http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/201...epublicans.html

CBS fires vice president who said Vegas victims didn't deserve sympathy because country music fans 'often are Republican'...

Das sind die Leute, die für tolerance, respect, diversity und no hate eintreten. Abgesehen natürlich für Personen, die Country Music hören und vielleicht die Republikaner wählen.

Zitat von Maga-neu im Beitrag #2376

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http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2017/10/02/top-cbs-lawyer-no-sympathy-for-vegas-vics-probably-republicans.html

CBS fires vice president who said Vegas victims didn't deserve sympathy because country music fans 'often are Republican'...

Das sind die Leute, die für tolerance, respect, diversity und no hate eintreten. Abgesehen natürlich für Personen, die Country Music hören und vielleicht die Republikaner wählen.

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Zitat von mbockstette im Beitrag #2377

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Zitat von Maga-neu im Beitrag #2376

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http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2017/10/02/top-cbs-lawyer-no-sympathy-for-vegas-vics-probably-republicans.html

CBS fires vice president who said Vegas victims didn't deserve sympathy because country music fans 'often are Republican'...

Das sind die Leute, die für tolerance, respect, diversity und no hate eintreten. Abgesehen natürlich für Personen, die Country Music hören und vielleicht die Republikaner wählen.

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Dein Kommentar ist von ganz ähnlich dümmlicher Natur, wie der von Frau Hayley Geftman-Gold.

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Bannon warns: "end of everything" if Trump supports gun controls
President Trump may say he's a defender of gun ownership rights, but with all the gun control pressure he'll be under after Las Vegas, how do we know he'll resist it — especially after the debt limit deal with Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, and his flirtation with a deal on DACA?

Bottom line: Trump's allies, both inside and out of the White House, are mostly sure he'll resist because he owes too much to the NRA and its supporters — but even some of them aren't 100 percent sure.
https://www.axios.com/trump-wont-pivot-t...2492197581.html


For Americans, privately-owned guns are deadlier than war
Since the mass shooting in Las Vegas, proponents of tougher gun control laws have touted the statistic that there have been more American civilian deaths since 1968 due to privately owned firearms than from all American military conflicts combined.

Why it matters: It's important to understand the statistics as a whole when looking for solutions to gun violence, while also acknowledging the gravity of the horror in Las Vegas.
https://www.axios.com/why-more-americans...2492382128.html


477 Days. 521 Mass Shootings. Zero Action From Congress.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017...s-congress.html

"In retrospect Sandy Hook marked the end of the US gun control debate.
Once America decided killing children was bearable, it was over."
-Dan Hodges-

https://scontent.ford1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v...7cd&oe=5A49A7AB


Bill O’Reilly On Las Vegas Massacre: ‘This Is The Price Of Freedom’
“Americans have a right to arm themselves for protection,” he wrote. “Even the loons.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bill...4b048a4432481eb

Incensed Sean Hannity Says Talking Gun Control After Las Vegas Is ‘Shameful’
The Fox News host said it was “despicable” to “politicize” the mass shooting with talks of gun control.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/sean...kushpmg00000009

White House’s message to the nation after Las Vegas massacre: Don’t discuss gun control
"The president has been clear: He's a strong supporter of the second amendment."
https://thinkprogress.org/white-house-la...g-92d0d358350d/

MSNBC’s Mika: No Republican lawmakers would appear on ‘Morning Joe’ to discuss the Las Vegas massacre
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/msnbcs-...vegas-massacre/

NRA goes dark after Vegas massacre
The gun rights group follows its familiar public relations playbook, staying quiet as Democrats blame it for another horrific mass shooting.

The NRA’s website, Twitter feed and Facebook page — all of which are typically updated frequently throughout the day —went dark on Monday, posting no new content, and the group did not respond to several calls and emails seeking comment.
But that doesn’t mean the powerful Washington lobbying organization isn't extremely busy behind the scenes.

After a mass casualty shooting like the one that killed 59 in Las Vegas Sunday night, the NRA invariably turns to a playbook it has perfected over several decades, critics and supporters alike told POLITICO. The approach calls for aggressive fact-finding and long strategy sessions before any public statements. The Fairfax, Virginia-based organization has waited weeks before responding to past deadly incidents that NRA critics call the indirect result of its resistance to tighter gun control.

The NRA's official Twitter account tweeted 11 times on Friday on a variety of subjects, including a story about President Barack Obama's "war on the Second Amendment," but was dormant Monday.
“The basic NRA response to high-profile mass shootings is to go dark, say nothing for as long as possible” said Josh Sugarmann, executive director of the Violence Policy Center, a gun control group. Sugarmann added that the gun owners' group would likely swing back at critics who call for changes to gun laws by saying they are politicizing a tragedy.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/02...nra-guns-243394

Psychiatrist featured on Fox News blames CNN for mass shootings
And the hosts did not push back.
https://thinkprogress.org/fox-news-cnn-m...s-1ad50b45ba2c/

Trump to Puerto Rico: your hurricane isn’t a “real catastrophe” like Katrina
And it’s “throwing our budget a little out of whack.”

President Donald Trump met with local leaders and federal responders shortly after landing at an Air Force base in Carolina, Puerto Rico, for what was supposed to be a briefing on the situation on the island.
Instead, Trump turned it into an opportunity to congratulate himself and the federal government's response to the disaster and to say the island should be “very proud” of its low official death count.
https://www.vox.com/2017/10/3/16411488/t...rks-puerto-rico


Trump focuses on optics in Puerto Rico visit
President Donald Trump squarely focused on one task as he landed in Puerto Rico: portraying his administration's response to the devastation on the still-recovering island as a tremendous success.

During an awkward roundtable with federal and local officials, he touted the federal response and offered praise for those who have been most complimentary to his administration, even as many residents on the island continued to lack access to basic services and criticized the federal response.
The President also appeared to jokingly blame the island and its 3.5 million residents for throwing the federal budget "a little out of whack."

"I hate to tell you Puerto Rico, but you've thrown our budget a little out of whack," Trump said with a grin. "Because we've spent a lot of money on Puerto Rico and that's fine, we've saved a lot of lives."
But the bulk of Trump's remarks on Tuesday focused on praising his administration's response to the destructive hurricane, even as more than half of residents still lack access to potable water and as nearly all of the island remains without power.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/03/politics/d...rto-rico-visit/


Oxfam criticizes US government response in Puerto Rico
Oxfam, a global organization working to end poverty, is criticizing the United States government's response to the crisis in Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria.

The group specifically criticized President Donald Trump's administration.
"Oxfam has monitored the response in Puerto Rico closely, and we are outraged at the slow and inadequate response the US government has mounted in Puerto Rico," Oxfam America President Abby Maxman said in a statement. "Clean water, food, fuel, electricity, and health care are in desperately short supply and quickly dwindling, and we're hearing excuses and criticism from the administration instead of a cohesive and compassionate response."
The group rarely criticizes government strategies in crises affecting wealthy nations such as the US.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/02/politics/o...nment-response/

Und soweit es den patholoischen Luegner und Narzissten Baron von Trumphausen betrifft, eine kleine Anmerkung:

"Great Leaders are respected for humility -not hubris..."

"Great leaders are defined by accomplishments -not accolades..."

”Great leaders are motivated by results -not reviews..."

All that totally escapes him.

FEMA has yet to authorize full disaster help for Puerto Rico
Texas got it 10 days after Hurricane Harvey hit.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/...-rico-hurricane

Hundreds of White House emails sent to third Kushner family account
White House officials are reviewing a third email account associated with Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner’s private email domain.

...The revelations about the Kushner family email domain have drawn parallels to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server for official business during her tenure as secretary of state. Clinton’s emails were a major point of contention during the 2016 election. President Trump criticized Clinton’s email habits and frequently called for Clinton’s arrest on the campaign trail, leading crowds at rallies in chants of “lock her up,” and urged the Justice Department to reopen the investigation into her emails.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/02...te-house-243389

Trump's Puerto Rico Visit Is a Political Disaster
The president told residents to be “very proud” they hadn’t endured a “real catastrophe” like Katrina, doing little to erase the impression that he sees hurricane relief more as a political story than a human one.

It was a typically strange, disjointed appearance by the president, and it came just days after Trump spent much of the weekend picking fights with the mayor of San Juan and insisting that, against all evidence, the recovery effort had largely responded to Puerto Rico’s needs. At Muñiz Air Force Base, Trump was eager to praise the work of federal agencies, including FEMA, the Air Force, the Navy, and the Coast Guard, amid a chorus of criticism that Washington’s response has been too slow and too small. But that praise led him in strange directions....

...If the Puerto Rico visit sought to reverse the impression that Trump has not taken Maria seriously and does not feel empathy for its victims, Tuesday’s briefing did not help the cause.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...o-visit/541869/


Trump's Puerto Rico event was way worse than his tweets
President Donald Trump faced a major test on Tuesday as he traveled to storm-ravaged Puerto Rico: Show the American citizens struggling for survival on the island that he understood their plight, sympathized with them and was doing everything in his power to make it better as quickly as he could.

He failed. Hugely....

Trump knew -- because everyone wrote about it and TV talked about it relentlessly -- that the big question today in Puerto Rico was whether he could show some actual empathy, some human kindness to people he didn't know but who were still his constituents.

And, even knowing that, Trump delivered a navel-gazing, self-championing, victimhood-seeking speech that reeked of tone-deafness and out-of-touch-ism.
Even for this President, who has redefined presidential -- and not for the better -- this is a truly remarkable low.
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/10/03/polit...rico/index.html

Kremlin-Linked Lawyer Says She Also Met With Pro-Russia GOP Rep. Last Year
A report out Tuesday connects Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), the ardently pro-Russia congressman, to yet another player in the ever-widening Trump-Russia scandal: Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Kremlin-linked lawyer who promised to bring damaging information about Hillary Clinton to a June 2016 meeting with Donald Trump, Jr. and other Trump campaign officials.

According to a Russian-language interview with Veselnitskaya surfaced by Foreign Policy, Veselnitskaya said she met with Rohrabacher in Moscow during an April 2016 trip that also took him to Berlin, where it was previously reported that he’d met with Washington, D.C. lobbyist and former Soviet operative Rinat Akhmetshin. ...

...Both Veselnitskaya and Ahkmetshin, who also attended the June 2016 meeting with Trump Jr., have been crusading against the Magnitsky Act for years.

Veselnitskaya had been retained to represent Denis Katsyv, owner of the Prevezon Group and a central figure in one of the largest money-laundering scandals in history. Katsyv was the defendant in a case against the company prosecuted by Preet Bharara, then the U.S. Attorney in Manhattan, and had bankrolled a major media campaign, both to rehabilitate his own image and to discredit a key witness in Bharara’s case, William Browder. Browder, through his own company Hermitage Capital, had caught wind of alleged money-laundering via an investigation by an attorney working for him named Sergei Magnitsky, who died in Russian custody after he accused a number of high-level Russian officials of participating in the scheme. ...
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/n...r-magnitsky-act

Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr. Were Close to Being Charged With Felony Fraud
New York prosecutors were preparing a case. Then the D.A. overruled his staff after a visit from a top donor: Trump attorney Marc Kasowitz.

https://www.propublica.org/article/ivank...ed-felony-fraud

Exclusive: Russian-linked Facebook ads targeted Michigan and Wisconsin
A number of Russian-linked Facebook ads specifically targeted Michigan and Wisconsin, two states crucial to Donald Trump's victory last November, according to four sources with direct knowledge of the situation.

Some of the Russian ads appeared highly sophisticated in their targeting of key demographic groups in areas of the states that turned out to be pivotal, two of the sources said. The ads employed a series of divisive messages aimed at breaking through the clutter of campaign ads online, including promoting anti-Muslim messages, sources said.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/03/politics/r...igan-wisconsin/

Tillerson threatened to quit after calling Trump a ‘moron’ in Pentagon meeting on ISIS: report
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson had to be talked out of quitting this summer as he clashed with President Donald Trump — whom he dismissed as a “moron.”

Tillerson was infuriated after the president delivered a raunchy and highly politicized speech in late July to the Boy Scouts of America, an organization the secretary of state once led, reported NBC News.
The secretary of state had openly criticized Trump as a “moron” just days before, after a July 20 meeting at the Pentagon to discuss the Islamic State with the president’s national security team and Cabinet officials, according to three officials with knowledge of the incident. ...

Vice President Mike Pence gave him a “pep talk” afterward, and other top administration officials begged Tillerson to stay on the job until at least the end of the year, the sources said.
“They did beg him to stay,” said one senior administration official. “They just wanted stability.”
The sources identified those officials as retired Gen. John Kelly, who became chief of staff not long afterward, and Defense Secretary James Mattis.
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/tillers...on-isis-report/

Briefe in der Trump Aera:

https://scontent.ford1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v...a8f&oe=5A86F7BE

https://scontent.ford1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v...ef3&oe=5A7AD2DD

Feds call ex-Manafort associate Dmytro Firtash a top-tier player in Russian organized crime
In federal court documents filed this week, the Department of Justice describes Dmytro Firtash, a former business associate of ex-Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, as an "upper echelon (associate) of Russian organized crime."

The reference appears in a 155-page filing in federal court in Chicago in response to a motion by Firtash and another defendant, Andras Knopp, to dismiss an indictment against the pair for allegedly trying to set up an international titanium racket.

The court filing is also linked to federal efforts to win Firtash's extradition from Vienna. He was arrested in 2014 at the request of the U.S. and was freed on a $174 million bond.

While purported ties between Firtash and Russian organized crime have been raised in the past, the court filing on Tuesday were the most explicit and public yet by the Justice Department.
http://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/ne...rime/514131001/

Willie, dein Fehler und der eines Großteils der Presse ist, alles und jedes schlechtzumachen. Kein Mensch begeht nur Fehler, nicht einmal Merkel. :-)
Im Prinzip ist es wie bei Richard Nixon, der auch immer von der Presse angegriffen wurde. Nicht die Presse hat Nixon gestürzt, der 1972 einen der größten Wahlsiege der US-Geschichte einfuhr, sondern nur seine eigenen Dämonen. So wird es auch bei Trump sein: Bekommt er sie nicht in den Griff, wird er stürzen. Nicht wegen, sondern trotz der Presse.

Zitat von Maga-neu im Beitrag #2390

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Willie, dein Fehler und der eines Großteils der Presse ist, alles und jedes schlechtzumachen. Kein Mensch begeht nur Fehler, nicht einmal Merkel. :-)
Im Prinzip ist es wie bei Richard Nixon, der auch immer von der Presse angegriffen wurde. Nicht die Presse hat Nixon gestürzt, der 1972 einen der größten Wahlsiege der US-Geschichte einfuhr, sondern nur seine eigenen Dämonen. So wird es auch bei Trump sein: Bekommt er sie nicht in den Griff, wird er stürzen. Nicht wegen, sondern trotz der Presse.

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Trump’s empathy deficit
The racism is no longer thinly disguised; it’s blatant and obvious for all to witness.
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-empathy-...t-580b261af74f/

Senate Intel: Russia probe has "expanded"
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-NC) and Vice Chair Mark Warner (D-VA) made it clear that they still have a lot of work to do regarding the Russia investigation, including learning more about the extent of Moscow's impact on the 2016 election and whether any Trump campaign members colluded in the interference.

"It's safe to say that the inquiry has expanded slightly," Burr said. He said he still hopes the committee can complete its probe by the end of 2017, but emphasized they must be finished and "make our facts public" prior to the 2018 midterm primaries.

Investigation progress
Burr said the committee has conducted more than 100 interviews over 250 hours, reviewed more than 400 pages of transcripts, and scrutinized more than 1000 pages of classified documents.
"We have interviewed every official of the Obama administration" to learn more about what they saw, what they did and what they didn't do, said Burr.
Investigation into Comey memos is over: The Panel "is satisfied that our involvement with this issue has reached a logical end" in relation to Russia probe, said Burr.

What they know
Russia successfully hacked DNC emails with the intent of making them public.
The 2016 vote tallies are accurate, and in no way will the committee's report overturn the results of the election. "That's how it's gonna stay," said Burr.
Russia tried to "open the door" in 21 states' electoral systems. It took the Dept. of Homeland Security 11 months to reveal that.
There's a "consensus" that Russians hacked into political files during the 2016 presidential campaign.

What they don't know
If there has been "any hint of collusion": "I wont even discuss initial findings, because we haven't any... we still have a lot of transcripts to go through... there are 25 individuals booked for interviews with this staff this month alone in relation to the Russia investigation," said Burr.

Key quotes
"The Russian intelligence service is determined, clever — and I recommend that every campaign and election official take this very seriously," said Burr.
"There needs to be a more aggressive, whole-of-government approach in terms of protecting our electoral system," said Warner.
"Russian interference was to create chaos at every level," not targeted at the Right or Left, Burr said. "Given we're standing here 9 months later, it seems they were pretty successful."

https://www.axios.com/senate-intel-chair...2492936395.html

Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #2393

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Senate Intel: Russia probe has "expanded"
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-NC) and Vice Chair Mark Warner (D-VA) made it clear that they still have a lot of work to do regarding the Russia investigation, including learning more about the extent of Moscow's impact on the 2016 election and whether any Trump campaign members colluded in the interference.

"It's safe to say that the inquiry has expanded slightly," Burr said. He said he still hopes the committee can complete its probe by the end of 2017, but emphasized they must be finished and "make our facts public" prior to the 2018 midterm primaries.

Investigation progress
Burr said the committee has conducted more than 100 interviews over 250 hours, reviewed more than 400 pages of transcripts, and scrutinized more than 1000 pages of classified documents.
"We have interviewed every official of the Obama administration" to learn more about what they saw, what they did and what they didn't do, said Burr.
Investigation into Comey memos is over: The Panel "is satisfied that our involvement with this issue has reached a logical end" in relation to Russia probe, said Burr.

What they know
Russia successfully hacked DNC emails with the intent of making them public.
The 2016 vote tallies are accurate, and in no way will the committee's report overturn the results of the election. "That's how it's gonna stay," said Burr.
Russia tried to "open the door" in 21 states' electoral systems. It took the Dept. of Homeland Security 11 months to reveal that.
There's a "consensus" that Russians hacked into political files during the 2016 presidential campaign.

What they don't know
If there has been "any hint of collusion": "I wont even discuss initial findings, because we haven't any... we still have a lot of transcripts to go through... there are 25 individuals booked for interviews with this staff this month alone in relation to the Russia investigation," said Burr.

Key quotes
"The Russian intelligence service is determined, clever — and I recommend that every campaign and election official take this very seriously," said Burr.
"There needs to be a more aggressive, whole-of-government approach in terms of protecting our electoral system," said Warner.
"Russian interference was to create chaos at every level," not targeted at the Right or Left, Burr said. "Given we're standing here 9 months later, it seems they were pretty successful."

https://www.axios.com/senate-intel-chair...2492936395.html

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Zitat von Maga-neu im Beitrag #2394

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #2393

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Senate Intel: Russia probe has "expanded"
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-NC) and Vice Chair Mark Warner (D-VA) made it clear that they still have a lot of work to do regarding the Russia investigation, including learning more about the extent of Moscow's impact on the 2016 election and whether any Trump campaign members colluded in the interference.

"It's safe to say that the inquiry has expanded slightly," Burr said. He said he still hopes the committee can complete its probe by the end of 2017, but emphasized they must be finished and "make our facts public" prior to the 2018 midterm primaries.

Investigation progress
Burr said the committee has conducted more than 100 interviews over 250 hours, reviewed more than 400 pages of transcripts, and scrutinized more than 1000 pages of classified documents.
"We have interviewed every official of the Obama administration" to learn more about what they saw, what they did and what they didn't do, said Burr.
Investigation into Comey memos is over: The Panel "is satisfied that our involvement with this issue has reached a logical end" in relation to Russia probe, said Burr.

What they know
Russia successfully hacked DNC emails with the intent of making them public.
The 2016 vote tallies are accurate, and in no way will the committee's report overturn the results of the election. "That's how it's gonna stay," said Burr.
Russia tried to "open the door" in 21 states' electoral systems. It took the Dept. of Homeland Security 11 months to reveal that.
There's a "consensus" that Russians hacked into political files during the 2016 presidential campaign.

What they don't know
If there has been "any hint of collusion": "I wont even discuss initial findings, because we haven't any... we still have a lot of transcripts to go through... there are 25 individuals booked for interviews with this staff this month alone in relation to the Russia investigation," said Burr.

Key quotes
"The Russian intelligence service is determined, clever — and I recommend that every campaign and election official take this very seriously," said Burr.
"There needs to be a more aggressive, whole-of-government approach in terms of protecting our electoral system," said Warner.
"Russian interference was to create chaos at every level," not targeted at the Right or Left, Burr said. "Given we're standing here 9 months later, it seems they were pretty successful."

https://www.axios.com/senate-intel-chair...2492936395.html

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWeZ5SKXvj8

He may be a Putinist.

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #2395

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Zitat von Maga-neu im Beitrag #2394

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #2393

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Senate Intel: Russia probe has "expanded"
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-NC) and Vice Chair Mark Warner (D-VA) made it clear that they still have a lot of work to do regarding the Russia investigation, including learning more about the extent of Moscow's impact on the 2016 election and whether any Trump campaign members colluded in the interference.

"It's safe to say that the inquiry has expanded slightly," Burr said. He said he still hopes the committee can complete its probe by the end of 2017, but emphasized they must be finished and "make our facts public" prior to the 2018 midterm primaries.

Investigation progress
Burr said the committee has conducted more than 100 interviews over 250 hours, reviewed more than 400 pages of transcripts, and scrutinized more than 1000 pages of classified documents.
"We have interviewed every official of the Obama administration" to learn more about what they saw, what they did and what they didn't do, said Burr.
Investigation into Comey memos is over: The Panel "is satisfied that our involvement with this issue has reached a logical end" in relation to Russia probe, said Burr.

What they know
Russia successfully hacked DNC emails with the intent of making them public.
The 2016 vote tallies are accurate, and in no way will the committee's report overturn the results of the election. "That's how it's gonna stay," said Burr.
Russia tried to "open the door" in 21 states' electoral systems. It took the Dept. of Homeland Security 11 months to reveal that.
There's a "consensus" that Russians hacked into political files during the 2016 presidential campaign.

What they don't know
If there has been "any hint of collusion": "I wont even discuss initial findings, because we haven't any... we still have a lot of transcripts to go through... there are 25 individuals booked for interviews with this staff this month alone in relation to the Russia investigation," said Burr.

Key quotes
"The Russian intelligence service is determined, clever — and I recommend that every campaign and election official take this very seriously," said Burr.
"There needs to be a more aggressive, whole-of-government approach in terms of protecting our electoral system," said Warner.
"Russian interference was to create chaos at every level," not targeted at the Right or Left, Burr said. "Given we're standing here 9 months later, it seems they were pretty successful."

https://www.axios.com/senate-intel-chair...2492936395.html

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWeZ5SKXvj8

He may be a Putinist.

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https://scontent.ford1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v...ac3&oe=5A48179D

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'Trump dossier' on Russia links now part of special counsel's probe: sources
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The special counsel investigating whether Russia tried to sway the 2016 U.S. election has taken over FBI inquiries into a former British spy’s dossier of allegations of Russian financial and personal links to President Donald Trump’s campaign and associates, sources familiar with the inquiry told Reuters.

A report compiled by former MI6 officer Christopher Steele identified Russian businessmen and others whom U.S. intelligence analysts have concluded are Russian intelligence officers or working on behalf of the Russian government.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tr...g-idUSKBN1C91R3

Zitat von Maga-neu im Beitrag #2396

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #2395

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Zitat von Maga-neu im Beitrag #2394

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #2393

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Senate Intel: Russia probe has "expanded"
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-NC) and Vice Chair Mark Warner (D-VA) made it clear that they still have a lot of work to do regarding the Russia investigation, including learning more about the extent of Moscow's impact on the 2016 election and whether any Trump campaign members colluded in the interference.

"It's safe to say that the inquiry has expanded slightly," Burr said. He said he still hopes the committee can complete its probe by the end of 2017, but emphasized they must be finished and "make our facts public" prior to the 2018 midterm primaries.

Investigation progress
Burr said the committee has conducted more than 100 interviews over 250 hours, reviewed more than 400 pages of transcripts, and scrutinized more than 1000 pages of classified documents.
"We have interviewed every official of the Obama administration" to learn more about what they saw, what they did and what they didn't do, said Burr.
Investigation into Comey memos is over: The Panel "is satisfied that our involvement with this issue has reached a logical end" in relation to Russia probe, said Burr.

What they know
Russia successfully hacked DNC emails with the intent of making them public.
The 2016 vote tallies are accurate, and in no way will the committee's report overturn the results of the election. "That's how it's gonna stay," said Burr.
Russia tried to "open the door" in 21 states' electoral systems. It took the Dept. of Homeland Security 11 months to reveal that.
There's a "consensus" that Russians hacked into political files during the 2016 presidential campaign.

What they don't know
If there has been "any hint of collusion": "I wont even discuss initial findings, because we haven't any... we still have a lot of transcripts to go through... there are 25 individuals booked for interviews with this staff this month alone in relation to the Russia investigation," said Burr.

Key quotes
"The Russian intelligence service is determined, clever — and I recommend that every campaign and election official take this very seriously," said Burr.
"There needs to be a more aggressive, whole-of-government approach in terms of protecting our electoral system," said Warner.
"Russian interference was to create chaos at every level," not targeted at the Right or Left, Burr said. "Given we're standing here 9 months later, it seems they were pretty successful."

https://www.axios.com/senate-intel-chair...2492936395.html

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWeZ5SKXvj8

He may be a Putinist.

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https://scontent.ford1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v...ac3&oe=5A48179D

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Du ahnst gar nicht, wie zutreffend die extended reality in diesem Fall ist. Das war ein Eigentor. :-)

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Tillerson Summoned to White House Amid Presidential Fury
John Kelly, the White House chief of staff, abruptly scrapped plans to travel with President Donald Trump on Wednesday so he could try to contain his boss’s fury and manage the fallout from new revelations about tensions between the president and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, according to six senior administration officials.

Kelly summoned Tillerson, and their ally Defense Secretary James Mattis, to the White House, where the three of them huddled to discuss a path forward, according to three administration officials.

NBC reported Wednesday that Tillerson had threatened to resign in July after a series of clashes with the president, at one point venting his frustrations among his colleagues by calling the president a "moron," according to multiple senior administration officials who were aware of the matter at the time.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-h...al-fury-n808216

John Kelly's personal cellphone was compromised, White House believes
White House tech support discovered the suspected breach after Kelly turned his phone in to tech support staff this summer.

The document triggered concern throughout the West Wing about what information might have been exposed, one of the officials said.

The revelation comes amid an internal probe at the White House into personal email use. Senior officials, including Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, have at times used personal email for government business, POLITICO has reported.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/05...promised-243514