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My first reaction is that these aides should not be uniformed military if they have been there since 2017. Even if they arrived when Trump was inaugurated they should have rotated by now so my guess would be that these are probably civilians in the DoD liaison office. If the Pentagon is detailing officers to the White House staff for 3+ years at a time the SecDef should knock that **** off. After three years in the White House or the Pentagon those officers should be getting a re-greening or re-bluing in the operating forces and not embedding deeper into the malignant tissue of the beltway..

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I would have thought this as well but Vindman was in the last day photo with Obama and the traitorous bunch and it seemed like he had no plans on moving on anytime soon. Aren't there exemptions for military personal in sensitive positions or specific expertise?

Either way, Trump needed to clean his house a long time ago. Hopefully he knows where all the trash is and can take it out.

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I didn't know that Vindman was there when Obama left office. I had seen some mention of his tour beginning in 2018. There are exemptions for sensitive positions and specific expertise for extended tours and that's particularly common with foreign area officers or regional area officers (FAO/RAO) that study extensively to become experts in the language, culture, and diplomatic environment. Vindman is probably designated as a Ukraine FAO. I would have thought that even as a FAO once would rotate to various assignments related to the country, including at the US embassy.

I completely agree with you on needing to clean house. Perhaps one of the drawbacks of creating FAOs is that they believe their depth of knowledge gives them qualification and justification to overrule the President when they see fit. No officer or civil servant should have to be reminded that they were not elected and they don't make foreign policy. They merely advise the President and carry out his policy. If they are frustrated because the President differs with their opinion then they need to deal with it internally rather than leak and try to subvert the elected President and his policy.

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"All they did was swapped out a loser case for starting an investigation that is going to be of Comey, McCabe, Pete Strzok," Weissmann told MSNBC host Chuck Todd .....

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In other words ... they dropped a minor case to focus dept resources on an ongoing and much larger investigation.

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That is disturbing!! This particular tweet should be starred by anyone that can because of to whom it is directed. Not sure it will help but, it sure wouldn't hurt.

Thanks for sharing that.

BTW, FUP!

With Rudy's and Trump's connections with the NYPD and their access to confidential information, they have to know what the NYPD knows. I hope this stuffs out. The press and the Dems have it set up to just downplay all this as political.

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With Rudy's and Trump's connections with the NYPD and their access to confidential information, they have to know what the NYPD knows. I hope this stuffs out. The press and the Dems have it set up to just downplay all this as political.

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You would think that to be the case, but I've rarely encountered logic or reason from government types when it comes to politics, especially all of DC and northern Virginia.

I can't imagine the information is legitimate anymore, meaning it doesn't exist. I've always assumed the bad guys destroyed it. I've always thought the folks who assumed there's a white hat holding on to everything on Weiners laptop were simply wishing.

That was back when the bad guys had free reign, and impunity in their actions. The bad guys still have poor oversight (otherwise they wouldn't still be acting), but at least there are a couple of people in DC who might give a damn. It doesn't mean the bad guys will get caught.

There were stories out a couple of years ago about a higher than normal suicide rate for NYPD that year. I really hope these were not good guys getting shut down.

Some people are speculating that it is Ted Cruz.

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Some people are speculating that it is Ted Cruz.

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The reason I think this is bunk is because I believe there is NO WAY Obama would allow his name to be documented in relation to any of this. He may have had conversations with people or they knew what to do already on his behalf but put it in a 302? I can't see it. . .

Obama isn't my favorite guy and I believe he was corrupt but he ain't stupid either.

obama was a soros puppet. He controlled everything.

It's simple complacency. The issue is that the direction may have been verbal, bit someone perhaps said something confirming the request of approval without intending to disclose it upon questioning regarding another related matter. I'm going to assume that someone like Dersh can make a good case but want to see it first.

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It's simple complacency. The issue is that the direction may have been verbal, bit someone perhaps said something confirming the request of approval without intending to disclose it upon questioning regarding another related matter. I'm going to assume that someone like Dersh can make a good case but want to see it first.

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Agreed. Dersh isn't going to just make it up and I would think he would be careful to verify its authenticity.

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Some people are speculating that it is Ted Cruz.

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WTF?

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The reason I think this is bunk is because I believe there is NO WAY Obama would allow his name to be documented in relation to any of this. He may have had conversations with people or they knew what to do already on his behalf but put it in a 302? I can't see it. . .

Obama isn't my favorite guy and I believe he was corrupt but he ain't stupid either.

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I am surprised it was only one person. Soros practically owned Obama. Under Obama's DOJ Holder and Lynch used the DOJ slush fund from settlements from corporations that were directed to many of Soros' activist organizations to the tune of nearly a billion dollars.

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Can you imagine if Trump did this?

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Some people are speculating that it is Ted Cruz.

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Q drops have pointed to Ted Cruz being one of the four FISAs. Im not tying to bring Q on here. Just saying that's where the Cruz chatter is coming from.

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Can they even be compelled to answer questions or can they invoke the 5th amendment?

They can always invoke the 5th. Durham just needs to convince the weakest among those four.....Clapper....that he will get the least amount of time behind bars. None should go without serving time.

Aren't all personal or business letters that aren't purposefully published in a public forum "secret" by default?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/something-has-to-be-done-trumps-quest-to-rewrite-history-of-the-russia-probe/2020/02/15/ea7a1b06-4f61-11ea-9b5c-eac5b16dafaa_story.html

Yup, they're worried. When Obama's Intelligence Community Assessment is shown to be inconsequential/political driven, the wheels will start flying off the wagon.

P.S. A WaPo article that is not paywalled...

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P.S. A WaPo article that is not paywalled...

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A definite, "Hhhhmmm!"

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/something-has-to-be-done-trumps-quest-to-rewrite-history-of-the-russia-probe/2020/02/15/ea7a1b06-4f61-11ea-9b5c-eac5b16dafaa_story.html

Yup, they're worried. When Obama's Intelligence Community Assessment is shown to be inconsequential/political driven, the wheels will start flying off the wagon.

P.S. A WaPo article that is not paywalled...

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That article is complete horse ***** I mean complete - from the opening sentence to the last

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That article is complete horse ***** I mean complete - from the opening sentence to the last

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Yep. Starts like this....

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The U.S. intelligence community long ago produced evidence of Russia's illegal interference in the 2016 presidential election to try to boost Donald Trump's candidacy. Then the special counsel investigating the matter detailed myriad ways President Trump sought to stymie the probe.

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Bald-faced lies in the first two sentences.

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"While Trump is impulsive and there's always the question of, is he a chessmaster or is he just moving blindly out of emotion, this strategy of manipulating information and creating a false narrative are the actions of someone who thinks long-term, who thinks about legacy," Ben-Ghiat said. "He's a builder. He thinks about the future. And this is a story about someone building an alternate history for the future."

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With piles and piles of the purest horse **** in between.

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Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a history professor at New York University and a scholar of authoritarianism, said she sees darker motives in Trump's actions.

"It's all about manipulating information and recasting the narrative to be what you need it to be," Ben-Ghiat said. "Even more than censoring, which is old-school, rulers like Trump and Putin is the master at this manipulate opinion by manipulating information."

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The quote above is from the WaPo article and states exactly what the author is trying to accomplish. Liberals are always doing whatever they accuse others of doing


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FWIW, Dobbs took up Sundance's article tonight in two separate segments.

He had Powell and Tom Fitton on. It was pretty good, and nice that it's out there through the news.

Enjoy

DOJ investigates the investigators: 5 internal probes underway on Russia and more

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Several federal prosecutors have been tapped to investigate high-profile Russia, Ukraine and Clinton-related matters under the Trump administration.
Here is a list of the internal Justice Department probes underway:

The case of former national security adviser Michael Flynn
Attorney General Bill Barr appointed the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri Jeff Jensen to review the case of former national security adviser Michael Flynn. Justice Department officials told Fox News that Jensen will work hand-in-hand with Brandon Van Grack the lead prosecutor on the Flynn case during his review.

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Ukraine information

Barr last week confirmed that the Justice Department is reviewing information about Ukraine coming from President Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and others. Barr has tapped U.S. Attorney from the Western District of Pennsylvania Scott Brady to handle that Ukraine information.

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Durham probe into origins of Russia investigation

Last year, Barr appointed U.S. Attorney from Connecticut John Durham to review the events leading up to the 2016 presidential election and through Trump's January 20, 2017 inauguration. But, as Fox News first reported, Durham has since expanded his investigation to cover a post-election timeline spanning the spring of 2017 when Mueller was appointed as special counsel.

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Clinton Foundation, Uranium One

In November 2017, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions directed U.S. Attorney for Utah John Huber and other senior prosecutors to evaluate "certain issues" involving the sale of Uranium One and alleged unlawful dealings related to the Clinton Foundation.
The status of the Huber probe, and whether he is still investigating, is unclear.

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FISA warrant, Clinton server document release

In April 2018, the Justice Department appointed U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois John Lausch to oversee the gathering of documents in response to a subpoena issued by the House Judiciary Committee in an effort to obtain materials related to the FBI's probe into Hillary Clinton's private email server and potential Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) abuses.

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More in the article about each.

https://www.axios.com/coates-energy-nsc-switch-discussed-cd557fc3-54ce-4328-88fb-f4f4faba7863.html

She 'vehemently' denies it, but...

I doubt anything comes out of Huber and Lausch investigations. The Huber investigation has gone on almost 2 years and no one knows what's happened with it.

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https://www.axios.com/coates-energy-nsc-switch-discussed-cd557fc3-54ce-4328-88fb-f4f4faba7863.html

She 'vehemently' denies it, but...

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our government is so stupid. why can't they just ****can her?

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I doubt anything comes out of Huber and Lausch investigations. The Huber investigation has gone on almost 2 years and no one knows what's happened with it.

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Key words.....