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GW Hayduke

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  1. Do you think this idea is a secret and Nancy somehow hasn’t factored this? It wouldn’t open a shit ton of doors btw. This is misinformation. The potential exists that an open impeachment inquiry would in some cases strengthen a committee’s case in front of a judge but it isn’t certain that it would. https://www.lawfareblog.com/what-powers-does-formal-impeachment-inquiry-give-house
  2. Imagine voting for impeachment in the house and it doesn’t pass. At least the Dems could say we tried to do the right thing. If it does pass the house, we can all watch it fail in the senate. That would be super I guess. Another option: continue to disclose and investigate until a majority want impeachment. The house is just now getting his financials. Where does that lead us?
  3. This the most accurate take. Nancy is currently swinging the biggest dick in DC. She has been running circles around Trump. I have no reason to think she is not playing this right. I am sure she understands that the most important thing for his country is to get the travesty out of the White House as fast as possible, which won’t be until Trump loses reelection.
  4. Criminal prosecutors only bring cases in front of juries when they feel they will win the case
  5. Who won the 2018 midterms?
  6. Add the recent trump and kushner shady transactions with deutsche bank that recently came out. Mueller’s team’s eventual public testimony. Lots of things are happening
  7. No one is saying the senate will never impeach. Weird strawman. They won’t right now. Every reasonable person knows that. I wonder if further disclosure of information and crimes should be done? I wish there was a political party trying to do that right now. I wonder if more disclosure has potential to affect the polls, the electorate, and eventually the GOP senate? Hmmm. I think we should give that a try. It is almost like the situation isn’t complicated
  8. It is widely accepted the senate wouldn’t impeach. This isn’t a secret or anything that reasonable people would disagree on.
  9. The primary and most important goal is to get the current travesty out of the White House. Voting for impeachment in the house and then not having it pass the senate doesn’t remove the travesty. A political case could be made that moving for impeachment now, even with low poll numbers, and then failing with impeachment maximizes the potential that trump’s is removed by the electorate. The opposite political case can also be made. Current strategy is to continue to push information out to the public. See what other crimes can be found. Watch the polls. Watch for any turning GOP senators.
  10. Are you weighing whether to vote for Amash for president? Is there a popularity contest somewhere that I don’t know about? Is Amash asking you to go door to door for him? It is so weird some are blinded from the significance of the first sitting GOP congressman to call for impeachment simply because he is a republican. It makes me hark back to the phenomenon of echo chambers, Fox News, and the idea that the other side is “bad” or “evil” or “unpatriotic” because that’s what I believe and my chamber of information reinforces that belief.
  11. I don’t think anyone, especially a republican, should ever call for impeachment unless they perfectly hold all of my progressive ideas and policies.
  12. I’m still confused. Some here seem to think we do have bagmen and others seem to think we don’t. Being a large academically focused university would seem to support the idea that our bagmen have big bags and are likely smart enough to not get caught.
  13. Is it understood on this board that bagmen for other schools pay recruits but Texas bagmen don’t? Or is it that bagmen for other schools pay more than our bagmen?
  14. It was Steve Bannon. https://www.axios.com/roger-stone-steve-bannon-emails-wikileaks-assange-b50259c5-61db-49aa-9a71-411e087c49e2.html
  15. Below link provides an interview with Jim Baker, former general counsel of the FBI during the initiation of the FBI's investigation into Russia's contacts with the Trump Campaign. He talks about intelligence received from a foreign agency about Popadop, Carter Page PhD's fisa application, how the fbi handles raw intelligence like the Steele reports, whether the fbi was conducting a coup, his impression of the 100+ pages in the mueller report on russia/trump campaign contacts, the impact of Trump's attacks on the fbi and intelligence community, and tons of other stuff. He shares that Rod R. and leadership in Congress were fully briefed and on board with expanding the fbi investigation to Trump himself after Comey's firing. He notes that election system security is his primary concern going forward. https://www.lawfareblog.com/lawfare-podcast-bonus-edition-jim-baker-russia-investigation
  16. You won’t be able to catch that chicken with your pants around your ankles
  17. Someone help me here. Some of the dossier has been confirmed. Some of it hasn’t been confirmed. Only a little has been shown to be untrue. How is it relevant whether parts are true or not at this point? Why are people not able to understand that everyone knew it was unverified intelligence (essentially rumors) meant to point investigative journalists and federal investigators in various directions to confirm or deny its reports? It wasn’t released before the election. The dossier served its function. We have multiple indictments, uncovered Russian meddling, uncovered trump campaign’s lies and outreach to and sharing of data with Russia, and a potus that attempted to cover it all up. Why does it matter whether 60% or 90% of the dossier is true? Why are people unable to grasp what unconfirmed intelligence is? It seems that if you aren’t able to catch the chicken then at some point you will stop trying to fuck it.
  18. If we are talking about the Carter Page PHD FISA warrant, then there will need to be 4 judges put in jail. I’m sure they are already in jail though and the FBI has already been shutdown as a result of the devastating Nunez Memo!!?!? Serious question. Why are people still bringing up FISA abuses and “being spied on?” Didn’t we all live through the Nunez and Gowdy stupid train when the GOP had the house? What am I missing?
  19. The beginning about trump eating souls was referring to Comey's oped breaking down the decline of rosenstein, barr, and others. It was rather funny if you had read the oped. They are with brookings and lawfare. Hennessey and Wittes always provide superior insight and analysis
  20. The most important point is that it is completely irrelevant whether some of the dossier is accurate, most of it is accurate, or none of it is accurate. Its a false analysis that plays to the GOP/trump/Fox narrative. The only point that is relevant is that everyone knew that the dossier was simply unverified intelligence. The FISA courts knew this. The journalists who had the dossier for months prior to the election and didn't publish knew this. Unverified intelligence is simply gossip. The purpose of unverified intelligence is to point investigative journalist and federal investigators in various directions to confirm or substantiate rumors. That is the only purpose of unverified intelligence.
  21. Benjamin Wittes has a great article breaking down Barr's several slight-of-hand mis-characterizations that build upon each other to the point that the DOJ has become the defense attorney of trrump. Wittes was a guy that had previously given Barr the benefit of the doubt but here freely describes the destroyed reputation of both Barr and unfortunately the DOJ. It is crazy how so many of our agencies have devolved under trump - FAA, ICE, Homeland, State, Education. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/05/bill-barrs-performance-was-catastrophic/588574/
  22. Quality podcast. First 10 minutes is a rather scathing take on Barr's current reputation and how he handled Mueller. https://www.lawfareblog.com/rational-security-eating-your-soul-small-bites-edition
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