She is referring to the chickenshit video below:
Yeah, my take on Taibbi and others like them is they decided the Russia story was an attempt to gin up a neoliberal or neoconservative or neo-something conflict with Russia by the deep state, and decided that was the story, not Trump collusion.
It kind of seems like the textbook brow-furrowing response: produce a piece of paper but take no real action. It’s not quite an empty expression of concern like you get from Collins or from ex-Flake, but it isn’t far off.
They all voted to acquit, knowing this. So, very sane, yes.
Jesus, that’s some spin by Rubio, though.
I mean, I guess the target audience is people who can’t (or won’t) read?
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They know that the Americans that will read the report or read the journalists who do aren’t the ones who vote for them anyway. It’s safe to write a credible report, but then just go on TV and say “Total exoneration” or “No collusion” and that will be that for the majority of Americans.
Democracy just can’t function will this level of political and civic illiteracy in the US.
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And it was always available, because Taibbi was always a huge Russophile who thought the Soviets were actually the good guys.
Especially when they teamed up at The Intercept, Taibbi would unquestionably accept whatever he was fed by Greenwald, and Greenwald was pretty clearly hugging Russia because of Snowden.
(And also, as Scott states, the whole “This is some kind of a neo-somethingorother plot…”)
Ben Wittes has a really good, concise, piece on the report. Just more reinforcement that they all need to go, every single one.
First, the Senate Republicans—however they may characterize their findings—have knifed the president in the back. They have, as an initial matter, validated the major findings of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report. They have, in important respects, gone beyond them; they are more aggressive in some of their findings than Mueller was. For example, they assert confidently that Konstantin Kilimnik, the business associate of one-time Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, is a Russian intelligence officer, whereas Mueller did not go that far. Where Mueller was confined to that which he could prove in court beyond a reasonable doubt, the Intelligence Committee could be a little laxer in reporting its findings. It could also focus on counterintelligence questions, where Mueller by regulation and perhaps by preference chose to confine himself to the criminal law.
Yet that is the point Republican senators want you to take away regarding their findings. It’s as though every Republican member of the Senate Intelligence Committee had a hand in writing Volume I of the Mueller Report but wanted to make sure the president wasn’t upset at them about their own findings. The result is a set of highly suggestive, even devastating, sections and hundreds upon hundreds of pages about the conduct of the president’s campaign, staff, transition, and family. But the Republican members have stamped the report with a big red “No Collusion Found!” stamp, as though that will change the meaning of the words they have written.
Third, while I have contempt for the rhetoric of these Republican senators and I find it almost mind-boggling to try to reconcile the text of this report with their votes in the impeachment only a few short months ago, I would be remiss if I did not acknowledge the public service they have done here. Yes, they are lying about having done it—pretending they found things other than what they found and did not find the things they actually found. And yes, they are almost religiously evading the moral, legal, and democratic consequences of what they found.
But unlike their counterparts in the House of Representatives, they allowed this investigation to take place. They ran a bipartisan, serious investigation. They worked with their Democratic colleagues to insulate it from an environment rife with pressures. And they produced a report that is a worthy contribution to our understanding of what happened four years ago.
look who else loves the poorly educated
Lol…Bannon knows it’s bullshit and doesn’t care. He just cares that dumb rubes like Jr believe it.
This seemed very much the likely outcome from listening to the oral arguments. Of course if Sullivan actually refuses to grant the motion to dismiss, I’m not sure the appeals court will uphold that. But he ought to try it, deny the motion to dismiss and then sentence Flynn based on the existing finding of guilt and then see what happens.
Honestly, some judge or panel somewhere needs to order an explanatory memo from the DOJ and place a deadline for the report on January 30th or something. Just drag it out until after the new POTUS is installed and a non-corrupt DOJ leadership is in place. Then the DOJ can withdraw their motion to dismiss and we can get on with our lives.
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And they would get away with it too, if it weren’t for that meddling Sixth Amendment.
Like the Trump administration, I think of amendments as more guidelines than actual rules or laws.
Flying completely under the radar. Now add ending election security briefings and Billy Bar removing a national security advisor.
The Justice Department secretly took steps in 2017 to narrow the investigation into Russian election interference and any links to the Trump campaign, according to former law enforcement officials, keeping investigators from completing an examination of President Trump’s decades-long personal and business ties to Russia.
But law enforcement officials never fully investigated Mr. Trump’s own relationship with Russia, even though some career F.B.I. counterintelligence investigators thought his ties posed such a national security threat that they took the extraordinary step of opening an inquiry into them. Within days, the former deputy attorney general Rod J. Rosenstein curtailed the investigation without telling the bureau, all but ensuring it would go nowhere.
So, any 2020 Trump voters on here?
Haha. May as well ask if anybody is interested in q23 seppuku.
Sure, I’m one. Ask me anything!
