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Op vrijdag 2 februari 2018 23:39 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Die memo van de Dems....denken jullie dat Trump die gaat blokkeren na deze dud?

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A Q&A on the Nunes Memo and Its Implications for the Russia Investigation
With President Donald Trump’s blessing in hand, House Republicans released a memo Friday, spearheaded by Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), that accused senior Justice Department officials of not following proper protocols when seeking permission to spy on former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. The memo also insinuates that a bias against Trump may have been a motivating factor for some of the people involved in the investigation.

The FBI, senior officials of the Justice Department, Senate Republicans and Nunes’ Democratic counterpart on the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), all warned against releasing the memo, saying it painted an incomplete and misleading picture of the underlying intelligence that supported the FISA warrant application for Page. Meanwhile, the president has reportedly been telling his friends that the memo “would expose bias within the FBI’s top ranks and make it easier for him to argue the Russia investigations are prejudiced against him.” (Just Security).

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One of its chief accusations centers on investigators’ inclusion in the FISA warrant application of material from a former British spy, Christopher Steele. Mr. Steele was researching possible ties between Russia’s election interference and Trump associates, but the application did not explain that he was financed by the Democratic National Committee and lawyers for Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

But a Democratic memo written to rebut the Republican document says that the F.B.I. was more forthcoming with the surveillance court than the Republicans say. The F.B.I. told the court that the information it received from Mr. Steele was politically motivated, although the agency did not specifically identify the information as financed by Democrats, according to two people familiar with the Democratic memo.

It is not clear to what extent the FISA application hinges on the material provided by Mr. Steele. In December 2017, the Republican memo said, Andrew G. McCabe, then the deputy director of the F.B.I., told the House Intelligence Committee that no surveillance would have been sought without Mr. Steele’s information.

But the people familiar with the Democratic memo said that Republicans had distorted what Mr. McCabe told the intelligence committee about the importance of the information from Mr. Steele. Mr. McCabe presented the material as part of a constellation of compelling evidence that raised serious suspicions about Mr. Page, the two people said. The evidence included contacts Mr. Page had in 2013 with a Russian intelligence operative.

Mr. Page’s contacts with the Russian operative led to an investigation of Mr. Page that year, including a wiretap on him, another person familiar with the matter said.

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Op vrijdag 2 februari 2018 23:41 schreef SureD1 het volgende:

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Die is niet nodig toch, elke gek met meer dan twee werkende hersencellen ziet dat die Nunesburger niks is, ja meer ammo voor Mueller...

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Op vrijdag 2 februari 2018 23:48 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Ergens wel jammer dat er niet meer mensen zijn met een tegengeluid .. het is zo eenzijdig

Je hebt wel Nintex, maar als je hem/haar een tegengeluid geeft, dan volgt er meestal gewoon een ongerelateerde tweet.

Er is dus geen discussie whatsoever.

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Op vrijdag 2 februari 2018 23:48 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Ergens wel jammer dat er niet meer mensen zijn met een tegengeluid .. het is zo eenzijdig

Je hebt wel Nintex, maar als je hem/haar een tegengeluid geeft, dan volgt er meestal gewoon een ongerelateerde tweet.

Er is dus geen discussie whatsoever.

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Op vrijdag 2 februari 2018 23:51 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:

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Dat zat ik me vandaag ook te bedenken. Op reddit is het zo mogelijk nog gepolariseerder. Er zijn nog maar weinig plekken waar fatsoenlijke discussie mogelijk is.

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Op vrijdag 2 februari 2018 23:58 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Op reddit ben ik, zoals wel vaker aangegeven, een grote voorstander van /r/neutralpolitics

Het is niet perfect, maar je wordt geforceerd om wat je als feit zegt te sourcen, wat voor politico's wel goed is.

In algemene zin qua discussies vind ik dit wel een enorm goede raad:
1) You should attempt to re-express your target's position so clearly, vividly, and fairly that your target says, 'Thanks, I wish I'd thought of putting it that way.'
2) You should list any points of agreement (especially if they are not matters of general or widespread agreement)
3) You should mention anything you have learned from your target
4) Only then are you permitted to say so much as a word of rebuttal or criticism.

Dit is op zich handhaafbaar, maar vergt wel enorme inspanning en is misschien meer iets voor wetenschap dan politiek.

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Op vrijdag 2 februari 2018 23:54 schreef SureD1 het volgende:

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Er is toch ook niks meer te bediscussiëren? Er lopen tea party leden bij hem weg. Hij liegt over letterlijk alles, en hij heeft een functioneel geheugen van 15 seconden... daar is debattechnisch geen eer meer aan te behalen.

Als ik zijn advocaat was zou ik zeggen: the Defence rests your Honor...

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Op vrijdag 2 februari 2018 23:54 schreef SureD1 het volgende:

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Er is toch ook niks meer te bediscussiëren? Er lopen tea party leden bij hem weg.

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A home improvement contractor married to one of Donald and Melania Trump’s former household staffers is now working as an official at the Environmental Protection Agency, the latest example of someone with a personal connection to the Trump family finding work in the administration.

New Jersey-based Steve Kopec joined EPA’s Region 2 office in New York as a special assistant on Dec. 18, according to a memo obtained by POLITICO. “Steve comes to us from private industry, where he fashioned his career around customer service and organizational efficiencies,” EPA Region 2 Administrator Pete Lopez wrote in the memo. “Steve is an experienced manager with skills in team building, management and organization.

According to public records, Kopec previously ran a contracting business from his home in Haskell, N.J., called Steve’s Tools in Motion. Kopec’s wife, Dagmara, previously worked for the Trump family in New York, according to a person familiar with her situation.

“Mr. Kopec is a hard-working, dedicated employee and we appreciate his service, in supporting environmental protection efforts in New York, New Jersey, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico,” EPA spokeswoman Liz Bowman said in a statement.

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Op zaterdag 3 februari 2018 00:04 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Het kan dat Gowdy aast op de stoel van Rosenstein.

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Op zaterdag 3 februari 2018 00:03 schreef SureD1 het volgende:

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Zou ik zo voor zijn...

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Op zaterdag 3 februari 2018 00:03 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Hoe bedoel je? Er is een paar maanden terug nog een belastingwet doorheen geramd die de staatsschuld met ~1.5 biljoen verhoogt. DACA is niet geregeld. De muur is niet geregeld. Er is enorm veel om over te hebben ... de amerikaanse politiek is niet alleen de president, hoe graag Trump dat ook zou hebben.

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TAIPEI — A year after a newly elected Donald Trump enraged China by taking a congratulatory phone call from the president of Taiwan, the pro-American island nation is pleading for Trump’s protection against Beijing’s bullying.

At the same time, Republicans in Congress are pressuring Trump with pro-Taiwan legislation that could strain his delicate relationship with China.

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China is already warning Trump to back off: One senior Chinese diplomat visiting Washington in December warned that his country would invade Taiwan if U.S. Navy ships dock in Taiwanese ports, an idea proposed in the annual defense spending bill Trump signed in December.

In exclusive interviews here with POLITICO, Taiwanese officials urged Trump to stand firm, saying that Beijing has stepped up a campaign of political and military intimidation during the president’s first year in office.

“Mainland China has a big strategy to exercise more political pressure toward Taiwan,” said Chang Hsiao-Yueh, Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council Minister. Chang and other officials here urged the Trump administration to step up its support for Taipei.

The result is a foreign policy conundrum for Trump, who has said he wants to stand up to China’s regional aggression — but who also wants Chinese President Xi Jinping’s help on North Korea and trade issues.

While Trump’s Taiwan policy remains unclear, Congress is taking a lead role. In January, the House passed legislation encouraging more diplomatic contacts between Trump officials and their Taiwanese counterparts. That, too, has angered Beijing, which considers Taiwan a “renegade province” of China that should not have direct relations with America.

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Op vrijdag 2 februari 2018 23:58 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Op reddit ben ik, zoals wel vaker aangegeven, een grote voorstander van /r/neutralpolitics

Het is niet perfect, maar je wordt geforceerd om wat je als feit zegt te sourcen, wat voor politico's wel goed is.

In algemene zin qua discussies vind ik dit wel een enorm goede raad:
1) You should attempt to re-express your target's position so clearly, vividly, and fairly that your target says, 'Thanks, I wish I'd thought of putting it that way.'
2) You should list any points of agreement (especially if they are not matters of general or widespread agreement)
3) You should mention anything you have learned from your target
4) Only then are you permitted to say so much as a word of rebuttal or criticism.

Dit is op zich handhaafbaar, maar vergt wel enorme inspanning en is misschien meer iets voor wetenschap dan politiek.

SPOILER

Ben twee keer naar een lezing van hem geweest

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Op zaterdag 3 februari 2018 00:29 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Hé Daniel Dennett!

How to Criticize with Kindness: Philosopher Daniel Dennett on the Four Steps to Arguing Intelligently

SPOILER

Ben twee keer naar een lezing van hem geweest

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Op zaterdag 3 februari 2018 00:48 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:
Nunes geeft toe dat hij de onderliggende informatie niet heeft gelezen, Gowdy wel. https://www.reuters.com/a(...)g-memo-idUSKBN1FM2V7

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Representative Devin Nunes told Fox News Channel the committee had arranged with the Justice Department to allow a limited number of people to read the relevant documents as part of the panel's own investigation into Russian meddling in the U.S. presidential election.

"I thought the best person on our committee was the chairman of the Oversight Committee, Trey Gowdy, who has a long career as a federal prosecutor, to go and do this. And then they, over a series of meetings, would come back and brief us, the committee members," Nunes said.

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Op zaterdag 3 februari 2018 00:48 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:
Nunes geeft toe dat hij de onderliggende informatie niet heeft gelezen, Gowdy wel. https://www.reuters.com/a(...)g-memo-idUSKBN1FM2V7

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Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Friday went off-script during a speech to praise Rod Rosenstein shortly before the release of a GOP-authored memo reportedly targeting the deputy attorney general. During his remarks at a Department of Justice event on sex-trafficking issues, Sessions thanked Rosenstein and Associate Attorney General Rachel Brand, saying, “Those two—Rod and Rachel—are Harvard graduates, they’re experienced lawyers. Rod had 27 years in the department. Rachel’s had a number of years in the department previously and so they both represent the kind of quality and leadership that we want in the department.” President Trump has reportedly viewed the memo—even before ever reading it—as a way to build a public argument against Rosenstein’s handling of the Russia probe.

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Op zaterdag 3 februari 2018 00:48 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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<3

Btw: Democratic countermemo claims FBI revealed Steele funding in FISA application: report

Dit zou dus een talking point onderuit halen, maar ik zie dat niet terug in hun bron, wat dit artikel van de nytimes is: House Republicans Release Secret Memo Accusing Russia Investigators of Bias

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But a Democratic memo written to rebut the Republican document says that the F.B.I. was more forthcoming with the surveillance court than the Republicans say. The F.B.I. told the court that the information it received from Mr. Steele was politically motivated, although the agency did not specifically identify the information as financed by Democrats, according to two people familiar with the Democratic memo.

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Op zaterdag 3 februari 2018 01:20 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Het gaat om deze alinea:

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Op zaterdag 3 februari 2018 01:25 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Nee, ik zie het niet, maar ik ben ook echt te moe nu .. bedankt voor de moeite

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Op zaterdag 3 februari 2018 01:30 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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De Rep. memo stelt dat er bij de aanvraag niet vermeld is dat Clinton het dossier gefinancierd heeft terwijl de Dem. memo aangeeft dat de FBI vermeld heeft dat het dossier 'politically motivated' was. De rechter wist dus dat het om een partisan dossier ging.

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Op zaterdag 3 februari 2018 01:34 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Oh, "The FBI told the court that the information it received from Mr. Steele was politically motivated"

Ohhhhh... goed, ... bed nu ..

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Lawyers are laying the groundwork for a new legal defense fund to aid those who have at one point served candidate and now President Donald Trump and who have been pulled into the ongoing Russia probe.

The fund, called the "Patriot Legal Expense Fund," is being looked to as a way to provide financial support for any legal bills incurred by any individual who "was an employee, consultant, fundraised or volunteer" on behalf of President Trump’s campaign, according to a document labeled “draft” that was posted on the Office of Government Ethics website.

The document, written by lawyers from Wiley Rein LLP, is dated Jan. 29, 2018, but it is unclear who started the fund or how much in assets the funds currently hold.

However, separately the Trump campaign which spent $1.1 million on legal fees last quarter included a $10,000 payment to the same law firm for “legal consulting,” according to FEC filings. A source with knowledge says the campaign did hire the law firm to start the fund, but that the campaign will have no role in the day to day management or the funding of the project.

A current Trump campaign official declined to comment when reached by ABC News.

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Op zaterdag 3 februari 2018 00:48 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:
Nunes geeft toe dat hij de onderliggende informatie niet heeft gelezen, Gowdy wel. https://www.reuters.com/a(...)g-memo-idUSKBN1FM2V7

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"I don't believe somebody like Mr. Page should be a target of the FBI," Nunes says

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Nunes, asked if they'll vote to release the Democrats' rebuttal memo:

"Yeah, we will."

"I've only read through it once."

twitter:

kylegriffin1 twitterde op zaterdag 03-02-2018 om 01:35:11 Per pool, Trump has arrived at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida.This is Trump's 122nd day at a Trump property as president. reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 2 februari 2018 23:48 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Ergens wel jammer dat er niet meer mensen zijn met een tegengeluid .. het is zo eenzijdig

Je hebt wel Nintex, maar als je hem/haar een tegengeluid geeft, dan volgt er meestal gewoon een ongerelateerde tweet.

Er is dus geen discussie whatsoever.

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Op zaterdag 3 februari 2018 02:00 schreef Szura het volgende:
Trump ging weer eens zonder voorbereiding een meeting in. Dit zijn de resultaten.

https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/959578349327847424

‘Mexico doet niks he!?!??’ Oh wacht:
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Ze zouden hem moeten vragen voor dat spelletje van De Vakantieman:
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President Obama speaking at a press conference with President Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico

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Trump’s “bloody nose” strategy must be completely off the table
The so-called “bloody nose” strategy, referring to a limited preventive strike against North Korea, has gone public following the withdrawal of Victor Cha’s nomination as US Ambassador to South Korea. The bloody nose is one of the Donald Trump administration’s military options: a small-scale, limited surgical strike against North Korean nuclear sites or other nuclear facilities that ostensibly would not provoke a response from North Korea.

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Meanwhile, the Russia scandal is raising the possibility that Trump not only faces a difficult road to re-election but could end up impeached. Depending on how the mid-term elections in November turn out, he could find himself a lame duck. This raises the troubling question of whether he might consider a strike against North Korea as a way out of his domestic political crisis.

Indeed, White House National Security Council senior director for Asian affairs Matthew Pottinger was reported as saying in a recent closed-door meeting with US experts on Korean Peninsula issues that a limited strike on the North “might help in the midterm elections.” (Hankyoreh).

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Op zaterdag 3 februari 2018 02:36 schreef Nibb-it het volgende:
Ondertussen in Korea...

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Kennelijk nog geen bevestiging uit andere Koreaanse bronnen, dus neem het met een korrel zout.

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Op zaterdag 3 februari 2018 02:45 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Djeez...een aanval gebruiken om verkiezingen te beinvloeden

twitter:

NatashaBertrand twitterde op zaterdag 03-02-2018 om 00:14:08 Some news: Devin Nunes’ Democratic opponent, @JanzforCongress, raised over $100,000 today alone with news of the memo release, per a senior campaign aide. reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 3 februari 2018 03:15 schreef Nibb-it het volgende:

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NatashaBertrand twitterde op zaterdag 03-02-2018 om 00:14:08 Some news: Devin Nunes’ Democratic opponent, @JanzforCongress, raised over $100,000 today alone with news of the memo release, per a senior campaign aide. reageer retweet

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Russian intelligence operatives tried in 2013 to recruit an American businessman and eventual foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign who is now part of the F.B.I. investigation into Russia’s interference into the American election, according to federal court documents and a statement issued by the businessman.

The businessman, Carter Page, met with one of three Russians who were eventually charged with being undeclared officers with Russia’s foreign intelligence service, known as the S.V.R. The F.B.I. interviewed Mr. Page in 2013 as part of an investigation into the spy ring, but decided that he had not known the man was a spy, and the bureau never accused Mr. Page of wrongdoing.

The court documents say that Mr. Page, who founded an investment company in New York called Global Energy Capital, provided documents about the energy business to one of the Russians, Victor Podobnyy, thinking he was a businessman who could help with brokering deals in Russia.

In fact, Mr. Podobnyy was an S.V.R. officer posing as an attaché at the Russian mission to the United Nations.

Court documents do not identify Mr. Page, but the details in a statement he emailed to reporters on Tuesday match the individual described as “Male-1” in the court case. Mr. Page’s contact with the Russian spy was first reported on Monday by BuzzFeed News.

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The disclosure is the latest to shed light on Mr. Page’s extensive contacts with Russian businessmen and government officials. A former Moscow-based investment banker for Merrill Lynch, Mr. Page joined the Trump campaign last year and traveled to Russia in July to deliver a speech to the New Economic School, a Moscow university.

The trip caught the attention of United States intelligence agencies. Later that month, the F.B.I. opened a counterintelligence investigation into Russian attempts to influence the presidential election and whether any of Mr. Trump’s associates were involved in that effort. American businessmen who visit Russia, even those who are not advising a presidential campaign, are frequently targeted by Russian operatives trying to collect information about the United States.

Mr. Page has given few specifics about whom he met with on that trip. In an interview with The New York Times last month, he said he had met with “mostly scholars.”

According to the court documents filed in 2015, the F.B.I. secretly recorded Mr. Podobnyy and another Russian operative named Igor Sporyshev discussing efforts to recruit Mr. Page, who was then working in New York as a consultant.

To record their conversations, the F.B.I. inserted a listening device into binders that were passed to the Russian intelligence operatives during an energy conference, according to a former United States intelligence official. The Russians then took the binders into a secure room where they thought they could evade American intelligence eavesdropping attempts.

In a transcript of the conversation included in the court documents, Mr. Podobnyy tells his Russian colleague that Mr. Page frequently flies to Moscow and is interested in earning large sums of money. Mr. Page was apparently interested in striking a deal with Gazprom, the Russian state-run oil firm, according to the transcript. Mr. Podobnyy called Mr. Page an “idiot” but said he was enthusiastic.

Russian intelligence officers had been given the task of gathering information on potential United States sanctions against their country, according to the F.B.I., and the three men were focused on economic issues in particular. The third Russian spy, Evgeny Buryakov, posed as an employee of a Russian bank. Mr. Sporyshev worked as a trade representative of the Russian Federation in New York.

Mr. Podobnyy promised through his contacts with Russian trade officials to steer contracts to Mr. Page.

“I will feed him empty promises,” he was overheard saying, according to the transcript.

In June 2013, the F.B.I. interviewed Mr. Page, who said he had first met Mr. Podobnyy at an energy symposium in New York earlier that year. Mr. Page said that he had exchanged emails with Mr. Podobnyy about the energy business, that they had met in person once to talk about the energy industry, and that he had also given Mr. Podobnyy documents about the energy business.

In his emailed statement, Mr. Page said, “as I explained to federal authorities prior to the January 2015 filing of this case, I shared basic immaterial information and publicly available research documents with Podobnyy who then served as a junior attaché at the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the United Nations.”

Mr. Page, who at the time was also teaching a course on energy and politics at New York University, said in his statement that he had given the Russian “nothing more than a few samples from the far more detailed lectures I was preparing at the time for the students.”

Though charged, Mr. Podobnyy and Mr. Sporyshev were protected by diplomatic immunity from arrest and prosecution while in the United States, but Mr. Buryakov, who was working under what is known as “non-official cover,” had entered the United States as a private citizen and did not have diplomatic immunity. Mr. Buryakov was arrested in 2015 and later pleaded guilty to conspiring to act as an unregistered foreign agent. Last year, he was sentenced to 30 months in prison.

“Evgeny Buryakov, in the guise of being a legitimate banker, gathered intelligence as an agent of the Russian Federation in New York,” Preet Bharara, the United States attorney in Manhattan at the time, said in a statement after Mr. Buryakov’s sentencing.

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Op zaterdag 3 februari 2018 01:34 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Oh, "The FBI told the court that the information it received from Mr. Steele was politically motivated"

Ohhhhh... goed, ... bed nu ..

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The Justice Department made “ample disclosure of relevant, material facts” to the court that revealed “the research was being paid for by a political entity,” said one official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the matter’s sensitivity.

“No thinking person who read any of these applications would come to any other conclusion but that” the work was being undertaken “at the behest of people with a partisan aim and that it was being done in opposition to Trump,” the official said.

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Trump has fired one FBI director. He has repeatedly bad-mouthed his own attorney general, Jeff Sessions. He is vague about whether to keep Rosenstein on but almost certainly won't forgive the deputy attorney general. He publicly pressured deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe to resign. He rejected the advice of Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray, Trump's handpicked replacement for Comey, not to release the Nunes memo.

The Point: It's not too much to say that Trump is at open war with his own Justice Department. And we've never seen anything like that before.

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Washington (CNN)House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes hinted Friday that there would be additional memos released regarding the committee's investigation into alleged abuse of FISA warrants -- and the next one may look at the State Department.

On Friday, President Donald Trump approved the declassification of a highly controversial memo, spearheaded by Nunes, that alleges FBI abuses of its surveillance authority.
When asked on Fox News if more memos would come out, the California Republican responded: "Yes, this completes just the FISA abuse portion of our investigation."

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Op zaterdag 3 februari 2018 02:17 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Er kan best een intelligente wisseling van standpunten zijn, maar als het argument van team A, zoals altijd begint met: "Team B is dom en A heeft altijd gelijk" dan kom je nergens.

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Ik zit zelf een beetje tussen Peterson en Scott Adams in. Aan de ene kant een fel tegenstander van de marxistische/progressieve wind die waait in veel instituten, zoals Peterson aan de andere kant zie ik meer in de humoristische/troll benadering van Adams dan het opgeheven vingertje van Peterson. Feit is dat een Adams of Peterson nooit verder komt dan vanaf de zijlijn roepen, omdat zij niet het narcistische/egotrippende trekje hebben dat je nodig hebt als wereldleider.

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Op zaterdag 3 februari 2018 09:39 schreef Oostwoud het volgende:
https://www.vox.com/2018/(...)ead-pdf-declassified
http://www.washingtonexam(...)says/article/2647937
http://thehill.com/opinio(...).WnSA924r_U1.twitter

Ik hoop dat vele mensen die betrokken zijn bij dit soort praktijken geïdentificeerd gaan worden. Hillary Clinton heeft nu toch wel e.e.a. uit te leggen, haar hulpjes ook. Clinton en co. hebben de bijl gezet in de trias politica. Maar het lijkt mij dat dit nog hoger en dieper gaat.

Donald Trump Jr. pleit er nu voor om het rapport van de inspector-general vrij te geven.
https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/959481228692000768
https://ratcliffe.house.g(...)a-abused-highlighted

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Op zaterdag 3 februari 2018 09:39 schreef Oostwoud het volgende:
https://www.vox.com/2018/(...)ead-pdf-declassified
http://www.washingtonexam(...)says/article/2647937
http://thehill.com/opinio(...).WnSA924r_U1.twitter

Ik hoop dat vele mensen die betrokken zijn bij dit soort praktijken geïdentificeerd gaan worden. Hillary Clinton heeft nu toch wel e.e.a. uit te leggen, haar hulpjes ook. Clinton en co. hebben de bijl gezet in de trias politica. Maar het lijkt mij dat dit nog hoger en dieper gaat.

Donald Trump Jr. pleit er nu voor om het rapport van de inspector-general vrij te geven.
https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/959481228692000768
https://ratcliffe.house.g(...)a-abused-highlighted

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Op zaterdag 3 februari 2018 09:39 schreef Oostwoud het volgende:
https://www.vox.com/2018/(...)ead-pdf-declassified
http://www.washingtonexam(...)says/article/2647937
http://thehill.com/opinio(...).WnSA924r_U1.twitter

Ik hoop dat vele mensen die betrokken zijn bij dit soort praktijken geïdentificeerd gaan worden. Hillary Clinton heeft nu toch wel e.e.a. uit te leggen, haar hulpjes ook. Clinton en co. hebben de bijl gezet in de trias politica. Maar het lijkt mij dat dit nog hoger en dieper gaat.

Donald Trump Jr. pleit er nu voor om het rapport van de inspector-general vrij te geven.
https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/959481228692000768
https://ratcliffe.house.g(...)a-abused-highlighted

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Op zaterdag 3 februari 2018 02:17 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Op zaterdag 3 februari 2018 10:05 schreef Barbusse het volgende:

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Clinton heeft helemaal niks uit te leggen wat al niet uitgelegd is

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Op zaterdag 3 februari 2018 10:07 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Op zich zou men Benghazi nog eens kunnen onderzoeken. En haar emails.

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“In this political atmosphere, anything critical of the F.B.I. will be used against it,” said Jack Goldsmith, a top Justice Department official in the George W. Bush administration.

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Op zaterdag 3 februari 2018 09:49 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Ik dacht dat Don Jr zich niet met politiek zou bemoeien.

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Op zaterdag 3 februari 2018 10:29 schreef Barbusse het volgende:
De memo was een teurstelling, zoals verwacht. Maar wel met een zeker effect: How Trump’s Allies Fanned an Ember of Controversy Into Flames of Outrage

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Op zaterdag 3 februari 2018 10:41 schreef grrrrg het volgende:
Weet iemand al iets meer waarom die Russische chefs vorige week op bezoek waren in de VS, ondanks de ban waaronder die personen vallen?
Ik vond het nogal verdacht, net een dag voor de release van de memo.

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Op zaterdag 3 februari 2018 10:41 schreef grrrrg het volgende:
Weet iemand al iets meer waarom die Russische chefs vorige week op b Kooezoek waren in de VS, ondanks de ban waaronder die personen vallen?
Ik vond het nogal verdacht, net een dag voor de release van de memo.

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Op zaterdag 3 februari 2018 12:03 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Het was een Friday Night Mèh Sucker.

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Op zaterdag 3 februari 2018 11:14 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
Statement van McCain al gelezen?

“In 2016, the Russian government engaged in an elaborate plot to interfere in an American election and undermine our democracy. Russia employed the same tactics it has used to influence elections around the world, from France and Germany to Ukraine, Montenegro, and beyond. Putin’s regime launched cyberattacks and spread disinformation with the goal of sowing chaos and weakening faith in our institutions. And while we have no evidence that these efforts affected the outcome of our election, I fear they succeeded in fueling political discord and dividing us from one another.

“The latest attacks on the FBI and Department of Justice serve no American interests – no party’s, no president’s, only Putin’s. The American people deserve to know all of the facts surrounding Russia’s ongoing efforts to subvert our democracy, which is why Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation must proceed unimpeded. Our nation’s elected officials, including the president, must stop looking at this investigation through the warped lens of politics and manufacturing partisan sideshows. If we continue to undermine our own rule of law, we are doing Putin’s job for him.”

https://www.mccain.senate(...)ED-B42E-594EDBE182C1

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Op zaterdag 3 februari 2018 12:07 schreef Szura het volgende:

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McCain met grote woorden, gaaaaaapp
McCain

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Op zaterdag 3 februari 2018 12:13 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Hij moet zijn mond houden?

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Op zaterdag 3 februari 2018 12:18 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Dat is zo voor de vrijwel complete GOP.

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Op zaterdag 3 februari 2018 12:07 schreef Szura het volgende:

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McCain met grote woorden, gaaaaaapp
McCain

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Op zaterdag 3 februari 2018 15:07 schreef FlipjeHolland het volgende:
John 'POW' McCain is echt een schoolvoorbeeld van een 'links lullen, rechts vullen' persoon.

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Op zaterdag 3 februari 2018 15:07 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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McCain lult echt totaal niet links hoor.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op zaterdag 03-02-2018 om 15:15:00 Janes Comey’s former assistant and FBI supervisory special agent Josh Campbell is leaving the bureau: “My resignation is painful, but the alternative of remaining quiet while the bureau is tarnished for political gain is impossible.” https://t.co/58YpdBIDYR reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 3 februari 2018 15:16 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Voor sommigen ben je al een communist als je niet siegheilend door de straten marcheert.

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Op zaterdag 3 februari 2018 15:19 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op zaterdag 03-02-2018 om 15:15:00 Janes Comey’s former assistant and FBI supervisory special agent Josh Campbell is leaving the bureau: “My resignation is painful, but the alternative of remaining quiet while the bureau is tarnished for political gain is impossible.” https://t.co/58YpdBIDYR reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zaterdag 03-02-2018 om 15:40:23 Rasmussen just announced that my approval rating jumped to 49%, a far better number than I had in winning the Election, and higher than certain “sacred cows.” Other Trump polls are way up also. So why does the media refuse to write this? Oh well, someday! reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 3 februari 2018 15:48 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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"It's the economy stupid"

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Dreun Dow grootste in twee jaar

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Op zaterdag 3 februari 2018 15:48 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zaterdag 03-02-2018 om 15:40:23 Rasmussen just announced that my approval rating jumped to 49%, a far better number than I had in winning the Election, and higher than certain “sacred cows.” Other Trump polls are way up also. So why does the media refuse to write this? Oh well, someday! reageer retweet

Trump approval rating naar de 49% nog een kleine 2% en hij zit weer in het groen.
"It's the economy stupid"

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zaterdag 03-02-2018 om 15:40:27 This memo totally vindicates “Trump” in probe. But the Russian Witch Hunt goes on and on. Their was no Collusion and there was no Obstruction (the word now used because, after one year of looking endlessly and finding NOTHING, collusion is dead). This is an American disgrace! reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 3 februari 2018 16:19 schreef Mike het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zaterdag 03-02-2018 om 15:40:27 This memo totally vindicates “Trump” in probe. But the Russian Witch Hunt goes on and on. Their was no Collusion and there was no Obstruction (the word now used because, after one year of looking endlessly and finding NOTHING, collusion is dead). This is an American disgrace! reageer retweet

Zou Trump het memo gelezen hebben? Zo ja, dan zou-ie geweten hebben dat het hele stuk niks met het onderzoek van Mueller te maken heeft.

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Op zaterdag 3 februari 2018 16:12 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Rasmussen wordt wel standaard een procentpunt of 6-7 naar beneden afgesteld in het overzicht van 538, maar de stijgende lijn is niet te ontkennen.

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Op zaterdag 3 februari 2018 17:25 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
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Op zaterdag 3 februari 2018 16:19 schreef Mike het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zaterdag 03-02-2018 om 15:40:27 This memo totally vindicates “Trump” in probe. But the Russian Witch Hunt goes on and on. Their was no Collusion and there was no Obstruction (the word now used because, after one year of looking endlessly and finding NOTHING, collusion is dead). This is an American disgrace! reageer retweet

Zou Trump het memo gelezen hebben? Zo ja, dan zou-ie geweten hebben dat het hele stuk niks met het onderzoek van Mueller te maken heeft.

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Op zaterdag 3 februari 2018 17:48 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:
Eh,wie zijn de sacred cows? Hij lijkt steeds verder te ontrafelen.

Nintex, je bewijst weer dat alle kritiek naar je toe terecht is door wederom op geen enkele reactie op je post in te gaan.

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Op zaterdag 3 februari 2018 17:48 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:
Eh,wie zijn de sacred cows? Hij lijkt steeds verder te ontrafelen.

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Op zaterdag 3 februari 2018 18:37 schreef Ulx het volgende:
"Their was no"....

Their?

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Op zaterdag 3 februari 2018 18:27 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:

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Clinton uiteraard.

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Op zaterdag 3 februari 2018 19:02 schreef popolon het volgende:
spelvauten, echt ..... Leest 'ie z'n eigen rotzooi wel?

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Op zaterdag 3 februari 2018 19:02 schreef popolon het volgende:
spelvauten, echt ..... Leest 'ie z'n eigen rotzooi wel?

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Op zaterdag 3 februari 2018 20:08 schreef SureD1 het volgende:

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Zijn geen fouten, zijn de nieuwe Betsy DeVos grammatica regels...

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Op zondag 4 februari 2018 00:47 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Xhoezo? Omdat Trump het zegt?

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Op zondag 4 februari 2018 00:57 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Nee, omdat de Memo duidelijk aan geeft wie het dossier heeft gefinancieerd, dat Steele voor de FBI werkte en Trump en zijn team wel degelijk afgeluisterd werd.

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Op zondag 4 februari 2018 01:17 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Dit was de claim: “Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my "wires tapped" in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!”

Hijzelf dus, in Trump tower, door Obama, vlak voor 8 november 2016. Waarom zou je hierover liegen Nintex?

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Op zondag 4 februari 2018 01:19 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Wat lieg ik? Dat zeg ik toch, Trump is afgeluisterd. HIj had gelijk.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 04-02-2018 om 01:40:24 “The four page memo released Friday reports the disturbing fact about how the FBI and FISA appear to have been used to influence the 2016 election and its aftermath....The FBI failed to inform the FISA court that the Clinton campaign had funded the dossier....the FBI became.... reageer retweet

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Op zondag 4 februari 2018 01:21 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Carter Page is afgeluisterd. Niet Trump. Ook niet in opdracht van Obama voor zover we weten.

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Op zondag 4 februari 2018 01:44 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Trump en de waarheid

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 04-02-2018 om 01:40:24 “The four page memo released Friday reports the disturbing fact about how the FBI and FISA appear to have been used to influence the 2016 election and its aftermath....The FBI failed to inform the FISA court that the Clinton campaign had funded the dossier....the FBI became.... reageer retweet

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Op zondag 4 februari 2018 01:44 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Trump en de waarheid

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 04-02-2018 om 01:40:24 “The four page memo released Friday reports the disturbing fact about how the FBI and FISA appear to have been used to influence the 2016 election and its aftermath....The FBI failed to inform the FISA court that the Clinton campaign had funded the dossier....the FBI became.... reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 04-02-2018 om 01:53:18 ...a tool of anti-Trump political actors. This is unacceptable in a democracy and ought to alarm anyone who wants the FBI to be a nonpartisan enforcer of the law....The FBI wasn’t straight with Congress, as it hid most of these facts from investigators.” Wall Street Journal reageer retweet

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Op zondag 4 februari 2018 01:55 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 04-02-2018 om 01:53:18 ...a tool of anti-Trump political actors. This is unacceptable in a democracy and ought to alarm anyone who wants the FBI to be a nonpartisan enforcer of the law....The FBI wasn’t straight with Congress, as it hid most of these facts from investigators.” Wall Street Journal reageer retweet

De andere heflt. Trump citeert de WSJ die in deze gewoon gelijk heeft. Het is een blamage dat de FBI op deze manier achter Carter Page aan is gegaan. Een vals dossier, betaald door de Clinton campagne.

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Op zondag 4 februari 2018 01:55 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 04-02-2018 om 01:53:18 ...a tool of anti-Trump political actors. This is unacceptable in a democracy and ought to alarm anyone who wants the FBI to be a nonpartisan enforcer of the law....The FBI wasn’t straight with Congress, as it hid most of these facts from investigators.” Wall Street Journal reageer retweet

De andere heflt. Trump citeert de WSJ die in deze gewoon gelijk heeft. Het is een blamage dat de FBI op deze manier achter Carter Page aan is gegaan. Een vals dossier, betaald door de Clinton campagne.

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SethAbramson twitterde op zondag 04-02-2018 om 03:43:01 KEY POINT: The main allegation in Steele's dossier *isn't* that Putin has blackmail on Trump. It's *money laundering*. The claim is Trump took Russian money via shell corporations in exchange for a more favorable Russia policy. And what's Mueller looking at now? Money laundering. reageer retweet

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Former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page bragged that he was an adviser to the Kremlin in a letter obtained by TIME that raises new questions about the extent of Page’s contacts with the Russian government over the years.

The letter, dated Aug. 25, 2013, was sent by Page to an academic press during a dispute over edits to an unpublished manuscript he had submitted for publication, according to an editor who worked with Page.

“Over the past half year, I have had the privilege to serve as an informal advisor to the staff of the Kremlin in preparation for their Presidency of the G-20 Summit next month, where energy issues will be a prominent point on the agenda,” the letter reads.

SPOILER

Page is at the center of a controversial memo from Republican Congressman Devin Nunes, released this week. The Nunes memo claims that in Oct. 2016 the FBI improperly received court permission to spy on Page, whom Trump had named as an adviser to his campaign in March 2016. The Nunes memo says the FBI based its request for eavesdropping permission on information provided by former British spy Christopher Steele while Steele was working for Democrats.

House Democrats, the FBI and the Justice Department have all raised questions about what they say are omissions and misleading analysis in the Nunes memo. They argue the FBI presented multiple pieces of evidence, beyond the Steele dossier, in their request for a warrant against Page from the secretive FISA court. But President Donald Trump argued after declassifying the memo that it showed that “a lot of people should be ashamed of themselves.”

At the heart of the debate is the question of who, exactly, is Carter Page. Trump’s defenders argue that he was simply a low-level consultant to the campaign who has overstated his role as an adviser as well as his Russian contacts. The Steele dossier claims that during a trip to Moscow in July 2016, Page held secret meetings with a senior Kremlin official and a senior Putin ally that included conversations about helping Trump and hurting Hillary Clinton in the presidential campaign. The Steele dossier does not identify its sources and Page has denied any wrongdoing.

In interviews with reporters over the past year, Page has given inconsistent accounts about his contacts with the Russians.

In January 2013, Page met a Russian diplomat named Victor Podobnyy at an energy conference in New York City, according to court documents. The two exchanged contact information, sent each other documents on energy policy and met several more times to discuss the topic, the documents allege. Two years later, in January of 2015, Podobnyy was charged in absentia — along with two other Russians — with working as a Russian intelligence agent under diplomatic cover.

Court records include a transcript of a conversation where Podobnyy talks about recruiting someone named “Male-1” by making “empty promises” about “connections in the [Russian] Trade Representation.” Page now acknowledges that he was “Male-1.” Podobnyy and one of the Russians had diplomatic immunity and left the U.S. The third Russian was arrested and eventually expelled from the U.S. in April 2017.

In messages to TIME after the Nunes memo was released, Page said that in the first nine months of 2013 he “sat in on and contributed to a few roundtable discussion with people from around the world.” He said the meetings started when one of Russia’s representatives was in New York at the United Nations. He provided an April 15, 2013, briefing document authored by Russian trade diplomat, Ksenia Yudaeva, on Russia’s priorities for a summit of the 20 richest countries in the world to be held in St. Petersburg in Sept. 2013. Page says he had subsequent similar meetings, describing them to TIME as “really plain-vanilla stuff.”

Says Page, “Does that make me an evil villain, as some of your sources would like to have you think?” Page has not been charged with any crimes.

In June 2013, the FBI interviewed Page regarding his contacts with the Russians, Page says. The FBI believed that Russian intelligence services had attempted to recruit Page as an agent with promises of business opportunities in Russia, according to the 2015 court documents.

Page told the FBI at their June 2013 meeting that the officers might better spend their time investigating the Boston Marathon bombing, which had occurred the previous April, according to a letter Page sent to Democrats on Nunes’ committee last May. Page says that thereafter the FBI began a retaliatory campaign against him. According to published reports, the FBI obtained a first FISA warrant to eavesdrop on Page’s electronic communications during 2013. And they have been paying attention to him, on and off, ever since.

Two months after his meeting with the FBI, Page sent the letter claiming to be a Kremlin adviser. In addition to his work as an energy consultant, Page has studied and written on Russian affairs, and had submitted a book for publication by the academic press. Page felt frustrated by the fact that he had revised his manuscript about Russian relations is Central Asia and it had not been reviewed again, according to the editor who has worked with Page in the past and who requested anonymity due to the confidential nature of the matter.

The letter to the manuscript reviewer is not the first example of Page touting his relationship with Russia. McClatchy reported last year that in 2008, the U.S. Embassy in Turkmenistan sent a cable to the U.S. State Department describing how Page had met with government officials in the country, which was formerly part of the Soviet Union, about possibly working for their oil companies. The cable described how he touted his work with the Russian-run company Gazprom.

The editor said that Page’s views on Russia were notably different from other scholars. “He wanted to make the argument that we needed to look more positively at Russia’s economic reforms and Russia’s relationship with Central Asia,” says the editor. “I didn’t think it was so weird, it was just contradictory to most mainstream Russian specialist’s views.”

The editor thinks Page was ultimately harmless in terms of national security threats. “I would never have seen him in the center of concern like this, or playing a role or being seen as an intermediary between the Russian government and a political candidate,” the editor said. “He struck me just as someone who had developed some strange academic views … and wanted to have them published,” the editor says.

“I just came to see him as a kook,” the editor says.

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The White House will withdraw its controversial nominee to head the Council on Environmental Quality, Kathleen Hartnett White, according to three administration officials briefed on the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the decision has not been announced yet.

One of the officials briefed on Hartnett White’s plans said that her nomination had failed to gather momentum even as some of the administration’s other senior environmental policy picks had won approval, with some Senate Republicans raising questions about her expertise.

A White House official confirmed in an email Saturday evening that Hartnett White had withdrawn her nomination, but did not provide further comment. Hartnett White could not be reached for comment.

Hartnett White, who once headed the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and now serves as a fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, has stirred controversy because of her statements on climate change. Testifying in the fall before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, she said that while humans probably contribute to current warming, “the extent to which, I think, is very uncertain.”

Sen. Whitehouse Grills Trump Environment Pick Over Distrust of Climate Science 11/9/17

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Op zondag 4 februari 2018 01:48 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Obama officials hebben een hele riedel aan FISA warrants aangevraagd. Het idee is dat FISA warrants geheim blijven. We weten dat Carter Page niet de enige was. Manafort en Flynn waren sowieso ook onder surveillance. Bij die laatste begint de zaak ook aan alle kanten te rammelen.

Schijnbaar heeft Flynn schuld bekend, omdat hij geen geld meer had voor zijn rechtszaak en dit de goedkoopste optie was. Echter komen ze er nu achter dat hij weinig tot niets op zijn kerfstok heeft.

Het kaartenhuis stort in rap tempo in elkaar.

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Op zondag 4 februari 2018 01:48 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Obama officials hebben een hele riedel aan FISA warrants aangevraagd. Het idee is dat FISA warrants geheim blijven. We weten dat Carter Page niet de enige was. Manafort en Flynn waren sowieso ook onder surveillance. Bij die laatste begint de zaak ook aan alle kanten te rammelen.

Schijnbaar heeft Flynn schuld bekend, omdat hij geen geld meer had voor zijn rechtszaak en dit de goedkoopste optie was. Echter komen ze er nu achter dat hij weinig tot niets op zijn kerfstok heeft.

Het kaartenhuis stort in rap tempo in elkaar.

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Op zondag 4 februari 2018 01:19 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Wat lieg ik? Dat zeg ik toch, Trump is afgeluisterd. HIj had gelijk.

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Op zondag 4 februari 2018 11:31 schreef Fir3fly het volgende:

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Op zondag 4 februari 2018 11:36 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Als Trump daadwerkelijk was afgeluisterd hadden ze de zaak overigens natuurlijk al lang rond gehad, zoals bekend lult hij 's-avonds alles door aan de telefoon.

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Op zondag 4 februari 2018 11:43 schreef Re het volgende:
Blijft verbluffend hoe een duidelijk geïnstrueerde trol de discussie domineert

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Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), who will retire from Congress at the end of his current term, said in a new interview that he considers himself “a pretty lousy politician.”

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Op zondag 4 februari 2018 11:43 schreef Re het volgende:
Blijft verbluffend hoe een duidelijk geïnstrueerde trol de discussie domineert

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I think that’s why politicians worry about the arts—they can’t predict what art does to people, and therefore they can’t control the effect it’s going to have. Always beware of politicians who can’t take a joke.

JI: There was a satirical puppet show on Russian TV called Kukly—“Puppets.” One of Putin’s first moves as president was to shut down the entire channel, because he hated how he was portrayed.

AI: That’s it. The humorless politicians are the most dangerous ones, I think.

JI: If you were to make a film satirizing the Trump era, what would you try to capture?

AI: His frustration. The way he tries to dictate the laws of politics and sometimes the laws of physics. I think we’ll find, as things progress, that he has fewer and fewer people around him—at some stage he will fire his daughter, and his son-in-law. He will keep firing people until there’s no one left. And then the key moment will come when he turns on the electorate. Once he starts bad-mouthing the people, he’ll be at his most dangerous.

JI: Does it end with Trump firing himself?

AI: I think he’d rather fire America first. He’d go to one of his golf courses, build a wall around it, call that America, and everywhere else doesn’t get funding.

Remember Sarah Palin—when she was campaigning, she went to the middle states, saying, “I like to be here in what I call ‘Real America.’ ” Anywhere the Democrats are is not Real America. It’s that—defining your opponent as false.

JI: That’s what the Bolsheviks did—people they didn’t like were “former people.” You captured that very well in the ending credits, where you scratched people out, the way the Soviets did.

AI: I had been toying with that for a while; it seemed right at the end.

JI: Is there anything else you want to say to our readers?

AI: God help us all!

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Op zondag 4 februari 2018 16:22 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

Rep. Schiff Discusses the Misleading Memo on ABC’s This Week

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Op zondag 4 februari 2018 18:03 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
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Op zondag 4 februari 2018 18:49 schreef MangoTree het volgende:
The misleading memo.

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After tax cuts, U.S. borrowing to spike 84% this year to nearly $1 trillion

"The federal government is on track to borrow nearly $1 trillion this fiscal year — Trump's first full year in charge of the budget," the Washington Post's Heather Long reports.

Why it matters: It's an 84% jump from the last fiscal year, and the highest level of borrowing in six years. In a report out this week, the Congressional Budget Office attributes the rise to the lower level of tax revenue that the government will collect under the new tax law.

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Op zondag 4 februari 2018 18:49 schreef MangoTree het volgende:

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The misleading memo. Ahem.

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The recently-released Republican memo alleging abuses of covert surveillance powers by the Justice Department and FBI to investigate a former member of President Trump's campaign team will not have "any impact on the Russia probe," said Republican Trey Gowdy, R-S.C.

Gowdy, a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, was speaking on CBS's Face the Nation on Sunday. He also said that even if the controversial Steele dossier didn't exist, that there would still be a Russia investigation.

"There's going to be a Russia probe, even without a dossier," Gowdy said.

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Nunes’s memo also discloses that the government obtained three renewals of the FISA warrant, which occurred every 90 days after the initial authorization. In order for a judge to allow the surveillance to continue, the government has to demonstrate that the intercepted communications are, in fact, providing foreign intelligence. In Page’s case, the order would have been initially authorized based on the premise that monitoring his communications was necessary to understand what, exactly, Russian intelligence was doing and how Page played a role in those activities. If, 90 days later, the government had not obtained any new information about Page’s contacts and activities and the surveillance had ceased, that would show that Page probably was not working as a spy and that the evidence that had seemed to point in that direction was wrong. Instead, the continued renewals underscore that the government was able to persuade the court that Page continued his contacts and activities.

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Op zondag 4 februari 2018 21:02 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:

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https://www.npr.org/2018/(...)en-without-a-dossier

Ik ben overtuigd, Gowdy heeft shit gezien die hij niet meer kan negeren en verlaat het zinkende schip.

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Op zondag 4 februari 2018 22:02 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Ik ben er niet zo van overtuigd dat hij iets heel spannends gezien heeft ... deze quote van hem is volgens mij gewoon een waar statement:

"[...] the dossier has nothing to do with the meeting at Trump Tower. The dossier has nothing to with the email sent to Cambridge Analytica. The dossier really has nothing to do with George Papadopolous' meeting in Great Britain. It also has nothing to do with obstruction of justice."

Het kan best zo zijn dat hij oppositie voeren en Clinton onderzoeken wel leuk vond, maar dat nu de pret er wel weer af is. Naar verluid heeft hij ook een positie als rechter in de United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit afgewezen, omdat hij na beraad met zijn vrouw klaarblijkelijk van mening was ook daar niet heel gelukkig van te worden.

Extended interview: Rep. Trey Gowdy on Face the Nation

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Op zondag 4 februari 2018 22:12 schreef Ulx het volgende:
https://www.washingtonpos(...)m_term=.37dddc9f0fc3

Er ontstaan scheuren in het GOP blok.

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Op zondag 4 februari 2018 22:19 schreef SureD1 het volgende:

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Het hele interview met Gowdy,

Extended interview: Rep. Trey Gowdy on Face the Nation

Ergens rond de 19e minuut zegt hij (geparafraseerd): in Politics it is all about winning. To me the process matters, the end does not justify all means, I cannot live like that... dat zijn belangrijke woorden...

Ik zie een man wiens ideeën niet de mijne zijn, maar die overkomt als een redelijk mens die een ervaring rijker en een illusie armer is, en die er genoeg van heeft.

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Op zondag 4 februari 2018 22:30 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Het komt op me over als lariekoek. Deze man had er voor kunnen kiezen om niet te opereren als een van de grootste partisan hacks. Hij hoefde niet het langdurigste onderzoek ooit te voeren met dat hele Benghazi gedoe, wat alleen maar geld heeft gekost en tweestrijd vergroot heeft en hij kom bij de stemmingen in de sessie met de memo meestemmen met de democraten als hij had gewild dat het hele verhaal naar buiten kwam.

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Op zondag 4 februari 2018 22:33 schreef BlackLining het volgende:
Wat is nou eigenlijk de reden dat die approval ratings ineens omhoog gaan? Is dat puur die tax-cut tijdbom?

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Op zondag 4 februari 2018 22:33 schreef BlackLining het volgende:
Wat is nou eigenlijk de reden dat die approval ratings ineens omhoog gaan? Is dat puur die tax-cut tijdbom?

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Op zondag 4 februari 2018 23:01 schreef Euribob het volgende:
In principe zijn de ratings ongeveer hetzelfde als twee weken geleden. Zit allemaal binnen de standaarderror van die analyses dus zou er niet teveel conclusies uit trekken.

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Op zondag 4 februari 2018 23:11 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Maar het zou eik naar beneden gegaan moeten zijn!

Toch?!?!

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President Donald Trump's oldest son suggested on Saturday that claims by Democrats of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia are ironic, since such accusations resemble McCarthyism.

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"There is a little bit of sweet revenge in it for me and certainly probably the family in a sense that if they wouldn't have done this, this stuff would be going on," he said. "This would be going on at the highest levels of government. They'd be continuing doing it to my father, trying to undermine his actions."

Donald Trump Jr on bombshell memo - Watters' World

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Op zondag 4 februari 2018 23:15 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Trump Jr. suggests Russia investigation akin to 'McCarthyism,' says Dems are 'left of commie'

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Donald Trump Jr on bombshell memo - Watters' World

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The White House has grown frustrated in recent weeks by what it considers the Pentagon’s reluctance to provide President Trump with options for a military strike against North Korea, according to officials, the latest sign of a deepening split in the administration over how to confront the nuclear-armed regime of Kim Jong-un.

The national security adviser, Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, believes that for Mr. Trump’s warnings to North Korea to be credible, the United States must have well-developed military plans, according to those officials.

But the Pentagon, they say, is worried that the White House is moving too hastily toward military action on the Korean Peninsula that could escalate catastrophically. Giving the president too many options, the officials said, could increase the odds that he will act.

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The tensions bubbled to the surface this week with the disclosure that the White House had abandoned plans to nominate a prominent Korea expert, Victor D. Cha, as ambassador to South Korea. Mr. Cha suggested that he was sidelined because he warned administration officials against a “preventive” military strike, which, he later wrote, could spiral “into a war that would likely kill tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of Americans.”

But the divisions go back months, officials said. When North Korea tested an intercontinental ballistic missile in July that experts concluded was capable of reaching the West Coast of the United States, the National Security Council convened a conference call that included Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis and Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson.

After General McMaster left the room, Mr. Mattis and Mr. Tillerson continued to speak, not realizing that other participants were still on the line. The officials familiar with the matter overheard them complaining about a series of meetings that the National Security Council had set up to consider options for North Korea — signs, Mr. Tillerson said, that it was becoming overly aggressive.

For now, the frustration at the White House appears to be limited to senior officials rather than Mr. Trump himself. But the president has shown impatience with his military leaders on other issues, notably the debate over whether to deploy additional American troops to Afghanistan.

As they examine the most effective way of giving credibility to Mr. Trump’s threat of “fire and fury,” officials are considering the feasibility of a preventive strike that could include disabling a missile on the launchpad or destroying North Korea’s entire nuclear infrastructure. American officials are also said to be considering covert means of disabling the nuclear and missile programs.

While General McMaster also favors a diplomatic solution to the impasse, officials said, he emphasizes to colleagues that past efforts to negotiate with North Korea have forced the United States to make unacceptable concessions.

The Pentagon has a different view. Mr. Mattis and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., argue forcefully for using diplomacy. They have repeatedly warned, in meetings and on video conference calls, that there are few, if any, military options that would not provoke retaliation from North Korea, according to officials at the Defense Department.

Representatives of Mr. Mattis and General Dunford denied that they have slow-walked options to the White House.

The Pentagon press secretary, Dana W. White, said that Mr. Mattis “regularly provides the president with a deep arsenal of military options” and that reports of a delay were “false.”

General Dunford’s press secretary, Col. Patrick S. Ryder, said: “While the details of his conversations with the secretary of defense and the president are privileged communication, I can assure you that General Dunford regularly provides his best military advice in a timely and responsive manner to both senior leaders, to include military options for a wide range of national security challenges. Suggestions to the contrary are inaccurate.”

During a visit in October to the Demilitarized Zone between the two Koreas, Mr. Mattis confronted the central contradiction in the Trump administration’s bellicose language: Virtually any military option would put the sprawling city of Seoul, with its population of 10 million, in the cross hairs of North Korea’s artillery guns.

At times, South Korea’s defense minister, Song Young-moo, appeared to be giving Mr. Mattis a guided tour of how a strike against North Korea’s nuclear facilities would quickly trigger extensive retaliation.

Even the most limited strike, the so-called bloody nose option, risks what one Defense Department official called an unacceptably high number of casualties. Mr. Cha, writing in The Washington Post, said the premise of such a strike — that it would jolt Mr. Kim into recognizing that the United States was serious, and draw him back to the bargaining table — was flawed.

“If we believe that Kim is undeterrable without such a strike, how can we also believe that a strike will deter him from responding in kind?” Mr. Cha wrote. “And if Kim is unpredictable, impulsive and bordering on irrational, how can we control the escalation ladder, which is premised on an adversary’s rational understanding of signals and deterrence?”

Friends said Mr. Cha pressed that case in meetings at the Pentagon, the United States Pacific Command, the State Department and the National Security Council. He passed along articles critical of preventive military action by two colleagues: John J. Hamre, the president of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and Michael J. Green, a senior fellow at the center who worked in the George W. Bush administration, as did Mr. Cha.

Mr. Green warned against a preventive strike in testimony on Tuesday before the Senate Armed Services Committee. He said there appeared to be little support for it, even among normally hawkish Republicans like Senators Tom Cotton of Arkansas, Joni Ernst of Iowa and Dan Sullivan of Alaska.

Even the White House has struggled to send a consistent message. In the week after Mr. Trump issued his threat to rain “fire and fury” on North Korea, Stephen K. Bannon, then his chief strategist, told a progressive journalist, “There’s no military solution. Forget it.”

“Until somebody solves the part of the equation that shows me that 10 million people in Seoul don’t die in the first 30 minutes from conventional weapons,” he said, “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

Mr. Bannon’s bluntness angered other White House officials and hastened his exit from the White House. But there is evidence that General McMaster shares those concerns. Asked by a reporter in August whether there was any military option that would not put Seoul in North Korea’s cross hairs, he paused briefly, then said, “No.”

With as many as 8,000 artillery pieces and rocket launchers positioned along its border with the South, North Korea could rain up to 300,000 rounds on the South in the first hour of a counterattack.

While that arsenal is of limited range and could be destroyed in days, North Korea would still have time to cause widespread destruction. In a rare appearance last year on the CBS News program “Face the Nation,” Mr. Mattis warned that war with North Korea would be “catastrophic” — “probably the worst kind of fighting in most people’s lifetimes.”

That does not mean the military has not begun preparing for that possibility. At multiple Army bases across the country this month, more than 1000 reserve officers are practicing how to set up so-called mobilization centers, which move reservists overseas in a hurry.

But as the military gears up, Mr. Tillerson continues to look for a diplomatic channel to North Korea. State Department officials say the United States has far from exhausted its nonmilitary options for pressuring Pyongyang. It could, for example, push to expel North Korea from the United Nations or interdict ships that it suspects are violating sanctions against the government.

Neither Mr. Tillerson nor Mr. Mattis has broken with the White House on the issue of a preventive strike. That is because for now, they still view it as a useful tool in deterring North Korea, according to people briefed by the administration. More important, they continue to be confident that, despite their anxieties, cooler heads with eventually prevail.

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Op zondag 4 februari 2018 23:15 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Het is redelijk rock bottom. Veel lager kan niet. Je blijft altijd mensen houden die alles wat Trump doet fantastisch vinden.

Leon Panetta and Bob Gates slam Obama for micromanagement of the military

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House Republican Whip Eric Cantor gave President Obama a list of modest proposals for the bill. Obama said he would consider the GOP ideas, but told the assembled Republicans that "elections have consequences" and "I won."

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Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Christopher Coons (D-Del.) will introduce immigration legislation on Monday in an effort to reach a budget deal before the federal government's current funding runs out on Friday, The Wall Street Journal reported.

The bipartisan piece of legislation provides recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, commonly known as "Dreamers," an opportunity for citizenship while ordering a study to figure out what border security measures are needed, according to the Journal.

DACA aimed to protect from deportation certain immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally when they were children.

Senate aides told the Journal that the plan would provide people who have resided in the U.S. since Dec. 31, 2013, with legal status and a path to citizenship.

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The Journal reported that the legislation is similar to House legislation introduced by Reps. Will Hurd (R-Texas) and Pete Aguila (D-Calif.).
“It’s time we end the gridlock so we can quickly move on to completing a long-term budget agreement that provides our men and women in uniform the support they deserve,” McCain said in a statement to the Journal on Sunday.

“While reaching a deal cannot come soon enough for America’s service members, the current political reality demands bipartisan cooperation to address the impending expiration of the DACA program and secure the southern border,” he continued.

The legislation reportedly does not contain immediate funding for the U.S. southern border wall, however, which was one of President Trump's key demands, and is likely to draw the ire of some Republicans.

The plan would also provide more people with a path to citizenship and legal status than Trump's original plan did.

The White House announced last month that the president would endorse a path to citizenship for as many as 1.8 million young immigrants in exchange for border wall funding and sweeping changes to the immigration system.

The federal government shut down for three days in January after Senate Republicans and Democrats were unable to reach a deal on a government spending bill.

Democrats said they would not support the measure because it did not include a solution to DACA, which Trump moved to end last year.

The Hill has reached out to the offices of McCain and Coons for comment.

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Op zondag 4 februari 2018 23:35 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
White House Wants Pentagon to Offer More Options on North Korea

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Op maandag 5 februari 2018 06:59 schreef Ulx het volgende:
We zullen zien of Trump de muur belangrijker vindt dan het leger.

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Op zondag 4 februari 2018 23:01 schreef Euribob het volgende:
In principe zijn de ratings ongeveer hetzelfde als twee weken geleden. Zit allemaal binnen de standaarderror van die analyses dus zou er niet teveel conclusies uit trekken.

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Op maandag 5 februari 2018 00:54 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Niemand doet een stapje terug en kijkt naar de bigger picture het is echt Trump derangement syndrome inmiddels. Ik heb medelijden met al die mensen.

Bij hoog en laag is onder ede verklaard dat Trump en zijn campagne niet afgeluisterd waren. FBI agenten hadden Flynn onschuldig verklaard en hij kwam zijn security check door. Even als een berg andere officials.

Pas naderhand is er een verhaaltje verzonnen over Russische inmenging in de campagne. Alsof Putin zelf in het Witte Huis zat. Wat terecht onderzocht moet worden is hoe diep Manafort in de shit zit en wat hij voor schulden heeft uitstaan in Oekraine en Rusland. In hoeverre Flynn door zijn oude lobbywerk chantabel was en wat Carter Page allemaal uitspookte.

Echter het enige dat je hoort is: "Trump Russia, Trump Russia, Trump Russia"

Terwijl diezelfde media al een jaar of 4 a 5 het FSB filiaal Wikileaks klakkeloos overpennen.
Volgens mij heeft de media een veel grotere rol gespeeld in de verkiezing dan de Russen.

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Op maandag 5 februari 2018 00:54 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Pas naderhand is er een verhaaltje verzonnen over Russische inmenging in de campagne.

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But Mr. Reid argued that the connections between some of Donald J. Trump’s former and current advisers and the Russian leadership should, by itself, prompt an investigation. He referred indirectly in his letter to a speech given in Russia by one Trump adviser, Carter Page, a consultant and investor in the energy giant Gazprom, who criticized American sanctions policy toward Russia.

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For example, it has come to my attention that last week, video evidence came to light of an individual with long ties to Donald Trump and his top campaign aides claiming to be in communication with WikiLeaks, the organization that posted online the 20,000 DNC documents illegally obtained by Russia. The prospect of individuals tied to Trump, Wikileaks and the Russian government coordinating to influence our election raises concerns of the utmost gravity and merits full examination.

Further, there have been a series of disturbing reports suggesting other methods Russia is using to influence the Trump campaign and manipulate it as a vehicle for advancing the interests of Russian President Vladimir Putin. For example, questions have been raised about whether a Trump advisor who has been highly critical of US. and European economic sanctions on Russia, and who has conflicts of interest due to investments in Russian energy conglomerate Gazprom, met with high-ranking sanctioned individuals while in Moscow in July of 2016, well after Trump became the presumptive Republican nominee. (The same individual recently broke precedent by giving a speech critical of US. policy while in Moscow.)

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Op maandag 5 februari 2018 00:37 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Obamacare had een bipartisan bill kunnen zijn, maar...

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Op maandag 5 februari 2018 12:06 schreef Knipoogje het volgende:

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Op maandag 5 februari 2018 12:16 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:
Op gegeven moment zal de backlash van deze actie komen. En dan is het niet te hopen voor de republikeinen dat dit vóór de midterms komt, want dat gaat dan rampzalig uitpakken voor de GOP.

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Op maandag 5 februari 2018 12:47 schreef Knipoogje het volgende:

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Die backlash kan natuurlijk nog even op zich wachten. De republikeinen hebben met die tax bill immers anderhalf biljoen euro geleend van hun kinderen en kleinkinderen. Dat heeft de komende paar jaar nog wel een positief effect.

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U.S. stocks faced renewed selling pressure Monday, after suffering their biggest single-session declines in more than a year on Friday.

Dow Jones Industrial Average futures were down more than 100 points, as bond yields continued to climb, dulling the appeal of equities for traders.

A global stock selloff was underway Monday, as European stocks opened sharply lower. In Asia, selling was widespread, with Japanese stocks suffering their biggest decline since November 2016.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 05-02-2018 om 13:39:10 Little Adam Schiff, who is desperate to run for higher office, is one of the biggest liars and leakers in Washington, right up there with Comey, Warner, Brennan and Clapper! Adam leaves closed committee hearings to illegally leak confidential information. Must be stopped! reageer retweet

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Op maandag 5 februari 2018 13:55 schreef Ulx het volgende:
U.S. stocks poised for fresh selloff as Dow futures slide over 100 points

Niet echt goed nieuws.

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Op maandag 5 februari 2018 14:00 schreef Chewie het volgende:
We zijn weer wakker

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 05-02-2018 om 13:39:10 Little Adam Schiff, who is desperate to run for higher office, is one of the biggest liars and leakers in Washington, right up there with Comey, Warner, Brennan and Clapper! Adam leaves closed committee hearings to illegally leak confidential information. Must be stopped! reageer retweet

Volgens mij heeft hij niet zo goed geslapen

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Op maandag 5 februari 2018 14:00 schreef Chewie het volgende:
We zijn weer wakker

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 05-02-2018 om 13:39:10 Little Adam Schiff, who is desperate to run for higher office, is one of the biggest liars and leakers in Washington, right up there with Comey, Warner, Brennan and Clapper! Adam leaves closed committee hearings to illegally leak confidential information. Must be stopped! reageer retweet

Volgens mij heeft hij niet zo goed geslapen

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Op maandag 5 februari 2018 00:54 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Niemand doet een stapje terug en kijkt naar de bigger picture het is echt Trump derangement syndrome inmiddels. Ik heb medelijden met al die mensen.

Bij hoog en laag is onder ede verklaard dat Trump en zijn campagne niet afgeluisterd waren. FBI agenten hadden Flynn onschuldig verklaard en hij kwam zijn security check door. Even als een berg andere officials.

Pas naderhand is er een verhaaltje verzonnen over Russische inmenging in de campagne. Alsof Putin zelf in het Witte Huis zat. Wat terecht onderzocht moet worden is hoe diep Manafort in de shit zit en wat hij voor schulden heeft uitstaan in Oekraine en Rusland. In hoeverre Flynn door zijn oude lobbywerk chantabel was en wat Carter Page allemaal uitspookte.

Echter het enige dat je hoort is: "Trump Russia, Trump Russia, Trump Russia"

Terwijl diezelfde media al een jaar of 4 a 5 het FSB filiaal Wikileaks klakkeloos overpennen.
Volgens mij heeft de media een veel grotere rol gespeeld in de verkiezing dan de Russen.

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Op maandag 5 februari 2018 14:34 schreef Szura het volgende:
Hij besloot met z’n achterlijke ongeïnformeerde kop ook maar weer te fulmineren over het VK

@realDonaldTrump
The Democrats are pushing for Universal HealthCare while thousands of people are marching in the UK because their U system is going broke and not working. Dems want to greatly raise taxes for really bad and non-personal medical care. No thanks!

Britse minister reageert op de holbewoner

@Jeremy_Hunt
I may disagree with claims made on that march but not ONE of them wants to live in a system where 28m people have no cover. NHS may have challenges but I’m proud to be from the country that invented universal coverage - where all get care no matter the size of their bank balance

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Op zondag 4 februari 2018 22:45 schreef Knipoogje het volgende:
Het kan zijn dat hij ineens een helder moment had. 'Waar ben ik nou helemaal mee bezig?'. Want dat is wat de GOP nu doet: Alles uit de kast voor de overwinning, ver over de grenzen heen.

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Op maandag 5 februari 2018 14:50 schreef cynicus het volgende:

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Klinkt als het Ardennen offensief van 1944...

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Op maandag 5 februari 2018 14:57 schreef Szura het volgende:
Wat we eigenlijk allemaal al wisten:
https://www.lawfareblog.c(...)p-firing-james-comey

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Op maandag 5 februari 2018 00:54 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Bij hoog en laag is onder ede verklaard dat Trump en zijn campagne niet afgeluisterd waren. FBI agenten hadden Flynn onschuldig verklaard en hij kwam zijn security check door. Even als een berg andere officials.

Pas naderhand is er een verhaaltje verzonnen over Russische inmenging in de campagne.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 05-02-2018 om 15:36:40 Any deal on DACA that does not include STRONG border security and the desperately needed WALL is a total waste of time. March 5th is rapidly approaching and the Dems seem not to care about DACA. Make a deal! reageer retweet

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Op zondag 4 februari 2018 23:44 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Het is misschien vloeken in de kerk, maar presidentje spelen doet Trump in het nieuwe jaar steeds beter. De lekken zijn minder, de interne chaos is minder, de debiele tweets zijn minder en het standaard Republikeinse beleid dat succesvol in uitvoering wordt gebracht wordt steeds meer. Bovendien heb je natuurlijk ook de gewenningsfactor. Het blijft zoals ik al zei een imbeciel die de Telegraafpuzzel weet op te lossen maar voor de rest verbaast het me niet zo.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 05-02-2018 om 13:39:10 Little Adam Schiff, who is desperate to run for higher office, is one of the biggest liars and leakers in Washington, right up there with Comey, Warner, Brennan and Clapper! Adam leaves closed committee hearings to illegally leak confidential information. Must be stopped! reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 05-02-2018 om 16:08:51 Representative Devin Nunes, a man of tremendous courage and grit, may someday be recognized as a Great American Hero for what he has exposed and what he has had to endure! reageer retweet

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Op maandag 5 februari 2018 14:38 schreef Freak188 het volgende:

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Zeg eens eerlijk waar je deze wijsheid vandaan hebt? Heeft een hoog conspiracy gehalte.

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Sancties niet uitvoeren is een veeg teken.

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En z’n domheid moeten we ook niet onderschatten.

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Op maandag 5 februari 2018 17:00 schreef Vader_Aardbei het volgende:

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Wat een heerlijke ironie. Er kunnen letterlijk 1001 andere redenen zijn dat hij die sancties niet wil uitvoeren. Sterker nog,ik betwijfel of het een beslissing van Trump zelf was. Mensen overschatten nog altijd de echte macht van een President.

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Lost in the shuffle of the Washington shouting matches over the Russia investigations last week was the fact that the Trump administration missed a great opportunity to impose further sanctions on Moscow.

In 2017, Congress passed the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act by an overwhelming majority and President Trump signed the bill into law. It mandated the administration to provide a list by Jan. 31 of Russian persons and/or entities to be sanctioned for their closeness to the Russian regime as punishment for the aggression in Ukraine and Russia’s incontrovertible intervention in our 2016 elections.

The Treasury Department did not actually draft a list of persons and entities close to President Putin whose sanctioning would present to Russia an unmistakable sign of our serious intent. Instead the Treasury Department, possibly at the last moment, merely repeated a list of Russian oligarchs taken from Forbes.ru and thus displayed its “compliance” with the legislation.

The result was congressional anger, allied dismay, and Russian scorn. Moscow’s stock exchange actually went up after this news showing its derision at the lazy and confused U.S. effort. This action also clearly raised questions in allied capitals as to the seriousness of our anti-Russian position while we are admonishing them to do more against Moscow. This episode — especially in the context of the other news concerning the Nunes memo and Mueller investigations — embodied many of what have long since become negative hallmarks of this administration.

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First, the slipshod way in which the Treasury Department released this information (12 minutes before the deadline) clearly betokened the administration’s ongoing contempt for the idea that it’s bound by law and must obey congressional legislation. Remember this legislation passed 417-5 in the House.

President Trump’s long-standing refusal to accept that he is bound by the law has already brought the country to the brink of a constitutional crisis and this case epitomized that refusal. So it can only augur further negative developments in the relationship between Congress and the executive branch.

Second, the Treasury Department lazy and unprofessional manner of responding to the law shows this administration, and in many cases the Republican Party, have proclaimed themselves the enemy of the civil service — and a disregard for professional expertise regardless of what area of government we are discussing. There are plenty of civil servants in the Treasury Department and elsewhere who could have helped draft a document and list that would have placed maximum pressure upon Russia. Although Secretary Steven Mnuchin now claims that future sanctions are a real possibility and are being prepared, it is clear that this was not believed either in Moscow or in Washington.

Moreover, this disdain for expertise colors policies across the board along with fantasies that experts must be part of the “deep state.” That is a concept with no basis in American reality but does serves to incite mutual distrust and suspicion and rampant but no less incredible conspiracy theories that also have no basis in fact.

It is an insult to civil servants who serve their government out of patriotism and can make much more elsewhere, that in many cases they are the first ones belittled by politicians looking to save money, face, or otherwise benefit. Such postures hardly make for better government whether in Treasury or the Interior Department or the FDA, quite the opposite.

Third, the administration’s behavior merely adds fuel to the investigations probing Russia’s intervention in the 2016 election. That intervention was incontrovertible and its scope grows seemingly every week. We have long known that Moscow not only wanted an entrée to the Trump campaign and administration but also to end sanctions and the Magnitsky laws. After all. Trump has talked not only about improving ties with Russia but also about eliminating the sanctions.

Whether or not the president and members of his team are guilty of any impeachable or criminal offenses, the Treasury Department’s behavior here lends credence to the idea that they are hiding something and trying to offer Moscow a quid pro quo. President Trump and his officials owe it to themselves, the government as a whole, and to us to show that they are not in any way tainted by these allegations and that they are untrue. Declaring them fake news and upending the FISA process clearly has failed and this episode represents another missed opportunity.

Finally, having read the Nunes memo and as a former professor at the Air War and Army War Colleges, I can say that not only is there no substance there, but that also there is nothing there that exonerates the White House or anyone else from charges that they were too involved with Moscow. Nor does it prove that the FBI was prejudiced against Trump, another groundless charge.

Had I ever released such a document while employed by the military I would now be sitting in one of the many Club Feds that dot our country’s landscape. When congressional representatives emulate the White house belief that they can flout the law with impunity for partisan advantage then more than investigations may be necessary to see to it that the laws be faithfully executed.

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Op maandag 5 februari 2018 17:00 schreef Vader_Aardbei het volgende:

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Wat een heerlijke ironie. Er kunnen letterlijk 1001 andere redenen zijn dat hij die sancties niet wil uitvoeren. Sterker nog,ik betwijfel of het een beslissing van Trump zelf was. Mensen overschatten nog altijd de echte macht van een President.

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SethAbramson twitterde op zondag 04-02-2018 om 03:43:01 KEY POINT: The main allegation in Steele's dossier *isn't* that Putin has blackmail on Trump. It's *money laundering*. The claim is Trump took Russian money via shell corporations in exchange for a more favorable Russia policy. And what's Mueller looking at now? Money laundering. reageer retweet

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"The memo" — which pitted the Justice Department against the White House and brought ugly partisan sniping into stark relief — is only the beginning. Republican sources close to Devin Nunes tell me he's assured them there's much more to come.

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House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) in a Monday morning interview said there is no evidence former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos met with President Trump, despite a widely disseminated photo of the two sitting around the same table for a meeting.

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Op maandag 5 februari 2018 17:53 schreef Arcee het volgende:
Outspoken Nazi Set to Win Republican Nomination in Illinois Congressional Race

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Op maandag 5 februari 2018 17:59 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Echt winnen is het ook niet als er geen tegenkandidaten zijn natuurlijk.

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Op maandag 5 februari 2018 18:06 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Kunnen de republikeinen weigeren om iemands kandidatuur namens hen te accepteren of hoe werkt dat?

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Op maandag 5 februari 2018 16:22 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Nou......

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 05-02-2018 om 13:39:10 Little Adam Schiff, who is desperate to run for higher office, is one of the biggest liars and leakers in Washington, right up there with Comey, Warner, Brennan and Clapper! Adam leaves closed committee hearings to illegally leak confidential information. Must be stopped! reageer retweet

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RepAdamSchiff twitterde op maandag 05-02-2018 om 14:58:50 Mr. President, I see you’ve had a busy morning of “Executive Time.” Instead of tweeting false smears, the American people would appreciate it if you turned off the TV and helped solve the funding crisis, protected Dreamers or...really anything else. https://t.co/lVqQRu2Gjl reageer retweet

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Op maandag 5 februari 2018 17:00 schreef Vader_Aardbei het volgende:

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Wat een heerlijke ironie. Er kunnen letterlijk 1001 andere redenen zijn dat hij die sancties niet wil uitvoeren. Sterker nog,ik betwijfel of het een beslissing van Trump zelf was. Mensen overschatten nog altijd de echte macht van een President.

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Ja, een domme man die multimiljardair werd en de verkiezingen wo..

Weet je wat? Laat ook maar. Jullie zijn onverbeterlijk. Als ik hier over 2 jaar terugkom zie ik waarschijnlijk nog steeds hetzelfde zure, hatelijke gebazel. Hopelijk houdt het jullie 's nachts warm.

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Op maandag 5 februari 2018 17:00 schreef Vader_Aardbei het volgende:

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Wat een heerlijke ironie. Er kunnen letterlijk 1001 andere redenen zijn dat hij die sancties niet wil uitvoeren. Sterker nog,ik betwijfel of het een beslissing van Trump zelf was. Mensen overschatten nog altijd de echte macht van een President.

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Ja, een domme man die multimiljardair werd en de verkiezingen wo..

Weet je wat? Laat ook maar. Jullie zijn onverbeterlijk. Als ik hier over 2 jaar terugkom zie ik waarschijnlijk nog steeds hetzelfde zure, hatelijke gebazel. Hopelijk houdt het jullie 's nachts warm.

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"Today, we have informed Congress that this legislation and its implementation are deterring Russian defense sales," State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said in a statement. "Since the enactment of the ... legislation, we estimate that foreign governments have abandoned planned or announced purchases of several billion dollars in Russian defense acquisitions."

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But citing long time frames associated with major defense deals, Nauert said it was better to wait to impose those sanctions.

"From that perspective, if the law is working, sanctions on specific entities or individuals will not need to be imposed because the legislation is, in fact, serving as a deterrent," she said in a statement.

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Op maandag 5 februari 2018 14:34 schreef Szura het volgende:
Hij besloot met z’n achterlijke ongeïnformeerde kop ook maar weer te fulmineren over het VK

@realDonaldTrump
The Democrats are pushing for Universal HealthCare while thousands of people are marching in the UK because their U system is going broke and not working. Dems want to greatly raise taxes for really bad and non-personal medical care. No thanks!

Britse minister reageert op de holbewoner

@Jeremy_Hunt
I may disagree with claims made on that march but not ONE of them wants to live in a system where 28m people have no cover. NHS may have challenges but I’m proud to be from the country that invented universal coverage - where all get care no matter the size of their bank balance

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jeremycorbyn twitterde op maandag 05-02-2018 om 14:44:21 Wrong. People were marching because we love our NHS and hate what the Tories are doing to it. Healthcare is a human right. https://t.co/Pmo2xYSqZh reageer retweet

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Consumer advocates on Monday urged the Trump administration to resume an investigation into how Equifax failed to protect the personal data of millions of consumers after Reuters reported the head of the U.S. consumer watchdog has pulled back on the existing probe.

In September, Equifax Inc said hackers had stolen personal data it had collected on some 143 million Americans.

On Monday, Reuters reported that Mick Mulvaney, head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), has dialed back the investigation begun by his predecessor, Richard Cordray.

Specifically, sources said Mulvaney has held back from ordering subpoenas against Equifax - routine steps in launching a full-scale probe. Meanwhile the CFPB has shelved plans for on-the-ground tests of how Equifax protects data, an idea backed by Cordray.

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The CFPB also recently rebuffed bank regulators at the Federal Reserve, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency when they offered to help with on-site examinations of credit bureaus, said two sources familiar with the matter.

“The (Trump) administration should get on the side of consumers and focus on making sure hacks like the #EquifaxBreach don’t happen again,” tweeted Senator Mark Warner, a Democrat.

Warner and fellow Democrat Elizabeth Warren, both on the Senate Banking Committee, have proposed reforms that could have cost Equifax hundreds of millions of dollars in fines if they had been in place last year.

The National Consumer Law Center, an advocate for financial protections, said the CFPB should be leading the investigation into the Equifax breach.

“With half of the U.S. population victimized, you think there’d be universal agreement that Equifax should be held accountable for its incompetence,” said Attorney Chi Chi Wu.

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The New York Times notified the Justice Department on Monday that it is asking the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to unseal secret documents related to the wiretapping of Carter Page, the onetime Trump campaign adviser at the center of a disputed memo written by Republican staffers on the House Intelligence Committee.

The motion is unusual. No such wiretapping application materials apparently have become public since Congress first enacted the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in 1978. That law regulates electronic spying on domestic soil — the interception of phone calls and emails — undertaken in the name of monitoring suspected spies and terrorists, as opposed to wiretapping for investigating ordinary criminal suspects.

Normally, even the existence of such material is a closely guarded secret. While applications for criminal wiretaps often eventually become public, the government has refused to disclose the contents of applications for intelligence wiretaps — even to defendants who are later prosecuted on the basis of information derived from them.

But President Trump lowered the shield of secrecy surrounding such materials on Friday by declassifying the Republican memo about Mr. Page, after finding that the public interest in disclosing its contents outweighed any need to protect the information. Because Mr. Trump did so, the Times argues, there is no longer a justification “for the Page warrant orders and application materials to be withheld in their entirety,” and “disclosure would serve the public interest.”

The Republican memo acknowledged that the intelligence court had approved surveillance targeting Mr. Page in October 2016 and later approved three applications for 90-day extensions, meaning he was observed for at least a year under the warrant. The memo named the officials who signed off on the applications and described purported claims and purported omissions in those materials.

The central claim of the Republican memo, which was drafted under the direction of Representative Devin Nunes of California, the Republican chairman of the Intelligence Committee, is that law enforcement officials running the early stages of the investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election and possible links to the Trump campaign abused their surveillance authorities and misled the court.

The memo contends that the application used material gathered by Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence agent, without disclosing to the court that the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign financed his work as opposition research. The implication is that judges who approved the wiretapping did not know it might be biased and were thus misled about its credibility.

But the credibility of the accusations in the memo are themselves the subject of intense dispute. Democrats who have seen the underlying materials say the Republican memo contains serious material inaccuracies and omissions, such as failing to include unrelated evidence about Mr. Page and Russia that the court also saw and mischaracterizing other facts.

For example, Democrats say that the FISA judges were, in fact, told that the financing of Mr. Steele’s research was politically motivated, even if the funders were not identified by name.

They have produced their own, still-classified rebuttal memo, but the Republican majority on the House Intelligence Committee voted against making it public. Democrats are still pushing to make its contents public, but it is not clear whether the Republican-controlled Congress and Mr. Trump will permit that to happen.

“Given the overwhelming public interest in assessing the accuracy of the Nunes memorandum and knowing the actual basis for the Page surveillance orders,” the Times’ motion says, the court should direct the publication of its orders and the application materials "with only such limited redactions as may be essential to preserve information that remains properly classified notwithstanding the declassification and dissemination of the Nunes memorandum."

The Times also submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to the Justice Department on Friday asking the executive branch to disclose, following a declassification review, the same materials. That request is not yet ripe for litigation.

In the motion asking the intelligence court to unseal the Page materials, The Times is being represented in part by the Yale Law School Media Freedom & Information Access Clinic in the litigation.

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“Given the overwhelming public interest in assessing the accuracy of the Nunes memorandum and knowing the actual basis for the Page surveillance orders,” the Times’ motion says, the court should direct the publication of its orders and the application materials "with only such limited redactions as may be essential to preserve information that remains properly classified notwithstanding the declassification and dissemination of the Nunes memorandum."

twitter:

kylegriffin1 twitterde op maandag 05-02-2018 om 20:25:44 "Trump lowered the shield of secrecy... after finding that the public interest... outweighed any need to protect the information. Because Mr Trump did so, the Times argues, there is no longer a justification 'for the Page warrant orders and application materials to be withheld.'" https://t.co/64h0qGCswQ reageer retweet

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Op maandag 5 februari 2018 19:06 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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En Corbyn:

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jeremycorbyn twitterde op maandag 05-02-2018 om 14:44:21 Wrong. People were marching because we love our NHS and hate what the Tories are doing to it. Healthcare is a human right. https://t.co/Pmo2xYSqZh reageer retweet

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Op maandag 5 februari 2018 20:50 schreef Puddington het volgende:

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Jezza

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Op maandag 5 februari 2018 21:14 schreef Szura het volgende:
Sow, Dow Jones neemt ff een duik

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Deputy Press Secretary Raj Shah told reporters on Air Force One Monday that President Trump's attorneys have already approved the idea of appointing a second special counsel to investigate the FBI and Justice Department's actions during the 2016 presidential campaign, according to White House pool reports.

Shah also said that the White House will approach further memos, including the one created by Democrats, in the same way they handled the memo authored by Devin Nunes: "Which is to allow for a legal review, national security review led by the White House Counsel’s Office, and then within five days the president will make a decision about declassifying it," said Shah.

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Op maandag 5 februari 2018 17:41 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
House GOP: More memos to come

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Op maandag 5 februari 2018 21:27 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Vage dip, gelijktijdig op Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq ... was er even slecht nieuws wat wel mee leek te vallen of wat?

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Op maandag 5 februari 2018 21:36 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Angst voor een stijgende rente.

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President Donald Trump accused Democrats on Monday of being “un-American” and “treasonous” in a campaign-style speech in Cincinnati that was actually meant to tout the recent GOP tax bill and the economy.

“Can we call that treason?” Trump said, referring to Democrats who did not clap for him during his State of the Union address last week. “They certainly didn’t seem to love our country very much.”

more: https://www.huffingtonpos(...)b7fbe4b00f94fe93f924

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Op maandag 5 februari 2018 21:27 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Vage dip, gelijktijdig op Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq ... was er even slecht nieuws wat wel mee leek te vallen of wat?

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Op maandag 5 februari 2018 21:44 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Twee dagen op rij?

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Thanks to the historic TAX CUTS that I signed into law, your paychecks are going way UP, your taxes are going way DOWN, and America is once again OPEN FOR BUSINESS!

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Op maandag 5 februari 2018 21:30 schreef Knipoogje het volgende:

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Hoe meer twijfel hoe beter is het GOP devies. Nog 10 memo's is net als de Russische misinformatie campagne gewoon 10 alternatieve theorietjes waardoor de waarheid ondersneeuwt. En het enige dat ze nodig hebben is twijfel. Want als je twijfelt over wat waar is kun je gewoon geloven wat je het liefst hebt dat waar is. Dit hebben ze heel goed door daar. Als een trump fan kan kiezen tussen een biased FBI met een neponderzoek of een Trump die met de Russen collaboreert, dan kiest hij uiteraard voor het eerste om te geloven. Postmodernisme ten top.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zaterdag 03-02-2018 om 15:40:27 This memo totally vindicates “Trump” in probe. But the Russian Witch Hunt goes on and on. Their was no Collusion and there was no Obstruction (the word now used because, after one year of looking endlessly and finding NOTHING, collusion is dead). This is an American disgrace! reageer retweet

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Op maandag 5 februari 2018 22:05 schreef monkyyy het volgende:
Eerste keer in de geschiedenis dat er >1000 punten van de DOW afgaat in 1 dag.

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Vandaag was een bigly record.

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Op maandag 5 februari 2018 22:05 schreef monkyyy het volgende:
Eerste keer in de geschiedenis dat er >1000 punten van de DOW afgaat in 1 dag.

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Vandaag was een bigly record.

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Op maandag 5 februari 2018 22:05 schreef monkyyy het volgende:
Eerste keer in de geschiedenis dat er >1000 punten van de DOW afgaat in 1 dag.

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Vandaag was een bigly record.

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Op maandag 5 februari 2018 21:30 schreef Knipoogje het volgende:

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Hoe meer twijfel hoe beter is het GOP devies. Nog 10 memo's is net als de Russische misinformatie campagne gewoon 10 alternatieve theorietjes waardoor de waarheid ondersneeuwt. En het enige dat ze nodig hebben is twijfel. Want als je twijfelt over wat waar is kun je gewoon geloven wat je het liefst hebt dat waar is. Dit hebben ze heel goed door daar. Als een trump fan kan kiezen tussen een biased FBI met een neponderzoek of een Trump die met de Russen collaboreert, dan kiest hij uiteraard voor het eerste om te geloven. Postmodernisme ten top.

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Op maandag 5 februari 2018 22:37 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Absolute stijgingen of dalingen zeggen minder dan relatieve. Relatief gezien is het geen beste dag, maar ook weer niet heel schokkend.

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The House Intelligence Committee voted on Monday to make public a classified Democratic memorandum rebutting Republican claims that the F.B.I. and the Justice Department had abused their powers to wiretap a former Trump campaign official, setting up a possible clash with President Trump.

The vote gives Mr. Trump five days to review the Democratic memo and determine whether he will try to block its release. A decision to stop it could lead to an ugly standoff between the president, his top law enforcement and intelligence advisers and Democrats on Capitol Hill.

twitter:

kylegriffin1 twitterde op dinsdag 06-02-2018 om 00:14:54 .@AriMelber just reported on MSNBC that, according to Democratic Rep. Jim Himes, the House Intelligence Committee unanimously voted to send the Democratic memo to the White House for review. reageer retweet

Adam Schiff Says Democratic MEM0 Will Be Released, "Republicans Had N0 CH0lCE"

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In the earliest days of the new presidency, palace intrigue focused on the war in the West Wing between the RNC alums — Priebus brought with him a total of 46 — and the outsider nationalists represented by Steve Bannon. But as the summer saw the removal of Priebus and Spicer, as well as Bannon himself, ideological differences between the Washington insiders and the outsiders became a less obvious explanation for the White House dysfunction.

Still, sources say that how staffers personally feel about the president is just as much a problem today as it was a year ago — and that dynamic is especially prevalent in the White House press office.

“When every other department has stabilized, everyone wonders why the communications and press teams continue to be dysfunctional,” said one source close to the White House. Just over a year into the Trump administration, there have already been two press secretaries and three communications directors. “It’s because it’s filled with people who loathe the president or simply lack the competence needed to present a coherent strategy.”

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Op dinsdag 6 februari 2018 02:05 schreef Szura het volgende:
https://www.nytimes.com/2(...)unsel-interview.html

Trump’s Lawyers Want Him to Refuse an Interview in Russia Inquiry

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His lawyers are concerned that the president, who has a history of making false statements and contradicting himself, could be charged with lying to investigators.

Um, Did He Lie? A Parody Commentary on the SOTU

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Op dinsdag 6 februari 2018 00:20 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Committee Votes to Release Democratic Rebuttal to G.O.P. Russia Memo

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op dinsdag 06-02-2018 om 00:14:54 .@AriMelber just reported on MSNBC that, according to Democratic Rep. Jim Himes, the House Intelligence Committee unanimously voted to send the Democratic memo to the White House for review. reageer retweet

Adam Schiff Says Democratic MEM0 Will Be Released, "Republicans Had N0 CH0lCE"

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Devin Nunes has a new target: Jonathan Winer, the Obama State Department’s special envoy to Libya, and longtime Senate aide to John Kerry. Winer received a memorandum from political activist Cody Shearer and passed it along to Christopher Steele, the former British intelligence official who had compiled his own dossier on Donald Trump.

The release of last week’s House Intelligence Committee memo accusing the FBI of surveillance abuses marked the end of the first phase of Nunes’s investigation into the probe of alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election. Now, the committee chair told Fox News on Friday, the probe is moving into “phase two,” which involves the State Department. His focus is on the dossier compiled by Shearer, and passed along by Winer, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

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The existence of the Shearer memo was first reported by The Guardian. A copy of the document, which I reviewed, contained a range of allegations concerning the president’s personal behavior and financial transactions.

The State Department is the second major government institution to enter Nunes’s crosshairs since last year, when he first began examining Steele’s interactions with the Department of Justice. Nunes’s defenders say he is conducting necessary government oversight; his critics say he is purposefully trying to undermine the federal investigation into Russian interference in order to protect the president.

The Washington Examiner's Byron York reported last month that congressional investigators were “looking into a possible Obama State Department role in the collection and dissemination” of the dossier compiled by Steele, who gave his preliminary findings to the FBI in the summer of 2016. But in television interviews over the weekend, Nunes would not elaborate on how his nearly year-long investigation into Steele and the dossier came to implicate the State Department.

A letter released Monday by Republican Senators Chuck Grassley and Lindsey Graham offers an important clue.

In the heavily redacted, declassified version of the letter, which outlined why Graham and Grassley asked the Justice Department to consider opening a criminal investigation into Steele’s communications with the FBI, the senators allege that “Clinton associates” were “feeding Mr. Steele accusations” against the Trump campaign, thereby calling into question Steele’s credibility as a neutral source.

Two sources familiar with the matter, who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press, told me the redacted portions of the letter refer to the information compiled by Shearer—for the first time revealing some of the key details that were redacted in the original letter. Shearer’s information was passed to Steele by Winer. Winer, a friend of Steele’s, was then serving as the special envoy for Libya, and had previously passed Steele’s Russia and Ukraine reports along to the State Department’s Europe bureau between 2014 and 2016. Shearer, Blumenthal, and Winer did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The Grassley-Graham letter says that Steele wrote a “memorandum” to the FBI in October 2016 describing how he had obtained a document based on intelligence received about Trump from “a foreign sub-source.” “One memorandum by Mr. Steele that was not published by Buzzfeed is dated October 19, 2016,” the letter says. The two sources confirmed that the document in question was the memorandum written by Shearer. The letter continues:

The report alleges [redacted] as well as [redacted]. Mr. Steele's memorandum states that his company ‘received this report from [redacted] US State Department,’ that the report was the second in a series, and that the report was information that came from a foreign sub-source who ‘is in touch with [redacted], a contact of [redacted], a friend of the Clintons, who passed it to [redacted].’ It is troubling enough that the Clinton Campaign funded Mr. Steele's work, but that these Clinton associates were contemporaneously feeding Mr. Steele allegations raises additional concerns about his credibility.

According to a source familiar with the matter, however, Steele’s “memorandum” was actually a handwritten note on a copy of Shearer’s report that outlined its origin—the “foreign sub-source” who had been in touch with Shearer. The note identified Shearer as a contact of Sidney Blumenthal’s, a longtime associate of the Clintons. It also explained that Steele had obtained the document via Winer, who had gotten it from Shearer.

Steele had written the note on the Shearer report while in Rome in October of 2016, while en route to meet an FBI contact there. It is not clear how or why Winer obtained the report from Shearer.

A separate congressional source confirmed to me that Winer and Shearer “will both be a part” of Nunes’s impending tussle with the State Department.

The Shearer memo with Steele’s handwriting on it was included in the FBI’s file memorializing the bureau’s conversations and relationship with Steele—a relationship that dates back years, as Steele’s firm Orbis had been hired by the bureau for separate projects long antedating the Trump-Russia dossier. Steele and the FBI never had a formalized relationship regarding his research into Trump’s Russia ties in the latter half of 2016, however, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter, speaking on condition of anonymity due to the ongoing investigation. No contract was signed and no money was ever exchanged, that person said.

Steele’s FBI file, with the marked-up Shearer memo inside, was given to the Senate Judiciary and House Intelligence committees in response to document requests.

DEVIN NUNES FULL ONE-ON-ONE INTERVIEW ON FOX & FRIENDS | FOX NEWS (2/5/2018)

twitter:

SethAbramson twitterde op dinsdag 06-02-2018 om 03:22:47 (THREAD) We now know that there's a *second* memo--one members of the media and law enforcement have seen--that alleges clandestine and possibly illicit behavior by Trump. This thread contains everything you need to know about the Shearer Memo. I hope you'll share this with others. https://t.co/UHiRkdybZa reageer retweet

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So here's what the Shearer memo says, per The Guardian (a top UK outlet): "[It] alleges Trump was compromised during a 2013 trip to Moscow that involved lewd acts in a five-star hotel. The Shearer memo cites an unnamed source within Russia's FSB, the state security service."

This means the "salacious" allegation on pg. 1 of the Steele dossier has now been confirmed many, *many* times over.

Steele's sources say it's true. Shearer's sources say it's true. A Trump Org employee, Kata Sarka, and a Ritz Moscow guest can all confirm major parts of it.

The CIA and two EU intel agencies have confirmed it. Schiller confirms a major part of the story (that a Russian offered to send women to Trump's room--presumably the same ones seen in the lobby--arguing about going up to his room--by a Ritz Moscow guest and Trump Org employee).

Kata Sarka's story--told before the Steele dossier came out--confirms Trump is lying about how careful he was (as to his bedroom conduct) while in Moscow. And we know the best friend of the Russian who offered Trump prostitutes runs--wait for it--Moscow's largest online brothel.

We know from Stormy Daniels that Trump engages in extramarital sexual exploits without any care at all for whether they can be used to blackmail him in the future. And we know that--when blackmailed--he pays his blackmailers and generously. And we know Putin collects kompromat.

So yes, as I've been saying since January 2017, the Trump sex tapes--beyond any reasonable doubt--exist. And Putin is holding them over Trump. But he may also be holding much more over Trump, as both Steele's and Shearer's research suggest Trump is involved in financial crimes.

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Op dinsdag 6 februari 2018 04:11 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Devin Nunes's Next Target

The House Intelligence Committee chair has turned his sights to the State Department, as he presses forward with his probe into intelligence gathering related to Russian electoral interference in 2016.

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Analyse Seth Abramson van 'The Shearer Memo'

twitter:

SethAbramson twitterde op dinsdag 06-02-2018 om 03:22:47 (THREAD) We now know that there's a *second* memo--one members of the media and law enforcement have seen--that alleges clandestine and possibly illicit behavior by Trump. This thread contains everything you need to know about the Shearer Memo. I hope you'll share this with others. https://t.co/UHiRkdybZa reageer retweet

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Former White House senior strategist Steve Bannon will not testify before the Intelligence Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday, two sources said on Monday, despite a subpoena requiring him to appear.

Former White House senior strategist Steve Bannon will not testify before the Intelligence Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday, two sources said on Monday, despite a subpoena requiring him to appear.

But two sources familiar with the situation said he would not appear, which could leave Bannon facing a charge of contempt of Congress.

Bannon could not immediately be reached for comment.

SPOILER

One of the sources said the White House had not authorized Bannon to answer committee questions. During his Jan. 16 appearance, Bannon refused to answer questions about his time in President Donald Trump’s administration or the post-election presidential transition, committee members said.

The Intelligence Committee and the White House have not resolved the question of whether executive privilege would apply in Bannon’s case.

The House Intelligence Committee is one of three congressional committees, along with the Department of Justice Special Counsel Robert Mueller, investigating the allegations of Russian influence.

The source said Bannon would answer all of Mueller’s questions when he appears before him, which is expected next week.

Russia denies meddling in the election, and Trump has denied any collusion between his associates and Russia.

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Op dinsdag 6 februari 2018 04:11 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Devin Nunes's Next Target

The House Intelligence Committee chair has turned his sights to the State Department, as he presses forward with his probe into intelligence gathering related to Russian electoral interference in 2016.

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DEVIN NUNES FULL ONE-ON-ONE INTERVIEW ON FOX & FRIENDS | FOX NEWS (2/5/2018)

Analyse Seth Abramson van 'The Shearer Memo'

twitter:

SethAbramson twitterde op dinsdag 06-02-2018 om 03:22:47 (THREAD) We now know that there's a *second* memo--one members of the media and law enforcement have seen--that alleges clandestine and possibly illicit behavior by Trump. This thread contains everything you need to know about the Shearer Memo. I hope you'll share this with others. https://t.co/UHiRkdybZa reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 6 februari 2018 07:51 schreef DustPuppy het volgende:

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The Pee tape is real

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Op dinsdag 6 februari 2018 07:59 schreef RM-rf het volgende:

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En Nunes gaat hem straks ook releasen om te bewijzen dat de democraten overal achter steken.

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Op dinsdag 6 februari 2018 08:10 schreef DustPuppy het volgende:

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Ik snap dat je lekken niet wilt gebruiken in deze context.

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Op dinsdag 6 februari 2018 08:10 schreef DustPuppy het volgende:

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Ik snap dat je lekken niet wilt gebruiken in deze context.

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Op dinsdag 6 februari 2018 08:01 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Weten we gelijk of het verhaal over kleine handen waar is. Ook belangrijk.

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Op maandag 5 februari 2018 21:14 schreef Szura het volgende:
Sow, Dow Jones neemt ff een duik

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Op dinsdag 6 februari 2018 04:11 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Devin Nunes's Next Target

The House Intelligence Committee chair has turned his sights to the State Department, as he presses forward with his probe into intelligence gathering related to Russian electoral interference in 2016.

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DEVIN NUNES FULL ONE-ON-ONE INTERVIEW ON FOX & FRIENDS | FOX NEWS (2/5/2018)

Analyse Seth Abramson van 'The Shearer Memo'

twitter:

SethAbramson twitterde op dinsdag 06-02-2018 om 03:22:47 (THREAD) We now know that there's a *second* memo--one members of the media and law enforcement have seen--that alleges clandestine and possibly illicit behavior by Trump. This thread contains everything you need to know about the Shearer Memo. I hope you'll share this with others. https://t.co/UHiRkdybZa reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 6 februari 2018 06:19 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
British tabloid hits Trump over his dig at health system

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SenDuckworth twitterde op dinsdag 06-02-2018 om 01:04:14 We don't live in a dictatorship or a monarchy. I swore an oath—in the military and in the Senate—to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, not to mindlessly cater to the whims of Cadet Bone Spurs and clap when he demands I clap. reageer retweet

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Op maandag 5 februari 2018 21:51 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Stukje over Trump die zichzelf misschien een hoekje in heeft geschilderd met zijn gepoch over de stijgende koersen.

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Op dinsdag 6 februari 2018 11:21 schreef Montov het volgende:

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Het is de typische wereldvreemde arrogantie van Trump. Geen benul hoe ver hij de plank misslaat zolang hij maar in de aanval blijft om dominantie te faken.

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Op dinsdag 6 februari 2018 12:35 schreef Euribob het volgende:
Mensen, jullie weten ondertussen toch wel beter dan op dat soort reacties te reageren.

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Op dinsdag 6 februari 2018 12:35 schreef Euribob het volgende:
Mensen, jullie weten ondertussen toch wel beter dan op dat soort reacties te reageren.

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Op dinsdag 6 februari 2018 12:59 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:

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Welke reactie refereer je aan?

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Op dinsdag 6 februari 2018 13:01 schreef DustPuppy het volgende:

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De verwijderde gok ik?

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Op dinsdag 6 februari 2018 11:26 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:

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Je weet toch? Stijging = Trump's verdienste (al is het 2020), daling = allemaal Hussein Obama's schuld!

Yup. Sean Hannity Found A Way To Blame Obama For The Stock Market Drop (HuffPo)

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While still a presidential hopeful in 2016, Donald Trump attacked U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel on national television, saying the “Mexican” justice couldn’t impartially rule on lawsuits against Trump University because of Trump’s promise to build “a wall between here and Mexico.”′

“Look, he’s proud of his heritage, OK? I’m building a wall,” Trump told CNN anchor Jake Tapper in June 2016, referring to Curiel, an American who was born in Indiana.

In a twist of irony, the fate of that border wall may now be in the hands of the judge derided by Trump. As first reported by McClatchy, Curiel will preside over a case on Friday that may determine whether the federal government has the power to bypass environmental laws to build Trump’s wall.

At least one former colleague of the judge said Curiel will not allow Trump's earlier attacks on him to cloud his judgment on the upcoming case.

"I can tell you with certainty it will not impact him at all," Gregory Vega, a San Diego, California, attorney, told McClatchy. "He will follow the rule of law."

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Op dinsdag 6 februari 2018 14:11 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:

Is er al over getwitterd? Of nog te vroeg?

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Op dinsdag 6 februari 2018 14:45 schreef Re het volgende:

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nee wel wat geemmer over een illegaal die iemand heeft omgebracht en dat de muur nu nodig is, de tweede tweet pas gericht aan nabestaanden, prioriteiten natuurlijk

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Op dinsdag 6 februari 2018 14:47 schreef Szura het volgende:
Als het een dronken redneck was geweest, waren er niet eens tweets geplaatst door die gek

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"Op geen enkel moment heb ik eraan getwijfeld dat men zou kunnen denken dat deze tweet authentiek zou zijn." De Amerikaanse blogger Shaun Usher was zich dan ook van geen kwaad bewust toen hij, naar aanleiding van de daling van de Dow Jones-index met 1.175 punten, een zogenaamde tweet van Donald Trump oprakelde, vanuit de tijd dat hij nog geen president was. En die tweet ging snel viraal, waardoor Usher zich in alle bochten wrong om toch maar twitteraars te overtuigen dat het ging om een eigen verzonnen tweet.

twitter:

ShaunUsher twitterde op maandag 05-02-2018 om 22:38:54 There's *always* a tweet https://t.co/dmrmzoRwP1 reageer retweet