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More interesting is how recent this blownwhistle occurred … within the last month, but more importantly it signals how much information was known in 2016 and how much information is available at the NSA.
It explains more about why Comey and Rogers...
by annieli
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on Mon Jun 05, 2017 at 06:14 PM PDT
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It’s not too early to cast the heroes of #TrumpRussia media projects … will they be leakers, lawyers, or ‘journalists’.
Neither Masha Gessen nor Gary Kasparov are yet the ‘good Russian’ of the Kremlingate morality tale, but the #TrumpRussia story...
by annieli
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on Mon Jun 05, 2017 at 02:53 PM PDT
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..That’s the headline from this article posted @ the Raw story by David Ferguson (with Ari Melber’s video segment @ the link — really worth a look see - imo)| June 4th, 2017
I’d post the video clip from Ari Melber’s new program ‘The Point’...
by Eric Nelson
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on Mon Jun 05, 2017 at 06:36 PM PDT
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A crack team of retaggers pounces, only to find that it’s not spam. Put up the rock crushers, friends.
Last week, Roger Sollenberger wrote a handy guide in Paste called, ”How the Trump-Russia Data Machine Games Google to Fool Americans.”
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by Crashing Vor
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on Mon Jun 05, 2017 at 07:47 AM PDT
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We are now getting even more worried about Lord Dampnut since his tweeting about the Mayor of London’s call for calm seems ever more baffling as a conservative thought crime of “political correctness”. This meme makes no sense and of course follows...
by annieli
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on Mon Jun 05, 2017 at 12:05 AM PDT
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The above quote says it all for me. He truly is now a global embarrassment after announcing an exit from the Paris Accord. I am truly grateful that it appears major cities in red and blue states as well as entire states are going to continue on the...
by DeeQuilter86
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on Mon Jun 05, 2017 at 04:01 AM PDT
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I find the lack of discussion on what follows baffling.
So now we have an independent prosecutor looking into Trump-Russia. Everybody talks about impeachment, but if the investigation ends up where I think it might, Trump CAN’T be impeached. Should...
by Michael Bean
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on Sun Jun 04, 2017 at 08:08 AM PDT
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The voiceless Jarvanka may yet come before Congress if not a NY state court. Peter Schweizer of the Mercers’ Government Accountability Institute now has thrown Kushner under the Russian bus signaling further WH chaos and perhaps a start to a separation...
by annieli
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on Sun Jun 04, 2017 at 12:04 AM PDT
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Protesters started to gather on the eastern half of Grand Circus Park in downtown Detroit around 11:00 a.m. EDT. At a quarter to noon, they started marching down Woodward, turned right on Michigan Avenue, then right again on Washington Boulevard.
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by Alonso del Arte
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on Sat Jun 03, 2017 at 08:09 PM PDT
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From Huffington Post:
Nearly two months after recusing himself from leading the House Intelligence Committee’s Russia investigation, Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) is “still requiring his sign-off” on all subpoenas pertaining to the probe, the...
by tln41
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on Sat Jun 03, 2017 at 09:23 AM PDT
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The Republican-controlled House Intelligence Committee asked U.S. spy agencies late last year to reveal the names of U.S. individuals or organizations contained in classified intelligence on Russia’s meddling in the 2016...
by Crashing Vor
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on Sat Jun 03, 2017 at 06:46 AM PDT
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by annieli
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on Sat Jun 03, 2017 at 08:10 AM PDT
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There’s a lot of talk about why Trump decided to pull out of the Paris climate change agreement. The real explanation may be buried in a single short paragraph in the Los Angeles Times story on the decision.
Trump’s decision to isolate the United...
by voidstuff
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on Fri Jun 02, 2017 at 01:28 PM PDT
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The “deep state,” composed of government employees who wage a surreptitious campaign against Trump, is a fantasy of the alt right. But in the early days of the Trump regime, workers in the State Department did engage in a conflict to ward off a move so...
by Mark Sumner
120 comments
on Fri Jun 02, 2017 at 12:49 PM PDT
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Special Counsel Mueller takes over criminal investigation into Michael Flynn's role as foreign agent Michael Flynn may have taken a nice paycheck from Russian state media RT when he visited Moscow to sip champagne with Russian leaders and give Vladimir Putin a standing ovation, but the money he brought home from that trip is just a fraction of what he...
by Mark Sumner
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on Fri Jun 02, 2017 at 09:39 AM PDT
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The sitting president of the United States is under investigation for collusion with Russian interference in the 2016 elections. The president’s son-in-law, a top adviser, reportedly asked for a secure back channel to talk to Russia that would evade...
by Laura Clawson
75 comments
on Fri Jun 02, 2017 at 08:51 AM PDT
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Conducting an independent investigation into clandestine links between a presidential candidate and a foreign government sounds like a recipe for spending a lot of time digging through obscure documents, piecing together chains of emails, and tracking...
by Mark Sumner
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on Fri Jun 02, 2017 at 08:53 AM PDT
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Asking then FBI director James Comey to flat-out drop the investigation might be the most obvious attempt by Donald Trump to obstruct the Trump–Russia investigation. But it’s far from the only move he’s made to block the truth from coming out.
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by Mark Sumner
524 comments
on Fri Jun 02, 2017 at 07:28 AM PDT
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One thing I wondered after the inauguration: if Trump & Gang were Putin puppets, why didn’t they instantly reverse the sanctions Obama placed on Russia in retaliation for election meddling, and previous to that, invading the Ukraine, as soon as...
by Karen Wehrstein
199 comments
on Fri Jun 02, 2017 at 04:02 AM PDT
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So those Americans who thought voting for Trump would actually improve their lot beyond hating on a Black President the last eight years, should now get with it and wake up.
Because they chose change at any cost, perhaps for even the same reasons as...
by annieli
2 comments
on Fri Jun 02, 2017 at 12:01 AM PDT
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