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06-07-2017 , 11:46 AM

#39201

ligastar

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these clowns are getting hammered by the Senator from Maine.

06-07-2017 , 11:46 AM

#39202

ScreaminAsian

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i wish cnn stood for classified news network so i could get some goddamn answers

06-07-2017 , 11:46 AM

#39203

Namath12

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"never felt pressured"

RWNs already picking up on this, no obstruction there!

06-07-2017 , 11:47 AM

#39204

TiltedDonkey

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Quote:

Originally Posted by poconoder

Вы знаете, что вы являетесь одним из видных односторонних туннелей, когда вы даже не можете видеть, что обе стороны участвуют в демонической земле выжженной земли с другой стороны.

Поговорите с людьми посередине, теми, кто видит и понимает излишества с обеих сторон, вы знаете, все эти качающиеся избиратели там, они более восприимчивы, чем вы думаете.

You know that you are one of the prominent one-way tunnels, when you can not even see that both sides are participating in the demonic land of scorched earth on the other side.

Talk to the people in the middle, those who see and understand the excesses on both sides, you know, all these voters are swinging there, they are more receptive than you think.

06-07-2017 , 11:49 AM

#39205

Namath12

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Alright I've wasted enough time on this garbage, these clowns want to remain employed and that's it. Time to do productive stuff.

06-07-2017 , 11:49 AM

#39206

theballer84

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Who was that just asking if they would answer the questions during the closed session?!!?
WOW that was some heat

06-07-2017 , 11:49 AM

#39207

Chippa58

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It's a fair point. Why is it appropriate for them to say they've never felt pressured, but not appropriate to answer whether they've ever been asked?

06-07-2017 , 11:50 AM

#39208

Sighsalot

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Chippa58

Senator King taking McCabe to task.

how so?

06-07-2017 , 11:50 AM

#39209

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Originally Posted by Chippa58

And the reason for these public hearings is what? If nobody feels like they can speak about anything important in an open hearing, then don't bother boring us with insignificant crap. You can do that behind closed doors too.

It's a public hearing about the reauthorization of a law that sunsets. Most hearings in Congress are public, for obvious reason. It's not a hearing into the Russia investigation or Trump's efforts to obstruct, but some of the answers have been telling. A lot of legally baseless confidentiality assertions, but Congress cannot really make them testify if they refuse (at least without a vote compelling the testimony).

06-07-2017 , 11:51 AM

#39210

ScreaminAsian

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Quote:

Originally Posted by theballer84

Who was that just asking if they would answer the questions during the closed session?!!?
WOW that was some heat

Angus King (I-ME)

06-07-2017 , 11:51 AM

#39211

theballer84

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Quote:

Originally Posted by ScreaminAsian

Angus King (I-ME)

06-07-2017 , 11:54 AM

#39212

Loki

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re: Trump's twitter account being a public forum

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...l-as-they-say/

Quote:

[the Knight First Amendment Institute] sent a letter to the president on Tuesday requesting that he unblock two particular users: O’Reilly and Papp. It was signed by the Knight Institute’s founding director Jameel Jaffer and senior Knight Institute attorneys Katie Fallow and Alex Abdo.

The Knight Institute claimed that a space doesn’t have to be physical to constituent a forum — instead it could be “metaphysical.” As its letter said:

Your account constitutes a designated public forum. It is a forum for expression in which you share information and opinions relating to government policy with the public at large and in which members of the public can engage you, engage one another, and sometimes elicit responses from you. Your Twitter account is a designated public forum for essentially the same reasons that open city council meetings and school board meetings are.

That’s key, because if that’s the case and the government has created a public forum, “it may not constitutionally exclude individuals on the basis of viewpoint.”

06-07-2017 , 11:54 AM

#39213

Chippa58

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Sighsalot

how so?

He went after all of them..about their unwillingness to share key information about Trump and his purported attempts at obstruction of justice.

06-07-2017 , 11:54 AM

#39214

Sighsalot

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Quote:

Originally Posted by +rep_lol

she said "thank you"

she phrased the question one way and it didn't really make any sense, so he asked her to clarify/re-phrase. basically it seemed like she was trying to paint the picture that the IC is biased against trump (?) because it cooperated with obama's intel request in january about russian electin meddling but later refused trump's request for intel about russian collusion. i mean clearly they're not going to provide trump with certain classified intel related to collusion between his campaign and russians because it compromises their investigation. hilariously, i think she legit didn't know/realize that.

edit: by rogers responding the way he did, he basically confirmed that trump and/or his senior admin members asked the NSA to do something they considered "illegal, immoral, or unethical" when they made a request for intel wrt russian collusion

tyty appreciate it. amazing stupidity

06-07-2017 , 11:56 AM

#39215

ligastar

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Sighsalot

how so?

hard to summarize in a post. look for the YT vid in about an hour or so.

06-07-2017 , 11:57 AM

#39216

Chippa58

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Originally Posted by simplicitus

I get that. Just frustrating because it seems that these guys should realize they work for us, and it would be okay to tell us a few things.

06-07-2017 , 11:58 AM

#39217

Trolly McTrollson

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Legal question: is it witness harassment for Trump to run ads attacking Comey?

06-07-2017 , 12:05 PM

#39218

MrWookie

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson

Legal question: is it witness harassment for Trump to run ads attacking Comey?

I think the answer is "only if Congress says so"

06-07-2017 , 12:12 PM

#39219

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson

Legal question: is it witness harassment for Trump to run ads attacking Comey?

Probably only if they're false or inflammatory. Which they are, of course.

06-07-2017 , 12:21 PM

#39220

ligastar

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson

Legal question: is it witness harassment for Trump to run ads attacking Comey?

is the orange menace running the ads?

06-07-2017 , 12:21 PM

#39221

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https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/...27222392504320

Hard to trust anything he says anymore. I wonder if Trumpcare will have "victims" the way Obamacare does.