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THE RULES FOR BECOMING A "WHISTLEBLOWER" WERE CHANGED TO PERMIT SECOND-HAND GOSSIP IN AUGUST 2019. COINCIDENTALLY, THE "WHISTLEBLOWER," OFFERING HIS SECOND-HAND GOSSIP, FILED HIS COMPLAINT IN AUGUST 2019.

Some conspiracy-minded people think that just because the DNI suddenly changed decades-old rules which only allowed those alleging direct, first-hand witness testimony of wrongdoing to file a whistleblower complaint, to suddenly permit second-hand hearsay gossip, then that means that maybe Deep Staters at DNI changed the rules specifically to allow their coconspirator to file his second-hand hearsay gossip complaint that same week.

This all happened last month-- the sudden change to stop requiring first-hand information, and then the "whistleblower," coincidentally I'm sure!, being the first to hop on and use those changed standards to file a non-IC related complaint with the ICIG.

See Sean Davis.

This is big. This is the Deep State in action, and we caught them.

In August 2019, the intelligence community secretly eliminated a requirement that whistleblowers provide direct, first-hand knowledge of alleged wrongdoings. This raises questions about the intelligence community’s behavior regarding the August submission of a whistleblower complaint against President Donald Trump. The new complaint document no longer requires potential whistleblowers who wish to have their concerns expedited to Congress to have direct, first-hand knowledge of the alleged wrongdoing that they are reporting.

The brand new version of the whistleblower complaint form, which was not made public until after the transcript of Trump’s July 25 phone call with the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky and the complaint addressed to Congress were made public, eliminates the first-hand knowledge requirement and allows employees to file whistleblower complaints even if they have zero direct knowledge of underlying evidence and only “heard about [wrongdoing] from others.”


The internal properties of the newly revised “Disclosure of Urgent Concern” form, which the intelligence community inspector general (ICIG) requires to be submitted under the Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act (ICWPA), show that the document was uploaded on September 24, 2019, at 4:25 p.m., just days before the anti-Trump complaint was declassified and released to the public. The markings on the document state that it was revised in August 2019, but no specific date of revision is disclosed.

Guess what? The Deep State refuses to comment on this, to acknowledge they made this change or defend the change and explain why in August 2019 they suddenly thought it was super-important to change the reporting requirements.

Reached by phone on Friday afternoon, a Director of National Intelligence official refused to comment on any questions about the secret revision to the whistleblower form, including when it was revised to eliminate the requirement of first-hand knowledge and for what reason.

More: A source says this was all done so that the usual rule, requiring this to go through the AG, would be circumvented, and this could be sent directly to Congress.

It was all engineered by professional paper-pushers from the start. That's why the complaint seems to have been written by a Democrat legislative staffer looking to check the boxes -- because it was.

Flashback: What was happening early in August? Any shake-ups we should know about?

More:






Posted by: Ace of Spades at 04:39 PM




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1 meep meep motherfuckers!

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2019 04:40 PM (d7Ww2)

2 ha!

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2019 04:40 PM (d7Ww2)

3 trifecta?

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2019 04:40 PM (d7Ww2)

4 I miss the old flaming skull.

Posted by: Murrican Ninja War Eeyore at September 27, 2019 04:40 PM (xptlg)

5 What's an August 2019?
- MSM

Posted by: Lurking Lurker - Not In My Purview at September 27, 2019 04:41 PM (FiUMj)

6 Did you tell Stephen Hayes about this? Somebody call him quick.

Posted by: Murrican Ninja War Eeyore at September 27, 2019 04:41 PM (xptlg)

7 FIRST!

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at September 27, 2019 04:41 PM (Zlgnq)

8 Well, I'm sure this is nothing.

Now, can we get rid of that awful, norm busting Trump, please?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at September 27, 2019 04:41 PM (q80AH)

9
I'm pretty sure this is flammeskull-worthy.

*hint hint*

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 27, 2019 04:41 PM (e0p0c)

10 I summoned the otters

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2019 04:42 PM (d7Ww2)

11 Funny, I kinda thought the president of the United States was in charge of this stuff, instead of sitting around watching people technically under him doing whatever the hell they wanted.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2019 04:42 PM (KZzsI)

12 Number one story that won't make the 5 o clock news

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at September 27, 2019 04:42 PM (/NYhC)

13 Ah, Ewok laundry

Posted by: Enquiring Minds Want to Know at September 27, 2019 04:42 PM (vWMNq)

14 Eat my shorts!

After Chipotle!

Posted by: Axeman at September 27, 2019 04:42 PM (DuZls)

15 Sadly, there will be no prosecutions. Any you know it.

Posted by: Murrican Ninja War Eeyore at September 27, 2019 04:42 PM (xptlg)

16 At Powerline John Hinderaker was a comment by a former CIA guy, he is sure it's a polished report by lawyers

Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2019 04:42 PM (ZCEU2)

17 There are a lot of people who need a bullet to the head over this crap. Unfortunately they'll get away with it instead.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at September 27, 2019 04:42 PM (wCmLp)

18 Does this rate a burning skeleton head?

Posted by: Pug Mahon at September 27, 2019 04:43 PM (xPJvm)

19 Funny, I kinda thought the president of the United States was in charge of this stuff, instead of sitting around watching people technically under him doing whatever the hell they wanted.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2019 04:42 PM (KZzsI)
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He gets a fancy vest out of it.

It's the new meaning of "vested".

Posted by: Axeman at September 27, 2019 04:43 PM (DuZls)

20 Whoa, whoa, whao....WHO exactly changed the rules?

Posted by: Tami at September 27, 2019 04:43 PM (cF8AT)

21 You know what?

I bet Trump finds out about this in the news.

And I would believe it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at September 27, 2019 04:43 PM (q80AH)

22 Helloooooo nurse!

So, you gonna do something about these zipties or what?

Posted by: Insomniac at September 27, 2019 04:43 PM (gRg2Y)

23 17 There are a lot of people who need a bullet to the head over this crap. Unfortunately they'll get away with it instead.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile

no, they will be given a book deal and a corner office.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2019 04:43 PM (d7Ww2)

24 Yikes!

This is worse than a coup!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at September 27, 2019 04:43 PM (438dO)

25 SEEING RED

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k001JvPWs4Y

Posted by: MINOR THREAT at September 27, 2019 04:43 PM (5p8pS)

26 I think you all mean "burning skeleton head".

Posted by: old references at September 27, 2019 04:44 PM (h5TKJ)

27 All that will happen is that we will get a red all caps headline.

Posted by: freaked at September 27, 2019 04:44 PM (Tnijr)

28
That Russky broad from the Foreign Ministry is right. The Dems are making America look lower than Zimbabwe.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 27, 2019 04:44 PM (zBaqJ)

29 Insom!

HERE? In front of all of them?

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2019 04:44 PM (d7Ww2)

30 I notice a lot of attacks on Barr. Especially by Felonosi, so you can tell he scares them.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at September 27, 2019 04:44 PM (LWu6U)

31 How. The. Hell. Does. The. DNI. Do. This. Without. Trumps. Approval.

Posted by: Enquiring Minds Want to Know at September 27, 2019 04:44 PM (vWMNq)

32 If only there was an opposition party that would crack down on bullshit like this.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 27, 2019 04:44 PM (xfb67)

33 They probably changed the rule after it was submitted, ex post facto

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at September 27, 2019 04:44 PM (YslsA)

34 14 Eat my shorts!

After Chipotle!
Posted by: Axeman at September 27, 2019 04:42 PM

Chipotle will eat your shorts.

Posted by: Insomniac at September 27, 2019 04:44 PM (gRg2Y)

35 16 https://tinyurl.com/y2prmgnz

Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2019 04:44 PM (ZCEU2)

36

Deep State? What Deep State?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 27, 2019 04:44 PM (kw5n8)

37 But always remember, the rank and file are stand up patriots. Y'all are great Americans!

Posted by: Galil at September 27, 2019 04:44 PM (Pzzpr)

38 I may start being cynical

Posted by: G marks the spot at September 27, 2019 04:44 PM (xSEJa)

39 20 Whoa, whoa, whao....WHO exactly changed the rules?

Posted by: Tami at September 27, 2019 04:43 PM (cF8AT)


Top. Men.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at September 27, 2019 04:45 PM (DTX3h)

40 Ummmm....

From Sean's article:

The internal properties of the newly revised "Disclosure of Urgent Concern" form, which the intelligence community inspector general (ICIG) requires to be submitted under the Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act (ICWPA), show that the document was uploaded on September 24, 2019, at 4:25 p.m., just days before the anti-Trump complaint was declassified and released to the public.

Posted by: Tami at September 27, 2019 04:45 PM (cF8AT)

41
You know, America would be just as safe and in fact safer if we just dissolved the entire intelligence apparatus right now.

In acid.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 27, 2019 04:45 PM (zBaqJ)

42 How. The. Hell. Does. The. DNI. Do. This. Without. Trumps. Approval.

Posted by: Enquiring Minds Want to Know at September 27, 2019 04:44 PM (vWMNq)
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Democracy.

Posted by: Axeman at September 27, 2019 04:45 PM (DuZls)

43 Why did Trump approve this change in the definition of a 'whistleblower'? Did he not know?

Posted by: IC at September 27, 2019 04:45 PM (a0IVu)

44 36

Deep State? What Deep State?
Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 27, 2019 04:44 PM (kw5n

==========

The one Bill Kristol decided to side with in 2017?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at September 27, 2019 04:45 PM (q80AH)

45 Was this DNI Coates' going away gift to Trump?

Posted by: Lizzy at September 27, 2019 04:45 PM (bDqIh)

46 My theory all along is that the impeachment thing is a smoke screen to try an cast questions on the coming indictments from CT.

This proves it.

Posted by: Kemp at September 27, 2019 04:45 PM (ChuO/)

47 "If only there was an opposition party that would crack down on bullshit like this."

* pulls collective head out of ass, looks around, reinserts *

Posted by: The GOP at September 27, 2019 04:45 PM (Tnijr)

48 Can the (Republican controlled) Senate start an inquire to the House / CIA whistleblower rules change? Who know what and when? And why sit on it until the rule changes?

That would be entertaining.

Posted by: Murrican Ninja War Eeyore at September 27, 2019 04:45 PM (xptlg)

49 I heard that the complaint is second hand info, the original data coming from beach friends.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at September 27, 2019 04:45 PM (YslsA)

50 15
Sadly, there will be no prosecutions. Any you know it.


Obstruction!!

Posted by: Enquiring Minds Want to Know at September 27, 2019 04:46 PM (vWMNq)

51 What "Barr investigations"?

Posted by: Hands at September 27, 2019 04:46 PM (786Ro)

52 DNI refuses to say when it was revised? Are they fucking kidding.

Posted by: Marcus T at September 27, 2019 04:46 PM (8ts9m)

53 Adam Schiff bought Glenn Simpson's novel in order to bring it to life on Broadway and in The Swamp.

Posted by: ShainS at September 27, 2019 04:46 PM (aYrnl)

54 9
I'm pretty sure this is flammeskull-worthy.

*hint hint*

That's right. Bring on the skull, Ace!

Posted by: exdem13 at September 27, 2019 04:46 PM (W+kMI)

55 Pish posh you Chicken Littles!

This has been American custom for dozens, nay, hundreds of hours.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 27, 2019 04:46 PM (FNXDu)

56

There's one way to fix this shit. Air Pinochet

Posted by: TheQuietMan at September 27, 2019 04:46 PM (kw5n8)

57 the flaming skull

Posted by: IC at September 27, 2019 04:46 PM (a0IVu)

58 Ah...

there's Skully McBurning Skullface.

Posted by: garrett at September 27, 2019 04:46 PM (5p8pS)

59 Yes, the skull is burning!

Posted by: exdem13 at September 27, 2019 04:47 PM (W+kMI)

60 Flaming skull appears!

Posted by: G marks the spot at September 27, 2019 04:47 PM (xSEJa)

61 You know, America would be just as safe and in fact safer if we just dissolved the entire intelligence apparatus right now.

In acid.


Yes. Fire all of them and demolish the buildings.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 27, 2019 04:47 PM (ZGrMX)

62 46 My theory all along is that the impeachment thing is a smoke screen to try an cast questions on the coming indictments from CT.

This proves it.
Posted by: Kemp at September 27, 2019 04:45 PM (ChuO/)

=========

Yeah, they're not doing this because a toothless IG report is coming.

They're doing this because Barr and the DOJ are going to use the IG report as an excuse to go nutballs on people within the IC community and probably high ranking Democrats.

I'm cautiously optimistic and pumped.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at September 27, 2019 04:47 PM (q80AH)

63 27 All that will happen is that we will get a red all caps headline.
Posted by: freaked at September 27, 2019 04:44 PM (Tnijr)
======================
And you will like it, damnit!

Posted by: Murrican Ninja War Eeyore at September 27, 2019 04:47 PM (xptlg)

64 Wipe them out.

All of them.

Posted by: Brother Cavil is bored, why do you ask? at September 27, 2019 04:47 PM (AM1GF)

65 Let's get on with the Impeachment trial.

This country needs something to bring us together the way the OJ trial did so many years ago.

Posted by: SH at September 27, 2019 04:47 PM (sX1BW)

66 Schiff had the crap sandwich in August.

Posted by: torabora at September 27, 2019 04:47 PM (XI8mD)

67 Nice skull.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at September 27, 2019 04:47 PM (q80AH)

68 Well if it's THAT easy.

Heh.

Maybe there's a few honest patriots left somewhere in the IC that can turn this badboy cannon on it's own crew.

Posted by: DamnedYankee at September 27, 2019 04:47 PM (37IEG)

69 29 Insom!

HERE? In front of all of them?
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2019 04:44 PM (d7Ww2)

Maybe not ALL of them, but hell, it's Friday afternoon, the weekend's almost here and it's time to get wild!

Posted by: Insomniac at September 27, 2019 04:47 PM (gRg2Y)

70 4 I miss the old flaming skull.
Posted by: Murrican Ninja War Eeyore at September 27, 2019 04:40 PM (xptlg)

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Flaming skull is for perpwalks of Brennan on up.

Posted by: SMH at September 27, 2019 04:47 PM (RU4sa)

71 Stephen McIntyre @Climate Audit has the forms and additional information. There was a reason Schiff pummeled Maguire to promise to protect IG Atkinson. He's their new Weissmann.

Posted by: Ever at September 27, 2019 04:47 PM (ZZDMQ)

72 So now it's all literally unaccountable rumor.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at September 27, 2019 04:47 PM (oVJmc)

73 I say the best thing for us to do now is to all start filing whistle-blower complaints against Democrats!

Use their new rule change, and swamp them with complaints.

Cloward-Piven their asses with their new rule!

Posted by: gp's Exciting Radio Adventures! at September 27, 2019 04:47 PM (mk9aG)

74 Oops. I was wrong. Flaming skull is now in effect.

Posted by: Murrican Ninja War Eeyore at September 27, 2019 04:47 PM (xptlg)

75 A little late for me to say "scream and leap," but Ace has certainly done that. I haven't seen the flaming skull in a while!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 27, 2019 04:47 PM (ClOmq)

76 Pray for the integrity of AG Barr, for wisdom for him and for his safety.

I know some people this is taking so very long, but I know someone who was arrested (along with a bunch of other people) and their case still hasn't come to trial after almost two years.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 27, 2019 04:47 PM (j0JAA)

77 So, you gonna do something about these zipties or what?
Posted by: Insomniac at September 27, 2019 04:43 PM (gRg2Y)

I don't even want to know how you're typing...

Posted by: Jordan61 at September 27, 2019 04:47 PM (Ez6QX)

78 A few have written there are reports and indictments coming and it could be Democrats are getting scared.
Not sure I believe any are scared until 1 gets hammered.

Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2019 04:47 PM (ZCEU2)

79 AG is in Italy

Posted by: trapper's girl at September 27, 2019 04:47 PM (J5Hfq)

80 It was August when Schiffty shit for brains sent his letter that all but had the WB complaint in it.

Posted by: Tami at September 27, 2019 04:47 PM (cF8AT)

81 'How can we dance
when our skull is burning?'

Posted by: garrett at September 27, 2019 04:47 PM (5p8pS)

82 Someone is going to get a strongly worded letter or 2 from the GOP. Then f'k-all will change.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 27, 2019 04:47 PM (xfb67)

83 69 29 Insom!

HERE? In front of all of them?
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2019 04:44 PM (d7Ww2)

Maybe not ALL of them, but hell, it's Friday afternoon, the weekend's almost here and it's time to get wild!
Posted by: Insomniac at September 27, 2019 04:47 PM (gRg2Y)

My goodness.

Posted by: IC at September 27, 2019 04:48 PM (a0IVu)

84 Whoa.

My bad, ace.

*stares at flaming skull*

It's mesmerizing.

Posted by: SMH at September 27, 2019 04:48 PM (RU4sa)

85 "All that will happen is that we will get a red all caps headline.
Posted by: freaked at September 27, 2019 04:44 PM"


Well I was wrong. We also got one lousy burning skull.

Posted by: freaked at September 27, 2019 04:48 PM (Tnijr)

86 Motherfuckers!

Posted by: Grump928(C) at September 27, 2019 04:48 PM (13dPG)

87 When's the shooting start?

Posted by: Archer at September 27, 2019 04:48 PM (gmo/4)

88 How can you have a republic if the executive is not in charge of the intelligence agencies or the national police force, and if any random judge can simply tell him to go stuff it?

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at September 27, 2019 04:48 PM (Zxvxj)

89 Yep. That's what the twitter link was about this morning that Nurse asked about.




Posted by: simplemind at September 27, 2019 04:48 PM (6ojyJ)

90 Steiner will come?

Posted by: Regular joe at September 27, 2019 04:48 PM (6/uwW)

91 Seriously. These organizations cannot be salvaged. Shitcan them and ban everyone in them from federal positions or any law enforcement position. If they aren't locked out of any such position they WILL continue to do these things.

Posted by: Brother Cavil is bored, why do you ask? at September 27, 2019 04:48 PM (AM1GF)

92
This impeachment BS is such an obvious put-up job that even the "obnoxious liberals" that constantly post their propaganda on Facebook about stupid OrangeManBad have been silent. If there was even teeny tiny scrap of validity to any of this trash fire I know these idiots would be screaming it to the heavens.

Also, not one single normie at my work (and I work with 1000 people) including the Trump-haters has even MENTIONED this nonsense. No one cares as far as I can tell because this is so obviously another con.

Posted by: nightwitch at September 27, 2019 04:48 PM (zz1BZ)

93 77 So, you gonna do something about these zipties or what?
Posted by: Insomniac at September 27, 2019 04:43 PM (gRg2Y)

I don't even want to know how you're typing...
Posted by: Jordan61 at September 27, 2019 04:47 PM (Ez6QX)

Posted by: Insomniac at September 27, 2019 04:48 PM (gRg2Y)

94 78 A few have written there are reports and indictments coming and it could be Democrats are getting scared.
Not sure I believe any are scared until 1 gets hammered.
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2019 04:47 PM (ZCEU2)

==========

The IG report on FISA abuse has been going around DC for a couple of weeks.

You know what we haven't gotten?

Leaks.

You know what we have gotten?

An insane impeachment push based on an innocuous phone call.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at September 27, 2019 04:48 PM (q80AH)

95 a Director of National Intelligence official refused to comment on any questions about the secret revision to the whistleblower form, including when it was revised to eliminate the requirement of first-hand knowledge and for what reason.

--

Sounds perfectly reasonable.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at September 27, 2019 04:48 PM (YslsA)

96 How. The. Hell. Does. The. DNI. Do. This. Without. Trumps. Approval.

He sits around and watches them do it without acting. He's way, way too hands-off with the various agencies, like he thinks they're an independent body he can only suggest things to and appoint heads of. He told them to declassify stuff months ago and they said basically "F U" and never have. Trump's response? Tweet about it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2019 04:49 PM (KZzsI)

97 This is Yuge! Otters Yuge!

Posted by: Archer at September 27, 2019 04:49 PM (gmo/4)

98 How can you have a republic if the executive is not in charge of the intelligence agencies or the national police force, and if any random judge can simply tell him to go stuff it?

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Per the Democrats, the President is the least powerful person in the executive branch.

Posted by: SH at September 27, 2019 04:49 PM (sX1BW)

99 Now, the flaming shelves!

Posted by: Axeman at September 27, 2019 04:49 PM (DuZls)

100 Should have fired every fucking top-line asshole in the Federal government. These shits are evil.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 27, 2019 04:49 PM (1Vobx)

101 If we come back in 7 days and that skull is still burning, it will be a miracle.

Posted by: garrett at September 27, 2019 04:49 PM (5p8pS)

102
This is a flaming skull? Of course they cheated to set up a sitting President.

It's what they have been doing every single day since he was elected, and before.

This is nothing new.

That said, it's pretty sleazy.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 27, 2019 04:49 PM (AzW6q)

103 I'm cautiously optimistic and pumped.
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Dood - I'm stopping at the liquor store on the way home!

Posted by: simplemind at September 27, 2019 04:50 PM (Uk8fe)

104 They had Trump on double secret probation.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at September 27, 2019 04:50 PM (oVJmc)

105 meep meep motherfuckers!
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2019 04:40 PM (d7Ww2)


Honk Honk!

Posted by: It's a Clown World, after all. at September 27, 2019 04:50 PM (z79tQ)

106 Coats was the outgoing DNI, wasn't he?

I wonder what other kind of chicanery he cooked up before leaving???

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at September 27, 2019 04:50 PM (438dO)

107 Schiff had the crap sandwich in August.


Posted by: torabora

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Exactly. They changed the rule AFTER the complaint was submitted, then resubmitted.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at September 27, 2019 04:50 PM (YslsA)

108 There are a lot of conservative "journalists" who are complete hacks, but Sean Davis is one of the best there is. Frankly, everyone at The Federalist is top notch, and their scoops are usually outstanding.

No wonder NRO hates them.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 27, 2019 04:50 PM (AFSld)

109 I believe we have attained critical mass....

Posted by: Archer at September 27, 2019 04:50 PM (gmo/4)

110 We've been using this rule for eternity.

Posted by: School PTO Whistleblower's Club at September 27, 2019 04:50 PM (sX1BW)

111 43
Why did Trump approve this change in the definition of a 'whistleblower'? Did he not know?

Posted by: IC at September 27, 2019 04:45 PM (a0IVu)

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Trump doesn't approve individual forms.

Anyone who thinks that "nothing will happen" or wants to snark that "Huber will come" better starting paying attention.

If nothing was going to happen, these people wouldn't be in such a piss all over themselves frenzy.

They are utterly desperate to save their necks. Why is Pelosi saying Barr has "gone rogue" if he's not doing anything?

I thought he was Sleepin' Session II, the Deep State's Best Friend.

But no, the Dems are flipping out. They know the noose is tightening.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 27, 2019 04:50 PM (cfSRQ)

112 87 When's the shooting start?
Posted by: Archer at September 27, 2019 04:48 PM (gmo/4)


Depends if it's us on the wrong end of the barrel, dude. That has already happened.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 27, 2019 04:50 PM (zBaqJ)

113 81 'How can we dance
when our skull is burning?'
Posted by: garrett at September 27, 2019 04:47 PM (5p8pS)

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lolol

Posted by: SMH at September 27, 2019 04:50 PM (RU4sa)

114 >> I believe we have attained critical mass....


Still Growing.

Posted by: Jerry Nadler at September 27, 2019 04:50 PM (5p8pS)

115 The President isn't a member of the Intelligence Community.

He should have ripped up the complaint on live television and said "I'm the President, now fuck off"

Posted by: Jay in PA at September 27, 2019 04:50 PM (rfyYi)

116 I believe we have attained critical mass....
Posted by: Archer at September 27, 2019 04:50 PM (gmo/4)
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Lord have mercy!

Posted by: Axeman at September 27, 2019 04:51 PM (DuZls)

117 Now, the flaming shelves!
Posted by: Axeman at September 27, 2019 04:49 PM


Let's not go too far with the flaming, ok?

Posted by: Shep! at September 27, 2019 04:51 PM (DMUuz)

118 FLAMING SKULL HOW WE MISSED YOU LET US CRUSH OUR ENEMIES AND SET THEM AFIRE

Posted by: Friday afternoon joncelli at September 27, 2019 04:51 PM (RD7QR)

119 100 Should have fired every fucking top-line asshole in the Federal government. These shits are evil.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 27, 2019 04:49

bring back the spoils system

Posted by: vmom happy to have read a good book! at September 27, 2019 04:51 PM (wW1da)

120 Fire all of them and demolish the buildings.


Will there be salting?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at September 27, 2019 04:51 PM (13dPG)

121 31 How. The. Hell. Does. The. DNI. Do. This. Without. Trumps. Approval.
===
The Executive agencies and ministries are riddled with Deep State Club members of both parties who resent the hell out of Donaldus Maximus for winning and rocking the Beltway boat. They give lip service to being nonpartisan, but in reality they love their positions more than they love their nation...or their president.

Posted by: exdem13 at September 27, 2019 04:51 PM (W+kMI)

122 They are not good at their jobs. I used to think our intelligence community was intelligent, not so.

Posted by: BuckIV at September 27, 2019 04:51 PM (PZ2ib)

123 WAR

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 27, 2019 04:51 PM (yWXpx)

124 Kind of like unmasking. Everyone can do it!

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 27, 2019 04:51 PM (vEIlU)

125 45 Was this DNI Coates' going away gift to Trump?

Just to repeat. Coates was another GOP backstabber.

Posted by: Hedley Lamarr at September 27, 2019 04:51 PM (tDAwn)

126 >>>Should have fired every fucking top-line asshole in the Federal government.


Agreed. You can't drain the swamp if the largest gators are still in positions of power.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 27, 2019 04:51 PM (AFSld)

127 ... and nothing will happen to any bureaucrats, anywhere. Nada. Zip. Zilch.

Posted by: Al Crapton at September 27, 2019 04:51 PM (GlmxK)

128 a Director of National Intelligence official refused to comment on any questions about the secret revision to the whistleblower form, including when it was revised to eliminate the requirement of first-hand knowledge and for what reason.
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they'll know exactly when and who revised the form. They'll try and say it was just a low level flunkie from the Cincinnati office, again.

Posted by: simplemind at September 27, 2019 04:51 PM (JhkYB)

129 108 There are a lot of conservative "journalists" who are complete hacks, but Sean Davis is one of the best there is. Frankly, everyone at The Federalist is top notch, and their scoops are usually outstanding.

No wonder NRO hates them.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 27, 2019 04:50 PM (AFSld)


One exception: David Marcus. He equivocates a bit too much for my taste. Everyone else is a gem, especially Harsanyi and Cleveland.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 27, 2019 04:51 PM (zBaqJ)

130 -
--
When's the shooting start?

Posted by: Archer at September 27, 2019 04:48 PM (gmo/4)

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

Start?

Posted by: Seth Rich at September 27, 2019 04:52 PM (pMGkg)

131 who did DeepState whistler conspire with to get info on the phone call that he should not have been briefed on? This is obviously another PsyOp from within the coup team, so who all ran this op, which leaked the intel?


And will anything be done about it ... or like with Susan Rice's email to herself ..."we changed the rules by the book" ... we ran the coup by the book.

Posted by: illiniwek at September 27, 2019 04:52 PM (Cus5s)

132 DNI applying modern journalism's standards to IC whistleblowers. "Sources say..." or "... according to current and former officials familiar with the matter.

New rules. Always with the new rules. Reminds me of Obama admin changing the rules on sharing of information between services, shortly before Trump's inauguration.

Posted by: Hands at September 27, 2019 04:52 PM (786Ro)

133
Exactly. They changed the rule AFTER the complaint was submitted, then resubmitted.



And this, ladies and gentlemen, is the justification for an investigation of conspiracy.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at September 27, 2019 04:52 PM (oVJmc)

134 >>They are not good at their jobs. I used to think our intelligence community was intelligent, not so.


They work for the Government.

They are barely the Best of the Worst.

Posted by: garrett at September 27, 2019 04:52 PM (5p8pS)

135 https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/09/politics/sue-gordon-

resignation-coats-interrupts-meeting/index.html

Posted by: ace at September 27, 2019 04:52 PM (PbpT7)

136
Let's not go too far with the flaming, ok?

Posted by: Shep! at September 27, 2019 04:51 PM (DMUuz)
Yo! Shep - I heard they discovered an ancient 21 inch stone penis in Sweden, you should probably check it out.

Posted by: DamnedYankee at September 27, 2019 04:52 PM (37IEG)

137 118 FLAMING SKULL HOW WE MISSED YOU LET US CRUSH OUR ENEMIES AND SET THEM AFIRE
Posted by: Friday afternoon joncelli at September 27, 2019 04:51 PM (RD7QR)

Is there enough fire retardant in Washington to put out the Nadler grease fire?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, champion of Urkers everywhere at September 27, 2019 04:52 PM (Uu+Jp)

138 73 I say the best thing for us to do now is to all start filing whistle-blower complaints against Democrats!

Use their new rule change, and swamp them with complaints.

Cloward-Piven their asses with their new rule!
Posted by: gp's Exciting Radio Adventures! at September 27, 2019 04:47 PM (mk9aG)
====================
This is an excellent idea!

Posted by: Murrican Ninja War Eeyore at September 27, 2019 04:52 PM (xptlg)

139 >>Should have fired every fucking top-line asshole in the Federal government.



And honestly, the president should start firing them now. How many times is he going to be screwed until he learns a lesson?

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 27, 2019 04:52 PM (AFSld)

140 The entire intelligence apparatus of our government should be burned to the ground.

Posted by: Mark1971 at September 27, 2019 04:52 PM (xPl2J)

141 Steiner. He will come.

Posted by: Guy Who Says "Steiner. He will come." at September 27, 2019 04:52 PM (XI8mD)

142 Will any of these fuckers ever be held accountable? Seriously, Teh Forefathers would have long ago lit the flint.

Posted by: TehAdmiral at September 27, 2019 04:53 PM (1TIUV)

143 How come he can post links?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 27, 2019 04:53 PM (xfb67)

144 The intel community went rogue long ago. And they have also been wrong or late the last 50 years

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 27, 2019 04:53 PM (yWXpx)

145 It was uploaded just days before the complaint was lodged.

Posted by: Max Power at September 27, 2019 04:53 PM (llxrS)

146 Just saw this. Just wow.

So the IC initally has spys all over the WH. Trump over the last two years does a half way decent job eliminating the spys to the point they're not in position to get first hand accounts of what Trump is doing.

IC says "No problem, we'll just change the rules."

Posted by: WisRich at September 27, 2019 04:53 PM (G0vdT)

147 130 -
--
When's the shooting start?

Posted by: Archer at September 27, 2019 04:48 PM (gmo/4)

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

Start?
Posted by: Seth Rich at September 27, 2019 04:52 PM (pMGkg)


"Ahem..."

- - Steve Scalise

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 27, 2019 04:53 PM (zBaqJ)

148 Basically, they created a Propaganda clause.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 27, 2019 04:53 PM (vEIlU)

149 1 meep meep motherfuckers!
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 27, 2019 04:40 PM (d7Ww2)

* approving Pepe frog *

Posted by: Serious Cat at September 27, 2019 04:53 PM (Xqo6t)

150
How can you have a republic if the executive is not in charge of the intelligence agencies or the national police force, and if any random judge can simply tell him to go stuff it?
Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at September 27, 2019 04:48 PM (Zxvxj)

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To ask is to answer.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 27, 2019 04:53 PM (AzW6q)

151 He should have ripped up the complaint on live television and said "I'm the President, now fuck off"
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That day is coming. And then, there will be blood.

They won't have it any other way.

Posted by: simplemind at September 27, 2019 04:53 PM (vjXU3)

152 Should have fired every fucking top-line asshole in the Federal government.

Trump made the same mistake Bush did: he didn't clean house the way Obama and Clinton did. Top level mistake. He should have fired EVERYONE and then had them be re-hired, one by one, if they were good enough and could be trusted. Just like a hostile takeover.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2019 04:53 PM (KZzsI)

153 >>How come he can post links?


Whom?

Posted by: garrett at September 27, 2019 04:53 PM (5p8pS)

154 He sits around and watches them do it without
acting. He's way, way too hands-off with the various agencies, like he
thinks they're an independent body he can only suggest things to and
appoint heads of. He told them to declassify stuff months ago and they
said basically "F U" and never have. Trump's response? Tweet about it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2019 04:49 PM (KZzsI)

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Yeah, he's a real passive guy. Not into results at all. That's one interpretation.

The other is that he's watching these guy destroy themselves. How many federal prosecutors are covering this crap now? If the Dems really thought they were in the clear, they wouldn't do something so transparently stupid as changing the rules this blatantly.

Oh, and doing it right before impeachment.

Bonus: Trump just mapped another sleeper cell within CIA.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 27, 2019 04:53 PM (cfSRQ)

155 Perfectly normal change. Trump is going down.

Posted by: Chris Wallace's Lying Mouth at September 27, 2019 04:53 PM (Pzzpr)

156 Will there be salting?

Normally yes, but that's valuable land. I'm thinking a yuuuge golden Trump Tower where the FBI building is.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 27, 2019 04:53 PM (ZGrMX)

157 Deep state is in Deep Shit indeed. Prescient.

Posted by: Max Power at September 27, 2019 04:53 PM (llxrS)

158 Now every single thing that gets onto the grapevine can be relayed to the House and Schitf!

Because...concerns!!

Posted by: Axeman at September 27, 2019 04:53 PM (DuZls)

159 >>>One exception: David Marcus. He equivocates a bit too much for my taste.




Fair point.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 27, 2019 04:54 PM (AFSld)

160 " They are not good at their jobs. I used to think our intelligence community was intelligent, not so."

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Yeah, I'm tired of hearing about how many things they do "we don't know about that save American lives"

Considering this guy was sitting around trying to pretend the President engaged in a *campaign finance violation* it is hard to take these people seriously.

Posted by: Jay in PA at September 27, 2019 04:54 PM (rfyYi)

161 How can you have a republic if the executive is not in charge of the intelligence agencies or the national police force, and if any random judge can simply tell him to go stuff it?
Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at September 27, 2019 04:48 PM (Zxvxj)

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To ask is to answer.

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The same way you have a republic with a President not in charge of the DOJ.

Posted by: SH at September 27, 2019 04:54 PM (sX1BW)

162 So... anybody can file a "whistleblower" complaint based upon what we read in the 'news'?


/yeah, yeah. somebody already said that.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at September 27, 2019 04:54 PM (1g7ch)

163 The Intelligence Community thinks it's gold, when it's really shit.

Posted by: Ernst Schreiber at September 27, 2019 04:54 PM (xmKbk)

164 they'll know exactly when and who revised the form.
They'll try and say it was just a low level flunkie from the
Cincinnati office, again.

Posted by: simplemind at September 27, 2019 04:51 PM (JhkYB)
Those wascawee interns, they've done it again!

Posted by: Elmer J. Fudd, ICIG at September 27, 2019 04:54 PM (37IEG)

165 KanalPlanCom has determined that the excavation schedule of the Dignity Canal shall be accelerated.

Posted by: Miklos form KanalPlanCom at September 27, 2019 04:54 PM (QzkSJ)

166 Will any of these fuckers ever be held accountable? Seriously, Teh Forefathers would have long ago lit the flint.
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I was known to summarily hang traitors.

Posted by: Gen'l George Washington at September 27, 2019 04:54 PM (CM+vI)

167 I don't even want to know how you're typing...


Hunt and peck?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at September 27, 2019 04:54 PM (13dPG)

168 Have actual criminals been running wild while the FBI has been conducting a coup?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, champion of Urkers everywhere at September 27, 2019 04:54 PM (Uu+Jp)

169 The Ferris Bueller Rule.

Posted by: tulsi 2020! at September 27, 2019 04:55 PM (33O8j)

170 They are not good at their jobs. I used to think our intelligence community was intelligent, not so.

When they couldn't even kill a third rate banana republic dictator in an island at war (Castro) I knew we were dealing with a host of idiots.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2019 04:55 PM (KZzsI)

171 So......they were caught flummoxing, lying and cheating.

Again.

Repercussions?

Zero.

Again.

Barack Mugabe had Holder, look what we got.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at September 27, 2019 04:55 PM (Z+IKu)

172 Sue Gordon is a masculine-looking woman.

Posted by: SMH at September 27, 2019 04:55 PM (RU4sa)

173 In the Navy we used Purple K on Nadler sized grease fires.

Posted by: torabora at September 27, 2019 04:55 PM (XI8mD)

174 When this is over and Trump is reelected there needs to be some serious house cleaning in the intel community. As in, agencies destroyed and people fired.

Posted by: Friday afternoon joncelli at September 27, 2019 04:55 PM (RD7QR)

175 >>I don't even want to know how you're typing...


Gunt and Pecker.

Posted by: Jerry nadler at September 27, 2019 04:55 PM (5p8pS)

176 Breitbart has an article up about an interview with Fred Fleitz in which he suspects Schiffties staff wrote the complaint and funneled it thru the intelligence channels so that Schiffs committee handles the complaint. It is especially interesting given this latest news.

Posted by: Achromatic refuse at September 27, 2019 04:55 PM (Hdg8X)

177 >>>153 >>How come he can post links?


Whom?

...

I hate a lot of "internet memes," but one I think is funny is when people say "whomst" instead of whom.

Posted by: ace at September 27, 2019 04:55 PM (PbpT7)

178 This complaint is desperation manifest.


Only people scared to death their machinations were about to be exposed would so obviously act in this manner, and hope the outcry would protect their desperation from exposure.

Fail.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, a low grade social fever at September 27, 2019 04:55 PM (NVYyb)

179 >>>Will any of these fuckers ever be held accountable? Seriously, Teh Forefathers would have long ago lit the flint.



No. A few low level people will be fired, but the big fish? I sincerely doubt you'll see anything happen to them.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 27, 2019 04:55 PM (AFSld)

180
I assume these rules can be changed back VIA EXECUTIVE ORDER.

But of course, Justice Julia Roberts and Buch M. Danno will not allow that.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 27, 2019 04:55 PM (zBaqJ)

181 45 Was this DNI Coates' going away gift to Trump?
Posted by: Lizzy at September 27, 2019 04:45 PM (bDqIh)


My thoughts exactly. I just looked it up and his last day was August 15. Timing sure seems right.

Posted by: moon_over_vermont at September 27, 2019 04:56 PM (kUmUV)

182 When they couldn't even kill a third rate banana republic dictator in an island at war (Castro) I knew we were dealing with a host of idiots.

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We aren't going to fall for the old third rate banana republic dictator trick anymore.

Posted by: CIA at September 27, 2019 04:56 PM (sX1BW)

183 In fact, she looks like Gary Bussey in drag.

Posted by: SMH at September 27, 2019 04:56 PM (RU4sa)

184 We've got the rope.
We've got the lampposts.
We lack the will.

Posted by: Vlad the Impaler, whittling away like mad at September 27, 2019 04:56 PM (ySnWN)

185 I don't even want to know how you're typing...
Posted by: Jordan61 at September 27, 2019 04:47 PM


Prehensility and dexterity are just a few of a Florida men's reputed superpowers.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 27, 2019 04:56 PM (DMUuz)

186 I'm filing second-hand whistle-blower complaints against:

Omar for fraud,
Hillary for security violations,
Hunter for corruption,
Joe for groping little girls,
Warren and Harris for slandering Ferguson police.

Everybody join in! Grab some whistle-blower forms and get to work. It's your patriotic duty to blow the second-hand whistle on these miscreants.

Posted by: gp's Exciting Radio Adventures! at September 27, 2019 04:56 PM (mk9aG)

187 I say the best thing for us to do now is to all start filing whistle-blower complaints against Democrats!

Use their new rule change, and swamp them with complaints.


Oh, that's a great idea. Apply the New Rules to everyone!

Posted by: Ian S. at September 27, 2019 04:56 PM (ZGrMX)

188 Linda has subscribed me to this word of the day mailing list. Today the word was "erudite," as in "She developed a reputation as an erudite scholar who was passionate about her field of study."

I wrote back and replaced "erudite scholar" with "hosebag" and "her field of study" with "heroin and blow."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 27, 2019 04:56 PM (ClOmq)

189 Yeah, he's a real passive guy. Not into results at all. That's one interpretation

He gave them a direct command. They said "no." And you think he's using some secret special 3rd dimension chess trick that will ... do what, exactly? Make them release the information he ordered them to? Eventually? Somehow?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2019 04:56 PM (KZzsI)

190 As Schumer succinctly and presciently put it, "If you take them on the IC can get back at you six ways to Sunday."


We need a bigger Pinochet.

Posted by: Gossamer Penguin at September 27, 2019 04:56 PM (q5DDU)

191 The intel community went rogue long ago. And they have also been wrong or late the last 50 years
Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 27, 2019 04:53 PM (yWXpx)

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Yeah... the reason the DIA had to prep the battlespace in A'stan was that the CIA told Bush they had no ability to do it.

They have no interest in protecting the US' foreign interests and don't bother with it. And they don't even mind if anyone hits us, because it gives them MOAR DELICIOUS POWER when we get attacked.

They DO have an interest in running the US alongside the Democrats.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 27, 2019 04:56 PM (AzW6q)

192 I thought I'd never say it but I want a group of Generals to step up and say we swore an oath to uphold the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic. Cut this shit out or else!

Unfortunately I think they replaced all the generals with liberal cucks. That's why it's always the colonels that do these things.

Posted by: Pig to man dreaming of lions at September 27, 2019 04:56 PM (lPDqu)

193 177 >>>153 >>How come he can post links?


Whom?

...

I hate a lot of "internet memes," but one I think is funny is when people say "whomst" instead of whom.

Posted by: ace at September 27, 2019 04:55 PM (PbpT7)


That's got to be Popeye posting as it's how he talks.


Asksts notsk for whomsk the bellsk tollsks... etc.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 27, 2019 04:57 PM (zBaqJ)

194 Okay, so where in the F*CK are those damn IG reports? Are they waiting until 2021?

Posted by: MW at September 27, 2019 04:57 PM (hNTtn)

195 Trump made the same mistake Bush did: he didn't
clean house the way Obama and Clinton did. Top level mistake. He
should have fired EVERYONE and then had them be re-hired, one by one, if
they were good enough and could be trusted. Just like a hostile
takeover.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2019 04:53 PM (KZzsI)

---
Except that Obama and Clinton had loyal minions lined up on the runway.

Who did Trump have? Priebus was a liar. They all were. So who could he put in that would be in any way better?

Oh, and then there was the Swamp which gets to confirm or stall them. So he does what he can and works incrementally.

One doesn't just drain a swamp in a day, and I'm disappointed that people keep pretending that with a stroke of the pen Trump could have done this.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 27, 2019 04:57 PM (cfSRQ)

196 Finally a skull,
were you waiting for a bigger pile of bodies?

Gonna need a bigger meat wagon.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at September 27, 2019 04:57 PM (9PtLS)

197 Breitbart has an article up about an interview with Fred Fleitz in which he suspects Schiffties staff wrote the complaint and funneled it thru the intelligence channels so that Schiffs committee handles the complaint. It is especially interesting given this latest news.
Posted by: Achromatic refuse at September 27, 2019 04:55 PM (Hdg8X)
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Unsolicited "Intelligence" reports on everything that the IC is privy to, strait to Shitf.

Posted by: Axeman at September 27, 2019 04:57 PM (DuZls)

198 I think it is curious the Leaker or as Seb Corks calls him Hearsay blower hasn't been brought forth as it will show how he was a plant into the White house.

Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2019 04:57 PM (ZCEU2)

199 Mr. Hello Kitty neon pink panties will loose Iowa, New Hampshire, a kidney in China, marbles and his brain maggots will win the nomination.

If he were in the mafia, he'd already be dead.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at September 27, 2019 04:57 PM (9PtLS)

200 'Whomstever is last to leave, please turn off the Blog'

Posted by: AoS Signage at September 27, 2019 04:58 PM (5p8pS)

201 I feel like all all of DC is out to ruin and destroy Trump.

It is really mind blowing.

Trump is gonna go ballistic.

I think the DNI has some explaining to do. He swore he was not partisan.

Posted by: Czech Chick at September 27, 2019 04:58 PM (J9wxX)

202 I was just reading about this from Sean's account, but then over here, with a picture of the Urgent Concern form


Undercover Huber@JohnWHuber

4h
Someone FOIA and lawsuit this @TomFitton


also,

Undercover Huber @JohnWHuber

3h
Only a few hours after taking office as Acting DNI in Aug 2019, Maguire was ambushed with th "whistleblower" complaint

Only a few hours after taking office as DNI in Mar 2017, Dan Coats was ambushed with a "briefing" on the Russia Collusion probe by then FBI Director Comey


hmmm emoji

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 27, 2019 04:58 PM (vEIlU)

203 When they couldn't even kill a third rate banana republic dictator in an island at war (Castro) I knew we were dealing with a host of idiots."

Indeed. The "Best and Brightest" my arse...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at September 27, 2019 04:58 PM (6qErC)

204 Given this change, I think we should prepare ourselves for "Act Two" and "Act Three or Act N".

If they will go this far to get Trump, they won't lose anything by trying to make this story into a "pattern of behavior" complaint, and do it faster than the underlying fact pattern can emerge and save him.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, a low grade social fever at September 27, 2019 04:58 PM (NVYyb)

205 168 Have actual criminals been running wild while the FBI has been conducting a coup?
================
If the effort the CIA and FBI put into this coup stuff had been channeled into their work, then Iran and Turkey would be different places right now, Yemen would be a mass grave, and MS13 busts would be a monthly occurrence.

Posted by: exdem13 at September 27, 2019 04:59 PM (W+kMI)

206

The Republic is crumbling before our very eyes.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 27, 2019 04:59 PM (vEIlU)

207 The flaming skull is appropriate, but I want Flaming Skull Pudding Cups like indictments to Brennan.

Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2019 04:59 PM (ZCEU2)

208 Was this DNI Coates' going away gift to Trump?
Posted by: Lizzy at September 27, 2019 04:45 PM (bDqIh)

My thoughts exactly. I just looked it up and his last day was August 15. Timing sure seems right.

Posted by: moon_over_vermont at September 27, 2019 04:56 PM (kUmUV)



Hmm. Perhaps we are blackguarding him. Who became acting head on the 15th?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at September 27, 2019 04:59 PM (13dPG)

209 >>The Republic is crumbling before our very eyes.


At this point, we're just picking through the rubble.

Posted by: garrett at September 27, 2019 04:59 PM (5p8pS)

210 Asksts notsk for whomsk the bellsk tollsks... etc.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

Rooskies EVERYWHERE

Posted by: Miklos, checking under the bed at September 27, 2019 04:59 PM (QzkSJ)

211 Posted by: Anon a mouse at September 27, 2019 04:58 PM (6qErC)

The sainted Kennedy fucked that up.

Posted by: Pig to man dreaming of lions at September 27, 2019 04:59 PM (lPDqu)

212 Regarding Pompeo's subpoena, I hope he tells them to fuck off.

Posted by: IC at September 27, 2019 05:00 PM (a0IVu)

213 -
--
We've got the rope.

We've got the lampposts.

We lack the will.


Posted by: Vlad the Impaler, whittling away like mad at September 27, 2019 04:56 PM

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It's possible we've become too "civilized" to maintain a republic.

Posted by: irright at September 27, 2019 05:00 PM (pMGkg)

214 One doesn't just drain a swamp in a day, "

Swamp. Ass. Alligators.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at September 27, 2019 05:00 PM (6qErC)

215 Funny. I thought a change in federal regulations required an administrative process consisting of a draft regulation, publication in the Federal Register, a comment period, etc.

Posted by: The Poster Formerly Known as Mr. Barky at September 27, 2019 05:00 PM (hKi6n)

216 They discovered an ancient 21 inch stone penis in Sweden.

Length? Or girth?
Either way, Pounce!!

Posted by: B. Frank at September 27, 2019 05:00 PM (/Xo0R)

217 If nothing was going to happen, these people wouldn't be in such a piss all over themselves frenzy.

They are utterly desperate to save their necks. Why is Pelosi saying Barr has "gone rogue" if he's not doing anything?

I thought he was Sleepin' Session II, the Deep State's Best Friend.

But no, the Dems are flipping out. They know the noose is tightening.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 27, 2019 04:50 PM (cfSRQ)
================================
I hope that you are right. But these Dems have been in a piss frenzy since, literally, the day Trump was sworn in. And before that even.

Posted by: Murrican Ninja War Eeyore at September 27, 2019 05:00 PM (xptlg)

218 He gave them a direct command. They said "no." And
you think he's using some secret special 3rd dimension chess trick that
will ... do what, exactly? Make them release the information he
ordered them to? Eventually? Somehow?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2019 04:56 PM (KZzsI)

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Okay, so he overrides them.

And then the GOP squishes vote to impeach him too because he's "endangered national security."

Trump doesn't posses a big red "Easy" button that he's too lazy to push to solve this.

Plus: You don't know a fraction of what he knows. You see maybe one piece and board and scream that he should take it.

He's got other things going on as well, like rebuilding American manfucturing and standing up to China. His economic team has been first-rate. Flushing out the traitors in intel will take time. Happily, they're helping him do it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 27, 2019 05:00 PM (cfSRQ)

219 no, they will be given a book deal and a corner office.
________________

and a gig as an "independent" analyst on CNN or MSNBC.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at September 27, 2019 05:01 PM (k4dH2)

220 I really think executions will be necessary to end this behavior. These people think they can get away with anything.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, a low grade social fever at September 27, 2019 05:01 PM (NVYyb)

221 Remember people, the best way to deal with all these fuckers is to give Trump a second term next year and gleefully watch as heads explode and people run for cover.

Posted by: exdem13 at September 27, 2019 05:01 PM (W+kMI)

222 Have actual criminals been running wild while the FBI has been conducting a coup?

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

No, we caught that Full House chick.

And look out Kansas Basketball. We are gunning for you.

- the F. B. I.

Posted by: SH at September 27, 2019 05:01 PM (sX1BW)

223 yeah, but the Blago flaming skull was styling, too.
Where's Billy Barr hiding? #twoweeks

Posted by: micky at September 27, 2019 05:01 PM (nizGE)

224 The Republic is crumbling before our very eyes."

Over by FDR's 3rd term.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at September 27, 2019 05:01 PM (6qErC)

225 212 Regarding Pompeo's subpoena, I hope he tells them to fuck off.
Posted by: IC at September 27, 2019 05:00 PM (a0IVu)


Seriously every person who is subpoenaed should refuse to go.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 27, 2019 05:01 PM (zBaqJ)

226 Burning Skeleton Head!!!!!

Posted by: Weasel at September 27, 2019 05:01 PM (zb4/n)

227
3h
Only a few hours after taking office as Acting DNI in Aug 2019, Maguire was ambushed with th "whistleblower" complaint

Only a few hours after taking office as DNI in Mar 2017, Dan Coats was ambushed with a "briefing" on the Russia Collusion probe by then FBI Director Comey

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If it was me, I'd hang em. But, you civilized people, you should at least put them in Leavenworth.

Posted by: Gen'l George Washington at September 27, 2019 05:01 PM (Ynr2A)

228 Washington hung Thomas Hickey for mutiny sedition and treachery.

Posted by: torabora at September 27, 2019 05:01 PM (XI8mD)

229 170 When they couldn't even kill a third rate banana republic dictator in an
island at war (Castro) I knew we were dealing with a host of idiots.


I was two (years old).


Posted by: Enquiring Minds Want to Know at September 27, 2019 05:01 PM (vWMNq)

230 How convenient.

"Let me tell you: You take on the intelligence community -- they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you," said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer Tuesday evening on MSNBC after host Rachel Maddow informed him that intelligence sources told NBC news that the briefing had not been delayed.

He said this on or about January 3rd, 2017 -- Prior to Trump's inauguration.

Sounds less like an observation than a suggestion to me.

Posted by: GnuBreed at September 27, 2019 05:01 PM (Z4rgH)

231 >>>Trump doesn't posses a big red "Easy" button that he's too lazy to push to solve this.


No, but Sloppy Daniels does.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 27, 2019 05:01 PM (AFSld)

232 The Republic is crumbling before our very eyes.

The last vestige of the Old Republic has been swept away. Senators will now rule their local states.

Posted by: Grand Moff Romney at September 27, 2019 05:01 PM (13dPG)

233 if christopher taylor was potus, everything would be alright.

Posted by: trapper's girl at September 27, 2019 05:02 PM (J5Hfq)

234 But I thought paste made you smart.

Posted by: Joe Biden at September 27, 2019 05:02 PM (2aX9r)

235 I say we give Trump power to proscribe. If we are going as Roman as the Praetorian Guard seems to want us to go, what with all these bullshit accusations from the IC, then lets go full-on Roman.

Proscribe them.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, a low grade social fever at September 27, 2019 05:02 PM (NVYyb)

236 Hang Them High was a really good movie.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at September 27, 2019 05:02 PM (9PtLS)

237 I thought a change in federal regulations required an administrative process consisting of a draft regulation, publication in the Federal Register, a comment period, etc."

Only for Republicans. Dims have a pen and a phone

Posted by: Anon a mouse at September 27, 2019 05:02 PM (6qErC)

238 >>>Remember people, the best way to deal with all these fuckers is to give Trump a second term next year and gleefully watch as heads explode and people run for cover.



Seconded!

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 27, 2019 05:02 PM (AFSld)

239 On re-read. They didn't change the regulation? They just changed the form. And now the form is not consistent with the regulation but it is "what you have to file."

Posted by: The Poster Formerly Known as Mr. Barky at September 27, 2019 05:03 PM (hKi6n)

240 So a bureaucrat can change an evidentiary standard on a whim? Where are checks and balances?

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at September 27, 2019 05:03 PM (oVJmc)

241 Here we can finally see how deep the march through the institutions has embedded itself.

Posted by: Axeman at September 27, 2019 05:03 PM (DuZls)

242 The dims have launched another torpedo that will circle around and bite them in the ass. How do they keep doing it? And why?

Posted by: USNtakim profoundly deplorable. at September 27, 2019 05:03 PM (0OmEj)

243 Oh no...respond to the supoena but give them hell and walk out.

Posted by: torabora at September 27, 2019 05:03 PM (XI8mD)

244 I'm really shocked by how incompetent these people are. How much could they really be protecting the country when they can't even fake a form change?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 27, 2019 05:03 PM (1ISKN)

245 Sock fail! Can a COB clean up aisle 216 please?

This phone SUCKS

Posted by: adobe juan kenobe at September 27, 2019 05:03 PM (/Xo0R)

246 I really think executions will be necessary to end this behavior. These people think they can get away with anything.
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Exactly why this has to end in blood. If we don't spill theirs they will spill ours.

I hope Trump's protection people are geared up, because if they can't beat him, or impeach him, you know what's next. . .

Posted by: simplemind at September 27, 2019 05:03 PM (6ojyJ)

247 232 The Republic is crumbling before our very eyes.

The last vestige of the Old Republic has been swept away. Senators will now rule their local states.
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Fear of this twittermob will keep the states in line.

Posted by: exdem13 at September 27, 2019 05:04 PM (W+kMI)

248
No. A few low level people will be fired, but the big fish? I sincerely doubt you'll see anything happen to them.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 27, 2019 04:55 PM (AFSld)

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That's the problem... let's say you make a case against someone like Comey, Clapper, Brennan, Yates, Rice, or Lynch.

A real case, I mean. One you plan to win, and plan to make them fight tooth-and-nail if they have any vain hope of staying out of prison.

That would mean making a case on Obama and Thundershart, too. No way to avoid it. They were up to their necks in it. You would have to charge them as well. At very least, you'd have to expose them as criminals to the public and then shamefully fail to charge them.

And Barr isn't going to go there.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 27, 2019 05:04 PM (AzW6q)

249 whomst surveils the surveillance state?

Posted by: ace at September 27, 2019 05:04 PM (PbpT7)

250 "Let me tell you: You take on the intelligence community -- they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you," said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer Tuesday evening on MSNBC after host Rachel Maddow informed him that intelligence sources told NBC news that the briefing had not been delayed.

He said this on or about January 3rd, 2017 -- Prior to Trump's inauguration.

Sounds less like an observation than a suggestion to me.
Posted by: GnuBreed at September 27, 2019 05:01 PM (Z4rgH)
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Not really. They wouldn't have any ways if the Congress didn't take up the mantle.

Corruption starts in Congress.

Posted by: Axeman at September 27, 2019 05:04 PM (DuZls)

251 And if this is the actual "rule", maybe all those "patriots" in the IC can make second hand complaints against the deep state actors and by attaining "whistleblower" status, protecting their lovely pensions, etc.

Posted by: The Poster Formerly Known as Mr. Barky at September 27, 2019 05:04 PM (hKi6n)

252 And Barr is silent Sam in all this.

Done nothing. Nada.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, a low grade social fever at September 27, 2019 05:04 PM (NVYyb)

253 220 I really think executions will be necessary to end this behavior. These people think they can get away with anything.
__________________

And so far, they have gotten away with everything. So why wouldn't they think they can keep it going?

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at September 27, 2019 05:05 PM (k4dH2)

254 It's not abalone, but it'll do.

Posted by: clutch cargo at September 27, 2019 05:05 PM (Z1ykJ)

255 Oh, and then there was the Swamp which gets to confirm or stall them.

Only the people in charge. The rest are just up to him. Seriously, it would have been tough but doable, and he didn't and its biting him on the rear end now. Missed opportunities, but he could start doing it RIGHT NOW.

These people think they can get away with anything.

And, from all evidence... they're right.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2019 05:05 PM (KZzsI)

256 220 I really think executions will be necessary to end this behavior. These people think they can get away with anything.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, a low grade social fever at September 27, 2019 05:01 PM (NVYyb)
__________________________________________

This.

Posted by: TehAdmiral at September 27, 2019 05:05 PM (1TIUV)

257 whomst surveils the surveillance state?
Posted by: ace at September 27, 2019 05:04 PM (PbpT7)
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I yam whomstk I yam.

Posted by: Popeye at September 27, 2019 05:05 PM (DuZls)

258 194
Okay, so where in the F*CK are those damn IG reports? Are they waiting until 2021?

Posted by: MW at September 27, 2019 04:57 PM (hNTtn)

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The FISA one was complete and sent to impacted parties for rebuttals. After they get these, the IG will include responses to their comments.

Which means that all the current crazy is because everyone implicated got to see the confidential draft.

So: Hillary suddenly wants to do TV?
Schiff now launches a frontal assault?
Oh look, the Senate is going after the NRA for some odd reason.

All the swamp critters know what is in there, and they're scrambling to damage Trump before it comes out.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 27, 2019 05:05 PM (cfSRQ)

259 So we are now down to attempting to impeach a president based on hearsay filed by an anonymous person right after the rules were changed to allow this anonymous person to file a hearsay complaint.

That rumbling you hear is the earthquake being caused by all our founding fathers spinning simultaneously in their graves.

Posted by: bluebell at September 27, 2019 05:05 PM (aXucN)

260

How Dare You!

Posted by: Greta Thunberg at September 27, 2019 05:05 PM (IkqSn)

261 Why aren't Republican bureaucrats "flooding the zone" with complaints based on water cooler gossip?

Posted by: Blago at September 27, 2019 05:05 PM (sjTfF)

262 I'm really shocked by how incompetent these people are. How much could they really be protecting the country when they can't even fake a form change?
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Schiff and his people are idiots. This, with a push from Brennan, is his operation. Schiff's not competent but they are desperate.

Liquor store run imminent.

Posted by: simplemind at September 27, 2019 05:06 PM (JhkYB)

263 This is just such BS....I'm livid.

Can anything be done about it?

Posted by: Tami at September 27, 2019 05:06 PM (cF8AT)

264
And Barr is silent Sam in all this.
Done nothing. Nada.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, a low grade social fever at September 27, 2019 05:04 PM (NVYyb)



To think, some thought Sessions would be hard to replace.


Super easy, barely an inconvenience!

Posted by: clutch cargo at September 27, 2019 05:06 PM (Z1ykJ)

265 These people think they can get away with anything.

And, from all evidence... they're right.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2019 05:05 PM (KZzsI)
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A myriad Rollo Tomasis lined up like Agent Smiths.

Posted by: Popeye at September 27, 2019 05:06 PM (DuZls)

266 Seconded!

Thirded!

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #PurgeProgressivism at September 27, 2019 05:06 PM (HaL55)

267 241 Here we can finally see how deep the march through the institutions has embedded itself.
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CPTN Charles wants to go Pinochet on the Deep State and the DNC. I am running out of reasons to oppose this measure.

Posted by: exdem13 at September 27, 2019 05:06 PM (W+kMI)

268 "I hope Trump's protection people are geared up, because if they can't beat him, or impeach him, you know what's next. . ."

You said what I was afraid to say. The Democrat party will stop Trump by _any_ means necessary. Who doubts it now?

Posted by: gp's Exciting Radio Adventures! at September 27, 2019 05:06 PM (mk9aG)

269 More: A source says this was all done so that the usual rule, requiring this to go through the AG, would be circumvented, and this could be sent directly to Congress.

How do we know this?

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 27, 2019 05:06 PM (vEIlU)

270 this is my surprised face... :-I

really, it is...

why are you looking at me like that.

Posted by: redc1c4 at September 27, 2019 05:06 PM (54P92)

271 Deep State goes Calvinball. Destroy Trump -- "by whatever means necessary."

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at September 27, 2019 05:06 PM (H8QX8)

272 Why aren't Republican bureaucrats "flooding the zone" with complaints based on water cooler gossip?


Maybe they are both too scared still.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at September 27, 2019 05:06 PM (13dPG)

273 whomst surveils the surveillance state?


Whometh will must risk his life, fortune, and sacred grammar.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at September 27, 2019 05:06 PM (FNXDu)

274 252
And Barr is silent Sam in all this.

Done nothing. Nada.


Posted by: Huck Follywood, a low grade social fever at September 27, 2019 05:04 PM (NVYyb)

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If that's the case, why did Pelosi take time yesterday to declare he had gone "rogue?"

She should be happy he's doing nothing.

Narrator voice: He's not doing nothing.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 27, 2019 05:06 PM (cfSRQ)

275 Well then there's a paper trail as to who was responsible for this change.

Did they really think the change was going to be missed and the timing questioned?

Posted by: Wonkish Rogue at September 27, 2019 05:06 PM (BRpqW)

276 Schiff set the stage for a continuous flow of bimbo eruptions from the IC by begging everyone to spill any and all gossip. And, why did he do that? Because the DeepState IG Atkinson is going to bring every one of them straight to Schiff, no matter how ludicrous.

Posted by: Ever at September 27, 2019 05:06 PM (ZZDMQ)

277 Can anything be done about it?

Posted by: Tami at September 27, 2019 05:06 PM (cF8AT)


Yes, but SMOD is MIA.

Posted by: clutch cargo at September 27, 2019 05:06 PM (Z1ykJ)

278 266 Seconded!

Thirded!
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #PurgeProgressivism at September 27, 2019 05:06 PM (HaL55)
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Fourthted?

Posted by: Weasel at September 27, 2019 05:06 PM (zb4/n)

279 next time Trump fires someone like Coats, he needs to have them find out when they show up for work, and security hands them a box with the stuff in it. this is sabotage ...


DNI is executive branch (right?), and without consulting, they bypassed the safety valve of going to the AG before going to another branch of government. And as said above, they did it AFTER the report was submitted ... leaving a trail of intent. This is sedition ... (?) or some such serious act.


And who helped leak the intel ... they are trying to remove the president, but the real source and the hearsay guy both maintain secrecy? We find out about other whistle blowers ... in Obama's administration they were punished, and the ones exposed got reassigned, not fired.


The Republic is on edge ... when do the dawn raids begin?

Posted by: illiniwek at September 27, 2019 05:06 PM (Cus5s)

280 Maybe I'm a contrarian, but rather than Hillary, Obama, Clapper, and the gang, I'd much rather see Fusion GPS and a great big metric shit-ton of "journalists" get prosecuted.

Posted by: Hands at September 27, 2019 05:07 PM (786Ro)

281 Looks like I'll finally be used.

Posted by: Insurrection Act at September 27, 2019 05:07 PM (Pzzpr)

282 So we are now down to attempting to impeach a president based on hearsay filed by an anonymous person right after the rules were changed to allow this anonymous person to file a hearsay complaint.

That rumbling you hear is the earthquake being caused by all our founding fathers spinning simultaneously in their graves.
Posted by: bluebell at September 27, 2019 05:05 PM (aXucN)
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So that the Congress can be in the President's business 24/7.

A total collapse of the separation of powers.

Posted by: Axeman at September 27, 2019 05:07 PM (DuZls)

283 Where is Barr? Is out he out of the country?

Posted by: IC at September 27, 2019 05:07 PM (a0IVu)

284
Which means that all the current crazy is because everyone implicated got to see the confidential draft.



This is one of the primary reasons that no one gets punished-- the sides prepare their responses to make sure nothing gets done.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at September 27, 2019 05:07 PM (oVJmc)

285 If that's the case, why did Pelosi take time yesterday to declare he had gone "rogue?"


Kayfabe.

Posted by: clutch cargo at September 27, 2019 05:07 PM (Z1ykJ)

286 If there ever was a holy shit moment, this is it.
Whoever changed the rule is in on the coup attempt, they need removed immediately.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at September 27, 2019 05:07 PM (r+sAi)

287 None of this crap could've gotten anywhere without MSM aiding and abetting.

Posted by: Hands at September 27, 2019 05:07 PM (786Ro)

288 This is more evidence (as if we need any) that PDT is slowly gathering the momentum (both popular and political) to drain the swamp.

I truly love that man. No homo.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #PurgeProgressivism at September 27, 2019 05:07 PM (HaL55)

289 All the swamp critters know what is in there, and they're scrambling to damage Trump before it comes out.


Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 27, 2019 05:05 PM (cfSRQ)

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why?

it's not as if anyone will be charged, let alone convicted and do serious time for their crimes.

Posted by: redc1c4 at September 27, 2019 05:07 PM (54P92)

290 They can change it because no one will call them out on it that counts, the media protects them by non reporting.

Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2019 05:08 PM (ZCEU2)

291 Revoke all high level civilian security clearances from those orbiting fed agencies. Appoint council to grant new clearances on a limited basis.

Posted by: 13times at September 27, 2019 05:08 PM (K3B2k)

292 This is just such BS....I'm livid.

Can anything be done about it?
Posted by: Tami at September 27, 2019 05:06 PM (cF8AT)
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Get me that cattle prod we talked about a few days ago and I'll get to work.

Posted by: bluebell at September 27, 2019 05:08 PM (aXucN)

293 and so it begins

Posted by: that guy that always thinks it's beginning at September 27, 2019 05:08 PM (13dPG)

294 Why aren't Republican bureaucrats "flooding the zone" with complaints based on water cooler gossip?

"That is not who we are!"
--GOPe sniffing imperioiusly

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2019 05:08 PM (KZzsI)

295 I heard it from a friend who
heard it from a friend who
heard it from a friend Orange Man Bad

Posted by: Anonymous Whistleblower and The Deep State Band at September 27, 2019 05:08 PM (SfYbS)

296 >>>269 More: A source says this was all done so that the usual rule, requiring this to go through the AG, would be circumvented, and this could be sent directly to Congress.

How do we know this?

...

I do not know the specifics of the process. I think they are available, but I don't know. What I'm told is that if you check certain boxes you can skip the normal process and file this as an "urgent complaint" which must get sent to Congress, and they changed the rules to allow it to be an urgent complaint.

I don't know the facts here. I'm just relaying what I hear, and I don't know the specifics, just the conclusion this guy reaches.

Posted by: ace at September 27, 2019 05:09 PM (PbpT7)

297 Under which DNI was this changed Coats, Gordon, or Maguire?

Date given is August for the whistle blower change.
The change in leadership was August 16.

Posted by: Billy Cole at September 27, 2019 05:09 PM (pr9ci)

298 259 So we are now down to attempting to impeach a president based on hearsay filed by an anonymous person right after the rules were changed to allow this anonymous person to file a hearsay complaint.

That rumbling you hear is the earthquake being caused by all our founding fathers spinning simultaneously in their graves.
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The Founding Father would be asking why we hadn't tarred and feathered those people yet. Or why we hadn't done a mass march on DC with rifles on shoulder (or in the car trunk) to demand that Congress do its effin' duty and repeal and refute everything.

Posted by: exdem13 at September 27, 2019 05:09 PM (W+kMI)

299 Chuck Schumer: "Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you."

Posted by: WisRich at September 27, 2019 05:09 PM (G0vdT)

300 278 Fourthted?


Farted.

Posted by: Enquiring Minds Want to Know at September 27, 2019 05:09 PM (vWMNq)

301 >> I heard it from a friend whomst
heard it from a friend whomst
heard it from a friend Orange Man Bad

Posted by: Oblig. at September 27, 2019 05:09 PM (5p8pS)

302 Maybe I'm a contrarian, but rather than Hillary, Obama, Clapper, and the
gang, I'd much rather see Fusion GPS and a great big metric shit-ton of
"journalists" get prosecuted.


If this isn't the best time in the history of forever to embrace the healing power of "AND," then I don't know when that would be.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #PurgeProgressivism at September 27, 2019 05:09 PM (HaL55)

303 259. I still will not believe they will impeach until a floor vote is scheduled. No vote scheduled yet.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at September 27, 2019 05:10 PM (fYi9j)

304 Whole lotta wishcasting going on here. I'd love to be wrong but I mean, how much more obvious does it have to get that they do whatever they want and the system its self protects them?

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2019 05:10 PM (KZzsI)

305 I don't know the facts here. I'm just relaying what I hear, and I don't know the specifics, just the conclusion this guy reaches.

Posted by: ace at September 27, 2019 05:09 PM (PbpT7)
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Based on the new rules that were uploaded on September 24, 2019, I think we are entitled to treat this as gospel.

Posted by: bluebell at September 27, 2019 05:10 PM (aXucN)

306 @258 "Okay, so where in the F*CK are those damn IG reports? Are they waiting until 2021?"

Production was delayed because they ran out of ways to say "concerning" "policy violation" and "potentially lacking in candor." Their team of Euphemisms for Treason and Treasonous Bastards is working as fast as it can.

Posted by: xnycpeasant at September 27, 2019 05:10 PM (koNhm)

307 MSM:

Look, uh, Kardashians!

Posted by: Don Q at September 27, 2019 05:10 PM (NgKpN)

308 283 Where is Barr? Is out he out of the country?
Posted by: IC at September 27, 2019 05:07 PM (a0IVu)
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Hopefully getting his indictments in order.

Posted by: WisRich at September 27, 2019 05:11 PM (G0vdT)

309 Why aren't Republican bureaucrats "flooding the zone" with complaints based on water cooler gossip?
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What Republican bureaucrats?

You have to prove such thing exists, first.

Posted by: Axeman at September 27, 2019 05:11 PM (DuZls)

310 When they couldn't even kill a third rate banana republic dictator in an island at war (Castro) I knew we were dealing with a host of idiots.

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We aren't going to fall for the old third rate banana republic dictator trick anymore.
Posted by: CIA at September 27, 2019 04:56 PM (sX1BW)



Assassination Theater anyone?

Given the outright treason we're seeing from the CIA and the coziness with Russian intelligence,

I'm going to say the CIA was probably never or at best, rarely working for the US and it's interests.

KGB as CIA's boss? Who knows?

But, how else do you explain a traitorous dickweed IMHO like Brennan running the joint?

Posted by: naturalfake at September 27, 2019 05:11 PM (XCfh1)

311 Mitch: if House impeaches, Senate must hold a trial.


Muahaha

Get the subpoenas, witnesses and accusers ready. My understanding is no anonymity.

Posted by: Ha at September 27, 2019 05:11 PM (B/g/o)

312 why?

it's not as if anyone will be charged, let alone convicted and do serious time for their crimes.


Posted by: redc1c4 at September 27, 2019 05:07 PM (54P92)

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Are you part of the bet?

Because I want more virtual beer when the indictments come down. Shall I put you down for a six pack?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 27, 2019 05:11 PM (cfSRQ)

313 > "I miss the old flaming skull."

Before the Trump presidency has ended the flaming skulls are going to be stacked up on this blog like cords of firewood.

Posted by: Anonymous 7 at September 27, 2019 05:11 PM (LUhuk)

314 I just can't wait to hear the Law and Order, Principled Tru Cons like Allah, David "I'm as womanly as they come" French, and assorted powerqueens explain to us how we're just too unruly to govern ourselves and thus we need their cousins in the IC to rule over us.

Posted by: ace at September 27, 2019 05:11 PM (PbpT7)

315 So when do we hear from all the usual jock-sniffing cucks, who just lurve them some dudes with BAs and guns, what solid, straight-shooting patriots the rank & file are?

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Deplorable at September 27, 2019 05:12 PM (SfYbS)

316 One doesn't just drain a swamp in a day, "
Swamp. Ass. Alligators.
Posted by: Anon a mouse at September 27, 2019 05:00 PM (6qErC)

Yup.....It took Mussolini 10 years give or take.



Posted by: Hairyback Guy at September 27, 2019 05:12 PM (Z+IKu)

317 Can we, um, ALL start reporting on hearsay?

Because if we can, I've got some whistleblowin' to do!

Posted by: Weasel at September 27, 2019 05:12 PM (zb4/n)

318 The whole fed gov is one big cancer. Oh and by the way, the entire Military Medical System is going down the crapper

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 27, 2019 05:12 PM (yWXpx)

319 Skull on fire. It's about time!

Posted by: Ladyl at September 27, 2019 05:12 PM (TdMsT)

320 He's not doing nothing.


Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 27, 2019 05:06 PM (cfSRQ)


Point to one thing. McCabe indicted? After all, the investigation was COMPLETE over 18 months ago, and the criminal referral was in March. Of 2018. What about Comey? Clapper? Brennan?
Has he even released the documents the President ordered released, many months ago? Even a partial release, Chinese water torture style? This whistleblower complaint was cleared for release in two days.
Nothing. Nada. Barr has stood silently by while our Republic is destroyed.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, a low grade social fever at September 27, 2019 05:12 PM (NVYyb)

321 Whole lotta wishcasting going on here. I'd love to be wrong but I mean, how much more obvious does it have to get that they do whatever they want and the system its self protects them?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2019 05:10 PM (KZzsI)
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Agree, but not without some hope of change.

Posted by: Axeman at September 27, 2019 05:12 PM (DuZls)

322 Heh.

Fremont police got Tesla pursuit cars to catch bad guys but in hot pursuit...

they ran out of juice and died

https://preview.tinyurl.com/y4antf4g

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2019 05:12 PM (KZzsI)

323 When the skull looks like Brennan and it's not photoshopped you can wake me up.

Posted by: xnycpeasant at September 27, 2019 05:12 PM (koNhm)

324 FOR CHRISTS SAKE FUCK THIS PHONE AND PLEASE CLEAN UP SOCK FAIL ON AISLE 216!!!

Posted by: adobe juan kenobe at September 27, 2019 05:12 PM (mTA5F)

325 it's not as if anyone will be charged, let alone convicted and do serious time for their crimes.

Exactly. If you want to fault the Trump regime on something, it is the complete lack of law enforcement.

Not only does Trump remove regulations from businesses, he also completely dissolved Rule of Law within the Ruling Class.

Truly now a Banana Republic.

Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at September 27, 2019 05:12 PM (lD3vL)

326 313
> "I miss the old flaming skull."

Before the Trump presidency has ended the flaming skulls are going to be stacked up on this blog like cords of firewood.


Making the case for flaming shelves.

Posted by: Enquiring Minds Want to Know at September 27, 2019 05:13 PM (vWMNq)

327 More: A source says this was all done so that the usual rule, requiring this to go through the AG, would be circumvented, and this could be sent directly to Congress.

How do we know this?

...

I do not know the specifics of the process. I think they are available, but I don't know. What I'm told is that if you check certain boxes you can skip the normal process and file this as an "urgent complaint" which must get sent to Congress, and they changed the rules to allow it to be an urgent complaint.

I don't know the facts here. I'm just relaying what I hear, and I don't know the specifics, just the conclusion this guy reaches.

Posted by: ace at September 27, 2019 05:09 PM (PbpT7)


Okay, thanks.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 27, 2019 05:13 PM (vEIlU)

328 Why aren't Republican bureaucrats "flooding the zone" with complaints based on water cooler gossip?
Posted by: Blago at September 27, 2019 05:05 PM (sjTfF)

The Republican Bureaucrats are too busy not existing to file complaints.

Posted by: Surfperch at September 27, 2019 05:13 PM (tVQUs)

329 The beacon has been lit!

May it be followed by the bursting of the dams holding back the rivers of justice!

Metaphorically, of course.

Posted by: Diesel Jones at September 27, 2019 05:13 PM (0CeRG)

330 >>Fremont police got Tesla pursuit cars to catch bad guys but in hot pursuit...

they ran out of juice and died


Did they not burst into flames, too?

Because I am pretty sure that's a standard option.

Posted by: garrett at September 27, 2019 05:13 PM (5p8pS)

331 Doesn't seem like desperation - seems more like standard operation procedure. I think they're doing this whistleblower ploy for the same reasons they've done everything else: they are totalitarian shitlords. They're doing this because it's what they do. They don't have to have their backs against the wall, don't have to be desperate, to do it. They do it because it's who they are.

Posted by: Hands at September 27, 2019 05:13 PM (786Ro)

332 "Well then there's a paper trail as to who was responsible for this change." Hahahahahaha! Best laff so far today!

Posted by: gp's Exciting Radio Adventures! at September 27, 2019 05:13 PM (mk9aG)

333 Sean Davis on twitter :


I talked to a DNI official and asked when these revisions were made and why. The official said the intelligence community would not comment on anything to do with the anti-Trump whistleblower.




I never mentioned or asked about the anti-Trump whistleblower.

Posted by: Dr Spank at September 27, 2019 05:14 PM (4e+hS)

334 The House want to protect "The Constitution" by overseeing every move of the President.

Such jealous guardians of the Constitution we have not seen!

Posted by: Axeman at September 27, 2019 05:14 PM (DuZls)

335 don't know about y'all but in/during Trump's second term I want ruthless Trump. Fill the prisons with deep state hacks, er, once we use up the available rope and stuff, that is.

Posted by: micky at September 27, 2019 05:14 PM (nizGE)

336
Tucker mentioned something interesting last night. Back in the early '60s, Harry Truman wrote a little op-ed in the WaPo explaining how he realized creating the CIA was a mistake.

He said he realized it about 3 years into it after it was created. He essentially describe it was becoming what we now call the Deep State.

Nobody paid it any attention at the time.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at September 27, 2019 05:14 PM (f1Vqw)

337 I have an "urgent complaint" about retards in government.

Posted by: Weasel at September 27, 2019 05:14 PM (zb4/n)

338 what we need is a sudden new form change that allows the hearsay whistleblowers to get doxxed

Posted by: vmom happy to have read a good book! at September 27, 2019 05:14 PM (wW1da)

339 The FBI and the CIA are garbage.

Yeah, yea, I know you know someone who is really diligent and hard working, but as a whole, they are garbage and it needs to be dismantled. This is horrendous.

Posted by: Seems Legit at September 27, 2019 05:14 PM (jUVms)

340 This happened because there was never an investigation into why Obama changed the unmasking rules on his way out the door.

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at September 27, 2019 05:14 PM (PtOP4)

341 Fremont police got Tesla pursuit cars to catch bad guys but in hot pursuit...

they ran out of juice and died

https://preview.tinyurl.com/y4antf4g

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor


It's laughably appropriate the last four characters in the link for this story look like they do...

Posted by: Brother Cavil is bored, why do you ask? at September 27, 2019 05:14 PM (AM1GF)

342 314
I just can't wait to hear the Law and Order, Principled Tru Cons like
Allah, David "I'm as womanly as they come" French, and assorted
powerqueens explain to us how we're just too unruly to govern ourselves
and thus we need their cousins in the IC to rule over us.





Posted by: ace at September 27, 2019 05:11 PM (PbpT7)

---
Did you see French tweeting how he could prosecute a case for quid pro quo based what Trump had done?

Nice to know that our JAGs like to screw soldiers like that. I wonder how many GIs he railroaded.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 27, 2019 05:14 PM (cfSRQ)

343 #215 CIA does everything in secret. You don't get shit unless they want to tell you.

In this case hubris made them tell us because F U.

Posted by: torabora at September 27, 2019 05:14 PM (XI8mD)

344 A government official refusing to say when a form was changed or why a requirement was relaxed should go to jail.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, as if you give a damn at September 27, 2019 05:14 PM (qSCcj)

345 Well then there's a paper trail as to who was responsible for this change." Hahahahahaha! Best laff so far today!
Posted by: gp's Exciting Radio Adventures! at September 27, 2019 05:13 PM (mk9aG)
---
File not found.

Posted by: Axeman at September 27, 2019 05:15 PM (DuZls)

346 The only way we are doing save this country is by completely destroying the government and starting over.

Whilst pondering the difficulties of reining in our current out of control government, Ibraised the possibility of using that venerable Roman tradition of Decimation, I.e., elimination of 1/10th of our current imbecilic totalitarian overlords class.

Others, perhaps realizing that the problem wr have with government is even more intractable than I thought, put forth the concept of "Inverse Decimation" aa a possibility, I.e., the elimination of 9/10ths of our "problematic" princes and princesses.

Since the Romans had a word for this latter concept, "decimatio reciproca", I say "Yes, let's!"

Posted by: Sharkman at September 27, 2019 05:15 PM (Mo1SD)

347 233
if christopher taylor was potus, everything would be alright.

Posted by: trapper's girl at September 27, 2019 05:02 PM (J5Hfq)

+++I agree with him. First it was Stormy Daniels/Avenatti, then it was Russia-Russia-Russia. Now it is "The Phone Call". We were promised that he was going to drain the swamp, I say sewer. He was well aware of the disease that is Democrat. Just sitting back and hoping they will self-destruct, maybe giving little jabs here and there on Twitter is not working. We watched Bush(whom I loathe to defend), being attacked my the Dems and the media without a whimper. The firing should have begun on Jan. 21, 2017 and never stopped until everyone of these criminals was run out of town.

Posted by: washrivergal at September 27, 2019 05:15 PM (9+jnX)

348 Oh, so I think I get it. I think Fred Fleitz wrote about this in the Post.

The IC Inspector General (ICIG) only has jurisdiction involving IC personnel. Trump is not IC personnel. Neither is Zelansky.

This is therefore not a case for the IC IG.

However, if it had been filed in the normal (correct) way, it would have gone to Barr for review, not hte Obama-appointed ICIG.

So they pretended this was an IC matter to route it away from Barr to the Obama appointee ICIG.

Posted by: ace at September 27, 2019 05:15 PM (PbpT7)

349 Agree, but not without some hope of change.

If you want to see the law enforced, it is only going to happen by means of a civilian force... e.g. Vigilantes.

Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at September 27, 2019 05:15 PM (lD3vL)

350 275 Well then there's a paper trail as to who was responsible for this change.

Did they really think the change was going to be missed and the timing questioned?
Posted by: Wonkish Rogue at September 27, 2019 05:06 PM (BRpqW)


Ah, but just like the 'whistleblower' their protected because they are 'Agents' and thus can't be talked about, identified, or questioned.

Posted by: Don Q at September 27, 2019 05:15 PM (NgKpN)

351 Thanks. Phew.

Posted by: adobe juan kenobe at September 27, 2019 05:15 PM (mTA5F)

352 A government official refusing to say when a form was changed or why a requirement was relaxed should go to jail.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, as if you give a damn at September 27, 2019 05:14 PM (qSCcj)
---
But that can only happen after being prosecuted by a non-deep DOJ.

Odds?

Posted by: Axeman at September 27, 2019 05:15 PM (DuZls)

353 309 Why aren't Republican bureaucrats "flooding the zone" with complaints based on water cooler gossip?
---
What Republican bureaucrats?

You have to prove such thing exists, first.

Posted by: Axeman at September 27, 2019 05:11 PM (DuZls)


Eight years of Clinton appointing bureaucraps
Eight years of Obama appointing bureaucraps
Four years of hero GHWB appointing bureaucraps
Eight years of genius GWB appointing bureaucraps


Republican bureaucrats? Nah

Posted by: Billy Cole at September 27, 2019 05:15 PM (pr9ci)

354 I hope the rest of the JAG corps has more ethics than Combat Lawyer David French.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 27, 2019 05:15 PM (cfSRQ)

355 Why isn't anyone asking why the CIA is listening to the President????????

I thought the Judiciary and Legislative branch are the balance of power?

Posted by: Seems Legit at September 27, 2019 05:16 PM (jUVms)

356 Did they not burst into flames, too?

Because I am pretty sure that's a standard option.

Posted by: garrett


They're Teslas, not Segways.

(Sorry for yesterday morning. I was a bit irritable, not that it's an excuse.)

Posted by: Brother Cavil is bored, why do you ask? at September 27, 2019 05:16 PM (AM1GF)

357 Nothing. Nada. Barr has stood silently by while our Republic is destroyed.

Yeah I get wanting to believe. I get wanting to hope. I get supporting the president and desiring for him to be doing the right thing, somehow, behind the scenes, where it all works out like a TV show in the last 5 minutes. I even get being so hopeful you become sarcastic and insulting to people.

But don't put your hopes too high. Don't be too certain and stack all your dreams on this stuff. You're gonna be let down.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2019 05:16 PM (KZzsI)

358 Isn't Congress going on a two week vacation?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at September 27, 2019 05:16 PM (/NYhC)

359 However, if it had been filed in the normal (correct) way, it would have gone to Barr for review, not hte Obama-appointed ICIG.

So they pretended this was an IC matter to route it away from Barr to the Obama appointee ICIG.
Posted by: ace

ICIG Atkinson is a Trump pick. Swampy, but a Trump pick in that job.

Posted by: Miklos, a puzzlement at September 27, 2019 05:16 PM (QzkSJ)

360 I needed a FLAMING SKULL!!!!

WOOT!!!!!

Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'invite a friend for dinner!' at September 27, 2019 05:16 PM (+ZtlV)

361
@seanmdav 6 minutes ago

I talked to a DNI official and asked when these revisions were made and why. The official said the intelligence community would not comment on anything to do with the anti-Trump whistleblower.

I never mentioned or asked about the anti-Trump whistleblower.


Posted by: Tami at September 27, 2019 05:17 PM (cF8AT)

362 But does the DNI staffer who changed the procedure get to keep their pension? I have been told that keeping ones pension is found in a penumbra of the 14th amendment.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at September 27, 2019 05:17 PM (fYi9j)

363 Usually the first with scurrilous gossip, GP posts that DoJ never got Trump's directive to declass Cater Page FISA.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at September 27, 2019 05:17 PM (1g7ch)

364 358 Isn't Congress going on a two week vacation?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at September 27, 2019 05:16 PM (/NYhC)

They are? Thought they were panting to get the impeachment train rolling..

Posted by: IC at September 27, 2019 05:17 PM (a0IVu)

365 , he also completely dissolved Rule of Law within the Ruling Class."

That's funny right there.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at September 27, 2019 05:17 PM (6qErC)

366 I want PDT to release everything and bring down the whole fuckin cancerous mess like Samson

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 27, 2019 05:17 PM (yWXpx)

367 President Trump has announced today that the staff of the Director of National Intelligence is being temporarily relocated to Minot North Dakota for the next six months. After that they will move into their summer offices outside of Phoenix Arizona. And in keeping with Green New Deal principles there will be no air-conditioning in Phoenix and no fossil-fueled heat in North Dakota.

Posted by: JB1000 at September 27, 2019 05:17 PM (1NxC3)

368 Ace, ready to endorse violence against these people yet?

Posted by: Angry at September 27, 2019 05:18 PM (foJP1)

369 I needed a FLAMING SKULL!!!!

WOOT!!!!!
Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'invite a friend for dinner!' at September 27, 2019 05:16 PM (+ZtlV)
---
I wanted flaming shelves.

That's real serious.

Posted by: Axeman at September 27, 2019 05:18 PM (DuZls)

370 They're Teslas, not Segways.

Look up Telsa bursts into flames on your favorite search engine. There are several examples around the world. They don't react well to water.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2019 05:18 PM (KZzsI)

371 "At very least, you'd have to expose them as criminals to the public and then shamefully fail to charge them.
And Barr isn't going to go there"Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

I don't think we know that yet, but it sure looks like even Barr is on stand down orders for now. Assuming the DeepState is also the mafia and globalist, they are not afraid of destroying people BAMN ... Trump isn't the oly one needing to wear level IIIA body armor, and there are other threats, like to family. Deep State are demonic, and the work of their father (Satan) they will do. WAR

Posted by: illiniwek at September 27, 2019 05:18 PM (Cus5s)

372 BOOM

Sean Davis' article is great, but with respect, misses the KEY question about it.

Yea, WHEN the form was approved is important, but MUCH more important, is BY WHOM was it approved.

Probably more than one person, but THAT's the key piece of information.

CONGRATS SEAN DAVIS. Big catch here.

Posted by: RichardWindsoe at September 27, 2019 05:18 PM (DRgs8)

373 Trump needs to EO that policy in reverse post-haste.

Posted by: Axeman at September 27, 2019 05:18 PM (DuZls)

374 Has David French made the true conservative moral case for changing the rules on a whim, yet?

Posted by: Hands at September 27, 2019 05:18 PM (786Ro)

375 "File not found."

Epstein was murdered right under the noses of the United States Marshals. But we're going to follow a paper trail to trace a form change? C'mon guys!

Posted by: gp's Exciting Radio Adventures! at September 27, 2019 05:18 PM (mk9aG)

376 So is Pelosi going to put up a vote or not?

Posted by: Rounen at September 27, 2019 05:19 PM (AJwk0)

377 They're Teslas, not Segways"

Bigger BBQ.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at September 27, 2019 05:19 PM (6qErC)

378 1.From bondage to spiritual faith.
2.From spiritual faith to great courage.
3.From courage to liberty.
4.From liberty to abundance.
5.From abundance to complacency.
6.From complacency to apathy.
7.From apathy to dependence.
8.From dependence back into bondage.


I wonder which step we are currently at.

Posted by: Wonkish Rogue at September 27, 2019 05:19 PM (BRpqW)

379 I have an ex who's hopping mad about this, as a former real whistleblower herself. While running a city department she uncovered some serious fraud related to contracts with an entertainment company run by a gay guy.

For her troubles she was called a homophobic big mouth who should've kept her mouth shut - by the local papers!

But she was right, the gay thief was arrested and she still wonders where she goes to get her reputation back.

She keeps saying, if she had walked in there to the Feds with 2nd-3rd hand knowledge they would have laughed her out of the office.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at September 27, 2019 05:19 PM (u//oP)

380 I am still collecting a sweet government pension. Suck on that Mouth Breathers...

Posted by: Lois Lerner at September 27, 2019 05:19 PM (flINI)

381 re: Why was this even supposedly a matter for the IC IG?

https://twitter.com/JamesRosenTV/status/1177194017400008705?s=20

Posted by: ace at September 27, 2019 05:19 PM (PbpT7)

382 Fremont police got Tesla pursuit cars to catch bad guys but in hot pursuit...


Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2019 05:12 PM (KZzsI)


FFS, the only reason to buy one of those dumpster fires is the obscene CA kickbacks on a new one. So, they spent between $40-70k on a used model that's effectively halfway through its lifespan. So very green of them.


I swear, these things are more ubiquitous here than the beetle was back in 1968.

Posted by: clutch cargo at September 27, 2019 05:20 PM (Z1ykJ)

383 They are? Thought they were panting to get the impeachment train rolling..
Posted by: IC at September 27, 2019 05:17 PM (a0IVu)
---
They're going home to drum up Impeachment fervor.

Posted by: Axeman at September 27, 2019 05:20 PM (DuZls)

384
329
The beacon has been lit! Let's HOPE help comes!



https://tinyurl.com/pvx9c2b

Posted by: Kemp at September 27, 2019 05:20 PM (ChuO/)

385 I am still collecting a sweet government pension. Suck on that Mouth Breathers

Hell, McCabe is getting his too, just not as big as it would have been.

But any minute now, they'll all be busted! The IG report! Indictments! SOOOOOOON!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2019 05:20 PM (KZzsI)

386 If Trump doesn't win this bout, ladies and gentlemen, we have lost our republic.

Posted by: Axeman at September 27, 2019 05:21 PM (DuZls)

387 Oh, so I think I get it. I think Fred Fleitz wrote about this in the Post.

The IC Inspector General (ICIG) only has jurisdiction involving IC personnel. Trump is not IC personnel. Neither is Zelansky.

This is therefore not a case for the IC IG.

However, if it had been filed in the normal (correct) way, it would have gone to Barr for review, not hte Obama-appointed ICIG.

So they pretended this was an IC matter to route it away from Barr to the Obama appointee ICIG.
Posted by: ace at September 27, 2019 05:15 PM (PbpT7)


You know, at some point you look at your dog, and realize he ain't gonna get better. Whatever time, money, and effort it would take to patch up the problem, whatever it is, it's just not worth it.

Our "intelligence community" is a sick dog that needs to be put down.

I'm not suggesting it's any better, because it might not be, but we have a military intelligence community that could probably assume any and all duties the civilian force does.

Time to give that a shot.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 27, 2019 05:21 PM (hku12)

388 This really is a total perversion of the Republic. I can't see it any other way.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at September 27, 2019 05:21 PM (r+sAi)

389 They're also trying to take down Barr.

The IG FISA report/Durham investigation must be devastating.

Posted by: WisRich at September 27, 2019 05:21 PM (G0vdT)

390 I'm still predicting that PDT and his few true Republican allies will start dropping bombs during this two week house recess. There won't be time to get back to DC for the orchestrated response. Some clown congressman gets asked to respond to a Trump bombshell accusation away from the script writers, and he'll be stuttering like Porky Pig.

Posted by: bill in arkansas at September 27, 2019 05:21 PM (C1Lsn)

391 Come and get me. I am confident that everything is going to work out ok for me.

Posted by: Jim Comey at September 27, 2019 05:21 PM (flINI)

392 Sean Davis' article is great, but with respect, misses the KEY question about it.

Yea, WHEN the form was approved is important, but MUCH more important, is BY WHOM was it approved.

Probably more than one person, but THAT's the key piece of information.

CONGRATS SEAN DAVIS. Big catch here.
Posted by: RichardWindsoe at September 27, 2019 05:18 PM (DRgs

Other thing to consider. This was not done in a matter of hours. Forms have to be approved then disseminated throughout the organization.

This also HAD to have been commented on by the current IG.

Its not just a ONE person plot.

Posted by: Don Q at September 27, 2019 05:21 PM (NgKpN)

393 I want PDT to release everything and bring down the whole fuckin cancerous mess like Samson

Lets say that he releases everything and we find that they are all in clear violation of felonies and even treason.

Still, nothing will happen until the citizens take action.

The Trump Regime allows utter lawlessness as long as it is performed by Democrats a/o the Deep State.

Clearly, We The People have to take our government back from these traitors and hostile enemy.

Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at September 27, 2019 05:21 PM (lD3vL)

394 I wonder which step we are currently at.

7.5

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2019 05:21 PM (KZzsI)

395 Our "intelligence community" is a sick dog that needs to be put down."

Si.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at September 27, 2019 05:22 PM (6qErC)

396 Yeah I get wanting to believe. I get wanting to
hope. I get supporting the president and desiring for him to be doing
the right thing, somehow, behind the scenes, where it all works out like
a TV show in the last 5 minutes. I even get being so hopeful you
become sarcastic and insulting to people.



But don't put your hopes too high. Don't be too certain and stack all your dreams on this stuff. You're gonna be let down.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2019 05:16 PM (KZzsI)

---
This has nothing to do with hope. I write based on a clear-eyed assessment of what I see happening.

If nothing is going to happen and the perps know it, they would act very differently. They would not be scurrying around like drugged rats.

Instead, they'd be heaping praise on Barr for being so judicious and restrained. They'd publish op-eds about how he's so much better than Trump.

But they're not doing that, are they?

Instead, they seem to think he's some kind of threat.

That's not me wishing him to be one, it's Nancy Pelosi declaring him to be one.

I take that as a sign I'm not far off.

In any event, we'll see.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 27, 2019 05:22 PM (cfSRQ)

397 Isn't Congress going on a two week vacation?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at September 27, 2019 05:16 PM



A team of six Japanese Taiko drummer girls are prepping to serve as Jerry Nadler's masseuses during the Dem fundraising carnival and baby-part cookout.

Posted by: Hands at September 27, 2019 05:22 PM (786Ro)

398 Look up Telsa bursts into flames on your favorite search engine. There are several examples around the world. They don't react well to water.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor


Gah! Forgot about that! Old noggin ain't what it was...

Posted by: Brother Cavil is bored, why do you ask? at September 27, 2019 05:22 PM (AM1GF)

399 Chuck Schumer: "Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you."

Sooo, let me see if I have this right: There's a gaggle of unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats that are running the country in defiance of the Constitution. Who do whatever they want whenever they want whether it's legal or not because they have some sort of magical immunity from the law and are never punished for anything?

Izzat about right?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #PurgeProgressivism at September 27, 2019 05:22 PM (HaL55)

400 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Posted by: John Brennan at September 27, 2019 05:22 PM (flINI)

401 Carpe Donktum
My response to the @nytopion Star Wars Meme

https://tinyurl.com/yyp6se4n

Posted by: redridinghood at September 27, 2019 05:22 PM (wiXsO)

402
re: Why was this even supposedly a matter for the IC IG?



https://twitter.com/JamesRosenTV/status/1177194017400008705?s=20

Posted by: ace at September 27, 2019 05:19 PM (PbpT7)


Fleitz raises this same question, and suggests it was a machination designed only for one purpose, that being to get the complaint into Adam Shitt's hot little hands.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, a low grade social fever at September 27, 2019 05:22 PM (NVYyb)

403 The IC Inspector General (ICIG) only has jurisdiction involving IC personnel. Trump is not IC personnel. Neither is Zelansky.

This is therefore not a case for the IC IG.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 27, 2019 05:21 PM (hku12)
---
Have you seen that make one bit of difference so far?

I haven't.

Posted by: Axeman at September 27, 2019 05:22 PM (DuZls)

404
Me, I'm concerned with the real questions here. Schiff needs to investigate this.

Did Christie Brinkley fake or purposefully break her wrist on Dancing With the Stars in order to allow her daughter to substitute for her:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7513273/

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at September 27, 2019 05:23 PM (f1Vqw)

405 Izzat about right?

"We got our eye on you too, pal"
--NSA Bob

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2019 05:23 PM (KZzsI)

406 Time to give that a shot."

That's how it was prior to Truman.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at September 27, 2019 05:23 PM (6qErC)

407 Time to give that a shot.

And no pun intended.

Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at September 27, 2019 05:23 PM (lD3vL)

408 I dunno. I hope Trump and his few allies have game planned all this to their favor. But who knows.

Posted by: IC at September 27, 2019 05:23 PM (a0IVu)

409 My pension might be as big as I expected but CNN more than filled in the gap.

Posted by: McCabe at September 27, 2019 05:24 PM (flINI)

410 "Guess what? The Deep State refuses to comment on this,..."

It's 'their' country. We just live in it. And they hates us. They really, truly hate us.

Posted by: John Brennan's Commie Poop at September 27, 2019 05:24 PM (4ceyg)

411 Fleitz raises this same question, and suggests it was a machination designed only for one purpose, that being to legallyget the complaint into Adam Shitt's hot little hands.

Fixed it for you. He clearly already had seen and handled the thing a month ago or more.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2019 05:24 PM (KZzsI)

412 "PDT and his few true Republican allies"

Name six people Trump can actually trust.

Posted by: gp's Exciting Radio Adventures! at September 27, 2019 05:24 PM (mk9aG)

413 Time for the last box.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, LOL, get fucked at September 27, 2019 05:25 PM (2KjAX)

414 "Chris Wallace" is trending on twitter, bigly.
He's attacking Fox colleagues for not denouncing Trump and saying this whistleblower stuff is totes serious, you guys.

Guess we know who new FOX News BoD member Paul Ryan is working with, huh?

The m$#ther f$#@%ing f$#%ers!!

Posted by: Lizzy at September 27, 2019 05:25 PM (bDqIh)

415 Mitt Romney: SQUIRREL!!

Posted by: kallisto at September 27, 2019 05:25 PM (3uHwI)

416 And now Cocaine Mitch says that if Congress impeach fotta-fi the Senate will have a trial.


...maybe he wants that to be the document dump.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at September 27, 2019 05:25 PM (1g7ch)

417 As far as I am concerned, the IC role is simply a sinecureship.

Utterly worthless yet somehow deserving an office and lifelong pension.

Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at September 27, 2019 05:25 PM (lD3vL)

418 But any minute now, they'll all be busted! The IG report! Indictments! SOOOOOOON!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2019 05:20 PM (KZzsI)

---
So why do you come here?

Do you enjoy footnoting each and every development with "SHUT UP IT WON'T GET FIXED"?

That's what I find strange. It's like evangelical atheists who get pissed at the sight of happy people of faith saying a prayer together. They're compelled to run up and scream at them.

"YOUR GOD IS A LIE!!!!"

Uh, okay. But it keeps us happy. So why do you feel so bothered by that?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 27, 2019 05:25 PM (cfSRQ)

419 Sooo, let me see if I have this right: There's a gaggle of unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats that are running the country in defiance of the Constitution. Who do whatever they want whenever they want whether it's legal or not because they have some sort of magical immunity from the law and are never punished for anything?

Izzat about right?
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #PurgeProgressivism at September 27, 2019 05:22 PM (HaL55)

Sounds like England and the EU.

With a bit of Ukraine thrown in.

Posted by: Don Q at September 27, 2019 05:25 PM (NgKpN)

420 @ClimateAudit scooped this at 6:47am.

Posted by: trapper's girl at September 27, 2019 05:25 PM (J5Hfq)

421
Other thing to consider. This was not done in a matter of hours. Forms have to be approved then disseminated throughout the organization.

This also HAD to have been commented on by the current IG.

Posted by: Don Q at September 27, 2019 05:21 PM (NgKpN)
---
That's cute. You still think bureaucrats follow rules.

Posted by: Axeman at September 27, 2019 05:25 PM (DuZls)

422 "Trump and his few allies"

Name six people Trump can truly trust.

Posted by: gp's Exciting Radio Adventures! at September 27, 2019 05:25 PM (mk9aG)

423
I'm not suggesting it's any better, because it might not be, but we have a military intelligence community that could probably assume any and all duties the civilian force does.

--------

This is precisely what happened in foreign theaters during the GWOT. The Defense Intelligence Agency proved itself more than capable of taking over the incompetent CIA's duties in A'stan and ME.

Moreover - a small point, here. During the Soviet Union, the only check against the KGB was the GRU (their DIA).

When they would start to run completely out of control, the Party would send the GRU to put them back in their place, and one night dozens-hundreds of KGB agents would simply disappear.

I think it's time for that.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 27, 2019 05:26 PM (AzW6q)

424
Truman's point in that "CIA was a mistake" piece was the CIA was created to be basically a newspaper for POTUS, to give him all the important info about the goings-on in the word, and independent of filtering by the existing cabinet depts (think Pentagon, State).

That is a laugh now, and Truman realized it about 3 years in. The CIA filtered things worse than the previous system.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at September 27, 2019 05:27 PM (f1Vqw)

425 And now Cocaine Mitch says that if Congress impeach fotta-fi the Senate will have a trial.

Great. Now even the GOP is itching for a Hot Civil War.

Remember the enemy isn't necessarily your neighbor, its anybody who spends any time within the Beltway.

Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at September 27, 2019 05:27 PM (lD3vL)

426 It's 'their' country. We just live in it. And they hates us. They really, truly hate us.
Posted by: John Brennan's Commie Poop at September 27, 2019 05:24 PM (4ceyg)
---
We're despicable.

Posted by: Axeman at September 27, 2019 05:27 PM (DuZls)

427 31 How. The. Hell. Does. The. DNI. Do. This. Without. Trumps. Approval.
===========

This is super good point. I think Trump is all seized up with lawyer and advisor advice. Article II of the Constitution grants THE President, enormous power.

Trump would be well advised to issue short declarative sentence Executive Orders and sign them to help himself on this and so many issues.

Start issuing 2 to 5 sentence Executive Orders. E.g., As President of the United States, I hereby declassify all information related to investigations of my 2016 campaign or personnel, including without limitation all sources and methods. All agencies with any documentation related to such investigations shall release full, complete and unreacted copes of the same within 24 hours of the issuance of this executive order. This order shall be immediately effective as of September 27, 2019, 5:00pm (EST). /s/ Donald Trump."

Posted by: RichardWindsoe at September 27, 2019 05:27 PM (DRgs8)

428 This is why that Easter Island looking spook posted those abusive tweets to Trump about a month ago.

Posted by: kallisto at September 27, 2019 05:27 PM (3uHwI)

429 looks like the 6 ways to Sunday hit a roadblock or 6

Posted by: DanMan at September 27, 2019 05:28 PM (XTiHL)

430 "Forms have to be approved then disseminated throughout the organization."

OMG stop already. My sides are splitting with laughter!

Posted by: gp's Exciting Radio Adventures! at September 27, 2019 05:28 PM (mk9aG)

431 >The beacon has been lit!
.
Gandalf is now deep state.

THIS SHALL STAND!

Posted by: 13times at September 27, 2019 05:28 PM (K3B2k)

432 >>>420 @ClimateAudit scooped this at 6:47am.


indeed, I should h/t him.

Posted by: ace at September 27, 2019 05:28 PM (PbpT7)

433 And now Cocaine Mitch says that if Congress impeach fotta-fi the Senate will have a trial.

Great. Now even the GOP is itching for a Hot Civil War.

Remember the enemy isn't necessarily your neighbor, its anybody who spends any time within the Beltway.
Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at September 27, 2019 05:27 PM (lD3vL)
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I think that's actually the best outcome.

As far as I can see the trial will be held on national TV, and all the ways that these people have worked to countermand the President, and all their LIES can be trotted out before the American public.

Posted by: Axeman at September 27, 2019 05:29 PM (DuZls)

434 48 Can the (Republican controlled) Senate start an inquire to the House / CIA whistleblower rules change? Who know what and when? And why sit on it until the rule changes?

That would be entertaining.
Posted by: Murrican Ninja War Eeyore at September 27, 2019 04:45 PM (xptlg)

__________________________

The Senate Intelligence Committee (SIC) is the most corrupt of them all...and are up to their necks in this. You don't want them anywhere near this.

Posted by: Orson at September 27, 2019 05:29 PM (Haplu)

435 Whose side will the military be on? The Left has done its best to decimate the military of its conservative leaders. If this can't be resolved by judicial means it becomes a no win situation. Either the coup conspirators win or they are stopped be extra judicial means. Either way it's the end of the United States as we know it. What emerges I don't know.

Posted by: Pig to man dreaming of lions at September 27, 2019 05:29 PM (lPDqu)

436 Moreover - a small point, here. During the Soviet Union, the only check against the KGB was the GRU (their DIA).

When they would start to run completely out of control, the Party would send the GRU to put them back in their place, and one night dozens-hundreds of KGB agents would simply disappear.

I think it's time for that.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 27, 2019 05:26 PM (AzW6q)

Our Founders thought of that, which is why we have both Army, and Marines AND State Militias.

You can thank GW for putting ALL the intelligence agencies into one structure, then putting ALL the Police agencies into DHS.

We have no real check nor balance on any Federal Agency anymore.

Posted by: Don Q at September 27, 2019 05:29 PM (NgKpN)

437 Nice wepubwic you had heah - shame someting happened to it.

huh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh

Posted by: Elmer J. Fudd, ICIG at September 27, 2019 05:29 PM (37IEG)

438 Chris Wallace" is trending on twitter, bigly.
He's attacking Fox colleagues for not denouncing Trump and saying this whistleblower stuff is totes serious, you guys.

Guess we know who new FOX News BoD member Paul Ryan is working with, huh?

The m$#ther f$#@%ing f$#%ers!!
Posted by: Lizzy at September 27, 2019 05:25 PM (bDqIh)
*********************
Paul Ryan's Revenge

https://tinyurl.com/yxp3tkny

Posted by: redridinghood at September 27, 2019 05:29 PM (wiXsO)

439 Okay, you negative guys win.

Go stew in your broth of defeatism, gloom and failure.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 27, 2019 05:30 PM (cfSRQ)

440 Mollie makes a key point:

https://tinyurl.com/yym2r8zn

Posted by: Huck Follywood, a low grade social fever at September 27, 2019 05:30 PM (NVYyb)

441 439 Okay, you negative guys win.

Go stew in your broth of defeatism, gloom and failure.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 27, 2019 05:30 PM (cfSRQ)

I want to believe. I really do.

Posted by: IC at September 27, 2019 05:30 PM (a0IVu)

442 The bacons have been lit?

Posted by: Shelf Pancakes with Otter Syrup at September 27, 2019 05:30 PM (rlPgj)

443 Powder staus: Dry

Posted by: Balrog of Morgoth at September 27, 2019 05:31 PM (2aX9r)

444 They assured us we weren't defeated by those flucking plane flying camel jockeys.


Posted by: DamnedYankee at September 27, 2019 05:31 PM (37IEG)

445 I think it's time for that.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 27, 2019 05:26 PM (AzW6q)

As long as you purge all Barky's generals first.

Posted by: Enquiring Minds Want to Know at September 27, 2019 05:31 PM (vWMNq)

446 Start issuing 2 to 5 sentence Executive Orders. E.g., As President of the United States, I hereby declassify all information related to investigations of my 2016 campaign or personnel, including without limitation all sources and methods. All agencies with any documentation related to such investigations shall release full, complete and unreacted copes of the same within 24 hours of the issuance of this executive order. This order shall be immediately effective as of September 27, 2019, 5:00pm (EST). /s/ Donald Trump."
Posted by: RichardWindsoe at September 27, 2019 05:27 PM (DRgs


I tells you on day one he should have put together his own U.S. Marshall team composed almost entirely of former SOF types and his personal security staff that he had for years.

They can go collect the docs from his subordinate and insubordinate agencies.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at September 27, 2019 05:31 PM (1g7ch)

447 I actually want hangings. Not kidding, not joking around, not snarking.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 27, 2019 05:31 PM (ptqGC)

448
Remember the enemy isn't necessarily your neighbor, its anybody who spends any time within the Beltway.
Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at September 27, 2019 05:27 PM (lD3vL)
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Can I apply for an exemption?

Posted by: Weasel at September 27, 2019 05:31 PM (zb4/n)

449
By the way, a quick scan of the usual sites shows only AOSHQ covering this.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 27, 2019 05:32 PM (zBaqJ)

450 So why do you come here?

Oddly enough this is not the "Trump will fix everything" site. I know its hard to believe but people have disagreements and different opinions here, we aren't all lockstep mindless NPCs.

I am trying to get people to not pile all their hopes onto something just to get crushed when it fails to be what they dream it will be. I'm old enough now that I've seen that happen way too many times. Its far better to be cautious and wait and see than OOH HE'S GONNA GETTEM ALL JUST WAIT! ITS CERTAIN! I KNOW FOR A FACT!!!!

IF I'm wrong? Its all good news.

If you're wrong, you built up the hopes for lots of people just to get another boot in the face.

Worth considering

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2019 05:32 PM (KZzsI)

451
Okay, you negative guys win.

Go stew in your broth of defeatism, gloom and failure.


Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 27, 2019 05:30 PM (cfSRQ)


Perhaps you don't understand the significance of a flaming skull.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, a low grade social fever at September 27, 2019 05:32 PM (NVYyb)

452 Eating my Wheaties this morning I noticed they replaced Jeff Sessions with William Barr on milk cartons. Sad.

Posted by: Galil at September 27, 2019 05:32 PM (Pzzpr)

453 In other news, Joe Wilson died today at age 69 (Husband of Valerie Plame). Deep State death!

Posted by: RichardWindsoe at September 27, 2019 05:32 PM (DRgs8)

454 Posted by: Don Q at September 27, 2019 05:29 PM (NgKpN)

The DHS was the intended monitor to reign in any rogue department. Prior to this they were not a check and balance against each other. They were merely competitors that didn't share information.

Posted by: Pig to man dreaming of lions at September 27, 2019 05:32 PM (lPDqu)

455 322
Heh.



Fremont police got Tesla pursuit cars to catch bad guys but in hot pursuit...



they ran out of juice and died


been there. done that.

Posted by: THX-1138 at September 27, 2019 05:32 PM (sGtp+)

456 Biden's blackmailing Ukraine is ok
Fake President Trump blackmailing Ukraine is serious

Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2019 05:32 PM (ZCEU2)

457 -------

Can I apply for an exemption?

Posted by: Weasel at September 27, 2019 05:31 PM (zb4/n)

++++
No means no.

Posted by: washrivergal at September 27, 2019 05:33 PM (9+jnX)

458 453 In other news, Joe Wilson died today at age 69 (Husband of Valerie Plame). Deep State death!
Posted by: RichardWindsoe at September 27, 2019 05:32 PM (DRgs


She found out he was really Jewish?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 27, 2019 05:33 PM (zBaqJ)

459 441
439 Okay, you negative guys win.



Go stew in your broth of defeatism, gloom and failure.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 27, 2019 05:30 PM (cfSRQ)


Dude, you know it's not the constant artillery barrage, or the round the clock airstrikes, or the Tiger tanks overrunning the perimeter.

It's finding out they canceled movie night that finally broke us.

Posted by: DamnedYankee at September 27, 2019 05:33 PM (37IEG)

460 Difference between Truman and the commies was
He meant well. He just didn't know better.
That might be why Ike hated him.

Posted by: Billy Cole at September 27, 2019 05:33 PM (pr9ci)

461 Posted by: ace at September 27, 2019 05:28 PM (PbpT7)

Did you see this addition from Sean?


@seanmdav 6 minutes ago

I talked to a DNI official and asked when these revisions were made and why. The official said the intelligence community would not comment on anything to do with the anti-Trump whistleblower.

I never mentioned or asked about the anti-Trump whistleblower.

Posted by: Tami at September 27, 2019 05:33 PM (cF8AT)

462 Steven McIntyre on Twatter broke this earlier today. I don't know if Sean Davis got the info out first or not, but this guy had an epic thread.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 27, 2019 05:33 PM (3H9h1)

463 >>Paul Ryan's Revenge

https://tinyurl.com/yxp3tkny


And he's likely pushing Chris Wallace to lead the way. Just look at all the strange new respect Wallace is getting on twitter. I assume Shep is going for this new push, too, the way he's openly attacking Tucker Carlson.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 27, 2019 05:33 PM (bDqIh)

464 I've missed Flamey McSkull.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 27, 2019 05:33 PM (ptqGC)

465 I want to believe. I really do.
Posted by: IC at September 27, 2019 05:30 PM (a0IVu)
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I don't not believe.

I just find it more useful to consider the spectrum of outcomes.

Not the one I hope.
Not the one I think I can divine (because "I'm always right.")

But to really see the dynamics of the situation.

I doubt the optimists saw the Whistleblower guidelines being changed to funnel intel directly to Schitf. I would BET they didn't.

That's a negative outcome (I would expect). No amount of discounting that prevented that result.

Posted by: Axeman at September 27, 2019 05:33 PM (DuZls)

466 Sean Davis on twitter :


I talked to a DNI official and asked when these revisions were made and why. The official said the intelligence community would not comment on anything to do with the anti-Trump whistleblower.




I never mentioned or asked about the anti-Trump whistleblower.
Posted by: Dr Spank at September 27, 2019 05:14 PM (4e+hS)


his golfing buddy

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 27, 2019 05:33 PM (vEIlU)

467
Can I apply for an exemption?

Posted by: Weasel at September 27, 2019 05:31 PM (zb4/n)

++++
No means no.
Posted by: washrivergal at September 27, 2019 05:33 PM (9+jnX)
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Well that sucks!

Posted by: Weasel at September 27, 2019 05:34 PM (zb4/n)

468 Until Trump fires the current partisan IC Inspector General it doesn't really matter. And even with a new IG by the time these people get done looking in to it the election will be over. I know people defend these Inspector Generals but they still are government employees and by God they're slow.

Posted by: lowandslow at September 27, 2019 05:34 PM (Mr80f)

469
In other news, Joe Wilson died today at age 69 (Husband of Valerie Plame). Deep State death!

Posted by: RichardWindsoe at September 27, 2019 05:32 PM (DRgs

Uranium poisoning?

Posted by: Mark1971 at September 27, 2019 05:34 PM (xPl2J)

470 378 1.From bondage to spiritual faith.
2.From spiritual faith to great courage.
3.From courage to liberty.
4.From liberty to abundance.
5.From abundance to complacency.
6.From complacency to apathy.
7.From apathy to dependence.
8.From dependence back into bondage.


I wonder which step we are currently at.
Posted by: Wonkish Rogue at September 27, 2019 05:19 PM (BRpqW)

Somewhere between 7 and 8, alas.

Posted by: Friday afternoon joncelli at September 27, 2019 05:34 PM (RD7QR)

471 You want to understand this Ukraine stuff, read up on "social panic." Or just run-o-the-mill "hysteria."

Posted by: Frankovich's Monster at September 27, 2019 05:34 PM (hdzef)

472 And now Cocaine Mitch says that if Congress impeach fotta-fi the Senate will have a trial.

Well I mean... he kinda has to. The US Constitution sets up the system: impeachment hearings to determine if a trial should be held, then a trial. Its not like he's endorsing anything.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2019 05:34 PM (KZzsI)

473 Trump running $10m ad campaign next week hitting Biden.

Posted by: Ha at September 27, 2019 05:34 PM (B/g/o)

474 Ukraine got fed up and voted in a comedian.

A COMEDIAN is going to help Trump with the Ukranian scandal.

You cannot make this stuff up.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 27, 2019 05:35 PM (vEIlU)

475 By the way, a quick scan of the usual sites shows only AOSHQ covering this
************

All those with a Twitter account please Tweet this or at least Sean Davis' tweet. Post to Chris Wallace's Twitter feed.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 27, 2019 05:35 PM (wiXsO)

476 they needed to bypass Barr, I guess that is a good sign for Barr. But someone leaked the intel on the phone call to the CIA mole whistle blower seditionist. So there is another sleeper (or 20) on the very inside?


Trump blew up their plan by releasing it all early ... the quid pro quo was to find evidence that had been buried, and the Biden crime is self evident, so that surely in time makes it into the MSM news. But also the other intel about Hillary/DNC/FBI plotting against Trump back to 2015 ... so the whole kingdom is at risk ...

I'm not seeing our counteroffensive doing anything ... except "we're looking into it", and Trump on his own tweeting, with some Rudy help. They need to regain some public awareness ground or they may get overrun while they are tediously getting ducks in a row. Hey boys, the war started a few years ago ...

Posted by: illiniwek at September 27, 2019 05:35 PM (Cus5s)

477 It's finding out they canceled movie night that finally broke us.
Posted by: DamnedYankee at September 27, 2019 05:33 PM


You have to do what you have to do.

Posted by: Colonel Cathcart at September 27, 2019 05:35 PM (DMUuz)

478 Trump will do exactly what I allow him to do...

Posted by: Hawaiian Judge Number 4 at September 27, 2019 05:35 PM (flINI)

479 "446 Start issuing 2 to 5 sentence Executive Orders. E.g., As President of the United States, I hereby declassify all information related to..."

Just bloody well do something! Enough playing defense.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at September 27, 2019 05:35 PM (H8QX8)

480 Hmmm, when was the last flaming skull of doom sighting?

Mueller report?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 27, 2019 05:36 PM (2B9A/)

481 Did you see this addition from Sean?


@seanmdav 6 minutes ago

I talked to a DNI official and asked when these revisions were made and why. The official said the intelligence community would not comment on anything to do with the anti-Trump whistleblower.

I never mentioned or asked about the anti-Trump whistleblower.
Posted by: Tami at September 27, 2019 05:33 PM (cF8AT)


"We didn't change just to take out Trump and we aren't going to tell you why we did either of those things"

Posted by: Burnt Toast at September 27, 2019 05:36 PM (1g7ch)

482 So I guess Shep! will be showing bear on trampoline videos next week.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 27, 2019 05:36 PM (ptqGC)

483 Re: Joe Wilson. An autoimmune reaction to mint tea.

Posted by: The Poster Formerly Known as Mr. Barky at September 27, 2019 05:36 PM (hKi6n)

484 The house is a grand jury

the senate is an actual trial

the left are nitwits

you must aquits

Posted by: REDACTED at September 27, 2019 05:36 PM (AQBtr)

485 Time to give that a shot.
------------------------------
And no pun intended.
Posted by: Blue Bird of F'ing Joy at September 27, 2019 05:23 PM (lD3vL)


Pun definitely intended.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 27, 2019 05:37 PM (hku12)

486
Shep will be extra stompy mad going down the catwalk next week.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at September 27, 2019 05:37 PM (f1Vqw)

487

My theory... some guy inside the WH went to Adam Schiff in real time about the Ukrainian and Rudy G. happenings. But in order to get the info out in the public they needed to find a whistleblower.. so they got some lower level person in the IC to file the complaint.. but then had to take extra step of chasing rules in order to make it happen. Meethinks the person who changed the policy, or lobbied for it, are the same WH insider.

Posted by: Serious Cat at September 27, 2019 05:37 PM (Xqo6t)

488 Joe Wilson is deep undercover now.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at September 27, 2019 05:37 PM (FTlwv)

489 >>>Steven McIntyre on Twatter broke this earlier today. I don't know if Sean Davis got the info out first or not, but this guy had an epic thread.

see @ClimateAudit

he tweeted sean a bit ago.

Posted by: trapper's girl at September 27, 2019 05:37 PM (J5Hfq)

490 Ace: I'm sure you saw, but on @ClimateAudit twitter rant on this, Stephen McIntyre notes that the NEW Whistleblower Submission form was placed online "by @PedroIsraelOrta on Sept. 23. It looks real, but needs to be confirmed."

Have a look at Pedro Israel Orta twitter Bio. Better get some screen shots. Have a feeling this dude's Twitter account about to get Deep Stated in short order. Can't make this stuff up.

Posted by: RichardWindsoe at September 27, 2019 05:37 PM (DRgs8)

491 some guy inside the WH went to Adam Schiff in real time about the Ukrainian and Rudy G. happenings. But in order to get the info out in the public they needed to find a whistleblower.. so they got some lower level person in the IC to file the complaint.. but then had to take extra step of chasing rules in order to make it happen.

That sounds about right, from what I've seen, that was the sequence.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2019 05:37 PM (KZzsI)

492 IF I'm wrong? Its all good news.

If you're wrong, you built up the hopes for lots of people just to get another boot in the face.

Worth considering

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor


Some of us remember getting shivved in the back by John Roberts on what SHOULD have been cut-and-dried back in '10.

And Mitt in '12.

And the congressional GOP in '14. And again in '16.

After a certain point, you either accept what the pattern tells you, or you don't.

Posted by: Brother Cavil is bored, why do you ask? at September 27, 2019 05:38 PM (AM1GF)

493
I've missed Flamey McSkull.


We still supposed to put out the fire with the pudding, right?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #PurgeProgressivism at September 27, 2019 05:38 PM (HaL55)

494 Need time out if only for a short game or two

Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2019 05:38 PM (ZCEU2)

495 So they pretended this was an IC matter to route it away from Barr to the Obama appointee ICIG.
Posted by: ace at September 27, 2019 05:15 PM (PbpT7)


This is an extension of the obama administration. They circumvented every law and policy and rule.

The Law is lawless.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 27, 2019 05:38 PM (vEIlU)

496 In other news, Joe Wilson died today at age 69 (Husband of Valerie Plame). Deep State death!

Posted by: RichardWindsoe at September 27, 2019 05:32 PM (DRgs

Uranium poisoning?
Posted by: Mark1971 at September 27, 2019 05:34 PM (xPl2J)


Irony poisoning.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 27, 2019 05:38 PM (hku12)

497 Well I mean... he kinda has to. The US Constitution sets up the system: impeachment hearings to determine if a trial should be held, then a trial. Its not like he's endorsing anything.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2019 05:34 PM (KZzsI)
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And hopefully, it will be at the trial that this will be most out of Democrat hands. Cruz, I believe, will FLAY his colleagues for plotting to abridge the separation of powers.

I think Graham will join in. And the American people will see it--and the freakout on national TV.

And if there is any hope to be had, once they lay it all out, the Dems will lose, cataclysmically.

Posted by: Axeman at September 27, 2019 05:38 PM (DuZls)

498 Trump needs to put some gunny Marines on various staffs at the WH. They will work for the Prezzy.

Posted by: Billy Cole at September 27, 2019 05:38 PM (pr9ci)

499 Well I mean... he kinda has to. The US Constitution
sets up the system: impeachment hearings to determine if a trial should
be held, then a trial. Its not like he's endorsing anything.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2019 05:34 PM (KZzsI)

++++He didn't need to make an announcement about it. This is where the GOP goes whenever there is any controversy - they are always on the ready to declare - "See, look at us, we play by the rules and play fair." - Losers racket.

Posted by: washrivergal at September 27, 2019 05:39 PM (9+jnX)

500 Disclosure of Urgent Concern

Are there checkmark boxes?

[ ] - Concerned
[ ] - Christian
[ ] - Conservative

or can you just attach a picture of your bumper-stickers.

Posted by: DaveA at September 27, 2019 05:40 PM (FhXTo)

501 Late, but here for willow time, I guess. How in the world do we rid ouselves of the Deep State?? Especially since they seem to be Transnatinal??

Posted by: kraken at September 27, 2019 05:40 PM (bCLt0)

502
Since the Deep State doesn't care about the Constitution and actively undermines it, I'm in favor of passing a bill of attainder declaring the all guilty of treason, and the penalty is death and corruption of blood for 5 generations.

That is, their children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and great-great-granchildren will all be guilty of the crime.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at September 27, 2019 05:40 PM (f1Vqw)

503 OAN for the win! Now if we can get them on over the air we can ditch these satellite subscriptions.

Finding out Paul Ryan is on the FOX board is like finding out AT&T owns CNN.

Posted by: DanMan at September 27, 2019 05:40 PM (XTiHL)

504 He didn't need to make an announcement about it. This is where the GOP goes whenever there is any controversy - they are always on the ready to declare - "See, look at us, we play by the rules and play fair." - Losers racket.
Posted by: washrivergal at September 27, 2019 05:39 PM (9+jnX)

________

Indeed. The demotards don't play by the Marquis de Queensbury rules

Posted by: Hawaiian Judge Number 4 at September 27, 2019 05:40 PM (flINI)

505 I want to believe that Trump has one solid buddy like Mike Banning (Gerard Butler) in the "X Has Fallen" movies. A competent, deadly, trusted sidekick who he can rely on completely.

Trouble with that is, Mike Banning springs into action only AFTER the good guys have taken hundreds of casualties.

Another problem: Mike Banning is a movie character.

Posted by: gp's Exciting Radio Adventures! at September 27, 2019 05:40 PM (mk9aG)

506
Notice who is finding all of this out?

The people are up against their own government and the media complex. The people are up against the entire country, for the most part.

wow

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 27, 2019 05:41 PM (vEIlU)

507 When they couldn't even kill a third rate banana republic dictator in an
island at war (Castro) I knew we were dealing with a host of idiots.

It was a tad bit riskier because of the USSR, but point taken.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at September 27, 2019 05:41 PM (j3npP)

508 He can't fire people as he should be able to do, but it seems to me he can make them go sit in an office far away from him and give them no work to do whatsoever.
Posted by: D-Lamp at September 27, 2019 05:38 PM


Diego Garcia was a posting highly regarded for such by the Navy. I've heard a couple of the AFBs in Alaska served the same purpose for the Air Force. No idea where the doggies send their Foxtrot Uniforms.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 27, 2019 05:42 PM (DMUuz)

509 This is what I've been asking for the last week, and I'm sure it's been mentioned, but now these assholes have whistleblower protections. right?

Posted by: mushroom maniac at September 27, 2019 05:42 PM (FEQY4)

510 The only folks Trump can trust to be firmly in his camp are his three sons and his wife.

Posted by: IC at September 27, 2019 05:42 PM (a0IVu)

511 Just let the Pants Shitters go Jerkoff all over each other & ignore them

Posted by: Derp State is in Deep Shit at September 27, 2019 05:42 PM (BqBId)

512 Sometimes I feel like a Tutsi.

Posted by: kraken at September 27, 2019 05:42 PM (bCLt0)

513 That Trump is a threat to the Constitution is DOUBTFUL.

That Schitf and his conspirators are directly threatening the Constitution is fucking evident!

If you don't see that as a pundit, I kind of wonder what you think "separation of powers" means--you are a shill and a fraud. And God-willing you will receive your reckoning as such.

Posted by: Axeman at September 27, 2019 05:42 PM (DuZls)

514 some guy inside the WH went to Adam Schiff in real time about the Ukrainian and Rudy G. happenings. But in order to get the info out in the public they needed to find a whistleblower.. so they got some lower level person in the IC to file the complaint.. but then had to take extra step of chasing rules in order to make it happen.

That sounds about right, from what I've seen, that was the sequence.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2019 05:37 PM (KZzsI)


But the second hand content of the phone call was off. Perhaps Trump security seeded misleading content to a number of suspected leakers, each leaker got their own unique "Whoa" bait so they would know the insurgent sabatuer.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at September 27, 2019 05:43 PM (1g7ch)

515 Was that the same Joe Wilson that they made the movie about with Tom Hanks? (IIRC, that is)

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #PurgeProgressivism at September 27, 2019 05:43 PM (HaL55)

516 As bad as all this is looking, it is amazing we are finding out about it.

Posted by: IC at September 27, 2019 05:43 PM (a0IVu)

517 "This is big. This is the Deep State in action, and we caught them."

And yet not a fucking thing is going to happen to them.

Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at September 27, 2019 05:43 PM (jWe5r)

518 Just showed up here and I witness a flaming skull.


God, how I love being a Moron.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at September 27, 2019 05:43 PM (sy5kK)

519 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2019 04:42 PM (KZzsI)"
He can't fire people as he should be able to do, but it seems to me he can make them go sit in an office far away from him and give them no work to do whatsoever.




Posted by: D-Lamp at September 27, 2019 05:38 PM (fue0c)


And no internet in a shielded room.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at September 27, 2019 05:43 PM (1g7ch)

520 What astounds me is the reaction of the Republican Party, they are cowering in a corner instead of beating the Dems around the head with this.

Or have they been told to stand down by their real bosses, the Dems.

Posted by: Decaf at September 27, 2019 05:43 PM (xarPm)

521
Go stew in your broth of defeatism, gloom and failure.

Wasn't that a Hee Haw song?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 27, 2019 05:43 PM (aKsyK)

522 511 The only folks Trump can trust to be firmly in his camp are his three sons and his wife.
Posted by: IC at September 27, 2019 05:42 PM (a0IVu)

And you and me, IC.

Posted by: kraken at September 27, 2019 05:43 PM (bCLt0)

523 I think it's time Trump also "he fights" by doing a national televised oval office speech and laying this shit out.

Posted by: mushroom maniac at September 27, 2019 05:43 PM (FEQY4)

524 4m
Assistant US attorney Deborah A. Curtis off @GenFlynn case and leaving Dept of Justice.

Big Cases Bot @big_cases
New filing in United States v. Mike Flynn: Notice of Withdrawal of Appearance by Assistant U.S. Attorney

Posted by: Derp State is in Deep Shit at September 27, 2019 05:43 PM (BqBId)

525 And you and me, IC.

Posted by: kraken at September 27, 2019 05:43 PM (bCLt0)

aye.

Posted by: IC at September 27, 2019 05:43 PM (a0IVu)

526 Sooo, let me see if I have this right: There's a gaggle of unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats that are running the country in defiance of the Constitution. Who do whatever they want whenever they want whether it's legal or not because they have some sort of magical immunity from the law and are never punished for anything?
Izzat about right?
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #PurgeProgressivism at September 27, 2019 05:22 PM (HaL55)

Ummmmmmmmm.......Yes.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at September 27, 2019 05:44 PM (Z+IKu)

527 The people are up against their own government and the media complex. The people are up against the entire country, for the most part.

wow
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at September 27, 2019 05:41 PM (vEIlU)
---
Because other people "want to believe".

Keep that in mind.

Posted by: Axeman at September 27, 2019 05:44 PM (DuZls)

528 486
Shep will be extra stompy mad going down the catwalk next week.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at September 27, 2019 05:37 PM (f1Vqw)

Like a baby giraffe! A FIERCE one!

Posted by: Friday afternoon joncelli at September 27, 2019 05:44 PM (RD7QR)

529 Another problem: Mike Banning is a movie character.

Posted by: gp's Exciting Radio Adventures! at September 27, 2019 05:40 PM (mk9aG)


Marine Gunnery Sargents are not movie characters.
Trump needs to put some on special assignment.

Posted by: Billy Cole at September 27, 2019 05:44 PM (pr9ci)

530 >> Just showed up here and I witness a flaming skull.

>>God, how I love being a Moron.


All you need now is a Hot Dog and a Willow Stick.


Posted by: garrett at September 27, 2019 05:44 PM (5p8pS)

531 Steven McIntyre on twitter :



15/ bottom line: it appears almost certain that, subsequent to the CIA operative "WB" complaint, the DNI introduced a brand new Urgent Disclosure Form which offered a previously unavailable alternative to report allegations with no personal knowledge

Posted by: Dr Spank at September 27, 2019 05:44 PM (4e+hS)

532 In other news, Joe Wilson died today at age 69 (Husband of Valerie Plame). Deep State death!

Posted by: RichardWindsoe at September 27, 2019 05:32 PM (DRgs

Uranium poisoning?
Posted by: Mark1971 at September 27, 2019 05:34 PM (xPl2J)


Irony poisoning.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 27, 2019 05:38 PM
**********
Valerie's running for Congress in NM

Posted by: redridinghood at September 27, 2019 05:44 PM (wiXsO)

533 "Well I mean... he kinda has to. The US Constitution

sets up the system: impeachment hearings to determine if a trial should

be held, then a trial. Its not like he's endorsing anything."

The Constitution doesn't say anything about how the House impeaches, I think the issue is the Democrats skirting the usual procedures and send The Articles of Impeachment to the Senate without a vote. In that case all bets are off on how Mitch handles it.

Posted by: lowandslow at September 27, 2019 05:44 PM (Mr80f)

534 521 What astounds me is the reaction of the Republican Party, they are cowering in a cornerPosted by: Decaf at September 27, 2019 05:43 PM (xarPm)

That astounds you?

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at September 27, 2019 05:45 PM (H8QX8)

535 This is big. This is the Deep State in action, and we caught them.

Sorry slick - but this ain't big. This is only big to the bunch that still obsess over the rules, how they are broken, and the notion that breaking the rules has consequences outlined by the rules.


This little bit of nuance means nothing. Absolutely nothing.

Posted by: Hope Springs Eternal at September 27, 2019 05:45 PM (9anvi)

536 Sean Davis @seanmdav
54m
When asked via phone when the secret revisions were made and why the requirement for first-hand whistleblower knowledge was eliminated, an intelligence community spokeswoman said they would not comment on any questions about the secret evidence revisions.

Posted by: Derp State is in Deep Shit at September 27, 2019 05:45 PM (BqBId)

537 The Deep State is real. And spectacular.

This is like a Ludlum novel.

I really have no argument against any conspiracy theories anymore.

Posted by: blaster at September 27, 2019 05:45 PM (ZfRYq)

538 "Go stew in your broth of defeatism, gloom and failure."

There is one ray of hope: nobody has deployed the "troll" insult yet, despite the "negativity." It's a start.

Posted by: gp's Exciting Radio Adventures! at September 27, 2019 05:45 PM (mk9aG)

539 The Constitution doesn't say anything about how the House impeaches, I think the issue is the Democrats skirting the usual procedures and send The Articles of Impeachment to the Senate without a vote. In that case all bets are off on how Mitch handles it.

Posted by: lowandslow at September 27, 2019 05:44 PM (Mr80f)
---
Deem as passed?

NFW.

Posted by: Axeman at September 27, 2019 05:46 PM (DuZls)

540 First rule of Secret Revision Club...

Posted by: garrett at September 27, 2019 05:46 PM (5p8pS)

541 When asked via phone when the secret revisions were made and why the requirement for first-hand whistleblower knowledge was eliminated, an intelligence community spokeswoman said they would not comment on any questions about the secret evidence revisions.

Well, duh, they're secret! We wouldn't call them secret if we were going to talk about them!

Posted by: blaster at September 27, 2019 05:46 PM (ZfRYq)

542 Posted by: Dr Spank at September 27, 2019 05:44 PM (4e+hS)

.
We know the DNI did it, we don't know which DNI did it.

Posted by: Billy Cole at September 27, 2019 05:46 PM (pr9ci)

543 Gah I hate typing on this phone.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 27, 2019 05:47 PM (ptqGC)

544
Yay! Skull!

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 27, 2019 05:47 PM (e0p0c)

545 As bad as all this is looking, it is amazing we are finding out about it.
Posted by: IC at September 27, 2019 05:43 PM (a0IVu)

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

We are finding out about this because there will be no consequences. The coup is in progress and the president is isolated in the White House. The people don't matter only the media matter.

Posted by: Decaf at September 27, 2019 05:47 PM (xarPm)

546 JUST IN: In a letter to colleagues, SCHIFF confirms the intelligence community inspector general will come in for a closed briefing on Oct. 4.

Posted by: Derp State is in Deep Shit at September 27, 2019 05:47 PM (BqBId)

547 " When you're lost is Juarez and it's raining and it's Easter time too...." now THAT'S negativity....

Posted by: kraken at September 27, 2019 05:47 PM (bCLt0)

548 The Founders went into great depth outlining the rquirements for impeachment.

No. The don't list them explicity in the Constitution, however, the debate over Impeachment and its process is well documented.

Also, I believe there's some pretty strict guidlines in place in the house rules as well as court precedent.

Posted by: garrett at September 27, 2019 05:48 PM (5p8pS)

549 It would just be a wonder to me if such a situation could in fact be rectified. Dismantling the Deep State as a force in government I mean.

It just seems like so much money, power and vested interest both here and abroad have been accumulated that destroying it is just too much for anyone.

Like the old bureaucracies of ancient China or the trade/banking guilds of Italy or aristocratic privileges of pre-revolutionary France it our system just doesn't seem designed to correct for such things. Once they take root it takes a literal revolution to undo them. And in all honesty I just can't fathom such a thing in this America.

Not to be a Debbie Downer or anything. And Trump winning in 2016 did in fact restore my faith in the American system. I'm just not sure it's enough.

Posted by: Wonkish Rogue at September 27, 2019 05:48 PM (BRpqW)

550 I want Schiff's head on a pike at the Capitol steps.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 27, 2019 05:48 PM (ptqGC)

551 I expected to resolve that "This is not my country" back when I expected Hobby Lobby to be made to fund abortifacients and the SCOTUS totally ignoring conscience it doesn't like.

I hope I'm not that close again.

Posted by: Axeman at September 27, 2019 05:49 PM (DuZls)

552
Late, but here for willow time, I guess. How in the world do we rid
ouselves of the Deep State?? Especially since they seem to be
Transnatinal??


There's only one way to be sure: abolish the agency.

If there was ever a good reason to do it, this might be the time. Understand that if you'd proposed that to me not that long ago, I'd've said there's NFW you could do that.

But enough reports of enough skullduggery are starting to make me think that PDT could do it and have a large amount of support for doing so.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #PurgeProgressivism at September 27, 2019 05:49 PM (HaL55)

553 But the second hand content of the phone call was
off. Perhaps Trump security seeded misleading content to a number of
suspected leakers, each leaker got their own unique "Whoa" bait so they
would know the insurgent sabatuer.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at September 27, 2019 05:43 PM (1g7ch)

So they're dead now right?

Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'invite a friend for dinner!' at September 27, 2019 05:49 PM (+ZtlV)

554 If we allow Trump to be railroaded out of office without a fight, then, what does that say about us??

Posted by: kraken at September 27, 2019 05:49 PM (bCLt0)

555 "Marine Gunnery Sargents are not movie characters.
Trump needs to put some on special assignment."

I believe that idea has merit.

Posted by: gp's Exciting Radio Adventures! at September 27, 2019 05:49 PM (mk9aG)

556 Now @ClimateAudit twitter is discussing whether the form may not have been officially revised, or if it that's a ruse to make it appear to have been revised. It's in response to someone mentioning that these typically have tracking #s, instructions on how to handle outdated forms...interesting.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 27, 2019 05:49 PM (bDqIh)

557 Ah, the flaming skull signal.

The chicken is in the pot.
Repeat, the chicken is in the pot.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at September 27, 2019 05:50 PM (iuFgi)

558 >>I want Schiff's head on a pike at the Capitol steps.


You are gonna need a bigger pike.


Maybe try a Muskellunge instead?

Posted by: garrett at September 27, 2019 05:50 PM (5p8pS)

559 1) Build the Wall.
2) Line them all up in front of it.
3) Progress!

Posted by: starboardhelm at September 27, 2019 05:50 PM (hOtJL)

560 "Deem as passed?"


That's the issue. I think Pelosi is going to try and do this, and I mean all of it, without a vote.

Posted by: lowandslow at September 27, 2019 05:50 PM (Mr80f)

561 Lastly, beware dates on PDF's. There's a creation date and a modified date. In government circles an official form such as this would be "locked" meaning nobody but the creator of the document could open it for editing without a password. I deal with these every day.

A "modifier" of the document, the person who fills it out can only put data (text) into the fields that are specifically designed for this. The document is typically digitally signed with the individual's Common Access Card (CAC). Therefore the dates on these documents are useless without the digital signature. (If it wasn't signed it's useless.)

This report, if true, is very disturbing. However "if" the administration has competent IT skilz, they will trace it back to the originator, who, sadly is likely a lowly bureaucrat that had no idea what they were tasked to do.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 27, 2019 05:50 PM (3H9h1)

562 My anger is off the charts.

Posted by: Ha at September 27, 2019 05:50 PM (B/g/o)

563 551
I want Schiff's head on a pike at the Capitol steps.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 27, 2019 05:48 PM (ptqGC)

+++Even if only to see what his eyeballs will do.

Posted by: washrivergal at September 27, 2019 05:50 PM (9+jnX)

564 The coup is in progress and the president is isolated in the White House. The people don't matter only the media matter.

Posted by: Decaf at September 27, 2019 05:47 PM (xarPm)


Put a little caffine in that coffee, pahd'na.

Posted by: Billy Cole at September 27, 2019 05:50 PM (pr9ci)

565 Perhaps Trump security seeded misleading content to a number of suspected leakers, each leaker got their own unique "Whoa" bait so they would know the insurgent saboteur.

I think that's possible, but it is just as likely they just threw a buncha stuff together based on rumors and hearsay and went nuts with it. "Did you hear what dave said happened???"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2019 05:50 PM (KZzsI)

566 Donald Trump should never take another intelligence briefing from the CIA for the rest of his Presidency. Fuck those traitors. And the FBI should be shuttered completely, but that's another story.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at September 27, 2019 05:51 PM (Ozs2p)

567 When was the rule proposed for change? After the July Ukraine call? I

Posted by: FloridaMan at September 27, 2019 05:51 PM (r28kI)

568 I was going to have a cuppa cawfee, but my rage can't take it.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'invite a friend for dinner!' at September 27, 2019 05:51 PM (+ZtlV)

569 But the second hand content of the phone call was
off. Perhaps Trump security seeded misleading content to a number of suspected leakers, each leaker got their own unique "Whoa" bait so they would know the insurgent sabatuer.


Tyrion Lannister did this.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at September 27, 2019 05:51 PM (LxTcq)

570 "No. The don't list them explicity in the Constitution, however, the
debate over Impeachment and its process is well documented.
Also, I believe there's some pretty strict guidlines in place in the house rules as well as court precedent."



As if previous House rules and procedures matter anymore.

Posted by: lowandslow at September 27, 2019 05:52 PM (Mr80f)

571
I never feel like I'm being negative about this stuff. When I say that nobody big is going down for this, it's just from growing up as an American and knowing how my corrupt government works, and has as long as I've been aware of politics.

I've never had the hope it would be any different, so it's not a letdown or anything.

In fact, it makes me feel optimistic, because this time - for once - we have a guy in office who is exposing it, and not just knuckling under and doing as he's commanded. And people can finally see what I've been trying to tell them all along.

I think this is a truly important moment that will have historic consequences, and it makes me happy.

I just don't think those consequences will be short-term indictments of important intel chieftains or a former President.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 27, 2019 05:52 PM (AzW6q)

572 Democrat treachery IS risen to GOT level now.

Posted by: kraken at September 27, 2019 05:52 PM (bCLt0)

573 It would just be a wonder to me if such a situation
could in fact be rectified. Dismantling the Deep State as a force in
government I mean.



Posted by: Wonkish Rogue at September 27, 2019 05:48 PM (BRpqW)


To dismantle the Deep State will require dismantling a shit-pot of entities that those who profess to hate the Deep State otherwise enjoy.

Dismantling the Deep State would require dismantling, for a time, the military. Most law enforcement. And so on and so forth.

At the end of the day - this investigation shit is going nowhere. Because to expose the corruption is to expose the entire system - from all sides and all angles. That dog won't hunt.

We'll get a token sacrifice - maybe - and otherwise shit will go on as always. Because that's what most people want, when it all comes down to it.

Posted by: Hope Springs Eternal at September 27, 2019 05:53 PM (9anvi)

574 meantime PDT is calm, cool & collected & he knows everything, Meantime some people here who don't know fucking anything are running around with their hair on fire while shitting their pants

Posted by: Derp State is in Deep Shit at September 27, 2019 05:53 PM (BqBId)

575 "You know, America would be just as safe and in fact safer if we just dissolved the entire intelligence apparatus right now."

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

I think Mossad is the only thing that is keeping America safe at present with direct info to Trump. Our own IC are too busy with a coup.

Not a single foot soldier in FBI, CIA, DNI, NSA and every acronym you can think of, is worth keeping in their job.

I have noticed that only coup plotters are whistleblowers, why isn't there a single whistleblower for our side?

Scrap the lot of them.

Posted by: Decaf at September 27, 2019 05:53 PM (xarPm)

576 and as we saw with CNN's 540 word long ellipses, the media doesn't care about accurately reporting. trump needs to use his bully pulpit. Have a well written speech and talk about this.

Posted by: mushroom maniac at September 27, 2019 05:54 PM (FEQY4)

577 Also, I believe there's some pretty strict guidlines in place in the house rules as well as court precedent.

Yeah there's no real legal guidelines but a lot of information about what its supposed to be and mean. Not that the Democrats care, Schiff is literally just sitting there making crap up and claiming that's what they need to act on.

I'd like to believe this is the last act of a desperate man, but I can't see any reason for him to have fear, yet.

I want to believe that the IG will recommend severe wide scale punishment and criminal indictments, and I want to beleive that grand juries are signing off on the frog marching orders for dozens of major names.

There's just no basis for that. And even if there was, there's no basis for believing a one of them would be convicted, let alone face real punishment.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2019 05:54 PM (KZzsI)

578
The IG report on FISA abuse has been going around DC for a couple of weeks.

You know what we haven't gotten?

Leaks.

You know what we have gotten?

An insane impeachment push based on an innocuous phone call.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at September 27, 2019 04:48 PM (q80AH)


TJM, you make a compelling point. With layers and layers of facts and coverups.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at September 27, 2019 05:54 PM (sy5kK)

579 click your heels three times and repeat ... "trust the plan, trust the plan" ... maybe I'll sleep better if I listen to Q-anon memes at bedtime ... it's all under control, no worries.


(btw, what happened to Qanon, I think he is AWOL)

Posted by: illiniwek at September 27, 2019 05:54 PM (Cus5s)

580 Trump needs to put some gunny Marines on various staffs at the WH. They will work for the Prezzy.
Posted by: Billy Cole at September 27, 2019 05:38 PM (pr9ci)


Yep, have all the civilians show up at the froggy bottom swamp agencies on Monday, find a squad of armed, locked and loaded military men at the gate, with a determined look on their faces, saying "your access has been terminated. Leave the premises now. Thank you, and have a nice day."

Posted by: BurtTC at September 27, 2019 05:54 PM (hku12)

581 JUST IN: In a letter to colleagues, SCHIFF confirms the intelligence
community inspector general will come in for a closed briefing on Oct.
4.


President Trump broke no law in his conversation with the Ukraine Grand Poobah. All he has to do is wave the Ukraine treaty that BJ Cliton signed under Little Shifft's bugged-out psycho eyes.

PDT simply followed the agreed-upon treaty. He did nothing illegal. This cannot be shoved up the Prog's asses enough. That should be the automatic response to each and every question that a GOPe'r gets axed about it.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #PurgeProgressivism at September 27, 2019 05:54 PM (HaL55)

582 "Lastly, beware dates on PDF's"

So I can't just go into a PDF with a hex editor and change any fields I like? Even if I'm NSA?

Posted by: gp's Exciting Radio Adventures! at September 27, 2019 05:54 PM (mk9aG)

583 Just now catching up!!!
Holy Damn!!!!
Burn it down...scatter the ashes...etc!

Posted by: Diogenes at September 27, 2019 05:55 PM (axyOa)

584 In fact, it makes me feel optimistic, because this time - for once - we have a guy in office who is exposing it, and not just knuckling under and doing as he's commanded. And people can finally see what I've been trying to tell them all along.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 27, 2019 05:52 PM (AzW6q)
---
But he's exposing it only to the people on his side.

People not on his side will still be "He tried to invade our elections with RUSSIA!"

Trust me, the key point of my politics used to be dialog. The other side has hung up the phone.

Posted by: Axeman at September 27, 2019 05:55 PM (DuZls)

585 Not a single foot soldier in FBI, CIA, DNI, NSA and every acronym you can think of, is worth keeping in their job.



Scrap the lot of them.



Posted by: Decaf at September 27, 2019 05:53 PM (xarPm)

But rank and file!!

Posted by: Hannity at September 27, 2019 05:55 PM (+ZtlV)

586 Dan Coats was DNI until August 15.

Posted by: FloridaMan at September 27, 2019 05:55 PM (r28kI)

587 569 When was the rule proposed for change? After the July Ukraine call? I

Posted by: FloridaMan at September 27, 2019 05:51 PM (r28kI)


Proposed for change? Don't know. Approved sometime in August. By whom? Don't know. Uploaded to their system Sept. 24.


Not.at.all.suspicious.

Posted by: Tami at September 27, 2019 05:55 PM (cF8AT)

588 nood

Posted by: IC at September 27, 2019 05:56 PM (a0IVu)

589 Burn every inch of this mother fucker down.

Posted by: Emil Moresi at September 27, 2019 05:56 PM (FCVjJ)

590 And now Cocaine Mitch says that if Congress impeach fotta-fi the Senate will have a trial.

He's just stating the obvious.

Posted by: GnuBreed at September 27, 2019 05:56 PM (Z4rgH)

591 Yep, have all the civilians show up at the froggy
bottom swamp agencies on Monday, find a squad of armed, locked and
loaded military men at the gate, with a determined look on their faces,
saying "your access has been terminated. Leave the premises now. Thank
you, and have a nice day."

Posted by: BurtTC at September 27, 2019 05:54 PM


"Your personal belongings have been remove from the premises. You may claim them from the big pile of employee personal items in the middle of RFK stadium."

Posted by: Bert G at September 27, 2019 05:56 PM (OMsf+)

592 President Trump broke no law in his conversation with the Ukraine Grand Poobah.

Even if their more outrageous claims are true "Trump said for him to do him a favor and attack Biden" its STILL NOT ILLEGAL. Its not even immoral. What exactly do they think the freaking Ukraine can do to affect our elections???

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2019 05:56 PM (KZzsI)

593 Doesn't matter. No consequences will be suffered. Sometimes I wish my team had all of pop culture, 90% of the Media, and all of the bad actors in the intelligence apparatus on its side. If Republicans had all of that Democrats would be a completely fringe party with no more than 50 seats in the House and 10 or so seats in the Senate.

Posted by: Lamont Cranston at September 27, 2019 05:56 PM (3ufaJ)

594 Late to the thread, life and all.
What are these people thinking? Do they have any idea what the President can do if he decides to go Insurrection Act.

Posted by: Carpe Manana at September 27, 2019 05:57 PM (bIrK9)

595 And now Cocaine Mitch says that if Congress impeach fotta-fi the Senate will have a trial.

I wonder - when it happens - if all those that swore it would never happen and mocked those that said it could or would will own up to being wrong ?

Nah - I don't wonder at all.

Posted by: Hope Springs Eternal at September 27, 2019 05:58 PM (9anvi)

596 The Founders went into great depth outlining the rquirements for impeachment.

No. The don't list them explicity in the Constitution, however, the debate over Impeachment and its process is well documented.

Also, I believe there's some pretty strict guidlines in place in the house rules as well as court precedent.
Posted by: garrett at September 27, 2019 05:48 PM (5p8pS)

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

Rules? LOL!

Posted by: Decaf at September 27, 2019 05:59 PM (xarPm)

597 >>I want Schiff's head on a pike at the Capitol steps.


He'd need some company

Posted by: Lizzy at September 27, 2019 05:59 PM (bDqIh)

598 But he's exposing it only to the people on his side.

People not on his side will still be "He tried to invade our elections with RUSSIA!"

Trust me, the key point of my politics used to be dialog. The other side has hung up the phone.
Posted by: Axeman at September 27, 2019 05:55 PM (DuZls

---------

Look around you... there are PLENTY of people on Trump's side who still cling to the notion that this country, which abandoned the rule of law decades ago, still has some hope of resurrecting Justice through political means.

It doesn't. More and more people figure it out every day.

I don't care about their side, and I too have hung up the phone. I want people on my side to get organized and DEMAND change, physically if necessary.

And this may well be the catalyst for that.

The other side can fuck right off. I have no use for them or their accursed, g-dforsaken "dialogue."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 27, 2019 06:01 PM (AzW6q)

599 Two things. I am sick to death of demorats all bemoaning the rule of law. Bull, you've been breaking the law for years. That, and we've all sworn an oath to uphold and protect the Constitution. Again, bull squirt. You've been trying to subvert and destroy it for as long as I can remember. Go eat a bag of dicks.

Posted by: Old Blue at September 27, 2019 06:01 PM (VNmG1)

600 I fear a 'distraction' coming up. They're losing it.

Posted by: t-bird at September 27, 2019 06:01 PM (tUbyP)

601 "Perhaps Trump security seeded misleading content to a number of
suspected leakers, each leaker got their own unique "Whoa" bait so they
would know the insurgent saboteur."

impossible to say ... maybe CIA whistling seditionist had an exact copy, but put in some variations so it looked more like third party hearsay, gossip that EVERYONE was CONCERNED about ... DC is full of moles, subterfuge, dirty money.

Posted by: illiniwek at September 27, 2019 06:01 PM (Cus5s)

602 583 Trump needs to put some gunny Marines on various staffs at the WH. They will work for the Prezzy.
Posted by: Billy Cole at September 27, 2019 05:38 PM (pr9ci)


Yep, have all the civilians show up at the froggy bottom swamp agencies on Monday, find a squad of armed, locked and loaded military men at the gate, with a determined look on their faces, saying "your access has been terminated. Leave the premises now. Thank you, and have a nice day."

Posted by: BurtTC at September 27, 2019 05:54 PM (hku12)


Ha! I was thinking more of an extended learning program for the Marines. Each one assigned to a different office.

Eyes and ears for the President. No intimidation.

Posted by: Billy Cole at September 27, 2019 06:02 PM (pr9ci)

603 Catching them and exposing them is one thing. Actual consequences are another. If there are indictments, I can't wait until the Deep State/Media breathlessly report this as the same as Hitler's Night of the Long Knives. Perhaps they already have.

Posted by: Cheri at September 27, 2019 06:03 PM (oiNtH)

604 all the stuff about Kavenaugh was completely untrue and yet to this day, people believe Blasey. People believe the pee tape is true! I am beginning to lose faith. When do these people ever get held to account for their lies and misdeeds? Instead they get book contracts and paid speaking tours.
It is always, always one sided in favor of the democrats

Posted by: sharon at September 27, 2019 06:03 PM (QzF6i)

605 >>I want Schiff's head on a pike at the Capitol steps.

He'd need some company


I'm imagining a new White House fence... Nobody's jumping that thing!

Posted by: t-bird at September 27, 2019 06:04 PM (bsa0M)

606 Just look at what DJT has accomplished with just about everybody working against him, many within the White House (for which he is partially to blame tbh). Now imagine if he wasn't obstructed what kind of success he, and in turn the country, would see. Would think his approval rating would be in the 60s?

Posted by: JPV at September 27, 2019 06:09 PM (T6elx)

607 Other thing to consider. This was not done in a
matter of hours. Forms have to be approved then disseminated throughout
the organization.



This also HAD to have been commented on by the current IG.



Its not just a ONE person plot.
Posted by: Don Q at September 27, 2019 05:21 PM (NgKpN)


yes and no. It depends on how corrupt the system is.

Form changes are generally worked up at request from upper management, by legal request by the legal people, or by units requesting changes for various reasons having to do with use, destination, or clarity.

In an ideal world they go through a forms committee for style and language and get bumped over for review by the legal counsel to make sure no changes were made that neglect or violate current statute or rule.
Then they go through the approval by some sort of management that certifies that all the required steps in verifying that the procedure was followed and it is sent to the IT people for inclusion in the forms drive. Government offices don't really do hard copy forms for internal stuff, they generally do electronic files to print out.

Of course if you wanted to sink a fifth ace into the deck, you just make the change and hand carry it to IT for inclusion. The procedure should be logged somewhere, since no-one wants there to be a screwup hung in their personnel file.
The point is that there should be a file showing how the form was changed, and for what reason, especially for something as important as this sort of HR file and for the executive branch. Unless everyone was involved except maybe the IT entry clerk.
The best bet is that if it was changed without process, it was generated at the management level.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 27, 2019 06:12 PM (xG/b0)

608 Of course I am talking from experience that has nothing to do with the Fed Gov.

I should have added that

Posted by: Kindltot at September 27, 2019 06:13 PM (xG/b0)

609 If the original whistleblower report was passed electronically to DOJ or Congress, is there any metadata associated with it that may hint as to its origination?

Posted by: Ocassional Comenter at September 27, 2019 06:17 PM (Ezw/y)

610 Joe Wilson died today at age 69

A going away present.

https://www.amazon.com/
Gloss-Yellow-Powder-Coating-
Paint/dp/B00S92UVXM

Posted by: DaveA at September 27, 2019 06:17 PM (FhXTo)

611 Hiya Flaming Skull.

Haven't seen you in awhile.

You've lost weight !

Posted by: JT at September 27, 2019 06:17 PM (arJlL)

612 This report, if true, is very disturbing. However "if" the administration has competent IT skilz, they will trace it back to the originator, who, sadly is likely a lowly bureaucrat that had no idea what they were tasked to do.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 27, 2019 05:50 PM (3H9h1)


But the 'lowly' will have a complete trace on who directed the change.

I doubt the form is signed with an e-sig though.
Who would issue a CAC to "anon y mouse".

Posted by: Burnt Toast at September 27, 2019 06:27 PM (1g7ch)

613 Decaf,

When has the right (before Trump) done anything (other than make appropriate noises and cave).

Posted by: David at September 27, 2019 06:28 PM (32iZ7)

614 A friend who is a PhD researcher in the Tech world and who takes no stand on much of anything politically today up and says there must be capital punishment for those guilty of this coup(he think it is all an intel op) .

This out of the blue statement has me thinking....

The Dems have gone way too far. Even the unconnected see what's going on and they dont like it. At all.

Posted by: Voter theater. at September 27, 2019 06:28 PM (HkRDr)

615 Don't count on Bill Barr not reusing himself and even if he doesn't. If laws were broken, nobody will go to prison if they are within the political sphere.

Posted by: Drider at September 27, 2019 06:30 PM (R/UH9)

616 I think that's possible, but it is just as likely they just threw a buncha stuff together based on rumors and hearsay and went nuts with it. "Did you hear what dave said happened???"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 27, 2019 05:50 PM (KZzsI)


Schitt thought it was all about JOE Biden.
The 'whistleblower' apparently did too as well as placing someone on the call who was not there. Both completely missed the Crowdstrike and server which seemed to be more meaty.

Everything else was news article. Probably seeded by Fusion GPS because that is what they do... in fact getting those articles into the record was the probably the primary purpose of the 'whistleblower. Joe Biden only matters in that he hung himself out based on rumors of the content.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at September 27, 2019 06:33 PM (1g7ch)

617 What this means is that after eight years of Obama and a communist CIA Chief, you still have progressive/communist moles in our primary law enforcement and intelligence services. That is not surprising. But what is surprising is the deviouslness and outright brass of these people. This whistle blower complaint is protected by federal law apparently to include the identity of the whistle blower. But if anyone can file a complaint even if they have no knowledge of any wrong doing, then progressive moles can hamstring an administration indefinitely. But this route of attack was also meant to shield the attacker. He was essentially using using actual whistleblowers as a human shield for his or her own attack. This strikes me as a desperation tactic and shows that they are afraid.

These tactics are designed not to actually impeach formally ( although they'll take it if they can get it) but simply to keep the administration from effectively moving on its political agenda in the hopes the Dems can win the next election. Judges are still being approved because Republicans still control the Senate but necessary legislation is frozen because the Democrats control congress.

I hold in special contempt those Republicans who are expressing "concern" about Donald Trump, not because they disagree with politically but because they hold him and his supporters in contempt for the same reason, that most Dems do, he's and outsider not siding with the elites. I will remember it Mitt.

One final word, on Tulsi Gabbard, the Dem representative from Hawaii who has been appearing on Fox to say she opposed impeachment because it was dividing the country. I believed her because I wanted to. But in the end she climbed down off that horse and joined the rest of them. I guess they offered her something. I must be getting old.

Posted by: Punchinello at September 27, 2019 06:33 PM (zOrpp)

618 Barr says he's too old to be afraid of dying and is not concerned with his legacy.

Posted by: Billy Cole at September 27, 2019 06:34 PM (pr9ci)

619 Meantime PDT is calm, cool collected he
knows everything, Meantime some people here who don't know fucking
anything are running around with their hair on fire while shitting their
pants

Posted by: Derp State is in Deep Shit at September 27, 2019 05:53 PM (BqBId)

Hey! I'm right here!!

Posted by: guy with hair on fire shitting his pants at September 27, 2019 07:11 PM (9YBqo)

620 When the first 'insurance policy' coverage from the Mueller Insurance Company proved inadequate, the Democratic Part switched carriers to the 'Whistleblower Insurance Company'.

Posted by: Lewis Bowlby at September 27, 2019 07:35 PM (Lxxwf)

621
if christopher taylor was potus, everything would be alright.Posted by: trapper's girl at September 27, 2019 05:02 PM (J5Hfq)



That's the impression I get. Best to ignore him.

Posted by: Ronster at September 27, 2019 08:18 PM (ouHIE)

622 Burn this fucker down. FBI CIA all that other crap, tear it down, let them find work in outside government.

Posted by: Garbone at September 27, 2019 09:38 PM (o0cGH)

623 lmao. watching you cultists flail about now that President Brain Health is caught doing crimes is truly wonderful. All the popcorn.

Posted by: Angry Gay at September 28, 2019 12:51 AM (KvJ88)

624 Time for Trump to fire those involved.

Posted by: I am not corey Booker at September 28, 2019 01:08 AM (Ju2mK)

625 Coincidentally, I expressed the same thoughts.

I know, I know - what're the odds?

http://thedeclination.com/guys-i-have-this-wild-idea/

Posted by: Linda Fox at September 28, 2019 10:14 AM (3uqJZ)

626 Does the Senate now say, sorry, we don't accept hearsay?

Posted by: Rob in Katy at September 28, 2019 05:35 PM (yCDuR)

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