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Its like nothing we have come across before: UK intelligence officials shaken by Trump administrations requests for help with counter-impeachment inquiry
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-impeachment-inquiry-latest-russia-mueller-ukraine-zelensky-a9181641.html
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The attorney general is focusing on the theory, aired on far-right conspiracy sites, and raised by Trump and Giuliani, that Ukraine framed Vladimir Putin over the US election in a complex triple-cross operation by impersonating Russian hackers.
Trump and Barr have also been asking other foreign governments for help in investigating the FBI, CIA and Mueller investigators. The US president has called on the Australian prime minister Scott Morrison for assistance, while the attorney general has been on similar missions to the UK and Italy.
And the information being requested has left allies astonished. One British official with knowledge of Barrs wish list presented to London commented that it is like nothing we have come across before, they are basically asking, in quite robust terms, for help in doing a hatchet job on their own intelligence services.
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I did a search of the forum before posting this. The last paragraph really should be blasted far and wide in this country.
Stuart G
(38,445 posts)Skittles
(153,193 posts)he is not working for the American people, he is PIMPING FOR TRUMP
blm
(113,091 posts)Ive been saying all along they wanted Ukraine to take the fall for Russias crimes.
Barr working for Trump means Barr is working for Putin.
Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)Skittles
(153,193 posts).
amywalk
(254 posts)wnylib
(21,609 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,021 posts)direct to Speaker Pelosi and Chairman Schiff.
SlogginThroughIt
(1,977 posts)dhill926
(16,355 posts)Barr needs to go down hard...
HelpImSurrounded
(441 posts)They'll never catch me but it was all me!
I'm actually a Rothschild and I've been building this whole conspiracy for 200 years!! (Yes, I'm immortal). It's all me, - climate change, the second gunman, 9/11 and 2016!
Putin is my puppet! So is Trump! And you'll never gues why I've done all this...
keithbvadu2
(36,907 posts)StClone
(11,686 posts)Your greatest work lives! "Mortal Man Forspeak Immortal Evil."
HelpImSurrounded
(441 posts)gademocrat7
(10,669 posts)He and his mob boss need to be removed from office.
gab13by13
(21,405 posts)Generic Other
(28,979 posts)Utterly disgraceful. We should not have to endure another minute of this.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,857 posts)Obviously.
It might be time for the dollar to no longer be the international currency of exchange. I don't trust the USA anymore, and I live in it.
Cosmocat
(14,573 posts)We are upside down, and 1/3 of the country us getting off on it, and another 1/3 is at best fucking clueless.
We are not to be trusted, cause as obviously up shit creak as we are now and roughly 2/3 of the country does not share our level of concern, we are fucked.
erronis
(15,331 posts)I think the US population as a whole is mainly OK. Pockets of ignorance, biases, hatred.
Money has corrupted politics and general welfare.
bdamomma
(63,922 posts)measures to go to other countries to smear our intelligence agencies, Barr needs to disbarred. Fuck lock him up.
TeamPooka
(24,254 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,416 posts)Destroy credibility of government.
Destroy credibility of press.
Destroy alliances and trade ties.
Elevate belief in one leader, one party.
world wide wally
(21,754 posts)spanone
(135,875 posts)they will put people (Democrats) in jail over trump's fantasy.
dchill
(38,532 posts)trueblue2007
(17,238 posts)wnylib
(21,609 posts)UK Members of Parliament for their support in 2016. He selected MPs who favored Brexit snd said they had shared goals so they should work together.
The MPs more or less told him to go to hell.
I have wondered why that illegal solicitation for help from a foreign country in a US election did not receive more attention.
Farmer-Rick
(10,211 posts)He can feed it to criminals in the UK, Australia and Italy to shape their lies and subterfuge. Then present it as if it's some kind of fact.
Mueller was a F*cking idiot to have not brought charges. Now he's being attacked by the very same criminal he left off the hook. Mueller and Comey are Trumpy Dumpy and shorty Putin's first victims.
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GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)Unlike Trump he is smart and canny. We already know from his writings and speeches he does not trust liberal democracy. Rather a government guided by his idea of a Christofacist ideology.
He is going to try and pull something before the election. Rudy has Muddied the way for him since he was so ham fisted in his attempts and it is all coming out. And from Australia, Italy, Britain and who knows is next he is being spurned.
But that wont stop him. He is an old man who believes he is on a mission from god.
I have no doubt he personally despise trump. But he sees this as the last chance to kill liberal democracy and put the country back in the hands of white Christians.
I hope Im well enough known on DU to not be considered conspiracy freak. Hell, until trump admitted trying to bribe Ukraine I was against impeachment. Im pretty moderate for DU. I own guns and hunt.
But Barr scares the shit out of me. He has no qualms about violating norms because he considers our current norms an insult to god.
I could give a shit if we ever put trump in prison. Barr truly deserves it. He hates what this country has become.
Trump does not have the stones to round up his enemies. Hes proven that. Barr does.
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,592 posts)strongly condemning Barr's efforts to use their country's intelligence agencies to discredit our own agencies.
Shameful!
machoneman
(4,010 posts)..to feed this monstrous probe.
Just wait for Trump and his camp followers to start saying they are ALL into this multi=government conspiracy to bring down his presidency. That and all countries also have Deep State folks who oppose all Trump stands for.
Arkansas Granny
(31,530 posts)LudwigPastorius
(9,170 posts)Mustellus
(328 posts)The morning after his inauguration. He stood before the wall of nameless memorials, with his cheering section in the first five rows. Because he knew that the Intel people have the goods on him.
I'd doubt any foreign intel service, excepting of course the KGB, is going to cooperate with this.
Mersky
(4,986 posts)Dump would already be toast without barr in place.
I don't care how much embarrassing trawling for bullshit barr does, he will never be able to overcome all that was wrong with tRump's performance at the Helsinki summit. He wants to cover for the pro putin actions that tRump has engaged in as candidate and president, as if they're reasonable offshoots of good foreign policy.
Good grief, tRump the candidate hid his Moscow tower deal. The candidate's son, etc. met with foreign factions to help his campaign. The pResident couldn't defend his dealings, so he went after and blocked the investigators. The pResident usurped Congress's power of the purse to withhold aid from Ukraine to benefit his political ambitions.
The pResident's 'foreign policy' is so enmeshed in his personal gain, that barr can manufacture evidence ex post facto all he wants, but he won't change my mind about the nature of the administration. I believe he's doing all of this to try his case for the pResident in the court of public opinion. How to thwart his efforts is the question Ill carry around with me until I vote this Tuesday.
ck4829
(35,091 posts)Zaphod42
(92 posts)Obviously, the Russians want the sanctions removed. But what do they have on trump that would force him to pursue such a brazen, treasonous course of action? It must be a doozy....or maybe several doozies.
wnylib
(21,609 posts)Trump ro crminal and treasonous behavior when he is inclined toward rhat anyway.
bucolic_frolic
(43,287 posts)There will be no code of law left standing when they are done. THEY will say what the law is, and what it isn't. Totally subjective and totally about power. They probably consider it their privilege. Dictators always do.
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)Trump and his Cabinet members to The Washington Post see guide [link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/anonymous-news-tips/|].
Yeah, that should keep them busy.
soldierant
(6,921 posts)They have see a whole lot of dirt before. Just nothing like this.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)Please define "robust."
Johnny2X2X
(19,114 posts)This is just nuts.