MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Page's response to the Senate Intelligence Committee's request for information. Remember, this is the guy that Trump once included in his "top-of-the-line" list of foreign policy advisors.
As one person experienced in the workings of the DC swamp accurately summarized the laundry list of requests that you sent on April 28, 2017: “Tell us everything so we can have our snotty- nosed Ivy Leaguers pore over it and try to put you in the worst light possible. Oh, and you should count on minority staff leaking anything possible to embarrass you or the President.” This analysis and prediction would certainly parallel many of my experiences over the past year given the extreme transgressions of the Clinton/Obama regime. This accurate reference to the ongoing history of selective leaking for maximum personal damage of a private citizen (e.g. Felony #1 and Felony #2, above) is another reason making it essential that our future interaction be held in open session.
Since you have been praised as the bipartisan adults here, it is my hope that your continued unity now helps to break through lame partisan-based excuses attempted earlier by those who have still consider themselves above the law.
The urgency of getting to the bottom of the abysmal human rights record of those actions taken by the Clinton/Obama regime during the 2016 election is an immediate national priority. Finally moving beyond the dark cloud of the civil rights abuses which occurred last year might help encourage capable leaders and essential allies such as Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte to again feel safe in visiting the United States.
Comments
Worth (re)reading Louise Mensch on Carter Page from a month ago. If there are tapes of him, or that he was picked up on normal NSA foreign agent dragnetting even before the FISA request, it's hard to see what Page's outburst will gain him, unless he thinks the GOP will sequester confidential recordings if he screams "unfair, unfair" enough times?
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 05/08/2017 - 2:18pm
Yeah, Mensch. We've discussed her before.
by Michael Wolraich on Mon, 05/08/2017 - 4:27pm
I'm afraid we will be again, like it or not. If the NY Times had done a bang-up job on Gulf War 2 & the 2008 crash and the 2016 elections, we might not be at this impasse, but what with Facebook and other alt news, we were likely to get here anyway. At the moment I just wait for one of her contentious statements to get repeated by Bloomberg or CNN or AP or even Huffpost, and then everyone's okay with it.
At some point we're going to have to wrestle with "unhinged but even at baseball .300 levels of success is more interesting and helpful than a mundane 80% accuracy of stuff we already knew that obscures stuff we really need to know". And considering the amount mainstream media pimped Trump and gave him 24x7 exposure at the expense of other candidates and reason, that 80% rating is probably way over-generous.
Few are doing investigative journalism of any sort, most of it's navel-gazing "analysis" in reaction to reading the same AP & Reuters newsfeeds or repeating what's said at a news conference without even contesting what the person said. No wonder we got so far down the Russian rabbit hole without any heads up - no one gave permission to publish anything as "real news", so it all stayed too speculative and out of the Kardashian-focused radar.
Look at Brexit as a decent example of what got ignored.
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 05/08/2017 - 4:53pm
Oct 31 - "Investigating Donald Trump, F.B.I. Sees No Clear Link to Russia - The New York Times" - hey, nice timing for that headline, guys. Are you working for Team Trump, or just useful idiots?
I haven't seen anything so definitively wrong out of Mensch - often she's overtly just speculating, other times she claims sources. Where has she been nearly as wrong as the Times here, or as malicious as when the Times just ran an article quoting the Clinton Cash smear job as "well researched".
What has the Times discovered ahead of time that we didn't already know, wasn't in the Reuters/AP feed/press conference/speech and wasn't false?
And besides, she introduced me to Rogue Melania/@RogueFirstLady - not very PC, but rather worth the price of admission by itself.
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 05/09/2017 - 2:57am
Mild in comparison to the Tweeter-in-Chief practicing witness intimidation this morning?
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/cnn-panel-trump-tweets-sally-yates-beyond-the-pale
by artappraiser on Mon, 05/08/2017 - 3:05pm