Discussion: Report: Obama Admin Officials Made List Of Documents For Senate Russia Probe

Nicely done image!!!
Props!!

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Not leaking when you’re peeing inside the pool, fyi.
Anyway, no Russians involved…

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I stole it from the internet meme mine.

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Brilliant!

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Help me understand… what’s the deal with this Farkas lady? I don’t know much about her.

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This is the first I’ve heard of her, too.

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Obviously she wasn’t a high-profile, widely-known name in her former capacity that TV shows would covet. And yet all of a sudden she made an appearance on TV and gave an interview to Morning Joe?

Am I wrong to smell something fishy?

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NBC says

The purpose, said the official, was to make it “harder to bury” the
information, “to share it with those on the Hill who could lawfully see
the documents,”

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OT I just had a trump hair color revelation. In the photo above trump’s hair matches the oval office wallpaper…a gold color. Could that lunatic being attempting to gilt his locks?

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… and the money quote in that article is:

Under the intelligence community’s “minimization” rules, names of American citizens and green card holders are normally removed and replaced with some variation of “[MINIMIZED U.S. PERSON].” The rules allow for somewhat more specificity. Nunes said he could easily guess the names, even when minimized. That would be true, for example, if a report mentioned a “[MINIMIZED U.S. CAMPAIGN OFFICIAL]” who did business in Ukraine. That may look like a joke, but it’s not. I have seen references in NSA reports to “[MINIMIZED U.S. PRESIDENT].”

Holy shit!

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The whole #FarkasFrickas Spicey and Sean Hannity keep trying to use as a diversion was the Obama administration protecting evidence of Russian interference and leaving a trail of bread crumbs.

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That reminds me of this (5 seconds, tops)

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Former Defense Department official working on Russia (I believe) gave an interview on Morning Joe and the right wing conservative entertainment complex has tried to turn her into a diversion.

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What took her to that interview in the first place, though?

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I would not be surprised at all if DT doesn’ have some sort of hair concoction containing gold in a fine microscopic grind powder such that it colors his head that orange gold color. He is a very very vain person and color coordination could be a driving force.

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I assume her position as a former DoD official with expertise on Russia.

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This reader comment at the NYTimes from the beginning of March. That Obama is considered the ‘best president ever’ might turn out to be a massive understatement.

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During the transition, when it came out that the Obama administration was scrambling to persevere documents for the ongoing investigation, she spoke to this fact on Morning Joe. The right has now dug up her comments in a very desperate attempt to say it somehow proves the administration was spying on PP. It’s just more wild swinging and flailing. Since her words are now being used to claim there was spying, she’s been invited on a few shows to speak to that. I don’t smell anything fishy here.

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I need to also point out that the Obama admin handed this info over to the Senate Intel Committee while Obama was the president!

And as the current occupant of the Oval has pointed out, the president can declassify anything he wants. So President Obama could have turned over all this intel to the fucking newspapers if he had wanted but, being the adult and the true leader, he instructed his staff to turn it over the the only investigative body he trusted.

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FBI agents likely feared exposing an ongoing operation against “an organized crime network headquartered in the former Soviet Union.” This Russia mob “is one of the Bureau’s top priorities,

Isn’t the entire “former Soviet Union,” or at least Russia, one big organized crime network?

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