[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #458

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Op vrijdag 2 februari 2018 09:58 schreef Freak188 het volgende:

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The Mooch is vanavond bij Bill Maher. Mij benieuwen.

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Op vrijdag 2 februari 2018 13:24 schreef Fir3fly het volgende:
Was het al bekend dat die Nunes het originele document waar zijn vage memo op gebaseerd is niet eens gelezen heeft? Gaat zo snel hier... .

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Op vrijdag 2 februari 2018 14:36 schreef grrrrg het volgende:
Het is nu wel overduidelijk dat oom Donald iets heel ernstigs heeft te verbergen.

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Op vrijdag 2 februari 2018 15:11 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Hoogverraad? Lijkt me niet dat je dat juridisch hard kunt maken, aangezien ze niet in oorlog zijn met Rusland of dat Rusland als vijand gezien kan worden in deze context... denk ik. Dit is de definitie zoals in de grondwet staat:

Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.

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Donald Trump Is Playing a Dangerous Game of Nuclear Poker

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Since 1993, the Department of Energy has had to be ready to conduct a nuclear test within two to three years if ordered by the President. Late last year, the Trump Administration ordered the department to be ready, for the first time, to conduct a short-notice nuclear test in as little as six months.

That is not enough time to install the warhead in shafts as deep as 4,000 ft. and affix all the proper technical instrumentation and diagnostics equipment. But the purpose of such a detonation, which the Administration labels “a simple test, with waivers and simplified processes,” would not be to ensure that the nation’s most powerful weapons were in operational order, or to check whether a new type of warhead worked, a TIME review of nuclear-policy documents has found. Rather, a National Nuclear Security Administration official tells TIME, such a test would be “conducted for political purposes.”

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U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has spent much of his first year trying to manage crises with North Korea, Syria, Iran and Venezuela. But he's largely alone at the highest levels of the State Department, a problem exacerbated after the senior career diplomat, Tom Shannon, announced on Thursday that he plans to leave for personal reasons.

With Shannon's departure, seven of the top nine jobs at the department will be empty. Those vacant posts include positions overseeing the agency's role in U.S. trade policy, stopping the spread of nuclear weapons, refugee issues and efforts to counter human trafficking.

The State Department and White House have traded accusations over which side is to blame for a shortage of nominations, and Tillerson has said many posts are being filled by capable career officials.

“We intend to fill these senior leadership roles,” said State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert. “In the interim, the responsibilities of the roles are carried out by career professionals. We continue to have a deep bench of experienced career professionals serving in key positions that are highly capable and able to help the Secretary lead the Department and advance U.S interests worldwide.”

But there's little doubt the pool of qualified nominees for top jobs is thin after the administration ruled out jobs for Republican foreign policy experts who opposed Trump during the election.

Morale at the department that was first led by Thomas Jefferson is also low, as Shannon joins an exodus of experienced diplomats. The U.S. ambassador to Panama quit last month, saying he could no longer represent the president.

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joshgerstein twitterde op vrijdag 02-02-2018 om 17:52:39 Who's going to play the memo in the movie? reageer retweet

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AP twitterde op vrijdag 02-02-2018 om 17:53:15 BREAKING: White House declassifies GOP memo on Russia probe, clearing way for House panel to release allegations of FBI misconduct. reageer retweet

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AP twitterde op vrijdag 02-02-2018 om 17:56:26 BREAKING: Trump on newly declassified GOP memo alleging FBI abuses: `A lot of people should be ashamed of themselves' reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op vrijdag 02-02-2018 om 17:55:18 WASHINGTON (AP) — White House declassifies GOP memo on Russia probe, clearing way for House panel to release allegations of FBI misconduct. reageer retweet

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ChadPergram twitterde op vrijdag 02-02-2018 om 17:47:55 When House Intel Cmte publishes memo, it will be declassified. We are told not to expext redactions reageer retweet

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ChadPergram twitterde op vrijdag 02-02-2018 om 17:53:45 McCain: The latest attacks on the FBI and Department of Justice serve no American interests - no party's, no president's, only Putin's. If we continue to undermine our own rule of law, we are doing Putin's job for him. reageer retweet

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jameshohmann twitterde op vrijdag 02-02-2018 om 18:02:11 Fox News got "exclusive first excerpts" of the Nunes memo to lead the top of noon hour, which will feed the narrative that this is a partisan exercise. reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 2 februari 2018 18:04 schreef Nintex het volgende:
No redactions

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But that's not how actual law works. In the world of actual law, there needs to be a good reason for the judge to think, once informed of the claim of bias, that the informant was just totally making it up. As United States v. Strifler shows, that isn't necessarily the case even if the government paid the informant to talk and guaranteed that they would get out of jail if they did. Nor is it necessarily the case just because the informant is in personal feud with the suspect. What matters is whether, based on the totality of the circumstances, the information came from a credible source.

That's a problem for #ReleaseTheMemo, I think. To my knowledge, Steele was not some random person motivated by an ongoing personal feud against Trump or Carter Page. To my knowledge, he was not a drug dealer facing criminal charges who was promised freedom if he could come up with something for the government's FISA application. Instead, Steele was a former MI6 intelligence officer and Russia expert. He was hired to do opposition research because of his professional reputation, expertise and contacts. And his work was apparently taken pretty seriously by United States intelligence agencies. Of course, that doesn't mean that what's in the dossier is true. Maybe the key allegations are totally wrong. But if you're trying to argue that Steele's funding sources ruin the credibility of his research, his professional training and background make that an uphill battle.