Comments on: Editors and Producers: How to catch Robert Mueller in the Act

By: Lionel A

Lionel A — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 12:07:34 +0000

On one week before the election, warning do not recently have consumed a large meal before looking.

By: Lionel A

Lionel A — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 12:02:47 +0000

Bernard J

fowever tipping the balance of power to authoritarianism over democracy and and human rights.

That is my reading of the tightening spiral of deregulation and privatisation, where even HMRC has been sold to a Bermuda entity, being played out in the UK with Brexit being an attempt to further tighten that spiral. Sadly, elements of the media have done a good job with making sure most of the public do not notice, or understand the real reasons why there has been a hollowing out of key public sector services with attendant job losses. Notice of book from Guardian bookshop: Collusion by Luke Harding or Collusion by Luke Harding

By: Bernard J.

Bernard J. — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 06:05:48 +0000

Something that might change the lie of the land in the White House is Trump’s recent slurring of words:

https://www.statnews.com/2017/12/07/donald-trump-brain-specialist-disease/

And even if he doesn’t suddenly tip over from a stroke or incipient dementia he now has a great defense for any prosecution, so one way or another I suspect that he will never see the inside of prison.

I hope though that this doesn’t stop the FBI from fully investigating the full extent of Republican impropriety in the conduct of the election, and of Trump’s team in illegally dealing with Russia both with respect to the election and in other dealings.

Not only must justice be done, it must be seen to be done. There are rising powers around the world who are hoping that America fails in this, because such failure lends strong impetus to fowever tipping the balance of power to authoritarianism over democracy and and human rights.

By: Tyvor Winn

Tyvor Winn — Sun, 03 Dec 2017 15:48:29 +0000

Re “Greg, you have lost it! Probably never had it.”

Concise but a bit lacking in, you know, precision, focus, evidence, reason …

By: Tyvor Winn

Tyvor Winn — Sun, 03 Dec 2017 15:43:45 +0000

In reply to SteveP. Ah, "Bengazi!! Bengazi!!" Weren't there 4 Americans killed recently in Niger as a result of one or more security blunders? No Congressional outrage or hearings on that yet and no cries for putting anyone in jail for it. Too busy passing tax bills without reading them. They were written by lobbyists so they must be ok, right?

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 03 Dec 2017 14:17:12 +0000

In reply to SteveP. Greg, you have lost it! Probably never had it.

By: SteveP

SteveP — Sun, 03 Dec 2017 13:12:32 +0000

Oh. I see now. Obama was not allowed to punish Russia for its already well known ( in intelligence circles) ( and in the public press) interference in the US election. Flynn was sent to smooth out any rough edges that the sanctions might create between the US and Russia. So Flynn was, essentially, trying to undermine Obama’s foreign policy while Obama was still president? And K.T. McFarland knew this? A real peach that one. I think she looks much better in the first interpretation….that she was merely confirming that Russia threw or attempted to throw the election to Trump…. and not that the Trump administration was purposefully sending Flynn to blunt, to interfere with, the sitting president’s foreign policy. But I will go with your interpretation if you like.

Nothing like that good ol’ Republican back door interference with US foreign policy. You like conspiracy theories. Remember the Iran hostages?

Oh, and about that subsequent conspiracy theory that Obama did this, not for the American people and to help protect future US elections, but just to make poor lil Donald look bad, and make things hard for him? Hello in there. I suppose that Obama brilliantly played Trump by advising him to fire Flynn, knowing that Trump would never take Obama’s advise and would, in fact, do the exact opposite, thereby ensuring that Trump would ensnare himself in the whole Russian disaster that he is currently in! Republicans don’t hate Obama! They secretly feared and admired him, is that how it is going to go down?

Time and again, Trump has made it clear that everything in the world is about making life good and easy for him, our first rate president Trump. And Republicans apparently support that position, even as it destroys the few remaining virtues of the once noble Republican party, and threatens all of our democratic institutions.

By: MikeN

MikeN — Sun, 03 Dec 2017 04:55:31 +0000

In reply to SteveP. Not a joke. Read the full context, and it obviously means something different.

By: SteveP

SteveP — Sun, 03 Dec 2017 02:18:33 +0000

From CNN….”then-transition adviser KT McFarland, who later became deputy national security adviser under Michael Flynn”
“If there is a tit-for-tat escalation Trump will have difficulty improving relations with Russia, which has just thrown USA election to him,” McFarland wrote, according to the Times.”

Of course, KT was just joking. Heh heh. Didn’t really mean what she wrote. It was just an exaggeration…. you know, you can’t take anything a Republican says at face value….just a figure of speech… an idiom…Republicans never say what they really mean. It is all just a play on words. A charade. A bluff. Besides, Bengazi!! Bengazi!!