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Trump is fuming at McConnell after he criticized his Senate endorsements: “He not good .. later on we’ll have to do something with him. The party is furious at him. We have to put up with him for a period of time, but eventually he’ll be gone. He’s bad news.”

Foggy wrote: ↑Thu Sep 01, 2022 11:08 am Yes. Infuriating.

And after we clean up the mess, we should take steps to make sure we never elect a crook to be president again.

June bug wrote: ↑Thu Sep 01, 2022 6:35 pm

Gregg wrote: ↑

Phoenix520 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 01, 2022 4:16 pm

Starting with security clearances.

But a literacy test would have prevented this one...

Neither one is going to happen, as either would require a Constitutional amendment.

Instead, he’s on the comeback trail and may very likely be back in the Oval Office in 2025.

Then everything will be up for bidding.

RTH10260 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 01, 2022 8:06 pm re discussion about qualifications for potus: imho a candidate ought to at least been elected to a state office, legislative preferred, or executive. Personally I would suggest at least one term completed. (but then Obama would not have made the cut, iirc he was in his first term).

raison de arizona wrote: ↑Thu Sep 01, 2022 8:09 pm

RTH10260 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 01, 2022 8:06 pm re discussion about qualifications for potus: imho a candidate ought to at least been elected to a state office, legislative preferred, or executive. Personally I would suggest at least one term completed. (but then Obama would not have made the cut, iirc he was in his first term).

Obama served in the Illinois Senate for eight years, if that counts.

Slarti the White wrote: ↑Thu Sep 01, 2022 8:10 pm

raison de arizona wrote: ↑Thu Sep 01, 2022 8:09 pm

RTH10260 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 01, 2022 8:06 pm re discussion about qualifications for potus: imho a candidate ought to at least been elected to a state office, legislative preferred, or executive. Personally I would suggest at least one term completed. (but then Obama would not have made the cut, iirc he was in his first term).

Obama served in the Illinois Senate for eight years, if that counts.

And the US Senate too. also.

WASHINGTON — Top American counterintelligence officials warned every C.I.A. station and base around the world last week about troubling numbers of informants recruited from other countries to spy for the United States being captured or killed, people familiar with the matter said.

The message, in an unusual top secret cable, said that the C.I.A.’s counterintelligence mission center had looked at dozens of cases in the last several years involving foreign informants who had been killed, arrested or most likely compromised. Although brief, the cable laid out the specific number of agents executed by rival intelligence agencies — a closely held detail that counterintelligence officials typically do not share in such cables.

The cable highlighted the struggle the spy agency is having as it works to recruit spies around the world in difficult operating environments. In recent years, adversarial intelligence services in countries such as Russia, China, Iran and Pakistan have been hunting down the C.I.A.’s sources and in some cases turning them into double agents.

Acknowledging that recruiting spies is a high-risk business, the cable raised issues that have plagued the agency in recent years, including poor tradecraft; being too trusting of sources; underestimating foreign intelligence agencies, and moving too quickly to recruit informants while not paying enough attention to potential counterintelligence risks — a problem the cable called placing “mission over security.”

raison de arizona wrote: ↑Thu Sep 01, 2022 10:27 am

Dr. Ken wrote: ↑Thu Sep 01, 2022 10:11 am

JFC these are the most basic things and he ties them up in knots for years. Literally. Infuriating.

Donald Trump said on Thursday he would pardon and apologize to those who participated in the deadly attack on the US Capitol on January 6 if he were elected to the White House again.

“I mean full pardons with an apology to many,” he told Wendy Bell, a conservative radio host on Thursday. “I will be looking very, very strongly about pardons, full pardons.

Five people died in connection with the attack and more than 140 law enforcement officers were injured. More than 875 people have been charged with crimes related to January 6, according to an NPR tracker. 370 people have pleaded guilty to crimes so far.

RTH10260 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 02, 2022 2:53 pm 1 hour 30.

When reading the first tweet I was wondering how that worked with the appearently new right swing of CNN.

pipistrelle wrote: ↑Fri Sep 02, 2022 2:47 pm Don’t know where to put this.



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