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How the Russia Inquiry Began: A Campaign Aide, Drinks and Talk of Political Dirt
NY Slimes ^ | 12/30/2017 | SHARON LaFRANIERE, MARK MAZZETTI and MATT APUZZO

Posted on 12/30/2017 9:30:48 AM PST by mojito

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To: Ambrosia; DrDude; mojito
Maybe reflecting on the 550 tons of yellowcake found by Bush Admin soldier in Iraq that was sold to a Canadian Company, after the Army sat on it for several years. Same Yellowcake that Bush & Cheney said was sold to Saddam Hussein, at time of Iraq War vote to help influence Senators.

And.... what was JOE WILSON's VOCATION ?

21 posted on 12/30/2017 10:45:41 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: mojito; Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; 2ndDivisionVet; ...

cusious as to the timing../s

release of Huma’s emails, ramping up of info and anger evident in the populace..etc.


22 posted on 12/30/2017 10:46:06 AM PST by bitt (The first to squeal gets the best deal.)
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To: Rocky

This story lies outside the realm of common sense. If the Russians had severely compromising info on a POTUS candidate, they would be supporting that campaign to leverage the compromised party into the White House. What good does it do for the Russians to have dirt on a failed candidate when they could have dirt on a sitting POTUS?


23 posted on 12/30/2017 10:49:30 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: mojito

Was the Greek guy making a hook-up?

What was Australia’s top diplomat in Britain doing in a bar chit-chatting with the underling?


24 posted on 12/30/2017 10:52:08 AM PST by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: LucyT

FYI, I just spoke to a source I have at Gitmo. He is in a unique position to know who comes and goes there.

I asked if there was any truth to the Q-anon stuff about high profile people coming in or anything unusual.

“No. Business as usual.”

He further said that Gitmo was a mess, legally, and that KSM was STILL in “pre-trial” hearings . . . after more than a decade. His view was that when DT was briefed about the real conditions at Gitmo, he wouldn’t send any more people there.


27 posted on 12/30/2017 10:59:25 AM PST by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: mojito
Oh, brother. So it was the evil Trump campaign's fault after all? These guys change cover stories as often as I change socks.

This began the Russian myth:

In other calls with advisers and political surrogates in; the days after the election, Hillary declined to take responsibility for her own loss. "She's not being particularly self-reflective," said one longtime ally who was on calls with her shortly after the election. Instead, Hillary kept pointing her finger at Comey and Russia. "She wants to make sure all these narratives get spun the right way," this person said.

The strategy had been set within twenty-four hours of her concession speech. Mook and Podesta assembled her communications team at the Brooklyn headquarters to engineer the case that the election wasn't entirely on the up-and-up. For a couple of hours, with Shake Shack containers littering the room, they went over the script they would pitch to the press and the public. Already, Russian hacking was the centerpiece of the argument.

Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign - Allen & Parnes

It's saddening to think of the money that has been wasted on this ridiculous, self-serving fairy tale simply because its tellers appear to think they can weaken Trump through it. It's not working, folks. Give it up.

28 posted on 12/30/2017 11:10:46 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: mojito
Exactly.

The NY Slimes is trying to get their lie out there ahead of the revelations that the FBI and DOJ used the unverified, made-up from whole cloth, paid for by Clinton and the DNC, fake Trump dossier to get a FISA warrant so they could spy on Trump and his people.

It's not hard to figure who was behind this effort. Someone above the FBI-DOJ. That would be Obama.

29 posted on 12/30/2017 11:19:42 AM PST by HotHunt
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To: UCANSEE2

And Yesterday Trump give the New York Times an Exclusive interview. He calls them everything in the world to discredit them than turns around and gives them an ‘Exclusive’ interview. A lesson in how to kill your own message.


30 posted on 12/30/2017 11:20:20 AM PST by heights
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To: Rocky

the Russians were working for Bernie.


31 posted on 12/30/2017 11:20:52 AM PST by Just mythoughts
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To: heights

You missed the point.... the president got his message delivered, unexpurgated.


32 posted on 12/30/2017 11:23:59 AM PST by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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To: LS; null and void; aragorn; Art in Idaho; azishot; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; ...

Check out #27, ... Gitmo update.

Thanks, LS.

(See #28 as well.)

33 posted on 12/30/2017 11:26:40 AM PST by LucyT (>>>> "You're not paranoid, they want you dead." <<<<)
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To: mojito

Today’s media talking point.

Fakebook is pushing this hard.

And what was in the emails can never ever be discussed #StolenPrimary


34 posted on 12/30/2017 11:27:27 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: mojito

Gosharooteeroo. The Russians are trying to disrupt the election. Let’s stop them, by disrupting the election and throwing the results in doubt, after the election was over.


35 posted on 12/30/2017 11:34:34 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: Billthedrill

The media talking point on this is that Trump’s team/voters think that the Russia talk is just to create a Democrat “excuse” for Hillary losing, It’s there to give grounds for a coup to remove Trump from office. It isn’t about bragging rights (I shoulda won), it’s about defeating the elected president.

And Democrats have sought the impeachment of elected Republican presidents in their first terms dating back to Richard Nixon (long before Watergate). They wanted Reagan out in his first year.


36 posted on 12/30/2017 11:35:08 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: LucyT

Bookmark


37 posted on 12/30/2017 11:41:40 AM PST by JDoutrider
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To: LS
Huh, that's the first solid refutation of QAnon I've seen.

That being said, he mentioned that disinformation was necessary (Gitmo rumors either to distract people, *or* it's being prepped for others shortly to arrive. I've seen stuff posted about request for public comment about high-speed cable being laid going out from Gitmo, and private places for people to meet with lawyers, and military police from the AZ National Guard, and sundry others from two different states being rotated there...all from different sources. The AZ NG I sourced back to AZCentral.com which is legit...)

38 posted on 12/30/2017 11:44:34 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: grey_whiskers

LOL!

Does anyone even know what a souse is, anymore?

I’m a child of the ‘60’s, and even I lament the degradation of the language. We’ve fallen from loquacious oratory to pedestrian pre-pubescent pablum. It’s despicable.

Keep the faith, FRiend.


39 posted on 12/30/2017 11:49:05 AM PST by HKMk23 (You ask how to fight an idea? Well, I'll tell you how: with another idea!)
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To: LS
His view was that when DT was briefed about the real conditions at Gitmo, he wouldn’t send any more people there.

Stockholm Syndrome?

40 posted on 12/30/2017 11:54:09 AM PST by itsahoot (As long as there is money to be divided, there will be division.)
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