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U.S. intelligence officials now believe with "a high level of confidence" that Russian President Vladimir Putin became personally involved in the covert Russian campaign to interfere in the U.S. presidential election, senior U.S. intelligence officials told NBC News.

Two senior officials with direct access to the information say new intelligence shows that Putin personally directed how hacked material from Democrats was leaked and otherwise used. The intelligence came from diplomatic sources and spies working for U.S. allies, the officials said.

Putin's objectives were multifaceted, a high-level intelligence source told NBC News. What began as a "vendetta" against Hillary Clinton morphed into an effort to show corruption in American politics and to "split off key American allies by creating the image that [other countries] couldn't depend on the U.S. to be a credible global leader anymore," the official said.

Now the U.S has solid information tying Putin to the operation, the intelligence officials say. Their use of the term "high confidence" implies that the intelligence is nearly incontrovertible.

"It is most certainly consistent with the Putin that I have watched and used to work with when I was an ambassador and in the government," said Michael McFaul, who was ambassador to Russia from 2012 to 2014.

"He has had a vendetta against Hillary Clinton, that has been known for a long time because of what she said about his elections back in the parliamentary elections of 2011. He wants to discredit American democracy and make us weaker in terms of leading the liberal democratic order. And most certainly he likes President-elect Trump's views on Russia," McFaul added. Clinton cast doubt on the integrity of Russia's elections.

I'm with you on this one for sure. It's ridiculous to ban someone for using the term cheese eater, and if one insult deserves a ban, than so does another.

Hypocrisy IS the current liberal mentality. Freedom of speech for Black Lives Matter, but not for the confederate flag. Freedom of religion for Muslims wearing a Turban, but the Christian cross is not protected. Trump is a liar, but Hillary's lies are OK.

The country is waking up though. Thumbs down this or not, this post isn't called "monitoring Hillary and relevant contemporary events" for a reason. While the site doesn't agree with you, America does.

Trump proved throughout his campaign and in the month since he won that he would not only lie repeatedly, but that he could get away with it. As Glenn Kessler, who writes the Fact Checker column for The Washington Post, pointed out on Nov. 4:

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Donald Trump has amassed such a collection of Four-Pinocchio ratings — 59 in all — that by himself he’s earned as many in this campaign as all other Republicans (or Democrats) combined in the past three years.

Trump’s 59 totally false “whoppers,” in the Kessler rating system, compare to seven awarded to Hillary Clinton.

Trump’s success in winning the presidency despite a modern day record of lying suggests that for the moment he has been empowered by a large segment of the electorate to redefine the past, present and future to suit his agenda. He has been unconstrained by facts.

We don’t yet know if Trump will take full advantage of this free pass or how much leeway Congress, the courts and the public will grant him. But once established, this command over reality has an appeal that is difficult, if not impossible, to let go. Trump has shown no signs of doing so. Indeed, he brings to mind George Orwell’s observation that totalitarianism demands

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the continuous alteration of the past, and in the long run probably demands a disbelief in the very existence of objective truth.

Is there any legal way to stop this Russian stooge from being in office?

tony5732 wrote:

It's ridiculous to ban someone for using the term cheese eater

did that happen? did someone get a note from a moderator about it?

In my first encounters with layman his posts seemed like disruption for the sake of disruption. If he showed a different side he brought it forth after I ignored him.

I see nothing but sunny skies ahead. If Trump follows his agenda, the US will be back on top of the world again and it will be a great place to be.

But that's where propaganda comes in..... They'll laud the miraculous healing powers of privatization.

If (and it's still an "if") layman was banned for use of the phrase "cheese-
eater", then it was surely overkill.

tony5732 wrote:

I'm with you on this one for sure. It's ridiculous to ban someone for using the term cheese eater, and if one insult deserves a ban, than so does another.

Hypocrisy IS the current liberal mentality. Freedom of speech for Black Lives Matter, but not for the confederate flag. Freedom of religion for Muslims wearing a Turban, but the Christian cross is not protected. Trump is a liar, but Hillary's lies are OK.

The country is waking up though. Thumbs down this or not, this post isn't called "monitoring Hillary and relevant contemporary events" for a reason. While the site doesn't agree with you, America does.

The above post again depicts the faux banner of victimhood so often waved by the true victimizers. The faux banner waver almost always follows up with veiled threats of violent retribution. If it hasn't happened already, I suspect someone who identifies himself as a right wing conservative will announce, "We have all the guns."

That's the funny part... it's already privatized.

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If (and it's still an "if") layman was banned for use of the phrase "cheese-
eater", then it was surely overkill.

The chances that anyone was banned for use of "cheese eater" (or "oxygen breather" or "bicycle owner") is zero. There's no violation of site rules in that phrase.

So, who originally pushed this idea? I've got too many of the likely culprits on ignore but it ought to be easy enough for other to find the first instance of that idea voiced here. That would be interesting information.

. . . We do have all the guns . . .