'I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration'

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  1. Ddyad

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    In fact, the DNC and The Clintons worked with Russians to create the "Steele dossier" to rig the election and now to remove Trump from office.

    "More support for this view involves the FBI’s use of the Russian dossier on Trump that was paid for by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee. It is almost certain that the FBI used the dossier to get FISA court warrants to spy on Trump associates, meaning it used the opposition research of the party in power to convince a court to let it spy on the candidate of the other party — likely without telling the court of the dossier’s political link.

    Even worse, there is growing reason to believe someone in President Barack Obama’s administration turned over classified information about Trump to the Clinton campaign."
    THE NEW YORK POST, Evidence suggests a massive scandal is brewing at the FBI, By Michael Goodwin January 23, 2018.
    https://nypost.com/2018/01/23/evidence-suggests-a-massive-scandal-is-brewing-at-the-fbi/

    Collusion with Russia is a fact an on the public record.
     
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    Max Rockatansky Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Agreed on eminent domain. It's up to Congress to write laws preventing it....which it hasn't.
     
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    Yes, scofflaw justices are a threat to the rule of law.
     
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    Who disclosed or reported any classified information to the public? :eek:

    The content of the calls has not been disclosed or reported to the public to the best of my knowledge. The fact that the calls were captured and used as evidence that Flynn FAILED to register as a foreign agent has nothing at all to do with any classified information being disclosed.

    Failure to comprehend the actual laws and legal processes seems endemic amongst the alt right.
     
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    Max Rockatansky Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    That's not the way I understand it. Steele is an MI6 agent who specialized in Russia. Where did any of them work with the ****ing Russians? If they did, wouldn't Trump be pissed that his Russian friends turned on him?

    Anyone in the WH who turns over classified material to unauthorized people should be charged for that crime.
     
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    My comment is a simple fact. The innumerable times each team has used the filibuster only reinforces that fact.
     
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    We agree - it seemed you were only blaming team blue. Our country is run by petty children, with the dear leader being the most childish.
     
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    Agreed....and Congress is about to vet another one. :D
     
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    Has there ever been a difference between MI6 and Russian intelligence? Who do you think Steele used as "sources"?
    Russian "dissidents"? ;-)

    "Using the Hillary-funded Steele dossier on Trump, which included false and outrageous claims that couldn't be verified, the FBI and Justice Department convinced the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to spy on sometime Trump volunteer Carter Page. In doing so, they were able to spy on much of the rest of the Trump campaign, as well. However, the initial application for the surveillance in October 2016 did not mention that the source for the surveillance request was a political campaign. If it had, it might well have been rejected."
    INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY, Most Think Obama White House Spied On Trump Campaign, Want Special Counsel: IBD/TIPP Poll, 2/05/2018.
    https://www.investors.com/politics/...p-campaign-want-special-counsel-ibdtipp-poll/
     
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    A massive scandal is actually being covered up and that is why Mueller is running that Special Council. Otehrwise, Obama would be answering some tough questions. Rosenstein as well.

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    Who do you think knows more about the espionage statutes, especially those dealing with signals intelligence? You, or Glenn Greenwald? ;-)

    “In the spectrum of crimes involving the leaking of classified information, publicly revealing the contents of SIGINT — signals intelligence — is one of the most serious felonies. Journalists (and all other nongovernmental citizens) can be prosecuted under federal law for disclosing classified information only under the narrowest circumstances; reflecting how serious SIGINT is considered to be, one of those circumstances includes leaking the contents of intercepted communications, as defined this way by 18 § 798 of the U.S. Code:

    Whoever knowingly and willfully communicates … or otherwise makes available to an unauthorized person, or publishes … any classified information … obtained by the processes of communication intelligence from the communications of any foreign government … shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.”, THE INTERCEPT, The Leakers Who Exposed Gen. Flynn’s Lie Committed Serious — and Wholly Justified — Felonies, By, Glenn Greenwald, February 14 2017.
    https://theintercept.com/2017/02/14...mitted-serious-and-wholly-justified-felonies/
     
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    I don't think even the writer claims that she is in the "inner circle." My guess is that it's someone like the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, a sub-agency of the U.S. Department of Education, which would qualify her to claim she is a "senior official." Trump probably never heard of her.
     
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    Trump is Mr. Garvey. That is why he was elected.

     
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    Yes, of course there has.
     
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    Unsurprising since he obviously never heard of the word anonymous either. :)

    From a previous post:
     
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    My recollection is that the Republican plan was not to create some new national health care program, but rather to try to improve the private system. Here is the current platform, and I see nothing wrong with it:

    We agree with the four dissenting judges of the Supreme Court: “In our view, the entire Act before us is invalid in its entirety.” It must be removed and replaced with an approach based on genuine competition, patient choice, excellent care, wellness, and timely access to treatment ....It is time to repeal Obamacare and give America a much-needed tax cut.

    In its place we must combine what worked best in the past with changes needed for the future. We must recover the traditional patient-physician relationship based on mutual trust, informed consent, and confidentiality. To simplify the system for both patients and providers, we will reduce mandates and enable insurers and providers of care to increase healthcare options and contain costs ....

    We will return to the states their historic role of regulating local insurance markets, limit federal requirements on both private insurance and Medicaid, and call on state officials to reconsider the costly medical mandates, imposed under their own laws, that price millions of low-income families out of the insurance market. To guarantee first-rate care for the needy, we propose to block grant Medicaid and other payments and to assist all patients, including those with pre-existing conditions, to obtain coverage in a robust consumer market.

    To ensure vigorous competition in healthcare, and because cost-awareness is the best guard against over-utilization, we will promote price transparency so consumers can know the cost of treatments before they agree to them. We will empower individuals and small businesses to form purchasing pools in order to expand coverage to the uninsured. We believe that individuals with preexisting conditions who maintain continuous coverage should be protected from discrimination.
     
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    It was intended to moderate legislation but now it's become a reflection of how polarized and partisan our politics have become. It's only a matter of time until someone gets rid of it altogether.
     
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    It's such a shame, too. The American people know Congress is run by idiots. They have a 10% approval rating, more or less. These same people, though, send these jerks back to congress at a rate of 90%+. Can you imagine not having to worry about your job, even though your boss continues, year after year, to rate your performance at 10%? We have the leadership we deserve, simply because the leadership of this country has sold their loyalists on the idea that the other team is "evil." We have one party, who agrees on everything except for a few small wedge issues; jingly keys to keep us distracted from their corrupt behavior.
     
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    Actually he was involved with a citizen of England, the professor. And in post 1608, you admitted it was for lying.

    FACT: it was not over the discussion with the professor nor the girl who asserted she is Putin's kin, but for lying about dates. To the FBI he told them one date that was later than the true date. 14 days over lying about dates. That is the crime. Papadopoulos never talked to russian officials. Trump was not interested in what he had done.

    And that is my claim and it's true.
     
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    The difference between British Intelligence and Russian Intelligence is rather like the difference between Jame Bond and a Russian mole.
     
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    That's your opinion, not a fact. Do you believe the op-ed is factual?
     
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    Congress is not red or blue. It is all about the green.

    “The system is functioning precisely how they want it to function. Gridlock, complex laws, highly technical bills, and regulations that target specific groups have a commercial purpose for the Permanent Political Class.” EXTORTION, "How Politicians Extract Your money, Buy Votes, And Line Their Own Pockets, Peter Schweizer, HMO, NY, NY, 2013, p. 8.
     
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    Yes, The Deep State is a very crooked state.

    "When the FBI could not find significant "subversive" influence, the bureau abandoned all pretense that its intelligence was directed only at organizations under the control or influence of a foreign power or dedicated to "violence." The Socialist Workers party (SWP) was placed under heavy surveillance even through the bureau conceded it was "home grown tomatoes" and in active opposition to the Communist party. The bureau took aim at the SWP because it espoused the "revolutionary principles of Marx, Lenin, and Engles (sic) as interpreted by Leon Trotsky" by "running candidates for public office." The surveillance of Martin Luther King, Jr., as we have seen, was ostensibly to prevent "the rise of a 'messiah' who could unify and electrify the . . . black . . . movement," although King's criticism of the bureau may well have been the real reason."
    The Lawless State, The crimes of the U.S. Inteligence Agencies, by Morton Halperin, Jerry Berman, Robert Borosage, Christine Marwick, Penguin Books, 1976.
    http://thirdworldtraveler.com/NSA/Lawless_State.html
     
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    Correct. Just like yours. I do believe it is the opinion of a high level government official inside the WH. What do you believe it is?
     
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    He is not a lib. Liberals are so liberal they do not engage in the style he uses. A liberal is open minded.
    You are correct that Papadopoulos was sort of low level. As to Trump he was low level. He reported up a chain of command is what I mean. His role was to attempt to establish contact with russians who later could work with the Trump team. There is nothing illegal about establishing contacts nor was he charged for that.

    The "liberal" does not appear to have studied the actual charges nor understand the actual crime. It was a matter of dates. Even I thought it was an accident but I saw him confess on TV he had deliberately lied to the FBI as to actual dates of contact.
     
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