She's got amazing sources. Not 100% but amazing most of the time. And she knows how to put things together so they add up.

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Resign implies he has left Congress or soon will. That is not the case as he will still be there until January 2019.

he'll resign to "spend more time with his family."

see https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141757155

when I heard the news.

I try to keep up, but I'm not doing a very good job because I still don't understand what she meant about his "turning". I have an idea, or two, but am not sure.

If you know, or suspect, would you please explain, or direct me with a link.

On another thought, I imagine Jason's been depressed over not being able to pursue his "several years" worth of evidence against a President Hillary Clinton.

You know, all that hard work of preparation down the drain. Sorta ruined his life's course in his dogged pursuit of "justice". Poor guy. Of course, just like Issa, partisan politics, and power had nothing to do with any of this.

- Since she uses the term "kompromat", this might refer to Russia blackmailing him to act in the interests of Russia (Russia turned him)
- Or maybe she's using "kompromat" in a broader sense and the FBI has something on him, so now he's helping with the investigation against Trump (the FBI turned him)?

Which one is it?

I sure would like to know. May be even both: the Russians, then the FBI caught wind of it.


I bet there will be plenty of Republicans who will rue the day they put their marbles in Trump's basket. Nunes, Jason, McConnell, Ryan, etc.

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No clue why I randomly got blocked, but I can't see her twitter anymore.

I did the same thing because I didn't know. If you know someone that she knows that can request to have you unblocked.

which unfortunately also keeps out many non-trolls.

in fact she's the first search result for Louise right now

google her name and click on the link on a device that isn't connected to Twitter.

Chaffetz's home town Rag only post that he is not seeking reelection. Same lousy bit of reporting when Chaffetz agreed to a Court settlement in his use of Campaign Funds for personal use.

But,what does one expect when your Newspaper of Record in Utah is run by the kiss asses of the GOP.

He'll be revealed as a traitor to our nation and complicit with a bunch of other GOP slime in their collusion with Russia to compromise our election.

could follow his friend...town halls. Anyone that obsessed, filled with bile, and so angry he can hardly speak at times, about going after Hillary, with all those multiple investigations has to be trying to obscure something.

Maybe they can be bffs in a cell.

I had just posted yesterday that his Dem challenger was outpacing him in the donations. So this came out of the blue. Makes me wonder what's coming out in the next few weeks.

I think it's a diversion...a way he can wink wink no it's not about corruption or anything...

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Louise Mensch has been right quite frequently. I enjoy reading her Twitter page.

and I do not understand her messages. I do not have twitter and do not know acronyms to do her suggestion "@FBI" . What did she say?

It was also his biggest campaign donor. They were China based originally, others say Russia. The front says they were based in Provo, some digging proves otherwise. Nu skin purchased the rights to a product called ethocyn a few years back that was first developed in Russia

The DeVos family, the major GOP donors -- including Betsy, now Education Secretary.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10028951582

How does she know these things?

Thank you, pnwmom!

"what's that about?" dots that millions are looking at to others, some we can see, some we can't, and reports the picture as knowledge, or sometimes like now just as insinuations. She's working as a journalist for a minor Murdoch publication, so she's presumably closer to events than most, but her main technique to me seems to be just the classic timing hokum: posting vague insinuations of knowledge out ahead of developing events.

If Mensch has real answers, why are her revelations never followed 2-4 days later by the usual pieces by other investigative journalists? Why aren't they corroborating and build on her revelations through their own information sources? That's the usual timing. And note that no one quotes her.

As for Chaffetz, who hasn't been waiting to find out what we don't know yet about his hidden activities? He's an extremely ambitious and ruthless sleaze who keeps screwing up, his biggest almost certainly by eagerly entangling himself with the Russiagate crowd. And now he's suddenly abandoning his national aspirations. At this point we're all Menschs, minus the claims.

Btw, the right never seems to run out of these crooked, defective "stars" who soar and then self destruct. How is it their voters never get tired of it?

and very well connected people investigating the same things quote her? Again, all she would have to do would be to drop a new name, fact, document and they'd be on it like a swarm of ants tearing apart a scrap of melon, bringing a wealth of contacts that dwarf hers to developing the story.

But nothing.

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I'll accept that she's working hard at passing along the info of the day. But notice, they do not claim she provides NEW information, which is what people on this thread have been assuming and what she pretends to.

Like I said...what did I say? That thing about using timing to seem to have special information?

This VF list is also ignoring her nutty side, temporarily. She's not called a conspiracy pusher by those who reject her as a colleague for nothing.

Soak in her offerings at your own peril, never forgetting what happened to the right.

I've seen Keith Olbermann quote her and my favorite Wonkette speaks of her with a "grain of salt." She was a panelist on Bill Maher's show recently, too.

novels she has used mench , the others are under Louise Bagshawe. Since Vanity Fair has been mentioned ......

" Mensch had a scoop—or did she? To my mind, we still do not really know. She reported that she had “two separate sources with links to the counter-intelligence community,” and that these sources gave her the story because of her fearless condemnation of Edward Snowden, the N.S.A. contractor, who revealed the massive and unregulated surveillance programs by British and American governments, which of course was mostly broken by The Guardian.

But “links with counter-intelligence community” is not the same as the counter-intelligence community itself. Are we talking intermediaries here? What do “links” mean in this context, anyway? You could conceivably describe me as a link to the counter-intelligence community since I have known quite a few intelligence officers over the years. But this does not make me an authority, or provide any guarantee that I know what I’m talking about, or telling the truth. A link, as I understand it, is a go-between, a channel—and not necessarily someone who has firsthand experience to recount. "

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/03/louise-mensch-donald-trump-politics

the Guardian, McClatchy, and very other American media source when she reported the correct details on the Alfa bank FISA warrant in November.