saltmummy wrote:Like the articles he is posting, he is no longer reading your responses guys. This is just where he dumps titles he sees and assumes the content of.
Of course I'm reading their responses. Like I explained before, Dallane's responses show that he has fully 'Drunk the Kool Aid' and I doubt that he will end his support of Trump until he's actually impeached. Tmeow's responses argue a point showing that although she is 'Sipping the Kool Aid' she is at least reading the news. Her point on the 100,000 National guard memo shows this. She is correctly pointing out that the memo is an executive branch immigration plan for more deportations and border patrol. Some of it is harsh but it's what Trump campaigned on and what the Republicans have called for for years. It's still unclear if the plan came from Miller and Trump's appointment to head ICE or if it came from or was just seen by senior officials in the Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS). Either way the White House is now saying that the memo is NOT "Fake News" anymore like they were earlier in the story and they are confirming that it was at least seen by people in DHS but that it definitely did not originate from the White House.
The only seriously bizarre thing coming from this Immigration memo is the use of National Guard units to round up illegal immigrants and the militarization of an ICE/DHS plan. These are both small parts of the memo but even if Tmeow wants to bury them in the entire 11 page memo, THEY ARE the most controversial parts of the memo.
The White House response to the memo leaking is also news worthy. They initially called it "Fake News" in their increasingly bizarre knee jerk reaction to stuff like this and then later that afternoon they confirmed the story to be true and that the memo was created. This is not how a White House is supposed to act when it comes to FACTS and NEWS. Normally a White House would say 'let me find out about it" and then a few hours later they would comment publicly or responded directly to the story or media source confirming or denying the memo. They then could have commented on their view of the memo and why it might be necessary. This did not happen. The AP (a incredibly reliable news source who seeks 3 sources before publishing and is respected worldwide) had asked for comment from the White House a full 24 hours before running the story. They provided a timeline for themselves running the story to the White House, they provided the memo to the White House and they asked for a response from the White House which would be included in the story. THE AP DID EVERYTHING BY THE BOOK AS A NEWS SOURCE SHOULD DO. The White House acknowledged receiving it and then never got back to the AP, and then yelled "FAKE NEWS" when the story ran the next day before confirming the memo wasn't fake hours later in the afternoon.
THIS IS NOT NORMAL, AND IS MAYBE EVEN MORE WORRYING THAN THE FACT THAT A MEMO EXISTS TO CALL UP THE NATIONAL GUARD TO DETAIN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS IN A REGIONAL DETENTION PLAN.
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MEANWHILE, BACK ON TOPIC
Reuters reported yesterday that the FBI currently has 3 expanding full investigations going on into the 'Russian Hacking Scandal' instead of the previously reported 1.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-t ... SKBN15X0OEWhat's new with this article:
1. The FBI sources are confirming that they are investigating connections between Russian Intelligence interests and front companies controlled by Trump associates.
2. They've corroborated other sources confirming the NYT story that quoted sources from the CIA and other intelligence services saying that there were connections between Russian Intelligence and the Trump campaign.
3. They've confirmed that the FBI is expanding the original FBI solo investigation into 3 and probably expanded the manpower behind it.
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This means that we now have a growing group of investigations of which these 9 are confirmed:
3 FBI investigations (DNC and HRC campaign hacking, Identifying Russian hacking source, Connections between Trump campaign and Russian Intelligence)
1 U.S. multi-departmental Intelligence Services counter-intelligence investigation (includes CIA, NSA and FBI)
5 Congressional Committee hearings of varying non-partisan amounts are now investigating the connections. The Senate Judiciary and Senate Intel committee are the least partisan so far with support from Russians for full investigations. Lindsey Graham's Senate Judiciary committee is already preparing subpoenas to question Flynn and his aides. The House Intel committee head David Nunes who was on the Trump campaign transition team is fighting tooth and nail to not have investigations but some requests from moderate Republicans are making it through. The House Judiciary also has an investigation into the election hacking only. The House Oversight committee which is the main open investigative committee is led by Jason Chaffetz and although he's allowed investigations into Flynn's speaking engagements in Russia he has not allowed any other investigations like the ongoing nonsense he had with Benghazi. His cowardly partisan bickering will go down in history when this all blows up. The House Oversight committee is the main committee to lead to open investigations that can be seen by the public that would lead to criminal prosecution. Because of Chaffetz's blind partisanship Democrats (and some Republicans) are calling for a Blue Ribbon (Non-partisan, equal amounts of Dems and Reps) commission to look into it and/or a Non-partisan "Open Committee" led by someone like Colin Powell to head the open inquiry. Republicans in congress are currently refusing to allow this but pressure is building.
There are also confirmed MI-6 and other foreign allied intel investigations into this (including Estonia, Lithuania, Poland, Germany, France, Czech and others). Some are coordinating with NATO and some are providing information to the CIA. Some are just leaking info directly to the press.
This is where we are now.
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