[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #532 Donald John Zoidberg

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Op maandag 23 juli 2018 20:44 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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KlasfeldReports twitterde op maandag 23-07-2018 om 20:42:05 BREAKING: There isn’t just one audio file in the Michael Cohen matter.There are at least 12, and prosecutors got them on Friday - when the Times story ran on one of them. [ afbeelding ] reageer retweet

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Op maandag 23 juli 2018 21:24 schreef Szura het volgende:

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Dus Abramson had weer gelijk

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op maandag 23-07-2018 om 21:40:00 James Clapper on CNN: "I don't get the briefings. I don't have access to classified info ... Haven't had a case to use it and has no bearing whatsoever on my regard or lack thereof for President Trump or what he's doing ... I think this is just a very, very petty thing to do." reageer retweet

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Op maandag 23 juli 2018 21:22 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Ik moet trouwens wel zeggen dat ik de ogenschijnlijke leugen van Carlson wel raar vind ... een bedreven leugenaar met enige intelligentie liegt normaal gesproken niet over iets wat heel makkelijk controleerbaar is in enkele dagen, zou ik denken?!

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Op maandag 23 juli 2018 21:26 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Yups en hij was al een tijd behoorlijk kritisch op de berichtgeving van Maggie Haberman. Ze heeft nu aangekondigd met haar twitterfeed te minderen.

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Op maandag 23 juli 2018 22:29 schreef Knipoogje het volgende:

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Kan ook nog steeds gebeuren, dus om 'm nu hard voor leugenaar uit te maken. Straks krijgt Podesta toch immuniteit en komt het andere kamp je weer hard uitlachen...

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Op maandag 23 juli 2018 22:33 schreef Klaphark het volgende:

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Maar slechts 1 audiotape met Trump las ik ergens.

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jimsciutto twitterde op vrijdag 20-07-2018 om 18:51:13 There are more tapes: Michael Cohen had other recordings of the president in his records that were seized by the FBI, according to Rudy Giuliani & source with knowledge of Cohen’s tapes, per @DanaBashCNN ⁦@GloriaBorger⁩ https://t.co/WZCk715rCg reageer retweet

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LannyDavis twitterde op maandag 23-07-2018 om 22:11:58 Latest news @MichaelCohen212 tapes of conversations are being released by @realDonaldTrump & his legal team who own and waived the privilege. Will @RudyGiuliani call these tapes “exculpatory” again? As I noted before, the tapes will speak for themselves – spin can’t change facts. reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 24 juli 2018 00:26 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Trump en Rudy hebben die tapes inderdaad zelf naar buiten gebracht.

Allemaal onderdeel van het 4D schaakspel.

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JZarif twitterde op maandag 23-07-2018 om 21:04:45 COLOR US UNIMPRESSED: The world heard even harsher bluster a few months ago. And Iranians have heard them —albeit more civilized ones—for 40 yrs. We’ve been around for millennia & seen fall of empires, incl our own, which lasted more than the life of some countries. BE CAUTIOUS! reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 24 juli 2018 01:27 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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JZarif twitterde op maandag 23-07-2018 om 21:04:45 COLOR US UNIMPRESSED: The world heard even harsher bluster a few months ago. And Iranians have heard them —albeit more civilized ones—for 40 yrs. We’ve been around for millennia & seen fall of empires, incl our own, which lasted more than the life of some countries. BE CAUTIOUS! reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 24 juli 2018 01:32 schreef Boze_Appel het volgende:

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Trump had het over montenegro, maar Iran aanvallen. Dat is echt WW3, ze hebben een bizar leger.

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Pompeo stopped short of calling for regime change, but he announced stepped-up U.S. government broadcasting in Farsi that is likely to foment further unrest against the government.

He said the U.S. Broadcasting Board of Governors is taking steps to circumvent Internet censorship in Iran and creating a round-the-clock Farsi channel across television, radio, digital and social media formats, “so that ordinary Iranians inside Iran and around the globe will know that America stands with them.”

Bron

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Op maandag 23 juli 2018 23:20 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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LannyDavis twitterde op maandag 23-07-2018 om 22:11:58 Latest news @MichaelCohen212 tapes of conversations are being released by @realDonaldTrump & his legal team who own and waived the privilege. Will @RudyGiuliani call these tapes “exculpatory” again? As I noted before, the tapes will speak for themselves – spin can’t change facts. reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op dinsdag 24-07-2018 om 02:20:02 Ex-Associate deputy attorney general David Kris: "The Nunes memo accused the FBI of dishonesty in failing to disclose information about Steele, but in fact the Nunes memo itself was dishonest in failing to disclose what the FBI disclosed." https://t.co/XsEfrhBDoh reageer retweet

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The Carter Page FISAs are out via the Freedom of Information Act. Here are a few observations, relatively brief but still just a bit too long for Twitter.

First, a huge amount of information is redacted in these FISA applications, but they still represent a monumental disclosure to the public. The government considers FISA applications to be very sensitive—and their disclosure, even heavily redacted, may have long-term, programmatic consequences long after we’re finished with President Trump. The government seems to have accepted that FOIA applies to FISA. Without taking a position on the issue it made me recall this Lawfare post that argues to the contrary.

Second, for those who don’t remember, the controversy about these FISA applications first arose in February when House intelligence committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes released a memo claiming that the FBI misled the FISA Court about Christopher Steele, the former British secret agent who compiled the “dossier” on Trump-Russia ties and who was a source of information in the FISA applications on Page. The main complaint in the Nunes memo was that FBI whitewashed Steele—that the FISA applications did not “disclose or reference the role of the DNC, Clinton campaign, or any party/campaign in funding Steele’s efforts, even though the political origins of the Steele dossier were then known to senior and FBI officials.”

In response to the Nunes memo, the Democrats on the committee released their own memo. That memo quoted from parts of the FISA applications, including a footnote in which the FBI explained that Steele was hired to “conduct research regarding Candidate #1,” Donald Trump, and Trump’s “ties to Russia,” and that the man who hired him was “likely looking for information that could be used to discredit [Trump’s] campaign.”

Based on this back and forth between the HPSCI partisans, I wrote on Lawfare at the time that the FBI’s disclosures on Steele “amply satisfie[d] the requirements” for FISA applications, and that the central irony of the Nunes memo was that it “tried to deceive the American people in precisely the same way that it falsely accused the FBI of deceiving the FISA Court.” The Nunes memo accused the FBI of dishonesty in failing to disclose information about Steele, but in fact the Nunes memo itself was dishonest in failing to disclose what the FBI disclosed. I said then, and I still believe, that the “Nunes memo was dishonest. And if it is allowed to stand, we risk significant collateral damage to essential elements of our democracy.”

Now we have some additional information in the form of the redacted FISA applications themselves, and the Nunes memo looks even worse. In my earlier post, I observed that the FBI’s disclosures about Steele were contained in a footnote, but argued that this did not detract from their sufficiency: “As someone who has read and approved many FISA applications and dealt extensively with the FISA Court, I will anticipate and reject a claim that the disclosure was somehow insufficient because it appeared in a footnote; in my experience, the court reads the footnotes.” Now we can see that the footnote disclosing Steele’s possible bias takes up more than a full page in the applications, so there is literally no way the FISA Court could have missed it. The FBI gave the court enough information to evaluate Steele’s credibility.

There’s also more detail on the previous disclosure from the House intelligence committee Democrats’ memo on how Steele went to the press with the “dossier” when FBI Director James Comey sent his October 2016 letter to Congress disclosing the possible newfound importance of the Weiner laptop in the Clinton investigation. According to the FISA applications, Steele complained that Comey’s action could influence the election. But when Steele went to the press, it caused FBI to close him out as an informant—facts which are disclosed and cross-referenced in the footnote in bold text.

While I am sure people will try, my initial impression is that with all the redactions it is going to be very tough to figure out the full scope of information supporting the Court’s repeated finding of probable cause to believe that Carter Page was an agent of Russia. There is a mention of two Russians, one of whom pleaded guilty to being an unregistered agent of a foreign government and was sentenced to 30 months, but even that is disconnected from the redacted discussion that precedes it. Substantively, the government seems to have hewed as closely to the prior disclosures as it could in applying FOIA.

But it is worth noting that—and as the Democrats previously pointed out—the judges who signed off on these four FISA applications were all appointed by Republican presidents, including one George H.W. Bush appointee (Anne Conway), two George W. Bush appointees (Rosemary Collyer and Michael Mosman) and one Reagan appointee (Raymond Dearie). I know some of those judges, and they certainly are not the types to let partisan politics affect their legal judgments.

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Op dinsdag 24 juli 2018 02:49 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Is dit de vlucht naar voren?

Ik snap echt bijster weinig van Trump's beslissingen omtrent de tapes.

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SethAbramson twitterde op zaterdag 21-07-2018 om 19:22:39 Yesterday I said Team Trump might have allowed this tape (or a summary of it) into the public sphere because it *knew* the tape would get out eventually and wanted to start spinning now. It appears I was right. This is a desperate gambit you only use when there's no other option. https://t.co/h6xEj9hFep reageer retweet

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A federal judge in Boston on Monday rejected a bid by the Trump administration to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that its decisions to end temporary protections for immigrants in the United States from Honduras, Haiti and El Salvador were racially motivated.

U.S. District Judge Denise Casper in Boston ruled that a group of immigrants and two organizations could move forward with a lawsuit challenging the administration’s termination of the protective status enjoyed by thousands of people from those three countries.

She said the lawsuit’s allegations about “statements of animus” by officials including President Donald Trump coupled with claims about a shift in policy “allege plausibly that a discriminatory purpose was a motivating factor in a decision.”

The lawsuit cited statements it said showed Trump’s “dislike and disregard for Latino and black immigrants,” including reported remarks in January by Trump saying immigrants from Africa and Haiti come from “shithole countries.”

“Plaintiffs have successfully made out their prima facie case,” Casper wrote.

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Fox & Friends First accidentally books Barbara L'Italien

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A Massachusetts state senator who opposes President Trump’s immigration policies was mistakenly booked on Fox News, and she used the airtime to criticize Trump's “illegal and inhumane” treatment of migrant families crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.

Barbara L’Italien, a Democrat, appeared Monday on “Fox & Friends First” instead of the intended guest, Democratic congressional candidate Ann Kirkpatrick, who has publicly supported U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. A spokesman for L’Italien said in a statement that “due to a Fox News error,” L’Italien was contacted and asked to share her views on ICE and decided to use the opportunity to “make a statement straight to Trump.”

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Op dinsdag 24 juli 2018 05:34 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
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Fox & Friends First accidentally books Barbara L'Italien

Fox News booked the wrong Democrat on a show. She used the spotlight to unload on Trump.

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When asked whether he had sent Kirkpatrick’s background information and campaign logo to the network, Katz said in an email: “I showed the exact same commitment to the truth and accuracy that Fox News always has.

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Op dinsdag 24 juli 2018 05:34 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
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Fox & Friends First accidentally books Barbara L'Italien

Fox News booked the wrong Democrat on a show. She used the spotlight to unload on Trump.

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