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[It's clear that our liberal readers have a wildly different conception of 'witch hunt' than the rest of us.  The WH effort to discover the self-declared anonymous leaker and resister who wrote the NYT op-ed is an existential and legitimate target of an internal investigation to ferret out someone who promises to make shambles of presidential executive privilege.  There is nothing here to compare with what Mueller is doing in his investigation of Trump which is based on allegations and no evidence of 'Russian collusion' after an 18+ month probe into the affairs of Team Trump.  There was no culpable evidence to launch the investigation, and its interminable continuation is also based on nothing but the hope of perhaps finding something in future.  Now that is a witch hunt.  gjr]

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  1. Scott Obermuller Avatar

    M at 7:32 – yes, that pretty well sums it up!
    There was never any substance to the charge. The entire point of this witch hunt is to weaken the political opposition – just as you agreed to.
    The Dems said they would take down Trump any way they could – a witch hunt works for them. It’s all they have.
    Meanwhile – the economy is cooking and wages are up. Food stamp usage is down and jobs are going begging. Obama told us a stagnant economy was the ‘new normal’. Obama has been “Trumped”!!
    Wait til Trump gets another SCOTUS pick. Your brain will explode.

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  2. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    The notion that the bureaucratic class in Washington should dictate which policies presidents are allowed to advocate simply by ignoring their wishes sounds a lot more like a soft coup than a constitutionally principled resistance.” —David Harsanyi
    https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2083299261740915&id=165954670142060
    Yep, that be Buck.
    https://m.facebook.com/BuckSexton/photos/a.176191582451702/2080842048653303/?type=3&source=48
    Musk on his whiskey and blunt. I
    http://scrappleface.com/blog/2018/09/07/musk-puffs-joint-to-demonstrate-trust-in-tesla-autopilot/
    Woodward, Anonymous, Spartacus, Di-Wi, Harris, and Obama. Man, whatever Musk had, they had double.
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KHIRCOPas-M

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  3. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Thank you 0 for opening this door, FF, IRS, wiretapping reporters and their families. Oh ya lets dump that bucket of slop ahead of the midterms. Hey ya po’ ol’ fakenewsman, what’s your current discount on popcorn?
    https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/09/07/washington-examiner-obama-prosecuted-staff-leakers-gave-lie-detector-tests-paranoid/
    FISA Warrant contents with attachments coming soon!
    😉

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  4. Tricky McClean Avatar
    Tricky McClean

    FISA warrants protect our country from terrorism.

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  5. ’’’M’’’ Avatar
    ’’’M’’’

    ,,,Don’t like the term ‘’’witch hunt’’’???
    Ok, how about the Great White House Purge???
    Lettter of Denial, Loyalty Oaths,,,Deep State,,,MS-13
    ‘’’Stalin often used terms such as “saboteurs”, “subversives”, “fifth column”, “enemy of the people”, “reactionary” and “counter-revolutionary”. All these words were enough to land a person in jail or get them killed. The terms practically meant one thing: a wolf in sheep clothing. Stalin initiated this large-scale paranoia in which everyone represented a potential suspect (except him, of course). First, they came for the old Bolsheviks. Then it was time for the government officials and military officers.
    Meanwhile, the NKVD had its eyes on the rich peasants, academics, artists, and scientists. The purge was also directed against national minorities, most often Poles who lived in USSR. Also, foreigners were often targeted, which included a number of Americans who came to the Soviet Union during the Great Depression to find work and many international communists.‘’’
    https://m.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/10-facts-stalins-great-purge.html

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  6. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Oh “M”. Stalin would have the suspect murdered which is something we don’t do here. So Trump wants people in his admin to be loyal. So what? Like your desire to ensure your Depends are delivered promptly. No big deal.

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  7. ’’’M’’’ Avatar
    ’’’M’’’

    ,,,Trumpski working on his optics in real time,,,
    ,,,which is worse,,,letting the guy stand there expressing his bewilderment at trumpski’s total BS rant,,, or the clumsy and obvious planting of a couple of Stepford Trumps to bookmark Dear Leader???
    https://twitter.com/actdottv/status/1038124553786908672?s=21

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  8. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Looks like the Judge kicked Mueller in the ass with a 14 day sentence for Papa. Special counsel for what? Embarrassment?

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  9. Walt Avatar

    Who paid for Nevada City idiots to go to D.C.?
    https://www.businessinsider.com/brett-kavanaugh-confirmation-hearing-photos-protesters-2018-9
    You can sure pick out a LIB out of a crowd at 50 paces.

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  10. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Is that Senum?

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  11. Walt Avatar

    Gotta love the Stanford Marching band. They have NEVER been “PC”
    https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/LSJUMB-Stanford-university-banned-marching-band-13210027.php#photo-16132252
    You just have to look through the pics. Priceless.
    Their poke at U. of Utah is too good. (One guy, five brides)

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  12. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    “Who paid for Nevada City idiots to go to D.C.?”
    Maybe a GoFund Me to get rid of them for awhile. It’s rather puzzling why they were squeeching in the first place since getting impregnated by someone of the opposite sex is rather unlikely to happened in their lifetimes. It takes two to tango, and I don’t see them finding willing dance partners.
    Everything went as planned. All the Dems vowed to oppose Kavanaugh since the second he was nominated on July 9. He sailed through the hearing as expected. A nothingburger. They never had a problem with the Judge sitting on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals for a decade….until one second after he was nominated in July 9. It wasn’t even personal. Anyone on the President’s list of 20-25 potential nominees would have faced the same gasp of drowning virgins.
    Did like Code Pink’s token male dressed for battle.

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  13. Walt Avatar

    So what Dougy? It’s not like he is a Kennedy and strapped her in a car, and drove off a bridge.

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  14. Paul Emery Avatar

    Todd
    Just like Merle Haggard George the Greek sang his way out of jail.

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  15. George Rebane Avatar

    It appears that, unsurprisingly, the Left still does not understand the difference between investigations motivated by baseless allegations and existential evidence.

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  16. Paul Emery Avatar

    George
    Just a reminder that the Mueller investigation was started by a Republican, Jay Rosenstein and Mueller himself is a Republican. Also the Benghazi investigation lasted over two years and came up pretty much empty handed. Mueller is following his own time table here and we won’t know much till he concludes his investigation and issues indictments if necessary.

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  17. Walt Avatar

    HEY PAUL!!! Your FIRED!!! You should have reported this by now.
    http://dailycaller.com/2018/09/08/michael-cohen-files-stormy-daniels/ 😒
    ““Today, Essential Consultants LLC and Michael Cohen have effectively put an end to the lawsuits filed against them by Stephanie Clifford aka Stormy Daniels,” said Cohen attorney Brent Blakely, CNN reported. “The rescission of the Confidential Settlement Agreement will result in Ms. Clifford returning to Essential Consultants the $130,000 she received in consideration, as required by California law.”
    When Daniels attorney Michael Avenatti was asked about the then-breaking report by CNN’s Chris Cuomo on Friday night he called the move a “Hail Mary,” but acknowledged that the chances are “100 percent” that Cohen would get his money back. ”
    I know there are a few suckers here who will max out their EBT card on the gofundme page for the skank.

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  18. Paul Emery Avatar

    So you admit are a reader of the Daily Star Walt. My goodness.

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  19. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Paul Emery, you have proof Papa sang? Please supply it.

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  20. ’’’M’’’ Avatar
    ’’’M’’’

    George at 957am,,, more apples to cannonballs comparisons,,,
    One is an anonymous letter,,,the other already resulted in multiple convictions,,,those go on your police record…
    And Mueller is still on the hunt!!!

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  21. George Rebane Avatar

    PaulE 1024am – Don’t know exactly what your point is; are you supporting baseless investigations, or investigations that go on with no visible progress and no claims of progress in the direction of their charter? Since there is no apparent focus in Mueller’s investigation, I do agree with those who characterize it as a witch hunt – see my definition (510pm) and also my remedy (link below) which would easily remove its being viewed as a witch hunt by people not suffering from TDS. (See M’s 1038am, he still doesn’t have a clue about the topic we’re focused on.)
    http://rebaneruminations.typepad.com/rebanes_ruminations/2018/08/muellers-witch-hunt-metric.html
    As I recently answered your unfounded charge of my being equally vague with our leftwing commenters in my prescriptions, here we again have two examples of specificity which fly in the face of such allegations. But I will reciprocate and claim that your contributions to the issues discussed almost always wallow in vacuity – questions are answered with questions or simply a change of subject.

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  22. Paul Emery Avatar

    Ask Mueller Todd.

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  23. Paul Emery Avatar

    George
    How do you know there is no progress in the Mueller investigation? It hasen’t finished yet.

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  24. George Rebane Avatar

    PaulE 1051am – Haven’t we circled this barn about a hundred times already? I have given you reasonable and detailed answers to this entire affair, and it has been water off a duck’s back. Were you to want to participate as a peer in this discussion, you would long ago have given your reasonable basis for, say, supporting a long duration, ongoing investigation, with no apparent end in sight, other than it will be finished once something culpable is found to flounder the Trump administration. But you do nothing of the sort, save repeat another question that leads to nowhere.
    BTW, the whole country, even the 3-digit types with TDS, know that there has been “no visible progress” in Mueller’s investigation.

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  25. Walt Avatar

    George.. Paul is showing the tell tale signs of Alzheimers.
    The SAME question, over, and over,and over, and,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
    No matter how many times you answer it.

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  26. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Paul Emery | 08 September 2018 at 10:43 AM
    Why would I ask him when you, a local yokel has stated Papa sang. It seems you have the links so produce them or shut your lying pie hole.

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  27. Paul Emery Avatar

    George
    What criteria is used in determining there is “no visible progress” in the Mueller investigation? As far as I know there is no requirement that Federal investigations make regular “progress” reports. Please inform me about what you know about this process.

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  28. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Concerning George the Geek.
    No reason not to believe that the Maltese Professor told George P that the Russians had dirt on Hillary. Comey said there was evidence of hostile actors in Hillary’s homebrew server.
    The problem here is folks conflate the two e-mail scandals. Hillary’s homebrew “government” server that the Chinese, Russians, kids, and others read in real time, and the DNC/Podesta e-mails.
    The Russian Collusion storyline does not include any investigations into Hillary’s e-mails. Some of the first breaches into Hillary’s hodgepodge home brewed server came in through Sidney Bloomenthals’s correspondence with his friend Hillary. Bloomenthal had a virus. Sydney, a Hillary surrogate was banned from employment in the Obama Administration by Obama himself after it came to light that he was the one who was spreading rumors of Obama being a foreign born. Further evidence has estimated that 29% of all our intel on Libya used by the government came in via the persona non grata Sydney B.
    When the Intelligence Community IG (ICIG) discovered the breach of security and the Chinese reading Secretary of State’s e-mails in real time, the ICIG raced over to the FBI and gave the emergency news to the FBI’s top counterespionage agent, on Peter Strzok. Peter sat on it so Hillary would not look bad with the election looming.
    https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/china-reportedly-hacked-clintons-state-department-emails-did-the-fbi-cover-that-up-too/
    Back to George P. 14 days. Don’t think he has a lot to say or knew much of anything. The Maltese Professor, judging by the time line and dates, was referring to hearing the “Russians had dirt on Hillary” was probably referring to the homebrew server where Hillary conducted all of her State Department business, including e-mails with Obama, who himself was using a pseudonym. Too funny when Huma read one and said, “OMG, this is from Obama. Why isn’t this classified?”, ROFLMAO. Obama said he first heard of the homebrew server only after reading about in the newspapers, another lol. There is no evidence that Hillary ever once used her government approved government secure State department server. But, that is not what Meuller is investigating, now, is it?
    Here is a pretty good wrap up of what the charges on George P and why a judge sentenced him to 14 days in “prison”.
    https://thefederalist.com/2018/08/20/papers-saying-papadopoulos-lied-fbi-fbi-shows-either-also-lying-incompetent/
    Again, the pressand mentally challenged conflates Wikileaks with the non authorized server Hillary used.

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  29. Walt Avatar

    Well Paul, for one, the leaks have run dry. For two years now is been ” Muller will indict Trump ANY day now!” All of Adam Schiff’s “overwhelming evidence” has been underwhelming. Anytime one of Muller’s minions speaks” ,,”Trump is not a target”
    Muller has had to settle for written answers.
    You can’t even find a match to light the kindling for the witch hunt.

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  30. Paul Emery Avatar

    Not two years Walt. The investigation started May 2017. Two years will be May 2019. Apparently you have math problems. The
    investigation was formed to investigate the Trump Campaign not Trump specifically. Here’s a text version to assist educational needs.
    Robert S. Mueller III is appointed t() serve as Specia] Counsel for the United States
    Department of Justice.
    (b)
    The Special Counsel is authorized to conduct the investigation confinned by then-FBI
    Director James 8. Corney in testimony before the House Permanent Select Committee on
    Intelligence on March 20, 2017, including:
    any links and/or coordination bet ween the Russian government and individuals
    (i)
    associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump; and
    (c)
    (ii)
    any matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation; and
    (iii)
    any other matters within the scope of 28 C.F.R. § 600.4(a).
    If the Special Counsel believes it is necessary and appropriate, the Special Counsel is
    authorized to prosecute federal crimes arising from the investigation of these matters.
    (d)
    Sections 600.4 through 600. l 0 of Title 28 of the Code of Federal Regulations are
    applicable to the Special Counsel.
    Date ‘

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  31. Walt Avatar

    Speaking of those Russian “indictments”,,, Concord management is causing Muller some grief. Muller is stalling.
    https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/04/mueller-russia-interference-election-case-delay-570627
    Why is he stalling? He pointed the finger.
    Then this gets filed,,,
    https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Concord-Discovery.pdf
    Concord wants the evidence! This is where things get turned over, or the charges dropped.
    When you charge, you better be ready to follow through.
    Muller and the goons didn’t count on anyone calling their bluff.

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  32. Walt Avatar

    Go pound sand Emery”cloth”,, You know damned well this was started before Trump even took office. This “investigation” was started election night. How soon you forget. “dementia”man.

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  33. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Next up, General Mike Flynn!
    Former FBI director, James Comey apparently “passed on false statements charges against Mike Flynn, because he didn’t think he was intentionally lying.”
    Somebody very close to Mike Flynn told Fox News he pled because he was emotionally broken, financially broken, and his family said enough,’ Which was exactly what Mr. Mueller was out to do. Destroy the man, and then have him dance on his finger. And now he has him tied around his finger, like the mob would do.”
    Mike Flynn had to sell his house and move in with relatives in Rhode Island. He is under a gag order so he can’t even defend himself against the likes of Punchy running around yelling “Liar, Liar, Liar! When Punchy does the same to Pasquale and her being charged for lying to the police, I might cut him some slack. I know Punchy would never ever interview a liar ln his newshour. Flynn is a Liar!
    “‘Mr. Mueller hasn’t brought a single charge related to collusion with the Russians… before the election, he hasn’t brought a single charge related to collusion with the Russians to influence the election,”
    Despite all the attention this investigation has been given in recent weeks, Levin says the one thing Mueller has been able to prove is that there is practically no case for collusion against anyone.
    Mueller tried it with the former campaign chairman for Trump, Paul Manafort, and failed and he’s trying to do it now with Flynn.
    “This special prosecutor isn’t so special,” . “And these hatchet men that he has hired, Obama and Clinton supporters, have brought not a single case related to collusion, not a single case related to any crimes related to collusion. Nothing, zero. Cases involving taxes, foreign reporting, lying — but nothing, zero [about collusion].”
    Levin finishes by stating that what the liberal media should be reporting about this investigation is that there isn’t a case for collusion anymore and everything Mueller has been doing is absolutely pathetic. —-9 months ago, nothing has changed.

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  34. Paul Emery Avatar

    Mueller started May 2017 Walt. The rest is you’re fantasy not real facts.

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  35. Walt Avatar

    Since when have you EVER tried to use “real facts”?
    Your dementia is showing extra well today. Run RUN from facts.
    Let me remind you AGAIN,, that this witch hunt is the “insurance policy” the FBI subversives were talking about.
    Next excuse?

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  36. Paul Emery Avatar

    Real fact Mueller started May 2017 Walt. Do you deny that?

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  37. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Looks like Paul Emery the liar can’t produce any proof that Papa sang. What a liar an sack of bovine excrement. Just like a fake mews man.

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  38. Paul Emery Avatar

    FBI subversives Walt? Who Walt and at what date were they charged and indicted for subversion?

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  39. Walt Avatar

    I stick to “real” time lines Paul, not manufactured ones like you use.
    You can’t produce anything of what you claim.

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  40. Walt Avatar

    Look up the meaning Paul. I tried to get you to find that days ago. You ran away. Yes Paul, SUBVERSION..
    Just like “anonymous”,, that also qualifies as subversion.
    Pay a lawyer to explain it to you.

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  41. Paul Emery Avatar

    Todd
    Amazing you are standing up and supporting a Greek after your siding with Biker Bill about sexual preferences .
    Walt
    Yes or no. FBI agents have been charged with Subversion by the Justice Department.

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  42. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Paul Emery provide your proof on Papa singing. You are such a friggin liar.

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  43. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    YES OR NO! YES OR NO! YES OR NO! Waaaaaaaa! 😉

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  44. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    BillT check out these comments by Keachie and some local troll calling himself Tony Loro. Go to the end of the thread. This is what the left does on all issues.
    https://www.theunion.com/opinion/columns/robin-diel-kavanaughs-confirmation-hearing/

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