TalkingPointsMemo = fake news.
Former CIA operative calls for new round of votes after intelligence agencies conclude Russia interfered in the elections with the goal of seeing Donald Trump win
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4023284/Former-CIA-operative-calls-new-round-votes-intelligence-agencies-conclude-Russia-interfered-elections-goal-seeing-Donald-Trump-win.html
Trash wins, and sends Pootin's good BigOil buddy to Moscow as ambassador.
TRUMP TO SPLIT TIME BETWEEN TRUMP TOWER AND KREMLIN
NEW YORK — Donald Trump stirred controversy on Monday by revealing that
he intends to spend only half his time as President at the Kremlin—and the remainder at Trump Tower in Manhattan.
His decision to limit his time at the Kremlin reportedly stemmed from his wife Melania’s desire not to uproot the Trump family by relocating full-time to Moscow.
“It was part of the deal when he ran for President that he would go to the Kremlin and she would stay behind in New York,” a source close to the Trumps said.
Appearing on Russian television, Trump surrogate
Kellyanne Conway said that Trump’s decision to split his time between Moscow and New York would have “no impact whatsoever” on his ability to function as an integral part of the Kremlin team.
“Mr. Trump doesn’t need to be physically down the hall from President Putin,” she said. “When he’s at Trump Tower, they’re on the phone with each other all day. It’s all good.”
In a televised interview later in the day, however, the Russian President expressed displeasure at the amount of time that Trump plans to be away from the Kremlin. “This is not what Russian taxpayers paid for,” he said.
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-to-split-time-between-trump-tower-and-kremlin
He didn't say complaining in court. He already said criminal which means it's been decided. The criminal could be complaining to anyone.
Good. Every little bit helped.
& that Comey fellow? I thought he was working again us. I was wrong. He helped us. Bless his heart.
Electors demand intelligence report on Russian hacking before Electoral College vote
A group of bipartisan electors are calling on U.S. intelligence officials to release findings on Russia’s involvement in the U.S. election prior to the Electoral College vote that will make Donald Trump’s presidential election official.In an open letter to Director of National Intelligence James Clapper on Monday, a group of nine electors representing both parties vow to discharge their duties by the standard described in Alexander Hamilton’s The Federalist Paper No. 68.
“We intend to discharge our duties as Electors by ensuring that we select a candidate for president who, as our Founding Fathers envisioned, would be ‘endowed with the requisite qualifications,'” the letter states. “[T]he Cons ution envisions the Electoral College as a deliberative body that plays a critical role in our system of government — ensuring that the American people elect a president who is cons utionally qualified and fit to serve.”
The electors note that the intelligence community has concluded with “high confidence” that Russia acted to interfere in the U.S. election to the benefit of Trump.
“According to reports in the Washington Post, New York Times, and other outlets, the United States intelligence community has now concluded definitively that the Russian interference was performed to help Donald Trump get elected, yet even today Mr. Trump is refusing to accept that finding,” the letter states. “Separate from Mr. Trump’s own denials of Russian involvement in the election, the confirmed communication between Trump’s aides and those associated with the Russian election interference activity raise serious concerns that must be addressed before we cast our votes.”
Among the electors’ concerns are allegations that Russian government officials “maintained contact with the Trump campaign during the election,” reports of a propaganda operation to “sway American public opinion in favor of Ukraine’s pro-Putin government” and relationships between Trump associations and Russia President Vladimir Putin.
The letter continues:
The Electors require to know from the intelligence community whether there are ongoing investigations into ties between Donald Trump, his campaign or associates, and Russian government interference in the election, the scope of those investigations, how far those investigations may have reached, and who was involved in those investigations. We further require a briefing on all investigative findings, as these matters directly impact the core factors in our deliberations of whether Mr. Trump is fit to serve as President of the United States.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/12/elec...e+Raw+Story%29
keep grabbing at straws Boo.
The election is over. Trump won.
Trump going ham on the CIA…Even SNL liked it…
Reporter-Mr. Trump, The CIA has stated that Russia did influence the elections…
Trump- These are the same people who said that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction…
Craig Murray, the former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan, who is a close associate of WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange, has dismissed the CIA's claims that Russia interfered in last month’s presidential election as "bulls***".
On Friday the Washington Post reported on a secret assessment by the CIA, which concluded that Russian intelligence hacked the Democratic National Committee's servers and that of Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman John Podesta, specifically to help Trump win the presidency.
Mr Murray said: "I know who leaked them. I’ve met the person who leaked them, and they are certainly not Russian and it’s an insider. It’s a leak, not a hack; the two are different things.
“If what the CIA are saying is true, and the CIA’s statement refers to people who are known to be linked to the Russian state, they would have arrested someone if it was someone inside the United States.
“America has not been shy about arresting whistleblowers and it’s not been shy about extraditing hackers. They plainly have no knowledge whatsoever.”
The Kremlin has rejected the hacking accusations while Julian Assange has previously said the DNC leaks were not linked to Russia.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/ne...-35288057.html
so why is he wasting taxpayer funding by not permanently shutting down the CIA?Trump going ham on the CIA…Even SNL liked it…
Reporter-Mr. Trump, The CIA has stated that Russia did influence the elections…
Trump- These are the same people who said that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction…
Railing on the most unpopular president-elect ever isn't a bad tactic, but the Dems need to find something else to talk about.
The election is over. HRC lost primarily because she had considerable baggage and ran a lousy campaign. Never forget that HRC was the second most unpopular candidate ever, after the president elect.
Don't worry, with the Repugs running Congress, they certainly won't go Benghazi on the Russian hacking.
Boo, what should we do...nuke a smaller city in Russia?...maybe sink a sub?
When it comes to Russia, Paul Ryan is suddenly worried about partisan investigations
"At the same time, exploiting the work of our intelligence community for partisan purposes does a grave disservice to those professionals and potentially jeopardizes our national security.
As we work to protect our democracy from foreign influence, we should not cast doubt on the clear and decisive outcome of this election."
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/12/12/1610214/-When-it-comes-to-Russia-Paul-Ryan-is-suddenly-worried-about-partisan-investigations?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=fe ed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+ Kos%29
PR will certainly, in purely partisan fashion, short-circuit or shut down any investigations.
To quote your mancrush..."Elections have consequences".When it comes to Russia, Paul Ryan is suddenly worried about partisan investigations
"At the same time, exploiting the work of our intelligence community for partisan purposes does a grave disservice to those professionals and potentially jeopardizes our national security.
As we work to protect our democracy from foreign influence, we should not cast doubt on the clear and decisive outcome of this election."
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/12/12/1610214/-When-it-comes-to-Russia-Paul-Ryan-is-suddenly-worried-about-partisan-investigations?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=fe ed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+ Kos%29
PR will certainly, in purely partisan fashion, short-circuit or shut down any investigations.
Congressional witch hunting/harassment/slanderous investigations have consequences. Ask Hillary.
She can't hear. Her head is stuck straight into the earth.
I'll admit that I'm just jumping in here, and I'm not going to jump to boutons' defense, but I'm curious -- is your position that this isn't a big deal?
It certainly seems to me that if there is some evidence of a hack by a foreign power of either party in the midst of a presidential election, that warrants a real investigation and a re-evaluation of our systems, whether it had an impact on the election or not. I'm truly baffled by the Trump camp's insistence that there's nothing to see here and that no investigation is necessary. This is a pretty crucial national security concern, frankly.
I'd think that would be true without regard to the outcome of the most recent election.
What exactly did they hack? Voting machines? Paper ballots?
Does that really matter what their precise targets were? If there's proof that a foreign power is hacking into American political organizations and might be trying to influence/undermine/disrupt/effect our political processes, isn't that a concern?
I don't know precisely what the proof is, but if the proof is that there is reason to believe that agents of a foreign government may have hacked a major political party, it would be stunning to me that any Americans would just be indifferent to that.
I'm not here to suggest that this is some way to dispute the election results (as I've said; I agree with Winehole that re-litigating the election results ad naseum is a poor choice for Democrats to make at this point). But I'm also not sure why Trump's camp has insistently conflated concerns for the integrity of the results of an election he won and rather legitimate concerns for American national security that would exist without regard to that outcome.
Investigate away, will only make the Democrats look worse as we'll all be reminded again of how the DNC cheated Sanders and colluded with the media.
I found it interesting that with Hillary's email, the official word was we can't possibly determine if it was hacked, or if it was hacked, who hacked it. Then with the DNC emails suddenly "unidentified CIA sources" can say with absolute authority that it was the Russians. Just seems curious. On top of that I found reading REAL EMAILS to be quite illuminating. The Democrats must have felt that way too since they crucified Debbie Wasserman Schultz for it. I'm all for having all the real information I can have to make a decision when voting. Personally, I find the outrage that "The Russians published the real emails we sent which made people not like us" to be hilarious.
Have you nothing to say of the DNCs collusion with the media? Way scarier than broke Russian hackers.
If you say so. Many Trump supporters seem to believe that reporting anything negative about their candidate was tantamount to supporting Clinton. I'd agree that many in the media seemed to support the Clinton campaign during the recent election, but I'm not going to agree that critiques of media in this day and age (where whatever truth someone wants is pretty much readily available to them at a few keystrokes) are on par with the notion that foreign governments are breaching the security of major political parties during a presidential campaign.
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