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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jan 17, 2018 4:39:03 GMT
Another Bannon may be the explanation why he did not talk fully to the House Intelligence Committee/Nunes! Most likely, because the House Intelligence Committee has been so infected by partisan House Republicans, Trump will know what testimony Bannon offers to that committee, as one or more partisan Republicans on the committee will tip the president off. However, when Mueller and his team ultimately question Trump directly, the president will not know what evidence Bannon did or did not provide to the special counsel team. thehill.com/opinion/white-house/369110-trump-crushes-bannon-while-bannon-testifies-on-russia
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2018 5:49:58 GMT
The Hill...
“#BREAKING: Freedom Caucus chairman: GOP doesn't have the votes to avoid government shutdown.”
Somehow this will be the Democrats fault.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2018 6:10:02 GMT
Matt Rogers..
“Colin Kaepernick is 6'4 230
Trump is supposedly 6'3 235
Something isn't adding up.”
I agree with this guy. I know this Doctor is respected but think of Colin Kaepernick and trump.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2018 6:27:46 GMT
The Hill... “#BREAKING: Freedom Caucus chairman: GOP doesn't have the votes to avoid government shutdown.” Somehow this will be the Democrats fault. They can try, but even the most non-thinking Americans understand that the GOP runs the Executive and both sides of the Legislative. Good Luck, Fellas.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2018 7:21:00 GMT
Andy Slavitt...
BREAKING: Governor of KY Bevin says if courts say he can’t kick people off Medicaid for not working (95,000), he will end Medicaid expansion— health care for 400,000 people.
Well isn’t he a little sweetheart. Apparently there is a possibility the courts can stop this work to get coverage because of the original way Medicaid was set up.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2018 7:24:57 GMT
And then there is this.
“SCOOP: ICE is planning a massive Northern California immigration sweep to strike against sanctuary laws”
This is just petty.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2018 15:28:55 GMT
I hope you are all watching Jeff Flake right now!!!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2018 16:20:09 GMT
linkSomething to ponder.... NBC News “ EPA eases path for new chemicals, raising fears of health hazards”
From the article. WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency is shifting course under the Trump administration on how it assesses new chemicals for health and environmental hazards, streamlining a safety review process that industry leaders say is too slow and cumbersome. But some former EPA officials, as well as experts and advocates, say the agency is skipping vital steps that protect the public from hazardous chemicals that consumers have never used before, undermining new laws and regulations that Congress passed with overwhelming bipartisan support in 2016. According to these critics, that could mean that manufacturers might get approval to introduce a new chemical for one purpose, without getting a thorough, timely review of the chemical’s safety if it is later used for a different purpose. Asbestos, for example, was commonly used in building insulation before the EPA cracked down on its use, but the carcinogenic chemical is still found in brake pads for automobiles — posing hazards for garage mechanics — and is widely used to manufacture chlorine. In recent months, the EPA has quietly overhauled its process for determining whether new chemicals — used in everything from household cleaners and industrial manufacturing to children’s toys — pose a serious risk to human health or the environment. Among other changes, the agency will no longer require that manufacturers who want to produce new, potentially hazardous chemicals sign legal agreements that restrict their use under certain conditions.“ Elections do have consequences.
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Post by casii on Jan 17, 2018 16:23:27 GMT
I hope you are all watching Jeff Flake right now!!! What?! Was he talking about the press? Other stuff. Off to search.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2018 16:27:22 GMT
I hope you are all watching Jeff Flake right now!!! What?! Was he talking about the press? Other stuff. Off to search. Jeff Flake
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Post by imsirius on Jan 17, 2018 16:43:01 GMT
What?! Was he talking about the press? Other stuff. Off to search. Jeff FlakeAwesome to see him take a stand.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2018 16:59:32 GMT
link BuzzFeed released this story last night. I read it but don’t understand it all. But it seems to get some people excited. “Investigators Are Scrutinizing Newly Uncovered Payments By The Russian Embassy
US authorities are poring over hundreds of newly uncovered payments from Russian diplomatic accounts. Among them are transactions by former ambassador Sergey Kislyak 10 days after the 2016 presidential election and a blocked $150,000 cash withdrawal five days after the inauguration.” A Julie Zebrak did a thread that helps explain why some people are excited about the BuzzFeed story This big story by @jasonleopold and @a_courmier_ shows how #FinCEN uses it’s suspicious activity reports/SARs collected from financial institutions (like Citibank here) to track illicit financing and connect the dots for $ laundering. You can bet Mueller has it if he wants it. Please excuse spelling errors. A few words about SARS - #FinCEN requires banks, financial institutions, wire transfer companies, money services businesses, jewelers, etc. to file reports documenting suspicious banking activities that they witness online or in person./2 So for example, if you normally make deposits at one rate and pace, and all of a sudden your accounts starts receiving deposits once a month for $300,000 from a non-employer, your bank may file that as a SAR with FinCEN. Or if a guy walks into a bank with $19,000 in cash, and /3 Is acting all hyped up & checking over his shoulder & rushing the teller to make the deposit into an account which ordinarily doesn’t make it over $1000, his behavior + the cash (which also requires the bank to file a currency transaction report/CTR) may prompt a SAR by bank. /4 It’s not just your bank that files SARs though. As I mentioned, wire transfer companies like Western Union or jewelers who see odd sales of diamonds are also well-positioned to see suspicious financial activities and are regulated by #FinCEN & subject to the Bank Secrecy Act. /5 Oh yah - we should not forget casinos like the Trump Taj Mahal are required to file SARs for suspicious activities they witness in person or online. fincen.gov/news/news-rele…. When casinos, banks, etc. don’t have appropriate systems in place to track suspicious $ activity, /6 #FinCEN can civilly fine the money service business for failing to properly track money laundering and/or file SARS (which is what happened to Trump Taj Mahal). Why are SARS at all necessary for financial institutions, jewelers, casinos, to file? SARS provide the government w /7 With what is called Financial Intelligence (as opposed to human intelligence like spies can get). With the financial intelligence that comes in through SARS or through CTRs (mentioned above), FinCEN has an Intel Division to take all that data and analyze it to connect the dots /8 Connect the dots allows them to identify not only who (what Individual persons or companies) is doing weird $ activity but who that person is receiving the money from and who else is tied to those two people entities. And eventually to determine whether illicit financial /9 Activity can be traced to a particular source or group of sources. Such as ISIS for foreign fighters being paid to engage in terrorist activities; or Russia for ??; or a drug cartel or gang. With the financial intel, FinCEN can generate flash reports to then send out to /10 Law enforcement to be on the lookout (BOLO!); or they may be need to alert other financial institutions about suspicious actors to watch for; or they may alert other countries/allies to beware of suspicious banking or financial activities. With respect to this Buzzfeed piece /11 It is a major violation for whomever leaked this intel to @jasonleopold and @a_courmier_ BUT it is good scoop for sure. It shows us/reminds us that #FinCEN ALREADY is collecting info under its ordinary legal authority which may then be analyzed to link and reveal bad actors. /12 And we can all assume that the goods that #FinCEN collects and traces that relate to Manafort, Trump, Flynn, etc. will eventually be given to Mueller. Having worked @ FinCEN, my main concern is how fast can they turn the analsyes around to provide to law enforcement. The new /13 Director of FinCEN is Ken Blanco, a former colleague of mine from the Criminal Division/DOJ. His whole career has been in law enforcement as a prosecutor & helping lead the Criminal Division, including overseeing the office which goes after money laundering & kleptocracies. /14 Although I suspect Blanco is a Republican, he is a law enforcement guy through and through. In leading FinCEN, I am hopeful that Blanco will get his staff quickly turning over Financial intel to Mueller, FBI, and the Hill investigations. We are counting on you Ken! /End
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Jan 17, 2018 17:13:20 GMT
Matt Rogers.. “Colin Kaepernick is 6'4 230 Trump is supposedly 6'3 235 Something isn't adding up.” I agree with this guy. I know this Doctor is respected but think of Colin Kaepernick and trump. yeah, but Kaepernick kneels on the sidelines a lot, so they could look quite similar... lol! (I heard that one this morning on the Progressive Sirius radio channel.) I hope you are all watching Jeff Flake right now!!! I heard most of this speech live while I was on my way to work this morning- it was great!! if I wasn't already late for work, I would have sat in my car to listen to the rest of it.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jan 17, 2018 17:46:14 GMT
Mueller already has some of it......... Mueller looking into suspicious Russian transactions in US: report BY MAX GREENWOOD - 01/17/18 11:23 AM EST Special counsel Robert Mueller's team of investigators is looking into a number of transactions between the Russian government and entities in the U.S. flagged to the Treasury Department as suspicious. In January 2017, five days after Trump's inauguration, bankers flagged an attempt to withdraw $150,000 in cash from the Russian Embassy's account. The transaction was blocked, but it was marked as abnormal activity. The Treasury Department handed the suspicious activity reports to the FBI after it requested documents that might be related to its investigation into the 2016 election, according to BuzzFeed News. thehill.com/policy/national-security/369328-mueller-looking-into-suspicious-russian-transactions-in-us-report
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Post by pyccku on Jan 17, 2018 19:15:59 GMT
The only issue with Jeff Flake (and I haven't yet seen what he did this morning, so I'll have to look):
yes, he's taking a stand. BUT he was on Morning Joe this morning saying that Trump hasn't done anything impeachable and he would not vote for it. The question was 'what is your reaction to him breaking constitutional norms' and his view was that it wasn't impeachable for a president to do that.
If the Constitution isn't sacred and worth defending from all enemies, what is? Why do people stand up for the anthem, get angry when others don't stand up - or get angry when the flag is 'disrespected' - but then have no trouble with constitutional rights and norms being ignored or trampled?
If lying about a BJ under oath is impeachable, why wouldn't violating the constitution be?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2018 20:35:01 GMT
CNBC...
“Senate will take up an immigration bill when it figures out what Trump wants, Mitch McConnell says”
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2018 21:15:35 GMT
Seth Abramson...
“Attorney Bill Burck, in the course of representing one client (Bannon) was contacting another client (McGahn) to determine what the first client was allowed to say under oath. This is a conflict of interest. Burke must withdraw from 2 of his 3 cases (Priebus, Bannon and McGahn).”
Conflict of interest?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2018 22:05:46 GMT
Michael Beschloss... “Trump in new Reuters interview says that Presidents Clinton, Bush, Obama left him the problem of North Korea: “ I guess they all realized they were going to have to leave it to a president that scored the highest on tests.”
This proves once again just how insecure he is. Here is the entire comment ... “He blamed his three immediate predecessors, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama, for failing to resolve the crisis and, a day after his doctor gave him a perfect score on a cognitive test, suggested he had the mental acuity to solve it. “I guess they all realized they were going to have to leave it to a president that scored the highest on tests,” he said.” link
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jan 17, 2018 22:07:00 GMT
McGahn IS the White House Counsel! Involved with Flynn too and others,
You bet CONFLICT!
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jan 17, 2018 22:09:13 GMT
Michael Beschloss... “Trump in new Reuters interview says that Presidents Clinton, Bush, Obama left him the problem of North Korea: “ I guess they all realized they were going to have to leave it to a president that scored the highest on tests.”
This proves once again just how insecure he is. North Korea has been a 'problem' since the 50s!! (I don't remember which year and I'm not looking it up right now)
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2018 22:39:40 GMT
Newsweek...
“Trump told Stormy Daniels she was "just like his daughter," porn star claims about alleged affair bit.ly/2DipBwF”
Creepy...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2018 22:51:55 GMT
linkBuzzFeed... “ Tillerson Calls For Indefinite US Military Presence In Syria To Remove Assad” From the article.. In a speech at Stanford University, the secretary of state spelled out a US plan to advance a political transition in Syria to oust Bashar al-Assad. And how well did our regime changes work in Iraq, Afghanistan, & Libya?
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Post by hop2 on Jan 18, 2018 0:31:56 GMT
Seth Abramson... “Attorney Bill Burck, in the course of representing one client (Bannon) was contacting another client (McGahn) to determine what the first client was allowed to say under oath. This is a conflict of interest. Burke must withdraw from 2 of his 3 cases (Priebus, Bannon and McGahn).” Conflict of interest? I’m sorry, you must not have received the memo. ‘Conflict of interest’ is no longer a thing. Believe me. It’s one of those obsolete phrases like ‘ science based’, ‘evidence based’ and ‘global warming’. These phrases should be phased out of use because they are obsolete and are no longer necessary. 😜
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2018 0:50:15 GMT
Whataboutism. Suddenly not a problem for you when it backs up *your* opinion.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2018 0:59:32 GMT
I'm shocked. SHOCKED, I say!!
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Jan 18, 2018 1:18:04 GMT
Whataboutism. Suddenly not a problem for you when it backs up *your* opinion. Your comment is totally irrelevant to what you quoted if imsirius. But go on with your bad self trying to deflect the shit that Trump does that is indefensible.
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Post by ScrapsontheRocks on Jan 18, 2018 1:27:27 GMT
Michael Beschloss... “Trump in new Reuters interview says that Presidents Clinton, Bush, Obama left him the problem of North Korea: “ I guess they all realized they were going to have to leave it to a president that scored the highest on tests.”
This proves once again just how insecure he is. Here is the entire comment ... “He blamed his three immediate predecessors, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama, for failing to resolve the crisis and, a day after his doctor gave him a perfect score on a cognitive test, suggested he had the mental acuity to solve it. “I guess they all realized they were going to have to leave it to a president that scored the highest on tests,” he said.” linkDid he score highly in tests which determine who is psychic? For this to make any even Trumpian sense, the aforesaid 3 predecessors would have had to out score him in psychic ability, group psychic ability at that.
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Post by pjaye on Jan 18, 2018 1:40:19 GMT
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imsirius
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Post by imsirius on Jan 18, 2018 2:13:35 GMT
Whataboutism. Suddenly not a problem for you when it backs up *your* opinion. Your comment is totally irrelevant to what you quoted if imsirius . But go on with your bad self trying to deflect the shit that Trump does that is indefensible. That's not MY quote.
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Post by Merge on Jan 18, 2018 2:36:37 GMT
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