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Termin8tor » 29 Mar 2017 4:54 pm » wrote:Gosh, another apparent felony by a close Clinton associate, from a highly respected author.

Termin8tor » 30 Mar 2017 2:11 pm » wrote:So it's not important that CNN covered up Clinton's felonies and impeachable acts?

Termin8tor » 30 Mar 2017 2:07 pm » wrote:
So by your logic, it's okay to trust your life to a corporation, but not trust facts and analysis cited by a source you've read for decades and found to be almost always accurate?

You can't really be this stupid, can you?

Termin8tor » 30 Mar 2017 2:08 pm » wrote:Blah, blah, blah, blah, lies the psychopath.

Misty » 30 Mar 2017 2:16 pm » wrote: So you haven't defended John Fund, Carl Paladino and Trump's actions?

Don't lie now Pumpkin.
You know you have.

Termin8tor » 30 Mar 2017 2:18 pm » wrote:
You must be bored that there are no Democrat felons/ rapists for whom you can lie.

Had Hillary won, you'd have had that chance again! Must be very frustrating.

Cannonpointer » 30 Mar 2017 2:23 pm » wrote: Vulgar seduction.

Nuff said.

Termin8tor » 30 Mar 2017 2:29 pm » wrote:
No, no, psycho, there's much more to be said.

There's just a little difference between touching someone even if it's unwanted, and violently raping a woman, subduing them by biting hard their lip.

As Clinton did.

Cannonpointer » 30 Mar 2017 2:35 pm » wrote: Oh, I could not agree more, cover girl.

That's the DIFFERENCE - between Clinton and tRump.

But I wasn't comparing them - I was comparing your own actions to those you accuse Misty of.

The similarity is you bending over backwards, linguistically, to dismiss a violent assault as "vulgar seduction."

Ya see how language works, clemjob? It can be used to distinguish both differences AND similarities.

It can be used to prove that you are THE POT CALLING THE KETTLE BLACK, boy.

Termin8tor » 30 Mar 2017 2:39 pm » wrote:
That's a lot of babbling bulls***.

I don't believe that Trump walked up to women at random and grabbed them. Only an imbecile would think that. Nor was it "violent."

I believe my analysis is correct.

Cannonpointer » 30 Mar 2017 2:48 pm » wrote:Your analysis that ****** grabbing is "vulgar seduction" - that analysis?

No one called him random - he said he did it to beautiful women only. Why are you defending against an unlevied charge?

For distraction?

2 White House Officials Helped Give Nunes Intelligence Reports

A pair of White House officials played a role in providing Representative Devin Nunes of California, a Republican and the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, with the intelligence reports that showed that President Trump and his associates were incidentally swept up in foreign surveillance by American spy agencies.

The revelation that White House officials assisted in the disclosure of the intelligence reports — which Mr. Nunes then discussed with President Trump — is likely to fuel criticism that the intelligence chairman has been too eager to do the bidding of the Trump administration while his committee is supposed to be conducting an independent investigation of Russia’s meddling in the last presidential election.

Mr. Nunes has also been faulted by his congressional colleagues for sharing the information with President Trump before consulting with other members of the intelligence committee.

The congressman has refused to identify his sources, saying he needed to protect them so others would feel safe coming to the committee with sensitive information.

He disclosed the existence of the intelligence reports on March 22, and in his public comments he has described his sources as whistle-blowers trying to expose wrongdoing at great risk to themselves.

Several current American officials identified the White House officials as Ezra Cohen-Watnick, the senior director for intelligence at the National Security Council, and Michael Ellis, a lawyer who works on national security issues at the White House Counsel’s Office and formerly worked on the staff of the House Intelligence Committee.

A White House spokesperson declined to comment.

Mr. Cohen-Watnick is a former Defense Intelligence Agency official who was originally brought to the White House by Michael T. Flynn, the former national security adviser.

The officials said that this month, shortly after Mr. Trump wrote on Twitter about being wiretapped on the orders of President Barack Obama, Mr. Cohen-Watnick began reviewing highly classified reports detailing the intercepted communications of foreign officials.

Officials said the reports consisted primarily of ambassadors and other foreign officials talking about how they were trying to develop contacts within Mr. Trump’s family and inner circle in advance of his inauguration.

The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the intelligence and to avoid angering Mr. Cohen-Watnick and Mr. Ellis.

Officials say Mr. Cohen-Watnick has been reviewing the reports from his fourth-floor office in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, where the National Security Council is based.

But the officials’ description of the intelligence is in line with Mr. Nunes’s own characterization of the material, which he has said was not related to the Russia investigations when he disclosed its existence in a hastily arranged news conference.

According to Mr. Nunes, he received a phone call from a source the night before, and then rushed to meet the person on the grounds of the White House.

He has explained the choice of location by saying he needed access to a secure place where people with security clearances could legally view classified information, though such facilities can also be found in the Capitol building and at other locations across Washington.

The next day, Mr. Nunes gave a news briefing at the Capitol and then returned to the White House to brief President Trump on the information.

Termin8tor » 30 Mar 2017 2:18 pm » wrote:You must be bored that there are no Democrat felons/ rapists for whom you can lie.
Had Hillary won, you'd have had that chance again! Must be very frustrating.

Termin8tor » 30 Mar 2017 2:39 pm » wrote:I don't believe that Trump walked up to women at random and grabbed them.

“I’ve got to use some Tic Tacs, just in case I start kissing her.
You know I’m automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them.
It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait.”

Marco Rubio Says Hack Attempts From Russia Targeted Him, Too

HILLARY CLINTON MAY not have been the only Trump opponent who came into the sights of Russian hackers during the 2016 election.

According to testimony in a Senate hearing today, so did one of President Trump’s Republican primary adversaries: Senator Marco Rubio.

In a hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Rubio revealed for the first time that his campaign staffers were also targeted by hackers seemingly based in Russia.

Those repeated attempts at intrusion, according to Rubio, came after he dropped out of the primary, and were unsuccessful.

He added that in just the last 48 hours, those apparent Russian attacks had targeted his staffers again.

Former FBI agent details how Trump and Russia team up to weaponize fake news.

During the first public Senate Intelligence Committee hearing about Russia’s meddling in the presidential election on Thursday, former FBI special agent Clint Watts explained how Russia and the Trump campaign team up to weaponize fake news.

Asked by Rep. James Lankford (R-OK) about why Russian President Vladimir Putin decided to make more of an effort to interfere in the 2016 presidential election than in years past, Watts, who is now a a fellow at George Washington University’s Center for Cyber and Homeland Security, said, “the answer is very simple and it’s what nobody is really saying in this room.”

“Which is, part of the reason active measures have worked in this U.S. election is because the Commander-in-Chief [Trump] has used Russian active measures at times, against his opponents,” Watts continued.

Watts cited two specific examples from the campaign — one that came from the mouth of Trump’s campaign chairman and one that came from Trump himself.

On August 16, Paul Manafort, who at that time was still Trump’s campaign chairman, was interviewed by CNN’s Jake Tapper and criticized the media’s coverage of the campaign.

Instead of focusing on stories like Trump’s veiled threat about “Second Amendment people” potentially stopping Hillary Clinton, Manafort suggested the media cover more important things.

“You had the NATO base in Turkey being under attack by terrorists,” Marafort said. “You had a number of things that were appropriate to this campaign, were part of what Mr. Trump has been talking about.”

That attack never happened — it was fake news.

But as BuzzFeed reported at the time, “several Russian sites [were] quick to report on potential terrorist attacks on NATO bases in Turkey.” Manafort used false information spread by those sites to attack Clinton.

“In late July, Sputnik and RT — both Russian state-controlled media outlets — pointed to a fire near a NATO base in western Turkey as potential sabotage,” the BuzzFeed report continued.

“And both sites helped spread the idea — which also was passed along on Twitter by accounts that are both pro-Trump and pro-Russian — that the protests [at the NATO base] in late July were a massive mob attempting to takeover the base.”

During his testimony, Watts noted that Manafort and Trump used the “debunked” Turkey story “as a talking point.” It was recently revealed that Manafort did secret propaganda work on behalf of Putin before working for Trump.

Watts’ second example was Trump using a fake news story to attack Clinton during an October 10 rally in Wilkes-Barre.

“This just came out a little while ago. I have to tell you this,” Trump told the audience, reading from a sheet of paper that he said contained the text of an email written by Clinton confidant Sidney Blumenthal.

“The attack was almost certainly preventable,” Trump read, alluding to Benghazi.

“Clinton was in charge of the State Department… if the GOP wants to raise that as a talking point against her, it is legitimate.”

But Blumenthal never wrote that.

An NPR report explains the context:

For Newsweek reporter Kurt Eichenwald, the words Trump read sounded familiar. It turns out they were taken from an article he wrote, which Blumenthal had included in an email. So they were not Blumenthal’s words, but Eichenwald’s.

The misconstrued “email” that Trump was reading had appeared in an article on a Russia-funded website called Sputnik, which has since taken it down…

It’s unclear how Trump obtained the same misinformation that appeared in Sputnik.

Eichenwald asks: “Who in the Trump campaign was feeding him falsehoods straight from the Kremlin?”

During his testimony, Watts described the article Trump read as “a fake news story from Sputnik News that disappeared from the internet.”

“He denies the intel from the United States about Russia.

He claims that the election could be rigged.

That was the number one theme pushed by RT, Sputnik News… all the way up until the election,” Watts continued.

“He’s made claims of voter fraud, that President Obama’s not a citizen… So, part of the reason active measures works, and it does today in terms of Trump Tower being wiretapped, is because they parrot the same line.”

Fake news can be effective.

A poll released earlier this week found that 74 percent of Republicans now believe Trump’s evidence-free claim that his Trump Tower office “were wiretapped, or under government surveillance during the 2016 presidential campaign.”

When House Intelligence Committee chair and former Trump transition official Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) made a clumsy attempt to validate Trump’s claim last week, the story was quickly amplified by Sputnik and RT.




Beyond the virtual component of Russia’s meddling, Watts encouraged committee members to “follow the trail of dead Russians.”

“There have been more dead Russians in the past three months that are tied to this investigation, who have assets in banks all over world,” he said.

“They are dropping dead even in Western countries.”

Watts also expressed concern that the Trump administration won’t ultimately protect people like him.

“I’m going to walk out of here today, I’m going to be cyberattacked, I’m going to be discredited by trolls.

My biggest fear isn’t being on Putin’s hit list or psychological warfare targeting me — I’ve been doing that for two years,” he said.

“My biggest concern right now is I don’t know what the American stance is on Russia, on who is going to take care of me.

After years in the Army and the FBI, working in the intel community — today, I’m going to walk out of here and ain’t nobody going to be covering my back.

Termin8tor » 30 Mar 2017 2:11 pm » wrote:
So it's not important that CNN covered up Clinton's felonies and impeachable acts?

Thanks for revealing your utter lack of character.

And again, it's really hilarious that you reject my sources, then cite that utter joke of a source.

Do you even have a job, besides being a Goebbels propagandist?

Misty » 30 Mar 2017 4:24 pm » wrote:And the pieces start to fit together.

2 White House Officials Helped Give Nunes Intelligence Reports

Why did he have to brief the White House when the intelligence reports came from within the White House?

Misty » 30 Mar 2017 7:58 pm » wrote:The Trump campaign was complicit in spreading FAKE News from Russian controlled media outlets, Sputnik and RT.

Watts explains his explosive testimony.

Misty » 30 Mar 2017 5:03 pm » wrote: Do you think .....?