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#TrumpRussia Today: Wa Post withholding intel bombshell per request of USG (Original Post) L. Coyote Jun 2017 OP
Awesome list of tweets. Helps to see the story. Madam45for2923 Jun 2017 #1
BTW I am sure Wash Po will reveal sooner than later! Madam45for2923 Jun 2017 #2
republican traitors against America deserve justice Achilleaze Jun 2017 #3
Annnnd... Shell_Seas Jun 2017 #4
Look at the article in the Observer John Schindler just posted: Shell_Seas Jun 2017 #5
Seth Abramson NewJeffCT Jun 2017 #6
BUT, who will impeach him? Shell_Seas Jun 2017 #8
No one broadcaster90210 Jun 2017 #25
Get the GOP out of this country. Corvo Bianco Jun 2017 #32
Lot of Obama Blame Game there. I think that judgement is premature. L. Coyote Jun 2017 #7
I wouldn't be sticking my neck out if I was in the IC, that's for sure! ffr Jun 2017 #10
Senator Hatch is receiving regular briefings and stands ready .... L. Coyote Jun 2017 #12
seemed to be lingering where underground fiber-optic cables tend to run. underpants Jun 2017 #28
Their actions are not consistent with people who are innocent. ffr Jun 2017 #9
Exactly. Shell_Seas Jun 2017 #11
Whew. Thanks for the reminder... LakeArenal Jun 2017 #13
LOL! n/t moonscape Jun 2017 #24
Mmm.. smells like Corvo Bianco Jun 2017 #33
Delicious shoe money.... LakeArenal Jun 2017 #37
What happens when it's confirmed that votes were changed Buckeyeblue Jun 2017 #14
There were times when impeachment and resignations would be a given. Ligyron Jun 2017 #17
If it was a Democrat, the answer would have been a loud and resounding YES. calimary Jun 2017 #27
+1 byronius Jun 2017 #19
Thank you for the way in which you have assembled these tweets. Tatiana Jun 2017 #15
And he seems to be a very bad businessman, with lousy "instincts." calimary Jun 2017 #29
Lousy instincts... Corvo Bianco Jun 2017 #34
Welcome to DU, Corvo Bianco! calimary Jun 2017 #38
Quit withholding info from us! cilla4progress Jun 2017 #16
Your kind of impatience is what leads to assets (moles) being killed in Russia & elsewhere Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2017 #18
I do appreciate your calm. byronius Jun 2017 #20
It's difficult for everyone. I really do appreciate people wanting to know and get Republcan tRump Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2017 #21
I hear you, but it's a matter of balancing how much damage cilla4progress Jun 2017 #23
These are times that try people's souls. Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2017 #35
Understood. I totally get that. But it's damn EXCRUCIATING having to wait to see this all play out! calimary Jun 2017 #30
So what facet of the USG has asked WaPo to hold off? The Justice Department? The White House? Mr. Ected Jun 2017 #22
"Per request of the U S Government... ? pangaia Jun 2017 #26
Sigh Corvo Bianco Jun 2017 #36
If I had a nickel every time I forgot about a $285 million loan, boy, I'd have a ton of nickels. Yavin4 Jun 2017 #31

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
3. republican traitors against America deserve justice
Tue Jun 27, 2017, 10:31 AM
Jun 2017

especially the republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief, Comrade Casino and his republican Cabal of Colluding Cronies.

Investigate, prosecute, punish. Lock traitors up so they can do no more damage to American democracy.

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
7. Lot of Obama Blame Game there. I think that judgement is premature.
Tue Jun 27, 2017, 10:59 AM
Jun 2017

As the saying goes, "But hey, I wasn't in the room at the time." Or something about being is someone's shoes.



ffr

(22,670 posts)
10. I wouldn't be sticking my neck out if I was in the IC, that's for sure!
Tue Jun 27, 2017, 11:23 AM
Jun 2017

Do the basic minimum and don't risk your life for the U.S.A. until this coup regime is out.

ffr

(22,670 posts)
9. Their actions are not consistent with people who are innocent.
Tue Jun 27, 2017, 11:18 AM
Jun 2017

"Jared Kushner hired another power lawyer to rep him in #TrumpRussia probe—a whole legal team-but "nothing's" there?"

LakeArenal

(28,820 posts)
13. Whew. Thanks for the reminder...
Tue Jun 27, 2017, 11:38 AM
Jun 2017

I better re-file my taxes.. I forgot to report the $286 million I found in my shoe..

Buckeyeblue

(5,499 posts)
14. What happens when it's confirmed that votes were changed
Tue Jun 27, 2017, 11:48 AM
Jun 2017

Our Constitution does not have anything place to really address that. But I do think we'd see a great technology backlash. Even if we had impeachments and resignatipns, we can't truly address the wrong until 2018 and 2020.

Would public outcry force resignations?

People will really freak if it came out about how much of our personal data is in files is accessible in off-shore environments, especially in the banking industry.

Ligyron

(7,635 posts)
17. There were times when impeachment and resignations would be a given.
Tue Jun 27, 2017, 12:14 PM
Jun 2017

Not anymore, the GOP have no shame whatsoever.

calimary

(81,323 posts)
27. If it was a Democrat, the answer would have been a loud and resounding YES.
Tue Jun 27, 2017, 01:22 PM
Jun 2017

That old cliche - "the Democrats fall in love, the republi-CONS fall in line." They stick together alright. They're gonna have his back till it damn near kills them (or costs them their jobs - the same jobs that come with that wonderful free taxpayer-paid-for health care, among other nifty little perks).

Tatiana

(14,167 posts)
15. Thank you for the way in which you have assembled these tweets.
Tue Jun 27, 2017, 11:51 AM
Jun 2017

It makes it easier to read and follow.

Kushner is a crook. He will probably flip to save himself and his real estate business.

calimary

(81,323 posts)
29. And he seems to be a very bad businessman, with lousy "instincts."
Tue Jun 27, 2017, 01:38 PM
Jun 2017

That building on 666 Fifth Avenue - that's financially underwater that his family can't get rented so they can pay off the horrendous debt they incurred to buy the damn thing in the first place. I could easily be mistaken but as I understand it, acquiring that building was HIS decision. And he's risking the entire family fortune on a very bad miscalculation. So no wonder he went around fishing for money. And now he's in even deeper trouble.

I bet if anybody's gonna flip, it'd be him. Flynn too, I bet. He's used to that impressive dress uniform festooned with all his flashy military decorations, so I'm sure he doesn't fancy himself being issued one of those humiliating orange jumpsuits. From what I've heard and read, Flynn's already singing like the proverbial fat lady.

Corvo Bianco

(1,148 posts)
34. Lousy instincts...
Tue Jun 27, 2017, 02:18 PM
Jun 2017

I got that feeling when he dubbed himself the Middle East whisperer. That whole family's misguided confidence is causing a lot of problems. That they're in the Whitehouse, for instance.

calimary

(81,323 posts)
38. Welcome to DU, Corvo Bianco!
Tue Jun 27, 2017, 07:10 PM
Jun 2017

I think it's mainly because that whole family has never had to face ANY accountability. None at all. They were masters of the private sector and that was how they've always been used to operating. They had nobody looking over their shoulder, nobody asking a lot of pesky questions, nobody digging into everything they said - any and all of whom they could simply fire. Or sue. Or threaten to sue. No stockholders or boards of directors in their many privately-held companies to have to answer to or report to or explain themselves to or show any ledgers to.

The government DOES NOT operate that way.

cilla4progress

(24,737 posts)
16. Quit withholding info from us!
Tue Jun 27, 2017, 12:00 PM
Jun 2017

So paternalistic! I get why, but let the chips fall!

I wish Obama had disclosed all last year. I mean, is this outcome preferable? Sure, he was confident Hillary would win..

The pee tape is real...?

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,011 posts)
18. Your kind of impatience is what leads to assets (moles) being killed in Russia & elsewhere
Tue Jun 27, 2017, 12:28 PM
Jun 2017

Paternalistic, no way.

Demanding disclosure too soon can mean that an agent is not repatriated in a safe timely manner, or that methods of intelligence gathering are revealed.

Patience, please.

byronius

(7,395 posts)
20. I do appreciate your calm.
Tue Jun 27, 2017, 12:47 PM
Jun 2017

Difficult and important in the face of the avalanche of catastrophe staring at us.

Truly American of you.

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,011 posts)
21. It's difficult for everyone. I really do appreciate people wanting to know and get Republcan tRump
Tue Jun 27, 2017, 12:51 PM
Jun 2017

I really do appreciate people wanting to know and get Republcan tRump out of there before he does any more damage. I should have said that as well in my reply to the poster.

cilla4progress

(24,737 posts)
23. I hear you, but it's a matter of balancing how much damage
Tue Jun 27, 2017, 01:07 PM
Jun 2017

is done in the meantime.

Also, I have a bias toward transparency. Never an easy call.

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,011 posts)
35. These are times that try people's souls.
Tue Jun 27, 2017, 02:19 PM
Jun 2017

"These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated" -- Thomas Paine

pangaia

(24,324 posts)
26. "Per request of the U S Government... ?
Tue Jun 27, 2017, 01:19 PM
Jun 2017

But, WHOM, prey tell, is 'the U S Government?"

The "good guys," or "the bad guys?"

Yavin4

(35,443 posts)
31. If I had a nickel every time I forgot about a $285 million loan, boy, I'd have a ton of nickels.
Tue Jun 27, 2017, 01:52 PM
Jun 2017

Am I right?

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