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How Did Russiagate Start?
rollingstone.com ^ | 15 May 2017 | Matt Taibbi

Posted on 05/19/2017 11:05:30 PM PDT by Helicondelta

What exactly is the FBI investigating? Why was it kept secret from other intelligence chiefs, if that's what happened? That matters, if we're trying to gauge what happened last week.

Is it a FARA (Foreign Agent Registration Act) case involving former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn or a lower-level knucklehead like Carter Page?

Since FARA is violated more or less daily in Washington and largely ignored by authorities unless it involves someone without political connections (an awful lot of important people in Washington who appear to be making fortunes lobbying for foreign countries are merely engaged in "litigation support," if you ask them), it would be somewhat anticlimactic to find out that this was the alleged crime underlying our current white-hot constitutional crisis.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: coup; fara; russia; trumprussia
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1 posted on 05/19/2017 11:05:30 PM PDT by Helicondelta
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To: Helicondelta

It appears Taibbi and Dershowitz are trying to save the Democrats from embarrassing themselves.


2 posted on 05/19/2017 11:08:44 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: Helicondelta

In the words of Dr. Henry Lee in the OJ case: “Sumting wong”


3 posted on 05/19/2017 11:16:03 PM PDT by Az Joe (Gloria in excelsis Deo)
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Russiagate started as a ruse to get people's minds off Pedogate.

That's when "fake news" was invented. The lamestreamers are running with it as if their entire existence depends on it.

Throw in a made-up Putin conspiracy and you got yourself a winner.

The problem is most of us are finding it difficult to watch the nightly news, the late night comics and SNL, so we have stopped watching.

They are all acting like as if they just pound at it every chance they get then they will win.

They are all full of crap.

4 posted on 05/19/2017 11:21:14 PM PDT by Slyfox (Where's Reagan when we need him? Look in the mirror - the spirit of The Gipper lives within you.)
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To: Helicondelta

The same guy who wrote that vile screed upon Ailes’ death?


5 posted on 05/19/2017 11:25:36 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Slyfox

I think it was more like a diversion from Seth Rich and Wikileaks. The “meddling” they are howling about came from Wikileaks, not Russia


6 posted on 05/19/2017 11:26:22 PM PDT by KTM rider
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To: Helicondelta

How? Hillary lost.


7 posted on 05/19/2017 11:32:02 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Flinging poo is not a valid argument)
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To: Helicondelta

I think it started in the fevered imagination of Russia hating Ukrainian activist and Clinton associate Alexandra Chalupa.


8 posted on 05/19/2017 11:32:48 PM PDT by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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From what I can gather, the Hillary Campaign came up with the
Russia story ( from the hillary campaign book, I don't recall the title) the day after the defeat to delegitimize the Trump win with the story “the Russians stole the election” So far it seems that DNC IT staffer Seth Rich forwarded over 44,000 e-mails with about 17,000 attachments to wickileaks. Seth was shot in the back and killed just after he released the e-mails, but before wickileaks posted them. The democRATs are trying to blame the e-mail relaee on Trump collaboration with Russia. It seems it was DNC saffer Seath Rich who was a Bernie supporter and was upset that the DNC sabotaged Bernie so he released the DNC e-mails that showed what they did..
9 posted on 05/19/2017 11:41:24 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: KTM rider
Just before and after the election Pedogate was exploding. Seth Rich was killed in December over a month after the election.

RussiaGate is the fire they set to keep our minds off the real crimes, hoping that whatever they concoct will make Trump look bad by comparison.

By the way, when is Susan Rice going to be held to account for her felonies?

10 posted on 05/19/2017 11:48:35 PM PDT by Slyfox (Where's Reagan when we need him? Look in the mirror - the spirit of The Gipper lives within you.)
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When Wikileaks poured out volumes of evidence that the Democrat Party was a vile mob of hypocrites and thugs, the DemonRATs needed a counter offensive. The way to do that is to attack the messenger. They used the Alinsky Method to destroy the messenger by making America think they were Russians. The cornerstone of this strategy is you cannot prove a negative which is an event that has an absence of evidence that it happened. If someone were to assert that there is a ghost in their closet, then my failure to observe the ghost in the closet would not constitute good evidence that there is no ghost in the closet. That’s the ticket!


11 posted on 05/19/2017 11:49:06 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental illness: A totalitarian psyche.)
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Fake news hit on you. Seth Rich was killed just after 4 am on July 10.


12 posted on 05/20/2017 1:54:36 AM PDT by mazda77
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To: Helicondelta

I believe the Russia Gate started with a Trump comment during the primaries. When it was discovered that Hillery’s emails were deleted, Trump said to get them from the Russians. Simple as that. The Rats grabbed on to that and ran with it.


13 posted on 05/20/2017 2:12:00 AM PDT by duckman ( Not tired of winning!)
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It started the instant she lost in correspondence between Mook and Podesta


14 posted on 05/20/2017 2:28:24 AM PDT by wardaddy (Multiculturalism: Everyone wants to inhabit the world of white men with no white men in it)
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To: Helicondelta

This is an easy one to argue with leftists: Just tell them it’s been seven months of this nonsense since he election and we still haven’t heard anybody articulate a specific crime.


15 posted on 05/20/2017 2:53:51 AM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: Helicondelta

What makes this so sickening to your stomach is bill hillary and podesta have done more damage and confiscated billions at America’s expense but Trump is on trial


16 posted on 05/20/2017 3:13:35 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (Trump plays chess the rest are still playing checkers)
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Russian lie started to provide cover for the illegal spying on Trump during the election.


17 posted on 05/20/2017 3:29:56 AM PDT by DocRock (And now is the time to fight! Peter Muhlenberg)
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To: duckman

“I believe the Russia Gate started with a Trump comment during the primaries. When it was discovered that Hillery’s emails were deleted, Trump said to get them from the Russians. Simple as that. The Rats grabbed on to that and ran with it.”

Exactly correct. Trump made a joke and it gave them license.


18 posted on 05/20/2017 3:37:15 AM PDT by JohnnyP (Thinking is hard work (I stole that from Rush).)
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To: Olog-hai

He gets one right every now and then
Some years back Tabibi wrote a good expose of Andrew Cuomos corrupt malfeasance at HUD


19 posted on 05/20/2017 3:47:13 AM PDT by silverleaf (We voted for change, not leftover change)
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related:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3553548/posts?page=51#51


20 posted on 05/20/2017 3:49:13 AM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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