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FBI Director Comey Confirms Investigation Into Trump Campaign (reuters.com)
FBI Director James Comey confirmed during testimony before Congress Monday that the FBI is investigating whether the Trump campaign colluded with a covert Russian campaign to interfere with the election. From a report on Reuters: Comey told a congressional hearing on Russian activities that the probe "includes investigating the nature of any links between individuals associated with the Trump campaign and the Russian government and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and Russia's efforts. Because it is an open, ongoing investigation and is classified, I cannot say more about what we are doing and whose conduct we are examining," Comey said. Earlier, the chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee, Republican Representative Devin Nunes, told the same hearing that the panel had seen no evidence of collusion between Russia and Trump's 2016 campaign. Nunes also denied an unsubstantiated claim from Trump that there had been a wiretap on his Trump Tower in New York but said it was possible other surveillance was used against the Republican.
trump campaign investigates you
It's all fake news. The president tweeted that out just this morning. And if you can't trust the president then who can you trust? [1]
[1] Note .. for the sarcasm impaired, that was sarcasm.
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Is this the same Comey that claimed Hillary didn't violate any laws with her home brew email server containing top secret information?
So the Guy who cleared Clinton of all charges even after she had classified material on a home computer is now feeding the rumor mill again. The globalists are so afraid of Trump they are pushing any agenda to remove him before he can repeal Nafta and H1b visa laws. Comney needs to get fired.
It all needs to be investigated, From Trump's current list of issues all the way back to seeing just how much involvement Russia had with pushing Clinton through the primaries.
SCROTUS is planning on spending 600 million dollars this year to play golf at Mar-A-Lago every weekend, while cutting Meals on Wheels (which also feeds veterans). He's ripping off the country for his lifestyle of playing golf and watching TV news (Fox, apparently).
More than 55 days in and so far has achieved nothing except piss off most of the country (approval rating at 37%). He has released documents that show that he and the GOP will cut everything (because Bannon has stated that he wishes to destroy the government).
If he isn't a Russian stooge sent to destroy us as a nation, then we have honestly elected the worst example of a human being in all of history.
If telephones are outlawed, then only outlaws will have telephones.
the provided link does not support the quote in the article. This link does - http://live.reuters.com/Event/Live_US_Politics - but its video and fuck video amirite?
http://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-us-canada-39328507 this does actually have transcripts.
Why hasn't Trump apologized to Obama? It would seem to be the decent thing to do.
Trump kept saying Obama was born in Kenya. Then during the election when it was politically expeditious and like a weasel coward said "Obama was born in the US period." No apology nothing. Now the bully we elected president due to the lack of choice has slandered and falsely accused Obama of wiretapping him. What Trump is doing is evil, no president should be falsely accusing people of crimes. If anyone says anything negative about Trump, he takes revenge on them. Trump is like an female dog in heat who can't control control his emotional state. Expect him to carry out many injustices we won't even be told about. As a general rule don't believe in weighing evidence or considering two sides of an issue. Plus he is old, old people's brains stay fixed on an opinion even when shown opposing evidence. They may temporarily agree, and three revert back to their old opinion. It's been proven.
If by interfere we mean "she didnt get elected when it was her time" then, sure, its fairly apparent the trump campaign achieved this by campaigning in more states and cities, and on issues the average person could more easily relate to.
Full Disclosure, im a California Liberal. That being said, Hillary was a turd of a candidate with a domestic policy that was unrelateable outside of large cities. she ignored two intelligence scandals, rigged her primary to destroy her opponent, and took questions from moderators ahead of the debate. She was the epitome of liberal elite, showing up in a fifteen thousand dollar burlap sack from Beverly Hills to lecture the midwest on povery and jobs.
Good people go to bed earlier.
What the FBI says they're investigating is Russian attempts to interfere with the election. This includes investigating whether or not anyone associated with the Trump campaign did or did not have any involvement with such Russian efforts. And Comey has repeatedly gone to great lengths to point out that he can't talk about which individual people are or aren't reviewed as part of that investigation into Russia's actions. At no point have they said what the OP's headline implies - that they're "investigating the Trump campaign."
The hearing, on the other hand, HAS spent a lot more time examining the circumstances under which someone working on the Obama administration's watch committed the serious federal felony of publicly disclosing the details of surveillance that swept up the conversations of a US citizen - identification of which should have remained "masked," and which could only have been unmasked by high-level officials within the Obama administration. The FBI says they are vigorously pursuing who committed that felony.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
The real story is that there is absolutely no evidence of any "hacking" by Russians or anyone else.
This IS 'fake news'. Simply by drawing out the question they are validating the doubts and suspicions of 'the left' without any evidence or rationale.
Our country has been stolen out from under us. Don't take it personally that the actual ruling left is 100% full of shit, they aren't the true left, the left that most slashdotters believe in. Stop being so desperate to affiliate yourself with power via a party/ideology association. You're being deceived and it's becoming a grievous liability.
There is a big difference between "It didn't happen" and " Can't find any evidence that it happened."
Not to mention the tweet clearly delineated 'wire tapped' with Single Quotes which are equivalent to Air Quotes.
How about the prior news release that said that the NSA did ?
On Jan 20th 2017, the very day Trump was being sworn in, The New York Times, and other mainstream media outlets, claimed that the intelligence community had proof that the Russians worked with the Trump campaign to affect the election. They also claimed that this proof was obtained by wiretaps of Trump Tower. The NYT headline read: "Wiretapped Data Used In Inquiry Of Trump Aides - Examining Russian Ties". If the government did not wiretap Trump, then there is no evidence of Russian interference in the election.
http://www.hannity.com/articles/election-493995/new-york-times-confirmed-wiretaps-used-15618638/
The same guy who, despite having hard physical evidence that Hillary broke the law in possessing classified information on a personal computer, obstructed justice by destroying evidence of same, and so on and so forth, declined charging her for "lack of evidence..."... that guy... is now saying that, in spite of a COMPLETE lack of ANY evidence, it is appropriate to go off on a witch hunt against the guy who beat Hillary fair and square in the election.
There's no bias here at all. Really. I mean it.
I'd like to remind them as a low-UID Slashdot poster I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their investigatory bureaucracies.
We should still try to know if Russia attempted to interfere regardless of whether they were successful or not in changing the outcome. Focusing on the outcome itself just turns into a political scuffle (which I'll join anyhow).
Using the snake oil argument that he will SOMEHOW magically turn the clock back to the 70's and all the Chinese factories will flow back to the rust-belt and there will be no robots taking the jobs instead. I don't like lopsided trade either, but even no-ed Chinese factory jobs are doomed as robots grow incrementally better every year. He offered an over-simplistic "solution" to complex problems: "Everything is outsiders' fault". Clever marketing, but 90% false.
Education is our only realistic solution to stay ahead of robots and cheap labor, because they are not going away. China is not the only cheap-labor nation by far. H may have had a jerky personality, but her education and retraining solutions were far more grounded in reality and specifics than the vague orange used-casino salesman with A.D.D.
Table-ized A.I.
I trust him to make sure that any evidence he does find gets buried, just like Oleg Erovinkin.
Now, now... He spends way more time (and taxpayer funds) flying back and forth to Mar-a-Lago in Florida *every* weekend, and I'm sure he gets some work done on those flights -- or, at least, catches up on nap-time.
Don't forget that he flies to his resort at a cost of $3 million in tax money per trip just days after he proposes a budget to cut health insurance and benefits for millions of poor and middle class people. The arrogance is breathtaking. I'd say hypocrisy if it were anyone else but he's never been "one of the people" to anyone actually paying attention.
Why hasn't Trump apologized to Obama? It would seem to be the decent thing to do.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.... Cough, snort... Trump apologize? Are you serious? That asshat never apologizes for anything no matter how slanderous. Why would he start now?
See subject: Comey admitted Hillary Clinton's server was NOT authorized to hold classified info (which it did) or transmit it (which it did). When asked if he would hire someone into the FBI itself who did such illegal things he avoided answering YES or NO (which he was requested to do by Trey Gowdy in a hearing).
* Comey ought to change his name to CRONY imo (either that OR Clinton & crew had 'dirt' on him he didn't want exposed).
Everyone's also aware of George Soros & Hillary BOTH funding shills like mad out online to post anti-Trump things + BOGUS organizations like BLM & those Pro-Sharia Law women's groups etc. (where did you think 20 billion of Soros' money went to folks?).
APK
P.S.=> The entire "political world" is populated by scumbags (except our current President Trump) - Hillary was FINANCED by definite enemies of ours in China & Saudi Arabia (& I don't want to hear bullshit they're not our enemies either - they DEFINITELY not our pals)... apk
Personal attacks and lies should not be moderated favorably, the post I'm responding to is clearly flamebait.
The majority of Meals on Wheels funding, which is federal funding to a _PRIVATE_ organization (so questionable) is not through discretionary funding. The discretionary portion of funding is 3% of their funding. The majority of the funding is through the non-discretionary portion of the budget. "Cancelling" is fear mongering bullshit. I'd say check your facts, but some people have no interest and others are paid not to.
We are a nation based on Federalization, meaning that the States should be the primary Government for the people. The Federal Government should not, and was never intended, to be a massive bloat of centralized power. The Federal Government was intended as A) National Defense and B) Arbitration and Law regarding States.
You may disagree with certain powers being returned to the States, but that _is_ _the_ set of ideals you will find both in the US Constitution. That is fully verifiable by reading the Federalist and anti-Federalist papers. This is the current primary driver in many issues.
Both sides have done a whole lot of wrong in the past, and this administration _may_ turn out to be the same. However, 59 days into the administration I have seen a President attempt to live up to promises he made when on the campaign trail. Bids are going out for the wall, he has had every person on their administration sign no-lobbying contracts, immigration reforms are being made (though obstructed), Health Care is being addressed, the Budget recommendations (even if you dislike them) have been submitted on-time to Congress.
This "not my candidate" extremist bullshit is being bought and paid for by some extremely wealthy people. It's disturbing that so many people are falling for the pleas for the status quo, which moved the US into negative territory over the last 8 years.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
Napolitano met his Waterloo?
Why are Democrats SO AFRAID of Russians? They are supposed to be primitive, desolate, obsolete, incapable of building a simple refrigerator...
So we can assume you are black then :-)
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
He prefers the Southern White House because it's closer to his core supporters. The last president to spend so much time in the Southern White House was Jefferson Davis.
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You can certainly find evidence Comey was disliked before. Where is the evidence those same people like him now, and that they are democrats?
You mean the Jimmy Carter who was the only statesman who managed to broker peace in the Middle East? The Jimmy Carter who was shot dead while in office, therefore could not manage to get a full term of work done by being dead for a fair bit of it? Shoot dead Trump and then tell me how much more work he'll get done, retard.
The Reuters article did not say or imply that the FBI is investigating the Trump campaign. The Reuters article did report that the FBI is investigating Russian meddling in the US election. When asked whether the FBI was investigating the Trump campaign's possible collusion with the Russian hacking, Comey would only say he could not comment on that. I've been watching the testimony; there isn't any implied confirmation that the FBI is investigating Trump campaign intermediaries.
"everybody" on fifth street is going to be about 5 people, so why not? Well if he picked the middle of the street right outside the police precinct people might not be able to vote for him I guess...
Yeah, that sounds good on paper, but obviously you've never attempted to apply any of those ideals to the real world.
Let's take for example, Education. By your accounting, that should be left up to the individual states, as that's not something that should be administered by the Federal Government.
In your worldview, every state can have different education standards, which would create chaos later in life -- when those students move to another state to attend college, some from, say Texas, might encounter problems when they suddenly find out that Jesus did not ride Dinosaurs and the Earth is round and not flat.
And the other problem is of course that in the real world, there's only ONE set of textbooks for all states regardless of education standards, because states cannot afford custom textbooks just for them.
So in the end, Texas sets the standards because they are the largest market -- meaning whatever the STATE legislature of Texas choses, that's what goes nationally.
So, we *all* wind up with Jesus rode Dinosaurs and the Earth is Flat textbooks. And Christianity is the only true religion. All others are going to bring you eternal damn-nation. If you find that one state can control what we think and teach our children throughout the nation, then essentially, all you're doing is moving Federal Power to a different State -- Texas.
Because that's how the REAL world works. Sorry to burst your bubble, but the rest of us have to live in this world, not your fantasy of it. And in that case, I'd rather that the federal government control this instead of the Texas state legislature -- which I didn't vote for.
If telephones are outlawed, then only outlaws will have telephones.
Even now, Hillary intermediaries are going on TV and the news magazines proclaiming that they lost because the Russians hacked their servers and used it to actively campaign against Hillary. This did not help their cause then, and it will not help galvanize opposition to the Russians now.
The reason for this is that everyone knows that HRC deliberately ran a private server for her communications, and it was insecurely implemented. They're only pointing out the DNC leadership are a bunch of administrative incompetents when it comes to computer security, and we would only see more security incompetence if we elected a Democrat PotUS. This was also made apparent when Obama's HHS secretary allowed the computer server rollout for the ACA health insurance marketplaces to be bungled, and cost the taxpayers even more money to hire expensive consultants to get the servers to work properly. Did the DNC leadership realize they needed to design their computer systems to segregate data on a need to know basis, provide secured email communication, enclose the entire system behind firewalls and IDS, implement VPNs and "harden" laptop/smartphone use, and carefully vet & control every Democratic workers' computer access? Apparently not.
How does "...but ...but, we were victimized by the evil Russians" going to help their brand in the next election? Democrats are a party of victims. They don't know how to hire and manage competent computer personnel, they can't accept their own culpability in their campaign failure, and if elected, they would probably weaken the computer security of the nation's bureaucracy.
What good does it do for these losers to say, "We need to go to war with the evil Russians"? The House, Senate and executive branch are all controlled by Republicans! (I guess Democrats will have to relearn how to win elections in the next two to four years.) It doesn't even help bolster the case for the Republicans who DO want to actively confront the Russians. It just looks like sour grapes from incompetents. BTW, the RNC was hacked as well; Republican leadership (even outside of Trump) are just as incompetent about system security, even as they bray about how much they care about it and "improper" leaking.
nothing but a good ol fashiond witch hunt
I actually read that the Clinton camp had people who talked to Russia. So why haven't they been investigated? Oh, I guess maybe they had but got a pass. Gee, given that Russia is a Country the US had a relationship with good and bad considering our space exploration, our commerce, that both the US and Russia are significant players in the world might mean both Trump and Clinton camps talk to Russian people? Gee when the Democrat's accused Republican's of conspiracy theories now we have Democrat's doing the same. You know what won the election for Trump, hint it wasn't the Russian's. It was the people fed up with how government and the liberal media ignored them so they fought back in votes.
What "Free Press"? are you referring to? The "Free Press" that did everything in their power to get Trump elected, because as we found out later the Democrats believed he would be the easiest for Hillary to beat? The one that colluded with the DNC to install a particular person to the highest office in the land after the two Primaries? The one that continues to collude to disrupt the current President? The painfully obvious slander and hit jobs by CNN and MSNBC colluding with (and repeating the stories of) NYT, WP, etc..? That "Free Press"?
The "Free" press has been dead for quite a while. We were put on notice by journalists when the monopolization was legalized (previously restricted by law).
I believe it would be more apt to say that Trump wanted to attack an openly corrupt media establishment. A whole lot of people agree with him, and of course the owners of that powerful block of corruption are doing all they can to maintain power and control.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
The only Mystic Orb you should be heeding is the Loc-Nar.
If it's good enough to destroy Trump with madness, it's good enough for America.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Yes, that's wrong (if it's true). But it's like a cop opening your car trunk without a warrant. And finding a dead body. It's wrong and inadmissible as evidence. But the body was still there.
Elections aren't about selecting the first person that manages to escape a guilty verdict on a technicality. Had Hillary not used amazingly poor judgement in her handling of official communications, there would be no ammunition for Russia, Trump, or the GOP to embarrass her with and drive undecided voters to the other camp. The fact that it was Russia, with no right or jurisdiction to conduct an 'investigation' is also problematic. But from a point of view of ethics and justice rather than legality, the voters chose not to overlook the smell of a body in the trunk.
Have gnu, will travel.
So they didn't wiretap Trump, but they have evidence of a Russia/Trump collusion? I mean can't you spot the obvious contradiction?
and is falling for project mockingbird diversion psy-ops now..
americans are retarded sheep
How do you have time for this, Bannon? Have you got Donald ready for his bath yet?
Good points on cost sharing, but let's ally with countries who share our values. Japan and South Korea are free market democracies committed to the betterment of their people. Russia, not so much. Also, Russia is no longer a superpower. In economic terms, it is beaten by Japan and South Korea. And the EU (basically most of NATO) is nearly tied with the US (more reason to cost share).
Let's not hold grudges from the 40s and solve problems of the 70s. Looking forward, the main alliances need to be with the EU, China, Japan, India, Brazil, Canada and Australia.
Comey confirmed investigations into certain persons in the Trump campaign, and into Hillary Clinton and persons in her campaign. If somebody is cozying up to the Ruskies I know who I'd have my money on for traitorous behavior.
Camp David is substantially more rustic - not much onyx, marble, and gold leaf - more log cabins and century old wooden floors.
It's one thing to accuse or insult other politicians in the US, but dragging our allies into his Web-of-BS is just the kind of thing us T detractors feared.
Many political decisions require hard choices and sometimes you have to offend an ally to make progress in other ways. But this UK accusation is not one of those trade-offs; it's manufactured out of nowhere; an unnecessary source of tension.
T should be put on trial for dragging the UK into this. He should be required to give answers to the citizens of both USA and the UK.
Table-ized A.I.
The same polling organizations had been fairly accurate for the last 3 prez elections. Why would they suddenly all go evil at the same time in one election?
The Brexit polling was also unexpectedly off. Are they "in on it" too?
Rather than global Illuminati-like conspiracies, a better explanation is that new technology has made old polling techniques less accurate.
Table-ized A.I.
Only a Pretendsident.
Comey clearly likes pushing the power of his office to its limits, but to what end this time? What is he hoping to get? A cabinet post? A cushy ambassadorship? Just good old fashioned hush money? Or, maybe this is just the led up to his running for Senator or Governor?
Based on this experience, I would say not taking criminal action against Hillary Clinton was in line with many other cases.
Kristian Saucier got 1 year in prison for taking 6 photos of the engine room on the sub he was assigned.
Sailor Denied 'Clinton Deal', Gets 1 Year in Prison for 6 Photos of Sub.
It's obvious that Hillary was protected because she's part of the ruling class.
And the outrage you had when the Obamas...
President Obama spent $85 million of taxpayer money on vacations in 8 years. A tidy sum but Trump is on pace to eclipse that total in less than a year. Trump has racked up north of $15 million in travel costs in two MONTHS. Spare me the bogus false equivalence.
No need to understand something that isn't true. Go look at what they actually found on her. It amounted to nothing. The second hand stories that travel around are overblown, to say the least.
The reason Comey couldn't recommend prosecution is that he didn't have enough evidence for a prosecution. No prosecutor would agree to take the case.
I call TOTAL bull shit on this one. With just what was presented to the public as evidence is enough to put someone in jail for about 3,000 year. (remember it is 10 years for EACH count (email) ) I am certified by the DHS in forensics evidence in crimes like this and there is enough to bury here yet she walks scot free. There are people sitting in jail right now that did far less than her in mishandling classified material. Let's look at Snowden. Poor man still can't come back and they both broke the same law "Mishandling of Classified Material" they just mishandled it in different ways. Snowden leaked it to the people and Hillary broke the law for her own benefit. Snowden leaks to let The People know the truth that their rights of privacy are being violated and they want to shoot him but Hilary does it to protect her "Pay to play" scam with the State Department and that's OK.
Second hand stories? dude I read the emails and the evidence is right there to see. It isn't second hand when I! read the evidence. You're just too stupid and blind to see the truth.
I swear the IQ rate has went down to 37 on this site. "News for Nerds" what happened to all the nerds with high IQs that can see the truth?