It's starting to read like the Neocons in 2001/2002 (Ledeen, Wolfowitz, Perle....)

and before that Nixon working with the North Vietnamese to sabotage Johnson's peace initiative

How soon we forget? Ronnie Raygun's dementia or the malicious efforts of a sociopath with the power of the presidency? Wake up Republicans, we are on the eve of destruction.

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We have a responsibility to remind.

Those who were there and watched it play out on the news in real time, BACK WHEN IT WAS HAPPENING, need to remind.

The long view, the historical view, is so valuable and instructive here. LOTS of cautionary tales. As I get older, myself, I see the value and the sharp-edged truths of that saying "those who ignore/don't know their history are doomed to repeat it." Except that, each time we have a cycle like this, those repeats grow increasingly worse.

I keep going back to Mad-Eye Moody from the "Harry Potter" books - he kept admonishing Harry Potter two things:

1) "CONSTANT VIGILANCE!!!"

and

2) "YOU'VE GOT TO KNOW!!!!!"

Danger Will Robinson...

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During the campaign trump asked russia to release clintons emails. I do not understand why that is not being talked about. Isn't
that treason?

Not sure that is treason.

ha ha but he was not

He didn't laugh when he said it. It was a highly inappropriate thing to say.

No person on the national political stage should ask a hostile foreign country to interfere in our politics.

Saying something was "a joke" does not negate what was said. It's a classic narcissistic ploy - say something threatening then say "I was only joking."

Either hacking her computer before they were deleted or she had a backup copy from that time period still on her computer like her associate had on her computer that FBI Director Comey went through. Comey did say they found email not previously discovered and revealed one such example was where the two women discussed what they were going to wear to an event that evening.

I took Trump's comment about Hillary's missing emails as an implication that Trump thinks Putin was in touch with Julian Lesange or Edward Snowden. Later on, it sure seems that way but at the time he said it, nobody made the connection.

But I don't see a direct link between Snowden and WikiLeaks. I do think that what Snowden leaked could well have made the task easier for the people handing this data over to WikiLeaks for release.

the shade of Ronald Reagan rises from the crypt to curse the republican cabal of corrupt cronies who sold out America in flatout defiance of his warning about systemic evil and about a clear and present danger to the USA.

Still don't get why they idolize him so much. He was horrible on so many levels.

colluding with a foreign adversary against the US. they will do anything to insure that will not happen. perhaps that will be how they will get nailed.

I think it may well backfire on him.

If the dossier is proven, that's what it will show

We knew enough WELL BEFORE the election that this was the case, and never in our history would a presidential candidate have been able to even remotely be close to winning election than this, dark, period in our history. Only because he was a republican.

AND, if this were a democrat, what we KNOW now (and again, prior to the election) republicans WOULD have him or her up for treason.

Like this ...

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article135243694.html

democratic president will have one HELL of a mess to clean up, after just a few weeks of this republican clown.

People just have no clue ...

You realize that if Trump is gone there are several other republicans who are in line to take over before the first Democrat? Will be 4 years no matter what.

is warranted?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeer_Influenced_and_Corrupt_Organizations_Act

...."Under RICO, a person who has committed "at least two acts of racketeering activity" drawn from a list of 35 crimes—27 federal crimes and 8 state crimes—within a 10-year period can be charged with racketeering if such acts are related in one of four specified ways to an "enterprise".[citation needed] Those found guilty of racketeering can be fined up to $25,000 and sentenced to 20 years in prison per racketeering count.[citation needed] In addition, the racketeer must forfeit all ill-gotten gains and interest in any business gained through a pattern of "racketeering activity."[citation needed]

When the U.S. Attorney decides to indict someone under RICO, he or she has the option of seeking a pre-trial restraining order or injunction to temporarily seize a defendant's assets and prevent the transfer of potentially forfeitable property, as well as require the defendant to put up a performance bond. This provision was placed in the law because the owners of Mafia-related shell corporations often absconded with the assets. An injunction and/or performance bond ensures that there is something to seize in the event of a guilty verdict.

In many cases, the threat of a RICO indictment can force defendants to plead guilty to lesser charges, in part because the seizure of assets would make it difficult to pay a defense attorney. Despite its harsh provisions, a RICO-related charge is considered easy to prove in court, as it focuses on patterns of behavior as opposed to criminal acts.[2]

RICO also permits a private individual "damaged in his business or property" by a "racketeer" to file a civil suit. The plaintiff must prove the existence of an "enterprise". The defendant(s) are not the enterprise; in other words, the defendant(s) and the enterprise are not one and the same.[3] There must be one of four specified relationships between the defendant(s) and the enterprise: either the defendant(s) invested the proceeds of the pattern of racketeering activity into the enterprise (18 U.S.C. § 1962(a)); or the defendant(s) acquired or maintained an interest in, or control of, the enterprise through the pattern of racketeering activity (subsection (b)); or the defendant(s) conducted or participated in the affairs of the enterprise "through" the pattern of racketeering activity (subsection (c)); or the defendant(s) conspired to do one of the above (subsection (d)).[4] In essence, the enterprise is either the 'prize,' 'instrument,' 'victim,' or 'perpetrator' of the racketeers.[5] A civil RICO action can be filed in state or federal court.[6]

Both the criminal and civil components allow the recovery of treble damages (damages in triple the amount of actual/compensatory damages).

Although its primary intent was to deal with organized crime, Blakey said that Congress never intended it to merely apply to the Mob. He once told Time, "We don't want one set of rules for people whose collars are blue or whose names end in vowels, and another set for those whose collars are white and have Ivy League diplomas."[2]

Initially, prosecutors were skeptical of using RICO, mainly because it was unproven. However, during the 1980s and 1990s, federal prosecutors used the law to bring charges against several Mafia figures. The first major success was the Mafia Commission Trial, which resulted in several top leaders of New York City's Five Families getting what amounted to life sentences. By the turn of the century, RICO cases resulted in virtually all of the top leaders of the New York Mafia being sent to prison.".....

The words she said in that report last night seemed to be causing her pain.

I feel the same way. The idea that my dad spent two years as a prisoner of war, only for Assface to come along seventy years later, and sell us out to Russia, causes me tremendous pain.

I am so SICK of their lying faces I could

So sorry that your Father had to endure being a prisoner of war.....

Jesus, they didn't just tap our emails, they bamboozled the whole Republican Party along the way.
They fought us with our own stupid!! And they fucking won.

Republican hatred of Obama ultimately led to treason. Let that sink in.

It makes me so angry I want to scream. Trump is dirty and the repugs are in on it. If the repukes weren't complicit they would move to install Pence or Ryan as POTUS.

Rec

It distracts and discredits what is really important: collusion with the enemy.

trickle-down economics.

pg 7 & 8

“The operation had been conducted with the full knowledge of Trump and senior members of his campaign team.”

I believe that includes Pence.

I wish it included Ryan and McConnell, but more likely it didn't.

as anyone with a brain does, and they sure as hell should have spoke out about it ...

But, they were not in the circle.

That's criminal activity after the fact, right?
Charge them and put them under oath. Ryan can be removed from office and given immunity (maybe);McConnell is in this up to his filthy turtle eyballs, and I want his worthless hateful racist ass in a Federal prison cell.

look upon it as partisan politics ........... so they did know

and give support from the left to take away the 1-3% of the Hillary vote.

It seems far-fetched, like a novel, when we think about it but I don't believe in that many coincidences happening all at once like that.

Stein has very clear connections to the Russians and RT. It's not that far fetched to imagine she was a part of this as well.

I had dropped her as a source way back...and lately with her cozy, gushing about van susteran and other snakes of the right joining MSNBC I was worried she was going wishy-washy again, YET, she is enlightening me with this investigation.

Everything else is a distraction. Impeach, remove, ASAP. How do we get this done? Winds are against us.

Meet regularly unless it was to cooperate and collude on a campaign to throw the election Trump's way. Trump was personally meeting with the Russians as far back as April 2016, perhaps earlier. So far Trump and 5 of his associates have been identified as having met with Russian officials. Trump had the RNC platform on Ukraine sharply modified in Cleveland.

By all means, keep digging. But how much information is enough to prove collusion? Plus, I really don't care about proving perverted sex with prostitutes.

Without an independent investigation we're doomed.

It's doubtful were going to get "an independent investigation"

(From yesterday)
"Grilled on Russia probe, deputy attorney general pick sidesteps Democrats calls for special prosecutor"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141722886

to look into this for clearly partisan reasons. It is therefore up to all of us, but particularly the free press in this country to keep digging. We need to support them more than ever, she pleaded.

One of T-rump's first executive orders was to rescind the rule against oil companies bribing foreign government officials.

The entire administration is a tool for the extraction/pollution lobby. "Liberty" to them means the freedom to not have to clean up after themselves. Like petulant teenagers.

This is a last ditch coup by Big Oil, before their stocks begin to crash, as nation after nation phases in renewables, because they are cheaper, more reliable, and more sustainable in the long run. Science --it's a bitch!

This is all about power. The real kind. Politics is just its front face.

I'd say formed the bulwark of Rachel's seminal show of a week ago Monday

https://www.dcreport.org/wilbur-ross-russian-connections/

His lie about being "tapp" ed is enough to have him removed.

A raving nutjob running amok.

And they approve with their silence.

More incompetent than Hoover, more apathetic than Buchanan, and (for the record) uglier than Millard Filmore

having been caught in what was to him the "normal course of business." But this isn't business. This is GOVERNMENT. People are watching. Laws apply. Foreign countries are involved. Democracy is involved.

Yes, Trump, you should be afraid. Be very afraid.

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We can only hope that there will be an independent investigation, otherwise, this is all just another example of Drumpf getting away with criminal acts, like he's done all his life.

It's like the Watergate & Iran-Contra scandals, except this time the Republicans control both houses of Congress, so a truly "independent" investigation is only a possibility, not a certainty.

Then what?

Will we watch the Republicans refuse to act on this information? Will we be forced to stew in our own miserable juices because justice is dead in GOP USA?

Trump 90% approval amongst GOPers.
https://poll.qu.edu/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=2436

They all get their news from the Fox News/Breitbart/Conservative radio axis.
"Study: Breitbart-led right-wing media ecosystem altered broader media agenda"
http://www.cjr.org/analysis/breitbart-media-trump-harvard-study.php


And the GOP congresspeople only care about their base.


If you want to change Trump, you have to change that 90% approval rating. And the only way to do that is beat back Fox N.

How to do that? I think patriotic americans should be buttonholing people around them. And thinking of ways to counter Fox.

On Facebook a friend asked why the GOP lawmakers are all so solidly behind Trump, even when it is proven that he is lying. I cited Trump's 86% GOP approval (in the poll I was using) and concluded "you don't bite that hand". I already boycott Fox News. I guess I need to expand that to Fox Sports.

Something I am now wondering is if Trump had a hand in this latest release by WikiLeaks on CIA methods. He once touted his own intelligence over the CIA, pointing out how badly they missed it on WMD in Iraq under Saddam, so why wouldn't he want to destroy them. Can't rule out this being an inside job considering Trump's being quiet so far. The body language just isn't right.