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Monday, March 27, 2017 1:51 AM

SHINYGOODGUY


Here pass this onto your friends......er, I mean Comrades:




SGG

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Monday, March 27, 2017 1:52 AM

SHINYGOODGUY


You guys are too easy.


SGG


Quote:

Originally posted by 1kiki:
Quote:

just "he's guilty of treason. Fuck him!"
RF couldn't have said it better himself. But you don't have a problem with that when it comes from 'your' side.

btw, I'm not expecting anything remotely resembling a civil discussion about the topic from you, or even a semi-coherent one. I completely expect nothing but vile personal invective and drunken ranting.




Originally posted by G:
"I coined the slogan "We Suck!"© many years ago."
G is an avowed Putin-loving, pro-Russian, anti-American troll.


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Monday, March 27, 2017 2:10 AM

6STRINGJOKER


Nope. Never going to listen to Rachel speak. Just looking at her face makes me taste vomit.

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Monday, March 27, 2017 2:50 AM

SHINYGOODGUY


'Your' side - Hmmm, you mean American. BTW just so no one reading this gets the wrong idea; my "just he's guilty of treason. Fuck him!" is referring to the right's possible response were it Obama being accused of collaborating with the enemy.

Putin, as it is widely known, hated Obama (and Hilary for that matter) and wouldn't be caught dead colluding with him. But nonetheless, the REAL POTUS - Obama, would be vilified were there ever to be even a hint of impropriety.
Fortunately, treason isn't in his vocabulary.

Oh! Did I make it seem that I'm accusing Trump of treason. No, I would never.
Besides, in this country, one is innocent until proven guilty. I would think that Trump would want this investigation into his staff, before and after the election, to go forward and have his staff cooperate post haste.
It would go a long way to clearing his good name and returning his focus and efforts to running this country. Instead he hinders, deflects and otherwise obstructs the investigators from doing their jobs.

A series of unfortunate events:

Nunes gets classified intel info and holds a press conference, but reveals little as to the nature of the surveillance. I'm not a legal expert, but this may have been considered an illegal move on his part

Nunes violated Congressional and committee policies and procedures by holding the presser without informing his fellow committee members

Nunes, at the very least, can be accused of Conflict of interest since he served on the Trump transition team and could be held accountable for any communication between Trump aides and Russian officials.

He has since apologized to his fellow committee members, but that's closing the barn door after the horse gets away

Then he cancels the next hearing schedule for Tuesday the 28th, for no apparent reason. Is he representing the people or is he covering for trump and his cronies?


SGG


Quote:

Originally posted by 1kiki:
Quote:

just "he's guilty of treason. Fuck him!"
RF couldn't have said it better himself. But you don't have a problem with that when it comes from 'your' side.

btw, I'm not expecting anything remotely resembling a civil discussion about the topic from you, or even a semi-coherent one. I completely expect nothing but vile personal invective and drunken ranting.




Originally posted by G:
"I coined the slogan "We Suck!"© many years ago."
G is an avowed Putin-loving, pro-Russian, anti-American troll.


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Monday, March 27, 2017 2:52 AM

SHINYGOODGUY


Oh, I wouldn't want you getting sick. Noooo. Never!


SGG


Quote:

Originally posted by 6STRINGJOKER:
Nope. Never going to listen to Rachel speak. Just looking at her face makes me taste vomit.


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Monday, March 27, 2017 2:53 AM

SHINYGOODGUY



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Monday, March 27, 2017 2:57 AM

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Monday, March 27, 2017 3:33 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


SHINYSTUPIDGUY, I'm going to explain this real slowly - again- so ... that... maybe ... you'll ... get... it... THIS.... time.

Quote:

Really pathetic and weak response, but okay, it's hard to be in the lead because you gotta keep looking over your shoulder.

Allow me to expound/explain:

Followed by a little bitch move that obviously was set up by the Trump White House. Nunes puts his foot squarely in his mouth and scampers off to "reveal" a giant secret to the press (duh!) and the president, for whom he worked on the transition. Conflict of Interest much!

Do you have any idea what Nunes told Trump?

Of course not.

But just in case you might have missed it, TRUMP IS PRESIDENT. There is NO classification of information that Trump doesn't legally have access to. Whatever Nunes told Trump .... whatever it was ... there was no breach of security. Maybe there was a conflcit of interest. OTOH, maybe Nunes was passing on information that THE PRESIDENT should know. You don't know, and I sure don't know.

Now, as far as what Nunes shared with the press: It was evidence-free, and fairly vague, allegations about CIA/ FBI/ NSA snooping ... the kind of information that has already been reported and widely discussed in MANY articles.

This is pretty similar to what the anti-Trump "leakers" are "sharing" with the press. MOST of it is vague, non-probative, evidence-free insinuations. HOWEVER, the anti-Trump leakers did at least one major illegal "oops" - they "unblinded" the name of one of the "incidental" targets of surveillance. I've listened to parts of the Committee hearings, and Trey Gowdy in prosecutor mode, repeatedly made the following comment to Comey: "I only see one illegal thing here, and that was the unmasking of an American citizen's name"

Nunes is part-owner of a a winery which sells to Russia? REALLY??

Sessions talked to the Russian ambassador at a conference? OMG!!

Roger Stone contacted Guccifer AFTER Guccifer 2.0 released his info? GOOD LORD! CALL THE COPS!!

Three of the four people who have been smeared in this whole "investigation" - Manafort, Stone, and Page - have all requested to testify before the committee. The fourth - Flynn- has not been heard from since he was allowed to resign. Since he was head of the DIA at one time, it may be that much of what he says simply can't be said in open testimony, but only time and attention will reveal actual events.






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If we did not MAKE men poor"- William Blake

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Monday, March 27, 2017 1:39 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


You see, rustybadguy, YOUR side is deeply anti-democratic. It loves hate speech, wants to kill entire categories of people, and remove a democratically elected president.

posted by reaverfan

Trump's Obama's going to get what he deserves. I can't wait.
He'll die in prison.
Real patriotic Americans will dance in the streets.

Real patriots who love America don't tolerate treason. The penalty is death. So be it.

Are you sure? That's usually what conservatards libtards and Jesus-idiot atheist zombies do.

It almost hurts to be so right all the time. I called it, yet again.
If you use your brain as much as I do, you, too, can get it right all the time!

He's a full-on white supremacist Nazi black radical commie sympathizer.

Go insult some black white people, fascist commie idiot.

LOL! Yeah, right!
Putin's Obama's supported all the reichwing idiots Saudi jihadists all over Europe the globe. He's a murderous fascist dictator, and your apologetics won't change that fact.

Hang him for treason, then go down the line with the rest of the Trump Russian Obama neo-con traitors.
End this disgrace.

Drunk piece of shit Nazi government says what?

Russian deep-state paid troll says what?
Derp.

I'm an anti-fascist anti-democracy.
Do you know what we do to fascists pro-democracy people ? Looks like you'll find out, Nazi pro-democracy boy.
That is, if you ever get your drunk ass out of the house.

Jack's a full on 100% neo-Nazi racist pos pro-democracy, pro-US patriot.
Of course he hates women traitors, because they all reject his hater ass.

"Cuck?" Really? You're one of those reichwing Nazi shiteaters, pro-democracy people aren't you?
I got your cuck right here, bitch. Fuck you, Nazi pro-democracy boy.
Your kind LIKE THE JEWS will be wiped from the earth.


Stupid people believe this.
You're clearly stupid, Nazi pro-democracy boy.

Yup. The greatest terror threat to Americans today is from reichwing Nazi pro-democracy types, like Six-string Adolph Reverend Wright.

Herr Cheeto needs to go. BECAUSE ELIMINATING A DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED PRESIDENT IS PRO-DEMOCRACY.

Wow. That's a lot of fake news just to prove yourself wrong. Hannity The NYTimes lied through its teeth (again). Delusional.








Originally posted by G:
"I coined the slogan "We Suck!"© many years ago."
G is an avowed Putin-loving, pro-Russian, anti-American troll.

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Monday, March 27, 2017 3:15 PM

6STRINGJOKER


That's a good post right there 1kiki.


Love Trumps Hate?

I guess not, huh?

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Monday, March 27, 2017 7:37 PM

THGRRI







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Monday, March 27, 2017 7:46 PM

RIVERLOVE


Quote:

Originally posted by 1kiki:
You see, rustybadguy, YOUR side is deeply anti-democratic. It loves hate speech, wants to kill entire categories of people, and remove a democratically elected president.

posted by reaverfan

Trump's Obama's going to get what he deserves. I can't wait.
He'll die in prison.
Real patriotic Americans will dance in the streets.

Real patriots who love America don't tolerate treason. The penalty is death. So be it.

Are you sure? That's usually what conservatards libtards and Jesus-idiot atheist zombies do.

It almost hurts to be so right all the time. I called it, yet again.
If you use your brain as much as I do, you, too, can get it right all the time!

He's a full-on white supremacist Nazi black radical commie sympathizer.

Go insult some black white people, fascist commie idiot.

LOL! Yeah, right!
Putin's Obama's supported all the reichwing idiots Saudi jihadists all over Europe the globe. He's a murderous fascist dictator, and your apologetics won't change that fact.

Hang him for treason, then go down the line with the rest of the Trump Russian Obama neo-con traitors.
End this disgrace.

Drunk piece of shit Nazi government says what?

Russian deep-state paid troll says what?
Derp.

I'm an anti-fascist anti-democracy.
Do you know what we do to fascists pro-democracy people ? Looks like you'll find out, Nazi pro-democracy boy.
That is, if you ever get your drunk ass out of the house.

Jack's a full on 100% neo-Nazi racist pos pro-democracy, pro-US patriot.
Of course he hates women traitors, because they all reject his hater ass.

"Cuck?" Really? You're one of those reichwing Nazi shiteaters, pro-democracy people aren't you?
I got your cuck right here, bitch. Fuck you, Nazi pro-democracy boy.
Your kind LIKE THE JEWS will be wiped from the earth.


Stupid people believe this.
You're clearly stupid, Nazi pro-democracy boy.

Yup. The greatest terror threat to Americans today is from reichwing Nazi pro-democracy types, like Six-string Adolph Reverend Wright.

Herr Cheeto needs to go. BECAUSE ELIMINATING A DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED PRESIDENT IS PRO-DEMOCRACY.

Wow. That's a lot of fake news just to prove yourself wrong. Hannity The NYTimes lied through its teeth (again). Delusional.








Originally posted by G:
"I coined the slogan "We Suck!"© many years ago."
G is an avowed Putin-loving, pro-Russian, anti-American troll.


C'mon over baby, we got chickens in the barn, whose barn, what barn, my barn.

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Tuesday, March 28, 2017 2:13 AM

SHINYGOODGUY



FUCK YOU and THE BROOMSTICK YOU FLEW IN ON!


SGG


Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
SHINYSTUPIDGUY, I'm going to explain this real slowly - again- so ... that... maybe ... you'll ... get... it... THIS.... time.

Quote:

Really pathetic and weak response, but okay, it's hard to be in the lead because you gotta keep looking over your shoulder.

Allow me to expound/explain:

Followed by a little bitch move that obviously was set up by the Trump White House. Nunes puts his foot squarely in his mouth and scampers off to "reveal" a giant secret to the press (duh!) and the president, for whom he worked on the transition. Conflict of Interest much!

Do you have any idea what Nunes told Trump?

Of course not.

But just in case you might have missed it, TRUMP IS PRESIDENT. There is NO classification of information that Trump doesn't legally have access to. Whatever Nunes told Trump .... whatever it was ... there was no breach of security. Maybe there was a conflcit of interest. OTOH, maybe Nunes was passing on information that THE PRESIDENT should know. You don't know, and I sure don't know.

Now, as far as what Nunes shared with the press: It was evidence-free, and fairly vague, allegations about CIA/ FBI/ NSA snooping ... the kind of information that has already been reported and widely discussed in MANY articles.

This is pretty similar to what the anti-Trump "leakers" are "sharing" with the press. MOST of it is vague, non-probative, evidence-free insinuations. HOWEVER, the anti-Trump leakers did at least one major illegal "oops" - they "unblinded" the name of one of the "incidental" targets of surveillance. I've listened to parts of the Committee hearings, and Trey Gowdy in prosecutor mode, repeatedly made the following comment to Comey: "I only see one illegal thing here, and that was the unmasking of an American citizen's name"

Nunes is part-owner of a a winery which sells to Russia? REALLY??

Sessions talked to the Russian ambassador at a conference? OMG!!

Roger Stone contacted Guccifer AFTER Guccifer 2.0 released his info? GOOD LORD! CALL THE COPS!!

Three of the four people who have been smeared in this whole "investigation" - Manafort, Stone, and Page - have all requested to testify before the committee. The fourth - Flynn- has not been heard from since he was allowed to resign. Since he was head of the DIA at one time, it may be that much of what he says simply can't be said in open testimony, but only time and attention will reveal actual events.






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"Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor"- William Blake

THUGR IS A DEEP-STATE TROLL


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Tuesday, March 28, 2017 2:25 AM

SHINYGOODGUY


By the way, the info was not "leaked" to Nunes. He went to the White House, Nunes admitted, and he obtained the info himself through his committee security clearance (according to his press conference today 3/27).

So no leak. Again, according to the man himself.


SGG


Quote:

Originally posted by 1kiki:
So, if it was ok to leak information about Trump and cohorts, it was ok for information to be leaked to Nunes.

Right?




Originally posted by G:
"I coined the slogan "We Suck!"© many years ago."
G is an avowed Putin-loving, pro-Russian, anti-American troll.


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Tuesday, March 28, 2017 2:30 AM

6STRINGJOKER


Quote:

Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:

FUCK YOU and THE BROOMSTICK YOU FLEW IN ON!



lol... tool.

Hey. At least he doesn't go around calling everyone a Nazi like the other tool.

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Wednesday, March 29, 2017 8:12 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


So, everyone smeared by this "investigation" - Manafort, Stone, Page, and even a Russian businessman or two - have requested to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee. They want to clear their name, and the only way that they can do that is to be able to face their accusers and testify on their own behalf. It would be unfair and un-American not to let them.

BTW- I've read that Nunes has made his own contacts to within the intelligence agencies, and that he has previously received whistle-blower-type info from these contacts. When I can recall where I read that, I'll post a link.

In any case, one name conspicuously absent from the roster of voluntary witnesses is Flynn. I supposed that since he was an intelligence officer, different rules might apply. But it seems that there is more than meets the eye, and the problem might not be BUT RUSSIA! More like BUT ISRAEL! and BUT TURKEY!

Without further ado, from Moon of Alabama.

Quote:

Gas From Israel And The Flynn Wiretapping - Behind The Deep-State Infighting Over The Trump Election


What is really behind the deep-state infighting over the U.S. elections and the "wire tapping" of the Trump campaign? Why was the CIA-Neocon axis vehemently lobbying against Trump? What foreign interests and what money is involved in this? Answers to these questions are now emerging.

The former director of the CIA under Clinton, James Woolsey, went to the Wall Street Journal and offered some information (likely some true and some false) on the retired General Flynn and the lobbying businesses he was involved in. Woolsey is an arch-neoconservative. He had worked on the transition team of Trump but got fired over "growing tensions over Trump’s vision for intelligence agencies." Flynn is the former National Security Advisor of Trump who later also got fired. Woolsey was a board member of Flynn's former lobbying company FIG.

Woolsey claims: In September 2016 he took part in a meeting between Flynn and high level Turkish officials, including the Turkish foreign minister and the energy minister who is the son-in-law of the Turkish president Erdogan. During the meeting, Woolsey claims, a brainstorming took place over how the Turkish cult leader Fethullah Gülen could -probably by illegal means- be removed from the U.S. and handed over to Turkey.

Gülen is accused by the Erdogan mafia of initiating a coup attempt against it. The U.S. claims officially that there is no evidence for such an accusation and that Gülen can therefore not be rendered to Turkey. Gülen is an old CIA asset that helped the U.S. deep state to control Turkey. Erdogan divorced from the Gülen organization after it became useless for his neo-Ottoman project.

Here is the WSJ report on the Woolsey claims and a video clip with parts of his WSJ interview. Woolsey also went on CNN where he repeated his WSJ story.

Flynn was accused by the anti-Trump campaign to have worked for Russia. He had taken several $10,000 for speeches he gave in Moscow. He also, at times, had argued for better U.S. relations with Russia. But Flynn's pro-Russia stand was probably honest. (Or the bribes involved were just smaller than the ones paid by others.) The money he got on the speaker circus was rather small for a man in his position.

Flynn's real corruption was on another issue. After having been fired from the Trump administration, Flynn retroactively filed under the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA). His lobbying firm had a contract over $530,000 to work for a company near to the Turkish president Erdogan:

In its filing, Mr. Flynn’s firm said its work from August to November “could be construed to have principally benefited the Republic of Turkey.” The filing said his firm’s fee, $530,000, wasn’t paid by the government but by Inovo BV, a Dutch firm owned by a Turkish businessman, Ekim Alptekin.

This lobbying, not the alleged Flynn-Putin relation, is the real scandal and part of the Trump/CIA/Clinton deep-state in-fighting.

The meeting Woolsey described was under the "Turkish" Flynn contract. The Turkish business man, and owner of Inovo, Ekim Alptekin is a member of the Erdogan gang. But hidden at the very end of the WSJ story is the real key to understand the shady network:

Inovo hired Mr. Flynn on behalf of an Israeli company seeking to export natural gas to Turkey, the filing said, and Mr. Alptekin wanted information on the U.S.-Turkey political climate to advise the gas company about its Turkish investments.

It was the Israeli gas company, not the Alptekin outlet, that drove the issue.

The Leviatan (and Tamar) gas fields in the Mediterranean along the Israeli coast are a huge energy and profit resource IF the gas from them can be exported to Europe. Several companies are involved in the exploration and all are looking for ways to connect the fields to the European gas network. There are (likely true) rumors that huge bribes have been payed in Israel, Jordan and elsewhere to win exploration contracts and to sell the gas. Negotiations between Israel and Turkey over the pipeline have been on and off. They depend on a positive climate towards Israel in the Turkish government which again depends on the often changing political position of the Erdogan gang.

The picture evolving here (lots of sleuthing and sources) is this:

An Israeli company (or whoever is behind it) wants a gas pipeline to Turkey. It hires Flynn and Alptekin to arrange a positive climate for the Leviathan pipeline within the Turkish government. It offers Flynn more than half a million for a little (4-month long) influence work. His job is to create a "friendly atmosphere" for the deal by using his influence in the U.S. to accommodate Erdogan. A major point that is expected from Flynn is to arrange the handover of Gülen, by whatever means, from the U.S. to Erdogan.

After accepting the (lobbying) bribe Flynn-the-whore suddenly changes his former anti-Turkish, pro-Russian, pro-Kurdish political position into a pro-Turkish, neutral-Russian and anti-Kurdish one. (His lobbying firm also makes some smaller payments related to the Clinton email-server scandal. This may be related to links between the Clinton family and the Gülen school empire.) He has a meeting with the Turkish government/Erdogan officials part of which is a discussion of a removal of Gülen to Turkey. He pens a pro Erdogan anti-Gülen op-ed which is published on the day of the election and he denigrates the Pentagon plan to work with the Kurds in Syria.

The NSA, CIA and the FBI are listening to Flynn's conversations with Turkish and Israeli interests. (For the old and long history of such "wiretapping" of Turkish and Israeli connections and various dirty and criminal deals they revealed read and ask Sibel Edmonds.)

The projects which Flynn is involved in, especially removing Gülen, are against the long term interests of the (neoconservative-driven) CIA. Selected tapes of his talks are transcribed and distributed within the anti-Trump campaign. This is the origin of the "wiretapping" of the Trump Tower the U.S. president lamented about. The stuff the CIA dug up about Flynn's dealing was and is used against Trump.

Woolsey is caught up in this as he also worked for Flynn's lobbying firm. (His neocon-pro-Zionist history suggests that he is the senior Israeli watchdog over Flynn in all this.) He is now engaged in damage control and is "coming clean" and selectively leaking his anti-Flynn stuff to exculpate himself. (There is probably also some new, better deal involved that will pay off from him.)

The Israeli-Turkish pipeline and the related deep-state fight are not the only issue involved in the campaign against Trump. There are also British interests and British intelligence involvement especially with the accusations against Russia of "hacking" of the DNC. If and how these fit in with above has not yet been revealed.



http://www.moonofalabama.org/2017/03/gas-from-israel-and-the-flynn-wir
etapping-behind-the-deep-state-infighting-over-the-trump-election.html




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If we did not MAKE men poor"- William Blake

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Sunday, April 2, 2017 7:41 AM

SHINYGOODGUY


GO suck Elephant dick!


Quote:

Originally posted by 6STRINGJOKER:
Quote:

Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:

FUCK YOU and THE BROOMSTICK YOU FLEW IN ON!



lol... tool.

Hey. At least he doesn't go around calling everyone a Nazi like the other tool.


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Sunday, April 2, 2017 7:42 AM

SHINYGOODGUY


TREASONOUS SCUMBAGS ALL - FUCK 'EM, Hang them HIGH!


Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
So, everyone smeared by this "investigation" - Manafort, Stone, Page, and even a Russian businessman or two - have requested to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee. They want to clear their name, and the only way that they can do that is to be able to face their accusers and testify on their own behalf. It would be unfair and un-American not to let them.

BTW- I've read that Nunes has made his own contacts to within the intelligence agencies, and that he has previously received whistle-blower-type info from these contacts. When I can recall where I read that, I'll post a link.

In any case, one name conspicuously absent from the roster of voluntary witnesses is Flynn. I supposed that since he was an intelligence officer, different rules might apply. But it seems that there is more than meets the eye, and the problem might not be BUT RUSSIA! More like BUT ISRAEL! and BUT TURKEY!

Without further ado, from Moon of Alabama.

Quote:

Gas From Israel And The Flynn Wiretapping - Behind The Deep-State Infighting Over The Trump Election


What is really behind the deep-state infighting over the U.S. elections and the "wire tapping" of the Trump campaign? Why was the CIA-Neocon axis vehemently lobbying against Trump? What foreign interests and what money is involved in this? Answers to these questions are now emerging.

The former director of the CIA under Clinton, James Woolsey, went to the Wall Street Journal and offered some information (likely some true and some false) on the retired General Flynn and the lobbying businesses he was involved in. Woolsey is an arch-neoconservative. He had worked on the transition team of Trump but got fired over "growing tensions over Trump’s vision for intelligence agencies." Flynn is the former National Security Advisor of Trump who later also got fired. Woolsey was a board member of Flynn's former lobbying company FIG.

Woolsey claims: In September 2016 he took part in a meeting between Flynn and high level Turkish officials, including the Turkish foreign minister and the energy minister who is the son-in-law of the Turkish president Erdogan. During the meeting, Woolsey claims, a brainstorming took place over how the Turkish cult leader Fethullah Gülen could -probably by illegal means- be removed from the U.S. and handed over to Turkey.

Gülen is accused by the Erdogan mafia of initiating a coup attempt against it. The U.S. claims officially that there is no evidence for such an accusation and that Gülen can therefore not be rendered to Turkey. Gülen is an old CIA asset that helped the U.S. deep state to control Turkey. Erdogan divorced from the Gülen organization after it became useless for his neo-Ottoman project.

Here is the WSJ report on the Woolsey claims and a video clip with parts of his WSJ interview. Woolsey also went on CNN where he repeated his WSJ story.

Flynn was accused by the anti-Trump campaign to have worked for Russia. He had taken several $10,000 for speeches he gave in Moscow. He also, at times, had argued for better U.S. relations with Russia. But Flynn's pro-Russia stand was probably honest. (Or the bribes involved were just smaller than the ones paid by others.) The money he got on the speaker circus was rather small for a man in his position.

Flynn's real corruption was on another issue. After having been fired from the Trump administration, Flynn retroactively filed under the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA). His lobbying firm had a contract over $530,000 to work for a company near to the Turkish president Erdogan:

In its filing, Mr. Flynn’s firm said its work from August to November “could be construed to have principally benefited the Republic of Turkey.” The filing said his firm’s fee, $530,000, wasn’t paid by the government but by Inovo BV, a Dutch firm owned by a Turkish businessman, Ekim Alptekin.

This lobbying, not the alleged Flynn-Putin relation, is the real scandal and part of the Trump/CIA/Clinton deep-state in-fighting.

The meeting Woolsey described was under the "Turkish" Flynn contract. The Turkish business man, and owner of Inovo, Ekim Alptekin is a member of the Erdogan gang. But hidden at the very end of the WSJ story is the real key to understand the shady network:

Inovo hired Mr. Flynn on behalf of an Israeli company seeking to export natural gas to Turkey, the filing said, and Mr. Alptekin wanted information on the U.S.-Turkey political climate to advise the gas company about its Turkish investments.

It was the Israeli gas company, not the Alptekin outlet, that drove the issue.

The Leviatan (and Tamar) gas fields in the Mediterranean along the Israeli coast are a huge energy and profit resource IF the gas from them can be exported to Europe. Several companies are involved in the exploration and all are looking for ways to connect the fields to the European gas network. There are (likely true) rumors that huge bribes have been payed in Israel, Jordan and elsewhere to win exploration contracts and to sell the gas. Negotiations between Israel and Turkey over the pipeline have been on and off. They depend on a positive climate towards Israel in the Turkish government which again depends on the often changing political position of the Erdogan gang.

The picture evolving here (lots of sleuthing and sources) is this:

An Israeli company (or whoever is behind it) wants a gas pipeline to Turkey. It hires Flynn and Alptekin to arrange a positive climate for the Leviathan pipeline within the Turkish government. It offers Flynn more than half a million for a little (4-month long) influence work. His job is to create a "friendly atmosphere" for the deal by using his influence in the U.S. to accommodate Erdogan. A major point that is expected from Flynn is to arrange the handover of Gülen, by whatever means, from the U.S. to Erdogan.

After accepting the (lobbying) bribe Flynn-the-whore suddenly changes his former anti-Turkish, pro-Russian, pro-Kurdish political position into a pro-Turkish, neutral-Russian and anti-Kurdish one. (His lobbying firm also makes some smaller payments related to the Clinton email-server scandal. This may be related to links between the Clinton family and the Gülen school empire.) He has a meeting with the Turkish government/Erdogan officials part of which is a discussion of a removal of Gülen to Turkey. He pens a pro Erdogan anti-Gülen op-ed which is published on the day of the election and he denigrates the Pentagon plan to work with the Kurds in Syria.

The NSA, CIA and the FBI are listening to Flynn's conversations with Turkish and Israeli interests. (For the old and long history of such "wiretapping" of Turkish and Israeli connections and various dirty and criminal deals they revealed read and ask Sibel Edmonds.)

The projects which Flynn is involved in, especially removing Gülen, are against the long term interests of the (neoconservative-driven) CIA. Selected tapes of his talks are transcribed and distributed within the anti-Trump campaign. This is the origin of the "wiretapping" of the Trump Tower the U.S. president lamented about. The stuff the CIA dug up about Flynn's dealing was and is used against Trump.

Woolsey is caught up in this as he also worked for Flynn's lobbying firm. (His neocon-pro-Zionist history suggests that he is the senior Israeli watchdog over Flynn in all this.) He is now engaged in damage control and is "coming clean" and selectively leaking his anti-Flynn stuff to exculpate himself. (There is probably also some new, better deal involved that will pay off from him.)

The Israeli-Turkish pipeline and the related deep-state fight are not the only issue involved in the campaign against Trump. There are also British interests and British intelligence involvement especially with the accusations against Russia of "hacking" of the DNC. If and how these fit in with above has not yet been revealed.



http://www.moonofalabama.org/2017/03/gas-from-israel-and-the-flynn-wir
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Sunday, April 2, 2017 7:44 AM

SHINYGOODGUY


As they say in our quaint little village.................

I'VE GOT YOUR DEEP STATE RIGHT HERE!!!


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Monday, April 10, 2017 5:05 AM

SHINYGOODGUY


Okay, I'm going to explain this to you slowly you sack of shit:

First, I never said that I knew what Nunes told Trump. Stupid fuck that you are - never really listen or read well do you? Of course, Dr. Seuss doesn't write about politics now does he?

Nunes goes to the White House to obtain classified information he could have gotten at another secured location. He also had "ditched" his staff so that he was alone to enter the White House to get said information. Why?

It is as you said; the president can get any classified information (actually any information) all he need do is request it from any of the agencies that regularly brief him in the regular course of running the country's business. So, in other words, having Nunes scurry over to the White House to "report" on "his" findings of fact is like having you and Kiki sing the Russian National Anthem - it's redundant and unnecessary.
It's okay, we know.

The "unmasking" of American citizens is considered routine among those in national security circles. Do you even know what unmasking is? No, you don't
or you wouldn't be quoting Gowdy. It is not illegal and is often requested
whenever it involves a serious matter within national security parameters.

UNMASKING - USA TODAY Published 2:14 p.m. ET April 4, 2017 | Updated 12:35 p.m. ET April 8, 2017 by Gregory Korte

WASHINGTON — The investigation into Russian interference in the presidential election — and President Trump's counterattack against surveillance and leaking — has brought a new term into the American political lexicon.
"Unmasking."
Until now, the process for revealing information about U.S. citizens in intelligence reports was almost completely obscure outside of the intelligence community.
But the issue has taken on new importance since House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes alleged that the Obama administration may have improperly identified Trump transition officials in classified reports he had access to — reports that later turned out to be provided to him by the Trump White House.
Here's what we know about the hows and whys of unmasking:
'Minimization' procedures
When U.S. spy agencies eavesdrop on terrorists or foreign agents, they often come across information about U.S. citizens who are not the target of their investigation. This "incidental collection" is not illegal or improper, but specially trained intelligence officers are required to go through an established procedure to protect the privacy of U.S. persons, known as "minimization."

(U.S. persons are defined as U.S. citizens and permanent residents, no matter where they are in the world.)
Identifying information about that person will generally be excluded in intelligence reports that are distributed throughout the intelligence community, including those that go to the White House. Instead, the reports will refer only to "U.S. Person One," "U.S. Person Two," etc.
Exceptions to the rule
But the intelligence community's policies on minimization are not absolute, and there are several exceptions. The National Security Agency, for example, will contain the names of U.S. persons in intelligence reports when:

? The information is available publicly, meaning "information that a member of the public could obtain on request, by research in public sources, or by casual observation."
? "The identity of the United States person is necessary to understand foreign intelligence information or assess its importance, e.g., the identity of a senior official in the executive branch."
? The intelligence indicates that the U.S. person may be "an agent of a foreign power."
Who can 'unmask?'
If a national security official who receives an intelligence report feels like he or she needs to know the identity of a U.S. person in an intelligence report, that official can make a request to "unmask."
The procedures for doing so are less well understood than the minimization process, but about 20 officials at the National Security Agency have the authority to approve an unmasking, NSA Director Michael Rogers told the House Intelligence Committee last month.
Especially sensitive requests would come to his attention personally. "I'm the senior-most of the 20 individuals. Requests will be pushed to my level, say 'Hey, sir, we just want to make sure that you're comfortable with this,'" he said.
Rogers said those officials all have specific training. "There are specific controls put in place in terms of our ability to disseminate information out of the databases associated with U.S. persons," he said.
Other intelligence agencies — including the CIA, FBI and the National Counterterrorism Center — have their own procedures for minimization and unmasking.
Susan Rice's unmasking requests
In an interview with MSNBC Tuesday, Obama National Security Adviser Susan Rice denied making requests to unmask the names of Trump associates for political purposes. She described the process as routine, but declined to say specifically how often she made requests or for what purposes.
"There were occasions when I would receive a report in which a U.S. person was referred to. Name not provided, just a U.S. person," she said. "And sometimes in that context, in order to understand the importance of the report, and assess its significance, it was necessary to find out, or request the information, as to who the U.S. official was.
"So when that occurred, what I would do, or what any official would do, is to ask their briefer whether the intelligence community would go through its process — and there's a long-standing, established process — to decide whether that information as to who the identity of the U.S. person was could be provided to me. So they'd take that question back, they'd put it through a process, and the intelligence community made the determination as to whether or not the identity of that American individual could be provided to me."
'Unmasking' as protection
Rice gave a hypothetical example of foreign agents attempting to buy bomb-making materials from a U.S. citizen. "Is this some kook sitting in his living room communicating via the internet, offering to sell something he doesn't have?  Or is it a serious person or company or entity with the ability to provide that technology perhaps to an adversary? That would be an example of a case where knowing who the U.S. person was, was necessary to assess the information."
But former CIA director John McLaughlin says the debate over unmasking has often ignored more benign reasons for identifying citizens whose name come up in foreign intelligence.
"Sometimes you unmask the name in order to protect an American citizen," McLaughlin told MSNBC Tuesday. He used the hypothetical example of a senator who needs to know that the foreign official he's planning to meet with is actually a spy. "You need to know who you were talking to, just for your protection and information."
Unmasking is not leaking
When the name of a U.S. person is unmasked, that information is provided only to the intelligence official who requested that unmasking, Rice said Tuesday. "There's no equivalence between so-called unmasking and leaking," she said.
Of course, the recipient of unmasked information could then illegally disclose it through a leak.
Rice denied leaking. "I leaked nothing to nobody, and never had and never would," she said.
Unmasking is not a crime
The process for unmasking vary from agency to agency and case by case depending on how the information was collected. But the exact procedures are not publicly known and may be classified.
“None of this unmasking procedure is in law. It's in procedure. Executive branch procedure," said Carrie Cordero, a national security lawyer who worked on surveillance issues in the Justice Department in the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations.
“What I think I’m seeing as the biggest fallacy being reported, or being 'pundited,' is that if there was some kind of improper unmasking, that it's illegal. And that’s wrong,” she said.
If it turns out that procedures weren't followed, they would most likely be subject to administrative discipline, Cordero said.

What Nunes shared with the press was nothing more than McCarthy BULLSHIT.

"I have here in my pocket a list of names..." pure and utter bullshit. Smoke and mirrors. He was handed documents from White House staff that the president could have obtained from the spy agencies by simple request. These documents were handed over to Nunes and he pretended to have "found" them on his own, so as to lend a form of credibility to Trump's totally bogus story that he and his staff were "wiretapped." At no time did Trump, Nunes or Trump's staff ever produce the actual documents and from which agency they were obtained from.

And if Manafort, Stone, Page and Flynn are so eager to clear their names; then why, oh why did Nunes postpone the House Committee investigation without so much as discussing it with his fellow committee members? Why doesn't the president, after requesting the investigation to begin with, encourage Rep. Nunes to re-establish the investigation ASAP. It would go a long way to clearing his good name and that of his staff.

Of course, now Nunes has stepped aside to allow the House Intelligence Committee to proceed, after much delay and deflection, with the investigation. Although, I believe, that all of this is moot. All this carrying on is but a sham, a sideshow to mask Trump's true agenda. Still
though, it shows that these shenanigans have come about at precisely the right time as to distract the American public and, thereby, hide the truth.

Hamlet was right..."the lady doth protest too much, methinks."


SGG



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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
SHINYSTUPIDGUY, I'm going to explain this real slowly - again- so ... that... maybe ... you'll ... get... it... THIS.... time.

Quote:

Really pathetic and weak response, but okay, it's hard to be in the lead because you gotta keep looking over your shoulder.

Allow me to expound/explain:

Followed by a little bitch move that obviously was set up by the Trump White House. Nunes puts his foot squarely in his mouth and scampers off to "reveal" a giant secret to the press (duh!) and the president, for whom he worked on the transition. Conflict of Interest much!

Do you have any idea what Nunes told Trump?

Of course not.

But just in case you might have missed it, TRUMP IS PRESIDENT. There is NO classification of information that Trump doesn't legally have access to. Whatever Nunes told Trump .... whatever it was ... there was no breach of security. Maybe there was a conflcit of interest. OTOH, maybe Nunes was passing on information that THE PRESIDENT should know. You don't know, and I sure don't know.

Now, as far as what Nunes shared with the press: It was evidence-free, and fairly vague, allegations about CIA/ FBI/ NSA snooping ... the kind of information that has already been reported and widely discussed in MANY articles.

This is pretty similar to what the anti-Trump "leakers" are "sharing" with the press. MOST of it is vague, non-probative, evidence-free insinuations. HOWEVER, the anti-Trump leakers did at least one major illegal "oops" - they "unblinded" the name of one of the "incidental" targets of surveillance. I've listened to parts of the Committee hearings, and Trey Gowdy in prosecutor mode, repeatedly made the following comment to Comey: "I only see one illegal thing here, and that was the unmasking of an American citizen's name"

Nunes is part-owner of a a winery which sells to Russia? REALLY??

Sessions talked to the Russian ambassador at a conference? OMG!!

Roger Stone contacted Guccifer AFTER Guccifer 2.0 released his info? GOOD LORD! CALL THE COPS!!

Three of the four people who have been smeared in this whole "investigation" - Manafort, Stone, and Page - have all requested to testify before the committee. The fourth - Flynn- has not been heard from since he was allowed to resign. Since he was head of the DIA at one time, it may be that much of what he says simply can't be said in open testimony, but only time and attention will reveal actual events.






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Monday, April 10, 2017 8:53 AM

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Originally posted by 6STRINGJOKER:

lol... tool.

Hey. At least he doesn't go around calling everyone a Nazi like the other tool.


Sigh. He used to be a sane individual. In his recent return he seems to be losing a battle against our tribal elders.

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Saturday, October 28, 2017 12:19 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


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Last year, the Comey-led investigation secured approval from the secret court that oversees the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to monitor the communications of Manafort, as well as former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, as part of the investigation into Russian meddling.
I realize this point has been made already, but it's worth repeating - So the phones WERE tapped!




HAS IT NOT OCCURRED TO YOU BY NOW THAT IF YOU HAVE TO RESORT TO LOGICAL FALLACIES AND TROLLING YOUR SO-CALLED ARGUMENTS ARE LIES?

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