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Top Democrats Request FBI Investigation of Trump Campaign Ties To Russia Over Hacking (politico.com)

As the Trump campaign refuses to point blame at Russia for the DNC hacks, top democrats on four House committees are questioning possible connections between Donald Trump's presidential campaign and Russia. They have formally asked the FBI to investigate the matter, citing new comments from a Trump confidant. Politico reports: "Troubling new evidence appears to show that the Trump campaign not only was aware of cyber attacks against Secretary [Hillary] Clinton's campaign chairman, but was openly bragging about it as far back as August," said Reps. Elijah Cummings from Government Affairs, John Conyers from Judiciary, Eliot Engel from Foreign Affairs and Bennie Thompson from Homeland Security. "For months, we have been asking the FBI to examine links between the Trump campaign and illegal Russian efforts to affect our election, including interviewing Trump advisor Roger Stone," they said. "In light of this new evidence -- and these exceptional circumstances -- we call on the FBI to fully investigate and explain to the American people what steps it is taking to disrupt this ongoing criminal activity." Earlier this week Stone said that "I do have a back-channel communication with Assange," referring to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, whose organization has been dropping documents online from Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, and has been unloading documents from other Democrats as well. U.S. intelligence agencies last week declared that a connection exists between Russia and allegedly hacked documents leaked by WikiLeaks and others.

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  1. FFS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Enough already. We get it, Democrats, you really want to go to war with Russia for some reason. It's as blatant as Bush's desire to go to war in the Middle East.

    Enough. Stop with the pretending that an insider leaking your dirty laundry A) excuses your corruption or B) is a justification for war.

    Just, give it up. Please.

  2. Re:Wait about 2 weeks by zedaroca · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Wikileaks debunked the 4chan hack.

    https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/786653209825861633

    No they didn't. We checked that the credentials had already been changed.

    Agree with the rest.

  3. Re: Can we see this evidence? by s.petry · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Facts are used to make claims against Hillary. You don't have to like facts, but stop being a fool and denying facts. She lied about Bengazi, read what she told Americans and compare to her later testimony and leaked emails by several people. She lied about having a private email server, she lied about having classified email on the server, she lied about knowing what a (C) was in classified mail [evidenced by the fact that she used the designation in other emails], she lied about hearing from Ambassador Stevens, and that list could go on and on.

    The question people should be asking is what is she currently lying about? Open borders which would destroy America, or fixing Immigration [which she has not bothered with in her long political career]. Is she lying about cutting taxes? If so, how do you suppose we pay for free college, free health care, and all of the other free stuff she's promising? Consider that the US is currently 20Trillion dollars in red spending 1Trillion dollars a year more than we currently take in. Is she lying about forcing companies to profit share? That would kill the entrepreneurs in the country because nobody will invest in new business. Especially if she raises taxes on the wealthy as she claims, who are the entrepreneurs.

    Oh, you need more? How about asking Hillary what this magical "Fair Share" is that she keeps telling everyone we should be paying. Here is a hint, if she does not give you a number and we already pay the highest taxes in the world it's probably 100%. She want's fossil fuels to become stranded resources. How do we power a country with no assets exactly?

    Go ahead and piss and moan about Trump's comment that every single person beyond puberty as at least heard, if not said. Feign moral outrage while popular musicians promote promiscuity, masturbation, killing cops, pimpin hos, and doing anything for money. Virtue signal while Universities teach people how to have great orgasm with a dildo and promote gratification while pushing the idea that only one gender can be held accountable for regrettable sex, and that sex is a great weapon to use to get ahead. Yeah, those same people that get invited to the current White House to party with the Dems and accolades from the Progressives. Why do you think Hillary openly claims she wants Supreme Court justices with a certain type of experience and refuses to mention Constitutional Rights in the same sentence? That should be easy. It's the same reason she has amassed a huge amount of wealth as a politician. The same thing people complain about with every goddamn nasty dictator and tyrant in the world.

    You won't get a prize by letting them win the game. You will get bent over first and fucked the hardest. Sorry folks, the US is really that far gone and it won't take much to push it over. All you need to do to validate that is look at the collusion between the Pravda^WMedia and Kremlin^WProgressives (including the current President).

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