http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/12/politics/doj-watchdog-launches-probe-into-handling-of-clinton-email-investigation/index.html

(Disclaimer: Some consider this a “fake news” site.)

Do you mean the report designated ICA 2017-01D, dated 6 January 2017? I just read that today. On page 2 I find the statement “In July 2015, Russian intelligence gained access to Democratic National Committee (DNC) networks and maintained that access until at least June 2016.” That’s quite explicit. However, “RNC” does not appear at all in the report, and the nearest thing to a claim that the RNC was hacked is “Russia’s intelligence services conducted cyber operations against targets associated with the 2016 US presidential election, including targets associated with both major US political parties.” That’s rather vague with respect to both the identities of the targets and the degree of success achieved.

Some weeks ago I saw a different source that reported only a laptop owned by a former RNC member was hacked, and that it held nothing of interest since it hadn’t connected to RNC servers for 2 or 3 years.

Is Chuck now engaging in false flagging news as fake to silence the opposition and quash the first amendment in the USA?

Oh for a true journalist in the room.

Indeed.

Still, it didn’t pass unremarked, as you probably know.

On Twitter, Laurence Tribe, Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard University, argued that “Trump’s workaround is a totally fraudulent runaround.” He added that the plan is “cleverly designed to dazzle and deceive, but it solves none of the serious ethical or legal issues.”

That’s pretty unambiguous.

indeed, I was going make a snarky comment along the lines of “but Tom Clancy doesn’t write fantasy novels”

tbh I try not to comment on the current state of US politics, as it feels a bit like rubber necking a national tragedy!!

Although I get the irony as a citizen of the UK – the UK have just gone thru a similar act of self-immolation in voting to leave the EU

Just comfort yourselves with the fact that you can have a re-vote in 4 years time

Our lunacy will be with us for at least 30 or 40 years

Trump would have them kicked out.

Odd how he was adamant that there’s no such thing as “fake news”, and many rightwingers also screamed”fake news!” at anything about news to “drive home” that the term was,in their eyes, fake. Yet now they’re the first ones to claim something fake news, the ones most vocal about “the leftist media” making shit up and fake news-ing.

For all the complaints about free speech issues, mike and rick (or mikerick) don’t seem to be troubled by Trumptelling a journalist to STFU, they’re fake, and later that if they try that again they’ll be ejected forcibly.

With trump supporters clapping and cheering.