Cliff Varnell
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21 minutes ago, James DiEugenio said:
So it appears that not only did Mueller violate Brady,
Which is readily violated.
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2 minutes ago, James DiEugenio said:
In rereading that fine article--and i advise everyone to do so--I see I made a mistake.
It did not take two weeks to finish up the 302. It actually took a day over three weeks.
And it went through the hands of maybe as many as five people. When, in fact, only two people were at the interview. And no one has seen the various drafts leading up to it and the FBI did not even want to give up the last draft. In other words, at any perjury trial, Sidney Powell would have had a laugh riot in front of a jury.
And yet Flynn twice pleaded guilty of lying and had to sit through the judge taking a huge dump on him for his actions.
Team Fascist is trying to get Flynn off on a technicality that 2000 former prosecutors don’t buy.
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4 hours ago, James DiEugenio said:
The worst might be the guy who ran Crowdstrike. McGovern's article on him should be read by everyone. HIs testimony indicates that it was a leak and not a hack.
That’s a stretch.
QuoteHere’s the money quote:
Mr. Henry: “We didn’t have a sensor in place that saw data leave. We said that the data left based on the circumstantial evidence. That was the conclusion that we made.
In answer to a follow-up query on this line of questioning, Henry delivered this classic: “Sir, I was just trying to be factually accurate, that we didn’t see the data leave, but we believe it left, based on what we saw.”
Inadvertently highlighting the tenuous underpinning for CrowdStrike’s “belief” that Russia hacked the DNC emails, Henry added: “There are other nation-states that collect this type of intelligence for sure, but the — what we would call the tactics and techniques were consistent with what we’d seen associated with the Russian state.”
QuoteTo think that the media spent over two years on this pile of bird droppings. Wow.
We know that Seth Rich had nothing to do with any of this.
How do we know this as a fact?
Because Julian Assange brought up the name Seth Rich, unprompted.
There’s no way Assange names his source.
No way
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4 minutes ago, Cliff Varnell said:
There are two definitions of the word “collusion”: “secret cooperation” and “criminal conspiracy.”
“Collusion” is not a legal term of art. Was there criminal conspiracy in RussiaGate?
Mueller said he couldn’t prove criminal conspiracy given the stonewalling of witnesses and documents by Trump.
Was there secret cooperation between Trump operatives and Russian state actors?
The top Trump campaign officials — Paul Manafort and Rick Gates — passed internal polling to a long-time Russian operative, Konstantin Kilimnik. At one meeting they all took separate exits. That’s secret cooperation.The infamous Trump Tower meeting was initiated with an e-mail:
Re: Russia -Clinton — private and.confidential
That’s the operative definition of secret cooperation!
Then we have the contacts between Trump campaign figures and Russians.
How many Trumpers lied about their contacts with Russians? Flynn, Manafort, Stone, Kushner, Gates, Sessions, Papadop, Prince.
It's intellectually dishonest to use only one definition of a word that has no force in law.
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34 minutes ago, James DiEugenio said:
I was wrong about the Schiff depositions, there were actually 57 of them, not 53.
The number of denials that Ray McGovern and Patrick Lawrence and others have adduced from those depositions is kind of stunning. When asked directly about the evidence of collusion between the White House and Moscow and if they had seen any direct evidence of it, person after person says no, or if there was, I was not briefed on it.
There are two definitions of the word “collusion”: “secret cooperation” and “criminal conspiracy.”
“Collusion” is not a legal term of art. Was there criminal conspiracy in RussiaGate?
Mueller said he couldn’t prove criminal conspiracy given the stonewalling of witnesses and documents by Trump.
Was there secret cooperation between Trump operatives and Russian state actors?
The top Trump campaign officials — Paul Manafort and Rick Gates — passed internal polling to a long-time Russian operative, Konstantin Kilimnik. At one meeting they all took separate exits. That’s secret cooperation.The infamous Trump Tower meeting was initiated with an e-mail:
Re: Russia -Clinton — private and.confidential
That’s the operative definition of secret cooperation!
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9 hours ago, W. Niederhut said:
My vote goes to Jimi Hendrix's recording of All Along the Watchtower. So many imitations during the past 50 years, but no one had ever played a guitar like that before.
All Along The Watchtower and Like A Rolling Stone are great covers. Can’t beat ‘em. These are three of my other faves...
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William Barr Takes a Wrecking Ball to the DOJ, Former Officials Respond With Stern Letter
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On Monday morning, we heard from Jonathan Kravis, one of the career prosecutors in the Roger Stone case who resigned in February from the Justice Department after 10 years when political officials in the DOJ interfered with the case to recommend a lower sentence for a Donald Trump crony. Kravis penned an op-ed for the Washington Post explaining that in the wake of the Flynn decision, he could no longer remain silent:
Since my resignation, I have not commented on the Stone sentencing; it is not easy for me to do so now. Prosecutors are trained to make their cases in the courtroom and let the results speak for themselves. But I feel compelled to write because I believe that the department’s handling of these matters is profoundly misguided, because my colleagues who still serve the department are duty-bound to remain silent and because I am convinced that the department’s conduct in the Stone and Flynn cases will do lasting damage to the institution.</q> -
5 hours ago, W. Niederhut said:
Jim,
I'm hardly an apologist for American Cold Warriors (and funders of the Third Reich) like the Dulles brothers. Far from it.
We’ve spent decades opposing/denouncing American interference in the affairs of others’, but when we denounce/oppose Russian interference in our election the pro-Putin Purity Left accuse us of Cold War mongering.
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6 hours ago, James DiEugenio said:
Material to what?
Trolls on line? The Steele Dossier? The phony case against George P? Roger Stone lying about something he did not have?
If you guys are crying over this, wait until you see the Durham Report.
The Durham Report! Bill Barr’s phony “investigation of the investigators.”
It’s a crucial part of Trump’s move to make everyone in the Justice Dept. personally loyal to him.
Interesting to see Jim DiEugenio cheerlead Trump’s drive to overt fascism.
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1 hour ago, Joseph McBride said:
RT has been one of the few networks to treat Oliver Stone with respect.
When I saw Oliver Stone say, “I didn’t know anything about Ukraine until Putin told me” — I felt despair. Still do.
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Bill Barr accused by ex-prosecutor of a ‘big cover-up’ in Flynn case to keep him quiet about Trump
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Great article in Salon...Gives Trump a pass on his adherence to Fascism, but excellent nonetheless.
https://www.salon.com/2020/05/10/fascism-capitalism-donald-trump-and-the-pandemic-how-did-we-get-here/ -
On 5/9/2020 at 9:47 AM, Paul Brancato said:
Ironically perhaps, the Radical Left also played into Trump’s hands, just like they are doing now. Over the years I’ve appreciated their criticisms of the Democratic Party and their unwavering support of US foreign policies. But it was, and is, a surprise to me that they don’t weigh those criticisms against the very real possibility that by helping Trump in this way they are ushering in a truly fascist regime.
Paul, I don’t get it, either. Trump is making a play for outright fascism with the Justice Dept. as the tip of the spear. Why so many on the Left repeat Bill Barr talking points on the Mueller investigation is a mystery to me.
A lot of self-described analysts of the deep state couldn’t “deep analyze” their way out of an open paper bag, imo.
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9 minutes ago, James DiEugenio said:
I just looked it up. That was what I thought it was and Jill Stein was there.
Geez Doug, was Jill part of the plotting also? It RT really a shell company to undermine democracy and overthrow our government?
Like I said, I like RT. Put me down as being part of the plot then or a maybe I'm a commie sym?. Which is hard to do since Russia is not a communist system anymore.
Jill Stein isn’t a former top US intelligence official.
Flynn is. A counter-intelligence investigation can be expected in any instance where someone with that background goes on the payroll of foreign governments.
I used to watch RT regularly until Comcast dropped it. Watching the Hawks was a good show. I took the propaganda elements with a grain of salt — just like American propaganda.
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1 hour ago, James DiEugenio said:
If I recall, was not that picture from the launch of RT?
I thought Jill Stein was there also.
If that is so, I have no problem saying I like RT. I have been on that network interviewed by Jesse Ventura.
Ah! So that makes it hunky dorry for a former top US intelligence official to take money from the Russian government?
Flynn was also on the payroll of the Turkish government — nothing to see here folks, move along...
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36 minutes ago, James DiEugenio said:
William:
Again, I disagree with the commentary. As I do not see any kind of viable CI investigation.
A former top US intelligence official was paid $45,000 in 2015 to give a speech in Moscow, where he rubbed elbows with Vladimir Putin and Paul Manafort.
How could the FBI not look into it?
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How to Avoid Going to Jail under 18 U.S.C. Section 1001 for Lying to Government Agents
https://corporate.findlaw.com/litigation-disputes/how-to-avoid-going-to-jail-under-18-u-s-c-section-1001-for-lying.htmlThe FBI did not set Flynn up in a perjury trap. They conducted themselves according to Standard Operating Procedure.
Flynn lied to the FBI about his call to the Russian Amb. Then he lied to VP Pence. Then Trump fired him.
How DiEugenio blames any of this on the liberal blogosphere is baffling.
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30 minutes ago, James DiEugenio said:
It really puzzles me that so many liberals want to go after Trump in a lost cause that can only help him win in the fall.
There are so many other areas that he seems to me to be vulnerable on:
1.) Exactly what is he going to replace Obamacare with? Make him produce something tangible.
2.) What did his tax reform bill actually do for the economy? Nothing as far as i can see except make rich people richer.
3.) What is the point in bankrupting the country but still giving the Pentagon everything they ask for?
4.) Why did he deny the existence of CV 19 for over two months, allowing it to spread almost everywhere? Why did he not send a tracer team into Washington and the Pacific Northwest at the start and set up field hospitals for quarantine purposes? If he did not know what he was doing, why did he not bring in someone who did and make him the field supervisor?
How does any of the above Make America Great Again?
Finally, where is Joe Biden? Is he running a campaign or not?
Keep pounding a dead horse. Trump will be there until 2024.
DiEugenio has spent the last 4 years repeating Trump talking points about the deep state. His mis-characterizations of the Flynn case are only his latest apologia for the fascist takeover of the Justice Department.
DiEugenio has been on the opposite side from The Resistance and now he’s pretending to lead it.
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2 hours ago, Jeff Carter said:
The well-known legal analyst Jonathan Turley believes the Motion To Dismiss is the right decision. He finds precedent in case law, and has appeared before the same judge on similar issues.
How did Turley get well-known?
He was on all over cable news in 1998 arguing that lying under oath about adultery is an impeachable offense.
A few months ago Trump called him to defend before the Senate the idea that extorting foreign governments to interfere in our 2020 election was not impeachable.
“Well known legal analyst”? Fascism apologist, more like it.
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On 5/6/2020 at 8:15 PM, Ron Ecker said:
I might as well throw in my San Francisco experience, such as it was. I went to a North Beach joint in 1966 and saw a topless all-girl band.
Oh, and I saw an Ecker Street in San Francisco. As I recall it was a dead end.
My favorite San Francisco story is the $23.73 the rent on my roomy Haight Ashbury pad has gone up in 31 years.
Democratic Socialism rocks!
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Note the date on the last graph — October 21.
The cable news coverage of the Comey Letter from October 28 on was a dramatic escalation of Hillary bashing.
According to Leading Media Critic James DiEugenio the MSM, in order to undermine Trump, went “whole hog” (5 print articles over 7 weeks) on the Steele Dossier.
But, according to DiEugenio, the tsunami of Hillary bashing had no impact.
Go figure.
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17 minutes ago, Jeff Carter said:
Getting Isikoff to publish Steele's info was undertaken less to popularize the information, and more to serve as secondary confirmation of the alleged veracity of the info - as the publication of Isikoff's article was highlighted in the FISA warrant justifications directed at Carter Page.
That investigation went no where.
Since the info in the Steele Dossier received scant attention — five print articles over a 7 week period, no television coverage — the claim that it was used to undermine Trump’s election chances stands debunked.
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31 minutes ago, Lawrence Schnapf said:
We need to separate Trump the person from his claims about the Deep State. He is a terrible messenger but he is right about the risk posed by the Deep State.
I see the deep state as tri-polar. Pawns of Wall St., pawns of the Bible-Thumpers (Trump’s peeps), and the bureaucrats loyal to the institutions for which they work.
Trump isn’t out to defeat the deep state— he wants their loyalty to him personally.
The inevitable end result of our last 56 years
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There’s nothing worse than Trump’s drive to make every member of the Justice Dept personally loyal to him.