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Robert Mueller's Team Reportedly Interviewed Facebook Staff As Part of Russia Probe (thehill.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Hill: Special counsel Robert Mueller's team has interviewed at least one Facebook employee tasked with helping the Trump campaign's digital operations during the 2016 campaign, Wired reported on Friday. The report, which cited a source familiar with the matter, does not say when the employee was questioned nor does it detail the focus of the interview. Mueller's team has been investigating for months any collusion between Trump campaign associates and Russia. During the election, Facebook deployed employees to embed with the Trump campaign to assist its digital operations. The company also worked with Hillary Clinton's campaign team but did not have employees embedded with them. The company has also been scrutinized by Congress for selling more than 3,000 ads to the Internet Research Agency, a Russian "troll farm" alleged to have carried out misinformation operations online during the campaign.
I think we may just see /. continue to report on this nonsense through the next seven years of President Trump's presidency. Then they'll probably continue to report on it through all eight years of President Ivanka's presidency, too.
I have been thinking since this started that Mueller has the most phenomenal luck in catching this assignment. After running the FBI pretty much everything else he could do would be anticlimactic; a downhill slide to obscurity and retirement.
Instead, everyone in the entire world is breathlessly waiting for what he has got. What his real skills are. What effect he will have on the history of the civilized world.
Add to that there could not be a bigger, fatter, softer target that Donald J Trump and his hapless progeny and minions and cronies. These guys are up to their armpits in Russian mob money that's what has Jared, Junior, and fat old dad so worried. The collusion business is barely actionable, but they know that the trail leads to all the money laundering they have been doing for the past two decades.
I don't expect anyone named Trump to do any jail time. And certainly Trump is immune from the consequences of any action he took as long as Republicans control congress. But if Mueller has even 1/10th of what he is generally believed to have Trump is going to have a very miserable year.
What fight? Mueller has everything handled, the world has decided Trump's a moron from his own words alone. He's the least popular US President in recorded history. It's just time trickling down an hourglass at this point.
I've been a Newsweek subscriber for the vast majority of the years since the late-sixties, but even I though they were crazy for publishing that. Not going to happen.
the mainstream media and mainstream politicians are the ones who created the "collusion" narrative and very deliberately decided on the "collusion" phrasing instead of saying "conspiracy." conspiracy is obviously what they mean to say and should say, but ironically of course they have long since burned the "conspiracy" terminology, having trained the public to instead associate it with an untruth, a false narrative, with outlier schizophrenic lunatics being the only ones to think it true.
If you don't want to lose to someone like Trump, don't run someone like Hillary.
(in south park terms: I see your turd sandwich, and raise you a giant douche)
The election wasn't ideological at all-- it's just they took one of the most hated figures in modern american political history -- and ran her against a jingoistic, populist mouth-breather.
Ignore the pollsters and the news, what did you really think would happen?? A large swath of the voting public voted against Hillary. the fact that they wound up voting for trump was happenstance.
Hilary was run because she was popular with the billionaires who basically run things. Between Hilary and Trump they'd have taken either one, but they made damn sure we didn't get Bernie. Already I'm seeing stuff like top ten Democratic contenders lists without Bernie on them. The mainstream media (CNN, MSNBC, etc) are doing their best to pretend he and the actual American Left don't exist.
Meanwhile the Republicans took both the House and Senate but lost the popular vote both times. And not by small margins. Dems took home 55% of the votes in the last round of elections to 45% on the Republican side and _still_ lost the House and Senate. You can't even blame that on Gerrymandering since the Rs took the Senate. And then there's Trump's victory despite losing the popular vote by 3%.
It's getting difficult to even pretend we live in a democracy anymore... I don't know what's worse, that these statistics exist or that our government doesn't even have to bother covering them up.
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This. If only pure votes counted, Trump probably would have only concentrated on NY, Chicago, and LA, and most likely still would have won. Instead, he had a smart strategy of trying to win important states instead of using the "50 state strategy" Hillary used. Damn, it hurts for me to admit that.
Stop embarrasing yourself.
A person can only win a contest by winning according to the rules of that contest. The American electoral system uses an electoral college to protect against the tyranny of a few highly populated cities running the nation. According to the rules, Trump won, therefore no matter what you say with your fevered imagination, HILLARY LOST.
You are like a fool who instsist that the team that lost the superbowl actually won because they had possession of the ball longer, scored points be damned!
The Mueller investigation IS the coverup.
1. Mueller was running the FBI and is a long-time good friend of Comey.
2. Mueller handed off the FBI to Comey and then was involved serving Hillary in the Uranium One deal during the Obama years.
3. Mueller, Comey, and even Obama are all tangled-up in Uranium One (which transferred piles of cash from Russia through the Clintion org to who-knows-whom) and all three were communicating with Hillary via her illegal private server (so ALL are involved in her felonies, which explains why she was not prosecuted)
4. They all expected none of this to come out because they were certain Hillary would win.
5. Hillary funds an "October Surprise" intelligence report using a foreign spy who in-turn used russian spies as sources, and the document gets injected into the FBI where Comey uses if to get a FISA judge to OK spying on Trump and his team, and the FBI and team Obama leak fake tidbits from that "dossier" mixed with bits of info they got from the illegal wiretaps to their friends in the press, but it fails to stop Trump's election. This puts Comey and Obama in Nixon-like legal jeopardy if anybody finds out, so they need it to stay secret.
6. After Hillary loses, she needs to blame SOMEBODY for her loss which cost over a billion dollars, she blames Russia even thoug in the months before the election the entire Democrat team including Obama have publicly scoffed at the idea our elections could be tampered with, particularly by Russia (you can find youtube vid of Obama mocking the very idea). Democrats begin demanding an investigation of "Russian collusion with Trump".
7. The Democrats and the press demand Trump's AG Sessions recuse himself from the "collusion probe" because he worked on the Trump campaign as a volunteer and publicly met the Russian Ambassador when as a Senator he attended an event arranged by Obama's Stats dept - This is very "comvenient" becasue the Democrats have stalled Trump's appointments in the Senate and the #2 guy there is still an Obama person.
8. When Trump fired Comey, a move that SHOULD have been universally-approved given that both Republicans and Democrats had been calling for his firing for months, Comey leaked classified info to a buddy to have him indirectly leak it to a friendly press outlet specifically to try to trigger a special prosecutor.
9. When Sessions stepped aside, it left in-place Obama appointee Rosenstein, a friend of Comey who Comey could count on to name Meuller, which is what happened. While the laws that govern here require a crime to be listed in the documents authorizing the prosecutor, Rosenstein breaks this law and makes the commission open-ended with no specific law listed.
10. Meuller's team was supposedly investigating whether Trump colluded with Putin, but has instead been on quite a fishing expedition and leaking furiously. Every time Trump seems to get traction on something, the Meuller team leaks something (such leaks are criminal acts under the governing statutes) to the New York Times or the Washington Post to start a new distraction - the current leak is a perfect example: Trump goes to Davos and gets some positive press, Meuller then leaks that Trump tried to fire Meuller (a non-story given that [a] Meuller was NOT fired and [b] Fox reported that incident months ago).
It's rather apparent that Meuller's job is to try to keep a non-crime investigation bubbling along for as long as possoble both to immobilize Trump and to keep Trump's AG Sessions sidelined and unable to investigate Meuller, Comey, Clinton and Obama.
And now we're learning why.
You are welcome on my lawn.
You mean those investigations that were concluded before she was even interviewed? Or the times she sat in Congressional hearings claiming she either couldn't remember or "what difference, at this point, does it make now?" - those investigations?
He can bring indictments against citizens for crimes but he cannot bring an indictment against an elected sitting US President or any Senate approved Cabinet appointees.
Actually never been tried.
Anyone claiming that they know is full of shit. The experts in the field are still arguing about what and what not can be done here.
There is nothing in the constitution or any other law that says that the president is exempt from the law. The question is who is in a position to hold him accountable.
No president has ever pardoned himself and Nixon had the decency to not get a situation like this tried.
Mueller should know a lot about the Russians. After all, he's on their payroll.
On top of that, there are the revelations from the Strzok-Page emails (and the curiously-selective and conveniently-missing Strzok-Page emails surrounding certain critical dates) that compromises Mueller and the entire "Russian collusion" investigation, and the very legitimacy of the FBI and DoJ. This is big, bigger than Watergate in it's breadth, scope, and implications for the nation going forward.
They may have just went a bridge too far with this. People I talk to who normally never talk politics or about these sorts of government shenanigans have started spontaneously expressing anger and disgust with the FBI. Obama could be called to testify under oath in a Federal court if some of this stuff goes to trial. That should be interesting, to say the least.
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Progressivism (aka US 'Liberalism'): Ideas so good they need a police/surveillance-state to enforce.