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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsComey intervened to keep Obama intelligence officials
from moving in on Flynn before the inauguration. Comey insisted it would compromise his investigation.
Per Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC.
Fuck Comey, Again.
NBachers
(17,120 posts)He had plenty of help.
Hekate
(90,714 posts)Akamai
(1,779 posts)meadowlander
(4,397 posts)LibraLiz1973
(8,197 posts)Where the author opined that Comey is actually a good guy doing good work to save our country?
pnwmom
(108,980 posts)Too soon to know.
BainsBane
(53,035 posts)pnwmom
(108,980 posts)She has said that Comey might have been concerned that some evidence wouldn't be admissible in Court if it wasn't obtained properly through warrants. She was speaking of a different situation, but the same principle might apply here -- I don't know.
The article is here, the second one on this page, "Dear Mr. Putin. . . "
https://patribotics.wordpress.com
Hillary Clinton correctly noted that Putin rigged his own election in 2011. This, apparently, is when he started to hate her.
By the 2012 election, Russias desire to interfere with American democracy was already there, but it as yet didnt have the tools to succeed in that aim. I deliberately omit some of the timeline here in order to get to the bigger points in the story, but I will return to it later.
Russian moles placed inside the NSA recruited Edward Snowden. A letter between the FSB in Cuba and SENAIN in Quito held in a file marked Assange in London, dated 4th April 2013, the day before Snowden sent his only email on legalities, April 5th 2013, and before Snowden took his uppermost level documents during the rest of the month of April, proves conclusively that Mr. Snowden is a Russian agent who acted on instructions from Moscow. After Snowden fled to Hong Kong, he escaped from there by an Ecuadorean travel document arranged by Julian Assange, and tried to get to Cuba.
Snowden is a low-level IT idiot. He had help taking what he took from the NSA. I recommend the NSA review their case files and pick up the Russian moles within their agency. Snowden used stolen credentials, but it is almost certain that he received a piece of removable media like a memory card from his Russian handlers. He took military secrets. And by he I mean the FSB.
SNIP
muriel_volestrangler
(101,321 posts)She was a novelist before that. I wouldn't put too much trust in her.
pnwmom
(108,980 posts)Indeed, Mensch has written Heat Street's best performing story to date. Mensch used her French to wade through 14 hours of testimony on the Paris terror attacks last year to produce a story headlined 'France 'Suppressed Reports of Gruesome Torture' at Bataclan Massacre.'
http://heatst.com/?s=louise+mensch
Some stories at the link above.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,321 posts)She's a politician. She's not a reporter. She might pass as a columnist.
pnwmom
(108,980 posts)For one thing, she strongly supported Hillary in the election.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,321 posts)It also points out she was keen to link up with Fox News, since they're also owned by Murdoch. She was a Tory MP - and the 'libertarian' is in the American sense.
I see she is now no longer at 'Heat Street', though still working in Murdoch's News Corp: http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2017/01/louise-mensch-no-longer-leading-heatstreet-233235
I do think her mistrust of Trump is genuine. But she's not an experienced reporter with proper contacts, and the rumours passed to her should be treated as completely unproven.
BainsBane
(53,035 posts)as "innocent" in contrast to The NY Times. The Murdoch paycheck explains that.
BainsBane
(53,035 posts)I read part of it last night and will finish it later, but I don't see why she gives Comey a pass for the letter about Clinton's emails. He had to know that would impact the election.
Cha
(297,318 posts)Thanks for the report, Bains.
Granny M
(1,395 posts)That scumbag should be frogmarched out in handcuffs.
annabanana
(52,791 posts)Get Peter King too, while you're at it.
uponit7771
(90,347 posts)wordpix
(18,652 posts)Get them, too, we need a big van while we clear these people out
fun n serious
(4,451 posts)BainsBane
(53,035 posts)Not yet anyway. He is, however, a useful stooge.
yodermon
(6,143 posts)Only Nixon could go to China; only Darth Vader could bring balance to the force.
Would you really want trump appointing an FBI chief?
I'll put my stock in Mensch's theories upthread, at least for now.
At the very least, we pound away mercilessly so we can retake Congress in 2018 and then impeach the bastards, I hope we can at least agree on that!
wordpix
(18,652 posts)They cannot keep this up for much longer. Trump of Oz's strings are fraying
wordpix
(18,652 posts)eShirl
(18,494 posts)BSdetect
(8,998 posts)This was a massive conspiracy.
oasis
(49,389 posts)MrPurple
(985 posts)Last edited Wed Feb 15, 2017, 12:46 AM - Edit history (1)
This is more destructive to Pol Potbelly.
catbyte
(34,403 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)Traitor Comey.