The Trump Administration: A Clusterfuck in the Making

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When do the Dems ask for the real, hidden away transcript? There’s a reason Trump’s flunkeys hid the fucking thing.

18 minutes of tape?

Yes, I should have said “mammalian” rather than “human.”

The point was to counter speculation that he’s a mechanical doll constructed in the bowels of the Kremlin.

(It took their scientists years to get one to work on the breakdown of saturated fats, but they finally achieved it. Periodic input of fried chicken and Filets-o-Fish keep that homunculus running as well as can be expected.)

I fart in your general direction …

House Trump. Arms: on field of azure, a chamber pot gilded.

The word is “or”. As in “a chamber pot of or”.

Seriously. I want to see some discussion of this. Ever since the super-duper secret server and the hidden transcript there became publicly known, I’ve seen non-stop yelling and screaming in the media about why it might have been put there, how the published transcript might have been doctored, but NOTHING about any possibility of actually getting the original back out of there. No demands to see the original. No subpoenas for it? No discussion over what it would take to get it?

Is that server a one-way street? Is it /dev/null? Is it write-only? Are documents stashed there gone and lost forever? Are they encrypted with a twelve-thousand-bit key and the key shredded and burned? Is it a felony to even think about documents once they are put there?

BTW, what does “code word level” mean?

It is the original or, at least, as close as we are liable to ever come minus a few discrepancies that Vindman testified to.

Vindman testimony, pages 47-56:

https://www.lawfareblog.com/lt-col-alexander-vindman-and-fiona-hill-transcripts-impeachment-depositions

They should have gotten the ball rolling on getting the other transcripts which had been moved to the server, though. (Possibly they have and it’s just not been leaked yet.)

Nitpick: according to every heraldic description I’ve come across, it would be “a chamber pot or” (no “of”).

In any case, IMHO Nava was more accurate. “Or” implies solid gold, while “gilded” implies a veneer of gold over base metal. Well nigh perfect description of House Drumpf.

Wiki sez (all emphases mine):

TL;DR: Code Word Level refers to compartmentalized, “need to know” information, and only those individuals with both the appropriate security clearance and that specific program/document/whatever’s code word are cleared for that information. It is the tightest-held level of security, although it should be noted that it’s an “add-on” classification to “Secret” or “Top Secret” classifications.

This part:

“Top Secret is the highest level of classification. However some information is compartmentalized by adding a code word so that only those who have been cleared for each code word can see it. This information is also known as “Sensitive Compartmented Information” (SCI)”

is not quite correct. There is non-SCI code word material.

So, logically, there must be something on the real transcript that CFSG doesn’t want everyone to see. Otherwise, why is it code word secure?

Generally, but ‘gilded’ in this case is entirely appropriate. As in Gilded Age, not Golden Age.

And every dictator ever. If you got blindfolded in Trump Tower and then got zipped magically to the Al Fawr palace in Baghdad, you’d be hard pressed to tell the difference. And rumor has it that Vlad the Impaler has recreated the Amber Room at the Kremlin.

Except, of course, for the gold spray paint and Pottery Barn price tags still attached.

Goddammit!! Don’t ruin Pottery Barn!! :mad:

I assumed that it was covered in one of the document requests that the administration is ignoring. I don’t have actual proof of this and am definitely not going to go digging around for the actual subpoenas to read as it will probably just raise my blood pressure.

If a Democrat wins, I sincerely hope one of the first steps is to scour that server for incriminating documents and if they exist, release them. The world needs to know just how corrupt this bozo is.

Sorry - I lost track - what document are we talking about?

Trump nominee who is anti-IVF and surrogacy was deemed unqualified. She was just confirmed.

I don’t get it. I know he wants a particular political bent, but surely there are some lawyers who have tried cases who fit the bill?