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Mueller did not recommend impeachment proceedings. That is the bottom line.

Tim Aurora says

Insufficient evidence, of course, is not a lack of evidence. Again, this distinction exists within the report, but it’s not how Trump or Barr presented Mueller’s findings.

In America, where we are allowed the presumption of innocence - a prosecutor can't go out and say he thinks his subject is kind of guilty and then decline to indict for lack of evidence. All it does is smear a person and not give them an opportunity in court to clear their name.

This is Banana Republic stuff.

Tenpoundbass says

They can't compel a private citizen to testify before Congress and perjury themselves. Makes sense.

Bingo!

Elections will continue to be influenced by Russia in particular much more strongly going forward with reemergence of operations observed already

Such as the phony Dossier? Clinton colluded with Steele and Russia to produce it.

Let's promote having a flat-rate tax without exemptions. Then we'll see the working-poor and the super-rich squeal.

tovarichpeter says

As they already take photographs and fingerprints. What’s the difference?

Allowing DNA of the non-convicted to be entered into a database is getting close to having a DNA database of the entire population. Seems like a 4th Amendment violation.

With fingerprints, the matching system is direct-match only. (i.e.: does this fingerprint at crime scene match a specific person on file).

If you have a large enough DNA database, you can work out strong correlations to other relatives who are not in the system. (i.e.: a DNA sample from a crime scene could be used to prosecute persecute any and all relatives) Further, this correlation can be completely handled by a computer. A computer can automatically spit out information about a crime-scene DNA sample: "DNA looks to be 2nd generation removed from so-and-so and 3rd generation removed from this other known sample; looking at hospital birth records, here are your 3 automatic suspects..."

jazz_music says

forcing South Korean concessions on steel in exchange for fewer restrictions on U.S. car exports to Korea (cars that South Koreans do not want to buy)

Complete Lie.

South Korea was practicing "Non-Tariff Trade Barriers". After GM/Ford cars were loaded onto RO/ROs, South Korean lawmakers would change the safety regulations for cars, making them unsellable after offloading in Pusan. US Makers were either forced to reload the vehicles or have them modified to meet the surprise new standards by Korean Automakers - which made them less competitive after these costs were added.

It's also a lie because KIA models were often Ford Designs, right up to the Autobody. KIA was partially owned by Ford.

jazz_music says

Overall, the number of South Koreans who trust Trump shot up 17 percent in 2018 following his decision to engage in diplomacy with Kim Jong Un.

Hehehehe. B-B-B-But, it could change.

Just goes to show that no good deed goes unpunished.

Over 30,000 Americans died protecting the South Korean ingrates from Stalinist Communist hell in the North. Then we spent another half century putting our troops in harms way as a buffer to keep them free so the South Koreans could finally get their shit straight and become and economic powerhouse they are now.

socal2 says

Just goes to show that no good deed goes unpunished.

Over 30,000 Americans died protecting the South Korean ingrates from Stalinist Communist hell in the North. Then we spent another half century putting our troops in harms way as a buffer to keep them free so the South Koreans could finally get their shit straight and become and economic powerhouse they are now.

Why would they want Kim's dick up their asses? The article makes no sense.

Mueller has botched up big cases like this before. He literally used the same stupid line on a man suspected of sending the 2001 anthrax letters, who turned out to be innocent, but Mueller “couldn’t clear him.”
Here is an excerpt from the RealClearPolitics article about it:
“In truth, Hatfill was an implausible suspect from the outset. He was a virologist who never handled anthrax, which is a bacterium. (Ivins, by contrast, shared ownership of anthrax patents, was diagnosed as having paranoid personality disorder, and had a habit of stalking and threatening people with anonymous letters – including the woman who provided the long-ignored tip to the FBI). So what evidence did the FBI have against Hatfill? There was none, so the agency did a Hail Mary, importing two bloodhounds from California whose handlers claimed could sniff the scent of the killer on the anthrax-tainted letters. These dogs were shown to Hatfill, who promptly petted them. When the dogs responded favorably, their handlers told the FBI that they’d “alerted” on Hatfill and that he must be the killer.

You’d think that any good FBI agent would have kicked these quacks in the fanny and found their dogs a good home. Or at least checked news accounts of criminal cases in California where these same dogs had been used against defendants who’d been convicted -- and later exonerated. As Pulitzer Prize-winning Los Angeles Times investigative reporter David Willman detailed in his authoritative book on the case, a California judge who’d tossed out a murder conviction based on these sketchy canines called the prosecution’s dog handler “as biased as any witness that this court has ever seen.”

Instead, Mueller, who micromanaged the anthrax case and fell in love with the dubious dog evidence, personally assured Ashcroft and presumably George W. Bush that in Steven Hatfill the bureau had its man. Comey, in turn, was asked by a skeptical Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz if Hatfill was another Richard Jewell – the security guard wrongly accused of the Atlanta Olympics bombing. Comey replied that he was “absolutely certain” they weren’t making a mistake.

Such certitude seems to be Comey’s default position in his professional life. Mueller didn’t exactly distinguish himself with contrition, either. In 2008, after Ivins committed suicide as he was about to be apprehended for his crimes, and the Justice Department had formally exonerated Hatfill – and paid him $5.82 million in a legal settlement – Mueller could not be bothered to walk across the street to attend the press conference announcing the case’s resolution. When reporters did ask him about it, Mueller was graceless. “I do not apologize for any aspect of the investigation,” he said, adding that it would be erroneous “to say there were mistakes.”

OccasionalCortex says

What a bunch of crap.

Technially, Netflix does not film/produce its own stuff. Independent studios do and sell them to Netflix just like the networks have done for some time. In fact, that idiot being quoted saying 'we have women working in Georgia' could get the company in trouble by the Feds as he just said that they were employees of the company when in fact they are not. Think of the back FICA taxes Netflix will owe by admitting as such.

Georgia should also threaten to pass a law slamming a $5 surtax on Netflix monthly subscriptions of Georgians unless there is an immediate retraction and public apology for being Pro-Baby Murder.

Netflix only exists because they are skating free on the backbone that companies like cisco and juniper built and they are clogging the web with their "content". If they had to pay their fair share they would be out of business soon but instead they have the gall to "warn" states. Muh net neutrality is only supported by them so they can avoid paying extra for clogging the tubes.

If they don’t want to sell in Georgia it’s a great way to start that going. Fucking stupid.

I wonder if they live in a cloud and think everyone is just begging them to come there and grace them with their presence. Reminds me of MySpace and China story where Murdoch has to go wear knee pads to get MySpace unbanned in China after one of those remarks.

Foreign powers interfere in each others' elections. Like, DUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Yeah, I pay the legal whores big bucks to hear that.

I'm glad the United States has never done that.

Oh jeez.

We all know why we have a foothold in South Korea: to prevent Japan from re-arming. Maybe it's time to quit focusing on that as Japan circles the demographic drain. North Korea is Japan's problem, not ours.

I'm glad the United States has never done that.

Yes, amazing how little outcry resulting from Obama using US tax money to directly interfere in the recent Israeli Prime Minister election.

Interfering in elections is practically the only way to influence a Democracy or Republic.

jazz_music says

Elections will continue to be influenced by Russia in particular much more strongly going forward with reemergence of operations observed already

Thanks for sharing. But I beg to differ.

Their influence was miniscule in comparison so MSNBC and CNN. And don't forget. Everyone forgets this. Some of the Russian bot ads on FB were against Trump and for Clinton. The Russians wanted to cause havoc and their plan worked better than they could have ever dreamed, thanks to the Dems, who decided to act like a bunch of childish sore losers, instead of adults who base their actions on the facts, not the facts you wish were in evidence.

When did Comey, Mueller know the Russian collusion was a hoax?

Answer: Right away. The investigation was based on an unverified, phony dossier composed by Christopher Steele, a foreign spy, working for the Clinton campaign, so these deep state assholes had to know. No sane investigator would open a grand jury investigation based on unverified material. Mueller is a lying sack of shit. That's why he is running from this investigation. Conservatives have so many questions. Questions will dog him forever, even after he is dead, and he knows it. People will remember him for this.

jazz_music says

I'm not convinced that our forces exist and deploy to correct injustice

No Hanoi Jane ever did.

HeadSet says

I'm glad the United States has never done that.

Yes, amazing how little outcry resulting from Obama using US tax money to directly interfere in the recent Israeli Prime Minister election.

That's not the real wierdness. It's Powers.

She unmasked 300 people - many of them American Reps and Senators - justified by her being an Ambassador to (of?) the UN. In 2016 alone. Basically she unmasked a person a day except on Sundays.

In his years of UN Ambassadorship in the years after 9/11, Bolton unmasked 3 (three) people.

Why did the Ambassador to the UN under Obama need to unmask 300 people from Intel Reports in 2016?

HonkpilledMaster says

Why did the Ambassador to the UN under Obama need to unmask 300 people from Intel Reports in 2016?

To 'gwan fuck them up, of course! I get a gold star for the obvious!

Comcast has the worst service of any company I have ever used in my lifetime.

Let's see...we bailed out the banks and even though interest rates are still super low for savers, the banks have thanked the citizens by giving them the highest average rates on credit cards that has ever been recorded. I don't think we should let these scum anywhere close to setting loan terms for the majority of student loans. I say we take our chances with the bureaucrats.

I'm sure you are just busted up about this. But here you go, that is a hit piece and a fucking Lie.

But FWIW, after Trump is done with the Establishment and uncover's McShitstain's role in 44 Mafia Thug organization.
The Ship will be rechristened. We can't a our War Ships named after a Loser and a Criminal.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/05/just-another-fakenews-hit-piece-wall-street-journals-latest-anti-trump-uss-john-mccain-hit-piece-falls-apart/

Everything that is not CNN is Fake news jeesh everybody knows that you Mouth breather.

Amazing. A bunch of mullet-headed, ignorant fuckwits rallying around a draft -dodging cunt who cheats on his wives with prostitutes, gropes women, and lies constantly. They call him a great American which leads me to believe that they have an odd meaning for the word "great."

Trump is a loser and a coward who lied to get out of serving in Vietnam. He then mocked those who served. And yet, these MAGA hat wearing morons rally around him.
Honestly, the best thing that could happen to the world would be Yellowstone erupting and killing every single American. You are all to violent and ignorant to live.

RafiMaas says

https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/1283729001

“I would never dishonor the memory of a great American patriot like Senator (John) McCain. I'd never disrespect the young men and women who crew that ship,"

The story is false.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/47816/reporter-claims-name-uss-john-mccain-covered-ryan-saavedra

More fake news from the usual idiots.

Seriously now it's about tarp and not TARP? WTF is wrong with the leftoids and their lamestream media lackeys. Blumpf farted in the wrong direction! Blumpf owned! Rezist!

Like a "sales.. tax"?

Why would you name a military carrier after somebody who was notorious for crashing and burning airplanes?