https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/01/trump-thinks-mueller-has-golf-fee-conflict-of-interest.html
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 29 July 2018 21:23 (five years ago) link
rolling remunerative trump-kremlin conspiracy
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/russian-tv-host-features-trump-fans-id-rather-a-russian-than-a-democrat-shirt
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 6 August 2018 21:41 (five years ago) link
The only questions that remain are whether the collusion that took place constituted criminally liable conspiracy, whether obstruction of justice occurred to cover up any collusion or conspiracy, and how many members of “Trump Incorporated” attempted to defraud the government by laundering and concealing the movement of money into their pockets.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/16/opinion/john-brennan-trump-russia-collusion-security-clearance.html
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 16 August 2018 11:06 (five years ago) link
August 16, 2018
STATEMENT FROM FORMER SENIOR INTELLIGENCE OFFICIALS
As former senior intelligence officials, we feel compelled to respond in the wake of the ill-considered and unprecedented remarks and actions by the White House regarding the removal of John Brennan’s security clearances. We know John to be an enormously talented, capable, and patriotic individual who devoted his adult life to the service of this nation. Insinuations and allegations of wrongdoing on the part of Brennan while in office are baseless. Since leaving government service John has chosen to speak out sharply regarding what he sees as threats to our national security. Some of the undersigned have done so as well. Others among us have elected to take a different course and be more circumspect in our public pronouncements. Regardless, we all agree that the president’s action regarding John Brennan and the threats of similar action against other former officials has nothing to do with who should and should not hold security clearances – and everything to do with an attempt to stifle free speech. You don’t have to agree with what John Brennan says (and, again, not all of us do) to agree with his right to say it, subject to his obligation to protect classified information. We have never before seen the approval or removal of security clearances used as a political tool, as was done in this case. Beyond that, this action is quite clearly a signal to other former and current officials. As individuals who have cherished and helped preserve the right of Americans to free speech – even when that right has been used to criticize us – that signal is inappropriate and deeply regrettable. Decisions on security clearances should be based on national security concerns and not political views.
William H. Webster, former Director of Central Intelligence (1987-1991)
George J. Tenet, former Director of Central Intelligence (1997-2004)
Porter J. Goss, former Director of Central Intelligence, (2005-2006)
General Michael V. Hayden, USAF, Ret., former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (2006-2009)
Leon E. Panetta, former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (2009-2011)
General David H. Petraeus, USA, Ret., former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (2011-2012)
James R. Clapper, former Director of National Intelligence (2010-2017)
John E. McLaughlin, former Deputy Director of Central Intelligence (2000-2004)
Stephen R. Kappes, former Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (2006-2010)
Michael J. Morell, former Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (2010-2013)
Avril Haines, former Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (2013-2015)
David S. Cohen, former Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (2015-2017)
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 17 August 2018 15:17 (five years ago) link
That'll show him.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 August 2018 15:24 (five years ago) link
he probably just ate that memo and laughed when whoever's replaced michael cohen showed it to him
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 17 August 2018 15:30 (five years ago) link
14 Angry Democrat Generals!!(It doesn’t matter that they aren’t all democrats. It doesn’t matter that they’re not generals. It doesn’t matter that there are 12.)
― Karl Malone, Friday, 17 August 2018 16:31 (five years ago) link
it's extremely weird (and suspicious) that he has felt, almost since day one, that the best move for himself would be to pick fights with the intelligence community
― Trϵϵship, Friday, 17 August 2018 17:11 (five years ago) link
you kind of expect a right wing president to get along with the CIA--the least accountable, most secretive part of the federal government
― Trϵϵship, Friday, 17 August 2018 17:13 (five years ago) link
especially since reporters love to do stories about how much happier the intelligence community is with a Republican president
― President Keyes, Friday, 17 August 2018 17:22 (five years ago) link
Well, he probably shouldn't have colluded with the Russians to get elected, then.
― Frederik B, Friday, 17 August 2018 17:24 (five years ago) link
you kind of expect a right wing president to get along with the CIA
calling him "right-wing" implies he has some identifiable ideology when all he seems to have in his brain is an assortment of idiot-tested-and-approved memes, many of which come from the conspiracy-obsessed fringe, where the CIA is often the arch-villain.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 17 August 2018 17:59 (five years ago) link
his gut instincts are all right-wing individually and coherently american-postwar-backlash-fascist in combination: xenophobic racism, strongman authoritarianism, and greed-is-good hypercapitalism.
― Doctor Casϵϵno (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 18 August 2018 02:04 (five years ago) link
http://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title:52%20section:30121%20edition:prelim)
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 00:16 (five years ago) link
Investigators are focused on two bursts of transactions that bank examiners deemed suspicious: one a short time after the meeting and another immediately after the November 2016 presidential election.
The first set came just 11 days after the June 9 meeting, when an offshore company controlled by Agalarov wired more than $19.5 million to his account at a bank in New York.
The second flurry began shortly after Trump was elected. The Agalarov family started sending what would amount to $1.2 million from their bank in Russia to an account in New Jersey controlled by the billionaire’s son, pop singer Emin Agalarov, and two of his friends. The account had been virtually dormant since the summer of 2015, according to records reviewed by BuzzFeed News, and bankers found it strange that activity in Emin Agalarov’s checking account surged after Trump’s victory.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/anthonycormier/trump-tower-meeting-suspicious-transactions-agalarov
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 12 September 2018 17:35 (five years ago) link
better dead than red
https://abcnews.go.com/International/putin-us-dominance-ending-mistakes-typical-empire/story?id=58611354
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 23 October 2018 23:54 (five years ago) link
Extremely self-serving analysis by Putin, but there's a kernel of truth about the USA making typical imperial mistakes by overextending its reach and overestimating its power. The British did this consistently from 1870 onwards, but they stayed in the power seat for nearly half a century more.
Where Putin indulges in wishful thinking is where he asserts a multi-polar world will emerge as US power hits some air gaps. The only nation ready to exploit US weakness enough to insert itself as our rival great power is China. Which, if it happens, makes for a bi-polar world again, not the multi-polar world Putin wishes for. Russia still wouldn't be in the game.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 24 October 2018 00:09 (five years ago) link
https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1102316/download
^ in case anyone's curious about the kremlin's (quite effective) strategy for dividing americans against each other, this DoJ complaint is rewarding reading
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 2 November 2018 12:32 (five years ago) link
So is the big moment coming when they finally take down Trump and all his cronies?
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Friday, 2 November 2018 14:10 (five years ago) link
When is that deus ex machina perp walk that saves us from having to actually accomplish anything politically?
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Friday, 2 November 2018 14:15 (five years ago) link
when flushing a particularly repulsive and sticky turd the jets of water must come from all directions
― Jacob Lohl (stevie), Friday, 2 November 2018 14:29 (five years ago) link
"Mark Whitaker, now in charge of the Mueller investigation, chaired the 2014 campaign of Sam Clovis, a grand jury witness in that investigation."
https://caffeinatedthoughts.com/2014/07/matt-whitaker-chair-sam-clovis-campaign-state-treasurer/
LOL @ GOPutin
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 7 November 2018 22:58 (five years ago) link
so this guy has even more of a reason to recuse than Sessions did
guessing he won't but lol if he does
― frogbs, Wednesday, 7 November 2018 23:26 (five years ago) link
Cool. After two years of vaguely political comments on Reddit I finally attracted a Петербу́рг/Москва́ fan, who has followed me with pro-Trump comments on wholly unrelated threads.
The only thing I've said acknowledging our new acquaintance is "вы влагалище", which Google translates as "you are a cunt". Purely based on my English-language hierarchy dick,jerk < asshole < cunt. It's not a gender thing for me.
Is this an insult in Russian? Are their more cutting and less overtly misogynistic ways of making this point?
This may be important for many others on this thread with Russian followers.
― They Bunged Him in My Growler (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 7 November 2018 23:50 (five years ago) link
i wonder who else benefited from this ; )
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-rosneft-privatisation-exclusive/exclusive-russian-state-bank-secretly-financed-rosneft-sale-after-foreign-buyers-balked-idUSKCN1NE132
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 9 November 2018 15:08 (five years ago) link
who else?
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Friday, 9 November 2018 15:58 (five years ago) link
maybe no one
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 9 November 2018 15:58 (five years ago) link
Eventually, I expect to sell my firstborn to the Qatari Wealth Fund and Glencore. As someone who has only hovered on the margins of commodity markets, the growth of both over the past two decades is just staggering.
― They Bunged Him in My Growler (Sanpaku), Saturday, 10 November 2018 00:20 (five years ago) link
from the office slack, re: barbara ehrenreich --
https://i.imgur.com/YQbuJx8.png
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 20:21 (five years ago) link
this is cute
Well now. Russians claiming a hack of the DNC was a legitimate "military attack"That's going to have repercussions for the Americans who were conspiring with them. https://t.co/ixw1jkl0Uj— Emma Kennedy (@EmmaKennedy) November 13, 2018
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 21:55 (five years ago) link
hm yeah doesn't conspiring in a military action against the US govt constitute treason
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 22:01 (five years ago) link
DNC isn't the government.
But as I've been trying to push out in monthly increments to Trumpster relatives, they're unwitting accomplices to a multi-faceted information warfare attack on American sovereignty and interests. The Trump campaign was just one arm, and probably not the most important one (given its likelihood of abject failure). The more important Russian information warfare attacks have infiltrated nodes of the U.S. electric grid and major corporations. Maybe its all deterrence against similar infiltrations of Russian infrastructure, but I suspect its really Russia turning one of its few strengths (a bunch of hackers, who will work for rubles) into a force multiplier.
At first my relatives responded by regurgitating kool-aid. After a dozen or so of these I don't get responses. Maybe they've all got me blocked, or maybe they are starting to see the pattern.
― Sanpaku, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 23:57 (five years ago) link
weird how emma kennedy has became a sort of louise mensch lite
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 14 November 2018 00:01 (five years ago) link
weird how much better at chess russians are than americans
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 14 November 2018 00:05 (five years ago) link
carlos d would make a much better choice imho
More evidence of the absence of US leadership. Next up: A Russian official in charge of @INTERPOL_HQ . https://t.co/Qns7iNL9bl— Michael McFaul (@McFaul) November 18, 2018
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 18 November 2018 14:07 (five years ago) link
"the head of interpol has herpes"
― fajita seas, Sunday, 18 November 2018 20:33 (five years ago) link
Days after the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Russian legal authorities deployed the rule of law for political purposes, Interpol is about to elect a Russian government official as its head. Crazy. https://t.co/uZ4oobjnPN— Michael McFaul (@McFaul) November 19, 2018
i don't know much about interpol *insert carlos D* joke, but
?
― Karl Malone, Monday, 19 November 2018 19:55 (five years ago) link
"deployed the rule of law for political purposes" is a very strange uh, term of art? is it?
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 19 November 2018 20:02 (five years ago) link
maybe it's a autocorrect-ism for "destroyed"
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 19 November 2018 20:04 (five years ago) link
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/gop-sen-barrasso-shrugs-not-surprised-trump-was-doing-international-business
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 3 December 2018 01:03 (five years ago) link
I just want them to be sure. It’s a pretty serious charge. I know a lot about hacking and hacking is a very hard thing to prove. So it could be somebody else, and I also know things that other people don’t know, so they cannot be sure of this situation.
https://www.mediaite.com/online/i-know-things-other-people-dont-about-hacking-trump-casts-doubt-on-russias-election-interference/
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 6 December 2018 00:13 (five years ago) link
wait, he has a boy who is ten years old?
― Rhine Jive Click Bait (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 6 December 2018 01:03 (five years ago) link
Baron!
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 6 December 2018 01:35 (five years ago) link
12
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Thursday, 6 December 2018 01:38 (five years ago) link
What's Baron Von Trump been up to?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 6 December 2018 01:52 (five years ago) link
Baron is definitely not 10
― Rhine Jive Click Bait (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 6 December 2018 01:59 (five years ago) link
The story is from two years ago.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 6 December 2018 02:21 (five years ago) link
Maybe Baron was 12 then but he is 10 now
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Thursday, 6 December 2018 02:32 (five years ago) link
Checking in on Trump-Russia “no collusion” dead-enders. pic.twitter.com/eOpSN1VGz8— Zachary #FBPE 🇪🇺 (@zatchry) December 8, 2018
― Nerdstrom Poindexter, Saturday, 8 December 2018 01:44 (five years ago) link
lol @ gop
“It turns out to be true now, that the Department of Justice and the FBI, under President Obama, rigged the investigation for Hillary and really turned the screws on Trump, and now it looks like in a corrupt & illegal way. The facts are out now. Whole Hoax exposed. @JesseBWatters— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 30, 2018
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 30 December 2018 13:47 (five years ago) link