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So Trump puts Flynn's ex

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 11:11:00 +0000

So Trump puts Flynn's ex-chief of staff in as acting National Security Advisor - way to bury that scandal - like Carrie, begging to come back.

Please please please appoint Petraeus. Not because of Paula Broadwell and handing off bundles of classified notes (we can buy him a nice fancy valise to carry around his classified materials this time) and using Gmail to pass secret messages, but because of Lebanese immigrant twins Jill Kelley & Natalie Khawam as wannabe Kardashian sisters palling around with all of Tampa's top brass including Petraeus & head-of-Afghan-ops & derailed-NATO-head Allen pictured here, bizarrely with Petraeus' wife. Given all sorts of access to base, parties and top military & intelligence brass, the twins were rather gonzo and derelict in their doings, but Natalie managed to get both Petraues & Allen to vouch for her character in court. Some speculation they weren't just dancing with the "Make America Great Again" team either.

"Professional Skank" was never such a powerful title. Petraeus likes ~~getting~~ being head - give it to him, Donald - on all fours.

Also too:

artappraiser — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 06:32:54 +0000

In reply to The Spy Revolt Against Trump Begins (a must read & pass around)

Also too:

Thank the “Deep State” for Quashing Trump’s Torture Plans by Phillip Carter @ Slate, Feb. 10

Longtime professionals in the Defense Department and CIA know torture doesn’t work, and they pushed back.

Phillip Carter is a former Army officer and former Pentagon official who is now senior fellow at a Center for a New American Security in Washington.

I'm willing to bet that Trump

barefooted — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 06:18:48 +0000

In reply to What did the President know

I'm willing to bet that Trump, Bannon and likely Kushner were briefed after Yates went to the WH counselor on Jan. 23rd (though also possible they were part of the "strategy" all along) - but likely no one else. I also imagine that had alot to do with putting Bannon on the National Security Council to keep an eye on Flynn.

What goes around COMETS

artappraiser — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 06:14:45 +0000

In reply to The Spy Revolt Against Trump Begins (a must read & pass around)

What goes around COMETS around

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/319372-clinton-weighs-in-on-flynn-resignation

That is a good analysis.

NCD — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 05:28:36 +0000

In reply to But now it's not only

That is a good analysis. Excerpts:

Putin has lost his monopoly over geopolitical unpredictability. ....Trump may be ousted or even killed. His ouster, Kremlin insiders argue, is bound to unleash a virulent and bipartisan anti-Russian campaign in Washington. Oddly, therefore, Putin has become a hostage to Trump’s survival and success. This has seriously restricted Russia’s geopolitical options.

not so sure of this part

also the possibility that Trump could opportunistically switch to a tough anti-Moscow line in order to make peace with hawkish Republican leaders in Congress.

well....there is always the pee pee video to blackmail Trump.

But now it's not only

artappraiser — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 05:17:28 +0000

In reply to Trump go Green with Jill

But now it's not only 'merican spies revolting, apparently:

Now that Trump is in power, political elites in Moscow have stopped cheering, write Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes https://t.co/NriUgB1ezv
— Foreign Policy (@ForeignPolicy) February 14, 2017

Trump go Green with Jill

NCD — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 05:10:32 +0000

In reply to Here is the resignation

Trump go Green with Jill Stein? She is a lover of all things authoritarian, and one of Putin's favorite US politicians.

She is 'in like Flynn' with Vlad, and just last summer whooped it up in Moscow with Putin and Flynn.

Stein spent her time in Moscow criticizing America at every turn and saying nothing about Russia’s annexation of Crimea, their state-sponsored assassinations, their treatment of the LGBT community. She didn't even bother to advocate for environmental issues.