Congressional Republicans Go There, Call for 2nd Special Prosecutor
US House Judiciary Committee requests DoJ appoint second Special Prosecutor (PDF) https://t.co/kenS4vfjIN pic.twitter.com/asvlURMNoV
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) July 29, 2017
Here's the pdf to which Wikileaks links.
There are 14 points - instead of re-typing in full, I'll summarize those points for investigation which did not make the tweet:
1) A.G. Loretta Lynch directing Comey to mislead the public on the nature of the investigation
2) Secretary Clinton's mishandling of classified information
3) FBI & DOJ decisions about email investigation including immunity deals for Mills, Samuelson, Bentel and others
4) Failure of DOJ to empanel grand jury about possible mishandling of classified information
5) Dept of State (and employees) involvement in determining which communications from Secretary Clinton to turn over to the public.
(see tweet above for 6-10)
THEY ARE CALLING FOR A REVIEW OF POTENTIAL COLLUSION BETWEEN CLINTON AND DNC IN THE DEM PRIMARY! Also, they are looking at the Clinton Foundation.
11) Leaks of classified information and something about unmasking people on Trump's campaign and or transition team
12) Potential leaks by Comey to Columbia University Law Professor of conversations between Comey and Trump
13) Something about "Fusion GPS" and the dossier on Trump
14) Potential leaks by Comey to author Michael Schmidt
Popcorn futures are looking up!
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Karma's a bitch.
The stars now aligning to favor progressives.
the little things you can do are more valuable than the giant things you can't! - @thanatokephaloides. On Twitter @wink1radio. (-2.1) All about building progressive media.
@Wink This is the first time in
This is the first time in memory that I look forward to a Republican witch hunt.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
I'm none too excited
Whatever they find or claim to find, they won't find any of the stuff I want them to find. They can't because they do the same things.
A lot of wanderers in the U.S. political desert recognize that all the duopoly has to offer is a choice of mirages. Come, let us trudge towards empty expanse of sand #1, littered with the bleached bones of Deaniacs and Hope and Changers.
-- lotlizard
Snapple, just because they do the same things
doesn't mean they won't call out the other side for doing the same things. You have probably forgotten lesson 101 in Politicks: All politicians are hypocrites.
But that's okay. We can all get tick bites.
@SnappleBC I agree they both "do
I agree they both "do it". That said,
they would NOT bring forth a process that exposes them to the same scrutiny.
We tend to think of all Republicans as goofballs,
Well, they have almost taken over the country.
They are doing a lot of things right.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
True, they can't get
too carried away in "revealing the truth," becuz they would blow their own cover of similar dirty deeds.
But, just the fact that there's a threat of an investigation might find it's way to the MSM. Might. Maybe. But, even if it doesn't, what's been intimated so far is Way more than what DWS and her DNC thought would ever be revealed. And, who here thought that would ever happen? Granted, it ain't much, but most of us were expecting nothing.
the little things you can do are more valuable than the giant things you can't! - @thanatokephaloides. On Twitter @wink1radio. (-2.1) All about building progressive media.
Some of us were expecting less than nothing
since that's what we've been getting...
Something is something. You can quote me bigly on that.
'What we are left with is an agency mandated to ensure transparency and disclosure that is actually working to keep the public in the dark' - Ann M. Ravel, former FEC member
This was shown during her Benghazi hearings
I don't recall one person asking what business was being done at the embassy at the time of the attack.
Seymour Hersh said that the CIA and the stated department were running Libyan guns out of it to give to Al Qaida and its other offshoots.
I am pretty certain that some members of congress were aware of that, yet no one asked about it.
This would be considered treason in a country that had a functioning department of justice because they were arming the same groups that were considered our country's enemies.
But that will never happen in the land of exceptionalism. Only the little plebes get sentenced to jail.
I would like to see an investigation into what the Clinton foundation did after the earthquake in Haiti and this should include Hillary throwing her weight around because she was SOS.
I don't recall ever hearing of Condi Rice inserting herself in any country's government and recovery like Hillary did. When she insisted that Haiti have another presidential election because she didn't like the outcome of the first one, this amounted to a government coup done by our State Department with Hillary at the reins. And where the hell was Obama while all this graft was happening? AWOL as usual.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
@snoopydawg
Obama simply couldn't see what was going on; he had his head in a bucket of money at the time...
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
I'm not so sure he had his head in a bucket of money
I believe that he was easily intimidated by the people who were around him. He wanted to go after the banks that crashed the global economy, but Rahm and Geitner advised him not to do that.
Notice how many people are pleased with Trump for letting the military officers do anything they want because they thought that Obama had hamstrung the generals in the Middle East.
They felt that Obama was too cautious about killing civilians in war zones and we can see the increase in civilians' deaths since Donny took office.
No Obama knew what was going on regarding the wars and the things Hillary was doing when she was SOS. He just didn't care enough to stop her.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
@snoopydawg
Damn, you wouldn't think that people would be easily intimidated by a group of murderous lunatics surrounding them in a lawless environment...
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Your comment makes me wonder
how did he end up with those people around him?
You begin with his being intimidated but end with him not caring.
It seems to me that if he was influenced into putting them into those positions of power and then he ended up being intimidated by them, that might indicate that his prime purpose in being President was to actually survive no matter what.
If on the other hand, he was in it for the prestige and money, then I would agree that in knowing what Her was doing, he just didn't care enough to stop her.
Either way, I don't see how it could be both (I could be wrong though).
They either took him into that special room to see the grassy knoll angle of the Kennedy assassination (according to Bill Hicks) or he was fully aware and had no actual fears because he was in it for whatever he could get, America be damned.
Yaldabaoth, Saklas I'm calling you. Samael. You're not alone. I said, you're not alone, in your darkness. You're not alone, baby. You're not alone. "Original Sinsuality" Tori Amos
Hmmmm. Maybe it's a 'good' thing
Pelosi says the midterms don't matter. If things go well the Dims should all be busy lawyering up around that time.
Good grief, this is gonna give Little Markie Moosetits and his merry band of Delusionals a case of the vapours!! It should be worth tons of laughs.
EDIT: they/the
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
@Amanda Matthews
Yaldabaoth, Saklas I'm calling you. Samael. You're not alone. I said, you're not alone, in your darkness. You're not alone, baby. You're not alone. "Original Sinsuality" Tori Amos
I read somewhere that
Stevens or Stephenson or whatever was told by somebody in France (while Stevens was on business there) to "stay out of Benghazi for 4 or 5 days." Also, strongly urged by an American to do the same. So, somebody knew something. Stevens, of course, returned to Benghazi just two days later, and... well, the rest is history. So, he was Not ordered to return there. Just the opposite. Why he went back there when he essentially was told not to is anybody's guess, but I'm guessing Hillary might know.
the little things you can do are more valuable than the giant things you can't! - @thanatokephaloides. On Twitter @wink1radio. (-2.1) All about building progressive media.
I love witch hunts - when there's a real witch involved
have you noticed the new term
the media has been fed for our continued confusion? Neoprogressive. Like Sane progressive and Cailtyn Johnstone. They are now being labelled in terms that will try to put their thinking on the same level as neoliberal or neoconservative. They propose the illusion that these are parrots for the right wing fringe. Guess some will buy into that new slice of propaganda. Not me. Just saying...
question everything
@QMS
I'll bet it all started with the neoNazis (new, improved Nazis!) and just kept going from there - and I can't wait until some food-like substance is being sold as NeoSoylent Green... essentially the same as food, of course, or possibly almost entirely unlike tea, but not quite. All this NewSpeak confusion-of-concepts nonsense is so freaking stupid!
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
moral obligation
It becomes a moral obligation at this point in our conversation:
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"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
Somewhat feel this will be a
Somewhat feel this will be a shiny object meant to distract us from something.
When really was the last time that we saw the opposite party do something to the other party?
Clinton and impeachment? If someone has another example, feel free.
Obama had a chance regarding American war crimes but all the people who were butchered just weren't important to Obama. As Obama put it we have to move forward and not look back. Both parties protecting one another is somewhat the norm, so anything outside of that is well odd.
I hold at least a sliver of hope...
that between this, whatever comes of the Awan, and the DNC lawsuit, that something major comes.
If,as some suspect,
there is deep state power struggle going on, the probability rises.
This is payback for RUSSIA! and the continuing call to impeach
Trump over (sorry) trumped up charges.
I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.
Not shiny
A) MSM will never follow this sufficiently if they cover it AT ALL other than that the GOP is having boring hearings, blah-blah-blah. So no shine.
B) The Obama example (for which one could have chosen several subjects where his resistance amounted to balking not even to the degree of choking on water down the wrong pipe) lacks even pretense of going after those who did whatever they did to burst a bubble in our collective imagination about who we are as a people (i.e. we don't torture, we don't crash the world economy, we think of healthcare as a Capitalist sport where money is made by withholding care, to list a first few which come to mind).
'What we are left with is an agency mandated to ensure transparency and disclosure that is actually working to keep the public in the dark' - Ann M. Ravel, former FEC member
What it will do is bring things into
the light that the Dims and their media buddies don't ever mention. For example, relatively few people know about the lawsuit against the DNC or their arrogant and duplicitous defense. They won't be able to keep everything buried anymore.
At least I hope that's what happens.
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
Maybe the US political establishment
.
has been balanced like a teeter-totter, with fat cat Ds sitting on one side, and R blimps sitting on the other. Back and forth they've gone, now up, now down, now blue, now red, having loads of fun together... until finally, both sides having gained a great deal of weight, the fulcrum suddenly... collapses! Causing both teams to fall flat on their asses in a big cloud of dust, and begin shouting across at one another, "What the hell happened to the Center?"
native
@native
Lol, thanks so very much for the imagery and the giggle! Classic!
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
In the end, Republicans NEED the Democratic Party to survive.
The risk of a real investigation would be the complete collapse of the Democratic Party. The ensuing chaos would open the door to viable new political parties and spell the end of the reliability of a political duopoly which has been serving the interest of deep state oligarchs so well for decades. Republican interests would not be well served by such an upheaval.
What we are seeing is more Kabuki: the promise of real justice masking just one more disingenuous sham designed to string the public along with false hope while innoculating the enumerated action items from the possiblity of future accountability. The items on this list will be checked off and put aside.
There will be no prosecutions, no justice so long as our two party system maintains its exclusivity and continues to serve the interest of American oligarchs. The lies and deceptions will continue.
“ …and when we destroy nature, we diminish our capacity to sense the divine,and understand who God is, and what our own potential is and duties are as human beings.- RFK jr. 8/26/2024
@ovals49
Thanks for nicely describing my first thought. Although one never knows, some might actually have enough patriotism and survival instinct to want their country, people and life on the planet to continue to survive because they've finally realized that their own comfort and survival depends upon this.
I keep thinking of Rider Haggard's King Salomon's Mines, at the point where the old witch cackles that the treasure-seekers should eat and drink of the vast wealth they'd been led to - just before they are shut in the dark away from all sustenance and freedom.
In the book, of course, they escaped to the outside world, at the cost of losing nearly all of the treasure - but in reality, there is no 'there' there outside the life support system of Earth which The Psychopaths That Be so eagerly and actively disrupt and destroy to accumulate unimaginably huge piles of personal riches drained from everyone and everything else and which will then become worthless. And there may be some in public office still sane enough to see this and decide that civilization/democracy and a habitable, self-sustaining planet, along with their own comforts and hope of healthy, happy lives, are treasures worth keeping.
We can hope, at any rate, at least for a while.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Right on the money.
This point especially:
I think especially with regards to war and banking this is exactly what happened. I'd throw election fraud in there too except we saw the Democrats use it against their own voters rather than turning it back against the Republicans. At any rate, we had the faux outrage, then more of the same, but bigger and this time free from criticism.
If the Wikileaks report is true, they are rather specific on the points, which almost looks serious. But yeah, this is pro-wrestling. Fake enemies working for the same boss. They need each other more than they need us.
EDIT: thanks Lilly O Lady. That's what I get for commenting before coffee. Lol
Idolizing a politician is like believing the stripper really likes you.
WWF! and the figure 4 leg lock.
Yeah, I was thinking pro wrestling too, but couldn't figure how to blend that together with Kabuki. Both very much not what they appear to be.
“ …and when we destroy nature, we diminish our capacity to sense the divine,and understand who God is, and what our own potential is and duties are as human beings.- RFK jr. 8/26/2024
It's only voter fraud when voters do fraudulent things.
When election officials do bad things it's election fraud. The difference is important.
"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"
Correct
Usually I'd say the right thing, but the coffee wasn't coming fast enough this morning. Lol
Idolizing a politician is like believing the stripper really likes you.
If it must be Kabuki,
let's hope for the biggest possible production, because the public is, for the most part, still completely unaware of everything on the list. I welcome any light shining.
@ovals49
I used to think that they were playing good cop/bad cop, but now so many people have become aware that the parties are each made up of those playing both bad cops and robbers...
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
You guys aren't actually rooting for the republicans are you?
@Big Al
I'm actually wondering how people can tell the two wings of the Corporate Party apart... maybe they should go for the wishbone instead?
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
I guess it's because of past reputations at this point.
The illusions that were created decades ago to divide the public into two parts. Or maybe some of the things they say, but we all know what they say and what they do are two different things.
@Big Al
And what's said in public and privately, 'in quiet rooms', as the billionaire Romney might say. Probably varies from donor to donor, too...
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
@Big Al I'm not. I'm rooting for
I'm not. I'm rooting for a return to sanity for the People's Party. I understand this makes me appear delusional.
'What we are left with is an agency mandated to ensure transparency and disclosure that is actually working to keep the public in the dark' - Ann M. Ravel, former FEC member
Prosecutorial misconduct?
"My Special Prosecutor is better than your Special Prosecutor!"
"No! Your Special Prosecutor is a wimp, and a fucking traitor!"
"Oh yeah? Well your Special Prosecutor isn't even very Special!"
"The hell you say. He's way more Special than yours is!"
And so on...
native