Trump is *colluding* with Putin. He is openly colluding in the cover-up.

[kpete]

CIA chief Mike Pompeo: Putin attacked 2016 election.
DNI Dan Coats: Putin attacked 2016 election.
FBI director Christopher Wray: Putin attacked 2016 election.
NSA head Mike Rogers: Putin attacked 2016 election.
Putin: I did not attack 2016 election.
Trump: I believe Putin.

Trump continues to slam former US intel leaders: “I mean, give me a break, they are political hacks...I mean, you have Brennan, you have Clapper and you have Comey..So you look at that and you have President Putin very strongly, vehemently says he had nothing to do with them”

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

MORE:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41954436
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/359894-trump-slams-former-us-intel-leaders-as-political-hacks#.WgcMJbh3q1o.twitter

[Madam45for2923]

1. & obstructing too.

[sharedvalues]

2. Trump is compromised, as well as corrupt and autocratic

Bob mueller, please take out the trash as soon as you can.

Signed
All patriotic americans

[Cracklin Charlie]

3. I do not believe this will go well for Two Scoops.

For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

This seems like a really, really stupid move.

[WinkyDink]

4. Well, if PRESIDENT Putin (notice no honorary for the other men) spoke "very strongly, vehemently,"

I'M CONVINCED. AREN'T YOU?

*SARCASM*

You keep insulting our law guys, Trump. See how that'll work for ya.

[Gothmog]

5. Trump is lying about this issue

[Hortensis]

6. Colluding in this and WHAT ELSE? Our ability to influence

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other nations around the world through our foreign service professionals is being dismantled. To the point that it's beginning to look like treason.

TIME TO ASK WHY

"There is no denying that our leadership ranks are being depleted at a dizzying speed, due in part to the decision to slash promotion numbers by more than half. The Foreign Service officer corps at State has lost 60 percent of its Career Ambassadors since January. Ranks of Career Ministers, our three-star equivalents, are down from 33 to 19. The ranks of our two-star Minister Counselors have fallen from 431 right after Labor Day to 369 today—and are still falling.

These numbers are hard to square with the stated agenda of making State and the Foreign Service stronger. Were the U.S. military to face such a decapitation of its leadership ranks, I would expect a public outcry. Like the military, the Foreign Service recruits officers at entry level and grows them into seasoned leaders over decades. The talent being shown the door now is not only our top talent, but also talent that cannot be replicated overnight. The rapid loss of so many senior officers has a serious, immediate, and tangible effect on the capacity of the United States to shape world events.

As the shape and extent of the staffing cuts to the Foreign Service at State become clearer, I believe we must shine a light on these disturbing trends and ask “why?” and “to what end?”

Congress rejected drastic cuts to State and USAID funding. The Senate labeled the proposed cuts a “doctrine of retreat” and directed that appropriated funds “shall support” staffing State at not less than Sept. 30, 2016, levels, and further directed that “The Secretary of State shall continue A-100 entry-level classes for FSOs in a manner similar to prior years.”

Given this clear congressional intent, we have to ask: Why such a focus on slashing staffing at State? Why such a focus on decapitating leadership? How do these actions serve the stated agenda of making the State Department stronger?

Remember, nine in ten Americans favor a strong global leadership role for our great country, and we know from personal experience that such leadership is unthinkable without a strong professional Foreign Service deployed around the world protecting and defending America’s people, interests and values.

Where then, does the impetus come from to weaken the American Foreign Service? Where is the mandate to pull the Foreign Service team from the field and forfeit the game to our adversaries?

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[HipChick]

7. Pre-action before the pardons...so what if we colluded? It was better than having

Hillary as President.. They flagrantly are pushing aside norms that would apply to any other President, and he is being aided and abetted by Rethugs in Congress..