Miscellaneous And Off Topic Subjects

[Dr. Strangelove]

The Korean summit seems like it's a big deal. At least way bigger than a quasi-evidentiary ruling in the SDNY. That's even a trivial legal story given that the Supreme Court appears likely to bitchslap the fucktwat 9th Circuit and vindicate PDJT's Travel Ban (and, more importantly, the fucking separation of powers).

If I have to hear about every instance of a Drake U sophomore simultaneously declaring gender to be a myth and demanding men be euthanized, you can bear a few SDNY updates.

I care if the President, Pruitt, and Mulvaney are following laws and ethics rules. You don't and say "look at the accomplishments!". I'm a process guy; you're an outcomes guy. That's fine. Agree to disagree!!

Hello!

[AlabamAlum]

DSL from the top rope.

Although watching Talent snd DSL argue is like watching two drunk midgets with parkinson's and a prosthetic leg have a dance off.

[iam416]

Nah, you're a team guy, DSL.

But, if you're a process guy, welcome aboard. Time to embrace the Genius of Gorsuch and roll back the Administrative State.

[iam416]

With 3 rounds to go, it's Shankland vs. Caruana for the title! So, I guess, is technically in it, but his run in is much more difficult both in terms of quality and playing black twice.

Shankland and Caruana each have white twice and play bottom half players -- well, maybe not AlabamAlum's beloved Yaroslav Zherebukh. It will be all about who can get the results as favorite. With Shankland holding the tiebreaker in terms of wins as black, it's incumbent on Caruana to win.

Some really thrilling stuff.

[Dr. Strangelove]

I'm cautiously optimistic on the Korea stuff. Cautiously because this is a familiar journey we're on. But it's better to have this happening than not

[crashcourse]

I'm sure kim jong un losing most of his nuclear testing capability plays a little into what happened this morning

china exerting a little more pressure likely pushed kim

but you still have give credit to potus for not giving an inch this summer failing to yield to the blackmail strategy that worked so well for the kims in years past. bombing Syria twice and hardlining iran has to send a message too

we'll see what happens but a korea without a dmz has to be a good thing.

but lord knows what we need is impeachment. we have to sensationalize and demonize every action and inaction of DJT for the good of future generations. cant have that assclown creating jobs and cutting taxes and strengthening the economy and neutralizing foreign despots. He spent the night in Moscow for gods sake 5 years ago and that pisses us off. we all know he's in up to his assholes with the oligarchs and their leader putin. by god their has to be pictures of Natasha and the golden shower to force this shmuck out. and thank god for comey and lynch and page and our hero McCabe for finding all this out--obtaining a dossier and being able to get a warrant to stop this lunatic from forcing other Russians to piss on each other

it would be nice to get some positive things done in this country instead of being saturated with the efforts of an entire media circus breathlessly reporting THIS IS IT 3-4 times a month. gee just think how great it would be if only we had hillary and bill back in

[AlabamAlum]

With 3 rounds to go, it's Shankland vs. Caruana for the title! So, I guess, is technically in it, but his run in is much more difficult both in terms of quality and playing black twice.

Shankland and Caruana each have white twice and play bottom half players -- well, maybe not AlabamAlum's beloved Yaroslav Zherebukh. It will be all about who can get the results as favorite. With Shankland holding the tiebreaker in terms of wins as black, it's incumbent on Caruana to win.

Some really thrilling stuff.

I do think it's hilarious that you assigned me to be a fan of Yaro.

[THE_WIZARD_]

DSL from the top rope.

Although watching Talent snd DSL argue is like watching two drunk midgets with parkinson's and a prosthetic leg have a dance off.

Actually that sounds far more entertaining

[Dr. Strangelove]

Actually that sounds far more entertaining

Entertainment in North Platte means tying switchblades to two prairie dogs and trying to make 'em fight

[Whitley]

I'm cautiously optimistic on the Korea stuff. Cautiously because this is a familiar journey we're on. But it's better to have this happening than not

Call me cynical here. SK president put a lot of political emphasis on better relations in the least here. NK Kim gets a lot of good international pub----betters his image (which could lead to a reduction in sanctions)---which builds cred to having a meeting with the US (and that means defacto acknowledgment they are a big boy country) and he looks serious while not promising anything.

[THE_WIZARD_]

Entertainment in North Platte means tying switchblades to two prairie dogs and trying to make 'em fight

Hey I've made a lot of money off that asshat...

[THE_WIZARD_]

Entertainment in North Platte means tying switchblades to two prairie dogs and trying to make 'em fight

...of course I had to resort to that DSL...passing out pics of your sister and mom with animals wasn't paying the bills anymore...

[Kapture1]

Grampa and his stories...

https://twitter.com/TheDailyShow/sta...95013074964480

omg a late night "comedian" making fun of Trump??! no way, so edgy, so original.

[Kapture1]

yeah, should be interesting to see.

the Comey memos also pose a problem for the #GentryProgs too, which confirms that Trump told Comey to keep investigating Russian interference, even if it's his close high level advisers. Wherever the trail lead.

also, in the memo about Comey's meeting with Trump about the dossier, he told Trump that the media has the unverified information (didn't tell him who paid for it) and were looking for a news hook. That meeting was held in private at the behest of DNI James Clapper, 0bama's shady, lying director of National Intelligence that now works at CNN, and included Mike Rogers and John Brennen. Then all of a sudden the meeting and contents of the meeting were leaked to CNN which gained the dossier some level of "credibility" in the media

it was reported under the headline "Intel chiefs presented Trump with claims of Russian efforts to compromise him"

This is the start of the Russian frenzy, and the media coverage, including Buzzfeed's releasing of the unverified dossier.


So, to recap we have 0bama's DNI requesting a meeting with Comey and Trump about the dossier that per Comey the media had and were looking for a "news hook" for an excuse to report on it. That meeting served as that "news hook", when the knowledge and contents of the meeting were leaked to CNN. It seems to be the sole reason why DNI Clapper, now National Intelligence contributor with CNN, requested the meeting. That meeting was a setup.

Also have confirmation that creep Comey told Trump in private at least three times that he was not the target of the investigation, yet refused to state that publicly. And that Comey likely leaked classified government property when he sent some of the memos to his friend to leak to the press for the sole reason to build pressure for a special council. Comey not just deserves to be fired, he deserves to be prosecuted.

Declassified Congressional Report: James Clapper Lied About Dossier Leaks To CNN
A newly declassified report on Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections reveals that former intelligence chief James Clapper lied to Congress about information he shared with CNN on the infamous Steele dossier.

http://thefederalist.com/2018/04/27/house-intel-report-james-clapper-lied-dossier-leaks-cnn/

Buried within a newly declassified congressional report on Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. elections is a shocking revelation: former Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper not only leaked information about the infamous Steele dossier and high-level government briefings about it to CNN, he also may have lied to Congress about the matter.

In one of the findings within the 253-page report, the House intelligence committee wrote that Clapper leaked details of a dossier briefing given to then-President-elect Donald Trump to CNN’s Jake Tapper, lied to Congress about the leak, and was rewarded with a CNN contract a few months later.

“Clapper flatly denied ‘discussing[ing] the dossier [compiled by Steele] or any other intelligence related to Russia hacking of the 2016 election with journalists,'” the committee found.

When asked directly whether he had ever discussed the dossier with any journalists, Clapper replied that he had not, according to a transcript of the proceedings:

The former DNI later changed his story after he was confronted specifically about his communications with Jake Tapper of CNN.

“Clapper subsequently acknowledged discussing the ‘dossier with CNN journalist Jake Tapper,’ and admitted that he might have spoken with other journalists about the same topic,” the report continued. “Clapper’s discussion with Tapper took place in early January 2017, around the time IC leaders briefed President Obama and President-elect Trump, on ‘the Christopher Steele information,’ a two-page summary of which was ‘enclosed in’ the highly-classified version of the ICA,” or intelligence community assessment.

The briefing of Trump by U.S. intelligence chiefs was held on January 6. CNN published its story on the briefing, based on anonymous leaks from “two national security officials,” on January 10. BuzzFeed published the full dossier, which was jointly funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee, minutes after the CNN story was published.

The revelation that Clapper was responsible for leaking details of both the dossier and briefings to two presidents on the matter is significant, because former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director James Comey wrote in one of four memos that he leaked that the briefing of Trump on salacious and unverified allegations from the dossier was necessary because “CNN had them and were looking for a news hook.”

The congressional report on Russian interference noted that it was this very briefing of Trump that multiple media organizations used as an excuse to publish the unverified dossier.

“The Committee assesses that leaks to CNN about the dossier were especially significant, since CNN’s report ‘ that a two-page synopsis of the report was given to President Obama and Trump’ was the proximate cause of BuzzFeed News’ decision to publish the dossier for the first time just a few hours later,” the report stated. “Until that point, the dossier had been ‘circulating among elected official, intelligence agents, and journalists,’ but remained unpublished. As the accompanying article explained, ‘[n]ow BuzzFeed News is publishing the full document so that Americans can make up their own minds about allegations about the president-elect that have circulated at the highest levels of government.”

As The Federalist‘s Mollie Hemingway noted after Comey’s memos were finally made available to the public, the fired FBI director’s account of the briefing of Trump suggested that the entire briefing was a setup from the beginning, and that it was scheduled and held just so it could be leaked to journalists who wanted an excuse to publish a dossier nobody had verified.

In their coordinated response to the full intelligence committee’s findings, committee Democrats defended Clapper, claiming that he broke no laws while acknowledging that he did leak information about the dossier to CNN’s Jake Tapper.

“Evaluated in context, Clapper denied leaking classified information, while acknowledging that, as DNI, he engaged in legitimate discussion of unclassified, non-intelligence information with Tapper,” they concluded.

Clapper, who previously lied to Congress about whether the U.S. government was electronically spying on millions of Americans, was subsequently hired by CNN just months after his leak. Although he eventually apologized to Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) for lying to Congress about government mass surveillance of American citizens, he subsequently told MSNBC that the question to which he responded–“Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?”–was a gotcha question similar to, “When did you stop beating your wife?”

[THE_WIZARD_]

omg a late night "comedian" making fun of Trump??! no way, so edgy, so original.

Whodathunkit