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#8,153
CABVOL said:
Had she been aware the DNC was actively working against Bernie Sanders or had she been aware that a CNN contributor would assist her campaign by feeding her debate questions, would she have responded differently?
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Back to the original sin on her part, the personal server. What is the only reason you use a personal server for government business (a business where all documents are open to investigation)? TO AVOID DETECTION is the only answer.
 
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Did the FBI retaliate against Michael Flynn by launching Russia probe?

"The FBI launched a criminal probe against former Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn two years after the retired Army general roiled the bureau’s leadership by intervening on behalf of a decorated counterterrorism agent who accused now-Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe and other top officials of sexual discrimination, according to documents and interviews.

Flynn’s intervention on behalf of Supervisory Special Agent Robyn Gritz was highly unusual, and included a letter in 2014 on his official Pentagon stationary, a public interview in 2015 supporting Gritz’s case and an offer to testify on her behalf. His offer put him as a hostile witness in a case against McCabe, who was soaring through the bureau’s leadership ranks....

....McCabe eventually became the bureau’s No. 2 executive and emerged as a central player in the FBI’s Russia election tampering investigation, putting him in a position to impact the criminal inquiry against Flynn.

Three FBI employees told Circa they personally witnessed McCabe make disparaging remarks about Flynn before and during the time the retired Army general emerged as a figure in the Russia case.

.....FBI agents’ concerns became more pronounced when a highly-classified piece of evidence -- an intercepted conversation between Flynn and Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak -- suddenly leaked to the news media and prompted Flynn’s resignation as Trump’s top security adviser.

“The Flynn leaks were nothing short of political,” one FBI employee said, noting the specific contents of the conversation were known by only a handful of government officials when they leaked. “The leaks appeared to be targeted to take Flynn out.”

Eventually the probe on Flynn moved beyond Russia to questions about whether he properly disclosed foreign payments affecting his security clearance."


Well, well isn't that something
 
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Velo Vol said:
No, most politicians keep most of their commentary to policy and don't crow about how they are the greatest ever while continuing to say ridiculous things to the contrary. (e.g., "most people don't know Lincoln was a Republican" [said at a GOP event!).
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yeah, no they don't. that would require having a policy and doing work.
 
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#8,160
Honestly if all these journalists had applied themselves in college like they're doing now they could have been engineers or doctors. The amount of time and energy spent on this snipe hunt could have been better used figuring out the flying car or time travel.
 
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When "news" organizations are purposefully and knowingly pushing fake stories, at what point do they lose their credentials? What has happened to this country?
 
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davethevol said:
When "news" organizations are purposefully and knowingly pushing fake stories, at what point do they lose their credentials? What has happened to this country?
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We allowed all of the newspapers and TV/cable outlets to be bought up by conglomerates. They no longer need to compete to survive and if fact collude with each other. These monopolies spelled the end of the free press as we used to know it.
 
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IPleadInsanity said:
We allowed all of the newspapers and TV/cable outlets to be bought up by conglomerates. They no longer need to compete to survive and if fact collude with each other. These monopolies spelled the end of the free press as we used to know it.
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We didn't, the government allowed monopolies with the Telecommunications Act of '96. I wasn't old enough then to pay close (or any) attention to politics, but this act alone has had me wondering for years why D's love Bill Clinton and R's hate him. The TCA essentially is supposed to be a free market approach to telecommunications, but in reality, it just opened up the market to monopolies. I'm all for a smaller government, but I also recognize that greed always wins, and I think there should be regulations in place, personally. I still don't understand, 21 years later how this act hasn't greatly conflicted with the Sherman Antitrust Act to a point where some kind of overhaul has been done.
 
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PeterNincompoop said:
We didn't, the government allowed monopolies with the Telecommunications Act of '96. I wasn't old enough then to pay close (or any) attention to politics, but this act alone has had me wondering for years why D's love Bill Clinton and R's hate him. The TCA essentially is supposed to be a free market approach to telecommunications, but in reality, it just opened up the market to monopolies. I'm all for a smaller government, but I also recognize that greed always wins, and I think there should be regulations in place, personally. I still don't understand, 21 years later how this act hasn't greatly conflicted with the Sherman Antitrust Act to a point where some kind of overhaul has been done.
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It's been raised a couple times but it just gets buried. The Congressmen always hide behind saying they shouldn't get involved or interfere with businesses.
 
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theFallGuy said:
Did the FBI retaliate against Michael Flynn by launching Russia probe?

"The FBI launched a criminal probe against former Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn two years after the retired Army general roiled the bureau’s leadership by intervening on behalf of a decorated counterterrorism agent who accused now-Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe and other top officials of sexual discrimination, according to documents and interviews.

Flynn’s intervention on behalf of Supervisory Special Agent Robyn Gritz was highly unusual, and included a letter in 2014 on his official Pentagon stationary, a public interview in 2015 supporting Gritz’s case and an offer to testify on her behalf. His offer put him as a hostile witness in a case against McCabe, who was soaring through the bureau’s leadership ranks....

....McCabe eventually became the bureau’s No. 2 executive and emerged as a central player in the FBI’s Russia election tampering investigation, putting him in a position to impact the criminal inquiry against Flynn.

Three FBI employees told Circa they personally witnessed McCabe make disparaging remarks about Flynn before and during the time the retired Army general emerged as a figure in the Russia case.

.....FBI agents’ concerns became more pronounced when a highly-classified piece of evidence -- an intercepted conversation between Flynn and Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak -- suddenly leaked to the news media and prompted Flynn’s resignation as Trump’s top security adviser.

“The Flynn leaks were nothing short of political,” one FBI employee said, noting the specific contents of the conversation were known by only a handful of government officials when they leaked. “The leaks appeared to be targeted to take Flynn out.”

Eventually the probe on Flynn moved beyond Russia to questions about whether he properly disclosed foreign payments affecting his security clearance."


Well, well isn't that something
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Seems kind of like a big deal...
 
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Velo Vol said:
The more he projects upon Obama and rants about "FAKE NEWS," the guiltier I know he is.
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BigOrangeTrain said:
Obama projected on Bush for 8 years. So what was he guilty of?
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Pundits perhaps, internet trolls certainly - but I can't recall when Obama openly blamed Bush. Let alone for eight years.

President Tweet on the other hand, openly blames everyone for his failures.
 
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Of course it was gender and race bias...

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...gender-bias-linked-to-unmasking-backlash.html

Susan Rice, the Obama national security adviser under fire over her alleged involvement in the “unmasking” of Trump associates during the 2016 presidential election, suggested in a fresh interview that race and gender might be playing a role in the scrutiny she’s faced.

In an interview with journalist Michael Tomasky for New York Magazine, Rice reportedly questioned the criticism she’s faced dating back to the Benghazi controversy.

“Why me? Why not Jay Carney, for example, who was then our press secretary, who stood up more?” she asked.

Tomasky noted in the piece that Carney “isn’t an African-American woman, of course” and apparently asked Rice whether that is the key factor. Rice, in response, left the door open:

“I don’t know… I do not leap to the simple explanation that it’s only about race and gender. I’m trying to keep my theories to myself until I’m ready to come out with them. It’s not because I don’t have any.”
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Septic said:
Pundits perhaps, internet trolls certainly - but I can't recall when Obama openly blamed Bush. Let alone for eight years.

President Tweet on the other hand, openly blames everyone for his failures.
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Start here and work your way back to his first campaign
 

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