Heh. I reported it. I’m sure there were others.
I mean, really , good luck with that – apparently, the Democrats moving this investigation forward never actually asked for or obtained Devin Nunes phone records at all. They obtained phone records of the people they were investigating, wherewithin they happened to notice Nunes’ number.
“How dare you investigate people who might reveal evidence that I did something wrong! ”
House Republicans want Senate Republicans to subpoena Adam Schiff’s phone, individual 1 wants Pelosi and the Bidens and Schiff called to testify during the impeachment hearing. The Senate Republicans are saying, yeah, probably not.
Gyrate
December 6, 2019, 10:31am
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eschereal the seriously twisted:
I mean, really , good luck with that – apparently, the Democrats moving this investigation forward never actually asked for or obtained Devin Nunes phone records at all. They obtained phone records of the people they were investigating, wherewithin they happened to notice Nunes’ number.
“How dare you investigate people who might reveal evidence that I did something wrong! ”
Much in the same way they were “spying on Trump” because he kept turning up when they had their cameras pointed at (other) suspected criminals.
bobot
December 6, 2019, 3:08pm
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Devin “Deer In The Headlights” Nunes claims that he can’t remember talking to Parnas on the phone. Parnas’ lawyer is here to help him out:@DevinNunes —Lev remembers what you spoke about. You don’t remember? #LetLevSpeak ”. …”
Who is more credible? Devin Nunes or Lev Parnas? Which is the more pleasant odor, a pot of sewer soup or a dead armadillo?
What, what? #LetLevSpeak ?? Is somebody stopping Lev from speaking? Did Trump order him not to speak? Nunes keeping him quiet? Who’s he taking orders from anyway? If he’s not called to testify, can’t he just talk to a reporter? Is his lawyer telling him to keep quiet, even as he uses the #LetLevSpeak hashtag?
bobot
December 6, 2019, 6:34pm
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I for one thought he was behind bars. Didn’t he and the other guy get arrested just prior to attempting to leave the country?
That is correct. According to this CNBC article
Parnas’ lawyer Joseph Bondy requested that the court loosen Parnas’ tight bail conditions.
Parnas is currently under house arrest and wearing a GPS monitoring device.
Bondy requested he be allowed outside a few hours each day for a few days a week to exercise, spend time with his children and get fresh air.
Prosecutors strongly objected to that proposal.
The House Ethics Committee has told Duncan Hunter that he can no longer vote in the House, after pleading guilty.
Cowboys for Trump likely stole White Sand from White Sands National Monument , a federal offense.
The New Mexico group Cowboys for Trump faces criticism after members brought iconic gypsum sands from White Sands National Monument to Washington for the U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree lighting ceremony — a possible violation of federal law.
Otero County Commission Chairman and Cowboys for Trump co-founder Couy Griffin said the group brought four “big plastic bins” of the extremely fine, pure white sand for the ceremony Wednesday, the Alamogordo Daily News reported.
“We’re bringing Washington, D.C., some of the most beautiful treasure out of New Mexico,” Griffin said in a video posted to the Cowboys for Trump Facebook page Nov. 30.
The sand was given as a gift to New Mexico’s congressional delegation so it could be “showcased” with the tree, the group said without providing more details on how it was used. The tree itself is a large blue spruce, from the Carson National Forest in northern New Mexico.
But removing natural resources from a U.S. national parks unit, including national monuments, is illegal without permission.
“Federal laws and policies prohibit the taking of sand and any resource from within the national monument,” White Sands National Monument tweeted from its official account after Griffin posted his video. “The illegal taking of resources from within the national monument is a Class B misdemeanor punishable with a $5,000 fine or six months in jail.”
The monument cannot sell natural material found in White Sands National Monument or items made from the sand in its gift shop, White Sands National Monument Superintendent Marie Sauter told the newspaper.
Griffin said in a phone interview he had permission to take the sand, though he did not say which person or agency granted it.
:dubious: Uh huh. Sure he did. :rolleyes:
The genealogy boom has hit a roadblock. The Trump administration plans huge fee hikes for immigration records.
At a time when researching family history is booming, the nation’s immigration and citizenship agency has proposed dramatically hiking fees to access records from the first half of the 20th century. The move has outraged professional and amateur genealogists, who argue that the increase would effectively put valuable immigration information out of reach for many.
The fees would nearly triple, and in many cases, they would rise nearly 500 percent, from $130 to $625 to obtain a single paper file.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials declined to explain exactly how they arrived at the new fee amounts. But the agency has said it must increase fees across the board —** including substantial hikes for green card and citizenship applications **— to avoid a $1.26 billion annual budget shortfall. By law, USCIS must fund itself through fees.
“USCIS is required to examine incoming and outgoing expenditures, just like a business, and make adjustments based on that analysis,” the agency said in a statement. A date has not been set for the new fees to go into effect.
[Rich ] Venezia [a Pittsburgh-based professional genealogist who teaches courses on how to obtain the USCIS records ] said he is puzzled by the jump in fees, especially given that the program nearly tripled fees in 2016, explaining at the time that the new fees would fully cover the program’s costs, he said.
“What could possibly have changed in three years to warrant such a huge increase?” he asked.
I believe [my] bolded part answers the question.
In a stunningly quick reversal, Cowboys for Trump group now says sand wasn’t from monument .
Otero County Commission Chairman and Cowboys for Trump co-founder Couy Griffin told The Associated Press the group collected its four “big plastic bins” of extremely fine, pure white sand from outside monument’s perimeter for delivery to Wednesday’s tree lighting ceremony after getting permission from the New Mexico Department of Transportation.
Cowboys for Trump members in social media posts and in videos had said that the “white sand was from White Sand National Monument.” Griffin repeated the claim in a Nov. 30 Facebook video but said in the interview Friday that his earlier statement was not accurate.
“It’s not like I drove onto the monument to collect sand. We got permission from the state Department of Transportation who collected it for us,” Griffin said.
New Mexico Department of Transportation spokeswoman Marisa Maez did not immediately return an email seeking comment.
Morgyn
December 6, 2019, 11:50pm
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The story also says that if he tries to vote anyway, he’d get further punishment.
This makes me wonder: would his vote count if he tried to cast it while being under the prohibition?
Morgyn
December 7, 2019, 12:06am
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Morgyn:
The story also says that if he tries to vote anyway, he’d get further punishment.
This makes me wonder: would his vote count if he tried to cast it while being under the prohibition?
He’s resigning after the holidays . I have no idea why he doesn’t just resign now. He can’t vote. He could spend the time at home with his family.
Morgyn:
The story also says that if he tries to vote anyway, he’d get further punishment.
This makes me wonder: would his vote count if he tried to cast it while being under the prohibition?
He’s going, he’s going, don’t rush him. (Reuters)
U.S. Representative Duncan Hunter will resign from Congress following his guilty plea to a federal charge of conspiring to misuse campaign funds, he said on Friday.
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“Shortly after the Holidays I will resign from Congress,” Hunter, 42, said in a written statement released by his communications director.
ETA: Whoops! Ninja’d by you , Morgyn!
No idea why he’s waiting, by maybe he doesn’t really want to face the wife after throwing her under the bus.
Morgyn
December 7, 2019, 12:34am
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Waves tiny fists in victory salute.
Finally! I get in before anyone else!
Aspenglow:
He’s going, he’s going, don’t rush him. (Reuters)
ETA: Whoops! Ninja’d by you , Morgyn!
No idea why he’s waiting, by maybe he doesn’t really want to face the wife after throwing her under the bus.
Does Congress get a Xmas bonus?
Kobal2
December 7, 2019, 1:27am
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Pfffft. You amateur colonial wankers. Come back when your representative critter announces he’s running for mayor again via phone call from his jail cell, where he was put for (among other things) misappropriating public funds and using city hall to launder money.
