RUSSIA/РОССИЯ THREAD—ASSANGE CHRGD W/ SPYING—DJT IMPEACHED TWICE-US TREASURY SANCTS KILIMNIK AS RUSSIAN AGNT

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

 

[LeVraiPapi]

Great chess move by the IC. Trump fires Sessions for lying under oath then Mueller can charge him then offer him a deal for the big fish.

Trump can't do shyt now. He can't fire Sessions and he can't keep him around because Sessions taints his administration, but hey what can he do ? Lol.

 

[GnauzBookOfRhymes]

If the source was an existing one then I don't think the intelligence community would have leaked. Most likely this is something they have known for quite a while and the source has probably already been killed.

 

[Theodoresolderbreh]

JEFF SESSIONS WAS PILLOW TALKING WITH THE RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR ABOUT SANCTIONS ACCORDING TO U.S. INTELLIGENCE INTERCEPTS!!!


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Sessions discussed Trump campaign-related matters with Russian ambassador, U.S. intelligence intercepts show

Russia’s ambassador to Washington told his superiors in Moscow that he discussed campaign-related matters, including policy issues important to Moscow, with Jeff Sessions during the 2016 presidential race, contrary to public assertions by the embattled attorney general, according to current and former U.S. officials.

Ambassador Sergey Kislyak’s accounts of two conversations with Sessions — then a top foreign policy adviser to Republican candidate Donald Trump — were intercepted by U.S. spy agencies, which monitor the communications of senior Russian officials both in the United States and in Russia. Sessions initially failed to disclose his contacts with Kislyak and then said that the meetings were not about the Trump campaign.

One U.S. official said that Sessions — who testified that he has no recollection of the April encounter — has provided “misleading” statements that are “contradicted by other evidence.” A former official said that the intelligence indicates that Sessions and Kislyak had “substantive” discussions on matters including Trump’s positions on Russia-related issues and prospects for U.S.-Russia relations in a Trump administration.

Sessions has said repeatedly that he never discussed campaign-related issues with Russian officials and that it was only in his capacity as a U.S. Senator that he met with Kislyak.

“I never had meetings with Russian operatives or Russian intermediaries about the Trump campaign,” Sessions said in March when he announced that he would recuse himself from matters relating to the FBI probe of Russian interference in the election and any connections to the Trump campaign.

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Current and former U.S. officials said that assertion is at odds with Kislyak’s accounts of conversations during two encounters over the course of the campaign, one in April ahead of Trump’s first major foreign policy speech and another in July on the sidelines of the Republican National Convention.

The apparent discrepancy could pose new problems for Sessions at a time when his position in the administration appears increasingly tenuous.

Trump, in an interview this week, expressed frustration with Sessions’s recusing himself from the Russia probe and indicated that he regretted his decision to make the lawmaker from Alabama the nation’s top law enforcement officer. Trump also faulted Sessions as giving “bad answers” during his confirmation hearing about his Russian contacts during the campaign.

Officials emphasized that the information contradicting Sessions comes from U.S. intelligence on Kislyak’s communications with the Kremlin, and acknowledged that the Russian ambassador could have mischaracterized or exaggerated the nature of his interactions.

“Obviously I cannot comment on the reliability of what anonymous sources describe in a wholly uncorroborated intelligence intercept that the Washington Post has not seen and that has not been provided to me,” said Sarah Isgur Flores, a Justice Department spokeswoman in a statement. She reiterated that Sessions did not discuss interference in the election.

Russian and other foreign diplomats in Washington and elsewhere have been known, at times, to report false or misleading information to bolster their standing with their superiors or to confuse U.S. intelligence agencies.

But U.S. officials with regular access to Russian intelligence reports say Kislyak — whose tenure as ambassador to the United States ended recently — has a reputation for accurately relaying details about his interactions with officials in Washington.

Sessions removed himself from direct involvement in the Russia investigation after it was revealed in The Washington Post that he had met with Kislyak at least twice in 2016, contacts he failed to disclose during his confirmation hearing in January.

“I did not have communications with the Russians,” Sessions said when asked whether anyone affiliated with the Trump campaign had communicated with representatives of the Russian government.

He has since maintained that he misunderstood the scope of the question and that his meetings with Kislyak were strictly in his capacity as a U.S. senator. In a March appearance on Fox television, Sessions said, “I don’t recall any discussion of the campaign in any significant way.”

Sessions appeared to narrow that assertion further in extensive testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee in June, saying that he “never met with or had any conversation with any Russians or foreign officials concerning any type of interference with any campaign or election in the United States.”

But when pressed for details, Sessions qualified many of his answers during that hearing by saying that he could “not recall” or did not have “any recollection.”

A former U.S. official who read the Kislyak reports said that the Russian ambassador reported speaking with Sessions about issues that were central to the campaign, including Trump’s positions on key policy matters of significance to Moscow.

Sessions had a third meeting with Kislyak in his Senate office in September. Officials declined to say whether U.S. intelligence agencies intercepted any Russian communications describing the third encounter.

As a result, the discrepancies center on two earlier Sessions-Kislyak conversations, including one that Sessions has acknowledged took place in July 2016 on the sidelines of the Republican National Convention.

By that point, Russian President Vladimir Putin had decided to embark on a secret campaign to help Trump win the White House by leaking damaging emails about his rival, Democrat Hillary Clinton, according to U.S. intelligence agencies.

Although it remains unclear how involved Kislyak was in the covert Russian campaign to aid Trump, his superiors in Moscow were eager for updates about the candidate’s positions, particularly regarding U.S. sanctions on Russia and long-standing disputes with the Obama administration over conflicts in Ukraine and Syria.

Kislyak also reported having a conversation with Sessions in April at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, where then-candidate Trump delivered his first major foreign policy address, according to the officials familiar with intelligence on Kislyak.

Sessions has said he does not remember any encounter with Kislyak at that event. In his June testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Sessions said, “I do not recall any conversations with any Russian official at the Mayflower Hotel.”

Later in that hearing, Sessions said that “it’s conceivable that that occurred. I just don’t remember it.”

Kislyak was also a key figure in the departure of former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who was forced to leave that job after The Post revealed that he had discussed U.S. sanctions against Russia with Kislyak even while telling others in the Trump administration that he had not done so.

In that case, however, Flynn’s phone conversations with Kislyak were intercepted by U.S. intelligence, providing irrefutable evidence. The intelligence on Sessions, by contrast, is based on Kislyak’s accounts and not corroborated by other sources.

Former FBI director James B. Comey fueled speculation about the possibility of a Sessions-Kislyak meeting at the Mayflower when he told the same Senate committee on June 8 that the bureau had information about Sessions that would have made it “problematic” for him to be involved in the Russia probe.

Comey would not provide details of what information the FBI had, except to say that he could only discuss it privately with the senators. Current and former officials said he appeared to be alluding to intelligence on Kislyak’s account of an encounter with Sessions at the Mayflower.

Senate Democrats later called on the FBI to investigate the event in April at the Mayflower hotel.

Sessions’s role in removing Comey as FBI director angered many at the bureau and set in motion events that led to the appointment of former FBI director Robert S. Mueller III as a special counsel overseeing the Russia probe.

Trump’s harsh words toward the attorney general fueled speculation this week that Sessions would be fired or would resign. So far, he has resisted resigning, saying that he intends to stay in the job “as long as that is appropriate.”



Matt Zapotosky and Julie Tate contributed to this report.

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[Theodoresolderbreh]

Great chess move by the IC. Trump fires Sessions for lying under oath then Mueller can charge him then offer him a deal for the big fish.

Trump can't do shyt now. He can't fire Sessions and he can't keep him around because Sessions taints his administration, but hey what can he do ? Lol.

it explains why trump threw him under the bus the other he clearly knew this was coming

 

[GoddamnyamanProf]

Work has been crazy this week

Just spent the last few hours catching up with 50 some pages

A few thoughts:

To me, it seems obvious that this new Sessions leak exposing not only his felony perjury, but also the US intelligence methods by which this info was obtained, came directly from Team Trump. The fact that this news exposes and ends a vital source of covert intel on the Russians seals it - who else would gladly do such a thing without thinking twice? Hell, they likely see it as killing two birds with one stone.

So its clearly the phase two move after the public criticism and loss of confidence in Sessions from Trump did not result in the desired effect - Sessions quitting so Trump can hire a new lackey that hasnt been recused.

How do I see the next few bombshells playing out?

-Sessions will resign
-Trump hires someone else that will carry out Sessions' same Confederate agenda
-New AG fires Mueller under order from Trump
-Trump pardons Sessions

Pretty sure this is the current White House gamplan. Im sure they expect that to be the end of the Russia investigation and back to business as usual ruining the world. Anyone that calls foul will be fired or otherwise disciplined as the Dictator in Chief builds his Authoritarian regime over the ruins of Democracy, while Republicans everywhere lay low and pretend all is well.

 

[Robbie3000]

At this point, unless you are a Co-D of Trumps, why would anyone be loyal to this a$$hole?

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Great chess move by the IC. Trump fires Sessions for lying under oath then Mueller can charge him then offer him a deal for the big fish.

Trump can't do shyt now. He can't fire Sessions and he can't keep him around because Sessions taints his administration, but hey what can he do ? Lol.

At this point, unless you are a Co-D of Trumps, why would anyone be loyal to this a$$hole?

 

[The Fukin Prophecy]

Work has been crazy this week

Just spent the last few hours catching up with 50 some pages

A few thoughts:

To me, it seems obvious that this new Sessions leak exposing not only his felony perjury, but also the US intelligence methods by which this info was obtained, came directly from Team Trump. The fact that this news exposes and ends a vital source of covert intel on the Russians seals it - who else would gladly do such a thing without thinking twice? Hell, they likely see it as killing two birds with one stone.

So its clearly the phase two move after the public criticism and loss of confidence in Sessions from Trump did not result in the desired effect - Sessions quitting so Trump can hire a new lackey that hasnt been recused.

How do I see the next few bombshells playing out?

-Sessions will resign
-Trump hires someone else that will carry out Sessions' same Confederate agenda
-New AG fires Mueller under order from Trump
-Trump pardons Sessions

Pretty sure this is the current White House gamplan. Im sure they expect that to be the end of the Russia investigation and back to business as usual ruining the world. Anyone that calls foul will be fired or otherwise disciplined as the Dictator in Chief builds his Authoritarian regime over the ruins of Democracy, while Republicans everywhere lay low and pretend all is well.

C/s

This is clearly smells like a Trump leak...

The IC would not sacrifice an intelligence method to leak a story...

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Work has been crazy this week

Just spent the last few hours catching up with 50 some pages

A few thoughts:

To me, it seems obvious that this new Sessions leak exposing not only his felony perjury, but also the US intelligence methods by which this info was obtained, came directly from Team Trump. The fact that this news exposes and ends a vital source of covert intel on the Russians seals it - who else would gladly do such a thing without thinking twice? Hell, they likely see it as killing two birds with one stone.

So its clearly the phase two move after the public criticism and loss of confidence in Sessions from Trump did not result in the desired effect - Sessions quitting so Trump can hire a new lackey that hasnt been recused.

How do I see the next few bombshells playing out?

-Sessions will resign
-Trump hires someone else that will carry out Sessions' same Confederate agenda
-New AG fires Mueller under order from Trump
-Trump pardons Sessions

Pretty sure this is the current White House gamplan. Im sure they expect that to be the end of the Russia investigation and back to business as usual ruining the world. Anyone that calls foul will be fired or otherwise disciplined as the Dictator in Chief builds his Authoritarian regime over the ruins of Democracy, while Republicans everywhere lay low and pretend all is well.

Eh...not so fast.

This is what got Nixon fukked up.

If theres a new AG, there is no indication that he/she will abide by an order to fire the special prosector.

Saturday Night Massacre - Wikipedia

We're in a new rules zone now. Cause everyone knows the history. This is gonna play out a little differently.

 

[The ADD]

Work has been crazy this week

Just spent the last few hours catching up with 50 some pages

A few thoughts:

To me, it seems obvious that this new Sessions leak exposing not only his felony perjury, but also the US intelligence methods by which this info was obtained, came directly from Team Trump. The fact that this news exposes and ends a vital source of covert intel on the Russians seals it - who else would gladly do such a thing without thinking twice? Hell, they likely see it as killing two birds with one stone.

So its clearly the phase two move after the public criticism and loss of confidence in Sessions from Trump did not result in the desired effect - Sessions quitting so Trump can hire a new lackey that hasnt been recused.

How do I see the next few bombshells playing out?

-Sessions will resign
-Trump hires someone else that will carry out Sessions' same Confederate agenda
-New AG fires Mueller under order from Trump
-Trump pardons Sessions

Pretty sure this is the current White House gamplan. Im sure they expect that to be the end of the Russia investigation and back to business as usual ruining the world. Anyone that calls foul will be fired or otherwise disciplined as the Dictator in Chief builds his Authoritarian regime over the ruins of Democracy, while Republicans everywhere lay low and pretend all is well.

The wrinkle there is getting a new AG approved, they can't pass a nerf ball right now.

 

[MMS]

Work has been crazy this week

Just spent the last few hours catching up with 50 some pages

A few thoughts:

To me, it seems obvious that this new Sessions leak exposing not only his felony perjury, but also the US intelligence methods by which this info was obtained, came directly from Team Trump. The fact that this news exposes and ends a vital source of covert intel on the Russians seals it - who else would gladly do such a thing without thinking twice? Hell, they likely see it as killing two birds with one stone.

So its clearly the phase two move after the public criticism and loss of confidence in Sessions from Trump did not result in the desired effect - Sessions quitting so Trump can hire a new lackey that hasnt been recused.

How do I see the next few bombshells playing out?

-Sessions will resign
-Trump hires someone else that will carry out Sessions' same Confederate agenda
-New AG fires Mueller under order from Trump
-Trump pardons Sessions

Pretty sure this is the current White House gamplan. Im sure they expect that to be the end of the Russia investigation and back to business as usual ruining the world. Anyone that calls foul will be fired or otherwise disciplined as the Dictator in Chief builds his Authoritarian regime over the ruins of Democracy, while Republicans everywhere lay low and pretend all is well.

 

[Robbie3000]

Work has been crazy this week

Just spent the last few hours catching up with 50 some pages

A few thoughts:

To me, it seems obvious that this new Sessions leak exposing not only his felony perjury, but also the US intelligence methods by which this info was obtained, came directly from Team Trump. The fact that this news exposes and ends a vital source of covert intel on the Russians seals it - who else would gladly do such a thing without thinking twice? Hell, they likely see it as killing two birds with one stone.

So its clearly the phase two move after the public criticism and loss of confidence in Sessions from Trump did not result in the desired effect - Sessions quitting so Trump can hire a new lackey that hasnt been recused.

How do I see the next few bombshells playing out?

-Sessions will resign
-Trump hires someone else that will carry out Sessions' same Confederate agenda
-New AG fires Mueller under order from Trump
-Trump pardons Sessions

Pretty sure this is the current White House gamplan. Im sure they expect that to be the end of the Russia investigation and back to business as usual ruining the world. Anyone that calls foul will be fired or otherwise disciplined as the Dictator in Chief builds his Authoritarian regime over the ruins of Democracy, while Republicans everywhere lay low and pretend all is well.

That's the plan and it's laughably transparent.

It's not like everything Mueller has looked into is going to go away.

The cat is out of the bag and this is just a sad and desperate attempts of a man at the end of his road.

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

I sit out one afternoon looking at a car and find this news? My god

 

[blotter]

do yall ever wonder if someone in the future will go through this thread. like some kid finds this thread in 20 years and sifts through it at fast af due to AI forum technology or some shyt that cuts out newworldafro posts and other superfluous shyt. assuming twitter keeps its links hosted it seems like a great way to plug into how a story unfolded in real time

people need to descend on DC when he fires Mueller. 24 hour drive for me, but I might try to link up and make it if this dead man's switch doesn't exist and Rs sit on their sacks