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02-03-2018, 09:09 PM
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You talking about the election right?
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I like it when you're happy. So interpret it in anyway that makes you feel good.
BTW, I was sorry to hear what happened to the space your business occupied so many years. I hope you find something as nice or better. I wish you the best.
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02-03-2018, 09:11 PM
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I like it when you're happy. So interpret it in anyway that makes you feel good.
BTW, I was sorry to hear what happened to the space your business occupied so many years. I hope you find something as nice or better. I wish you the best.
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Thanks. I’ll find something.. I’m actually happy I have to move. My current studio is way too small
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02-03-2018, 09:31 PM
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Thanks. I’ll find something.. I’m actually happy I have to move. My current studio is way too small
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I like that.
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02-05-2018, 06:32 AM
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In testimony before Congress, fbi director Comey called the dossier salacious and unverified. Those are his words. Yet he signed off using it to help obtain FISA warrants against a presidential campaign. The salacious and unverified dossier was prepared by a company that employed the wife of the deputy attorney general.
Nothing concerning there? Nothing at all?
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02-05-2018, 07:40 AM
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In testimony before Congress, fbi director Comey called the dossier salacious and unverified. Those are his words. Yet he signed off using it to help obtain FISA warrants against a presidential campaign. The salacious and unverified dossier was prepared by a company that employed the wife of the deputy attorney general.
Nothing concerning there? Nothing at all?
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and the FISA warrant that was applied for required evidence of some pretty serious wrong doing.....what exactly has Carter Page been charged with or arrested for to date?
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02-05-2018, 08:43 AM
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and the FISA warrant that was applied for required evidence of some pretty serious wrong doing.....what exactly has Carter Page been charged with or arrested for to date?
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Ummm he was being recruited as a Russian spy...
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02-05-2018, 09:05 AM
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Ummm he was being recruited as a Russian spy...
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ummmm...."salacious and unverified"
http://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/...ods-procedures
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02-05-2018, 09:27 AM
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I think you're forgetting he was under surveillance before the Dossier.
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02-05-2018, 09:32 AM
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Comey will go down as one of the biggest weasels of all time.
You have the deputy AG whose wife worked at Fusion GPS. You have the deputy head of the FBI whose wife took a jillion dollars in campaign contributions from the democrats. You have Loretta Lynch meting with Bill Clinton alone on a jet while his wife was supposedly being investigated. You have texts between two liberal FBI agents sleeping with each other, determined to everything they can to ensure a Hilary victory.
All of these political appointees assumed (like I did) that Hilary was going to win, and they likely all wanted to get on her good side by helping her out. They went all-in on a Hilary victory, and figured they had nothing to lose. Well she lost. And she didn't lose to a gracious person like Bush or Romney, she lost to a guy who is about as vindictive as they come.
These liberals who stuck their necks out for Hilary, must be sh*tting their pants worried about what the hell Trump is going to do. And they would be right to be sh*tting their pants. It's sounds very cliché, but they messed with the wrong guy, man did they mess with the wrong guy.
His strategists must be salivating at putting together the schedule of public floggings, all leading up to the fall midterms. If he plays his cards right, he can really help the GOIP with this in swing states.
This is a guy who truly gets his rocks off by sticking it to his adversaries. I cannot imagine the reckoning that awaits some of these people. They bet big. They lost big.
There's an old military expression, "when you kick a tiger in the azz, you better have a plan for dealing with his teeth". Here come the fangs.
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02-05-2018, 02:04 PM
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Originally Posted by scottw
"and the FISA warrant that was applied for required evidence of some pretty serious wrong doing.....what exactly has Carter Page been charged with or arrested for to date?"
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Ummm he was being recruited as a Russian spy...
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Spence, pay attention, Scott asked what has Page been charged with or arrested for. The locution "charged with" implies a wrongdoing by whomever is being "charged." "Being recruited," your locution, implies an action by other than whomever is being charged. Carter was not recruiting, he was attempted to be recruited by "Russians." The Russians were the recruiters, and Page would only be complicit with the wrongdoing if he accepted the recruitment and became a Russian spy. And if that were so, why has he not been charged of or arrested for being a Russian spy?
The FBI directly interviewed Page. It did not require a FISA warrant to interview Page. Apparently (unless the FBI is still working to find enough evidence that Page actually became a spy) there is no proof that Page is or was a spy.
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02-05-2018, 08:39 AM
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In testimony before Congress, fbi director Comey called the dossier salacious and unverified. Those are his words.
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He said it contained items that were...not the entire thing Jim.
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02-05-2018, 09:22 AM
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He said it contained items that were...not the entire thing Jim.
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not even Sean Hannity suggests that every word of the dossier is incorrect. So not sure what your point is.
You spin with the best of them.
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02-05-2018, 09:41 AM
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Originally Posted by Jim in CT
In testimony before Congress, fbi director Comey called the dossier salacious and unverified. Those are his words. Yet he signed off using it to help obtain FISA warrants against a presidential campaign. The salacious and unverified dossier was prepared by a company that employed the wife of the deputy attorney general.
Nothing concerning there? Nothing at all?
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And how would you verify it?
Nothing to see here, move along folks.............
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02-05-2018, 09:50 AM
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And how would you verify it?
Nothing to see here, move along folks.............
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How would I verify what? What Comey said? He testified to it.
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02-05-2018, 10:00 AM
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They are investigating rumours (the dossier) to see if the facts support them, what is so hard to understand about that.
There is a reason that people look for fire if they see smoke.
Trump has lied and cheated to get where he is, he would do anything to win
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02-05-2018, 10:07 AM
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Originally Posted by Pete F.
They are investigating rumours (the dossier) to see if the facts support them, what is so hard to understand about that.
There is a reason that people look for fire if they see smoke.
Trump has lied and cheated to get where he is, he would do anything to win
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You are moving the goalposts significantly.
The FBI relied on evidence they knew to be unreliable, to get a judge to sign off on letting the FBI wiretap somebody. It's not supposed to work that way.
Trump is a morally bankrupt reptile, and if he has committed crimes let's find out and get him the hell out of there. But even Trump is entitled to the system playing out fairly.
"There is a reason that people look for fire if they see smoke"
Yes there is. But (1) there are rules to follow when you are looking for fire, and (2) the Clintons have put up more than their fair share of smoke signals, and the left, and their minions in the media, could not care less.
I'm no Trump apologist. But man does it look like there was widespread collusion between the Justice Department and Hilary.
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02-05-2018, 10:12 AM
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Originally Posted by Jim in CT
You are moving the goalposts significantly.
The FBI relied on evidence they knew to be unreliable, to get a judge to sign off on letting the FBI wiretap somebody. It's not supposed to work that way.
Trump is a morally bankrupt reptile, and if he has committed crimes let's find out and get him the hell out of there. But even Trump is entitled to the system playing out fairly.
"There is a reason that people look for fire if they see smoke"
Yes there is. But (1) there are rules to follow when you are looking for fire, and (2) the Clintons have put up more than their fair share of smoke signals, and the left, and their minions in the media, could not care less.
I'm no Trump apologist. But man does it look like there was widespread collusion between the Justice Department and Hilary.
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Gowdy, a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, was speaking on CBS's Face the Nation on Sunday. He also said that even if the controversial Steele dossier didn't exist, there would still be a Russia investigation.
That speaks volumes coming from Him
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02-05-2018, 10:19 AM
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Probable cause is a requirement found in the Fourth Amendment that must usually be met before police make an arrest, conduct a search, or receive a warrant. Courts usually find probable cause when there is a reasonable basis for believing that a crime may have been committed (for an arrest) or when evidence of the crime is present in the place to be searched (for a search). Under exigent circumstances, probable cause can also justify a warrantless search or seizure. Persons arrested without a warrant are required to be brought before a competent authority shortly after the arrest for a prompt judicial determination of probable cause.
So Jim your suggesting the steel document was the only source used to establish Probable cause?
They pulled Trump over for a broken Tail light (possible collusion) but the found a whole bag of something else and Trumps saying thats my Friends stuff not mine.. and the Cops set me up!!! I am the victim of the deep state
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02-05-2018, 01:04 PM
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Probable cause is a requirement found in the Fourth Amendment that must usually be met before police make an arrest, conduct a search, or receive a warrant. Courts usually find probable cause when there is a reasonable basis for believing that a crime may have been committed (for an arrest) or when evidence of the crime is present in the place to be searched (for a search). Under exigent circumstances, probable cause can also justify a warrantless search or seizure. Persons arrested without a warrant are required to be brought before a competent authority shortly after the arrest for a prompt judicial determination of probable cause.
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There is a specific process that must be met in determining the validity of a probable cause before it is presented to a FISA court. That process has been cited a few times in this thread. Perhaps you missed all that?
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02-05-2018, 10:54 AM
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Gowdy, a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, was speaking on CBS's Face the Nation on Sunday. He also said that even if the controversial Steele dossier didn't exist, there would still be a Russia investigation.
That speaks volumes coming from Him
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BOY are you cherry picking.
He also said that the DOJ would not have gotten FISA approval for wiretaps, without the Steele dossier.
You conveniently left that part out. Gee, I wonder why?
http://wncn.com/2018/02/04/gowdy-say...teele-dossier/
"That speaks volumes coming from Him"
Since you claim that Gowdy has credibility when he says that there would still be a Mueller investigation, you must also believe Gowdy is equally credible when he says the FISA warrants would not have been granted without presentation of the salacious and unverified Steele dossier? Or are you cherry-picking?
I want Mueller to do a fair thorough and complete investigation, and let the chips fall where they may. I also want Americans to know that a small number of politically-motivated people at the DOJ, abused their authority in an attempt to help Hilary.
Thank you for bringing up Gowdy, and for allowing me to fill in the big item you conveniently excluded.
I heard a rumor that Gowdy is retiring from Congress to be a special prosecutor investigation which laws were broken by the DOJ in their attempts to help Hilary win. Wouldn't that be something?
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02-05-2018, 01:46 PM
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BOY are you cherry picking.
He also said that the DOJ would not have gotten FISA approval for wiretaps, without the Steele dossier.
You conveniently left that part out. Gee, I wonder why?
http://wncn.com/2018/02/04/gowdy-say...teele-dossier/
"That speaks volumes coming from Him"
Since you claim that Gowdy has credibility when he says that there would still be a Mueller investigation, you must also believe Gowdy is equally credible when he says the FISA warrants would not have been granted without presentation of the salacious and unverified Steele dossier? Or are you cherry-picking?
I want Mueller to do a fair thorough and complete investigation, and let the chips fall where they may. I also want Americans to know that a small number of politically-motivated people at the DOJ, abused their authority in an attempt to help Hilary.
Thank you for bringing up Gowdy, and for allowing me to fill in the big item you conveniently excluded.
I heard a rumor that Gowdy is retiring from Congress to be a special prosecutor investigation which laws were broken by the DOJ in their attempts to help Hilary win. Wouldn't that be something?
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Were do you get your information from
I also want Americans to know that a small number of politically-motivated people at the DOJ, abused their authority in an attempt to help Hilary.
that statement not based in any Facts
Or are you cherry-picking? there would still be a Russian investigation ..... pretty clear
DOJ would not have gotten FISA approval for wiretaps, without the Steele dossier. that his opinion.and a Republican talking point ...
Guess the Judges were all in on it ....whos cherry picking now
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02-05-2018, 12:55 PM
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They are investigating rumours (the dossier) to see if the facts support them, what is so hard to understand about that.
That process was supposed to have been done before the "dossier" could be used as probable cause for a FISA warrant. Using an unverified document to get a warrant, and then, after having gotten the warrant, the document is investigated to see if it can be used is an absolutely absurd notion.
There is a reason that people look for fire if they see smoke.
And when the fire is actually found to exist, THEN you go about putting it out. Trying to put out a fire before determining that there is one, is another absolutely absurd notion.
Trump has lied and cheated to get where he is, he would do anything to win
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[insert here just about any past or present politician] has lied and cheated to get where he or she is . . . would do anything to win.
And has Trump done more legitimate hard work, a whole lot more, other than just the
usual lying and cheating, to get where he is?
What's your point?
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02-05-2018, 02:19 PM
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[insert here just about any past or present politician] has lied and cheated to get where he or she is . . . would do anything to win.
And has Trump done more legitimate hard work, a whole lot more, other than just the
usual lying and cheating, to get where he is?
What's your point?
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Most politicians push the envelope of truth thru interpretation, Trump doesn't even try, he just makes up his own alternative facts and then admits it. He thinks that if you say it often and loud enough it makes it true.
I've found that the things people accuse others of are the things they are guilty of. Thieves are quick to accuse others of stealing because they would, etc.
You probably think John Gotti worked hard also, the smoke about Trump is out there if you look and too late the truth will come out.
He was connected in development work in NYC, Atlantic City, why would you think not Russians?
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02-05-2018, 02:40 PM
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Most politicians push the envelope of truth thru interpretation, Trump doesn't even try, he just makes up his own alternative facts and then admits it. He thinks that if you say it often and loud enough it makes it true.
You're statement validates more than it contradicts (if at all) that Trump is not that much different than our common politicians. They may all have different styles, but, as you say, "Most politicians push the envelope of truth thru interpretation . . . make[s] up [their] own alternative facts and . . . think[s] that if you say it often and loud enough it makes it true.
Of course, neither you nor I have verified our opinion, we just agree that it is so. Except, you claim that Trump is somehow more obvious or egregious.
I've found that the things people accuse others of are the things they are guilty of. Thieves are quick to accuse others of stealing because they would, etc.
So are you guilty of what you accuse Trump of? How about all the Dems who accuse Trump?
You probably think John Gotti worked hard also, the smoke about Trump is out there if you look and too late the truth will come out.
He was connected in development work in NYC, Atlantic City, why would you think not Russians?
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I think Trump worked hard within the legitimate scope, spiced with whatever it took to do development work in NYC. I have stated a few times before in other threads that Trump's experience with having to work through the maze of politicians (crooked or otherwise), unions, codes, laws, and all required backscratching and money-greasing to do so, would stand him well as experience to negotiate in the world of politics (crooked or otherwise).
I don't equate Trump with John Gotti. Maybe you do.
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02-05-2018, 02:59 PM
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The left managed to lose the 2016 electoin (handily) to one of the most un-likeable people on the planet. But they weren't satisfied with that, so they compounded the political disaster by not only losing to him, but allowing him to now present himself as a sympathetic victim.
Who is calling the shots on the left side of the aisle, exactly? Whoever it is, please, keep them there for life. My goodness.
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02-05-2018, 03:33 PM
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Who is calling the shots on the left side of the aisle, exactly?
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02-05-2018, 09:10 PM
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Actually I think the American people lost the election
But maybe you should listen to the latest “person to lose their mind “ Trey Gowdy
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02-05-2018, 09:58 PM
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Actually I think the American people lost the election
But maybe you should listen to the latest “person to lose their mind “ Trey Gowdy
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You make such a convincing argument/proclamation that nothing to the contrary can possibly be said.
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02-06-2018, 09:36 AM
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You make such a convincing argument/proclamation that nothing to the contrary can possibly be said.
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Gowdy said the FISA warrant would not have been issued without the dossier. He also said that even without the dossier, the Mueller investigation would have proceeded. That would appear to be a very honest and balanced way to look at this, he's not saying Trump is above suspicion. Gowdy might be the only politician on either side I have heard, who is being critical of both sides where they deserve it.
Too bad he's leaving.
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02-06-2018, 11:12 AM
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Gowdy might be the only politician on either side I have heard, who is being critical of both sides where they deserve it.
Too bad he's leaving.
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That's why he can say it, unfortunately both sides run scared of offending the base and losing reelection.
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