like a Greeter at a Walmart rather than being POTUS … next week, cutting ribbons at some pre-owned car lots
It’s over, Donnie, come out with your tiny mitts up!
Former MI6 spook Christopher “35-page golden shower dossier” Steele came out of hiding in London today signaling that he either has enough personal security to fend off an assassination attempt, or the equilibrium level of dead Russian diplomats has been achieved.
Speaking outside his firm's offices in Belgravia, he told the Press Association: "I'm really pleased to be back here working again at the Orbis's offices in London today.
Last week The Independent reported that Mr Steele had been approached informally by the US Senate Intelligence Committee, sounding out the possibility of the former spy giving evidence about the Russia claims.
It may also signal that the Intelligence Community has reached whatever certitude with the intelligence evidence necessary to inform potential prosecutions on the other side of the pond. The question remains whether there is sufficient Congressional will to get to a serious #TrumpRussia investigation.
A former National Security Agency (NSA) counterintelligence officer says US agents have “considerable intelligence” of high-level Russians discussing collusion with Donald Trump’s election team.
The Panama Papers—leaked to a vast consortium of journalists—provide tangible evidence of longstanding rumors that Putin has been running a kleptocracy, skimming bundles of cash from state-run enterprises and stashing it away in foreign banks. But Putin has only pushed—to new and daring heights—a practice that Russian rulers have been indulging in for many decades. www.slate.com/...
Psychological projection is a theory in psychology in which humans defend themselves against their own unconscious impulses or qualities (both positive and negative) by denying their existence in themselves while attributing them to others.[1] For example, a person who is habitually rude may constantly accuse other people of being rude. It incorporates blame shifting.
On the contrary, it might even be a projection of what the truth is of the Bush Administration's complacency and ineptitude on the terrorism in its first 9 months in office.
Sidney Blumenthal (2003)
A special counsel would not have the same degree of autonomy as the independent counsels who in the post-Watergate era probed executive-branch misconduct until the law authorizing such appointments expired in 1999. Independent counsels were appointed by, and answerable to, a three-judge panel; special counsels can be appointed, and fired, by the Justice Department. But a special counsel would be expected to investigate much more aggressively than the White House would like, and firing a special counsel would only aggravate the scandal. In addition to a special counsel, Congress could and should appoint a joint select committee to look into Kremlingate and issue a public report, but a special counsel would be likely to conduct a more professional investigation and, unlike lawmakers, would possess the power to indict, which may help loosen the tongues of suspects.
There is a good reason why Trump and his partisans are so apoplectic about the prospect of a special counsel, and it is precisely why it is imperative to appoint one: because otherwise we will never know the full story of the Kremlin’s tampering with our elections and of the Kremlin’s connections with the president of the United States. As evidenced by his desperate attempts to change the subject, Trump appears petrified of what such a probe would reveal. Wonder why?
Indeed, the president and his top aides already have broken all the traditional rules of scandal management.
- Rule one: When there’s bad news, get it out fast, and get it out all at once.
- Rule two: Don’t spend time explaining. (“When you’re explaining, you’re losing,” Ronald Reagan said.)
- Rule three: Apologize and move on. Voters are often willing to forgive a politician who makes a mistake, but only if he asks their forgiveness.
Apologies, of course, are not Trump’s style. His natural reflex has been to denounce the media, blame his political opponents and remind everyone that he won…
Most presidents don’t stumble into a full-blown scandal until their second term. That was true for Richard M. Nixon, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton. Trump, however, arrived at the White House with a scandal already brewing — and a well-established record of mendacity. That record, plus the fact that he reacts to new revelations in a way that makes him look so guilty, is why this story isn’t going away.
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Owner: Dmitry Rybolovlev
Registration: M-KATE
Type: Airbus 319-133(CJ)
Year: 2012
Seats: 25
Value: US$ 90 million
Owners company: Ural Kali
Dmitry Rybolovlev is the owner of an Airbus A319 business jet. Rybolovlev is a Russian billionaire. He controlled Uralkali, one of the world's largest producers of potash fertilizers. In 2010 Rybolovlev sold his shares in Uralkali for USD 6.5 billion to Suleiman Kerimov. In December 2011, Rybolovlev acquired two thirds of the French-side football club AS Monaco. Dmitry Evgenevich Rybolovlev is also the owner of a large yacht named Anna, his daughter.
The first known use of the term Bagman occurred in 1765.[1]
What that means is that the full extent of Trump’s treason may finally be exposed once and for all.
As many commentators have pointed out, while Trump’s allegation that the President personally ordered a wiretap for political purposes is baseless, it is indeed possible that an intelligence agency wiretapped Trump Tower to monitor ties between the Trump campaign and Russian intelligence.
At the time of the election last November several figures with ties to the intelligence community alleged the existence of such a wiretap to investigate communications between Trump’s campaign and Alfa Bank, a Russian institution with ties to the country’s ruling oligarchs.
For such a wiretap to occur, however, an intelligence agency would have to obtain a warrant through the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) court. And for a warrant to be granted the intelligence committee investigating would need to have actionable evidence that Trump or someone on his campaign was colluding with a foreign agent.
Thus, Trump may very well have slipped up and sealed his own fate with his Saturday Twitter rant accusing President Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower. At this point it is not certain that such a wiretap did in fact occur.
Indeed given Trump’s history of blatant lies and outrageous allegations it would not be surprising if he invented the entire thing
