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You are here: Home / Organizing & Resistance / Vive La Resistance / Federal agents mad cuz I’m flagrant

Federal agents mad cuz I’m flagrant

by DougJ|  February 18, 20178:13 pm| 166 Comments

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The Deep State’s slow motion coup continues:

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is pursuing at least three separate probes relating to alleged Russian hacking of the U.S. presidential elections, according to five current and former government officials with direct knowledge of the situation.

[…]

This counterintelligence inquiry includes but is not limited to examination of financial transactions by Russian individuals and companies who are believed to have links to Trump associates. The transactions under scrutiny involve investments by Russians in overseas entities that appear to have been undertaken through middlemen and front companies, two people briefed on the probe said.

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  1. 1.

    Yutsano

    February 18, 2017 at 8:16 pm

    I wonder if Comey is trying to slow roll these or if Sessions will cancel them now.

    And will he act on the conclusions of said investigations.

  2. 2.

    Spanky

    February 18, 2017 at 8:17 pm

    Three FBI offices is not “the Deep State”, which probably doesn’t even exist in reality.

  3. 3.

    Attapooch

    February 18, 2017 at 8:18 pm

    Wait, you mean it’s fishy when Russians buy Trump condos for many times their actual value?

  4. 4.

    JPL

    February 18, 2017 at 8:19 pm

    @Yutsano: It appears that Sessions decided not to charge Flynn with lying to the FBI, so why should we expect him to charge others.

  5. 5.

    Mike in DC

    February 18, 2017 at 8:19 pm

    The minute one of the agencies–ours or one of the European ones–drops word that there’s concrete evidence of collusion, all hell will break loose. Even then, it may take months to dislodge the fuckers from power.

  6. 6.

    tofubo

    February 18, 2017 at 8:21 pm

    From a below thread

    http://www.politicususa.com/2017/02/18/trump-lie-exposed-proof-indebted-russian-mobsters.html

  7. 7.

    Attapooch

    February 18, 2017 at 8:21 pm

    @Yutsano:

    The Intelligence Community doesn’t need to rely on FBI investigations if they don’t want to, I would imagine. They can just release all the information they have to the press and let the investigation take place out in the open.

  8. 8.

    Another Scott

    February 18, 2017 at 8:22 pm

    @Spanky: I assume Doug! is being ironic.

    I assume the folks doing these investigations are taking their oaths seriously.

    “I, [name], do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.”

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  9. 9.

    Roger Moore

    February 18, 2017 at 8:23 pm

    @Yutsano:

    I wonder if Comey is trying to slow roll these or if Sessions will cancel them now.

    I think part of the point of making them public is to make them harder to kill. Remember that the thing that pushed people over the top in favor of impeaching Nixon was when he overtly interfered into the Watergate investigation. It may be true in this case that the crime is worse than the coverup, but the details of the crime are still obscure, while an obvious attempt to derail the investigation would be, well, obvious.

  10. 10.

    JPL

    February 18, 2017 at 8:24 pm

    @Attapooch: that’s what I think will happen or what @Another Scott: said.

  11. 11.

    raven

    February 18, 2017 at 8:25 pm

    @Another Scott: I’m Father Flannigan from Boys Town.

  12. 12.

    Another Scott

    February 18, 2017 at 8:28 pm

    @raven: Howdy Father!

    Cheers,
    Scott.
    (“We’ll see.”)

  13. 13.

    Spanky

    February 18, 2017 at 8:28 pm

    @raven: No doubt everyone else knows what the fuck you’re talking about but … what the fuck are you talking about?

  14. 14.

    SiubhanDuinne

    February 18, 2017 at 8:31 pm

    Been a long time since I’ve seen a reference to “Guccifer 2.”

  15. 15.

    JPL

    February 18, 2017 at 8:31 pm

    @Spanky: google is your friend. Raven is no Father Flanagan though.

  16. 16.

    Roger Moore

    February 18, 2017 at 8:32 pm

    @Spanky:
    I think he means that if you believe that, he has a Nigerian friend with a once in a lifetime offer.

  17. 17.

    SiubhanDuinne

    February 18, 2017 at 8:35 pm

    @raven:

    What made you think of him?

  18. 18.

    Baud

    February 18, 2017 at 8:36 pm

    This thread is all, “Shaka, when the walls fell.”

  19. 19.

    Corner Stone

    February 18, 2017 at 8:38 pm

    I am waiting to hear what Senator John McCain has to say about this before I decide how seriously to take this bit of news.

  20. 20.

    Corner Stone

    February 18, 2017 at 8:38 pm

    @Baud: “Clinton at Benghazi”

  21. 21.

    JPL

    February 18, 2017 at 8:39 pm

    @Baud: Definitely to deep for a Saturday night.

  22. 22.

    Baud

    February 18, 2017 at 8:40 pm

    @Corner Stone:

    Darmok and Jalad… at Mar-a-Lago.

  23. 23.

    Corner Stone

    February 18, 2017 at 8:42 pm

    @Baud: “NYT: No Russian Connections Found”

  24. 24.

    amk

    February 18, 2017 at 8:42 pm

    so, how did the twitler’s kkk ‘rally’ at fluriduh turn out?

  25. 25.

    Another Scott

    February 18, 2017 at 8:43 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: I’m pretty sure he’s outed himself as the Good Father in replies to me in the past. ;-)

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  26. 26.

    Baud

    February 18, 2017 at 8:44 pm

    @Corner Stone: The results when you google that are hilarious.

  27. 27.

    zhena gogolia

    February 18, 2017 at 8:46 pm

    @Baud:

    Okay, I tried googling that to see what it means, and now I realize that “I’m Father Flannigan” is equivalent to “Shaka, when the walls fell,” not that there is some semantic content to “Shaka, when the walls fell.” Amirite?

  28. 28.

    ? Martin

    February 18, 2017 at 8:47 pm

    @raven: Always wanted to meet you, given we’re related.

  29. 29.

    Baud

    February 18, 2017 at 8:51 pm

    @zhena gogolia: I think the answer is, yourrite.

  30. 30.

    JMG

    February 18, 2017 at 8:52 pm

    Having helped them get elected, Comey has Trump and Co. by the balls. They can’t fire him without total meltdown. Sessions can’t shut down the investigation without compromising himself to a degree he can’t take. Imagine Comey having a press conference tomorrow. Whether he knows it or not (probably not, not that bright), he’s in charge of the government if he wants to be.
    That children, is why the FBI has been what it has been for a century.

  31. 31.

    JPL

    February 18, 2017 at 8:55 pm

    @JMG: Trump is probably the only president that can be blackmailed by both domestic and foreign governments though. Nixon wasn’t even that good.

  32. 32.

    Mike J

    February 18, 2017 at 9:02 pm

    So I read today WaPo saying that Trump is going after the media because he wants to be the sole arbiter of truth.

    Until Trump came into office, have you ever seen the media try to determine the truth? It’s almost always, “Dems say climate change is real, Republicans say it isn’t, who are we to decide?”

    Yes, Trump is a massive lying wanker, but I find it hard to defend people who would never call a Republican lie a lie.

  33. 33.

    Aleta

    February 18, 2017 at 9:04 pm

    I’m discombobulated.

  34. 34.

    amk

    February 18, 2017 at 9:07 pm

    @Mike J: Me too. Media mofos built that peak wingnut.

  35. 35.

    PPCLI

    February 18, 2017 at 9:07 pm

    @Attapooch: And those Russians never actually live in the mansions they overpaid insanely for? Naw, that is totally normal.

  36. 36.

    burnspbesq

    February 18, 2017 at 9:09 pm

    All of us who suffered at Bowling Green must stand in solidarity with the victims of the Swedish Attack.

  37. 37.

    JMG

    February 18, 2017 at 9:11 pm

    @burnspbesq: Well done.

  38. 38.

    Iowa Old Lady

    February 18, 2017 at 9:12 pm

    My “Nevertheless she persisted” T-shirt came! Yay!

  39. 39.

    hovercraft

    February 18, 2017 at 9:14 pm

    @burnspbesq:
    The Swedish Fish attacked, when was this, I’m a diabetic, I must take precautions.

  40. 40.

    TriassicSands

    February 18, 2017 at 9:15 pm

    My gut tells me that nothing is going to come of the investigation. The Republicans, Sessions, and Comey aren’t going to let that happen. It’s a feeling, not anything based on information, but the Republicans are so corrupt and Sessions and Comey are two of the most corrupt Republicans. We can only hope that the evidence of wrongdoing, if it exists, is so compelling that even these crooks can’t keep a lid on it.

  41. 41.

    SiubhanDuinne

    February 18, 2017 at 9:17 pm

    @Iowa Old Lady:

    I’ve seen so many different designs. Which did you order?

  42. 42.

    Iowa Old Lady

    February 18, 2017 at 9:19 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: It’s pretty plain. Just the words with a tiny puzzy hat. I’ll wear it to the gym, where the message seems doubly appropriate.

  43. 43.

    JMG

    February 18, 2017 at 9:22 pm

    I think Comey is just a career bureaucrat who never in a billion years thought Clinton would lose. Now, he’s both exhilarated and terrified that he’s the most powerful man in the world. Trump can’t fire him. Sessions can’t say, “I’m quashing your investigation.” They can’t let him go public.So I’d watch my ass if I were him.

  44. 44.

    p.a.

    February 18, 2017 at 9:22 pm

    @TriassicSands: Yes. This. Otherwise, what? Comey took down Hillary to put tRump in to take tRump down??!! What is he, Putin’s brother? Really makes no sense to put any faith in Comey. Or, how riven is the FBI? How many factions? Anti-Hilz, Anti-tRump, Anti-US democratic institutions, Anti-CIA (a given I guess), Anti-NATO…???

  45. 45.

    Iowa Old Lady

    February 18, 2017 at 9:23 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: Oops. My answer went into moderation because I forgot I can’t use the kitty cat word. The message is in cursive with a tiny pink hat connecting the bottom of the N with the top of the S. I’ll wear it to the gym, where the message seems doubly appropriate.

  46. 46.

    Dog Dawg Damn

    February 18, 2017 at 9:25 pm

    @Baud:

    Darmok and Jalad… at Mar-a-Lago.

    This is brilliant. I have never been more pumped for Baud 2020 than I am right now. In awe.

  47. 47.

    Immanentize

    February 18, 2017 at 9:26 pm

    @Baud: @Baud: Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra

    Best hour of TV ever.

  48. 48.

    ? Martin

    February 18, 2017 at 9:28 pm

    @Baud: Ivanka, when the border walls fell.

  49. 49.

    Iowa Old Lady

    February 18, 2017 at 9:29 pm

    Sally Yates has a new twitter account in which she’s saying what she really thinks. Example

    Sally Yates ‏@SaIIyYates 26m
    26 minutes ago

    More
    Just for some perspective:

    Trump’s rally in Florida today had 9,000 people.

    Women’s march in Chicago had 250,000.

    #unpopularpresident

    It’s marked as a parody account but I swear it looks good.

  50. 50.

    Calming Influence

    February 18, 2017 at 9:30 pm

    The Donald (international genius of business et al) : “It’s all good, I’ve covered our tracks.”

    …investments by Russians in overseas entities that appear to have been undertaken through middlemen and front companies…

    The Donald (international genius of business et al) : “Oh fuck! They know about middlemen and front companies?!?”

  51. 51.

    JMG

    February 18, 2017 at 9:32 pm

    There are other pressure points here. What happens when Putin really wants something but Comey and the rest of the law enforcement/intelligence community doesn’t? I don’t envy Trump that decision.

  52. 52.

    jl

    February 18, 2017 at 9:33 pm

    It isn’t a deep state coup if there is evidence that Frump or some of his flunkies or campaign hacks broke the law.
    It wasn’t a coup when an FBI office kept investigating the bogus HRC email scandal.
    It was a waste of money and time, though if a NY state FBI office is full of Frumpers who channel Rudy as some kind of authority figure, maybe better they waste their time reading tens of thousands of emails about nothing than messing up a real investigation.

    Doing stupid unethical press conferences and sending dumbshit letters is close, though. And Comey did do that.
    Best case is that Comey sees himself as some kind of noble truth teller, a real Elliott Ness, a hyper Dick Tracy, and he needs to let off a blast periodically. Sometimes the target is appropriates, sometimes not.

  53. 53.

    Immanentize

    February 18, 2017 at 9:33 pm

    @Baud: we must be: Warren, her army, with fists closed.

  54. 54.

    TriassicSands

    February 18, 2017 at 9:34 pm

    @p.a.:

    I think the correct spelling is T-Rump — he’s a closet rapper. (Shhh. The best in the world.)

  55. 55.

    Gelfling 545

    February 18, 2017 at 9:35 pm

    @Iowa Old Lady: I always thought that if I were going to have my family waste money on such a thing as a tombstone, I’d want it engraved with “What a long, strange trip it’s been.” Now, I think I’d prefer “Nevertheless, she persisted” on my imaginary memorial.

  56. 56.

    Smiling Mortician

    February 18, 2017 at 9:35 pm

    @Immanentize: Sokath, his eyes uncovered!

  57. 57.

    jl

    February 18, 2017 at 9:36 pm

    @Dog Dawg Damn: If you had gotten off your hobo ass and won the election, we would be having fun with WH soda pop and beer can redemption scandal now.

  58. 58.

    burnspbesq

    February 18, 2017 at 9:36 pm

    Schneiderman, Healy, and Becerra, on the case.

  59. 59.

    MomSense

    February 18, 2017 at 9:39 pm

    Had a very strange day. Somehow got my weekends mixed up and left for a fiber festival a week early. Called my friend to arrange our meeting place and she reminded me I was a week early. So unlike me. I turned around and returned home to find my house full of smoke, a burning grilled cheese on the stove, the smoke alarm ringing, the dog barking and howling, and my mom acting really out of it.

    After many hours at the ER and all test results inconclusive we are home. Caught a bit of the Nuremburg on the tarmac rally (what the hell was that mess???!!!) and now I’m drinking a beer with a dog on my feet.

  60. 60.

    Attapooch

    February 18, 2017 at 9:39 pm

    @Immanentize:

    I’ll see your “Darmok” and raise you “The Inner Light.”

  61. 61.

    Dog Dawg Damn

    February 18, 2017 at 9:40 pm

    @jl: I think the problem is I thought “phone banking” meant surfing BJ on my phone while in line at the bank.

  62. 62.

    jl

    February 18, 2017 at 9:41 pm

    @Dog Dawg Damn: That was meant for Baud, but if you were a BJ pres candidate too, shame shame shame.

    Edit: How many vagrants did BJ blog run for president in 2016 anyway? I think problem was we split up our base.

  63. 63.

    SiubhanDuinne

    February 18, 2017 at 9:43 pm

    @Iowa Old Lady:

    I can kind of picture it, and it sounds amazing. So far I haven’t ordered a “NSP” shirt, but I’ve been collecting images and at this point I think I must have close to 20 different designs. Mitch McTurtle must be utterly flummoxed by the reaction to his tone-deaf words. Good, say I.

  64. 64.

    tobie

    February 18, 2017 at 9:43 pm

    @TriassicSands:

    My gut tells me that nothing is going to come of the investigation.

    I agree with you in part but I’m also convinced that the investigation of Flynn will reveal the coziness of the Trump administration with the Russians and that is something that the Dumpster in Chief will not be able to wave off. To do so would require nuance and intelligence and he hasn’t shown he has either. Yes, his diehards will continue to support him, and they are sizable. I’m afraid the white working class as a whole has gone the route of fascism. But no one else finds his speeches, performances, and the like at all convincing.

  65. 65.

    Dog Dawg Damn

    February 18, 2017 at 9:43 pm

    @jl: I was on the BaudTrain from Day One.

  66. 66.

    SiubhanDuinne

    February 18, 2017 at 9:45 pm

    @MomSense:

    Hey, MomSense, would you kindly post your Etsy link again? Thought I had bookmarked it last night but now cannot find it. I want to order a couple of your pussyhats for future marches in Atlanta.

  67. 67.

    Dog Dawg Damn

    February 18, 2017 at 9:45 pm

    @Dog Dawg Damn: I even changed my Twitter profile pic to the Official Baud 2016 image (an egg on a blue background). Hardcore, all in.

  68. 68.

    Sab

    February 18, 2017 at 9:46 pm

    @Iowa Old Lady: congrats. Your “yah” incited me to order my own. Thanks.

  69. 69.

    Iowa Old Lady

    February 18, 2017 at 9:47 pm

    @Gelfling 545: That would be awesome.

  70. 70.

    Calming Influence

    February 18, 2017 at 9:47 pm

    @MomSense: Hope all is well. Where is the fiber festival? (I had to correct “where was the fiber festival…” temporal dissonance.)

  71. 71.

    Immanentize

    February 18, 2017 at 9:48 pm

    @MomSense: Geez. I am so.glad you all are OK.

  72. 72.

    Iowa Old Lady

    February 18, 2017 at 9:48 pm

    @MomSense: I hope your mom is all right. It’s a good thing you went home.

  73. 73.

    jl

    February 18, 2017 at 9:49 pm

    @Dog Dawg Damn: When the clips come out on the Frumper rally today, I’ll watch and dream. We could have thrown much worse than that and won bigger.

    I for one hope little Donny had a great time today. Hope he has so much fun he spends most of his time campaigning for 2020 at airports down in Florida doing his patented half baked 2016 campaign stand-up patter.

  74. 74.

    Immanentize

    February 18, 2017 at 9:49 pm

    @Attapooch: OK. That was pretty damn great too.

  75. 75.

    MomSense

    February 18, 2017 at 9:50 pm

    @Dog Dawg Damn:

    If we had won the last election I would be plotting exactly how edgy I could make the NEA to cause all the fundagelicals’ heads to explode. You could be nominating only the best Westminster entries to serve in your cabinet (AKA Baud’s Daugs) and the whole world would be rejoicing and sleeping peacefully st night.

  76. 76.

    David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch

    February 18, 2017 at 9:50 pm

    Trump made a big mistake pissing off Michael Weston

  77. 77.

    jl

    February 18, 2017 at 9:51 pm

    @MomSense: Hell, if we had won, beer smokes and lotto all around. Damn it.

    Edit: and compared to Mar-a-Lago, Motel 6’s for the staff are damn cheap. What we could have done for this country.

  78. 78.

    Sab

    February 18, 2017 at 9:52 pm

    @MomSense: Yikes! I’m sort of watching my 90+ dad, but I apparently have better backup. Grateful for big favors.

  79. 79.

    MomSense

    February 18, 2017 at 9:55 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Furiously knitting more since I sold out the other morning.

    @Calming Influence:

    It’s the New England Textile Arts Spa weekend in Freeport, Maine. We take over all the hotels, knit, buy from the Indie vendors, and indulge in lots of drinking and socializing. This year should be amazing since we are all knitting pussyhats and engaged in intense political resistance.

  80. 80.

    raven

    February 18, 2017 at 9:56 pm

    Damn, ya’ll don’t know what “I’m Father Flanagan from Boys Town.” means???

  81. 81.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 18, 2017 at 9:58 pm

    @raven: I’ve seen the fucking movie.

  82. 82.

    liberal

    February 18, 2017 at 9:58 pm

    @? Martin: lol

  83. 83.

    raven

    February 18, 2017 at 10:00 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: It would be sarcasm. . .

    I see Mr Moore got it.

  84. 84.

    cokane

    February 18, 2017 at 10:00 pm

    “Deep State” is a weird ominous sounding euphemism for simply saying “longtime public employees”. It really needs to be dropped.

    I doubt it’s even true that the whole of CIA or FBI are against Trump. But I’m sure some individuals have been responsible for the key leaks.

  85. 85.

    Dog Dawg Damn

    February 18, 2017 at 10:03 pm

    Is it me or is Kellyanne absent the past few days?

  86. 86.

    tobie

    February 18, 2017 at 10:05 pm

    @David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch: Qui est-ce Michael Weston?

  87. 87.

    Another Scott

    February 18, 2017 at 10:06 pm

    @raven: Like OO I saw the movie. And I recognized your sarcasem. ;-)

    He died long ago.

    I also remember the various allegations of child prostitution in the area, but I didn’t realize that a grand jury decided they were all made up.

    The Nebraska State Foster Care Review Board submitted the results of a two-year investigation into the alleged physical and sexual abuse of foster children to the Executive Board of the Nebraska Legislature, who were investigating reports of child sexual abuse linked to the credit union. Authorities launched a probe, interviewing a number of claimed abuse victims who said that children in foster care were flown to the U.S. East Coast and were abused at “bad parties”.[3] After investigation, a grand jury in Douglas County (of which Omaha, Nebraska is the largest city and county seat) determined the abuse allegations were baseless, describing them as a “carefully crafted hoax” and indicted two of the accusers on perjury charges.[4] The grand jury also suggested that the abuse stories originated from a vindictive employee terminated by Boys Town, the famed refuge for troubled youths.[4] Later, a federal grand jury concluded that the abuse allegations were unfounded and indicted 21-year-old Alisha Owen, an alleged victim, on eight counts of perjury. The same grand jury also indicted multiple officers of the credit union, including King, for crimes related to the embezzlement of funds from the credit union.[4][5] Alisha Owen served 4-1/2 years in prison.[6]
    Historian Philip Jenkins explored how hot topics such as the Franklin allegations, whether or not they are worthy of attention or credible on their own merits, are seized by political opportunists for their own purposes. He also described how cases such as the Franklin allegations can acquire credibility, even if they lack any credibility inherently, when reported in various media in a credible voice.[1] Numerous conspiracy theories evolved and persist, claiming that the alleged abuse was part of a widespread series of crimes including devil worship, cannibalism, drug trafficking, CIA arms dealing and links with the first Bush Administration.[1]

    :-/

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  88. 88.

    Dog Dawg Damn

    February 18, 2017 at 10:07 pm

    @MomSense: I would be hanging “Piss Christ” in the entryway to the Department of Justice.

    I’d be writing an EO to changing Motto to “One Nation, Under Dawg”.

    I’d enlist Cristo to put an American Flag Hijab on the Statue of Liberty for a “Week of Mandatory Tolerance & Diversity.”

    It would be so, so good.

  89. 89.

    amk

    February 18, 2017 at 10:09 pm

    They are chanting drain the swamp while standing in it #TrumpRally— Jayne Moore (@JayneMoore18) February 18, 2017

  90. 90.

    Chet

    February 18, 2017 at 10:09 pm

    Mo Leaks Mo Problems for the Notorious D.J.T.

  91. 91.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 18, 2017 at 10:11 pm

    @raven:

    It would be sarcasm. . .

    Like, duh!

  92. 92.

    Steeplejack (tablet)

    February 18, 2017 at 10:12 pm

    @tobie:

    Protagonist of Burn Notice. Ex-government agent, based in Miami.

  93. 93.

    Lyrebird

    February 18, 2017 at 10:14 pm

    @cokane: I’m with you on this, even knowing that my snark detector & my humor generation abilities are dwarfed by Doug!’s… In this case I fear that repeating the Republican spin just feeds their side.

    Those aren’t leaks, they are whistles being blown!

    I like Josh Marshall’s take…. long but worth reading all the way to the end:

    The facts we are learning speak for themselves. When leaks are this damaging and this tied to the fundamental operations of government, it’s not about the leaks or the motives. It’s about what we’re learning and what we need to know.

  94. 94.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 18, 2017 at 10:14 pm

    @Steeplejack (tablet): That show started to suck when they got rid of Fiona’s Saab.*

    *I may be a bit biased.

  95. 95.

    Glidwrith

    February 18, 2017 at 10:16 pm

    @Dog Dawg Damn: Someone noted a couple of days ago that POTUS, WH and shitgibbon Twitter accounts had in unfollowed her account. This was just after Steve Miller took a test drive on the Sunday shows. I pay as little attention as possible to her, but haven’t noticed any appearances.

    Has she been disappeared?

  96. 96.

    Sab

    February 18, 2017 at 10:16 pm

    @tobie: Wasn’t that the burned CIA guy (fictitious character on American tv) who was the lead character in Burned, an American TV series about a burned CIA agent with a crazy arsonist Irish girlfriend who used to blow things up for the IRA and Bruce Campbell (B list actor in A list body who mostly stars in zombie movies but was great in Burn Notice. Wow, I NEVER recognize popular culture references.

  97. 97.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 18, 2017 at 10:18 pm

    @Sab: Bruce Campbell in an American institution, damn it!

  98. 98.

    Dog Dawg Damn

    February 18, 2017 at 10:18 pm

    @Glidwrith: She’s pretty much been AWOL since that day.

    Maybe she’s just enjoying some time off. Lord knows she needs it.

  99. 99.

    Steeplejack (tablet)

    February 18, 2017 at 10:19 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Was that before or after they got rid of Fiona’s lame Irish accent?

  100. 100.

    Sab

    February 18, 2017 at 10:20 pm

    @tobie: Wasn’t that the burned CIA guy (fictitious character on American tv) who was the lead character in Burned, an American TV series about a burned CIA agent with a crazy arsonist Irish girlfriend who used to blow things up for the IRA and Bruce Campbell (B list actor in A list body who mostly stars in zombie movies but was great in Burn Notice. Wow, I NEVER recognize popular culture references.@Omnes Omnibus: I agree. Justhe quote Mr Campbell himself.

  101. 101.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 18, 2017 at 10:21 pm

    @Steeplejack (tablet): Didn’t she just have that in Season 1?

  102. 102.

    Steeplejack (tablet)

    February 18, 2017 at 10:23 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Dunno about the Saab, but the accent didn’t last long.

  103. 103.

    Another Scott

    February 18, 2017 at 10:26 pm

    McClatchyDC from Wednesday (I just noticed it):

    BY TIM JOHNSON
    [email protected]

    One of the key figures in a cyber-treason scandal shaking Russia and possibly related to Russian efforts to influence the U.S. presidential election has been linked to underground criminal forums on the web, something cybersecurity analysts say shows the overlap between Russia’s security services and the criminal underworld.

    Dmitry Dokuchaev, a major in Russia’s FSB security service and its Information Security Center, the nation’s premier unit investigating cybercrime, used the screen name “Forb” when he mingled with the large underground community of Russian-speaking criminals who use the so-called dark web to trade tools for defrauding consumers in the West.

    Dokuchaev’s activities have potential significance to congressional inquiries into President Donald Trump’s ties to Russia. Prosecutors under President Vladimir Putin have charged Dokuchaev and his boss with treason, accusing them of collaborating with the CIA just weeks after the Obama administration made public its conclusions that Russia had meddled in the 2016 presidential election.

    “If you look at his history, he did lots of general cybercrime stuff. He did lots of account takeovers. He did lots of stuff with carding – credit card fraud,” said Vitali Kremez, senior intelligence analyst at Flashpoint, a New York-based firm that provides services to confront cyber threats.

    Whether Dokuchaev or his boss, Sergei Mikhailov, had direct ties with the CIA is not known publicly. But Dokuchaev’s activities open a window onto how Russia’s Federal Security Service, known as the FSB – the successor to the Soviet Union’s KGB spy agency – has deep links to the murky world of cybercrime and uses criminals to help reach state objectives.

    “The Russian intelligence services are notorious for using criminal groups to create backstopping or moonlighting for their own benefit,” said Leo Taddeo, who until 2015 headed the cyber division of the FBI’s New York City office. Following the fall of the Soviet Union, “there was a great melding of criminal activity and intelligence gathering activity on the part of the FSB.”

    Dokuchaev’s arrest sometime before the turn of the year made less news than that of Mikhailov, a colonel who was deputy director of the Information Security Center. According to Russian media closely linked to Putin, Mikhailov was led from a room in the nine-story FSB headquarters in Moscow with a sack over his head.

    […]

    If you take this at face value, and add in the (recently mentioned here) rumored ties between Trump and the Russian mob, one could see a sticky web developing around Trump rather quickly. Of course, I have no way of knowing whether any of this stuff is true, but presumably there are people working on investigating it…

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  104. 104.

    BCHS Class of 1980

    February 18, 2017 at 10:28 pm

    @Attapooch: Man, throw in “The Measure of a Man” and there’s my top three ST:TNG episodes.

  105. 105.

    Another Scott

    February 18, 2017 at 10:29 pm

    @Dog Dawg Damn: She’s apparently still around, and still in the news, lately for being chewed out by her alma mater.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  106. 106.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    February 18, 2017 at 10:30 pm

    @Sab: I enjoyed the show, but I got a little annoyed when the ex-IRA arms dealer Fiona had moral objections to Michael’s career choices.

    John Mahoney’s turn as “Management” was great

  107. 107.

    taras

    February 18, 2017 at 10:34 pm

    Ish is starting to get a little real.
    If there’s even a scintilla of evidence that the Trump administration coordinated their election efforts with the Russians…
    I can see bodies hanging from gallows.

  108. 108.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 18, 2017 at 10:35 pm

    @Another Scott: She looks exhausted in that photo.

  109. 109.

    SiubhanDuinne

    February 18, 2017 at 10:37 pm

    @MomSense:

    Furiously knitting more since I sold out the other morning.

    I’m in no particular hurry, but would be pleased to order mine through someone I “know,” however virtually. No rush; you have my email address and can send me the Etsy or payment info there if it’s easier.

  110. 110.

    Mike J

    February 18, 2017 at 10:37 pm

    The Hill Verified account @thehill
    Trump’s Florida rally draws smaller crowd than identical rally last year

  111. 111.

    Another Scott

    February 18, 2017 at 10:38 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: She always looks exhausted to me, but I haven’t really kept track…

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  112. 112.

    SiubhanDuinne

    February 18, 2017 at 10:40 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    She looks exhausted in that photo.

    She looks fucking haggard and terrible.

  113. 113.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 18, 2017 at 10:41 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: I try to be careful with my comments on a woman’s appearance.

  114. 114.

    Sab

    February 18, 2017 at 10:41 pm

    @Steeplejack (tablet): Jeez , guy. Sab is just my nym.
    I don’t use Saab because that’s my actual initials.

  115. 115.

    SiubhanDuinne

    February 18, 2017 at 10:42 pm

    @taras:

    I can see bodies hanging from gallows.

    I love it when you talk sexy like that.

  116. 116.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 18, 2017 at 10:42 pm

    @Sab: It’s my car.

  117. 117.

    SiubhanDuinne

    February 18, 2017 at 10:44 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    And I commend your discretion. But I can say it. Her eyes look (as someone once observed about Barbara Cartland) as though someone had thrown a couple of dead crows at the white cliffs of Dover. KAC looks AWFUL.

  118. 118.

    Another Scott

    February 18, 2017 at 10:44 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: (I think this is the link you (and I) have been looking for.)

    :-)

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  119. 119.

    ? Martin

    February 18, 2017 at 10:45 pm

    How weak is this president?

    A local middle school student, acting with four other students,was responsible for throwing a block of wood at a vehicle in President Donald Trump’s motorcade Friday afternoon, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office said Saturday.

    He’s so powerful that middle school kids are going after him.

  120. 120.

    Sab

    February 18, 2017 at 10:45 pm

    @Steeplejack (tablet): Jeez , guy. Sab is just my nym.
    I don’t use Saab because that’s my actual initials.
    @Omnes Omnibus: Do you like It? My neighbor loves his Saab.

  121. 121.

    SFAW

    February 18, 2017 at 10:48 pm

    @Attapooch:

    I’ll see your “Darmok” and raise you “The Inner Light.”

    I’m with you, but Mrs. SFAW is a big “Darmok” fan. (And, per BCHS, “Measure of a Man” was also excellent.)

    Of course, perhaps the best Star Trek episode of all time, for any of the series, has got to be “Turnabout Intruder” from TOS.

  122. 122.

    SiubhanDuinne

    February 18, 2017 at 10:50 pm

    @Another Scott:

    Thanks. Couldn’t recall which thread it was in.

  123. 123.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 18, 2017 at 10:50 pm

    @Sab: I will never buy from GM because they killed Saab. I love my car.

  124. 124.

    debit

    February 18, 2017 at 10:53 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: Good! It looks as though my fervent prayers for her to experience nothing but pain, misery and despair are working.

  125. 125.

    Villago Delenda Est

    February 18, 2017 at 10:54 pm

    @Attapooch: I raise you “Face of the Enemy”.

  126. 126.

    Roger Moore

    February 18, 2017 at 10:54 pm

    @cokane:

    “Deep State” is a weird ominous sounding euphemism for simply saying “longtime public employees”.

    AFAIK, it’s a translation of a Turkish term that was used to describe the way the military and intelligence apparatus existed largely independently of the elected government. Obviously, in Turkey is had all the connotations associated with the military’s tendency to overthrow governments it sees as stepping outside acceptable bounds of secularism.

  127. 127.

    Another Scott

    February 18, 2017 at 10:55 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: You could get a NEVS next…?

    (There’s too much auto manufacturing capacity, especially in Europe. More blood-letting is coming.)

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  128. 128.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 18, 2017 at 10:56 pm

    @debit: Golly.

  129. 129.

    SFAW

    February 18, 2017 at 10:57 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    She looks exhausted in that photo.

    “Don’t you think she looks tired?”

  130. 130.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 18, 2017 at 10:59 pm

    @Another Scott: NEVS is going nowhere. I’ve been following this for years.

  131. 131.

    sukabi

    February 18, 2017 at 11:02 pm

    @JPL: there is still the military investigation into Flynn that sessions can’t do a damned thing about.

  132. 132.

    GregB

    February 18, 2017 at 11:04 pm

    Deep state is from the Oliver Stone fever swamps. Great director but not a story teller who is moored to the facts of history in his work.

  133. 133.

    Steeplejack (tablet)

    February 18, 2017 at 11:11 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    I’m probably taking a mini road trip Monday in honor of the doughty Kia’s new tires. Shepherdstown, West Virginia. Maybe lunch at the Bavarian Inn. Waiting to hear if Bro’ Man is going to go.

  134. 134.

    amk

    February 18, 2017 at 11:11 pm

    Don't you just hate it when the help tries to sneak in your side of the car? pic.twitter.com/QRsOETquhF— John Aravosis (@aravosis) February 19, 2017

  135. 135.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 18, 2017 at 11:19 pm

    Jesus, I am watching the Maher overtime. Malcolm Nance is a boss (dude also has a fantastic voice). Wilmore ain’t bad either.

  136. 136.

    Mike in NC

    February 18, 2017 at 11:22 pm

    @Steeplejack (tablet): We went on our honeymoon at the Bavarian Inn way back in 1994. One of the best restaurants, anywhere. It would be fun to go back there. Enjoy.

    PS – The walking tour of nearby Antietam battlefield is incredible, thanks to expert park rangers.

  137. 137.

    Another Scott

    February 18, 2017 at 11:25 pm

    @amk: His body language with her is just horrible. :-( He doesn’t even try to treat her like a human being, let alone his wife.

    Maybe he was looking for another mistress when he was making goo-goo eyes in that picture during Abe’s visit to his Xanadu in Florida.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  138. 138.

    patroclus

    February 18, 2017 at 11:26 pm

    Deep State Schmeep State! Throughout history, in virtually all countries who have large militaries, foreign policy and/or intelligence communities, there have always been elements that leak info and do other things in the propaganda area to influence both policy-makers and law enforcement officials. Turkey is the best modern example, but you could also look to the activities of the Japanese military in the 20’s and 30’s and the German military in the run-up to the selection of Hitler as Chancellor in 1933 (both of those involved much more than just leaks and propaganda). The UK and the run-up to and during the Boer War and the Crimean War are other examples. In the U.S., our military leaked stuff and catapulted the propaganda before WWII (probably legitimately in order to highlight the dangers of the European War) and Vietnam (probably not legitimately). Those were mostly military-related, but in law enforcement, there was Mark Felt (and others) during Watergate, and elements of the French military during the Dreyfuss affair. And, in mostly just policy-influencing, there were the efforts to undermine Carter for his human rights policy and the Church Committee for investigating assassinations and even during the Clinton administration, there was a huge effort by the neo-cons in the IC to demonize Saddam Hussein and instigate “regime change” in Iraq. And, the Iraq war was ginned up because of WMD whoppers flamed by Cheney and forced upon mostly recalcitrant IC operatives because Cheney et. al. knew how much power IC leaks could generate.

    Leaks by the military/IC are common – they are not some sinister Seven Days in May scenario where they are necessarily trying to effect a coup, slow-moving or otherwise. The IC is leaking now because they are trying to influence policy-makers, law enforcement, Congress and the public about stuff that they care about. yes, it is undermining Trump just as it undermined, the Weimar Republic, the Japanese civilian government, various Turkish governments, various UK governments and virtually every U.S. administration since Wilson (as least), including Roosevelt, Truman, Ike, Kennedy, LBJ, Nixon, Carter, Bush, Clinton, Bush and even Obama. Podhoretz, Lake and the likes of Greenwald, in highlighting what they perceive as the sinister nature of an extra-constitutional IC undermining of an elected President are merely fighting back against the leakers – they haven’t discovered anything new, they just don’t like their ox being gored.

    In any event, with the Republicans in charge of Congress and Sessions as AG, I’m extremely doubtful that this will lead to the supposed end goal of removing Trump. More likely, we’ll see some indictments, some prosecutions and some sentence commutations and months and months of leaking and undermining of Trump which might lead to some more sane policies and might not. We’ll see. The IC and FBI, right now, is privy to certain information that is only gradually becoming public. Eventually, it will become public. We’ll just have to wait and see.

  139. 139.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    February 18, 2017 at 11:27 pm

    @amk: @Another Scott: I saw tweet earlier that Melania opened today’s rally with the Lord’s Prayer. I couldn’t watch

  140. 140.

    amk

    February 18, 2017 at 11:27 pm

    @Another Scott: neither she nor murka dodged a bullet with that pos.

  141. 141.

    efgoldman

    February 18, 2017 at 11:27 pm

    @Mike J:

    Trump’s Florida rally draws smaller crowd than identical rally last year

    He probably tried to cheap out on the fee per attendee compared to last year.

    Fuckem

  142. 142.

    Dog Dawg Damn

    February 18, 2017 at 11:33 pm

    “Are Fadder, whose art’s in heaven, hollow be thy name. Thy King came undone, his Will is done, on earth as it is in His Den. A man.”

  143. 143.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    February 18, 2017 at 11:33 pm

    I think I figured out Trump finally – he thinks of the presidency as like prize in a contest and not a job. He won the election so the US is his personal property, like a trophy, not he won a poll on what policy to follow. That’s why the weirdness in his admin – he seems them as just some servants that come with the prize and not helpers in his project.

  144. 144.

    zhena gogolia

    February 18, 2017 at 11:34 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    To paraphrase Max von Sydow in Hannah and Her Sisters, if Jesus Christ were alive today and saw that, he’d never stop throwing up.

  145. 145.

    efgoldman

    February 18, 2017 at 11:34 pm

    @Another Scott:

    He doesn’t even try to treat her like a human being

    He doesn’t treat anyone like a human being. I’ve seen (many) toddlers with more empathy, consideration, and certainly emotional attachments.

    ETA: Compare any of the thousands of pictures and videos of Obama with kids – any kids.

  146. 146.

    Another Scott

    February 18, 2017 at 11:35 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: If she actually had input on her cribbed Michelle Obama speech, then that (and maybe this prayer thing) might show that she’s got some humanity about her. And maybe she’s deserving of some sympathy for the situation she’s in. But I dunno. She’s an adult, and there have been powerful women who have controlled their powerful husbands, so she didn’t have to end up the way she did…

    But either way, there’s no excuse for the way Trump treats her.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  147. 147.

    lgerard

    February 18, 2017 at 11:35 pm

    this is too funny

    new york times

    Mr. Trump lowered his combative tone. “Now, that’s what I call a nice question,” he said. “That is very — who are you with?”

    The answer — UNF News — barely registered with Mr. Trump.

    “Good,” the president said. “I’m going to start watching, all right?”

    UNF News is not a television network or a radio network, for that matter. UNF, or Universal News Forever, is the baby, identity, passion and obsession of Kyle Mazza, 19, who posed the question about Mrs. Trump.

  148. 148.

    debit

    February 18, 2017 at 11:36 pm

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques: That and I truly believe that he thought being president was like being a king. He could just order stuff to happen and it would. That he can’t is driving him crazy.

  149. 149.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 18, 2017 at 11:36 pm

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques: Yes. He has no idea of what the job he was elected to do is.

  150. 150.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 18, 2017 at 11:38 pm

    @efgoldman: Kids even like me. Even the tiny ones who would taste like veal.

  151. 151.

    debit

    February 18, 2017 at 11:39 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: In many ways he reminds me of my ex. “Look, don’t bother me with why you can’t do it, just get it done!” I imagine the people around Trump hear that a lot.

  152. 152.

    Steeplejack (tablet)

    February 18, 2017 at 11:39 pm

    @Mike in NC:

    Thanks for the tip on Antietam. Haven’t really planned anything. Just want to get out on the road for the day and sniff the breezes. But I’ve heard about the Bavarian Inn, and the lunch menu looks good.

  153. 153.

    Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho

    February 18, 2017 at 11:42 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: I saw that and I now want to gay marry Malcolm Nance. Bill Maher’s still an asshole, but that was worth the watch.

  154. 154.

    Another Scott

    February 18, 2017 at 11:44 pm

    @debit: Yup. He, and the people around him, think (and have said) that Trump’s pronouncements “will not be questioned”.

    He wants to rule by decree. He wants people to say “how high??” when he says “jump”.

    That’s why he’s a fan of Putin and Kim and Saddam and Stalin and Adolph and all the rest.

    He’s brain damaged, knows nothing about how government and civil society works, and is a danger to all of us.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  155. 155.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    February 18, 2017 at 11:45 pm

    @Dog Dawg Damn: Heh. I think was seven when I was supposed to memorize the Our Father, as we called it, and the Hail Mary for catechism class. My older brother told me to start the latter with “Hairy Mary, full of grapes”. I laughed so hard I thought I was going to hurt myself.

    I was seven.

  156. 156.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 18, 2017 at 11:49 pm

    @debit: I had a boss like that in the army. There, the suggestion that we take the dispute to the CO was enough. It only works here if we, the people, exert our will.

  157. 157.

    efgoldman

    February 18, 2017 at 11:53 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Even the tiny ones who would taste like veal.

    They don’t taste like chicken?

  158. 158.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 18, 2017 at 11:54 pm

    @efgoldman: I made an assumption.

  159. 159.

    CaseyL

    February 19, 2017 at 12:10 am

    @efgoldman: @Omnes Omnibus:

    Nah – “tastes like chicken” is for reptiles. But little kids probably taste more like pork roast. (And adult humans probably like wild boar.) The other other white meat, if you will.

  160. 160.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 19, 2017 at 12:17 am

    @CaseyL: I still say babies would be veal-like.

  161. 161.

    Francis

    February 19, 2017 at 12:50 am

    milk-fed?

  162. 162.

    Calming Influence

    February 19, 2017 at 1:11 am

    @CaseyL: Chubby babies: Mm mm MMM! As for older children, going for the last to be picked in sports is generally a safe bet that they’re well marbled.

  163. 163.

    Mike G

    February 19, 2017 at 2:30 am

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques:

    I think I figured out Trump finally – he thinks of the presidency as like prize in a contest and not a job. He won the election so the US is his personal property

    When I read his tweets I can easily imagine them being bellowed by some African kleptocrat, in front of a crowd herded for his ego gratification, watched at gunpoint by soldiers to ensure they cheer loudly enough. Right before he empties the national treasury and commandeers a 747 to go shopping in Paris.

  164. 164.

    Mnemosyne

    February 19, 2017 at 2:39 am

    @CaseyL:

    Crocodilians taste like chicken because, like birds, they are the only remaining descendants of the dinosaurs. Basically, the dinosaurs never died, they just evolved into more efficient forms.

    Anyone who’s ever seen an ostrich or angry goose at close range cannot dispute this.

  165. 165.

    J R in WV

    February 19, 2017 at 7:04 am

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    My wife loved her Saab – 270,000 miles on the original clutch! 1991 900. Finally the A-arm broke off the frame, salt on the roads, we sold it to our mechanic for a parts car.

  166. 166.

    CaseyL

    February 19, 2017 at 11:36 am

    @Mnemosyne: Yes, that.

    About 20 years ago, at the Seattle zoo, watching an emu roam around its enclosure, my then-boyfriend did a running internal monologue for the bird. It was along the lines of “You, there, on the other side of the fence. Watching me like you own me. Hah! Back in the day my ancestors ate your ancestors. Like popcorn. I remember those days. They will come again.“

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