A different take on Russia

[Jochen Stremmel]

It Can't Happen Here?

2017-01-20 4:13 GMT+01:00 David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>:

> This is potentially treason: Conspiring with an Enemy State to take over
> the Presidency.  This will test our free press more than ever before in our
> history.  Does Trump have deniability?  Will Republicans accede to treason
> for this historic power grab?  Will America let them do so?  The drama
> builds just before the Inauguration, but the drama will not likely fade
> post inauguration.
>
> Viva the Resistance!
>
> Maybe a new novel is at work in our author's mind.  It will definitely be
> so in many other's.
>
> David Morris
>
>
> On Thursday, January 19, 2017, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> And on and on...
>>
>> https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/19/us/politics/trump-russia-
>> associates-investigation.html?emc=edit_na_20170119&nl=
>> breaking-news&nlid=61314239&ref=cta&_r=0
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 9:25 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> That dossier isn't the whole picture, not by a long shot.
>>>
>>> http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a52376/ru
>>> ssia-trump-investigation/
>>>
>>> 6 Agencies Were Investigating Trump's Russia Connections Before the
>>> DossierFuture historians will be amazed we inaugurated this man.
>>> The informal, inter-agency working group began to explore possible
>>> Russian interference last spring, long before the FBI received information
>>> from a former British spy hired to develop politically damaging and
>>> unverified research about Trump, according to the sources, who spoke on the
>>> condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the inquiry…A key
>>> mission of the six-agency group has been to examine who financed the email
>>> hacks of the Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign chairman
>>> John Podesta. The London-based transparency group WikiLeaks released the
>>> emails last summer and in October. The working group is scrutinizing the
>>> activities of a few Americans who were affiliated with Trump's campaign or
>>> his business empire and of multiple individuals from Russia and other
>>> former Soviet nations who had similar connections, the sources said. U.S.
>>> intelligence agencies not only have been unanimous in blaming Russia for
>>> the hacking of Democrats' computers but also have concluded that the
>>> leaking and dissemination of thousands of emails of top Democrats, some of
>>> which caused headaches for the Clinton campaign, were done to help Trump
>>> win.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 6:42 AM, Thomas Eckhardt <
>>> thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Am 17.01.2017 um 22:14 schrieb David Morris:
>>>>
>>>>> Matt Tabbi is the tits!
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/the-russia-sto
>>>>> ry-reaches-a-crisis-point-w460806
>>>>>
>>>>> This is an extraordinary story. If our intelligence community really
>>>>> believes this, then playtime is over.
>>>>>
>>>>> No more Clapper-style hedging or waffling. If Israel gets to hear why
>>>>> they think Trump is compromised, how is the American public not also so
>>>>> entitled?
>>>>>
>>>>> But if all they have are unverifiable rumors, they can't do this, not
>>>>> even to Donald Trump.
>>>>>
>>>>> The only solution is an immediate unveiling of all the facts and an
>>>>> urgent public investigation. A half-assed whispering campaign a week
>>>>> and
>>>>> a half from a Trump presidency, with BuzzFeed at the center of the
>>>>> action, isn't going to cut it. We need to know what the likes of
>>>>> Clapper
>>>>> and Comey know, and we need it all now, before it's too late.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yes. Taibbi is right. By all means, do investigate.
>>>>
>>>> He is also right in essentially calling the DNI report a joke.
>>>>
>>>> Which means that we still don't know whether Misha and Grisha hacked
>>>> the DNC.
>>>>
>>>> What we do know however is that two other countries have tried to
>>>> influence the elections. The UK (if it is true that Steele asked for
>>>> permission to share the dossier about Trump with the FBI and that Downing
>>>> Street was informed about this):
>>>>
>>>> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/12/britain-dragged-d
>>>> onald-trump-dirty-dossier-row-amid-claims-whitehall/
>>>>
>>>> And, of course, the Ukraine:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/ukraine-sabotage-trump
>>>> -backfire-233446
>>>>
>>>> (For much more on this and added historical context, see Taibbi's
>>>> former collaborator Mark Ames:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.alternet.org/media/anonymous-blacklist-promoted-w
>>>> ashington-post-has-shocking-roots-ukrainian-fascism-eugenics-and)
>>>>
>>>> I expect an outcry. Not.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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