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Serenity now! |
It seems like the constant stream of leaks coming from someone in the White House has completely stopped. I wonder what happened? Ladies and gentlemen, take my advice - pull down your pants and slide on the ice. ʘ ͜ʖ ʘ | |||
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Couple of nice towers Trump has built here. | |||
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| Live Slow, Die Whenever  |
 "I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people and I require the same from them." - John Wayne in "The Shootist" | |||
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President Trump said Friday that he’ll release “ALL” of the remaining John F. Kennedy files, after being forced by U.S. spy agencies – of which he has been leery – to withhold thousands of still potentially sensitive documents. "After strict consultation with General Kelly, the CIA and other agencies, I will be releasing ALL JFK files other than the names and addresses of any mentioned person who is still living," Trump tweeted. "I am doing this for reasons of full disclosure, transparency and in order to put any and all conspiracy theories to rest." The National Archives on Thursday released 2,800 once-classified records related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Behind the scenes of the much-anticipated release, Trump and his White House lawyers were purportedly until the last minute going back and forth with U.S. intelligence officials over their requests for additional redactions. And the requests irritated Trump, who continued to resist signing off on the request, according to an account by two White House officials who spoke only on condition of anonymity. Late last week, Trump received his first official briefing on the release in an Oval Office meeting that included Kelly, his chief of staff; White House Counsel Don McGahn and National Security Council legal adviser John Eisenberg. Just before the documents’ release, Trump wrote in a memorandum that he had "no choice" but to agree to requests from the CIA and FBI to keep thousands of documents secret because of the possibility that releasing the information could still harm national security. Two aides said Trump was upset by what he perceived to be overly broad secrecy requests, adding that the agencies had been explicitly warned about his expectation that redactions be kept to a minimum. According to White House officials, Trump accepted that some of the records contained references to sensitive sources and methods used by the intelligence community and law enforcement and that declassification could harm American foreign policy interests. But after having the scope of the redactions presented to him, Trump told aides he did not believe them to be in the spirit of the law. On Thursday, Trump's top aides presented him with an alternative to simply acquiescing to the agency requests: He could temporarily allow the redactions while ordering the agencies to launch a new comprehensive examination of the records still withheld or redacted in part. Trump accepted the suggestion, ordering that agencies be "extremely circumspect" about keeping the remaining documents secret at the end of the 180-day assessment. The tale of the final hours before the congressionally mandated 25-year release deadline adds a new chapter to the story of Trump's troubled relationship with his spy agencies. Between the time Trump was elected in November 2016 and took office in January, he slammed the CIA for concluding Russia hacked Democratic Party emails to help him win the White House over Democrat Hillary Clinton. And Trump has been critical of how the FBI handled the investigation into then-Secretary of Clinton’s private email servers -- to the point of firing Director James Comey. Since taking office, Trump also has moved to exert more control over U.S. spying agencies and accused his predecessor of using government spycraft to monitor his campaign. In the JFK files matter, one White House official said, Trump wanted to make clear he wouldn't be bullied by the agencies. Under a 1992 law, all of the records related to the assassination were to be made public unless explicitly withheld by the president. http://www.foxnews.com/politic...roups-mistrusts.html | |||
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| Knows too little about too much  |
Fucking Mueller: Indictments with arrest coming Monday. Want to bet who and which party? Mueller is in desperate need of some wet work attention. RMD TL Davis: “The Second Amendment is special, not because it protects guns, but because its violation signals a government with the intention to oppress its people…” Remember: After the first one, the rest are free. | |||
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Baroque Bloke |
Kelly happened. Serious about crackers | |||
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CORRECT!!! | |||
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| hello darkness my old friend  |
With mounting pressure on his investigation he is desperate. He must be feeling the pressure and needs to do something other than wasting time and money. Some poor copy clerk or low level underling is about to be tossed under the bus. | |||
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Glorious SPAM! |
Heheh yup. It didn't take long for the General to have the cabinet and staff walking "to the left, abreast, and in step" with Trump, giving the propper greeting of the day, and maybe even carrying their ID card in their left breast pocket  | |||
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https://www.nbcnews.com/politi...-resignation-n815331 Dana Boente, one of the nation's most high-profile federal prosecutors, has submitted his resignation after he was asked to step down to make way for a successor to be named by President Donald Trump. One of the few remaining Obama administration holdovers, Boente will continue to serve until a replacement is nominated and confirmed. He is the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, handling cases from the state capital in Richmond north to suburban Washington. Based in Alexandria, Virginia, the office is one of the nation's largest, with prosecutors specializing in intelligence and terrorism cases. The district includes the Pentagon, the CIA and Naval Station Norfolk, the world's biggest U.S. Navy base. Boente, who has served in the Justice Department for three decades, became the U.S. attorney in 2015 during the Obama administration. A well-regarded veteran prosecutor, he became acting attorney general in January after Trump fired Sally Yates, who refused to enforce the first executive order restricting travel. He served briefly as acting deputy attorney general, and more recently, as the acting assistant attorney general in charge of the Justice Department's National Security Division. In his acting capacity at the Justice Department, it was Boente who had the task of notifying the nation's U.S. attorneys in March that they must submit their resignations. During all those interim assignments, he continued to be the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. On Wednesday, Boente was notified by the chief of staff to Attorney General Jeff Sessions that he should submit his letter of resignation, so that the political process for naming a successor could begin. Virginia's two Democratic senators, Tim Kaine and Mark Warner, will recommend nominees for the U.S. attorney position. John Demers, a former Justice Department lawyer in the George W. Bush administration, was nominated in September for the national security position and awaits confirmation proceedings | |||
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An anthropologist's column in the Kansas City Star, in which he points out pretty accurately why rural America loves Trump: LINK
Thanks, Sap | |||
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| Knows too little about too much |
So Manifort and Gates are first out of the "indictment" gate open by Rosenstein/Mueller. Let's hope the Podestas are next. RMD TL Davis: “The Second Amendment is special, not because it protects guns, but because its violation signals a government with the intention to oppress its people…” Remember: After the first one, the rest are free. | |||
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^^^^Yup, the lefties think Manafort's arrest will lead to Trump, when it will actually lead to the Podestas, and hopefully Hillary . | |||
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| Get my pies outta the oven!  |
You guys crack me up. AGAIN, Mueller isn’t going after any Democrats, especially ones associated with Hillary Clinton. | |||
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| Baroque Bloke |
Re: "They’re Trump-strong in rural Iowa — and not changing their minds" Good post, Sap. Serious about crackers | |||
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| Free radical scavenger  |
I recently posted an article from the Wall Street Journal which explains why (to me) why President Trump cut funding for Obamacare's Cost Sharing Reductions (CSR) in another topic on SIGforum, but it seems like the article belongs here too since I find what he did to be a good idea given that we're stuck with Obamacare. With the CSRs cut, health insurance premiums on the exchanges will be going up, but the premium subsidies will increase too. As a result, a lot more insurance exchange customers will be offered health insurance coverage with no monthly premiums. Assuming that they are aware of this, a lot more people who are eligible for the exchanges (self-employed or work at small businesses which do not offer insurance benefits) should be signing up for insurance coverage, assuming that they are aware of "no monthly premium" health insurance. This won't fix Obamacare or the healthcare system mess, but it should attract more people to the insurance exchanges. Again given that Obamacare doesn't seem to be going away, it would look good for President Trump to get more people insurance coverage than Obama did. More ACA Plans to Come With No Premiums in 2018 - Trump indirectly bolstered the federal subsidies that help consumers with their insurance premiums | |||
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Tinker Sailor Soldier Pie |
I sure wish I could see the future like you can... ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan | |||
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Funny Man |
Have any of the forum legal scholars read the details on George Papadopoulos' charges and plea ? ______________________________ “I'd like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living.” ― John Wayne | |||
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Lighten up and laugh |
What???
http://www.dailywire.com/news/...m_campaign=mattwalsh | |||
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