I'm hearing the best thing to do when mindless comments are proven as bunk is just to say "world salad"
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This from the Business Insider, regarded as having a liberal bias. The sh*t is soon to hit the fan TeeHeeMan.
Inside the battle between an anti-Putin banker and the firm that produced the Trump-Russia dossier
In 2013, Veselnitskaya hired the law firm BakerHostetler to represent Prevezon, a Russian holding company based in Cyprus accused by the US government of laundering stolen cash into New York City real estate. Browder told prosecutors that the laundered money was stolen from Russia as part of the tax-fraud scheme that Magnitsky uncovered.
To rebut that claim, BakerHostetler hired Fusion to dig up dirt on Browder, he says. The wealthy investor, who renounced his US citizenship in 1998, has since characterized Fusion's work for BakerHostetler as a "smear campaign" against him and Magnitsky carried out "in advance of congressional hearings on the Global Magnitsky Act."
Fusion has denied that its opposition research against Browder on behalf of BakerHostetler was an effort to undermine the Magnitsky Act, and has insisted that Veselnitskaya's lobbying activities against Magnitsky were separate from the Prevezon proceedings. The basis for that claim is that Browder was never able to prove that Prevezon engaged in the tax fraud scheme Magnitsky allegedly uncovered.
But the anti-Magnitsky lobbying activities of Veselnitskaya, who was Prevezon's Russian lawyer, complicate the argument that one had nothing to do with the other. Fusion, Browder says, also pitched anti-Magnitsky stories to American journalists as part of its work for BakerHostetler.
Browder has argued that Fusion would have broken the law if it lobbied on behalf of the Russian government without registering as a foreign agent. In December, he lodged a formal complaint with the Department of Justice alleging that Fusion's work for BakerHostetler on behalf of Prevezon violated disclosure requirements.
Fusion has said that it was hired by an American law firm, which, as the law currently stands, would not put it in violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
..... There is another player now alleging that Fusion, in a case completely unrelated to Russia or the Magnitsky Act, acted in violation of FARA.
Thor Halvorssen, the founder of an organization called the Human Rights Foundation, wrote in testimony submitted to the committee on Tuesday that Fusion engaged "in a multi-billion-dollar corruption case benefiting the Venezuelan regime" in 2012.
"In 2012 I began researching a Venezuelan corruption scandal that also involved U.S.banks, companies, and even U.S. courts," Halvorssen wrote. "This story should have received extensive exposure on the front pages of America’s national newspapers. Fusion GPS, however, was hired to spike these stories. Even though it was clearly acting as a public relations counsel on behalf of a foreign principal, Fusion GPS never registered under FARA and was able to engage in nefarious activities without public scrutiny."
Halvorssen alleged in his testimony that he, like Browder, was the victim of a "smear" campaign by Simpson and Fusion. He told Business Insider that Fusion hired journalists to write blog posts with "completely made-up claims," including that he received treatment for a heroin addiction that was paid for by Peter Thiel.Comment
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This article speaks for itself.
Russia probe: Democrats block key witness against shadowy firm Fusion GPS
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017...usion-gps.html
Geesh! I thought the Dems wanted to investigate Russian influence. Sure seems like they are trying to "resist" getting to the truth. Just like Wasserman Shultz is doings with the Imran Awan/DNC case.Comment
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Drain the swamp!!!Comment
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The head of the Boy Scouts of America apologized on Thursday for President Donald Trump’s speech at the organization’s national summit earlier this week.
“I want to extend my sincere apologies to those in our Scouting family who were offended by the political rhetoric that was inserted into the jamboree,” Chief Scout Executive Michael Surbaugh wrote in a letter to the organization. “That was never our intent.”
“For years, people have called upon us to take a position on political issues, and we have steadfastly remained non-partisan and refused to comment on political matters,” Surbaugh added. “We sincerely regret that politics were inserted into the Scouting program.”Comment
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What an idiot. I don't care whether it was Obama (who never spoke to Boy Scouts) or Trump, by the very nature of having a president at the rally in this day and age you have to know it's going to have political overtones. In this case, they seem to have been very well received.Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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I'm hearing Trump's first speech was about commercial real estate, his other hat. That was rejected.Comment
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I'm hearing that Teeheeman quit the cub scouts because the boys in his troop beat him up and received their piñata badge.Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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Below is the text of Obama's 2010 video address to the Boy Scouts.
Compare this to the address by assclown Trump.
Hello everybody.I wanted to send my greetings to everyone taking part in the national Scout Jamboree at Fort A.P. Hill and congratulate you on the hundredth anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America. I hope you've all enjoyed this year's festivities.You know, for a century, scouts just like you have served your communities and your nation in ways both large and small. During World War II, scouts played a vital role in supporting the war effort at home by running messages and selling war bonds. Some of our nation's greatest heroes have worn the scout uniform, including 11 of the 12 men who have walked on the moon. And today, scouts across the country continue the tradition of collecting food for those in need, improving our neighborhoods, and reaching out to those less fortunate.That service is worth celebrating. But there's still more to do. Even though we face a different set of challenges than we did 100 years ago, they are no less important. And in the years ahead, we are going to depend on you, the next generation of leaders, to move America forward.So I hope that all of you will carry the lesson you have learned in scouting with you for the rest of your lives. And I hope that when you're called upon to help write the next great chapter in the American story, you will uphold the best of the scouting tradition and respond with enthusiasm, skill and determination.Congratulations again on your first 100 years. I'm sure the next 100 will be even better.Comment
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I'm hearing that we aren't allowed to talk about the past, that we should only talk about today otherwise Tee Hee gets all wrankled.Comment
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HahahahahahaOriginally posted by Unregistered View Post
Keep repeating that idiot refrain like the scoundrel you are.
You wouldn't want to discuss scaramucci vs priebus
The drama / leaking entirely within the walls of the exec branch moron.
Going back to "all trump loyalists"
WhAt we witness going forward will be historicComment
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Thanks for posting this.Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
Regardless of how you feel about policy, I've said before that Obama is/was simply so much better than the best the nutters had to offer that ....well ....inferiority complexes often then mean and ugly especially when one's betters are from a class they used to hold as inferiorComment
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Nah ....I spent some time in Boy Scouts too but it wasn't peaking then (around when draft for Vietnam war was ending and we were being chased out of Saigon by the VC so that whole march in lockstep uniform thing didn't have a lot of cachet then.Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
But keep trying ....learned a lot of skills there and elsewhere people like you (under bed for over a quarter century) wouldn't associate with progressives ....was doing stuff while you ate and drank yourself onto case-deaton's list.
Why I was actually patrol leader. Leadership . Yah. Conservatives don't know about it do they ?
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The kind of leader that leads his troops off a cliff.Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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