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Another great Tucker Carlson.
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Nice segue!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuRJDKEVxHY
If Seth Rich leaked the DNC emails before he was murdered then how is it that Russia did it?
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If I put anything in to a Memo to myself, it must be true. Oldest CYA trick in the book.
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DOJ has appointed a Special Counsel in the Russia probe.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/17/politics/special-counsel-robert-mueller/index.html?adkey=bn
The Justice Department on Wednesday appointed former FBI Director Robert Mueller as special counsel to oversee the federal investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, including potential collusion between Trump campaign associates and Russian officials.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed Mueller to the position in a letter obtained by CNN. Attorney General Jeff Sessions previously recused himself from any involvement in the Russia investigation due to his role as a prominent campaign adviser and surrogate.
As special counsel, Mueller is “authorized to prosecute federal crimes arising from the investigation of these matters,” according to the Justice Department order Rosenstein signed.
Mueller’s appointment aims to quell the wave of criticism that President Donald Trump and his administration have faced since Trump fired FBI Director James Comey last week in the middle of the FBI’s intensifying investigation into contacts between Trump campaign associates and Russian officials. That criticism swelled on Tuesday evening as excerpts of a memo Comey wrote in February surfaced, in which Comey writes Trump asked him to drop the FBI investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
That news intensified demands from Democrats on Capitol Hill for the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel or prosecutor to oversee the case. Republicans on Tuesday evening began to join those calls.
“In my capacity as acting attorney general, I determined that it is in the public interest for me to exercise my authority and appoint a Special Counsel to assume responsibility for this matter,” Rosenstein said in a statement, adding that the decision is “not a finding that crimes have been committed or that any prosecution is warranted.”
“What I have determined is that based upon the unique circumstances, the public interest requires me to place this investigation under the authority of a person who exercises a degree of independence from the normal chain of command,” Rosenstein said.
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And then there’s this:
A month before Donald Trump clinched the Republican nomination, one of his closest allies in Congress — House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy — made a politically explosive assertion in a private conversation on Capitol Hill with his fellow GOP leaders: that Trump could be the beneficiary of payments from Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump,” McCarthy (R-Calif.) said, according to a recording of the June 15, 2016 exchange, which was listened to and verified by The Washington Post. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher is a Californian Republican known in Congress as a fervent defender of Putin and Russia.
House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) immediately interjected, stopping the conversation from further exploring McCarthy’s assertion, and swore the Republicans present to secrecy.
Before the conversation, McCarthy and Ryan had emerged from separate talks at the U.S. Capitol with Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman, who had described a Kremlin tactic of financing populist politicians to undercut Eastern European democratic institutions.
News had just broken the day before in The Washington Post that Russian government hackers had penetrated the computer network of the Democratic National Committee, prompting McCarthy to shift the conversation from Russian meddling in Europe to events closer to home.
Some of the lawmakers laughed at McCarthy’s comment. Then McCarthy quickly added: “Swear to God.”
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DOJ has appointed a Special Counsel in the Russia probe.
Wow, nice pick. It will be tough to criticize him as a torch-wielding liberal. Not that it won’t happen anyway. DOJ Special Counsel is still a little hamstrung, but it’s the best we can hope for in this political climate.
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Bizzaro Frevious.
https://twitter.com/SheriffClarke/status/659197285172166657
Before long, Black Lies Matter will join forces with ISIS to being down our legal constituted republic. You heard it first here.
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Let’s 'em into a room together. Hopefully they’ll cancel each other out.
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DOJ has appointed a Special Counsel in the Russia probe.
Wow, nice pick. It will be tough to criticize him as a torch-wielding liberal. Not that it won’t happen anyway. DOJ Special Counsel is still a little hamstrung, but it’s the best we can hope for in this political climate.
I think so. He still answers to the AG, but it could be worse.
Keep Circulating the Tapes.
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Can we all at least agree to be outraged that foreign thugs attacked American citizens on our own soil yesterday?
Keep Circulating the Tapes.
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Yesterday? What did I miss?
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Can we all at least agree
NEVER!!!
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DOJ has appointed a Special Counsel in the Russia probe.
Wow, nice pick. It will be tough to criticize him as a torch-wielding liberal. Not that it won’t happen anyway. DOJ Special Counsel is still a little hamstrung, but it’s the best we can hope for in this political climate.
I think so. He still answers to the AG, but it could be worse.
To elaborate for the benefit of the thread: we’re pretty much back to Nixon rules, as all the relevant post-Watergate reforms have expired. Nixon famously fired a series of people (the Saturday Night Massacre) who refused to fire the Special Counsel investigating him, until he found his hatchet man in Robert Bork, who complied. Theoretically, Trump could do the exact same thing. And he can still stonewall and resource-starve the Special Counsel and all sorts of other things too.
But, and this is important, Mueller will have some degree of autonomy and authority, if not outright independence. That puts him head and shoulders above the hand-waving-nothing-to-see-here exercises going on in the House and Senate.
Nixon’s (effective) firing of the Special Counsel led pretty much directly to his resignation. But that required a Congress that was willing to act when evidence was clearly laid out for everyone to see. That’s really the weak link this time around, IMO.
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Yesterday? What did I miss?
Likely this:
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Why is there always a trail of ick?
Mueller’s law firm is WilmerHale, who represent people like… Manafort, Kushner, etc. I’m personally willing to take it as the coincidence of big law firms attracting the wealthy and powerful, as well as talented lawyers. But jeeze, I’m sure there’ll be a twitterstorm somewhere about this.
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Can we all at least agree to be outraged that foreign thugs attacked American citizens on our own soil yesterday?
Asking people to agree in this thread is a tall order. I point this out lightly but most care more about Trump dying than they do their own citizens being attacked on their own soil … especially if someone were to simply suggest those people were Republicans and/or Trump supporters.
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Can we all at least agree to be outraged that foreign thugs attacked American citizens on our own soil yesterday?
Asking people to agree in this thread is a tall order. I point this out lightly but most care more about Trump dying than they do their own citizens being attacked on their own soil … especially if someone were to simply suggest those people were Republicans and/or Trump supporters.
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Yesterday? What did I miss?
Likely this:
With “allies” like these…
Where were you in '77?
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https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/36082
This John Podesta email has been verified as authentic. As it reads, it may be the reason the murder of Seth Rich is being looked at more closely than before. Not to mention, Seth Rich’s computer has gone missing. The FBI and DC Police keep referring the investigator back and forth between each other and no answers are ever provided.
Seth Rich and his family deserve justice.
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http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/17/media/seth-rich-family-apology-retraction-fox-news-wttg/index.html
Where were you in '77?
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https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/36082
This John Podesta email has been verified as authentic. As it reads, it may be the reason the murder of Seth Rich is being looked at more closely than before. Not to mention, Seth Rich’s computer has gone missing. The FBI and DC Police keep referring the investigator back and forth between each other and no answers are ever provided.
Seth Rich and his family deserve justice.
Is murder really the first thing people jump to when they read this email chain? Because the first thing I assumed was that the Hillary campaign would consider firing someone whom they suspected of leaking info. That would be the next step up from ‘internal discipline’, I assume.
Also, from the NYT concerning the detective and Fox News commentator Wheeler:
The Rich family regrets hiring Mr. Wheeler and has objected to his many public comments.
Mr. Bauman, a communications professional who often represents Democratic causes and has worked as a pro bono spokesman for the family since last summer, said Wednesday afternoon that the family was asking that Fox News and the Fox affiliate retract their reports and apologize for damaging their sons legacy.
Mr. Bauman said that the Riches had retained Mr. Wheeler on the advice of Ed Butowsky, a Dallas businessman and conservative commentator who offered to pay for the investigator’s services.
Aaron Rich, Mr. Rich’s brother, said in an email Wednesday that Mr. Wheeler had “discredited himself as an objective investigator” and had lost the confidence of the family. He said that the politicization of his brother’s death had been “painful” and “debilitating.”
“Why everyone feels the need to use his death for their own motives is beyond us,” he wrote. “We simply want to find his killers and grieve. Instead, we are stuck having to constantly fight against non-facts, baseless allegations, and general stupidity to defend my brother’s name and legacy.”
He continued, “This only prevents us from moving forward in our grieving and distracts from answering the only question that matters — Who murdered my brother and my parents’ son, Seth?”
You probably don’t recognize me because of the red arm.
Episode 9 Rewrite, The Starlight Project (Released!) and ANH Technicolor Project (Released!)
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Lock him up.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article151149647.html
One of the Trump administration’s first decisions about the fight against the Islamic State was made by Michael Flynn weeks before he was fired – and it conformed to the wishes of Turkey, whose interests, unbeknownst to anyone in Washington, he’d been paid more than $500,000 to represent.
The decision came 10 days before Donald Trump had been sworn in as president, in a conversation with President Barack Obama’s national security adviser, Susan Rice, who had explained the Pentagon’s plan to retake the Islamic State’s de facto capital of Raqqa with Syrian Kurdish forces whom the Pentagon considered the U.S.’s most effective military partners. Obama’s national security team had decided to ask for Trump’s sign-off, since the plan would all but certainly be executed after Trump had become president.
Flynn didn’t hesitate. According to timelines distributed by members of Congress in the weeks since, Flynn told Rice to hold off, a move that would delay the military operation for months.
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https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/36082
This John Podesta email has been verified as authentic. As it reads, it may be the reason the murder of Seth Rich is being looked at more closely than before. Not to mention, Seth Rich’s computer has gone missing. The FBI and DC Police keep referring the investigator back and forth between each other and no answers are ever provided.
Seth Rich and his family deserve justice.
Is murder really the first thing people jump to when they read this email chain? Because the first thing I assumed was that the Hillary campaign would consider firing someone whom they suspected of leaking info. That would be the next step up from ‘internal discipline’, I assume.
Also, from the NYT concerning the detective and Fox News commentator Wheeler:
The Rich family regrets hiring Mr. Wheeler and has objected to his many public comments.
Mr. Bauman, a communications professional who often represents Democratic causes and has worked as a pro bono spokesman for the family since last summer, said Wednesday afternoon that the family was asking that Fox News and the Fox affiliate retract their reports and apologize for damaging their sons legacy.
Mr. Bauman said that the Riches had retained Mr. Wheeler on the advice of Ed Butowsky, a Dallas businessman and conservative commentator who offered to pay for the investigator’s services.
Aaron Rich, Mr. Rich’s brother, said in an email Wednesday that Mr. Wheeler had “discredited himself as an objective investigator” and had lost the confidence of the family. He said that the politicization of his brother’s death had been “painful” and “debilitating.”
“Why everyone feels the need to use his death for their own motives is beyond us,” he wrote. “We simply want to find his killers and grieve. Instead, we are stuck having to constantly fight against non-facts, baseless allegations, and general stupidity to defend my brother’s name and legacy.”
He continued, “This only prevents us from moving forward in our grieving and distracts from answering the only question that matters — Who murdered my brother and my parents’ son, Seth?”
It was not my intention to suggest that Podesta or anyone from the DNC had anything to do with his murder. I just stated that the email has been verified and it’s content won’t do anything to dissuade people from making such a connection. In all the time WikiLeaks has been operating it has never been proven to be providing false information. While some may not like WikiLeaks their accuracy has been 100%.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/17/media/seth-rich-family-apology-retraction-fox-news-wttg/index.html
I’m not ready to buy into this CNN version of events just yet. This type of reporting is not their forte and is well documented as such.
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Lock him up.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article151149647.html
One of the Trump administration’s first decisions about the fight against the Islamic State was made by Michael Flynn weeks before he was fired – and it conformed to the wishes of Turkey, whose interests, unbeknownst to anyone in Washington, he’d been paid more than $500,000 to represent.
The decision came 10 days before Donald Trump had been sworn in as president, in a conversation with President Barack Obama’s national security adviser, Susan Rice, who had explained the Pentagon’s plan to retake the Islamic State’s de facto capital of Raqqa with Syrian Kurdish forces whom the Pentagon considered the U.S.’s most effective military partners. Obama’s national security team had decided to ask for Trump’s sign-off, since the plan would all but certainly be executed after Trump had become president.
Flynn didn’t hesitate. According to timelines distributed by members of Congress in the weeks since, Flynn told Rice to hold off, a move that would delay the military operation for months.
Hey, pay to play before Trump was elected, he must be a Clinton supporter.
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Lock Her Up!
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