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We do have "Hazmat" as a term

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 13 Jan 2017 04:53:06 +0000

In reply to It's not only Steele's track

We do have "Hazmat" as a term. I was surprised Paul wasshisname, Monfort?, Trump's Ukrainian campaign advisor, passed into the night so quickly with no questions. No curiosity anymore?

It's not only Steele's track

barefooted — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 23:29:18 +0000

In reply to UK Guardian:

It's not only Steele's track record that should be taken into account, but the Soviet "Kompromat" history as well. It helped to put Putin where he is today, so it's a fair assumption that he's still quite fond of the old ways.

UK Guardian:

NCD — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 21:52:57 +0000

In reply to Christopher Steeles

UK Guardian:

The former Foreign Office official, who has known Steele for 25 years and considers him a friend, said: “The idea his work is fake or a cowboy operation is false – completely untrue. Chris is an experienced and highly regarded professional. He’s not the sort of person who will simply pass on gossip.”

When the agency was plunged into panic over the poisoning of its agent Alexander Litvinenko in 2006, the then chief, Sir John Scarlett, needed a trusted senior officer to plot a way through the minefield ahead – so he turned to Steele. It was Steele, sources say, who correctly and quickly realised that Litvinenko’s death was a Russian state “hit”.

He added: “The strongest reason for giving this report credence is that intelligence professionals in the US take it seriously. They were sufficiently persuaded by the author’s track record to find the contents worth passing to the president and president-elect.”

Christopher Steeles

NCD — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 19:51:23 +0000

In reply to I think we all know that such

Christopher Steeles 'unsubtantiated gossip' on officials at soccers FIFA was eventually substantiated:

After leaving MI6 he supplied the FBI with information on corruption at Fifa, international soccer’s governing body. In the summer of 2010, according to emails cited by Reuters, members of a New York-based FBI squad assigned to investigate “Eurasian Organised Crime” met Steele in London to discuss the Fifa allegations. His company assisted football governing bodies in their investigations, Reuters said.

and this:

...It’s important to know, though, that Steele was apparently one of the driving forces in revealing the extensive corruption at FIFA that resulted in more than a dozen indictments here in the United States for “wire fraud, racketeering, and money laundering.” That corruption was related to Moscow’s successful effort to land the 2018 World Cup.

Even the Democrats deserve a

barefooted — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 19:19:18 +0000

In reply to I think we all know that such

Even the Democrats deserve a nice dish of wabi-sabi now and then.

I think we all know that such

ocean-kat — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 18:33:59 +0000

In reply to CNN Trump-Russia Bombshell?

I think we all know that such malicious unsubstantiated gossip shouldn't be published and any site that published it should be shunned as unreliable. Hal would be apoplectic if something similar was published about Sanders. I would be furious if something like it was published about Hillary.

But this is the way of the world now and the republicans and Trump deserve most of the blame for the condition. It began in a big way during the Clinton years mostly lies against Hillary. Republicans used innuendo and lies against Kerry and Gore though to a lesser degree. It came back full on against Obama with birtherism and the Muslim lies. Trump led those false attacks and was rewarded for them. So I'm not upset that he's now slimed by innuendo and unsubstantiated attacks. What goes around comes around.

It's probably good to make

Peter — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 06:24:42 +0000

In reply to I see what you mean.

It's probably good to make light of some of this drama because the butt-hurt from the death of a thousand cuts is probably unbearable for many Clintonites. I think the most damageing wounds were self inflicted but the Red Queen's private words to her paymasters were powerful. Most if not all of these government departments will be getting new management very soon so we should expect better behavior.

We live in strange times when the uncovering of the truth about a candidate exposing her untrustworthyness and lack of ethical qualifications for the presidency is bemoned as foreign interference while evidence free slurs and accusations aimed at the winner are cheered by the losers.

Missy

Richard Day — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 04:57:24 +0000

In reply to According to the NYT, "The

Missy

Put this on a regular blog for chrissakes.

hahahahahah

You beat me tonite. hahahahah

But you beat me on a news feed. hahhaha

we should only listen to trump right now or just read his feeds from twitter.

hhahahaah

There is no truth except for trump truth.

Or else we are all in peril. hahahha

Oh and Missy, THEY ARE WATCHING YOU!

I laugh because if they are watching me, they are wasting their time.

David Corn reported on the

CVille Dem — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 02:48:10 +0000

In reply to I see what you mean.

David Corn reported on the dossier that was put together by the former British operative in October. He didn;t go into salacious details but from what he wrote in Mother Jones, it was from the same source and indicated blackmail potential. So this story was "leaked" months before it was leaked again, and not by US intelligence agents, but by The Guardian and other players.

Of course the FBI knew all about this at LEAST by October but they sat on it because it would have been unseemly to tamper in an election. Oh, wait.....

Except the Count of Mar-a

NCD — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 02:26:25 +0000

In reply to I suppose it could be ADD

Except the Count of Mar-a-Lago showers were golden, the Nazis used Zyklon-B.