UK intelligence officials shaken by Trump's requests for help with counter-impeachment

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

As the impeachment hearings get more and more alarming for Donald Trump, with damning new evidence emerging every day, there appears to be increasing urgency in the parallel counteroffensives under way by the president’s team in an attempt to defend him.

There are attacks against the witnesses giving testimony by Trump and his supporters, including attempts to smear Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, Ukraine expert at the National Security Council who this week provided crucial testimony about Trump’s telephone call to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. And there have been the extraordinary scenes of congress Republicans breaking into the proceedings and disrupting them.

At the same time, overshadowed by the publicity around the impeachment, is the ever-broadening investigation by William Barr, the attorney general, which the White House sees as a game-changer. An investigation which is seeking nothing less than to overturn the conclusion of the US intelligence services and special counsel Robert Mueller that Russia interfered in the last US presidential election.

This has now been designated a criminal investigation with power of subpoena and the possibility of prison sentences for those who have been allegedly involved in criminal actions, although exactly what these criminal actions entail remains unclear.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-impeachment-inquiry-latest-russia-mueller-ukraine-zelensky-a9181641.html

[tableturner]

1. Here's a key paragraph....

"And the information being requested has left allies astonished. One British official with knowledge of Barr’s wish list presented to London commented that 'it is like nothing we have come across before, they are basically asking, in quite robust terms, for help in doing a hatchet job on their own intelligence services'."

[crickets]

5. Just the paragraph I was going to post

This a long, well written article that lays out the entire Ukraine mess very well, with pertinent Mueller investigation information included. If you wanted one article to give a great overview of the whole situation, this would be the one.

If it were necessary to pick the most important paragraph, especially given how chilling it is, that one [points up to tableturner's post] would be it.

My question is: isn't doing a hatchet job on our own intelligence services a a bit... disloyal to our country?

[Talitha]

12. "a bit... disloyal to our country?"

Treasonous is the word that comes to mind....

[tblue37]

2. K&R for visibility. nt

[emulatorloo]

3. Rec

[A HERETIC I AM]

4. It's going to take decades to recover from this asshole and what he is doing.

If ever.

Jesus Constitutional Christ on Adderall, what has this country done to itself?

[dewsgirl]

7. +1000

[malaise]

6. This kakistocracy is the most corrupt government in history BARR none

[Buckeye_Democrat]

8. Christ on a cracker.

Trump is such a chav!

[Arazi]

9. I'm going to guess the UK intelligence community defended their US allies

And told these traitors to fuck off. I'm sure they 110% understand that diving the FVEY community is Putin's biggest goal. The fact that this leaked shows me they understand the situation.

Barr has outed himself as big a traitor as #Traitor. Can't wait until 2021

[sinkingfeeling]

10. I recall Fat Nixon said during his campaign that he had better

sources for intelligence than the US agencies.

[UTUSN]

11. K&R