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    I thought the no prisoners are allowed to send or recieve emails was an issue. The fact he "found" a workaround could mean he did commit some type of violation. It is not clear how he found the workaround. Or maybe I missed it.

    At any rate, looks like Manafort is testing the limits and team Mueller is mad about it.
    just read the court filing that was attached to griffin's tweet. its not that long. they dont allege any violation on manafort's part. griffin is just going with innuendo

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    just read the court filing that was attached to griffin's tweet. its not that long. they dont allege any violation on manafort's part. griffin is just going with innuendo
    griffin is a wannabe ind journalist but he's just a sad sap of a man who's a hipster beta.

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    griffin is a wannabe ind journalist but he's just a sad sap of a man who's a hipster beta.
    he's not a journalist. he retweets articles.

    according to his profile he's a producer for msnbc. doesnt claim to be a journalist.

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    BREAKING: Twitter crackdown of fake accounts causes Obama to lose 4X the amount of followers of what President Trump lost.

    So remind me, who was Russia helping?

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    BREAKING: Twitter crackdown of fake accounts causes Obama to lose 4X the amount of followers of what President Trump lost.

    So remind me, who was Russia helping?
    the trump campaign

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    Merkel Asks Mueller If There’s Anything She Can Do to Help

    BRUSSELS —The German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, took a break from the nato summit in Brussels on Wednesday to ask the independent counsel, Robert Mueller, if there is anything she can do to help.

    According to those familiar with the phone conversation,

    Merkel told Mueller that

    she would take a leave of absence as leader of the German government and

    move to Washington to work full-time for Mueller “if that would be of assistance.”


    Touting her credentials, Merkel told Mueller that she was fluent in Russian

    and could be helpful in translating the thousands of Russian-language do ents that the special counsel has in his collection of evidence.


    “I will work for free and pay my for my own food,” Merkel said. “I just want to make this stop.”

    Mueller reportedly thanked Merkel for her offer but told her

    he had to wrap up their conversation because he had “Emmanuel Macron on the other line.”

    https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/merkel-asks-mueller-if-theres-anything-she-can-do-to-help



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    Last edited by Chucho; 07-11-2018 at 05:29 PM. Reason: Meh, fuck it.

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    Merkel Asks Mueller If There’s Anything She Can Do to Help

    BRUSSELS —The German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, took a break from the nato summit in Brussels on Wednesday to ask the independent counsel, Robert Mueller, if there is anything she can do to help.

    According to those familiar with the phone conversation,

    Merkel told Mueller that

    she would take a leave of absence as leader of the German government and

    move to Washington to work full-time for Mueller “if that would be of assistance.”


    Touting her credentials, Merkel told Mueller that she was fluent in Russian

    and could be helpful in translating the thousands of Russian-language do ents that the special counsel has in his collection of evidence.


    “I will work for free and pay my for my own food,” Merkel said. “I just want to make this stop.”

    Mueller reportedly thanked Merkel for her offer but told her

    he had to wrap up their conversation because he had “Emmanuel Macron on the other line.”

    https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/merkel-asks-mueller-if-theres-anything-she-can-do-to-help


    Why do you deliberately try to hide links? And nobody is stupid enough to believe this is real, except hater obviously.

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    Paul Ryan approved holding Page in contempt

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    Donald J. Trump
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    Lisa Page today defied a House of Representatives issued Subpoena to testify before Congress!

    Wow, but is anybody really surprised!

    Together with her lover, FBI Agent Peter Strzok,

    she worked on the Rigged Witch Hunt,

    perhaps the most tainted and corrupt case EVER!

    4:53 PM - Jul 11, 2018




    Trash is certifiably ing nuts




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    Ohr !

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    Paul Ryan approved holding Page in contempt
    You mean the outgoing speaker who no one respects anyways? That guy?

    His one contribution to this country is giving Nunes a platform to be wrong in.

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    You mean the outgoing speaker who no one respects anyways? That guy?

    His one contribution to this country is giving Nunes a platform to be wrong in.
    He's a RINO so naturally Lib s adopted him. His endorsement is pretty funny imo

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    He's a RINO so naturally Lib s adopted him. His endorsement is pretty funny imo
    In what way is he a RINO, Chris?

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    In what way is he a RINO, Chris?
    he doesn't give trump blow jobs

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    he doesn't give trump blow jobs
    wow

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    Manafort loses bid to stay in 'VIP' jail, could face evidence from 1980s

    U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort

    may face evidence at trial about alleged wrongdoing in the 1980s and

    lost a bid to stay at a jail where he said he was being treated like a “VIP,” court papers on Wednesday showed.


    The developments came as Manafort gets closer to two trials where he will defend himself against a number of charges ranging from bank fraud to failing to register as a foreign agent for lobbying work for pro-Russia politicians in Ukraine.

    Ellis denied Manafort’s request and ordered him moved to the Alexandria Detention Center,

    rejecting the notion that he would not be safe there.

    The Alexandria jail had experience with high-profile defendants “including foreign and domestic terrorists, spies and traitors,” Ellis wrote.

    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...litics+News%29

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    Paul Manafort may face evidence at trial about alleged wrongdoing in the 1980s

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    Twitter’s wiping tens of millions of accounts from its platform

    If you see a decline in your Twitter following over the next few days, you can blame, well, Twitter — and

    the fact that those accounts probably weren’t real in the first place.

    Starting this week, Twitter will begin removing tens of millions of su ious and fake accounts from its platform’s follower counts in an effort to clean up the site.

    Specifically, it will remove locked accounts — su ious accounts it puts a temporary lock on until owners validate them and change their passwords.

    According to
    the New York Times, this change will result in users collectively losing tens of millions of followers.

    It will reduce the total combined Twitter follower count by an estimated 6 percent,

    https://www.vox.com/2018/7/11/17561610/trump-fake-twitter-followers-bot-accounts

    Sounds pretty good, but will they be able to block new fake accounts?

    And Facebook? Instagram?




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    So you're more shocked over the word blowjobs than Trump's own words about Mexicans, african countries and so on? Darrin

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    Russian Influence Campaign Sought To Exploit Americans' Trust In Local News

    Russia's information attack against the United States during the 2016 election cycle sought to take advantage of the greater trust that Americans tend to place in local news.

    The information operatives who worked out of the Internet Research Agency in St. Petersburg did not stop at posing as American social media users or spreading false information from purported news sources, according to new details.


    They also created a number of Twitter accounts that posed as sources for Americans' hometown headlines.


    NPR has reviewed information connected with the investigation and found 48 such accounts.

    They have names such as @ElPasoTopNews, @MilwaukeeVoice, @CamdenCityNews and @Seattle_Post.


    The Russia Investigations: Mueller Indicts The 'Internet Research Agency'

    "A not-insignificant amount of those had some sort of variation on what

    appeared to be a homegrown local news site,"

    said Bret Schafer, a social media analyst for the Alliance for Securing Democracy, which tracks Russian influence operations and first noticed this trend.


    Another example:

    The Internet Research Agency created an

    account that looks like it is the Chicago Daily News. That newspaper shuttered in 1978.

    The Internet Research Agency-linked account was created in May 2014, and for years, it just posted local headlines, ac ulating some 19,000 followers by July 2016.


    Mueller Indictment Of Russian Operatives Details Playbook Of Information Warfare

    Another twist:

    These accounts apparently never spread misinformation.

    In fact, they posted real local news, serving as sleeper accounts building trust and readership for some future, unforeseen effort.


    "They set them up for a reason.

    And if at any given moment,

    they wanted to operationalize this network of what seemed to be local American news handles,

    they can significantly influence the narrative on a breaking news story,"

    Schafer told NPR.

    "But now instead of just showing up online and flooding it with news sites,

    they have these accounts with two years of credible history."

    Twitter caught these Internet Research Agency accounts in the act and suspended them.

    The Russia Investigations: What You Need To Know About Russian 'Active Measures'

    The discovery and suspension of the local accounts suggests two things as investigators continue to build their understanding about

    Russia's campaign of active measures against the United States and the West.

    First, that the Russian misinformation project was a years-long effort,


    one that wasn't simply focused on the 2016 election but on destabilizing the United States over an extended period of time.


    "The Russians are playing a long game. They've developed a presence on social media.

    They've created these fic ious persons and fic ious organizations that have built up over a period of time a certain trustworthiness among people that follow them,"

    said Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House intelligence committee.


    Second, the failed effort to create local news accounts also says something about how Americans trust local news sources more than national news

    and how the Russians evidently knew about that vulnerability.


    A
    Pew survey from 2016 found that

    82 percent of Americans have "some" or "a lot" of confidence in local news organizations.


    "If you're trying to pass along information that is not true but you want people to believe it,

    creating or inventing fake local news sources is an effective way of doing it

    because people will convey some trust to the locality even if the publication is one they've never seen before."

    said Tom Rosenstiel, the executive director of the American Press Ins ute.

    Russia's Election Meddling Part Of A Long History Of 'Active Measures'

    Though this particular effort to exploit local news failed, the Russian misinformation campaign continues now.

    "This effort is not over," said Sen. Susan Collins, a Republican on the Senate intelligence committee.

    "It continues to this very day, where the Russians are trying to sow the seeds of discontent in our society, take advantage of the polarization that exists."

    https://www.npr.org/2018/07/12/62808...cal-news?sc=tw

    And Sinclair with their Russian
    Boris ing Epshteyn operates 3 out of 4 TV stations in San Antonio

    =====================

    Putin’s Real Long Game

    The world order we know is already over, and Russia is moving fast to grab the advantage.

    Can Trump figure out the new war in time to win it?



    https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/01/putins-real-long-game-214589



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    Strzok got Gowdy'd

    Will post shortly

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    lol Gowdy's hanging his hat on personal text hyperbole.

    Nothingburger.

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