She just won't remember anything. She's pretty good at that.
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Does it seem like there is a lot of news coming out this week? Or that the pace is quickening? Maybe Grennell was put there to speed things along?
Exactly. Which seems so antithetical to me. If I have something to hide, I'm not going to poke my head up, opting instead to lay low, as low as I could get.EKUAg said:
Susan Rice squeezing about Grennell being in the job and calling him a political hack (always accuse others of what you are) tells me the administration is over the target.
aggiehawg said:Exactly. Which seems so antithetical to me. If I have something to hide, I'm not going to poke my head up, opting instead to lay low, as low as I could get.EKUAg said:
Susan Rice squeezing about Grennell being in the job and calling him a political hack (always accuse others of what you are) tells me the administration is over the target.
It's so effective though. Not too long ago, I was one of the people who barely paid attention to the news and dismissed most of it as political pandering. Information overload is a real thing!aggiehawg said:Exactly. Which seems so antithetical to me. If I have something to hide, I'm not going to poke my head up, opting instead to lay low, as low as I could get.EKUAg said:
Susan Rice squeezing about Grennell being in the job and calling him a political hack (always accuse others of what you are) tells me the administration is over the target.
So, are you telling us that her "not remembering" vs. Joe's "not remembering" is a race down to Alheimer's / Dementia?nortex97 said:
She just won't remember anything. She's pretty good at that.
With a compliant media, these Dem hacks have successfully leveraged these tactics to skirt any repercussions from their malfeasance. It's looking like it may no longer work with Trump in charge.aggiehawg said:Exactly. Which seems so antithetical to me. If I have something to hide, I'm not going to poke my head up, opting instead to lay low, as low as I could get.EKUAg said:
Susan Rice squeezing about Grennell being in the job and calling him a political hack (always accuse others of what you are) tells me the administration is over the target.
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You talked about this with the comedian Trevor Noah the other day. And you said a number of things in a row. You observed that there had been contacts between members of Mr. Trump's staff and Russian officials. You noted that Trump benefited from the hacks. Your spokesman, Josh Earnest, has gone on to say this week that it's obvious that Trump knew what was going on. To what extent are you suggesting some kind of cooperation between the president-elect and Russian officials here?
Well, I'm, I'm not suggesting cooperation at all. Keep in mind that those statements were in the context of everyone now acting surprised by the CIA assessment that this was done purposely to improve Trump's chances. And my only point was that shouldn't be treated as a blockbuster because that was the worst kept secret in this town.
Everybody understood that. It was reported on. Steve, if you go back and look at your stories, if you read any mainstream publication, you would see that if you have a hack of the DNC and a hack of Hillary Clinton's most senior advisers' e-mails, and those things are then released in drip-drip-drip fashion over the course of months, and that seem to generate consistently negative coverage despite the fact that there's nothing in there that's particularly controversial, that it's mostly just, as I said, political gossip or routine emails between folks who are working in a campaign environment, then it's a pretty clear inference that people would draw, and did draw, that this was helping the Trump campaign and it was hurting the Hillary campaign.
That doesn't mean that the Trump campaign was coordinating. It just means that they understood what everybody else understood, which was that this was not good for Hillary Clinton's campaign. And when you combine that with the fact that the president-elect has been very honest about his admiration for Putin and that he hopes to forge a more cooperative relationship with him and focus on the threat of Islamic terrorism, then my only point was we shouldn't now suddenly act as if this is a huge revelation.
In October, we said, after being very careful about it because we had no interest in appearing as if we were putting our thumbs on the scales, we did what was almost unprecedented which was, every intelligence agency in the federal government arrived at a consensus, that the Russians had hacked the DNC. And the information that was now being released was as a consequence of a decision by Russian intelligence and Russian officials at the highest levels.
So what the CIA is now assessing, which was it was done purposefully to tilt the election in the direction of a particular candidate, shouldn't be a surprise to anybody. And in fact isn't a surprise to anybody.
And as I said before, the issue now is not relitigating the election. The issue now is for us to learn lessons so that we don't have an ongoing situation in every election cycle where you have substantial foreign influence in our campaigns.
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On Wednesday, Judicial Watch issued a subpoena to Google, demanding emails from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that were supposedly sent to a Gmail account before being deleted. The subpoena is part of a long-term Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit seeking "talking points or updates on the Benghazi attack" which also involves a court-ordered deposition of Clinton herself. This FOIA request uncovered Clinton's insecure private home-brew server in 2015.
"A federal court, tired of the State and Justice Departments' gamesmanship, authorized Judicial Watch's subpoena to Google to follow a lead on the Clinton emails," Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, said in a statement. "DOJ and State are AWOL and covering up for Hillary Clinton, so it is again up to Judicial Watch to do the basic investigative heavy lifting to get at the truth."
The Google subpoena, announced Wednesday, demands the Big Tech company produce all Clinton emails from a Google account believed to contain Clinton's emails. Platte River Networks' IT specialist Paul Combetta reportedly used a Google account to transfer Clinton's emails from a laptop to a Platte River server, then used BleachBit to remove any traces of the emails from the laptop. The subpoena seeks all Clinton emails from her time at State, between January 21, 2009 and February 1, 2013. Google must turn over the emails by May 13.
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.....Where speculation about this has been rampant, this is the first evidence -- from the FBI itself -- that the Steele dossier was a classic Russian disinformation campaign.....
Either the FBI knowingly accepted Steele as an important source despite his association with Russian oligarchs and their connections to Russian intelligence, or they're amazingly stupid and dense. Either way, the FBI doesn't come off looking so good....
Who would have thunk that a virus from China would have allowed the exposure of a Russian disinformation campaign and the Dem hoax as the House is in complete disarray and giving the entire floor to Trump in the media?Quote:
Methinks Grassley & Johnson are a little bit pissed.
Not a stupid question. The Senate has a separate function in oversight. But DOJ can only hold them off by claiming information is material to an ongoing investigation when no indictments result. DOJ has been stonewalling for a long time, first with the Mueller investigation dragging on for such a long time and now with the IGs and Durham.ruddyduck said:
why would they ask for evidence while durham's investigation is still ongoing? how would that affect prosecutions? sorry if that's a stupid question.
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They are running out of patience and frankly I think Grassley has given up expecting any indictments and just wants the truth to come out.
That might have been too strong. More like Grassley doesn't GAF if his investigation and reporting of facts potentially messes up some hypothetical future indictment and criminal trial.ruddyduck said:
thanks, hawg.Quote:
They are running out of patience and frankly I think Grassley has given up expecting any indictments and just wants the truth to come out.
that is discouraging.