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That is exactly what she's trying to say.

Was just pointing out that if you removed the single you actually were left with a grammatically coherent sentence. She almost stumbled onto not screwing up.

 

Opinion: The FBI should reveal what it knows about another Russian dissident’s poisoning

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...66236e-6259-11eb-9061-07abcc1f9229_story.html


"THE BIDEN administration has quickly and appropriately toughened the U.S. response to Russia’s human rights violations. A statement last weekend condemned the suppression of protests in favor of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, and called on the regime of Vladimir Putin to “fully cooperate with the international community’s investigation” into Mr. Navalny’s poisoning. That, of course, is unlikely to happen. But the new administration may have a readily available means to advance knowledge of Russia’s poisoning operations and hold its regime accountable.

We say “may have,” because, for mysterious reasons, the FBI has refused to reveal what it knows about attacks on another Russian opposition activist, Vladimir Kara-Murza. Mr. Kara-Murza, a permanent U.S resident and Post contributing columnist who divides his time between Moscow and Northern Virginia, has twice suffered apparent poisoning attacks while in Russia, in 2015 and 2017. In both cases, he experienced multiple organ failures and only barely survived. Following the second episode, Mr. Kara-Murza’s wife hand-carried a sample of his blood to Washington. She was met at Dulles International Airport by FBI agents, who took the sample for testing at the agency’s labs.

FBI reports say that the “sum total of the symptoms and health effects Kara-Murza experienced could not have been brought about without a toxin being introduced to his system” and that the bureau is “investigating this matter as a case of intentional poisoning.” But it has refused to release the results of its laboratory tests, which might show whether Mr. Kara-Murza, like Mr. Navalny and other Kremlin targets, was attacked with a banned chemical weapon. Requests from several members of Congress for the results — including Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) a senior member of the Intelligence Committee — received no response.

We know about the FBI’s conclusions only because of a Freedom of Information Act request and subsequent lawsuit filed by Mr. Kara-Murza in an attempt to obtain documents about his case. The bureau eventually released 1,200 pages of records, but is still withholding 251 on the grounds that they have been “referred to other agencies” for review. Mr. Kara-Murza and his lawyer believe that the missing documents likely include the tests of his blood samples by the FBI lab, and possibly by other U.S. national labs specializing in chemical weapons.

The refusal to disclose is difficult to fathom, especially given the timely and full reports by British and German authorities of evidence of Russian poisonings in the cases of Mr. Navalny and Sergei Skripal, a former Russian double agent attacked in Britain in 2018. Both were poisoned with Novichok, a chemical weapon developed by the Soviet Union that is banned by a treaty to which Russia is a signatory. U.S. legislation mandates sanctions for violations of the pact.

It’s possible that the FBI was unable to determine the poison used against Mr. Kara-Murza; a 2018 report says its lab had been “unable to definitively link a toxin to the victim’s illness.” But the agency has a record of reluctance to acknowledge what it knows about Russia’s possession of banned chemical weapons and their use. In light of the string of attacks on Kremlin opponents and the imperative of holding the Putin regime accountable, that’s not acceptable. Incoming Attorney General Merrick Garland should order the FBI to disclose what it knows about Mr. Kara-Murza.

 

Everyone needs to stop with the "you can't impeach someone ... " nonsense.
He was impeached when he as still in office.
Impeached and the trial are completely separate events.
They could have held the trial while he was still in office. The GOP-controlled Senate at the time chose not to.

 

Solid 6s, I'm guessing?

 

And, oh yeah, the Capitol was attacked.

 

Of course not. The same people who quickly rammed through a Supreme Court justice after Moscow Mitch came up with a short list within hours of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death couldn't be bothered with coming up with a decision on the Subhuman Pile of Crime and his involvement with the Capitol insurrection.

The Republicans' hypocrisy should never be forgotten.

 

The real threat was in the Oval (2017-2021) the whole time.

How Trump's Focus on Antifa Distracted Attention From the Far-Right Threat

 

Or substantially better - but well informed, brainy women. Examples of the "Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did, backwards and wearing heels" thing.

 

Trump’s MAGA legal team.

 

And Black Lives Matter of course. Uppity neegros coming to get you.