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Who knew that when former FBI Director James Comey alluded to the Terminator movie, when trying to sound the alarm about the external threats that all of us as Americans face — that he was “serious”? … As serious as a heart-attack ...
Here is the ‘preamble’ setting the stage for that dire Arnold-like warning, in his 100% sworn testimony before the U.S. Senate ...
Senate Intelligence Committee meeting, James Comey on Russia's interference in the 2016 election, June 8th 2017 (Transcript from politico.com )
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[SEN. MARTIN ] HEINRICH: The president has repeatedly talked about the Russian investigation into the U.S. — or Russia's involvement in the U.S. Election cycle as a hoax and fake news. Can you talk a little bit about what you saw as FBI director and, obviously, only the parts that you can share in this setting that demonstrate how serious this action actually was and why there was an investigation in the first place?
[JAMES] COMEY: Yes, sir. There should be no fuzz on this whatsoever. The Russians interfered in our election during the 2016 cycle. They did with purpose. They did it with sophistication. They did it with overwhelming technical efforts. It was an active measures campaign driven from the top of that government. There is no fuzz on that. It is a high confidence judgment of the entire intelligence community and the members of this committee have seen the intelligence. It's not a close call. That happened. That's about as unfake as you can possibly get. It is very, very serious, which is why it's so refreshing to see a bipartisan focus on that. This is about America, not about a particular party.
HEINRICH: That is a hostile act by the Russian government against this country?
COMEY: Yes, sir.
HEINRICH: Did the president in any of those interactions that you've shared with us today ask you what you should be doing or what our government should be doing or the intelligence community to protect America against Russian interference in our election system?
COMEY: I don't recall a conversation like that.
HEINRICH: Never?
COMEY: No.
What the heck is this guy talking about? Certainly he is not making up these claims of “hostile acts” from the “top of the Russian government” out of thin air. Certainly he must have some evidence to back up his podium-pounding rhetorical claims. Well then, where-the-hell is the smoking gun?
I would humbly submit:
Article 1 to be entered in Evidence: the FBI does have such “hard copy” incriminating evidence (as we recently found out, due to Reuters investigative reporting).
Now if only others in D.C. would wake up to seriousness — of this far-far-from-idle external threat ...
by Ned Parker, Jonathan Landay and John Walcott | WASHINGTON, Reuters — April 27, 2017
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The first Russian institute document was a strategy paper written last June [2016] that circulated at the highest levels of the Russian government but was not addressed to any specific individuals.
It recommended the Kremlin launch a propaganda campaign on social media and Russian state-backed global news outlets to encourage U.S. voters to elect a president who would take a softer line toward Russia than the administration of then-President Barack Obama, the seven officials said.
And it is apparent from Trump’s “Let’s give Russia a chance” speech immediately after the Mayflower event, and from Trump’s subsequent Russia-pandering tweets — that Candidate Trump was ‘singing’ from this same Putin {democracy-smashing} playbook … which had as its second directive, this minor missive … ie. Article 2:
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A second institute document [from the the Moscow-based Russian Institute for Strategic Studies RISS], drafted in October and distributed in the same way, warned that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was likely to win the election. For that reason, it argued, it was better for Russia to end its pro-Trump propaganda and instead intensify its messaging about voter fraud to undermine the U.S. electoral system’s legitimacy and damage Clinton’s reputation in an effort to undermine her presidency, the seven [U.S. Intelligence] officials said.
Remember all that Trump hounding about a “Rigged Election” that seeming appeared out of nowhere, last October — Where do you suppose he got that “Attack America Voting System” theme-song from?
And at points during the campaign the Russian President, was more that happy to put his endorsement behind his chosen Candidate. Here is Vlad’s response to the Russia-friendly Mayflower speech, according CNN post-event reporting way back on 4/26/2016:
What Russia said in the past: "He is a bright and talented person without any doubt," President
Vladimir Putin said of Trump in December, "
an outstanding and talented personality." And in remarks closely mirroring Trump's assessment of the campaign, the Russian leader called Trump "
the absolute leader of the presidential race."
It’s not like the Oligarch doesn’t know a few things about tipping Elections, including his own.
And as we recently found out, as a Day-One priority, President Donald Trump set about on accomplishing this top goal of his (thus holding up his end of the RISS plan) — and THAT was to unilaterally lift the Sanctions against Russia. All the while asking for nothing in return from Russia, for its Ukraine interference and take-over of Crimea — Putin’s anti-democracy intrusions.
SO was former FBI Director Comey “SERIOUS” or not, in these dire warnings capping off in his yet-to-be-perjured sworn testimony?
[ James Comey’s reply to Senator Joe Manchin:]
[...] They're coming after America, which I hope we all love equally. They want to undermine our credibility in the face the world. They think that this great experiment of ours is a threat to them. So they're going to try to run it down and dirty it up as much as possible. That's what this is about and they will be back.
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We’ve known for a while that Putin has had a ‘serious beef’ with our American form of Democracy. But who knew ... that they would have a ‘coordinator on the inside’, the next time they decide to attack us … for trying to stand up and defend every individual, no matter the size of their bank-account.
As we have been finding out, through Life’s objectively “hard lessons” recently — Billionaire Oligarch have a decidedly narrower view of the world, that we must all share. They usually consider it their exclusive playground, where the privileges of the Wealthy are the only things the “truly matter” in their domain. And Fake News is only the sledge-hammer {tool} that they use to accomplish their personal objectives … no matter how far-reaching those individual impacts — that they choose to crush — may ultimately turn out to be.
We’ve been warned.