RoscoePColtrane said:

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Dengus said:

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Sooo why did he tweet this if he has no idea what Trump is talking about?

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Because the narrative now is a CHS =/= Spy. But here's the rub on that. Informants are generally considered someone that is actually part of an organization, whether it be the Mob, a business or a campaign, or just the common street gang, and they decide to flip on their own people. A spy is someone you insert into an organization or at least stay on the fringes and report back what's going on inside the target.

Informants on the streets are called snitches, a spy on the street is generally an undercover cop, or a temporarily deputized citizen. These idiots are parsing words which is what they do best.

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Deats said:

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RoscoePColtrane said:

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Dengus said:

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Sooo why did he tweet this if he has no idea what Trump is talking about?

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Because the narrative now is a CHS =/= Spy. But here's the rub on that. Informants are generally considered someone that is actually part of an organization, whether it be the Mob, a business or a campaign, or just the common street gang, and they decide to flip on their own people. A spy is someone you insert into an organization or at least stay on the fringes and report back what's going on inside the target.

Informants on the streets are called snitches, a spy on the street is generally an undercover cop, or a temporarily deputized citizen. These idiots are parsing words which is what they do best.

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And if my aunt had a dick she'd be my uncle...

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RoscoePColtrane said:

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He's too late, someone beat him to it

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Rockdoc said:

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Yeah that made the rounds months ago.

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scottimus said:

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Deats said:

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RoscoePColtrane said:

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Dengus said:

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Sooo why did he tweet this if he has no idea what Trump is talking about?

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Because the narrative now is a CHS =/= Spy. But here's the rub on that. Informants are generally considered someone that is actually part of an organization, whether it be the Mob, a business or a campaign, or just the common street gang, and they decide to flip on their own people. A spy is someone you insert into an organization or at least stay on the fringes and report back what's going on inside the target.

Informants on the streets are called snitches, a spy on the street is generally an undercover cop, or a temporarily deputized citizen. These idiots are parsing words which is what they do best.

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And if my aunt had a dick she'd be my uncle...

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That is not the issue!

It's more like: If your aunt told you she had a dick, would you take her word for it and call her your uncle or do you need proof?

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...The core questions are: Who tasked Halper, a former University of Cambridge professor, with contacting Trump campaign advisers Carter Page, Sam Clovis, and George Papadopoulos? What did they tell Halper, and what did he in turn tell his FBI/CIA handlers? And how was that information used by government officials in their investigation of possible Russian meddling in the 2016 election? Was Halper a credible source?...

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drcrinum said:

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That's the big question: Why wasn't the Trump Campaign notified?

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Is this bureaucracy "the deep state"? That's an exaggeration try, say, China or Turkey if you want to see what a real deep state looks like. Nevertheless, our modern form of government does make technocrats a force to be reckoned with, and they abide supervision and oversight only by other progressives. When a constitutionalist has the temerity to observe that technocrats are subordinate to executive political leadership and must answer to the legislature that created and funds their agencies, they brood about their "independence." In their minds, they are an unaccountable fourth branch of government at least until their fellow non-ideological pragmatists return to power.

For this species of arrogance, setting the narrative is a jealously guarded prerogative. We are to understand the bureaucracy's work as unimpeachably noble and that so, therefore, are its tactics. Consequently, the government's "cooperator" is never to be called a spy. He's a "confidential informant" or, as the FBI's former Director James Comey put it in a tweet this week, a "confidential human source."

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"By the way, nothing [Papadopoulos] said in that conversation indicated Trump himself had been conspiring with the Russians to collect information on Hillary Clinton. It was just that this guy, [Papadopoulos], clearly knew that the Russians did have material on Hillary Clinton but whether Trump knew or not?" Downer explained.

"He didn't say Trump knew or that Trump was in any way involved in this. He said it was about Russians and Hillary Clinton; it wasn't about Trump," Downer told The Australian.

Papadopoulos's reference to Clinton material was vague, Downer suggested.

"He didn't say dirt; he said material that could be damaging to her. No, he said it would be damaging. He didn't say what it was."...

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