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yez, thank you...and is it

artappraiser — Fri, 26 May 2017 22:56:48 +0000

In reply to Just a little something else

yez, thank you...and is it just me....seems like CNN does a much better job with the story as a whole, making clear what went on. Washington Post sort of beats around the bush with a lot of fancy writin'.

Just a little something else

barefooted — Fri, 26 May 2017 18:08:02 +0000

In reply to Bad intel from Russia

Just a little something else to add to an overall fun read ... why worry about ubiquitous "fake news" when it's so much more effective to use what you know are lies to your advantage?

The Washington Post reported Wednesday that this Russian intelligence was unreliable. US officials now tell CNN that Comey and FBI officials actually knew early on that this intelligence was indeed false.

A Guardian piece has rounded

artappraiser — Fri, 26 May 2017 01:59:54 +0000

In reply to Here you go, they leaked just

A Guardian piece has rounded up all previous stories & leaks that may be related to the Kushner investigation:

Jared Kushner says he will cooperate in Trump-Russia inquiry after reports he is under scrutiny

Investigators were focused on meetings Kushner held with Russian officials last year as part of inquiry into Russian interference in 2016 election, sources said

As long as I am here, I'd like to recommend this piece on the topic of "why the hell isn't someone doing something?" why more patience might be warranted:

What Donald Trump Needs to Know About Bob Mueller and Jim Comey

The two men who could bring down the president have been preparing their entire lives for this moment.

By Garrett M. Graff @ Politico Magazine, May 18, 2017

Here you go, they leaked just

artappraiser — Fri, 26 May 2017 00:16:18 +0000

In reply to I remember a Croatian friend

Here you go, they leaked just for you, to keep you from getting more upset:

Jared Kushner Under Scrutiny in Russia Probe, Say Officials

by Ken Dilanian, Peter Alexander and Courtney Kube @ NYC News, May 25, 6:36pm

Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law and one of his senior advisers, has come under FBI scrutiny in the Russia investigation, multiple U.S. officials told NBC News [....]

Hey, it's complicated! As you

artappraiser — Fri, 26 May 2017 00:13:51 +0000

In reply to I remember a Croatian friend

Hey, it's complicated! As you well know! And the wheels of civil servants may be a little slower than those who work for profit....

I remember a Croatian friend

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 25 May 2017 19:00:00 +0000

In reply to Top Russian Officials

I remember a Croatian friend telling me how a guy came up to him on a bench & said, "you know those shady looking guys that were sitting next to you". "Yeah". "They took your bag about 5 minutes ago." "Oh, that's nice - perhaps you could have waited another half an hour before telling me to be really sure they got away".

The lack of urgency in all this is really galling. You'd think it was a 3-year Millennium project rather than "All About Last Summer".

Top Russian Officials

artappraiser — Thu, 25 May 2017 17:24:58 +0000

In reply to Senate Intel leaders: Door open to holding Flynn in contempt after invoking Fifth Amendment

Top Russian Officials Discussed How to Influence Trump Aides Last Summer

By Matthew Rosenberg, Adam Goldman & Matt Apuzzo @ NYTimes.com, May 24

WASHINGTON — American spies collected information last summer revealing that senior Russian intelligence and political officials were discussing how to exert influence over Donald J. Trump through his advisers, according to three current and former American officials familiar with the intelligence.

The conversations focused on Paul Manafort, the Trump campaign chairman at the time, and Michael T. Flynn, a retired general who was advising Mr. Trump, the officials said. Both men had indirect ties to Russian officials, who appeared confident that each could be used to help shape Mr. Trump’s opinions on Russia.

Some Russians boasted about how well they knew Mr. Flynn. Others discussed leveraging their ties to Viktor F. Yanukovych, the deposed president of Ukraine living in exile in Russia, who at one time had worked closely with Mr. Manafort.

The intelligence was among the clues — which also included information about direct communications between Mr. Trump’s advisers and Russian officials — that American officials received last year as they began investigating Russian attempts to disrupt the election and whether any of Mr. Trump’s associates were assisting Moscow in the effort. Details of the conversations, some of which have not been previously reported, add to an increasing understanding of the alarm inside the American government last year about the Russian disruption campaign [.....]

Well, I'm speechless finally.

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 25 May 2017 07:46:18 +0000

In reply to Bad intel from Russia

Well, I'm speechless finally. Someone else take over.

On the other hand, the only

artappraiser — Thu, 25 May 2017 04:09:52 +0000

In reply to The flood of info is

On the other hand, the only benefit to catching things in real time is our addiction to the "developing" thing?

Bad intel from Russia

artappraiser — Thu, 25 May 2017 04:07:11 +0000

In reply to Senate Intel leaders: Door open to holding Flynn in contempt after invoking Fifth Amendment

Bad intel from Russia influenced Comey's Clinton announcement: report

By Katie Bo Williams @ TheHill.com, 05/24/17 04:03 PM EDT

Former FBI Director James Comey’s controversial decision to detail the FBI’s findings in the Hillary Clinton email case without Justice Department input was influenced by a dubious Russian document that the FBI now considers to be bad intelligence, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.

The secret document, which purported to be a piece of Russian intelligence, claimed that former Attorney General Loretta Lynch had privately assured someone in the Clinton campaign that the investigation into Clinton’s handling of classified information would go nowhere.

But according to people familiar with the matter, by August the FBI had come to believe the document was unreliable — and in fact may have been planted as a fake to confuse the FBI.

Comey made his announcement in July [....]