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I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

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  9. 9.

    patrick II

    American Oversight just received a group of State Department emails implicating Pompeo. Neither Nunes nor Pompeo being involved is a surprise. Maybe they can share a lawyer.

  11. 11.

    Barbara

    Even after 3 years of this I am having trouble wrapping my brain around the idea of anyone in Congress having allegience to Russia. I am decompressing by watching women’s volleyball and contemplating making rye bread (pain au cidre) for the first time.

  16. 16.

    SFAW

    @Yarrow:

    As a wise man once said:

     

    And you get a “tick tock, motherfucker”! And You get a “tick tock, motherfucker”! And YOU get a “tick tock,motherfucker”! “Tick tock, motherfucker”s for EVERYONE!

  19. 19.

    Martin

    At what point does members of congress promoting foreign propaganda despite US intelligence agency corrections turn into a violation of oath of office and a counterintelligence problem?

     

    Because holy fuck, y’all.

  24. 24.

    patrick II

    The American Oversight representative just told Ari that they have dozens of other FOIA requests. If I was Adam Schiff, I would take my time about going to the Senate.

  37. 37.

    Martin

    @debbie: Christ, OSU is fucked. I know Drake well. He’s a good administrator who fell into having to clean up a mountain of shit. I think hazing among OSU band was the first month he got there, and it’s been nonstop mopping up sex scandals since. And now the two names being offered up are Kasich and Jim Tressel?

     

    I know a lot of former OSU academics and they believe there are more bodies yet to be uncovered.

  38. 38.

    Gin & Tonic

    @Martin: Yovanovitch wasn’t in Firtash’s way. He wants the warrant/extradition order lifted so he can leave Vienna. That’s his #1 priority.

  39. 39.

    jk

    @patrick II:

     
    Statement from American Oversight Executive Director Austin Evers

    We can see why Mike Pompeo has refused to release this information to Congress. It reveals a clear paper trail from Rudy Giuliani to the Oval Office to Secretary Pompeo to facilitate Giuliani’s smear campaign against a U.S. ambassador.

    “This is just the first round of disclosures. The evidence is only going to get worse for the administration as its stonewall strategy collapses in the face of court orders.

     

    That American Oversight could obtain these documents establishes that there is no legal basis for the administration to withhold them from Congress. That conclusively shows that the administration is engaged in obstruction of justice. The president and his allies should ask themselves if impeachment for obstruction is worth it if the strategy isn’t even going to be effective.

    h/t https://www.americanoversight.org/state-department-releases-ukraine-documents-to-american-oversight

  42. 42.

    chris

    No rest for the wicked or anyone else this weekend. Quite the doc dump.

    Most sleaze-ass presidency in America’s history: it’s not just the balls-out corruption, it’s the abject tackiness too.— William Gibson (@GreatDismal) 23 November 2019

  44. 44.

    Barbara

    @jk: Never did I foresee that the lowly FOIA office employees would be the savior of the Republic.  It would be like the traffic division of the PD  solving the mystery of the Zodiac killer.

  45. 45.

    tobie

    Looks like House Dems are moving fast on the Nunes front.

    BREAKING: The Democratic Coalition is filing a House Ethics complaint tonight on GOP Rep Devin Nunes, following reports he met with a Ukrainian businessman to get dirt on fmr VP Biden.
    — Scott Dworkin (@funder) November 23, 2019

  46. 46.

    Kattails

    Have faith, kiddies. I just looked up “what causes an avalanche to occur?” The first thing I see is “…four factors: a steep slope, snow cover, a weak layer in the snow cover, and a trigger.” . (do i need double periods here? Pedants welcome… )

    I’d say all conditions are pretty much code 5, or red, or whatever.

  48. 48.

    Yarrow

    @Barbara:

    Even after 3 years of this I am having trouble wrapping my brain around the idea of anyone in Congress having allegience to Russia.

    I’m completely the other way with this. It’s been obvious to me since late 2016 that Republicans were compromised and owned by Russia. Clear as day. I’ve been very angry about it and news dumps like this come as a huge relief.  Finally it’s getting out in the open. I knew it would eventually come out. We’re about a year later than I’d expected, but now things are moving.  Tick tock, motherfuckers.

  50. 50.

    Gin & Tonic

    @tobie: “Businessman” buries the lede there. It’s Viktor Shokin, the corrupt former Prosecutor General whom the US (and everyone else) pushed to have fired.

  51. 51.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Barbara: The Russkis hacked the RNC too, but only released the DNC risotto questions, etc through their WikiLeaks front so reporters could scream about emails.

  53. 53.

    Yarrow

    @Gin & Tonic:  Firtash is at the center of a lot of this. He’s certainly why Parnas and Fruman were heading to Vienna. Rudy was supposedly heading there the next day.

  57. 57.

    Martin

    @Gin & Tonic: Sure she was.

    During this meeting, Parnas and Fruman gave the impression that they were working with Firtash, according to Dale Perry, an American gas executive who does business in Ukraine. Perry tells Mother Jones that Parnas and Fruman informed Favorov that they wanted Naftogaz to pay Firtash $200 million he claims the company owes him. Perry, who did not attend the meeting but spoke to Favorov shortly after it occurred, says he memorialized Favorov’s account in a document he sent to State Department officials.

    According to Perry, Parnas also told Favorov that Yovanovitch, the US ambassador to Ukraine, would be fired within months. Yovanovitch was a vocal supporter of Kobolyev due to his reputation for opposing corruption; her removal could have cleared a significant road block in the campaign to oust Kobolyev. Yovanovitch had also backed Kobolyev in a dispute pitting Naftogaz against Firtash, in which Kobolyev claimed Firtash’s firms had illegally pocketed up to $2 billion since 2017 by stiffing the state-owned company on payments.

    Rudes and Co wanted Firtash back in Ukraine so the Naftogaz corruption could resume. Firtash was willing to provide dirt in support of this plan. Firtash gets back to Ukraine, Trump would get help with reelection, and they’d all profit on the back side of the resumed corruption, Everyone wins.

  58. 58.

    Yarrow

    @mrmoshpotato:  Reminder that Lindsay Graham admitted his emails were hacked.

    Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said Wednesday his campaign email account was hacked by Russians — adding that the US needs to work together to stop this from happening.

    “I do believe the Russians hacked into the (Democratic National Committee). I do believe they hacked into (John) Podesta’s email account. They hacked into my campaign account,” he told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on “The Situation Room.”

    Link.

  59. 59.

    Martin

    @Kattails: No, if you have terminating punctuation within the quote (period, exclamation, question, etc.), that serves to terminate the sentence. You would drop the outer period.

  60. 60.

    Chetan Murthy

    @Martin:  How TF this piece of *filth* Firtash can remain under house arrest in Austria *since 2014* when he’s wanted on charges in the US, escapes me.  Truly escapes me.

  61. 61.

    mrmoshpotato

    I don’t even know what’ll be screamed here.  Is it “No collusion!”, “No puppet!”, “Not a traitorous shitpile!”,  “People went to Ukraine for dirt on themselves!”?

     

    I’m so confused.  Or should we all just yell, “Charge and try all this trash!  Lock them up if found guilty!”

     

    ETA – this should make for a juicy episode of Ghouliani’s podcast!

  62. 62.

    Gin & Tonic

    @Martin: Kobolyev has pretty much publicly written off any hope of getting that money back from Firtash. And that article vastly overstates, IMO, the influence Yovanovitch or any US Ambassador could have had on the affairs of Naftogaz.

  70. 70.

    CarolPW

    @Barbara: Many senior State Department career personnel Tillerson thought didn’t fit into his ideas for “reforming” the Department were sent to the FOIA office in the basement. They have probably been down there since then, and I suspect they have not been best pleased with their assignments or the damage to their chances in advancement in their professions.

  71. 71.

    Yarrow

    GUESS WHO ARRANGED RUDY'S CALL WITH POMPEO? President TRUMP (ex-)personal assistant Madeleine Westerhout helped connect @RudyGiuliani to @SecPompeo after GIULIANI couldn't connect "through regular channels," per emails obtained by @weareoversight via FOIA. https://t.co/L5LVBLwtHn pic.twitter.com/OvGrgQrklA— Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) November 23, 2019

    Madeleine Westerhout is the assistant Trump fired because she told reporters he didn’t like being in photos with Tiffany because he thought she was fat.

  76. 76.

    Aleta

    Ha.

    Devin Nunes
    How Republicans Won Phase One Of Impeachment
    (opinion placed this evening at the Fed er al ist)

  78. 78.

    MisterForkbeard

    @mrmoshpotato: We all know what will be screamed here. “Nunes was just investigating corruption! Don’t you know that Hillary asked Ukraine for dirt on Manafort!”

    But no, the fact that Nunes didn’t disclose this while presiding over the house hearings on it should get him removed from Congress immediately. And hopefully he gets the book thrown at him.

  79. 79.

    MisterForkbeard

    @Yarrow: One of the few justified “firings” Trump has ever made, basically. Executive Assistants do not rat on their boss to the press. :/

  80. 80.

    tobie

    @Gin & Tonic: Thanks. It looks like Shokin’s been identified now in the filed ethics complaint against Nunes.

    BREAKING: The Democratic Coalition just filed a House Ethics complaint against Rep. Devin Nunes for abuse of office which violates House Rule XXIII (1), following reports he met a Ukrainian prosecutor to get dirt on VP Biden during an official overseas trip. #DevinNunesGotCaught
    — Scott Dworkin (@funder) November 23, 2019

  84. 84.

    Kattails

    @Martin: Thanks, the extra dot was against my better judgement. Excessive punctuation is nearly as bad as excessive capitalization & we know where that leads. !!!!!??!!!11!!

    I still like my avalanche idea though. I believe the weight is there. I’ve had someone at work ask why we’re spending the money on impeachment; another say that nothing will  matter, Trump will skate from everything. I can’t be that cynical. Their whole web has too many insecure links between unstable characters.

  85. 85.

    mrmoshpotato

    @MisterForkbeard: Sorry, not crazy enough.

     

    I was thinking, “Hillary made us do it!  She threatened to turn us into children for her non-existent sex ring in the non-existent basement because she’s a witch!”

  86. 86.

    BigJimSlade

    @mrmoshpotato:

    Devin can get fucked by a cow.

    So that would mean the cow’s on top, right? I hope the cow’s got weak knees and crushes him.

    Now, if a bull is involved….

  93. 93.

    Dmbeaster

    @Chetan Murthy: Austria has been dicking around with the extradition proceeding.  It looked like it was almost over when they basically started over.  Weird.  Who knew Austria would seem to be that corrupt.

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