how soon are they going to add "-gate" to this horrorshow?

[Gabi Hayes]

it should be coming soon.

why not get some dibs here on naming it?

any ideas?

I know this isn't going anywhere now, so I have nothing to do after my naptime.......

meanwhile, I'll dream about this:

first, I'm looking for my trusty colander....

http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/casolaro_octopus.htm

Because circumstances have shrouded Danny Casolaro's death in mystery, the single aspect of his research that led to it may never be known for certain. Hotel workers in Martinsburg, West Virginia found the writer dead in August 1991 in what looked like a faked suicide. The "head's up" warning flashed among students of the conspiracy culture when they learned that files he had on him were missing and the details of his investigative work slowly emerged from friends, family and fellow investigators. Casolaro previously had previously had warned these same people not to believe any reports that might have fallen victim to an "accident." The fishy circumstances of his death and the probable motivations of his possible killers remain obvious.

Danny Casolaro sought to document and expose sea of covert operatives, super-surveillance software and transnational spies. He called the monster he saw swimming in that sea "the Octopus." It consisted of a group of US intelligence veterans that had banded together to manipulate world events for the sake of consolidating and extending its power. Of course it involved the Kennedy assassination, but that was just one of many coups and assassinations pulled off by the Octopus since the end of World War II. The group had come together over a covert operation to invade Albania that was betrayed by famed British turncoat Kim Philby. The Octopus had overthrown Jacob Arbenz in Guatemala in 1954. It had targeted operations against Fidel Castro culminating in the Bay of Pigs. It also had tentacles in the political upheavals in Angola, Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Chile, Iran and Iraq.

Casolaro had as his main concern Octopus involvement with putting Ronald Reagan in power--the infamous October Surprise--and the role that played in introducing the PROMIS software into police systems around the world.

Casolaro's catalogue of membership in the Octopus included such notorious spooks as John Singlaub and the late CIA director William Colby. As heads of the Phoenix assassination program in Vietnam they had implemented an early version of the PROMIS tracking software to keep tabs on the Viet Cong. Other Octopus tentacles included characters like E. Howard Hunt and Bernard Baker, who later emerged as Watergate burglars.

two mysterious deaths in four paragraphs.....just read on, if you dare!

I/m going to finish it in my own SCIF:

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Enough of -gate this and -gate that. Journalists & editors need more imagination.

Hashtag #TrumpRussia seems to cover it for now.

Perhaps when a big piece blows open it get a new name.

This is so big it is beginning to dwarf Watergate anyway.

Let this scandal set its own new trope for names for the next 45 years.

[Gabi Hayes]

3. if they had any imagination, drumpf wouldn't be in office, and the

inslaw story would've been solved in time to put thoroughly corrupt thugs like meese behind bars

I agree with your nomenclature suggestion though....it's very irritating to see that gaty thing happening all the time

let's hope this doesn't go the way of the 911 commission. when's the last time any of those things ever got to the bottom of anything, or any perpetrators suffered seious consequences?

the only ones I remember who got nailed were a few peripherals from the original watergate, and lots of guys from the mccarthy/huac era

it's late, and I'm lazy, and may be forgetting some, but please refresh my memories. look at Siegelman, for lord's sake. funny how the wingnut/fascists seem to escape justice. Just us, right?

[pnwest]

2. I think #trumpscandal covers it nicely.