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British courts may unlock secrets of how Trump campaign profiled US voters

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A US professor is trying to reclaim his personal data from the controversial analytics firm that helped Donald Trump to power. In what legal experts say may be a “watershed” case, a US citizen is using British laws to try to discover how he was profiled and potentially targeted by the Trump campaign.

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@Walter Hinteler,

LOL, sounds like they're still trying to figure out how HRC lost, rather than how he won.

Trump is there to tell everyone that the entire political process is corrupted to the core, and needs the boot.

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@Blickers,

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Trump IS part of the investigation. Mueller has been investigating Trump for months for obstruction of justice in firing Comey.

Any new Mayor in any city can fire the Police Chief and point another one.

Any new presidential administration can fire the head of the FBI and point another one.

This is a position given by pointing the finger, and president Trump can fire and hire by pointing his finger at the person he thinks will perform better in his administration.

You are talking peanuts.

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@Walter Hinteler,

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A US professor is trying to reclaim his personal data from the controversial analytics firm that helped Donald Trump to power. In what legal experts say may be a “watershed” case, a US citizen is using British laws to try to discover how he was profiled and potentially targeted by the Trump campaign.

Whatever they might find, it won't affect at all that the president elected is Donald Trump.

This is to say, any individual of candidate Trump's campaign who committed something illegal will pay the broken dishes, president Trump stays in power.

And better if the same president Trump tweeters that such person must pay for his wrongdoing. Lol.

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@Blickers,

Blickers wrote:

Trump IS part of the investigation. Mueller has been investigating Trump for months for obstruction of justice in firing Comey.

Whether or not Mueller is investigating Trump now has zero to do with the question of whether or not it was obstruction of justice to fire Comey back before Mueller was conducting any investigation.

I suspect that Mueller understands that it is not obstruction of justice for the officer in charge of an investigation to elect not to pursue that investigation.

If Mueller doesn't understand this, he'll be in for a rude awakening when he tries to present his charges.

Blickers wrote:

It is if he's a target of the investigation. And Trump is.

That is incorrect. No part of the obstruction statute (or any other statute) prohibits the person in charge of an investigation from deciding not to pursue the investigation.

If such a statute did exist, it would be unconstitutional, as the President's power of command over the federal executive branch comes directly from the Constititon.

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@snood,

Ever since I've been here Finn has been threatening to leave. He's like Moe threatening to commit suicide all the time.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/ba116d2a0ad2b8a1efb404bb62083545/tumblr_mx0swvT3LB1somw7ho1_1280.png

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@wmwcjr,

Someone else's creativity there. It certainly does work as contrast, doesn't it.

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@oralloy,

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An undeserved tax audit is a harm in itself.

If a taxpayer knowingly refuses to comply with the tax code the audit is deserved.

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Many of those conservative groups were fined and/or had to pay back money that was lawfully theirs, and that financial setback sometimes led to even further financial losses and missed opportunities.

The money wasn't "lawfully theirs" if they broke the law to obtain it.

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That was a considerable harm.

So you don't believe that lawbreaking citizens and organizations should be punished? I know you feel this way about cops who kill unarmed, fleeing suspects and politically conservative groups who lie about their tax status — what other crimes do you believe should go unpunished?

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The US is in "direct contact" with North Korea, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has said.
Mr Tillerson said Washington was "probing" the possibility of talks with Pyongyang, "so stay tuned".
"We have lines of communications to Pyongyang," he said during a trip to China. "We're not in a dark situation."
North Korea and the US have engaged in heated rhetoric in recent months but it was not previously known they had lines of communication.
The US state department later confirmed there were a number of communication channels open with Pyongyang, but said little progress was being made.
"Despite assurances that the United States is not interested in promoting the collapse of the current regime (...) North Korean officials have shown no indication that they are interested in or are ready for talks regarding denuclearisation," department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said in a statement.
The US wants North Korea to halt its weapons programme, which has seen it perform repeated missile tests and, on 3 September, the test of a miniaturised hydrogen bomb which could be loaded on to a long-range missile, which Pyongyang said was successful.
But attempts at dialogue seem to be at odds with President Donald Trump's own attitude to the issue. Just last month, he said "talking is not the answer".
Mr Trump has previously threatened to annihilate North Korea, saying the country's leader, Kim Jong-un, "is on a suicide mission". Mr Kim then vowed to "tame the mentally deranged US dotard with fire".
North Korea continued the rhetoric on Saturday, releasing a statement calling Mr Trump an "old psychopath" bent on the "suicidal act of inviting a nuclear disaster that will reduce America to a sea of flames".
The UN has brought in sanctions against North Korea in an attempt to force the secretive state to stop its weapons programme.
The US sees China - North Korea's biggest trading partner - as key to ensuring the sanctions are effective.
China this week told North Korean businesses operating in its territory to close down. However, China remains keen to see negotiations with North Korea.
Mr Tillerson revealed the communications channels following a meeting in Beijing with President Xi Jinping and other officials.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-41454007

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The idiocy here is breathtaking. The Republicans control the Congress, yet one fool here is saying that the Democrats are conducting a witch hunt. Robert Mueller is is a life-long Republican, who served as FBI director in the second Bush administration, and the first four years of the Obasma administration, which shows that Obama had the sense to retain an effective manager at the FBI. He served as Assistant Attorney General in the first Bush administration, after serving as a United States Attorney during the Reagan administration. Why is a Republican heading this investigation? Because the investigation was ordered by the Republican Congress.

So much for Oralloy and his alleged facts.

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@oralloy,

They are requesting the right not to be harassed and/or murdered with impunity.

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@Blickers,

Blickers wrote:

Are we talking about the same thing? I thought you meant the IRS matter where 501C groups were getting tax exempt status because they claim they are "social welfare" organizations, even though they clearly were political organizations.

The fact that they disagree with Democratic extremism does not prevent them from being a social welfare organization.

Blickers wrote:

Some Democratic organization claimed that tax status and had it granted, even though it was unlikely a true "social welfare" organization. When the tea party conservatives found out about this one organization, hundreds of them claimed to be "social welfare" organizations . The applications went from one to over 100. That's when the IRS decided to actually check if the organization was a "social welfare" organization.

This was not a routine check of credentials. The IRS was deliberately targeting conservative groups with abusive audits.

Blickers wrote:

At the end, the IRS just went against their own rules and granted these right wing political organizations the tax exempt status they did not actually qualify for.

The groups do qualify for tax exempt status. IRS rules require such status to be granted. The only time the IRS violated the rules was when the Obama Administration had them wrongly target conservative groups for harassment.

Blickers wrote:

And after the Tea Parties got their tax exempt status that they did not deserve, they keep kvetching for months about it.

They do deserve tax exempt status. And they have every right to complain about the abusive treatment the Obama Administration subjected them to.

Blickers wrote:

Sob!-they had to wait a few weeks for it, instead of getting their undeserved tax exempt status right away. Oh, the outrage.

It is very outrageous for Democrats to abuse the law to persecute those who disagree with them. The Democratic Party should be outlawed in order to put a stop to their abuses.

It is especially outrageous when organizations came to financial harm because of Democratic abuses.

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@hightor,

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If a taxpayer knowingly refuses to comply with the tax code the audit is deserved.

This isn't about people refusing to comply with the tax code. This is about the Obama Administration deliberately harming people who haven't broken the law, but merely disagree with Obama's politics.

hightor wrote:

The money wasn't "lawfully theirs" if they broke the law to obtain it.

The people who were targeted by the Obama Administration did not break the law in any way.

hightor wrote:

So you don't believe that lawbreaking citizens and organizations should be punished?

This isn't about lawbreaking citizens and organizations. Democrats target innocent people who merely disagree with them.

hightor wrote:

I know you feel this way about cops who kill unarmed, fleeing suspects

People who are in the process of murdering a police officer are not in any way "fleeing".

hightor wrote:

and politically conservative groups who lie about their tax status

These groups are not lying about anything.

hightor wrote:

what other crimes do you believe should go unpunished?

I am not advocating that any crimes go unpunished. That is why we need to have a special prosecutor investigate the former Obama Administration.

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@Setanta,

Setanta wrote:

The idiocy here is breathtaking. The Republicans control the Congress, yet one fool here is saying that the Democrats are conducting a witch hunt.

Liberals sure don't like it when people post facts.

Setanta wrote:

Robert Mueller is is a life-long Republican, who served as FBI director in the second Bush administration, and the first four years of the Obasma administration, which shows that Obama had the sense to retain an effective manager at the FBI. He served as Assistant Attorney General in the first Bush administration, after serving as a United States Attorney during the Reagan administration.

This doesn't absolve him of condemnation for heading up the Democrats' witch hunt.

Setanta wrote:

Why is a Republican heading this investigation? Because the investigation was ordered by the Republican Congress.

Congress ordered the special prosecutor? Are facts like kryptonite to liberals?

Setanta wrote:

So much for Oralloy and his alleged facts.

Your inability to show a single fact that I am wrong about, continues.

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@Lash,

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They are requesting the right not to be harassed and/or murdered with impunity.

That is incorrect. What they are requesting is that if police officers dare to defend themselves when a black person tries to murder them, those police officers be harshly punished for defending themselves.

The only people who are murdering black people with impunity, are other black people. Oddly enough, BLM don't care much about that.

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I've just shown one of the many alleged facts about which you are wrong by pointing out that there is not, and cannot be a Democratic "witch hunt" when a Republican Congress appoints a Republican Special Counsel to investigate President Plump's campaign. Your desire to cling to your delusions does not make your delusions fact. I've shown many of your so-called "facts" to be false in the past. I have no burden to remove your delusions.

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Yes, Congressional pressure lead to the appointment of the Special Counsel by Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein, after Sessions recused himself. You really should visit reality more often--it's a cinch that Plump didn't order the Justice Department to appoint a Special Counsel.

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layman wrote:

There are plenty of reasonable sites on the internet where rational discussion is encouraged (and allowed).

Yeah there are, like this site for example.

YOU however have never been a rational poster. That may be the problem.

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@Finn dAbuzz,

Finn dAbuzz wrote:

You should know about what lubricates an asshole. Me, I've no use for the sphincter except as a means of delivery.

You just attempted to insult him by suggesting that he's gay?

People still do that? In 2017? I'm pretty sure that I stopped doing that in grade school almost 25 years ago.

I guess I thought more of you Finn. Maybe I'm wrong.

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@maporsche,

maporsche wrote:

I guess I thought more of you Finn. Maybe I'm wrong.

Yup

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