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Congresswoman Waters Introduces Legislation Urging Investigation of President Trumps ties to Russia and Cyberattacks
https://waters.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/congresswoman-waters-introduces-legislation-urging-investigation
Washington, D.C. Today, Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Ranking Member of the House Financial Services Committee, introduced legislation demanding that congressional investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 election include a thorough review of any collusion between persons associated, formally or informally, with President Donald Trump and the Russian government. In a press conference announcing the legislation with other progressive Members of Congress, Congresswoman Waters delivered the following remarks:
Like so many of you, we have been shaken by events that have occurred over the last 11 days since Donald Trump was inaugurated. We have been shaken by the lies, the deception, and the stunning level of incompetence.
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sarah FAILIN
(2,857 posts)Get him!!
global1
(25,270 posts)FBI, CIA, NSA?
Control-Z
(15,682 posts)Weird partial post - deleted. See #4
JustAnotherGen
(31,879 posts)Control-Z
(15,682 posts)I believe jester, whoever that is, wants it spread around. There is no doubt that more is going on than any of us imagine.
"For the next thirty seconds, I want you to disregard all political affiliation and ponder this;
How many coincidences does it take to make a fact?
In the first week of December Sergei Mikhailov, the head of the Russian FSB cyber unit was in a meeting, when men came in, put a black bag over his head, and dragged him out. He hasnt been seen since. And now hes been charged with Treason, presumably for giving information to the United States of America. Hell face a secret military tribunal and nobody will ever know what happens to him.
Shortly thereafter Ruslan Stoyanov, head Russian FSB counterintelligence whose job it would have been to find spies, was also arrested as a traitor.
In the last week of December, an ex-KGB chief suspected of helping the former MI6 spy Christopher Steele to compile his dossier on Donald Trump was murdered by the Kremlin and his death covered up. Oleg Erovinkin, a former general in the KGB and its successor the FSB, was found dead in the back of his car in Moscow on December 26, 2016. Erovinkin was a key aide to Igor Sechin, a former deputy prime minister and now head of Rosneft, the state-owned oil company, who is named in the dossier.
Now before you re-activate your partisan brain, consider for a moment that Exxon Mobil, under Rex Tillerson, brokered a deal with Russia in 2013 for 60 million acres of Russian land to pump oil out of, but all that Russian oil went through pipelines in the Ukraine, who heavily taxed the proceeds, and were applying for admission into NATO at the time.
Putin subsequently invaded Ukraine in 2014, secured the routes to export the oil tax-free by sea, and took control of the port where their Black Sea Naval Fleet is based, by taking the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine by force and not giving it back. This was Hitler-tier imperialism that broke every international law in the free world.
After Obama sanctioned Russia for the invasion, they could only pump oil from approximately 3 of those 60 million acres. But now Rex Tillerson is soon to be our Secretary of State, and as of today, theres information circulating that Donald Trump will likely unilaterally remove all sanctions against Russia in the coming days or weeks.
You realize that Putin will make half a trillion dollars from that much untapped oil, right? All pumped tax-free through Crimea, stolen from Ukraine, now owned by Russia?
You realize that Putin may have subverted our government just to become the richest man on the planet, right?
You realize that placing Trump in the Presidency may never have been the primary objective of the Russian election interference, which was simply to put a man in place who could be blackmailed into giving Rex Tillerson, recipient of the Russian Order of Friendship medal, power and influence, right?
And check this: The State Department has undergone a purge. People who have been there since the 70s have all resigned or been asked to leave. The diplomatic branch of the United States government will now be Tillersons workplace alone. Rex Tillerson is now the real man in charge of international affairs, doing the real deals. Trump is just a figurehead tweeting about torture and crowd size, insulting Mexico for the lulz, and photoshopping his hands so they look bigger.
Guys, what is really going on?
Putin has vast experience blackmailing billionaires as leverage to pry apart self-destructing superpowers from his KGB days. And whats happening in the USA of 2017 fits that modus operandi to a tee.
After reading through the Steele paper, and seeing that the only real criticism of it has been that it seems too good to be true, Im definitely inclined to believe that the CIA and FBI arent just pretending to be concerned in the name of party politics (especially since they very rarely see eye-to-eye on anything).
Dont you find it suspicious that Trump hasnt made any move to stop sucking up to Russia despite the fact that his entire intelligence network is telling him that the FSB played him like a fiddle, and was directly responsible for sabotaging the American election? Instead, hes just flipped into indignant denial mode and still aggressively pursues a close economic relationship with a nation who is directly opposed to the USA in every geopolitical way imaginable.
We need to wake up before its too late.
America has had its lunch money stolen by the yard bully, and now hes dangling it in front of us all saying he didnt do shit. And the average Trump follower just doesnt care. No matter how damning the evidence, if the news isnt pro Trump, then its fake news. The degree of collaborationist sentiment and blatant disregard for Truth in the face of infiltration by our most dangerous geopolitical threat is truly staggering. Most trump supporters would have Hillary executed for using a private email server, but would let Trump, Tillerson, and the Russian government get away with a massive scheme like this, and smile about it.
Diminishing or ignoring what is happening isnt going to solve anything. Are you honestly telling me that you dont see a conflict of interest here that potentially endangers our National Security? Because it looks like the Cold War just ended, only we didnt win. Putins job is done here, now he can just sit back and watch us go at each other. The allies that we havent yet alienated actually feel horrible for us, and secretly fear that America will tear itself apart in the next 4 years.
So the question is, what are you prepared to do? I know it feels like theres nothing you can do, but here is something you can do: Contact your Senators and Representatives to tell them that you oppose Rex Tillerson for Secretary of State, and aggressively support the Congressional Hearings by telling your Congress people that you want Trumps tax returns subpoenaed, and the allegations in the Steele Dossier investigated. Demand a full and fair investigation into the objective Truth of the matter, whatever it may be, for the safety and security of America.
Or you can convince yourself this is still about the election, just say Hillary lost, Trump won, and let it slide. But if we do that, there may be no coming back from it. And I dont think anyone wants that.
However, if it turns out that is what everyone really wants, well I mean hey, I guess we had an awesome run with this Democracy thing
This article has been distributed elsewhere around the web for maximum exposure.
Sidenote: I was going to cite and link to all the facts presented here, but those who dont wanna hear the facts will just shriek fake news!!!! anyway."
So fuckit.
J
Control-Z
(15,682 posts)here on DU few days ago. It was stunninglying simplistic if you've been following the news, completely believable on every count and scary as hell. I bookmarked the Google cache of the blog it came from (which had disappeared off the web) because I was busy at the time.
It's all I've thought about for days now but it hasn't been discussed that I know of. I expected it to blow up the Internet or be covered up within hours so I went back to the bookmark. The blog is back up. The entry remains. And yet your OP is the first mention of Russia's interference in our election I've seen in days. This is not right. It should still be priority number one before every other thing the maggot does. Because everything the maggot does is because of Russia (and Comey and other helpful republicans).
Anyway, if you haven't read it already here is the link:
https://jesterscourt.cc/?p=7416
Russian Infiltration of the US Federal Government
JustAnotherGen
(31,879 posts)See my post above
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)Control-Z
(15,682 posts)right before I saw your reply. I hope you don't mind.
It's making me crazy that the whole thing seems to be drifting away. I want to see this investigated and front page every day until the maggot and everyone involved is in prison.
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)This traitor cockroach needs to go.
jmg257
(11,996 posts)Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)jmg257
(11,996 posts)Vinca
(50,303 posts)I'm also suspicious our FBI and CIA are in Trump's pocket. Saving our country may rest with foreign intelligence services. If they produce absolute proof, it can't be ignored.
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)bdamomma
(63,922 posts)we are better legislators or should I say investigators than our own party.
There is so much crap going on and I suspect the Republican party is totally involved especially Ryan and McConnell.