Emails Show that NYT, WaPo Colluded to Kill Lynch-Clinton Tarmac Conclave Story

"Unenthusiastic" about covering the story.

Reporters with the Washington Post and New York Times were apparently less than enthusiastic about covering the controversial private meeting between then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former President Bill Clinton just months ahead of the 2016 election.
The non-profit American Center for Law and Justice published emails Friday that showed reporters asking Department of Justice officials for details on the meeting.
Mark Landler, a reporter for the Times, is seen in one June 30 email reaching out to a DOJ official to say he's "been pressed into service to write about the questions being raised" by the meeting.
Matt Zapotosky with the Post emailed a DOJ official the same day after several other emails to say that his editors "are still pretty interested" in the story but that he wanted to "put it to rest."

By the way, Loretta Lynch used a fake name in many email correspondences-- I'm sure she had no intent to break the law in avoiding FOIA disclosures.

Like her predecessor, Eric Holder, former Attorney General Loretta Lynch used an email alias to conduct government business, The Daily Caller has confirmed....
Using the pseudonym “Elizabeth Carlisle,” Lynch corresponded with DOJ press officials to hammer out talking points in response to media requests about the meeting.

Lynch's lawyer claims that this pseudonym was not an attempt to avoid FOIA, and that the alias was known to people who would FOIA records.

Mm-hm.

Posted by: Ace at 05:31 PM

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1 What our non-biased MFM would do something like that? Capt. Renault is shocked, I tell you just shocked over this

Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 07, 2017 05:33 PM (493sH)

2 I think we need a special counsel.

Posted by: steevy at August 07, 2017 05:34 PM (rmVvL)

3 Elizabeth Carlisle is a WASPY-sounding name.

She couldn't come up with something more creative?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 07, 2017 05:35 PM (PY9jH)

4 Surely using a false name or private server/email to get around Federal laws, when you yourself are a Federal employee... surely that's wrong? Illegal, maybe?

Posted by: Once a Lurkette, now a filthy casual at August 07, 2017 05:36 PM (jVlNS)

5 Let me guess, Dave Weigel will tweet a snarky wise ass response downplaying this article as conservative paranoia. Talk about a face in need of a fist.

Posted by: Benji Carver at August 07, 2017 05:36 PM (OD2ni)

6 Let me know when Sessions can take a break from "Matlock" and decides to do anything about it.

Posted by: Maritime at August 07, 2017 05:36 PM (VDVsF)

7 The NYT and WaPo cannot go out of business quickly enough. I want their "journOlists" asking me if I want fries with my burger.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 07, 2017 05:36 PM (PY9jH)

8 D.C. So effing sucks.
And you wonder why we have Trump. Well guess what you corrupt mutha-effers, you're going to get a lot more.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 07, 2017 05:37 PM (0tfLf)

9 Clean up needed on comment 279 last thread.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 07, 2017 05:37 PM (NyJwR)

10 "3 Elizabeth Carlisle is a WASPY-sounding name.

She couldn't come up with something more creative?
Posted by: Jane D'oh"

That didn't work out too well for Anthony Weiner. The NY Post still gets mileage out of Carlos Danger.

Posted by: Benji Carver at August 07, 2017 05:37 PM (OD2ni)

11 Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then

Posted by: Just call me Deplorable Texican gal at August 07, 2017 05:38 PM (jVlNS)

12 Matt Zapotosky with the Post emailed a DOJ official the same day after several other emails to say that his editors "are still pretty interested" in the story but that he wanted to "put it to rest."
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Something, something...dies in darkness.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 07, 2017 05:38 PM (OdK9v)

13 Top ten baby!!

Posted by: Country Boy at August 07, 2017 05:39 PM (D2vc1)

14 "put it to rest."
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Oh, my. Isn't that Obstruction of Justice?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 07, 2017 05:39 PM (OdK9v)

15 I guess Erica Holder was already taken.

Posted by: dantesed at August 07, 2017 05:39 PM (88xKn)

16 Trump's riff on the tarmac meeting during his campaign speeches last year was really laugh out loud funny.

Posted by: Benji Carver at August 07, 2017 05:39 PM (OD2ni)

17 Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then

Posted by: Just call me Deplorable Texican gal at August 07, 2017 05:38 PM (jVlNS)

Single??? : )

Posted by: Country Boy at August 07, 2017 05:40 PM (D2vc1)

18 Reporters used to be known as "ink stained wretches."

Now they're just wretches. Ick.

Posted by: GuyfromNH at August 07, 2017 05:40 PM (75D/9)

19 Fucking scum.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2017 05:40 PM (89T5c)

20 The only way her alias would be widely known is if there was an official memoranda detailing this and any other alias's she might have used.

Also I am pretty sure that high level officials are required by law, statute or policy to use their official email name when conducting official business.

The outright corruption and criminality being revealed on a daily basis is astonishing, breathtaking even.

Posted by: Kreplach at August 07, 2017 05:40 PM (9A6UB)

21 Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then
Posted by: Just call me Deplorable Texican gal
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Sadly, there's no turning back the clock...unless you're an Ewok.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 07, 2017 05:40 PM (OdK9v)

22 Elizabeth Carlisle is a WASPY-sounding name.

She couldn't come up with something more creative?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 07, 2017 05:35 PM (PY9jH)
From what I understand, it's her grandmother's name.

Posted by: Country Singer at August 07, 2017 05:41 PM (yzxic)

23 Lie, Cheat, Steal, and Lie

The Democratic Way

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 07, 2017 05:41 PM (5y11N)

24 Dang, missed it.

Oh well. Still in before Grump928 and the Scorpion.

Posted by: Country Boy at August 07, 2017 05:41 PM (D2vc1)

25 I like how the FBI:

1st--claimed there were no documents related to the meeting
Then--redacted much of the content of the documents they actually had relating to the meeting.

You know, redacted the notes about the meeting that we were assured was nothing more than a conversation about grandchildren and family.

Like how those 33,000 emails Hillary deleted were yoga routines and wedding planning.

Posted by: RoyalOil at August 07, 2017 05:42 PM (W1XyZ)

26 "Lynch's lawyer claims that this pseudonym was not an attempt to avoid FOIA, and that the alias was known to people who would FOIA records."

Obviously Comey didn't know ?

Posted by: Sp4x2 at August 07, 2017 05:42 PM (+3bHL)

27 Lori Soetero would have been a cool alias.

Posted by: DaveD at August 07, 2017 05:42 PM (P5fqQ)

28 Ace, I know you are busy building shelves and not eating, but if you have time I'd love your take on the Google memo. The comments on the Gizmodo page that contains the full memo are... interesting. http://gizmodo.com/exclusive-heres-the-full-10-page-anti-diversity-screed-1797564320

Posted by: Joseph Dickerson at August 07, 2017 05:43 PM (LDV7V)

29 I hate the term media bias because it implies some sort of unconscious act. This is actually what collusion looks like.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2017 05:43 PM (/tuJf)

30 Reporters used to be known as "ink stained wretches."

Now they're just wretches. Ick.
Posted by: GuyfromNH
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Who dine on a gruel of bile and gravel.

Posted by: Mark Halprin at August 07, 2017 05:44 PM (OdK9v)

31 "Lynch's lawyer claims that this pseudonym was not an attempt to avoid FOIA, and that the alias was known to people who would FOIA records."

So he is saying that Judicial Watch knew? I find that very hard to believe.

Posted by: Benji Carver at August 07, 2017 05:44 PM (OD2ni)

32 Just a local story.

Posted by: Wapoo at August 07, 2017 05:44 PM (IqV8l)

33 "Helprin"

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 07, 2017 05:44 PM (OdK9v)

34 The worst part is how they expect us to believe this crap.
At least half will.

Posted by: navybrat at August 07, 2017 05:44 PM (w7KSn)

35 8 years and no scandal with Obama! But Drumpf can't go 8 months!

Posted by: I'm Anonosaurus Wrecks and I approved this message at August 07, 2017 05:44 PM (Nwg0u)

36 22 Elizabeth Carlisle is a WASPY-sounding name.

She couldn't come up with something more creative?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 07, 2017 05:35 PM (PY9jH)
From what I understand, it's her grandmother's name.

Posted by: Country Singer at August 07, 2017 05:41 PM (yzxic)

++++

Slave name. Family name must come from some WASPY slave owners.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 07, 2017 05:44 PM (pvjTE)

37 So how is Loretta Lynch using an alias to escape FOIA not a form of fraud?

Posted by: Maritime at August 07, 2017 05:45 PM (VDVsF)

38 My immediate response is that the use of a pseudonym in government emails should be punishable by 5 years in jail, forfeiture of all government retirement benefits and a $50,000 fine.

All that will happen is that people will shift to using private email services.

Make that double the punishment for using a pseudonym.

This secret government has got to stop. I prefer a peaceful resolution.

Posted by: alexthechick - happy happy manatees at August 07, 2017 05:45 PM (dEQP3)

39 "Lynch's lawyer claims that this pseudonym was not an attempt to avoid FOIA, and that the alias was known to people who would FOIA records."

So then every request for emails by Lynch should have included at least some with this email addy before now but we haven't heard of it because???

I also thought the law was clear that to do government business only one email account was to be used, the official one, and that even having a personal account was very discouraged. Especially for high level officers.

Posted by: geoffb5 at August 07, 2017 05:45 PM (d3wbb)

40 In an infrequent lapse, the public was allowed to witness how business is conducted in government... the deep state on a side runway, hidden in plane sight, if you will.

This is not really a Representative Republic, this is a Club, with Rules and Bylaws, devoted to the continuance of the Club.

Commoners need not apply.

Posted by: kraken at August 07, 2017 05:45 PM (zSVEm)

41 What does FOIA stand for, anyway?

Fnone Of Iyour Abusiness?

Posted by: FireHorse at August 07, 2017 05:46 PM (zkGZ8)

42 There was no intent to deceive.

Posted by: James Comey at August 07, 2017 05:46 PM (OdK9v)

43 She should have used Tammy Wynettench as her alias. You know, just for shits and giggles....

Posted by: JoeF. at August 07, 2017 05:46 PM (7uYFy)

44 Loretta Lynch's fat ass be using some fake ass white name to be avoiding the man?

Oh no she didn't!.......

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 07, 2017 05:46 PM (5VlCp)

45 "37 So how is Loretta Lynch using an alias to escape FOIA not a form of fraud?
Posted by: Maritime"

Shut up Racist. That's how.

Posted by: Rev Al Sharpton at August 07, 2017 05:47 PM (OD2ni)

46 If there is no pain for the WaPo for burying legitimate news that may reflect poorly on their Dem masters, why would they not bury it?

Posted by: Malignantly aggrieved at August 07, 2017 05:47 PM (oBuXO)

47 what difFference dOes It mAke?

Posted by: FireHorse at August 07, 2017 05:47 PM (zkGZ8)

48 41 What does FOIA stand for, anyway?

Fnone Of Iyour Abusiness?
Posted by: FireHorse at August 07, 2017 05:46 PM (zkGZ

F Off Ignorant Asswipe?

Posted by: Don Quixote,.. who needs to change his socks more often at August 07, 2017 05:48 PM (NgKpN)

49 From what I understand, it's her grandmother's name.
--

and maybe Elizabeth is her middle name?

BTW... she lied about this under oath.

But everyone knows Democrats don't know the difference between a lie and not a lie, so they can't be prosecuted.

/they are "Truth Disabled." Sad really. Victim status and all..

Posted by: shibumi at August 07, 2017 05:48 PM (aT+Bx)

50 I go by Turd Ferguson on Jeopardy!

Posted by: Burt Reynolds at August 07, 2017 05:48 PM (bc2Lc)

51 44 Loretta Lynch's fat ass be using some fake ass white name to be avoiding the man?

Oh no she didn't!.......
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 07, 2017 05:46 PM (5VlCp)

Hmmm.... if'n we be playin by dem rules...

Isn't that Cultural Appropriation?

Posted by: Don Quixote,.. who needs to change his socks more often at August 07, 2017 05:49 PM (NgKpN)

52 F*ck Off and dIe, peasAnt.

(It's so much easier when you completely ignore the rules of acronym forming! No wonder the military does it that way!)

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 07, 2017 05:49 PM (hcyUh)

53
"Lynch's lawyer claims that this pseudonym was not an attempt to avoid FOIA, and that the alias was known to people who would FOIA records."

Then why is her lawyer issuing the statement?

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at August 07, 2017 05:49 PM (lKyWE)

54 46 If there is no pain for the WaPo for burying legitimate news that may reflect poorly on their Dem masters, why would they not bury it?

Posted by: Malignantly aggrieved at August 07, 2017 05:47 PM (oBuXO)

It's all Izvestia and Pravda now... no news, just government announcements, or, of late, Deep State directives...

Posted by: kraken at August 07, 2017 05:50 PM (zSVEm)

55
It must chap Hillary's ass each and every day how these little events all added up to her defeat.

Bill Clinton meeting with Loretta Wench was huge in putting the stench of 'fix' all over her.

My solution for her is booze, lots of booze, applied internally 24 hours a day.

Posted by: Slippery Slope Salesman at August 07, 2017 05:50 PM (EgwCt)

56 My email name was Not Eric Holder. Never got caught!
Peace out! Y'all be cool...

Posted by: Eric Holder at August 07, 2017 05:51 PM (qJhUV)

57
It's all Izvestia and Pravda now... no news, just government announcements, or, of late, Deep State directives...
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Who owns the media?

We do.

Who controls the Uniparty?

We do.

Who brings Muslims into the West?

We do.

Who is the head of the New World Order?

We are

Posted by: The Deep State at August 07, 2017 05:51 PM (aT+Bx)

58 My solution for her is booze, lots of booze, applied internally 24 hours a day.
Posted by: Slippery Slope Salesman
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Followed by long walks in the woods.

Posted by: The Blair Witch at August 07, 2017 05:51 PM (OdK9v)

59 >>Lynch's lawyer claims that this pseudonym was not an attempt to avoid
FOIA, and that the alias was known to people who would FOIA records.

Every member of Obama's cabinet seems to have had a fake email address.
Hillary wasn't the anomaly - just an overachiever when it came to what appears to be Obama's known policy of doing business 'off the books'.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2017 05:51 PM (NOIQH)

60 41 What does FOIA stand for, anyway?

Fnone Of Iyour Abusiness?
Posted by: FireHorse at August 07, 2017 05:46 PM (zkGZ

Fuck Off, Inquisitive Americans!

Posted by: Insomniac at August 07, 2017 05:52 PM (0mRoj)

61 They really got sloppy because they believed a Republican could never win the White House ever again.

Hell, I was close to buying the same meme as well.

Posted by: Maritime at August 07, 2017 05:52 PM (VDVsF)

62 My solution for her is booze, lots of booze, applied internally 24 hours a day.

Posted by: Slippery Slope Salesman
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Administered orally, I presume. Because I've heard of ...

Posted by: FireHorse at August 07, 2017 05:53 PM (zkGZ8)

63 Sadly, there's no turning back the clock...unless you're an Ewok.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 07, 2017 05:40 PM (OdK9v)

Yub Nub!

Posted by: Wicket at August 07, 2017 05:53 PM (iys0/)

64 >>"Lynch's lawyer claims that this pseudonym was not an attempt to avoid
FOIA, and that the alias was known to people who would FOIA records."

*Known to people who needed to know, and no on else (wink, wink, nudge, nudge, say no more!). And known to no one in subsequent administrations. By design.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2017 05:53 PM (NOIQH)

65 This should surprise none of us.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 07, 2017 05:53 PM (0mRoj)

66 On days like this when news like this comes to light, I am reminded how we used to laugh at how the Soviet Union and 'Pravda' and their phones 'news'....does not seem so funny now.

The Dems ARE the old Commies....and VERY proud of it.

As JJ has said, it mostly starts , and ends, in schools. There is no teaching of objective truth and certainly no critical thinking taught in schools.
And increasingly no law for the Politburo Elite.
And we laughed at Russia back when....

Posted by: Malignantly aggrieved at August 07, 2017 05:54 PM (oBuXO)

67 Fuck Off, Inquisitive Americans!

Posted by: Insomniac
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I like it!!

Posted by: FireHorse at August 07, 2017 05:54 PM (zkGZ8)

68 >>Fuck Off, Inquisitive Americans!

Threadwinner!

Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2017 05:54 PM (NOIQH)

69 Administered orally, I presume. Because I've heard of ...
Posted by: FireHorse
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Well, I'm not doing that.

Posted by: Huma at August 07, 2017 05:54 PM (sQ1li)

70 Fuck Off, Inquisitive Americans!

Dammit, they know!

Posted by: The Guvmint at August 07, 2017 05:56 PM (qJhUV)

71 zzzzZZZZzzzz...ugrumph.. ugrumph...zzzzZZZZzzzz

Posted by: Under Fire at August 07, 2017 05:56 PM (mcI77)

72 They really got sloppy because they believed a Republican could never win the White House ever again.

Hell, I was close to buying the same meme as well.
Posted by: Maritime

Trump is the Wild Card, the Black Swan.
Not being a bought and paid for Creature of the Uniparty/ Deep State, all the stops have been pulled out to neutralize him.

The Deep State is a master of The Long Game, and is intent on holding as much ground as it can.

Posted by: kraken at August 07, 2017 05:56 PM (zSVEm)

73 44 . She wanted to claim some of that sweet as a vanilla milkshake resting on a snow drift White Privilege.

Posted by: kallisto at August 07, 2017 05:56 PM (7l5V0)

74 I'm a little late to yesterday's food thread discussion, but I wanted to opine that I prefer tacos to weiners.

Posted by: Huma at August 07, 2017 05:56 PM (ctuyM)

75 Seeing as how both Bezos and Carlos Slim are recipients of federal dollars, they are subject to RICO prosecutions.

Posted by: Taqyia2Me @ Intersectionality of Deplorable & Irredeemable at August 07, 2017 05:56 PM (Ftuf+)

76 yeah, so what? does anybody here really believe justice will rear its ugly head? never, ever happen. yes, i have no faith in our congress, senate, or judicial branch. they are infected with ideology worse than communism. lost cause.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at August 07, 2017 05:57 PM (KP5rU)

77 I read on some crypto-alt site that FOIA stands for Freedom Of Information Act. That's just crazy Nazi talk. I mean --

Freedom -- sounds like reactionary Tea Party blather
Of -- transphobic presposition
Information -- it doesn't count if it's not in The New York Times
Act -- this site implied "Act" means it's a law

Crazy, huh?

Posted by: FireHorse at August 07, 2017 05:58 PM (zkGZ8)

78
Elizabeth Carlisle is a WASPY-sounding name.
She couldn't come up with something more creative?
Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 07, 2017 05:35 PM (PY9jH)

Conchita Chaos?

Posted by: Carlos Danger at August 07, 2017 05:58 PM (t6XCL)

79 Should have gone with Carla Danger.

Posted by: DanMan at August 07, 2017 05:58 PM (XTiHL)

80 What the hell reason is there to use a pseudonym in this case except for hiding who you are?

It's not like using a nom-de-plume sort of thing where it's just for marketing. Or a nic on the Intertubes so you can say what you want without fear of meatspace reprisals.

Oh? There was no intent to break the law, you say? Well then, my apologies, all around, miluds, I shall hie myself back to yon filth pile. The filth harvest is lovely this year, i must say.... mumble, mubmle...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 07, 2017 05:58 PM (hcyUh)

81 is the whole using fake email address names a administration wide feature of Obama regime?

Posted by: andrew jarbacka at August 07, 2017 05:58 PM (AU4SY)

82 yeah, so what? does anybody here really believe justice will rear its ugly head? never, ever happen. yes, i have no faith in our congress, senate, or judicial branch. they are infected with ideology worse than communism. lost cause.
Posted by: chavez the hugo

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Not really, but at the very least in can be exposed and they might have to spend a lot of money lawyering up. Maybe even lose an election here or there.

A big reason Hillary lost was all the scandals and we had a candidate with the balls to call her out. People like Jeb were handing out medals to her, thought a charm offensive would win the day.

Posted by: Maritime at August 07, 2017 06:00 PM (VDVsF)

83 >>Fuck Off, Inquisitive Americans!

Threadwinner!
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Motion Carried!

Posted by: shibumi at August 07, 2017 06:00 PM (aT+Bx)

84 I say Bill deliberately sandbagged Hildy. He never wanted to be stuck in the WH again. Cuts into his whoring.

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at August 07, 2017 06:00 PM (RrhD2)

85 Elizabeth Carlisle? She won't get into an Ivy League University with a "white" name like like!

Posted by: Strobe at August 07, 2017 06:00 PM (gbWkA)

86 Sources Say Trump Continues To Dredge Up Old News In Attempt To Discredit News Media, Divert Focus From Russia Collision Scandal

Posted by: This...is CNN at August 07, 2017 06:00 PM (qJhUV)

87 46 If there is no pain for the WaPo for burying legitimate news that may reflect poorly on their Dem masters, why would they not bury it?

Posted by: Malignantly aggrieved at August 07, 2017 05:47 PM (oBuXO)
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You mean "their fellow Democrats."
The relationship between the media and Dem politicians is not that of slave to master.
The MSM isn't 'selling out' to the Party. They are as much a part of the Party as Pelosi and Schumer.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 07, 2017 06:01 PM (0jtPF)

88 is the whole using fake email address names a administration wide feature of Obama regime?
Posted by: andrew jarbacka at August 07, 2017 05:58 PM

Let xe who uses a real email address when commenting hurl the first eructation.

Posted by: Glass House at August 07, 2017 06:01 PM (ctuyM)

89 At this point, I would be all for having a civil war. The thing is, it feeds the rich while it buries the poor. So we don't need it.

Posted by: FireHorse at August 07, 2017 06:01 PM (zkGZ8)

90 38 My immediate response is that the use of a pseudonym in government emails should be punishable by 5 years in jail, forfeiture of all government retirement benefits and a $50,000 fine.

All that will happen is that people will shift to using private email services.

Make that double the punishment for using a pseudonym.

This secret government has got to stop. I prefer a peaceful resolution.
Posted by: alexthechick - happy happy manatees at August 07, 2017 05:45 PM (dEQP3)

...

Are there not already punishable offenses here?

I guess if we have to cross the rickety bridge of "intent" then it's necessary to have new legislation so that we can all be clear that if you use a psudy-however you spellit--it's a violation of the law, but seems like a repetition of what we all already know.

Posted by: TexasDan at August 07, 2017 06:01 PM (yL25O)

91 Carlita Peligro. Or would it be Peligra? My Messican is rusty.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at August 07, 2017 06:01 PM (RwwCT)

92 Elizabeth Carlisle? Should have been Sissy McSneakyface.

Posted by: Strobe at August 07, 2017 06:01 PM (gbWkA)

93 "is the whole using fake email address names a administration wide feature of Obama regime?"

Yes
Ellie Light

Posted by: DanMan at August 07, 2017 06:02 PM (XTiHL)

94 76 yeah, so what? does anybody here really believe justice will rear its ugly head? never, ever happen. yes, i have no faith in our congress, senate, or judicial branch. they are infected with ideology worse than communism. lost cause.
Posted by: chavez the hugo at August 07, 2017 05:57 PM (KP5rU)

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Faith in Congress??

AHAHAHAHAHAAHAA!

Posted by: SMFH at August 07, 2017 06:02 PM (sB1y1)

95 About that tarmac meeting....does anyone have a guess on what it was all about?

I mean, couldn't either one of them picked up the phone if they needed to talk to each other?

A tarmac meeting is much more public.

And what did she need to tell him that was so important that they needed to take this risk?

Posted by: Pam at August 07, 2017 06:03 PM (cF0hS)

96 The entire GOP leadership should, at this point, deem any unprovoked attack on "Trump Supporters" as an attack on the rule of law, denial of franchise and nothing short of an attempt to violently overthrow the lawfully elected government.

Accordingly, they should, and I think must, issue a special Act authorizing use of force in the form of the National Guard, in all 50 States, and that the Executive is authorized and should actively put down any such violence by federalizing the Guard, if local law enforcement does not immediately shut it down.

If it was right to escort children to school in Little Rock then it's just as right now. If anything, the insurrection is more broadly directed at the Republic as a whole.

This whole country is becoming a tinderbox because those who should actually be exercising leadership in defense of the Republic are completely failing us.

Posted by: xnycpeasant at August 07, 2017 06:03 PM (/7IxI)

97 Clinton on the tarmac? She do another face plant?

Posted by: guy who's not really paying attention at August 07, 2017 06:04 PM (HgMAr)

98 53
"Lynch's lawyer claims that this pseudonym was not an attempt to avoid FOIA, and that the alias was known to people who would FOIA records."

Then why is her lawyer issuing the statement?
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at August 07, 2017 05:49 PM (lKyWE)

...

Also I'd like him to show his work for step 2.

Is there some sort of registry for aliases or something? How in the world would FOIA searchers know?

Posted by: TexasDan at August 07, 2017 06:04 PM (yL25O)

99 Luna Lollipop Bazinga

Posted by: Strobe at August 07, 2017 06:04 PM (gbWkA)

100 does any company sell a bulletproof t.v.? i can't even watch local news anymore without hearing trump is a dick bullshit. every one of the media shitbags are complete and total sellouts.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at August 07, 2017 06:04 PM (KP5rU)

101 About that tarmac meeting....does anyone have a guess on what it was all about?

I mean, couldn't either one of them picked up the phone if they needed to talk to each other?

A tarmac meeting is much more public.

And what did she need to tell him that was so important that they needed to take this risk?

Posted by: Pam

______

I've never really understood that either, a staffer could just bring in a cell phone and they talk to each other without any record of it.

It's not like an ex-President can move around covertly.

Posted by: Maritime at August 07, 2017 06:05 PM (VDVsF)

102 I am shocked, shocked a horrified that this could happen. Naw just par for the course with these shitty papers.

Posted by: USNtakim at August 07, 2017 06:05 PM (zZWkn)

103 95 About that tarmac meeting....does anyone have a guess on what it was all about?

I mean, couldn't either one of them picked up the phone if they needed to talk to each other?

A tarmac meeting is much more public.

And what did she need to tell him that was so important that they needed to take this risk?

Posted by: Pam at August 07, 2017 06:03 PM (cF0hS)

...

In the movies, you don't fly two planes to a remote tarmac, meet, and take off again, unless one plane leaves with one less suitcase of cash, and the other with one more.

Posted by: TexasDan at August 07, 2017 06:05 PM (yL25O)

104 Wasn't Elizabeth Carlisle on "To Tell the Truth" with Bennett Cerf and Nannette Fabray?

Posted by: Minuteman at August 07, 2017 06:06 PM (A3b6q)

105 It is not a crime when the democrats do it because they are holy warriors and their cause is righteous. It is the republicans who are evil and must be destroyed.

Posted by: Dullford Shiply at August 07, 2017 06:06 PM (m9X4Y)

106 Who owns the media?

We do.

Who controls the Uniparty?

We do.

Who brings Muslims into the West?

We do.

Who is the head of the New World Order?

We are

Posted by: The Deep State
=========

Is that the second verse to the Simpson's Stonecutters song?

Posted by: RoyalOil at August 07, 2017 06:06 PM (W1XyZ)

107 100 does any company sell a bulletproof t.v.? i can't even watch local news anymore without hearing trump is a dick bullshit. every one of the media shitbags are complete and total sellouts.
Posted by: chavez the hugo at August 07, 2017 06:04 PM (KP5rU)

Nerf gun would be much cheaper. Maybe not as therapeutic, though.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 07, 2017 06:06 PM (hcyUh)

108 now I want a vanilla milkshake.

Posted by: kallisto at August 07, 2017 06:06 PM (7l5V0)

109 Did everyone in the Obammy regime have a secert name? Did they have secert handshakes like my fraternity too? I keep getting this vibe that EVERYONE in DC is a juvenile.

Posted by: Strobe at August 07, 2017 06:07 PM (gbWkA)

110 100 does any company sell a bulletproof t.v.? i can't even watch local news anymore without hearing trump is a dick bullshit. every one of the media shitbags are complete and total sellouts.
Posted by: chavez the hugo at August 07, 2017 06:04 PM (KP5rU)
I keep thinking they can't be swaying many people with this non-stop, wall-to-wall, 24/7 anti-Trump bullshit, but then I look at his recent poll numbers.
But who even knows how they sampled....

Posted by: JoeF. at August 07, 2017 06:08 PM (7uYFy)

111 91 Carlita Peligro. Or would it be Peligra? My Messican is rusty.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at August 07, 2017 06:01 PM (RwwCT)
----------------------
I don't speak Mexican, but in real Spanish* it would be peligro.
Yep. Carla Peligro.

(*Just a little joke, kids.

No offense to any Mexicans present. Or absent, for that matter.)

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 07, 2017 06:09 PM (0jtPF)

112
Are there not already punishable offenses here?
--

Yes, of couse.

But democrats have no morality, so you can't prosecute them if they lie.

Didn't you get the memo?

RNC signed off on it a long time ago.

Posted by: shibumi at August 07, 2017 06:09 PM (aT+Bx)

113 94; smfh, i have more faith in the easter bunny. that dude never fucked me over. paul ryan can go fap himself to death while gazing into his mirror. i loathe that fucker.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at August 07, 2017 06:09 PM (KP5rU)

114 Jim Thorpe played football at Carlisle college, one of the best teams at the time, mostly Indian players. Then went on to play with the Canton Bulldogs, ya that Canton OH where the Hall of Fame is

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at August 07, 2017 06:09 PM (6Ll1u)

115 Wasn't Elizabeth Carlisle on "To Tell the Truth" with Bennett Cerf and Nannette Fabray?
Posted by: Minuteman at August 07, 2017 06:06 PM (A3b6q)

No, that was Kitty Natividad....

Posted by: JoeF. at August 07, 2017 06:09 PM (7uYFy)

116 Is that the second verse to the Simpson's Stonecutters song?
Posted by: RoyalOil at August 07, 2017 06:06 PM
---

hahahaha.

That is EXACTLY what I was humming when I wrote it!

Posted by: shibumi at August 07, 2017 06:10 PM (aT+Bx)

117 Mary Baldwin Washington

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 07, 2017 06:10 PM (JO9+V)

118 Oh, so some kind of physical hand-off...never thought of that.

Cash or papers?

Posted by: Pam at August 07, 2017 06:10 PM (cF0hS)

119 I had to complete my ethics training last week for Federal employees. Every single rule/law has been broken repeatedly by our betters with nary a consequence. A joke for us lesser beings.

Posted by: Cheri at August 07, 2017 06:11 PM (oiNtH)

120 So I've been feeling shitty all day and finally crashed out on my sofa for a while. Woke up with shivers. Sorted out now, but what the hell? I don't have a fever or anything and no, I'm not an alcoholic ya dickheads.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 07, 2017 06:11 PM (0mRoj)

121 And no one will ever hear about this but us ...

Sad !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, they are gaslighting us 24/7 at August 07, 2017 06:11 PM (Mcvvl)

122
Jim Thorpe played football at Carlisle college, one of the best teams at
the time, mostly Indian players. Then went on to play with the Canton
Bulldogs, ya that Canton OH where the Hall of Fame is

And Elizabeth Warren is also allegedly an Indian! Connect the dots, folks!

Posted by: tu3031 at August 07, 2017 06:12 PM (qJhUV)

123 About that tarmac meeting....does anyone have a guess on what it was all about?

I mean, couldn't either one of them picked up the phone if they needed to talk to each other?
============
You mean the guys who were getting fed live updates from the NSA of every phone call involving anyone associated with the Trump campaign didn't want to use phones?

Damn, that IS odd.

Posted by: RoyalOil at August 07, 2017 06:12 PM (W1XyZ)

124 Wasn't Elizabeth Carlisle on "To Tell the Truth" with Bennett Cerf and Nannette Fabray?

Posted by: Minuteman at August 07, 2017 06:06 PM (A3b6q)

No, that was Kitty Natividad....

Posted by: JoeF. at August 07, 2017 06:09 PM (7uYFy)

Hmmm. Climb the mountains because they are there. The hills are alive . . .

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 07, 2017 06:12 PM (JO9+V)

125 Hmmm. Climb the mountains because they are there. The hills are alive . . .
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 07, 2017 06:12 PM (JO9+V)

And have eyes.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 07, 2017 06:12 PM (0mRoj)

126 Cash or papers?
Posted by: Pam at August 07, 2017 06:10 PM (cF0hS)

Thumbdrive.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 07, 2017 06:12 PM (hcyUh)

127 >>So I've been feeling shitty all day and finally crashed out on my sofa for a while. Woke up with shivers. Sorted out now, but what the hell? I don't have a fever or anything and no, I'm not an alcoholic ya dickheads.

Maybe it's a tumah.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2017 06:13 PM (/tuJf)

128 Is John McCain dead yet?

Posted by: Under Fire at August 07, 2017 06:13 PM (mcI77)

129 When Bill Clinton said they talked about grandkids, I believe him:

"Wouldn't you want to stay around to see your grandkids grow?"

Posted by: Axeman at August 07, 2017 06:13 PM (2mC6G)

130 >>Elizabeth Carlisle is a WASPY-sounding name.

She couldn't come up with something more creative?

Well, "Richard Windsor" was already taken.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2017 06:14 PM (NOIQH)

131 Maybe it's a tumah.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2017 06:13 PM (/tuJf)

That'd be just my luck.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 07, 2017 06:14 PM (0mRoj)

132
About that tarmac meeting....does anyone have a guess on what it was all about?
I mean, couldn't either one of them picked up the phone if they needed to talk to each other?
A tarmac meeting is much more public.
And what did she need to tell him that was so important that they needed to take this risk?

It was never meant to be a secret.There is no way Lynch meets Clinton on a tarmac unless it was cleared by Obama first.They were letting everybody know that Obama and his DOJ weren't going to derail the Clinton campaign.

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at August 07, 2017 06:14 PM (lKyWE)

133 Sounds like we need two more Special Prosecutors to investigate all aspects and employees of each of these racketeering organizations.

Posted by: ShainS at August 07, 2017 06:14 PM (a1dgx)

134 Oh, so some kind of physical hand-off...never thought of that.

Cash or papers?
Posted by: Pam at August 07, 2017 06:10 PM (cF0hS)

Whatever it was, the arrogance of the action shows just how sure they are of themselves.
Who in the 8 years of Obama ever suffered consequences ( in government) for their misdeeds?
In GWB's tenure, some apparatchiks were given show trials ( metaphorically) and perp walked.
But, they were judged Rightists, and singled out... all while W basically did nothing.
These object lessons given to the Right, by the Left, were not lost on Uniparty members.
Our government is a much more Leftist Uniparty now.

Posted by: kraken at August 07, 2017 06:15 PM (zSVEm)

135 /pol doing the work yet again that the MSM and investigators from our government should be doing.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at August 07, 2017 06:15 PM (XFue2)

136 Who specially prosecutes the special prosecutors?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 07, 2017 06:16 PM (hcyUh)

137
So I've been feeling shitty all day and finally crashed out on my sofa
for a while. Woke up with shivers. Sorted out now, but what the hell? I
don't have a fever or anything and no, I'm not an alcoholic ya
dickheads.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 07, 2017 06:11 PM (0mRoj)

Blood sugar spike / crash maybe? Look out for Wilford Brimley

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 07, 2017 06:16 PM (JO9+V)

138 About that tarmac meeting....does anyone have a guess on what it was all about?

Where's Lena Dunham when we need her?

Posted by: tu3031 at August 07, 2017 06:16 PM (qJhUV)

139
Thumbdrive.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 07, 2017 06:12 PM (hcyUh)

...

Interesting.

Would it be safe to say that bitcoin is the first currency that simply does not need to be laundered?

Posted by: TexasDan at August 07, 2017 06:16 PM (yL25O)

140
When Bill Clinton said they talked about grandkids, I believe him:

Lynch doesn't have grandkids

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at August 07, 2017 06:16 PM (lKyWE)

141 #RealCollusion

Posted by: ShainS at August 07, 2017 06:16 PM (a1dgx)

142 I see four stone cutters.

Posted by: Jean Luc Picard at August 07, 2017 06:16 PM (IqV8l)

143 Blood sugar spike / crash maybe? Look out for Wilford Brimley
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 07, 2017 06:16 PM (JO9+V)

Hmmm. Could be a crash. I've barely eaten anything today.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 07, 2017 06:16 PM (0mRoj)

144 So I've been feeling shitty all day and finally crashed out on my sofa
for a while. Woke up with shivers. Sorted out now, but what the hell? I
don't have a fever or anything and no, I'm not an alcoholic ya
dickheads.
--

Momentary demonic possession?

Posted by: shibumi at August 07, 2017 06:17 PM (aT+Bx)

145 >>They were letting everybody know that Obama and his DOJ weren't going to derail the Clinton campaign.

It was supposed to be stealth - just happens that there was a local tv reporter who likes to watch for private plane activity at the airport. IIRC, this was in a red state, not big traffic VIP location like DC/NYC/Vail.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2017 06:17 PM (NOIQH)

146 119 I had to complete my ethics training last week for Federal employees. Every single rule/law has been broken repeatedly by our betters with nary a consequence. A joke for us lesser beings.
Posted by: Cheri at August 07, 2017 06:11 PM (oiNtH)

I love irony...

Posted by: kraken at August 07, 2017 06:17 PM (zSVEm)

147 for a while. Woke up with shivers. Sorted out now, but what the hell? I
don't have a fever or anything and no, I'm not an alcoholic ya
dickheads.
--

Momentary demonic possession?

Posted by: shibumi at August 07, 2017 06:17 PM (aT+Bx)

Worth considering, but I wasn't levitating or blaspheming (well, more than usual).

Posted by: Insomniac at August 07, 2017 06:17 PM (0mRoj)

148 Loretta Lynch used a fake name in many email correspondences

As did a certain dog-eating communist.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 07, 2017 06:18 PM (rnAwa)

149 It was never meant to be a secret.There is no way Lynch meets Clinton on
a tarmac unless it was cleared by Obama first.They were letting
everybody know that Obama and his DOJ weren't going to derail the
Clinton campaign.
=======

Actually, that's not how it went down.

IIRC:
It was embargoed and wasn't on either Bill or Loretta's official schedule.

But, some local, no-name reporter hearing Bill was in town thought they'd try to chase him down for a picture/story at the airport.

And they noticed Bill walking over to talk to someone in another plane.

And made the mistake of asking, "who is on that other plane?"

Blogs picked up the story as a "Ho Lee Fuk" while the rest of the media tried for several days to ignore it.

Posted by: RoyalOil at August 07, 2017 06:19 PM (W1XyZ)

150 "Blood sugar spike / crash maybe? Look out for Wilford Brimley"

Try a handful of wild hickory nuts

Posted by: Zombie Euell Gibbons at August 07, 2017 06:19 PM (6t8+a)

151 A tarmac meeting is much more public.
And what did she need to tell him that was so important that they needed to take this risk?

...

I also don't think they intended in any way for this to be public. Didn't it come out from one local reporter who happened to notice?

I suspect they thought this was great spycraft-level stuff on their part. Remember this is the A team using email aliases and homebrew servers to avoid transparency and thought themselves insurmountably clever the whole time.

Posted by: TexasDan at August 07, 2017 06:20 PM (yL25O)

152 Momentary demonic possession?

Posted by: shibumi at August 07, 2017 06:17 PM (aT+Bx)

Worth considering, but I wasn't levitating or blaspheming (well, more than usual).
--

OK, how about this... "unintentional movement between dimensions."

/or "allergies?"

Posted by: shibumi at August 07, 2017 06:20 PM (aT+Bx)

153 137
So I've been feeling shitty all day and finally crashed out on my sofa
for a while. Woke up with shivers. Sorted out now, but what the hell? I
don't have a fever or anything and no, I'm not an alcoholic ya
dickheads.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 07, 2017 06:11 PM (0mRoj)

Bad heroin?

Posted by: Amalgamated Association of Morons Local 6 7/8 at August 07, 2017 06:20 PM (Z+xx5)

154 My alias was known.

Posted by: Mr. Peanut at August 07, 2017 06:22 PM (Tyii7)

155 151

I also don't think they intended in any way for this to be public. Didn't it come out from one local reporter who happened to notice?

I suspect they thought this was great spycraft-level stuff on their part. Remember this is the A team using email aliases and homebrew servers to avoid transparency and thought themselves insurmountably clever the whole time.
Posted by: TexasDan at August 07, 2017 06:

They don't care who sees them.. who's going to do anything about anything they say or do?

Posted by: kraken at August 07, 2017 06:22 PM (zSVEm)

156 OT: Hannity is going to sue Obama admin if he was part of illegal unmasking.

Posted by: shibumi at August 07, 2017 06:22 PM (aT+Bx)

157
So I've been feeling shitty all day and finally crashed out on my sofa
for a while. Woke up with shivers. Sorted out now, but what the hell? I
don't have a fever or anything and no, I'm not an alcoholic ya
dickheads.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 07, 2017 06:11 PM (0mRoj)

Polonium poisoning? Been around any suspiciously out of place umbrellas?

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 07, 2017 06:22 PM (JO9+V)

158 Is it really news if we already knew about it?

Posted by: freaked at August 07, 2017 06:22 PM (BO/km)

159 zzzzZZZZZzzzz

Posted by: Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III at August 07, 2017 06:23 PM (LTHVh)

160 I suspect they thought this was great spycraft-level stuff on their part. Remember this is the A team using email aliases and homebrew servers to avoid transparency and thought themselves insurmountably clever the whole time.
Posted by: TexasDan at August 07, 2017 06:20 PM (yL25O)

I find myself guilty of this quite often. I'll cook up some dreamy load of conspiracy nonsense in my fevered brain, and then realize that these are the same dopes who can't even pick their own noses without three aides and a GPS app.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 07, 2017 06:23 PM (hcyUh)

161 Tarmac and Geraldo at Niagara.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 07, 2017 06:23 PM (IqV8l)

162 TRY TO GET SOME SLEEP

Posted by: guy who's not really paying attention at August 07, 2017 06:23 PM (HgMAr)

163 I mean, couldn't either one of them picked up the phone if they needed to talk to each other?

A tarmac meeting is much more public.

And what did she need to tell him that was so important that they needed to take this risk?

Posted by: Pam at August 07, 2017 06:03 PM (cF0hS)

...

In the movies, you don't fly two planes to a remote tarmac, meet, and take off again, unless one plane leaves with one less suitcase of cash, and the other with one more.
Posted by: TexasDan at August 07, 2017 06:05 PM (yL25O)

Hard drives.... for cash?

Posted by: Don Quixote,.. who needs to change his socks more often at August 07, 2017 06:23 PM (NgKpN)

164
*creak*

Posted by: own petard at August 07, 2017 06:23 PM (2wRtc)

165 Not a smidgen...a smidgen, of corruption, I tells ya.

Posted by: BignJames at August 07, 2017 06:24 PM (x9c8r)

166 Billy Jeff: Double Naught Spy

Loretta Lynch: Agent 99-3/4

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 07, 2017 06:24 PM (JO9+V)

167 Did you eat a papaya? I saw that they have a recall going, 1 dead 190 sickened by salmonella.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at August 07, 2017 06:24 PM (6Ll1u)

168 I like that the same people who insist blacks and Hispanics are too stupid to figure out how to get an ID also insist that white people (because let's be serious about it) inherently know the email aliases of everyone in the Obama administration.

Posted by: Moron Robbie, Not Quite as Low-IQ as Michael Obama, But Not as Smart as Some Birds at August 07, 2017 06:24 PM (psH+N)

169 I'm going to laugh when one of these emails cc's Average Joe.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 07, 2017 06:24 PM (LTHVh)

170 156

OT: Hannity is going to sue Obama admin if he was part of illegal unmasking.
Posted by: shibumi at August 07, 2017 06:22 PM (aT+Bx)

Yeh,that'll work... he'll have material for a LOT of shows..

Posted by: kraken at August 07, 2017 06:24 PM (zSVEm)

171
OT: Hannity is going to sue Obama admin if he was part of illegal unmasking.
Posted by: shibumi at August 07, 2017 06:22 PM

How do you sue something that no longer exists?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 07, 2017 06:25 PM (IqV8l)

172 I wonder if the Daily Caller can figure out who is connected to all those emails signed "Bob Mugabe".

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 07, 2017 06:25 PM (5VlCp)

173 Loretta Lynch: Agent 99-3/4
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 07, 2017 06:24 PM (JO9+V)

My brain violently recoils at the idea of putting Loretta Lynch and Barbara Feldon within three conceptual zip codes of each other...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 07, 2017 06:25 PM (hcyUh)

174 "Lynch's lawyer claims that this pseudonym was not an attempt to avoid
FOIA, and that the alias was known to people who would FOIA records."

Yeah. That's why on the initial FOIA requests, the response came back with no records available.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at August 07, 2017 06:25 PM (bB4HN)

175
Nannette Fabray
Still around at age 96.
She's doing a lot better than me cuz I'm dead.

Posted by: Abe Vigoda at August 07, 2017 06:25 PM (t6XCL)

176 Nothing will ever happen to our betters unless it involves lampposts, rope, and fed up citizens.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at August 07, 2017 06:25 PM (XFue2)

177 My alias is know to millions.

Posted by: The Nigerian Prince at August 07, 2017 06:26 PM (Tyii7)

178 I also don't think they intended in any way for this to be public. Didn't it come out from one local reporter who happened to notice?

Exactly... They knew they couldn't communicate any other way...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2017 06:26 PM (O2RFr)

179
Lynch?

On the tarmac?

Simple. I was fcuking her.

Perfectly innocent.

Posted by: Teh Clenis at August 07, 2017 06:26 PM (2wRtc)

180 Remember how James Comey wrote up some memoes to pass on to his friend about this meeting so it would go into the New York Times so that a Special Council would be appointed, just like the memoes he wrote and passed on about how Lynch told him to refer to the Clinton investigation as a "matter so that a Special Council would be appointed?

That James Comey is a Real Stand Up Guy. He'll stand up and hold the coats of the Lawyers who will railroad you with his selective leaking.

Posted by: Minuteman at August 07, 2017 06:26 PM (A3b6q)

181 Tell me again how Russia compromised and influenced our election, (D)s.

Posted by: Moron Robbie, Not Quite as Low-IQ as Michael Obama, But Not as Smart as Some Birds at August 07, 2017 06:26 PM (psH+N)

182 nood

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at August 07, 2017 06:27 PM (ul9CR)

183 I prefer a peaceful resolution.
Posted by: alexthechick - happy happy manatees at August 07, 2017 05:45 PM (dEQP3)

See? You are not as bad as you think you are.

And when AtC is the voice of sweet non-violence....

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at August 07, 2017 06:28 PM (3OIiX)

184 Thumb drive, of course.

They had to know someone would see them, and why would Bill want to be caught obstructing justice?

Posted by: Pam at August 07, 2017 06:28 PM (cF0hS)

185 Every year it seems citizens get collectively pissed off.... And then football season starts.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at August 07, 2017 06:28 PM (XFue2)

186 What do you all think about the Trump tweets about Blumenthal and the stolen valor thing... The media is tying itself in pretzels trying to dispute Trump.... Hard to do since what he said is true...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2017 06:28 PM (O2RFr)

187 I seem to recall that it was Clinton barging in on Lynch's plane.
That would be a great way to intimidate someone with no trace: arrive unexpectedly, deliver the threat with no witnesses, maybe even get in his/her face for extra intimidation effect.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2017 06:28 PM (NOIQH)

188 From what I understand, it's her grandmother's name.
Posted by: Country Singer at August 07, 2017 05:41 PM (yzxic)

Talk about your nepotism. Getting your Grandmother a job in the DOJ.

Posted by: Minuteman at August 07, 2017 06:28 PM (A3b6q)

189 I have zero interest in fasting. My mouf was meant for food intake.

Posted by: The Nigerian Prince at August 07, 2017 06:28 PM (Tyii7)

190 Wasn't Elizabeth Carlisle a character in a Jane Austen novel?

Posted by: Northernlurker at August 07, 2017 06:28 PM (/EJdR)

191 >>Fuck Off, Inquisitive Americans!
Threadwinner!
---
Motion Carried!

Point of order: there's no way they think of us as Americans.

I don't know that they think that of anyone, actually. Globalists gotta glob.

Please replace with "Assholes."

Posted by: mikeski at August 07, 2017 06:28 PM (B1bWG)

192 181 Tell me again how Russia compromised and influenced our election, (D)s.
Posted by: Moron Robbie, Not Quite as Low-IQ as Michael Obama, But Not as Smart as Some Birds at August 07, 2017 06:26 PM (psH+N)

That was when Trump went over to Russia with an Emergency Stop button, connected to nothing, with the word "Panic" written on it in Russian.

Oh wait...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 07, 2017 06:29 PM (hcyUh)

193 27 Lori Soetero would have been a cool alias.
Posted by: DaveD at August 07, 2017 05:42 PM (P5fqQ)

She should have gone with "Buck Naked"

Posted by: Minuteman at August 07, 2017 06:29 PM (A3b6q)

194 insomniac- have you had a physical lately? After my buddy age 37 died of massive heart attack I had every intention of getting a Lifeline screening. Never did make it but I did end up in E.R. It's better to stay ahead of this stuff rather than get ambushed.

Posted by: kallisto at August 07, 2017 06:30 PM (7l5V0)

195
What do you all think about the Trump tweets about Blumenthal and the stolen valor thing... The media is tying itself in pretzels trying to dispute Trump.... Hard to do since what he said is true...
Posted by: It's me donna at August 07, 2017 06:28 PM

NPR was quick to say "Trump didn't go to Viet Nam either." They didn't bother to mention that Trump didn't lie and say that he had been there.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 07, 2017 06:31 PM (IqV8l)

196 not at all interested in a Presdidential candidates Husband meeting on the tarmac . But totally interested in how many scoops of icecream Trump eats.
Or if other candidates/spouses/emplyees/gardners. had any conversations that might be interesting

also Hillary colluding with other countries and while suggesting war, colluding with friends to part out those countries assets.

But as we know eating s of icecream is fkn crazy stuff for a President

Posted by: willow at August 07, 2017 06:32 PM (FKrah)

197 "On CBS News Tonight: Will the Republican obsession with an old story backfire on them?"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 07, 2017 06:33 PM (AYVGH)

198 53
"Lynch's lawyer claims that this pseudonym was not an attempt to avoid FOIA, and that the alias was known to people who would FOIA records."

Then why is her lawyer issuing the statement?
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at August 07, 2017 05:49 PM (lKyWE)

SNAP!!!

Posted by: That's so Raven at August 07, 2017 06:33 PM (A3b6q)

199 I keep getting this vibe that EVERYONE in DC is a juvenile.
Posted by: Strobe
---------

Well, if the contrast is mature, responsible adults, you are certainly correct.

I might exempt my Congressman, Mark Meadows.

Posted by: Huma at August 07, 2017 06:33 PM (OdK9v)

200 No I didn't.
It broke no law.
Everybody knew.
Old news.
Shut up and move on already!

Posted by: Clinton Inc. at August 07, 2017 06:35 PM (/7IxI)

201 Has everyone gone over to the "Starvation for Fun and Profit" thread, or are some people gonna hang here yet?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 07, 2017 06:36 PM (hcyUh)

202 "Our correspondents report on the GOP politicization of a discredited ginned-up pseudo-scandal."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 07, 2017 06:36 PM (AYVGH)

203 "This is the last time you'll ever hear anything from us."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 07, 2017 06:37 PM (AYVGH)

204 media while not interested in Clintons behaviors, Obamas vacays. Obamas previous friendships with 'guys in the neighborhood' talks and campaigning with OTHER countries citizens/leaders (Erdogan ) campaigning in OTHER countries .. nope not interesting at all.

because? fk you.
we are sorry You know we are the arm of the progressive party

*rubs our noses in their smut*

Posted by: willow at August 07, 2017 06:37 PM (FKrah)

205 I used to think the MFM was an appendage of the Demo party. I now think the Demo party is an appendage of the MFM.

And it's not "bias". Bias connotes it's unintentional . If it was unintentional, then occasionally it would be against the other side.

What I'm seeing in the MFM is intentional and coordinated.

At least the old scribes at Pravda had a gun to their heads.

Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at August 07, 2017 06:38 PM (Y6JzV)

206 WAS 279 ON PREVIOUS THREAD BANNED?

Posted by: willow at August 07, 2017 06:38 PM (FKrah)

207 Posted by: Clinton Inc. at August 07, 2017 06:35 PM (/7IxI)

You forgot:
Everyone does this.
Focusing on the concerns of working Americans.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 07, 2017 06:39 PM (AYVGH)

208 No I didn't.
It broke no law.
Everybody knew.
Old news.
Shut up and move on already!

Posted by: Clinton Inc.
________

These are salient points that prompt one to wonder why you didn't win by 50 points.

Posted by: FireHorse at August 07, 2017 06:39 PM (zkGZ8)

209 Holy Cow. You can never underestimate the amount of projection that goes on with Democrats. COLLUSION. ITS COLUSION, GODDAMMIT!

Its like when ANYTHING happens, every Democrat mounts Xis/Xer secret email server (yes, imagine them ridng their secret servers sexually. Oh baby!) and dons the garb of their secret super-spy identity and then proceeds commit every crime under a Nom De Plume and they think that it does not accrue to their karmic T account.

It wasn't me!!!! It was Elizabeth Carlisle. Here I have the emails to prove it.

Elizabeth Carlisle made me do it.....

WTF is going on? Lois Lerner had one, Kosikin. Goddammit I bet Obama had one and it was something ridiculous like........ Cuthbert the Witless. No probably something that would stick finger in everyone eye, like.....Oh I don't know, you morons are much better at making up funny $h1t than I am.

THIS THIS THIS is the scandal of the century. Every highly placed democrat official has an alias account where they avoid FOIA and subpoenas. I don't care if the Republicans have them too.

And Mueller is investigating PDT for COLLUUUUSSSIIOOOON!!!???

I'm with the Burn It Down Guy.

This is Effed UP!!!

Picked a bad week to quit sniffing glue.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at August 07, 2017 06:40 PM (7+qdf)

210 And all together now:
For. The. Children...!
*rictus grin*

Posted by: Clinton Inc. at August 07, 2017 06:40 PM (/7IxI)

211 Has everyone gone over to the "Starvation for Fun and Profit" thread, or are some people gonna hang here yet?

Posted by: Warai-otoko
________

Guy doesn't eat for 5 days. He's going to turn to skin and bone and no woman will marry him!

Posted by: FireHorse at August 07, 2017 06:40 PM (zkGZ8)

212 Blutarski I think that is closer to the Truth, The media is the arm/Owned by the Corporation and money intersest one that want to play king over all the earth and its countries open borders, raping countries from east to west.

Posted by: willow at August 07, 2017 06:41 PM (FKrah)

213
Now remember the MSM rule, class:

In scandals involving Republicans, it's all about Republicans.

In scandals involving Democrats, it's all about the Republican reaction.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 07, 2017 06:42 PM (AYVGH)

214 I'm trying to think of a good example where there is any sort of rift in the professional class of DNC/MFM nomenklatura.

Sure, regular schmucks who vote D disagree about all kinds of stuff. I mean schisms at the national level. News organizations. Political groups. Think tanks. That sort of thing.

They are so enmeshed in lock step with this non-ideological "ideology" that really is nothing deeper than "destroy western civilization and seize all power". And they adjust to changes in the narrative at lightning speed, simultaneously, like a school of tens of thousands of bait fish evading a group of sharks. Logic be damned, facts be damned, who do I have to Hate this week? It's amazing.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 07, 2017 06:42 PM (hcyUh)

215 I'm trying to think of a good example where there is any sort of rift in the professional class of DNC/MFM nomenklatura.

There probably are more than you think. You just won't hear about them, ever.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 07, 2017 06:44 PM (AYVGH)

216 Democrat illegality:
"Alleged"
"Washington"
Omit party affiliation.
Ignore entirely.

Any Republican action:
"Controversial"
"Extreme"
"Racial overtones"
"Some in the Trump Administration defend..."

Posted by: MSM Style Guide, Resistance ed. at August 07, 2017 06:44 PM (/7IxI)

217 I would love to see Donny Two Scoops announce Special investigations for shit like this, the IRS (why is that grinning dickhead Kos still there?), Clinton Crime, unmasking, Hillary's lost $6B while at state...

I could go on, but you get the idea. Just flood the zone and watch EVERYBODY up there shake with fear.

Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at August 07, 2017 06:45 PM (Y6JzV)

218 There probably are more than you think. You just won't hear about them, ever.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 07, 2017 06:44 PM (AYVGH)

Good point. Message discipline.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 07, 2017 06:45 PM (hcyUh)

219 156 OT: Hannity is going to sue Obama admin if he was part of illegal unmasking.
Posted by: shibumi at August 07, 2017 06:22 PM (aT+Bx)

I wrote this the other day, that ANY ONE OF US could have been among the unmasked names. Illegally. In violation of our 4th Amendment rights.

We should have a class action suit going on this, with just the American Citizens who's communications have been subject to eavesdropping by the NSA as a part of the suit.

Posted by: Minuteman at August 07, 2017 06:47 PM (A3b6q)

220
WAS 279 ON PREVIOUS THREAD BANNED?
Posted by: willow at August 07, 2017 06:38 PM

Ace said so but the comment is still there.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 07, 2017 06:48 PM (IqV8l)

221 Also, PDT tweeted a devastating attack on CT Senator and human excrement Richard Blumenthal as only he can. Just love that stuff.

It was about his phony war record which was totally phony.

Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at August 07, 2017 06:49 PM (Y6JzV)

222 I work at a place where the Big Cheese of the entity regularly sends out emails that are basically DNC/SJW talking points. My employer's mission is their mission. Dyed in the wool social justice warrior stuff.

I sit in rooms and people say the craziest $hit. I wish I had the balls to lay out this ALIAS horse crap to their faces and make them defend it. It's so freaking indefensible. If you support the party that supports this ALIAS crap....YOU ARE THE FASCISTS.

Just saying.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at August 07, 2017 06:49 PM (7+qdf)

223 Bertram, It neds to go, that was really b.s.

Posted by: willow at August 07, 2017 06:51 PM (FKrah)

224 NPR was quick to say "Trump didn't go to Viet Nam either." They didn't bother to mention that Trump didn't lie and say that he had been there.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 07, 2017 06:31 PM (IqV8l)

He didn't have sex with that woman, Monica Lewinski, either.

Posted by: Bill Clinton at August 07, 2017 06:53 PM (A3b6q)

225 Blumenthal.......What a douche.

Been within 6 feet of him. Remember TV adds 20 lbs!!!

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at August 07, 2017 06:54 PM (7+qdf)

226 " I like how the FBI:

1st--claimed there were no documents related to the meeting
Then--redacted much of the content of the documents they actually had relating to the meeting."

In a few years we will find out there are tapes and notes of the FBI's interview of Hillary which are filled with damning stuff Comey wanted squashed.

Posted by: Blue Falcon in Boston at August 07, 2017 06:54 PM (N5dam)

227
" I like how the FBI:

1st--claimed there were no documents related to the meeting

Then--redacted much of the content of the documents they actually had relating to the meeting."

In a few years we will find out there are tapes and notes of the
FBI's interview of Hillary which are filled with damning stuff Comey
wanted squashed.

Posted by: Blue Falcon in Boston at August 07, 2017 06:54 PM (N5dam)

You got that right....Everyone in the Federal government gets to lie. When they get caught just change the lie enough to wiggle out of the first lie. But, by all means ,keep lying.Even the FBI gets to do it.We are on the precipice. The Government does think they RULE us.We need to disabuse them of that notion.
MOAR Trump. If I could vote for Kid Rick I would.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at August 07, 2017 06:59 PM (7+qdf)

228 The problem comment that was @279 is now gone. Sometimes TB3K lags and needs time to catch up.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois at August 07, 2017 07:03 PM (sf2BM)

229 Actually I don't believe Hillary was even under oath at her "interview".

Just one of the jaw-dropping aspects of the "investigation" into just that one part of her crime-wave (violations of the Espionage Act and associated obstruction of justice).

What we (the country) needs is a solid, impartial review and critique of the entire investigation - from the AG's probably fatal limitations and guidelines that rendered it a farce from the outset, to every detail of each improper or non-standard grant of immunity and permission to destroy evidence, to every internal discussion preceding Comey's ludicrous improper and legally illiterate public performance last July.

As a preparation to conduct a proper investigation, to the extent it can still be done, with prosecutions to follow. At a minimum, Sessions should be able to deliver a comprehensive report that is credible, even if it excoriates living people in the FBI or formerly in the DOJ.

And the other parts of the crime wave - Public Records Act violations, and whatever bribery statutes apply to pay-for-play - should be fully investigated, prosecutions brought, and full info made public.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 07, 2017 07:09 PM (QDnY+)

230 Of course I had to go read 279 on the last thread.

(* types *)

(* deletes *)

And of course I mean that metaphorically.

Posted by: FireHorse at August 07, 2017 07:09 PM (zkGZ8)

231 And PDT trashing Blumenthal is glorious.

Oh, but it's so contrary to typical Beltway decorum.

Right.

Which is why it's so glorious. Blumenthal is a vile toxic idiot, and while his idiocy is shared by a huge segment of the population, his vile mendacity still probably doesn't sit well with most people when they know about it.

Besides, if it makes GOP senators uncomfortable, even better.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 07, 2017 07:14 PM (QDnY+)

232 In addition to Sen. Keating Five McCain, we need to be referring to Sen. Stolen Valor Blumenthal.

Posted by: Furious George at August 07, 2017 07:20 PM (j+dfT)

233 Sessions talking tough back to the idiot mayor of Chicago over grants withheld due to "sanctuary" lawlessness.

That's nice.

But one wonders whether Sessions and the WH are serious about this most serious topic, and have gamed out an entire strategy.

Not enough to "punish" with pin-pricks like these stupid DOJ grants. And note: Chicago has sued the feds over this, and since the judicial coup is intact, not reversed, there is always a good chance the administration's powers will simply be usurped or neutered by a court, without reference to actual law.

WH needs to make a priority adoption of appropriations language conditioning *all* federal funding on cooperation with federal law enforcement in *all* areas. As with so many other issues, members of Congress, especially senators, need to vote - over and over again - to either support a common sense and overwhelmingly popular policy, or to oppose it.

Other key responses to the rebellion in lawless cities would be reciprocity - ending federal law enforcement assistance to lawless cities, including denying them info - and, finally, structuring cases to prosecute officials violating laws against abetting illegal presence in the US.

More than any other single thing, this is what Trump was elected to do. If he can't break the lawlessness and rebellion in enacting overwhelmingly popular policies, HE will be broken - as his enemies will rightly conclude he is essentially a lame-duck.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 07, 2017 07:35 PM (QDnY+)

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