[PJ] CNN interviewed the Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Maria Zakharova, who said their ambassador is not a spy. She echoed President Trump and said, "Stop spreading lies and false news. This is a good advice for CNN." [sic.] Zakharova described the ambassador as a "world-class diplomat who was a deputy minister of foreign affairs in Russia, who has communicated with his American colleagues for decades on different fields."
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Here's a thought. How about an independent commission to investigate inappropriate ties between US politicians and Russia. And China. The initial list of persons of interest would necessarily include dozens of Democrats, including the Clintons. Lets see how far the Left wants to take their Russia scare.
A new study shows that an increasing amount of Democrats are likely to embrace conspiracy theories in the media after losing the 2016 election. You could've knocked me over with a feather!
The study, entitled "Conspiracy Endorsement as Motivated Reasoning: The Moderating Roles of Political Knowledge and Trust," compares how Republicans and Democrats changed their responses to a conspiracy predispositions scale. Conspiracy statements at link
The percentage of Democrats who agreed on average with a conspiracy claim increased from 27 percent before the 2016 election to 32 percent after President Donald Trump won. But Republicans' inclination to embrace a conspiratorial claim overall declined in three of the four statements. The amount of Republicans who agreed on average with conspiratorial statements decreased from 28 percent before the election to 19 percent afterwards. One in three Dems are dim, compared with only one in five trunks.
The managing editor of Snopes told The Atlantic in February that since Trump's election, more conspiratorial stories have risen aimed at liberals. "Yes, there has been more coming from the left. A lot of dubious news, a lot of wishful thinking type stuff."
Since the 2016 election, idea-based articles have swept the internet. Including gobs of Russian conspiracy froth.
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There has to be faultfinding and someone to blame. Democrats can never face the fact that they had nothing to sell and were are losers. Hillary was a bad candidate. Next, the call for victimhood; it was Trump and the Russians.
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I couldn't stand it. Title typo fixed, while acknowledging that the discussion is utterly delightful, in an extremely painful kind of way. Carry on.
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R-burg's resident poet(s) casn take a crack at this. Maybe they can put together something with looser and loser. Rhyming words might be: user, abuser, boozer, lose her, choosers, cruiser, end users, accusers, drug abuser, oozer, schmoozer, …
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There, girths grow too great to be girt
But billow from under their shirt.
Like locusts on honey
(but focused on money)
They're blundering through the dessert.
#16
The playwright, reduce-and-reuser:
"Just Hitler, conducting a newser."
Enthused the producer,
"A mortal lock looser!"
"A coup, sir. A guaranteed snoozer."
The "Money Shot"
[LawfareBlog] So, Will Congress Investigate?
Congress has the necessary tools and historical precedent to conduct this investigation. The questions at issue here not only fall within Congress’s constitutional authority, but arguably implicate a constitutional duty to investigate.
High-minded rhetoric aside, as with Sessions decision to recuse himself, in practical terms the calculations are political. As Brooking’s Molly Reynolds noted in a recent podcast with Susan, Congress typically undertakes serious investigation of a President of its own party only when the political costs of not investigating are higher than those of investigating. Senator Rand Paul was remarkably frank (if unadmirable) on the matter in saying that it "makes no sense" to have "Republicans investigat[ing] Republicans." And yet, principled conservatives-- Senators McCain, Graham, and Collins Aaaaaannnnnd it's gone.
among others--have held fast in calling on their colleagues to place country before party and undertake a credible independent inquiry. Is it yet time to establish a "Fake News" category?
CIA officials know who has been leaking classified information to The New York Times and The Washington Post, and the officials have passed that information on to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, according to a former U.S. attorney for President Ronald Reagan.
Joseph diGenova, the former U. S. attorney for the District of Columbia under Reagan, told LifeZette that in private conversations with CIA officials they confirmed they have the names of alleged leakers and have given the names to the U.S. Department of Justice.
DiGenova’s claim comes after yet another case of leaked classified information to The Washington Post made headlines late Wednesday night.
The New York Times revealed in a report Wednesday that President Obama’s staffers left bread crumbs for anyone looking to undermine the Trump administration throughout the federal government. The revelation by The Times indicates how a steady drip of embarrassing leaks has tormented the new administration of President Donald Trump.
On Wednesday night, The Washington Post reported that Attorney General Jeff Sessions had met the Russian ambassador twice in 2016. Sessions was then the junior U.S. senator from Alabama.
In his confirmation hearings last month, Sessions said he was not aware of any contact between Russian officials and the Trump campaign, a common complaint Democrats have made since the middle of last year. Sessions appeared to include himself in that denial.
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All these phony scandals are doing is helping Mr. Trump's team identify the moles who are going to have to go. And demonstrating the urgency of cleaning house...
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] US Attorney General Jeff Sessions came under fire late Wednesday after the Washington Post reported he met twice last year with Russia’s ambassador to Washington, seemingly contradicting statements he made in Senate confirmation hearings in January.
The revelation cast a fresh cloud over President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ’s administration -- which has repeatedly denied any suspected ties between members of the Republican’s election campaign and Russia -- which US intelligence says interfered in the 2016 election against Trump’s rival Hillary Clinton ... former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, sometimes described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as a crook... The White House quickly labeled the report an attack by partisan Democrats, confirming the meetings but arguing Sessions did nothing wrong.
In a statement Sessions said: "I never met with any Russian officials to discuss issues of the campaign. I have no idea what this allegation is about. It is false."
But with US intelligence agencies, the Department of Justice, and four Congressional committees examining the Russia scandal, Democrats demanded Sessions -- the Trump administration’s top law enforcement official -- recuse himself from investigations, and for Congress to name an independent special investigator to oversee a broad probe.
"Given AG Sessions’ false statements about contacts with Russian officials, we need a special counsel to investigate Trump associates’ ties to Russia," said Democrat Senator Ron Wyden, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
The Washington Post reported late Wednesday that Sessions -- formerly a senator who advised Trump’s campaign on foreign policy and other issues -- met Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in July and September, just as accusations of Russian interference in the election were mounting.
Sessions, however, told his confirmation hearing at the Senate Judiciary Committee on January 10 that he did not know of contacts between Trump campaign members and Russia.
"I did not have communications with the Russians," he said under oath.
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Dems hate white folk talking to white foreigners.
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Trump's speech the other night was a yuuuge success. The Dems need to do something to get control of the news cycle again. Obviously, "Mom, Kelly Anne has her feet on the couch!" wasn't working.
Anyone remember our previous Prez caught on a hot mic saying to Medvedev "I'll have more flexibility after the election"?
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All those who have not spoken to a Russian official in the last ten years raise your hand.
That's what I thought.
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So what if the worst case scenario is true? So what if Sessions told the ambassador to hack the DNC email server, hack Podesta's email and then release all the nonsense they find. Does anyone really believe that? Can they prove that Sessions sold some valuable future consideration for this service...like a uranium mine? Was it anywhere near as bad as illegal aliens and dead people voting in the election? What does any of this prove except that donkeycrats are technologically challenged and incapable of managing email servers?
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After Nancy Pelosi accused Republicans of “splitting hairs” over Jeff Sessions’ reported meetings with the Russian ambassador, she did the very same thing when she was asked a similar question.
“You’ve been in Congress a little bit and you’re in leadership, have you ever met with the Russian ambassador?” Politico reporter Jake Sherman asked Pelosi on Friday.
After an awkwardly long silence, Pelosi answered, “Not with this Russian ambassador, no,” before quickly trying to move on.
“Is it normal to meet with ambassadors?” Sherman asked.
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But they were Soviets back then - so it was okay!
Which brings to mind an interesting point. Given that FSB kept everything of KGB except the name --- in particular, the files --- Putin must have enough dirt on any prominent Democrat to start a banana plantation in Antarctica.
[UPI] The Senate on Thursday confirmed Ben Carson ... a neurosurgeon who is under the delusion that being brilliant qualifies him to be president.... , a pediatric neurosurgeon-turned-politician, as President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... 's secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Yuck. Carson's been parked in the "black" cabinet post. I thought better of Trump.
The vote was 58-41. Carson won over a handful of Democrats, a relative moment of bipartisanship after heated debate and mostly party-line votes over other Trump Cabinet nominees. Carson also received the unanimous vote of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee following his confirmation hearing in January.
During those hearings, Carson pledged to uphold longstanding federal bans on housing discrimination and to continue to work to remove lead paint from public housing units.
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A Boerboel attending the Westminster. Sadly, a gross waste of talent.
Only upside, he'll be immediately available for advice if/when something arises within his true expertise.
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He doesn't rally have political experience, nor does he have management experience beyond the department level. Once he's done this for a while he'll be ready to do other, bigger things.
[USATODAY] The Senate has confirmed former Texas governor Rick Perry to serve as Energy secretary under President Trump.
The vote was 62-37 on Thursday.
Perry -- who once pledged to eliminate the department -- has repeatedly promised be an advocate for the agency and to protect the nation’s nuclear stockpile. Perry also has said he’d rely on federal scientists, including those who work on climate change.
Perry has said he’ll work to develop American energy in all forms -- from oil, gas and nuclear power to renewable sources such as wind and solar power.
Democrats say they accept Perry’s disavowal of his 2011 pledge to abolish the Energy Department. But they’re worried he may not stand up to GOP proposals to slash the department’s budget.
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Ol' Rick overstayed his welcome here in Texas. I don't think he remembers what it's like to actually have a real job
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
CIA officials know who has been leaking classified information to The New York Times and The Washington Post, and the officials have passed that information on to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, according to a former U.S. attorney for President Ronald Reagan.
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] US Attorney General Jeff Sessions came under fire late Wednesday after the Washington Post reported he met twice last year with Russia’s ambassador to Washington, seemingly contradicting statements he made in Senate confirmation hearings in January.
Hillary Clinton
