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kpete's JournalCrowd cheers for Barack Obama as his motorcade departs the Museum of the American Revolution.
https://twitter.com/PeterAlexander/status/1296278654796824579?s=20"BLM" spelled out in kid blocks in Sen. Warren's background here. We see you Liz.
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1296271909013925888?s=20
NBC New Images appear to show high-volume mail sorting machines out of service and dismantled.
Exclusive new images obtained by NBC
This comes after Postmaster General Dejoy suspended cost-cutting measures and policy changes until after the election.
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1296243079956041728?s=20
https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/images-show-u-s-postal-machines-removed-and-dismantled-90332741667
Real Takeaway from Senate Report on Russian Interference: They All Knew-BEFORE-They Voted To Aquit!
The Real Takeaway From the Senate Select Committee On Intelligence’s Bipartisan Report On Russia’s Active Measures Campaign and Interference In the 2016 Election: They All Knew Before They Voted To Acquit!!!!!
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This fifth volume is entitled Counterintelligence Threats and Vulnerabilities and despite that title it really ties together all the pieces from the previous four reports.
https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/documents/report_volume5.pdf
The real takeaway from this fifth volume of the report, and one that is not found anywhere in the report, is that despite knowing everything I am going to detail below, the 8 Republicans on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence had read the initial and penultimate drafts of this report, as well as the underlying supporting intelligence and materials by the time the President’s impeachment trial was held at the end of January. All of them knew exactly what was done, who did what, etc. All of them knew that a significant portion of the President’s defense – that Ukraine had really been conspiring with HRC and the Democratic Party and had framed Russia and the President to prevent him from becoming president – was not just a lie, but a lie created by Russian intelligence transmitted by Konstantin Kilimnik, a GRU asset and the handler for Paul Manafort, to Manafort and through him to the President and other Republicans. They knew his defense was Russian misinformation and agitprop. They knew what he had actually done in the campaign and since the campaign vis a vis Putin and Russia. And they still, every last fucking one of them, voted against hearing evidence and witnesses and actually holding a proper trial. And then they, every last fucking one of them, voted to acquit him.
This is the real conclusion and takeaway from reading this fifth volume of the multi-volume report. All 8 of these Republican senators – Burr, Rubio, Risch, Collins, Blunt, Cotton, Cornyn, and Sasse – knew and not only did nothing, they actively aided and abetted the cover up! They made themselves active participants of both furthering and covering up Vladimir Putin’s ongoing war against the United States!
The REST:
https://www.balloon-juice.com/2020/08/19/the-real-takeaway-from-the-senate-select-committee-on-intelligences-bipartisan-report-on-russias-active-measures-campaign-and-interference-in-the-2016-election-they-all-knew-before-they-voted-to/
Excerpts of Obama's criticism of Trump tonight: "Trump hasn't grown into the job because he can't"
“I never expected that my successor would embrace my vision or continue my policies,” the 44th president will say. “I did hope, for the sake of our country, that Donald Trump might show some interest in taking the job seriously. But he never did.”
“Donald Trump hasn’t grown into the job because he can’t,” Obama's remarks continue. “And the consequences of that failure are severe: 170,000 Americans dead. Millions of jobs gone. Our worst impulses unleashed, our proud reputation around the world badly diminished, and our democratic institutions threatened like never before.”
https://www.facebook.com/ABCNews/photos/a.10150095914943812/10160146703413812/?type=3
https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1296191661597433862?s=20
This is who Trump was doing business with in Russia:
The Miss Universe Pageant in Moscow
(U) On October 31, 2013, the Crocus Group and the Miss Univei:se Organization hosted
a charity auction .. 1883 The .initial guest list for the event, which includes individuals with ties to
the highest levels of the Russian government, military, intelligence services, organized crime,
Russian banks, and Russian energy companies, among others, offers some insight into the
Agalarovs' social and professional network in Moscow. Some of the individuals on the
Agalarovs' guest list have participated in Russian influence operations targeting the United
States and its allies, some have significant connections to the Russian intelligence services, and
some are currently sanctioned by the United States.1884
https://twitter.com/DavidCornDC/status/1296187874883313664?s=20
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https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/documents/report_volume5.pdf
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Pelosi spoke to DeJoy this a.m. - He has no intention of replacing mail infrastructure
"The Postmaster General frankly admitted that he had no intention of replacing the sorting machines, blue mailboxes and other key mail infrastructure."Update: Shortly after publication_,_ House Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued a statement saying she spoke to DeJoy and he “frankly admitted that he had no intention of replacing the sorting machines, blue mailboxes and other key mail infrastructure that have been removed and that plans for adequate overtime, which is critical for the timely delivery of mail, are not in the works. All of these changes directly jeopardize the election and disproportionately threaten to disenfranchise voters in communities of color. At the same time, we are highly concerned that the slowdown of the delivery of medicines to veterans is not being sufficiently addressed.”
https://twitter.com/Zac_Petkanas/status/1296150231650914313?s=20
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xg8kwk/usps-policy-change-rollbacks-postmaster-general-dejoy
The pee tape is probably real.
NYT: G.O.P.-Led Senate Panel Details Ties Between 2016 Trump Campaign and Russia:The report also raised the possibility that, during that trip, Mr. Trump spent the night with two young women who joined him the next morning at a business meeting with the mayor of Moscow.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/18/us/politics/senate-intelligence-russian-interference-report.html
Guardian: US Senate report goes beyond Mueller to lay bare Trump campaign's Russia links:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/18/donald-trump-us-senate-report-russia-campaign
The committee is dismissive of the dossier by the ex-MI6 officer Christopher Steele, which alleged that the Kremlin had been cultivating Donald Trump for at least five years, but stops short of offering an opinion on whether the allegations within it are true. That dossier contained an allegation that Russia spied on Trump during a visit to Moscow in November 2013 and filmed him in his private suite at the Ritz-Carlton hotel with two prostitutes. Trump strenuously denies the claim.
However, the Senate report offers the most compelling account yet of what went on inside the hotel. It alleges that a suspected Russian intelligence officer is stationed permanently in the building and presides over a “network” of security cameras, some of them hidden inside guest rooms. The officer’s agency is redacted, but is likely to be the FSB, the spy agency Vladimir Putin headed, in charge of counter-intelligence.
The report says: “The committee found that the Ritz Carlton in Moscow is a high counterintelligence risk environment. The committee assesses that the hotel likely has at least one permanent Russian intelligence officer on staff, government surveillance of guests’ rooms, and the regular presence of a large number of prostitutes, likely with at least the tacit approval of Russian authorities.
It adds: “According to two former employees of the Ritz Carlton in Moscow, in 2013 there was at least one [redacted] officer permanently stationed at the hotel. This non-uniformed officer was believed to be a [redacted] and had access to the hotel’s property management system, guest portfolios and notations, as well as the network of “hundreds” of security cameras at the hotel.
“The [redacted] was believed to be able to monitor the camera feeds from his office.”
The committee, which spent three years taking evidence for its report, also examined previous trips by Trump to Russia. It says that during a 1996 visit, Trump attended a party for a group of American investors at the Baltschug Kempinski hotel. The party was arranged by David Geovanis, a Moscow-based businessman who the report says has links to the Russian security services.
The report notes: “In some circles of the US expatriate business community in Moscow, it has been common for visiting businessmen to be taken to nightclubs or parties where prostitutes are present. It is likely that Russian security or intelligence services capitalize on those opportunities to collect information.
“During the 1990s and into the 2000s, David Geovanis developed a reputation in Moscow, in part as a host for visiting businessmen.”
It goes on to say that Trump “may have begun a brief relationship with a Russian woman” he met at the Geovanis party. Her name is blacked out. One source of the information is Theodore Liebman, an architect who lived in Moscow and New York in the 1990s, and who travelled to Russia with Trump to the event. Geovanis has spoken to journalists and is reluctant to visit the US, the committee notes.
Scott Horton, a lecturer at Columbia law school, said on Tuesday the Senate committee’s report “confirms nearly everything” about Trump’s ties to Moscow. He said it vindicated claims by the Democrats and others that the campaign had indeed colluded with the Russians – something Trump has vehemently denied.
“The committee offers a much deeper view into the intelligence collected by US authorities than does the much sketchier Mueller report. It will support the view that Mueller, far from exonerating Trump, simply expected to pass the baton to Congress to conduct deeper inquiries.”
https://www.eschatonblog.com/2020/08/americas-worst-humans_19.html#comment-5036745323
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