http://abovethelaw.com/2017/03/jeff-...awyer-mistake/

People like to credit Adam Carolla with the "Stupid or lying?" meme but clearly that was invented by Scorcese or perhaps Nicholas Pileggi

This is a good post. Even if you give him EVERY benefit of the doubt...what was the purpose of the meeting? If he's meeting with them in his capacity as a member of that committee...okay fine, why were the other members not briefed? If the purpose was on-the-up-and-up-official-business, then what business was discussed and why/to what ends?

Trump administration's statement that Sessions should not recuse himself is probably a sign that Sessions in fact is going to recuse himself.

Then Trump can emphasize what a straight shooter Sessions and how Sessions bends over backwards to avoid even the appearance of impropriety.

Sessions holding a press conference in 10 minutes.

stream for Sessions presser https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB8f8KVzy8s

Yeah. Well maybe no one else on the committee had to talk to Russia because Jeff already took care of it on his own. So not only is it not a bad thing, he should be getting props for doing his JOB.

Ever think of that???

Recuse yourself

lol at people thinking Sessions is going to resign at this presser

I'm moving from "somewhat positive" on GG to "neutral" with a bit of a stink eye.

Did Trump really say he didn't know about Sessions talking to the Russians?

That's what they said right before firing Flynn.

You're thinking live suicide?

No chance of that.

What all these tweets have in common, as with most things Greenwald does, is that he was echoing the same sentiments during the Bush and Obama administrations, something zero of his detractors could claim. The difference is that we all loved it when he pointed out the hypocrisy of Republicans during the Bush era (he wrote an entire book about it), enjoyed it less so when he did it to Democrats as the party in power, and really didn't enjoy it when he didn't take the popular path of going easier on Clinton because of who her opponent was.

I happen to think he goes overboard on that angle as well, but again, this is consistency he's displayed since Bush-era officials used the same tactic to sell the Iraq War and to try to justify terrible things they did like torture by sending anonymous officials to sell giant classified stories of all the great intel it got us.

I think the problem people have with Greenwald is that they look at him with the same partisan angle they look at all pundits with. A Republican right now saying "look at Claire McCaskill" is obviously doing it to distract from Sessions and try to normalize it. When Greenwald says "look at Claire McCaskill" he's categorically not excusing Sessions' behavior, it's because he genuinely detests lying from politicians and it genuinely angers him that people are only bothered about one kind of lying right now, even if that lying (because it was under oath) is objectively worse (which he acknowledges by calling for Sessions to recuse himself at a minimum).

Don't think it is conspiracy theory. Snowden applied for asylum with Russia while he was in HK. They approved it but added conditions. Snowden didn't like those conditions so he turned it down. A few hours later he had his passport revoked and was essentially trapped in Russia. Let me ask you this simple question.

Do you think that Putin gave him asylum without conditions after offering asylum with conditions? Any shred of common sense would tell you what exactly went down.

This would be like me saying "yea ill sell you this car for 10k". Then when your car breaks down the next week. Me saying "nah I'll give you this car since your car just broke down".

Do you really think a former US intelligence employee is living in Russia and is not giving up intel? This is not how the world works.

Sessions news conference on c-span: https://www.c-span.org/video/?424859...onference&live

And mumble mumble Greenwald mumble Putin mumble mumble terrorism mumble

Right!? Bastards!

GG and Snowden are FSB assets. The quicker you realize this the more things will make sense.

Cite?

Snowden claims - and he absolutely has the technical know-how to do this - that he removed the ability for himself to access the data he had before leaving Hong Kong. Putin does not need whatever intel Snowden had in order to still use him as an effective propaganda tool to make the US look hypocritical when it complains about Russian human rights violations.

No.

Would you like to hear it from a Russian senator instead?

http://www.npr.org/2016/06/29/483890...-a-low-profile

Jesus, this **** should be pretty common knowledge at this point.

Admittedly I just did a ctrl F for "Green" in that article, but I'm going to safely assume it doesn't reference Glenn Greenwald at all, and especially doesn't indicate Greenwald is in anyway associated with Russian intelligence.

OK now I read the article and know for sure it doesn't implicate Greenwald in anyway...so....?

And for Snowden, you are literally using a Russian propaganda quote....A+

Holding a press conference seems like a really, really bad idea for Sessions here.

This smirking little weasel is swiftly climbing my "people I'd really like to punch in the face" list.

loooool, really Jeff?

As you defend a guy that literally spouts Russian prop/disinfo day after day. Whatever, believe what you want and continue to **** up this thread as per usual.