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    Quote Originally Posted by Azor View Post

    As regards Trump’s experience, he is the most politically inexperienced president in the postwar era. All of his predecessors were lawyers professionally and/or career politicians. Eisenhower is another exception, however, his career as a military officer and close work with presidential administrations from 1942 to 1952 gave him far more political experience than that of a mere businessman.
    I do not think Carter, Reagan, Bush 1, or Bush 2 were lawyers. Bush 2 was the first President to have an MBA.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Azor View Post
    I don’t read or pay attention to David Horowitz.

    What I do pay attention to is networks of relationships and bureaucratic tendencies. Both you and CrowBat, for instance, commented repeatedly on the success of the Iran doves in setting policy during Obama’s presidency, and how their drive for a nuclear development agreement with Iran impacted U.S. policy on the wars in Syria, Iraq and Ukraine.

    Personally, I have spent a great deal of time and energy arguing against those who claim that Russia hawks such as Nuland, set U.S. policy on Ukraine from late 2013 to present, when in fact they were in the wilderness until last year. Rhodes, while heavily influencing the U.S. response to the “Arab Spring”, denounced what he referred to as “the blob”.

    Last year, pro-interventionists from both the Republican and Democratic parties endorsed Clinton’s candidacy, including a horde of former NSC members, IC directors and foreign service officers. The military establishment was predictably more circumspect during the election, as it pays the price for failures in intelligence and foreign policy.

    Given that both you and CrowBat spent years decrying Obama’s cynical and selective foreign policy as well as the establishment and media that supported it or ignored inconvenient truths, don’t tell me that you no longer believe in “the blob” simply because its views happen to have briefly coincided with your own.



    Comey declined an invitation to speak to the Senate Intelligence Committee in a closed door session, but expressed willingness to testify in public, which he did. But he isn't showboating or grand-standing...






    As regards Trump’s experience, he is the most politically inexperienced president in the postwar era. All of his predecessors were lawyers professionally and/or career politicians. Eisenhower is another exception, however, his career as a military officer and close work with presidential administrations from 1942 to 1952 gave him far more political experience than that of a mere businessman.
    Azor.....you deflect and deflect and deflect....

    Go back to my key comment.....Trump himself could have ended this whole farce of his saying he is not involved with either the Russian mob and or RIS by simply posting all of his tax records for the last 15 years, posting all information on every single loan he has outside of the US, posting all of his identified businesses and those that are shell companies and THEN explain just how he got 350M USDs in loans from Deutsche Bank...the same exact bank FinCen hit with darn near 1.2B USDs in fines for Russian money laundering....

    AND after that he can explain the rich Russians who suddenly invested in his real estate when he nearly crashed in the real estate bust...

    Those same Russians did not come running to save other Americans who went under did they...why Trump???

    BTW...you failed to explain how a deeply convinced Marxist went from that to the leading alt right white nationalist leader of a vast alt right propaganda machine....that gave us Bannon and Miller did you??

    a Trump in a farce of a press conference for the Romanians stating "I would 100% talk to Mueller and Comey is lying"....

    NOTICE he did not set a date for that 100% under oath conversation...this is what you do not get...it was nothing more or less than what he did in the federal racketeering case on his university criminal fraud case........

    I will fight this...I will sue and go to court and "I will testify"

    BUT WAIT..when the federal judge did not back down...Trump caved and caved for 25M USDs...BUT got the records sealed......

    Check all records of the 4000 or so cases Trump has either been sued and or was sued....ALL records are sealed why is that is there is nothing to hide as this great businessman???

    Comey declined to testify as he fully understands exactly what Mueller allowed him to say and he said exactly that....

    NOW as an exercise for you...go back and reread his statements...and pay extremely close attention to the way he used verbs and the tenses.....

    It is how it was stated that lets you know that a ton of fish is coming straight at Trump and Trump does not see it coming...how strange is that for a great businessman.....

    BTW...the leading alt right twitter account is still riding the "leaker" idea placed to them by Trumps comments...

    Jack Posobiec #
    Verified account
    @JackPosobiec

    When will @FBI explain to Reality Winner's parents why she is in jail for exactly what Comey did?

    Really is all I can say.....a highly NSA classified document stolen and released to Intercept is not the same as a unclassified personal memo recalled from memory...and he is not even in government.

    BTW........this individual was deeply involved in pushing the Marconleak hashtag into the Le Pen Front National twitter feeds just before the French election...

    So what does a US white nationalist have with French Front National and Russian botnets?????

    A lot in common....BTW..far more than you than can think of...
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    Azor...now I will get on my soap box as it is in my area of expertise...not yours...

    In the world of "information warfare and the spy games" and if you are looking for data for link analysis to input into say an advanced link analysis tool you need to find a common linkage point or series of points not just random data although sometimes that will provide a number of surprises....

    So I always look for "money, people, companies and locations".....or the proverbial "Who, What, when, Where, how and Why...the Five Ws and 1H

    You often quote "The Hill"..have you ever asked yourself who owns its, who invests into it, who writes articles for it and the motive behind those articles...

    Take this article....
    The Hill‏
    @thehill

    "The damaging case against James Comey"
    http://hill.cm/hTv5Blo

    Would it surprise you to find out that two US FARA types are behind the article and as FARAs they are paid out of Russia for their US work?????

    Posted is a picture of both together with Putin and the individual for whom they work......now is that not somehow close to the Flynn Putin RT dinner picture and Putin stating he did not know Flynn nor talked to him even though on the same table...wonder if he knows these two and the oligarch.....

    Will let you wonder about the names of the two and where they are in the photo...

    Both are FARA US agents of Oleg Deripaska an oligarch very close to Putin.

    Deripaska BTW also wanted recently stated he wanted to testify in Congress in support to Flynn and Trump but suddenly he has not left Russia...

    He and Manafort go back a long way together in Ukraine...

    BTW..these two FARA agents were also deeply involved in the NC voting issue...now the circle closes does it not????
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    More than 19 million saw Comey testimony on TV

    http://politi.co/2raXrBx

    Bet Trump hates this figure as it is far more than those that attended his Inauguration.

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    Azor...even with me sitting in Berlin...this tape does exist and is the basis for a criminal racketeering money laundering investigation against the GOP as a political party.....

    This journalist and two others one of which is a retired NSA overseas CI field agent have been breaking story after story which now MSM is slowly and steadily confirming as valid and correct...

    Paul Ryan Taped With Russian Ambassador On GOP Money#Laundering
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    Exclusive: Sources with links to the intelligence community now confirm that a tape exists of Paul Ryan, the Speaker of the House, discussing how Russian money could be funneled without detection to target GOP campaigns, including Ryan’s.
    These sources report that Mr. Ryan is also on tape discussing how he can best use and disseminate Wikileaks material that was hacked from the DNC by Russia in order to win both his own election and election for Trump.
    Further, sources say, the tape of Mr. Ryan discussing his knowledge of Russia funding the GOP that has previously been published in the Washington Post is in fact a small fragment of a much more damaging tape.
    Patribotics exclusively broke the news of that tape #one week before it was released in the mainstream media. In this story of May 11th I reported:
    On Paul Ryan, Speaker of the House, normally third in the line of succession, I can report as fact that sources say that Ryan has been legally intercepted, and is on tape, admitting that he knew Russian money was being laundered into the Republican party. Without co-operation pending resignation Ryan may find himself swept up into a RICO prosecution involving the apparatus of the Republican party who accepted laundered Russian money.
    A week later Adam Entous at the Washington Post printed his exclusive report on the partial content of that tape.
    My sources had clarified, at the time, that this tape was not the same as I had heard previously, namely, that Paul Ryan was directly on tape at the GOP convention discussing money laundering with the Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak. Reince Priebus was on tape doing so, these sources said.
    Separate sources with links to the intelligence community and justice departments now confirm that there are at least two tapes of Speaker Ryan discussing Russian money, however. One is the tape that I reported and which the Washington Post published. The second, however, is indeed of Ryan speaking with Kislyak at the convention. Sources report that there is signals intelligence, or SIGINT, of Paul Ryan discussing Russian money reaching the GOP and being covered up through companies using the ruling on Citizens United. Further, there is signals intelligence connecting Ryan to discussions on how best to use hacked data from Wikileaks to benefit Trump’s campaign and his own as well as the GOP in general.
    Sources with links to the intelligence community report a widespread belief that Mr. Ryan is being forced to act sympathetic towards Trump and dismissive of the Russian probe because Russia holds kompromat upon him. There is anger, these sources say, amongst rank and file intelligence agents at Paul Ryan’s gross defense of Trump and rank misstatements of Director Comey’s bombshell testimony. Affirmation that Paul Ryan is on tape discussing Wikileaks and Russian money laundering with Sergei Kislyak at the GOP convention – as well as the extensive further tapes that exist of the Washington Post discussion where Ryan admits knowledge of the conspiracy to wash Russian money – may have been passed on in detail in order to remind the Speaker that if Russia holds kompromat on him so does the United States, and he may wish to reconsider his position before constantly defending treason by Donald Trump.
    BTW...pay very close attention who Mueller has now on his investigation team..profession prosecutors and defense lawyers with deep experience and skilled in RICO criminal and racketeering cases and federal constitutional law

    Mueller is enlisting a dream team:
    -Last wk: Top DOJ fraud/corruption expert
    -This wk: Top criminal law expert


    I will bet you a free flight to Berlin if the following is there for all to see when the dust settles...it was all about criminal acts around RICO and money laundering, collusion and cover up...

    BTW check exactly where the individual Hatch sits in the succession line that is just how far down that line this investigation is going right now....and do not for a moment think European intel services have not provided deep insight into actions on some of this line....
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    Quote Originally Posted by max161 View Post
    I do not think Carter, Reagan, Bush 1, or Bush 2 were lawyers. Bush 2 was the first President to have an MBA.
    Hence "and/or career politicians"...

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    Azor...BTW two of these journalists have stated weeks ago that there are a total of THREE Grand Juries underway right now with one having finished with sealed indictments.....indictments were for a total of 16 individuals...max 24.

    US MSM is now starting to confirm the second GJ is underway....

    Not a bad run for two social media journalists with better sources than the entire US MSM

    BTW...they are actually sitting on massive stories as their sources have requested they hold them until portions of the investigations are finished...then they can release them...

    Whether you want to believe it or not.....we are seeing history being written...

    AND when it is over you will fully understand the power of Russian non linear information warfare coupled with Russian soft power....MONEY...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Azor View Post
    Hence "and/or career politicians"...
    BUT WAIT....I thought the whole idea what that a non DC non politician and a great super businessman with this massive global expertise was going to run the government far better than "those evil politicians in DC", was going to "drain the swamp", was going to create millions of jobs, was going to raise the middle class to new heights of income, was going to give Americans this "beautiful health care plan" and provide great support to vets etc....

    AND all we get is a man child who rant tweets, has no FP outside of his business dealings and that "drain the swamp thingy" who has damaged the global brand called US in ways that he cannot even see.....AND that "beautiful healthcare plan"?????

    That is what that 45% of the voters wanted right????

    REMEMBER he did lose the actual general election vote total....

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    HOW is that "Trump draining the swamp thingy" going right now----

    DOJ: Trump can accept payments from foreign governments
    By Brandon Carter
    06/09/17 07:54 PM EDT

    https://twitter.com/thehill/status/873329134386237440

    Lawyers for the Justice Department are arguing that President Trump isn’t violating a Constitutional provision that bars federal officials from accepting payments from foreign governments because the clause doesn’t apply to certain transactions.
    In a new brief asking a judge to throw out a lawsuit brought against Trump by ethics watchdog Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), DOJ lawyers contend that the foreign emoluments clause doesn’t apply to “fair-market commercial transactions” like payments for hotel rooms and golf club fees, according to Bloomberg.#
    Trump administration lawyers also argue that CREW and other plaintiffs lack legal standing to bring the case against Trump and that Congress, not the court system, should determine whether Trump is in violation of the emoluments clause.

    CREW filed the lawsuit during Trump’s first week in office “to stop President Trump from violating the Constitution by illegally receiving payments from foreign governments."
    "We did not want to get to this point. It was our hope that President Trump would take the necessary steps to avoid violating the Constitution before he took office," CREW Executive Director Noah Bookbinder said at the time.
    "He did not. His constitutional violations are immediate and serious, so we were forced to take legal action."
    The lawsuit has since added several new plaintiffs, including an association of restaurants and restaurant workers and a woman who books banquet halls for Washington, D.C., hotels.
    BUT WAIT....DID NOT Trump stand in front a four foot high pile of so called documents which he used to emphasize that he had no longer ties to his businesses???

    SO was hr again lying to the US????

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    France just launched
    https://www.makeourplanetgreatagain.fr#
    and is offering grants of up to 1.5 million Euros for US climate scientists to move there.

    AND business grants for US green companies who also come to France....

    Marcon now trolling Trump......
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    Azor...heads up now comes the true size of the Russian hacking attacks ...

    Sen. Mark Warner: More state election systems were targeted by Russians
    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...ce/102549928/#

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    FBI Notified After Sen. McConnell Exposed In $2.5M Money Funnel Connected To Putin
    http://bipartisanreport.com/2017/06/...cted-to-putin#

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    Trump Discovers #Article5 After Disastrous #NATO Visit.
    http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs...us-nato-visit#

    MUST have been very hard for Trump to admit he failed in NATO meeting....AFTER tweet cheering his "highly successful foreign trip"...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Azor View Post
    Hence "and/or career politicians"...
    Which ones were career politicians? A term or two as governor (and Bush 1 never held an elected office until he was VPOTUS) does not seem to make a career politician. A peanut farmer (state senator and 1 term governor), an entertainer (spokesman and 2 term governor), a businessman (and DCIA and ambassador) and a businessman (owning a sports team, lost one House race and ran his father's presidential campaign and 5 years as governor in his only elected office) do not seem to be career politician activity.
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    Quote Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09 View Post
    HOW is that "Trump draining the swamp thingy" going right now----

    DOJ: Trump can accept payments from foreign governments
    By Brandon Carter
    06/09/17 07:54 PM EDT

    https://twitter.com/thehill/status/873329134386237440



    BUT WAIT....DID NOT Trump stand in front a four foot high pile of so called documents which he used to emphasize that he had no longer ties to his businesses???

    SO was he again lying to the US????
    Didn’t know the Justice Department could waive certain clauses within Article I of the Constitution.

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    Stupidity .....there is no other excuse for this.....

    Trump aware these demands to #NATO are unprecedented: "I know no president has ever asked that question. But I do”
    http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs...us-nato-visit#


    Trump still thinks that somehow NATO members make midnight paper bag money runs to Trump in the WH....

    Former US official on Trump's comments at NATO: “The dinner was far worse than the speech... It was a train wreck”

    Trump had two versions of prepared remarks for the dinner, one that took a traditional tack and one prepared by the more NATO-skeptic advisors, Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon. “He dumped both of them and improvised,” one source briefed on the dinner told FP.
    During the dinner, Trump went off-script to criticize allies again for not spending enough on defense. (The United States is one of only five members that meets NATO members’ pledge to spend 2 percent of GDP on defense.)
    Several sources briefed extensively on the dinner say he said 2 percent wasn’t enough and allies should spend 3 percent of GDP on defense, and he even threatened to cut back U.S. defense spending and have Europeans dole out “back pay” to make up for their low defense spending if they didn’t pony up quickly enough. Two sources say Trump didn’t mention Russia once during the dinner.
    “Oh, it was like a total ####show,” said one source, who spoke on condition of anonymity as they weren’t authorized to discuss the closed-door dinner.

    On Friday, he reiterated claims — widely debunked — that NATO allies “owe” back pay for years past it didn’t reach its 2 percent defense spending threshold. “Do we ever go back and say how about paying the money from many many years past?” Trump said. “Now I know no president has ever asked that question. But I do,” he added. “Perhaps you should pay some or all of that money back....”
    BASED on the total disconnect and chaos between SecDef, SoS and Trump on Qatar...DOES Trump honesty believe 28 NATO members really believe Trump has converted and seen the "Article 5 light"......not really...they distrust him even more now....
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    Benitez: “#Trump’s improvised & conditional statement about #NATO’s #Article5" will not "deter Russian aggression”
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    New York attorney general ‘looking into’ Eric Trump’s foundation

    The inquiry comes after Forbes magazine raised questions about whether President Trump's son had made misleading statements about how the foundation spent its money.

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    That time Trump testified under oath to my lawyers and acknowledged lying 30 times.
    Via @Fahrenthold/@robertoharrow
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/graph...on/trump-lies/

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    Trump's lawyer also represents Oleg Deripaska, the Russian oligarch, and Sberbank, the largest state owned Russian bank.
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