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And this woman resigned in 2015. How does she know about this? Supposedly, she was advisor to Hillary campaign. Hmmm.
He's a pro russia shill. Shocking that he's semen shielding for all things Russia.
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BTW how is this revelant in a possitive way now? If anything it proves him wrong as the Trump campaign had all kinds of Russian links.
And this woman resigned in 2015. How does she know about this? Supposedly, she was advisor to Hillary campaign. Hmmm.
Hmmm...tastes like bull .
In how many ways, shapes and forms do you trumpies need to read and hear intelligence agency bodies debunk this re ed claim?
And Louise Mensch is bat crazy, so I wouldn't use her as a source, if I were you (ahem John)
nice article that points out the elephant in the room: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/...-gate_20170329
The only people using her as a source are Eric Garland, John Schindler, and Kyle Griffin. One of them will make something up and the other three will retweet to the others, and then their followers do the same. Their twitter feeds are hilarious.
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The 45-year-old Mensch, a resident of Manhattan’s Upper West Side with her three children and rock band-manager husband, is a former record-company publicist and chick-lit novelist who is better known for spinning outlandish conspiracy theories than for her investigative-reporting chops.
Mensch, meanwhile, is definitely doing it herself, at a rate of dozens of tweets per day. In her lively, f-bomb-laced feed to her 178,000 followers—much of it attacks on Russia and Russians—she has variously asserted that Vladimir Putin had Breitbart News founder Andrew Breitbart “murdered,” apparently to create a leadership opening for the allegedly Putin-loving Stephen K. Bannon; that former Breitbart executive chairman Bannon, now the president’s chief strategist, is responsible for the bomb threats phoned in to Jewish community centers (“Bannon team are doing this obviously”); and that then-President Obama should have responded to Russian meddling in U.S. democracy last fall with “precision bombing raids. Bank hacks. Massive cyber war. Russia is a paper bear cub let @Potus show Putin what alpha means.”
Perhaps Mensch’s most elaborate conspiracy theory, fleshed out last month on her “Patribotics” blog, argues that serial sexter Anthony Weiner was cat-fished by “a hardened group of adult hackers” in North Carolina posing as a 15-year-old girl, prompting the criminal investigation that ultimately led FBI Director James Comey to inform congressional Republicans that a cache of Hillary Clinton’s emails had been discovered on Weiner’s laptop. The emails were planted there, Mensch surmised, by a Russian hacker who “alerted Russia’s moles and agents of influence in the FBI field office in New York, who subsequently ‘leaked’ to all and sundry that the emails had been found, and… pressured James Comey into sending the letter [to Congress]…”
And so on and so forth—all personally directed by Putin.
“Louise has become Carrie Mathison on a bad acid trip,” said Republican political consultant Evan Siegfried, referring to the emotionally fraught CIA operative on Showtime’s Homeland series. “Anybody who does not agree with her 100 percent is somehow working against her and in league with Russian interests.”
Siegfried had been friendly with Mensch, whom he occasionally ran into in television green rooms, but recently backed away after hostile Twitter encounters.
“In general, she’s being viewed in many circles as unbelievably toxic—not only to the people she’s trying to connect with, but to the ideas she’s promoting.”
Russia expert Tom Nichols, a professor of national security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College, publicly scolded Mensch last month for her claim that Putin had Andrew Breitbart whacked.
“This is crazy talk,” Nichols tweeted. “And undermines the important point that Russia has done real things for which it must be held accountable.”
Former Navy counterterrorism and intelligence officer Malcolm Nance, an on-air analyst for MSNBC and author of The Plot to Hack America: How Putin’s Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election, is even blunter.
“She’s bat crazy, OK?” Nance told The Daily Beast. “She is a fruit loop of the highest order.”
Mensch fired back: “I am unfazed by little people snapping at my heels.”
She said Siegfried is too marginal a figure to merit a response, while Nance, she claimed, didn’t even write his latest book. “I like Malcolm Nance’s book, but entire parts of it in reference to hacking—almost all of the book—were not written by him,” Mensch insisted, adding that one of Nance’s collaborators had done the heavy lifting. “He doesn’t know anything about hacking.”
Nance, the author of six books and a cryptologist by training, responded: “Do I have researchers? Yes, I do. Did [cyber researcher] Chris Sampson help me on my book? Yes, he did. But, you know, I actually have to write this stuff, and it actually has to be competent.”
Sampson told The Daily Beast that in a recent exchange of Twitter direct messages, Mensch suggested that he, Sampson, was the real author. “I said, ‘I didn’t write the book.’ …because it’s all Malcolm’s book,” Sampson said. “I would love to take credit for writing an amazing book that I haven’t finished reading myself.”
As for Nichols’s rebuke concerning Mensch’s claim about Putin and Breitbart, she argued that assertions made on Twitter needn’t be established facts.
“I said ‘I believe that’ and it was as a tweet. It wasn’t done as a reporter,” she said. “It’s not a piece of reporting, and I haven’t done any research into it.
Yet she, too, has resorted to ad hominem attacks on people with whom she disagrees, notably accusing Naval Reserve intelligence officer and former FBI double agent Naveed Jamali of disseminating “what can only be described as pro-Kremlin propaganda,” she said. Mensch added that she was especially incensed by Jamali’s suggestion on Twitter that the Russians didn’t recruit top-secret leaker Edward Snowden and initially weren’t even sure that he was was on the level.
Mensch’s ally in verbal fisticuffs, defrocked Naval War College professor John Schindler, tweeted about their Twitter fight: “After his epic, Kremlin-sucking exchange w/@Louisemensch, there are only 2 choices left about Jamali: he” a complete fool or Kremlin tool.”
Schindler didn’t respond to an email seeking comment.
Jamali chronicled his experience of volunteering as a double agent, pretending to Russian intelligence operatives that he was an asset but instead hampering their mission by taking their money for disinformation, in his 2015 memoir, How to Catch a Russian Spy.
“I don’t know what has happened there—something negative, the way he keeps promoting the pro-Russian point of view,” Mensch said about Jamali, whose performance as a talking head she was publicly praising as recently as Feb. 9, when she tweeted: “Thanks Naveed…hope we do a show together one time! Love watching you.”
“As someone who has who has spent the last 12 years in service of his country,” Jamali messaged The Daily Beast, “I was deeply offended that Louise would question my loyalty to this country.”
Mensch, meanwhile, observed that Jamali and Schindler are frequent antagonists. “Ex-national security people can sometimes get into these little fights.”
Mensch’s Nov. 7 Heat Street report, vaguely attributed to “two separate sources with links to the counter-intelligence community,” claimed that the FBI was granted a secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant to examine emails and other communications between Trump, at least three of his associates, and two financial ins utions with Russian connections, SVB Bank and the Alfa Bank.
Mensch’s reporting was the centerpiece of a Breitbart News essay published last Friday and inspired by right-wing radio jock Mark Levin’s rant the night before concerning the Washington establishment’s “police state” tactics and “silent coup” against the 45th president.
The Breitbart piece was widely circulated in the West Wing and drove Trump into a white-hot rage, prompting his infamous pre-dawn Saturday Twitter tantrum that drew heavily on Mensch’s article (without mentioning her name) and alleged that Obama had “wire-tapped” him “in Trump Tower before the victory.” Trump added that his predecessor is a “Bad (or sick) guy.” (Mensch’s story didn’t claim the FISA court had authorized “wiretaps”; that assertion erroneously appeared, however, in Breitbart’s summary of her piece.)
Mensch—who quietly relinquished the top editorship of Heat Street in December to pursue unspecified digital projects at the site’s parent company, News Corp.—has been celebrating her newfound relevance with an appearance on Fox News and stories acknowledging her pivotal role in The Washington Post, Yahoo News, Britain’s Telegraph and, last month before the president’s meltdown, in the Guardian, among other outlets.
But the problem, say intelligence community experts and journalists covering the ongoing Russian hacking and Russian/Trump saga, is that Mensch’s scoop may not be demonstrably accurate.
“Really, I’m just puzzled that even weeks after the fact, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal, who have people on the beat, have not been able” to corroborate the existence of a FISA warrant as described by Mensch, said a Washington-based journalist who has been writing about Trump’s Russia connections and spoke on condition of not being named. “Why haven’t the major U.S. media outlets”—which collectively have dozens of presumably well-sourced reporters on the case—“been able to confirm this?”
A second prominent journalist who has been investigating the Trump/Russia connection also expressed skepticism about the validity of Mensch’s revelation.
“It’s exceedingly murky and there are ample grounds to be cautious about all of this,” said this journalist. “My sense is that there is a lot of smoke and probably something there, but it’s not exactly what we think it is, and there’s a lot of overwrought, overheated reporting going on that exceeds the known facts.”
Times legal and national security correspondent Charlie Savage noted this week that Heat Street “does not regularly publish investigative stories about American intelligence or law enforcement operations. To date, reporters for The New York Times with demonstrated sources in that world have been unable to corroborate that the court issued any such order.”
And The Washington Post’s resident fact-checker, Glenn Kessler, pronounced stories about the alleged survelliance “sketchy” and awarded Trump the dreaded “four Pinocchios” for maximum mendacity.
Mensch, however, points to the Guardian and the BBC as having independently confirmed her account of the FISA warrant.
Indeed, the BBC’s Paul Wood wrote: “On 15 October, the US secret intelligence court issued a warrant to investigate two Russian banks. This news was given to me by several sources and corroborated by someone I will identify only as a senior member of the US intelligence community. He would never volunteer anything… but he would confirm or deny what I had heard from other sources.”
Mensch also said a statement at Tuesday’s regular briefing by White House press secretary Sean er, in which er didn’t deny that the president has received hard information confirming such a warrant, also bolsters her case.
Naturally enough, Mensch declined to answer questions about her sourcing and, ever the conspiracy theorist, accused this reporter of participating in what she called “a mainstream media disinformation campaign” against her.
“There is a coordinated effort under way to somehow link the FISA warrant back to the CIA,” she said, explaining that another reporter she spoke with seemed to be trying to delegitimize her scoop by connecting it to former CIA agent Evan McMullin, whom Mensch supported for president.
“You’ve asked me an awful lot of questions, and I’ve got a good idea who’s behind this disinformation,” Mensch said mysteriously. “I find it fascinating.”
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A U.S. Naval War College professor has resigned following an investigation into a complaint that he took a racy photo that wound up online.
John Schindler voluntarily resigned his post as a professor of national security affairs, effective Aug. 29, a college spokeswoman said Monday. The former National Security Agency intelligence analyst has been on administrative leave since late June.
A May text message conversation with a photo of a penis and Schindler's name atop it was circulated in June on Twitter. It was unclear who sent it and who posted it.
A blogger sent a complaint to college administrators in Newport, and the college's president ordered an investigation.
Schindler has been critical of National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden and others and frequently engaged in heated exchanges with critics on Twitter. He did not immediately return telephone and email messages from The Associated Press on Monday. He previously refused to discuss the photo, citing legal reasons.
College spokeswoman Cmdr. Kelly Brannon declined to say what the investigators concluded. She said Schindler was told of the findings in late July and of possible outcomes. He had seven days to respond before an official decision was made, and he voluntarily submitted his resignation, she said.
Schindler had taught at the college since 2005. He posted a statement on his website in June addressing the controversy and apologizing for actions that he said "showed poor judgment and were inexcusable." He emphasized that he did not break the law, and said he also recognized he had been "rude and dismissive of other people's views" on Twitter.
Schindler took a brief break from social media but now posts again regularly. Lately he has been vocal about the conflict in Ukraine.
The war college is a one-year, resident program that graduates about 600 students a year, according to its website.
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Ok folks, just keep your hands away from Eric’s mouth.
Full disclosure, we didn’t include ALL of Eric’s tweets in this bizarre rant/meltdown because well … there were SO MANY. That and he gets super shouty and a little shall we say, unhinged?
Seems he’s upset with Fox News and Murdoch although it’s sorta hard to tell because he just goes off.
Check it out:
http://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2017/03...e-eye-contact/
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I sat through that boring . Curious as to which part specifically made her bat crazy. I assume you refer to the breitbart thing. Admittedly, that's re ed, but she's not reporting that as fact, and if anything that's credit to a journalist for not reporting something based on a hunch or belief, but instead only reporting what is objectively verified. Unless of course the claim is that she's making up and inventing sources, but that's a different conversation
I also don't really follow or keep up with her reporting, and never heard of her until this thread, but I don't think that interview on its face showed how she is an unreliable journalist
But the problem, say intelligence community experts and journalists covering the ongoing Russian hacking and Russian/Trump saga, is that Mensch’s scoop may not be demonstrably accurate.
“Really, I’m just puzzled that even weeks after the fact, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal, who have people on the beat, have not been able” to corroborate the existence of a FISA warrant as described by Mensch, said a Washington-based journalist who has been writing about Trump’s Russia connections and spoke on condition of not being named. “Why haven’t the major U.S. media outlets”—which collectively have dozens of presumably well-sourced reporters on the case—“been able to confirm this?”
A second prominent journalist who has been investigating the Trump/Russia connection also expressed skepticism about the validity of Mensch’s revelation.
“It’s exceedingly murky and there are ample grounds to be cautious about all of this,” said this journalist. “My sense is that there is a lot of smoke and probably something there, but it’s not exactly what we think it is, and there’s a lot of overwrought, overheated reporting going on that exceeds the known facts.”
Times legal and national security correspondent Charlie Savage noted this week that Heat Street “does not regularly publish investigative stories about American intelligence or law enforcement operations. To date, reporters for The New York Times with demonstrated sources in that world have been unable to corroborate that the court issued any such order.”
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“In general, she’s being viewed in many circles as unbelievably toxic—not only to the people she’s trying to connect with, but to the ideas she’s promoting.”
Russia expert Tom Nichols, a professor of national security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College, publicly scolded Mensch last month for her claim that Putin had Andrew Breitbart whacked.
“This is crazy talk,” Nichols tweeted. “And undermines the important point that Russia has done real things for which it must be held accountable.”
Former Navy counterterrorism and intelligence officer Malcolm Nance, an on-air analyst for MSNBC and author of The Plot to Hack America: How Putin’s Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election, is even blunter.
“She’s bat crazy, OK?” Nance told The Daily Beast. “She is a fruit loop of the highest order.”
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Crossroads, crossroads, crossroads...
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Paul Ryan says he's seen the do ents that made Devin Nunes go wild—but he isn't sure Nunes has
What did Nunes have to say about what had put him in such a lather?
“He had told me that — like, a whistleblower-type person had given him some information that was new that spoke to the last administration and part of this investigation,” Ryan said.
“He briefs me about it, didn’t know the content of it, only knew the nature of it and that he was going to brief others.”
So, like, according to Ryan, when Nunes came to him after his visit to his unnamed “source” at the White House,
Nunes “didn’t know the content”—which would indicate that he hadn’t seen the actual do ents.
Which would be very much at odds with what Nunes himself has said. According to Ryan, Nunes knew only “the nature” of the information and that it was “part of this investigation,” but Nunes has said that he read the do ents,
“Did you ask to see the do ents yourself?” O’Donnell asked.
“He didn’t have the do ents, so I didn’t,” Ryan responded.
“But he hasn’t. I mean, he hasn’t even informed the Republican committee,” O’Donnell said.
“Yeah, I have seen the actual do ents. I don’t know that he’s been in possession of them yet.”
At this point, Ryan is saying that he has seen the do ents, but isn’t sure that Nunes has seen them. And that’s far from the limit of the craziness.
But … Ryan has seen the do ents?
Ryan also says it wasn’t his idea for Nunes to inform Trump.
“If we don’t know if President Trump is under investigation, why would it then be appropriate for a member of an oversight committee to then go brief the president?” O’Donnell asked.
“Yeah, but I don’t believe that he is. So I don’t think that he is under investigation,” Ryan said. “No one has suggested that he is, and not even in a vague way. I don’t believe that he is.”
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/0...28Daily+Kos%29
"She's being viewed as toxic in many circles."
Cites a tweet and someone from the daily beast.
I'M CONVINCED, she's bat crazy.
Yeah, a lack of corroboration is always problematic, but I don't think anybody suggests that she's the ultimate source of truth.
I haven't followed her long enough to really speak to her general credibility. Just sayin that video from darrin does little to demonstrate unreliability
Former Navy counterterrorism and intelligence officer Malcolm Nance, an on-air analyst for MSNBC
“She’s bat crazy, OK?”
“She is a fruit loop of the highest order.”
So TSA why did Nunes get his intel from the WH?
djohn2oo8 is there a reason you post 10 tweets with the same NYT article?
because you had yet to respond. What's the reason Nunes got his sources from the WH?
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