But I am confident that America will be able to have a free and fair election, that we’ll push back in a way that is sufficiently robust, that the impact that they will have on our election won’t be great.”
Seems legit.
Just a coupla moujiks working out what their oligarchic masters wanted done with classified intel.
So is this standard operating procedure? Or was Don Jr.'s handler unable to make the dead drop in Lafayette Square?
“CIA Director Mike Pompeo met with his Russian counterparts when they visited the United States last week, including the chief of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, Sergey Naryshkin, who is included on a list of sanctioned Russian officials sanctioned by the U.S…”
Well, duh…
That flashdrive with Kobach’s database isn’t going to pass itself along.
I wonder too—always assumed there were regular interactions but this seems pretty cozy. When the government’s run by traitors there are all kinds of questions these situations are going to raise.
Pompeo: “How can we be of assistance?”
They are going to try and rob that bank, but I have every confidence they will only take a little bit of money.
Yes this is both routine and desirable. We are operating inthe same war zone as the Russians so unless we are fighting them outright, we sure as shit better be coordinating with them.
That said, the point of the article was supposed to be that this particular official is on the sanctions list. So as leverage to try to prevent Russian interference, we target key people to punish (they can’t transfer money or buy property or travel to the US). The message of this meeting is that this individual is of the hook. Please proceed, comrade.
The refusal to implement sanctions, against the will of Congress, is keeping the promise that Trump instructed Flynn to make to the Russians. It is a the very act of collusion, he denies.
I’m glad I’m not the only one that thinks Pompeo doesn’t exactly have clean hands in all this. I can’t say why though, I just don’t trust him.
“But I am confident that America will be able to have a free and fair election, and that as long as Russia is helping our side win, we don't see a problem.”FIFY
How absolutely not fucking surprising whatsoever.
I wonder what his underlings at the CIA think about this, after all of the agents that risk their lives today, and many who gave their lives spying on the Soviet Union during the Cold War? Same goes for the field agents of the FBI, with Trump basically calling the agency a bunch of traitors.
I mean, I have no great love for the CIA or the FBI, but if I knew someone had all the intelligence power in this country available to them, and probably had incriminating and embarrassing and damaging and possibly illegal information on just about every politician in America, I think I’d tiptoe a little lightly around this.
So, just as in 2016, this year’s elections will be Dems v GOP + Russia. If that wasn’t bad enough, we do not have a prominent Democratic leader who will say it directly: the GOP and Russia are electoral allies. Everybody knows it. It’s as clear as the emperor with no clothes. Would some little boy in the Democratic leadership just point it out? Is that too much too ask?
“But I am confident that America will be able to have a free and fair election, that we’ll push back in a way that is sufficiently robust, that the impact that they will have on our election won’t be great.” (Pompeo)
“Just enough to get enough key GOPers over the line, but nothing characterized as great,” Mr. Pompeo added.
People need to understand (myself included) that they are not abiding by ANY rules, norms, or laws. None. The sooner we all understand that, the more we can accept it and move on to November. Sanctions? Meh. Everyone’s forgotten by now.
Pompeo is owned by Charles and David Koch. He met with Naryshkin to coordinate their commitment of $400 million to influence the 2018 midterms. And to pass along Kobach’s flashdrive of American voter info.
Oh … those poor … poor little Russian orphans —
We really need to fix this … for the kids ! —
Honestly, after everything we’ve been witnessing, I wouldn’t be surprised if what you say is right on the money.
Yeah! – The kids. More white immigrant kids … all equipped with borg technology, compliments Uncle Vlad, for future use in the Russian state of U.S. of R.!
It is precisely how Dotard T rump, and everyone he touches, is working to transform our American democracy into an authoritarian republic. That is precisely what is happening under Republican control.