Flynn in major trouble for speaking to Russia about sanctions

[boutons_deux]

“Unprecedented”: 9 historians on why Trump’s war with the FBI is so stunning


“I can’t think of a single time any president has done anything like this.”

I reached out to nine historians to ask if there is a precedent for something like this.

There’s nothing new about tension between the FBI and the president,

but it seems unusual for a president to so publicly challenge the independence of the bureau and the Justice Department.

Mainly, I was curious to know if we’ve entered uncharted territory — and will this undermine the independence of the FBI and the Justice Department?

Their full responses, lightly edited for clarity and style, are below.

https://www.vox.com/2018/2/1/1695642...ease-fbi-trump

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Ahhh....

I believe you said would start the Trump Russia collusion thread.
Im sure you remember. Go ahead, start it.

This is what you claimed would ultimately be proven. So do it.

The whole thread moderator routine your going with just makes you seem a giant bag. Boutox and TSA are the others that do that.

[pgardn]

The whole thread moderator routine your going with just makes you seem a giant bag. Boutox and TSA are the others that do that.

I appreciate your input on "douchness"
Just asking him to follow thru with his own claim to start a new thread basically as a moderator ain't gonna do , quite obviously and I have never even had contact with one....Not one message sent or received.

Thanks for your concern. If anything seems y, I know you are here to put it right.

[boutons_deux]

The Great Boutons doesnt moderate threads, and ignores the bulk of most threads (and posters) that have become moronic, childish pissing matches

[DMC]

It's cause calf tats are so gay, even women won't get tattoos there.

The only thing taht would've made your calf tats even gayer is if it was Mickey Mouse.

Then again, what were you going for with Spur tats? Hardcore cowboy persona? It failed.

You'd know where women won't get tattoos, seeing how you're transitioning.

[DMC]

Seems more rebellious these days to have zero tattoos.

I don’t hate tattoos so much, but what’s with those hockey pucks people are putting in their ear lobes? We’re going to see a generation of old people with gross ear lassos.

I think the origin of those has real meaning but the twerps who do it in this country are just jonsing for a job at Thundercloud Subs.

[djohn2oo8]

that pet eating shortround mother er.

Get a haircut Perry.

[Reck]

You'd know where women won't get tattoos, seeing how you're transitioning.

Get out of that basement and stop eating so many Big Macs and you might actually catch a glimpse of a woman in your pathetic lonely, fat lard ass life.

[djohn2oo8]

Get out of that basement and stop eating so many Big Macs and you might actually catch a glimpse of a woman in your pathetic lonely, fat lard ass life.

[DMC]

Get out of that basement and stop eating so many Big Macs and you might actually catch a glimpse of a woman in your pathetic lonely, fat lard ass life.

I've been going back and forth with a semi-woman today online tbh

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Only GOP House member to actually read the intelligence, pans the memo, backs Mueller

Trey Gowdy
✔@TGowdySC

Replying to @TGowdySC
While this memo raises serious concerns with the FISA process,

I have been and remain confident in the overwhelming majority of the men and women serving at the FBI and DOJ.

Trey Gowdy


✔@TGowdySC


As I have said repeatedly, I also remain 100 percent confident in Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

The contents of this memo do not - in any way - discredit his investigation.

12:34 PM - Feb 2, 2018




https://www.dailykos.com/stories/201...tail=emaildkre

[Pavlov]

What are the odds that the judge who recused himself from the Flynn case was also the judge who signed off on the FISA warrant?

http://www.fisc.uscourts.gov/current-membership

Turns out the odds are pretty bad.

JudgeS, TSA.

Judges.

[Pavlov]

IC not taking the weekend off.

"Over the past half year, I have had the privilege to serve as an informal advisor to the staff of the Kremlin in preparation for their Presidency of the G-20 Summit next month, where energy issues will be a prominent point on the agenda."

This memo stuff is working out great.

[boutons_deux]

I can't wait for Nunes' Phase Two

[boutons_deux]

Good news for Trash and Repugs (will probably see Sessions, Rosenstein, sooner or later, "resigning to pursue other interests, time with family"

Justice Department says Mueller probe lawful

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/02/justice-department-says-mueller-probe-lawful/

[boutons_deux]

Damn, DoJ going rogue

DOJ wants Manafort’s suit against Mueller dismissed


http://thehill.com/homenews/administ...ller-dismissed

[djohn2oo8]

Lot of time wasted typing that without a single indictment to show

[Chris]

[Chris]

[Pavlov]

Plenty of facts, actually -- and Carter Page isn't the President.

[Pavlov]

[boutons_deux]

Inside the FBI: Anger, worry, work — and fears of lasting damage

In the 109 years of the FBI’s existence, it has repeatedly come under fire for abuses of power, privacy or civil rights.

From Red Scares to recording and threatening to expose the private conduct of Martin Luther King Jr. to benefiting from bulk surveillance in the digital age, the FBI is accustomed to intense criticism.

What is so unusual about the current moment, say current and former law enforcement officials, is the source of the attacks.

The bureau is under fire ... from ... conservatives who have long been the agency’s biggest supporters, as well as the president who handpicked the FBI’s leader.
Republican critics charge that the birth of the investigation into possible coordination between the Trump campaign and agents of the Russian government was

fatally infected by the political bias of senior FBI officials — and

President Trump tweeted Saturday that the release of a memo on the issue “totally vindicates ‘Trump.’ ”

Bureau officials say the accusations in the do ent produced by House Republicans are inaccurate and — more damaging in the long term —

corrode the agency’s ability to remain independent and do its job.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...nl_most&wpmm=1

The last thing the All-Politics-All-The-Time fascist authoritarian Repugs want is an FBI that "remains independent", or for any laws, regulations, rules that apply to Repugs or the oligarchy to be enforced or even to exist.

The oligarchy's coup d'etat, just like Trash's Sat Night Massacre, is, has been, well under way and succeedingAmerica is ed and un able

[djohn2oo8]

lol

[Chris]

[Reck]

Donald Trump Junya is going to land himself in prison because of twitter.