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Robert Mueller, Former F.B.I. Director, Is Named Special Counsel for Russia Investigation

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  1. Commodore

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    https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/07/michael-flynn-judge-sentencing-287001

    not a conspiracy, he was recused, and he is a judge on the FISA court

    that his recusal was not voluntary and that he was the judge who approved the FISA warrant to wiretap Flynn is speculation (but would make sense as a reason for recusal)
     
  2. Commodore

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    sure

    it makes sense that there are suddenly leaks to the NYT/POST claiming the dossier was not a big deal in securing the FISA warrant (a complete 180 from prior reporting)

    that would make sense if the black hats are trying to get ahead of what comes out in the OIG report
     
  3. Rashmon

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    Dude, did you just stop mixing your Koolaid with water and start eating the unopened packet?
     
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  4. Commodore

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    OIG letter outlining some of what's being investigated

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  5. GladiatoRowdy

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    $50?
     
  6. Commodore

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    too rich for my blood, make it $20
     
  7. Rashmon

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    From the book...

    LOL
     
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    [​IMG]
     
  9. GladiatoRowdy

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    Terms or provisions? IOW, what are the victory conditions as you see them?
     
  10. Commodore

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    noose is tightening, black hats under investigation for leaking

     
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    Oh no, not that!!!!
     
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    B-Bob "94-year-old self-described dreamer"

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    Just want to say, two reasons I don't ignore commodore is that he almost never gets agitated and ad hom despite all the grief he receives, and I'm also confident that he's not a bot, given his sense of humor (in the Hangout, etc).

    He provides a fairly pain free and pure look at "what they are thinking" in that arena, I believe. Props.
     
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    It’s sad that the greatest sin in the eyes of a Republican is informing the public of treasonous behavior inside our government. This coming from the same people months ago praising Wikileaks and others who leaked on the Obama admin.
     
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    Also we are now finding out that the biggest leaker of all is Trump himself when he gets on the phone at night to call and vent to his friends about everything and anything which ends up in the news the next day.

    How about giving away classified information that could put lives at risk in the Oval Office to a foreign adversary?

    If we want to talk seriously about leaks, look no further than who is sitting behind the desk of the Oval Office.
     
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    Are the leaks the facts of the matter? Like the DNC hack. It revealed real legit info.

    So these leaks-do they contain factual info?


    So some are upset about the leaks but not the facts of the matter?
     
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    All he does is post random conservative twitter/ social media posts. He seems to be following the Russian playbook to a T.
     
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    Dianne Feinstein released the Fusion GPS transcript herself.



    Feinstein: American People Deserve Opportunity to Read Glenn Simpson, Fusion GPS Transcript
    https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/pu...eases?id=B708D3CB-A945-4436-8FB8-9D85978C5EEF

    Washington—Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) today released the transcript of Glenn Simpson’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee with the support of committee Democrats. Simpson is the co-founder of Fusion GPS.

    “After speaking with majority and minority committee staff for 10 hours, Glenn Simpson requested the transcript of his interview be released publicly. The American people deserve the opportunity to see what he said and judge for themselves,” said Senator Feinstein. “The innuendo and misinformation circulating about the transcript are part of a deeply troubling effort to undermine the investigation into potential collusion and obstruction of justice. The only way to set the record straight is to make the transcript public.”

    The transcript is available here and corrections made after the transcript was finalized are available here.




     
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    What are they hiding, publish the transcript.
     
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    I edited the comment for clarity.
     
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    Fusion GPS founder: Trump campaign source backed up claims in dossier
    http://thehill.com/policy/national-...p-campaign-source-backed-up-claims-in-dossier

    A founder of the opposition research firm that compiled the controversial dossier on President Trump told Senate investigators in August that the FBI had “other intelligence” backing up claims in the dossier and that law enforcement officials had already been investigating the president’s team before the dossier was completed.

    In more than 300 pages of testimony released unilaterally on Tuesday by the Senate Judiciary Committee’s top Democrat, Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson told investigators that the former spy who compiled the dossier told him that the FBI had an informant in the Trump campaign.

    But a source close to Fusion GPS told The Hill on Tuesday that Simpson misspoke, mischaracterizing a tip that an Australian diplomat gave the bureau related to Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos.

    “Essentially what [former MI6 agent Christopher Steele] told me was they had other intelligence about this matter from an internal Trump campaign source and that — that they — my understanding was that they believed Chris at this point — that they believed Chris’s information might be credible because they had other intelligence that indicated the same thing and one of those pieces of intelligence was a human source from inside the Trump organization,” Simpson said.

    According to Simpson, Steele met with a bureau agent in Rome in the fall of 2016, feeling obligated to turn over the results of his research — the second such meeting he had with the FBI. The first took place in first week of July, Simpson said. The bureau launched its investigation into the Trump campaign in late July, according to former FBI Director James Comey.

    Simpson would not reveal the source, saying that the person would potentially face physical harm if word got out.

    “People who get in the way of the Russians tend to get hurt,” Simpson said.

    The New York Times reported earlier this month that the FBI’s attention was initially drawn to the Trump campaign’s contacts with Russia not by the dossier, but by a representative of Australia’s government who had met with then-Trump campaign staffer Papadopoulos. Papadopoulos, who has since pleaded guilty to charges of making false statements to the FBI, told the diplomat that Russia had political dirt on Trump's campaign rival, Hillary Clinton.

    The Senate Judiciary Committee interviewed Simpson last August as part of its investigation into Russia's election interference. As Capitol Hill Republicans have hammered on the FBI’s alleged use of Steele’s research in its investigation as evidence of bias, Democrats have pushed for the release of the transcript. Ranking member Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) published the transcript Tuesday without consulting chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), who called the decision “confounding.”
     

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