Smart people smell a butthurt Barack Obama trying to pull a coup, which he began while he was president via abuse of power.
Mark Levin may be on to something.
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Maybe he's taking a page from the Obama birth certificate playbook?
Well, it would be a savage burn. So do it.
Problem is e1 that's obviously lied about it. Not to mention the timing of the meetings with the hacks and releases. The accumulation of evidence is getting curiouser and curiouser. Frank's spin aside, its not like Obama to go out if his way to leave a crumb trail.
The intel community has been losing it over Biff. Just release them. Hell we already know he hasn't paid income tax.
1. If not for the emails being hacked and disclosed, probably very little light is shined on hacking. I don't really understand what relevance that has because that is true for just about anything. No light was shined on Korean hacking....until they hacked Sony. Little light has been shined on Chinese hacking. Little light is shined on particular crime until a high profile crime is committed.
2. I've never alleged the election was hacked. In fact in the post you are responding to, I specifically said I don't believe the Russians were necessarily trying to pick a winner....they were looking to destabilize and engender distrust in the entire process.
3. It's also a smart move to remove himself from the responsibility as investigator if he has some inkling that there may be something there in the Trump administration. Believe me, I know after the past couple of weeks from personal experience, it sure ain't fun for job security to be investigating your own boss. For the record, mine wasn't doing anything wrong and all is well....just wanted to get that out there. I'd say this is a wash and not a strong indication one way or the other.
4. Okay. If you say so. That is certainly one narrative, but does Trump really strike you as someone to throw out his NSC Director as a sacrificial lamb? We've heard how smart and savvy Trump supposedly is, but now this was just a stupid rookie mistake by the Prez? I don't buy that. Flynn did SOMETHING wrong....something wrong enough to get fired. If that is JUST lying to Pence? Dunno, could be.
Another possibility that hasn't been discussed is that there is a power struggle going on between Bannon and his crew and others like Mattis over Bannon being appointed to the advisory council and Mattis having a hard time getting his choices for UnderSecretaries being approved by Trump and Trump naming/nominating Mad Dog's Deputy without getting his approval first. I have said previously that I am not convinced that ALL the leaks are coming from "deep state" operatives or the intelligence community. I believe there is a decent likelihood they are coming from "within the house" people as a result of a Priebus/Bannon competition to own Trump's ear or a developing battle surround defense and national security.
Just another narrative to consider.
That simply isn't true, there has been no delaying on the part of the Democrats, the primary cause of the delay is because that Trump HAS NOT NOMINATED People to those posts!
From announcement to confirmation hearing has, on the average, happened at a pace of 15 days, which is about double that of Obama and Bush. But we're still talking about two weeks, not two months. Considering the difficult time the Ethics Commission has had collecting the nominees paper work, vet it and return their report to the Senate, this is right on pace with past presidents. (Trumps nominees have been very slow to provide the necessary paperwork and documentation, that element of the delay is 100% on them.)
But here's the problem for Trump (and you sure as hell can't blame this on anyone but the administration), at this point they have only named candidates for 34 out of the 1,212 positions, which require Senate confirmation! Out of the roughly 4,000 positions he can fill without Senate approval, he's also way behind compared to past Administrations.
We're almost 4 months away from when he won the election and it appears little was done, or they've had problems finding candidate, to fill those positions. Can't pass the buck on this one, Trump has the ball in his court, Senate can't confirm anyone if there's no one presented to them to confirm.
I would add this to the mix, something I know about 1st hand to a large degree. No one within the Administration can give a straight answer to the question: "Who is the Director, or Acting Director of the United States Patent & Trademark Office?" There's been numerous articles the last few weeks in various IP publications, blogs, etc. about how no can get an answer. This includes a fairly prominent IP attorney who lodged a FOIA request asking them to identify the Director, and the response came back that they could not identify the person at this time. This could become an impediment as per the Patent Statute, in order for a patent to be valid it must be signed (or ordered signed) by the Director or Acting Director. So the question has been, since the Patents are still bearing the name of the former Director, are they actually valid? (The Director doesn't have to sign them directly, but must "order" that they be signed in his/her name.) The guy filed the FOIA request well over a month ago and has received inconsistent answers from all involved with no one being able to give him a definitive answer to a very simple question.
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