Washington Post, May 8: Revealing the Name of the Spy Could Put Lives in Danger<br>Washington Post, Today: Let's Talk About This Stefan Halper Fellow In Detail

Washington Post, May 8: Revealing the Name of the Spy Could Put Lives in Danger
Washington Post, Today: Let's Talk About This Stefan Halper Fellow In Detail

Old Washington Post: FBI providing classified briefing to Congressional oversight committee would risk the life of FBI source.
New Washington Post: Here's the FBI source's name & bio that FBI leakers provided us. https://t.co/hIHKhwzuz5
— Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) May 22, 2018

Flashback to the Washington Post's report of May 8th, which shrieks about the danger posed by revealing this unknown, completely-anonymous deep-embed NOC's name.

Last Wednesday, senior FBI and national intelligence officials relayed an Murgent message to the White House: Information being sought by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes could endanger a top-secret intelligence source.
Top White House officials, with the assent of President Trump, agreed to back the decision to withhold the information. They were persuaded that turning over Justice Department documents could risk lives by potentially exposing the source, a U.S. citizen who has provided intelligence to the CIA and FBI, according to multiple people familiar with the discussion and the person's role.
...
The debate over the risk to the source is now at the center of a pitched battle between House Republicans and the Justice Department.
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For the intelligence agencies, Nunes's request threatened to cross a red line of compromising sources and methods of U.S. intelligence-gathering, according to people familiar with their views. Intelligence officials fear that providing even a redacted version of the information Nunes seeks could expose that person and damage relationships with other countries that serve as U.S. intelligence partners.

Note that a week after they ran this scarifying report, the Washington Post itself released a "redacted version" of the information Nunes sought -- giving a full biographical sketch of the spy, which just happened to match Chuck Ross' details about Stefan Halper.

And of course they got that from their friends at the DOJ.

So: Is this a grave threat to national security or not?

National Security Clown Nose On,

National Security Clown Nose Off.

Oh by the way: Bonus points for a "Republicans Seize."

The role of the intelligence source in the Mueller investigation may now be seized upon by conservative Republicans who have publicly accused the Justice Department and intelligence agencies of overreach and misuse of their surveillance powers.

Now compare their story of May 8th to their new story: Who is this jaunty fellow called Stefan Halper anyway?

Who is Stefan A. Halper, the FBI source who assisted the Russia investigation? An American citizen, a Cambridge professor, a friend of spies, a longtime intel source and aide in former Republican admnistrations. NEW from @costareports me and @shaneharris: https://t.co/SX1983Q1dv
— Carol Leonnig (@CarolLeonnig) May 22, 2018

Margaret Cleveland has been excellent on this case.

Her latest is about inconsistent claims about when the FBI began its "investigation" -- it clearly had a spy (or spies) attempting to entrap Trump officials before the claimed start of the investigation.

Does that mean they're lying? Well no... but also, yes.

Halper first sidled up to his target Page in mid-July 2016. But CROSSFIRE HURRICANE (a codename designed to draw media attention, I think) didn't begin until July 31st.

So what gives? They had a spy in Trump's camp before they started the investigation?

Well, yes.

The timing of the informant’s initial encounter with Page proves significant because that meeting occurred before the FBI launched Crossfire Hurricane. That detail proves the raison d'etre for the Washington Post's Friday article because, with reporters already cracking the identity of the informant from the Post's earlier articles, it would not be long before someone highlighted that early July meeting. For the last several weeks, the few members of the press bothering to report on the Obama administration's targeting of the Trump campaign have questioned the FBI's contention that it first launched its investigation into the Trump campaign in late July 2016.
The Washington Post gives cover to the revelation that the sting began earlier: "The FBI commonly uses sources and informants to gather evidence and its regulations allow for use of informants even before a formal investigation has been opened. In many law enforcement investigations, the use of sources and informants precedes more invasive techniques such as electronic surveillance."

So... you can start spying before an investigation is even opened?

Spying on a major party's nominee for President? Before you've even decided there's enough for an official investigation?

Well that's problematic.

But even putting that aside -- this means the FBI has been lying.

All true. But for the last two years the FBI maintained first that it did not spy on the Trump campaign and second that it only launched its "investigation" in late July 2016, after Australian officials informed the FBI that in May 2016 George Papadopoulos, a foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign, blabbed to Alexander Downer, Australia's ambassador to Britain, that the Russians had dirt on Hillary Clinton.
The New York Times promoted this narrative based on the "direct knowledge of the Australian's role" by "four current and former American and foreign officials." The storyline went that Downer only realized the import of Papadopoulos' May revelation after WikiLeaks released emails hacked from the Democratic National Committee server in late July, precipitating the July 31, 2016, start of Crossfire Hurricane. Clearly, the insiders intended to create the impression that the FBI's interest in the Trump campaign stemmed from legitimate concerns its allies had relayed.
Sometimes the FBI Investigates Before Its Investigation
But now we know that the FBI used the term "investigation" in a technical sense, not a colloquial one. Rather than vindicate the FBI, this raises the specter that the FBI extensively targeted Trump campaign officials before its official launch of Crossfire Hurricane.
There are a lot of possibilities, because under the attorney general’s guidelines the FBI may use extensive "information gathering activities" before launching an official "investigation." Under the guidelines, the FBI may make an "assessment" "to obtain information about" a potential threat to national security.

So prior to the start of the official "investigation," the FBI was merely "assessing" the matter... with a spy.

But the FBI has repeatedly lied and claimed the investigation began later, after the Australian information.

Plainly Halper could not have been assigned to spy on Trump aides based on information received from Downer, which came months later.

And yet certain self-proclaimed Bad Boys of Conservatism continue to claim the FBI's claims are the unvarnished truth, whatever those claims turn out to be for this week, and spouting about authoritatively about a case they plainly haven't even done the most basic reading about.

Posted by: Ace of Spades at 05:02 PM

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1 Foist

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at May 22, 2018 04:55 PM (ymnmz)

2 I think a better question is where is Stefan Halper? He's not been seen for over a year.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2018 04:56 PM (39g3+)

3

EM MEATLOAF SOUFFLE FOADDY-FI!!!

Posted by: Maxine Waters' Hair at May 22, 2018 04:57 PM (mPeei)

4 Reads headline: Eggs fight heart disease

*scratches head*

Wait didn't the US government tell me for 25 years that eggs cause a rise in cholesterol which in turn causes HEART disease?

Were they trying to be as wrong as possible with their dietary advice?

Posted by: simplemind at May 22, 2018 04:57 PM (D1Csj)

5 Leftists bait and lead you to where they want you to go.

Posted by: Skip at May 22, 2018 04:58 PM (aC6Sd)

6 Well Duh, we couldn't let his name go public until we figured our bullshit story and how to cover for the democrats....

WA-Post

Posted by: Timon at May 22, 2018 04:58 PM (NTM5E)

7 Hey it's all okay,the guy is a REPUBLICAN...

Posted by: steevy at May 22, 2018 04:58 PM (LiyEm)

8 I only comment on posts with cleavage.

Posted by: JEM at May 22, 2018 04:58 PM (FfIBA)

9 I think we'll eventually discover the Trump campaign had numerous FBI agents and CIA and other infiltrators in various roles, some quite highly placed.

Mike Pence, for example.

I keed...maybe.

Anyway, count on finding the campaign rife with government infiltrators. It's the old joke about a Ku Klux Klan meeting where everyone is a government agent.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at May 22, 2018 04:58 PM (4ErVI)

10 This whole shit show is the insurance policy that Strzok and Gummy Page were talking about. What a fucking disgusting pile of crap this whole thing is. The truth is slowly coming out, and you can tell because the media suddenly has amnesia on Russia.

Posted by: Minnfidel at May 22, 2018 04:58 PM (3c1uO)

11 I am not a spy. I just give information to spies and don't let people know I am doing it, then I disappear using money wired to a secret bank account in Switzerland.

See, not a spy.

Posted by: Friend of Spies at May 22, 2018 04:59 PM (ymnmz)

12 And yet certain self-proclaimed Bad Boys of Conservatism continue to claim the FBI's claims are the unvarnished truth, whatever those claims turn out to be for this week, and spouting about authoritatively about a case they plainly haven't even done the most basic reading about.

I think I worked out what is going on with those guys, why the worship of Tapper and their attitude toward this case.

I think they are mostly frustrated wannabe or would be journalists who have an idealized notion of what reporting is or was, and consider Tapper a lone, last example of the True Faith. That they view America and its institutions with such respect and honor that they cannot bear to consider the alternative.

The FBI is full of strong jawed heroes like the TV show. The Justice Department is about selfless icons of justice who serve only the good of America. True journalists are truth-seeking rebels who are owned by no one and dig into whatever the story is, at any cost, no matter who they harm. This is the narrative.

They have a choice between realizing (and admitting) they're wrong about all this, and clinging in a last desperate hope to the dream and, they're choosing weakness.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2018 04:59 PM (39g3+)

13 I only comment on posts with cleavage.

Well this post is about a buncha boobs

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2018 05:00 PM (39g3+)

14 Wouldn't it have made more sense for the FBI to go to the Trump campaign and simply point out that it looked like the Russians were trying to gain access to the campaign? Instead they were trying to run a sting operation.

That's what we should call it. The FBI was running a sting operation against the Trump campaign.

Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at May 22, 2018 05:00 PM (J70i0)

15 I just love how they use this "Comey is a Republican","Mueller is a Republican","Halper is a Republican",like that means there was no partisanship involved.Hey guys,John McCain is a Republican,Jeff Flake ,the Bush's,all Republicans.

Posted by: steevy at May 22, 2018 05:00 PM (LiyEm)

16 Compare "Crossfire Hurricane" with "Samuel Culper." Which is the spy name that you are not trying to draw attention to.

Posted by: buzzion at May 22, 2018 05:00 PM (lKs2v)

17 Well of course you start spying before you begin an investigation. How else are you going to get the evidence you need to start investigating?

Posted by: Maximus Waitless at May 22, 2018 05:00 PM (roQNm)

18 More overwrought theatrics from the feminine President.

Posted by: Dr Krang at May 22, 2018 05:01 PM (BEZfd)

19 Some people, maybe more than some, may have to retire early after this coup.

Posted by: MAGA at May 22, 2018 05:01 PM (LnOh3)

20 {current FBI narrative} is obviously the case to any smart person. Only conspiracy nuts think otherwise.

Posted by: Ben Shapiro DESTROYS conspiracy theorists with One PERFECT Tweet at May 22, 2018 05:02 PM (f3MDZ)

21 Only thing Steven Halper has to worry about is Arkanside, other than that he is a safe as the Queen of England.

Posted by: Skip at May 22, 2018 05:02 PM (aC6Sd)

22 I am not a crook?

Posted by: zombie Richard Nixon at May 22, 2018 05:02 PM (2wOtx)

23 Charge Me

or

Fuck Off

...what? You can't charge me?

That doesn't leave you a lot for options now does it, Bob?

Posted by: Donald Trump's Presidential Forehead Merkin at May 22, 2018 05:02 PM (fh7cq)

24 He grabbed your pussy didn't he,Krang?LOL

Posted by: steevy at May 22, 2018 05:02 PM (LiyEm)

25 If I were Stefan Halper, I'd be careful taking walks in parks. Arkancide doesn't just happen in Arkansas.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 22, 2018 05:02 PM (jxbfJ)

26
Cleavage? Is butt crack considered 'cleavage'?
The democrats are showing their butt crack.

Posted by: Maximus Waitless at May 22, 2018 05:02 PM (roQNm)

27 How come no one is interested in me?

I'm so lonely.

I'm available by Ouija Board, just so you know.

Posted by: Zombie Professor Mifsud at May 22, 2018 05:03 PM (DuAZ5)

28 Bottom line: Did you like the movie, Ace? I don't have this much time...

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at May 22, 2018 05:03 PM (so+oy)

29 Wouldn't it have made more sense for the FBI to go to the Trump campaign and simply point out that it looked like the Russians were trying to gain access to the campaign? Instead they were trying to run a sting operation.

That's what we should call it. The FBI was running a sting operation against the Trump campaign.
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The target of the investigation wasn't the Russians it was to get trump. So no, they weren't going to tell trump they were spying on him.

Such an epic blizzard of lies.

Posted by: simplemind at May 22, 2018 05:03 PM (wFVlE)

30 I miss the good ol' days ...

... Law and Order Republicans flouncing about the threads - snidely offering tin-foil hats to anyone questioning the motives of the FBI. Sanctimoniously recounting all of the FBI Good Works we just can't live without. Regaling us with tales of all The Good Rank and File peeps there.

Posted by: ScoggDog at May 22, 2018 05:03 PM (2snAa)

31 "and aide in former Republican administrations."

Funny how a lot of the players in this coup were involved in former Republican administrations.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at May 22, 2018 05:03 PM (ppaKI)

32 It's ok for the FBI to lie
but if you lie to the FBI it's jail time for you

Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at May 22, 2018 05:03 PM (hMwEB)

33 It's all compartmentalized. FBI takes no ownership of what the CIA does and vice versa even though they know what each other is doing.

It's the way they can lie to everyone yet convince themselves they're telling the truth.

Posted by: WisRich at May 22, 2018 05:04 PM (G0vdT)

34 Posted by: Dr Krang at May 22, 2018 05:01 PM (BEZfd)

Try harder...you current output is, shall we say, problematic.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 22, 2018 05:04 PM (wYseH)

35 I just love how they use this "Comey is a Republican","Mueller is a Republican","Halper is a Republican",like that means there was no partisanship involved.Hey guys,John McCain is a Republican,Jeff Flake ,the Bush's,all Republicans.
Posted by: steevy at May 22, 2018 05:00 PM (LiyEm)
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Yeah... cause no Party would get into any kind of internecine skullduggery against a disfavored candidate. Just ask Bernie. Or Seth. Oh, wait. You can't ask Seth. Nevermind that part...

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 22, 2018 05:04 PM (2KOHV)

36 I think someone in the Trump Administration needs to go on national TV after all investigative reports are finished and make a detailed but hopefully easy to understand case of what, why, where, and who to show the skullduggery and criminal acts that have occurred.

Do not leave it up to the MFM.

Posted by: Cheri at May 22, 2018 05:04 PM (oiNtH)

37 >>It's ok for the FBI to lie
but if you lie to the FBI it's jail time for you

That's why you tell them to fuck off.

Arrest me or go piss up a rope.

Posted by: garrett at May 22, 2018 05:05 PM (fh7cq)

38 Funny how a lot of the players in this coup were involved in former Republican administrations.
Posted by: Citizen Cake

It's almost as if the whole political system is a game of 2-Card Monte where the people always lose.

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at May 22, 2018 05:05 PM (f3MDZ)

39 Man the trolls are getting weak. Its like their heart just isn't in it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2018 05:05 PM (39g3+)

40 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 22, 2018 05:04 PM

LOL - we both used the term skullduggery!

Posted by: Cheri at May 22, 2018 05:05 PM (oiNtH)

41 The target of the investigation wasn't the Russians it was to get trump. So no, they weren't going to tell trump they were spying on him.

Such an epic blizzard of lies.
Posted by: simplemind at May 22, 2018 05:03 PM (wFVlE)

Right, it was a sting against Trump. It's like when the FBI talks with some terrorist leaning guy about how they can get the explosives/weapons for them.

Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at May 22, 2018 05:05 PM (J70i0)

42 I lost my honky tonky woman in a crossfire hurricane.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 22, 2018 05:06 PM (IqV8l)

43 That's why you tell them to fuck off.

Posted by: garrett at May 22, 2018 05:05 PM (fh7cq)

Too many people think that they are smart enough to avoid saying anything dumb, and they just love the attention.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 22, 2018 05:06 PM (wYseH)

44

The cover up has begun, starting with the NY Times and WaPo. AP and Yahoo to follow.

It's no big deal.
Happens all the time.
It wasn't really spying spying, just watching out for Trump and the country, guyz!

Nothing to see here.
Move along.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at May 22, 2018 05:06 PM (fceHP)

45 EM MEATLOAF SOUFFLE FOADDY-FI!!!

Posted by: Maxine Waters' Hair at May 22, 2018 04:57 PM (mPeei)

Maxine Waters' Hair is on fire today.

Posted by: filbert at May 22, 2018 05:06 PM (953wK)

46 So the FBI was trying to bait the Trump campaign into working with the Russians and when that failed started an investigation into the people they baited.

Posted by: MAGA at May 22, 2018 05:06 PM (LnOh3)

47 The Trump feminine persona loves the *drama* so is incapable of existing without it. This is one of the feminine emotional characteristics of Trump, as opposed to the feminine physical or psychological.

Posted by: Dr Krang at May 22, 2018 05:06 PM (BEZfd)

48 "They were persuaded that turning over Justice Department documents could risk lives by potentially exposing the source, a U.S. citizen who has provided intelligence to the CIA and FBI, according to multiple people familiar with the discussion and the person's role."

Wolf! Hey, Everyone... Wolf! Wolf over here!

Posted by: Boy at May 22, 2018 05:07 PM (H8S+R)

49 I lost my honky tonky woman in a crossfire hurricane.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Have you checked under your thumb?

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at May 22, 2018 05:07 PM (f3MDZ)

50 Do not leave it up to the MFM.
Posted by: Cheri at May 22, 2018 05:04 PM (oiNtH)

You don't think Shep's up to it?

lol

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at May 22, 2018 05:07 PM (fceHP)

51 >>I lost my honky tonky woman in a crossfire hurricane.

Your girl. She Comes in Rainbows.

Posted by: The Paolo at May 22, 2018 05:08 PM (fh7cq)

52 Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 22, 2018 05:06 PM (IqV8l)

The Beatles, right?

Posted by: auscolpyr at May 22, 2018 05:08 PM (suO/a)

53 Would anyone be shocked if I told you that the hash (BEZfd) has never posted here before?

Posted by: buzzion at May 22, 2018 05:08 PM (lKs2v)

54 The Real Hero in all this is the Admiral that allegedly told Trump that he was being tapped and moved his Transition HQ from Trump Tower to his country club.

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at May 22, 2018 05:08 PM (dKiJG)

55 They were persuaded that turning over Justice Department documents could risk lives by potentially exposing the source, a U.S. citizen who has provided intelligence to the CIA and FBI, according to multiple people familiar with the discussion and the person's role."

Wolf! Hey, Everyone... Wolf! Wolf over here!
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You talkin' to me?

Posted by: Blitzer at May 22, 2018 05:08 PM (Zlwx3)

56 Is any content in the WAPO credible any more?
It is Jeff Bezo's plaything, not a newspaper with any credibility any more.

Not that I really care, but it is something to laugh at.

Fuck Jeff Bezos.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at May 22, 2018 05:08 PM (UsCnO)

57
Bonus points for a "Republicans Seize."

The role of the intelligence source in the Mueller investigation may now be seized upon by conservative Republicans...

Ace seizes upon the MSM's word play.

WaPo gets double bonus points for "conservative Republicans". If they'd used "right wing" it would be triple bonus points, I suppose.

Posted by: Hands at May 22, 2018 05:09 PM (EzdLW)

58

I wish we had a "spy" receiving the New Narrative Memo that all the leftwing media are getting.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at May 22, 2018 05:09 PM (fceHP)

59 It's ok for the FBI to lie
but if you lie to the FBI it's jail time for you
Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at May 22, 2018 05:03 PM (hMwEB)

I think that game is about to come crashing down. The "We Record Nothing" FBI is losing credibility fast. All it is going to take is one case and unless there is some unbiased record, it won't stick.

Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at May 22, 2018 05:09 PM (J70i0)

60 Stephan Halper, another moderate Republican . . . I'm Shocked . . .

Posted by: Tim from Nashua at May 22, 2018 05:09 PM (EATOD)

61 49 I lost my honky tonky woman in a crossfire hurricane.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Have you checked under your thumb?
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at May 22, 2018 05:07 PM (f3MDZ)
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Some Puerto Rican girls are just dyin' to meetchu.

Posted by: Weasel at May 22, 2018 05:09 PM (MVjcR)

62 Posted by: artisanal 'ette

Ha! Shep's mascara and eyeliner would start to run as he twirled around with his panties in a twist

Posted by: Cheri at May 22, 2018 05:09 PM (oiNtH)

63 I got interviewed by the FBI in college. My former roommate was getting his security clearance, and they had a few questions...

Posted by: Chris M at May 22, 2018 05:09 PM (eAZVt)

64 47.Would you be Dr. Emily Krang, Butt-hurt Scientist ?

Posted by: Roman Maroni at May 22, 2018 05:09 PM (KCCgc)

65 Ive never known that you can start an investigation on someone based NOT on what they do, know, or say, but based only only on what you (falsely) say to them! E.G. telling a Trump campaign worker (falsely) that the Russians have Hillary's emails.

If this is FBI/CIA sop, that's extremely scary.

Posted by: LASue at May 22, 2018 05:10 PM (BZA5F)

66 LOL - we both used the term skullduggery!
Posted by: Cheri at May 22, 2018 05:05 PM (oiNtH)
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But when does it become "flaming skullduggery?" Inquiring minds want to know...

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 22, 2018 05:10 PM (AzW6q)

67 4 Reads headline: Eggs fight heart disease

*scratches head*

Wait didn't the US government tell me for 25 years that eggs cause a rise in cholesterol which in turn causes HEART disease?

Were they trying to be as wrong as possible with their dietary advice?
Posted by: simplemind at May 22, 2018 04:57 PM (D1Csj)

Face it, they have no idea.

How many times have I ranted about the parlous state of biomedical research? It's largely crap, produced by people who have little or no ability at research,* and almost as bad social "science" research.

* A case in point: "studies suggested drinking promotes health." (I'm all for this, btw.) Turns out that the studies forgot to control for the original health of the participants, and included people in ICUs, hospices, etc., places where the bar service is notoriously bad. So those non-drinkers - who were on the way out - severely skewed the mortality statistics.

This was an embarrassingly amateurish mistake that led to erroneous (or at least unfounded) advice.

Bottom line: those clowns don't have a clue what they're doing. None.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 22, 2018 05:10 PM (D3JKm)

68 I just love how they use this "Comey is a Republican","Mueller is a Republican","Halper is a Republican",like that means there was no partisanship involved.Hey guys,John McCain is a Republican,Jeff Flake ,the Bush's,all Republicans.
Posted by: steevy at May 22, 2018 05:00 PM (LiyEm)

They haven't cottoned onto that we've sussed out that the Republicans are Part Of The Problem, have they?

(See, NYT, WE can use "sussed", and we, the Moron Horde raise you a "cottoned".)

(Yeah, I know: rayciss.)

Posted by: filbert at May 22, 2018 05:11 PM (953wK)

69
The Real Hero in all this is the Admiral that allegedly told Trump that he was being tapped and moved his Transition HQ from Trump Tower to his country club.
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at May 22, 2018 05:08 PM

Yep. Admiral Mike Rogers. And naturally, James Clapper and Ash Carter wanted Obama to fire him.

Posted by: Hands at May 22, 2018 05:11 PM (EzdLW)

70 I see feminine is the troll word of the day.

Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at May 22, 2018 05:11 PM (J70i0)

71 Posted by: Patrick from Ohio

Admiral Mike Rogers I think. Good man.

Posted by: Cheri at May 22, 2018 05:11 PM (oiNtH)

72 Trolls are fags.

Posted by: Weasel at May 22, 2018 05:11 PM (MVjcR)

73 I got interviewed by the FBI in college. My former roommate was getting his security clearance, and they had a few questions

Yeah, DOD guy came and did the same with my brother and I about a friend. He was going into Air Force crypto stuff. The guy was very impressive and intimidating until he tripped over the step down into the living room.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2018 05:11 PM (39g3+)

74 Would anyone be shocked if I told you that the hash (BEZfd) has never posted here before?
Posted by: buzzion at May 22, 2018 05:08 PM (lKs2v)
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I saw Dr Wang for the first time y'day.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 22, 2018 05:11 PM (AzW6q)

75 42
I lost my honky tonky woman in a crossfire hurricane.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 22, 2018 05:06 PM (IqV8l)

So what you are telling us is that you are no Jumping Jack Flash.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at May 22, 2018 05:12 PM (UsCnO)

76 Good Health in no Yolk.

Posted by: USDA at May 22, 2018 05:12 PM (fh7cq)

77 those clowns don't have a clue what they're doing. None
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The number of clowns who have no idea what they are doing, yet purport to be authoritative is, I'm afraid to say, ASTONISHING.

Posted by: simplemind at May 22, 2018 05:12 PM (BocU3)

78 "...conservative Republicans who have publicly accused the Justice Department and intelligence agencies of overreach and misuse of their surveillance powers."

We don't just accuse them. We are convinced of it and the facts and behavior patterns of those defending it provide an ever-expanding dossier of proof of it. There is no suspicion. Crimes and abuses were, in fact, committed. The only question is whether or not we will see justice.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at May 22, 2018 05:12 PM (H8S+R)

79 Is anybody in jail yet?

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 22, 2018 05:12 PM (mpXpK)

80 Would anyone be shocked if I told you that the hash (BEZfd) has never posted here before?
Posted by: buzzion at May 22, 2018 05:08 PM (lKs2v)

The deuce you say?

Posted by: hobbitopoly at May 22, 2018 05:12 PM (MX7xj)

81 I cancelled netflix yesterday. The formed asked why, and I just put "politic".

Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 22, 2018 05:12 PM (+Ehym)

82 Ace seizes upon the MSM's word play.

WaPo gets double bonus points for "conservative Republicans". If they'd used "right wing" it would be triple bonus points, I suppose.
Posted by: Hands at May 22, 2018 05:09 PM (EzdLW)

They just needed "red meat" and "low-education" for a Full Yahtzee.

Posted by: filbert at May 22, 2018 05:12 PM (953wK)

83 >>Dr. Emily Krang, Butt-hurt Scientist

Don't blame me. I voted for Kronos.

Posted by: garrett at May 22, 2018 05:12 PM (fh7cq)

84 Bring it Shep...bring it.

Posted by: Power glutes Sullivan at May 22, 2018 05:13 PM (yhf6w)

85
So... you can start spying before an investigation is even opened?

Yes, because everybody is guilty of something.

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at May 22, 2018 05:13 PM (10vO4)

86 4: yes

Posted by: The UN at May 22, 2018 05:13 PM (qJjzH)

87 In the face of grave, historic, and thoroughly unprecedented opposition, VSGGEOTUS is really putting on a master class.

Where I once had little faith anyone could ever come anywhere close to "draining the swamp" and sparing our Republic for at least another couple generations, I now believe he just might do it.
I wonder if the people at the top really ever thought they were dealing with an immature, crazy, speak-without-thinking fop who lucked into inheriting daddy's money, or if that's just what they told people.

Posted by: Mega at May 22, 2018 05:13 PM (rv0Fo)

88 "Posted by: Dr Krang at May 22, 2018 05:01 PM (BEZfd)"
Why would you want to hurt children like that?

Posted by: Chris M at May 22, 2018 05:13 PM (eAZVt)

89 So THIS is what a Crossfire Hurricane looks like.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 22, 2018 05:13 PM (k1TUh)

90 Cambridge, huh? Prolly safe to bet he's a commie too.

Posted by: BignJames at May 22, 2018 05:13 PM (0+nbW)

91 Wasn't Krang the Giant Brain Alien in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? Yes, he was, and he always got his ass kicked by the turtles.

Posted by: Splinter at May 22, 2018 05:13 PM (EATOD)

92 I saw Dr Wang for the first time y'day.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

It's a closed club Wang, don't tell em you're Jewish.

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at May 22, 2018 05:13 PM (f3MDZ)

93 Yep. Admiral Mike Rogers. And naturally, James Clapper and Ash Carter wanted Obama to fire him.
Posted by: Hands at May 22, 2018 05:11 PM (EzdLW)

What kind of man's name is "Ash Carter?" Unless you're a Southern poet from the 1870's...

Posted by: JoeF. at May 22, 2018 05:14 PM (7uYFy)

94
That's what we should call it. The FBI was running a sting operation against the Trump campaign.

Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at May 22, 2018 05:00 PM (J70i0)

It is almost like the FBI was picking sides in the election, or something.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at May 22, 2018 05:14 PM (UsCnO)

95 More overwrought theatrics from the feminine President.
Posted by: Dr Krang at May 22, 2018 05:01 PM (BEZfd)

Wrong thread. The prior post was about Obama.

Posted by: LASue at May 22, 2018 05:14 PM (BZA5F)

96 Yudhishthira's Dice: "I saw Dr Wang for the first time y'day."

Hey, I think I got that guy's license plates by mistake.

Posted by: ASSMAN at May 22, 2018 05:15 PM (H8S+R)

97 88 "Posted by: Dr Krang at May 22, 2018 05:01 PM (BEZfd)"
Why would you want to hurt children like that?
Posted by: Chris M at May 22, 2018 05:13 PM (eAZVt)

Probably upset about getting beaten by 4 anthropomorphic terrapins.

Posted by: buzzion at May 22, 2018 05:15 PM (lKs2v)

98 "WaPo gets double bonus points for "conservative Republicans". If they'd used "right wing" it would be triple bonus points, I suppose."

not ultra-far, right-wing?

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at May 22, 2018 05:15 PM (sB8d1)

99
Yep. Admiral Mike Rogers. And naturally, James Clapper and Ash Carter wanted Obama to fire him.
=====
I wonder why? Taking home office supplies, surly and unhelpful to customers, or often late to work . . .

Posted by: simplemind at May 22, 2018 05:15 PM (JFiHD)

100 Where would anyone get the idea that even 1 cell of President Trump is feminine?

Posted by: Skip at May 22, 2018 05:15 PM (aC6Sd)

101 Read a book by David Wise called The Politics of Lying. It was written decades ago. Long before Aldrich Ames, Jonathan Pollard and Robert Hansen were finally caught and convicted.

Thank you Mr. Wise.

None of this foolishness about the District of Columbia is new. What we are missing today are the arrests and trials. Or as Jimmy Breslin said the race to the prosecutor's office for the best deal.

Posted by: 80's music fan at May 22, 2018 05:15 PM (Ir6QP)

102 They have a choice between realizing (and admitting) they're wrong about all this, and clinging in a last desperate hope to the dream and, they're choosing weakness."

Requiem for a Dream, the live version.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 22, 2018 05:15 PM (k1TUh)

103 I see feminine is the troll word of the day.
Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at May 22, 2018 05:11 PM (J70i0)

I think that we can shorten it to "femmy" for the troll that pulled this particular shift.

Posted by: filbert at May 22, 2018 05:15 PM (953wK)

104 "We're from the FBI and we're here to help you."

Posted by: Octopussy at May 22, 2018 05:15 PM (/wEb5)

105 Wrong thread. The prior post was about Obama.
Posted by: LASue at May 22, 2018 05:14 PM (BZA5F)
---------

That's actually who I thought he/she was talking about.

Posted by: bluebell at May 22, 2018 05:15 PM (oMtOd)

106 Wasn't Krang the Giant Brain Alien in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? Yes, he was, and he always got his ass kicked by the turtles.
Posted by: Splinter at May 22, 2018 05:13 PM (EATOD)

I thought Krang was the Simpsons' alien guy.

Posted by: filbert at May 22, 2018 05:16 PM (953wK)

107 >> Where would anyone get the idea that even 1 cell of President Trump is feminine?

Observation.

You may want to begin by examining which parent Trump attempts to resemble.

Posted by: Dr Krang at May 22, 2018 05:17 PM (BEZfd)

108 I saw Ash Carter open for Dan Fogelberg at Granolafest in '77. So many hairy pits...
*shudders*

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at May 22, 2018 05:17 PM (f3MDZ)

109 I still say that failed novelist Ben Rhodes had more to do with this than anyone has let on. Yeah, Brennan and Clapper were behind it and Obama gave the okay, but Rhodes helped craft the narrative. I'm sure of this.
Remember that puff piece from a few years ago where Rhodes bragged about creating an "echo" or something?

That's what this was.

Posted by: JoeF. at May 22, 2018 05:17 PM (7uYFy)

110
Long Time Lurker, First Time Poster.I just got my new Windows 10 version 1803.It's like a whole new operating system, a new way of interneting; it has made a new me out of me.

And the best part is - it looks just like the old Windows 10 only better.

Posted by: Maximus Waitless at May 22, 2018 05:17 PM (roQNm)

111 Probably upset about getting beaten by 4 anthropomorphic terrapins.
Posted by: buzzion at May 22, 2018 05:15 PM (lKs2v)
---
Wait... sick, evil power-obsessed disembodied brain in a mechanical exoskeleton? Do you think Dr Krang is actually... no, it can't be.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 22, 2018 05:17 PM (AzW6q)

112 I came home one day from work and there was a guy sitting at the dining room table interviewing WeaselWoman (as it turns out a background check of our neighbor) As I came in the door, he demanded to know who I was. I walked up to him and in my most sincere not-fucking-around voice, told him that I was the guy who owned the goddamn table he was sitting at and exactly who in the hell was he? I think he realized I was about to pinch his head off.

Posted by: Weasel at May 22, 2018 05:17 PM (MVjcR)

113
I only comment on posts with cleavage.
Posted by: JEM at May 22, 2018 04:58 PM

(.)(.)

Posted by: cleavage bot at May 22, 2018 05:17 PM (EzdLW)

114 Where would anyone get the idea that even 1 cell of President Trump is feminine?
Posted by: Skip at May 22, 2018 05:15 PM (aC6Sd)

Well, his hair IS perfect.

Of course, that's more a werewolf thing.

Posted by: zombie Warren Zevon at May 22, 2018 05:17 PM (953wK)

115 >>>Yeah, DOD guy came and did the same with my brother and I about a friend. He was going into Air Force crypto stuff. The guy was very impressive and intimidating until he tripped over the step down into the living room.

You were interrogated by Dick Van Dyke?

Posted by: Citizen Cake at May 22, 2018 05:17 PM (ppaKI)

116 well, hopefully the FBI can redact enough documents to make it look like they didn't do anything wrong.

lolz, these dum dums had no idea they'd get caught.

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at May 22, 2018 05:18 PM (sB8d1)

117 PDT should come down on Bezos like a ton of Michelle's rotten vegetables.

Posted by: Under Fire at May 22, 2018 05:18 PM (r9UYA)

118 Would anyone be shocked if I told you that the hash (BEZfd) has never posted here before?

Maybe someone bought some socks at Banana Republic?

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at May 22, 2018 05:18 PM (87ijN)

119 I thought Krang was the Simpsons' alien guy.
Posted by: filbert at May 22, 2018 05:16 PM (953wK)

That's Kang. And Kodos. Names taken from Star Trek Klingons.

Posted by: buzzion at May 22, 2018 05:18 PM (lKs2v)

120 Bottom line: those clowns don't have a clue what they're doing. None.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 22, 2018 05:10 PM (D3JKm)

But AGW. Settled science.

Posted by: golfman at May 22, 2018 05:18 PM (If3tB)

121 69
The Real Hero in all this is the Admiral that allegedly told Trump that he was being tapped and moved his Transition HQ from Trump Tower to his country club.
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at May 22, 2018 05:08 PM

Yep. Admiral Mike Rogers. And naturally, James Clapper and Ash Carter wanted Obama to fire him.
Posted by: Hands at May 22, 2018 05:11 PM (EzdLW)

Admiral Mike Rogers I think. Good man.
Posted by: Cheri at May 22, 2018 05:11 PM (

Thanks I couldn't think of his name, That's a real profile in courage, because if the press got wind of it they would have tore him apart. Obama would try to ruin him.

This goes to. My theory that Obama thought he was soo smart he would never get caught and like anything he touches turns to crap.

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at May 22, 2018 05:18 PM (dKiJG)

122 Yep. Admiral Mike Rogers. And naturally, James Clapper and Ash Carter wanted Obama to fire him.
=====
I wonder why? Taking home office supplies, surly and unhelpful to customers, or often late to work . . .
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I mean really, we can't get hardly any government employees fired but they just swan in to Obama and say CAN the head of the NSA - now.

Posted by: simplemind at May 22, 2018 05:18 PM (Zlwx3)

123 Where would anyone get the idea that even 1 cell of President Trump is feminine?

That's twice I've seen a troll attempt the line here. He's acting feminine! Must be some talking point somewhere, lets make him look bad with those manly conservationists we read about!!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2018 05:18 PM (39g3+)

124 why doesn't Dr Krang like women?

Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at May 22, 2018 05:18 PM (aAlCl)

125 I thought Krang was the Simpsons' alien guy.

Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others!

Posted by: Krodos at May 22, 2018 05:18 PM (lPoPU)

126 He wasn't a spy spy.

Posted by: Whoopi Goldberg at May 22, 2018 05:19 PM (Gyzss)

127 Long Time Lurker, First Time Poster.I just got my new Windows 10 version 1803.It's like a whole new operating system, a new way of interneting; it has made a new me out of me.

And the best part is - it looks just like the old Windows 10 only better.
Posted by: Maximus Waitless at May 22, 2018 05:17 PM (roQNm)

Thanks Maximus Microsoft. Can I get rid of Cortana now?

Posted by: eleven at May 22, 2018 05:19 PM (+lOpA)

128 65
Ive never known that you can start an investigation on someone based NOT
on what they do, know, or say, but based only only on what you
(falsely) say to them! E.G. telling a Trump campaign worker (falsely)
that the Russians have Hillary's emails.

It has been this way for a few years now.
What, nobody told you how we operate?

Posted by: Misters Comey, McCabe, Ohr, and the whole fucking gang of traitors at May 22, 2018 05:19 PM (UsCnO)

129 Washington Post, Today

So, what? We got new orders- calm down.

Posted by: WaPo at May 22, 2018 05:19 PM (5OO3x)

130 119 I thought Krang was the Simpsons' alien guy.
Posted by: filbert at May 22, 2018 05:16 PM (953wK)

That's Kang. And Kodos. Names taken from Star Trek Klingons.
Posted by: buzzion at May 22, 2018 05:18 PM (lKs2v)

I liked his wife Poon Kang.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 22, 2018 05:19 PM (VM6ev)

131 The Trump feminine persona loves the *drama* so is incapable of existing without it. This is one of the feminine emotional characteristics of Trump, as opposed to the feminine physical or psychological.
Posted by: Dr Krang at May 22, 2018 05:06 PM (BEZfd)

That's so much projection about Preezy Cock Curious, it's funny. Your attempt at a psychological profile of Donald Trump is so far off the mark, its not even wrong.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 22, 2018 05:19 PM (5Yee7)

132 Patrick from Ohio
I agree that Mike Rogers from the NSA is a national hero. One of the few people with integrity in this farce.

Posted by: LMD Outer Banker at May 22, 2018 05:19 PM (YuQLm)

133
I thought Krang was the Simpsons' alien guy.
Posted by: filbert at May 22, 2018 05:16 PM

That was Kang, silly earthling!

Posted by: Kodos at May 22, 2018 05:20 PM (EzdLW)

134 Long Time Lurker, First Time Poster.

Posted by: Maximus Waitless at May 22, 2018 05:17 PM (roQNm)

Guess you know the rules by now then.

Posted by: golfman at May 22, 2018 05:20 PM (If3tB)

135 As a young boy, I dreamed of being a baseball.

Posted by: Kang at May 22, 2018 05:20 PM (ppaKI)

136 lots of people like Dr Krang' s wife.

Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at May 22, 2018 05:20 PM (aAlCl)

137 Weasel. did it take very long to get the pee stain out of the chair?

Posted by: Ben Had at May 22, 2018 05:20 PM (urRRz)

138 I love it when internet experts (who probably majored in education or sociology) try to psychoanalyze people they've never met.

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at May 22, 2018 05:20 PM (f3MDZ)

139 Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 22, 2018 05:10 PM (D3JKm)

The hair pulling about cholesterol is likely bullshit too.

Remember the butter scare in the 1980s. Past Me remembers doctors putting a friend's father with heart problems on margarine because it's healthier.

Margarine.

Good news. He's still alive and kicking.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at May 22, 2018 05:20 PM (4ErVI)

140 lots of people like Dr Krang' s wife.

Meh

Posted by: The Paolo at May 22, 2018 05:21 PM (lPoPU)

141 It was memory-holed, of course, but there were credible reports media figures received payola from Fusion GPS to plant Russian! stories.

This is more than routinel bias/state propaganda.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at May 22, 2018 05:21 PM (TuUK9)

142 137 Weasel. did it take very long to get the pee stain out of the chair?
Posted by: Ben Had at May 22, 2018 05:20 PM (urRRz)
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Ha! No, but his attitude changed a lot!!

Posted by: Weasel at May 22, 2018 05:21 PM (MVjcR)

143 Where would anyone get the idea that even 1 cell of President Trump is feminine?

Remember, Barack and Michael are their standards of reference.

Posted by: t-bird at May 22, 2018 05:21 PM (nBBdT)

144 109
I still say that failed novelist Ben Rhodes had more to do with this
than anyone has let on. Yeah, Brennan and Clapper were behind it and
Obama gave the okay, but Rhodes helped craft the narrative. I'm sure of
this.

Remember that puff piece from a few years ago where Rhodes bragged about creating an "echo" or something?

That's what this was.

What are you talking about?

Posted by: Airhead 27 year old with a press pass at the White House at May 22, 2018 05:22 PM (UsCnO)

145 This entire matter is a riddle wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. But, Trump's on the case!

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 22, 2018 05:22 PM (QLvwG)

146 Long Time Lurker, First Time Poster.
Posted by: Maximus Waitless at May 22, 2018 05:17 PM (roQNm)
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'Sup.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 22, 2018 05:23 PM (AzW6q)

147 Yesterday Krang was all about "proclivities".

Posted by: steevy at May 22, 2018 05:23 PM (LiyEm)

148 I thought Krang was the Simpsons' alien guy.
Posted by: filbert at May 22, 2018 05:16 PM

That was Kang, silly earthling!
Posted by: Kodos at May 22, 2018 05:20 PM (EzdLW)

Okay, okay! Small white nuts don't watch that much TV, okay?

Posted by: zombie Warren Zevon at May 22, 2018 05:23 PM (953wK)

149 Past Me remembers doctors putting a friend's father with heart problems on margarine because it's healthier.

Margarine.

Good news. He's still alive and kicking.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at May 22, 2018 05:20 PM (4ErVI)

Did that to my Pop in 1972. He passed at 70.

Wife's GM had total cholesterol of 380. She made it to 84.

Posted by: golfman at May 22, 2018 05:23 PM (If3tB)

150 I still say that failed novelist Ben Rhodes had more to do with this
than anyone has let on. Yeah, Brennan and Clapper were behind it and
Obama gave the okay, but Rhodes helped craft the narrative. I'm sure of
this.

Remember that puff piece from a few years ago where Rhodes bragged about creating an "echo" or something?

That's what this was.

What are you talking about?

Posted by: Airhead 27 year old with a press pass at the White House at May 22, 2018 05:22 PM (UsCnO)

I should have said "OT"
I was referring to the whole operation, not the specific topic thread....

Posted by: JoeF. at May 22, 2018 05:24 PM (7uYFy)

151 113
I only comment on posts with cleavage.
Posted by: JEM at May 22, 2018 04:58 PM

(.)(.)

I guess that will have to do.......better than none I guess

Posted by: Comey's ugly wife at May 22, 2018 05:24 PM (XT6Vl)

152 143, yeah well mom jeans was the tell.

Posted by: Skip at May 22, 2018 05:24 PM (aC6Sd)

153 CAN WE HAZ HANGINGS ?????????

Posted by: Ramadan Ron from Runnymede at May 22, 2018 05:24 PM (Co9e8)

154 Okay, okay! Small white nuts don't watch that much TV, okay?
Posted by: zombie Warren Zevon at May 22, 2018 05:23 PM (953wK)

Especially when socking brilliant but sadly dead tortured-soul genius musicians.

Posted by: filbert at May 22, 2018 05:24 PM (953wK)

155 Okay, okay! Small white nuts don't watch that much TV, okay?
Posted by: zombie Warren Zevon

Really? Shawn King strikes me as someone who watches a lot of TV.

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at May 22, 2018 05:24 PM (f3MDZ)

156 Stupid question: would this technically be a "false flag" operation? Or more like entrapment?

Posted by: Tonic Dog at May 22, 2018 05:25 PM (w0M6m)

157
Long Time Lurker, First Time Poster.

Posted by: Maximus Waitless at May 22, 2018 05:17 PM

Beware the Barrel. Bewaaarrrrre....

Posted by: closing tag fail at May 22, 2018 05:25 PM (EzdLW)

158
Remember the butter scare in the 1980s. Past Me remembers doctors putting a friend's father with heart problems on margarine because it's healthier.

Margarine.

BUTTER!

Posted by: Parkay at May 22, 2018 05:26 PM (IqV8l)

159 This story is actually bigger than the Trump campaign. They were spying on Americans before Trump even announced his run.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 22, 2018 05:26 PM (/tuJf)

160 155 Prince Ludwig

Now you leave poor Talcum X alone!

Posted by: ibguy at May 22, 2018 05:26 PM (vUcdz)

161 Stupid question: would this technically be a "false flag" operation? Or more like entrapment?
Posted by: Tonic Dog at May 22, 2018 05:25 PM (w0M6m)

Power of "and," embrace it you must.

Posted by: filbert at May 22, 2018 05:26 PM (953wK)

162 Don't blame me. I voted for Kronos.

chenmoH qo'nos Dun jatlhqa'

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at May 22, 2018 05:26 PM (87ijN)

163

So: Is this a grave threat to national security or not?

National Security Clown Nose On,

National Security Clown Nose Off.
=====================================

Well then, this will need investigatin'! Call the OIG!

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Vigilance Committee supporter at May 22, 2018 05:27 PM (LISuA)

164 Re 36, Trump and the GOP should buy network the me. And cable time. Then preemptively everything else.

Civics lesson time!

Posted by: Tonic Dog at May 22, 2018 05:27 PM (w0M6m)

165 Well you see there's the pre-pre-investigation and then there is the pre-investigation. After that you have the investigation where you do everything by the book. Then you have the post-investigation, followed by the post-post-investigation. If there is money in the budget you could even see a post-post-post-investigation after a pre-post-post-investigation.

Yeah, that's how a real law enforcer of the law does it, just like up in Mount Pilot.

Posted by: Barney Fife at May 22, 2018 05:27 PM (Gyzss)

166 This story is actually bigger than the Trump campaign. They were spying on Americans before Trump even announced his run.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 22, 2018 05:26 PM (/tuJf)

I have a suspicion/fear that the spying-on-Americans thing actually started to ramp up after the Patriot Act with Bush the Younger.

Posted by: filbert at May 22, 2018 05:27 PM (953wK)

167 Stupid question: would this technically be a "false flag" operation? Or more like entrapment?
Posted by: Tonic Dog

I think it would be more like a honey pot. I picture Stefan Halper on a street corner saying "Hey big boy, you like to collude?"

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at May 22, 2018 05:27 PM (f3MDZ)

168 Wray and Rosenstein are in charge of finding the leaks. At least it won't take much investigative skills on their part to determine the source.

Posted by: Ever at May 22, 2018 05:27 PM (OLS0m)

169 So, who's the threat to this traitorous desk jockey? Heart disease?

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 22, 2018 05:27 PM (oVJmc)

170 I store my farts in gym socks for subsequent "comfort sniffing" during stressful moments like this. Doctor recommended, Krang approved!

Posted by: Nurse Krang at May 22, 2018 05:27 PM (TSEbs)

171 C'mon dudes, think! Don't be chumps. Halper is a ... squirrel!! He's the judas goat that's covering for someone else. Classic standard spycraft. Give up a worthless played-out spy to draw suspicion away from your real asset. And the MSM is in on the game. They've been given their orders, and they'll carry them out with relish.

Don't look where they want you to look. Watch for the real spies trying to exit out the side doors while no one is looking.

Posted by: John A. Fleming at May 22, 2018 05:27 PM (iBtsV)

172
This entire matter is a riddle wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. But, Trump's on the case!
Posted by: Count de Monet at May 22, 2018 05:22 PM

Trump IS the case. Didn't you get the lovely Lisa's text?

Posted by: Peter Strzozk at May 22, 2018 05:28 PM (EzdLW)

173 This story is actually bigger than the Trump campaign. They were spying on Americans before Trump even announced his run.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 22, 2018 05:26 PM (/tuJf)

Smarter people than me--on the right and ironically, on the Left--were warning this would happen when we let out guard down after 9/11 and made spying on Americans easier....

Posted by: JoeF. at May 22, 2018 05:28 PM (7uYFy)

174 Ace seizes upon the MSM's word play.

WaPo gets double bonus points for "conservative Republicans". If they'd used "right wing" it would be triple bonus points, I suppose.
=====

MSM was/is also fond of 'pounced'. I think that one is funnier than seized. JMHO

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 22, 2018 05:29 PM (MIKMs)

175 >>why doesn't Dr Krang like women?

This is a feminine mode of argument. To try to personalize an issue, or present an observation as not liking (as in personal preference) one aspect or another, is pure emotionalism. Logic and observation dictate that observation of Trump mannerisms and behavior are more feminine than masculine, at least within US and Western mores.

Posted by: Dr Krang at May 22, 2018 05:29 PM (BEZfd)

176 Is this Halper chap still alive? Or has he been set into concrete someplace?

Posted by: IC at May 22, 2018 05:29 PM (a0IVu)

177 50
I still say that failed novelist Ben Rhodes had more to do with this

than anyone has let on. Yeah, Brennan and Clapper were behind it and

Obama gave the okay, but Rhodes helped craft the narrative. I'm sure of

this.

Remember that puff piece from a few years ago where Rhodes bragged about creating an "echo" or something?

That's what this was.

What are you talking about?

Posted by: Airhead 27 year old with a press pass at the White House at May 22, 2018 05:22 PM (UsCnO)

I should have said "OT"

I was referring to the whole operation, not the specific topic thread....

We know nothing except what Ben Rhodes commands us to say.
What are you talking about?

Are you Ben Rhodes?
Where is Ben Rhodes?

Posted by: Airhead 27 year old with a press pass at the White House at May 22, 2018 05:29 PM (UsCnO)

178 C'mon dudes, think! Don't be chumps. Halper is a ... squirrel!! He's the judas goat that's covering for someone else. Classic standard spycraft. Give up a worthless played-out spy to draw suspicion away from your real asset. And the MSM is in on the game. They've been given their orders, and they'll carry them out with relish.

Don't look where they want you to look. Watch for the real spies trying to exit out the side doors while no one is looking.
Posted by: John A. Fleming at May 22, 2018 05:27 PM (iBtsV)

I'd say you're right.

Posted by: JoeF. at May 22, 2018 05:29 PM (7uYFy)

179 I'm surprised Rand Paul never took ahold of this. He mentioned that he thought he was being spied on and then nothing more.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 22, 2018 05:29 PM (urRRz)

180
So, who's the threat to this traitorous desk jockey? Heart disease?
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 22, 2018 05:27 PM

Don't look at us. We've been cleared by SCIENCE

Posted by: eggs at May 22, 2018 05:30 PM (EzdLW)

181 It appears that the troll flung his poo, didn't get the reaction he expected and disappeared into the ether. I quite literally didn't get his first "feminine president" reference because I was thinking, "What has EX-President Obama said about spies in Trump's campaign?" I didn't even get that the troll was referring to TGE until the troll specified who he was writing about.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 22, 2018 05:30 PM (5Yee7)

182 We know nothing except what Ben Rhodes commands us to say.
What are you talking about?

Are you Ben Rhodes?
Where is Ben Rhodes?

Posted by: Airhead 27 year old with a press pass at the White House at May 22, 2018 05:29 PM (UsCnO)

What are YOU talking about now?

Posted by: JoeF. at May 22, 2018 05:30 PM (7uYFy)

183 The Dems. call Trump &Conservatives every disgusting name in the book," but Trump called MS-13 animals, No one should be called an animal." What a bunch of idiots & hypocrites. I am sure if one of their family members had been beheaded they would be calling them something worse than an animal.
EVERYTHING they accuse us of...they are guilty of. From collusion to name calling.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 22, 2018 05:30 PM (PvFoN)

184 Faith is at the core of our Constitutional Republic. We have faith that people who pledge to protect and defend the Constitution will actually do those things. And we don't really have a good solution for when they lie to us.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Vigilance Committee supporter at May 22, 2018 05:30 PM (LISuA)

185 Exposing covert criminals may be dangerous to the lives and fortunes of the criminal deep state mafia.

Posted by: illiniwek at May 22, 2018 05:31 PM (bT8Z4)

186 Cohen's business partner flipped.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at May 22, 2018 05:31 PM (UBzPO)

187 I hated BillyJeff and his "oh the polls show my principles today should be xxx" BUT even worse IMO is when someone came to a bad conclusion but absolutely refuses to admit that they were mistaken. Like say thinking or writing "Trump is not a serious candidate and if he is serious about running he will be a liberal in his POTUS actions" I was guilty of that bad conclusion myself until late in 2016 with the short lists for Scalia replacement and cabinet picks. But I am so very delighted to have been so wrong.

WTF is wrong with 'conservative' columnists and politicians who are not delighted that their worries were for naught and DJT is doing good, maybe even great work in office. Hello guys, you could even take the position of "well we must remain vigilant that he does not swerve into abusing his popularity" IF you would salvage some credibility by admitting that Trump has done good things so far. But no, admitting that you were imperfect would be worse than defending the sleazey, illegal acts of Brennan and company.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at May 22, 2018 05:31 PM (eASYU)

188 179
I'm surprised Rand Paul never took ahold of this. He mentioned that he thought he was being spied on and then nothing more.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 22, 2018 05:29 PM (urRRz)
Oh..I remember that..he was spied upon and then beaten by his neighbor.

Posted by: IC at May 22, 2018 05:31 PM (a0IVu)

189 MSM was/is also fond of 'pounced'. I think that one is funnier than seized. JMHO
Posted by: mustbequantum at May 22, 2018 05:29 PM (MIKMs)

"Pounced." Like a cat.

Posted by: JoeF. at May 22, 2018 05:31 PM (7uYFy)

190 No president was more effeminate than Batack Obama.Those jeans,that helmet,the guy rode a GIRL's bike!

Posted by: steevy at May 22, 2018 05:31 PM (LiyEm)

191 aww, Dr Krang thinks I'm kewt. sorry, sweetie, but my drivers licence says M on it (now).

Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at May 22, 2018 05:32 PM (aAlCl)

192 "This is a feminine mode of argument."
Well, Fuck You!

Posted by: Chris M at May 22, 2018 05:32 PM (eAZVt)

193 Desperate Hours started at 5:30,good movie.

Posted by: steevy at May 22, 2018 05:32 PM (LiyEm)

194 MMppPhhh MMppPphhh
Slurp Slurp
GLuMoopphh AAAhgallGug!!

Posted by: Reggie Love gargling Barack Obama dick at May 22, 2018 05:32 PM (2wOtx)

195 A Note to the Management - I Wish to Complain. I am aware that this site occasionally has some posts that are written by what are generally referred to as Internet Trolls. I do not object to that at all.

My Complaint is about the Quality of the Trolls I encounter here. I have come to expect a high level of trolling ability, and yet the writing and thinking ability of the Trolls who show up here lately is so disappointing and of such low quality! Sirs, you need to attract a Better Level of Troll here if you wish to compete. No more posts that read like badly composed A.I. gibberish, please!!!

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 22, 2018 05:32 PM (k1TUh)

196 The weaponized intelligence agencies need to be pruned back and the leadership and 1st and 2nd level of management need to be held to account, including long prison sentences and executions for the truly treasonous ones. make a series of examples that will not soon be forgotten. no hyperbole no exaggerations. This can never happen again if our country and our union wants to survive.

Posted by: USNtakim prfoundly deplorable! at May 22, 2018 05:32 PM (0OmEj)

197 Wow, we got a real intellectual this time.
My tiny RWNJ - R&SW brain is confused !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, they are gaslighting us 24/365 at May 22, 2018 05:32 PM (xJrIn)

198 "media figures received payola from Fusion GPS"

Fusion GPS is the Professional JournoList fully actuated.

Media people meeting with other media people and paying media people with payments from media people all in a hidden cabal without transparency to push propaganda and maliciously investigate others for pay.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at May 22, 2018 05:33 PM (H8S+R)

199 "Out the source", are they fucking kidding?

The only thing this guy didn't do to tell people he was an intel operator was hire the USC Trojan Marching Band playing the James Bond theme and carrying a flashing neon banner reading Intel Guy for hire

Posted by: Marcus T at May 22, 2018 05:33 PM (qrLP8)

200 Does it seem bothersome to others that the FBI, a domestic investigative entity, has secret intelligence gathering methods that they have expanded to non-citizens and honed in overseas operations? These fucking gumshoe, flatfoot motherfuckers aren't supposed to be engaged in a clandestine, cat-and-mouse, seek-and-destroy operation with the American citizenry.

Posted by: Fritz at May 22, 2018 05:33 PM (J7XgW)

201 are all these revelations leading someplace? It feels like its building up to something tangible but I don't know if that is just wishful casting.

Posted by: IC at May 22, 2018 05:33 PM (a0IVu)

202 I'm probably wrong about this but it seems to me that shrieking that releasing the name of the person who spied on the Trump campaign would put lives at risk amounts to accusing Trump of being murderous.
The media is collectively insane.

Posted by: Northernlurker lighter less filing at May 22, 2018 05:33 PM (eAMlh)

203 Cohen's business partner flipped.
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at May 22, 2018 05:31 PM (UBzPO)

Whew. Now CNN can speculate about what Cohen's business partner has on Trump.

Impeachment at 11 !!!

Posted by: JoeF. at May 22, 2018 05:33 PM (7uYFy)

204 Oops, I was wrong, the troll is currently digging his hole deeper and writing that women aren't capable of logical arguments! I'm sure it thinks of itself at being all "woke" for the feminists, too.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 22, 2018 05:33 PM (5Yee7)

205 Wait.....the discount Wilhelm Reich has abandoned us?

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Slavic Customer Service Rep. at May 22, 2018 05:33 PM (fA1SL)

206 Bill Kristol has been fapping away all day on twitter, dreaming of naked indictments of the whole Trump entourage. Because crimes!

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Vigilance Committee supporter at May 22, 2018 05:33 PM (LISuA)

207 Let's just clear up one thing. This guy halper is a ubama spy.

Posted by: Eromero at May 22, 2018 05:34 PM (zLDYs)

208 Cohen is probably in trouble(albeit he probably didn't do anything that hasn't been done by a million lawyers before)

Posted by: steevy at May 22, 2018 05:34 PM (LiyEm)

209 Krang is giving that which is known as a warning: the mutagen is unstable in this dimension. The results desired may not be the results that result from the actions taken by the ones known as 'Shareblue.'

Posted by: Dr Krang at May 22, 2018 05:35 PM (AzW6q)

210 182
We know nothing except what Ben Rhodes commands us to say.

What are you talking about?

Are you Ben Rhodes?

Where is Ben Rhodes?

Posted by: Airhead 27 year old with a press pass at the White House at May 22, 2018 05:29 PM (UsCnO)

What are YOU talking about now?

Posted by: JoeF. at May 22, 2018 05:30 PM (7uYFy)

All I know is what Ben Rhodes commands me to know. Because I am a 27 year old airhead with a press pass, and Ben knows all and I am here to report it.
Ben is knowledge, truth, the Obama way. It is all anyone needs to know.
And my duty is to report that. There is nothing else.

Posted by: Airhead 27 year old with a press pass at the White House at May 22, 2018 05:35 PM (UsCnO)

211 Whew. Now CNN can speculate about what Cohen's business partner has on Trump.

Impeachment at 11 !!!Posted by: JoeF. at May 22, 2018 05:33 PM (7uYFy)

He flipped against Cohen. He's the guy that ran Cohen's Taxi Medallion business. So the thinking is Cohen has to flip against Trump now since they've got the goods on Cohen.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at May 22, 2018 05:35 PM (UBzPO)

212 Like how these nothingburgers---"Cohen's Biz Partner Flips"-- are dropped just when Deep State shenanigans are starting to heat up.
Of course Drudge has it as a headline....in red.

Posted by: JoeF. at May 22, 2018 05:35 PM (7uYFy)

213 Is Drudge still a thing?

Posted by: eleven at May 22, 2018 05:36 PM (+lOpA)

214 >>aww, Dr Krang thinks I'm kewt. sorry, sweetie, but my drivers licence says M on it (now).

Whether you argue in a masculine or feminine manner is not related to your physical gender. Similarly, male Trump speaks in a feminine style. This is not a difficult concept to grasp, but then again, I think you are aware of it but simply in denial (feminine coping mechanism).

Posted by: Dr Krang at May 22, 2018 05:36 PM (BEZfd)

215 If there is any dirt to be had against Trump it will be found through Cohen.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at May 22, 2018 05:37 PM (UBzPO)

216 aww, Dr Krang thinks I'm kewt. sorry, sweetie, but my drivers licence says M on it (now).
Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at May 22, 2018 05:32 PM (aAlCl)
---------

I maintain that you are the only Moron who has ever successfully transitioned.

Posted by: bluebell at May 22, 2018 05:37 PM (oMtOd)

217 Is Drudge still a thing?
Posted by: eleven at May 22, 2018 05:36 PM (+lOpA)

He's a robot

Posted by: JoeF. at May 22, 2018 05:37 PM (7uYFy)

218 He's a robotPosted by: JoeF. at May 22, 2018 05:37 PM (7uYFy)

Gay robot.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at May 22, 2018 05:38 PM (UBzPO)

219 Anybody know if Mueller has found "intent"? Gen. Flynn is nervously waiting.

The Very Rev. Comey, back in the old days when he tweeted and appeared in book stores, used to maintain that any "reasonable prosecutor" would look for intent to break the law, even if the statute specifically said no intent was required.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Vigilance Committee supporter at May 22, 2018 05:38 PM (LISuA)

220 What does not paying taxes on your Taxi Medallion income have to do with Trump?
Trump is in the Taxi Medallion business now?

Posted by: Maximus Waitless at May 22, 2018 05:38 PM (roQNm)

221 So this is just normal operating procedure? Okay then they won't mind when trump returns the favor and does the same thing to their Candidates...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 22, 2018 05:38 PM (O2RFr)

222 If there is any dirt to be had against Trump it will be found through Cohen.
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at May 22, 2018 05:37 PM (UBzPO)

I see this as unlikely since Trump has pretty much written off Cohen.

Posted by: JoeF. at May 22, 2018 05:38 PM (7uYFy)

223 Hey, Mr. Ace.
Words on the street that Hillary Clinton endorsed Andrew Cuomo instead of Tricky Dickless Nixon for the New York race.

A huge 180 degree turn from 2016, eh?
Just mentioning this in case you need some story.

Posted by: Delaforce and his Rage. Certified to Widen Threads at May 22, 2018 05:39 PM (2/AQ5)

224 Sooo....

When will they interact the rest of the HPSCI report?

How does Felix Sater figure in to all this?

Who, exactly, suggested Page, Papadopolous, and the other three patsies who were tossed together as the Trump campaign's policy people?

Was the Special Counsel set up as a way for Mueller to be able to get Manafort and Flynn on things for which they had previously been unsuccessfully prosecuted? Another bite at the apple, if you will?

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, TX at May 22, 2018 05:39 PM (uDcBt)

225 Ok looked up the business partner story - he had already been under indictment for a New York taxi medallion scheme he was running, and he didn't report $50,000 worth of income. He accepted 5 years of probation and agreed to cooperate with future investigations.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 22, 2018 05:39 PM (k1TUh)

226 'WaPo gets double bonus points for "conservative Republicans".'

'Arch' for triple-word score

Posted by: anon2 at May 22, 2018 05:39 PM (v6UKb)

227 Posted by: Dr Krang

You seem to be obsessing over the fact that nobody here is taking you seriously. I'm guessing you were beaten up a lot in school and you latched on to whatever Soros organization you're affiliated with in order to feel powerful, to compensate for the lack of power you felt as a child.

Tell me, how was your relationship with your father?

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at May 22, 2018 05:39 PM (f3MDZ)

228 Everyone who disagrees with me is feminine. I'll bet all you fags are sitting around in dresses while you type your comments.

Posted by: Nurse Krang at May 22, 2018 05:39 PM (TSEbs)

229 What does not paying taxes on your Taxi Medallion income have to do with Trump?
Trump is in the Taxi Medallion business now?
Posted by: Maximus Waitless at May 22, 2018 05:38 PM (roQNm)

It's step 2 of the Underpants Gnome Strategy.

Posted by: filbert at May 22, 2018 05:40 PM (953wK)

230 CNN doesn't have time for this shit today. Right now they're on a tear because the EPA blocked them from covering one of Pruitt's appearances.

They really hate it when they're treated like dog shit on a shoe.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at May 22, 2018 05:40 PM (4ErVI)

231

remember after the Patriot Act the Left said Dick Cheney was gonna listen to our phones and see what books we get at the library??

Well, all that is cool, now!

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at May 22, 2018 05:40 PM (DzSJ5)

232 troll's got a real hard-on for me. I think.

i expect it would be difficult to ascertain.

Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at May 22, 2018 05:40 PM (aAlCl)

233 Let me be clear.

I am the original feminine President.

Have you seen me throw a ball? Shoot hoops?

Posted by: Bathhouse Barry at May 22, 2018 05:40 PM (2wOtx)

234 Is this Halper chap still alive? Or has he been set into concrete someplace?

That is the question. Where is he? What happened to the guy?

the troll is currently digging his hole deeper and writing that women aren't capable of logical arguments!

And they are in denial!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2018 05:40 PM (39g3+)

235 Ok looked up the business partner story - he had already been under indictment for a New York taxi medallion scheme he was running, and he didn't report $50,000 worth of income. He accepted 5 years of probation and agreed to cooperate with future investigations.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 22, 2018 05:39 PM (k1TUh)
But...but...what's he got on Trump that we can use??

Posted by: CNN at May 22, 2018 05:40 PM (7uYFy)

236 I tol' ol' Stephen to be more careful if he wanted to get more of my taint.

Posted by: Hillary's Taint at May 22, 2018 05:41 PM (R5lpX)

237 217 Is Drudge still a thing?
Posted by: eleven at May 22, 2018 05:36 PM (+lOpA)

He's a robot
Posted by: JoeF. at May 22, 2018 05:37 PM (7uYFy)

Just like me.

*hic*

Posted by: Mecha-Hillary at May 22, 2018 05:41 PM (WWTgX)

238 220
What does not paying taxes on your Taxi Medallion income have to do with Trump?
Trump is in the Taxi Medallion business now?Posted by: Maximus Waitless at May 22, 2018 05:38 PM (roQNm)

Seriously?
"Mr. Cohen, we're charging you with corrupting public official to the tune of about 150 years in prison. Or you can tell us about any shady dealings with Trump in exchange for a deal."
You think that shit only happens in TV? Have you been paying attention to anything that's been happening the past 2 years?

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at May 22, 2018 05:41 PM (UBzPO)

239 Yes but the Dems now say they are going to clean up the swamp and revoke the tax cuts, instead giving the money to teachers.

So we are saved.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 22, 2018 05:41 PM (qrLP8)

240 troll's got a real hard-on for me. I think.

i expect it would be difficult to ascertain.
Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at May 22, 2018 05:40 PM (aAlCl)

Maybe he (?) only has a copy of your old driver's license and wants a date.

Posted by: filbert at May 22, 2018 05:41 PM (953wK)

241 I pine for the days when we had quality trolls around here. So boring.

Posted by: Cheri at May 22, 2018 05:41 PM (oiNtH)

242
Whether you argue in a masculine or feminine manner is not related to your physical gender. Similarly, male Trump speaks in a feminine style. This is not a difficult concept to grasp, but then again, I think you are aware of it but simply in denial (feminine coping mechanism).
Posted by: Dr Krang at May 22, 2018 05:36 PM

*fists on hips, cocks head to side*

So now you're saying we're fat?!?

Posted by: Hands' feminine side at May 22, 2018 05:41 PM (EzdLW)

243 Oddly enough I always thought that high end lawyers made good money. But Cohen was a partner in some kind of taxi business? wth? and Avinutty had all kinds of scam business deals where he just sucked any assets dry and left venders and employees in the lurch and even thought he could get away with not paying the IRS (course maybe under Ubama that was a wink wink arrangement)

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at May 22, 2018 05:42 PM (eASYU)

244 g'early evenin', 'rons

Posted by: Jack Nicholson at May 22, 2018 05:42 PM (KCxzN)

245 remember after the Patriot Act the Left said Dick
Cheney was gonna listen to our phones and see what books we get at the
library??

Well, all that is cool, now!Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at May 22, 2018 05:40 PM (DzSJ5)

It wasn't just the Left that was saying that. And guess what? We were right.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at May 22, 2018 05:43 PM (UBzPO)

246 I pine for the days when we had quality trolls around here. So boring.
Posted by: Cheri at May 22, 2018 05:41 PM (oiNtH)

The Inadvertently Sexist Troll does have a certain macabre appeal, though.

Posted by: filbert at May 22, 2018 05:43 PM (953wK)

247 CROSSFIRE HURRICANE - what a stupid fucking code name, perfect for a stupid fucking bunch of bumbling assholes.

Posted by: wth at May 22, 2018 05:43 PM (HgMAr)

248 1. Trump's lawyer's biz partner didn't report income on Taxi Medallion sales.

2. Taxis are huge in NYC

3.Trump was yuuuge in NYC

4. Hillary declared President!

Posted by: JoeF. at May 22, 2018 05:43 PM (7uYFy)

249 Have you been paying attention to anything that's been happening the past 2 years?
--
No. Can't afford to.
I'm so poor I can't even pay attention.What's been going on anyway?Anything important?

Posted by: Maximus Waitless at May 22, 2018 05:43 PM (roQNm)

250
I'm surprised Rand Paul never took ahold of this. He mentioned that he thought he was being spied on and then nothing more.
=====

Aside from his personal beating, he has taken nonstop heat for his unPatriotic suspicions about our glorious leaders in the intelligence communities. Takes a little more power to get answers. Let's all hope a President has enough juice to find out.

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 22, 2018 05:43 PM (MIKMs)

251 >>You seem to be obsessing over the fact that nobody here is taking you seriously. I'm guessing you were beaten up a lot in school and you latched on to whatever Soros organization you're affiliated with in order to feel powerful, to compensate for the lack of power you felt as a child.

Guessing is a poor substitute for observation and analysis. You are 0/4, and have no correct guesses.

Posted by: Dr Krang at May 22, 2018 05:43 PM (BEZfd)

252 Does anyone think Romney was not spied on, and probably by same team? I think the big brains saw him as a greater threat than Trump.

Posted by: LittleBrainTheHappy at May 22, 2018 05:44 PM (sYV5O)

253 Hey ladies!

The question is: Dr Krang? Bang, marry, or kill?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 22, 2018 05:44 PM (AzW6q)

254 Cohen should brazen it out.The raid on his office and leaks of his private information will make any prosecution against him difficult.

Posted by: steevy at May 22, 2018 05:44 PM (LiyEm)

255 off day-old sock

g'early evenin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at May 22, 2018 05:44 PM (KCxzN)

256 Andrew McCarthy is getting a little upset now. He's just published another barn-burner, this time following up on the Attkisson timeline and repeating the Byron York/Kim Strassel observations we were talking about earlier today, that basically says the Page/Papadopoulos came long after TFG started investigating Trump.

He is aiming this squarely at the White House now.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Vigilance Committee supporter at May 22, 2018 05:44 PM (LISuA)

257 Seriously?
"Mr. Cohen, we're charging you with corrupting public official to the tune of about 150 years in prison. Or you can tell us about any shady dealings with Trump in exchange for a deal."
You think that shit only happens in TV? Have you been paying attention to anything that's been happening the past 2 years?

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at May 22, 2018 05:41 PM (UBzPO)

And how is this related to Russia?

Posted by: JoeF. at May 22, 2018 05:44 PM (7uYFy)

258 233 Let me be clear.

I am the original feminine President.

Have you seen me throw a ball? Shoot hoops?
Posted by: Bathhouse Barry at May 22, 2018 05:40 PM (2wOtx)

The verbal tick let me be clear is annoying. It suggests he is being unclear otherwise. Barry should have been making himself clear everytime he said something.

Posted by: Northernlurker lighter less filing at May 22, 2018 05:44 PM (eAMlh)

259 I think the troll is saying that Trump is the first female president. So go home, Hillary, it's over, no chance for you to get a first anymore.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 22, 2018 05:44 PM (k1TUh)

260
"Mr. Cohen, we're charging you with corrupting public official to the tune of about 150 years in prison. Or you can tell us about any shady dealings with Trump in exchange for a deal."You think that shit only happens in TV? Have you been paying attention to anything that's been happening the past 2 years?

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at May 22, 2018 05:41 PM (UBzPO)

You act like there is no downside if you flip on Trump.

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at May 22, 2018 05:44 PM (10vO4)

261 Could you type louder, Krang?

It's hard to hear you with my dick in your mouth.

Posted by: Bathhouse Barry at May 22, 2018 05:44 PM (2wOtx)

262 I only comment on posts with cleavage.

Posted by: JEM at May 22, 2018 04:58 PM (FfIBA)
...........

Finally some sanity buried in all this madness.

Posted by: wth at May 22, 2018 05:45 PM (HgMAr)

263 Boy howdy. They were more gung ho in doing non-investigation investigatory work on the Trump campaign based on hearsay than they were on the "investigatory" non-investigation into hillary's secret server, mishandling of classified info, destruction of evidence, and obstruction of justice based on actual tangible evidence that they had no interest in looking at.

Funny how that works.

Posted by: flounderbot, rebel, vulgarian, deplorabot, winner at May 22, 2018 05:45 PM (Dp6qK)

264 So we're just supposed to believe this was all on the up and up? If true why are the Dems running around with their hair on fire?

Posted by: It's me donna at May 22, 2018 05:45 PM (O2RFr)

265 Does anyone think Romney was not spied on, and probably by same team? I
think the big brains saw him as a greater threat than Trump.
==================================

I took him easily.

Posted by: Candy Crowley, Worlds Best Debate Moderator at May 22, 2018 05:46 PM (LISuA)

266 Is anybody in jail yet?
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 22, 2018 05:12 PM (mpXpK)
++++
Nope
++++
Now your turn, Is the IG Investigation over & 2nd Part is Jon Huber done

Posted by: NOTHING IS GONNA HAPPEN at May 22, 2018 05:47 PM (y3aQB)

267 Ive been away for an hour, anybody indicted yet?

Posted by: Kreplach at May 22, 2018 05:47 PM (/7rCh)

268 what a stupid fucking code name, perfect for a stupid fucking bunch of bumbling assholes."

Indeed. They haven't progressed past middle school cliques...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at May 22, 2018 05:47 PM (7LY+6)

269 This story is actually bigger than the Trump campaign. They were spying on Americans before Trump even announced his run.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 22, 2018 05:26 PM
~~~~~

I sometimes think that Trump decided to run for President after the birth certificate kerfuffle. Revenge?

Wouldn't surprise me if JEF started spying on Trump at that time.

Posted by: IrishEi at May 22, 2018 05:47 PM (HiDrR)

270 I don't want to sit next to the troll. I only post 5 time a year!! I demand a better seat, or I'll hold my breath till I turn blue.

Posted by: LittleBrainTheHappy at May 22, 2018 05:48 PM (sYV5O)

271 You act like there is no downside if you flip on Trump.Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at May 22, 2018 05:44 PM (10vO4)

Just the adoration of millions of unhinged Leftists, all of the media, Hollywood, 7-figure book deal, etc.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at May 22, 2018 05:48 PM (UBzPO)

272 Ive been away for an hour, anybody indicted yet

mpeech fordy Fie!?

Posted by: Maxine wig hat Watters at May 22, 2018 05:48 PM (O2RFr)

273
Ive been away for an hour, anybody indicted yet?

#Twoweeks, this time fer sure.

Posted by: Maximus Waitless at May 22, 2018 05:48 PM (roQNm)

274 Posted by: Kreplach at May 22, 2018 05:47 PM (/7rCh)
=====
See above Chuckles

Posted by: NOTHING IS GONNA HAPPEN at May 22, 2018 05:48 PM (y3aQB)

275 Can't afford to.
I'm so poor I can't even pay attention.What's been going on anyway?Anything important?
Posted by: Maximus Waitless at May 22, 2018 05:43 PM

Apparently there was some wedding in England last weekend. New troll chew toy at the HQ. And the derp state fucks are scrambling for cover like cockroaches. And it's nice outside. There you go sir.

Posted by: Minnfidel at May 22, 2018 05:48 PM (3c1uO)

276 Now your turn, Is the IG Investigation over 2nd Part is Jon Huber done
===========================

hahaha!

Good one.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Vigilance Committee supporter at May 22, 2018 05:48 PM (LISuA)

277 They probably did spy on Romney but I doubt it made a difference. The guy was way too try hard and it came across as desperate. He also folded after the first debate.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at May 22, 2018 05:48 PM (4ErVI)

278
Who's the new bunny?

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 22, 2018 05:48 PM (eXA4G)

279 Ive been away for an hour, anybody indicted yet?
Posted by: Kreplach at May 22, 2018 05:47 PM (/7rCh)

Pull my finger and look at my hash

Posted by: MAC SOG and nothing will happen at May 22, 2018 05:49 PM (czkHE)

280 Let me be clear.

I am the original feminine President.

Have you seen me throw a ball? Shoot hoops?
Posted by: Bathhouse Barry

Suck a dick?

Posted by: rickb223 at May 22, 2018 05:49 PM (GWDdA)

281 Motherfuckers.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at May 22, 2018 05:49 PM (QQ+il)

282 Are these ass wipes gonna get away with this?

Posted by: It's me donna at May 22, 2018 05:49 PM (O2RFr)

283 mpeech fordy Fie!?
Posted by: Maxine wig hat Watters at May 22, 2018 05:48 PM

Weasel Zip had a picture of Muxene Wudders in a parade. She's riding in a BMW. "Poverty Pimp BMW"

Posted by: Minnfidel at May 22, 2018 05:49 PM (3c1uO)

284 Apparently there was some wedding in England last weekend."

Ah. So another 'murrican "princess" to Dido herself in the backseat of a Merc?

Posted by: Anon a mouse at May 22, 2018 05:49 PM (7LY+6)

285 They probably did spy on Romney but I doubt it made a difference. The guy was way too try hard and it came across as desperate. He also folded after the first debate.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis

He did a good job as head coach of the Washington Generals.

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at May 22, 2018 05:50 PM (f3MDZ)

286 Halper's only worry is those who don't want him to talk.

Posted by: Skip at May 22, 2018 05:50 PM (aC6Sd)

287 I can't figure out why they set this whole thing up in the first place. Hillary was a shoe-in.

Posted by: grammie winger - at May 22, 2018 05:50 PM (lwiT4)

288 Dangit, I missed all the fun.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - I choose to live my life as a black woman at May 22, 2018 05:50 PM (VgKNm)

289 According to Drudge, the military is "running out of bombs".

Do we not have helicopters? Do we not have DOJ management? Do ewe not have CNN anchors?

Some assembly required.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Vigilance Committee supporter at May 22, 2018 05:50 PM (LISuA)

290 Halper's only worry is those who don't want him to talk.

But, but Republican!

Posted by: CNN at May 22, 2018 05:50 PM (O2RFr)

291
Just the adoration of millions of unhinged Leftists, all of the media, Hollywood, 7-figure book deal, etc.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at May 22, 2018 05:48 PM (UBzPO)

The case is in the SDNY and they may have some serious problems of their own soon. So go ahead and flip on the guy who is getting ready to bring the hammer down on them.

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at May 22, 2018 05:51 PM (10vO4)

292 Posted by: Dr Krang

...I'm guessing you were beaten up a lot in school and you latched on to whatever Soros organization you're affiliated with in order to feel powerful, to compensate for the lack of power you felt as a child.

Tell me, how was your relationship with your father?
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at May 22, 2018 05:39 PM

I suspect that Krang's father touched him in his "naughty place" and his mother did not protect him. Hence the hostility towards the feminine.

Posted by: That's DOCTOR Retired Buckeye Cop at May 22, 2018 05:51 PM (5Yee7)

293 18 More overwrought theatrics from the feminine President.
Posted by: Dr Krang at May 22, 2018 05:01 PM (BEZfd)

Because having ostensibly non-partisan federal agencies attempt to first throw an election, and then undo it, is "overwrought theatrics". Do go on....

Posted by: Curmudgeon at May 22, 2018 05:51 PM (ujg0T)

294 So I'm assuming that under the new rules, no one will have a problem with Trump directing the FBI to assign an agent to infiltrate every Democrat House and Senate campaign, and also to monitor their communications under FISA warrants?
I mean it's just for their own protection. RUSSIA is still out there.

Posted by: K.N. McBride at May 22, 2018 05:51 PM (cfSRQ)

295 >>Wouldn't surprise me if JEF started spying on Trump at that time.

If you believe the head of the FISC court, Rosemary Collyer, the FBI was illegally spying without a warrant for years.

Mike Rogers caught them so they needed a new way to continue the spying. They needed a patsie and a warrant.

Enter Carter Page.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 22, 2018 05:51 PM (/tuJf)

296 I can't figure out why they set this whole thing up in the first place. Hillary was a shoe-in."

That's why. Trashing whoever had an "R" next to them would be a great way to ingratiate oneself to the Queen...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at May 22, 2018 05:51 PM (7LY+6)

297 will you losers just quit with the "nothing will happen" bullshit?

Posted by: luigi'sindexfinger at May 22, 2018 05:51 PM (Yi6bx)

298 Looks like Raffy Palmeiro still has it. . .or is still juicing, one or the other.

https://tinyurl.com/y9eaj7ua

Posted by: Bert G (@BertG on Gab) at May 22, 2018 05:52 PM (yzxic)

299 CROSSFIRE HURRICANE - what a stupid fucking code name, perfect for a stupid fucking bunch of bumbling assholes.
Posted by: wth at May 22, 2018 05:43 PM
~~~~~

Yeah. But I like Trump's response: "You Can't Always Get What You Want" by the Stones also. Played at the end of every rally.

Tell me Trump didn't know about all the shenanigans from Day One!

Posted by: IrishEi at May 22, 2018 05:52 PM (HiDrR)

300 Are these ass wipes gonna get away with this?
Posted by: It's me donna at May 22, 2018 05:49 PM

After seeing Hillary and co. operate for years with impunity I am inclined to say possibly. The difference here is that many of these players don't have deep pockets and huge influence. There's also so much smoke you can't even see the fire. So I think this one is going to be hard to sweep under the rug.

Posted by: Minnfidel at May 22, 2018 05:52 PM (3c1uO)

301 Weasel Zip had a picture of Muxene Wudders in a parade. She's riding in a BMW. "Poverty Pimp BMW"

Posted by: Minnfidel at May 22, 2018 05:49 PM

-

In fairness, you can get into a used BMW for cheap. The more expensive it was when new the better.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - I choose to live my life as a black woman at May 22, 2018 05:52 PM (VgKNm)

302
And it's nice outside. There you go sir.
Posted by: Minnfidel

It's nice out.
I think I'll leave it out.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 22, 2018 05:52 PM (IqV8l)

303 will you losers just quit with the "nothing will happen" bullshit?

You're so right

Posted by: Still waiting for Benghazi, Fast ans Furious, and IRS indictments at May 22, 2018 05:53 PM (O2RFr)

304 Heh..

NFL considers 15-yard penalty for kneeling during national anthem

http://tinyurl.com/ycnye5mm

Too late.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2018 05:53 PM (39g3+)

305 131 The Trump feminine persona loves the *drama* so is incapable of existing without it. This is one of the feminine emotional characteristics of Trump, as opposed to the feminine physical or psychological.
Posted by: Dr Krang at May 22, 2018 05:06 PM (BEZfd)

If the damage of the last eight years of Obamunist Ohministration is undone, why should I care?

Posted by: Curmudgeon at May 22, 2018 05:53 PM (ujg0T)

306 241 I pine for the days when we had quality trolls around here. So boring.
Posted by: Cheri at May 22, 2018 05:41 PM (oiNtH)

You know hard it is to get good help now with Common Core in schools?

Posted by: Amalgamated Association of Bjergtrolde, local 6 & 7/8 at May 22, 2018 05:53 PM (CJxOo)

307 Halper is proof that fat, drunk and stupid is a successful way to go through life.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 22, 2018 05:53 PM (EoRCO)

308 According to Drudge, the military is "running out of bombs".

Do we not have helicopters? Do we not have DOJ management? Do ewe not have CNN anchors?

Some assembly required.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Vigilance Committee supporter at May 22, 2018 05:50 PM (LISuA)

We got this!

Posted by: Netflix, Now Featuring Barry and Mike! at May 22, 2018 05:53 PM (yzxic)

309 We'll leave the gaslight on for ya.

Posted by: WaPo at May 22, 2018 05:53 PM (Tyii7)

310 Are these ass wipes gonna get away with this?"

Pretty much, yeah. A couple will take the fall, and the rest will continue their daily commutes from Fairfax, Montgomery, and P.W. counties...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at May 22, 2018 05:53 PM (7LY+6)

311
Posted by: Anon a mouse at May 22, 2018 05:51 PM (7LY+6)
+++++
My theory, Is they new HRC was Cancer on the campaign trail & in a change election she was Mrs. Insider & thus the real polls had it neck & neck

Posted by: NOTHING IS GONNA HAPPEN at May 22, 2018 05:54 PM (y3aQB)

312 Heh..

NFL considers 15-yard penalty for kneeling during national anthem

http://tinyurl.com/ycnye5mm

Too late.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2018 05:53 PM (39g3+)

Hey! Who left the barn door open? And where are all the horses?

Posted by: Dr. Pug Mahon at May 22, 2018 05:55 PM (xPJvm)

313 In fairness, you can get into a used BMW for cheap. The more expensive it was when new the better.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - I choose to live my life as a black woman at May 22, 2018 05:52 PM

You can also get Maxine Waters for cheap. Foadddy Fi!

Posted by: Minnfidel at May 22, 2018 05:55 PM (3c1uO)

314 Are these ass wipes gonna get away with this?

Posted by: It's me donna at May 22, 2018 05:49 PM

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Only the people actually responsible for everything and coordinating everything.

The little guys are f*cked, though. Well, a couple. Maybe. Possibly a lateral transfer with a raise.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - I choose to live my life as a black woman at May 22, 2018 05:55 PM (VgKNm)

315 This is a feminine mode of argument. To try to personalize an issue, or present an observation as not liking (as in personal preference) one aspect or another, is pure emotionalism. Logic and observation dictate that observation of Trump mannerisms and behavior are more feminine than masculine, at least within US and Western mores.
Posted by: Dr Krang at May 22, 2018 05:29 PM (BEZfd)

So Mr. Trump sees how the Left argues, and responds accordingly. Again, why should I care?

Posted by: Curmudgeon at May 22, 2018 05:55 PM (ujg0T)

316 >>I suspect that Krang's father touched him in his "naughty place" and his mother did not protect him. Hence the hostility towards the feminine.

This is a failure of observation and comprehension. Perhaps an emotional response to being confronted with undesirable facts (avoidance is noted). Your fantasy scenario did not occur. Nor did I express hostility towards the feminine, just an observation of which mannerisms and behavior are more masculine and feminine, and that Trump has a penchant for more feminine modes.

Posted by: Dr Krang at May 22, 2018 05:55 PM (BEZfd)

317 >>According to Drudge, the military is "running out of bombs".

Shoot all you want, we'll make more!

Posted by: Bob's House of Bombs at May 22, 2018 05:55 PM (fh7cq)

318 the FBI was illegally spying without a warrant for years.

Mike Rogers caught them so they needed a new way to continue the spying.
===================================

Wait- I thought he caught the FBI letting "contractors" (FusionGPS in this case) illegally using the queries. Did he also catch the FBI doing something untoward? What did he find? I thought they could access the system whenever they chose, but always needed to get a FISA approval to actually use the material in a prosecution. After-the-fact approvals were supposedly commonplace in this construction of events.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Vigilance Committee supporter at May 22, 2018 05:56 PM (LISuA)

319 And where are all the horses?

Why the long face?

Posted by: John F'N Kerry at May 22, 2018 05:56 PM (Tyii7)

320 >>In fairness, you can get into a used BMW for cheap. The more expensive it was when new the better.

She was rollin'.

Literally. Big fat rolls just oozing out all over.

Posted by: garrett at May 22, 2018 05:56 PM (fh7cq)

321 Well, a couple. Maybe. Possibly a lateral transfer with a raise."

And a pension. And good seats at Nats Park...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at May 22, 2018 05:56 PM (7LY+6)

322 If you believe the head of the FISC court, Rosemary Collyer, the FBI was illegally spying without a warrant for years.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 22, 2018 05:51 PM
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Yep. But I'm suggesting that they started spying on Trump years before there was even a hint that he was running. Thin-skinned Obama spied on others for much less than Trump's birth certificate episode.

Posted by: IrishEi at May 22, 2018 05:56 PM (HiDrR)

323 The NFL is trying to figure out how to call us for targeting.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - I choose to live my life as a black woman at May 22, 2018 05:57 PM (VgKNm)

324 From Veggie Tales version of Daniel and the lions den...... the song is called oh no, what we gonna do. For some reason this song seems to work with the whole seditious FBI thing..
Oh, No! What We Gonna Do? lyrics
Wisemen:
Oh no! What we gonna do?
The king likes Daniel
More than me and you
Oh, no! What we gonna do?
We gotta get him out of here.
(repeat)

Wisemen#2 & 3:
We could throw him in the dungeon
We could let him rot in jail
We could drag him to the ocean
Have him eaten by a whale

Wiseman#1:
We could throw him in the Tigris
Let him float a while
Then we'll all sit back and watch him
Meet a hungry crocodile

We could put him on a camel's back
And send him off to Ur
With a cowboy hat without a brim
A boot without a spur

We could give him jelly doughnuts
Take them all away
Or fill his ears with cheese balls
And his nostrils with sorbet

We could use him as a footstool
Or a table to play Scrabble on
Then tie him up and beat him up
And throw him out of Babylon

Posted by: madamemayhem (uppity wench) at May 22, 2018 05:57 PM (myjNJ)

325 This is a failure of observation and comprehension. Perhaps an emotional response to being confronted with undesirable facts (avoidance is noted). Your fantasy scenario did not occur. Nor did I express hostility towards the feminine, just an observation of which mannerisms and behavior are more masculine and feminine, and that Trump has a penchant for more feminine modes.
Posted by: Dr Krang at May 22, 2018 05:55 PM (BEZfd)

Again, why should I care? The Left is being defeated and stymied. Someone is using their own tactics against them at last.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at May 22, 2018 05:57 PM (ujg0T)

326 Whatever this is all about is sort of putting a strain on my apathy. So what?

Posted by: Burger Chef at May 22, 2018 05:57 PM (RuIsu)

327 It is not Ambassador Downer, it's High Commissioner Downer. The top diplomats the Commonwealth countries send to each other have that title. Ambassador is the top diplomat they send to non-Comminwealth countries.

Posted by: Decaf at May 22, 2018 05:57 PM (/3+Sg)

328 215
If there is any dirt to be had against Trump it will be found through Cohen.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at May 22, 2018 05:37 PM (UBzPO)

Wouldn't Trump's reply be: WTF ! He's my lawyer. Why didn't he tell me this was illegal?

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at May 22, 2018 05:57 PM (bB4HN)

329 The trolls suck. I guess Dr. Wang was the only one on the schedule today.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 22, 2018 05:57 PM (89T5c)

330 >>I can't figure out why they set this whole thing up in the first place. Hillary was a shoe-in.

Two big reasons I can think of.

1. They have been spying for years. They have been doing lots of shady stuff for years including Uranium One and they couldn't take the smallest risk that they could be exposed. They had to win not just wanted to win.

2. They thought they could get away with it so why the hell not?

Posted by: JackStraw at May 22, 2018 05:57 PM (/tuJf)

331 the FBI was illegally spying without a warrant for years. "

Yep.

Pretty much forever.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at May 22, 2018 05:58 PM (7LY+6)

332 Whether you argue in a masculine or feminine manner is not related to your physical gender. Similarly, male Trump speaks in a feminine style. This is not a difficult concept to grasp, but then again, I think you are aware of it but simply in denial (feminine coping mechanism).
Posted by: Dr Krang at May 22, 2018 05:36 PM (BEZfd)

You, sir, are gay.

Oh, and your shit's all retarded. Good day.

Posted by: zombie Alistair Cooke at May 22, 2018 05:58 PM (8YRN1)

333 >>the FBI was illegally spying without a warrant for years.

Rank and File!

Posted by: garrett at May 22, 2018 05:58 PM (fh7cq)

334 331 the FBI was illegally spying without a warrant for years. "

They got cocky and got "caught" this time... What will happen is anyone's guess...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 22, 2018 05:58 PM (O2RFr)

335 We could use him as a footstool

Or a table to play Scrabble on

Then tie him up and beat him up

And throw him out of Babylon
=====

Yep.

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 22, 2018 05:59 PM (MIKMs)

336 If there is any dirt to be had against Trump it will be found through Cohen."

If there were any real "dirt", it'd have been on the front pages of the NYT and WaPo circa October, 2016.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at May 22, 2018 05:59 PM (7LY+6)

337 Posted by: Dr Krang at May 22, 2018 05:55 PM

Hi Spock. You do know what that pineapple in the corner is for, right?

Posted by: Minnfidel at May 22, 2018 05:59 PM (3c1uO)

338 You, sir, are gay.

I don't think there's much doubt.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at May 22, 2018 06:00 PM (QQ+il)

339 People need to remember that the FBI and DOJ were shot through with traitors and conspirators. It's going to take time to flush them all out. Only once they are cleansed can any prosecution reasonably take place.
Any attempt to rush things will ensure more leaks, "accidental" spoilage of evidence and so forth.
Sessions' top priority is to purge his department of conspirators and that really only started to happen in January.
This whole shitshow with Halper shows that he's still got a number of moles yet to hunt.

Posted by: K.N. McBride at May 22, 2018 06:00 PM (cfSRQ)

340 the FBI was illegally spying without a warrant for years. "

Yep.

Pretty much forever.
Posted by: Anon a mouse

*shifty eyes*

Posted by: J Edger Hoover - I'm not feminine, I only dress that way at May 22, 2018 06:00 PM (f3MDZ)

341 330 >>I can't figure out why they set this whole thing up in the first place. Hillary was a shoe-in.

Two big reasons I can think of.

1. They have been spying for years. They have been doing lots of shady stuff for years including Uranium One and they couldn't take the smallest risk that they could be exposed. They had to win not just wanted to win.

2. They thought they could get away with it so why the hell not?
Posted by: JackStraw at May 22, 2018 05:57 PM (/tuJf)

I would add (3) She really WASN'T a shoe-in, and they knew it. They couldn't even allow fair primaries against *Bernie Sanders*, because they thought it would bruise Hillary too much. And she really *would* have won the nomination anyway. Think on that.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at May 22, 2018 06:00 PM (ujg0T)

342 >>>why should I care?

That Trump has a feminine leadership style?
Because it enables you to prepare for the inevitable drama, the emotional responses, the infighting, and the other feminine reactions. In that way you understand that these are natural occurrences with a feminine (not female, but feminine) leader.

Posted by: Dr Krang at May 22, 2018 06:00 PM (BEZfd)

343 Drs Dunning and Kruger, meet Krang.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Slavic Customer Service Rep. at May 22, 2018 06:00 PM (GaLoe)

344 Two big reasons I can think of.

1. They have been spying for years. They have been doing lots of shady stuff for years including Uranium One and they couldn't take the smallest risk that they could be exposed. They had to win not just wanted to win.

2. They thought they could get away with it so why the hell not?
Posted by: JackStraw at May 22, 2018 05:57 PM

Hence the "Insurance Policy" Strzok and Gummy bear discussed.

Posted by: Minnfidel at May 22, 2018 06:01 PM (3c1uO)

345 I can't figure out why they set this whole thing up in the first place. Hillary was a shoe-in.

=====

Bring me the head of John the Baptist.

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 22, 2018 06:01 PM (MIKMs)

346 331 the FBI was illegally spying without a warrant for years. "

Yep.

Pretty much forever.
Posted by: Anon a mouse at May 22, 2018 05:58 PM (7LY+6)

And no one will be held to account.

So, why has no one asked the obvious question:
Did they do this to the Romney/Ryan campaign in 2012? I mean its obvious that 2016 wasn't their first rodeo. And Obama's opponents had the unfortunate tendency to have all their sealed court documents mysteriously leaked.
And we know Lois Lerner et. al. screwed over conservative groups during 2012. Are we to believe the IRS was the only rogue agency then?
So when will Congress cut off funding to Mueller?

Posted by: Iblis at May 22, 2018 06:01 PM (OXWT4)

347 I can't figure out why they set this whole thing up in the first place. Hillary was a shoe-in.
Posted by: grammie winger - at May 22, 2018 05:50 PM (lwiT4)
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I think these morally and mentally attenuated goons were just trying to ingratiate themselves to the new Overlord. And everyone knows she loves an amoral lickspittle thug.

I'm guessing that they were hoping to be her Be-bop and Rocksteady.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 22, 2018 06:01 PM (AzW6q)

348 Honest to god, I have no idea what this trollop is talking about.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at May 22, 2018 06:01 PM (QQ+il)

349 Really the FBI is just carrying on the fine traditions established by its founder, J. Edgar Hoover.

That guy spied on everyone for decades. It took them forever to destroy those files.

Maybe we shouldn't be surprised when it's been literally happening from the beginning.

I wonder if they all wear drag on the anniversary of Hoover's death.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at May 22, 2018 06:01 PM (4ErVI)

350 "I think a better question is where is Stefan Halper? He's not been seen for over a year.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2018 04:56 PM (39g3+)"

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Only two possibilities, in witness protection or no longer extant due to being inconvenient.

You can't interview a dead witness.

Posted by: Decaf at May 22, 2018 06:01 PM (/3+Sg)

351 We need to go on a rotating system where one of the regulars posts only as a leftist for one day. Have a drawing or something. JJ can announce in the morning.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - I choose to live my life as a black woman at May 22, 2018 06:01 PM (VgKNm)

352 He seems .. concerned.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at May 22, 2018 06:02 PM (QQ+il)

353 Dr. Krang- that makes me laugh just typing it!- why do you hate Hillary so?

Posted by: t-bird at May 22, 2018 06:02 PM (5OO3x)

354 342 >>>why should I care?

That Trump has a feminine leadership style?
Because it enables you to prepare for the inevitable drama, the emotional responses, the infighting, and the other feminine reactions. In that way you understand that these are natural occurrences with a feminine (not female, but feminine) leader.
Posted by: Dr Krang at May 22, 2018 06:00 PM (BEZfd)

That we already have had eight years of that with the Obamunist, and indirectly eight years of that with Hillary Clinton in her unofficial role from 1993 to 2001 before *that*, is apparently utterly lost on you.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at May 22, 2018 06:02 PM (ujg0T)

355 3. They did because they could.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 22, 2018 06:03 PM (89T5c)

356 Nothing says feminine quit like poking a porn star.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at May 22, 2018 06:03 PM (QQ+il)

357 or quite even

Posted by: Grump928(c) at May 22, 2018 06:03 PM (QQ+il)

358 FBI spying forever?

Since Hoover anyway.

Posted by: Skip at May 22, 2018 06:03 PM (aC6Sd)

359 Honest to god, I have no idea what this trollop is talking about.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at May 22, 2018 06:01 PM (QQ+il)

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Women do this thing like you and Trump, homosexuals do this other thing. Fag.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - I choose to live my life as a black woman at May 22, 2018 06:03 PM (VgKNm)

360 >>Wait- I thought he caught the FBI letting "contractors" (FusionGPS in this case) illegally using the queries. Did he also catch the FBI doing something untoward? What did he find? I thought they could access the system whenever they chose, but always needed to get a FISA approval to actually use the material in a prosecution. After-the-fact approvals were supposedly commonplace in this construction of events.

No, they are not allowed to look at all communications whenever they want. They need a valid FISA warrant to do that.

That was supposed to be the safety in the system. A FISA warrant demands a very high bar of information because you are asserting the person you are targeting is working with a foreign government to harm US interests. The very definition of a spy.

That's why there is so much outrage on our side, the FBI for all intents called Carter Page a Russian spy months after they used him as an asset to spy on Russians for the FBI.

They lied to the FISC. They used phony campaign documents paid for by the DNC, Hillary and quite possibly Obama as the majority of the evidence to get the warrant. That's why the House wants to see the FISA warrant application so badly. That alone is enough to send people, senior people at the DOJ and FBI, to jail.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 22, 2018 06:04 PM (/tuJf)

361 Boner thread up.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at May 22, 2018 06:04 PM (QQ+il)

362 Posted by: Dr Krang at May 22, 2018 06:00 PM

You seem obsessed with vagina. Maybe you just like rubbing yours and your projecting. It's o.k. GTFO of here with your Dr. Spock screeds homophobe.

Posted by: Minnfidel at May 22, 2018 06:04 PM (3c1uO)

363 That Trump has a feminine leadership style?

Because it enables you to prepare for the inevitable drama, the
emotional responses, the infighting, and the other feminine reactions.
In that way you understand that these are natural occurrences with a
feminine (not female, but feminine) leader.

Posted by: Dr Krang at May 22, 2018 06:00 PM (BEZfd)
==================

oh for the love of pete

Posted by: grammie winger - at May 22, 2018 06:04 PM (lwiT4)

364 Your fantasy scenario did not occur. Nor did I express hostility towards the feminine, just an observation of which mannerisms and behavior are more masculine and feminine, ...
Posted by: Dr Krang at May 22, 2018 05:55 PM (BEZfd)

Denial and repression of memories of sexual abuse are common. And I say that you are being hostile towards the feminine -- your rules, dude.

If I knew it was this easy to play internet shrink, I wouldn't have spent all those years in engineering college and getting a degree in a hard science.

Posted by: That's DOCTOR Retired Buckeye Cop at May 22, 2018 06:04 PM (5Yee7)

365 Nothing says feminine quit like poking a porn star.
Posted by: Grump928(c)

Females poking female pornstars is quite a business, actually.

...or so I've heard.

Posted by: mikeski at May 22, 2018 06:04 PM (JGBbg)

366 Whether you argue in a masculine or feminine manner is not related to your physical gender. Similarly, male Trump speaks in a feminine style. This is not a difficult concept to grasp, but then again, I think you are aware of it but simply in denial (feminine coping mechanism).
Posted by: Dr Krang at May 22, 2018 05:36 PM (BEZfd)

Take him to Detroit!............

Posted by: Dr. Klahn at May 22, 2018 06:06 PM (EoRCO)

367
I had apathy once.

Posted by: Maximus Witless, poncer extraordinair at May 22, 2018 06:06 PM (roQNm)

368 "Words on the street that Hillary Clinton endorsed Andrew Cuomo instead of Tricky Dickless Nixon for the New York race."
--------------------------

People in this country are just not ready for women in power!!!11!!!11!!

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at May 22, 2018 06:06 PM (0jtPF)

369 Look, everyone! Squirrel! And he's effeminately stroking his nuts.

Posted by: Dr. Klang at May 22, 2018 06:06 PM (H8S+R)

370
Still don't understand how Rosenstein can even be part of this investigation. Or Mueller. Criminals investigating themselves and finding scapegoats.

I do know another day has ticked by towards the election and if Dems do take the house that Mueller report will come out the next day.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 22, 2018 06:06 PM (r+sAi)

371 I read it here before:

Trump is the coup.

Posted by: Max Power at May 22, 2018 06:06 PM (q177U)

372 >>GTFO of here with your Dr. Spock screeds homophobe.

Irrational and illogical reaction. Not to mention unenforceable.

Posted by: Dr Krang at May 22, 2018 06:07 PM (BEZfd)

373 The FBI is NOT the CIA. You're NOT running ops on American citizens, -- unless everybody is willing to admit that we are currently engaged in World War III.

Everything the FBI has should be declassified and exposed.

Or has the FBI been specifically and deliberately weaponized by the intelligence community and the Justice Department to be used against Americans?
De-fund and Disband the FBI. Prosecute the criminals.

Posted by: Fritz at May 22, 2018 06:07 PM (J7XgW)

374 >>>Margarine.

BUTTER!
Posted by: Parkay at May 22, 2018 05:26 PM (IqV8l)

LMAO!!!

Posted by: Max Power at May 22, 2018 06:07 PM (q177U)

375 I bet that netflix deal will make them look noble, honest as the day is long, and loved by all. And gayX2, of course, but still the best thing for America since pumpernickel.

Posted by: Eromero at May 22, 2018 06:08 PM (zLDYs)

376 Not to mention unenforceable.

Clearly you are new here.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at May 22, 2018 06:08 PM (QQ+il)

377 Not to mention unenforceable.
Posted by: Dr Krang at May 22, 2018 06:07 PM (BEZfd)
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I wouldn't invite the wrath of cobs. Just a tip. Just the tip, anyway.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 22, 2018 06:08 PM (AzW6q)

378 "The FBI is full of strong jawed heroes like the TV show. The Justice Department is about selfless icons of justice who serve only the good of America."

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After watching a few episodes of Quantico I thought if that is any reflection on the real FBI might as well shut it down. As it turns out the real FBI is far worse than portrayed in that show.

Posted by: Decaf at May 22, 2018 06:09 PM (/3+Sg)

379 351 We need to go on a rotating system where one of the regulars posts only as a leftist for one day. Have a drawing or something. JJ can announce in the morning.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - I choose to live my life as a black woman at May 22, 2018 06:01 PM (VgKNm)

At least that way we'd have interesting trolls. I had to read three posts by the current low-T idiot kwang before I even realized xe was trolling.

Posted by: cornbred at May 22, 2018 06:09 PM (8YRN1)

380 They ID'd this guy to cover up for the others. Sacrificial Lamb. . .

Posted by: OldSarg at May 22, 2018 06:09 PM (3860y)

381 Dr Krang...Dr Krang...hmm, where have I heard that name before. Oh yeah, wasn't he the gynecologist for Mooschelle Obama and Rosie O'Donnel?

Posted by: Hillary's Taint at May 22, 2018 06:09 PM (R5lpX)

382 Or has the FBI been specifically and deliberately weaponized by the intelligence community and the Justice Department to be used against Americans?
Posted by: Fritz at May 22, 2018 06:07 PM (J7XgW)

It has, to the extent that those Americans might upset the Deep State.

And that ought to provoke an emotional reaction from all of us, and I really don't care if that is feminine or not.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at May 22, 2018 06:09 PM (ujg0T)

383 351 We need to go on a rotating system where one of the regulars posts only as a leftist for one day. Have a drawing or something. JJ can announce in the morning.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - I choose to live my life as a black woman at May 22, 2018 06:01 PM (VgKNm)

At least that way we'd have interesting trolls. I had to read three posts by the current low-T idiot kwang before I even realized xe was trolling.
Posted by: cornbred at May 22, 2018 06:09 PM (8YRN1)

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I'll play!

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 22, 2018 06:10 PM (AzW6q)

384 Troll makes me wonder now. Is there any male in the news now more feminine than Jim Commie? Paul Lind - dead, Anderson Pooper - last seen at several airports, and the JEF - vanished with Richard Branson.

Posted by: LittleBrainTheHappy at May 22, 2018 06:11 PM (sYV5O)

385 JackStraw: "They lied to the FISC..."

Right. So any insights to the FISC not in high dudgeon over this? These judges should be livid and already have acted to punish those who violated the Court. And yet not a word. Is there double secret probation to which we're not privy? Unless there's some Judicial Branch coordination with a criminal conspiracy, there's no explanation for this inexplicable apparent lack of response by the Court.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at May 22, 2018 06:13 PM (H8S+R)

386 NOOD -- GOPe up in polls despite themselves!

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at May 22, 2018 06:14 PM (5Yee7)

387 blah blah blah...

Posted by: Dr Krang at May 22, 2018 05:36 PM (BEZfd)

Take him to Detroit!............
Posted by: Dr. Klahn at May 22, 2018 06:06 PM (EoRCO)

Very funny. Let me be the first to offer Dr. Klahn a big hand.

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at May 22, 2018 06:16 PM (bgE22)

388 Only two possibilities, in witness protection or no longer extant due to being inconvenient.

There is a third: he's undercover somewhere else.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2018 06:25 PM (39g3+)

389 We need to go on a rotating system where one of the regulars posts only as a leftist for one day. Have a drawing or something. JJ can announce in the morning.

I guarantee we'd be better at it than this fool

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 22, 2018 06:27 PM (39g3+)

390 53 Would anyone be shocked if I told you that the hash (BEZfd) has never posted here before?
Posted by: buzzion at May 22, 2018 05:08 PM (lKs2v)

And with a Buzzfeed hash, no less.

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at May 22, 2018 06:29 PM (di1hb)

391 >>>I guarantee we'd be better at it than this fool

The coward shows up at the end.

Posted by: Dr Krang at May 22, 2018 06:34 PM (3MvAr)

392 The coward shows up at the end.

Posted by: Dr Krang at May 22, 2018 06:34 PM (3MvAr)

TMI, Joe.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at May 22, 2018 06:42 PM (yQpMk)

393 I guarantee we'd be better at it than this fool

Low bar.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at May 22, 2018 06:43 PM (yQpMk)

394 is naming this dumpsterfire effort by our 'betters', "Crossfire Hurricane" their lame attempt to tie in the fact the Trump campaign was known for closing out his appearances with "You Can't Always Get What You Want"? Assholes.

Posted by: the Butcher at May 22, 2018 06:43 PM (DIosY)

395 (czkHE)
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Czechs are interfering in US politics in favor of Trumpitler. Please join us with our guests, Max Boot and Bill Kristol, after the break to discuss this serious new charge.

Posted by: this is... CNN at May 22, 2018 06:44 PM (Evws/)

396 383 Being the OPFOR is a good way to learn the enemy tactics.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at May 22, 2018 06:47 PM (g4YTo)

397 Clapper.

Brennan.

Lynch.

Comey.

McCabe.

Mueller.

Ohr, both Mr. & Mrs.

Page.

Strzok.

Rybicki.

Baker.

Hang them.

All of them.

Try them for Sedition, and hang them at dawn.

Death to Traitors.

Posted by: Sam Adams at May 22, 2018 06:57 PM (DbadI)

398 French has a big article about how it's crazy to think that Obama's bureaucrats could ever have had it in for Trump. The reasons are such weak sauce that I'm embarrassed at this point for French and Goldberg and the rest of the true believers. It's fascinating that nearly the entire class of professional conservatives is at war with its own disappearing readerhship.

Posted by: bjstuggzzz at May 22, 2018 07:00 PM (e44Qj)

399 Former GOP Congressman Joe Walsh went on air last night to state that there was no way that a government conspiracy was hatched against Donald Trump and his campaign.

He also said he expected to lose listeners over this.

He already has.

Posted by: Sam Adams at May 22, 2018 07:02 PM (DbadI)

400 Basically, they were just sitting back, letting Fusion GPS and Comey's "teacher friend" browse through the NSA's massive data collection Hoover. Searching and unmasking people in Trump's circle, willy nilly, until they had enough bits to scrape together narrative.

Wonder how many searches were done on the other candidates: Bush, Carson, Christie, Cruz, Fiorina (for sure), Graham, Huckabee, Jindal (you bet), Kasich, Pataki, Paul (yeah baby), Rubio, Santorum and Walker (ooooooooh my).

Posted by: 99Problems at May 22, 2018 07:14 PM (zWaPh)

401 It doesn't have to be a conspiracy. It just has to be an investigation that was started to provide a bipartisan, parallel investigation of Trump (Hey, we're investigating Clinton and Trump, we're bipartisan that way) and then got out of control and too big to shut down. That's how must big lies start, as small lies.

Posted by: bjstuggzzz at May 22, 2018 07:17 PM (e44Qj)

402 Sam Adams, what more can you expect from someone who's spent the last year at Rocky Mountain Way, and couldn't get much higher?

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler... now with 23% more Dragon Energy! at May 22, 2018 10:18 PM (wSC8T)

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