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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDays BEFORE GOP rolled media w-FBI letter, they were in secret meetings with WH opposing disclosure!
Days BEFORE GOP rolled the media with FBI letter, they were in secret meetings with White House opposing disclosure as "too explosive"!https://twitter.com/MattOrtega/status/807392564810829826
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?utm_term=.4c1207994718
the words of encouragement that Trump offered to Russia to hack Clinton's emails:
https://twitter.com/speechboy71/status/807406368848314368
FightingIrish
(2,716 posts)Now the pieces seem to fit.
kpete
(71,900 posts)Russia succeeded because Trump accepted their help.
He was a willing accomplice
peace,
kp
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)This is all incredibly disturbing.
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)Hugin
(32,778 posts)Man, way more of a clusterfuck than I even imagined.
dhill926
(16,234 posts)fuck it Obama....burn it down. Perhaps today is a start....
DURHAM D
(32,595 posts)obtain their objective of electing Trump so he decided to help them out.
What was in it for him?
Did Putin give him a summer and a winter dacha?
ALBliberal
(2,304 posts)AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)Assertively against the Russian threat. Unless, there is more to this that we still don't know yet.
MANative
(4,105 posts)This is truly nothing less than a coup, and treason.
AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)monmouth4
(9,664 posts)of trouble that lies ahead for him. I'm starting to feel better already. Who will be doing prison time, seriously?
AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)I so despise everything he stands for! He and his ilk make my blood boil. Bunch of greedy MF'ers!!
KewlKat
(5,624 posts)does anyone believe that they did manage to manipulate some?
Specifically, the White House wanted congressional leaders to sign off on a bipartisan statement urging state and local officials to take federal help in protecting their voting-registration and balloting machines from Russian cyber-intrusions.
Though U.S. intelligence agencies were skeptical that hackers would be able to manipulate the election results in a systematic way, the White House feared that Russia would attempt to do so, sowing doubt about the fundamental mechanisms of democracy and potentially forcing a more dangerous confrontation between Washington and Moscow.
flamingdem
(39,304 posts)He's too nice and cooperative and doesn't seem to understand ruthless people.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,129 posts)superpatriotman
(6,232 posts)I have a hard time believing that Obama just threw his hands up and said "Oh well..."
RoccoR2
(90 posts)He 100% believed Hillary would win the EC
wishstar
(5,267 posts)No sitting President/First Lady ever campaigned so diligently and passionately.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)Bobbie Jo
(14,341 posts)Blow it wide open NOW.
This shit puts Watergate to shame.
TheFrenchRazor
(2,116 posts)LovingA2andMI
(7,006 posts)It Takes A Republican (and a Former CIA Agent) To Call Out The ENTIRE Republican Party. After This...The Republican Party Is TOAST:
malaise
(267,823 posts)Fight like with like
putitinD
(1,551 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Republicans have betrayed their country, and disgraced themselves once again.