Discussion: Judge Orders FBI Agent Who Conducted Manafort Search To Attend Hearing

The Mango Mussolini was tweeting about McCabe again this morning. He really needs some new enemies to liven up the plot.

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Manafort’s lawyers said that in an actual court filing last month.

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What’s up with the misuse of prepositions? Does Melania live in/at the WH? ā€œHe’s gasping (grasping) for/at straws.ā€ Mein gott the idiom has been around since 1534 shouldn’t the lawyer know this?

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Back when I ran an IT consulting company, we had the story of the might Vasa on a t-shirt just to remind everybody just how badly you could screw up a project if you had enough hubris and ignored reality long enough. Doubt we could teach these yahoos anything at this late stage, but perhaps there’s a few lessons here for the rest of us about screwing up royally…

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What Sniffit said above. It’s all that Qanon business that has some folks persuaded that what we (meaning, most of the civilized, literate world) don’t know is that before we know it, most of the highers-up in the Obama administration will soon be in prison.

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What’s that old Tom Wolfe quote?

"If a conservative is a liberal who got mugged last night…

Then a liberal is a conservative who got arrested last night."

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Worked for Randy ā€œDukeā€ Cunningham. He suddenly got religion on criminal justice reform after his unfortunate misunderstanding with the judicial system.

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Very true. The entire Republican Party has, all of a sudden, become quite liberal in their thinking about right to privacy, FISA warrants and law enforcement overreach. For all the wrong reasons, of course. Meaning they don’t care about others people’s civil rights, they just don’t want to go to jail for their own criminal activities.

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It is going to get even hotter as the months come closer to his trial, Don’t know what religion this man has, but he better start putting together his prayer mantle.

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Aren’t Repubs the folks who always rail against due process for impeding law enforcement? Yes, I know the answer. They are hypocrites who always use the loopholes they pretend to despise.

Of course I am in favor of enforcing due process, because you have to do that at the global level for the system to work. But covering up clear evidence of guilt through technical means never wins any sympathy. Nor earns vindication.

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I am going to call ICE. You must be an illegal, associated w M-13. Otherwise you would be speaking English!

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Who are these stricken people? Who has time to indulge in this bullshit? Do they not have jobs? Families to attend to? The duties and pleasures of life to occupy their time? As Granny Von Holst would say, ā€œIt’s brains they want!ā€

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I have given up. Trying to talk to them is like trying to have a reasonable conversation with some villager from the Middle Ages who had never been more than twenty miles from his village before the time machine arrived–lives in a world of witches and miracles performed by clerics that is flat, the center of the universe and surrounded by moving sky lights.

They live in their own world now, with its own history, own facts and own mythos.

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There is no like about it. They litter ally are villagers from the Middle Ages.

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Things Fox News Hosts Would Rather Talk About Instead of the Russia Investigation

Here are nine things Fox News would rather talk about than the investigation into Russia colluding with Trump’s campaign

…As the holidays grow closer, it’s apparent that Mueller is well on his way to wrapping up a significant part of the investigation. However, Trump and Fox News are doing everything in their power to avoid talking about it…

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Statement by Senator Warner. Yes, he voted to confirm Gina Haspel. But case by case, case by case.

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I’m guessing it’s more like an anvil…

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Whew! I thought it was just me. Thank you!

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That’s what Bill Clinton advocated: spend your precious time and resources trying to persuade the persuadable, and motivating the sympathetic - and leave the RW whackos the eff alone, life (and campaigns) are too short anyway.

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Thanks for flagging- strong statement.

On the other thing, have to wonder if he and Burr talked beforehand, their report made Nunes’ ā€œreportā€ look like an even bigger fraudulent piece of disinformation than it already is.

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