At the risk of sounding repetitive, you are all being played for fools on a reality TV show.
......it is probably the sole reason that Comey qualified his testimony wrt what Trump actually said to him about the Flynn case....that he "hoped" that he would overlook it.
An old, blunt object type of a strategy, but a very effective one.
(no message)
(no message)
no tape when being asked at the press conference with Romania president, 2 days after Comey's testimony. But he chose to tease the reporters instead, very Trumpian.
Here's a little tome from him...
So let’s start with an obvious point about the whole Russia fiasco…
Namely, there is no “there, there.” First off, the president has the power to declassify secret documents at will. But in this instance he could also do that without compromising intelligence community (IC) “sources and methods” in the slightest.
That’s because after Edward Snowden’s revelations in 2013, the whole world was put on notice — and most especially Washington’s adversaries — that it collects every single electronic digit that passes through the worldwide web and related communications grids.
Washington essentially has universal and omniscient SIGINT (signals intelligence). Acknowledging that fact by publishing the Russia-Trump intercepts would provide new knowledge to exactly no one.
Nor would it jeopardize the lives of any American spy or agent (HUMINT). It would just document the unconstitutional interference in the election process that had been committed by the U.S. intelligence agencies and political operatives in the Obama White House.
That pales compared to whatever noise comes out of Langley (CIA) and Ft. Meade (NSA). And I do mean noise.
Yes, I can hear the boxes on the CNN screen harrumphing that declassifying the “evidence” would amount to obstruction of justice! That is, since Trump’s “crime” is a given (i.e. his occupancy of the Oval Office), anything that gets in the way of his conviction and removal therefrom amounts to “obstruction.”
Given that he is up against a Deep State/Democratic/Neoconservative/mainstream media prosecution, the Donald has no chance of survival short of an aggressive offensive of the type I just described.
But that’s not happening because the man is clueless about what he is doing in the White House. And he’s being advised by a cacophonous coterie of amateurs and nincompoops. So he has no action plan except to impulsively reach for his Twitter account.
That became more than evident — and more than pathetic, too — when he tweeted out an attack on his own Deputy Attorney General, Rod Rosenstein. At least Nixon fired Elliot Richardson (his Attorney General) and Bill Ruckelshaus (Deputy AG):
"I am being investigated for firing the FBI Director by the man who told me to fire the FBI Director! Witch Hunt."
Alone with his Twitter account, clueless advisors and pulsating rage, the Donald is instead laying the groundwork for his own demise. Were this not the White House, this would normally be the point at which they send in the men in white coats with a straight jacket.
Indeed, that’s essentially what the Donald’s so-called GOP allies on the Hill are actually doing.
RussiaGate is a witch hunt like few others in American political history. Yet as the mainstream cameras and microphones were thrust at one Congressional Republican after another following the Donald’s outburst quoted above, there was nary an echo of agreement.
Even Senator John Thune, an ostensible Swamp-hating conservative, had nothing but praise for Special Counsel Robert Mueller, that he would fairly and thoroughly get to the bottom of the matter.
No he won’t!
Mueller is a card-carrying member of the Deep State who was there at the founding of today’s surveillance monster as FBI Director following 9/11. Since the whole $75 billion apparatus that eventually emerged was based on an exaggerated threat of global Islamic terrorism, Russia had to be demonized into order to keep the game going — a transition that Mueller fully subscribed to.
So he will “find” extensive Russian interference in the 2016 election and bring the hammer down on the Donald for seeking to prevent it from coming to light. The clock is now ticking. And his investigatory team is being packed with prosecutorial killers with proven records of thuggery. They’re determined to find crimes that create fame and fortune for prosecutors — even if the crime itself never happened.
For example, Mueller’s #1 hire was the despicable Andrew Weissmann. This character had led the fraud section of the department’s Criminal Division and served as general counsel to the F.B.I. when Mueller was its director. And more importantly, Weissmann was the driving force behind the Enron task force — the most egregious exercise in prosecutorial abuse and thuggery in 100 years.
Meanwhile, the GOP leadership could not be clearer about what is coming down the pike.
They are not defending Trump with even a hint of the vigor and resolve that I recall from the early days of Tricky Dick Nixon’s ordeal. Of course, Nixon didn’t survive anyway.
Instead, it’s as if Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, et al. have offered to hold his coat, while the Donald pummels himself with a 140-character Twitter Knife that is visible to the entire world.
So there should be no doubt. A Great Big Coup is on the way.
But here’s the irony of the matter: Exactly four years ago in June 2013 no one was seriously demonizing Putin or Russia. In fact, the slicksters of CNN were still snickering about Mitt Romney’s silly claim during the 2012 election campaign that Russia was the greatest security threat facing America.
But then came the Syrian jihadist false flag chemical attack in the suburbs of Damascus in August 2013 and the U.S. intelligence community’s flagrant lie that it had proof the villain was Bashar Assad.
To the contrary, it subsequently became evident that the primitive rockets that had carried the deadly sarin gas, which killed upwards of 1500 innocent civilians, could not have been fired from regime held territory. The rockets examined by UN investigators had a range of only a few kilometers, not the 15-20 kilometers from the nearest Syrian base.
In any event, President Obama chose to ignore his own red line and called off the bombers. That in turn paved the way for Vladimir Putin to persuade Assad to give up all of his chemical weapons — a commitment he fully complied with over the course of the next year.
Needless to say, in the eyes of the neocon War Party, this constructive act of international statesmanship by Putin was the unforgivable sin. It thwarted the next target on their regime change agenda — removal of the Assad government in Syria as a step toward an ultimate attack on its ally, the Shiite regime of Iran.
So it did not take long for the Deep State to retaliate. While Putin was basking in the glory of the 2014 winter Olympics at Sochi, the entire apparatus of Imperial Washington — the CIA, the National Endowment for Democracy, the State Department and a long string of Washington funded NGOs — was on the ground in Kiev assisting the putsch that overthrew Ukraine’s constitutionally elected President and Russian ally.
From there, the Ukrainian civil war and partition of Crimea inexorably followed, as did the escalating campaign against Russia and its leader.
So as it turned out, the War Party could not have planned a better outcome — especially after Russia moved to protect its legitimate interests in its own backyard resulting from the Washington-instigated civil war in Ukraine. That included protecting its 200-year old naval base at Sevastopol in Crimea.
The War Party simply characterized these actions falsely as acts of aggression against Russia’s European neighbors.
There is nothing like a demonized enemy to keep the $700 billion national security budget flowing and the hideous Warfare State opulence of the Imperial City intact. So why not throw in an allegedly “stolen” U.S. election to garnish the case?
In a word, the Little Putsch in Kiev is now begetting a Great Big Coup in the Imperial City.
This is a history-shattering development, but don’t tell the boys and girls and robo-machines on Wall Street.
Pathetically, they still think it’s game on.
So if there was ever a time to take advantage of the day traders and robo-machines which linger in the casino, now would be the occasion to sell, sell, sell. Once the breakdown starts there will be no respite from the implosion.
jurisdiction, that is, to limit special counsel's task to counterintelligence investigation only.
He needs to clean out the Deep State Obama holdovers from all agencies, ASAP.
(no message)
(no message)
(no message)
(no message)
I'm not going to read all that.
One page only, bullet notes. Insert "Rooney" generously throughout your text to keep me interested.
Thanks in advance.
Whaddya think I'm the President or somethin?
(no message)
white house usually tapes all conversations with the president. Not this time, according to who?
Not DT, he only repeats what he is told. So who said their are no tapes? We shall find out down the road.
(no message)
(no message)
(no message)
(no message)
every day to elicit truthful testimony... - Alan Dershowitz
Comey told the truth about leaking.
Left: Trump's an idiot....
Honestly, I had no idea they did.
See, you can actually learn stuff on UHND.
After trying to get Mueller to indict for obstruction, he is Jesus.
This isn't about Comey.
2. Comey refuses to publicly refute NYTimes.
3. Comey also leaks to NYTimes confidential conversations with President.
4. Independent counsel appointed.
5. Comey later testifies that the NYTimes article was: “In the main, it was not true.”
6. LIBS: Saint Comey!
I call it a WITCH HUNT.
BTW, WHEN IT'S A WITCH HUNT, YOU CANNOT ILLEGALY OBSTRUCT IT. THAT IS THE NATURE OF A WITCH HUNT.
The NYT article said that there was continuous contact between the Trump campaign and Russian operatives. It didn't say collusion,or no collusion. Comey said in the main the article wasn't accurate. He didn't say that there was or wasn't collusion. He didn't say that there was or wasn't contact. He said that the report of continuous contact wasn't accurate.
NYTIMES ARTICLE:
Phone records and intercepted calls show that members of Donald J. Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and other Trump associates had repeated contacts with senior Russian intelligence officials in the year before the election, according to four current and former American officials.
American law enforcement and intelligence agencies intercepted the communications around the same time they were discovering evidence that Russia was trying to disrupt the presidential election by hacking into the Democratic National Committee, three of the officials said. The intelligence agencies then sought to learn whether the Trump campaign was colluding with the Russians on the hacking or other efforts to influence the election.
…
But the intercepts alarmed American intelligence and law enforcement agencies, in part because of the amount of contact that was occurring while Mr. Trump was speaking glowingly about the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin. At one point last summer, Mr. Trump said at a campaign event that he hoped Russian intelligence services had stolen Hillary Clinton’s emails and would make them public.
The officials said the intercepted communications were not limited to Trump campaign officials, and included other associates of Mr. Trump. On the Russian side, the contacts also included members of the government outside of the intelligence services, they said. All of the current and former officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because the continuing investigation is classified.
_____________________
COMEY TESTIMONY:
“That report by the New York Times was not true. Is that a fair statement?” Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, asked.
“In the main, it was not true,” Comey replied. “The challenge, and I’m not picking on reporters, about writing on classified information is: The people talking about it often don’t really know what’s going on, and those of us who actually know what’s going on are not talking about it.”
He added, “And we don’t call the press to say, ‘Hey, you got that thing wrong about this sensitive topic.’ We just have to leave it there.”
Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., later asked Comey if the story was “almost entirely wrong,” and Comey said yes.
That was the news. Comey said it wasn't accurate.
We know the IC believed and still believes Russia was doing the hacking.
We also know that there were intercepts that concerned the IC and that the FBI opened an investigation into the Trump campaign and possible collusion that still continues.
Bot.
(no message)
Please stop enabling his childish, embarrassing behavior.
This is NOT ABOUT COMEY. You got a problem with Comey? Go start a thread about Comey.
about dignity when Obama had none of it.
But he had more dignity in his dandruff than this clown has in his entire body.
lacked dignity as well. Trump has reached out to all voters. Yes, blacks and hispanics included. You just choose not to see it.
Caucus to see him as Blacks obviously know other Blacks? I thought he was going to ask her for a fill up of his coffee.
And his dignity........You do read his tweets dontcha?
And you should have expected more from President Obama.
(no message)
(no message)
(no message)
(no message)
(no message)
(no message)
We are getting just what we expected and the bots wanted.
false oath win the presidency. He can't shake them no matter what he does, and everything he does just makes it worse.
Every time Trump tries to cut a head off, two more grow in its place.
See, more learning today at UHND.
(no message)
(no message)
I am just hopeless in political romance.
In a purely platonic way.
(no message)
Problem for you bots is that no one would make up THAT story about Trump.
If he were lying all he had to say is that Trump directed him to stop the investigation.
The admissions re Lynch and telling Trump he wasn't under investigation add to that credibility.
Donnie has a problem.
(no message)
(no message)
MAGA!
occasional perjury contest with the FBI director?
Oh, any taping would have no impact on the leaking claim. That happened after he was fired. Not part of any meeting Clarence Darrow.
(no message)
and for Trump to distract the media.