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American citizens should be sending thank you letters to the AIVD. I read this article and began grinning to myself, imagining the Russian Counter Intelligence service and Vladimir Putin reading about this.

We've got pictures of the guys who hacked us! How cool is that?

I wonder what else Mueller has in his pocket that he's kept quiet about?

Of course this is all fake news, because Uncle Vlad gave Trump his personal assurances that the Russians didn't hack us, right?

Trump's a moran.

 

The Senator who cried wolf on the FBI's 'secret society' - CNNPolitics

"Given the uncertainty surrounding these texts, Johnson's jumping to conclusions is remarkable. He is a sitting US senator who, based on a part of a text and someone telling him about alleged off-site meetings at the FBI, concluded that there was "corruption of the highest levels of the FBI."

That's serious stuff -- and the sort of thing that senators (and members of Congress) need to be above. The problem with using snippets of several different unrelated things to draw a conclusion about broad-scale corruption is that it makes it more difficult for actual moments of corruption or unethical activity in the future to be taken seriously.

Call it the senator who cried wolf."

 

Not sure if we've discussed this guy before or not - please forgive me for not keeping up with all 6,156 pages of this thread - but I keep seeing a lot of excitement about him from my Trumpster friends.

Senate candidate wants daughters to be homemakers, not ‘career obsessed banshees’

 

So very good re: net neutrality ...

 

D_B, although to be fair it was 20 pages back

 

In 60 years we've gone from "our German scientists are better than their German scientists" to "our Dutch hackers are better than their hackers."

 

WASHINGTON — President Trump ordered the firing last June of Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel overseeing the Russia investigation, according to four people told of the matter, but ultimately backed down after the White House counsel threatened to resign rather than carry out the directive

Trump Ordered Mueller Fired, but Backed Off When White House Counsel Threatened to Quit

 

Reads like confirmation to me.

Ty Cobb, the president’s lawyer who manages the White House’s relationship with Mr. Mueller’s office, said in a statement, “We decline to comment out of respect for the Office of the Special Counsel and its process.”

 

Seems significant.

 

"Please, sir ... mercy rule?"