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Fucque You, and your retarded kids, too!Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
signed, Not a LibComment
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So easy to push Snowflake’s buttons. You must have been in the navy.Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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Rates are surging lately. Oil from $40 to near $70. Fed is behind the eight ball.Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
Bad time for a new Fed Chair.
Bad time for tax cuts.
Bad time for infrastructure spending (should have done it when rates were at zero and people were out of work, but your tribe opposed it, didnt want the black man to get credit for it. Back then it was socialism.
Of course, now they love it).
As per my original thesis: i just want to observe how much pressure Trump tries to assert over The Fed to keep rates low. Yellen left for a reason.
Equities down today. Of course, day-to-day gyrations are meaningless. Trends and inflection points are everything. Let's all watch and learn.Comment
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Never would have guessed. Thanks Captain Obvious.Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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Steele hadn't been in Russia for 17 years. His " sources " can't be brought forward to validate what is on the dossier. To call it an " uphill battle " to sustain his creditability seems like a stretch.Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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The dossier is not the impetus for the FISA warrants.Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
But keep focusing on the dossier, the surprise you will get will be worth it.Comment
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Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
Surely you trust Time magazine
Prepared by Rep. Devin Nunes, the four-page memo reportedly alleges that the FBI mishandled a request for a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant on former Trump campaign advisor Carter Page by relying on information from an unverified dossier on Trump’s ties to Russia compiled by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele.Comment
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Heres a question, do you ever wonder why there are so many past relations and connections beteeen trump, his admin and Russia. Carter Page, Paul Manafort, Rex Tillerson, wilbur ross, the Trump organization.Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
Now mike pompeo meeting with russian spies, and Trump refusing to enforce new sanctions on russia, legislated by congress?
This doesnt leave you the least bit curious?Comment
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Carter Page, who served as a foreign-policy adviser to Donald Trump’s campaign, was known to U.S. counterintelligence officials for years before he became a prominent figure in a dossier of unverified research about the future president’s ties to Russia.Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
Page lived in Moscow for three years, starting in 2004. His frequent attempts to interest American investors in Russian state-owned energy companies made him a Kremlin favorite, but didn’t earn him anything that looked like respect. Page ended up being recorded by American intelligence not because they started out to monitor him, because Page associated with a Russian spy runner while in the United States. Page’s recruitment by Russian agents in 2013 is mostly notable for how the Russians viewed their mark.
In a transcript of the conversation included in the court documents, Mr. Podobnyy tells his Russian colleague that Mr. Page frequently flies to Moscow and is interested in earning large sums of money. Mr. Page was apparently interested in striking a deal with Gazprom, the Russian state-run oil firm, according to the transcript. Mr. Podobnyy called Mr. Page an “idiot” but said he was enthusiastic.
Though that encounter with the Russians has often been treated as a “failed recruitment,” enthusiastic idiot Carter Page remained viable as a “Russian energy expert” in large part because the Russians found him useful and directed business his way to give his foundering agency a patina of success. Those associations keep his FBI profile high—no Christopher Steele required.
The focus on Page really heightened after he began associating with Victor Podobnyy. Podobnyy was a junior attaché at the Russian consulate and also a spy runner for the SVR. With Page, Podobnyy played at being Russian businessman. He brought in a second actor who took the role of a friendly Russian banker in these talks. Not only did they pick out Page for targeting, Page admitted initiating a meeting with Podobnyy on at least one occasion “to practice his Russian.”
It was Podobnyy who helped make Page better known.
Mr. Podobnyy promised through his contacts with Russian trade officials to steer contracts to Mr. Page.
“I will feed him empty promises,” he was overheard saying, according to the transcript.
Podobnyy was arrested for espionage just six months before Carter Page was selected as an energy adviser for the Trump campaign. The “banker” is currently serving a 30-month sentence for conspiracy. But Podobnyy’s PR work in driving business to Page likely played a role in raising Page’s profile enough to catch Trump’s attention.
As Page moved into the Trump campaign, the continued interest from the FBI that made him worth the large effort required for a FISA warrant isn’t hard to understand.
Over the course of the campaign, Mr. Page traveled to Russia at least twice and kept top Trump campaign advisers abreast of his travels, Mr. Page told the House panel.
Lived in Moscow for three years. Associated with known Russian spies. Had business directed to him by a man arrested months earlier for espionage and another guy charged with conspiracy. Then made two trips to Russia after signing onto a presidential campaign. While it probably took some time to put together all the paperwork, this doesn’t sound like a hard sell before a judge—and not one bit of that was information from Christopher Steele. That’s all what the FBI already knew about Page.Comment
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Not at all. We are not at war with Russia. Dozens and dozens of political figures have contact with Russian lobbyists, businesses banks, government officials, etc. every day.Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
The CIA director's meeting with Russian Intelligence officials is a needed and vital example of sharing common knowledge of mutual enemies, like ISIS.
Despite the MSM innuendo, Trump has been anything but soft on Russia. Sending military aid to the Ukraine for example. Pumping up our oil production which hurts Russia. Many other examples.
The problem now appears not to be that Russia " meddled " in the 2016 election, but people in our own Government did the meddling. meddled with the Hillary " matter" , and the same people shifted gears to the " Russian collusion" investigation against Trump.
Doesn't that leave you the least bit curious?Comment
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Let me draw your attention to the bolded phrase above: reportedly allegesOriginally posted by Unregistered View Post
Yes, that's what the weasel Nunes is alleging, but omitting the facts that this was a renewal application (maybe 3rd time?) based mostly on the fact that Page in the previous years had literally been identified as targeted by Russian agents. He had been set up, and they were grooming him (perhaps without his knowledge) as a source.
Seemingly, there was enough cause to continue surveillance on him before he was even known as a DJT policy adviser. The Steele input was likely a corroborating input, but certainly not the instigating information.
I'm certainly interested in seeing the memo, but the one-sided cherry picked approach for it's release is certainly political in nature.Comment
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That's where they all got screwed - it wasn't that the FBI and the CIA were watching Page and others initially, but they sure as hell were watching the Russians. The Russians do the same to ours, hence Putin having dirt on Trump.Comment
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Thank you poster #3490... you beat me to it, and that is indeed what I was referring to.Comment
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