(05-30-2017 09:50 AM)OldOwlNewHeel2 Wrote:  

(05-29-2017 08:06 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(05-29-2017 02:46 AM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  

(05-28-2017 12:50 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  Presumably, the Democrats think the incoming Administration should sit back and party until January 20, and then start from scratch, while perhaps Trump's team thought it best to hit the ground running.

Not at all. As a lot of articles have explicitly stated, the foundational action (meeting with a ambassador, setting up back channel communications) are fairly routine. It is the circumstance (number of meetings, who was attending meetings, how the meetings were being held, how the meetings were being reported, how the back channel was trying to be set up) that are concerning and suggest that there may be more to the situation than meets the eye.

Actually, no, they aren't, and that's exactly the point. Take Jeff Sessions, for example. He had two "meetings" with "Russians" over a six month time frame, one in his office and one a chance encounter at an event, both openly known. That's not how you engage in nefarious activities.

Just because one is incompetent at performing nefarious deeds doesn't make the deeds less nefarious. Just nefarious and stupid.