US politics - The ICE epidemic (part 10)

Without clicking through, WTFnF

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Fmd, really? That’s gotta lead to some Repugnicans finding some spine. If it is real it doesn’t even appear to be a repost, is it coming from his office? Can’t be!

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I don’t think Trump was banking on this -

Poland to probe Russia-Epstein links: PM Tusk says late billionaire was likely a spy for Moscow

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You must be joking.

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Just when you think it can’t sink any lower…

Still, if it didn’t sink the president of Collingwood it won’t sink the president of the most powerful third-world country on Earth.

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Gotta wonder how fkd vaccine preventable infectious diseases have to get before the tinfoil hats realize maybe those scientists pouring zillions of hours into developing vaccines were onto something.

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Comes down to the age old adage.. A stiff prick has no conscience.

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Wild conspiracy theories and racism, trump’s audience to a tee

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LOL. How deranged are you to be still pedaling this propaganda funded by Hilary Clinton’s presidential campaign? At least it is consistent with your non-stop propaganda supporting the corrupt Ukraine govt as they destroy their own country and citizens to enrich themselves.

“The Steele dossier comprises 17 memoranda compiled by Christopher Steele, a British citizen and former MI6 officer, between June and December 2016, presenting discredited[1][2] allegations of collusion and compromising material involving Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and Russian officials aimed at influencing the 2016 US election.
Commissioned as opposition research by Fusion GPS on behalf of the Hillary Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee, with payments routed through Marc Elias, a lawyer at Perkins Coie—the reports detailed purported coordination on the release of hacked Democratic emails, personal kompromat on Trump including discredited claims of “perverted sexual acts”, and business ties facilitating interference.[3][4]
Christopher Steele shared the memos with the FBI, to whom he was already a paid confidential human source (CHS), in July 2016,[3] which incorporated discredited elements into Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act applications for surveilling Trump associate Carter Page, despite awareness of Steele’s political motivations and lack of direct evidence.
The primary sub-source for Steele’s information, Igor Danchenko, later admitted to relying on hearsay, rumors from Clinton allies, and fabricated sub-sources, with no firsthand knowledge of key claims like claims that Trump lawyer Michael Cohen traveled to Prague to arrange payments to hackers—disproven by subsequent investigations.[3][5]
Special Counsel John Durham’s 2023 Durham report criticized the FBI for confirmation bias, failure to corroborate the dossier’s assertions, and procedural violations in pursuing the Crossfire Hurricane investigation, finding no evidence of a well-developed conspiracy as alleged and highlighting how the uncorroborated reports fueled an inquiry into non-existent Trump-Russia ties.
After Steele personally briefed journalists including Michael Isikoff of Yahoo News and David Corn of Mother Jones, who subsequently published pre-election articles incorporating some of the dossier’s claims, and following the FBI’s termination of Steele as a source in November 2016 for unauthorized media contacts, Steele used British diplomatic channels to reach Senator John McCain, who delivered the dossier to FBI Director James Comey in December 2016.[6][7]
On January 10, 2017, after CNN reported that FBI Director Comey and intelligence officials had briefed President-elect Trump on the dossier’s existence and salacious claims, BuzzFeed News published the full 35-page document, with editor Ben Smith stating it was acceptable to release the raw, unverified material now that it had entered official government proceedings.[8]
This publication amplified the dossier’s political and media impact, generating intensive coverage across cable news programs, late-night television, and major newspapers that treated its unverified claims with insufficient skepticism. Subsequent official investigations collectively found no evidence for the alleged conspiracy, characterized the underlying information as uncorroborated hearsay, and concluded the FBI was unable to verify a single substantive allegation.[3] These developments prompted belated corrections, including the Washington Post amending and removing sections from two prominent articles in November 2021 that it could “no longer stand by.”[9] Jeff Gerth’s January 2023 Columbia Journalism Review investigation framed the episode as a systemic failure undermining journalism’s primary missions and public trust, with Bob Woodward concluding readers had been “cheated”.”

Source - Grokipedia

Also it was eventually released to the press on the instructions of Obama to his corrupt FBI to try and sabotage incoming Trump administration.

“Steele Dossier
We now know one of the source documents the Obama Administration officials used in the creation of the January 2017 ICA was the discredited, unverified Steele Dossier.

  • HPSCI report states: “Contradicting public claims by the DCIA [Brennan] that the dossier ‘was not in any way’ incorporated into the ICA, the dossier was referenced in the ICA main body text and further detailed in a two-page ICA annex.”

John Brennan lied and denied using the dossier in the ICA because he knew it was a discredited, politically motivated manufactured document. He told senior CIA officials to use it anyway.

  • CIA officer to HPSCI staff: “DCIA [Brennan] refused to remove it, and when confronted with the dossier’s main flaws, [Brennan] responded, ‘Yes, but doesn’t it ring true?’”

The bipartisan Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) report (Volume 5, 2020) also criticized the FBI’s handling of the Steele Dossier, noting its completely unverified nature and purposeful sidestepping of IC procedure in its use.”

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“Grokipedia copies Wikipedia’s format, but loose fact-checking and weak citations leave many of its claims unreliable.”

Source: Al Jazeera

:blush:

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I think it was a big hole in the hull, he was bailing from them until the end

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a second kay eff see crashout post has hit the site

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Indefensible

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What a pig of a man.

Anyway - fight fire with fire.

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No surprise the Poles take this seriously, Tusk was measured but strong there

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You have serious problems if you’re using Grokapedia as a source of truth.

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If George the goat ■■■■■■ was actually George the pig ■■■■■■ you might get something resembling Trump.

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“Donald Trump reportedly wants to see New York’s Penn Station and Dulles airport in Washington renamed in his honor.

The president is said to have told Senator Chuck Schumer that he would release billions of dollars in federal funding set aside for a New York infrastructure project if the minority leader agreed to back the renaming, according to reports from Punchbowl and CNN.

Schumer reportedly rejected the offer, telling the president it was not within his power.

The president has sought to put his name on numerous government buildings and projects in his second term, including the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the US Institute of Peace and the newly launched website TrumpRX, which aims to help American buy prescriptions at lower prices.

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