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PeraclesPlease — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 19:06:47 +0000

In reply to Christie fired for Pence on

Christie fired for Pence on

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 13 Nov 2017 07:04:00 +0000

In reply to This ties Pence to Flynn as

Christie fired for Pence on Nov 11 to head transition team - they threw Christie's recommendations in the trash. By Nov 18, 1 week & same day as Cummings warning, Flynn had NSA position. Pence owns this.

Note: receipt for Cummings on Nov 28, 10 dayslater.

Note 2: Pence was Koch's boy, to insure they got their money's worth out of the Trump Administration. No dismissing him as not knowing - he was the political accounts payable guy.

Note 3: Pence's role excusing both Russia and Flynn mid-Jan also give him cwnter role. Post-inauguration, he continued his backseat posture, denying everything. But his presence at all those meetings makes him complicit.

This ties Pence to Flynn as

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 12 Nov 2017 20:50:58 +0000

In reply to Flynn Kidnapping Plot Is Like

This ties Pence to Flynn as well, since Pence was head of the transition team and Elijah Cummings informed with a certified letter on Nov 18, 2016 that Flynn was tainted. With that scandal ballooning into a $15 million international kidnapping operation, Pence is way into abetting a felony, or at least turning a very blind eye despite huge official warnings about the White House's top security guy. The meeting took place in mid-Dec 2016 at the 21 club, so basically 4 weeks or a month after the election - long enough for Pence to get over the shell-shock of winning the election. But Pence did nothing during that time except vet Flynn for the #1 security slot, and then claim in March that he knew nothing of Flynn's lobbying for Turkey and that he'd first heard about it that week, rather than 4 months earlier, despite Cummings' receipt for his registered letter.

But worse, it means if Pence had acted promptly, he would have prevented the $15 million discussion by the NSA nominee. We know Pence wasn't too busy on Nov 18 to do anything about this, as that was the night he was booed by the Hamilton cast. Perhaps they got a sniff of Pence's je-ne-give-a-fuck-pas attitude as a French heir-like pretender to some throne. That the top security guy for a newly elected administration wouldn't realize this was way inappropriate and highly illegal is remarkable in itself - that his boss, the VP & transition chief would cover for him, well that's off in VP impeachment territory as well - "misprision" is the charge that's bandied about for Pence helping Trump fire Comey, with little way of sticking. But we do know that Pence knew Flynn was acting as a foreign agent without registering, with plenty of time to do something about it - caught dead to rights. That's not likely to improve his chances of assuming the presidency, especially when the $15 mill payoff after the election (maybe continued into office) turns this into something more than just a typical day on K Street.

http://www.businessinsider.com/elijah-cummings-letter-to-mike-pence-abou...

http://nypost.com/2017/11/10/mueller-probing-alleged-flynn-plot-to-extra...

Trump was quick in his

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 12 Nov 2017 20:09:23 +0000

In reply to WaPo current headline stories

Trump was quick in his retraction to point out he only agreed with *current* intelligence offers, kinda. So the compromised guys he put in, not the career ones that came before.

WaPo current headline stories

artappraiser — Sun, 12 Nov 2017 19:43:29 +0000

In reply to Bob Mueller Seems to Be Closing in on Mike Flynn—and the Indictments Could Be Explosive

WaPo current headline stories:

Former intelligence officials say Trump is being ‘played’ by Putin

Former CIA director John Brennan said President Trump’s reaction to Vladimir Putin— who told him Russia did not interfere in the 2016 U.S. election — could inspire other world leaders to “appeal to his ego and try to play upon his insecurities.” Former director of national intelligence James Clapper Jr. agreed with Brennan’s assessment.

By John Wagner
3 hours ago

Trump criticized for saying Putin is sincere in denial of election meddling

President Trump’s comments, made after informal chats with the Russian president, drew strong reactions. Trump also referred to former top U.S. intelligence officials as “political hacks.”

By Karen DeYoung, Ashley Parker and David Nakamura

Flynn Kidnapping Plot Is Like

artappraiser — Sun, 12 Nov 2017 19:40:44 +0000

In reply to Bob Mueller Seems to Be Closing in on Mike Flynn—and the Indictments Could Be Explosive

Flynn Kidnapping Plot Is Like Teapot Dome With a Dash of Treason

By Ed Kilgore @ NYMag.com, Nov 11

[....] Flynn is now in so much trouble that he might more easily roll over on his former colleagues, giving Mueller information on them in order to save his own skin. For another, it shows Flynn as being so out of control that maybe he did something with respect to Russia that explains Trump’s panic-stricken firing of James Comey, as Christian Farias suggests.

But before we just add the Turkey story to a long list of curious things that may or may not lead to a crisis of the Trump presidency, we should reflect on Flynn’s behavior as an outrageous incident in itself [....]

While there, also see:

Cambridge Analytica Denies Working With Russia, Unconvincingly

By Jonathan Chait @ NYMag.com, Nov. 11

Court docudump on

artappraiser — Sun, 12 Nov 2017 09:00:56 +0000

In reply to Bob Mueller Seems to Be Closing in on Mike Flynn—and the Indictments Could Be Explosive

Court docudump on Papadopoulos, New York Times put 4 reporters on it

How a Trump Adviser Met With Kremlin Contacts; A London Meeting of an Unlikely Group: How a Trump Adviser Came to Learn of Clinton ‘Dirt’

By SHARON LaFRANIERE, DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, ANDREW HIGGINS and MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ, Nov. 10

Interviews and records reveal new details about contacts between George Papadopoulos, a 28-year-old foreign policy adviser to Mr. Trump’s campaign, and self-described Kremlin intermediaries.

I just noticed it on the home page not that far from the top, haven't read it all yet. Don't get the Nov. 10 date, maybe they didn't promote it til now.

Mifsud gone missing - another

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 12 Nov 2017 08:02:08 +0000

In reply to Bob Mueller Seems to Be Closing in on Mike Flynn—and the Indictments Could Be Explosive

Mifsud gone missing - another Putin coincidence?

Yes, that's NBC's focus, but

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 11 Nov 2017 05:59:22 +0000

In reply to Yes, would be. But for some

Yes, that's NBC's focus, but the Russian spider web in Congress and the number of Republicans getting Russian money has been hinted at fir months, and seems could produce an unexpected bonanza, whereas we all pretty well assume Trump will be gone in 6-12 months along with 6-12 more henchmen/women.

Yes, would be. But for some

artappraiser — Sat, 11 Nov 2017 02:15:33 +0000

In reply to Rohrabacher indictment more

Yes, would be. But for some reason--I guess the way the stuff I read was worded--I have this intuition that Rhorabacker is being pursued as a possible link implicating someone else, someone in the admin.