(09-13-2018 08:28 AM)Machiavelli Wrote: I do think it's a powerful tool to paint the other side as crazy. Nuts! That guy is loony! I have done this myself when you guys come from an arena that I disagree vehemently with you. I honestly believe that many of you come from a place where you believe you stand on moral ground in your beliefs.
If having empathy for others and seeing this train wreck of a presidency for what it is means I'm crazy. So be it.
He is illegitimate. His actions to obstruct prove this. The lying about the Trump tower meeting proves this. Him dangling a pardon for Manafort proves this We could have had this all out in the open without the unparalleled obstruction by the House GOP.
I mean this with all seriousness. His base has not left him. That is why the party is obstructing. That is why we have a Devin Nunes running roughshod. You guys are the problem. Cheats are going to cheat. A con man is going to con. The people who stick with him are truly the problem.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articl...38058.html
The only conspiracy is that by Obama holdovers and the Democratic Party to coverup their own crimes and violation of FBI and DOJ norms. They are demonizing (and you have bought it hook, line and sinker) Nunes who is just bringing out the truth.
"Much of what we now know about the unethical and often illegal behavior of the FBI, CIA, National Security Agency and Department of Justice emerged due to the efforts of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Its chairman during its stunning disclosures has been Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), who in turn has been constantly demonized for his efforts.
Yet without the committee's digging, Americans would not have known that Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Democratic National Committee paid for an unsubstantiated 2016 dossier on Donald Trump compiled by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele.
Prior to the committee's work, we did not know that the FBI and Justice Department used unverified information from the Steele dossier to obtain a warrant from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court allowing for the surveillance of former Trump campaign aide Carter Page.
Without the committee's disclosures, Americans would not have had any idea that Bruce Ohr, who once ranked fourth in the Department of Justice hierarchy, coordinated opposition research on Trump with Steele, the FBI and Fusion GPS. Ohr took this unethical step because his wife was working for Fusion GPS -- a fact that was withheld on federal disclosure forms.
The Nunes-led committee also uncovered the names of prominent FBI and DOJ officials -- including James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Rod Rosenstein and Sally Yates -- who had approved FISA court warrant applications that were based on the largely discredited Steele dossier...."
