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What the actual fuck?
[/quote]Interesting - and extremely corrupt - times.
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Also, has anyone seen even an attempt at a rationale to explain the necessity of this “Rs only” briefing? Not that it would be truthful coming from this slime pit WH, but have they even bothered to justify it? Maybe I’ve missed it, but I’ve seen doodly squat on that front.
And may I just say what a POS headline this is from The Hill: “Bowing to pressure, White House to host bipartisan briefing on Russia Investigation.” They haven’t bowed to pressure at all. It’s barely a thin facade of compromise. Sheesh.
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Sitting here and watching the coverage of this meeting…it occurs to me that this meeting may be an attempt at a confrontation with Rosenstein in which he would be put in an untenable position and have to say “NO” to trump over some part of it thereby giving trump a pretext with which to fire him. It’s very very apparent to me that trump is looking for any reason to drop the hammer on Rosenstein as a way to kill what Mueller is doing.
There I go stating the obvious again.
The hard part of an obstruction charge is proving corrupt intent. How bad or obvious does that corruption need to be to have a legal effect? Seems to me there are multiple instances where trump has broadcast loudly his corrupt intent.
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I tell ya…when I see trump on the telly bloviating…even with the sound off … I feel I’m being force fed a shit sandwich and this image comes to mind:
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On “Deadline” MSNBC, a Senator was interviewed, and he stated there was a statute against the first meeting. The law states that the only the Gang of 8 can see this information. After hearing this information, I had hoped someone would sue, but this might be the bases of the change of plans for the meeting.
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Five will get you 10 that Nunes will come out of the meeting and say something like: “This isn’t enough. Blah blah blah. We know there has to be more. Yada Yada Yada, the American people, jiggery bargle, argle pokery. We demand to see all the files, which I will supoena immediately. Yada Yada, God, Blah Blah, spygate, American people deserve to know.”
Yeah, that’s how it goes down. They won’t be satisfied until they can see the entire Russia Probe case files.
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Well, well, well, there’s been a change of plans. The gang of eight is being briefed tomorrow afternoon. And Rosenstein will participate.
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While Democrats were not invited by the White House to attend a classified briefing between two Republican committee chairs and top intelligence and law enforcement officials on Thursday, they will be invited to to attend a similar planned meeting in the future, ABC News first reported Wednesday.
They will be invited? To a similar meeting? Why would this be remotely acceptable? They have a right to be present at this meeting. Another–possible–meeting is another subject.
I have an idea. The Democrats should invite Mueller to brief them in private about what he’s got. Then they should invite Republicans to a later meeting they have planned at which Mueller will not be present but maybe a balloon artist will be.
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Gang of Eight will be briefed tomorrow afternoon. Paul Ryan won’t attend due to a conflict.
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In other news: Rep Black from TN proposes bill calling for setting up a crowdfunding mechanism for The Wall.
Now that’s a Republican effort I can support 110%! Knock yourselves out! I’m sure that will get The Wall built So Much Faster! And you can all put your money where your mouthes have been!
Make it the last line on Form 1040 before the payment/refund is figured. Enter amount here you want to contribute!
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Ezra Cohen Watnick was hired by the DOJ to be a non-lawyer National Security Advisor of some sort. Given his background in the Nunes Midnight Run to the White House, my bet is he and O’Callaghan are on a mission similar to the inappropriately called “truth squad” sent to Alaska, another stonewalling mission. In Alaska O’Callaghan successfully kept Sara Palin’s emails from being released until about a month after the Presidential Election. As I recall, her emails included over a thousand which she had sent over a Yahoo email account in order to try to evade FOIA and government transparency regulations.
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I keep wondering why no one is calling this a terrorist attack.
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I saw it as this: Gowdy does not have high enough clearance, so Rosenstein (and Wray) will have to punt on certain things, But the purpose of this obstruction is so that fuckface Nunes can promptly tell fuckface scumbag that Rosenstein is deliberately holding back stuff, so he should be fired.
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“Sniff, sniff.”
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I’m sure the Obama administration has ordered the CIA and FBI to bug the meeting and implant spies.
What else can be expected in Putin’s America. Face it, we are fucked until we say otherwise.
“make the U.S. taste an appalling tragedy it has neither experienced nor even imagined"
We have mass shootings every single day and don’t really give a shit about appalling tragedies we had never experienced or imagined, Sandy Hook comes to mind. But go ahead, try to top our own selfishness, paranoia and stupidity.
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Because the terrorists are white.
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Obviously this is reprehensible… but it also seems to be falling well short of it’s intended goals, which as always is to keep the base and fool the moderates. I’m not even sure these actions play all that well with the base. let alone moderates - they scream “I’m desperate!”. This hasn’t been a good week in Trumplandia.
The Real Meeting will be where John Kelly sits on the side, smiling, while Trey Gowdy and Devin Nunes browbeat Wray into giving up as much confidential information as they can intimidate him into. DNI Director Coats will sit there, quietly wringing his hands, but totally on board as he has been throughout this President’s attempts to use its power to shut down any investigation and refuse to be accountable to the American People. To top it off, Ed O’Callaghan will use the information he and Ezra Cohen Watnick have ferreted out in their jobs as part of the “National Security” division of the DOJ.
In the Second Meeting, John Kelly and the invited GOP members will ensure that Director Wray does not communicate the tone of the First Meeting to the Democratic Members, or any of the areas in which Nunes and O’Callaghan attempted to obtain information that could damage the Mueller Investigation.
This Administration is corrupt to the core. John Kelly is an enabler of that corruption.