Obviously your knowledge is no different than mine. You don't know what the Rice-Powers "unmasking machine" is/was unmasking either. If you did, you'd tell me. But you can't! So you try to cover your ignorance with some kind of bullshit. But it is not fooling anyone. You don't know either. Ha ha ha.
We don't mind your being in the twilight. It's the being completely in the dark that you need to work on.
Another demorrhoid congressman who is receiving inside information from the Mothership circling the HaleBopp Comet.
If we had questions regarding whether our President had violated the law in his financial dealings, our concerns were not allayed by his outright refusal to release his tax returns. His silly excuse that they were under audit, which would be no deterrent, reinforced our impression that he must be hiding something. Our concerns were reinforced again when he fired James Comey, something he clearly had the authority to do, and then told his Russian correspondents, in what he apparently thought was a private, closed door meeting, that his firing of Comey "had relieved great pressure on him[self]". This is not the response one expects from someone who had to fire an agency head for incompetence; rather it suggests that Comey was fired because he was a little too competent. The U.S. tax code is seventy-two thousand pages. Innocent mistakes and unacceptable interpretations of tax code are routine and routinely handled. When we file our returns we have done our best. If the IRS finds a mistake, they let us know and we work with them to correct the error. When Donald Trump stated that his financial dealings were "off-limits" in the on-going Mueller investigation into Meddling in the 2016 election, Trump wasn't telling us that his returns may contain an error. He was telegraphing to the world that he has fraudulently reported his financial dealings. Although he may have taken pains to cover his tracks, an investigation with the thoroughness of Robert Mueller's puts him in great peril. His ineffective and foolish attempt to keep Mueller from delving into his financial transactions would have had the opposite affect, and virtually assures we observers that Donald Trump is aware of having filed fraudulent returns and the danger he faces. At each step, Trump has made matters worse for himself by allowing would be prosecutors to build on a nascent obstruction case, while inadvertently encouraging investigators to keep digging. In some respects Trump is like the child covered in crumbs that denies eating the cookie. Donald Trump can pardon any associates, and probably even family members, who have committed federal crimes, but he can't pardon himself! Sometime between now and next summer Donald Trump's severe narcissism will have left him with no choice other than to try and fire Mueller. The question remains, can he? He can certainly try. And then it will be up to Congress to step up to the plate and do the right thing. I'm betting they will. When Richard Nixon said "When the President does it, it is not illegal", it was Barry Goldwater who went over to the White House, in an act of kindness and respect, and informed the President it was time to pack his bags. The appropriate person now, it seems, just as then, would be someone from the President's own party. Perhaps Mitch McConnell will ultimately be faced with the task of going over to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, and saying, " Mr. President, it is time to pack your bags."
May be that is the real strength of Western Democracies : it is not because one is elected, that one can break the law as oen sees fit. In third world countries and other types of banana republics, whenever one is elected, it is all about getting away with as much things as possible. I hope Trump just let all the investigations that need to be done, done : silly mistakes, tiny errors are something normal. Nobody can blame him for that. He can only show respect to all these people, many who have taken great risks with their jobs ; these people who are protecting the USA. Very interesting to watch how a country is protected.
Mueller interviews cyber expert who claimed he was 'recruited to collude' with Russians: report Mueller interviews cyber expert who claimed he was 'recruited to collude' with Russians: report TheHill.com Special counsel Robert Mueller has interviewed a cybersecurity expert who claims he was "recruited to collude with the Russians" in the 2016 election, Business Insider reported Tuesday. Matt Tait, a former information security specialist for Britain's Government Communications Headquarters was interviewed weeks ago by Mueller, according to a source familiar with the investigation. Tait claimed that he was recruited by a longtime GOP operative tied to the Trump campaign, Peter W. Smith, to obtain emails deleted from Hillary Clinton's private email server that they believed were hacked by the Russians. Smith reportedly told people during his investigation that he was affiliated with President Trump's former national security adviser, Michael Flynn. In an article titled "The Time I Got Recruited to Collude with the Russians," Tait told Lawfareblog.com in June that Smith approached him during the campaign for help determining the veracity of emails Smith said he received from "dark web hackers." "Smith implied that he was a well-connected Republican political operative," Tait wrote. He added that Smith believed "Clinton’s private email server had been hacked—in his view almost certainly both by the Russian government and likely by multiple other hackers too." "From [Smith's] perspective it didn’t matter who had taken the emails, or their motives for doing so," Taid continued. "He never expressed to me any discomfort with the possibility that the emails he was seeking were potentially from a Russian front, a likelihood he was happy to acknowledge." "We knew the people who had these were probably around the Russian government," Smith told The Wall Street Journal in May. Smith killed himself days after speaking to Journal about his efforts. The House Intelligence Committee interviewed Tait as part of its investigation earlier this month, CNN reported.