Flynn in major trouble for speaking to Russia about sanctions

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Originally Posted by Trill Clinton

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Of course :lol When in doubt, just start screeching ":cry but Obama did it too!" or ":cry but Hillary did it too!"

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Originally Posted by TSA

Just in the last week WaPo printed that Comey asked for more funds for Russia and the deputy attorney general threatened to resign over Comey firing. They push bullshit story after bullshit story. hater isn't correct about much but he's right about WaPo being a CIA mouthpiece.

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what about it?

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Originally Posted by TSA

Or nothing disastrous happened like the WaPo is trying to paint.

You're putting a lot of faith in the WaPo after they've already been caught pushing outrageous Russia stories they later revised or retracted. I'll take McMaster at his word until more details come out.

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You're putting a lot of faith in a white house that said they fired Comey for being unfair to Clinton one day and then Russia the next.

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Originally Posted by baseline bum

Can you tell us what Spicer said too? What about KellyAnne?

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:tu We'll know the truth when they chime in, along with Bannon & Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

:lol...we have elected Biff from Back to the Future

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Originally Posted by spurraider21

what about it?

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it didn't happen

This was a pretty genius fake news story by the WaPo.

Anonymous report with no way to find out if it's credibly true.

Apparently WH staffers were heard having yelling matches after the story broke.

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Originally Posted by djohn2oo8

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:lol

I was in the room, it didn't happen *drops mic*

:lol WaPo and you suckers

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Originally Posted by TSA

I was in the room, it didn't happen *drops mic*

:lol WaPo and you suckers

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No where in that statement did he deny that Donald revealed classified info to the Russians. That was a very carefully worded statement.

I hope TSA is getting paid by the Russians for all his shitposting

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Originally Posted by Th'Pusher

No where in that statement did he deny that Donald revealed classified info to the Russians. That was a very carefully worded statement.

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"The story that came out tonight as reported is false"

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Originally Posted by baseline bum

I hope TSA is getting paid by the Russians for all his shitposting

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At what point do you start to realize you're being played by the media who's being fed stories from pissed off intelligence agents/gov lifers that are still trying to cling to the power they've been so used to?

3 fake news stories from WaPo in a week and you don't bat an eye.

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Originally Posted by TSA

"The story that came out tonight as reported is false"

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Did he deny that Donald revealed classified information to the Russians, yes or no?

:lol

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Originally Posted by TSA

At what point do you start to realize you're being played by the media who's being fed stories from pissed off intelligence agents/gov lifers that are still trying to cling to the power they've been so used to?

3 fake news stories from WaPo in a week and you don't bat an eye.

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LOL calling every bad story about Dear Leader fake news

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Originally Posted by TSA

At what point do you start to realize you're being played by the media who's being fed stories from pissed off intelligence agents/gov lifers that are still trying to cling to the power they've been so used to?

3 fake news stories from WaPo in a week and you don't bat an eye.

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Thanks for the heads up on the avocados. I'll definitely grab some up if HEB has them this week.

The McMaster Statement

McMaster’s specific denials remain what I noted about his statement given originally to the Post.

They deny things the Post story does not allege.

As I read it, the Post says

Trump revealed classified information from which sources and methods information can be inferred,

not that he discussed them directly. It’s quite possible Trump may not even know that level of detail.

That part is a classic non-denial denial.

But McMaster adds at the top: “The story that came out tonight as reported is false.”

The “as reported” is a hedge. But more fundamentally saying “the story” is false can mean anything. He doubles down later.

“I was in the room. It didn’t happen.” But again, what didn’t happen?

The only reason I can think of to be totalizing in general and lawyerly and non-denailing in the specifics is

that you’re trying to deny something that actually did happen.

Even though I think these statements are far more general than they may seem, it’s just as true that

McMaster is putting his credibility on the line for Trump.

If the circumstances were different, this might give me some pause about the story. But the

Post and the Times just have infinitely more credibility than the Trump White House at this point.

What’s more, there are details about

giving ‘heads up’ calls to the NSA and CIA.

Assuming those calls were made, that

certainly strongly suggests something serious went wrong.

As I noted earlier after Deputy National Security Advisor Powell made her statement,

if McMaster felt he was able to deny the story, he would have done so in his original statement to the Post. But he didn’t.

He has sort of done so now, but with his specific declarations still denying things which were never alleged.

The most reasonable take on this is that McMaster’s statement can’t really deny the details of the story. But the story is of sufficient gravity that he has felt the need to deceive the public, putting his own credibility on the line and destroying it in one moment.

If the story falls apart, perhaps he’ll be vindicated. But

it looks like he just sacrificed his credibility on the altar of Trump.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/...ster-statement

:lol

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it didn't happen

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how do you know?

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Originally Posted by spurraider21

how do you know?

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DOJ flatly denied it and not a single person from congress said it happened.

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Originally Posted by TSA

DOJ flatly denied it and not a single person from congress said it happened.

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the DOJ denial was in the post's original story that you're laughing at. the post story also says the NYT first reported this, not the post

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Originally Posted by baseline bum

LOL calling every bad story about Dear Leader fake news

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There's plenty of bad stories about Trump that are true. This isn't one of them.

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Originally Posted by spurraider21

the DOJ denial was in the post's original story that you're laughing at. the post story also says the NYT first reported this, not the post

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I confused the origins of the fake news story, my bad.