I mean if came out with "I fukkery your butch you orange mutha fukka....."Jim Comey, Jim Comey"
RUSSIA/РОССИЯ THREAD—ASSANGE CHRGD W/ SPYING—DJT IMPEACHED TWICE-US TREASURY SANCTS KILIMNIK AS RUSSIAN AGNT
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This is some fukkery.
Saudi coaltion going on some fake news, President of US and A joining in on the Qatar pile but has no issues going to the Saudis and sucking up to them. While Russia is laughing and watching in the background after doing their fukkery.
What a world brehs.
It's mad how effective Russia has been.
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This is some fukkery.
Saudi coaltion going on some fake news, President of US and A joining in on the Qatar pile but has no issues going to the Saudis and sucking up to them. While Russia is laughing and watching in the background after doing their fukkery.
What a world brehs.
It's mad how effective Russia has been.
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JUDY WOODRUFF: And, in fact, Lisa, we were talking about this earlier, what the president is saying, John is reporting in some of these expectations that he’s putting out there and tweeting about, including about other subjects, that then members of Congress, leadership have to react to, all of that is having an effect on the agenda.
LISA DESJARDINS: Right.
I think, until now, many Republicans have been able to shrug it off, as much as they themselves were frustrated by it. But today, Judy, Senator Bob Corker, generally a Trump ally, was literally speechless when he was told about the president’s tweet about Qatar.
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Is the GOP’s ambitious to-do list running out of time?
JUDY WOODRUFF: And, in fact, Lisa, we were talking about this earlier, what the president is saying, John is reporting in some of these expectations that he’s putting out there and tweeting about, including about other subjects, that then members of Congress, leadership have to react to, all of that is having an effect on the agenda.
LISA DESJARDINS: Right.
I think, until now, many Republicans have been able to shrug it off, as much as they themselves were frustrated by it. But today, Judy, Senator Bob Corker, generally a Trump ally, was literally speechless when he was told about the president’s tweet about Qatar.
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Is the GOP’s ambitious to-do list running out of time?
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Comey Told Sessions: Don’t Leave Me Alone With Trump
By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT and MATT APUZZOJUNE 6, 2017
James B. Comey, then the F.B.I. director, with Attorney General Jeff Sessions during a meeting at the Justice Department in February. Yuri Gripas/Reuters
WASHINGTON — The day after President Trump asked James B. Comey, the F.B.I.director, to end an investigation into his former national security adviser, Mr. Comey confronted Attorney General Jeff Sessions and said he did not want to be left alone again with the president, according to current and former law enforcement officials.
Mr. Comey believed Mr. Sessions should protect the F.B.I. from White House influence, the officials said, and pulled him aside after a meeting in February to tell him that private interactions between the F.B.I. director and the president were inappropriate. But Mr. Sessions could not guarantee that the president would not try to talk to Mr. Comey alone again, the officials said.
Mr. Comey did not reveal, however, what had so unnerved him about his Oval Office meeting with the president: Mr. Trump’s request that the F.B.I. director end the investigation into the former national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, who had just been fired. By the time Mr. Trump fired Mr. Comey last month, Mr. Comey had disclosed the meeting to a few of his closest advisers but nobody at the Justice Department, according to the officials, who did not want to be identified discussing Mr. Comey’s interactions with Mr. Trump and Mr. Sessions.
Mr. Comey will be the center of attention on Thursday during testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee, where he is expected to be quizzed intensely about his interactions with Mr. Trump and why he decided to keep secret the president’s request to end the Flynn investigation.
Mr. Comey’s unwillingness to be alone with the president reflected how deeply Mr. Comey distrusted Mr. Trump, who Mr. Comey believed was trying to undermine the F.B.I.’s independence as it conducted a highly sensitive investigation into links between Mr. Trump’s associates and Russia, the officials said. By comparison, Mr. Comey met alone at least twice with President Obama.
A spokesman for the F.B.I. declined to comment on Mr. Comey’s request. A Justice Department spokesman, Ian Prior, said that “the attorney general doesn’t believe it’s appropriate to respond to media inquiries on matters that may be related to ongoing investigations.”
The Justice Department typically walls off the White House from criminal investigations to avoid even the appearance of political meddling in law enforcement. But Mr. Trump has repeatedly interjected himself in law enforcement matters, and never more dramatically than in his private meetings with Mr. Comey.
“You have the president of the United States talking to the director of the F.B.I., not just about any criminal investigation, but one involving his presidential campaign,” said Matthew S. Axelrod, who served in senior Justice Department roles during the Obama administration and is now a partner at the law firm Linklaters. “That is such a sharp departure from all the past traditions and rules of the road.”
Michael S. Schmidt reports on new revelations about James B. Comey's appeal to Attorney General Jeff Sessions to ward off pressure from the White House.
By NATALIE RENEAU, ROBIN STEIN and A.J. CHAVAR on June 6, 2017. Photo by Gabriella Demczuk for The New York Times. Watch in Times Video »
But that raises one of the questions Mr. Comey will have to answer in his testimony on Thursday. If he believed that Mr. Trump was trying to get him to end an investigation, why did he not tell anyone about it?
Mr. Trump’s defenders note that Andrew G. McCabe, the acting director of the F.B.I., has said that “there has been no effort to impede our investigation.” Current and former law enforcement officials say Mr. Comey kept his interactions with Mr. Trump a secret in part because he was not sure whom at the Justice Department he could trust.
F.B.I. officials were also unsure whether what Mr. Trump had done was a crime or how the conversation could ever be corroborated. So Mr. Comey kept the circle of officials at the F.B.I. who knew about his interactions with Mr. Trump small because he did not want agents and analysts working on the case to be influenced by what the president wanted.
Mr. Comey’s decision to keep his interactions with Mr. Trump a secret from the Justice Department were the latest example of how he set himself apart from the department throughout his tenure at F.B.I. director.
Several times during the F.B.I.’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s personal email server last year, for example, Mr. Comey made decisions without the Justice Department’s knowledge or approval, often to the consternation of Loretta Lynch, then the attorney general. Mr. Comey has said he made those decisions to protect the independence of the F.B.I. — decisions that have been praised and criticized along partisan lines.
“In a legal sense, we’re not independent of the Department of Justice,” Mr. Comey told Congress last month. “We are spiritually, culturally pretty independent group, and that’s the way you would want it.”
Mr. Comey is also likely to be asked Thursday what he told Mr. Trump about the Russia investigation. Mr. Trump has told aides and said publicly that, on three occasions, Mr. Comey assured him that he was not under investigation.
Current and former law enforcement officials said that when the investigation was handed over last month to a special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, Mr. Trump was not a target. But it is not clear what, if anything, Mr. Comey told the president about whether he was being investigated.
While Justice Department policy allows authorities to tell people whether they are the target of an investigation, prosecutors — not F.B.I. agents — handle such discussions. “We typically do not answer that question,” Mr. McCabe testified recently.
Former officials say Mr. Comey anticipated that the president might ask whether he was being investigated, and consulted his advisers on how to delicately sidestep the question. The officials were not aware of how Mr. Comey decided to answer.
When the Justice Department transferred the Russia investigation to Mr. Mueller, it gave him the authority to investigate whether the president broke any laws by attempting to obstruct the case or by firing Mr. Comey.
As F.B.I. director, Mr. Comey wrote a detailed memo after every major phone call or meeting with Mr. Trump and left those memos in the bureau’s files when he left. As special counsel, Mr. Mueller has access to those memos, but the F.B.I. declined a request from the Senate Intelligence Committee for copies of the memos, citing the ongoing investigation. It is unclear whether Mr. Comey still has copies of all of them or plans to read from them during his testimony.
According to people briefed on the memos, they describe not only what Mr. Trump said, but details such as his tone and where he was sitting. In one memo, Mr. Comey described a dinner with Mr. Trump at the White House a week after the inauguration in January. Mr. Trump asked Mr. Comey to pledge his loyalty but Mr. Comey refused.
Two weeks later, on Feb. 14, Mr. Trump kicked Vice President Mike Pence, Mr. Sessions and other senior administration officials out of the Oval Office so he could have his one-on-one conversation with Mr. Comey, according to people briefed on one of Mr. Comey’s memos.
It was in that conversation that Mr. Trump asked Mr. Comey to end the investigation into Mr. Flynn, and encouraged him to investigate leaks, the people said.
“I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go,” Mr. Trump told Mr. Comey, according to the memo Mr. Comey wrote describing that meeting. “He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go.”
Asked Tuesday about Mr. Comey’s coming testimony, Mr. Trump replied, “I wish him luck.”
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Top intelligence official told associates Trump asked him if he could intervene with Comey on FBI Russia probe
Top intelligence official told associates Trump asked him if he could intervene with Comey on FBI Russia probe
The nation’s top intelligence official told associates in March that President Trump asked him if he could intervene with then-FBI Director James B. Comey to get the bureau to back off its focus on former national security adviser Michael Flynn in its Russia probe, according to officials.
On March 22, less than a week after being confirmed by the Senate, Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats attended a briefing at the White House together with officials from several government agencies. As the briefing was wrapping up, Trump asked everyone to leave the room except for Coats and CIA Director Mike Pompeo.
The president then started complaining about the FBI investigation and Comey’s handling of it, said officials familiar with the account Coats gave to associates. Two days earlier, Comey had confirmed in a congressional hearing that the bureau was probing whether Trump’s campaign coordinated with Russia during the 2016 race.
[Inside Trump’s anger and impatience — and his sudden decision to fire Comey]
After the encounter, Coats discussed the conversation with other officials and decided that intervening with Comey as Trump had suggested would be inappropriate, according to officials who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive internal matters.
reported in May. The interaction with Coats indicates that Trump aimed to enlist top officials to have Comey curtail the bureau’s probe.
[Trump asked intelligence chiefs to push back against FBI collusion probe after Comey revealed its existence]
Coats will testify on Wednesday before the Senate Intelligence Committee. Lawmakers on the panel said they would press him for information about his interactions with the president regarding the FBI investigation.
The question of whether the president obstructed the Russia investigation is expected to take center stage this week with Comey’s highly anticipated testimony on the Hill on Thursday. Comey associates say that before the director was fired in May, the president had asked him to drop the investigation into Flynn, and Comey refused.
Brian P. Hale, a DNI spokesman, declined to comment on whether Trump asked Coats to intervene with Comey regarding the Flynn investigation. Hale said in a statement: “Director Coats does not discuss his private conversations with the President. However, he has never felt pressured by the President or anyone else in the Administration to influence any intelligence matters or ongoing investigations.”
A spokesman for Pompeo declined to comment on the closed-door discussions. The White House referred questions to outside lawyers, who did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Trump has repeatedly denied any coordination took place between his campaign and the Russian government, which, according to U.S. intelligence agencies, stole emails embarrassing to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and leaked them to undermine her campaign.
Team Trump’s ties to Russian interests View Graphic Flynn had served as an enthusiastic surrogate for Trump during the campaign and then was fired after just 24 days as national security adviser over revelations he misrepresented his discussions with the Russian ambassador to the United States.
[Flynn’s swift downfall: From a phone call to a forced resignation]
The incidents suggest that Trump may not have appreciated the traditional barriers meant to insulate the intelligence agencies from politics.
Though the office of the DNI oversees other intelligence agencies, the FBI director operates independently of the DNI on many matters. For example, Comey kept James R. Clapper Jr., Coats’s predecessor in the DNI job during the Obama administration, in the dark about the bureau’s investigation into possible coordination.
A day or two after the March 22 meeting, the president followed up with a phone call to Coats, according to officials familiar with the discussions. In the call, Trump asked the DNI to issue a public statement denying the existence of any evidence of coordination between the Russian government and the Trump campaign. Again, Coats decided not to act on the request.
Trump similarly approached Adm. Mike Rogers, the director of the National Security Agency, to ask him to publicly deny the existence of any evidence of coordination between the Russians and the Trump campaign, as the Post previously reported, according to current and former officials. Like Coats, Rogers refused to comply with the president’s request.
Trump announced in January that he was nominating Coats to serve as DNI, an office which is responsible for overseeing U.S. intelligence agencies and for briefing the president on global developments.
In February, as tensions flared between intelligence agencies and the White House over Russia and other issues, some of Trump’s advisers floated the idea of appointing a New York billionaire, Stephen A. Feinberg, to undertake a review of the DNI. Coats, who was preparing for his confirmation hearing, felt blindsided, officials said.
The White House backed away from the idea of naming Feinberg after Coats and members of the intelligence community and Congress raised objections.
Officials say Trump’s advisers have since revived their proposal to appoint Feinberg to a senior position, possibly to review the roles of the DNI and other intelligence agencies.
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Some officials said they viewed the prospective appointment of Feinberg as an effort by the White House to put pressure on intelligence agencies to close ranks with the White House.
In an appearance last month before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Coats refused to provide details about his interactions with Trump.
But Coats indicated that he would cooperate with the Russia probe now being led by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III. Under questioning by Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Coats said that if asked, he would provide details of his conversations with Trump to Mueller.
Coats also said that if he is called before an investigative committee, such as the Senate Intelligence Committee, “I certainly will provide them with what I know and what I don’t know.” He said the Trump administration has not directed the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to withhold information from members of Congress conducting oversight.
Read more:
All eyes are on Comey this Thursday — again
Legal analysts: Trump might have obstructed justice, if Comey’s allegation is true
Putin ridicules allegations of collusion between Trump aides and Russian officials
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Kick Greta out and put Joy on the weekdays already!
#BlackExcellence
Yeah,more Chocolate Almond Joy the better,btw she was looking maad Tasty when filling in for Maddowww & Lawrence
I can literally watch that Vice clip of the Spicer news conference all day. That is one of the funniest clips I've seen during this whole administration. I cant think of the reporters name who is staring off in the abyss with his ear piece laying on his shoulder.
:shakingdamn::shakingdamn::shakingdamn::shakingdamn::shakingdamn::shakingdamn:
duckbutta
eienaar van mans
Yeah it's weird people are looking at Comey testimony as "oh man i hope he just comes out and bashes Trump" when in fact the less he says the worst off it will be for Trump and his administration...
Like...imagine how fukked up the administration is if every single thing they ask comey he replies with "that is part of an active investigation"
Top intelligence official told associates Trump asked him if he could intervene with Comey on FBI Russia probe
Top intelligence official told associates Trump asked him if he could intervene with Comey on FBI Russia probe
The nation’s top intelligence official told associates in March that President Trump asked him if he could intervene with then-FBI Director James B. Comey to get the bureau to back off its focus on former national security adviser Michael Flynn in its Russia probe, according to officials.
On March 22, less than a week after being confirmed by the Senate, Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats attended a briefing at the White House together with officials from several government agencies. As the briefing was wrapping up, Trump asked everyone to leave the room except for Coats and CIA Director Mike Pompeo.
The president then started complaining about the FBI investigation and Comey’s handling of it, said officials familiar with the account Coats gave to associates. Two days earlier, Comey had confirmed in a congressional hearing that the bureau was probing whether Trump’s campaign coordinated with Russia during the 2016 race.
[Inside Trump’s anger and impatience — and his sudden decision to fire Comey]
After the encounter, Coats discussed the conversation with other officials and decided that intervening with Comey as Trump had suggested would be inappropriate, according to officials who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive internal matters.
reported in May. The interaction with Coats indicates that Trump aimed to enlist top officials to have Comey curtail the bureau’s probe.
[Trump asked intelligence chiefs to push back against FBI collusion probe after Comey revealed its existence]
Coats will testify on Wednesday before the Senate Intelligence Committee. Lawmakers on the panel said they would press him for information about his interactions with the president regarding the FBI investigation.
The question of whether the president obstructed the Russia investigation is expected to take center stage this week with Comey’s highly anticipated testimony on the Hill on Thursday. Comey associates say that before the director was fired in May, the president had asked him to drop the investigation into Flynn, and Comey refused.
Brian P. Hale, a DNI spokesman, declined to comment on whether Trump asked Coats to intervene with Comey regarding the Flynn investigation. Hale said in a statement: “Director Coats does not discuss his private conversations with the President. However, he has never felt pressured by the President or anyone else in the Administration to influence any intelligence matters or ongoing investigations.”
A spokesman for Pompeo declined to comment on the closed-door discussions. The White House referred questions to outside lawyers, who did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Trump has repeatedly denied any coordination took place between his campaign and the Russian government, which, according to U.S. intelligence agencies, stole emails embarrassing to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and leaked them to undermine her campaign.
Flynn had served as an enthusiastic surrogate for Trump during the campaign and then was fired after just 24 days as national security adviser over revelations he misrepresented his discussions with the Russian ambassador to the United States.
[Flynn’s swift downfall: From a phone call to a forced resignation]
The incidents suggest that Trump may not have appreciated the traditional barriers meant to insulate the intelligence agencies from politics.
Though the office of the DNI oversees other intelligence agencies, the FBI director operates independently of the DNI on many matters. For example, Comey kept James R. Clapper Jr., Coats’s predecessor in the DNI job during the Obama administration, in the dark about the bureau’s investigation into possible coordination.
A day or two after the March 22 meeting, the president followed up with a phone call to Coats, according to officials familiar with the discussions. In the call, Trump asked the DNI to issue a public statement denying the existence of any evidence of coordination between the Russian government and the Trump campaign. Again, Coats decided not to act on the request.
Trump similarly approached Adm. Mike Rogers, the director of the National Security Agency, to ask him to publicly deny the existence of any evidence of coordination between the Russians and the Trump campaign, as the Post previously reported, according to current and former officials. Like Coats, Rogers refused to comply with the president’s request.
Trump announced in January that he was nominating Coats to serve as DNI, an office which is responsible for overseeing U.S. intelligence agencies and for briefing the president on global developments.
In February, as tensions flared between intelligence agencies and the White House over Russia and other issues, some of Trump’s advisers floated the idea of appointing a New York billionaire, Stephen A. Feinberg, to undertake a review of the DNI. Coats, who was preparing for his confirmation hearing, felt blindsided, officials said.
The White House backed away from the idea of naming Feinberg after Coats and members of the intelligence community and Congress raised objections.
Officials say Trump’s advisers have since revived their proposal to appoint Feinberg to a senior position, possibly to review the roles of the DNI and other intelligence agencies.
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Some officials said they viewed the prospective appointment of Feinberg as an effort by the White House to put pressure on intelligence agencies to close ranks with the White House.
In an appearance last month before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Coats refused to provide details about his interactions with Trump.
But Coats indicated that he would cooperate with the Russia probe now being led by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III. Under questioning by Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Coats said that if asked, he would provide details of his conversations with Trump to Mueller.
Coats also said that if he is called before an investigative committee, such as the Senate Intelligence Committee, “I certainly will provide them with what I know and what I don’t know.” He said the Trump administration has not directed the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to withhold information from members of Congress conducting oversight.
Read more:
All eyes are on Comey this Thursday — again
Legal analysts: Trump might have obstructed justice, if Comey’s allegation is true
Putin ridicules allegations of collusion between Trump aides and Russian officials
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Damn.
This is obstruction of Justice.
Worthless Loser
Blackpilled
So thats the CIA director, NSA director and DNI director. Anyone else? Seems like Trump went to every agency to ask them to shut down Comey.