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Dem Rep Lieu: Russia Indictments ‘Intentionally Done Today,' As ‘Poke in the Eye' to Trump

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-07-15 00:13|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 and he's all for it.

Posted by AlanC 2018-07-15 09:14|| 2018-07-15 09:14|| Front Page Top

#2 Democrats don't give a rat's ass about Putin. Trump is the one they fear.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2018-07-15 11:06|| 2018-07-15 11:06|| Front Page Top

#3 After this stunt by Rosenstein, I predict Pres. Trump fires about half of the DOJ management after the midterms.
This announcement of indictments was an amateur attempt to influence foreign policy. None of those indicted will be seen in court. All politics by DOJ and Mueller. It’s proof the Mueller investigation is politically driven.

Posted by jvalentour 2018-07-15 11:33|| 2018-07-15 11:33|| Front Page Top

#4 They indicted 12 guys from the GRU (Russian military intel) for hacking Hillary's emails? Dude, that's their freaking job! One might as well indict Putin for being President of Russia.

The Russians are famously great chess players, but Putin also has some judo background which suggests an interesting amusement: since the "success" of this indictment depends on the alleged perps *not* showiing up in court, Vlad could pick one of the junior guys as a sacrificial lamb and send him off to America for his day in court. Discovery would be big fun and watching the prosecution once again stall, waffle and backtrack would be off-the-scale hilarious.

Posted by SteveS 2018-07-15 12:02|| 2018-07-15 12:02|| Front Page Top

#5 ...So Rep. Lieu acknowledges and admits that the DOJ has gone rogue? That they no longer feel bound to follow Administration policy?

Betting that if we were talking about Obama, he'd be screaming for somebody's head.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2018-07-15 12:03|| 2018-07-15 12:03|| Front Page Top

#6 Remember when the Democrats, and Obama's State Department, were sending/assisting people in Moscow? "Pro Labor" Russian Groups? Groups that coincidentally, Oh! merest coincidence!, all seemed to be anti-Putin during his last election. But that is different ... because Putin!
I am sure Putin was not amused.

Posted by magpie 2018-07-15 14:14|| 2018-07-15 14:14|| Front Page Top

#7 #5 ...So Rep. Lieu acknowledges and admits that the DOJ has gone rogue?
The Romans had a quaint custom for situations like this.Do you remember the closing scenes of Spartacus(1960) and the Roman knack for, shall we say, landscaping works?

Posted by magpie 2018-07-15 14:20|| 2018-07-15 14:20|| Front Page Top

#8 Discovery would be big fun

Yep, when the prosecution claims National Security (aka the dog ate my homework) precludes sharing critical info in the trial process.

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-07-15 15:17|| 2018-07-15 15:17|| Front Page Top

#9 NSA has already got the dog to eat the homework (purging servers of data on US citizens) I wonder if they just sent it to other 5eyes members though.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2018-07-15 16:40|| 2018-07-15 16:40|| Front Page Top

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