Why are the Dems going down the impeachment path over Ukraine? They know this is DOA in the Senate and will be very unpopular.
This is a stunt with a side benefit, it will take out Joe Biden and clear the path for a Communist to run.
Impeachment Open
by coldwarrior ( 167 Comments › )Filed under Open thread at September 24th, 2019 - 5:04 pm
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We're not easily offended and don't want people to think they have to walk on eggshells around here (like at another place that shall remain nameless) but of course, there is a limit to everything.
Play nice!
I don’t see what has fundamentally changed. This is just a bunch of committees doing what they’ve been doing. Nothing is being put to a vote. She just put some kind of ‘legit’ stamp on it, but I don’t see a status change anywhere
Altho we may find out who the whistle blower is. THAT would be fun
With Biden out, Obama wont be under the microscope
The media have received their marching music
The trouble of course is that you cannot trust a transcript from this White House to be a truthful account of what happened
https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1176447567732850689
@ eaglesoars:
And of course Trump paid the Ukraine off or threatened them when their transcript matched ours.
@ right_wing2:
or even better. Ukraine refuses to turn over anything and the Dems say it’s because Trump has threatened to withhold aid if they do!
Got him!
So Nancy the twit made these ridiculous investigations “formal” impeachment inquiry without the requisite House vote to begin a “FORMAL” inquiry. Either she didn’t have the votes in the House or she’s trying to give cover to the Democrats elected from Trump districts. Won’t work.
eaglesoars wrote:
Reminder: Coming from this White House, neither transcripts nor weather maps can be truste
https://twitter.com/PreetBharara/status/1176609712311296001
told ja
Day off from Biden. Focus on Iran. Tomorrow we will resume with the videotapes and video documentary evidence, establishing very serious suspected criminality in Ukraine. Then we’ll move on to China, which is sadly and tragically, worse.
https://twitter.com/RudyGiuliani/status/1176531453552865280
12:18 pm today
The Dems are banking on the fact that 90% of Americans don’t even know the meaning of impeachment. You can expect every news story between now and next November that mentions Trump to include the phrase “who is about to be impeached.”
They’re desperate to drive down his poll numbers any way they can. Also, when the inevitable Supreme Court vacancy occurs, they can demand that the Senate wait until after the election, since Trump is either going to be impeached or defeated.
lobo91 wrote:
nice catch
@ eaglesoars:
Is there anyway I can search this site for my own posts? I know I posted about something but I don’t remember when
Joe DiGenova just called Judge Napolitano a fool.
Looks like all my favorite performers are overseas at the moment. Hannah Wicklund is in The Netherlands. Larkin Poe is in Japan. Samantha Fish is in Portland (which may as well be overseas).
And Ally Venable is in Belgrade, Serbia. Who knew they were fans of Texas blues guitar?
lobo91 wrote:
I think this may be the real objective. They know that RBG is not long for this world and they can’t stand the possibility that Trump gets another pick. They are going to pull out all the stops to derail that
I found a clip of the opening of the launch party for Samantha Fish’s new album. Good stuff.
@ lobo91:
Have y’all done Beth Hart to death already or … ? I just discovered her a few weeks ago myself. I know (now) that shes been around for decades, wondering if its the same here or not ?
Yeah, she’s got most of the bases covered, but she’s white and european. They need to find an asian autistic gay drama major whose ancestors never owned slaves to do this stuff.
https://twitter.com/NeilUKIP/status/1153983337729613824
https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/09/24/a-tyranny-of-judges/
Britain ceases to be a democracy as the rule of law becomes rule by an unelected regime of 11 judges who were placed in a position of power a decade ago with NO CHECKS & BALANCES. Where is Guy Ffawkes when you need him?
These jurists have over reached and need to be removed one way or another. If the US thinks that arguing about whether to attempt to remove a sitting President is even newsworthy then that is a mere peccadillo with the political volcano brewing in the UK.
The Queen still controls the UK Armed Forces and some Constabulary. It has almost instantly reached the point where the Queen will have to dissolve Parliament and FORCE an IMMEDIATE ELECTION.
@ Aussie Infidel:
There’s a reason we expelled the British.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
She can’t. Back in the 90’s they passed something called The Fixed Term Parliament Act. To call an election about 66% of MPs need to vote for it and the votes aren’t there right now
/props to ‘orange juice’ for teaching the American to suck eggs
eaglesoars wrote:
A sentiment that would get a 97% approval rating on Rasmussen….
So my understanding is that the so-called “whistleblower” is “eager” to testify before Congress. Yeah, so was Ballsey-Fraud, remember? She immediately did a 180 when Grassley said “okay, we’ll reopen the hearings so you can do so.”
So, now that it appears the transcript doesn’t back the jerk up, we’re now hearing “but wait – there’s MORE!” Okay. From Twitchy, it looks like Trump Admin is saying they will make the “complaint” public. After that happens, I’ll be looking for Congress and/or partisan attorneys for this jerk to start making excuses as soon as the subpoena comes in over the transom. If they were pinning their hopes on this, they are in trouble.
@ The Barbarian:
I’m busy right now, but if I have time later, the whistleblower’s lawyer is a guy who worked for Clinton and Schumer. Last name is Bajik.
So we’ll probably find out who the whistleblower is but who was the source-zero?
gotta hop
first pass at released transcript
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/phone-call-transcript-trump-asked-ukraines-help-investigating-2016-biden
@ eaglesoars:
If he doesn’t enjoy whistleblower status, there is no “confidentiality” privilege that is going to attach – he has to state HOW he came into possession of classifed knowledge.
I have a strong feeling this a’hole is going to be sorry he let his TDS overtake him and that he started all this. I also have a strong feeling that this a’hole also spoke to people like Schifty and Fat Jerry BEFORE he made his so-called “complaint” and probably misrepresented what he knew and how he knew it.
@ eaglesoars:
Interesting. He doesn’t mention JOE Biden. He mentions the son and the investigation and the fired prosecutor. It also looks like he’s trying to get to the bottom of the hacking of the DNC server, which is more than the DNC ever wanted to do.
Nothing there. Biden has never been asked, as far as I know, WHY they wanted that prosecutor fired, if not for the investigation into his son.
Of course, what the MSM and the low-information voters DON’T know (or in the case of the former, don’t report), the CLINTON campaign was getting DIRECT help from the Ukrainian government for dirt on Trump – which is what Weissman used to nail Paul Manafort. Ukraine knew Manafort was more aligned with Russia and gave Clinton dirt on him.
quik trip – Chris Plante said something about Hunter Biden’s hedge fund getting seed money from China. I don’t know where he got that or if he was just spitballing but keep ears open
transcript as released by WH
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Unclassified09.2019.pdf
somebody needs to put the whistleblower on suicide watch
@ eaglesoars:
Ukraine is troublesome enough for Joe Biden and his using influence.
On the other hand, his son, the character-deficient Hunter, appears to have been selling access and influence for fun and profit. And THAT’s going to be a problem. Trump wanting the SON investigated is not impeachment-worthy.
Nadler calling on Barr to recuse himself from Ukraine investigation
@ eaglesoars:
Barr isn’t Sessions, Fat Jerry. You don’t get a Rosenweasel to appoint a Mueller this time. He’ll tell you to effing pound sand.
Fat Jerry wants to cast dispersions on Barr in advance of the charges against the Democrat cabal members who illegally spied, leaked and attempted a coup on a duly elected President.
Barr has balls. Fat Jerry’s are in a lock box.
The Barbarian wrote:
NoNads is TERRIFIED of Barr. As well he should be.
I need food. later.
May 2018 Yes, Dem senators sent a letter to the prosecutor in Ukraine last year
Asking them to investigate Trump.
https://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/5-4-18%20Menendez%20joint%20letter%20to%20General%20Prosecutor%20of%20Ukraine%20on%20Mueller%20investigation.pdf
In breaking news, the Senate has voted to void Trump’s national emergency declaration and block using military $$$ for the border wall. Romney and Mike Lee voted with the enemy
@ eaglesoars:
It’s going to be fun in four years when Trump campaigns for Mitt’s challenger in the primary.
@ The Barbarian:
Mitt better spend that time burying every skeleton and clearing out every bit of dirt, because if Trump finds it, Mitt will end up eating it
uh huh
Giuliani Wants Biden To ‘Release Records To See If He Flew Hunter To China In Dec. 2013’; Here’s The Photo Of Them Landing In Beijing Together On Air Force 2
https://www.weaselzippers.us/433499-giuliani-wants-biden-to-release-records-to-see-if-he-flew-hunter-to-china-in-dec-2013-heres-the-photo-of-them-landing-in-beijing-together-on-air-force-2/
WHAT have I been saying for over a year? I’ve been saying that Crowdstrike is shady. I’ve been saying that they lied to Donna Brazille about the DNC servers and the only thing that makes sense is that it was an inside job and Crowdstrike is a prime suspect.
Now look at this.
The cyber security firm outsourced by the Democratic National Committee, CrowdStrike, reportedly misread data, falsely attributing a hacking in Ukraine to the Russians in December 2016. Voice of America, a US Government funded media outlet, reported, “the CrowdStrike report, released in December, asserted that Russians hacked into a Ukrainian artillery app, resulting in heavy losses of howitzers in Ukraine’s war with Russian-backed separatists. But the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) told VOA that CrowdStrike erroneously used IISS data as proof of the intrusion. IISS disavowed any connection to the CrowdStrike report.
Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense also has claimed combat losses and hacking never happened.” The maker of the military app allegedly hacked called CrowdStrike’s report “delusional,” and told VOA that CrowdStrike never contacted him either before or after they completed their report. VOA News noted Ukraine’s rebuttal to CrowdStrike received little media attention as CrowdStrike’s report was widely cited in media outlets throughout the United States as further evidence of Russia hacking the United States. Alperovitch, who gave several interviews on CrowdStrike’s initial report to the Washington Post and other media outlets, refused to comment on VOA News’ report.
Read the whole thing, it gets worse. This is what happens when 1) you’re not nearly as smart as you think you are, and 2) you think you’re smarter than everybody else.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/03/23/cybersecurity-firm-that-attributed-dnc-hacks-to-russia-may-have-fabricated-russia-hacking-in-ukraine/
@ eaglesoars:
Yes, I see the date and that’s the point – Crowdstrike has been exposed as a fraudulent org for ages and everybody still acts like “ooooohhhh, computer geniuses~”
Bullshit.
hey y’all
@ eaglesoars:
GMTA – there was no earthly reason for the DNC NOT to have turned those servers over to the premier investigative organization in the US – the FBI. The insistence instead that they be allowed to turn it over to a DNC-friendly organization smacks of an attempt at covering up what really happened. We only have Crowdstrike’s WORD that the hack was from Russia – which nicely fits in with the whole “Trump/Russia” collusion scenario they were trying to push.
Meanwhile, FBI asks to see GOP servers to make sure they were not hacked by Russia (or anyone else for that matter). Surprise. FBI found nothing.
I remember when we thought the silly machinations of the Nixon campaign in 1972 which led to the Watergate hearings were pretty convoluted. This is way beyond that – Ken Follett, John LeCarre and Tom Clancy must be pea green with envy.
{rain}
@ The Barbarian:
I’m going to take my own advice and go back and re-read Brazille’s book. I’ve forgotten what made them think they were hacked in the first place.
@ eaglesoars:
What is also interesting is that Assange has maintained from the first that it was not the RUSSIANS that gave him the server dump. And he has broadly hinted that it was someone INSIDE the DNC that gave it to him.
@ The Barbarian:
And I don’t think it was Seth Rich either. Altho I am now more open to the idea that his murder wasn’t random
I need a nap
@ eaglesoars:
I always thought it was suspicious. Amazing how many DNC/Clinton people turn up dead.
Hot damn! Trump giving an address NAILING the Congress critters that threatened Ukraine with withholding aid if they didn’t dig for dirt on Trump. Democrats should have read Dan Bongino’s book “Spygate”. They would have known this was really NOT a can of worms (vis a vis Ukraine involvement in elections and quid pro quo) that they would have wanted opened.
Does it bother any of you that Pissboy in chief asked the leader of a foreign country to investigate a former vice president of the United States?
eaglesoars wrote:
Here’s the complete list of GOP morons
Lamar Alexander (Tenn.), Roy Blunt (Mo.), Susan Collins (Maine), Mike Lee (Utah), Jerry Moran (Kansas), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Rand Paul (Ky.), Rob Portman (Ohio), Mitt Romney (Utah), Pat Toomey (Pa.) and Roger Wicker (Miss.)
So I’m going back thru Donna Brazille’s book. Read this happy horsepuckey
In the crucial weeks before the convention, right before the party announced the hacking, the DNC confiscated the staff’s computers for the weekend without any warning or explanation. Many people were upset, thinking that they had been fired because Hillary’s team was about to take over the party. When they got to work on Monday they found out that the cybersecurity firm the party hired had wiped their computers clean, eliminating all their files, including their files about the convention. When they asked why they hadn’t been warned so that they could save important files on a thumb drive, the consultants said that they couldn’t allow them to do that. If the hackers saw everyone downloading files, they’d take evasive action.
The cybersecurity firm in question remains unnamed, Crowdstrike isn’t in the picture at this point. The DNC discovered the hack in the first half of June, the convention began on July 22, so somewhere in that timeframe, the DNC had all its staffers computers wiped. But won’t allow backups because that would alert the hackers? As if wiping everything won’t? This is what I mean when I say Donna Brazille simply wasn’t savy enough to know when she was being handed a bucket of warm spit.
Right now, it appears I don’t remember how they knew they were hacked because Brazille never says. Wasserman-Schultz simply informed senior officers on June 14
And out of the blue, here it is. Dutch intelligence was watching the Russian hackers breach the DNC and informed the U.S.in the summer of 2015.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/the-spies-who-beat-russian-hackers-at-their-own-game-1.3455014
AHAHAHAHAHA
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez visited a ‘fracking’ site in Colorado, and tweeted out a video that purported to show it was releasing toxic emissions. However, several hydraulic fracturing experts noted that no fracking was actually taking place at the rig, and that the camera was not showing emissions, but heat signatures. A Democratic politician tweeted back at Ocasio-Cortez, telling her that ‘we do ourselves no favors’ when Democrats deny facts and science.”
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/343259/
f you want to see how to revive a city—and how not to—go to Pittsburgh. No other modern American city has worked so hard for so long in so many ways to reinvent itself. It transformed itself from the Smoky City to the Renaissance City in the 1940s, and that was just the beginning. Pittsburghers today refer to that era as Renaissance I because they’re now up to Renaissance III—or maybe IV, depending on how you count.
A Renaissance Runs Through It
https://www.city-journal.org/pittsburghs-comeback
@ eaglesoars:
Why is a New York rep in Colorado?
Possum wrote:
Because her own state was dumb enough to ban fracking
lobo91 wrote:
… and she’s trying to get all of the other states to go Luddite and do the same. Colorado is a good play; it’s gone stupid in the past decade or so as the roaches from California have infested it and Soros’s Secretary of State project was successful there getting the electorate turned democrat and full of fraud.
lobo91 wrote:
I am advised that the # people leaving NY is approaching Cali’s. I wonder how many are headed for Pennsylvania
the whistleblower complaint has supposedly been declassified but nobody can find it anywhere
The Left routinely assaults Conservatives but they have the nerve to call us violent?
@ eaglesoars:
I think I’m going to pass that on to our local leaders.
eaglesoars wrote:
Rich’s murder wasn’t random. His condition on admission to hospital was serious but stable. Then just before dawn a team of DC best turned up and cleared Rich’s ward so that they could … ‘interview’…. him. Shortly thereafter he registered a code red that wasn’t responded to for 23 minutes. By the time the DC cops left the building Rich had been dead for 15 minutes already.
https://twitter.com/RealMiniAOC/status/1176903864194236417
Good morning.
Mini AOC returns.
@ Possum:
She’s everywhere but DC and New York. My personal favorite is her anguish photo being stuck at the border fence “for the children being held in cages” – when all she was looking at was a parking lot and there was a gap in the fence for the driveway 10 feet away from her.
@ RIX:
Twitter was getting baraged with complaints of their obvious bias and duplicity – that Twitter took a stand about the bullying (not) of Greta Garbo 2.0 but ignored the threats Mini AOC got and then suspended her account because she was making more sense than the idiot she was mocking.
Here is the whistleblower complaint
https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/20190812_-_whistleblower_complaint_unclass.pdf
Commentary:https://twitter.com/FredFleitz/status/1177206661603348480
As a former CIA analyst and former NSC official who edited transcripts of POTUS phone calls with foreign leaders, here are my thoughts on the whistleblower complaint which was just released
2/ This is not an intelligence matter. It is a policy matter and a complaint about differences over policy. Presidential phone calls are not an intelligence concern. The fact that IC officers transcribe these calls does not give the IC IG jusrisdiction over these calls.
3/ It appears that rules restricting access and knowledge of these sensitive calls was breached. This official was not on this call, not on the approved dissem list and should not have been briefed on the call.
3/ The way this complaint was written suggested the author had a lot of help. I know from my work on the House Intel Commitee staff that many whistleblowers go directly to the intel oversight committees. Did this whistleblower first meet with House Intel committee members?
/ It is therefore important that Congress find out where this complaint came from. What did House and Senate intel committee dem members and staff know about it and when? Did they help orchestrate this complaint?
5/ My view is that this whistleblower complaint is too convenient and too perfect to come from a typical whistleblower. Were other IC officers involved? Where outside groups opposed to the president involved?
6/ This complaint will further damage IC relations with the White House for many years to come because IC officers appear to be politicizing presidential phone calls with foreign officials and their access to the president and his activities in the White House.
7/ Worst of all, this IC officer — and probably others — have blatantly crossed the line into policy. This violates a core responsibility of IC officers is to inform, but not make policy.
8/ This is such a grevious violation of trust between the IC and the White House that it would not surprise me if IC officers are barred from all access to POTUS phone calls with foreign officials.
In other totalitarian Lib new, Mark Eldridge, the Exec Super of Montgomery County MD, has struck again. After forbidding police to cooperate with ICE even in the face of 8 arrests of illegals for rape of children in one month, he has turned to climate change and on his own authority declared that all new residences built in the county must have solar panels. So, naturally, there will be far fewer new units built, prices will skyrocket but then they get to more in property taxes! majik!
eaglesoars wrote:
yep.
@ eaglesoars:
Interesting. Word is out that Schifty had the complaint back in August and is bloviating that they needed to have the complaint “sooner”. I’m just spitballin’ but it was announced awhile ago that Durham was also charged with looking into Ukraine’s role in getting information to the Democrats (Manafort) during the 2016 – essentially “colluding” with the Democrats. This is to get in front of that.
John Solomon of The Hill was on both Hannity and Levin yesterday, saying that he’ll be publishing today and that he has documents that completely implicate JOE Biden in the strongarming of Ukraine over the investigation of his son. Of course, Biden is such a demented dick that he’s actually stated that he wanted the prosecutor fired because he was going “too easy” on the company that hired his sleazy son in their investigation.
Biden’s done. It’s going to be Warren.
@ The Barbarian:
I think this name might come up
Alexandria Chalupa
gotta run back later
@ The Barbarian:
I think I saw that Elizabeth Warren’s daughter might have some kind of shady connections somewhere along the line.
@ eaglesoars:
I’m in the process of reading Bongino’s “Spygate” and just ordered “Exonerated” – always nice to have the sequel ready to go…Chalupa’s name figures prominently.
@ right_wing2:
Yep, she made hefty donations to the Workers’ Party or something from Demos funds when they needed cash and they gave Warren their endorsement:
Twitchy has the story: https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2019/09/24/this-stinks-to-the-high-heavens-forget-bidens-son-now-its-elizabeth-warrens-daughter-who-is-raising-eyebrows/
@ The Barbarian:
oh is that why they switched the endorsement of Bernie? AHAHAHAHA!!!
@ eaglesoars:
Imagine so. Dems should be careful what they wish for. Are they actually believing those polls that say Great American Giveaway candidates like Warren and Sanders, with their “open borders” BS and freebies for illegals are going to beat Trump in 2020? Because with Biden gone, that’s really what’s left.
I still think they want Kamala Harris in the long run.
@ The Barbarian:
Open borders and free health care. Sounds like a winning combination, no ?
Christmas 2020:
https://www.cnet.com/news/new-mattel-gender-neutral-creatable-world-dolls-can-be-a-boy-girl-both-or-neither/
Starting to get a headache, I can’t stop slamming my head against the wall.
Don’t mind me, its just that I feel like I slid, seamlessly, from an idyllic childhood in the late 50s / early 60s to purgatory at some point in the past 10 years. Bugs the hell out of me trying to figure that exact moment. Possibly when I was ‘under’ during surgery?
Possibly some relief here. Good LORD can she belt it out (and corrupt young males minds):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTYEGnXzqes&fbclid=IwAR11x0MO0Hk-iSWHjbM4rGct2Ux9hGD32PVYzMNNl4NXgqcDVoJ8zVF2yPQ
If Joplin and Plant had a baby girl ….
@ The Barbarian:
Like I said. This is about getting Biden out of the way to keep Obama out of the microscope.
Trump will eat Warren alive.
coldwarrior wrote:
Don’t think so. The identity of the whistleblower is slowly leaking out. CIA, one of the creatures Brennan put in the WH to keep tabs on Trump
Brennan. Again.
@ coldwarrior:
I’m really curious about another part of the timing of all this. WHEN did we first learn that Durham was including Ukraine’s role in the 2016 election as part of his investigation? Because it would not surprise me if this was, like the Russian collusion garbage, an attempt by the Clinton/Obama/DNC camps to deflect revelations (which we all know but which the MSM has completely ignored) that Ukraine offered and DNC took damaging information on Manafort in an attempt to injure Trump.
@ eaglesoars:
I understood John Solomon was going to be putting out some really damning stuff on Biden today – including official documents from the Ukraine and quotes from the prosecutor. If I heard it correctly yesterday, Biden apparently told this gas company that it would be helpful for them to put “an American” on their board.
Hannity just announced that Solomon will be on at the top of the hour (4:00 EDT, after the news) so we should be getting some good stuff.
@ The Barbarian:
unfortunately I don’t get Hannity’s radio show, I’ll have to wait till tonite.
I don’t see anything from Solomon on The Hill’s website, altho I understand he’s going to start his own
@ eaglesoars:
Here’s what I got so far in a nutshell. The Ukraine government was very upset about both the antics of Biden getting the prosecutor fired and the evidence of collusion with Ukraine to the Clinton Campaign/DNC in digging up dirt on Trump and his associates during the 2016 campaign.
They have been trying for several years to give the evidence of this to the U.S. They had contacted the DOJ in 2017 to try to talk to them, but were rebuffed (Sessions being the louse that he was and we know Rosenweasel was doing everything he could to stop Trump), tried the State Department and finally approached the President. It was not Trump that brought Biden up – it was the Ukraine government.
The fired prosecutor said that right after he was fired, the investigation into the company and Biden’s son was pretty much shelved. There are records of the company meeting with the new prosecutor.
There is credible evidence that Biden’s current story about why he wanted prosecutor fired is inaccurate and inconsistent. Biden says he was “corrupt.” In actuality, State Dept., Biden and other gov’t officials smeared the prosecutor with false information to make it appear he was corrupt and therefore they were justified in wanting him fired.
In other news, Durham has now asked for all information and documents on Ukraine’s COLLUSION with the Democrats re the 2016 election. Hmmm….the timing of this complaint having to do with Ukraine phone call is almost too damn convenient.
@ The Barbarian:
good stuff!
do you have anything on State Dept asking Rudi G. to look into it, as he’s claimed? I’ve seen a few things trying to paint that as false but I have zero data
@ The Barbarian:
Also, apparently Dana Perino is saying the whistleblower is a woman?
@ eaglesoars:
Not yet – I’m still muddled myself as to what capacity Rudi was asked to do anything at this point.
This is a witness statement from Viktor Shokin, former prosecutor Ukraine, about Joe Biden
https://www.scribd.com/document/427618359/Shokin-Statement
@ eaglesoars:
You called it over the weekend. They’re saying Susan Gordon. Now of course, they’re latching onto Trump’s snotting about those who gave info to her were spies….
….which they WERE.
The Barbarian wrote:
dammit
Susan M. Gordon served as Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) until August 15, 2019.[1][2] Prior to assuming that role, she was the Deputy Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), having assumed the position on January 1, 2015.[3] Before joining the NGA, she served as director of the CIA’s Information Operations Center and senior cyber adviser to the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.[4] Gordon worked for the Central Intelligence Agency for over 25 years.[5]
Now go find Dan Coates
John Solomon’s piece on The Hill just landed
These once-secret memos cast doubt on Joe Biden’s Ukraine story
Ukrainian prosecutors say they have tried to get this information to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) since the summer of 2018, fearing it might be evidence of possible violations of U.S. ethics laws. First, they hired a former federal prosecutor to bring the information to the U.S. attorney in New York, who, they say, showed no interest. Then, the Ukrainians reached out to President Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani.
Ukraine’s new president, Volodymer Zelensky, told Trump in July that he plans to launch his own wide-ranging investigation into what happened with the Bidens and Burisma.
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/463307-solomon-these-once-secret-memos-cast-doubt-on-joe-bidens-ukraine-story#.XY02ewYDEV8.twitter
This is consistent w/Shokin’s statement above
Ooo, I pissed off an a’hole on Twitter today.
She said Juanita Broderick had never been raped, calling her a liar, so i retweeted and tagged Juanita in my retweet. When she tried to snark me, I pointed out that if you’re going to call someone a liar you should tag them in your tweet. She’s very upset I called her a coward.
looks like vodkapundit agrees with me
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/is-impeaching-trump-really-about-kneecapping-joe-biden/
Trump, has been raising hundreds of millions of dollars, putting any eventual 2020 rival in a bind as about 20 Democrats vie for their party’s nomination.
Trump’s campaign and the Republican National Committee have raised over $100 million in the second quarter. A large portion of that haul came from wealthy donors who gave to their joint fundraising committee, Trump Victory. In August, the RNC raised just over $23 million and has $53 million on hand.
The Democratic National Committee have struggled to keep up. The DNC finished August bringing in $7.9 million and has $7.2 million in debt.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/26/wall-street-democratic-donors-may-back-trump-if-warren-is-nominated.html
@ eaglesoars:
Fred Flietz is on with Levin right now – and reiterating his allegation that Schiffty and attorneys wrote the Sneak’s (refuse to call him/her a “whistleblower” any longer) so-called “complaint”.
coldwarrior wrote:
It’s a twofer or maybe 2 separate efforts converging. I think, tho, that Trump throwing Crowdstrike into the mix, but not have been in their plans
@ eaglesoars:
I think the Vodkapundit is right. [Edited because VP is still on Twitter – and follows me, as it happens]
I just can’t believe that the Dems think either Warren or Sanders have a prayer of beating Trump. Their platform is horrible! Unless Dems are delusional enough to believe that they won’t be running against Trump and his success record.
And judging from Shifty’s performance today, they all seem to be mentally ill to me.
Guess what I just found out? You know who is on the board of Fox now?
Paul Ryan
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/09/madness-at-fox-news-as-trump-faces-impeachment-lachlan-murdoch
https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/basic_information/e-cigarettes/severe-lung-disease/healthcare-providers/index.html
lipiod pneumonia…hmmmmm
https://www.healthline.com/health/lipoid-pneumonia
The Barbarian wrote:
me neither. They are ALL whack jobs. Which is why I won’t be surprised if someone completely new pops up.
Hillary is starting a new listening tour, I think
Also, Michael Bloomberg.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/68/wr/mm6836e1.htm
@ coldwarrior:
hey CW why are some meds more effective at specific times of day? I know people who swear they need to take some meds at night and my vet told me to give Willow her allergy med at night before we tried increasing the dosage (and she was right, too, Willow is a lot more comfortable)
@ eaglesoars:
if it makes you sleepy, take it at night.
many allergy meds make peeps sleepy
Oh look what I found. John Solomon uploads all his source docs
https://www.scribd.com/user/259237201/JohnSolomon
coldwarrior wrote:
d’uh!
eaglesoars wrote:
i am a medical professional.
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Lovin’ it! Someone has a new logo and campaign slogan for former Vice President Dementia:
https://triblive.com/local/westmoreland/jeannette-residents-hemp-drying-warehouse-stinks/
the rony of this is that the large, rural, adjacent township is called Hempfield…’cause they grew hemp there….
@ The Barbarian:
this just pisses me off. It’s so obvious and I NEVER think of this stuff in time to monetize it. dang.
@ coldwarrior:
It seems to me one of the schools I went to played Hempfield.
Mitt Romney has a guy on his staff by the name of Joseph Cofer Black. Dir. CIA Counter-Terror (1999-2002), Ambassador at Large for Counter-Terror (2002-2004).
Currently Burisima board member.
lobo91 wrote:
A Sr private equity exec who doesn’t understand that any Dem hurts them should be drummed out of the business on grounds of incurable stupid
@ eaglesoars:
Good thing there were no major terrorist attacks during that time frame…
@ lobo91:
Top Men!
@ lobo91:
We’ll keep that in mind the next time any of them bring up the Trump kids
eaglesoars wrote:
I need to correct that. HAD. Former staffer.
The Barbarian wrote:
Oh, that’s gonna anger the Twitter Politburo. Off to the Twitter Gulag with you! No potato for you comrade.
@ coldwarrior:
Why, how can this be? Trump is tremendously unpopular and everybody wants to see him impeached and leave office. How in the world could he raise so much money and how could the dems be so far behind?
/s
coldwarrior wrote:
So, is this all e-cigarettes? I read elsewhere that the bulk of the problems are coming from those using cannibas oil types of products. IIRC, the word “oil” should be a warning. Scuba equipment is kept oil[-free for a reason.
lobo91 wrote:
That right there says a lot, doesn’t it? “… fear of retribution”. Hey bunkie, you are backing communists, what do you think they do to those who don’t toe the Politburo’s party line?
eaglesoars wrote:
Somebody Edited the Invertebrate Wikipedia Page to Include Paul Ryan
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/01/wikipedia-invertebrate-page-edited-to-include-paul-ryan.html
“…on the cover of the Rolling Stone…”
Okay…not quite. The UK’s Blues Matters magazine
@ lobo91:
W00T! But they should have shown her with the cigar box guitar
Levin was just on Hannity saying the whistleblower memo is a legal doc, written by a lawyer
@ eaglesoars:
Did someone say “cigar box”? From last night:
My take on the “Impeachment Hearings.”
Racing Babies.
@ coldwarrior:
If there’s anything left resembling honesty and ethics, they’re going down.
@ The Barbarian:
She can’t force the dems to vote on party lines, and many won’t, given the gravity of the impeachment process. Any dem that votes for it is likely to be voted out.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/09/trump-to-hold-massive-rally-at-target-center-in-ilhan-omars-minneapolis-district-next-month/
oh, and morning y’all
happy friday
@ rain of lead:
It actually is Friday for me!
Gonna go hit some golf balls then have lunch at the CC.
justdanny wrote:
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get up to speed danny boy.
@ justdanny:
sorry it took so long to approve the comment, i was working for the past 9 days. doing pretty well in Trump’s economy.
@ justdanny:
ummm…..no
@ rain of lead:
Laws dont apply to Democrats
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/09/revealed-cia-whistleblower-report-links-to-soros-funded-project-three-different-times-video/
@ Gateway Pundit
Good morning. Pursuing the blogs this whistleblower blower is coming into focus.
He is a CIA operative who had temporary assignment to the White House.
He has no first hand knowledge and is close to Brennan. His report appears to be prepared by an attorney. and references a Soros funded NGO three times.
To me this looks like a Swamp Deep State hit job.
After 9/11 these agencies were give unprecedented power. It looks like they are serving notice that they are in charge , not some guy that the people elected.
lobo91 wrote:
Don Jr, Erik, Ivanka and Barron’s shock at this statement set off the seismic sensors at the University of California, Berkeley.
RIX wrote:
i was torn apart on little green footballs when i warned that this would happen, that the patriot act was a complete bullshit and a and total power grab by the deep state.
we need to gut fed law enforcement and intelligence and start over.
@ The Barbarian:
he sure wasnt in the market for a washed out, coke addled, failure.
justdanny wrote:
How does it feel to fall for the “Pissboy” bull, the creation of Russia’s Director of Foreign Intelligence Service, Vyacheslav Trubnikov and Putin’s right-hand thug, Vladislav Surkov?
Your assertion that Trump asked a foreign gov’t to investigate a former VP is a lie.
I would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with Ukraine, they say Crowdstrike….
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There’s a lot of talk about Biden’s son, that Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with the Attorney General would be great. Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you can look into it…
He asked him to look into Crowdstrike and into why the prosecution was halted BECAUSE THE FORMER VP WAS BRAGGING ABOUT HAVING BLACKMAILED THE UKRANIAN GOV’T WITH U.S. AID $$$.
And if you read thru the supporting docs that have been made available you will see that Ukraine came to the U.S. FIRST, trying to get the attention of U.S. authorities, to no avail.
I would suggest that before you swagger in here with your puerile arrogance expecting any of us to bow down before your oh-so-superior self-importance
– clean up your room
– mow the lawn
– take out the trash
– do your homework
coldwarrior wrote:
I remember that. Part of the problem – and I admit I was one of the ones who simply did not believe it – was the idea of ‘deep state’. It wasn’t until I saw PBS ‘The United States of Secrets’ and talked to a friend with intel connections that I started to ‘get it’. And altho I don’t recall personally giving you any shit, if I did, I sincerely and deeply apologize. I was wrong.
@ eaglesoars:
All you can do is sigh and marvel that their burning need to be noticed forces them to come on to a blog populated by highly educated people and post something more suited to the cesspool known as Twitter. And like Twitter, I seriously doubt he’ll be back. If he is, I hope at least the next time he brings his “A” game.
Any takers that it’s one of Chuckie’s minions?
coldwarrior wrote:
Figures, the lemmings at LGF spent their time trying to please Johnson.
The Fisa courts are now being used for domestic warfare.
The Barbarian wrote:
How The Mighty Have Fallen, chapter 3,267
I’ll cruise over to the Playpen and see if they have a chew toy manifesting over there.
Nope, not yet. Although usually they tend to post in the DEAD threads so that no one notices them.
eaglesoars wrote:
useful idiot, i suppose.
eaglesoars wrote:
it is tricky to remove oneself from the ’emotion of the moment’ and think through the consequences of actions.
coldwarrior wrote:
I prefer ‘willful idiot’, but we both agree on idiot. With minimal survival instincts
Here’s the new narrative for the day, I know they’re a bit late getting this out
NRA Was ‘Foreign Asset’ To Russia Ahead of 2016, New Senate Report Reveals
*yawn*
https://www.npr.org/2019/09/27/764879242/nra-was-foreign-asset-to-russia-ahead-of-2016-new-senate-report-reveals
eaglesoars wrote:
Oh, no, THIS is the new narrative
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL HAS GONE ROGUE
this is a quote from one person, Pelosi, and EVERY news outlet has vomited it right back out in 16-pt type. Google the phrase and it’s all just a Pelosi quote with more than 8 mil hits
Trump admin considering delisting Chinese companies from U.S. stock exchanges (Bloomberg reporting I think)
@ eaglesoars:
Gone rogue: Not a pushover like Jeff Sessions.
More than 6,300 adults have died from reactions to a drug that is used as a puberty blocker in gender-confused children, Food & Drug Administration data reportedly shows.
“Between 2012 and June 30 of this year, the FDA documented over 40,764 adverse reactions suffered by patients who took Leuprolide Acetate (Lupron), which is used as a hormone blocker. More than 25,500 reactions logged from 2014-2019 were considered ‘serious,’ including 6,370 deaths,” The Christian Post reported on Thursday.
“Lupron is being prescribed off-label for use in children who have been diagnosed with gender dysphoria despite the lack of formal FDA approval for that purpose,” the outlet explained. “The drug is clinically approved for treatment of precocious puberty, a condition where children start their pubertal processes at an abnormally early age and the blocker is administered for a short time until the proper age.”
Transgender Puberty Blocking Drug Linked To Thousands Of Deaths, FDA Data Reveals
https://www.dailywire.com/news/transgender-puberty-blocking-drug-linked-to-thousands-of-deaths-fda-data-reveals
But you haven’t heard a word about it have you?
How many people have died from vaping? Eleven? Nine?
there will be a new thread at 3pm
@ eaglesoars:
MDs need to lose some licenses.
coldwarrior wrote:
Who pays for that? Do insurance companies cover it? Not to mention the surgery if you take it all the way. That has to cost MILLIONS.
@ eaglesoars:
dunno?
@ coldwarrior:
And I am working on the one for Sunday.
@ The Barbarian:
thx.
i’m doing the college ball open now and making some bread in the smoker for some prosciutto and wine later.
@ The Barbarian:
i have your cal bears beating the spread
The Barbarian wrote:
His comment is doofus enough to be Gus.
@ justdanny:
We shouldn’t investigate possible lawbreakers?
@ coldwarrior:
I cannot believe we’re at No. 15. Reminds me of that heady week 15 years ago when Aaron Effing Rodgers was at the helm and we were No. 1 for a whole week.
@ RIX:
I’ll be surprised if he shows up again. Usually it’s a hit and run. They might come back to see if they made us really batsh*t crazy mad and we say mean things. I have better things to do that deal with a fact-deficit doofus and eagles pretty much said it all.
I don’t know if I missed it but have you noticed that you don’t see any photos or stories of the Obamas going here or going there as a couple or even anything with them interacting with their daughters?
I guess now that he’s out of office they no longer have to pretend they’re the Washington DC Huxtables. I would not be surprised if Barry and Jarrett were urging Mooch to run so that Barry and Val could be back running the show and she basically said “eff you, I’m rich – I’m going to the South of France – I’m not living this sideshow anymore.”
Well done….
Downton Abbey grossed $82,000,000+ worldwide in its first week of release. That’s more than Michael Moore’s “Fakenheit 11/9” (anti-Trump), “Miss Sloan” (anti-gun), “Fair Play” (Valerie Plame was really a victinm) and “Truth” (Dan Rather was really a hero) grossed worldwide COMBINED
The Barbarian wrote:
They like to go back and report to Charle and Loren in front of the other kiddies.