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The agency, when Mr. Mueller headed it, soft-pedaled an investigation highly embarrassing to Mrs. Clinton as well as the Obama Russia reset policy. More recently, if just one of two things is true—Russia sponsored the Trump Dossier, or Russian fake intelligence prompted Mr. Comey’s email intervention—then Russian operations, via their impact on the FBI, influenced and continue to influence our politics in a way far more consequential than any Facebook ad, the preoccupation of John McCain, who apparently cannot behold a mountain if there’s a molehill anywhere nearby.

Which means that Mr. Mueller has the means, motive and opportunity to obfuscate and distract from matters embarrassing to the FBI, while pleasing a large part of the political spectrum. He need only confine his focus to the flimsy, disingenuous but popular (with the media) accusation that the shambolic Trump campaign colluded with the Kremlin.

Mr. Mueller’s tenure may not have bridged the two investigations, but James Comey’s, Rod Rosenstein’s , Andrew Weissmann’s , and Andrew McCabe’s did. Mr. Rosenstein appointed Mr. Mueller as special counsel. Mr. Weissmann now serves on Mr. Mueller’s team. Mr. McCabe remains deputy FBI director. All were involved in the nuclear racketeering matter and the Russia meddling matter.

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Op woensdag 25 oktober 2017 15:56 schreef Chewie het volgende:

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Ja het is ook een feit dat het "verslaan" van IS gedaan is met het plan wat al onder de vorige president in ingezet, ook is het een feit dat de economie al aan het aantrekken was onder Obama en ook is het een feit dat de banengroei in het laatste jaar van Obama iets groter was dan nu onder Trump maar toch zijn dat volgens stupide alt-rechts wapenfeiten van Trump want Obama bakte er niks van.

Het gaat mij om die stupide hypocrisie

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Op woensdag 25 oktober 2017 15:57 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

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Een eerder stuk van de betreffende auteur:

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Laten we zijn kijk op zaken dus maar met een korreltje zout nemen.

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Op woensdag 25 oktober 2017 16:04 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

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Nee, ik spreek namens het gros van de users hier. Geloof mij maar.

Dat jij je hier als een overtuigd Trumpist vol overgave op stort, was mij al langer duidelijk en dat moet je ook vooral doen.

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Op woensdag 25 oktober 2017 15:57 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

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Een eerder stuk van de betreffende auteur:

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Laten we zijn kijk op zaken dus maar met een korreltje zout nemen.

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Op woensdag 25 oktober 2017 16:17 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

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Zag het ja.

Maar hij gebruikt dezelfde frame als figuren zoals Hannity. Die lopen nu een hoop kabaal te maken en proberen de boel om te draaien, zodat het lijkt dat niet Trump, maar de Democraten hebben lopen samenspannen met de Russen.

Het is een vermoeiende, leugenachtige en ook wel enge manier van journalistiek bedrijven.

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Op woensdag 25 oktober 2017 16:17 schreef Chewie het volgende:

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Dan is het nogal onzinnig om in je laatste regel nog even de vorige president aan te halen aangezien dit niet onder zijn bewind plaats vond.

Of heb je nog echt een goede reden om Obama er bij te slepen?

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White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders did a complete reversal Tuesday, first dismissing The Washington Post as a source and then relying on it in her defense of President Donald Trump.

And it all unfolded over the space of about four hours.

“And as I’ve said many times before, I wouldn’t use The Washington Post as my source,” she said at roughly 4 p.m. EDT, after a questioner cited the newspaper. “You should know better than that.”

Yet, later on Twitter, she did exactly what she knew better than to do.

She used The Washington Post as a source in a tweet about the latest revelations on the Christopher Steele dossier:

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Bernie Sanders Won't Become a Democrat, Will Run as an Independent in 2018

Bernie Sanders has announced he will be running as an independent in 2018, prompting speculation over whether he will run as a Democrat presidential candidate in 2020. But the Vermont senator, who faced pressure to join the Democrats following his bid for the party’s 2016 nomination, said he had always been an independent and was not planning on making any changes in 2018.

“I am an independent and I have always run in Vermont as an independent while I caucus with the Democrats in the United States Senate. That’s what I’ve been doing for a long time, and that’s what I’ll continue to do,” Sanders said in a Sunday-night interview with Fox News.

The politician did not comment on the push to join the Democratic Party following a failed resolution to demand that Sanders and fellow independent Angus King, from Maine, run as Democrats in 2018.

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Op woensdag 25 oktober 2017 12:42 schreef grrrrg het volgende:

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Refragmental heeft mij ook geblockt. Hij kan gewoon niet tegen onze argumenten op.

Ik ben trouwens wel aardig bang van oom Donald aan het worden. Hij gaat aardig de richting van Adolf Hitler op.

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Op woensdag 25 oktober 2017 15:47 schreef nostra het volgende:

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Die Ed Krassenstein is geen bot en er binnen luttele seconden bij, blijft me verbazen dat die mensen zoveel tijd over hebben. Overigens geen Trumpanzee.

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Op woensdag 25 oktober 2017 00:07 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:

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Ik kan hem serieus amper meer aanhoren. Echt mentale en fysieke weerzin.
Maar dat had ik eerder al eens gepost

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GOP investigates Russian granted US entry by Obama administration while under FBI investigation for bribery

The Obama administration awarded a visa allowing a top Russian nuclear executive to enter the United States after the FBI had already gathered substantial evidence he was involved in a racketeering scheme involving bribery, kickbacks, extortion and money laundering, court records show.

The records show TENEX executive Vadim Mikerin was engaged in illegal conduct as early as the fall of 2009, yet he was allowed to enter the country by the Obama administration with a L1 temporary work visa when he arrived in December 2011.

Milkerin’s visa was renewed in August 2014, just months before he was arrested and charged with extortion, the records show. He and his company applied for the visa in summer 2011, records show.

The lengthy delay is now being investigated by multiple GOP-led congressional committees, one of which sent a letter Tuesday to the State Department and Homeland Security Department demanding answers.

“It is concerning that a suspected criminal was able to apply for and renew a work visa while being under FBI investigation,” Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) wrote in the letter.

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Trump-Russia investigators gathering documents from estate of Republican operative, sources say

U.S. Senate investigators sought and received materials from the estate of Peter W. Smith, a longtime Republican operative who reportedly acknowledged shortly before his death that he spearheaded an effort to obtain missing Hillary Clinton emails from Russian hackers, two sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.

Smith, a private-equity executive from Chicago who had been active in Republican politics, died at age 81 on May 14. Ten days earlier, he told a reporter from the Wall Street Journal that he had led a robust bid during the early months of the 2016 presidential contest to find what he thought were hacked copies of Clinton’s emails in hopes of using them against her during the campaign.

Of interest to investigators, the sources told ABC News, are documents and electronic communications that could help determine whether Smith worked in concert with anyone from the campaign of then-candidate Donald Trump. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has asked for those documents and the Smith estate has begun turning them over, the sources said.

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Trump Data Guru: I Tried to Team Up With Julian Assange
The head of Cambridge Analytica said he asked the WikiLeaks founder for help finding Hillary Clinton’s 33,000 deleted emails.

Alexander Nix, who heads a controversial data-analytics firm that worked for President Donald Trump’s campaign, wrote in an email last year that he reached out to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange about Hillary Clinton’s missing 33,000 emails.

Nix, who heads Cambridge Analytica, told a third party that he reached out to Assange about his firm somehow helping the WikiLeaks editor release Clinton’s missing emails, according to two sources familiar with a congressional investigation into interactions between Trump associates and the Kremlin. Those sources also relayed that, according to Nix’s email, Assange told the Cambridge Analytica CEO that he didn’t want his help, and preferred to do the work on his own.

If the claims Nix made in that email are true, this would be the closest known connection between Trump’s campaign and Assange.

Cambridge Analytica did not provide comment for this story by press time.

After publication, Assange provided this statement to The Daily Beast: ”We can confirm an approach by Cambridge Analytica and can confirm that it was rejected by WikiLeaks.”

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