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Kentucky Senator Rand Paul said Wednesday that those responsible for leaking intelligence pertaining to Donald Trump, whether fake or not, should be prosecuted and jailed. “What I would say is that if there is private information that someone is blackmailing a public figure and the public figure or someone takes it to the intelligence agencies, you would think it would be private. And really, this is so important that I think whoever leaked it should be prosecuted.” Paul told Fox News’ Neil Cavuto. “Someone should go to jail. If this was an intelligence agency head talked to the media, they should go to jail. If it was the Obama administration, they should go to jail.” Paul urged. “The reason is you don’t want your public figures succumbing to blackmail.” Paul continued. “Now he’s saying the information is false and I have to rely on his word on that. But let’s say any public official is being blackmailed. What are you supposed to do? You’re supposed to go to the FBI and give them the information.” The Senator further noted. “But if you can’t trust the FBI to keep it secret and the FBI is going to tell the press what someone is blackmailing you about, what will happen is it will lead to where more public figures will be likely to be extorted or to be blackmailed.” Paul lamented. Reports suggest that individuals named within the fake dossier could take legal action against Buzzfeed, for proliferating the salacious material. The source of the fake narrative that Russia has video of Trump engaging in sexual acts with prostitutes seems to be an ex MI6 agent who worked in Moscow for 20 years. Reports suggest that Christopher Steele was employed by enemies of Trump to dig for ‘dirt’ in Russia. Steele has fled and is in hiding, fearing for his life. Other reports have suggested that the material was spread by users of the message board 4chan, and then picked up by anti-Trump Republican strategist Rick Wilson, who then sent it to the CIA. WikiLeaks noted that the report published by BuzzFeed is “not an intelligence report” and has no consistency with real intelligence material.

... lolol

President Elect, The Mechanic wrote on Jan 13^th, 2017 at 4:19pm:

“Someone should go to jail.

Agreed.

Sexual predators who pay no tax, and allegedly rape children, would be a good start.

Leakers? Do you mean the ladies who gave Trump the golden showers?

greggerypeccary wrote on Jan 13^th, 2017 at 4:23pm:

President Elect, The Mechanic wrote on Jan 13th, 2017 at 4:19pm: “Someone should go to jail. Agreed. Sexual predators who pay no tax, and allegedly rape children, would be a good start.

Fake news swampie. No one cares what you lying swamp rats are saying.

Rider wrote on Jan 13^th, 2017 at 8:27pm:

greggerypeccary wrote on Jan 13th, 2017 at 4:23pm: President Elect, The Mechanic wrote on Jan 13th, 2017 at 4:19pm: “Someone should go to jail. Agreed. Sexual predators who pay no tax, and allegedly rape children, would be a good start. Fake news swampie. No one cares what you lying swamp rats are saying.

Why do you defend rapists?

greggerypeccary wrote on Jan 13^th, 2017 at 4:23pm:

President Elect, The Mechanic wrote on Jan 13th, 2017 at 4:19pm: “Someone should go to jail. Agreed. Sexual predators who pay no tax, and allegedly rape children, would be a good start.

agreed.

time to round up the Clintons and throw them in jail..

"Reports suggest that Christopher Steele was employed by enemies of Trump to dig for ‘dirt’ in Russia. Steele has fled and is in hiding, fearing for his life."
I hadn't heard this.  Particularly the "fearing for his life".  If he'd exposed the Clintons, he'd commit suicide by shooting himself twice behind the ear like the others...but he didn't. Everyone already knew he'd been MI6; his business was built on that. I don't see what he has to fear.

“Do you believe that openly serving homosexuals along with women in combat units is undermining our force?” Gillibrand continued.

“Senator my belief is that we have to stay focused on a military that is so lethal that on the battlefield that it will be the enemy’s longest day and their worst day when they run into that force,” Mattis said.



That's the guy you want in charge of the US military, not someone like 'no guys' David Morrison.

They should be praised and awarded.

After all, a lot more is to come against Trump - you know, like impeachment.

U.S. Intel Community Rushes to Dump ‘Trump Dossier’
Intel officials dump on veracity, professionalism of unverified, salacious report on president-elect
The intelligence community may be running away from the “Trump dossier,” a dubious 35-page document commissioned by Republican and Democratic candidates who opposed President-Elect Donald Trump’s election.

The dossier appeared in dramatic fashion Tuesday night, with a CNN report on the research hitting first.

“You just published fake news,” said NBC News’ Chuck Todd to BuzzFeed’s editor.
Perhaps sensing the salacious document’s clickbait potential, BuzzFeed published the entire document shortly after the CNN report.

The dossier contains stories of Russian influence upon Trump, in tones reminiscent of the James Bond film, “From Russia With Love.”

The dossier was reportedly composed by Christopher Steele, a former MI6 operative for the United Kingdom. MI6 gathers foreign intelligence for the British government.

The report was commissioned by a top Republican donor. The opposition research was carried out by Fusion GPS, a political firm run by Glenn Simpson, a former Wall Street Journal reporter, according to The New York Times.

The Times reported Wednesday that Steele was the top Russian expert at MI6 until he stepped down in 2009, a man who disliked Russian President Vladimir Putin.

But Steele’s dossier was more Mr. Bean than James Bond. The report, first published by BuzzFeed, contained at least several errors.

One of them was a suggestion there is a Russian consulate in Miami, a possible error first pointed out by Republican consultant Liz Mair. There is no such consulate there, and the closest one is in Washington, D.C.

Perhaps the biggest mistake was suggesting Trump attorney Michael Cohen was in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, last summer, as part of a covert meeting with a Russian operative.

The paranoid assertion recalled liberal and Democratic smears upon former President George H.W. Bush in the 1980s, when conspiracy theorists charged that Bush flew to Paris in 1980 to delay the release of Iranian hostages, ensuring no "October surprise" to help President Jimmy Carter in his re-election bid.

Like that demented fantasy, a few pokes at the Cohen theory caused it to fall apart like wet tissue paper. Cohen denied he had ever been to Prague, and produced his passport to prove it.

Other assertions in the 35-page report are harder to prove, mostly because Steele himself, an ex-spy, didn't talk to Russian sources in-person. He had to use sources to talk to other sources, The Times reports.

Some claims are simply too salacious to likely be true, including those of a sexual nature.

But nevertheless, Steele, reportedly, had gone around media circles in Washington, D.C., and New York City to get the dossier published before the election. No one would touch it, although David Corn of Mother Jones reported on alleged Russian influence over Trump before the election.

After the BuzzFeed issue, Corn admitted he had seen the document but couldn't substantiate it.

Steele, now at Orbis Business Intelligence Ltd. in London, is reportedly in hiding after his report was published and his name hit print. The Wall Street Journal was the first outlet to report on Steele's identity.

But even before Steele's identity was known, the U.S. intelligence community slowly started to trash the "Trump Dossier."
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Late Wednesday afternoon, Politico reporter Ken Vogel tweeted that private intelligence firms were not impressed: "Talking with lotsa [sic] private intel folks, consensus is that doc't posted by BuzzFeed News is 'total dog sh*t' as work product, as one put it."

NBC News' Chuck Todd went after BuzzFeed's editor, Ben Smith, asking him in person if he just published false information.

"You just published fake news," said Todd.


Trump ‘Dossier’ Story Betrays Massive Media Double Standard
Journalistic ethics go out the door when it comes to bashing president-elect
But that reporting hasn't kept The Times from seeming to gloat about Trump's problems.

"Americans are divided and confused about what to believe about the incoming president. And there is no prospect soon for full clarity on the veracity of the claims made against him," The Times wrote in its conclusion of the issue on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, mainstream media outlets are reporting that the Ukrainian government, a former Soviet bloc nation, worked to undermine Trump during the election.

Politico reported on Thursday morning that Ukrainian government officials tried to help Hillary Clinton.

The Ukrainians also released documents to embarrass Trump's former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, and assisted the Democrats in anti-Trump research.

AuntieM wrote on Jan 14^th, 2017 at 3:02am:

Some claims are simply too salacious to likely be true, including those of a sexual nature.

Nice one, sock puppet. Trump is a known sexual predator and no "fake news": story you deliver can ever change that. 

Clinton Campaign Colluded with Ukraine to Sink Trump
New reports detail Democratic plotting with Eastern European government in 2016
by Edmund Kozak | Updated 13 Jan 2017 at 7:10 AM
To hear liberals tell it, the 2016 election saw the campaign of President-Elect Donald Trump effectively collude with the Russian government to defeat Hillary Clinton.

While the notion of American presidential campaigns colluding with Eastern European governments may seem the stuff of Cold War spy novels, it turns out it’s true.

“It was clear that [Poroshenko’s government was] supporting Hillary Clinton’s candidacy.”
However, as an article published in Politico on Wednesday reveals, it was the Clinton campaign that was colluding with an Eastern European country to sink Trump’s efforts. Figures at high levels in the Democratic Party, it turns out, colluded with Ukraine.

Ukrainian government agents not only “tried to help Hillary Clinton and undermine Trump by publicly questioning his fitness for office” and disseminated “documents implicating a top Trump aid in corruption and suggested they were investigating the matter” — they also “helped Clinton’s allies research damaging information on Trump and his advisers,” wrote Politico reporters Kenneth P. Vogel and David Stern.

According to the report, Ukrainian-American political operative Alexandra Chalupa, who was consulting for the Democratic National Committee, met with Ukrainian officials in order to coordinate efforts to tar former Trump campaign Chairman Paul Manafort, and Trump himself, by exposing their alleged ties to Russia.

A “former DNC staffer and the operative familiar with the situation agreed that with the DNC’s encouragement, Chalupa asked embassy staff to try to arrange an interview in which Poroshenko might discuss Manafort’s ties to Yanukovych,” Vogel and Stern reported....
Since Trump's victory, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has distanced his administration from Leshchenko's efforts and denied any role in the release of the documents. "But an operative who has worked extensively in Ukraine, including as an adviser to Poroshenko, said it was highly unlikely that either Leshchenko or the anti-corruption bureau would have pushed the issue without at least tacit approval from Poroshenko or his closest allies," reported Vogel and Stern.

"It was clear that [Poroshenko's government was] supporting Hillary Clinton's candidacy," Andriy Artemenko, a Ukrainian politician associated with an opposition party, told Politico. "They did everything from organizing meetings with the Clinton team, to publicly supporting her, to criticizing Trump.

greggerypeccary wrote on Jan 13^th, 2017 at 8:43pm:

Rider wrote on Jan 13th, 2017 at 8:27pm: greggerypeccary wrote on Jan 13th, 2017 at 4:23pm: President Elect, The Mechanic wrote on Jan 13th, 2017 at 4:19pm: “Someone should go to jail. Agreed. Sexual predators who pay no tax, and allegedly rape children, would be a good start. Fake news swampie. No one cares what you lying swamp rats are saying. Why do you defend rapists?

I've  never defended the Clintons, nor their corrupt foundation. Drain the swamp.