Shock: Susan Rice Admits to Congress She Unmasked Trump Campaign Figures, Despite Having Previously Claimed "I Know Nothing About That"

But she says that she didn't do it for political reasons, and she didn't leak it.

No, she just unmasked them so that their names could be spread around (thanks to Obama's last-weeks change of rules to permit more spreading of sensitive information) and then leaked to their buddies in the press.

Former national security adviser Susan Rice privately told House investigators that she unmasked the identities of senior Trump officials to understand why the crown prince of the United Arab Emirates was in New York late last year, multiple sources told CNN.

That's a lie. How do I know? Because of her long history of lying.

Not only was she the Designated Liar for the "spontaneous protest" lie to save Obama and Hillary on Benghazi, but she has previously lied about knowing "nothing" about Devin Nunes' charge that officials, like herself, unmasked Trump associates:

Woodruff: We've been following a disclosure by the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Devin Nunes, that in essence, during the final days of the Obama administration, during the transition, after President Trump had been elected, that he and the people around him may have been caught up in surveillance of foreign individuals in that their identities may have been disclosed. Do you know anything about this?
Rice: I know nothing about this. I was surprised to see reports from Chairman Nunes on that count today.

Don't worry, though: Your GOP is on the case.

Trey Gowdy and other House members seem okay with this precedent, so I guess there’s nothing to see here. "I didn't hear anything to believe that she did anything illegal," Florida Rep. Tom Rooney explained to CNN. Unless Rice or some other Obama official admits to leaking classified information, this statement is surely true.
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Has Rice earned that trust? This, after all, is the woman who went on national television and repeated a bunch of Ben Rhodes-authored falsehoods regarding the September 11, 2012, Benghazi terror attacks, claiming they were a "spontaneous reaction" to "hateful and offensive video." This is the woman who went on PBS to lie about her role in unmasking, although there was apparently nothing wrong with it. Rice didn’t tell Woodruff "I can't disclose that kind of sensitive information," or "no comment," she told her 'I know nothing about this." Rice is extraordinarily comfortable lying to the American people.

Pro-Tip: When you only play to lose, you can expect to lose an awful lot.

But maybe that's always been the plan.

Posted by: Ace at 02:44 PM

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1 First again? Need a life

Posted by: The Cookie Man at September 14, 2017 02:47 PM (sxYFy)

2 wuzza

Posted by: m at September 14, 2017 02:47 PM (9egmK)

3 *sigh*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 14, 2017 02:47 PM (ycWCI)

4 Mine!

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. All Honor & Glory to Kekistan! at September 14, 2017 02:47 PM (fA1SL)

5 I did put the word out

Posted by: The Cookie Man at September 14, 2017 02:47 PM (sxYFy)

6 >>Pro-Tip: When you only play to lose, you can expect to lose an awful lot.

I'm a Jets fan. You aren't telling me anything I don't know.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2017 02:47 PM (/tuJf)

7 Second.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at September 14, 2017 02:48 PM (tbOMB)

8 In Soviet America, crooked politicians unmask you.

Posted by: zombie at September 14, 2017 02:48 PM (DQ4Fv)

9 Sessions better get off his ass, and start with the prosecutions or something is going to break.

Posted by: Iblis at September 14, 2017 02:49 PM (9221z)

Shocka!

What did she claim - "I didn't leak nothing to nobody?"
As if the uneducated double-negative wouldn't be a huge red flag.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 14, 2017 02:49 PM (W+vEI)

11 Auto-da-fe. Now.

Posted by: Zod at September 14, 2017 02:49 PM (Bdeb0)

12 Yep. We're screwed. Elections have consequences, alright. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right....

Posted by: Sponge at September 14, 2017 02:49 PM (xttKs)

13 not a problem, thats why you get a govt job -- to punish your political enemies.

Duh.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at September 14, 2017 02:49 PM (wmaTe)

14 Yeah after months of stonewalling and saying "I didn't do that!" now suddenly there's this story about how the state department was trying to figure out why eeevil Russians were coming to the USA without 'splaining it enough to the Obama administration.

This is like your kid saying "I never stole any candy out of your stash mom, I don't even like candy, I don't know what you're talking about" then suddenly coming up with a long complex story about how they had to do it to save the life of a dog or something.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 14, 2017 02:49 PM (39g3+)

15 We can haz defskwadz?

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. All Honor & Glory to Kekistan! at September 14, 2017 02:50 PM (fA1SL)

16 There were many many conservatives/right wingers unmasked besides Trump.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at September 14, 2017 02:50 PM (XFue2)

17 Pro-Tip: When you only play to lose, you can expect to lose an awful lot.

I'm a Jets fan. You aren't telling me anything I don't know.
Posted by: JackStraw

Well, there WAS that time when Namath played.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 14, 2017 02:50 PM (8oSoU)

18 "Oh, you mean *that* unmasking"

Posted by: Sporkatus at September 14, 2017 02:50 PM (HtLSE)

19 >>What did she claim - "I didn't leak nothing to nobody?"As if the uneducated double-negative wouldn't be a huge red flag.Posted by: Lizzy at September 14, 2017 02:49 PM (W+vEI)

She didn't tell nobody, because nobody axed her.

Posted by: Zod at September 14, 2017 02:50 PM (Bdeb0)

20 This whole trend of "unmasking" and loosening intelligence distribution rules may not be a technical crime.

But it's like writing the address and vault combination for a bank on a hundred postcards and spreading them around the city. Maybe you didn't actually rob the bank yourself, but your intention was quite clear.

Posted by: TB at September 14, 2017 02:50 PM (wNx6K)

21 So this would be a "modified limited hangout?" AKA a second shot at lying her way out of this.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 14, 2017 02:50 PM (SRKgf)

22 We totally fucked up not electing a woman president.

Posted by: garrett at September 14, 2017 02:50 PM (onDmy)

23 Why is the Crown Prince of the UAE in New York? Who do I ask, who do I - I know! Let's unmask Trump campaign figures and donors! They'll know!

*We could ask the State Dept. or the UAE embassy.*
What a ridiculous idea! Why would they know the reason a foreign political figure came to this country?

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Signal Your Virtue with The Denunciator Denouncing Device from The Outrage Outlet! at September 14, 2017 02:50 PM (hLRSq)

24 Congress is a fucking clown show and Trump now appears to be the Ringmaster.

Posted by: Under Fire at September 14, 2017 02:50 PM (mcI77)

25 She played the Clintonian game of 'Deny, Deny, Deny.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 14, 2017 02:50 PM (ycWCI)

26 The "lucidly mean review of Hillary Clintons Horrible Book" that is linked in the sidebar has this wonderful line early on:

"still pouting over alleged sexism even as she hurls herself upon various fainting couches"

heh

Posted by: m at September 14, 2017 02:50 PM (9egmK)

27 11. It's what we oughtn't to do, but do anyway.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. All Honor & Glory to Kekistan! at September 14, 2017 02:51 PM (fA1SL)

28

Man, i'm glad the GOP leadership is going to do nothing about all this illegality.

It might spoil the cordial relations between the Democrat Party and their Republi-Gimps.

And really, aren't cordial relations in DC the most important thing of all?

Posted by: naturalfake at September 14, 2017 02:51 PM (NyJwR)

29 ZZZZzzzzzZZZZZZzzzzzzzz

Posted by: Jeff Sessions at September 14, 2017 02:51 PM (SRKgf)

30 Trey Gowdy is such a fucking fraud. Always grandstanding about taking a tough line on issues like this, never exhibiting the balls to actually do anything about it.

Posted by: thirteen28 at September 14, 2017 02:51 PM (GdJ+p)

31 There is a general consensus that the U.S. is missing from late stage Bible prophecy.

I'm beginning to understand why.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at September 14, 2017 02:52 PM (B+qrE)

32 >>She didn't tell nobody, because nobody axed her. Posted by: Zod at September 14, 2017 02:50 PM (Bdeb0)

Edited to read: "...because didn't nobody axe her." Apologies for any misunderstanding.

Posted by: Zod at September 14, 2017 02:52 PM (Bdeb0)

33 I'm a Jets fan.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2017 02:47 PM (/tuJf)
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I'm sorry.

Posted by: grammie winger - heretic for the Lord at September 14, 2017 02:52 PM (lwiT4)

34 Palin 2020

Posted by: Under Fire at September 14, 2017 02:52 PM (mcI77)

35 Top. Men.

Posted by: 13times at September 14, 2017 02:53 PM (WHVu+)

36 And really, aren't cordial relations in DC the most important thing of all?
Posted by: naturalfake at September 14, 2017 02:51 PM (NyJwR)

Would not want to spoil the collegiality of the atmosphere.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 14, 2017 02:53 PM (ycWCI)

37 23 Why is the Crown Prince of the UAE in New York? Who do I ask, who do I - I know! Let's unmask Trump campaign figures and donors! They'll know!

*We could ask the State Dept. or the UAE embassy.*
What a ridiculous idea! Why would they know the reason a foreign political figure came to this country?
Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Signal Your Virtue with The Denunciator Denouncing Device from The Outrage Outlet! at September 14, 2017 02:50 PM (hLRSq)

Am I the only one who hopes that it turns out after a lengthy witch hunt that the Crown Prince was there as a bag man for the Democrat Party?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 14, 2017 02:53 PM (SRKgf)

38 She's full of shit. Gowdy knows she's full of shit. That being said what she did was legal and she knows it. They all know it. That's why they're smirking.

The only potential charge would be for leaking. Good luck finding out who did that.

This ain't something you can pin on the GOP's femininity.

Obama and Democrats created a scheme and Obama put an legal recourse out of play.

Posted by: Marcus T at September 14, 2017 02:53 PM (9xpg1)

39

Scoot over Jeff. Lemme spoon with you.

An, that's better....

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZZZZ...

Posted by: Trey Gowdy at September 14, 2017 02:53 PM (NyJwR)

40 There is a general consensus that the U.S. is missing from late stage Bible prophecy.

I'm beginning to understand why.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at September 14, 2017 02:52 PM (B+qrE)
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No doubt. I used to ask why. I don't ask anymore.

Posted by: grammie winger - heretic for the Lord at September 14, 2017 02:53 PM (lwiT4)

41 37. You're thinking Qatar.....

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. All Honor & Glory to Kekistan! at September 14, 2017 02:54 PM (fA1SL)

42 Hillary's book tries to argue that in 1984 the men torturing Winston Smith to say what he knows is not true is like Trump telling people to not trust government, reporters, and elites.

She couldn't get more demented if she took classes on it from a demented version of Hitler

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 14, 2017 02:54 PM (39g3+)

43 "'I didn't hear anything to believe that she did anything illegal,' Florida Rep. Tom Rooney explained to CNN."

"No lapses in henhouse security," foxes report. Film at eleven.

Posted by: torquewrench at September 14, 2017 02:54 PM (ujwCG)

44 * admires self in mirror *

I think this Washington Generals uniform makes my chin look stronger.

Posted by: Mitch McConnell at September 14, 2017 02:54 PM (j+dfT)

45 A little Japanese-style contrition from our failed former leaders would be much appreciated.

Posted by: Barack Obama is a bad, bad man at September 14, 2017 02:54 PM (ylUqT)

46 Like lies on Rice.

Posted by: Jack Sock at September 14, 2017 02:54 PM (P7ulB)

47 Am I the only one who hopes that it turns out after a lengthy witch hunt that the Crown Prince was there as a bag man for the Democrat Party?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 14, 2017 02:53 PM (SRKgf)

Probably, but only because I *expect* he was a bag man for a DNC/Clinton charitable contribution.

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Signal Your Virtue with The Denunciator Denouncing Device from The Outrage Outlet! at September 14, 2017 02:54 PM (hLRSq)

48 >>>26 The "lucidly mean review

Oops, maybe I was prematurely OT there. Well, maybe not.

Posted by: m at September 14, 2017 02:54 PM (9egmK)

49 Pro-Tip: When you only play to lose, you can expect to lose an awful lot.

But maybe that's always been the plan.

Posted by: Ace

I once wrote a hilarious short story about a guy who, as a performance-art project, tried to get a book manuscript rejected by exactly 100 publishers.

So, to that end, he sat down and typed out a bunch of free-association gobblydegook, essentially a random bunch of words telling a nonlinear nonsensical story. No proofreading, no editing -- just raw ramblings.

Sent it out. What happens?

Publishers get in a bidding war for the manuscript. An avant-garde masterpiece! Try as he might, he can't convince them he was trying to fail.

Book becomes a bestseller, but his art project fails.

So, sometimes when you try to lose, you still win.

Posted by: zombie at September 14, 2017 02:54 PM (DQ4Fv)

50 45. They can't redeem their honor - they never had any

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. All Honor & Glory to Kekistan! at September 14, 2017 02:55 PM (fA1SL)

51 Some progress on the legal front.

My wish list:

DWS gets exposed in a huge scandal tied in with Arwan.

Loretta Lynch and Jimmy Drama get exposed for tanking the Hillary investigation.

Russiagate collusion is a sham. The Russians may not even have done the hacking.

There was significant voting fraud in 2016 (the Commission should be able to show this, even with just public data).

Rice and Rhodes and others get indicted for leaking classified material.

This may take a year to play out. I can't wait. If only a couple play out the way I hope it will have momentous consequences for how the 2018 mid-terms play out.

Posted by: Ignoramus at September 14, 2017 02:55 PM (SIY7D)

52 >>"'I didn't hear anything to believe that she did anything illegal,' Florida Rep. Tom Rooney explained to CNN."

She leaked classified information. Is that legal now?

Posted by: Lizzy at September 14, 2017 02:56 PM (W+vEI)

53 Here is the thing - they demonize Trump, and us, for a reason. And that reason is to give themselves permission to do evil and immoral things.

It's okay she did this because Trump!

That is why they act so innocent, so angry, when they get caught. It was all for a good cause after all. What's the matter? And why the press protects these illegal and immoral acts, because it is for a good cause. They are doing us a favor. They are saving the world. They can be heroes, if just for one day.

Posted by: Dean Wromer at September 14, 2017 02:56 PM (fftfA)

54 Trey Gowdy is such a fucking fraud. Always grandstanding about taking a tough line on issues like this, never exhibiting the balls to actually do anything about it.

What's he supposed to do, come across the table and kick her ass? He's a legislator, he has no power to do anything about it. That's why these idiotic hearings are so pointless. Someone could testify that they've for 50 years been killing handicapped infants us burning their bones to fuel his den where he takes nuns and old people and tortures them to death... and nothing would happen. No prosecutions, no referring to the justice department, no public outcry, no firings, nothing. They are utterly irrelevant.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 14, 2017 02:56 PM (39g3+)

55 Susan Rice had no criminal intentions.

No prosecutor with any interest in keeping their career intact would bring a case against her.

Posted by: James Comey at September 14, 2017 02:56 PM (ylUqT)

56 GOPes live in fear of Obamunists and their Liar Media megaphone.

Posted by: kallisto at September 14, 2017 02:57 PM (qV5PD)

57 23 Why is the Crown Prince of the UAE in New York? Who do I ask, who do I - I know! Let's unmask Trump campaign figures and donors! They'll know!

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the NatSec implications are obvious. I mean when Kate Middleton comes to the States, they ransack the entire RNC just to be safe.

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at September 14, 2017 02:57 PM (oGRue)

58 Pro-Tip: When you only play to lose, you can expect to lose an awful lot.
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If only it were that simple.

Posted by: The Owner from Major League at September 14, 2017 02:57 PM (10LGw)

59 Boned, we are.

Posted by: Toy Yoda at September 14, 2017 02:57 PM (ifORZ)

60 23 Why is the Crown Prince of the UAE in New York? Who do I ask, who do I - I know! Let's unmask Trump campaign figures and donors! They'll know!

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Jets fan?

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at September 14, 2017 02:58 PM (oGRue)

61 Pro-Tip: When you only play to lose, you can expect to lose an awful lot.

But maybe that's always been the plan.

That's actually the motivation for sexual cuckholds.

Posted by: wooga at September 14, 2017 02:58 PM (q1q2l)

62 They can't redeem their honor - they never had any

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. All Honor & Glory to Kekistan! at September 14, 2017 02:55 PM (fA1SL)
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Honor!!

Hahaha!

Posted by: Jeffrey Epstein at September 14, 2017 02:58 PM (ylUqT)

63 Payback is pretty simple, just follow Rice around and see which foreigners she meets with and then unmask her. Oh, yeah, and hire some Russians to provide a dossier on her and take it to a FISA court for full out Secret Squirrel Rogering. Totes Legal.

Posted by: Puddin Head at September 14, 2017 02:58 PM (YV+SU)

64 And again, I ask - you think we're voting our way out of this?

Posted by: Weasel at September 14, 2017 02:58 PM (Sfs6o)

65 So, to that end, he sat down and typed out a bunch of free-association gobblydegook, essentially a random bunch of words telling a nonlinear nonsensical story. No proofreading, no editing -- just raw ramblings.

Sent it out. What happens?

Posted by: zombie at September 14, 2017 02:54 PM (DQ4Fv)

He gets an endowed chair in a sociology department?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 14, 2017 02:58 PM (SRKgf)

66 Rice Baloney! The shit the media eats!

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at September 14, 2017 02:58 PM (e1mEI)

67 Maybe she forgot?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 14, 2017 02:59 PM (EyPfd)

68 45 A little Japanese-style contrition from our failed former leaders would be much appreciated.

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bukake by grizzly bear?

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at September 14, 2017 03:00 PM (oGRue)

69 Pro-Tip: When you only play to lose, you can expect to lose an awful lot.

Trump named winning against those people the "Covfefe Gambit"

Posted by: Roy at September 14, 2017 03:00 PM (7n4KQ)

70

I once wrote a hilarious short story about a guy who, as a performance-art project, tried to get a book manuscript rejected by exactly 100 publishers.

So, to that end, he sat down and typed out a bunch of free-association gobblydegook, essentially a random bunch of words telling a nonlinear nonsensical story. No proofreading, no editing -- just raw ramblings.

Sent it out. What happens?

Publishers get in a bidding war for the manuscript. An avant-garde masterpiece! Try as he might, he can't convince them he was trying to fail.

Book becomes a bestseller, but his art project fails.

So, sometimes when you try to lose, you still win.
Posted by: zombie at September 14, 2017 02:54 PM (DQ4Fv)

Brings to mind Springtime for Hitler.

Posted by: Northernlurker at September 14, 2017 03:00 PM (nBr1j)

71 I'm sure Trump's new BFF Nancy will get to the bottom of this

Posted by: #neverskankles at September 14, 2017 03:00 PM (9s4LQ)

72 Big media not interested in any of this - therefore it basically did not happen. Will be forgotten.

Posted by: Glenn John at September 14, 2017 03:01 PM (LilNs)

73 she unmasked the identities of senior Trump officials to understand why the crown prince of the United Arab Emirates was in New York late last year,

******

Bull. Shit.

If you had a state department worth a damn you'd of known why the prince was here in the first place.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 14, 2017 03:01 PM (JojTR)

74 Gruppelstauf.

Posted by: Hikaru at September 14, 2017 03:01 PM (CMbMd)

75 This whole trend of "unmasking" and loosening intelligence distribution rules may not be a technical crime.

it is. Furthermore, it supposedly was a crime to leftists. We used to hear the cry that people were suppressed, and that there was a 'chilling effect' and that whistleblowers weren't safe.

Movie themes include plucky, brave people (who are plucky) standing up to the sinister might of government and Big Business.

Surprise.

These intelligence resources are being used as grab bags by some in power. Surveillence, raids, slander, the lot. But I'm supposed to be impressed by the same assholes who whined about the Patriot Act and book lists.

meanwhile, 17 people lost limbs because the CIA AND FBI fumbled warnings about the bombers.

Posted by: Blue Hen at September 14, 2017 03:01 PM (326rv)

76 Posted by: #neverskankles
You. Are. Tiresome.

Posted by: Sporkatus at September 14, 2017 03:02 PM (HtLSE)

77 "*We could ask the State Dept. or the UAE embassy.* What a ridiculous idea! Why would they know the reason a foreign political figure came to this country?"

In the official retelling of events, State had not been informed by the Emirati consular apparatus that the Crown Prince would be coming Stateside. Foggy Bottom was taken by surprise when he abruptly showed up without thus politely notifying them of his plans.

So that's what triggered Rice's entirely justifiable national security suspicions, and caused her to have to exercise the unmasking powers which are fully within her legal purview. Again as per the official retelling of events.

As for why Rice then claimed on the record that she knew nothing at all of any such unmaskings? And how the unmasked identities then leaked to the press at politically convenient times? The official retelling is silent on those key points.

Posted by: torquewrench at September 14, 2017 03:02 PM (ujwCG)

78 Rice.

Posted by: What Comes Out of a Chinaman's Ass? at September 14, 2017 03:02 PM (0cv0+)

79 Pro-Tip: When you only play to lose, you can expect to lose an awful lot.

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wait till you see our lottery picks

Posted by: GOPe at September 14, 2017 03:02 PM (oGRue)

80 I love to flame the GOP as much as the next guy. But this garbage tact of just clubbing them unreasonably when there is truly nothing they can do is getting old fast.

This was a legal scheme underlwritten by Obama. Rice is full of shit. No question she's demonstrably a despicable proven liar. But she is going to walk legally.

But you know, all of a sudden Gowdy, a bulldog former prosecutor, pussied out or something.

* makes OK sign with hand*

Posted by: Marcus T at September 14, 2017 03:02 PM (9xpg1)

81 Providing fake servers and paying off blackmailers? Unmasking Trump campaign associates and lying about it?

Why, if I did not know better, I would think these republicans were all a bunch of crooks.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at September 14, 2017 03:03 PM (tbOMB)

82 Our DOJ will be announcing indictments in 3....2....1......

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 14, 2017 03:03 PM (jxbfJ)

83 76 Posted by: #neverskankles
You. Are. Tiresome.
Posted by: Sporkatus at September 14, 2017 03:02 PM (HtLSE)

But correct.
Or is this part of Trump's 16 dimensional chess game?

Posted by: #neverskankles at September 14, 2017 03:03 PM (9s4LQ)

84 We have a cookie man? What kind of cookies? The gingerbread men always get lucky. But I've already done them.

Posted by: Ginger Lee at September 14, 2017 03:03 PM (PmAu7)

85 >>She leaked classified information. Is that legal now?

I bet she didn't but I would make an even better bet she knows who did or who likely did.

There was no other reason for Obama to set up a new, much wider system of sharing confidential information shortly before his term was to expire other than to make it much harder to prove exactly who leaked.

People like Rice who disseminated the information get plausible deniability and the information still gets out. The Chicago way, the Obama way.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2017 03:03 PM (/tuJf)

86 10 years ago: The NSA does not exist
5 years ago: The NSA only spies on foreigners, mostly terrorists. They do not spy on US citizens
4 years ago: Snowden disclosures.
4 years ago: Fine, fine, the NSA spies on US citizens occasionally, incidentally, accidentally, but we ALWAYS mask who the people are so no one knows who the US person is. And it's so compartmentalized that no one outside the NSA has any idea whats going on.
Now: Well, duh, of course the ambassador the UN has the ability to "unmask" anyone, including her political enemies, and share any information, including verbatim conversations and whatnot across the government. And if it leaks -- hey, no big deal.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at September 14, 2017 03:04 PM (wmaTe)

87 wait till you see our lottery picks
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Yes, "trust the process".

Posted by: Joel Embiid at September 14, 2017 03:04 PM (10LGw)

88 It's hard for me to really care if Trump's DOJ is going to do nothing about it (or Lois Lerner) while simultaneously giving away the store to Schumer and Pelosi so he can brag about what a dealmaker he is.

Posted by: Maritime at September 14, 2017 03:04 PM (G/kZc)

89 Schadenboner status: FUPA

Posted by: Under Fire at September 14, 2017 03:05 PM (mcI77)

90 I dunno. Maybe we can have AtC come in and draw the legal arguments in stick figures with crayons so they could be easily understood

Posted by: Marcus T at September 14, 2017 03:05 PM (9xpg1)

91 I fear Susan Rice more than I fear Bane.

Posted by: Bruce Wayne at September 14, 2017 03:05 PM (/qEW2)

92 Someone could testify that they've for 50 years been killing handicapped infants us burning their bones to fuel his den where he takes nuns and old people and tortures them to death...

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 14, 2017 02:56 PM (39g3+)

*takes notes*

Posted by: Stephen King at September 14, 2017 03:05 PM (nmr2M)

93 89 Schadenboner status: FUPA
Posted by: Under Fire at September 14, 2017 03:05 PM (mcI77)

By this time tomorrow :

Schadenboner status : Chelsea Manning

Posted by: Hikaru at September 14, 2017 03:06 PM (CMbMd)

94 I leaked nothing to nobody.

The double negative from a Stanford (BA) and Oxford (MPhil, DPhil) gave her away. It made it not exactly a "lie," but certainly a lie.

Posted by: huerfano at September 14, 2017 03:07 PM (Dp2K8)

95 Some good Horde humor in this one, well done.

Marcus is right, and it was noted from the outset - there may be mostly *legal* misbehavior here, slimy destructive and outrageous, but structured such that no crimes were committed (by Rice, that is). As noted, spreading this kind of info far more broadly than ever before - itself a scandal - accomplishes the leaking objective.

Of course I share Ignoramuses' hopes on multiple legal fronts. Though I am hesitant to handicap any of them, given our generally lawless situation, which also lacks even a coherent opposition party or force.

But I don't see any path back to rule of law absent the full prosecution of the troika of crimes Hillary and Co. are guilty of (we know this, it's not speculation, based on public info): Espionage Act, Public Records Act, various laws on bribery and conflict of interest.

Posted by: Gary Cohn's delicate conscience at September 14, 2017 03:07 PM (0BFUD)

96 Whats the name of the system of government where the laws don't apply to the ruling class but they apply double plus squared to everybody else?

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at September 14, 2017 03:07 PM (XFue2)

97 All I can say is that since this is super cool and accepted by everyone, and that R's nominally run the government now, there is no reason for any of them to ever lose an election again.

There is no reason they aren't digging up 100% of the dirt on any politician or anyone running for office, unmasking said dirt, and leaking it to the media.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at September 14, 2017 03:07 PM (wmaTe)

98 The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise.

Posted by: Insomniac at September 14, 2017 03:08 PM (NWiLs)

99 10 years ago: The NSA does not exist
5 years ago: The NSA only spies on foreigners, mostly terrorists. They do not spy on US citizens
4 years ago: Snowden disclosures.
4 years ago: Fine, fine, the NSA spies on US citizens occasionally, incidentally, accidentally, but we ALWAYS mask who the people are so no one knows who the US person is. And it's so compartmentalized that no one outside the NSA has any idea whats going on.
Now: Well, duh, of course the ambassador the UN has the ability to "unmask" anyone, including her political enemies, and share any information, including verbatim conversations and whatnot across the government. And if it leaks -- hey, no big deal.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes

Remember how we abused couples who had spouses stationed overseas, and were lonely, and we listened in on intimate conversations.....and replayed the juicy bits.....and laughed about it?

Those are the least of your worries.

Posted by: Bob at the NSA at September 14, 2017 03:08 PM (326rv)

100

She unmasked them to prevent the unraveling the Iran Deal

See that's what the meeting was about

She shouldn't have bothered

No one has any intention of ever getting rid of the Iran Deal

Posted by: ThunderB at September 14, 2017 03:08 PM (z2QPc)

101 so: no criminal intent. so no biggie.

Posted by: WaldoTJ (in Texas) at September 14, 2017 03:08 PM (M1MpJ)

102 When the Republicans win the White House this endless corrupt Democrat scandal shit will stop and people will be held accountable.

Posted by: Hopped Up On Something at September 14, 2017 03:09 PM (G37lz)

103 Remember how we abused couples who had spouses stationed overseas, and were lonely, and we listened in on intimate conversations.....and replayed the juicy bits.....and laughed about it?

Those are the least of your worries.
Posted by: Bob at the NSA at September 14, 2017 03:08 PM (326rv)

If anyone still thinks that the NSA is not collecting data on EVERYONE in the US, they're not paying attention.

The amount of data on any given person out there is astronomical. The private sector has it. I guaran damn tee the NSA has that and more.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at September 14, 2017 03:09 PM (wmaTe)

104 Posted by: zombie at September 14, 2017 02:54 PM
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Brilliant.

A bit of a take on "The Producers."

Posted by: shibumi at September 14, 2017 03:09 PM (aT+Bx)

105 She unmasked people who were talking about getting rid of the Iran Deal.

Lets unpack that

Posted by: ThunderB at September 14, 2017 03:10 PM (z2QPc)

106 We need that Journ O List type of organization that could coordinate articles that explain that the real problem isn't the Susan Rices of the world, it's the piece of shit Jake Tappers who refuse to report on it, or do report with a totally false narrative.

We have systems in place that will take care of the villains, if only they are pointed out by the media.

Sunlight. No one to hide behind.

Our country is being corrupted by the lack of integrity of a handful of people who need to be called out daily.

Posted by: jwest at September 14, 2017 03:10 PM (Zs4uk)

107 It's one of the depressive days where I have accepted reality.

In the grander scheme of things, why should I care what they do to each other up there in D.C.?

There is no justice, there is no law, there is no white knight of conservatism. The Republicans and Democrats are just the same and the #DraintheSwamp guy fired every conservative on his staff.

Honestly, terrorists could fly a plane into the Senate building and I'd laugh.

Posted by: Malcolm Tent at September 14, 2017 03:10 PM (OoQDr)

108 Greetings:

But, on the other hand, I did see Sean Spicer make Judy throw up a bit in her mouth during his interview.

Posted by: 11B40 at September 14, 2017 03:10 PM (evgyj)

109 Give me thirty days of unfettered power and I'd have all this shit cleaned up like you wouldn't believe.

Posted by: Insomniac at September 14, 2017 03:10 PM (NWiLs)

110 Spying on political enemies.

That's fine

Posted by: ThunderB at September 14, 2017 03:10 PM (z2QPc)

111 I wonder if knowing what they know now, would Obama's peeps in the WH tried to help him. Not only is Trump a Democrat now, but he is a Democrat who has the support of 50% of Republicans. He will achieve every dream Rice and Obama had.

Posted by: #neverskankles at September 14, 2017 03:10 PM (9s4LQ)

112 "She leaked classified information. "

Nobody has made that charge yet. Nor is their currently any evidence or testimony to support that charge.

And she probably didn't herself. That's why (as Ace mentioned above) Obama allow wider dissemination of the information. It makes the leaker harder to uncover.

Posted by: Marcus T at September 14, 2017 03:11 PM (9xpg1)

113 Criticizing Rice would be seen as racist and sexist. We don't want to do that. This is the smart play.

Posted by: GOP smart set at September 14, 2017 03:11 PM (KL5Ns)

114 Former acting CIA Director Michael Morell resigned his non-resident Senior Fellow position at Harvard on Thursday in protest of convicted military leaker Chelsea Manning joining the Kennedy School's Institute of Politics.

Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at September 14, 2017 03:11 PM (E6tRR)

115

Nixon was a piker. Amateur hour

Posted by: ThunderB at September 14, 2017 03:11 PM (z2QPc)

116 109
Give me thirty days of unfettered power and I'd have all this shit cleaned up like you wouldn't believe.

Posted by: Insomniac at September 14, 2017 03:10 PM (NWiLs)

Granted. Can I be a minion?

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at September 14, 2017 03:12 PM (tbOMB)

117 Remember how we abused couples who had spouses stationed overseas, and were lonely, and we listened in on intimate conversations.....and replayed the juicy bits.....and laughed about it?

Those are the least of your worries.

Posted by: Bob at the NSA
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Bob tells Paul Ryan what to do, and he does it.

Bob tells Mitch McConnell what to do and he does it.

Bob tells Nancy Pelosi what to do and she giggles manically at a press conference and forgets what she was supposed to do.

Bob tells Chuck Schumer what to do and Chuck says, I got no shame, piss off.

Posted by: simplemind at September 14, 2017 03:13 PM (r4ME7)

118 Posted by: Bob at the NSA at September 14, 2017 03:08 PM
--

Be careful what you say Bob.

We don't want them to find out that their cell phone, their Xbox, and EVERY "smart" appliance is recording every conversation they have and that information is being stored in a database that will to be used for future prosecutions.

Posted by: Mark at the NSA at September 14, 2017 03:13 PM (aT+Bx)

119 She unmasked people meeting to discuss the Iran Deal

So protecting Iran was, and is, paramount

Posted by: ThunderB at September 14, 2017 03:13 PM (uzmaM)

120 114 Former acting CIA Director Michael Morell resigned his non-resident Senior Fellow position at Harvard on Thursday in protest of convicted military leaker Chelsea Manning joining the Kennedy School's Institute of Politics.
Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at September 14, 2017 03:11 PM (E6tRR)

Unfortunately Sean Spicer accepted his appointment. All mighty dollar.

Posted by: Jack Sock at September 14, 2017 03:13 PM (P7ulB)

121 All this talk of rice has me thinking of Peruvian pollo chaufa.

Posted by: Weasel at September 14, 2017 03:13 PM (Sfs6o)

122 105 She unmasked people who were talking about getting rid of the Iran Deal.

Lets unpack that
Posted by: ThunderB at September 14, 2017 03:10 PM (z2QP

Seriously.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at September 14, 2017 03:13 PM (wmaTe)

123 If you can identify the leaker, you can indict with serious charges.

But there's that IF.

We know now the exact conduit for how Jimmy Drama leaked to The New York Times.

Can this be replicated, or did Obama's ploy work?

Posted by: Ignoramus at September 14, 2017 03:14 PM (SIY7D)

124 Granted. Can I be a minion?
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at September 14, 2017 03:12 PM (tbOMB)

Absolutely. I'd need the entire Horde on deck.

Posted by: Insomniac at September 14, 2017 03:14 PM (NWiLs)

125 The GOP is a useless pile of dog shit.

Posted by: Kreplach at September 14, 2017 03:14 PM (9A6UB)

126 Former acting CIA Director Michael Morell resigned his non-resident Senior Fellow position at Harvard on Thursday in protest of convicted military leaker Chelsea Manning joining the Kennedy School's Institute of Politics.
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There is so much crazy packed into such a tiny little space it just might go nuclear.

Posted by: simplemind at September 14, 2017 03:14 PM (LdqNe)

127 Be careful what you say Bob.

We don't want them to find out that their cell phone, their Xbox, and EVERY "smart" appliance is recording every conversation they have and that information is being stored in a database that will to be used for future prosecutions.

Posted by: Mark at the NSA

Your wife snores Mark.

She is however, reasonably priced.

Posted by: Bob at the NSA at September 14, 2017 03:14 PM (326rv)

128 I didn't tell nothing to nobody except maybe my husband.

Posted by: Mrs Ian Cameron of ABC news at September 14, 2017 03:14 PM (7ciu+)

129
98 The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise.
Posted by: Insomniac at September 14, 2017 03:08 PM (NWiLs)

and the GOP is their defense lawyer

Posted by: #neverskankles at September 14, 2017 03:14 PM (9s4LQ)

130 109 "Give me thirty days of unfettered power..."

I would insist on having a trench already dug and bags of lime pre-stacked before the 30 day clock started.

Posted by: jwest at September 14, 2017 03:14 PM (Zs4uk)

131 Marcus I think you are defending the GOP (or Congress more generally) without a good basis, in terms of implying the Hill has no power to do anything.

1,000 years ago (that is, 15-20 years), Congress used its $ power, and the agencies cowered and bowed and scraped much of the time. Anything resembling ANY of the multiple scandals of the Obama years, both the ones involving crimes, and the others, were unthinkable.

For example DOJ/FBI not responding - slavishly - to Congressional requests for info and testimony and meetings related to the ongoing scandals/fake scandals. Unthinkable. One more way I don't recognize what's left of the country.

DOJ and the FBI have been tarnished, close to beyond repair, in the last few years. At least for serious people. Congress has some responsibility, because it failed, and continues to fail, to make any effort to clean things up. An amazing and appalling spectacle.

Posted by: Gary Cohn's delicate conscience at September 14, 2017 03:15 PM (0BFUD)

132 Posted by: jwest at September 14, 2017 03:14 PM (Zs4uk)

Trenches, hell. Let the birds pick their corpses clean.

Posted by: Insomniac at September 14, 2017 03:15 PM (NWiLs)

133 No, I mean, seriously -- the government now has the ability and the will to do things that the secret police of the most brutal dictatorships of the 20th century could only dream of doing.

And not only do they have that ability, they're utilizing it.

Oh, and everyones okay with people in govt using that information to go after their political enemies.

That's some chilling shit when you think about it.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at September 14, 2017 03:15 PM (wmaTe)

134 108 Greetings:

But, on the other hand, I did see Sean Spicer make Judy throw up a bit in her mouth during his interview.
Posted by: 11B40 at September 14, 2017 03:10 PM (evgyj)
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Did anyone see or talk about Spicer on Kimmel? Heard it was a 20 min. segment.

I don't know who Judy is. Judy Jetson is all I got.

Posted by: Gorilla Gumdrop at September 14, 2017 03:15 PM (PmAu7)

135 But correct.
Dragging in an irrelevance (sarcastic reference to Nancy Pelosi doing things on Trump's behalf, wtff?) in an unrelated topic is beyond any assessment of "being correct", it is a mark of making the conversation - an unrelated one - all about your pet topic or peeve.

Even if you are correct (which I dispute), it is the hallmark of an utter jackass to do this. Even if you are correct, your intent to abuse everyone in this thread with MUH TRUMPTRAYAL is cultic. Unbalanced. It's every bit as neurotic and needy as a desire to make everything about yourself, but even more so, because you don't even have a "self" to make the conversation *about*.

No, your whine is *so important* that every conversation is about *it*, and your whine is the thing which consumes you, in your entirety.

Did I say tiresome? I meant loathsome, wretched, obnoxious, beggarly, and highly irritating.

In short, fuck off.

Posted by: Sporkatus at September 14, 2017 03:15 PM (HtLSE)

136
So Hillary Clinton thinks that 'misogyny' is one of the reasons she lost. She's one of those out-of-touch feminists that I can only hope eventually has a m-aneurysm.

Posted by: Slippery Slope Salesman at September 14, 2017 03:16 PM (EgwCt)

137 "Posted by: Bob at the NSA at September 14, 2017 03:08 PM"

I'm guessing you haven't heard the part yet where we were discussing swapping porn photos of you mom?

Posted by: Laughing Army Ranger RLTW at September 14, 2017 03:16 PM (9xpg1)

138 I would insist on having a trench already dug and bags of lime pre-stacked before the 30 day clock started.
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garbage scows, dump them in the Marianna's trench.

Posted by: simplemind at September 14, 2017 03:16 PM (gKcxO)

139 first use of the zero numeral: Bakhshali manuscript, 400 AD, in Sanskrit.

latest use of the zero numeral: enumerating the accomplishments of Paul Ryan's caucus

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at September 14, 2017 03:16 PM (sH5nC)

140 Nixon was a piker
====

Funny bit on Nixon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JElnt-C4dI&t=1690

Posted by: Geronimo Stilton at September 14, 2017 03:17 PM (10LGw)

141 53 Here is the thing - they demonize Trump, and us, for a reason. And that reason is to give themselves permission to do evil and immoral things.......

Posted by: Dean Wromer at September 14, 2017 02:56 PM (fftfA)
---------------------------------
Bullseye.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at September 14, 2017 03:17 PM (0jtPF)

142 See, Americans, including transition teams, are not allowed to talk about getting rid of the Iran Deal

Posted by: ThunderB at September 14, 2017 03:17 PM (uzmaM)

143 I mean these disclosures of the last 4 or so years... if I had walked around 5 years ago saying the NSA is spying on everything I do and the govt has the ability and the will to use that information against me politically, I would have been involuntarily committed.

Now it's just accepted.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at September 14, 2017 03:17 PM (wmaTe)

144 Not only is Trump a Democrat now, but he is a
Democrat who has the support of 50% of Republicans. He will achieve
every dream Rice and Obama had.

Posted by: #neverskankles at September 14, 2017 03:10 PM (9s4LQ)
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Oh good grief.

Posted by: grammie winger - heretic for the Lord at September 14, 2017 03:17 PM (lwiT4)

145 No, your whine is *so important* that every conversation is about *it*, and your whine is the thing which consumes you, in your entirety.

Did I say tiresome? I meant loathsome, wretched, obnoxious, beggarly, and highly irritating.

In short, fuck off.
Posted by: Sporkatus

The rest of his shit is even worse. Downright retarded. We have the tapes.

Posted by: Bob at the NSA at September 14, 2017 03:17 PM (326rv)

146 If Susan Rice were convicted of treason, could she still be sentenced to the electric chair?

Posted by: P.F. Chang's at September 14, 2017 03:17 PM (/qEW2)

147 OT -- When Pigs Fly dept: local sports yakker, huge white guilter - just opined that Jemele Hill's tweet is a fireable offense. But her employer will keep her onboard because Disney can't be viewed as The Man keeping a sista down. This slice of truthiness is surprising coming from a caucasian BLM apologist.

Posted by: kallisto at September 14, 2017 03:17 PM (qV5PD)

148 I would insist on having a trench already dug and bags of lime pre-stacked before the 30 day clock started.
Posted by: jwest

he who has no existing trench in mind is an amateur

Posted by: Rick in SK at September 14, 2017 03:17 PM (FZYNt)

149 Be careful what you say Bob.

We don't want them to find out that their cell phone, their Xbox, and EVERY "smart" appliance is recording every conversation they have and that information is being stored in a database that will to be used for future prosecutions.

Posted by: Mark at the NSA

Your wife snores Mark.

She is however, reasonably priced.
Posted by: Bob

NSA fight!!!!!!

Posted by: rickb223 at September 14, 2017 03:18 PM (8oSoU)

150 all of those crazy conspiracy theories about SCOTUS changing their ruling on Obamacare due to blackmail and whatnot... Seems a little less crazy now, doesn't it?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at September 14, 2017 03:18 PM (wmaTe)

151 Posted by: Insomniac at September 14, 2017 03:14 PM (NWiLs)

.....

I have more faith in the zero percent possibility that you will be given unfettered power and 30 days than I do in Washington DC politicians ever returning America to a nation of laws.

Posted by: Malcolm Tent at September 14, 2017 03:18 PM (OoQDr)

152 convicted military leaker Chelsea Manning joining the Kennedy School's Institute of Politics.
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Are u fvcking kidding me?! This is full on disgusting.

Posted by: Gorilla Gumdrop at September 14, 2017 03:18 PM (PmAu7)

153 Trenches, hell. Let the birds pick their corpses clean.

Burn them as fuel- to keep the distilleries producing.

Posted by: Under Fire at September 14, 2017 03:18 PM (mcI77)

154 "Posted by: Bob at the NSA at September 14, 2017 03:08 PM"

I'm guessing you haven't heard the part yet where we were discussing swapping porn photos of you mom?
Posted by: Laughing Army Ranger RLTW

They have market value.......unlike pics of ranger gals (glut on the market and all that).

Posted by: Bob at the NSA at September 14, 2017 03:18 PM (326rv)

155 Morrell quit his little K School gig? Huh. Better than nothing, though even in today's unrecogizably degraded America, I'd expect much more backlash than that.

Morrell struck me as the quintessential Beltway mediocrity who rose far beyond his level. And his ethical standards, ahemm, were demonstrated during the Benghazi aftermath.

And the f***er couldn't even bump someone to get us into the executive dining room for a scheduled lunch when he was deputy for intel, so my first impression has not changed.

Posted by: Gary Cohn's delicate conscience at September 14, 2017 03:19 PM (0BFUD)

156 I'll go back to comedies, i.e. Sanford and Son

Posted by: free tibet at September 14, 2017 03:19 PM (9hHff)

157 convicted military leaker Chelsea Manning joining the Kennedy School's Institute of Politics.
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Are u fvcking kidding me?! This is full on disgusting.
Posted by: Gorilla Gumdrop

they want her for their calendar shoot

Posted by: Rick in SK at September 14, 2017 03:19 PM (FZYNt)

158 From the last thread:
"Who or what has Hillary Clinton blamed for her 2016 election loss. Here is the list (so far):"
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They left out Deplorable teenage girls.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 14, 2017 03:19 PM (zQ6cb)

159 "Posted by: Gary Cohn's delicate conscience at September 14, 2017 03:15 PM (0BFUD)"

That's not even a good straw man. It has zero to do with the specific issues being discussed.

There is currently no basis for charges. Until someone comes forth or the leaker is discovered they are relatively powerless to do anything.

Posted by: Marcus T at September 14, 2017 03:19 PM (9xpg1)

160 >>Your wife snores Mark.

She is however, reasonably priced.
Posted by: Bob

She's got anal warts too.

Posted by: Agnes from NSA at September 14, 2017 03:20 PM (mcI77)

161 The GOP is a useless pile of dog shit

+++

They've got a role to play and a piece of the action. Your interests do not feature in that except as a means to misdirect you

Posted by: Bigby's Typing Hands at September 14, 2017 03:20 PM (nltvc)

162
I would insist on having a trench already dug and bags of lime pre-stacked before the 30 day clock started.

You're obviously discounting the conditioned learning response from the stench of decaying flesh. Rookie mistake.

Posted by: Slippery Slope Salesman at September 14, 2017 03:20 PM (EgwCt)

163
In short, fuck off.
Posted by: Sporkatus at September 14, 2017 03:15 PM (HtLSE)

Doesn't Ace have some sort of rule againat this type of behavior?

Posted by: #neverskankles at September 14, 2017 03:20 PM (9s4LQ)

164

Americans privacy interests are unimportant

Protecting the Iran Deal is of utmost importance

Posted by: ThunderB at September 14, 2017 03:21 PM (z2QPc)

165 Trump is a Democrat now? whut?

Posted by: Glenn John at September 14, 2017 03:21 PM (LilNs)

166 Susan Rice. Gitmo. Waterboard.

some assembly required

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 14, 2017 03:21 PM (EkNES)

167
Doesn't Ace have some sort of rule againat this type of behavior?
Posted by: #neverskankles

If there was, we erased it.

Now, about your browser history......ew.

Posted by: Bob at the NSA at September 14, 2017 03:21 PM (326rv)

168 If Susan Rice were convicted of treason, could she still be sentenced to the electric chair?

Posted by: P.F. Chang's
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Pretty sure they'd have to steam her.

Posted by: simplemind at September 14, 2017 03:21 PM (vUY4r)

169 Trenches, hell. Let the birds pick their corpses clean.

Posted by: Insomniac at September 14, 2017 03:15 PM (NWiLs)
====================================

There's like 39 Bible verses about that. I'm going to try to find them in my new ESV. It'll be fun. There's maps in there and everything. Charts too.

Posted by: grammie winger - heretic for the Lord at September 14, 2017 03:22 PM (lwiT4)

170
Doesn't Ace have some sort of rule againat this type of behavior?

Posted by: #neverskankles at September 14, 2017 03:20 PM (9s4LQ)

He misspelled fvck. Get over it.

Posted by: Slippery Slope Salesman at September 14, 2017 03:22 PM (EgwCt)

171 She could not do this with out the full cooperation and agreement of the IC

Which I have been told didn't exist

Posted by: ThunderB at September 14, 2017 03:22 PM (z2QPc)

172 "She leaked classified information. "

Nobody has made that charge yet. Nor is their currently any evidence or testimony to support that charge.

And she probably didn't herself. That's why (as Ace mentioned above) Obama allow wider dissemination of the information. It makes the leaker harder to uncover.
Posted by: Marcus T

She leaked info to department B. Person K accessed that info. Since this is natsec and not a simple crim case, person K will be sitting in Gitmo unless they roll on someone.

NatSec and classified documents can loosen tongues.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 14, 2017 03:23 PM (8oSoU)

173 Pretty sure they'd have to steam her.

Posted by: simplemind at September 14, 2017 03:21 PM (vUY4r)

==========

Got it covered!

Posted by: Gwyneth Paltrow at September 14, 2017 03:23 PM (vg8iE)

174 McConnel, Ryan will punish Rice. Right after they are done repealing OCare and cutting taxes and funding thr wall.

Swearsies.

Posted by: #neverskankles at September 14, 2017 03:24 PM (9s4LQ)

175 You're obviously discounting the conditioned learning response from the stench of decaying flesh. Rookie mistake.
Posted by: Slippery Slope Salesman at September 14, 2017 03:20 PM (EgwCt)

Gibbets were created for a reason.

Posted by: Insomniac at September 14, 2017 03:24 PM (NWiLs)

176 NatSec and classified documents can loosen tongues.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 14, 2017 03:23 PM (8oSoU)

Sorry meester. My tongue no loose.

Posted by: Huma's Maid at September 14, 2017 03:24 PM (mcI77)

177 have I missed anything since the last thread?

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at September 14, 2017 03:24 PM (nmr2M)

178 Whats the name of the system of government where the laws don't apply to
the ruling class but they apply double plus squared to everybody else?
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Feudalism? Communism?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2017 03:24 PM (eSx+E)

179 Doesn't Ace have some sort of rule againat this type of behavior?
I think when someone has a demonstrated and consistent pattern of misbehavior viz trolling, there's probably a certain lenience.

However, since you feel the need to call for teacher, you can amend my previous statement to the more traditional "Get your fucking shinebox".

If you like.

If you feel the need to defend idiocy like TRUMP IS A DEMOCRAT NOW as other than riling, mobying, and general malcontent, I have some "observations" about your mental state.

Posted by: Sporkatus at September 14, 2017 03:24 PM (HtLSE)

180 The entire Nat Sec world wants to protect the Iran Deal. They don't care about Americans privacy rights. Forced to choose, they chose the Deal

Posted by: ThunderB at September 14, 2017 03:24 PM (uzmaM)

181 hey guys, bad news but the gig is up. My mainstream fake news media stream shows they caught Trump on camera asking questions about Irma including:

"what is rain?"

"the russians asked me to let this happen, you know?"\

"you know, hillary would be handling this all a lot better"

it's sad but we can all see the path to president hillary now.

Posted by: andrew jarbacka at September 14, 2017 03:24 PM (DQdye)

182 169 Trenches, hell. Let the birds pick their corpses clean.

Posted by: Insomniac at September 14, 2017 03:15 PM (NWiLs)
====================================

There's like 39 Bible verses about that. I'm going to try to find them in my new ESV. It'll be fun. There's maps in there and everything. Charts too.
Posted by: grammie winger - heretic for the Lord at September 14, 2017 03:22 PM (lwiT4)

You see this, folks? God and grammie are on my side!

Posted by: Insomniac at September 14, 2017 03:25 PM (NWiLs)

183 NSA fight!!!!!!

Posted by: rickb223 at September 14, 2017 03:18 PM (8oSoU)

Use your nails, girls!

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Signal Your Virtue with The Denunciator Denouncing Device from The Outrage Outlet! at September 14, 2017 03:25 PM (hLRSq)

184 Whats the name of the system of government where the laws don't apply to
the ruling class but they apply double plus squared to everybody else?
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American Republic?

Posted by: bicentennialguy at September 14, 2017 03:25 PM (vg8iE)

185 158 From the last thread:
"Who or what has Hillary Clinton blamed for her 2016 election loss. Here is the list (so far):"
-----------

They left out Deplorable teenage girls.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 14, 2017 03:19 PM (zQ6cb)

And, inexplicably, global warming.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 14, 2017 03:25 PM (SRKgf)

186 Actually, Harry, no, not a bit (changed view about Roberts et al). Because it still is implausible, but mostly because such excuses fail to deal with the very real, demonstrated, and crippling collapse of the judiciary due to intellectual and character flaws of the people staffing it.

The O-care decision was no more ridiculous than many other, even recent, rulings. Just far more damaging, in a concrete direct way, to more Americans. Outlandish blackmail speculation is never trotted out to explain the avalanche of idiotic lawless behavior by judges and courts that is a nearly daily occurrence.

Hiding in what is essentially an optimistic escapist fantasy - that things are only off the rails because of B-movie plots in the background - further reduces the chances of any recovery.

Posted by: Gary Cohn's delicate conscience at September 14, 2017 03:25 PM (0BFUD)

187 In the future, Alex Jones will have been right about everything. Every. Fucking. Thing.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at September 14, 2017 03:25 PM (aferz)

188 14 Yeah after months of stonewalling and saying "I didn't do that!" now suddenly there's this story about how the state department was trying to figure out why eeevil Russians were coming to the USA without 'splaining it enough to the Obama administration.
_______________

If Rice was trying to find out why the crown prince of the UAE was coming to the U.S., then why the hell didn't she ask him before the Obama administration gave him permission to come here?

It wasn't Trump who gave the guy permission to enter the U.S., it was the Obama administration. If they suspected he was up to no good, then they either should have questioned him a lot more carefully before giving him permission, or they should have denied him permission.

Letting him in and then using their own decision to rationalize spying on Americans is bullshit.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at September 14, 2017 03:25 PM (BXf9o)

189 have I missed anything since the last thread?

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at September 14, 2017 03:24 PM (nmr2M)
==========================

Susan Rice is a treasonous crook who will skate, and there are a lot of birds who will soon be very full.

Posted by: grammie winger - heretic for the Lord at September 14, 2017 03:26 PM (lwiT4)

190 "Posted by: rickb223 at September 14, 2017 03:23 PM (8oSoU)"

The disseminated it too widely. It permitted both physical access to the information and allowed for people to simply be read in.

I really hope they find the person and light them on fire so Susan can watch. But I also really want to speak with a unicorn.

Posted by: Marcus T at September 14, 2017 03:26 PM (9xpg1)

191 I have some "observations" about your mental state.
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And by "observations", to be clear, he means vituperative observations.

Posted by: simplemind at September 14, 2017 03:26 PM (9744P)

192 160 >>Your wife snores Mark.

She is however, reasonably priced.
Posted by: Bob

She's got anal warts too.
Posted by: Agnes from NSA at September 14, 2017 03:20 PM (mcI77)

Oh, two words:

Hotdog & hallway

Posted by: The Mailman, Pool Boy and your best friend at September 14, 2017 03:27 PM (jxbfJ)

193 Anyone want to bet a fiver nothing comes from this?

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2017 03:27 PM (ghofu)

194 Greetings, Gorilla Gumdrop: ( at September 14, 2017 03:15 PM (PmAu7))

Sorry. I was referring to Judy Woodruff actress and announcer on the Progressive (née Public) Broadcasting System's PBS NewsHour broadcast.

Posted by: 11B40 at September 14, 2017 03:27 PM (evgyj)

195 182. Gotta disagree. 30 days' power, and I'd also have the man-bun and artisanal avocado toast problems solved forever.

Insomniac - low-energy dictator. Sad.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. All Honor & Glory to Kekistan! at September 14, 2017 03:27 PM (xBTmz)

196 My bad. TRUMP is severely conservative. LOL.

Oh and he is playing 16D chess and is winning.

Posted by: #neverskankles at September 14, 2017 03:27 PM (9s4LQ)

197 193 Anyone want to bet a fiver nothing comes from this?
Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2017 03:27 PM (ghofu)

I was born at night, but not last night.

Posted by: Insomniac at September 14, 2017 03:27 PM (NWiLs)

198 Let's all chill and talk about women for a moment.

I only caught the last couple minutes of the lovely Trish Regan on FBN, while she was handing over the reins to big-boobed Liz Claman. My mind briefly considered the wonder of a giggling lingerie-wearing pillow fight between them. It was immediately shattered by Liz's breathless hyping of something. She is truly the female version of Shep!

And now, I just saw PDT and Melania stepping off Air Force One, in Florida.
Melania was wearing some very tight white pants - nearly cameltoe-ish.

Yikes!

And, Meow!!

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at September 14, 2017 03:27 PM (8iiMU)

199

They let him in because they wanted to spy on the meeting

Must protect Iran

Oh Hi Val Jar

Posted by: ThunderB at September 14, 2017 03:28 PM (z2QPc)

200 I appear less crazy every day.

Posted by: Alex Jones at September 14, 2017 03:28 PM (mcI77)

201 187 In the future, Alex Jones will have been right about everything. Every. Fucking. Thing.
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at September 14, 2017 03:25 PM (aferz)

Just like a stopped clock being correct twice a day?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 14, 2017 03:28 PM (jxbfJ)

202 You see this, folks? God and grammie are on my side!

Posted by: Insomniac at September 14, 2017 03:25 PM (NWiLs)
=====================================

I've been telling you that for the last six and a half years. Get the wax out of your ears.

Posted by: grammie winger - heretic for the Lord at September 14, 2017 03:28 PM (lwiT4)

203 I don't care why she did it, I simply want her jailed for life for it (assuming it doesn't rise to the level of treason, and therefore execution, instead)

Posted by: acethepug at September 14, 2017 03:28 PM (539ql)

204 182 169 Trenches, hell. Let the birds pick their corpses clean.

Posted by: Insomniac at September 14, 2017 03:15 PM (NWiLs)
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There's like 39 Bible verses about that. I'm going to try to find them in my new ESV. It'll be fun. There's maps in there and everything. Charts too.
Posted by: grammie winger - heretic for the Lord at September 14, 2017 03:22 PM (lwiT4)

You see this, folks? God and grammie are on my side!
Posted by: Insomniac at September 14, 2017 03:25 PM (NWiLs)
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I always suspected as much.

Posted by: Ginger Lee at September 14, 2017 03:28 PM (PmAu7)

205 Letting him in and then using their own decision to rationalize spying on Americans is bullshit.
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a teensy bit worse that bullshit.

they were trying to construct an political bomb.

Posted by: simplemind at September 14, 2017 03:28 PM (xgOfE)

206 Stop feeding the troll, y'all. He wants to descend to being a troll, treat him as such.

Or at least ask him if he's gotten any better at cooking steaks.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at September 14, 2017 03:28 PM (AM1GF)

207 And now, I just saw PDT and Melania stepping off Air Force One, in Florida.
Melania was wearing some very tight white pants - nearly cameltoe-ish.

Yikes!

And, Meow!!

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop

Oh how we long for the days of the bare arms and boob belt

Posted by: Rick in SK at September 14, 2017 03:29 PM (FZYNt)

208 Stop feeding the troll, y'all. He wants to descend to being a troll, treat him as such.

Or at least ask him if he's gotten any better at cooking steaks.
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at September 14, 2017 03:28 PM (AM1GF)

he hasn't. We asked his stove.

Posted by: Bob at the NSA at September 14, 2017 03:29 PM (326rv)

209 Oh, they arrived back at Andrews FROM FL.
Brain was not functioning.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at September 14, 2017 03:29 PM (8iiMU)

210 Sessions will het to the bottom of this. just like he did with Lois Lerner.

So much winning.

Posted by: #neverskankles at September 14, 2017 03:29 PM (9s4LQ)

211 There's like 39 Bible verses about that. I'm going to try to find them in my new ESV. It'll be fun. There's maps in there and everything. Charts too.
Posted by: grammie winger - heretic for the Lord at September 14, 2017 03:22 PM (lwiT4)

For real? I mean there is something really fascinating about a bird of prey opening up the body cavity of a deceased animal and attempting to fly away with 30 feet of intestines. Weight plus gravity vs. wing span and power.

Didn't know it was mentioned in the Bible. I'll have to steal a new one soon.

Posted by: Slippery Slope Salesman at September 14, 2017 03:29 PM (EgwCt)

212 She didn't do anything

that Obama didn't tell her to do.

And Obama didn't do anything either

Posted by: The Ayatollah at September 14, 2017 03:29 PM (Ndje9)

213 are you TRYING to send Yoko to our ONT?

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at September 14, 2017 03:29 PM (sH5nC)

214 Marcus, ya want somma dis? I mean, you saying that my accurate description of the limpness of congressional oversight is a "straw man" of some kind? Don't follow.

I echoed your legal speculation (no crime by big names, but more chances for crimes/disclosure by others, due to widespread dissemination).

Posted by: Gary Cohn's delicate conscience at September 14, 2017 03:29 PM (0BFUD)

215 Comey/Rice 2020!!!

"We Will Never Lie To You"

Posted by: ShainS at September 14, 2017 03:30 PM (3JNwg)

216 Or at least ask him if he's gotten any better at cooking steaks.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Abbot of St. Costello-on-the-Hurlingbone at September 14, 2017 03:28 PM (AM1GF)
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Posted by: grammie winger - heretic for the Lord at September 14, 2017 03:30 PM (lwiT4)

217 Worst part? There is very little you can do to stop a future president from doing the same thing. They will check mutinies to clam executive power and the courts will back them. Maybe, maybe you may be able to write something where the congressional leaders need to be notified. But that's a stretch.

Posted by: Marcus T at September 14, 2017 03:30 PM (9xpg1)

218 175 Gibbets were created for a reason.
Posted by: Insomniac at September 14, 2017 03:24 PM (NWiLs)

To put in the gravy?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 14, 2017 03:30 PM (mbhDw)

219 195 182. Gotta disagree. 30 days' power, and I'd also have the man-bun and artisanal avocado toast problems solved forever.

Insomniac - low-energy dictator. Sad.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. All Honor & Glory to Kekistan! at September 14, 2017 03:27 PM (xBTmz)

If want the man bun and avocado toast elimination position you can have it. I will need minions after all.

Posted by: Insomniac at September 14, 2017 03:30 PM (NWiLs)

220 131 . It's because NWO media decides what stories get fed to normies. Hannity features Sara Carter and other journalists investigating these matters but GOPes give no shits about Circa news or Daily Caller investigations. Alt media doesn't have the power to destroy them.

Posted by: kallisto at September 14, 2017 03:31 PM (qV5PD)

221 196 My bad. TRUMP is severely conservative. LOL.

Oh and he is playing 16D chess and is winning.

Again, neither the topic of this thread, nor tied in with it effectively by you, and even in the off-topic discussion *of your topic*, the conversation has not involved you other than to occasionally respond to your more enflamed sharts.

When called on this, you respond with mockery - because clearly anyone calling you on your bullshit and pointing out that you are a meth-smoking shrieking hen brooding over a rotten egg of crazy is a TRUTRUMP TRUMPING TRUMPTARD. Which you don't even have the balls to come out and say, but must insinuate.

You are cancer.

Posted by: Sporkatus at September 14, 2017 03:31 PM (HtLSE)

222 What are you doing Dave?

Posted by: Sonobi at September 14, 2017 03:31 PM (OD2ni)

223 when I reflect on every thing they have done, I think I've come to the conclusion they were all in with destroying America as it was.
the media, the politicians , the education system.

Everyone was in.

Posted by: willow at September 14, 2017 03:31 PM (FKrah)

224 Let's see, Democrat did something bad.

Waste of time to worry about that.

Did Trump finalize the agreement to annex Mexico yet?

Posted by: Meremortal at September 14, 2017 03:31 PM (3myMJ)

225 Fundamentally Tranform .. Baby!

Posted by: willow at September 14, 2017 03:32 PM (FKrah)

226
I approve of what Ms. Rice did.

hee hee, suckers!

Posted by: Valerie Plame at September 14, 2017 03:32 PM (r+sAi)

227 Anyone want to bet a fiver nothing comes from this?

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2017 03:27 PM (ghofu)

You're on.

Posted by: The Groundhog Undermining Your Deck As We Speak at September 14, 2017 03:32 PM (EgwCt)

228 223 when I reflect on every thing they have done, I think I've come to the conclusion they were all in with destroying America as it was.
the media, the politicians , the education system.

Everyone was in.
Posted by: willow at September 14, 2017 03:31 PM (FKrah)

I have no idea where you get this from.

Posted by: Herbert Marcuse at September 14, 2017 03:32 PM (NWiLs)

229 Didn't know it was mentioned in the Bible. I'll have to steal a new one soon.

Posted by: Slippery Slope Salesman at September 14, 2017 03:29 PM (EgwCt)
======================

I just looked on the Bing. Something somewhere says 41 verses about this grisly possibility. That's a lotta bone-picking. I'll have to look it up. My guess is a lot of Ezekial and Revelation.

Posted by: grammie winger - heretic for the Lord at September 14, 2017 03:33 PM (lwiT4)

230 "You guys don't accept my non-lucid interpretation of an event that this is the Worst Thing Ever and all the deranged things I draw from it, so instead I will elide my interpretation into a FACT, then claim that your position is that that FACT is part of a big strategy of winning by losing so I can mock you".

Literally cancer.

Posted by: Sporkatus at September 14, 2017 03:33 PM (HtLSE)

231 when I reflect on every thing they have done, I think I've come to the conclusion they were all in with destroying America as it was.
the media, the politicians , the education system.

Everyone was in.
======
Well, not the horde, but yes.

Bitter clingers aside, deplorables etc etc. There are actually a lot of us, they just don't want you to know it. The tail has been waggin the dog for a while now.

Posted by: simplemind at September 14, 2017 03:33 PM (np0NV)

232 You are cancer.
Posted by: Sporkatus at September 14, 2017 03:31 PM (HtLSE)

#3yearscanvoteHillary

Posted by: Meremortal at September 14, 2017 03:34 PM (3myMJ)

233 Herbert you have some nice quotes;

The web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it.

Posted by: willow at September 14, 2017 03:34 PM (FKrah)

234 Why is she not in handcuffs?

(No copyright claimed. Feel free to use this question with Hillary Clinton, Mary Landrieu, Valerie Jarrett, Huma Abedin and Susan Rice.)

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at September 14, 2017 03:34 PM (ATVNj)

235 Dr Zhivago is on TMC right now, I like watching Commies wallowing in misery , and this is just the start

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2017 03:35 PM (ghofu)

236 Birds deserve a healthy diet of grains and bugs.
NOT FATTY POLITICIANS

Posted by: PETA at September 14, 2017 03:35 PM (QM5S2)

237 simplemind , I am truly brokenhearted.
this was the best idea to be had in history

Posted by: willow at September 14, 2017 03:35 PM (FKrah)

238 107--......Honestly, terrorists could fly a plane into the Senate building and I'd laugh.
Posted by: Malcolm Tent at September 14, 2017 03:10 PM (OoQDr)
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You probably wouldn't laugh, but......

I got to thinking about that on 9/11.
I especially got to thinking about the attempt to hit the Capitol.

Would my/our reaction to a similar crime be the same today? Would there be more ....ambivalence?

The Left hates our traditional institutions, our power, and our wealth. So their reaction to 9/11 was mixed --- a lot of chickens-coming-home-to-roost sentiment, which they only briefly suppressed.

What happens when faith in our institutions is lost on the Right too?

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at September 14, 2017 03:36 PM (0jtPF)

239 193 . No because trickster universe coughs up an improbable scenario every now and again like Mike Miss saying Jemele should be fired.

Posted by: kallisto at September 14, 2017 03:36 PM (qV5PD)

240 What happens when faith in our institutions is lost on the Right too?

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at September 14, 2017 03:36 PM (0jtPF)

When that happens, I just want it known that I run Bartertown.

Posted by: MWR, Public Intellectual, aka Beth at September 14, 2017 03:37 PM (4df7R)

241 Dr Zhivago is on TMC right now, I like watching Commies wallowing in misery , and this is just the start
Posted by: Skip

Beautiful movie. The death toll in the last five minutes is kinda extreme, and we never hear what happened to the wife son and grand dad, WTH.

Posted by: Blue Hen at September 14, 2017 03:37 PM (326rv)

242 "She could not do this with out the full cooperation and agreement of the IC"

The three big wheels within which at the time having been: Clapper. Brennan. And Comey.

Posted by: torquewrench at September 14, 2017 03:37 PM (ujwCG)

243 Margarita, I think we are already there.
Can we name one agency or institution we respect or believe to be honest?

Posted by: willow at September 14, 2017 03:37 PM (FKrah)

244 I know history started five weeks ago, and is mostly just white males oppressing people, but actually there were previous intel scandals. Very old people may recall the Church committee, which created the basic structure of today's congressional oversight (and banned all sorts of bad stuff done, mostly in the 60s).

Congress can step in and ban/mandate whatever they want in terms of this topic (distribution of info, privacy, etc.).

What's interesting is that, in our degraded state, I have yet to hear even one voice calling for anything like this. Yes, the crimes and non-criminal outrageous behavior should be documented/punished, but the barn door also has to be closed even as those already-loose horses are rounded up and beaten.

Posted by: Gary Cohn's delicate conscience at September 14, 2017 03:37 PM (0BFUD)

245
One would think that out of pure self preservation the repubs would go after these political criminals because a repub would already be prosecuted and in jail if the dems were in charge.

But no, they're dumbasses.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at September 14, 2017 03:37 PM (r+sAi)

246 MWR, I will handle the ledgers in bartertown.

Posted by: willow at September 14, 2017 03:37 PM (FKrah)

247 ChemJeff is back?

Posted by: steevy at September 14, 2017 03:38 PM (rmVvL)

248 Why is she not in handcuffs?
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Mysogynist!

Why do you hate women!!!

Posted by: simplemind at September 14, 2017 03:38 PM (QEFOZ)

249
Insomniac - low-energy dictator. Sad.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. All Honor & Glory to Kekistan! at September 14, 2017 03:27 PM (xBTmz)

No need to pick on 'Little' ~~Marco~~ Insomniac.

Posted by: Slippery Slope Salesman at September 14, 2017 03:38 PM (EgwCt)

250 Are we in remission or will cancer come back?

Posted by: Meremortal at September 14, 2017 03:38 PM (3myMJ)

251 fgs. ugh. I think I will go outside and smell the blossoms for a while

Posted by: willow at September 14, 2017 03:38 PM (FKrah)

252 per torque, yeah, just ponder this factoid about the IC at the end of the Obama nightmare -

The three big wheels within which at the time having been: Clapper. Brennan. And Comey.

Jeebus. Three utterly unfit (intellectually, temperamentally, and character) people in three huge jobs. All at once.

Posted by: Gary Cohn's delicate conscience at September 14, 2017 03:39 PM (0BFUD)

253 Gary Cohn's delicate conscience at September 14, 2017 03:37 PM (0BFUD)

Logic and cogent prescription for action, which also acknowledges the roles of players and their proper place instead of screaming for some sort of heads?

How very dare you.

Posted by: Sporkatus at September 14, 2017 03:40 PM (HtLSE)

254 Uncle Palpatine : I'll by Tengri feed the corpses of the deep staters to the soyboys.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. All Honor & Glory to Kekistan! at September 14, 2017 03:40 PM (fA1SL)

255 I have always loved the soundtrack of Dr Zhivago

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2017 03:40 PM (ghofu)

256 246
MWR, I will handle the ledgers in bartertown.

Posted by: willow at September 14, 2017 03:37 PM (FKrah)
Miss willow, I will get you your very own monogrammed ledger and dual-duty pen/shiv.

Posted by: MWR, Public Intellectual, aka Beth at September 14, 2017 03:40 PM (4df7R)

257 Nood

Posted by: rickb223 at September 14, 2017 03:40 PM (8oSoU)

258 251. Just look at the flowers, willow.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. All Honor & Glory to Kekistan! at September 14, 2017 03:40 PM (fA1SL)

259 MWR, I will handle the ledgers in bartertown.

Posted by: willow at September 14, 2017 03:37 PM (FKrah)

Excellent idea. 'willow' in charge of finances.

Posted by: Her Weed Dealer at September 14, 2017 03:40 PM (EgwCt)

260 A South Korean delegation asks Washington for nuclear weapons

Posted by: Under Fire at September 14, 2017 03:41 PM (mcI77)

261 "A South Korean delegation asks Washington for nuclear weapons"

Wrong Korea. If NK would ask, we could deliver by air freight and quickly.

Posted by: Meremortal at September 14, 2017 03:42 PM (3myMJ)

262 Kathy Griffin Trump beheading picture getting six figure offers from art collectors.

Posted by: steevy at September 14, 2017 03:42 PM (rmVvL)

263 "We...uh...the King of Siam was coming back to Broadway and we had to find out...if, um, Yul Brenner quit smoking. For the Children(tm)."

Posted by: The Best Excuse Valerie Jarrett Could Come Up With For Susan Rice's Part in the Deep State Coup on at September 14, 2017 03:43 PM (Ndje9)

264 Sporkatus, you're accusing me of logic and cogency! WTF? Where do you get off with such personal insults?

Geez, I thought ace had rules against this kind of thing.

Anyway, your view is not yet the apparent consensus, so if nominated I will not run, if elected I will not serve, etc.

And besides that, I really should go check out Melania's pics from today. Not to give anyone a nasty idea, but imagine "FLILF" photo-shopped onto her "FLOTUS" baseball cap. (insert Beavis snickering ....)

Posted by: Gary Cohn's delicate conscience at September 14, 2017 03:44 PM (0BFUD)

265 Reads Headline.

Lights hair on fire.

Clicks link.

Finds out link goes to CNN.

Scrambles around looking for a fire extinguisher.

Posted by: franksalterego at September 14, 2017 03:44 PM (3cq8T)

266 simplemind , I am truly brokenhearted.
this was the best idea to be had in history
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It was ever thus.

Also, the Bible says like 365 times don't be afraid. YMMV but its actually good advice.

Posted by: simplemind at September 14, 2017 03:44 PM (ovpow)

267 You probably wouldn't laugh, but......

I got to thinking about that on 9/11.
I especially got to thinking about the attempt to hit the Capitol.

Would my/our reaction to a similar crime be the same today? Would there be more ....ambivalence?

The Left hates our traditional institutions, our power, and our wealth. So their reaction to 9/11 was mixed --- a lot of chickens-coming-home-to-roost sentiment, which they only briefly suppressed.

What happens when faith in our institutions is lost on the Right too?
=======

Yes, I know it makes me a terrible person because innocent people would be killed, but I wouldn't be too upset about it because a lot of guilty troublemaking mother fuckers would be killed too.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at September 14, 2017 03:44 PM (vg8iE)

268 10 Things or people Hillary did not blame her loss on

1. The Munich Agreement
2. Cancellation of Last Man Standing
3. Bubonic Plague
4. Vaccination caused autism
5. Prohibition Act
6. HPV
7. Missing Flight 370
8. Indian telemarketers / IT support
9. Support Animals
10. Herself

Posted by: Jack Sock at September 14, 2017 03:45 PM (P7ulB)

269 10 Things or people Hillary did not blame her loss on

1. The Munich Agreement
2. Cancellation of Last Man Standing
3. Bubonic Plague
4. Vaccination caused autism
5. Prohibition Act
6. HPV
7. Missing Flight 370
8. Indian telemarketers / IT support
9. Support Animals
10. Herself
=========

Saving it all for Volume II.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at September 14, 2017 03:46 PM (vg8iE)

270 I was going to say there's still time, but then I got to number 10, which will never happen.

Posted by: simplemind at September 14, 2017 03:46 PM (DqaJ3)

271
Why is she not in handcuffs? ===========
Mysogynist!
Why do you hate women!!!

Posted by: simplemind at September 14, 2017 03:38 PM (QEFOZ)

I thought women loved to accessorize? As long as they're designer cuffs I don't see what the problem is.

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at September 14, 2017 03:47 PM (lKyWE)

272 It's much quicker to list the things she doesn't blame.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at September 14, 2017 03:48 PM (Ndje9)

273 There's like 39 Bible verses about that. I'm going to try to find them in my new ESV. It'll be fun. There's maps in there and everything. Charts too.

Posted by: grammie winger

If you want to look up those word occurrences, you might want a concordance as well. The ones in reference Bibles are obviously too short.

On a related subject, does anyone know if there is a reference version of Hillary's book "What Happened" with appendices with maps showing the miracles of Hillary and the missionary journeys of Hillary? And a mini-concordance of Hillary-speak, so that we rightly understand what she means when she says that 1984 is about how we should love and trust totalitarian governments?

BTW grammie, although I have no theological or linguistic training, I've never seen anything negative ever written about the ESV by any conservative denomination. Everyone seems to love it. So, probably a sound choice.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at September 14, 2017 03:49 PM (/qEW2)

274 Rice was lying?!

*pats pockets*

Nope. Must have left my shocked face in another pair of trousers.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 14, 2017 03:49 PM (p+Wdc)

275 Julie Christie in Zhivago...that will melt the snow

Posted by: rammajamma at September 14, 2017 03:52 PM (AjNMO)

276 Dr Zhivago is on TMC right now, I like watching Commies wallowing in misery , and this is just the start
Posted by: Skip
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Engineer: If they were to give me two more excavators, I'd be a year ahead of the plan by now.

Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago: You're an impatient generation.

Engineer: Weren't you?

Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago: Yes, we were, very. Oh, don't be so impatient, Comrade Engineer. We've come very far, very fast.

Engineer: Yes, I know that, Comrade General.

Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago: Yes, but do you know what it cost? There were children in those days who lived off human flesh. Did you know that?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 14, 2017 03:54 PM (7fIkH)

277 Dr Zhivago is on TMC right now, I like watching Commies wallowing in misery , and this is just the start

++++

Klaus Kinski had the best role

Posted by: Bigby's Typing Hands at September 14, 2017 03:56 PM (nltvc)

278 BTW grammie, although I have no theological or linguistic training, I've never seen anything negative ever written about the ESV by any conservative denomination. Everyone seems to love it. So, probably a sound choice.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear
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Bah! If it ain't the King Jimmy, black leather, and red letters, I don't read it.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 14, 2017 03:57 PM (7fIkH)

279 203 I don't care why she did it, I simply want her jailed for life for it (assuming it doesn't rise to the level of treason, and therefore execution, instead)

***

she did it for evil, so f her

Posted by: andrew jarbacka at September 14, 2017 03:57 PM (DQdye)

280 FTA: "Nunes was forced to step aside from running the Russia investigation amid a House ethics inquiry into whether he improperly disclosed classified data. The ethics inquiry came in the aftermath of his bombshell comments that Obama administration officials had improperly unmasked the names of Trump associates, a revelation that Trump used as cover for his unsubstantiated claim that Obama had Trump Tower wiretapped during the election to spy on him."

CNN helpfully points out the REAL criminal - Nunes. He told the President something before he told his buddies on the Committee. Rice spreading names around to be leaked - no problem at all - completely justified because you see Obama was miffed.

We are so fucked.

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at September 14, 2017 03:57 PM (4hIeD)

281 A good argument can be made that Susan Rice is always lying. So much so that when she makes a statement, purportedly of fact, we can and should understand that the opposite is true. Thus, "I didn't unmask the names for political reasons" means "I totally unmasked the names purely for political reasons".

Posted by: steve walsh at September 14, 2017 04:00 PM (qBLVR)

282 OT I guess kallisto isn't around. I was enjoying our conversation /debate on the ONT thread. If anyone else cares to chime in on the subject of ''praying for your enemies" please do so because I don't understand the idea that Hillary is one of those people we should not-as Christians- pray for. I can understand not wanting to, or choosing to spend your prayer time elsewhere, but not because she is beyond redemption. How do we know who is beyond redemption?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 14, 2017 04:03 PM (iVOAv)

283 What is an ESV?-I am not familiar with that shorthand for a Bible translation.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 14, 2017 04:04 PM (iVOAv)

284 What is an ESV?-I am not familiar with that shorthand for a Bible translation.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke

English Standard Version.

It's a "formal" version, like the NASB, meaning it tries to give the most literal meaning possible, instead of trying to come up with contemporary metaphors to match biblical metaphors.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at September 14, 2017 04:06 PM (/qEW2)

285 Thanks; I have not read the English Standard version.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 14, 2017 04:06 PM (iVOAv)

286 Headline if Rice worked in Trump admin:

R I C E L I E D ! !

D E M O C R A C Y D I E D ! !

W I L L T R U M P R E S I G N
O R B E I M P E A C H E D ? ?

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at September 14, 2017 04:07 PM (4hIeD)

287 burn it all down

Posted by: Bored383 at September 14, 2017 04:13 PM (70HTk)

288 The unmasked names and the conversations would be in the Presidential Daily Brief which was, in the Obama administration, available in electronic digital form and sent to over 30 people. It's not like they had to go to a shielded room to sign in to see it and others beyond the 30+ could have viewed all the info and the unmasked names. The 30 included John Podesta who was there until he took the top job at the Hillary campaign.

Posted by: geoffb5 at September 14, 2017 04:26 PM (zOpu5)

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