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In reply to the discussion: Obama's little-noticed gift to the USA on his way out the door, in January 2017. [View all]pnwmom
(108,925 posts)42. That wouldn't have done anything but make the American people feel more helpless
because it wouldn't have stopped the GOP and its electors from installing him. ON TOP of that, it would have told the Russians more than we needed them to know.
Time will tell, but Obama's decision seems justified to me.
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pnwmom
Jan 2019
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That wouldn't have done anything but make the American people feel more helpless
pnwmom
Jan 2019
#42
I think you are right- Consider Giuliani's cell of Hillary-hating FBI'ers feeding him damaging info.
NBachers
Jan 2019
#51
I think maybe today they are waking up to a new reality that thier little
Crutchez_CuiBono
Jan 2019
#45
Right. We have had 5 eyes. The difference now is that the raw data automatically
pnwmom
Jan 2019
#43
I remember that clearly: Biden told us flat-out that no one could walk into a single department...
Hekate
Jan 2019
#48
The irony does not escape me, as my husband and I are rooting for the survival of the FBI...
Hekate
Jan 2019
#49
No, that's not what it says. They are tapping into foreign data streams for counter-intelligence
pnwmom
Jan 2019
#53
tRUMP strategy to debase, diminish and call into question EVERY law enforcement
SayItLoud
Jan 2019
#30
If this is true, why didn't Trump simply revoke that EO, like he did others?
Honeycombe8
Jan 2019
#31
Who would have told him to do so? Someone in his Cabinet full of generals? Other than the generals,
pnwmom
Jan 2019
#47
I think some of those generals were people sent in with the approval of the GOP to keep
pnwmom
Jan 2019
#62
One of the most impossible things to imagine, is to walk in the shoes of the Excutive, the
Ninga
Jan 2019
#38
Remember that at the last minute, Pres. Obama moved Dana Boente lower in the DOJ order of succession
More_Cowbell
Jan 2019
#58