itdoesntmatterwhatthissay Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 (edited) 10 hours ago, TheAuthority said: I even found that whole "longest applause" for the wife of the dead Seal absolutely nauseating. Commentators who claimed he appeared 'Presidential' that night really went down in my opinion. I found the whole stunt event, cheap, tawdry and completely undignified. But that's US politics. Their system has been cheap, tawdry and completely undignified for decades. In the context of US politics HE did look Presidential. I think that's something many anti-Trump people forget. Both those of us looking in and the Americans who have suddenly found their policy voice now there's a President with 'vilify me' stuck to his back, front and everywhere else. Edited March 29, 2017 by itdoesntmatterwhatthissay 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villakram Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 Don't forget that members of congress are exempt from insider trading laws too. Couldn't make it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted March 30, 2017 Author Share Posted March 30, 2017 On 3/28/2017 at 17:30, blandy said: Protecting Trump. It couldn't be more obvious, could it? Nunes will probably be the first guy to do a perp walk. But I won't be satisfied until the entire inner circle is escorted out of the WH in handcuffs on live TV. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post StefanAVFC Posted March 30, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted March 30, 2017 Fantastic. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonLax Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 32 minutes ago, StefanAVFC said: Fantastic. It's like a sitcom sketch 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wazzap24 Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 1 hour ago, LondonLax said: It's like a sitcom sketch I can see Armando Iannucci sitting watching this thinking '**** me, I'm done, I can't compete with this' Trump is making Veep look like reality TV. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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StefanAVFC Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/30/us/politics/devin-nunes-intelligence-reports.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share Quote WASHINGTON — A pair of White House officials played a role in providing Representative Devin Nunes of California, a Republican and the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, with the intelligence reports that showed that President Trump and his associates were incidentally swept up in foreign surveillance by American spy agencies. The revelation that White House officials assisted in the disclosure of the intelligence reports — which Mr. Nunes then discussed with President Trump — is likely to fuel criticism that the intelligence chairman has been too eager to do the bidding of the Trump administration while his committee is supposed to be conducting an independent investigation of Russia’s meddling in the last presidential election. Mr. Nunes has also been faulted by his congressional colleagues for sharing the information with President Trump before consulting with other members of the intelligence committee. The congressman has refused to identify his sources, saying he needed to protect them so others would feel safe coming to the committee with sensitive information. He disclosed the existence of the intelligence reports on March 22, and in his public comments he has described his sources as whistle-blowers trying to expose wrongdoing at great risk to themselves. More anti-tea party I suppose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted March 30, 2017 Author Share Posted March 30, 2017 Republicans LOVE leakers now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonLax Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 4 hours ago, Villaphan04 said: It's on! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanAVFC Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 http://www.businessinsider.de/devin-nunes-cohen-watnick-trump-wiretap-2017-3?r=US&IR=T Quote Trump intervened to halt the transfer of a White House aide who later provided Devin Nunes with classified intelligence One of the two White House aides who, according to The New York Times, provided intelligence reports to House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes was told days earlier by National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster that he would be removed from his job on the National Security Council. But President Donald Trump reportedly intervened to keep the aide in place. The Times reported Thursday that Ezra Cohen-Watnick, according to several current US officials, was one of two sources who provided Nunes with the intelligence. Cohen-Watnick serves as the senior director for intelligence at the NSC. McMaster, according to Politico, made his decision about Cohen-Watnick after weeks of pressure from CIA officials who were unsure of the operative. Cohen-Watnick, as Politico wrote on March 14, appealed the decision to White House chief strategist Steve Bannon and senior adviser Jared Kushner, two men he became close with during the transition. Bannon and Kushner then presented his case to Trump, who overruled McMaster's decision to oust Cohen-Watnick as senior director for intelligence at the NSC and move him to another job. Cohen-Watnick was an underling of Michael Flynn, the ousted national security adviser whom McMaster replaced. Cohen-Watnick worked for Flynn when he was in charge of the Defense Intelligence Agency. The Times story detailed that Cohen-Watnick began reviewing the highly classified reports on which he reportedly later briefed Nunes shortly after Trump made his unfounded claim on Twitter that President Barack Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower. A week after the Politico story was published, Nunes made his trip to the White House grounds to view the intelligence that he brought to the attention of the press and the president the following day. Nunes, a member of Trump's transition team, claimed the intelligence he was shown proved that information on members of Trump's transition team, as well as possibly the president himself, was "incidentally collected" by the intelligence community during the transition period on "numerous occasions." The intelligence showed, he said, that Trump was "monitored." He added that he believed the intelligence was legally obtained under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and was not related to the FBI's investigation into Russian meddling in last year's presidential election — which, he said, made it fair to share with the president. Nunes' committee is heading an investigation into Russia's involvement in the presidential election, and the chairman did not brief his fellow members on the intelligence reports before holding a press conference and meeting with the president on March 22. All just coincidence right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanAVFC Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 Sorry for spam but Flynn has offered to testify on Russia ties in exchange for immunity. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted March 31, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted March 31, 2017 We'll see. His testimony will either be inconsequential and at most take down another empty suit, or we'll never hear what he has to say. Trump won't be allowed to fall until reelection for the Republican party is threatened and they have a plan in place to shuffle him off and replace with someone more acceptable. Until then everything will stall and tease at revelations without anything happening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted March 31, 2017 Author Share Posted March 31, 2017 By my count, Kushner, Manafort and now Flynn have all offered their testimony, and in Flynn's case in exchange for immunity. This is looking like it goes all the way to Trump. Then the own goal of the Nunes fiasco, which is looking a lot like obstruction of justice. What a circus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted March 31, 2017 Author Share Posted March 31, 2017 Interesting that Flynn is shopping his story to the FBI, the House and the Senate, and none of them took him up on the offer, which suggests to me that they have him pinned already. Let the fun begin! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Straggler Posted March 31, 2017 Share Posted March 31, 2017 They must have Flynn bang to rights to not be bothered about getting his testimony. It also suggests that they have bigger fish to fry. In related news a quote from Mike Flynn in 2016 just two months before the election: "When you're given immunity, you've probably committed a crime" I wonder what he would say about someone who actively seeks immunity and is denied it by the Feds? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted April 1, 2017 Share Posted April 1, 2017 George Takei is running for congress 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted April 1, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted April 1, 2017 1 hour ago, Xann said: George Takei is running for congress Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted April 1, 2017 Share Posted April 1, 2017 1 hour ago, Xann said: George Takei is running for congress 14 minutes ago, mjmooney said: without getting all pedantic it was Derek Nimmo that played Spok, not George Takei 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted April 1, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted April 1, 2017 20 minutes ago, chrisp65 said: without getting all pedantic it was Derek Nimmo that played Spok, not George Takei No, you're thinking of Anton Chekhov, who played Mister Zulu. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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