Mueller Investigation

It was funny that he said he had nothing to hide and, of course, he would testify under oath yet now, after two have pled guilty and two more are indicated suddenly he has changed his mind.

In the end he will get subpoenaed and then he will either take the 5th or get slaughtered politically. Honestly, he is guilty and likely being charged with obstruction of justice and lying to the FBI... So, his attorney would be negligent to let him go up and lie knowing he will be charged for it.

Sometimes I wonder what world you people are living in.

Go on.

Frankly I'd troll everyone and tell Mueller to fuck off.

My tweet:

"I don't talk to the po-po."

I'd do it just to see people like Dinner spaz out.

Oh and the FBI's "guy on the inside" was that guy with the funny name. Papodorkulus or something close to that.

It wasn't Papodapolous. Papodapolous didn't start working with the Feds until much later.

Papodapolous gets drunk. Talks to an Australian official. That official contacts US officials which sets off the FBI.

He's the FBI's "inside source" that Simpson is referring too.

Mueller seeking May trial for Manafort and Gates - over 590,000 electronic documents produced in preparation.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018...investigation-may-trial-manafort-gates-338761

How is she connected to Russia? They’re really grasping at straws now.

Who said she was connected to Russia? As far as I can tell, this story coming to light had nothing to do with the Mueller probe.

Not according to post#910.

Post #910 doesn't say that Stormy Daniels is connected to Russia. It just says that if true, the story would disprove one of the arguments Trump's apologists used to try to discredit the dossier, because it would demonstrate that he can be blackmailed.

the logical implication there is that Papdopolous was INADVERTENTLY acted as the source in question whereas Simpson had merely assumed at the time that some campaign person called them up.

you mean there's actually an app for that and did all that in #898 (the same thread) by hand?!

So, it looks like there's been an indictment over some sketch uranium deals.

But Hillary is the one who needs to be investigated over uranium deals, y'all!

'Pay to play', if accurate, should offend mindless lefties too, right alongside rightwing nutjobs - though it's a (sarcastic) comfort to find out how secure and confident the lefties are that "their guys" are squeaky clean on such questions of corruption without the need for any kind of an inquiry, however fishy some of the circumstances appear.

Pls forgive me if *I* don't happen to mind congress wasting some of their time on ethics inquiries.

for the record, I have no strongly held view that the Clinton's are squeaky clean. At that level of government clean is practically unheard of. I'm sure there's SOME corruption tainting virtually all of them regardless of party.

On the other hand, I'm very certain that after literally 25 years of trying to make something stick to them, the GOP is still reduced to making up bullshit stories out of whole cloth and using those fictions to stampede their minions rather than actually proving something corrupt. The implication is that she's either cleaner than they claim, or much much smarter than they are.

Also....

"Pls forgive me if I don't mind congress wasting some of their time on ethics inquiries."

Agreed. Do you share my view that inquiries into Russian meddling, with or without potential collusion or coordination with any campaign, is a matter if vital national interest that should be exhaustively investigated to a degree far above and beyond, say, Benghazi or the use of private e-mail servers?

I agree, if accurate, everyone should be outraged about pay to play. The problem is there is no evidence for it just a lame accussation. Now, I am aware righties say the same thing about Trump's collusion with Russia to illegally influence US elections but the difference is every intelligence agency in the western world agrees that did happen, there are multiple guilty pleas & evidence for multiple indictments. So one claim seems rooted in fact and the other not.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/steve-ba...-ad4e-b7e8e737f190&.tsrc=notification-brknews

Can one of our lawyers tell us what this might mean?

https://www.buzzfeed.com/jasonleopo...-of-election?utm_term=.kpV0r6vdqQ#.humoMX8gwr

The Russian embassy sure was moving a lit of suspicious casg around during the election season.

It means Bannon had better stop drinking tea and watch out for Russians with umbrellas.

Bannon's bloodstream can accommodate a variety of toxins at this point, I think.

That's a huge difference than the scope of the Mueller investigation. Huge.
<<inquiries into Russian meddling>>
<<collusion between Trump campaign and Russia>>

But answer to the new topic you raise, of course, is "yes."
I wouldn't be mocking/ridiculing as partisan the Mueller investigation if instead of what still seems to clearly be a partisan criminal investigation to attack political enemies, the mandate was an investigation into Russia manipulation in US elections.

Two different things, the latter is real as we've learned, and has actually made the US intelligence services as big a laughingstock/look worse than at any time since CIA's bay of pigs and exploding cigar 'antics.' And the former (Trump fired Comey, so investigate collusion between his campaign and russia) is so far appearing to be the exact reverse of what was claimed as the underlying basis (anti-Trump opposition research by left, though unsubstantiated, formed basis for FISA wiretaps on US persons and made US intel appear as feeble 'dupes').

The White House is trying desperately to gag Steve Bannon and Sarah Huckabee Sanders is invoking executive privilege.

Makes you wonder what they're afraid of, doesn't it?