I thing Nunes is getting gaslighted.....
if nothing comes out, calls for him to step down increase and get louder....

Posted by: JoeF. at March 30, 2017 04:17 PM (7uYFy)

48 "They also asked for the names of agencies or officials that requested or authorized the unmasking and dissemination of that information."

I'm not saying it's Comey, but it's Comey.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at March 30, 2017 04:17 PM (1CroS)

49 How about abolish and replace the FBI?

Posted by: Brother Cavil, keeper of the Deplorable Unicode Character at March 30, 2017 04:17 PM (9krrF)

50 Andrew McCabe. Is he still at the FBI?

Yes, per fbi.gov.

Posted by: ScoggDog at March 30, 2017 04:17 PM (tFWWx)

51 Some guy just gave a soldier his first class seat. Trying not to vomit and scream about Mosul!

Posted by: Drexler University Lecturer at March 30, 2017 04:17 PM (FqgrG)

52 Nunes said last Wednesday that the FBI had not said whether it would respond to the committee's March 15 letter.

Arrest the fvckers.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 30, 2017 04:18 PM (zc3Db)

53 There is no doubt that Comey is at the heart of all this shit. Trump should have fired him on day one and had his replacement charging him. He really needs a wholesale house cleaning in the corrupt FBI.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 30, 2017 04:18 PM (mpXpK)

54 Karl rove article

http://preview.tinyurl.com/musvn8y

Posted by: CaliGirl at March 30, 2017 04:18 PM (u8Ywb)

55 Saw a T shirt at the McKinney Trade Days with a picture of a Boston Pork Butt that said.....

I can't deny I like big butts.

Did you make it to the back? Do they still have the live chickens, goats, & piglets?

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2017 04:18 PM (4Utw1)

56 BREAKING: Senate Democrat Manchin says he will vote to confirm Supreme Court nominee Gorsuch

Posted by: EVLINC! at March 30, 2017 04:18 PM (y3aQB)

57 FBI....................lol The only time in recent history they do their job is when they want more funding or a promotion and protection.

Ran across them back in the day doing work/clean up for another agency. Was very interesting.

Posted by: Old Nam Vet at March 30, 2017 04:19 PM (bKxiT)

58 I hope the NSA helps out with this.
Nunes said they were being cooperative!

Posted by: Lizzy at March 30, 2017 04:19 PM (NOIQH)

59 I do not know Ben Rhodes personally but we have, how you say, mutual acquaintance? He sound like asshole.

Posted by: Paolo at March 30, 2017 04:19 PM (FqgrG)

60 Some guy just gave a soldier his first class seat. Trying not to vomit and scream about Mosul!
Posted by: Drexler University Lecturer at March 30, 2017 04:17 PM (FqgrG)

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I used to do that with my upgrade seats.

Posted by: The Margins at March 30, 2017 04:19 PM (SP0+I)

61 Google
"Bad Excuses for Republican Fratricide"

Fox News has it.

Posted by: Mortimer, FINISH HER! at March 30, 2017 04:19 PM (fLMbU)

62 As for "stonewalling" that will cease as soon as you issue subpoenas and start jailing them.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 30, 2017 04:19 PM (mpXpK)

63 Daily Caller says Nunes' leakers are inside the White House.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/k8n3b4a

And lots of speculations at Zero Hedge on the rest of the Deep State Machinery:

SMOKING GUN? Obama Defense Deputy Slips Up On Live TV - Reveals Spying On Trump Team And Leaking Of Intel

http://tinyurl.com/knnrbcr

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 30, 2017 04:19 PM (oVJmc)

64 LOL, so Manchin is a yes on Gorsuch. Hey Repubs, here is your talking point to repeat over and over: "Bipartisan support"

Posted by: Benji Carver at March 30, 2017 04:19 PM (OD2ni)

65 Comey testified a week ago that unmasking is something that should almost never take place... now we find out all kinds of Trump associates have been unmasked, and that the the JEF signs a new order that says any agency can get this intel.. ohhh no conspiracy here folks.. nothing to see here.. move along!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at March 30, 2017 04:19 PM (so+oy)

66 56 BREAKING: Senate Democrat Manchin says he will vote to confirm Supreme Court nominee Gorsuch
Posted by: EVLINC! at March 30, 2017 04:18 PM (y3aQB)

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Not a surprise.

Do I still have to cross my fingers that the Democrats go full stupid and filibuster? Or is it a fait accompli?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 30, 2017 04:20 PM (mC1ZI)

67 I wore a mask to the Boys Beach Ball last night. Only a mask.

Posted by: Barry on the Beach at March 30, 2017 04:20 PM (bc2Lc)

68 I am still trying to figure out why Putin would have preferred Trump to Clinton, considering how feckless (i.e. worse than useless) the Obama Admin's foreign policy was under Hilly and Horsey (and Billy and Jimmy...), and considering that Trump kept talking about crazy things like rebuilding the military and keeping energy prices low.

Oh, wait, I know, Trump's daughter has a Russian sounding name! Elevensies!

Posted by: mallfly the expert at March 30, 2017 04:20 PM (b7fwp)

69 49 How about abolish and replace the FBI?

No can do. Instant Anarchy. Dogs sleeping with cats. Plague and famine.

Posted by: ScoggDog at March 30, 2017 04:20 PM (tFWWx)

70 Sock off

Posted by: Flyboy at March 30, 2017 04:20 PM (SP0+I)

71 My working theory is that Acting AG and Obama hold-over Sally Yates caught Flynn in a perjury trap.

Flynn couldn't remember exactly what he had said about sanctions to the Russian ambassador because it wasn't a big deal at a time when Trump himself was signalling that he's undo what Obama did just as he was leaving office.

Yates had the transcript when neither Flynn nor the White House did and played him. Flynn denied he's said anything, and Yates said he did.

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 30, 2017 04:20 PM (SIY7D)

72 64 LOL, so Manchin is a yes on Gorsuch. Hey Repubs, here is your talking point to repeat over and over: "Bipartisan support"
Posted by: Benji Carver at March 30, 2017 04:19 PM (OD2ni)

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Not too much or too soon.

We need the Democrats to actually do the filibuster first.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 30, 2017 04:21 PM (mC1ZI)

73 >>>>Saw a T shirt at the McKinney Trade Days with a picture of a Boston Pork Butt that said.....

I can't deny I like big butts.

Did you make it to the back? Do they still have the live chickens, goats, piglets?
.
.
.No they made them quit doing that there. However where I live in Boham, TX, it's free willy. Livestock galore goats, hogs, sheep, chickens, ducks, geese, etc. plus puppies, tons of dangerous cute puppies.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at March 30, 2017 04:21 PM (le7jz)

74 I've pulled in some luxurious velvet rope and now that it's forming itself into the shape of a noose, I'm lawyering up bitches

Posted by: FBI Comey at March 30, 2017 04:21 PM (nN3W/)

75 Remember when Dick Nixon said nobody was above the law?

How we laughed and laughed, and then brought him down for penny ante nonsense that virtually every President before him was doing.

And now, here we are. A federal law enforcement agency that answers to no one.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 30, 2017 04:21 PM (TOk1P)

76 NPR interviewed two retired politicians from Indiana. Democrat Lee Hamilton and "Republican" Dick Lugar. They both insisted Nunes step down. Bipartisanshit at its finest.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 30, 2017 04:22 PM (IqV8l)

77 What the hell is Comey doing writing op eds and giving political speeches?

Posted by: Jack Sock at March 30, 2017 04:22 PM (HJbDF)

78 >>>. "I'm trying to get to the bottom of that."

THAT'S WHAT I SAID!!
OHHH!!! BADA BING!!! OHH!!!

Banana "Dice" Splits Guy

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at March 30, 2017 04:22 PM (2pucm)

79
DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDRDDDDDDDDDDDDD

Bipartisan Scandal.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at March 30, 2017 04:22 PM (QQ+il)

80 75 Remember when Dick Nixon said nobody was above the law?

How we laughed and laughed, and then brought him down for penny ante nonsense that virtually every President before him was doing.

And now, here we are. A federal law enforcement agency that answers to no one.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 30, 2017 04:21 PM (TOk1P)

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"It answers to me."
-The Leviathan

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 30, 2017 04:22 PM (mC1ZI)

81 >>My working theory is that Acting AG and Obama hold-over Sally Yates caught Flynn in a perjury trap.

Was he ever asked about that under oath? He didn't have to be confirmed by the Senate so where would he have committed perjury?

Posted by: JackStraw at March 30, 2017 04:22 PM (/tuJf)

82 "I am still trying to figure out why Putin would have preferred Trump"

Hillary was already bought.

I'd take the bet that Putin has her 33,000 missing e-mails, so she was also blackmail-able.

How could the Russians be so sophisticated at hacking and not have them

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 30, 2017 04:23 PM (SIY7D)

83 "Do I still have to cross my fingers that the Democrats go full stupid and filibuster? Or is it a fait accompli?"

Would look silly to filibuster a nominee that has support within their own party, but they get held to a different standard.

Posted by: Benji Carver at March 30, 2017 04:23 PM (OD2ni)

84 Daily Caller says Nunes' leakers are inside the White House.

===============

Daily Caller says, NYT says ... this is tiresome. off with their heads ! all of them.

Posted by: runner at March 30, 2017 04:23 PM (c6/9Q)

85 And yet, not one of these suckers of cock will tell you what, exactly, Russia was supposed to have done, if it was worse than the meddling Obama'd been doing in other countries' elections, and how, exactly, Trump was supposed to have colluded with them.

The whole thing is a string of empty allegation designed to fuel conspiracy theories to distract street-level lefties from looking at what a miserable failure their party has been.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 30, 2017 04:23 PM (oVJmc)

86 I've been saying this for past two weeks. Rogers said there were 20 under him with the authority. Comey said he wasn't sure, like maybe a hundred or so. This information is easily available. Drain the swamp!

Posted by: MAGA at March 30, 2017 04:23 PM (A4HOq)

87 I made a bet with a guy all up in arms about Trump is totally in bed with the Russians and a traitor and blah blah blah - I bet that someone goes to jail for leaking wiretapped info before someone goes to jail for Russian ties.

I fully expect to win.

I have said over and over - the Flynn situation made Trump's tweets objectively true. Flynn was on the transition, in Trump Tower, and his conversation was listened to by the Obama administration, and then released for improper purpose.

They crowed over Flynn's scalp because "they had the transcript." Okay, how'd you get it?

Posted by: blaster at March 30, 2017 04:24 PM (tewYv)

88 Cut the FBIs budget 10% a day until they cooperate.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at March 30, 2017 04:24 PM (VHt7K)

89 49 How about abolish and replace the FBI?
Posted by: Brother Cavil

The problem is that from the very very beginning, J. Edgar Hoover set up the FBI as partly being a blackmail racket that ensures its ongoing existence because it keeps dirt on each successive president. J. Edgar Hoover had dirt on FDR, and thereby forced FDR's compliance to Hoover's agenda. Same with Kennedy, Johnson and so on. I think it long ago has become ossified into the FBI structure to always passively "threaten" each president by letting it be known that they have dirt on him - and in so doing, assure the FBI's continued existence.

Posted by: zombie at March 30, 2017 04:24 PM (DQ4Fv)

90 Everything Comey has done publicly since his obscenely ridiculous explanation for not recommending Hildabeast's indictment, stinks.

It all stinks like a Tibetan shithouse on a hot day. Comey is as crooked as they come.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 30, 2017 04:24 PM (8ZskC)

91 My working theory is that Acting AG and Obama hold-over Sally Yates caught Flynn in a perjury trap.

She is a One.

Posted by: ScoggDog at March 30, 2017 04:24 PM (tFWWx)

92 if you kuffar abolish the FBI, who will be at the mosque to direct armed and mentally unstable Muslims to Wilders and Geller speeches??

American imams aren't willing to do that. that is why we need the FBI.

peace on those who follow the guidance.

Posted by: Caliph Ibrahim, shadow of God on earth at March 30, 2017 04:24 PM (o4kib)

93 How about abolish and replace the FBI?
----------------------------------------------
No can do. Instant Anarchy. Dogs sleeping with cats. Plague and famine.

Posted by: ScoggDog at March 30, 2017 04:20 PM (tFWWx)

Or at least those filthy bootleggers will continue bringing their whiskey in from Canada.

Can't have that. So let's have this bazillion dollar federal cop bureau in perpetuity.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 30, 2017 04:25 PM (TOk1P)

94 "He didn't have to be confirmed by the Senate so where would he have committed perjury?"

I was inexact. He got caught lying to Pence.

Perjury trap is a term of art, referring to techniques often used by diabolical prosecutors.

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 30, 2017 04:25 PM (SIY7D)

95 Time to start jailing FBI agents and supervisors.

There is either a rule of law or a rule by the gun. I'm good either way, but pick one, folks.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at March 30, 2017 04:25 PM (zsHGH)

96 Sure is strange for Obama to go radio silent this long. And funny, no pictures of him over the last month either.

Still, Tahiti is technically part of France so I assume we could get him extradited if necessary.

Posted by: Vanceone at March 30, 2017 04:25 PM (HcgJZ)

97 84 Daily Caller says Nunes' leakers are inside the White House.

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Daily Caller says, NYT says ... this is tiresome. off with their heads ! all of them.
Posted by: runner at March 30, 2017 04:23 PM (c6/9Q)
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I'm hoping this a well orchestrated mole hunt by Trump's inner circle to find out who the hell is leaking highly sensitive info.

Posted by: WisRich at March 30, 2017 04:25 PM (hdpay)

98 83 "Do I still have to cross my fingers that the Democrats go full stupid and filibuster? Or is it a fait accompli?"

Would look silly to filibuster a nominee that has support within their own party, but they get held to a different standard.
Posted by: Benji Carver at March 30, 2017 04:23 PM (OD2ni)

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Their base won't care. Their base wants blood.

I fully expect a primary challenger to Manchin. It'll fail horribly because Manchin is actually well loved in WV, but it will also happen.

I believe their base when they say that they will primary anyone who helps Gorsuch onto the "stolen seat".

Random thought:

Next time there is a Democratic Senate and President, do you think that they will try to add a 10th justice to make up for the "stolen seat"?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 30, 2017 04:25 PM (mC1ZI)

99 >>>>>"I am still trying to figure out why Putin would have preferred Trump"

Hillary was already bought.

I'd take the bet that Putin has her 33,000 missing e-mails, so she was also blackmail-able.

How could the Russians be so sophisticated at hacking and not have them
.
.
.Exactly. Russia is so sophisticated they can hack the election and the DNC but they didn't get into hillary's unsecured private email server? Give me a break.

They have everything she ever sent or received along with other hostile Governments. She is/was ripe for blackmail and the Russians would obviously want her as President and everyone should know that but the left refuses to even acknowledge that fact.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at March 30, 2017 04:26 PM (le7jz)

100 Remind me again why Comey wasn't fired day 1?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 30, 2017 04:26 PM (wmaTe)

101 I imagine there are some congressional RINOs involved in these leaks also. Just notice the ones demanding Nunes to step down.

Posted by: Soona at March 30, 2017 04:26 PM (Fmupd)

102 90 Everything Comey has done publicly since his obscenely ridiculous explanation for not recommending Hildabeast's indictment, stinks.

It all stinks like a Tibetan shithouse on a hot day. Comey is as crooked as they come.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 30, 2017 04:24 PM (8ZskC)

=================

If he had just recommended prosecution, not everyone would hate him.

By trying to please everyone, he pleased no one.

Weird...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 30, 2017 04:26 PM (mC1ZI)

103 There's no way to justify killing the GOP health care bill,

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Yes there is :

It doesn't repeal obamacare; it just continues government intervention under a different name.

Posted by: Nester Wayless at March 30, 2017 04:27 PM (ZjiBa)

104 What the hell is Comey doing writing op eds and giving political speeches?

Posted by: Jack Sock at March 30, 2017 04:22 PM (HJbDF)

You mean an FBI Director isn't supposed to do that?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 30, 2017 04:27 PM (493sH)

105 I am still trying to figure out why Putin would have preferred Trump to Clinton......

Posted by: mallfly the expert

Shemp Smith at Faux News says it's "PROVEN!!" so there you go. What a panicky little panty waist.

Also, according to this latter day Edward R. Murrow, it was two functionairies on the NSC staff that "leaked" to Nunes, and two people that McMaster wanted "out" because they were "too political" but Trump intervened DIRECTLY to keep them there.

Make of this what you will. I think most of the Media people have malaria compounded with mass delusions of grandeur.

I will wait to see what the Drunken Mick Matthews has to say about THIS tonight when he plays with his hardballs.

Carry on.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at March 30, 2017 04:27 PM (S6Pax)

106 The problem is that from the very very beginning, J. Edgar Hoover set up the FBI as partly being a blackmail racket that ensures its ongoing existence because it keeps dirt on each successive president. J. Edgar Hoover had dirt on FDR, and thereby forced FDR's compliance to Hoover's agenda. Same with Kennedy, Johnson and so on. I think it long ago has become ossified into the FBI structure to always passively "threaten" each president by letting it be known that they have dirt on him - and in so doing, assure the FBI's continued existence.
Posted by: zombie at March 30, 2017 04:24 PM (DQ4Fv)

Yes and no.

The FBI under Hoover was corrupt but the rank and file was held to standards of professionalism that no law enforcement had ever been held to.

There was a lot of wiretapping going on, but you didn't have agents working for Whitey Bulger under Hoover.

But, correct me if I'm wrong.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at March 30, 2017 04:27 PM (zsHGH)

107 I'm hoping this a well orchestrated mole hunt by Trump's inner circle to find out who the hell is leaking highly sensitive info.

Posted by: WisRich at March 30, 2017 04:25 PM (hdpay)

I was hoping that the FLynn situation was that too....and we know how that turned out

Posted by: runner at March 30, 2017 04:27 PM (c6/9Q)

108 103 There's no way to justify killing the GOP health care bill,

---

Yes there is :

It doesn't repeal obamacare; it just continues government intervention under a different name.
Posted by: Nester Wayless at March 30, 2017 04:27 PM (ZjiBa)

==================

Ugh..didn't we already do this today?

Can we wait for tomorrow to pick it back up?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 30, 2017 04:27 PM (mC1ZI)

109 The FBI is like the TMZ of the IC.

Posted by: Fritz at March 30, 2017 04:28 PM (MF/hn)

110 Time to start jailing FBI agents and supervisors.

====

Cool.

Who's gonna serve the arrest warrant and slap on the cuffs?

Posted by: Mortimer, FINISH HER! at March 30, 2017 04:28 PM (fLMbU)

111
38 >>Who was the FBI deputy something something who's wife was given $700,000
by the Clinton organization for a political run in VA? It wouldn't
surprise me if he is part of this stonewalling.

Isn't that dude #2, right after Comey at the FBI?

Posted by: Lizzy at March 30, 2017 04:15 PM (NOIQH)

I'll note that Mark Felt held the same position when he became Deep Throat, because the selfish little cocksucker was butt-hurt that he didn't get the Director's job.

Funny thing, Felt's sins were probably less destructive to the Nation as a whole.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 30, 2017 04:28 PM (XWkhW)

112 second what JamesMadison just said.

Posted by: The Chicken at March 30, 2017 04:29 PM (o4kib)

113 Remind me again why Comey wasn't fired day 1?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 30, 2017 04:26 PM (wmaTe)

typesdeletes

Posted by: runner at March 30, 2017 04:29 PM (c6/9Q)

114 Or at least those filthy bootleggers will continue bringing their whiskey in from Canada.

Can't have that. So let's have this bazillion dollar federal cop bureau in perpetuity.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 30, 2017 04:25 PM (TOk1P)

Burt ... Burt ... Burt ...

The FBI is Good Folks Just Doing Their Jobs. They spy on us because they love us.

They do it for you Burt. They do it for me. They do it for 'Merica.

Posted by: ScoggDog at March 30, 2017 04:29 PM (tFWWx)

115 It all stinks like a Tibetan shithouse on a hot day. Comey is as crooked as they come.
Posted by: Cicero

But Andrew McCarthy vouches for what a great guy he is.

You mean, someone at NR might be.....wrong?

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at March 30, 2017 04:29 PM (S6Pax)

116 I heard somewhere today that a Priebus flunky resigned from the WH staff suddenly today.

Posted by: Under Fire at March 30, 2017 04:29 PM (nN3W/)

117 Ugh..didn't we already do this today?
___________________

Only pussies let things go!

Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at March 30, 2017 04:30 PM (FqgrG)

118 >>I heard somewhere today that a Priebus flunky resigned from the WH staff suddenly today.

To go run Trump's PAC. I don' think it's her.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 30, 2017 04:30 PM (/tuJf)

119 Schiff lies on. http://tinyurl.com/k6v2bgp

"Represenative Adam Schiff is the vice-chair of the House Intelligence Committee and as a consequence of his position he is a member of the Intelligence Oversight Gang of Eight.

Adam Schiff can go and look at any information Chairman Devin Nunes has already reviewed.

Adam Schiff does not want to see the intelligence because he would be unable to keep lying about it.

Devin Nunes cannot share the Go8 level intelligence with the full committee because the committee is not authorized to see it; only Adam Schiff can [see it].

In order for Schiff to maintain his public protestations, entirely based on politics, he must mislead about the rules and laws surrounding the intelligence product. ' http://tinyurl.com/mezvnw3

Posted by: geoffb5 at March 30, 2017 04:30 PM (d3wbb)

120 This is all bullshit, basically the only way forward is for Trump to issue an EO instructing the FBI, the CIA, NHS, DHS and all of the alphabet LEO and IC's to divulge to congress/appropriate committee(s) all investigations both closed and ongoing, reports, notes, work product, warrant requests, warrants, tasking assignments, involved agents, tasking authorities, grand juries, etc involving Trump, his family, his associates, bussiness,etc going back to at least 2014.

This shit has got to end and it's got to end now.

And while we're at it Comey's got to go so his ass needs to be fired toot sweet.

Posted by: Kreplach at March 30, 2017 04:30 PM (3Xxpy)

121 Ugh..didn't we already do this today?

Can we wait for tomorrow to pick it back up?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 30, 2017 04:27

Sure, ok. No problemo. Especially if Karl Rove is your go to expert on politics. Where would we be without Karl Rove and his whiteboard?

Posted by: Nester Wayless at March 30, 2017 04:31 PM (ZjiBa)

122 Rove - bah, lotta dicking around to avoid giving primary fodder to the spineless.

Posted by: DaveA at March 30, 2017 04:31 PM (FhXTo)

123 Time to start jailing FBI agents and supervisors.

There is either a rule of law or a rule by the gun. I'm good either way, but pick one, folks.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at March 30, 2017 04:25 PM (zsHGH)

Back in Civil War I, we had generals like McClellan and Hooker, who were good at assembling armies, but did not want to use them when push came to shove.

We had others like Burnside, who went off half-cocked, and then sat in the mud when he got his army mauled.

So here we are. I kinda think we're still at the pre-Sumter stage. Civil War II is about to start, and as long as we have some Grants and Shermans and Sheridans and Thomases in place, I'm ok with waiting for the shooting to start.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 30, 2017 04:31 PM (TOk1P)

124 Remind me again why Comey wasn't fired day 1?

He's only got 6,000 days until retirement.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 30, 2017 04:31 PM (oVJmc)

125 The FBI reports to Congress. This isn't exactly a new proposition.

This is why people (I) don't trust the systems that are in place. Why should we when the systems aren't working.

Who was it that very nicely ripped the face off the poor FBI guy who said well we decided Congress didn't need to see this and the response was you don't get to decide that, I do.

I have no practical solutions for this other than that people need to start doing jail time for contempt.

Posted by: alexthechick - rrraaawwwrrr at March 30, 2017 04:31 PM (mf5HN)

126 I'll note that Mark Felt held the same position when he became Deep Throat, because the selfish little cocksucker was butt-hurt that he didn't get the Director's job.

Funny thing, Felt's sins were probably less destructive to the Nation as a whole.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur

In retrospect, I guess we can all say that Felt just wasn't very professional, was he?

And yet, there is Carl Bernstein still waving the bloody shirt here in 2017, on the TV talking head shows every night.

Sort of makes you say......hmmmm. Don't it?

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at March 30, 2017 04:31 PM (S6Pax)

127 Ow.

Posted by: The Chicken at March 30, 2017 04:31 PM (o4kib)

128 MOAR

EXTREME

POSITIONS

YARGH

LETS NUKE NORTH KOREA

YARGH

LETS DISSOLVE CONGRESS

YARGH

wow. this government stuff is easy.

Posted by: Mortimer, FINISH HER! at March 30, 2017 04:32 PM (fLMbU)

129 123
So here we are. I kinda think we're still at the pre-Sumter stage. Civil War II is about to start, and as long as we have some Grants and Shermans and Sheridans and Thomases in place, I'm ok with waiting for the shooting to start.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 30, 2017 04:31 PM (TOk1P)

=================

Can we lay claim to some Thomas Jacksons too?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 30, 2017 04:32 PM (mC1ZI)

130 Who's gonna serve the arrest warrant and slap on the cuffs?

US Marshals.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2017 04:32 PM (4Utw1)

131 @BurtTC

I like where your head is at.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at March 30, 2017 04:33 PM (zsHGH)

132 125
I have no practical solutions for this other than that people need to start doing jail time for contempt.

Posted by: alexthechick - rrraaawwwrrr at March 30, 2017 04:31 PM (mf5HN)

Might I suggest their pension be put in serious jeopardy as well.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 30, 2017 04:33 PM (jxbfJ)

133 >>Adam Schiff can go and look at any information Chairman Devin Nunes has already reviewed. Adam Schiff does not want to see the intelligence because he would be unable to keep lying about it.

Also, he couldn't leak the contents of what he saw to the press because Trump would know it was him.

Doubly screwed.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 30, 2017 04:33 PM (NOIQH)

134 Who was it that very nicely ripped the face off the poor FBI guy who said well we decided Congress didn't need to see this and the response was you don't get to decide that, I do.

Jason Chavitz I think.

Posted by: ScoggDog at March 30, 2017 04:33 PM (tFWWx)

135 One valid reason not to respond; they have an active criminal investigation into the leaks.

Posted by: Jean at March 30, 2017 04:33 PM (hk+5O)

136 "And yet, not one of these suckers of cock will tell you what, exactly, Russia was supposed to have done, if it was worse than the meddling Obama'd been doing in other countries' elections, and how, exactly, Trump was supposed to have colluded with them."

FFS, Debbie Wasserman Schultz tampered with the election. By favoring Hillary and fucking Bernie. And the leaked debate questions! Ironically, it was only because someone hacked the DNC that we know of this!

And I haven't see real proof that it was the Russians.

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 30, 2017 04:34 PM (SIY7D)

137 Or at least those filthy bootleggers will continue bringing their whiskey in from Canada.

Can't have that. So let's have this bazillion dollar federal cop bureau in perpetuity.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 30, 2017 04:25 PM (TOk1P)

Burt ... Burt ... Burt ...

The FBI is Good Folks Just Doing Their Jobs. They spy on us because they love us.

They do it for you Burt. They do it for me. They do it for 'Merica.

Posted by: ScoggDog at March 30, 2017 04:29 PM (tFWWx)

Fine, as long as we keep that inferior Canadian whiskey up there north of the border.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 30, 2017 04:34 PM (TOk1P)

138 US Marshals.
=====

Who work for which Cabinet department again?

Oh yeah.

DOJ.

Posted by: Mortimer, FINISH HER! at March 30, 2017 04:34 PM (fLMbU)

139 137 Fine, as long as we keep that inferior Canadian whiskey up there north of the border.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 30, 2017 04:34 PM (TOk1P)

==========

You got something against Rye?

I mean, it's no bourbon, but it'll still get you drunk.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 30, 2017 04:34 PM (mC1ZI)

140 OT, but #winning:

LiveAction
@LiveAction

BREAKING: Senate and House repeal Obama rule forcing states to give Planned Parenthood your tax dollars for family planning services.

States no longer forced to prop up Planned Parenthood and can send money to community health centers that DON'T commit abortions.

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at March 30, 2017 04:34 PM (HRSh5)

141 The FBI is Good Folks Just Doing Their Jobs. They spy on us because they love us.

They do it for you Burt. They do it for me. They do it for 'Merica.
Posted by: ScoggDog

And THIS is why we cannot have nice things.

Sad, really.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at March 30, 2017 04:34 PM (S6Pax)

142 140 OT, but #winning:

LiveAction
@LiveAction

BREAKING: Senate and House repeal Obama rule forcing states to give Planned Parenthood your tax dollars for family planning services.

States no longer forced to prop up Planned Parenthood and can send money to community health centers that DON'T commit abortions.
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at March 30, 2017 04:34 PM (HRSh5)

=================

Plus it was through the CRA, so the next Democratic president can't just reissue the rule.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 30, 2017 04:35 PM (mC1ZI)

143 Who work for which Cabinet department again?

Oh yeah.

DOJ.

Sessions? Yeah. FBI works for Sessions too.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2017 04:35 PM (4Utw1)

144 Remind me again why Comey wasn't fired day 1?

--

Something about a living, breathing, evolving US Constitution where the FBI under the DOJ, as part of the Executive Branch of government is somehow independent of the Office of President which is in charge of the Executive Branch of the Federal Government except for those independent agencies like DOJ, Federal Reserve, and probably some others.

This is not your grandfather's Federal Government.

Posted by: Nester Wayless at March 30, 2017 04:36 PM (ZjiBa)

145
If J.Edgar Hoover had a son he'd look like James Comey

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at March 30, 2017 04:36 PM (lKyWE)

146 Where'd all the winning go?

Posted by: Les Kinetic at March 30, 2017 04:36 PM (mTCYz)

147 Jason Chavitz I think.
Posted by: ScoggDog at March 30, 2017 04:33 PM (tFWWx)

That's who it was thank you.

I remember he was all I know they just sent you here but I'm going to flay you alive anyway, totes sorry about that.

Posted by: alexthechick - rrraaawwwrrr at March 30, 2017 04:36 PM (mf5HN)

148 pffft. The SS agent in charge of the Denver office is still receiving a paycheck and will receive a full pension any day now. Nothings going to happen to any of these federal fvcks

Posted by: Under Fire at March 30, 2017 04:36 PM (nN3W/)

149 >>>Adam Schiff can go and look at any information Chairman Devin Nunes has
already reviewed. Adam Schiff does not want to see the intelligence
because he would be unable to keep lying about it.

Also, he couldn't leak the contents of what he saw to the press because Trump would know it was him.

Doubly screwed.
.
.
.Yep and that is why he refuses to do it. We are on Day 11 with still no proof of his blockbuster press conference that he has seen rock solid non circumstantial evidence that Trump and the Russians colluded during the election campaign.

He went silent after that press conference and has kept his mouth shut for some reason.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at March 30, 2017 04:36 PM (le7jz)

150 @134

Yeah Chafitz said it, andddd....

Nothing happened.

FBI said yeah we'll get you what you want, it's going to take a while though, how's 2nd Tuesday in 2025 work for you?

Posted by: Kreplach at March 30, 2017 04:36 PM (3Xxpy)

151 Anyone who needs a good laugh should go read Manchin's Twitter feed after he announced his support for Gorsuch. The Lefties are not pleased to say the least.

Posted by: Benji Carver at March 30, 2017 04:36 PM (OD2ni)

152 135 One valid reason not to respond; they have an active criminal investigation into the leaks.
Posted by: Jean at March 30, 2017 04:33 PM (hk+5O)

That seems like a convenient thing for them to hide behind indefinitely.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 30, 2017 04:36 PM (wmaTe)

153 148 pffft. The SS agent in charge of the Denver office is still receiving a paycheck and will receive a full pension any day now. Nothings going to happen to any of these federal fvcks
Posted by: Under Fire at March 30, 2017 04:36 PM (nN3W/)

===================

I should really get a job in the federal government...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 30, 2017 04:37 PM (mC1ZI)

154 What the hell is Comey doing writing op eds and giving political speeches?

It's what's now commonly known as "opinion-based law enforcement".

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 30, 2017 04:37 PM (Tyii7)

155 remember the Whitewater hearings in 1994? I recall House Banking committee chairman Henry Gonzalez saying...

"I was present for the assassination of one President, and I won't be a
party to the attempted assassination of another," said the Texas
congressman, who was in Dallas when President John F. Kennedy was
assassinated in 1963. "The Republicans might as well have gotten a hit
man; they've already attempted to assassinate Clinton's character."

shouldn't he have removed himself after saying that?
Someone ask that twit Schiff.

source LA Times:
http://tinyurl.com/n8nx73f

Posted by: mallfly the expert at March 30, 2017 04:38 PM (b7fwp)

156 151 Anyone who needs a good laugh should go read Manchin's Twitter feed after he announced his support for Gorsuch. The Lefties are not pleased to say the least.
Posted by: Benji Carver at March 30, 2017 04:36 PM (OD2ni)

===================

I can't wait for the primary campaign against Manchin.

It's going to get the outsized coverage of a Wendy Davis and end just as badly.

Not that I really like Manchin. WV can do better. But still, as an enemy player, he's not that bad.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 30, 2017 04:38 PM (mC1ZI)

157 So here we are. I kinda think we're still at the pre-Sumter stage. Civil War II is about to start, and as long as we have some Grants and Shermans and Sheridans and Thomases in place, I'm ok with waiting for the shooting to start.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 30, 2017 04:31 PM (TOk1P)

=================

Can we lay claim to some Thomas Jacksons too?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 30, 2017 04:32 PM (mC1ZI)

I'm not going to speak to that. I know lots of folks here are partial to that side of things, but the analogy is, we have the manpower, we have the reigns in Washington, we have the majority of the people. We have the infrastructure.

All signs point to a reasonable expectation of victory. Do we, or do we not have the men in place who will lead the fight?

I don't want my words to be in any way an indication of a preference for who was on which side of the line then.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 30, 2017 04:38 PM (TOk1P)

158
BREAKING: Senate and House repeal Obama rule forcing states to give Planned Parenthood your tax dollars for family planning services.

States no longer forced to prop up Planned Parenthood and can send money to community health centers that DON'T commit abortions.
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at March 30, 2017 04:34 PM (HRSh5)

=================

Plus it was through the CRA, so the next Democratic president can't just reissue the rule.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 30, 2017 04:35 PM (mC1ZI)

Pence cast the tie breaking vote in the Senate, because our darling GOP Sen. Murkowski and Collins voted against.

Posted by: Jen at March 30, 2017 04:38 PM (m8stq)

159
how's 2nd Tuesday in 2025 work for you?
Posted by: Kreplach

If the republic is still alive...

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 30, 2017 04:38 PM (IqV8l)

160 140
OT, but #winning:

LiveAction
@LiveAction

BREAKING:
Senate and House repeal Obama rule forcing states to give Planned
Parenthood your tax dollars for family planning services.

States
no longer forced to prop up Planned Parenthood and can send money to
community health centers that DON'T commit abortions.

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at March 30, 2017 04:34 PM (HRSh5)

Wow -Congress can actually do something right for once.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 30, 2017 04:38 PM (jxbfJ)

161 Sorry, but this one is REAL easy.

- Be Trump.

- Trump goes to Comey: You have 1 hour to provide names and documents or you are fired/jailed/whatever.

- Keep working down the line until you get what you requested or the FBI portion of the swamp is drained.

See? Simple.

Posted by: Shinjinrui at March 30, 2017 04:38 PM (h5hE3)

162 "Nunes said last Wednesday that the FBI had not said whether it would respond to the committee's March 15 letter."

Wow. If only the FBI were part of a federal department whose boss was appointed by, answerable to, and taking the orders of the President.

That'd be great.

Posted by: torquewrench at March 30, 2017 04:38 PM (noWW6)

163 Something about a living, breathing, evolving US Constitution where the FBI under the DOJ, as part of the Executive Branch of government is somehow independent of the Office of President which is in charge of the Executive Branch of the Federal Government except for those independent agencies like DOJ, Federal Reserve, and probably some others.

This is not your grandfather's Federal Government.
Posted by: Nester Wayless at March 30, 2017 04:36 PM (ZjiBa)

Heh.

Nah, the FBI director is supposed to be "non political" so he gets 5 year terms (a maximum of 2 of them, IIRC).

I don't see how that would stop Trump from demanding his resignation on day 1, and I don't see how the D's could be upset about it (politically) since they don't like Comey either.

If Comey refused to resign, it mayyy take an act of congress to get him removed, I'm not sure.

It shouldn't, because he works for the executive branch and serves at the pleasure of the president, but who knows

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at March 30, 2017 04:39 PM (wmaTe)

164 157 I'm not going to speak to that. I know lots of folks here are partial to that side of things, but the analogy is, we have the manpower, we have the reigns in Washington, we have the majority of the people. We have the infrastructure.

All signs point to a reasonable expectation of victory. Do we, or do we not have the men in place who will lead the fight?

I don't want my words to be in any way an indication of a preference for who was on which side of the line then.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 30, 2017 04:38 PM (TOk1P)

=================

I thought you were just listing proactive and decisive military leaders. Granted, you only listed Union men, but still...imagine if Stonewall had been in the Army of the Potomac at Antietam...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 30, 2017 04:39 PM (mC1ZI)

165 Plus it was through the CRA, so the next Democratic president can't just reissue the rule.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 30, 2017 04:35 PM (mC1ZI)

*grits teeth*

Here, let me say something nice about the GOP's actions in this session.

The GOP appears to have remembered that they passed the CRA back in the 1990's so that's nice.

Posted by: alexthechick - rrraaawwwrrr at March 30, 2017 04:40 PM (mf5HN)

166 158 Pence cast the tie breaking vote in the Senate, because our darling GOP Sen. Murkowski and Collins voted against.
Posted by: Jen at March 30, 2017 04:38 PM (m8stq)

==================

Remember when we almost got rid of Murkowski?

I 'member...

*sighs deeply and longingly*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 30, 2017 04:40 PM (mC1ZI)

167 125
The FBI reports to Congress. This isn't exactly a new proposition.

This is why people (I) don't trust the systems that are in place. Why should we when the systems aren't working.

Who was it that very nicely ripped the face off the poor FBI guy who
said well we decided Congress didn't need to see this and the response
was you don't get to decide that, I do.

I have no practical solutions for this other than that people need to start doing jail time for contempt.

Posted by: alexthechick - rrraaawwwrrr at March 30, 2017 04:31 PM (mf5HN)

The FBI is part of the DOJ. The Director of the FBI reports to the AG. All are part of the Executive Branch.

Trump can fire any of them, but historically the Presidents have either left them alone or urged them to resign.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 30, 2017 04:40 PM (mpXpK)

168 >>Pence cast the tie breaking vote in the Senate, because our darling GOP Sen. Murkowski and Collins voted against.

Well there's a shocker.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 30, 2017 04:41 PM (/tuJf)

169 165
*grits teeth*

Here, let me say something nice about the GOP's actions in this session.

The GOP appears to have remembered that they passed the CRA back in the 1990's so that's nice.
Posted by: alexthechick - rrraaawwwrrr at March 30, 2017 04:40 PM (mf5HN)

==================

Take victories where you can get them.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 30, 2017 04:41 PM (mC1ZI)

170 This is all bullshit, basically the only way forward is for Trump to issue an EO instructing the FBI, the CIA, NHS, DHS and all of the alphabet LEO and IC's to divulge to congress/appropriate committee(s) all investigations both closed and ongoing, reports, notes, work product, warrant requests, warrants, tasking assignments, involved agents, tasking authorities, grand juries, etc involving Trump, his family, his associates, bussiness,etc going back to at least 2014.

This shit has got to end and it's got to end now.

And while we're at it Comey's got to go so his ass needs to be fired toot sweet.
Posted by: Kreplach

Warren Commission II, Sens Paul, Ayden, and LTG Flynn

Posted by: Jean at March 30, 2017 04:41 PM (hk+5O)

171 @alexthechick

Was there a podcast about the podcast hiatus?
Or did I mis-remember?

Either way, hope all goes well with whatever is going on.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at March 30, 2017 04:41 PM (zsHGH)

172 Sure seems the hound dog is on a trail

Posted by: Skip at March 30, 2017 04:41 PM (GPaiX)

173 I can't wait for the primary campaign against Manchin.

It's going to get the outsized coverage of a Wendy Davis and end just as badly.

Not that I really like Manchin. WV can do better. But still, as an enemy player, he's not that bad.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 30, 2017 04:38 PM (mC1ZI)

If I remember correctly, Manchin was a very well liked Gov. of WV prior to becoming WV Senator. He knows his state well and knows what the folks in the hollers and hills like, and it's not the new Dem party.

Posted by: Jen at March 30, 2017 04:42 PM (m8stq)

174 Meeting of Comey with Obama operatives over somebody hacking the DNC.

Comey: We warned them. They didn't listen. Don't blame me.

ValJar: Well who did it?

Comey: Not sure. Russians hacked Hillary's home brew for sure. The DNC? Could have been anyone. Maybe we should go public that we'll fuck anyone who uses it? I could write an op-ed about how the FBI will be ruthless, if they do.

ValJAr: Thanks, but no thanks. We'll take it from here

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 30, 2017 04:42 PM (SIY7D)

175 Joss Whedon is going to write and direct Batgirl. make sure to not buy tickets well in advance

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at March 30, 2017 04:42 PM (o4kib)

176 What the hell is Comey doing writing op eds and giving political speeches?

It's what's now commonly known as "opinion-based law enforcement".

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 30, 2017 04:37 PM (Tyii7)

Judge in Hawaii holding sway over the whole country: Odd that he would just do whatever he wants to.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 30, 2017 04:42 PM (493sH)

177 Take victories where you can get them.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 30, 2017 04:41 PM (mC1ZI)

Yup. Also, as much as I hate being fair, it is only fair to note that the GOP is actually pushing forward stuff.

Yes, Obamacare repeal was screwed up by all parties trying as hard as they could to emfucken it, but that aside there have been actual advances on the Congressional side.

I hate being fair.

Posted by: alexthechick - rrraaawwwrrr at March 30, 2017 04:43 PM (mf5HN)

178 Nah, the FBI director is supposed to be "non political" so he gets 5 year terms (a maximum of 2 of them, IIRC).

I don't see how that would stop Trump from demanding his resignation on day 1

Every time Comey appoints a #2, Trump transfers them to Alaska. Montana. Idaho. Guam.

Every. Fucking. Time.

Until Comey plays ball.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2017 04:43 PM (4Utw1)

179 somebody (Cotton ?) was talking about a special prosecutor, i think; or might have been someone else entirely talking about something else entirely..

Posted by: runner at March 30, 2017 04:43 PM (c6/9Q)

180 I've seen.corpses that look more life like than Murkowski.

Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at March 30, 2017 04:43 PM (FqgrG)

181 Pence cast the tie breaking vote in the Senate, because our darling GOP Sen. Murkowski and Collins voted against.

Well there's a shocker.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 30, 2017 04:41 PM (/tuJf)

I seem to recall both are on the payroll, um donor list of PP.

Posted by: Jen at March 30, 2017 04:44 PM (m8stq)

182 Pence cast the tie breaking vote in the Senate, because our darling GOP Sen. Murkowski and Collins voted against.
Posted by: Jen

Well, there you go. With Pence casting the deciding vote, this is JUST LIKE SHARIA!! Women in chains, and all that.

And Trump will still be Hitler.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at March 30, 2017 04:44 PM (S6Pax)

183 Sen Miskolski, please spell that correctly

good times, good times

Posted by: runner at March 30, 2017 04:44 PM (c6/9Q)

184 >>I seem to recall both are on the payroll, um donor list of PP.

Yep. Hard core conservatives, those two.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 30, 2017 04:44 PM (/tuJf)

185 Coke Bear

Posted by: Grump928(c) at March 30, 2017 04:44 PM (QQ+il)

186 20
I'm not saying it's Russians?

But it's Russians.

2010 Dems lost the House
2012 Dems lost the Senate

2016 Dems lost the White House

2017 Dems lost ability to reason

It's not Russia, it's the Dems and maybe you

Posted by: Ruffledgrouse at March 30, 2017 04:44 PM (RGckL)

187 177
I hate being fair.
Posted by: alexthechick - rrraaawwwrrr at March 30, 2017 04:43 PM (mf5HN)

================

Then don't.

"GOP IS FUCKED!!!!!!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 30, 2017 04:45 PM (mC1ZI)

188 @TheJamesMadison

Proper fucked?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at March 30, 2017 04:45 PM (zsHGH)

189 "And yet, not one of these suckers of cock will tell you what, exactly, Russia was supposed to have done, if it was worse than the meddling Obama'd been doing in other countries' elections, and how, exactly, Trump was supposed to have colluded with them.

The whole thing is a string of empty allegation designed to fuel conspiracy theories to distract street-level lefties from looking at what a miserable failure their party has been."
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 30, 2017 04:23 PM (oVJmc)

THIS!!! A million times this. Been wondering this ever since it was brought up. Pretty sure Vladi P. and his KGB pals weren't at the polling places with a gun to anyone's head. And if these liberal, MSM progs are instead pointing to influence via the media (RT and others), then waaaa, waaaa, waaa. It's not like every other Western nation, including the U.S., hasn't been doing the same FOR YEARS.

Posted by: Shinjinrui at March 30, 2017 04:46 PM (h5hE3)

190 Was there a podcast about the podcast hiatus?
Or did I mis-remember?

Either way, hope all goes well with whatever is going on.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at March 30, 2017 04:41 PM (zsHGH)

No, we were intending to get back to a weekly basis and then life happened. BC's stuff is good stuff but stressful. Mine is family stuff and, well, it's not so much with the good. My dad's doing very poorly and Mommy is overwhelmed and this adult stuff sucks out loud. Nothing like having to play the bad guy and make your mother cry.

Thank you for the well wishes, it's greatly appreciated.

Posted by: alexthechick - rrraaawwwrrr at March 30, 2017 04:46 PM (mf5HN)

191 Only one FBI Director has ever been fired. Bill Clinton fired the FBI Director who had been appointed by RR. Press didn't say a word.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 30, 2017 04:46 PM (mpXpK)

192 173 I can't wait for the primary campaign against Manchin.

It's going to get the outsized coverage of a Wendy Davis and end just as badly.

Not that I really like Manchin. WV can do better. But still, as an enemy player, he's not that bad.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 30, 2017 04:38 PM (mC1ZI)

If I remember correctly, Manchin was a very well liked Gov. of WV prior to becoming WV Senator. He knows his state well and knows what the folks in the hollers and hills like, and it's not the new Dem party.
Posted by: Jen at March 30, 2017 04:42 PM (m8stq)

=================

Which is exactly why the primary will fail.

Still...I'd like to see WV send someone closer to Ted Cruz than what they do now. I feel like a Ted Cruz type guy could do well there, with some modified positions most likely.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 30, 2017 04:46 PM (mC1ZI)

193 Adam Schiff is the HAWT!!11!

Posted by: Chelsea Clinton at March 30, 2017 04:46 PM (fi5nC)

194 ChadPergram
30/03/17 16:55
Dem ND Sen Heitkamp to back Gorsuch. 2 Dems now. Heitkamp up for re-elex in red state in 2018.

Posted by: EVLINC! at March 30, 2017 04:47 PM (y3aQB)

195 Sick burn, Chelsea...

Oh wait, you were serious?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at March 30, 2017 04:47 PM (zsHGH)

196 re 136:

FFS, Debbie Wasserman Schultz tampered with the election. By favoring
Hillary and fucking Bernie. And the leaked debate questions!
Ironically, it was only because someone hacked the DNC that we know of
this!

And I haven't see real proof that it was the Russians.

=====

one of those things that makes me wonder if maybe the stuff that got to wikileaks was sent by a pissed off DNC insider.

Posted by: mallfly the expert at March 30, 2017 04:48 PM (b7fwp)

197 Dem ND Sen Heitkamp to back Gorsuch. 2 Dems now. Heitkamp up for re-elex in red state in 2018.
Posted by: EVLINC! at March 30, 2017 04:47 PM (y3aQB)

Manchin doesn't surprise me at all but Heitkamp does.

I wonder if Chuckie will still go fillibuster or not now.

Posted by: alexthechick - rrraaawwwrrr at March 30, 2017 04:48 PM (mf5HN)

198 Comey must go,I don't care how, but get him out. Can anyone trust him after all the crap he has pulled. He is either a crook or an incompetent drama queen.

However with that said, To me the fun news of the day has to be the EU threatening to break up the USA.

I think we have found our way to dispose of California, and re-conquer California in the name of national defense. Plus ditch part of NATO...well mostly Germany...

Posted by: William Eaton at March 30, 2017 04:48 PM (MuTTO)

199 179 somebody (Cotton ?) was talking about a special prosecutor, i think; or might have been someone else entirely talking about something else entirely..
Posted by: runner at March 30, 2017 04:43 PM (c6/9Q)

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You need to email this comment to Sheppy. He'll run with it.

Posted by: Soona at March 30, 2017 04:48 PM (Fmupd)

200 WH invites lawmakers to view surveillance documents.

DRUDGE

BOOM!

Posted by: Under Fire at March 30, 2017 04:48 PM (nN3W/)

201 Nah, the FBI director is supposed to be "non political" so he gets 5 year terms (a maximum of 2 of them, IIRC).

I don't see how that would stop Trump from demanding his resignation on day 1, and I don't see how the D's could be upset about it (politically) since they don't like Comey either.

====

Trump could have canned him just like Sally the US attorney.

Why didn't he?

Posted by: Mortimer, FINISH HER! at March 30, 2017 04:48 PM (fLMbU)

202 ChadPergram
30/03/17 16:55
Dem ND Sen Heitkamp to back Gorsuch. 2 Dems now. Heitkamp up for re-elex in red state in 2018.

Posted by: EVLINC! at March 30, 2017 04:47 PM (y3aQB)

Now if only we could be sure that all of the Republicans are on board

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 30, 2017 04:49 PM (493sH)

203 2017 Dems lost ability to reason

It's not Russia, it's the Dems and maybe you
Posted by: Ruffledgrouse

They still think it is the messaging.

Most people really do want weird men using the Lady's restrooms in public places. Really, they do.

Why can't America get on board with this? What's wrong with you people?

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at March 30, 2017 04:49 PM (S6Pax)

204 You need to email this comment to Sheppy. He'll run with it.

==

i'll get right on it

Posted by: runner at March 30, 2017 04:50 PM (c6/9Q)

205 194
ChadPergram

30/03/17 16:55

Dem ND Sen Heitkamp to back Gorsuch. 2 Dems now. Heitkamp up for re-elex in red state in 2018.

Posted by: EVLINC! at March 30, 2017 04:47 PM (y3aQB)

I would say those Senators (dems of course) that are in peril in 2018 will slowly migrate over to approving Gorsuch. But just enough to get to the 60 votes.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 30, 2017 04:50 PM (jxbfJ)

206 "Only one FBI Director has ever been fired. Bill Clinton fired the FBI Director who had been appointed by RR. Press didn't say a word."

Not exactly. They trumped up charges over things like his travel expense reimbursement and forced him to resign

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 30, 2017 04:50 PM (SIY7D)

207
183 Sen Miskolski, please spell that correctly

good times, good times

Posted by: runner at March 30, 2017 04:44 PM (c6/9Q)

No, it's Sen Meerkatski

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 30, 2017 04:50 PM (XWkhW)

208 Oh today is 36 years since Reagan was shot.

I don't know why people are lying and saying that because there is no way that it's been 36 years since I remember it clearly and I'm only 29.

Posted by: alexthechick - rrraaawwwrrr at March 30, 2017 04:50 PM (mf5HN)

209 I was in McDonald's around noon (Pacific time) and CNN was on. Four talking heads gassed on and about an NYT report regarding Nunes supposedly getting intelligence reports improperly from two unnamed White House officials.

I deduce from their exposition
1. Bullshit
2. Nunes must be hitting them where they live.

A coordinated MSM hit job. Nunes has arrived.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 30, 2017 04:50 PM (851cY)

210
Trump should have dealt with Comey they way Michael Corleone dealt with Carlo. Only don't tell me you're innocent because it insults my intelligence.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 30, 2017 04:50 PM (493sH)

211 >>>>ChadPergram

30/03/17 16:55

Dem ND Sen Heitkamp to back Gorsuch. 2 Dems now. Heitkamp up for re-elex in red state in 2018.
.
.
.There will be more. November 2018 is right around the corner and the attack ads will write themselves with a little help from Trump.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at March 30, 2017 04:51 PM (le7jz)

212 Trump could have canned him just like Sally the US attorney.

Why didn't he?

Posted by: Mortimer, FINISH HER! at March 30, 2017 04:48 PM (fLMbU)

Sally, the US Attorney was acting head of the DOJ at the time, pre Sessions. Comey was working for her at the time.

They are giving Comey enough rope to hang not only himself but the other's he's wedded in the Dem party.

Patience....

Posted by: Jen at March 30, 2017 04:51 PM (m8stq)

213 Trump could have canned him just like Sally the US attorney.

Why didn't he?

My hope is because he has damaging information on high ranking Republicans like ... oh, I dunno ...

... JOHN MCCAIN.

Posted by: ScoggDog at March 30, 2017 04:52 PM (tFWWx)

214 Once again, Trump couldn't just fire Comey.

Even if he could, it wouldn't have been the best move. Better to find the evidence to hang him

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 30, 2017 04:52 PM (SIY7D)

215 206
"Only one FBI Director has ever been fired. Bill Clinton fired the FBI
Director who had been appointed by RR. Press didn't say a word."

Not exactly. They trumped up charges over things like his travel expense reimbursement and forced him to resign

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 30, 2017 04:50 PM (SIY7D)

They used that as an excuse to fire him, but after he refused to resign Clinton fired him.
http://tinyurl.com/kerkym7

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 30, 2017 04:52 PM (mpXpK)

216 I was in McDonald's around noon (Pacific time) and CNN was on. Four talking heads gassed on and about an NYT report regarding Nunes supposedly getting intelligence reports improperly from two unnamed White House officials.

I deduce from their exposition
1. Bullshit
2. Nunes must be hitting them where they live.

A coordinated MSM hit job. Nunes has arrived.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug

That was Shemp's hit piece on Faux News too. All quoting that bastion of Truth and the American Way, the New York Times.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....outlaw in America at March 30, 2017 04:53 PM (S6Pax)

217 The FBI head gets a renewable five-year term and can't be fired without cause so that he's immune from political pressure

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 30, 2017 04:53 PM (SIY7D)

218 VP
30/03/17 17:01
It was my honor to break tie vote in Senate overturning last minute Obama rule & restoring state control over Title X family planning funds.

Posted by: EVLINC! at March 30, 2017 04:54 PM (y3aQB)

219 217
The FBI head gets a renewable five-year term and can't be fired without cause so that he's immune from political pressure

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 30, 2017 04:53 PM (SIY7D)

NOT true, he can be fired by the President.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 30, 2017 04:54 PM (mpXpK)

220 Obama sent over $350,000 of taxpayer money to an Israeli group in attempt to oust Netanyahu.

Objective proof of interference in a foreign election. How do you fight a non physical war with the Left with these rules? You can't.

Posted by: Jack Sock at March 30, 2017 04:55 PM (HJbDF)

221 one of those things that makes me wonder if maybe the stuff that got to wikileaks was sent by a pissed off DNC insider.

Posted by: mallfly the expert.

I can assure you that the same IT people who produced the initial OmamaCare website (but had to get that shit fixed by capitalist companies like MicroSurf, Apple, RedHat, etc) got this one right. Russians. Because basically free range malware had Vladimir Putins initials on it.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at March 30, 2017 04:55 PM (ZFUt7)

222 Oh today is 36 years since Reagan was shot.

Fake news!

Posted by: John Hinkley Jr. at March 30, 2017 04:55 PM (YEelc)

223 Not that I really like Manchin. WV can do better. But still, as an enemy player, he's not that bad.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at March 30, 2017 04:38 PM (mC1ZI)

-----------------------------------------

He sucks, he forced WVU football to have to play Marshall each year when he was Governor. Only people in West Virginia will understand this...yet they still elected him.

Joking aside, I know one thing, if he keeps pushing gun control he will be done in the next election. For a state that gives days off school for hunting season, I find it hard to believe that is a good political move on his part.

Posted by: William Eaton at March 30, 2017 04:55 PM (MuTTO)

224 Re: Nunes,

Recommend going to Conservative Treehouse and reading exactly what is involved in receiving intelligence reports, who can read them and who can't , compartmentalization, etc.

Very educational. Nunes is doing exactly what the law requires.

Posted by: Jen at March 30, 2017 04:55 PM (m8stq)

225 Russian Agent: Comrade Putin...
Putin: Yes, Nicolai?
Agent: have you seen these hacked emails that went between Mrs Clinton and Abedin?
Putin: Yes, of course.
Agent: so what will we do with them?
Putin: is 'Penthouse Forum' still being published?

Posted by: mallfly the expert at March 30, 2017 04:55 PM (b7fwp)

226
208 Oh today is 36 years since Reagan was shot.

I don't know why people are lying and saying that because there is no way that it's been 36 years since I remember it clearly and I'm only 29.
Posted by: alexthechick - rrraaawwwrrr at March 30, 2017 04:50 PM (mf5HN)

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Relax. It's only been five years. I was going through the same thing until I sat down and readjusted my memory.

Posted by: Soona at March 30, 2017 04:55 PM (Fmupd)

227 "but after he refused to resign Clinton fired him."

You're right, but you need charges. Trump can't fire Comey summarily, which is the real point

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 30, 2017 04:56 PM (SIY7D)

228 These deep State assholes think that they are like little Sioux warriors counting coup, while all along their bosses are counting on a coup.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 30, 2017 04:56 PM (6Ll1u)

229 213
...JOHN MCCAIN.

*squirt*

Posted by: Under Fire at March 30, 2017 04:57 PM (nN3W/)

230 227 You're right, but you need charges. Trump can't fire Comey summarily, which is the real point

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 30, 2017 04:56 PM (SIY7D)

There were no "charges". There were accusations and innuendo. It was obviously political.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 30, 2017 04:57 PM (mpXpK)

231 Leftists, goverment security and some RINOS are still pushing the Russian espionage on the election but not 1 scap of evidence

Posted by: Skip at March 30, 2017 04:57 PM (GPaiX)

232 208 Oh today is 36 years since Reagan was shot.

I don't know why people are lying and saying that because there is no way that it's been 36 years since I remember it clearly and I'm only 29.
Posted by: alexthechick - rrraaawwwrrr at March 30, 2017 04:50 PM (mf5HN)

I wasn't even born yet.

Posted by: buzzion at March 30, 2017 04:57 PM (z/Ubi)

233 Remind me again why Comey wasn't fired day 1?
.............

They tried but he couldn't find his car keys.
Been there ever since.

Posted by: wth at March 30, 2017 04:58 PM (HgMAr)

234 You're right, but you need charges. Trump can't fire Comey summarily, which is the real point

Based on article Vic linked, a simple charge of "you suck" is sufficient.

Posted by: ScoggDog at March 30, 2017 04:58 PM (tFWWx)

235 That Schiffhead won't even look at the material so he can continue lying. DC needs to be flushed. Twice.

Posted by: oddnot at March 30, 2017 04:58 PM (g1MTt)

236 Who cares who was unmasked. Who is the criminal that unmasked them?

Posted by: Golfman at March 30, 2017 04:58 PM (48QDY)

237 Jen -- yeah that sounds right. I know that there IS a reason. Trump has played rope a dope with these folks from day one.

BTW

To the commentor that asked where all the winning went? The winning is happening. While others obsess over impossible extreme measures, the ratchet is clicking to the right every single day. But I can tell you that you're not going to find any winning in the mainstream media headlines, my friend.

Posted by: Mortimer, FINISH HER! at March 30, 2017 04:59 PM (fLMbU)

238 200 WH invites lawmakers to view surveillance documents.

DRUDGE

BOOM!
Posted by: Under Fire at March 30, 2017 04:48 PM (nN3W/)
-------------
This goes to what Spicer was saying at the press briefing today.

-Why are you reporters and Dem's focusing on the "process" and not the substance.

You shit for brains reporters always protect your "anonymous" sources and tell everyone to focus on the substance. Now with Trump, you want to focus on the process and those "anonymous" sources instead of the substance.

Posted by: WisRich at March 30, 2017 04:59 PM (hdpay)

239 OT, but I just found out that Jack Ziegler died. He was a cartoonist for the National Lampoon and the New Yorker. His stuff was always bizarre, but it resonated with me.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 30, 2017 04:59 PM (MZcWR)

240 218 VP
30/03/17 17:01
It was my honor to break tie vote in Senate overturning last minute Obama rule & restoring state control over Title X family planning funds.

======

And winning. And winning.

Posted by: Mortimer, FINISH HER! at March 30, 2017 05:00 PM (fLMbU)

241 135 One valid reason not to respond; they have an active criminal investigation into the leaks.
Posted by: Jean at March 30, 2017 04:33 PM (hk+5O)

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No doubt that is the exact excuse they will use until Comey's term is up in 2018, then there will be hard drive failures galore.

Posted by: MAGA at March 30, 2017 05:00 PM (A4HOq)

242 I concede. Technically President can fire the FBI Director.

If you don't have the goods, it's a bad bad move politically. Especially when the Media is so against you

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 30, 2017 05:00 PM (SIY7D)

243 Perino has dark eyebrows. I can only conclude from this, the drapes DO NOT match the carpet.

Posted by: Under Fire at March 30, 2017 05:01 PM (nN3W/)

244 I concede. Technically President can fire the FBI Director.

That's stand-up to concede though. No shame in taking a stance, being wrong, and calling it.

*raises glass to you*

Posted by: ScoggDog at March 30, 2017 05:03 PM (tFWWx)

245 The answer is simple enough - all of them.

Posted by: West at March 30, 2017 05:04 PM (1Rgee)

246 The FBI head gets a renewable five-year term and can't be fired without cause so that he's immune from political pressure

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 30, 2017 04:53 PM (SIY7D)

NOT true, he can be fired by the President.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 30, 2017 04:54 PM (mpXpK)

One of those things where opinions don't matter, and frankly, how the law is written does not seem to matter.

If the consensus in Washington is the guy can't be fired, then he can't be fired. We can argue whether that's right or not all day long. It's not going to change a damn thing though.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 30, 2017 05:04 PM (TOk1P)

247 FBI Comey secret Twitter account uncovered
DRUDGE

BOOM!

Posted by: Under Fire at March 30, 2017 05:05 PM (nN3W/)

248 Perino has dark eyebrows. I can only conclude from this, the drapes DO NOT match the carpet.
Posted by: Under Fire at March 30, 2017 05:01 PM (nN3W/)

======

An old girlfriend had natural white blond hair and dark carpet, so it can happen.

Posted by: Flyboy at March 30, 2017 05:05 PM (SP0+I)

249 239 OT, but I just found out that Jack Ziegler died. He was a cartoonist for the National Lampoon and the New Yorker. His stuff was always bizarre, but it resonated with me.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 30, 2017 04:59 PM (MZcWR)

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I thought he was one of the guys in that Vegas magic show with all the lions and tigers.

Posted by: Soona at March 30, 2017 05:06 PM (Fmupd)

250 FBI Comey secret Twitter account uncovered
DRUDGE

BOOM!

Posted by: Under Fire at March 30, 2017 05:05 PM (nN3W/)

Comey: It was hacked by Weiner!!!

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 30, 2017 05:06 PM (493sH)

251 Speaking of Drudge, the red highlight link about Comey is pretty interesting.

Posted by: Golfman at March 30, 2017 05:08 PM (48QDY)

252 248
...So it can happen.

I defer to your expertise in this matter.

Posted by: Under Fire at March 30, 2017 05:08 PM (nN3W/)

253 @247

As far as finding Comey's Twitter goes, the only hint he offered was the fact that he has "to be on Twitter now," meaning that the account would likely be relatively new.

====

Behold the power of Weaponized Autism.

Posted by: Mortimer, FINISH HER! at March 30, 2017 05:08 PM (fLMbU)

254 I've already assumed the dems will pack the Supreme Court next time their in ala FDR.

When that happens...

Posted by: JT in KC at March 30, 2017 05:09 PM (FoSz+)

255 they're

Posted by: JT in KC at March 30, 2017 05:09 PM (FoSz+)

256 Civil war. No shooting with bullets, yet.

Posted by: simplemind at March 30, 2017 05:09 PM (xVRrG)

257 EUROPEAN Union boss Jean-Claude Juncker this afternoon issued a jaw-dropping threat to the United States, saying he could campaign to break up the country in revenge for Donald Trump's supportive comments about Brexit.

https://tinyurl.com/n3lbtm2

HAH! BRING IT, POOFTERS!!!!!

You just cannot make this shit up. Britain is getting out just in time.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 30, 2017 05:10 PM (8ZskC)

258 >>>I wasn't even born yet

isn't this bcochran's line?

Posted by: concrete girl at March 30, 2017 05:10 PM (NA4P9)

259 Behold the power of Weaponized Autism.

---

I am paranoid, but not paranoid enough.

Posted by: Nester Wayless at March 30, 2017 05:11 PM (ZjiBa)

260 259 Did Comey post dick pics too?Eww....

Posted by: steevy at March 30, 2017 05:11 PM (r/0kC)

261 Perino has dark eyebrows. I can only conclude from this, the drapes DO NOT match the carpet.
Posted by: Under Fire at March 30, 2017 05:01 PM (nN3W/)

I know she's a GOPe shill, but I'm willing to throw myself on the grenade to find out the truth for Teh Horde.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 30, 2017 05:11 PM (trcbu)

262 254 I've already assumed the dems will pack the Supreme Court next time their in ala FDR.

When that happens...

... Republicans will bitch about the outrageousness of it all, while voting each of them out of committee, against them on the floor, and promising to restore the fillibuster.

Posted by: ScoggDog at March 30, 2017 05:12 PM (tFWWx)

263 They had this segment on the news about the crazy semi tattoo thing women are doing to their eyebrows, it was kinda disturbing. My neighbor has drawn on eyebrows because she plucked them all out and they won't grow back. I can't stop staring at them when I talk to her, it's freaky looking.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 30, 2017 05:12 PM (6Ll1u)

264 EUROPEAN Union boss Jean-Claude Juncker this afternoon issued a jaw-dropping threat to the United States, saying he could campaign to break up the country in revenge for Donald Trump's supportive comments about Brexit.
====

oh please. no.

don't do it.

Posted by: Mortimer, FINISH HER! at March 30, 2017 05:12 PM (fLMbU)

265 nood

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at March 30, 2017 05:13 PM (mpXpK)

266 I wasn't even born yet.
Posted by: buzzion at March 30, 2017 04:57 PM (z/Ubi)
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Go back to the other side, why don't you.

Posted by: bluebell at March 30, 2017 05:13 PM (sBOL1)

267 EUROPEAN Union boss Jean-Claude Juncker this afternoon issued a
jaw-dropping threat to the United States, saying he could campaign to
break up the country

It's been tried. Britain, France, Spain and Germany have tried.
I've obviously missed something: where in the Common Market Charter does it call for "Europe" to be a single sovereign nation? This is sounding more and more like Garner Ted Armstrong.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at March 30, 2017 05:13 PM (H5rtT)

268 She chunked up a couple years ago ... and they moved her to the back of the table on The Five.

She dropped that weight like a bad habit and now she's front row center again. Baby ?

Posted by: ScoggDog at March 30, 2017 05:14 PM (tFWWx)

269 OT: I just had an insurance salesman visit me. I had told him in advance exactly what I needed/wanted and asked him to bring info and pricing on just those items. What did I get? Death by Powerpoint with a whole range of other products. I had to tell him 4 times to knock it off and just give me the info I requested because I was busy. Uugghhh....

Posted by: Flyboy at March 30, 2017 05:15 PM (SP0+I)

270 @263 I make it a point not to look at women's drawn-on eyebrows unless I'm with my wife.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at March 30, 2017 05:17 PM (H5rtT)

271 >J. Edgar Hoover had dirt on FDR, and thereby forced FDR's compliance to Hoover's agenda

the exact opposite. FDR gave Hoover autonomy and responsibility for anti-subversive ops; the quid pro quo was that the FBI spied on FDR's domestic opponents.

Even the pinko Theoharis admits this to be the case.

The FBI did this for every President through Nixon; the breach between previous allies Nixon and Hoover was caused by the FBI spying on Nixon for Johnson (some "dragon lady" issue, IIRC).

Posted by: Grad School Fool at March 30, 2017 05:17 PM (swEzU)

272
EUROPEAN Union boss Jean-Claude Juncker this afternoon issued a jaw-dropping threat to the United States, saying he could campaign to break up the country in revenge for Donald Trump's supportive comments about Brexit.
We could take the EU with just the troops we already hav stationed in Europe

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at March 30, 2017 05:17 PM (lKyWE)

273 So Comey is liking NYT articles about Russian conspiracy theories.

Well well well isn't that special.

Posted by: simplemind at March 30, 2017 05:18 PM (xVRrG)

274 I've obviously missed something: where in the Common Market Charter does it call for "Europe" to be a single sovereign nation? This is sounding more and more like Garner Ted Armstrong.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at March 30, 2017 05:13 PM (H5rtT)

Whatever happened to "The Plain Truth" anyway? Interesting if sometimes wacky mix of evangelism and conservative politics, a la "The 700 Club".

Posted by: Curmudgeon at March 30, 2017 05:19 PM (ujg0T)

275 Schiff: "Show us the documents! Cover up!"

Trump: "okay, here are the documents."

Schiff: "There's some nefarious going on, why are you showing us the documents! These are not the documents we're looking for!"

Posted by: WisRich at March 30, 2017 05:21 PM (hdpay)

276 http://bit.ly/2nF1ItC
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This Is Almost Certainly James Comey's Twitter Account

Posted by: EVLINC! at March 30, 2017 05:26 PM (y3aQB)

277 I wasn't even born yet.
Posted by: buzzion at March 30, 2017 04:57 PM (z/Ubi)
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Go back to the other side, why don't you.

On the bright side, he won't get any older.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at March 30, 2017 05:27 PM (QQ+il)

278 Read exactly what happened with Trumps healthcare bill and how the Caucus tried to make an ass out if him and lied about the content;

http://tinyurl.com/mxc8bsu

I hardly ever agree with Rove and he's obviously not Trumps biggest fan.

But I dare you...

Karl Rove is a lying POS.
Why should I believe Rove now?

Posted by: gNewt at March 30, 2017 05:34 PM (ODr92)

279 Pretty much Comey is running his own show. And apparently no one is able or willing to do what is necessary to have him removed. Until that time I have no sympathy.

Posted by: gracepmc at March 30, 2017 05:43 PM (OU4q6)

280 re 271: maybe 20 years ago I read a book about Watergate, it came out from one witness at the congressional hearings in 1973 that LBJ had wiretaps and/or office bugs on the 1964 Goldwater and 1968 Nixon campaign offices. Committee chairman Peter Rodino replied "we're not here to investigate President Johnson."

Posted by: mallfly the expert at March 30, 2017 07:05 PM (b7fwp)

281 James Comey's Twatter Account - at least calls into question he ability to be relied upon for fair investigation. Some odd choices of stories for him to highlight on his twatter account.

Posted by: Allen B at March 30, 2017 07:06 PM (SlRWg)

282 Look, Trump says simply - provide an answer to the House committee within two week or Comey is canned.

Dare him not to do it. When he doesn't, give him the boot.

Posted by: George Orwell's Ghost at March 30, 2017 08:00 PM (UgF8H)

283 Look, at my company, it is difficult to fire people. So what we do instead is what is politely called "Put a saddle on them and ride them round the office." Here is how it would work:

Step 1, have Trump schedule a meeting with Comey at the FBI headquarters.

Step 2, bring Nunes, Sessions, the press, and the Dems on the committee to the meeting. Surprise MF!

3) Step 3, ask for the people to explain the delay in producing the documents to everyone. Work your way down the fucking org chart, slowwwwwly. Comey will say "ah, fuck, the chief investigator needs more time...uh..." call in the chief investigator "Ah fuck, I gave that to my underling...um..." call in the underling "Oh fuck, the secretary has it....we were looking for stamps...um..." Drag this part out. make them sweat. Be polite, but firm. make it clear you have nothing better to do than torture them.

4) Step 4 - ask for the documents requested, right the fuck now. When they delay, say...you'll wait. Then...wait. Trump can spring for pizza. keep waiting. All night if you have to. have a nice time. Joke with the reporters, the other committee members. But don't leave.

Simple. As. that. Oh and bonus - you will NEVER have to do this stunt again, and you will ALWAYS get the documents you requested with the greatest urgency from EVERY Federal agency.

Trust me on this....

Posted by: George Orwell's Ghost at March 30, 2017 08:14 PM (UgF8H)

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