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How many impeachments and/or resignations do we need before Zinke is POTUS?

 

You're welcome.

 

I do not understand how new handles are allowed to come in and talk personal shit about other board members and are not immediately banished. And his handle sucks. His name should have been the Filipino Steve Perry.

 

It's OK, he'll eventually move to the handle "Starship featuring Mickey Thomas" and only post on message boards about state fairs.

 

No kidding. Couldn't Moddy look up the IP addresses of these new handles and put a stop to it?

 

To answer your question, Interior is 8th down the list. But go down one more step and you actually have a Democrat ... Michael Scuse, who is the acting Ag Secretary keeping the seat warm for Sonny Perdue.

 

From today's Daily 202 in the WaPo. "The AG wasn't aware that his communications have been under investigation until contacted by the press." I bet someone strained a sphincter muscle when he heard that.

The Daily 202: Trump’s Russia headache gets worse, as Sessions struggles to spin undisclosed meetings

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-- The Wall Street Journal, following The Post’s report, added that “U.S. investigators have examined contacts … Sessions had with Russian officials during the time he was advising” Trump’s campaign. “The outcome of the inquiry, and whether it is ongoing, wasn’t clear,” per Carol E. Lee, Christopher S. Stewart, Rob Barry and Shane Harris. “The contacts were being examined as part of a wide-ranging U.S. counterintelligence investigation into possible communications between members of Mr. Trump’s campaign team and Russian operatives.” Three other nuggets:

• A spokeswoman told the Journal that the AG wasn’t aware that his communications have been under investigation until being contacted by the press.
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• The inquiry, focused on contacts Sessions had “while serving as Mr. Trump’s foreign-policy adviser in the spring and summer of 2016,” is being pursued by the FBI, Central Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency and Treasury Department.
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• “The FBI’s role in the investigation into Mr. Sessions’ conversations left the agency ‘wringing its hands’ about how to proceed, said one person familiar with the matter.”
  
  
  Same 202 column:
  
  -- The New York Times revealed that some Obama White House officials were so concerned about possible contacts between Trump associates and the Russians that they took active measures to ensure the incoming administration would not be able to “cover up or destroy” key evidence.
  
  “American allies, including the British and the Dutch, had provided information describing meetings in European cities between Russian officials — and others close to Russia’s president, Vladimir V. Putin — and associates of President-elect Trump,” three former American officials told Matthew Rosenberg, Adam Goldman and Michael S. Schmidt.“Separately, American intelligence agencies had intercepted communications of Russian officials, some of them within the Kremlin, discussing contacts with Trump associates.”
  
  To leave as long a paper trail as possible, Obama administration officials spread information across the government. Some illustrations of how they did it from the story:
  • “Some officials began asking specific questions at intelligence briefings, knowing the answers would be archived and could be easily unearthed by investigators — including the Senate Intelligence Committee…”
  • “At intelligence agencies, there was a push to process as much raw intelligence as possible into analyses, and to keep the reports at a relatively low classification level to ensure as wide a readership as possible across the government — and, in some cases, among European allies. This allowed the upload of as much intelligence as possible to Intellipedia, a secret wiki used by American analysts to share information.”
  • “There was also an effort to pass reports and other sensitive materials to Congress. In one instance, the State Department sent a cache of documents marked ‘secret’ to Senator Benjamin Cardin of Maryland days before the Jan. 20 inauguration.”
  “The opposite happened with the most sensitive intelligence, including the names of sources and the identities of foreigners who were regularly monitored,” the Times reporters add. “Officials tightened the already small number of people who could access that information. They knew the information could not be kept from the new president or his top advisers, but wanted to narrow the number of people who might see the information."
  
  And this nugget:

-- Finally, the Associated Press reports that the White House counsel’s office has instructed all of the president’s aides to preserve materials that could be connected to Russian interference in the 2016 election and other related investigations. “The instructions, which were sent to White House staff on Tuesday, come after Senate Democrats last week asked the White House and law enforcement agencies to keep all materials involving contacts that Trump’s administration, campaign and transition team — or anyone acting on their behalf — have had with Russian government officials or their associates,” Julie Pace and Vivian Salama report. “The Senate intelligence committee, which is investigating Russia’s role in the 2016 election, has also asked more than a dozen organizations, agencies and individuals to preserve relevant records.” Congress will want to know why it took nearly a week for this order to go out after their request…

 

and volunteer fire hall benefits.

 

Welp ...

 

Chuck Schumer, among others, is funny.

Let's remember -- despite what some talking heads have said -- Loretta Lynch did not recuse herself from the Hillary Clinton email investigation after she met with Bill Clinton, and Schumer didn't call on her to do so.

 

Give it up, YF. Give it up. Sessions lied to his fellow Senators, which is why they seemed so much more pissed than House members. He broke club rules, as if he used his cell phone on the course at Augusta National.

 

So you aren't defending what HE did as correct, but only defending it because the other party did something remotley somilar, but not really?

Lying under oath > an ex parte meeting.