Some of the same fleet of private jets Cheney used to send Afghan prisoners to “black sites” for interrogation are still available.
Mueller isn’t going to *do *it; he just has to *threaten *to do it or something equally frightful.
Or maybe he could just pull some nails with pliers. Or threaten it or “something equally frightful”.
Point is, he’s *got *Manafort.
Please note that to get the warrant for their pre-dawn raid on his home, the FBI had to present a judge with probable cause they’d find evidence of a crime.
And not only probable cause, but had to show reason to believe evidence was at risk of being destroyed. Judges don’t like to sign off on dramatic raids like this unless there’s a very good reason.
Trump Nazi has been so dominant in the news lately that this interesting tidbit about Trump Russia has been obscured:
Interesting, but not particularly useful. I don’t see how having this witness is going to prove anything WRT Russian involvement in hacking, especially considering that Fancy Bear appears to have replaced all their hacking tools. It’s possible they could use his technical expertise to work against future attacks, though.
Anybody heard anything more about this?
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (apparently known to be a fan of Putin and 45) has “met with” Julian Assange and is going to go wee, wee, wee back to Tmurp with what he has learned, before telling anyone else any deets.
Hadn’t heard about it, but if anything comes of it, I’d guess that it has nothing to do with what is being said here.
While the US intelligence community said that they have to use something more like heuristics to determine Russian activities, they didn’t seem open to the idea that those heuristics were to be questioned at all. (Basically, they either have something better than heuristics going on and don’t want to tell anyone, or there’s just too many clues for anyone to have any realistic doubt.) So if Dana is to show up with “proof” that Russia wasn’t behind the Clinton emails, ain’t no one going to bother spending any time looking into it except a few conspiracy theory level Right-wing news rags, and presumably the quality of the evidence won’t allow it to make it out of that territory.
But, that doesn’t mean that Assange can’t use the opportunity to pass Dana something of use to Trump and Putin, unrelated to the Clinton email hacks.
If such a thing exists, I’m not sure what it would be, or that we’d be able to track it back to this particular meeting. Blackmail materials on congressmen, perhaps? Trump might be figuring that he needs some leverage against the Legislature, for when Mueller makes his findings public and impeachment proceedings start.
That is not necessarily a bar to a government complying with a request to turn an individual over.
US government? It’s definitely a “bar”. Other than through an extradition treaty, there is no legal process that would allow the US government to “turn over” a US citizen to another country.
For what it’s worth, Rick Wilson, a Republican political consultant tweeted this a few days ago:
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"Just wanted to re-up this. You’ll know why in about two weeks:
Remember, remember, The 8th of November, 'Twas Putin, and treason and plot; I see no reason Why pro-Russian treason Should ever be forgot."*
There’s obviously a lot of Twitter nonsense, but Rick Wilson is not prone to histrionics and the specificity of the time frame is reassuring.
Benamin Wittes, who is a friend of Comey and who has also been very accurate in predicting things about to break has also been on twitter strongly hinting that there is something very big in the works.
Of course Guy Fawkes day is the 5th of November, not the 8th, but I can see how the US 2016 election day and the traditional British commemoration of a foiled plot could be artistically merged.
Anyway: hope we are shut of him before December. That could only be good for the nation and the world.
Having read the wikipedia article on U.S. extradition law, I now concede the point.
Trumpism will outlive Trump. Donny may turn out to be a proto-authoritarian, but there’s already enough proof out there, IMO, to suggest that the threat of real authoritarianism is present and growing. Has to do with the fragmentation of the parties, which everyone on both the right and left seem to be giddy about at the present but may will live to regret later. We’re living in a time when an existing order is deteriorating. The transition to a newer order is usually a rough one, with several entities competing for the power to determine where we go next. We’re seeing this with respect to American politics, and we’re also going to see it with respect to America’s position and influence worldwide. That order is probably eroding as well.
Love it, but it is a re-tweet from last December.
Not sure about that. From Wikipedia
I said he wasn’t predisposed to histrionics, not that he wasn’t predisposed to colorful imagery!
ABC News is reporting that Christopher Steele has given the FBI the names of the sources for his dossier (the so-called pee pee memo).
I suspect that most childless single men who masturbate to anime are Democrats on the West Coast.
Yes, but he added the part about understanding the full meaning within the next two weeks on August 17.