Nicker on 31/3/2019 at 18:43
Meanwhile, Rachel Maddow makes several points about the Mueller Report, which are being ignored, missed, distorted and spun by others. Amongst them:
1 - Most of the people expressing strong opinions on the contents of the "Report", have seen it and people who have seen it are restricted from making public statements about it, including Trump.
2 - At 9:44 she explains the limitations on the AG when supervising special counsels and releasing their reports. Providing a summary is not among them.
3 - Regardless of #1 and #2, William Barr issued a summary which he has since denied was a summary but merely a
"a summary of its “principal conclusions” — that is, its bottom line." Are you following yet?
Quote:
“As my letter made clear, my notification to Congress and the public provided, pending release of the report, a summary of its “principal conclusions” — that is, its bottom line. The Special Counsel’s report is nearly 400 pages long (exclusive of tables and appendices) and sets forth the Special Counsel’s findings, his analysis, and the reasons for his conclusions. . . . I do not believe it would be in the public’s interest for me to attempt to summarize the full report or to release it in serial or piecemeal fashion.”
4 - Barr also plans to redact "...any information that would “unduly infringe on the personal privacy and reputational interests of peripheral third parties.”" So, anything embarrassing to anyone whom Barr deems to be "peripheral", whatever he chooses that to mean.
[video=youtube;3vHXLCy7X4U]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vHXLCy7X4U[/video]
Enjoy.
Starker on 1/4/2019 at 22:20
A fine-tuned machine:
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/white-house-whistleblower-says-security-clearance-denials-were-reversed-during-trump-administration/2019/04/01/9f28334e-542c-11e9-814f-e2f46684196e_story.html)
A White House whistleblower told lawmakers that more than two dozen denials for security clearances have been overturned during the Trump administration, calling Congress her “last hope” for addressing what she considers improper conduct that has left the nation's secrets exposed.
Tricia Newbold, a longtime White House security adviser, told the House Oversight and Reform Committee that she and her colleagues issued “dozens” of denials for security clearance applications that were later approved despite their concerns about blackmail, foreign influence or other red flags, according to panel documents released Monday.
Newbold, an 18-year veteran of the security clearance process who has served under both Republican and Democratic presidents, said she warned her superiors that clearances “were not always adjudicated in the best interest of national security” — and was retaliated against for doing so.
dj_ivocha on 3/4/2019 at 12:01
There are 3 Mexican countries? Daymn, no wonder you guys over there are in a fight for your lives! If anything, Trump is aiming too low - the wall needs to be thrice as high. Thank god there aren't 10 Mexican countries or something.
Or are there? :sweat:
Starker on 3/4/2019 at 19:10
Quote Posted by dj_ivocha
There are 3 Mexican countries?
And none of them Mexico, even.
Quote Posted by demagogue
There's apparently at least 18 of them, if you've seen the meme on this making the rounds.
They forgot one:
Inline Image:
http://i.imgur.com/J7aWlvq.png
Tony_Tarantula on 3/4/2019 at 19:18
I'm changing my earlier call.
I now say that Buttigieg (sp) has been chosen as the 2020 nominee.
Short version of reasons
1) This guy has a very typical "groomed for leadership" type resume: Ivy League, Rhodes Scholar, Navy.
2) He raised more money than every other DNC candidate in a short amount of time despite having zero grassroots name recognition previously. I can guarantee you that money isn't coming from anyone working class.
3) Pete's a mayor of a town in "flyover country" that nobody from the coastal elite classes would be caught dead in, yet he inexplicably has access to top tier talk shows, endorsements from significant behind the scenes DNC/Hollywood power brokers (like Franklin Leonard), and is receiving a blitz of positive media coverage that all just magically coincide with what appears to be a targeted campaign against the current DNC frontrunner (Biden).
I don't KNOW he's been hand picked already, but it's blatantly obvious that someone high up in the party has decided to push him and it's bizarre that a small town, midwestern mayor suddenly has the love and adulation of the entire media/hollywood complex.
Starker on 4/4/2019 at 04:56
So, apparently, Republicans are the health care party now. Remember their awesome health care plan that was so much better than Obamacare, but we unfortunately never got to see it on the account of it not existing? Well, it was finally going to be developed, but unfortunately McConnell killed it.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/02/us/politics/obamacare-donald-trump.html)
President Trump backed off plans to introduce a Republican replacement for the Affordable Care Act after Senator Mitch McConnell privately warned him that the Senate would not revisit health care in a comprehensive way before the November 2020 elections.
Reversing himself in the face of Republican consternation, Mr. Trump said his party would not produce a health care plan of its own, as he had promised, until after the elections, meaning he will only try to fulfill his first-term promise to repeal and replace his predecessor’s signature program if he wins a second term.
The president’s abrupt about-face, announced on Twitter on Monday night after talking with Mr. McConnell, all but ensured that health care will take a central place in next year’s campaign, elevating an issue Democrats consider one of their strengths. But it may take the legislative heat off Republicans exasperated by Mr. Trump’s unexpected push to devise a wholesale replacement for President Barack Obama’s health law in the coming months.
“I made it clear to him that we were not going to be doing that in the Senate,” Mr. McConnell, the majority leader from Kentucky, said on Tuesday. “He did say, as he later tweeted, that he accepted that and that he would be developing a plan that he would take to the American people during the 2020 campaign.”
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Some of the president’s senior advisers pushed him to join the lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the entire current health care law, a more expansive position than the administration had taken previously, when it argued that protections for people with pre-existing conditions should be struck down.
But others raised concerns, including the White House counsel, Pat Cipollone. Mr. Cipollone said that Attorney General William P. Barr had issues with joining the suit, too. But once the president made clear his mind was made up, the Justice Department went along without complaint, people familiar with the events said.
Among those objecting was Senator Susan Collins, a moderate Republican from Maine who sent a letter to Mr. Barr expressing her “profound disagreement” with the move.
“Rather than seeking to have the courts invalidate the A.C.A.,” she wrote, referring to the Affordable Care Act, “the proper route for the administration to pursue would be to propose changes to the A.C.A. or to once again seek its repeal. The administration should not attempt to use the courts to bypass Congress.”
Mr. McConnell sought to calm Republican nerves, saying “there’s no point in pushing the panic button” because the court system would take a long time to resolve the dispute.
“I don’t think any of these policies are in any immediate danger,” he said.
Nicker on 4/4/2019 at 18:04
Here's a concise analysis of nine problems with Barr's "summary".
[video=youtube;t3qjH7pFq_0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3qjH7pFq_0[/video]
And if that is too dry for you, try this.
[video=youtube;Fw54NvrimDc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw54NvrimDc[/video]
One especially telling tale, when a Trump golf course in Puerto Rico was failing they got a loan of $32 million from the Tourist Bureau Of Puerto Rico, then just walked away with the cash.
As with every other dirty deal Trump makes, he cheats openly, constantly, obviously and he uses other people )caddies, personal lawyers, A.G.'s) to do the cheating for him.