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islander
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Aug 8, 2018 - 8:19am |
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VV wrote: The bottom line... as you correctly pointed out... will be that there will be people who will invalidate any negative result coming from Mueller's efforts as having been tainted. They want to pretend that they will be somewhat objective... but ultimately they won't accept any significant negative results... and they just don't want to be called out on it. No need to fool ourselves otherwise.
FYI, if they find nothing of significance on Trump... then I'm willing to believe that there was nothing to find. I believe that Mueller is heading up a thorough, proper investigation and I'm willing to abide by whatever he finds.
I agree with you. But I think we are in a minority. I bet that most on either side will not support any finding that is contrary to their core beliefs. We are in a precarious place. If we can't have faith in our institutions, then what is our incentive for participating in the republic? If we lose faith in the republic, how do we divide up the resources and move on to the next thing? Is it possible to have a societal divorce without a war? How close are we?
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Aug 8, 2018 - 8:16am |
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islander wrote: Maybe we should check into the people who are appointing the special counsels?
of course
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islander
Location: West coast somewhere Gender:
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Aug 8, 2018 - 8:16am |
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Red_Dragon wrote: We'll need another to investigate that one...
Maybe we should check into the people who are appointing the special counsels?
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VV
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Aug 8, 2018 - 7:58am |
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steeler wrote: Uh-huh. This is an absurd proposal. A special counsel to investigate the investigators, which, I presume, means anyone in the FBI or DOJ or maybe even in the judiciary who played any role in the investigation (writ large), and anyone on Special Counsel Mueller's team. Essentially, this is a proposal to review all steps taken and see if this new Special Counsel would come to different conclusions or make different decisions than those who have made them or, in the case of the Special Counsel, did or will make them. And, of course, it presupposes that the Mueller investigation is fatally tainted. No need to wait until the findings are issued. Take, for example, first and foremost, the complaint about the FISA warrant allegedly having been improperly obtained because of improper reliance on the Steele dossier. I assume this would be some kind of fruit-of-the-poisonous tree type argument, which Trump supporters are hoping could somehow invalidate the entire investigation. Hint: It would not.
The FISA warrant was obtained in October of 2016. Special Counsel Mueller was appointed in May 2017.
This would have to be one rather large conspiracy involving many actors — all of them tainted, including Mueller himself. The bottom line... as you correctly pointed out... will be that there will be people who will invalidate any negative result coming from Mueller's efforts as having been tainted. They want to pretend that they will be somewhat objective... but ultimately they won't accept any significant negative results... and they just don't want to be called out on it. No need to fool ourselves otherwise. FYI, if they find nothing of significance on Trump... then I'm willing to believe that there was nothing to find. I believe that Mueller is heading up a thorough, proper investigation and I'm willing to abide by whatever he finds.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Aug 8, 2018 - 7:49am |
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islander wrote: I call for a special counsel to investigate the special counsel investigating the special counsel. It really is the only way we will ever have any faith in the result.
We'll need another to investigate that one...
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islander
Location: West coast somewhere Gender:
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Aug 8, 2018 - 7:48am |
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steeler wrote:
Uh-huh. This is an absurd proposal. A special counsel to investigate the investigators, which, I presume, means anyone in the FBI or DOJ or maybe even in the judiciary who played any role in the investigation (writ large), and anyone on Special Counsel Mueller's team. Essentially, this is a proposal to review all steps taken and see if this new Special Counsel would come to different conclusions or make different decisions than those who have made them or, in the case of the Special Counsel, did or will make them. And, of course, it presupposes that the Mueller investigation is fatally tainted. No need to wait until the findings are issued. Take, for example, first and foremost, the complaint about the FISA warrant allegedly having been improperly obtained because of improper reliance on the Steele dossier. I assume this would be some kind of fruit-of-the-poisonous tree type argument, which Trump supporters are hoping could somehow invalidate the entire investigation. Hint: It would not.
The FISA warrant was obtained in October of 2016. Special Counsel Mueller was appointed in May 2017.
This would have to be one rather large conspiracy involving many actors â all of them tainted, including Mueller himself.
I call for a special counsel to investigate the special counsel investigating the special counsel. It really is the only way we will ever have any faith in the result.
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steeler
Location: Perched on the precipice of the cauldron of truth
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Aug 8, 2018 - 7:20am |
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kurtster wrote:
Yeah, but still no good reasons for a second special counsel to investigate the investigators ... Uh huh ...
Uh-huh. This is an absurd proposal. A special counsel to investigate the investigators, which, I presume, means anyone in the FBI or DOJ or maybe even in the judiciary who played any role in the investigation (writ large), and anyone on Special Counsel Mueller's team. Essentially, this is a proposal to review all steps taken and see if this new Special Counsel would come to different conclusions or make different decisions than those who have made them or, in the case of the present Special Counsel, did or will make them. And, of course, it presupposes that the Mueller investigation is fatally tainted. No need to wait until the findings are issued. Take, for example, first and foremost, the complaint about the FISA warrant allegedly having been improperly obtained because of improper reliance on the Steele dossier. I assume this would be some kind of fruit-of-the-poisonous tree type argument, which Trump supporters are hoping could somehow invalidate the entire investigation. Hint: It would not. The FISA warrant was obtained in October of 2016. Special Counsel Mueller was appointed in May 2017. This would have to be one rather large conspiracy involving many actors — all of them tainted, including Mueller himself.
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islander
Location: West coast somewhere Gender:
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Aug 8, 2018 - 6:54am |
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Red_Dragon wrote: Yeah, we just got our first notice of price increases due to tariffs. Here's a rich bit of irony: the only boat we have regularly using the parts that are being tariffed are being sold to the coast guard. This means that the only major customer we have using Chinese parts is ultimately the U.S. Government. We will pass this cost along (as allowed in the contract) and the government will pay an increased price due to their own actions. Ultimately the money will come from the U.S. taxpayer. The vast majority of our products use parts made in mexico, so no tariffs (yet). But soon I'll probably have to receive them by catapult.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Aug 8, 2018 - 6:38am |
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kurtster
Location: where fear is not a virtue Gender:
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Aug 8, 2018 - 1:23am |
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Steely_D wrote:
Is it not obvious how different it is when our/your Justice Department investigates someone who might become President - versus a Presidential candidate's son meeting with a foreign government in order to "get dirt" a candidate?
Some might say that if or when the unlimited resources of the government itself is used by the party in power to gain an advantage over an opposition party, that is crossing a line. Much different from a still private citizen doing all they can within the law on their own to find an edge. Using agencies that by charter are not allowed to investigate US citizens, just foreign nationals. Or say like using the IRS to silence political opposition by rendering their organizations dysfunctional or unable to operate at all, ala the Tea Party ...
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Steely_D
Location: Biscayne Bay Gender:
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Aug 7, 2018 - 9:28pm |
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kurtster wrote:Opinion: How a senior DOJ official helped Dem researchers on Trump-Russia caseBy John Solomon Opinion Contributor <snip>
But the memos also raise questions about Ohr’s and the Justice Department’s roles in the origins of building a counterintelligence case against the Republican presidential nominee, based heavily on opposition research funded by his rival's campaign, the DNC, and the DNC’s main law firm, Perkins Coie. Is it not obvious how different it is when our/your Justice Department investigates someone who might become President - versus a Presidential candidate's son meeting with a foreign government in order to "get dirt" a candidate?
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kurtster
Location: where fear is not a virtue Gender:
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Aug 7, 2018 - 8:07pm |
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Opinion: How a senior DOJ official helped Dem researchers on Trump-Russia caseBy John Solomon Opinion Contributor Hundreds of pages of previously unreported emails and memos provide the clearest evidence yet that a research firm, hired by Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to find dirt on and defeat Donald Trump, worked early and often with the FBI, a Department of Justice (DOJ) official and the intelligence community during the 2016 presidential election and the early days of Trump's presidency. Fusion GPS's work and its involvement with several FBI officials have been well reported. But a close review of these new documents shows just how closely Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr, who reported to Obama-era Deputy AG Sally Yates, maintained contact with Fusion — and, in particular, its primary source, former British spy Christopher Steele — before, during and after the election. Yates was fired by President Trump over an unrelated political dispute. Ohr was demoted recently. Ohr’s own notes, emails and text messages show he communicated extensively with Steele and with Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson. Those documents have been turned over in recent weeks to investigative bodies in Congress and the DOJ, but not reviewed outside the investigative ranks until now. ... Steele's FBI relationship had been terminated about three months earlier. The bureau concluded on Nov. 1, 2016, that he leaked information to the news media and was “not suitable for use” as a confidential source, memos show. The FBI specifically instructed Steele that he could no longer “operate to obtain any intelligence whatsoever on behalf of the FBI,” those memos show. Yet, Steele asked Ohr in the Jan. 31 text exchange if he could continue to help feed information to the FBI: “Just want to check you are OK, still in the situ and able to help locally as discussed, along with your Bureau colleagues.” “I’m still here and able to help as discussed,” Ohr texted back. “I’ll let you know if that changes.” Steele replied, “If you end up out though, I really need another (bureau?) contact point/number who is briefed. We can’t allow our guy to be forced to go back home. It would be disastrous.” Investigators are trying to determine who Steele was referring to. FBI officials now admit they continued to receive information from Steele through Ohr, identifying more than a half-dozen times its agents interviewed Ohr in late 2016 and 2017, to learn what Steele was saying. That continued reliance on Steele after his termination is certain to raise interest in Congress about whether the FBI broke its own rules. But the memos also raise questions about Ohr’s and the Justice Department’s roles in the origins of building a counterintelligence case against the Republican presidential nominee, based heavily on opposition research funded by his rival's campaign, the DNC, and the DNC’s main law firm, Perkins Coie. much more
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kcar
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Aug 7, 2018 - 7:34pm |
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kurtster wrote:NUNES: FBI FAILED TO INCLUDE ‘EXCULPATORY’ EVIDENCE IN CARTER PAGE FISASHouse Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes claimed Monday that the FBI and Justice Department failed to include exculpatory evidence in surveillance warrant applications against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page....Nunes also told Hannity that the committee is interested in learning more about Justice Department official Bruce Ohr’s role in the Trump-Russia investigation. Ohr, the former associate deputy attorney general, met with Steele before and after the 2016 presidential election. The post-election meetings were held after the FBI ended its relationship with Steele because of the former British spy’s contacts with the media. As Nunes noted, though the FBI severed ties with Steele, Ohr provided information from his 12 meetings with Steele back to the FBI. Ohr’s wife, Nellie Ohr, also worked during the campaign for Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm that hired Steele in June 2016. “Bruce Ohr is going to become more and more important in this investigation, and I think people should pay close attention to it,” Nunes told Hannity. The news about Ohr is very old. Its been out for over a year now. And been downplayed in this thread repeatedly. Yeah, but still no good reasons for a second special counsel to investigate the investigators ... Uh huh ... If Nunes is right in his claim, couldn't Trump declassify those surveillance warrant applications and so reveal the redacted bits? As a favor to himself? And why has it taken Devin so long to come forth with this claim of exculpatory evidence? I'm sorry but I don't have a lot of faith in Devin. He's Trump's loyal lapdog. That ultra-liberal Marco Rubio disagrees with your darlin' Devin: The documents released on Saturday show the Steele dossier was part of the FBI’s application, but it wasn’t all of it. Moreover, the FBI told the court it believed the person who hired Steele was looking for information that could be damaging to Trump (it was first fundedby conservative website the Washington Free Beacon and then passed on to Democrats), but it said in the past he had provided reliable information. Much of what’s disclosed in the FBI documentation discredits parts of the Nunes memo, a document released by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) in February that claimed the FBI was biased in wiretapping Page and launching the Russia investigation altogether. Judges weighing the application — all four Republican appointees — were made aware of the circumstances of the Steele dossier, and they were provided with evidence beyond its contents anyway. “I don’t think they did anything wrong. I think they went to the court, they got the judges to approve it, they laid out all the information, and there was a lot of reasons unrelated to the dossier for why they wanted to look at Carter Page,” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said in a separate appearance on State of the Union on Sunday.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Aug 7, 2018 - 7:05pm |
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kurtster
Location: where fear is not a virtue Gender:
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Aug 7, 2018 - 6:38pm |
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NUNES: FBI FAILED TO INCLUDE ‘EXCULPATORY’ EVIDENCE IN CARTER PAGE FISASHouse Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes claimed Monday that the FBI and Justice Department failed to include exculpatory evidence in surveillance warrant applications against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page....Nunes also told Hannity that the committee is interested in learning more about Justice Department official Bruce Ohr’s role in the Trump-Russia investigation. Ohr, the former associate deputy attorney general, met with Steele before and after the 2016 presidential election. The post-election meetings were held after the FBI ended its relationship with Steele because of the former British spy’s contacts with the media. As Nunes noted, though the FBI severed ties with Steele, Ohr provided information from his 12 meetings with Steele back to the FBI. Ohr’s wife, Nellie Ohr, also worked during the campaign for Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm that hired Steele in June 2016. “Bruce Ohr is going to become more and more important in this investigation, and I think people should pay close attention to it,” Nunes told Hannity. The news about Ohr is very old. Its been out for over a year now. And been downplayed in this thread repeatedly. Yeah, but still no good reasons for a second special counsel to investigate the investigators ... Uh huh ...
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Aug 7, 2018 - 3:39pm |
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kcar
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Aug 7, 2018 - 3:37pm |
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Steely_D wrote:Or is he so complex, so ahead of you that you just don't understand how he's taking down the Deep State and making everything OK for the little guy? QAnon! It was Pence all along! Or even...this:
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Steely_D
Location: Biscayne Bay Gender:
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Aug 7, 2018 - 3:07pm |
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VV wrote: Hypocrisy at it's finest!
Or is he so complex, so ahead of you that you just don't understand how he's taking down the Deep State and making everything OK for the little guy?
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R_P
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Aug 7, 2018 - 3:05pm |
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kcar
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Aug 7, 2018 - 1:16pm |
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VV wrote: What does that make Clinton then? Wait... I think I found it:
St Raphael is the patron saint for happy encounters...
"Happy encounters"...sounds like code for a massage parlor service...
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