A national security official I know and trust pushes back on the way the briefing/ODNI story is being told, and others with firsthand knowledge agree with his assessment.— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 21, 2020
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Hot Air: CNN sources: Intel deputy overstated claim at briefing that Russia is planning to help Trump in the election
To understand this Jake Tapper thread you need to have read the WaPo and NYT stories I wrote about yesterday. WaPo claimed Trump decided to oust Joseph Maguire as acting DNI because he believed — mistakenly — that Maguire’s deputy gave Adam Schiff a secret briefing about something having to do with election security that Democrats might be able to use against him. Schiff received no secret briefing, a source told the Post. The full House Intelligence Committee was briefed, with Republicans present.
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WNU Editor: When you lose CNN's Jake Tapper, you know the media narrative is falling apart.
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Bernie Sanders briefed by U.S. officials that Russia is trying to help his presidential campaign — U.S. officials have told Sen. Bernie Sanders that Russia is attempting to help his presidential campaign as part of an effort to interfere with the Democratic contest, according to people familiar with the matter.
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ReplyDelete"Y0U EITHER ACCEPT OUR INTEL OR YOU DISCOUNT IT ALL AND BELIEVE RUSSIA AND TRUMP...MAKE A CHOICE" - Fred
Where there's a conflict I would tend to go with the judgement of Trump the international businessman over that of the "establishment." Should the international businessman make a mistake they pay a steep price for it and will learn as Trunp has. In contrast, government is the only entity we know of where one can fail upward and not be called to account.
DeleteNope. the real story? utin sowing cvhaos and pitting one against another etc
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ReplyDeleteRussia Doesn't Want Bernie Sanders. It Wants Chaos — The point of Kremlin interference has always been to find democracy's loose seams, and pull. — If there's one line intelligence officials have stuck to about Russian interference in US elections, it's that it never stopped.
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Russia Is Said to Be Interfering to Aid Sanders in Democratic Primaries
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Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal: Bernie Sanders Was Warned Russia Is Trying to Boost His Presidential Campaign
Another blow to the concept of Justice in America by the now Department of Injustice (DOI).
ReplyDeleteThe usual
ReplyDeleteSome guy dribbling Santorum at 11:24 and 11:26.
And the other guy a devout & practicing Leftist complaining about the US. His comments come straight of of the Leftist playbook. Is he really a devout Leftist Russian troll from St Peterburg using an assumed name?
That would be a distinction without a difference.
ReplyDeleteNBC’S CHUCK TODD WAS AMY KLOBUCHAR’S LANDLORD IN ARLINGTON
"F" Chuck Todd was fair & balanced of course.
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ReplyDeletedid that matter in the debate and if so, tell us how...otherwise you simply spread cow shit as though concealed real story
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ReplyDeletethat is why klobuchar won the debate, right, moron?
Kudos to him.
ReplyDeleteHe, and Kuomo always looked very much in pain when they talk their narrative. Even the dumb, dumb, dumb, naaiive little parrot must have noticed how much they aged in front of us. Even the lemon looks 10yrs older than 3 yrs ago, and he enjoys it.. guess being PROUD friends with Smollet on top wasn't too fun
A bunch of filthy, dirty operatives, caught up in their own dirty lives and lies :P
I’ve got to assume that all the off topic comments (except mine) and the replies are just bots responding to bots. Probably have adjoining cubes with each other.
ReplyDeleteDon't forget, CNN also brought us METH using, rope around his neck and naked-in-park walking Richard Quest, their Financial and air travel analyst a while ago. The combination itself speaks volumes.. there was also a boot involved. I'll leave it at that. just google it. CNN richard quest boot meth rope neck
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ReplyDeleteF Chuck Todd and Klobuchar have a conflict of interest. You would think that MSLSD would have a deep enough bench that they could have had another moderator.
But that is too much to ask of liberals.
Republicans searching for an alternative to Donald Trump say they are open to casting a ballot for a Democrat in the 2020 general election, but they will not vote for Bernie Sanders if the progressive senator is the nominee.
ReplyDeleteMcClatchy interviewed two dozen former Republican members of Congress, Republican Party operatives and conservative activists who said they will not vote for Trump in November’s election because his behavior and rhetoric is unbecoming of a president and the policies he has pursued in office are an affront to their principles or values.
Some 3rd tier talk show hosts were commenting "behavior and rhetoric" of Trump and comparing that the Jeb, McCain, and other Republicans.
ReplyDeleteTheir point was that it had not helped the Republicans (IMO it has not helped in 40 years or longer.) who were prim and proper.
They pointed out that liberals in the press and in the DNC were calling McCain a white supremacist in 2008. Their usual slimeball tactic.
Which begs the question. If Democrats are mean, nasty, and playing smash mouth all the time, why play nice?
Should Republican play nice and keep a stiff upper lip, because Democrats will come around eventually and be civil? It has not worked in over 40 years.
Democrats are making all these allegations, because they want a cowed Republican party that they can buffalo like they have in the past. Democrat are scared of Trump. They do not want other Republicans to imitate him (Imitate Democrats really).
Democrats know the ride will be over if Trump is reelected. IF that happens they won;t be able to get n stage and sing song and dance their "Sexist, Racist, Bigot, Homophobe" routine and win 2/3rds of the time or more. They'll have to work, get real degrees or maybe let the adults stay in charge.
So called Never Trumpers are not worth anything
- Billy Krystal has a Democrat sugar daddy.
- David Brooks is an idiot. He wrote a recent piece about how great Nordic education was. You have to wonder if that dolt ... that 'token Republican' with Stockholm syndrome (or maybe just a sell out) was ignorant of the facts on the ground or just outright lying like bastard turd. His sugar daddy is also a Democrat.
Dems: 65,853,514
ReplyDeleteGOP: 62,984,828
2000, 2016, what happens in 2020?
Ah, another fan of the electoral college.
DeleteNeed a FISA warrant for the DNC. lol
ReplyDeleteI like squirrel.
ReplyDeleteHe must have been fun as a 5 or 8 year old. If you think he is bad and illogical now, just think for what he must have been like then.
At first glance, it may seem contradictory that the nation’s intelligence agencies were telling Congress that President Vladimir V. Putin is presumably striving to get President Trump re-elected, while also warning Senator Bernie Sanders of evidence that he is the Russian president’s favorite Democrat.
ReplyDeleteBut to the intelligence analysts and outside experts who have spent the past three years dissecting Russian motives in the 2016 election, and who tried to limit the effect of Moscow’s meddling in the 2018 midterms, what is unfolding in 2020 makes perfect sense.
Mr. Trump and Mr. Sanders represent the most divergent ends of their respective parties, and both are backed by supporters known more for their passion than their policy rigor, which makes them ripe for exploitation by Russian trolls, disinformation specialists and hackers for hire seeking to widen divisions in American society.
But in this election, the broad strategy — as opposed to the specific tactics — is not exactly a mystery. Mr. Putin, the analysts agree, mostly seeks anything that will further take the sheen off American democracy and make presidential elections in the United States seem no more credible than his own. After that, he is eager for a compliant counterpart in the White House, one less likely to challenge his territorial and nuclear ambitions.
No doubt there are several countries that are interested in the outcome of the next election and if they could they would do something to influence that outcome in their favor.
ReplyDeleteRussia is of course the perennial enemy and the intelligence community need to be seen doing their jobs. Whether they know something is up or not, a just in case warning shows they are present and accounted for. On the job so to speak.
I am not saying there isn't anything to warn about, but, even if there wasn't and they knew it, they would provide a warning, just in case. It is a form of job security and heaven forbid that they say nothing and a disaster happens. Remember 911.
Something that has kept the Pentagon and the WIC going like gang busters for just about ever.
"Something that has kept the Pentagon and the WIC going like gang busters for just about ever."
ReplyDeleteSeen weapon systems cancellations. Components being cut by over 1/2. BRAC. The Army does not have 10 good divisions with personnel & training cutbacks
And yet Bob continues to lie like the Bitch he is.