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03-05-2017 , 09:52 PM

#16676

Huehuecoyotl

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In what could very well be the opening salvo to reform the program that issues visas to high-skilled workers, the White House said it would put premium processing of H-1B visa petitions on hold for now. Although the administration says the move, which will take effect on April 3 and last as long as six months, is a way to catch up and reduce the existing backlog, it’s unlikely to make the tech sector too happy considering how much it relies on workers from abroad.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slate..._1b_visas.html

03-05-2017 , 09:56 PM

#16677

Minirra

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Originally Posted by RV Life

LOL. As if the Trump ****storm isn't enough.

Someone get Trump's response on how he thinks the ocean should retaliate

03-05-2017 , 10:04 PM

#16678

ChrisV

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Originally Posted by einbert

Former NSA and current national security columnist guy:

https://twitter.com/20committee/stat...14662949928961

Yeah. Unfortunately, the IC is probably going to be reluctant to make this SIGINT public, because doing so would very likely alert the Russians as to things the US has compromised. Cue Greenwald articles about how therefore it's all made up. Hopefully they eventually feel like they have no choice.

03-05-2017 , 10:05 PM

#16679

JoltinJake

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Man it's depressing how many people will believe literally anything if it's presented to them by Trump and/or right wing media.

03-05-2017 , 10:08 PM

#16680

NhlNut

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Get away from courts and warrants and FISA. Think Patriot Act.
You assume that IC even asks the carriers.
Do the carriers even know which are monitored?

IC has latitude to monitor not only who Russians are talking to, but several degrees of separation from Russians.
Think Trump and insiders fall within this web?

03-05-2017 , 10:10 PM

#16681

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Originally Posted by ChrisV

Given it's supposedly new--seems is a friendly country handed it over. Hopefully that's just a cover especially if it's the dossier one, cause well only trump wouldn't immediately figure out who that most likely was.

The tap was about russian banks and some trump team are in on it, they just decided for some reason to have meetings in trump tower. Also a private server they used to go straight there, for some I'm sure perfectly honest reason. That last one was info prior to election, but ofc hillary is the evil one.

03-05-2017 , 10:12 PM

#16682

PocketChads

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I mean, nobody gave a **** about selfies with the nuclear football dude

But sure, Trump panicked

03-05-2017 , 10:13 PM

#16683

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Originally Posted by SuperUberBob

Greenwald's definitely upping the Whataboutism in his last 2 articles. If they were in Russian, I'd think Putin himself ordered them written that way.

See this post as it applies equally well to what you wrote.

03-05-2017 , 10:15 PM

#16684

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03-05-2017 , 10:19 PM

#16685

markksman

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Greenwald just angling for a cushy RT gig when the US collapses.

03-05-2017 , 10:21 PM

#16686

einbert

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Greenwald is awful.

03-05-2017 , 10:22 PM

#16687

markksman

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Originally Posted by einbert

Former NSA and current national security columnist guy:

https://twitter.com/20committee/stat...14662949928961

John needs to make a list of everything he knows.

03-05-2017 , 10:23 PM

#16688

PocketChads

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Originally Posted by Namath12

Exactly. It's so hard for me to fathom the complete apathy from the right over **** like this.

Best I can figure, they think it's all being lavished on them, even if not directly. Like, "it's ok because it's back in our hands." And not even in a partisan way, but a way where they're the only Americans.

And/or they really believed all that chain email bull**** about Emperor Obama and how you can't disagree with Obama, all the **** that now applies to Trump with no exaggeration needed.

03-05-2017 , 10:23 PM

#16689

PocketChads

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Like you really have to believe that America was dead for 8 years to be ok with what goes on at Mar a Lago

03-05-2017 , 10:30 PM

#16690

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The president has been seething as he watches round-the-clock cable news coverage. Trump recently vented to an associate that Carter Page, a onetime Trump campaign adviser, keeps appearing on television even though he and Trump have no significant relationship.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...d10_story.html

Can we start a gofundme to keep Carter page on a perpetual media tour?

03-05-2017 , 10:36 PM

#16691

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his 4 trips to Mar a lago since becoming POTUS cost more than the Great Lakes Cleanup fund he just demolished

03-05-2017 , 10:39 PM

#16692

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As reporters began to hear about the Oval Office meeting, Priebus interrupted his Friday afternoon schedule to dedicate more than an hour to calling reporters off the record to deny that the outburst had actually happened, according to a senior White House official.

03-05-2017 , 10:43 PM

#16693

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Adam Schiff is going to be on the Pod Saves America Podcast tomorrow.

03-05-2017 , 10:46 PM

#16694

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Originally Posted by markksman

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...d10_story.html

Can we start a gofundme to keep Carter page on a perpetual media tour?

Yeah this Carter Page guy is ****ing amazing. People think torture doesn't work, this dude ****ing melted after like two questions from Chris Hayes

03-05-2017 , 10:47 PM

#16695

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Originally Posted by einbert

Greenwald is awful.

And hey, I could be wrong on this. But I supported Greenwald through the Obama era. He was harsh on Obama but that's healthy in a democracy, that's good. But why isn't he now bringing that same harshness on Trump, when we need it more than ever? Instead, he's....doing something strange. I don't get it.

03-05-2017 , 10:48 PM

#16696

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Schiff's going too hard in the paint too soon even though we're all aging one month every week.

I don't know if greenwald is but here's a spoiler, if you think russia just paid off only certain say executive branch people and not also media members...

03-05-2017 , 10:49 PM

#16697

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Originally Posted by wheatrich

Schiff's going too hard in the paint too soon even though we're all aging one month every week.

What are we waiting for? There's enough evidence at this point. We should be marching every day, they should be filibustering everything in Congress and calling for a special prosecutor and Sessions to resign before conducting any normal business. This is a full fledged constitutional crisis.