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Still not a scrap of evidence on Russia. Why does anyone even listen to NPR anymore?


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2017 Sep 10, 10:45am   11,155 views  44 comments

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The latest spin on “Russia stole the election” is that Russia used Facebook to influence the election. The NPR women yesterday were breathless about it.

We have been subjected to ten months of propaganda about Trump/Putin election interference and still not a scrap of evidence. It is past time to ask an unasked question: If there were evidence, what is the big deal? All sorts of interest groups try to influence election outcomes including foreign governments. Why is it OK for Israel to influence US elections but not for Russia to do so? Why do you think the armament industry, the energy industry, agribusiness, Wall Street and the banks, pharmaceutical companies, etc., etc., supply the huge sum of money to finance election campaigns if their intent is not to influence the election? Why do editorial boards write editorials endorsing one candidate and damning another if they are not influencing the election?

What is the difference between influencing the election and influencing the government? Washington is full of lobbyists of all descriptions, including lobbyists for foreign governments, working round the clock to influence the US government. It is safe to say that the least represented in the government are the citizens themselves who don’t have any lobbyists working for them.


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41   bob2356   2017 Sep 13, 7:48pm  

anonymous says

This has been proven to be an absolute lie, due to transfer speeds. Metadata has shown the email files were copied to a flash drive DIRECTLY from the servers inside the DNC. There's zero evidence the data was hacked from a remote location. This is why the DNC won't let the FBI look at their computers.


The theory of one anonymous blogger called “The Forensicator” isn't proof of anything.
42   Shaman   2017 Sep 13, 8:27pm  

bob2356 says
proof of anything

That's exactly what we are missing. Proof of goddam anything!
43   Dan8267   2017 Sep 14, 9:44am  

Quigley says
1. Interfering with an FBI investigation? Cmon that's ridiculous


No, it's not. Firing a head cop for the expressed purpose of hindering the investigation that cop was conducting when you are integrity suspect in that investigation is the very definition of obstruction of justice. It's like if Al Capone had fired Eliot Ness.

It is ridiculous to assert that Trump was not obstructing justice.

Quigley says
2. I'm not aware of ANY perjury by Trump or his campaign, on any subject. Reminding you of course, that one is only able to commit perjury while under oath by a court or congress


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/07/11/donald-trump-jr-may-have-just-crossed-the-legal-line-on-collusion/?utm_term=.99b817459708
Jacobovitz said conspiracy to commit election fraud is the big legal fish Mueller and his team may be trying to fry. But they're probably also looking at a whole host of laws that could have been broken under this scenario: quid pro quo with the Russians, bribery, potential perjury related to what members of the Trump campaign said under oath to Congress and failing to disclose these contacts in official security forms.


And you can commit perjury without lying to Congress, as again, the Trump campaign did.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/07/trump-jr-russia-email/533304/
“If the emails are probative of anything, it’s of any sworn statements [Trump Jr.], or others, might have made to federal investigators or on paperwork signed under penalty of perjury, where the meeting might either have been omitted or mischaracterized,” Vladeck said. Lying to federal investigators during an investigation is a felony offense.


OK, so now that you are aware of the evidence, you'll change your mind, right?

Quigley says

3. Yes, but his arm is crooked in that picture so it's fake!


A non-argument that carries no weight.

Quigley says
Could you BE any more grandiose and wrong at the same time? It's a high bar.


The facts are the facts, and you have failed to refute them. What you call grandiose, the rest of the world calls serious legal liability. Your attempts to make like of these facts and the legal issues does not detract from the gravity of the situation. If you tried to make such a defense to any judge, you'd lose big time.
44   Dan8267   2017 Sep 14, 9:44am  

Quigley says

That's exactly what we are missing. Proof of goddam anything!


What exactly would constitute proof by your standards?

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