Replies to post #267614 on Tornado Alley (PROG)

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Quote:Swalwell: Innocent people don't ask for immunity



REMEMBER FLYNN WAS WITH THE OBAMA ADMIN FOR TWO YEARS! MAYBE HIS TESTIMONY WOULD IMPLICATE HIM FOR THINGS HE DID FOR OBAMA????


Melania Trump honors "remarkable and inspiring women" at State Department ceremony

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/melania-trump-honors-remarkable-and-inspiring-women-at-state-department-ceremony/

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Full Show - Islam Takes Credit For Russian Train Bombings / Bilderberg Intel Leaked - 04/03/2017

Published on Apr 3, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvsye7V9psc-APX6wV1twLg / http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel , http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel/videos ]

Monday, April 3rd 2017: Two bombs have gone off in Russia's St. Petersburg Metro, leaving at least ten dead and over forty injured. A senior North Korean defector has come forward to warn the world of a potential nuclear war between North Korea and the United States. Blake Miles joins the show to discuss Infowars' Veterans for Trump initiative, and how to bypass popular crowdfunding sites by using digital currencies like Bitcoin. Journalist, author and Bilderberg expert Daniel Estulin will join today's broadcast.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnf7wKJxCM [with comments]


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Ex-FBI agent Clint Watts explains the Trump-Russia investigation

Streamed live on Apr 3, 2017 by VICE News [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZaT_X_mc0BI-djXOlfhqWQ / http://www.youtube.com/user/vicenews , http://www.youtube.com/user/vicenews/videos ]

No one really knows what’s going on with Donald Trump and Russia. That’s why the FBI launched the first multi-agency, counterintelligence investigation on a sitting president. Congress has promised to hold its own hearings too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlstDYFcJZ0 [with comments]


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How Russian Twitter Bots Pumped Out Fake News During The 2016 Election

Former FBI agent Clint Watts testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday in Washington, D.C.
All Things Considered
April 3, 2017
http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/04/03/522503844/how-russian-twitter-bots-pumped-out-fake-news-during-the-2016-election [with embedded audio(transcript at http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=522503844 )]

via/more (linked) at:

Russian Hackers Are Working To Amplify Donald Trump’s Wiretapping Claim, Expert Warns
“Every conspiracy floated by the administration” is an opportunity for fake news operations, Clint Watts tells NPR
04/04/2017 Updated April 4, 2017
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/russian-trump-wiretapping-claim_us_58e3365ce4b0f4a923b15827 [with embedded video (a non-YouTube version of the YouTube next below)]


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Fmr. FBI Agent Clint Watts: Trump Campaign 'Picked Up On' Kremlin Lines | Meet The Press | NBC News

Published on Apr 3, 2017 by NBC News [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeY0bbntWzzVIaj2z3QigXg / http://www.youtube.com/user/NBCNews , http://www.youtube.com/user/NBCNews/videos ]

Former FBI Agent Clint Watts joins Meet the Press to talk about the methods that Russian intelligence operatives used in an attempt to influence the 2016 election.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDR-wYQeskE [with comments]


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Expert: Putin's dream come true (full interview)

Published on Mar 30, 2017 by CNN [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCupvZG-5ko_eiXAupbDfxWw / http://www.youtube.com/user/CNN , http://www.youtube.com/user/CNN/videos ]

Cybersecurity expert Clinton Watts tells CNN's Wolf Blitzer that Russian President Vladimir Putin is meddling in US politics in order to erode trust and sow division in the electorate and the chaos happening in the House is a "dream come true" for the Russian leader.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0BG1iqjcFo [with comments]


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Donald Trump is Panicking About Russia | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann | GQ

Published on Apr 3, 2017 by GQ [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsEukrAd64fqA7FjwkmZ_Dw / http://www.youtube.com/user/GQVideos/videos , http://www.youtube.com/user/GQVideos/videos , http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0hKMB1-xkc-XWNf9VL-LxVYysdHpjyMF ]

And it's only gonna get worse.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCWJmmG257s [with comments]


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Dem resistance fuels Supreme Court filibuster

All In with Chris Hayes
4/3/17

Senate Democrats now have enough votes to filibuster the president's first Supreme Court nominee, Judge Neil Gorsuch, setting up a showdown with Republicans over Senate rules. Duration: 14:50

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/dem-resistance-fuels-supreme-court-filibuster-913241667777


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The Trump administration's ethical quagmires

All In with Chris Hayes
4/3/17

The president's pretend trust is even less legitimate than we thought. Duration: 7:17

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/the-trump-administration-s-ethical-quagmires-913252419596


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Former Trump adviser cultivated as asset by Russian spies

The Rachel Maddow Show
4/3/17

Rachel Maddow describes how former Donald Trump foreign policy adviser Carter Page was unwittingly recruited and cultivated as an asset by Russian spies, as outlined in a new report from Buzzfeed News. Duration: 22:02

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/former-trump-adviser-cultivated-as-asset-by-russian-spies-913279043839 , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSX_5YFoavw [with comments]


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Former Trump adviser Page previously targeted by Russian spies

The Rachel Maddow Show
4/3/17

Ali Watkins, national security correspondent for Buzzfeed News, talks with Rachel Maddow about confirming with Carter Page his unwitting contact with Russian spies in 2013, years before he became a foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump. Duration: 5:47

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/former-trump-adviser-page-previously-targeted-by-russian-spies-913292867813


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Trump uses National Security Council as personal political tool

The Rachel Maddow Show
4/3/17

Rachel Maddow looks at some of the internal struggles of Donald Trump's National Security Council and reports on new evidence that the NSC is being used as a political tool to bolster a counter-narrative to the Trump Russia scandal. Duration: 4:32

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-uses-national-security-council-as-personal-political-tool-913304643659


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Trump distracts national security team with political agenda

The Rachel Maddow Show
4/3/17

Michael Leiter, former DNI deputy chief of staff, talks with Rachel Maddow about some of the dysfunction within Donald Trump's National Security Council and the potential consequences of that dysfunction. Duration: 7:10

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-distracts-national-security-team-with-political-agenda-913326659787


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Trump tweets can't stop Russia stories

The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
4/3/17

As Donald Trump tries to deflect on Twitter, two new stories detail ties between Trump world and Russia – and in one case, an actual Russian spy. David Corn and Ned Price join Lawrence O'Donnell. Duration: 13:33

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/trump-tweets-can-t-stop-russia-stories-913327683827 , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA8bAM9n2wE [with comments]


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Bill O'Reilly loses major advertiser after reports of harassment

The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
4/3/17

Mercedes-Benz pulls "The O'Reilly Factor" ads after reports of a $13M harassment settlement against Bill O'Reilly. Plus, a new suit against fmr. chairman Roger Ailes. Gabriel Sherman, who literally wrote the book on Fox News, calls O'Reilly's silence "striking." Duration: 2:32

Bill O’Reilly Thrives at Fox News, Even as Harassment Settlements Add Up
About $13 million has been paid out over the years to address complaints from women about Mr. O’Reilly’s behavior. He denies the claims have merit.

Bill O’Reilly, Fox News’s top-rated host, has faced a series of sexual harassment allegations going back years.
APRIL 1, 2017
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/01/business/media/bill-oreilly-sexual-harassment-fox-news.html

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/bill-o-reilly-loses-major-advertiser-after-reports-of-harassment-913318467968 , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p73AybVwg08 [with comments]


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New sexual harassment allegations roil Fox News

The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
4/3/17

Fox News is facing a new lawsuit against fmr. chairman Roger Ailes and "The O'Reilly Factor" loses a major advertiser after a report Fox News paid $13 million to settle harassment claims against Bill O'Reilly. Nancy Giles & Erin Gloria Ryan join Lawrence O'Donnell. Duration: 4:37

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/new-sexual-harassment-allegations-roil-fox-news-913318979633


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Trump reignites wiretap claim in early morning tweetstorm

The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
4/3/17

With a fight over his Supreme Court nominee in the Senate and a slew of critical meetings with foreign leaders this week, why is Pres. Trump again talking about his unfounded claims Barack Obama wiretapped him? Duration: 11:33

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/trump-reignites-wiretap-claim-in-early-morning-tweetstorm-913335363704


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Jared Kushner's ever-expanding White House role

The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
4/3/17

From his surprise trip to Iraq to planning Pres. Trump's upcoming meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, is Jared Kushner working as a shadow Secy. of State for the White House? Duration: 4:12

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/jared-kushner-s-ever-expanding-white-house-role-913325123615


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Bobby Ghosh on why Jared Kushner might succeed in the Arab World

The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
4/3/17

With Jared Kushner making a surprise visit to Iraq, Hindustan Times Editor-in-Chief explains why Trump's son-in-law may have some diplomatic success in the Arab World. Duration: 0:29

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/bobby-ghosh-on-why-jared-kushner-might-succeed-in-the-arab-world-913327171806


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What is the so-called nuclear option? Kasie Hunt explains it

The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
4/3/17

Senate Republicans may employ what's known on Capitol Hill as the 'nuclear option' if Senate Democrats filibuster Neil Gorsuch. What does that mean? Brian Williams & Kasie Hunt explain. Duration: 2:49

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/what-is-the-so-called-nuclear-option-kasie-hunt-explains-it-913342019719


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Democrat Sen. Richard Blumenthal on filibustering Neil Gorsuch

The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
4/3/17

Senate Democrats have enough support to filibuster Trump's Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch. Are they worried about an escalating fight with Republicans? Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) reacts. Duration: 3:32

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/democrat-sen-richard-blumenthal-on-filibustering-neil-gorsuch-913345091810


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Black Eye on America - What Is Black Twitter?: The Daily Show

Published on Apr 3, 2017 by The Daily Show with Trevor Noah [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwWhs_6x42TyRM4Wstoq8HA , http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwWhs_6x42TyRM4Wstoq8HA/videos ]

Roy Wood Jr. explains how the African-American community uses Twitter to discuss social issues and finds out why that communication is unique to black culture.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcSh2F8e__8 [with comments]


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Stephen Preps The Bunker Ahead Of The GOP's Nuclear Option

Published on Apr 4, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMtFAi84ehTSYSE9XoHefig , http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMtFAi84ehTSYSE9XoHefig/videos ]

Stephen tracks Trump's progress in filling the Supreme Court vacancy, the only Trump-appointed position that hasn't been given to Jared Kushner.

[originally aired April 3, 2017]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YidrMB6R5-4 [with comments]


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Trump Walks Out of Signing Ceremony, Melania's Official Portrait - Monologue

Published on Apr 4, 2017 by Late Night with Seth Meyers [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVTyTA7-g9nopHeHbeuvpRA / http://www.youtube.com/user/LateNightSeth , http://www.youtube.com/user/LateNightSeth/videos ]

Seth Meyers' monologue from Monday, April 3.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qet-7n25yDA [with comments]


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Flynn Asks for Immunity, Trump Tweets About Surveillance: A Closer Look

Published on Apr 3, 2017 by Late Night with Seth Meyers

Seth takes a closer look at former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn's offer to testify in exchange for immunity.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gq6T1V5rYjI [with comments]


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'I leaked nothing to nobody,' Susan Rice insists

Andrea Mitchell Reports
4/4/17

Former Obama National Security Adviser Susan Rice is being accused of asking to "unmask" Trump aides in intelligence reports. She responds to the claim for the first time with NBC's Andrea Mitchell. Duration: 16:27

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/andrea-mitchell-reports/watch/-i-leaked-nothing-to-nobody-susan-rice-insists-913714243789 , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpjN4iEz9Oo [with comments]


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FULL SPEECH: President Trump Addresses Building Trades Unions (FNN)

Published on Apr 4, 2017 by Fox 10 Phoenix [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJg9wBPyKMNA5sRDnvzmkdg , http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJg9wBPyKMNA5sRDnvzmkdg/videos ]

President Trump makes remarks at the 2017 North America's Building Trades Unions National Legislative Conference in Washington, DC.

Remarks by President Trump at 2017 North America's Building Trades Unions National Legislative Conference
Washington Hilton
Washington, D.C.
April 04, 2017
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/04/04/remarks-president-trump-2017-north-americas-building-trades-unions [official transcript]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYR-QtgMRkU [with comments]


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Full Show - Journalist Who Exposed Susan Rice Illegal Spying Tells All - 04/04/2017

Published on Apr 4, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel

Tuesday, April 4th 2017: Susan Rice Unmasks Trump Team - Calls mount for Obama administration UN Ambassador Susan Rice to testify before intelligence committees, as evidence emerges she ordered "detailed spreadsheets" kept on Trump phone calls. Trump insider Roger Stone joins the show to give his take on the spying revelations. Lord Christopher Monckton also provides updates on the UK's Brexit move out of the EU, and journalist Mike Cernovich details how he learned about the Susan Rice story. On today's show we'll also check in with Millie Weaver's ongoing investigation in Los Angeles, and also welcome ex-Navy Seal Craig Sawyer, whose organization Veterans for Child Rescue is working to expose the pedophile elite.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oggKmCxMfM [with comments]


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This is how the next World War starts
With one miscalculation, by one startled pilot, at 400 miles an hour. And now that Russia is determined to destabilize the West, this scenario is keeping the military establishment up at night.
April 4, 2017
Several times a week, a U.S. Air Force pilot takes off from the Royal Air Force base in Mildenhall, England, and heads for the northernmost edge of NATO territory to gather intelligence on Russia. One of these pilots is 40-year-old Lieutenant Colonel Kevin Webster, a veteran of many such expeditions and a hard guy to rattle. On a typical flight, his four-engine, silver and white RC-135 jet will rise gracefully over the old World War II bomber bases in East Anglia. It then flies over the North Sea and Denmark, taking care to remain within international airspace. When Webster reaches the Baltic Sea, the surveillance operation begins in earnest. Behind the cockpit, the fuselage of his plane is crammed with electronic equipment manned by some two dozen intelligence officers and analysts. They sit in swivel chairs, monitoring emissions, radar data and military communications harvested from below that appear on their computer screens or stream through their headphones. Inside the plane, it is chilly. The air smells faintly of jet fuel, rubber and warm wiring. The soft blue carpet helps absorb the distant thrum of the engines, and so it is also surprisingly quiet—at least until the Russians show up.
As the Polish coast fades into the distance, Webster may swing left to avoid passing directly over the heavily armed Russian base at Kaliningrad. This is where, without warning, a Russian SU-27 fighter may materialize as if out of nowhere, right outside the cockpit window, flying so close that Webster can make out the tail markings. No matter how often this happens—and lately, it has been happening a lot—these encounters always give Webster a jolt. For one thing, he and his crew can’t see the planes coming. Although his jet is carrying millions of dollars worth of the most sophisticated listening devices available to man, it lacks a simple radar to spot an incoming plane. So the only way Webster can find out what the Russian jet is doing—how close it’s flying, whether it’s making any sudden moves—is to dispatch a junior airman to crouch on the floor and peer through one of the 135’s three fuselage windows, each the size of a cereal box and inconveniently placed just below knee level.
In normal times, being intercepted isn’t a cause for concern. Russian jets routinely shadow American jets over the Baltic Sea and elsewhere. Americans routinely intercept Russian aircraft along the Alaskan and California coasts. The idea is to identify the plane and perhaps to signal, “You keep an eye on us, we keep an eye on you.” These, however, are far from normal times. Every few weeks, a Russian pilot will get aggressive. Instead of closing in on the RC-135 at around 30 miles per hour and skulking off its wing for a while, a fighter jet will careen directly toward the American plane at 150 miles per hour or more before abruptly going nose-up to bleed off airspeed and avoid a collision. Or it might perform the dreaded “barrel roll”—a hair-raising maneuver in which the Russian jet makes a 360-degree orbit around the 135’s midsection while the two aircraft hurtle along at 400 miles per hour. When this happens, there is only one thing the U.S. pilot can do: pucker up, fly straight and hope his Russian counterpart doesn’t smash into him. “One false move and you may have a half second to react,” one RC-135 pilot told me.
By now, it is widely recognized that Russia is waging a campaign of covert political manipulation across the United States, Europe and the Middle East, fueling fears of a second Cold War. But it’s less understood that in international airspace and waters, Russia and the U.S. are brushing up against each other in perilous ways with alarming frequency. This problem, which began not long after Russia’s seizure of the Crimea in 2014, has accelerated rapidly in the past year. In 2015, according to its air command headquarters, NATO scrambled jets more than 400 times to intercept Russian military aircraft that were flying without having broadcast their required identification code or having filed a flight plan. In 2016, that number had leapt to 780—an average of more than two intercepts a day. There has been a similar increase in Russian jets intercepting US or NATO aircraft, as well as a significant uptick in incidents at sea in which Russian jets run mock attacks against American warships.
Russia is hardly the only source of anxiety for the Pentagon. American and Chinese ships and aircraft have clashed in the South China Sea; in early 2016, Iran seized 10 Navy sailors after their boats strayed into its waters. But senior U.S. officials view run-ins with Russia as the most dangerous, because they are part of a deliberate strategy of intimidation and provocation by Russian president Vladimir Putin—and because the stakes are so high. One false move by a hot-dogging Russian pilot could send an American aircraft and its crew spiraling 20,000 feet into the sea. Any nearby U.S. fighter would have to immediately decide whether to shoot down the Russian plane. And if the pilot did retaliate, the U.S. and Russia could quickly find themselves on the brink of open hostility.
With these issues in mind, I traveled to Germany this winter to talk with U.S. Air Force General Tod D. Wolters, who commands American and NATO air operations. We sat in his headquarters at Ramstein Air Base, a gleaming, modern complex where officers in the uniforms of various NATO nations bustle efficiently through polished corridors. “The degree of hair-triggeredness is a concern,” said Wolters, a former fighter pilot who encountered Soviet bloc pilots during the Cold War. “The possibility of an intercept gone wrong,” he added, is “on my mind 24/7/365.” Admiral James G. Stavridis, the commander of NATO from 2009 to 2013, is more blunt. The potential for miscalculation “is probably higher than at any other point since the end of the Cold War,” he told me. “We are now at maximum danger.”
This may sound counter-intuitive, given President Donald Trump’s extravagant professions of admiration for Putin. But the strong consensus inside the U.S. military establishment is that the pattern of Russian provocation will continue—and not just because the various investigations into the Trump campaign’s links with Russia make détente politically unlikely. Antagonizing the West is central to one of Putin’s most cherished ambitions: undermining NATO. By constantly pushing the limits with risky intercepts and other tactics, Putin forces NATO to make difficult choices about when and how to respond that can sow dissension among its members.
[much more ...]
http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/trump-russia-putin-military-crisis/ [with comments]


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Do Authorities Now Have What They Need on Trump? | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann | GQ

Published on Apr 4, 2017 by GQ

Parsing the silence surrounding Mike Flynn's immunity request.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jlBeRTg6Iw [with comments]


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Rep. Schiff: WH will continue to interfere with our investigation

All In with Chris Hayes
4/4/17

The phony 'unmasking' scandal involving former National Security Adviser Susan Rice is 'yet another attempt to distract attention from the Russia probe,' according to Rep. Adam Schiff. Duration: 11:09

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rep-schiff-wh-will-continue-to-interfere-with-our-investigation-914138691852


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Trump hides signing of unpopular legislation behind closed doors

The Rachel Maddow Show
4/4/17

Rachel Maddow shows how Donald Trump likes to make a big show of signing things unless he's signing something he knows is unpopular, like stripping Americans' internet privacy, which he signs behind closed doors. Duration: 17:13

Trump Hypocrisy: Blaming Syrian Chemical Attack on Obama
In 2013, Trump tweeted—repeatedly—that Obama should do nothing in Syria.

Apr. 4, 2017
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/04/trump-syria-obama-tweets-hypocrisy-chemical-attack [with comments]

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-hides-signing-of-unpopular-legislation-914177603723 , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z74_Vr5U2wI [with comments]


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Merkley digs in for anti-Gorsuch all-nighter

The Rachel Maddow Show
4/4/17

Rachel Maddow reports on Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley holding the Senate floor for as long as he is able in opposition to the confirmation of Judge Neil Gorsuch as Republicans struggle against a Democratic filibuster. Duration: 3:39

Gorsuch's writings borrow from other authors
The White House rejects any suggestion of impropriety.

The findings come as Republicans are on the brink of changing Senate rules to confirm Neil Gorsuch over the vehement objections of Democrats.
04/04/17
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/gorsuch-writings-supreme-court-236891 [with comments]

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/merkley-digs-in-for-anti-gorsuch-all-nighter-914135619615


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Maddow obtains apparent EPA memos on plan to eliminate environmental protections

The Rachel Maddow Show
4/4/17

Rachel Maddow reports on a pair of memos believed to be from the EPA describing the new system and schedule for eliminating environmental regulations. Duration: 9:13

Apparent EPA memos obtained by The Rachel Maddow Show
Memo 1: Executive Order 13777: Enforcing the Regulatory Reform Agenda
http://www.msnbc.com/sites/msnbc/files/epa_memo1_170324.pdf
Memo 2: Improved Management of Regulatory Activities
http://www.msnbc.com/sites/msnbc/files/epadoc_170331.pdf

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow-obtains-apparent-epa-memos-on-plan-to-eliminate-reguations-914151491948


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Scandalized Trump camp pushes distraction story, Obama blame

The Rachel Maddow Show
4/4/17

Rachel Maddow looks at the political practice of "changing the narrative" to distract the media from talking about a scandal, and its application by Donald Trump and his supporters in trying to make the Trump Russia scandal somehow about the Obama administration. Duration: 6:09

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/scandalized-trump-camp-pushes-distraction-story-obama-blame-914188355688 , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8xSSKj2nN0 [with comments]


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Trump tested by dictators while focused on wiretapping fantasy

The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
4/4/17

Trump faces a chemical attack in Syria and a North Korean missile launch, but his team is still desperately trying to defend his most disruptive tweet that Pres. Obama had his "wires tapped." Former acting CIA Director John McLaughlin joins Lawrence O'Donnell. Duration: 16:33

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/trump-tested-by-dictators-while-focused-on-wiretapping-fantasy-914196547867 , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlIJQiX5ztk [with comments]


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Advertisers dump O'Reilly amid sexual harassment allegations

The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
4/4/17

More than a dozen companies pull advertising from Fox News' "The O'Reilly Factor" but Bill O'Reilly remains silent on the issue. Lawrence O'Donnell talks to Gabriel Sherman, who literally wrote the book on Fox News, about what may be next for Fox News and O'Reilly. Duration: 3:51

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/advertisers-dump-o-reilly-amid-sexual-harassment-allegations-914196547747


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Lawrence to Bill O'Reilly: Sue me too

The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
4/4/17

Lawrence O'Donnell speaks out about allegations of sexual harassment against Fox News' Bill O'Reilly and Roger Ailes, telling viewers what they can do to send a direct message to O'Reilly after his attorneys threatened a defamation suit against one of his accusers. Duration: 3:20

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/lawrence-to-bill-o-reilly-sue-me-too-914195012001 , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIQxiJwRoAI [with comments]


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One month since Trump made unfounded Obama wiretap claim

The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
4/4/17

One month after Trump alleged Obama wiretapped him, Republicans are now making claims against fmr. Obama aide Susan Rice. MSNBC's Brian Williams discusses that and Trump's sagging poll numbers. Duration: 7:22

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/susan-rice-to-her-gop-critics-i-leaked-nothing-to-nobody-914210371583


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Rep. Speier on Russia investigation: Some people may go to jail

The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
4/4/17

MSNBC's Brian Williams discusses the House Intel. Cmte.'s Russia investigation with committee member Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA). Duration: 3:51

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/rep-speier-on-russia-investigation-some-people-may-go-to-jail-914208323865


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Fmr. U.S. Ambassador on Syria: Trump's response is 'hard to take'

The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
4/4/17

MSNBC's Brian Williams talks to former U.S. Ambassador Chris Hill who responds to the horror of the apparent chemical attacks in Syria and Pres. Trump pointing the blame to Pres. Obama. Duration: 4:31

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/fmr-u-s-ambassador-on-syria-trump-s-response-is-hard-to-take-914216003805 , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebOm95Dpauc [with comments]


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Secy. Tillerson's shocking statement after North Korea launch

The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
4/4/17

After Pyongyang launched another ballistic missile, the Trump administration's Secretary of State Rex Tillerson responded in a shockingly terse statement. Fmr. U.S. Ambassador Chris Hill joins. Duration: 2:40

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/secy-tillerson-s-shocking-statement-after-north-korea-launch-914216515840


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Ivanka Trump: When I disagree with my father he knows it

The 11th Hour with Brian Williams
4/4/17

MSNBC's Brian Williams and Stephanie Ruhle react to Ivanka Trump's first interview since taking a role at the White House, specifically her remarks about disagreeing with her father. Duration: 4:21

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/ivanka-trump-when-i-disagree-with-my-father-he-knows-it-914220611779 , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyKHh2SM5_E [with comments]


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Is Jared Kushner the Real President?: The Daily Show

Published on Apr 4, 2017 by The Daily Show with Trevor Noah

Real estate executive and son-in-law to President Trump Jared Kushner gets tasked with defeating ISIS, brokering peace in the Middle East and reforming the justice system.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leDRQOYVpho [with comments]


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Susan Rice's 'Unmasking' Allegations Explained By Scooby Doo

Published on Apr 5, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Republicans think they found the smoking gun. Little do they know, the Mystery, Inc. team already beat them to the punch.

[originally aired April 4, 2017]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV-Pzz9lvA8 [with comments]


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Sean Spicer Is Shrinking In Size

Published on Apr 5, 2017 by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Typically it's the Commander-in-Chief who experiences noticeably rapid physical changes from stress. This go-round it's the Press Secretary.

[originally aired April 4, 2017]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqW6S9FSQuM [with comments]


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Nuclear War Imminent, US Prepares to Strike North Korean Missile Sites.

Published on Apr 5, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel

Bannon removed from Security council, And China through North Korea is rattling sabres at the USA. The world is in crisis and on the brink of nuclear war.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV0GRuR99ZM [with comments]


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[F6]

White House meddling threatens Trump Russia probe integrity

The Rachel Maddow Show
3/31/17

Ned Price, former senior director of the National Security Council, talks with Rachel Maddow about concerns that the Donald Trump administration is actively working to interrupt or pervert the investigation into Trump campaign ties to Russia in the 2016 election. Duration: 15:00

©2017 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/white-house-meddling-threatens-trump-russia-probe-integrity-911645763872 , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNMbLaNInFY [with comments] [to have this important Maddow A-block segment, included in the post to which this is a reply, here with its belatedly-uploaded official YouTube] [the primary series of posts in this reference string continues at/see (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=130210785 (another reply to the post to which this is a reply) and preceding and (future) following]

[F6]

WATCH LIVE NOW! Plan To Assassinate Trump Leaked

Streamed live on Mar 30, 2017 by Best of INFOWARS [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHU2epdCUAwPOIP6rPhrEGw , http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHU2epdCUAwPOIP6rPhrEGw/videos ]

[with Roger Stone]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BZT-1C7K_0 [the festivities commence (following the intro, a worthy self-parody, beginning at c. the 8:55 mark) at c. the 15:40 mark (mic off for the first little bit); no comments yet] [replacing the since-gone-dark original ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvvDXwttt2E ) included in the post to which this is a reply; also at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixIG-UNVX5Q (no comments yet), and, minus the intro and the initial little bit of dead mic, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bhm-nIOzBGg (with comments)]


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Democrats Call for Alex Jones' Arrest

Published on Apr 5, 2017 by The Alex Jones Channel [ http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvsye7V9psc-APX6wV1twLg / http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel , http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel/videos ]

Alex Jones’s Threat to Congressman May Be a Felony
4/5/17
http://www.newsweek.com/alex-jones-threat-congressman-may-be-felony-579730 [with embedded video, and comments]

‘I’m going to kill the President Elect’: A now former CEO explains (and regrets) a Facebook post
November 16, 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/11/16/a-very-bad-joke-indeed-he-was-a-ceo-until-he-posted-i-am-going-to-kill-the-president-elect/ [with comments]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efzjBFDu1oA [with comments]

[fuagf]

The Continuing Fallout from Trump and Nunes’s Fake Scandal

"Swalwell: Innocent people don't ask for immunity"

By Ryan Lizza April 18, 2017


Representative Devin Nunes is under investigation for possibly leaking classified information,
but the bigger scandal is the coördinated effort to manufacture an excuse for President Trump’s
wiretapping allegation.PHOTOGRAPH BY J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE / AP

Recently, several members and staffers on the House Intelligence Committee, which is investigating Russia’s role in the Presidential election, visited the National Security Agency, in Fort Meade, Maryland. Inside the enormous black glass headquarters of America’s largest spy agency, the congressmen and their aides were shown a binder of two to three dozen pages of highly classified intercepts, mostly transcripts of conversations between foreign government officials that took place during the Presidential transition. These intercepts were not related to the heart of the committee’s Russia investigation. In fact, only one of the documents had anything to do with Russia, according to an official who reviewed them.

What the intercepts all had in common is that the people being spied on made references to Donald Trump or to Trump officials. That wasn’t even clear, though, from reading the transcripts. The names of any Americans were concealed, or “masked,” the intelligence community’s term for redacting references to Americans who are not the legal targets of surveillance when such intelligence reports are distributed to policy makers.

The binder of secret documents is at the center of the bizarre scandal created by what may be the most reckless lie President Trump has ever told. On March 4th, he tweeted .. http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/what-to-make-of-donald-trumps-early-morning-wiretap-tweets , “Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!” The White House made several efforts to justify Trump’s claim, including using Devin Nunes, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, as a conduit for the documents, which allegedly offered some substantiation. A former Nunes staffer now working for the White House dug up the transcripts and shared them with Nunes. As Bloomberg View reported .. https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-04-03/top-obama-adviser-sought-names-of-trump-associates-in-intel , earlier this month, Susan Rice, Obama’s national-security adviser, had used a process that allowed her to request that the masked names be revealed to her. Rice had to log her unmasking requests on a White House computer, which is how Trump’s aides knew about them. Nunes and the White House presented this as a major scandal. “I think the Susan Rice thing is a massive story,” Trump told the Times, adding, while offering no evidence, that Rice may have committed a crime.

It is now clear that the scandal was not Rice’s normal review of the intelligence reports but the coördinated effort between the Trump Administration and Nunes to sift through classified information and computer logs that recorded Rice’s unmasking requests, and then leak a highly misleading characterization of those documents, all in an apparent effort to turn Rice, a longtime target of Republicans, into the face of alleged spying against Trump. It was a series of lies to manufacture a fake scandal. Last week, CNN was the first to report .. http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/11/politics/intelligence-contradicts-nunes-unmasking-claims/ .. that both Democrats and Republicans who reviewed the Nunes material at the N.S.A. said that the documents provided “no evidence that Obama Administration officials did anything unusual or illegal.”

I spoke to two intelligence sources, one who read the entire binder of intercepts and one who was briefed on their contents. “There’s absolutely nothing there,” one source said. The Trump names remain masked in the documents, and Rice would not have been able to know in all cases that she was asking the N.S.A. to unmask the names of Trump officials.

Nunes is being investigated by the House Ethics Committee because, in talking about the documents, he may have leaked classified information. But this is like getting Al Capone for tax evasion. The bigger scandal is the coördinated effort to use the American intelligence services to manufacture an excuse for Trump’s original tweet.

The intelligence source told me that he knows, “from talking to people in the intelligence community,” that “the White House said, ‘We are going to mobilize to find something to justify the President’s tweet that he was being surveilled.’ They put out an all-points bulletin”—a call to sift through intelligence reports—“and said, ‘We need to find something that justifies the President’s crazy tweet about surveillance at Trump Tower.’ And I’m telling you there is no way you get that from those transcripts, which are about as plain vanilla as can be.” (The White House did not respond to a request for comment.)

The fallout from Trump’s tweet could have grave consequences for national security. The law governing the N.S.A.’s collection of the content of communications of foreign targets is up for renewal this summer. Known as Section 702, part of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, it is perhaps the most important intelligence tool that America’s spy agencies have to gather information about potential terrorist attacks and about the intentions of regimes around the world. There are legitimate privacy concerns about allowing the N.S.A. to vacuum up such an enormous amount of communications. A report .. https://www.pclob.gov/library/702-report.pdf .. from 2014 by the Obama Administration’s Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board identified several areas that might be changed to increase the privacy protections for Americans, but the board also “found no evidence of intentional abuse” of the program.

Some American intelligence officials are now concerned that Trump and Nunes’s wild claims about intercepts and Rice have made Section 702 look like a rogue program that can be easily abused for political purposes. The intelligence source said, “In defense of the President, Devin Nunes and some other partisans have created a huge political problem by casting doubt, in the service of Donald Trump, on these intercepts.” Senator Rand Paul, of Kentucky, a leading critic of Section 702, has been using the episode to rally libertarians. He recently tweeted ..

Smoking gun found! Obama pal and noted dissembler Susan Rice said to have been spying on Trump campaign.
https://t.co/SHJ41vhQu7

— Rand Paul (@RandPaul) April 3, 2017

, “Smoking gun found! Obama pal and noted dissembler Susan Rice said to have been spying on Trump campaign.” Democratic critics of Section 702 have also been emboldened. “Section 702 of FISA allows warrantless searches on Americans. That’s unconstitutional & must be changed,” Representative Ted Lieu, the Democrat from California, tweeted ..

Section 702 of FISA allows warrantless searches on Americans. That's unconstitutional & must be changed. https://t.co/YPcqSbpmbt

— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) March 2, 2017

.. last month, during the controversy.

“They manufactured a scandal to distract from a serious investigation,” Eric Swalwell, a Democratic member of the House Intelligence Committee, who would not comment on the N.S.A. documents, said. “And the collateral damage is the public confidence in our intelligence community when we need to count on them now more than ever. Considering the threats we are facing right now from North Korea and ISIS, it’s a pretty dangerous time to undermine the I.C.’s credibility to make a five-yard sack in the Russia investigation.”

Even though there is now some bipartisan agreement that Nunes’s description of the intercepts was wildly inaccurate, Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee are still preparing to focus on Obama’s national-security team, rather than on Vladimir Putin’s. Last week, Democrats and Republicans finalized their witness lists, and the names tell a tale of two separate investigations. The intelligence source said, “The Democratic list involves all of the characters that you would think it would: Paul Manafort, Roger Stone, Carter Page,” speaking of the three Trump campaign officials who have been most closely tied to the Russia investigation. “The Republican list is almost entirely people from the Obama Administration.”

The fake scandal created by Trump and Nunes is not over yet. The first name on the Republican list is Susan Rice.

Ryan Lizza is the Washington correspondent for The New Yorker, and also an on-air contributor for CNN.

http://www.newyorker.com/news/ryan-lizza/the-continuing-fallout-from-trump-and-nuness-fake-scandal

Specifically to .. Is the Trump White House Spying on the FBI?
https://tcf.org/content/commentary/trump-white-house-spying-fbi/

by Barton Gellman, immediately under the 4th video down in yours .. White House role in leaks raises suspicion