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originally posted by: SeekingAlpha
This is the only description fit to describe people in the GOP now are right wingers. Or, would you rather have me call you fundamentalists or better yet, useful idiots.
originally posted by: Boadicea
a reply to: SeekingAlpha
Right wingers...
Just can't find your way out of that left/right paradigm, eh?
Okay. I won't try to disabuse you of your notions.
CrowdStrike has revised and retracted statements it used to buttress claims of Russian hacking during last year's American presidential election campaign.
This is the only description fit to describe people in the GOP now are right wingers. Or, would you rather have me call you fundamentalists or better yet, useful idiots.
And if you persist in personally attacking me, I'll have to report you to the people running the site.
originally posted by: Kettu
And if you persist in personally attacking me, I'll have to report you to the people running the site. I think only the mudpit is where ad-hom attacks are allowed. Unlike some people here, I've actually read through the T&C (and recently) after being temporarily banned several months ago for doing exactly what you are attempting to do.
...the Justice Department notified Yates earlier this month that the administration considers her possible testimony — including on the ouster of former national security adviser Michael Flynn for his contacts with the Russian ambassador — to be off-limits in a congressional hearing because the topics are covered by attorney-client privilege or the presidential communication privilege.
The turmoil surrounding the House Intelligence Committee's investigation into Russia's interference with the 2016 election deepened Tuesday, with the disclosure that former acting Attorney General Sally Yates was warned last week that her testimony could contain privileged communications involving the White House that might be barred, a official familiar with matter said.
...attorney David O’Neil said he understood the Justice Department was invoking “further constraints” on testimony Yates could provide at a committee hearing that had been scheduled for Tuesday. He said the department’s position was that all actions she took as deputy attorney general were “client confidences” that could not be disclosed without written approval.
"We believe that the Department’s position in this regard is overbroad, incorrect, and inconsistent with the Department’s historical approach to the congressional testimony of current and former senior officials."
White House officials deny such claims and say the administration never sought to block Yates from testifying.
White House press secretary Sean Spicer called the assertion "100 percent false" during Tuesday's press briefing.
In a news conference last week, in which he claimed based on still-unknown sources that information on Trump affiliates may have been incidentally collected by U.S. intelligence agencies, committee Chair Devin Nunes (R-CA) announced that Comey and Rodgers would address a closed session of the committee.
He also canceled an open hearing of that committee with former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former CIA Director John Brennan and former deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, which would have taken place the same day. “Director Comey and Adm. Rogers could not come in tomorrow as we’d hoped, so the Committee will continue to try to schedule a time when they can meet with us in closed session,” Jack Langer, the committee’s director of communications, told TPM in an email Monday.
originally posted by: Boadicea
I think for some reason Nunes wants that closed-door testimony from Comey and Rogers BEFORE Clapper, Brennan and Yates take the stand...
FBI, NSA Directors Postpone House Intelligence Committee Closed Session
After looking at it, that was my take as well. Needed certain answers on record before deposing those three, but couldn't get some of them answered in open hearing when so many questions were declined on national security.
originally posted by: JinMI
a reply to: Boadicea
I'm still trying to pin down what exactly Sally Yates could testify to that is of consequence.
Flynn, along with son Michael G. Flynn, runs Flynn Intel Group, which provides intelligence services for business and governments
Flynn retired from the U.S. Army with 33 years of service on August 7, 2014
Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump's former national security adviser, was paid more than $33,750 by Russia's state-run broadcaster RT TV-Russia for a speech in Moscow in December 2015, a top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee has learned.
"I didn't take any money from Russia," Flynn told Yahoo News in July.(2016)
According to the documents, Flynn also received $11,250 from a Russian charter cargo airline and $11,250 from a Russia-based cybersecurity corporation, though neither of those companies were state-owned.
originally posted by: Boadicea
Are we seeing the lines drawn between the intelligence agencies here? Comey's FBI and Rogers' NSA vs Clapper's DNI, Brennan's CIA, and Yates' DOJ?
So Cummings...
...is making his stance based upon a military standard that no longer applied to Flynn?
Rogers has me confused for sure. He could be the sleeper that's helping crack this open, but the signals so far are conflicting.
I'm pretty sure we're gonna get a pretty good peek behind the curtain. Not all of it, but much more than we've ever had.
Like you, I believe it will cause great tragedy--for all of us--before it's played out. It's time though I'm thinking.
"And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not."
originally posted by: JinMI
a reply to: Boadicea
That is just it, they stand to lose everything. Their career, their credibility and their perks and of course comfortable paycheck. Not to mention great healthcare!
They all know it and from my view, looks like they will step on anyone and tow any line to keep it.