Posted on 01/25/2018 12:35:46 AM PST by LouieFisk
ABC News has obtained a copy of the one message that Republicans appear to be citing, and it's unclear if the message's reference to a “secret society” may have been made in jest.
"Are you even going to give out your calendars? Seems kind of depressing. Maybe it should just be the first meeting of the secret society," FBI lawyer Lisa Page wrote to senior FBI agent Peter Strzok, who was working on the FBI’s probe of Russian meddling in the presidential election and would later join Page for a brief period on Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team.
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
FWIW, NYT has a story with the “context” of this text.
“Are you even going to give out your calendars? Seems kind of depressing. Maybe it should just be the first meeting of the secret society,”
The calendars supposedly refers to “Russia themed” calendars that had been bought to distribute to FBI agents and analysts working on the Russia investigation.
So with this “context”, the FBI group working on the Russia investigation turns into a secret society.
I don’t think that helps very much.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/24/us/politics/devin-nunes-fbi-russia.html
It’s a hint that could burn them.
Mocking is a blunt weapon that could turn back on the mockers.
Still it’s an occasion to scrutinize the scrutinizers. Let’s go the whole nine yards and insist on purifying the Bureau. Let’s not stop until the last dworn statement.
Sworn
And it seems to verge on unprofessional.
I think it was facetious.
Apparently, all of their texting was just in ‘jest’.... We were kidding the whole time. We don’t worship Hillary and hate Trump... Really... We were just joshing around.
I can hardly wait for these two ‘lovers’ to finally be brought before a congressional panel to testify.
“I can hardly wait for these two ‘lovers’ to finally be brought before a congressional panel to testify.”
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They should have been when the committee first heard of their exchanges.
But it will be popcorn time seeing who’s going to roll over on whom to save their own skin.
The missing 18 minutes of Nixon tape was just a humorous monologue!
Newt must be a lot older than he looks.
“The missing 18 minutes of Nixon tape was just a humorous monologue!”
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RMN wanted to spare America from a rundown of all the groaner one-liners he got from Henny Youngman!
“Take my Spiro, Please!”
"Hey, let's take a break from fighting commies and muslim evil-doers to make up a joke about a Secret Society."
"Oh yes, lets do it!
That way if any right-wing zealots ever subpoena our perfectly innocent messages it will drive them bonkers!""What a hoot!"
"Wouldn't the media, like ABC, have fun making the right-wingers look like crazy paranoids with this one!"
PLAN A - We are too smart to ever get caught.
PLAN B - Lie your donkey off.
“I never had seditious, traitorous relations with that woman, Miss Page.”
It doesn’t matter if it was a joke - it describes a real, actual conspiracy that did happen.
The thing that makes jokes funny is the presence of an element of truth, so whether it was a joke is completely irrelevant to the fact that it reveals they were aware they were part of a seditious cabal with a specific membership.
That reminded me - since Nixon also came up here - there was a skit on SNL, 2nd season, where Nixon (Dan Akroyd) tried to explain the incriminating tapes were actually just a joke:
Snippet from SNL transcript:
Richard Nixon: That’s right, uh.. uh, yeah, yeah.. [ chuckles ] You see.. my administration.. had the greatest sense of humor that this country has ever seen. You see.. most of the time, we were.. making “party” tapes. Me, and Haldeman, and Ehrlichman, and Dean could joke for weeks on end. We actually.. played to the microphone..
[ slow dissolve to a flashback scene of Nixon’s March 21st meeting with John Dean in the Oval Office ]
Richard Nixon V/O: ..We’d do anything to crack each other up! And I remember, that day, Dean was on a roll, so I just followed his lead, and.. “played along” with the “joke”..
John Dean: [ standing over Nixon’s desk; a microphone is unseen underneath a small lamp on the desk ] ..Plus.. there’s a real problem.. in raising money.
[ Dean holds up handwritten sign: “Let’s Pretend There’s A Cover Up”; Nixon laughs, removes lampshade to reveal hidden microphone ]
John Dean: Uh.. Mitchell.. Mitchell has been working on raising some money.. feeling he’s got, you know.. he’s one of the ones with the most.. to lose
President Richard Nixon: [ covers microphone with hand, tries not to laugh ] Martha!
“Methinks, thou dost protest too much.”
I hope these traitors wake up every morning vomiting blood from the incredibly painful ulcers they are suffering.
They thought the baton would be easily passed to Cruella DeHill and their crimes would be swept under the Persian rug.....
Calendars for what? The coup attempt? To be distributed to the fellow plotters?
Perhaps it was depressing because it had a long lead time, and she wanted something sooner.
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