Anonymous wrote:It was Papadopoulos. In the bar. With the Australian operative.

Mystery solved. Can I collect the $10M?

No, but you win TrumpClue.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well I guess this IS what Republicans would spend their time on instead of, say, trying to fix healthcare or infrastructure or anything like that.

It's like what they really want is to *keep* the Russia investigation in the news - instead of actually governing.

LOL. How ironic. After how many document requests were sent by the House in March? Yep, 81.
Seems to me that Democrats are struggling to do the people's work.

Nope, the Dems have passed a number of bills that McConnell is letting wither. Why is he against shoring up our election security and our education programs?

...and protecting Americans with pre-existing conditions, and acting on climate change, and paycheck fairness, and protecting health care, and disaster aid, and extending flood insurance...

It was Papadopoulos. In the bar. With the Australian operative.

Mystery solved. Can I collect the $10M?

Anonymous wrote:This is absolute madness. Trump's people were talking to shady Russians. That is a fact. Our government needs to know why foreign operatives are talking to our citizens. Hence, investigations by the FBI. Not spying.

The stupid is so damn strong here.

Obama's people never talked to "shady" Russians. Wait! Which shady Russians were Hillary and Bill talking to, while she was working for Obama? We need to see that list.....

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well I guess this IS what Republicans would spend their time on instead of, say, trying to fix healthcare or infrastructure or anything like that.

It's like what they really want is to *keep* the Russia investigation in the news - instead of actually governing.

LOL. How ironic. After how many document requests were sent by the House in March? Yep, 81.
Seems to me that Democrats are struggling to do the people's work.

Nope, the Dems have passed a number of bills that McConnell is letting wither. Why is he against shoring up our election security and our education programs?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"He has evidently been investigating aspects of the Russia investigation for a while. This new emphasis broadens his role. Hopefully, he won't take 2 years"

I'm sure Barr is aware Americans have no stomach for another 2 year multi million dollar race down a rabbit hole.

Like Bengazi?

Please don’t compare a tragic event where four Americans lost their lives to a rabbit hole.

This. Somehow, I don't remember a special counsel spending two years--or two seconds--investigating Benghazi. Mueller had millions of documents from Trump. HRC emails for an investigation? Not so much. They "disappeared."

There were ten different investigations of the attacks in Benghazi: six by Republican-controlled House committees - Armed Services, Foreign Affairs, Intelligence, Judiciary, and Oversight, as well as the House Select Committee; one by the FBI; one by the Senate Intelligence Committee; one by the Senate Homeland Security Committee; and one by the State Department Accountability Review Board. The House Select Committee didn’t release its report until June 2016, so longer than two years.

Anonymous wrote:Well I guess this IS what Republicans would spend their time on instead of, say, trying to fix healthcare or infrastructure or anything like that.

It's like what they really want is to *keep* the Russia investigation in the news - instead of actually governing.

LOL. How ironic. After how many document requests were sent by the House in March? Yep, 81.
Seems to me that Democrats are struggling to do the people's work.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is absolute madness. Trump's people were talking to shady Russians. That is a fact. Our government needs to know why foreign operatives are talking to our citizens. Hence, investigations by the FBI. Not spying.

The stupid is so damn strong here.

I agree totally! I do think that some, formerly in our government, know full well why foreign operatives were talking to our citizens. Like Azra Turk, for one. And then there is Natalia V. Veselnitskaya of the "Trump Tower meeting" fame. Curious that she met with people at Fusion GPS both before and right after the Trump Tower meeting. And, also curious that she was initially denied a visa to enter the US, but then granted one by the State Dept.

The government lawyers said they previously denied visa requests in the case, including one made in spring 2016. The lawyers learned from news reports that Veselnitskaya later received a visa from the State Department. The same day she attended oral arguments in an appeal relating to the Prevezon case, she also went to Trump Tower to meet top Trump campaign officials.

https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/02/politics/trump-tower-meeting-natalia-veselnitskaya/index.html

And, I would not be surprised at all to learn that others were somehow connected to people who had something to do with the dossier.

You know why. You just don't care for the reason because it's not very sexy.

Well I guess this IS what Republicans would spend their time on instead of, say, trying to fix healthcare or infrastructure or anything like that.

It's like what they really want is to *keep* the Russia investigation in the news - instead of actually governing.

Anonymous wrote:This is absolute madness. Trump's people were talking to shady Russians. That is a fact. Our government needs to know why foreign operatives are talking to our citizens. Hence, investigations by the FBI. Not spying.

The stupid is so damn strong here.

I agree totally! I do think that some, formerly in our government, know full well why foreign operatives were talking to our citizens. Like Azra Turk, for one. And then there is Natalia V. Veselnitskaya of the "Trump Tower meeting" fame. Curious that she met with people at Fusion GPS both before and right after the Trump Tower meeting. And, also curious that she was initially denied a visa to enter the US, but then granted one by the State Dept.

The government lawyers said they previously denied visa requests in the case, including one made in spring 2016. The lawyers learned from news reports that Veselnitskaya later received a visa from the State Department. The same day she attended oral arguments in an appeal relating to the Prevezon case, she also went to Trump Tower to meet top Trump campaign officials.

https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/02/politics/trump-tower-meeting-natalia-veselnitskaya/index.html

And, I would not be surprised at all to learn that others were somehow connected to people who had something to do with the dossier.

This is absolute madness. Trump's people were talking to shady Russians. That is a fact. Our government needs to know why foreign operatives are talking to our citizens. Hence, investigations by the FBI. Not spying.

The stupid is so damn strong here.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"He has evidently been investigating aspects of the Russia investigation for a while. This new emphasis broadens his role. Hopefully, he won't take 2 years"

I'm sure Barr is aware Americans have no stomach for another 2 year multi million dollar race down a rabbit hole.

Like Bengazi?

Please don’t compare a tragic event where four Americans lost their lives to a rabbit hole.

Benghazi is a tragic event. The years of hearings were a rabbit hole.

As far as investigating the origins of the FBI probe, there's a reason that you haven't heard a peep from Durham so far. Unless Meadows and Jordan tweet about it, you won't hear anything from him ever. Because there's nothing there. Nothing untoward.

Time will tell. I suspect we have not heard from Durham because he is doing his job.

Anonymous wrote:Citizen's United FOIA'd notes from an October 2016 Steel meeting at the FBI. It laid much more detail into Millian, the bridge between the Trump orbit and the Russians via Manafort, and the AlfaBank server.

In other words, stuff that hadn't been public before that is coloring in details that had been missing. I am not sure what the right hopes to get out of this, because more of the truth will continue to be damaging to Trump.

If the truth is what is sought, then I can agree with these investigations, but I am not down with disparaging the FBI and CIA who were doing their jobs.

No, no they weren’t, but you keep drinking that koolaide.

Does that include looking into the shady dealings of the Trump campaign with malignant foreign agents? Careful what you wish for!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"He has evidently been investigating aspects of the Russia investigation for a while. This new emphasis broadens his role. Hopefully, he won't take 2 years"

I'm sure Barr is aware Americans have no stomach for another 2 year multi million dollar race down a rabbit hole.

Like Bengazi?

Please don’t compare a tragic event where four Americans lost their lives to a rabbit hole.

Benghazi is a tragic event. The years of hearings were a rabbit hole.

As far as investigating the origins of the FBI probe, there's a reason that you haven't heard a peep from Durham so far. Unless Meadows and Jordan tweet about it, you won't hear anything from him ever. Because there's nothing there. Nothing untoward.