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Trump appoints Richard Grenell as
Feb 20, 2020, 6:52 PM
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Director of National Intelligence. He is the first openly gay Cabinet Level official. Grenell, who is the current Ambassador to Germany has zero experience in intelligence, but will oversee the CIA,NSA, etc,etc. He was spokesman for the US UN Ambassador for 8 years, then founded and ran a right wing media company for 8 years before Trump made him Ambassador to Germany. The Germans hate him and ignore him. He has appeared on Tucker Carlson routinely. He is, however, outspoken in his support of Donald Trump. The politicization of intelligence is a most dangerous thing for any country.
When are Republicans going to wake the #### up?
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Re: Trump appoints Richard Grenell as
Feb 20, 2020, 6:53 PM
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trump needs an outsider to try to drain the swamp
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Oculus Spirit [97328]
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Got that right. I mean next thing you know
Feb 20, 2020, 6:54 PM
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they'll be submitting known BS foreign intelligence reports to FISA courts to get warrants to spy on political opponents.
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So you admit your a homophobe***
Feb 20, 2020, 6:57 PM
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Right
Feb 20, 2020, 6:59 PM
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Re: Right
Feb 20, 2020, 7:07 PM
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So appointing someone just as bad is the answer? Well so far this week, the Gen. Counsel for The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has left, the acting Director was fired, and now the Deputy Director is expected to leave tomorrow. Forget party, are you really that indifferent to the disintegration of our intelligence community?
The FBI screws up some FISA applications and suddenly all 30,000 FBI employees are incompetent?
Brennan and Clapper, they're only sin was calling Trump what he is....dangerous.
But we're all to believe that Real Estate Developer Donald Trump has decided that the entire intelligence community is bad news, just to protect himself?
Read something other than Fox, he fired the acting Director of National Intelligence because his staff disclosed in a meeting in the oval office, as required by law, that the Russians are interfering again in the 2020 election on Trump's behalf. So Trump got angry because Adam Schiff was in the meeting, as required by law and fired the Acting Director. He's afraid that Adam Schiff will use it against him. Instead of being worried that the Russians are interfering. Think man.
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Re: Right
Feb 21, 2020, 6:16 AM
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The FBI did not "screw up" some FISA applications.
Were they fast and loose with their procedure? Yeah. Looks that way, especially since the "predicate", as 1988 has repeated about 40K times, was based on what appeared to be a patchwork oppo-research paper created by a former MI6 operative-turned-private-detective-for-hire, Christopher Steele. Some of it turned out to be exaggerated or unsubstantiated, though much of it has since been confirmed.
But how the heck were the Feds supposed to know that prior to investigating? On one hand, you had Donald Trump, malignant narcissist of zero loyalty or actual principle, a shady real-estate developer who had had four bankruptcies (and was then mysteriously bailed out by Russian benefactors), a massive case of sexual entitlement, and had properties filled with guys who are among the world's most corrupt - International arms dealers, Russian oligarchs and mobsters, Saudi oil sheikhs, and scions of strongman regimes from across the world. He would not (and still won't!) release his taxes and said this on the very day a Russian hacker outfit comprised of guys from military intelligence called "Fancy Bear" launched an attack on the DNC server: https://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/trump-putin-no-relationship-226282
What the heck were the Feds supposed to think? It looked to everybody with a modicum of suspicion that we had a Manchurian Candidate president right in front of us...especially after his toadying performance in Helsinki, where he openly took the word of Putin over his own intelligence community.
I was frankly shocked when Mueller's team came back without evidence of actual collusion. And it wasn't like the Feds were really declaring either Russia or Trump innocent of the attempt; what they ultimately came back with was despite attempts, both sides had apparently been too inept to make actual contact and conspire in any meaningful way.
I hope that is still the case. But the two sides have had four years now to make actual contact and any check on Trump is seemingly gone since the GOP Senate clearly isn't about to do it. But with Trump now firing anyone who tries to speak the obvious truth that Russia is still Russia and is hard at work trying to meddle with the West, who is left to monitor or speak against him if he does start successfully conspiring?
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Before I proceed past your first paragraph...
Feb 21, 2020, 6:22 AM
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please tell me which parts of Steele's report have been confirmed and show how they merited, justified or predicated spying on a political opponent's campaign.
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Re: Tough question. Don't expect an answer other than....
Feb 21, 2020, 6:39 AM
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"Orange Man Bad".
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NO!... No we don't...***
Feb 20, 2020, 8:06 PM
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best bit is he's going to stay the Ambassador to Germany
Feb 20, 2020, 7:04 PM
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True conservatives would be upset about Trump purposefully going around the constitution to appoint Richard Grenell but I'm not sure how many of them are left in government or on this board.
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Oculus Spirit [93152]
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We're focused on protecting our 2nd amendment rights.***
Feb 21, 2020, 5:09 AM
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Re: Trump appoints Richard Grenell as
Feb 20, 2020, 8:04 PM
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Politicized intelligence, hahaha that’s rich coming from someone who completely whiffed at the last 3 years of Obama’s intel agencies being exposed nonstop.
Trumps hiring an outsider. GOOD. By the time he’s done with his second term the government will be full of them, hopefully.
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Do you realize the turnover rate of the T-Rump admin...?
Feb 20, 2020, 8:10 PM
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Most are lucky (maybe the wrong word) to last a year... "Revolving door" has taken on a new meaning in DC.
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