Comments on: Cory Booker May Be Thrown Out of the US Senate For Standing Up to Republicans. https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/09/06/cory-booker-may-be-thrown-out-of-the-us-senate-for-standing-up-to-republicans/ Sun, 09 Sep 2018 00:56:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: dean https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/09/06/cory-booker-may-be-thrown-out-of-the-us-senate-for-standing-up-to-republicans/#comment-620757 Sun, 09 Sep 2018 00:56:02 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=30397#comment-620757 In reply to dean.

And, on a note relevant only because it relates to how willing the WH folks are to concoct lies about anything, we’re back to the myth that it was the “mainstream media” that lied about the size of Trump’s inauguration crowd. Someone did lie, but it wasn’t the media.

https://fox6now.com/2018/09/08/photographer-admits-editing-pres-trump-inauguration-photos/

]]> By: dean https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/09/06/cory-booker-may-be-thrown-out-of-the-us-senate-for-standing-up-to-republicans/#comment-620087 Fri, 07 Sep 2018 20:35:55 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=30397#comment-620087 And we now know that Kavanaugh has flat out lied several times. It’s no wonder such a small percentage of material relating to him was released at the first go.

]]> By: Bernard J. https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/09/06/cory-booker-may-be-thrown-out-of-the-us-senate-for-standing-up-to-republicans/#comment-620000 Fri, 07 Sep 2018 15:03:53 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=30397#comment-620000 In reply to RickA.

No, not the memo. Nunes selectively released material pertaining to Fusion GPS in an effort to discredit their research.

https://campaignforaccountability.org/campaign-for-accountability-files-ethics-complaint-against-house-intel-chair-nunes-for-leaking-confidential-information/

https://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/ethics-devin-nunes-leaks_us_5a6abc5fe4b0ddb658c518ac

Nunes also released Mark Warner’s text messages. When all is said and done, one has to regard anything that goes through Nunes fingers as being public knowledge…

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/376427-watchdog-group-files-ethics-complaint-against-nunes-after-report-of-house

You should know this stuff if you’re going to pronounce on it. It’s not difficult to find.

]]> By: dean https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/09/06/cory-booker-may-be-thrown-out-of-the-us-senate-for-standing-up-to-republicans/#comment-619987 Fri, 07 Sep 2018 14:17:33 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=30397#comment-619987

What are the real-world consequences of the release of the Nunes memo?

Since we know nothing in it is supported by fact we now know just how dedicated the right is to lying about anything and everything.

]]> By: dean https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/09/06/cory-booker-may-be-thrown-out-of-the-us-senate-for-standing-up-to-republicans/#comment-619986 Fri, 07 Sep 2018 14:16:19 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=30397#comment-619986

At the time he did his grandstanding, Booker knew the material was allowed to be made public.

Nice lie, but the decision to release them hadn’t been made when he read them.

]]> By: MikeN https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/09/06/cory-booker-may-be-thrown-out-of-the-us-senate-for-standing-up-to-republicans/#comment-619974 Fri, 07 Sep 2018 13:45:39 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=30397#comment-619974 In reply to RickA.

What are the real-world consequences of the release of the Nunes memo?

]]> By: MikeN https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/09/06/cory-booker-may-be-thrown-out-of-the-us-senate-for-standing-up-to-republicans/#comment-619972 Fri, 07 Sep 2018 13:26:35 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=30397#comment-619972 Tweet from Marco Rubio:
On this day in 71B.C. the Thracian gladiator Spartacus was put to death by Marcus Licinius Crassus for disclosing confidential scrolls. When informed days later that in fact the Roman Senate had already publicly released the scrolls, Crassus replied “Oh, ok, my bad”.

]]> By: RickA https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/09/06/cory-booker-may-be-thrown-out-of-the-us-senate-for-standing-up-to-republicans/#comment-619961 Fri, 07 Sep 2018 12:53:12 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=30397#comment-619961 In reply to RickA.

Bernard J.:

Are you referring to the release of the Nunes memo?

Nunes didn’t release it, President Trump did.

Unlike Booker, President Trump actually has the right to declassify.

If not the Nunes memo you will have to be a bit more specific, because I am not sure what you are talking about.

]]> By: Bernard J. https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/09/06/cory-booker-may-be-thrown-out-of-the-us-senate-for-standing-up-to-republicans/#comment-619856 Fri, 07 Sep 2018 07:32:46 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=30397#comment-619856 In reply to RickA.

So, I presume that you’ll be repeating your calls that the book also be thrown at Nunes and other Republicans who released confidential material that had much more profound real-world consequences that these documents that simply demonstrate the Kavanagh is unfit for the Supreme Court?

]]> By: MikeN https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/09/06/cory-booker-may-be-thrown-out-of-the-us-senate-for-standing-up-to-republicans/#comment-619587 Fri, 07 Sep 2018 01:20:42 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=30397#comment-619587 In reply to dean.

Booker’s staff were the ones who asked the material to be made public. At the time he did his grandstanding, Booker knew the material was allowed to be made public. In other words, Booker was lying to the public.

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