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Seth Abramson: Guardian: 'IC probe of Trump-Russia ties began when 7 allied intel agencies..' (Original Post) triron Aug 2020 OP
treason barr, loney tune rudy g... . . Iliyah Aug 2020 #1
Hell trump has been lying llashram Aug 2020 #2
Spy games Traildogbob Aug 2020 #3
That movie is fiction. Don't believe the tech in it is real. Of course some is, but some is not. Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2020 #4
I know it is fiction Traildogbob Aug 2020 #6
Not sure I get the gist of your post. triron Aug 2020 #5
Just that Traildogbob Aug 2020 #7
Maybe it's kept underwraps? triron Aug 2020 #11
Triron - cilla4progress Aug 2020 #13
Yes Traildogbob Aug 2020 #14
I think Rachel Maddow has been trying to warn people, including congress and IC. triron Aug 2020 #15
Also Hillary tried to warn us back in 2016. Not enough of us listened. triron Aug 2020 #16
As a Navy vet from the mid 70's, I agree. padfun Aug 2020 #8
Me too Traildogbob Aug 2020 #9
I agree traildogbob - cilla4progress Aug 2020 #10
See my post in reply to him above. triron Aug 2020 #12
knr triron Aug 2020 #17

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)
1. treason barr, loney tune rudy g... . .
Sat Aug 15, 2020, 11:34 AM
Aug 2020

pompous Pompeo, house and senate republicans went to lengths around the world to persuade other countries to falsely make claims against the Obama administration, including, but limited to VP Biden.

That's a fact jack and I'm pretty sure someone has documents, videos, tapes of the encounters.

llashram

(6,265 posts)
2. Hell trump has been lying
Sat Aug 15, 2020, 12:59 PM
Aug 2020

from day one of his campaign and had been lying, politically, earlier than that about a true American POTUS Barack H. Obama. What a low life cur trump has always been.

Traildogbob

(8,761 posts)
3. Spy games
Sat Aug 15, 2020, 01:18 PM
Aug 2020

I just watched an older movie, Recruit with Al Pachino. I know it’s just a spy movie, but the technology the CIA has in the movie was mind blowing. Imagine what they have we don’t know. The ability to “Listen In” with high tech equipment is beyond our comprehension. So, with that, how the hell are idiots like trump, Gooliani, Kushner, et al able to do what they have been doing so long and no charges of treason blowing up? Does anybody think these fools are smarter than the CIA’s best? Even the tea party Congress and Senate are loaded with load mouth fools, Gomert, Gaetz, Nunez, Gym Jorden, and let’s not forget Trump spawn. There have to be thousands of hours of tales. Forget about per tapes, the treason conversations are what need to be prosecuted. If not, what is the purpose of the CIA and their budget? I mean, this post is already under scrutiny.

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,013 posts)
4. That movie is fiction. Don't believe the tech in it is real. Of course some is, but some is not.
Sat Aug 15, 2020, 01:31 PM
Aug 2020

Do not base your assessment of capabilities on fiction.

It is not a proper foundation.

It's fiction.

Traildogbob

(8,761 posts)
6. I know it is fiction
Sat Aug 15, 2020, 01:40 PM
Aug 2020

Not the point. I had secret clearance way back in 1974 for ten years as Ops Specialist in the military. Light years ago. I know in today’s technology there are capabilities way beyond what we think, certainly capable of out smarting Rudy, trump Jr, and Jarod. We had video capability way back then that could count the buttons vertically on a mans shirt from 10,000 feet in a moving aircraft. Aerial Photo Interpretation was my specialty. Surely we can out wit the GOP clowns with communication technology today. If not, we are a joke.

Traildogbob

(8,761 posts)
7. Just that
Sat Aug 15, 2020, 01:46 PM
Aug 2020

All the criminality that is obvious within the GOP with outside help of other countries for decades, out in the open, there has to be trails of evidence, especially left by these clowns. If Obama was SPYING on the Trump campaign as he insist, there should be “Binders Full” of evidence, of treason and election tampering.

triron

(22,007 posts)
11. Maybe it's kept underwraps?
Sat Aug 15, 2020, 02:39 PM
Aug 2020

The upheaval that might ensue would be worse that the alternative?
Are they hoping for the 'voting process' to play out for the good in the long haul?
Any suggestions?

cilla4progress

(24,738 posts)
13. Triron -
Sat Aug 15, 2020, 02:44 PM
Aug 2020

you and I have been on the same page with this since Nov. 2016 - that is, votes were definitely changed (voting machines).

You don't get those close margins under these circumstances (Putin calling the shots).

And I agree that at some high levels in the Obama admin - it was thought that it would be too destabilizing to disclose. Just as Obama did not disclose Putin's "interference" when he learned of it before the election in 2016. Recall, he asked Mitch to go forward with him to tell us, but, when Mitch would not, Obama opted not to; I believe, thinking, it would tip the election to drumpf. I've always felt that was a mistake.

Traildogbob

(8,761 posts)
14. Yes
Sat Aug 15, 2020, 02:56 PM
Aug 2020

Last edited Sat Aug 15, 2020, 04:07 PM - Edit history (1)

A mistake then, and certainly now. Being afraid is what has led us here now. To let it continue for fear of what if, may but us into a point we never recover from. Just my opinion. But, doing nothing encourages the criminality to grow into every segment of the government until we are Belarus, or Russia. Fighting for Democracy has never been pretty. My opinion, I just believe we should honor those that died for it. Fear is their game, they have been at it for decades.

triron

(22,007 posts)
15. I think Rachel Maddow has been trying to warn people, including congress and IC.
Sat Aug 15, 2020, 03:58 PM
Aug 2020

But so far seems to land on deaf ears.

triron

(22,007 posts)
16. Also Hillary tried to warn us back in 2016. Not enough of us listened.
Sat Aug 15, 2020, 04:00 PM
Aug 2020

Media was busy pushing the email shit.

padfun

(1,786 posts)
8. As a Navy vet from the mid 70's, I agree.
Sat Aug 15, 2020, 01:58 PM
Aug 2020

We didn't use the sonar scopes you see in the movies, with the round scope like radar. I think overall, they are about 7-10 years ahead in the tech that the public uses.

I would just LOVE to see what is on our ships and subs today.

Traildogbob

(8,761 posts)
9. Me too
Sat Aug 15, 2020, 02:19 PM
Aug 2020

There was no GPS. We traveled world wide and Navigated way out in the oceans by Signalman plotting us by stars. When coming into port we triangulated with Scopes and Land charts. Sounds ancient but the Destroyer I served on then was considered high tech. I would so love to visit CIC on today’s destroyers to see the tech we are at. Served 1970 until 1980. No wooden mast or sails. “I can not confirm or deny the presence of nuclear weapons on board that vessel”🤭!

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