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2018-01-15 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-01-15 13:29|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 We discussed Steele going into hiding, like Comey's friend did when they were named. Similar turds in the same deep bowl.

Posted by Woodrow 2018-01-15 14:12|| 2018-01-15 14:12|| Front Page Top

#2 Blackmail and Blackout That being the case, why doesn’t President Trump just expose it? Why doesn’t he tell the intelligence agencies to declassify the relevant data? If the Justice Department and FBI abused their intelligence-collection authority by seeking a FISA-court warrant based on unverified information, if they in any way gulled a federal judge into believing that Steele’s rumor-mongering was refined U.S. intelligence reporting, why not disclose that misconduct and put the collusion chatter to rest?
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Possible scenario. I say again possible:

On Thursday November 17th, 2016, NSA Director Mike Rogers traveled to New York and met with President-Elect Donald Trump. It is suspected the conversation had to do with illegal monitoring. The next day Trump's campaign team moved out of Trump Towers and took up residence elsewhere.

As news of the meeting became public, calls for Admiral Rogers firing were reportedly bouncing all over D.C. Soetoro wisely took no action.

If Admiral Rogers refused to participate in a community monitoring and collection effort, perhaps the "community" outsourced the signals collection effort to Christopher Steele's old employer.

This might explain the reluctance of President Trump to push the issue. The long-standing conflict btwn CIA and NSA is well document and the coincidences of events are simply too coincidental to be coincidences. Add to that the proximity of the British consulate to Trump Towers. Just a tinfoil hat thought.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-01-15 14:25|| 2018-01-15 14:25|| Front Page Top

#3 Oh by the way. Siting a "bad deal" President Trump took a pass on the new US Embassy ribbon cutting ceremony in London.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-01-15 15:02|| 2018-01-15 15:02|| Front Page Top

#4 why not disclose that misconduct and put the collusion chatter to rest?

Because it would do no such thing. At this point "collusion" is a dog whistle increasingly heard only be the far left, a crowd in which one will find no current or prospective GOP voters or Trump supporters.

A more interesting question is, "If Trump could make the collusion narrative go away tomorrow would he want to do so?" I doubt he would. My wager is that he's going to keep the narrative alive until the actions of the Obama-Clinton crime syndicate (e.g., Uranium One and the like) are too glaring to ignore then flip the script on them. That's a much stronger play if he simply allows Mueller and his fellow travelers to continue embarrassing themselves until it's time to put the real criminals under the microscope. Tough to argue against pursuing actual demonstrated collusion when we've wasted so much time & effort chasing shadows already.

Posted by Fleaque Choque3910 2018-01-15 19:23|| 2018-01-15 19:23|| Front Page Top

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