Tag: Russiagate

Five takeaways from final Senate Intel Russia report

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Five takeaways from final Senate Intel Russia report

Trump campaign, Russia had extensive contacts

Key individual labeled as Russian intelligence officer

Manafort, Kushner, Trump Jr. come under scrutiny

FBI comes under criticism

Both parties agree threat from Russia persists

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Why Would Paul Manafort Share Polling Data with Russia?

Donald Trump and Russia: a web that grows more tangled all the time

Evil, horrible Kremlin! /sarcasm

Senate Intel Committee Wants Justice Department to Investigate Steve Bannon

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Senate Intel Committee Wants Justice Department to Investigate Steve Bannon

The Senate Intelligence Committee sent a bipartisan letter to the Justice Department on July 19, 2019, seeking an investigation into former Trump ally Steve Bannon, according to the Los Angeles Times. The letter, which has not been made public but was viewed by the LA Times, was signed by the chairman at the time, Sen. Richard M. Burr (R-NC), as well as Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), and outlined accusations against Bannon of lying to lawmakers when he testified about Russian interference in the 2016 election.

LA Times article

According to the letter, the committee believed Bannon may have lied about his interactions with Erik Prince, a private security contractor; Rick Gerson, a hedge fund manager; and Kirill Dmitriev, the head of a Russian sovereign fund.

The Spies Who Hijacked America

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

The Spies Who Hijacked America

At first, I was drawn to and respected him for his bold books opposing brain-dead Republican orthodoxies on the Iraq War and China policy. It seemed his real-world government experience eerily mirrored my own. I had yet to discover his checkered past, including: his reported role in organizing ex-CIA operatives to steal Jimmy Carter’s 1980 debate materials; 1990’s crack cocaine arrest; and FBI firing in 2011 for “mercurial” behavior, demanding more “compensation” and “questionable allegiance to [intelligence] targets.”

Related:

FBI’s Steele story falls apart: False intel and media contacts were flagged before FISA

Russiagate, Nazis, and the CIA

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Russiagate, Nazis, and the CIA

The first Cold War was an imperial business enterprise to keep the Generals, bureaucrats, and war materiel suppliers in power and their bank accounts flush after WWII. Likewise, the American side of the nuclear arms race left former Gestapo and SS officers employed by the CIA to put their paranoid fantasies forward as assessments of Russian military capabilities. Why, of all people, would former Nazi officers be put in charge military intelligence if accurate assessments were the goal? The Nazis hated the Soviets more than the Americans did.