@pmaroneyb You’re right. My mistake. They will release what I expect will be a carefully selected “handful” of unredacted texts that they think will make Trump and Carter Page look good. Democrats warn that the release is dangerous and may reveal identities and methods of gathering intelligence. If this is not an abuse of presidential power, I don’t know what is.
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I’m writing my Congress people. Let’s hit them from all sides, TV and from the public.
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Done. First time ever. Thanks, I needed that!
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As I have been telling the Trumpsters today,this won’t move the needle one bit.
Exonerate me or the country gets it.
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Auntie Maxine has her subpoenas ready 
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Not if the whole is declassified.
Also, I believe Trump is acting in the interest of transparency: He wants Putin to see clearly that he’s on his side, so nothing untoward will be released by the Kremlin.
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they are selectively releasing stuff, it’s out of context
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“Transparency” from the guy who won’t release his tax returns.
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A tape of Trump using the n-word will only give his supporters an excuse to bitch about political correctness.
But it’s just an imaginary line, it doesn’t actually do anything. So he’s crossed the line. What are they going to do about it? Not release the indicated documents? Defy Trump? Go on strike? Resign? Write a stern letter?
What. Are. They. Going. To. Do?
The FBI has its ways of getting its message across. So does the USIC. Most of the people working in both agencies are at least professionally acquainted with each other. I’m sure they will find a way to put a few shots across Donnie’s bow.
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Can we just change the headline to: Trump raises taxes on ordinary folks who buy stuff.
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And in the mind of Mango Mussolini, this gives him grounds to fire, in order, Sessions, Rosenstein, and Mueller, all for insubordination. ( In Clouseau voice) “Voila…Problem Solve-ed”
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I have no special knowledge or insight but it seems to me Putin’s smart enough to know you can’t micromanage this stuff. It’s enough for his purposes to create chaos, and he’s certainly accomplished that with Trump’s election. For his part, Trump is pathologically unconcerned with national security or any other outside-him subject whatsoever. His only consideration is what benefits Trump. He’s not being actively treasonous; it’s a by-product, except when he’s being actively treasonous by doing what he assumes or knows by being told that Putin would wish in order to benefit himself. (I know that’s a bit tricky.) Trump is like a shark or a spider—he does what he thinks will benefit himself, period. He cannot conceive of anything beyond his own moronic estimation of what will help him. He literally can’t do it. So everything he does has to and can only be understood that way.
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I guaran-fucking-tee you Benjamin Franklin never said anything of the sort. This is a huge pet peeve and I know it’s completely futile but I wish sensible people would think for a moment whether that sounds like something an 18th-century person would say. In particular the supposed Twain quotes that are cheesy refrigerator-magnet lameness make me crazy. Please take a moment to see if the alleged speaker ever actually said that thing.
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Hey, I said up front this is all rumor-mill stuff to be taken cum grano salis. Evidently there was some kind of altercation. I sure as shit wasn’t there. I was sitting in my spare-bedroom office in southeastern Pennsylvania at the time, I’m sure. Neither celebrities nor tawdriness hold much fascination for me. Ultimately I’d rather hang out with friends or go hear some music or something. But alas, we know these things happened, and it’s our fate as humans to try to make sense out of it all. As a Bokononist I say, “Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly, man got to sit and wonder why, why, why. Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land, man got to tell himself he understand.”
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No, not just the handful that would tend to exculpate you, all that would also implicate you. Federal Rule of Evidence 106 should apply along with the Brady doctrine.
Ever since each Watergate reform was enacted the GOP has been working assiduously to undermine the reform and make the underlying act not just legal but constitutional, e.g. corporations having civil rights equivalent to those of humans, the act of spending money from unknown sources being speech protected by the 1st Amendment, etc. etc. etc.
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Laissez-faire, babe. When you’re a star—i.e., rich—they let you do it.
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