Lying Just as Fast as They Can
Here we are, late in the Trump/Russia Collusion Investigation, and the evidence is still as thin and weak as watery milk. The media monopolies are the ever-present mouthpieces of last resort when you absolutely, positively need to misinform and confuse the American public, and they performed as expected. For them, it's no longer about proving that Vladimir Putin has seized control of the United States from his sinister Kremlin office. In recent weeks, they've been talking a mile a minute just to obscure their own perfidy. Watching them, one gets the impression that if they stop to take a breath their pants will fall down.
(It’s a little late in the day for that, I’d say.)
Since the end of July, Lanny Davis (Michael Cohen’s attorney) has been sneaking around as an “unnamed source” passing insider news to "easy" media like CNN. In this latest narrative, we are told that Michael Cohen is going to drop the dime on his client, Donald Trump. It seems that Cohen witnessed Trump engaged in *actual* Russian collusion.
Naturally, CNN pushed this new narrative with the abandon of snake handlers at a Mississippi revival. The Washington Post followed suit and managed to leave the Eastern Seaboard and liberal enclaves across the nation completely bamboozled once again. With their eyes rolled back into their heads and their fingers quivering, the Resistance™ clung to the words of the authentic US media:
CNN reported in July that Cohen claimed to have witnessed Trump approving the meeting between Trump Jr. and Russian attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya, arranged by an associate of opposition research firm Fusion GPS.
The editors at Washington Post - in their Safe Space using an "anonymous source" – peddled the narrative revealing that "Cohen had told associates that he witnessed an exchange in which Trump Jr. told his father about an upcoming gathering in which he expected to get information about Clinton…"
Lanny Davis let it slip in recent interviews that “Trump knew about Russian hacking of Democratic emails in advance - which he has mentioned numerous times in recent interviews, "repeatedly touting his client's potential value to Mueller."
On Wednesday last week, Lanny Davis said during an interview with PBS Newshour, “I believe thatMr. Cohen has direct knowledge that would be of interest to Mr. Mueller that suggests — I’m not sure it proves — that Mr. Trump was aware of Russian government agents hacking illegally, committing computer crimes, to the detriment of the candidate who he was running against, Hillary Clinton.”
Did I mention that Lanny Davis is also a lifelong friend of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton - the winner of the popular vote?
This latest narrative seemed to prop up the empty-handed Special Investigator Robert Mueller, who has been serving us weak tea since his FBI team became “deplorable” and got fired. But this new narrative also fell apart at record speed. By Sunday night, it was in tatters and the Washington Post was walking it back like it never even happened.
Chastened, Lanny Davis came forth with these words directed at CNN: “I should have been more clear — including with you — that I could not independently confirm what happened.” Then he added, "I regret my error."
Well, the Resistance™ that had taken root at CNN wasn’t having a bit of it! They flatly refused to correct their reporting. They liked the new narrative just the way it was, thank.you.very.much. In a statement over the weekend, a CNN spokeswoman said, “We stand by our story, and are confident in our reporting of it.”
There's a lot of mental damage in America, folks. Before this is over, I predict the Resistance™ is going to need pink vaJayJay hats just to hold their brains in place. In the comments, you will learn how all these false leads and lies inserted in the news by Deep State actors have two purposes:
1. To keep you distracted so you won't notice that there was no collusion between Donald Trump and Russia because even Robert Mueller cannot find something that was never there. You were bamboozled.
2. The entire point of this extended drama and ersatz investigation of various low-hanging fruit is to obscure the fact that a FISA warrant to spy on the Trump campaign was obtained illegally by the Obama administration. They were convinced they were going to get away with destroying your democracy.
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This topic makes me feel ill
Glad you are reporting on it because I don't have it in me to look at it first hand. Hope it blows up soon.
Lying. Ugh.
Marilyn
"Make dirt, not war." eyo
I have dealt with a fair number of lawyers in my career.
Typically, what they say to media is "No comment."
continued banter, so that a
continued banter, so that a "REAL" truth will go unnoticed. 24 hr news needs to be banned. There is never enough noteworthy subject material to fill up an entire 24 hr period. Let's go back to an hr a day--oh wait, too much money to lose. Never mind...
7am-7pm.
Still WAY to long,
but 12 hours certainly more than enough!
Run 'til 7pm to "compete" with the Networks.
7pm-7am run "infomercials."
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All the hoopla about Trump/Russia collusion
is just a cover for the REAL crimes that were committed by the Clinton Machine during Her Heinous' tenure as SOS. It's a massive 'look over there' campaign. If Trump wouldn't have become president, the collusion between Hillary and the FBI/CIA/DOJ to cover up the real crimes while she was SOS would have quietly disappeared from sight.
We all know that Killary's private email service was to ensure her dealings with foreign powers would not be subject to FOIA requests.
At least 30,000 emails have disappeared - deleted because they were 'personal'. Maybe we can do a FOIA request on the Chinese government to recover them?
New information has been revealed that her server may have been hacked by Chinese agents. They will never admit this - just as Russia will never admit hacking her emails while she was SOS. This is SOP for ALL government to government hacking.
Hacking her server was apparently child's play.
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Are the 30,000 missing emails on Weiner's laptop?
The NYC FBI found over 600-700,000 on his laptop and Comey nevertheless looked at all of them. He told congress that he had and that a computer system found that they were duplicates, but he lied. The computer looked at less than 10,000 and it spent less than a day doing it.
BTW. The emails on his laptop made the NYC FBI agents sick to their stomachs because what they were about. They wanted to release them two years ago, but Loretta Lynch threatened them with prosecuting the cop who killed Eric Garner. They folded.
BTW. The NSA has a copy of them if anyone actually wants to see them. Why haven't they been asked?
There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?
Harris is unburdened of speaking going forward.
From the article
Since the article brought up China's spying on us through Hillary's private email server has anyone kept up with the story about DiFi's driver was a Chinese spy for 20 years? Anyone think that she wasn't aware of that? He not only drove her around, but he also worked in her office and never had security clearance that whole time.
Feinstein’s Ties To China Go Way Deeper Than An Alleged Office Spy
The Silence Over A Potential Chinese Spy In Feinstein’s Office Is Deafening
But sure. Let's just focus on Russian interference with the election and not mention how many other countries are doing either the same things or doing much worse. There is never any mention of Israel's and the Saudi's interference with our elections is there? AIPAC's? Nope.
There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?
Harris is unburdened of speaking going forward.
The original Guccifer hacked her bathroom server.
Among other things, he pulled off a directory filled with the essential evidence (with private correspondence) of the conspiracy between Tony Blair, George Bush, and Colin Powell to gather fake evidence and trick their respective countries into the 2003 Iraq invasion. Hillary got it from her grifter network. The Obama administration leaked it back to the UK.
As a side note, Guccifer was invited to finish out his prison sentence in the US rather than Romania just before the 2016 election. He's now languishing in a Federal prison near DC.
Hillary's crimes, from Benghazi forward, were fairly easy for an amateur to crack, but they are hardly worth writing about in the larger scheme of what we are facing.
I can deal with a self-absorbed greedy psychopath. It's the authoritarian megalomaniacal sociopaths that scare me to death.
IMAGINE if you woke up the day after a US Presidential Election and headlines around the the world blared, "The Majority of Americans Refused to Vote in US Presidential Election! What Does this Mean?"
Maybe we should ask DiFi to an intermediary with China
Our brilliant senior Demonrat Senator from California, who hosted a Chinese spy on her staff for 20 years was at one time head of the Senate Intelligence committee. What intelligence! Actually, this was more likely collusion so that her hubby Blum could get fat Chinese contracts and stock deals. DiFi is in a bad situation here--Spymaster or miserable schnook?
Only a Hillbot could vote for her.
We should instead vote for a younger crook who wasn't so sloppy about his foreign collusion enriching himself handsomely. But after all, this is true blue Californication politics.
How else can we gin up a war with Russia?
I mean we've got 13 more aircraft carriers to build and ISIS just isn't a big enough bogey man...but Russia...yeah that's the ticket!
In the meantime let's bomb a few more busloads of kids, create another false flag gassing and bomb the rubble in Syria into smaller bits, and kill this peace deal in Korea while no one is looking.
It isn't broken...it is all going as planned....and the sheeple say baa.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
I guess I'm grateful you guys can keep up with all this bullshit
I'm sorry, but I just can't bring myself to stay abreast of this whole bizarre, red herring circus.
Keep seeing this guy's name now and thought I'd recognized it. But I was thinking of this "Lanny":
Frontline Gets Its Man: Lanny Breuer Leaves DOJ After Exposé
All strikes me as a mad scramble by the ruling wealthy to cover up their scam.
Thanks for saving me the time.
If there's any justice years from now when this is way in the rear view mirror, history will have recorded this whole pathetic epoch as the greatest farce ever pulled over on the American people, with the help of people like us here. Somewhere, at some learned place or school, someone will be teaching all this under "How Mass Media and State Propaganda Works" as one of its prime examples. The Russians with Pravda ain't got nothing on us.
As St. George put it, "This Country's Completely Full of Shit, And Always Has Been"
"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"
- Kurt Vonnegut
heh.
i was thinking lanny breuer, not lanny davis, myself. breuer's 'deferred prosecutions' was a real pip. 'we've got the goods on ya, but if you straighten up and fly right...but remember, we'll be watching you'.
Lanny Davis has had exactly two prior clients
Incidentally, both are named Clinton. So who's the dummy here? Not Davis. He's going to get a lot of press, unearned mostly, just the Swan, selling out his chump client Michael Taxi King Cohen. If Cohen unloads on Trump, considering that El Trumpo won't be impeached, he is going to rue the day he hired Lanny. Lanny is laughing all the way to the bank with likely as bullshit a story as Stormy Daniels and her shyster Avenatti.
They're a bunch of cats.
They're busy covering up their shit as fast as it's exposed. There is so much BS, I hope they won't keep up!
Enjoyed the Carlin vid - thanks Mark...
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
Cats
bury their shit because they are very clean animals. These dirtbags attempt to bury it to avoid being caught.
i can't want to keep up with any of this, either,
but it's all emptywheel lives for, of course. checked in w/ her this a.m., and saw that randy credico's due to Stand Before the Mueller Court on sept.7, and iirc, she's sure that his testimony will nail >roger stone> trump> wikileaks, meaning assange of course.
but lest y'all believe that this is the only McResistance™, you've forgotten the McCarthyite #MeToo movement the WaPo began. guilt by anonymous innuendo.
@wendy davis WaPo began #MeToo?
WaPo began #MeToo?
Well then.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
an the new york slimes. then
it spread far and deep: more online sites > IMF and lagarde > nato, angelelina jolie and jens stoltenberg > oscars > NPR > around the globe. and woe to anyone who said: 'now hold the phone; the accusers, often anonymous, should face the accused in court'. but usually the accused simply get fired, black-balled, etc. margaret atwood was pissed many were wearing her red capes from 'the handmaids tale', for instance, and got trounced for saying so, as did catherine de neuve and others.
when i'd put up an open thread about it at the café, one man posited that it would have the opposite effect than intended. he may have been prescient, at least in this country, the pushback to amerikan rape culture has only sincerely affected the elites, not the yanno, Little People. say, those in ICE prisons, any prisons, really.
i'd always reckoned it began rocketing post-pink pussy hats resistance march in deecee, although there are plenty who claim it began with black women in the 50s, but that's a bit disingenuous, imo.
She's just being silly, now.
We've now lost an entire generation of investigative journalists to the agencies. Same thing happened during the late 1930s, to not only talented journalists but also to writers and artists, including much of the beat generation. The Nazis we brought back from WWII helped us perfect the art of cultural brainwashing. This went on for several decades; it changed the evolution of art and literature. Ultimately, it became the wind under Ronald Reagan's wings. Once early dementia kicked in, he became solid gold. His caregivers from back then still control the top authoritative positions in the Federal Government.
IMAGINE if you woke up the day after a US Presidential Election and headlines around the the world blared, "The Majority of Americans Refused to Vote in US Presidential Election! What Does this Mean?"
i agree on several counts,
but i've seen you posit 'beat generation authors/journalists for the CIA', and i find that dubious, not that it matters.
i guess my personal chich with all this is: could any president's associates withstand this amount of accusations of corruption, collusion, grifting and influence peddling by 'foundations' under a 'special prosecutor'? everything around herr T has been labeled a Constitutional Crisis; startin' to smell like three-day old fish. but w/ this latest round 'Impeachment talk' is breathlessly telephoned. ya need an alphabetized cheat sheet just to keep all the names straight. 'misfud' or whatever just takes the cake for me.
well, you likely have them on your brain's hard drive [on edit: as does snoopy], but i guess i give a fuck about it all, save for the Wikileaks elements and the fact that the red queen and her cronies will skate off down the frozen river. no word on him on the WL twitter feed. eerie silence.
and on later edit this FWIW news:
‘White Helmets accompany large delivery of poisonous chemicals to militants in Syria – MoD’ Aug 28
“A large supply of chemicals has been delivered to the militants in Syria’s Idlib with the assistance of the White Helmets aid group in order to stage a provocation and blame the Syrian government, Russia’s Defense Ministry said.
The Russian military has received information from several sources in Idlib Province that “a large supply of poisonous agents has been brought to the city of Saraqib on two trucks from the village of Afs,” Major-General Aleksey Tsygankov, head of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the opposing sides in Syria, said in a statement.
The chemicals were delivered to an arms depot, used by the militant group Ahrar al-Sham, “accompanied by the eight members of the White Helmets organization,” Tsygankov said, adding that the cargo was met by two high-ranked Ahrar al-Sham commanders.
Later, a part of the load was put in unmarked plastic barrels and transported to another militant base in the southern Idlib in order to stage the use of chemical weapons and subsequently blame the government forces of employing poisonous substances against civilians,” the statement read.”
'poisonous agents' is pretty vague...
I can't believe it.
CNN reported in July that Cohen claimed to have witnessed Trump approving the meeting between Trump Jr. and Russian attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya, arranged by an associate of opposition research firm Fusion GPS.
This is still about Veselnitskaya?
Oh, I see that there's some "I have proof there is hacking" too. I guess that's the part that just unraveled.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
Yep. This is still being talked about
But what isn't mentioned is that she wouldn't have been able to get the meeting if the FBI hadn't fixed her passport problem for her. Funny how that worked out for the FBI isn't it?
There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?
Harris is unburdened of speaking going forward.
@snoopydawg Am I the only one who
Am I the only one who thinks that that meeting was, in the immortal words of DKos, a "nothingburger?"
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
You are not alone in thinking this
It was a "nothing burger" because there was no information exchanged on Hillary. The meeting was a setup to talk about the Maginsky act. I'm sure that I've misspelled his name. Once the topic came up the Trumps walked out.
But the kos kids thinks it was a big deal because Trump Jr was willing to meet with a foreign person. But then they think it's okay for Hillary to hire a foreign spy to dig up dirt on her opponent and then get the FBI to use the information to spy on him. Go figure.
BTW. Using campaign donations to hire Fusion GPS goes against campaign finance laws. Where is the investigation into that?
There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?
Harris is unburdened of speaking going forward.
It's a nothingburger because it was bait and switch
...entrapment. Veselnitskaya was under contract to Fusion GPS, who were under contract to Hillary's presidential campaign to produce the Steele dossier through contacts with the Russian spy agencies. That the Trump campaign had a physical encounter with the Russian, Veselnitskaya, was the only thing the FISA court needed to hear to sign off on the warrants.
Veselnitskaya met with Glenn Simpson, founder of Fusion GPS immediately before and after the Trump Tower meeting. Then she headed back to DC for a presentation at the Obama White House.
All the other details are flack meant to distract you, smoke and mirrors. The only point of this entire operation was to get a FISA wiretap on the Trump campaign. They could show the Means and the Motive for the collusion with Russia — but they still needed the Opportunity, which Veselnitskaya provided the moment she walked in the door.
This was the FBI's infamous "insurance policy."
IMAGINE if you woke up the day after a US Presidential Election and headlines around the the world blared, "The Majority of Americans Refused to Vote in US Presidential Election! What Does this Mean?"
oh, lordie. given those terms
and names you might like to read this aug. 27 exposé by craig murray about foia requests denied, don't be dissuaded by the title that features 'the skripals'.
I had forgotten about that
I did know that Veselnitskaya was used to entrap Trump Jr, but did not know that she then went to the WH after the meeting.
I don't remember seeing this being big news at the time he said it do you? Another thing that people aren't admitting is that if Her had become president then Manafort would not have been charged for the things he did nor would Cohen's office been searched because there wouldn't have been a special investigation looking into them. How many others are doing what Manafort was doing, but no one is looking at them? BTW. Why did Podesta get immunity for doing what Manafort did? And didn't he do some work for Manafort? Is it because of his connections to Hillary? Hmm
There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?
Harris is unburdened of speaking going forward.
@Pluto's Republic Don't you think
Don't you think that grist for the media mill was a secondary, but important objective as well?
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
Since when has obtaining "dirt" on candidates constitute crime?
This whole Trump Tower meeting has been overblown. Did Veselnitskaya have the missing emails? Not likely. What could she possibly have known that actually constituted a threat to Amerikkka? How about truth about GCHQ's spying on El Trumpo since late 2015? Did she have knowledge of GRU infiltrators, ready to hack eminently hackable voting machines, owned by Diebold et. al.?
This whole Swan Inquisition has done nothing beneficial for our country. Manafort's a tax cheat. So what? Papadopolous is a schnook. Rick Gates is a pawn. Rosenstein is aider-and-abettor in chief to his 2 senior buddies: James the Weasel Comey and the black Swan.
As most of us realize, this distraction has served to cover odious policy changes by Trump, such as reviving the private prison industry, presumably to house all those under sealed indictment who will be transitioning to the Gray Bar Hotel.
Oh, the hypocrisy!
@Alligator Ed Yeah, that's what I
Yeah, that's what I've been saying. Apparently I was committing a crime in 2010 when I did opposition research for a MD State Senate campaign. Or is it talking to foreigners that's the crime? I'm losing track.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
@snoopydawg Well, I guess that
Well, I guess that makes it easy for the FBI to uncover this as part of their investigation and use it, doesn't it?
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
Heh
Easy Peasy
There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?
Harris is unburdened of speaking going forward.
About the 6-700,000 on Wiener's laptop....
were they sickening because of his sleazy stuff? Or, the amount of collusion between the SoS, the WH and foreign agents? Any thing else?
I can picture several scenarios that would may the NYC FBI agents sick.
You may choose to look the other way, but you can never say again you did not know. ~ William Wiberforce
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