I suspect she’s shopping for offers. Book deal, hush deal, something. Whatever offers the most.
Time to start watching for new Cohen-run shell companies…
It looks like Nunes is preparing to release his smear campaign against the FBI:
I’m guessing that he is rushed for time, due to the impending Horowitz report that’s slated to come out pretty soon, that will probably clear most of everyone of everything but minor lapses in judgement.
I would suggest approaching it with an open mind. If they release the report and the evidence is lacking you can always denounce it then.
Well, he’s got the support of the electorate.
(By “electorate”, I mean “Russian twitter bots”)
An interesting new toolmeasures these things.
You can tell just from the language that this precious memo is ridiculous bullshit. the Trumpanzees will love it, the Republicans will use it as an excuse to continue working for Vladimir Putin, and Trump will carry on looting the government and selling secrets to Russia.
No. When someone shows themselves to be untrustworthy over and over and over again, I don’t trust them. I guess I’m weird like that.
I’ll be skeptical of the National Policy Institute report “Why Blacks and Jews should GTFO” as well.
I’m sure that it will contain some things that warrant a hard look, but it’s treading the same water that the Horowitz investigation is, was put together in half the time, by a single man rather than a whole team, and assembled in a partisan manner for political purposes. To the extent that it isn’t just a bunch of misleading nonsense, I would expect any real findings of merit to also be in the Horowitz report.
Fundamentally, there’s a limit of time and resources in the world, so if you have two documents where one was prepared by an apolitical team of experts over a full year, and the other by some guy who won a popularity contest, I’d spend my effort on the former.
I’ll read it, but I’d be too deeply suspicious of the time effort in stripping out the nonsense to really want to bother confirming anything in it.
I don’t think you’re right about this. My understanding is that the Horowitz investigation is focused on the FBI’s Clinton-email investigation, while the Nunes report is focused on the alleged politically-motivated misuse of the FISA process to investigate Trump-Russia. These are not at all the same thing.
At any rate, it seems that your mind is made up in advance. Which is a shame.
Political hack Devin Nunes of money-wasting Benghazi Investigation fame? He who released classified information? The Trump transition team member who refuses to recuse himself from an investigation into that same team? Why would no one trust a word that came out of that lying cretin’s mouth?
As I understand it, it was expanded to a general review of whether there were any partisan actions taken on the part of the FBI during 2016 and early 2017 (based on Chris Wray’s testimony to the House Judiciary Committee).
I’ll allow others to make the case and defend the work of Mr. Nunes. If you want to be that person, then once it comes out, defend his claims and convince me.
Nunes seems desperate. I can’t wait until this is all over and we find out why.
He’s hoping to stumble into something that will vindicate him, or at least get him back in the news.
That’s not my impression - my impression is that there is a bit of overlap in that some of the same people are involved and same motivations being alleged, but that that’s not Horowitz’s focus. But I’ve not been following this as closely as you have, and I guess we’ll see.
I don’t know what position I’ll have on the Nunes report until I see the report and expert commentary on it. But whatever my position, I would never make a goal of trying to convince anyone of it, especially someone who has already decided in advance that it’s a “smear campaign” containing “nonsense”.
“Smear campaign”? The only campaign on this thing is coming from the other side.
Or prevent him from facing treason charges and a date with the hangman. He’s sure working hard to make you not look at the Putin behind the curtain.
You’re making an assumption that I work like a regular human.
If something is true, then it’s true. I don’t care what the source is. I’m simply talking about my personal time commitment. I have no interest in verifying the content based on all of the other information available to me. If you think that it is worth your time commitment to find the true nuggets, then I would appreciate your doing that and be rather thankful for having been spared the effort.
I think I read that it’s a four page memo, so it shouldn’t be too hard to read. I expect I would read it (though I’ve not read the several-hundred page testimony transcripts). But in any event, I wouldn’t expect to make too much of it until I see expert commentary, which would add context and any relevant facts that may have been omitted.
He’s hoping that he can convince enough republicans to publicly declare the investigation a sham and have it shut down. It won’t matter what the press reports or whether a majority of the people in this country still believe an investigation is warranted. If enough Republicans in, say, the Senate start coming out and piling on with “serious concerns” or “questions” about the investigation, then over time, the waters get muddied enough to make the case for shutting down the investigation. There are enough republicans with their fingerprints on this that they are desperate to end the investigation, and even those who aren’t quite so desperate probably fear that their time to stop a mid-term election tsunami is running out.
But the fun part is, we’re just getting started. The next trick up the GOP’s sleeves is to invite Putin to meddle in this year’s elections. And by meddling I don’t mean just spam bots that influence elections that produce results that are nevertheless legitimate. I mean we’re going to see things we’ve not yet seen, like election tampering on a scale large enough to compel republicans to question the results. And just like what we’re seeing with the Mueller probe, we’ll see and hear similar things: the results can’t be believed - the facts can’t be believed. This is the theme of today’s republican congress. There is no truth other than the truth that they create in their little world of fiction and superstition. American democracy is not long for this world, my friends.
Four pages? :dubious:
Not to say that size is everything, and not really wanting to slam the document too hard without knowing what is in it, but if that’s its actual length then I’m even more doubtful that the document is anything but a glorified opinion piece for people that think that anything more than 500 words is an achievement.