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As sure as I am that they would love to see it revealed that Trump was and still is an agent of the Russian government. . . .

So, to be clear, you're a member of the Religious Right, then.

InfraBlue wrote:

So, to be clear, you're a member of the Religious Right, then.

No. Is this another example of your Vulcan like logic at work?

Finn dAbuzz wrote:

InfraBlue wrote:

So, to be clear, you're a member of the Religious Right, then.

No. Is this another example of your Vulcan like logic at work?

Yes, sir.

Where does that put you and your black and white Manacheanism seeing as how you're neither Secular Leftist nor Religious Right, then?

More Obama officials scrutinized in 'unmasking' probe

The number of people thought to be involved in the alleged “unmasking” of American citizens under the Obama administration could be expanding, according to a source close to the House Intelligence Committee’s review

The source with knowledge of the review told Fox News the records suggest the unmasking “goes beyond” key officials like former National Security Adviser Susan Rice, former CIA Director John Brennan and former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power.

The source said more than a half-dozen former senior Obama administration officials are now of interest to House committee investigators.

Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., issued subpoenas in May to the CIA, FBI and NSA for records about the identification of American citizens in intelligence reports, also known as “unmasking.”

The source said House investigators are only at the beginning of their assessment and described the paper trail as containing “a significant number of records.”

Rice in March had told PBS she “knew nothing” about Trump associate unmasking.

These are the words that will resonate for quite a while, typed just 17 minutes after Don Jr. was told the Clinton dirt was coming from the Kremlin: “If it’s what you say I love it.” If you’d been tasked with inventing an email chain proving an intent to “collude” with a hostile foreign government, could you have come up with something as water-tight as Don Jr.’s? I don’t mean actual collusion; I mean intent.

This is not about being dumb. It’s not about being ruthless. It’s not about oppo research. It’s not even about dirty tricks. This is about a very basic level of patriotism. It’s about a deep question of how you were brought up and what your values are. And Trump values are foul. Yesterday, as if to prove the point, the paterfamilias revealed his own view of a case in which a foreign despot offered his campaign dirt on his opponent: “If you got a call and said, ‘Listen I have information on Hillary and the DNC,’ or whatever it was they said, most people are going to take that meeting, I think.” Even when it’s coming from a foreign enemy. And so we learn one more time: If it ever comes to a choice between Trump and America, Trump will pick Trump.

There is a reason the Founders made the presidency — alone of all the offices of state — reserved for a natural-born American. There’s a reason every new citizen must swear this oath: “I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen.” The Founders were deeply worried that the republic could be corrupted by foreign influence, money, or power. No office was more critical in this than that of commander-in-chief. And it was in part for this exact contingency that impeachment was included in the Constitution. As ultra-right Republican Andy McCarthy just wrote in National Review:

Either way, there would have been absolutely nothing wrong with Trump acquiring the info.

I got news for you Lieboy: you did doctor this quote. You'd have to have some sort of moral sense in order to realize that, though. I bet you think you "edited" or "summarized" it but in actual fact you tried to mislead us.

Nice try, bouffeur de merde.

I've already talked at some length about what cheese-eaters intended by the word "collusion," i.e. criminal, corrupt, treasonous subversion. Such "collusion" by Trump or his campaign has never been shown.

President-elect Donald Trump raised eyebrows late last year when he named the head of an obscure right-wing think tank, with close ties to petrochemical billionaires Charles and David Koch, to lead his energy transition team. Since then, officials from the Institute for Energy Research (IER) have been appointed to high-level positions at the Department of Energy where they are playing major roles in implementing pro-fossil fuel, anti-renewable energy policies.

Thomas Pyle, who serves as president of IER and its advocacy arm, the American Energy Alliance (AEA), set the tone by drafting a priority list for the new administration; at the top of the list was withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement.