How could Ryan possibly get any respect at all after this?
Anyone watching the Circus on showtime?
WaPo said:To review classified files without breaking the law, Nunes would have needed to do so at a secure facility. Congressional officials said that the director of National Intelligence, the FBI and National Security Agency had all indicated that they got no late-night visit from Nunes, a trip that probably would have been entered in security logs.
Still trying to run the country like a business.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.5581e969ef80
Starting off poorly by thinking of citizens as customers instead of shareholders. He just spilled the beans.We should have excellence in government, Kushner said Sunday in an interview in his West Wing office. The government should be run like a great American company. Our hope is that we can achieve successes and efficiencies for our customers, who are the citizens.
Kushner will be in charge of funneling our tax dollars to private industry. Got it.Kushners ambitions for what the new office can achieve are grand. At least to start, the team plans to focus its attention on reimagining Veterans Affairs; modernizing the technology and data infrastructure of every federal department and agency; remodeling workforce-training programs; and developing transformative projects under the banner of Trumps $1 trillion infrastructure plan, such as providing broadband Internet service to every American.
In some cases, the office could direct that government functions be privatized, or that existing contracts be awarded to new bidders.
And exactly what makes Chris Christie qualified to lead an effort to combat opioid abuse?The office will also focus on combating opioid abuse, a regular emphasis for Trump on the campaign trail. The president later this week plans to announce an official drug commission devoted to the problem that will be chaired by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R). He has been working informally on the issue for several weeks with Kushner, despite reported tension between the two.
It was the Flynn info. Its why he had to go in person.
And exactly what makes Chris Christie qualified to lead an effort to combat opioid abuse?
For this bill, he needed full prostration.
Still trying to run the country like a business.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.5581e969ef80
Kushner proudly notes that most of the members of his team have little-to-no political experience, hailing instead from the world of business.
White House officials and members of Donald Trumps transition team are reportedly purging their electronic devices to avoid being compromised by subpoenas, it has been claimed.
The accusation comes just weeks after government lawyers ordered the Presidents aides to preserve any materials that could be connected to Russian interference in the 2016 election.
One legal expert told MSNBC - the channel that first reported the allegations based on testimony from an inside source - there could be legal ramifications for staff who destroyed crucial evidence relating to ongoing investigations.
I missed that Andrea Mitchell said her sources told her that Trump staff is purging their electronic devices fearing subpoenas.
Donald Trump's staff 'wiping their electronic devices' in anticipation of giving evidence
I missed that Andrea Mitchell said her sources told her that Trump staff is purging their electronic devices fearing subpoenas.
Donald Trump's staff 'wiping their electronic devices' in anticipation of giving evidence
But they're gonna find out the hard way that their phone carriers and ISPs will be able to retrieve their texts and emails when presented with a subpoena. Even if the texts/emails were innocuous, they will get fucked for failing to comply with preservation order. Amateurs.Bunch of junior staffers going to be in more trouble for deleting evidence than being caught with low grade evidence in the first place. Bunch of senior staffers too technically ignorant to properly cover their tracks.
But they're gonna find out the hard way that their phone carriers and ISPs will be able to retrieve their texts and emails when presented with a subpoena. Even if the texts/emails were innocuous, they will get fucked for failing to comply with preservation order. Amateurs.
But they're gonna find out the hard way that their phone carriers and ISPs will be able to retrieve their texts and emails when presented with a subpoena. Even if the texts/emails were innocuous, they will get fucked for failing to comply with preservation order. Amateurs.
I don't suppose there's a chance anything Seth Abramson is writing is true? Because his Mayflower hotel/Rosneft epic is amazingly detailed lol.
The depositions just got 10 hours longer.Add obstruction of justice to the charges.
I just can't get a read on Nunes. Is he really as in over his head as he seems? He has to know that SCIF logs would be checked when he claimed that he just received highly classified intel. Why would he structure his lie in such an easily destructible way?
A tweet had it betterCUT MY LIFE INTO PIECES
THIS IS MY LAST RESORT
Still trying to run the country like a business.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.5581e969ef80
A tweet had it better
CUT MY BILL INTO PIECES
WE SIMPLY LACK THE VOTES
Wasn't one of Trump's tactics for lawsuits in the past to go against preservation orders and delete everything? I seem to recall reading about him doing that before...
I hope the FBI are not able to be stopped by stuff like that. I'm sure Trump would rather (let his lackeys) take the fall for deleting records while lying about it, over getting caught with incriminating communications that could clinch a conviction for the Russia stuff.
MI6 agent Chris STEELE, author of history's most explosive intel dossier, will soon testify against TRUMP.
press Ctrl to pay respects
:: Spoliar alert! ::Also worth noting that even if this ends up not being spoliation it's still an FOIA violation
Damn can we get a solid source on this? Would be big timeThe IC can subpoena ISPs for any deleted material. This isn't their first rodeo.
Also:
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/846135383129772032
His threads are getting 10k likes and RTs each. embarrassing.I miss the days when the only reason we ever brought up anything Seth Abramson wrote was to mock him.
The IC can subpoena ISPs for any deleted material. This isn't their first rodeo.
Also:
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/846135383129772032
That's about what Garland's magnum opus did.His threads are getting 10k likes and RTs each. embarrassing.
I don't suppose there's a chance anything Seth Abramson is writing is true? Because his Mayflower hotel/Rosneft epic is amazingly detailed lol.
Isn't he that "experimental journalism" guy?
Yeah, I feel like Seth should be treated as a slightly more sane HA Goodman
I singled out and sourced some of the interesting facts from Seth's thread, minus the sensationalism. Make of them what you will:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=232720538&postcount=38
This is how conspiracy theories work. You take a small fact and you use that as a base to explode out and give your wack-a-doo nonsense (I don't mean you, I mean Seth and other conspiracy theorists) a veneer of legitimacy.
Like, Area 51 is a real place that you can't get into but that doesn't mean aliens are being held there. And planes leave lines in the sky but that doesn't make them chemtrails. We're literally watching conspiracy theories be born in real time, right alongside actual reporting and for a lot of people they won't be able to tell the difference. That's not a good thing for if the hammer actually does come down on Trump, that will just make it harder to get everyone believing it's real. And god forbid it turns out he's actually innocent, it'll be worse than the JFK thing.
I am not directing this at anyone on here, but there are really just critical thinking skills that need improving in the country overall. People, on average, are not being critical of their news sources. This is true for both the left and the right, before and after the election (not saying that it is to the same degree, but the same problems are there).tbh, the desperation to believe conspiracy theory-level bullshit is a little worrying for the future of the party. It's not healthy to just rely on Trump's incompetence for our own electoral gain.
I found the article. It's a remarkable leap of logic from a unanimous SCOTUS decision overturning a Gorsuch decision.I was just thinking that I don't know anyone that goes in on left-leaning fake news or conspiracies and then immediately when I checked Facebook a middle aged public school teacher I know posted a link to a Bipartisan Report article saying that all 8 sitting SCOTUS Justices signed a unanimous letter opposing Gorsuch's confirmation.
Fuck.