Comments on: Nunes on the “spy”

By: Ymar Sakar

Ymar Sakar — Wed, 23 May 2018 03:04:53 +0000

Francesca Says:
May 21st, 2018 at 7:58 pm
So sick and tired of all this.
When will the rolling of heads commence?

Usually when they tell me it starts, it will commence.

By: Ymar Sakar

Ymar Sakar — Wed, 23 May 2018 00:01:33 +0000

What people should suspect are the MSM dominated narratives concerning Nixon’s plumbers not working for Mark Felt or setup by Mark Felt.

In an age pre internet, it wouldn’t have been hard. After all, Felt wasn’t the one going to jail for illegal breakins.

By: Richard Saunders

Richard Saunders — Tue, 22 May 2018 22:26:42 +0000

This is completely idle speculation and ouija-board psychology. Antonin Scalia and RBG were best friends on the Court. Did that affect his decisions one bit? Hers?

By: Geoffrey Britain

Geoffrey Britain — Tue, 22 May 2018 19:26:36 +0000

skeptic,

I suspect Pence’s loyalty is to the GOPe. Like Bush with Reagan, after Trump is gone Pence is meant to guide the party back into the control of the Republican establishment. His overt religiosity ensures that he would be at most a one term President, so he would be a perfect foil to once again safely turn over the Presidency to the democrats.

I’m convinced that the GOPe prefers being the minority party.

He gives himself away in little ways such as you describe. But his greatest “tell” is his close friendship with Sen. Jeff Flake.

By: Ymar Sakar

Ymar Sakar — Tue, 22 May 2018 18:26:23 +0000

Mad Dog Hussein: what did Americans expect when they elected a mad dog as President. The entire pack went mad afterwards.

By: skeptic

skeptic — Tue, 22 May 2018 16:38:57 +0000

Interview with Mike Pence showing what a smarmy weasel he is.
Fox News
He gets asked point blank at about 2:30 whether the President will declassify the documents and he does not answer. So the documents will not be declassified. He also accepts the Rosenstein dodge to let the Inspector General Horwitz handle the inquiry. Horwitz has been sitting on the email investigation for many months. My bet is that his vaunted report will be nothing.

I still do not undersand what is going on within the White House.
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Geoffrey Britain says:
“It would however provide ammunition for the dems and RINOs salivating at the prospect of impeaching and convicting Trump. ”

As they say on sports-talk radio, if the Dems take the House it is a sure-fire, gold trophy lock they will impeach. Trump will probably squeak through in the Senate but nothing will be done on his agenda or on the investigations of the deep state until perhaps 2021 if Trump wins or never if he loses.

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Tue, 22 May 2018 10:01:34 +0000

From Fox (FWIW):
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/05/22/another-informant-attempted-to-infiltrate-trump-campaign-under-obama-campaign-aide-says.html

By: Yancey Ward

Yancey Ward — Tue, 22 May 2018 06:17:34 +0000

It wouldn't surprise me one bit to eventually find out that Benjamin Wittes was one of the sources who outed Halper in this past weekend's stories in the NYTimes and WaPo. He literally works with people at Lawfare who would have known, not to mention his friendship with I-Am-Not-A-Leaky-Weasel Comey.

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Tue, 22 May 2018 05:01:42 +0000

“…TEAMED UP TO OUT [emphasis mine] an intelligence source who aided our country in a properly predicated counterintelligence investigation against a hostile foreign power.”

Which further strengthens the belief that the leak to the NYT and WAPO were part of a carefully-crafted ploy to totally discredit Nunes and anyone who harbored any suspicion of DOJ/FBI—and Obama administration/Clinton campaign malfeasance.

Well-crafted…except that Nunes and his colleague decided not to attend what was to be a fateful meeting.

To be sure, the attempt to discredit them is all that counts, facts—or lack of attendance at meetings—be damned.

These guys certainly do play hardball. But that is nothing new.

(I hope that it won’t get to the point where bodies will start to be found all over the place….)

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Tue, 22 May 2018 04:39:42 +0000

Ha. Someone had already suggested Nunes “outed” the spy — although declining to say how, or to note that the NYT and WaPo had already done the deed; probably taking refuge in the fact that they didn’t give his name, just all the details needed to identify him.
Read it yesterday, but it didn’t “connect” until I saw the interview today.

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/05/perspectives-on-an-outing.php

“Finally, Greenwald takes issue with the assertion by Ben Wittes and others that it was President Trump and Rep. Devin Nunes who are responsible for “outing” the professor. “[Wittes] almost certainly has no idea of who the sources are for the NYT or the Washington Post,” says Greenwald. Rather than blaming the organs that made it easy to identify the professor – the New York Times and Washington Post – Wittes chose, apparently without basis, to blame the enemies of his friend Jim Comey.”

I had to look up Wittes (here’s his tweet, so arch and too-too precious).

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I have a whole lot to say about how the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and the President of the United States teamed up to out an intelligence source who aided our country in a properly predicated counterintelligence investigation against a hostile foreign power.

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