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Journal by fustakrakich

My discomfort in the last few years, first with Russiagate and now with Ukrainegate and impeachment, stems from the belief that the people pushing hardest for Trump’s early removal are more dangerous than Trump. Many Americans don’t see this because they’re not used to waking up in a country where you’re not sure who the president will be by nightfall. They don’t understand that this predicament is worse than having a bad president.

[emph mine]

Here's looking at you, DNC!

When is she going to announce?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 14 2019, @06:09PM (11 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 14 2019, @06:09PM (#907067)

    CIA agents and diplomats involved in corrupt schemes and their coverups who were visibly shaken when they heard someone might really investigate their past crimes.

  • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Monday October 14 2019, @06:53PM (10 children)

    by fustakrakich (6150) on Monday October 14 2019, @06:53PM (#907088) Journal

    So, CYA? "I was just following orders"? Sorry, to be taken seriously, real evidence is required, recordings, pictures, receipts, the usual. They don't even need to expose themselves, just cough up the goods and/or go away.

    visibly shaken

    Oh brother! Now we have cheap novelists writing the news.

    This theater is one thing, quite the attraction. This audience! oy vey!

    If the truth is to be conveyed on the stage, there is only one [playbill.com]. Ok, two [mentalfloss.com]... Fine! three [youtube.com]

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    La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 14 2019, @07:26PM (6 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 14 2019, @07:26PM (#907095)

      The whistleblower said the official was "visibly shaken" by what had transpired

      https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-whistleblower-complaint-whistleblower-had-prior-working-relationship-with-current-2020-democratic-candidate/ [cbsnews.com]

      • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Monday October 14 2019, @07:56PM (5 children)

        by fustakrakich (6150) on Monday October 14 2019, @07:56PM (#907109) Journal

        The reporter says,

        The whistleblower said the official was "visibly shaken" by what had transpired

        Get whatever "transpired" on tape please. Everybody involved right now is too emotional.

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        La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 15 2019, @01:02AM (4 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 15 2019, @01:02AM (#907193)

          We know what transpired. Ukraine had already reopened the investigations months earlier, then Trump (who didn't know) was like hey why not look into that corrupt Biden stuff, then months later there was some kind of (seemingly unrelated) small aid package Ukraine got from the US. The only people who could be "visibly shaken" when they heard such an exchange are those who were involved in the corruption somehow.

          • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Tuesday October 15 2019, @01:08AM (3 children)

            by fustakrakich (6150) on Tuesday October 15 2019, @01:08AM (#907196) Journal

            We know what transpired.

            So you heard the tapes? Unless you have clearance you didn't mention, you only know what the tabloids are telling you. It is very presumptuous to believe what they say. Whistleblowers bring evidence, not testimony. Send them back in with a wire.

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            La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 15 2019, @01:39AM (2 children)

              by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 15 2019, @01:39AM (#907200)

              The transcript is here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uyWKAGgHIqDEORgjOyo0uq7JOXzhxOQf/preview [google.com]

              • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Tuesday October 15 2019, @01:43AM (1 child)

                by fustakrakich (6150) on Tuesday October 15 2019, @01:43AM (#907202) Journal

                Those are based on testimony, not recordings. All the good whistleblowers from the past came with real documentation. That's what we need here.

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                La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..

                • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 15 2019, @01:45AM

                  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 15 2019, @01:45AM (#907204)

                  A Memorandum of a Telephone Conversation.· (TELCON) is not a verbatim transcript of a
                  discussion. The text in this document records the notes and recollections of Situation Room Duty
                  "Officers and-NSC policy staff assigned t_o listen.and memorialize the conversation in written form
                  as the conversation takes place. A numper of factors can affect 'the accuracy of the reco�d,
                  including poor telecommunications connections and variations in accent and/or interpretation.
                  The word "inaudible" is used to indifate portions of a conversation that the notetaker was unable
                  to hear.

                  It sounds like the same thing as a court record where someone types in what is being said as well as they can in shorthand.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 14 2019, @07:38PM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 14 2019, @07:38PM (#907100)

      Sounds like someone neck deep in corruption:

      So, Eric Ciaramella may have run the meeting that investigative reporter John Solomon has identified as ‘one of the earliest documented attempts to build up the now debunked Trump-Russia collusion narrative.’

      For those of you who are not aware of NABU, it is the ‘anti-corruption’ group backed by George Soros that is actually tasked with going after people investigating real corruption.

      [...]

      This individual had previously leaked one of the President phone calls to General Kelly. Claiming the President had coordinated the firing of Comey with ‘Putin,’ when in reality it was Rod Rosenstein who recommended the firing of James Comey based on his own leaking.

      [...]

      Eric Ciaramella knows Alexandra Chalupa very well. Yes the same Chalupa that interfered in the election via Ukraine and the DNC. Yes the same Chalupa that worked with DNC serial Bomber and pedo Brett Kimberlin.

      https://patriotssoapbox.com/opinion/update-alleged-whistleblower-eric-ciaramella-may-be-connected-to-steele-dossier/ [patriotssoapbox.com]

      • (Score: 1) by khallow on Monday October 14 2019, @11:47PM (1 child)

        by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Monday October 14 2019, @11:47PM (#907173) Journal
        Sounds about as thin as the claims that so-and-so might be connected to Russian Intelligence because they met some guy that the US Intelligence claims without evidence was a Russian agent. I guess turn-about is fair play, but it would be nice to get some evidence of who supposedly did what.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 15 2019, @01:54AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 15 2019, @01:54AM (#907206)

          Yea, but when you read the transcript and hear that they were "visibly shaken"...