Maddow is stunned. I am also. McConnell said NOT to tell the public before the election. WH

[riversedge]

wanted it out to the public.

This says it better than I can.


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McConnell blocked CIA going public b4 election with info that Putin was directly helping Trump, Comey opposed it 2
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/obama-orders-review-of-russian-hacking-during-presidential-campaign/2016/12/09/31d6b300-be2a-11e6-94ac-3d324840106c_story.html?postshare=8021481330773850&tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.08b2fd9c5952 …
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David Corn Verified account ‏@DavidCornDC 4m4 minutes ago

Explosive. CIA finds Moscow tried to help Trump AND GOP Hill leaders opposed calling out Russia for hacking. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/obama-orders-review-of-russian-hacking-during-presidential-campaign/2016/12/09/31d6b300-be2a-11e6-94ac-3d324840106c_story.html?postshare=7111481335261119&tid=ss_tw …

[Roland99]

1. Uhhh. Hunh???

[Mister Ed]

14. Yes. Could the OP please elaborate a little...

...for those of us who are not sitting in front of a TV set tuned to MSNBC?

[riversedge]

2. McConnell raised doubts about intel. Told WH he would say it was partison if make public before

the election. Whow. Just whow.

[Cha]

11. Hi rivers.. you should edit and put more of that in your OP

Not everyone is watching Rachel..

Thank you!

[riversedge]

22. McConnell blocked CIA going public b4 election with info that Putin was directly helping Trump, Come

This is what she was stunned about. As am I.
sorry, I am poor at listening, typing and thinking all at once.


(((RB Blair))) and 1 other Retweeted
A Once Great Nation ‏@ResisttheNazis 14m14 minutes ago

McConnell blocked CIA going public b4 election with info that Putin was directly helping Trump, Comey opposed it 2
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/obama-orders-review-of-russian-hacking-during-presidential-campaign/2016/12/09/31d6b300-be2a-11e6-94ac-3d324840106c_story.html?postshare=8021481330773850&tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.08b2fd9c5952 …
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[Cha]

24. DAMN... but it was alright for comey to come out with false

info about Hillary.

We got fucking cheated.

You're doing great, rivers.. I just thought if you put that in your OP it wouldn't confuse others about what's going on.

Thanks!

[riversedge]

29. Thats ok cha. I am angry and upset right now.

[Cha]

31. Me too.. you can tell by my cussing up a storm on all threads.

And, you're probably more upset than I am because you watch the media!

[whathehell]

81. Exactly and my question is

Why didn't the Dems tell McConnell to go pound sand when he "threatened' them with saying it was "partisan"? I mean, big deal. That charge is made continuously throughout campaigns.. I hardly think it's enough to make the Dems turn tail and run. They should have shown a spine for once and spoken up

[Ligyron]

121. I'm starting to think the GOP is absolutely right, Dems are WEAK.

Weak, timid and un-coordinated effort wise.

Some are making a stink but on an administrative level it's weak and pathetic.

No wonder we always lose and if we keep this up - we always will.

Dems keep "taking the high road" while being buried in all branches of government.

Goodbye America...

[whathehell]

127. Yeah, when you're dealing with people like this

I say "bullshit on the high road". Fight like you mean it!

Democrats were not always like this, you know...Under presidents like FDR, Lyndon Johnson, and Jack Kennedy they were much tougher.
FDR, a president historians rank as the 3rd greater in our entire history, was reputed to have said, with respect to Republicans, "If
they go into the gutter, we go right in after them".

[Ligyron]

131. Oh, I remember.

Seems like another world now, when the middle class was ascendant and wealthy like FDR were actually a help.

[whathehell]

136. That was in the post-war period the

Baby boomers like me grew up in....FDR was long dead, of course, but we were still living under the New Deal with strong unions and an ascendant middle class. None of us coming of age then could have ever imagined this country going as far to the Right it has...It's like a foreign country.

[TrishaJ]

94. And WHY is Comey STILL

Director of the FBI today? At the very least, he should be fired. At the most, he should be investigated for treason.

[heaven05]

118. If he wants his job

he shouldn't/couldn't be feeling too secure in it, I would think. But WTF do I know.

[bdamomma]

133. McConnell should be thrown for TREASON too

what filthy dirty men, I think the should just move out of the way, we need a massive turnout of people to stop this SHIT now. I am just seeing this for the first time I had to give my head a rest.

[Skittles]

74. but no doubts about Hillary's emails

gawd help us all

[First Speaker]

3. McConnell and the Repubs are goddam traitors. It's as simple as that.

I am reluctant to throw this word around carelessly. Fuck it. If this isn't treason nothing is. Cooperating with a foreign dictator to destroy American democracy. And no one will ever convince me that Turtleman wasn't consciously doing just that.

[rurallib]

5. they have been traitors since Nixon

[INdemo]

86. Correcion to that..since before Hoover

[rurallib]

90. didn't know about Hoover.

[INdemo]

108. He was the trickle down President from 1929-1933

Hebert Hoover the Ronald Reagan of the late 20s-1932. the President Reagan most admired.

He catered to the rich while the depressed poor went hungry

[rurallib]

120. Sorry - I meant as far as conspiring with our enemies

Nixon with North Vietnam and Reagan with Iran before the election.

[INdemo]

132. Oh ..well anyway a point of Republicanism history..

Nixon cost us thousands of lives and the war could have actually ended with a peace agreement with Johnson.

[OhioBlue]

57. Absolutely traitors - and now his wife gets a nomination to the cabinet.

[dhol82]

93. That was his payoff.

[TheFrenchRazor]

70. i think you hit the nail on the head. nt

[VisceralM]

113. Yes.

Yes, they are

This is a full blown crisis.

[First Speaker]

126. Thanks...and welcome to DU...

...sorry you have to come in the midst of Interesting Times...

[riversedge]

4. CIA had briefed 12 members of Congress in Sept. Dems wanted to tell the public but Repugs

were divided as to whether to tell the public. McConell said NO. Now his wife has cabinet position in Trump WH. Rachel repeated that twice.

[trueblue2007]

7. THE DEMS SHOULD HAVE MADE IT PUBLIC ANYWAY

[MFM008]

10. Exactly

Obama should have done it.
McConnell is a fucking traitor.

[spanone]

12. ABSOLUTELY....

OF COURSE mcconnell didn't want it out, it was supporting trump.....

[femmocrat]

16. Agree. It could have been leaked.

Happens all the time in Washington.

[chimpymustgo]

84. That's what's troubling! Why do we ALWAYS FOLD?? I swear, sometimes I think it's all a charade.

A farce.

Why no uproar even now, about the clear voting irregularities?

Are we being played?

[kacekwl]

18. Since when does

the republicans decide what the democratic party should say and when ? Oh yea, answered my own questions.

[riversedge]

30. I agree.

[ProudProgressiveNow]

34. +1000

[uponit7771]

35. +1

[NYC Liberal]

59. Would have been covered Constitutionally too.

"for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place."

Had they revealed it on the floor of Congress they could not have been charged with anything.

[jonno99]

60. We need to find out why they didn't press the release of this informtion! nt

[TheFrenchRazor]

71. useless pieces of sh*t. nt

[whathehell]

82. Thank you!

You are absolutely correct....For fuck:s sale, where is their spine? To paraphrase, all it takes for Republicans to win, is for Democrats to wimp out at the slightest "threat"... Pathetic.


..

[a kennedy]

6. AND AGAIN WTFAWK???

Oh we are so dead as a country.

[roamer65]

8. We need the electors to step in and make it right.

They need to do their patriotic duty and put Hillary into the WH.

[rzemanfl]

19. The President needs to address the public before the electoral college meets.

Lay out the facts and set a date for a new election. Donald doesn't want to move into the White House anyway. Position troops so he can declare martial law and call up the National Guard.

[McKim]

44. Amen! We Need a New Election!

Yes, this is shocking. We need to demand a new fair election.

[longship]

49. There is no law to allow for election redos.

I am afraid that we are stuck with this.

[TheFrenchRazor]

72. i'm pretty sure there are laws against treason. nt

[True_Blue]

65. Yes a new election with UN poll watchers

To make sure we have a fair election this time.

[YOHABLO]

78. Obama has a reputation of not wanting to stir the pot with the Republicans.

This is one of his weaknesses in that he doesn't want to ruffle feathers, but rather try to negotiate through compromise. My prediction is that nothing will come of this; I hope I'm wrong. What should happen is Congress should hold a hearing. There should be a thorough investigation. But it's coming up a recess and nothing will happen. We all need to call our representatives and senators and demand an investigation.

[triron]

138. Sounds good to me

[Satch59]

9. Yes, treason behavior...

But wouldn't he and others have known that and not warned McConnell?

What can happen now? Is this an illegitimate election?

[rzemanfl]

13. As illegitmate as anyone named Fitzroy was a long time ago. n/t

[potone]

103. Could you explain that to me?

I saw a similar comment before; I don't understand it.

[renate]

111. "Fitzroy" was the last name traditionally given to the illegitimate son of a king

It indicated who his father was despite his being unable to inherit a royal title.

http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Fitzroy

[potone]

141. I see.

Thank you!

[still_one]

15. Will the electors disqualify trump?

[Jean-Jacques Roussea]

58. Republicans logic:

"Most of his voters knew he was a Russian operative when they voted for him so..."

[Cosmocat]

92. They did

That's the problem.

[INdemo]

109. So then if he was close to the Nazi's and they knew does that make it reich?

To have a Fascist in the White House?

[maddiemom]

68. They SHOULD, but the outrage from violent, ignorant Trump voters would stun the imagination!

This is an unprecedented situation in our nation's history, beyond previous Electoral College reversals of the popular vote. If the 2000 decision had favored Gore, the Republicans would have made sure that the Electoral College was gone long before the 2004 election. Democrats have now won the popular vote, but lost the presidency TWICE in sixteen years! Insane in any other so-called "democracy." A mere half million favored Gore in 2000, but over two and a half million of us had our votes wiped out in 2016.

[democrank]

17. Democrats with this information should have

grabbed the nearest microphone.

[rzemanfl]

20. They thought, as I did, that pussygate sank Drumpf. n/t

[riversedge]

28. we do not know what they thought at the time. But obviously Hillary and her

team had to go with it since they did not have this bombshell information! The WAPost said the Dems were all in agreement to release the information in Sept when they were briefed but the Repubs were split and McConnell demanded a NO!

[kacekwl]

21. Embarrassed

and disgusted to call myself a Democrat more and more.

[Yavin4]

23. I'm neither stunned nor surprised at all.

Yes, Republicans will sell out national security if it means that they will win an election. They have no morality nor loyalty to their country. They just want money and power by any means necessary.

[rzemanfl]

25. You have just defined treason. What do you think should be done? n/t

[Yavin4]

26. Nothing will be done about this. Nothing.

Too many people have too much invested in seeing the Republicans run the country.

[First Speaker]

36. Then I hope to God some patriotic Army officers take matters into their own hands...

...and save the country. I mean this literally, and God help me for thinking it. If treason is going to be committed with impunity, and a traitor assumes the Presidency, nothing matters. The Constitution is dead anyway. Let's have a goddam coup--an *open* coup--and, dare I say it, drain the swamp. Reboot our national franchise, and maybe we can save something from the wreckage. Otherwise, everything is lost.

[INdemo]

112. Was anything done about the 2000 election and 2004?

Oh there was talk and promises but absolutely nothing done. The Democrats sat on their hands while the Republicans ran over them

[rickford66]

27. October surprises

Nixon/Vietnam ..... Reagan/Iran.... Trump/Russia.

[colorado_ufo]

63. Except "Trump/Russia" is really no surprise.

Trump practically BROADCAST that Putin was in his corner and would do anything to help him get elected. And my guess is that Trump was a willing participant because he owed certain Russian nationals BIG time. I think winning the presidency, where he could repay in something other than cash dollars, was a matter of life and limb.

But - there are many guesses.

[AgadorSparticus]

32. It is absolutely criminal that the public was not informed of this before the election

MCCONNELL needs to be held accountable and the FBI needs to be fumigated. Starting with Comey.

[jalan48]

33. WTF? Is this Democrat-Republican thing just a charade?

[Blaukraut]

37. He should be removed from office for that n/t

[blue neen]

38. Mitch McConnell equals Benedict Arnold

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Traitors.

[Initech]

39. This. Is. Treason.

[sofa king]

42. It's more than treason. It's a coup attempt.

The Republicans have been planning to steal it from both candidates, all year long. Make sure both candidates appear to be disqualified for the job, toss the election into Congress, then not hold a vote. Paul Ryan becomes Acting President.

If they succeed, they'll never give the country back. This is the birth of the Fourth Reich.

[lonestarnot]

46. Attempt! And it ain't happening! Let's stop them!

[pangaia]

54. Good idea. What are you doing to stop them?

Here's what I have in mind, some.. a lot of which I have been doing..
Get out and contact your reps and tell them to fight against every single nominee il duce puts up for his cabinet.

Write letters to editors.
Contact broadcast media.
Join groups fighting the coup.
Contribute $$ if you can.
Post on social media.
Join protests, marches, strikes, boycotts.
any other type of civil disobedience. .
PROTEST any way possible...

Anything else you might think of...

[lonestarnot]

55. Ditto! Want to see Mr. President stop the coup.

[Old Vet]

80. Should this information be true, Its worse then treason, Its a act of war...............

[riversedge]

40. Last Word--CIA viewing Trump statement with alarm. Esseentially saying that Trump does

not trust the CIA

[flamingdem]

41. Why did people roll when McConnell threatened

There is more to this story

[blue neen]

96. Yep.

Things that make you go Hmmm.

[riversedge]

124. I have read that Obama wanted a joint statement put out--by Dems and Repugs but

Repugs did not go along.

So, it was kept secret (till now).

[jalan48]

43. If this is true and the Democrats don't deal with it now while Obama is President it's over.

It has to happen now before Trump assumes the Presidency.

[Skittles]

75. Obama will not do a fucking thing

he still wants their approval

[JudyM]

97. Sadly agree. I've been stunned by his greater focus on congeniality than promoting party principles.

[2naSalit]

101. I think

somebody has a gun to his head and he doesn't dare do certain things which might endanger his family or all four of them. That little red dot on your chest/temple is quite an intimidating thing.

[JudyM]

105. Then he should resign.

[Horse with no Name]

125. I think he loves his kids more than anything

and I have no doubt that threats have been made.....credible threats.

On edit....I wonder if THIS is the reason that Malia is taking a "Gap Year".....

[marlakay]

139. My hubby has said this from beginning

That he thinks Obama was threatened during whole presidency.

I think he is afraid Trump is going to f up everything he did.

But why is he so afraid of the republicans?

[whathehell]

128. What is wrong

with Obama in that regard? I love him to death, but I don't get his apparently undying need for their approval.

[keithbvadu2]

45. "...United Russia won the elections in America,"

Trump supporters celebrate and are proud.

"It turns out that United Russia won the elections in America," Viktor Nazarov, the governor of Omsk, Russia, declared in a radio interview.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/national-politics/article118666158.html

[Raster]

48. !!! Now we know just what he meant!!!

[Rex]

50. And now McCokespoon's wife is working in a plum job.

Of course the M$M will try to blow this off as a CT.

[lonestarnot]

52. Coup is not going to work out for either of them.

[Rex]

53. Gonna be a hell of a party on coronation day.

This shit ain't over.

[lonestarnot]

56. No it's not over by a long damn shot!

[Ccarmona]

51. Trumpsters

Don't believe a word of this. This is a problem. Comments to WaPo & NYT stories are very disturbing. What will it take for them to see they've been played.

[iluvtennis]

61. Just amazing, but they put out "news" about Huma's email being found on Weiner's computer...GAH n/t

[iluvtennis]

62. Trump campaign stmt was that the intel came from the folks who said Saddam Hussein didnt have MWD...

...so that is why the info wasn't shared with the public. WTF does Saddam H have to d with 2016 Pres election. I wanna know why my dems didn't come out with this info. Who the f cares if McConnell was going to come out and say the info was partisan. I'm MAD

[elmac]

64. What I learn from this mess is

that the Democratic party is not able or not willing to fight the fascists. They had a chance to make this public & didn't then today they backed off their fight for miners health coverage. We the people must take up the fight and it won't be nice or civil.

[Generic Brad]

66. This was common knowledge I thought

And people didn't give a damn. Instead of feigning outrage, isn't our time better spent trying to figure out where we go from here? We've been bested from my point of view. So how do we adapt?

[uponit7771]

77. A bipartisan effort to protect state level machines pre election was the unknown part

[TheFrenchRazor]

69. grab your pitchforks. nt

[ogradda]

73. Gees-us.

Why don't we just bend over, spread our cheeks and let 'em have at it? This has just gotten freakin' ridiculous.

[chimpymustgo]

85. In fact, that seems to be the "strategy." I don't get this one bit.

What will the "Democrats" actually fight for? Anything? Beyond keeping their asses in THEIR seats?

[pressbox69]

76. So maybe they will build a wall on the border.

it worked well when our new masters built one in Germany.

[Cha]

79. KICK!

[Vinca]

83. That makes McConnell complicit. Maybe he's working for Russia.

After all, he'll do pretty much anything for a buck.

[malthaussen]

87. quelle surprise. n/t

For Mitch McConnell, by his own admission, nothing is more important than winning.

-- Mal

[electron_blue]

88. Quit being stunned and do something.

This endless shock and awe over what has happened, and what is going on, is a giant time waste. What will you do when you are no longer shocked/stunned? Accept that this is going on and do something about it.

[lark]

89. Proof positive of the traitorous nature of establishment repugs.

They don't even pretend to be about America these days, it's all how do we enrich the rich and ourselves by taking all the money out of the system and lining our own pockets. That's all repugs want or care about, fucking us over to steal our $$ or our health

[ck4829]

91. The RePolonium Party

[ananda]

95. If we actually had a functioning FEC and Justice Department...

... this election would be overturned and investigated
to the proper end.

[CanonRay]

98. He's never put the country before his own political interests

why start now?

[Mr. Ected]

99. The Russian Connection was common knowledge on DU prior to the election

Neither Washington nor the media had the stomach or temerity to investigate or publicize.

What we are witnessing is either systematic failure or political manipulation at the highest levels.

Perhaps the conspiracy theory nutjobs aren't quite as whacky as advertised.

[Jacob Boehme]

100. Thank you Mitch...

... For proving that political zealotry is indistinguishable from mental illness.

[BSdetect]

102. It seems like the turtle declared for the fascists

He is one of them.

His hatred of Obama was the clue.

What an evil little shit he is.

[ananda]

104. This is nothing short of treason!

And yet, will anybody be held accountable
in this madhouse that is now our country?

[ananda]

106. On CNN, Obama is being blamed for this.

The guy is asking why the Obama admin sat on this
and says that this is what the Clinton team wants
to know.

How do we answer that?

[niyad]

107. FUCKING TRAITORS, each and every one of them who knew and kept silent.

[Generator]

114. And when the media gets over it

and moves on to pussygrabgate2 are we going to just take it? I will never ever stop with not accepting this. EVER. Fuck the media. We need to be in the streets.

[niyad]

115. you are quite correct.

[Puha Ekapi_2]

110. I'm....

...REALLY interested in seeing the conclusions of the intel report that President Obama asked for. Gotdam Refucklicans.....

[Glimmer of Hope]

116. Will anyone have the guts to call this what it is and do something?

Who will stand front and center? Anyone?

[Maven]

117. Why the FUCK was McConnell's "permission" even necessary?

Why is this administration STILL so concerned with my appearing partisan?

[BlancheSplanchnik]

119. Of course. This makes the whole travesty make sense.

fucking hell I hate rethuglicans.

[bucolic_frolic]

122. Complicity with a hostile foreign power to skew our elections

This is treason

We have been provoked

We lose our freedom if this stands

[ginnyinWI]

123. The only way I see out of this mess:

DT becomes president and is so horrible that even most of the GOP legislators agree that he has to go. And then they impeach him and throw the bum out. We have a Pres Pence for the remaining term but at least he is supposedly sane and rational and hopefully not a Russian puppet. His GOP buddies will have him on notice.

[zippythepinhead]

129. lmo

The US will form an alliance with Russia to start a war against Russia.

That's the bottom line.

[Bayard]

130. I'd be very interested to know who those 12 members were

And why couldn't the Dems have leaked this???? They had to cave to McConnell? Seriously? They got to trot out the tired old email story instead of truly explosive and vitally important news?

They're all traitors then. Hang 'em!

[marlakay]

140. With all the fake news out there

People would not believe it unless it came straight from CIA through proper channels.

The sad thing is I read the guy who started a bunch of the fake news sites is a dem who was trying to trap republicans, fail....

[RiverStone]

134. Treasonous fuck! Do any rethuglican have the guts to...

...put country ahead of partisanship?

[Fiendish Thingy]

135. how could McConnel block this? Obama could just declassify and release- why didn't he? n/t

[RoccoR2]

137. From the WP Article

“The lack of an administration response on the Russian hacking cannot be attributed to Congress,” said Rep. Adam B. Schiff (Calif.), the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, who was at the September meeting. “The administration has all the tools it needs to respond. They have the ability to impose sanctions. They have the ability to take clandestine means. The administration has decided not to utilize them in a way that would deter the Russians, and I think that’s a problem.