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2017-01-13 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Deacon Blues 2017-01-13 08:06|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 Kinda hard to seriously investigate stuff that makes you want to burst out laughing.

I mean if that report had been printed in the Onion, it would have been really funny stuff...wait a minute you don't suppose this was SUPPOSED to be in the onion and some how the brief cases got switched with Steele???

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2017-01-13 11:53|| 2017-01-13 11:53|| Front Page Top

#2 If so, Jeb! is politically done, with a capital 1.

Posted by Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2017-01-13 12:38|| 2017-01-13 12:38|| Front Page Top

#3 The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) reported that Steele was initially hired by Jeb Bush, one of Trump's 16 opponents in the 2016 Republican primary. It was not immediately possible to verify the BBC's report.

Fails to pass the 'so what test.'

Clearly passes the 'BBC mouthpiece for the Ministry of Defense (MOD), MI6, and squirrel deflection test.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-01-13 12:50|| 2017-01-13 12:50|| Front Page Top

#4 Jeb is a member of the unified beltway party of which DJT is not a member. Any outsider is considered a threat to be dealt with. The bigger the threat the bigger the reaction.

Ted Cruz was only a minor threat since he was seen as still working on gaining true beltway status. DJT is a real outworld threat.

Posted by AlanC 2017-01-13 12:55|| 2017-01-13 12:55|| Front Page Top

#5 It was not immediately possible to verify the BBC's report.

Isn't there a new name for such reporting. Starts with an 'F'... two words... right there on the tip of my tongue. Someone pls hlp me.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-01-13 12:59|| 2017-01-13 12:59|| Front Page Top

#6 Fubbed duck?

Posted by gorb 2017-01-13 14:09|| 2017-01-13 14:09|| Front Page Top

#7 "Please clap"

Posted by Frank G 2017-01-13 14:30|| 2017-01-13 14:30|| Front Page Top

#8 I STILL say this would have been funny if it was in the Onion.

Imagine a story in National Lampoon about Trump tracking down Michelle Obumble's bed in a Moscow hotel and having two skanky prostitutes pee on it...I mean that would be funny.

In an intelligence report from an agency with a budget larger than many countries, it is NOT funny, it is sad, pathetic, and above all FRIGHTENING.

Do those clowns at Langley EVER do any serious work or do they sit around and wait from some blog to post something really silly? Or do they read all of those check out line expose papers for new intel?

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2017-01-13 17:20|| 2017-01-13 17:20|| Front Page Top

#9 One thing these "intelligence" reports do is to undermine the basic plot lines of every Tom Clancy novel.

Posted by AlanC 2017-01-13 17:32|| 2017-01-13 17:32|| Front Page Top

#10 Using the good old A to F 1 to 6 rating system of intelligence sources, anyone with two brain cells to rub together would have classified this entire thing as a F-6 and it should never have seen the light of day.

I would propose that Trump is going to go through the CIA after this one like Sherman went through Atlanta.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2017-01-13 21:58|| 2017-01-13 21:58|| Front Page Top

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