Flying Monkeys
By Nobody
11 Mar 2011 1:42 pm in No Holds Barred Political Forum
3 Feb 2018 11:06 am
Hey wait a minute. You've been smearing Page claiming that he "cavorted with Russian spies."Misty » 03 Feb 2018 10:53 am » wrote:Did Nunes and 45 just out a double agent?
Naveed Jamali, a former double agent thinks they might have.
And that the FISA warrant was issued on that.
Now you're doing a complete about face?
And blaming Nunes for something about which he could have no idea?
You're kidding, right?
3 Feb 2018 11:07 am
Then why did officials at the FBI get an illegal FISA warrant to surveil Page?Misty » 03 Feb 2018 10:53 am » wrote:Did Nunes and 45 just out a double agent?
Naveed Jamali, a former double agent thinks they might have.
For four years.
3 Feb 2018 11:11 am
That's the Democrat Talking Point Lie.
Which you deny EVER spreading.
3 Feb 2018 11:14 am
Intellectual consistency has never been little Miss Marxist's strong suit.Misty » 03 Feb 2018 10:53 am » wrote:Did Nunes and 45 just out a double agent?
Naveed Jamali, a former double agent thinks they might have.
She'll twist anything and everything as a way to smear conservatives.
Misty » 01 Feb 2018 4:12 pm » wrote:Is that the poor Carter Page who was cavorting around with Russian spies two years before he joined the Trump campaign?
3 Feb 2018 11:32 am
PROFITING FROM THE PRESIDENCY:
A YEAR’S WORTH OF PRESIDENT TRUMP’S CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
INTRODUCTION
On January 11, 2017, President-elect Donald Trump announced to the American public that he would not divest from his businesses—including hotels, golf courses, trademarks, office buildings, and other assets—before being sworn in as the 45th president of the United States.
The move was met with widespread concern, as former executive branch ethics officials, government watchdog groups, and the then-head of the Office of Government Ethics warned that the Trump presidency risked being compromised by massive conflicts of interest.
As CREW Executive Director Noah Bookbinder explained, “[e]very decision [Trump] will make as president will be followed by the specter of doubt, and will be questioned as to whether his decision is in the best interest of the American people or the best interest of his bottom line.”
During President Trump’s first year in office, CREW worked to monitor, log, and categorize every instance in which government and special interests interacted with the president’s private businesses.
The results were posted on the interactive timeline Trump Inc.: A Chronicle of Presidential Conflicts.
Ultimately, CREW recorded more than 500 timeline entries related to potential conflicts of interest.
While it would be almost impossible to adequately summarize the full collection, we can offer three broad takeaways from this effort:
FIRST, President Trump and other government officials have routinely visited Trump properties and promoted them throughout the past year, signaling to those seeking to influence the government that the president’s commercial properties are important new centers of power and influence.
-President Trump spent a full third of the first year of his administration—121 days—visiting his commercial properties.
-Seventy executive branch officials, more than 30 members of Congress, and over a dozen state officials visited Trump Organization properties during the first year of the Trump administration.
-President Trump and his White House staff promoted the Trump brand by mentioning or referring to one of the president’s private businesses on at least 35 different occasions during the president’s first year in office.
SECOND, far from this signaled access to power being an empty promise, those who patronize President Trump’s businesses have, in fact, gained access to the president and his inner circle.
Indeed, it appears that at least some of those guests are trying to use that access to exert influence.
THIRD, the promotion of the president’s businesses as centers of power and influence appears to be paying off: During President Trump’s first year in office, a variety of industry groups, foreign governments, and political committees patronized his businesses.
-There have been more than 40 instances of special interest groups holding events at Trump properties since January 20, 2017.
-Eleven foreign governments have paid Trump-owned entities during the president’s first year in office, and at least six foreign government officials have made appearances at Trump Organization properties.
-Political groups spent more than $1.2 million at Trump properties during the president’s first year in office. Prior to President Trump’s 2016 campaign, annual spending by political committees at Trump properties had never exceeded $100,000 in any given year going back to at least 2002.
Taken together, the 500+ entries on the Trump Inc. timeline present a clear picture of a presidency being used to turn a profit and the president’s businesses serving as points of access to the corridors of power.
As many feared, President Trump is not only making money in spite of his official position—in many cases, he’s making money because of it.
GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS PATRONIZING TRUMP PROPERTIES
Over the past year, President Trump and other government officials have routinely visited Trump properties and promoted them in the public sphere.
This type of free promotion sends a clear message to groups seeking to influence the federal government that the president’s commercial properties are important new centers of power and influence.
https://www.citizensforethics.org/profi ... residency/
A YEAR’S WORTH OF PRESIDENT TRUMP’S CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
INTRODUCTION
On January 11, 2017, President-elect Donald Trump announced to the American public that he would not divest from his businesses—including hotels, golf courses, trademarks, office buildings, and other assets—before being sworn in as the 45th president of the United States.
The move was met with widespread concern, as former executive branch ethics officials, government watchdog groups, and the then-head of the Office of Government Ethics warned that the Trump presidency risked being compromised by massive conflicts of interest.
As CREW Executive Director Noah Bookbinder explained, “[e]very decision [Trump] will make as president will be followed by the specter of doubt, and will be questioned as to whether his decision is in the best interest of the American people or the best interest of his bottom line.”
During President Trump’s first year in office, CREW worked to monitor, log, and categorize every instance in which government and special interests interacted with the president’s private businesses.
The results were posted on the interactive timeline Trump Inc.: A Chronicle of Presidential Conflicts.
Ultimately, CREW recorded more than 500 timeline entries related to potential conflicts of interest.
While it would be almost impossible to adequately summarize the full collection, we can offer three broad takeaways from this effort:
FIRST, President Trump and other government officials have routinely visited Trump properties and promoted them throughout the past year, signaling to those seeking to influence the government that the president’s commercial properties are important new centers of power and influence.
-President Trump spent a full third of the first year of his administration—121 days—visiting his commercial properties.
-Seventy executive branch officials, more than 30 members of Congress, and over a dozen state officials visited Trump Organization properties during the first year of the Trump administration.
-President Trump and his White House staff promoted the Trump brand by mentioning or referring to one of the president’s private businesses on at least 35 different occasions during the president’s first year in office.
SECOND, far from this signaled access to power being an empty promise, those who patronize President Trump’s businesses have, in fact, gained access to the president and his inner circle.
Indeed, it appears that at least some of those guests are trying to use that access to exert influence.
THIRD, the promotion of the president’s businesses as centers of power and influence appears to be paying off: During President Trump’s first year in office, a variety of industry groups, foreign governments, and political committees patronized his businesses.
-There have been more than 40 instances of special interest groups holding events at Trump properties since January 20, 2017.
-Eleven foreign governments have paid Trump-owned entities during the president’s first year in office, and at least six foreign government officials have made appearances at Trump Organization properties.
-Political groups spent more than $1.2 million at Trump properties during the president’s first year in office. Prior to President Trump’s 2016 campaign, annual spending by political committees at Trump properties had never exceeded $100,000 in any given year going back to at least 2002.
Taken together, the 500+ entries on the Trump Inc. timeline present a clear picture of a presidency being used to turn a profit and the president’s businesses serving as points of access to the corridors of power.
As many feared, President Trump is not only making money in spite of his official position—in many cases, he’s making money because of it.
GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS PATRONIZING TRUMP PROPERTIES
Over the past year, President Trump and other government officials have routinely visited Trump properties and promoted them in the public sphere.
This type of free promotion sends a clear message to groups seeking to influence the federal government that the president’s commercial properties are important new centers of power and influence.
https://www.citizensforethics.org/profi ... residency/
3 Feb 2018 11:37 am
CREW? As a source? You're kidding, right?Misty » 03 Feb 2018 11:32 am » wrote:As CREW Executive Director Noah Bookbinder explained
"I'm a dishonest partisan hack," he explained.
"Filing a spurious claim against Trump that will lose by an overwhelming margin before SCOTUS.
But who cares, because we'll have months and months so smear Trump on a false basis."
3 Feb 2018 11:39 am
Say, why did you go from smearing Carter Page as a Russian agent to claiming he's a US agent?Misty » 03 Feb 2018 11:32 am » wrote:PROFITING FROM THE PRESIDENCY
Then smearing Nunes, who couldn't possibly know?
"Because I'm a Democrat Talking Point Liar and don't care about the truth," she finally admits.
3 Feb 2018 11:42 am
Thank You, Misty!Misty » 03 Feb 2018 11:32 am » wrote:PROFITING FROM THE PRESIDENCY:
A YEAR’S WORTH OF PRESIDENT TRUMP’S CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
INTRODUCTION
On January 11, 2017, President-elect Donald Trump announced to the American public that he would not divest from his businesses—including hotels, golf courses, trademarks, office buildings, and other assets—before being sworn in as the 45th president of the United States.
The move was met with widespread concern, as former executive branch ethics officials, government watchdog groups, and the then-head of the Office of Government Ethics warned that the Trump presidency risked being compromised by massive conflicts of interest.
As CREW Executive Director Noah Bookbinder explained, “[e]very decision [Trump] will make as president will be followed by the specter of doubt, and will be questioned as to whether his decision is in the best interest of the American people or the best interest of his bottom line.”
During President Trump’s first year in office, CREW worked to monitor, log, and categorize every instance in which government and special interests interacted with the president’s private businesses.
The results were posted on the interactive timeline Trump Inc.: A Chronicle of Presidential Conflicts.
Ultimately, CREW recorded more than 500 timeline entries related to potential conflicts of interest.
While it would be almost impossible to adequately summarize the full collection, we can offer three broad takeaways from this effort:
FIRST, President Trump and other government officials have routinely visited Trump properties and promoted them throughout the past year, signaling to those seeking to influence the government that the president’s commercial properties are important new centers of power and influence.
-President Trump spent a full third of the first year of his administration—121 days—visiting his commercial properties.
-Seventy executive branch officials, more than 30 members of Congress, and over a dozen state officials visited Trump Organization properties during the first year of the Trump administration.
-President Trump and his White House staff promoted the Trump brand by mentioning or referring to one of the president’s private businesses on at least 35 different occasions during the president’s first year in office.
SECOND, far from this signaled access to power being an empty promise, those who patronize President Trump’s businesses have, in fact, gained access to the president and his inner circle.
Indeed, it appears that at least some of those guests are trying to use that access to exert influence.
THIRD, the promotion of the president’s businesses as centers of power and influence appears to be paying off: During President Trump’s first year in office, a variety of industry groups, foreign governments, and political committees patronized his businesses.
-There have been more than 40 instances of special interest groups holding events at Trump properties since January 20, 2017.
-Eleven foreign governments have paid Trump-owned entities during the president’s first year in office, and at least six foreign government officials have made appearances at Trump Organization properties.
-Political groups spent more than $1.2 million at Trump properties during the president’s first year in office. Prior to President Trump’s 2016 campaign, annual spending by political committees at Trump properties had never exceeded $100,000 in any given year going back to at least 2002.
Taken together, the 500+ entries on the Trump Inc. timeline present a clear picture of a presidency being used to turn a profit and the president’s businesses serving as points of access to the corridors of power.
As many feared, President Trump is not only making money in spite of his official position—in many cases, he’s making money because of it.
GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS PATRONIZING TRUMP PROPERTIES
Over the past year, President Trump and other government officials have routinely visited Trump properties and promoted them in the public sphere.
This type of free promotion sends a clear message to groups seeking to influence the federal government that the president’s commercial properties are important new centers of power and influence.
https://www.citizensforethics.org/profi ... residency/
its all PAY FOR PLAY!
3 Feb 2018 11:47 am
https://mobile.twitter.com/TheRickyDavi ... 4798561280
GOP Rep. Defends Holocaust Denier He Invited to SOTU: ‘He’s Not a Holocaust Denier’
Aside from being a Holocaust denier:
In 2015, Johnson was permanently banned from Twitter after soliciting donations to help “take out” prominent Black Lives Matter activist Deray McKesson.
Nevertheless, Johnson remains a marginally influential figure in the political orbits of President Donald Trump and other Republicans.
In April, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke carved out time for a phone call with Johnson. The two discussed plans for a wall on the southern border.
Johnson’s writings have also directly informed White House personnel decisions after articles published at GotNews found their way to the president’s desk.
3 Feb 2018 3:25 pm
Why did you smear Carter Page as a Russian agent, psycho?Misty » 03 Feb 2018 11:47 am » wrote:blah,blah, blah
4 Feb 2018 11:54 am
He's nuts if he thinks the memo totally vindicates him.Trey Gowdy: Nunes memo has no effect on Russia probe.
Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) said a GOP memo alleging FBI misconduct has nothing to do with special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russia's actions in the 2016 election and possible links to President Donald Trump's campaign.
"Not to me, it doesn't — and I was pretty integrally involved in the drafting of it," Gowdy told CBS's Margaret Brennan for an interview set to air on "Face the Nation" on Sunday.
"There is a Russia investigation without a dossier.
So to the extent the memo deals with the dossier and the FISA process, the dossier has nothing to do with the meeting at Trump Tower."
"The dossier has nothing to do with an email sent by Cambridge Analytica.
The dossier really has nothing to do with George Papadopoulos' meeting in Great Britain.
It also doesn't have anything to do with obstruction of justice."
The memo alleges top FBI and Department of Justice officials were not forthcoming about the motivations behind Christopher Steele's controversial dossier, including indirect funding from Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton's campaign.
The memo further states the dossier was essential to the bureau's request to spy on Trump foreign policy adviser Carter Page.
Some of the president's allies have sought to use the memo to bash the FBI and undermine the integrity of those involved in Mueller's probe.
Gowdy has cautioned his fellow Republicans about jumping to conclusions, adding that his advice last week had been to leave Mueller "the hell alone."
The president wrote on Twitter Saturday that the memo "totally vindicates 'Trump'" and that there was no collusion or obstruction.
4 Feb 2018 12:37 pm
He exaggerated. It doesn't "totally" vindicate him, but it goes a long way in doing so.Misty » 04 Feb 2018 11:54 am » wrote:He's nuts if he thinks the memo totally vindicates him.
And the memo exposes a massive abuse of power and countless related felonies.
Why did you smear Carter Page as a Russian agent who "cavorts with Russian spies?"
4 Feb 2018 1:32 pm
Devin Nunes' Nothingburger
Gertrude Stein once said of her hometown of Oakland, Calif., “There is no there there.”
That about says it for Devin Nunes’s notorious memo, too.
By this I do not mean that Nunes, the California Republican and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, has uncovered no potential wrongdoing in his three-and-a-half-page memo, which was declassified Friday over vehement objections from senior F.B.I. and Justice Department officials.
More about the possible wrongdoing in a moment.
The important questions, however, are:
First, did the F.B.I. have solid reasons to suspect that people in Donald Trump’s campaign had unusual, dangerous and possibly criminal ties to Moscow?
Second, did this suspicion warrant surveillance and investigation by the F.B.I.?
The answers are yes and yes, and nothing in the Nunes memo changes that — except to provide the president with a misleading pretext to fire deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein and discredit Robert Mueller’s probe.
Let’s review.
Paul Manafort, the Trump campaign chairman until August 2016, is credibly alleged to have received $12.7 million in “undisclosed cash payments” from then-Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, a Russian stooge.
Had Manafort not been exposed, he might have gone on to occupy a position of trust in the Trump administration, much as Reagan campaign manager Bill Casey wound up running the C.I.A.
He would then have been easy prey to Russian blackmail.
George Papadopoulos, the young adviser who pleaded guilty last year to lying to the F.B.I., spent his time on the campaign trying to make overtures to Russia.
In May 2016 he blabbed to an Australian diplomat that Moscow had political dirt on Hillary Clinton — information that proved true and was passed on to U.S. intelligence.
This was the genesis of an F.B.I. counterintelligence investigation, as the Nunes memo itself admits.
And then there’s Carter Page, the man at the center of the Nunes memo.
By turns stupid (his Ph.D. thesis was twice rejected), self-important (he has compared himself to Martin Luther King Jr.), and money-hungry (a suspected Russian agent who tried to recruit him in 2013 was recorded saying he “got hooked on Gazprom”), Page happens also to be highly sympathetic to the Putin regime.
The Russian phrase for such characters is polezni durak — useful idiot.
No wonder he was invited to give a commencement speech at a Russian university in the summer of 2016.
That’s how assets are cultivated in the world of intelligence.
Given the profile and his relative proximity to team Trump, it would have been professionally negligent of the F.B.I. not to keep tabs on him.
Yet the bureau only obtained a surveillance warrant after Page had left the campaign and shortly before the election, and it insisted throughout the campaign that Trump was not a target of investigation.
How that represents an affront to American democracy is anyone’s guess.
The memo does seem to have uncovered conflicts of interest at the Justice Department, most seriously by then-Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr, whose wife was working for Fusion GPS (and thus, by extension, the Clinton campaign) on opposition research on Trump.
The memo also claims this relationship was not disclosed to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court when the Justice Department applied for a surveillance warrant on Page.
That’s a significant omission that already seems to have led to Ohr’s demotion, according to Fox News.
Then again, the Nunes memo has its own “material omissions,” according to an adamant and enraged F.B.I.
Who do you find more credible: Nunes or F.B.I. Director Christopher Wray?
Nor does the Nunes memo claim that the information provided by the F.B.I. to the foreign intelligence court was, in fact, false.
The closest it gets is a quote from ex-F.B.I. Director James Comey saying the Steele dossier was “salacious and unverified,” and then noting the anti-Trump bias of various officials involved in the case.
Come again?
The Stormy Daniels story is also salacious and almost certainly accurate.
“Unverified” is not a synonym for “untrue.”
And since when do pundits who make a living from their opinions automatically equate “bias” with dishonesty?
The larger inanity here is the notion that the F.B.I. tried to throw the election to Clinton, when it was the Democrats who complained bitterly at the time that the opposite was true.
“It has become clear that you possess explosive information about close ties and coordination between Donald Trump, his top advisers and the Russian government,” then Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid angrily wrote James Comey in late October 2016.
“The public has a right to know this information.”
Maybe so.
But the G-Men kept quiet about their investigations, and Trump won the election.
How that represents evidence of a sinister deep-state conspiracy is a question for morons to ponder.
As for Devin Nunes, he has, to adapt an old line, produced evidence of a conspiracy so small.
In modern parlance we’d call it a nothingburger, but the bun is missing, too.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/02/opin ... -memo.html
4 Feb 2018 1:35 pm
This arrogant little prick needs to STFU.
Sweet revenge my ***.
I guess he forgot that he met with a bunch of Russians who offered him dirt on Hillary, and then his father made up a huge lie that the meeting was about adoption.
Nothing in the memo changes that fact.
https://youtu.be/Xue6ajuCRrM
Sweet revenge my ***.
I guess he forgot that he met with a bunch of Russians who offered him dirt on Hillary, and then his father made up a huge lie that the meeting was about adoption.
Nothing in the memo changes that fact.
https://youtu.be/Xue6ajuCRrM
4 Feb 2018 1:48 pm
Misty » 04 Feb 2018 1:35 pm » wrote:This arrogant little prick needs to STFU.
Sweet revenge my ***.
I guess he forgot that he met with a bunch of Russians who offered him dirt on Hillary, and then his father made up a huge lie that the meeting was about adoption.
Nothing in the memo changes that fact.
https://youtu.be/Xue6ajuCRrM
Regardless of the facts of the meeting what was illegal about the meeting?
Do you find it odd that a meeting with a Russian chic who did work with fusion GPS was a key player in the meeting?
I hope his arrogance makes you puke.
BV is in question time out indefinitely, until he takes the pledge to answer questions one for one.
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4 Feb 2018 2:21 pm
How does he know the FBI kept quiet?
There were many leaks to the press, some felonies. He cannot possibly know some didn't come from the FBI. It's a near certainty some were.
And why is "conservative" Joe Scarborough repeating a Democrat Talking Point Lie?
4 Feb 2018 2:22 pm
Well gosh, who should we believe, a bitter Never Trumper who writes for the corrupt NYTimes?Misty » 04 Feb 2018 1:32 pm » wrote:Devin Nunes' Nothingburger
Or our lying eyes?
Refute the extensive evidence I've cited, psycho.
4 Feb 2018 2:24 pm
That's not illegal, psycho.Misty » 04 Feb 2018 1:35 pm » wrote:This arrogant little prick needs to STFU.
Sweet revenge my ***.
I guess he forgot that he met with a bunch of Russians who offered him dirt on Hillary, and then his father made up a huge lie that the meeting was about adoption.
Nothing in the memo changes that fact.
If lying was illegal, Hillary and Bill Clinton and Obama would be in prison for the next 1,000 years.
So what's your point?
4 Feb 2018 7:19 pm
Misty » 01 Feb 2018 3:32 pm » wrote:I don't belong to a political party.
I am an unaffiliated voter.
Yet she tells endless lies for the corrupt Democrat Party.
4 Feb 2018 7:20 pm
And she never lies.Misty » 31 Jan 2018 5:23 pm » wrote:Nunes once again carrying water for the WH just like he did with his little midnight run stunt.
If he is working with the WH on this, that sounds pretty much like a conspiracy to obstruct justice.
When Trump claimed he was wiretapped, the entire corrupt liberal MSM accused him of lying.
How would they know?
TRUMP WAS RIGHT! FISA Warrant Allowed FBI to Spy on Carter Page And ALL OF TRUMP CAMPAIGN
February 4, 2018 by Jim Hoft...
We also know Susan Rice lied at first but then admitted when she got caught that she was unmasking her political opponents’ phone calls. Rice blamed racism after she got caught.
Ex-officials said what Susan Rice’s unmasking requests were not routine and “never done.” And… she was not alone in her unmasking requests.
Obama officials later moved the unmasking documents to the Obama library....
the warrant ALSO allowed the Obama FBI and DOJ to spy on Carter Page — but ANYONE in his circle.
So they kept lying to the court so that they could continue spying on Donald Trump, his campaign members and his family.
This is 1000 times bigger than Watergate.
John Fund reported on this Sunday morning on FOX News:
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/02 ... -campaign/
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