[W:492] F.B.I. Opened Inquiry Into Whether Trump Was Secretly Working on Behalf of Russia

Somerville said:

The ABA doesn't much care for some of Trump's nominees, although it prefers the term "Not Qualified"

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We conducted two separate evaluations of Mr. Kobes, and the Committee came to a split vote, as indicated.
Mr. Kobes is a very accomplished, competent, and capable person, but his career path has not resulted in sufficient evidence
of a developed ability to do the written work of a United States Circuit Court Judge.
We conducted two separate evaluations of Mr. Kobes, and the Committee came to a split vote, as indicated.
Without sufficient evidence that the nominee possesses an especially high degree of legal scholarship and excellent analytical and writing experience, the Standing Committee voted that the nominee was “Not Qualified” to serve on the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals.
The Standing Committee does not have any question about Mr. Kobes’ integrity or temperament.
There were no issues raised by any of his peers with respect to those two criteria

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Bias Alleged

The ABA ratings are purportedly non-partisan, but conservatives have been claiming that the ratings process is biased against them since the 1980s.

“No one who looks seriously at instances of the ABA’s negative assessments of conservative candidates—especially on the malleable topic of judicial temperament—can dispute that the ABA’s liberal bias sometimes comes into play,” Ed Whelan of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, who has been vocal in supporting Trump’s judicial nominees, told Bloomberg Law by email.

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Tangmo said:

The Putin-Trump-Fanboys-Collusion are dismissing Pentagon chiefs and theater commanders globally when you dismiss the retired Gen. McCaffrey, Admiral McRaven, Admiral Stravridis, General Thomas and the rest of 'em who are speaking out. These four stars retired speak for the armed forces four-stars active duty and retired who are alarmed by Trump and his campaign against the national security of the United States and against USA national sovereignty. They know the campaign is conscious, deliberate, willful and that it is not isolated from foreign hostile powers.

The four stars of the armed forces active duty and retired have known for a long time that -- as Gen. McCaffrey said early last year -- "Trump is under the sway of Putin" which makes Trump a "threat to the national security." Now as we begin in 2019 the Putin-Trump Fanboyz need to brace themselves. The departure of Jim Mattis from the Pentagon was the final and decisive severing of the traditional and historical civil-military relations in the United States. So hope for the best over there but expect almost the worst you could imagine. I used to think sooner or later if necessary and later if Trump didn't try too much too soon which as we've seen now in his national emergency and talk of martial law he's begun to try. So it's now that I see we've pretty much run out of later.

You people over there make the fatal error of not putting yourself into the mind of your opponent to try to see how we think and what we're thinking, to include the why and the what do we do then contingencies. It's the one thing you guys won't talk about because it's your worst nightmare that you can't face. The denial and refusal to face it means you're doing nothing to minimize or preclude it. In pushing ahead mindlessly instead you're only forcing the good guys into a corner rather than engage them at the table. It's because you guys have no table. Which leaves a bunch of guys to come at you from out of the corner to blindside you.

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Tangmo said:

You guys never could collude right either. :lamo

You guys fingerprints are all over the collusion that sticks out and hangs out in every direction from over there.

Bottom line is that you still don't know you can't pull this off. So we're still looking at some hard falls here. :boom

:stars:

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Atomic Kid said:

Yeah that's what you do when you work in the FBI. You investigate stuff. What did you think it is that they do. Hold bake sales or something?

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Athanasius68 said:

There are over 30000 people in the FBI, and it's the same few names that keep popping up.

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Fletch said:

So we have McCabe, Strzok and Page all in on discussions to investigate the president. Where have I heard those names before?

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tosca1 said:

Obviously.....you didn't get my point.

We all have to wait and see what the reports and investigations say. Without any conclusive findings, we're all simply running on assumptions.


Btw, what happened to the FBI investigation? Is it still on-going?


The only collusion I see is the...............possible collusion between Loretta Lynch and the Clintons (re: tarmac meeting),
and a three-way collusion between the DOJ/FBI/Clintons. Too bad, no one's investigating that.

If that's the case - there's serious rotting from within!

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marke said:

These were Rosenstein's pals who tried to cook up a scheme to secretly record Trump to catch him in something they could claim was a lie so they could invoke the 25th amendment to put a stop to his very successful patriotic presidency.

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tosca1 said:

Thanks for your opinion.

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tosca1 said:

Obviously.....you didn't get my point.

We all have to wait and see what the reports and investigations say. Without any conclusive findings, we're all simply running on assumptions.


Btw, what happened to the FBI investigation? Is it still on-going?


The only collusion I see is the...............possible collusion between Loretta Lynch and the Clintons (re: tarmac meeting),
and a three-way collusion between the DOJ/FBI/Clintons. Too bad, no one's investigating that.

If that's the case - there's serious rotting from within!

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Tangmo said:

We've gone from collusion to conspiracy to obstruction and now to Trump being Putin's lapdog. You guys are still at collusion which means you're so far behind you're staring at heartbreak hill.

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Fletch said:

So in other words, you admit that collusion, conspiracy and obstruction were all liberal lies and you are hitching your wagon to the last best liberal hope--the idiotic 'lapdog' lie.

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Tangmo said:

Not so fast over there. Hands against the wall for you. Feet shoulder width apart.

Now there, that's it. Cause that's your strawman you've packed into rags and tried to prop up.

It's anyway leaning 30 degrees and that's a tilt.

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Fletch said:

So you think he is guilty of all of those things? Ok, then I misread you post. That makes you part of the New Trutherism then.

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Logician Man said:

7000 fact checked lies to the American people in 2 years does NOT make for a 'successful patriotic Presidency.'

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marke said:

Lefties need to stop criticing everything our duly elected leaders do and say.

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Tangmo said:

I refer to the Putin-Trump-Fanboys-Trutherism that Russia is innocent of everything and that FBI investigating Putin-Trump-Russia is evil.

Further, the Putin-Trump-Fanboys-Trutherism that the Mueller investigation is a witch hunt.

And the Trump Fanboys Trutherism that Bengazi was all Hillary's doing. And the so on and so on Trutherism over there because Trutherism is 100% the property of the Putin-Trump-Fanboys and their original target, OB.

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Logician Man said:

Since when is calling out a liar 'criticizing' ?

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Fletch said:

Is there any chance you could rewrite that in English?

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Tangmo said:

I just wanted to give you another nonsense question to ask and it worked perfectly thx.

Your trutherism stuff is vacuous and OTT besides. You got a newmangled word to throw around which means you got nothing -- only desperation. You've gone prostrate. All for Putin-Trump.

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Fletch said:

You call that English?

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Tangmo said:

Putin owns Trump.

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Fletch said:

Trutherism.

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Tangmo said:

We've gone from collusion to conspiracy to obstruction and now to Trump being Putin's lapdog. You guys are still at collusion which means you're so far behind you're staring at heartbreak hill.

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Fishing Expedition:

Legal grasping at straws; the use of pretrial investigation discovery or witness questioning in an unfocused attempt to uncover damaging evidence to be used against an adversary.

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Tangmo said:

No problem as you're welcome. So thanks for that.

My opinion is informed by those who are sworn to uphold the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic.

Others have the opinion that USA needs to be more like Putin's Russia than the other way around. So I trust your expression of thanks is encouraging for the Constitutionalists. More or less of course. Because the Putin-Trump-Fanboys have become what we once fought against abroad to defeat in war. They won't do any better at it presently however as they try to bring it to the homeland.

Regards.

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