Wag the Dog & Cohen in Czechoslovakia

So yesterday we get a report that the Special Counsel may indeed have evidence of direct and strong collusion between top Trump officials and Russians to coordinate parts of the Russian assistance to the Trump campaign.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-russia-investigation/?utm_term=.9ab5ad1035da

McClatchy reported on Friday evening that special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s team has evidence of a trip by President Trump’s personal lawyer to Prague in the late summer of 2016. Overseas travel to non-Russian countries might strike some observers as an incremental — if not unimportant — development in Mueller’s probe. That is not the case. Confirmation that Cohen visited Prague could be quite significant.
A trip to Prague by Cohen was included in the dossier of reports written by former British intelligence official Christopher Steele. Those reports, paid for by an attorney working for Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee, included a broad array of raw intelligence, much of which has not been corroborated and much of which would probably defy easy corroboration, focusing on internal political discussions in the Kremlin.

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Interesting to not that the first reports about Cohen doing this came in the Steele dossier that is so hated and reviled and despised and attacked by the right wing Trump supporters.

And what happens on the same day? We get the air strikes in Syria which completely then dominate the news.

Can anybody say WAG THE DOG?

While these details have not yet been confirmed, if they are confirmed and are fact, this could well be the smoking gun proving the collusion between Russians and the Trump campaign.

For those not believing the WAG THE DOG theory, just go over to the CNN web page and see what is getting the majority of coverage today and where the Cohen story is buried.

this analysis goes further

https://www.vox.com/2018/4/13/17236660/michael-cohen-prague-trump-steele-dossier

That’s because the claim that such a meeting happened is one of the most specific claims in Christopher Steele’s dossier alleging collusion between the Trump team and Russia to influence the 2016 election — and because, since the very first day that dossier was publicly released, Cohen has adamantly denied taking any such trip, and Trump’s team has relied on that denial to dispute the dossier’s accuracy. “I have never been to Prague in my life. #fakenews,” Cohen tweeted on January 10, 2017, hours after the dossier was posted.

Yet a new report from McClatchy’s Peter Stone and Greg Gordon claims that special counsel Robert Mueller has evidence that Cohen did, in fact, enter Prague through Germany at the height of the 2016 campaign, in “August or early September.”

The McClatchy report is based on anonymous sources, and we don’t yet know what the purported evidence is. It could still prove to be mistaken. (Cohen himself didn’t comment.)

But if it is in fact accurate, the report would utterly devastate one of the Trump team’s leading arguments that there was no Trump-Russia collusion. That’s because, to be blunt, there is no reason for Cohen to try to debunk the Steele dossier by lying and saying that he didn’t visit Prague at all if he actually did, unless he was trying to cover up extremely serious wrongdoing that happened during that visit.

If Cohen did in fact visit Prague in 2016, but for innocuous reasons that Steele’s sources twisted, he could have just said that at the time. Instead, he vociferously denied that he went to Prague at all. If that was false, there would be no reason for him to take that tack — unless he was trying to cover up something very serious and hoping to ge

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This could be the key piece of the puzzle.

brings back memories of August, 1998; doesn't it?

The Steele dossier claimed that, while in Prague, Cohen met with a prominent and powerful political ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Konstantin Kosachev (a Russian politician and diplomat. He is senator at the Federation Council [Russian parliament's upper house] and chairs its Foreign Affairs Committee).

Cohen has denied ever traveling to Prague and offers his US passport as proof. However, it is reported that Cohen entered the country through Germany in August or early September of 2016, which does not require a passport stamp. Reports say that Mueller has proof that Cohen did indeed meet with Kosachev in Prague.

Rogue Valley said:

The Steele dossier claimed that, while in Prague, Cohen met with a prominent and powerful political ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Konstantin Kosachev (a Russian politician and diplomat. He is senator at the Federation Council [Russian parliament's upper house] and chairs its Foreign Affairs Committee).

Cohen has denied ever traveling to Prague and offers his US passport as proof. However, it is reported that Cohen entered the country through Germany in August or early September of 2016, which does not require a passport stamp. Reports say that Mueller has proof that Cohen did indeed meet with Kosachev in Prague.

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Oh what a tangled web they weave when first they practice to deceive.


And their own web will ensnare them all in the end.

Reports say.......

Let's see those reports, not reports from the media, but reports from the prosecution.

Reports today say Cohen is not a real attorney per the feds, because he has only one client. Reports today say he has been given till Monday to show he has more than one client.

Can anyone show where in the Rules of Conduct (for attorneys, state or federal) there is a requirement for an attorney, and to escape semantical arguments, a lawyer, to have more than one client, or any clients at all?

Why is a federal prosecutorial team leaking data that is parcel to a sealed investigation? Oh yeah, plausible deniability.

I personally know of at least 17 attorneys who represent a single client and no others. Then there are in-house corporate attorneys who maintain a single client, judges and law professors who maintain no clients. All real attorneys, real lawyers.

Seems there is more than one way to wag a dog.

Speaking of which, Assad is a nice guy, living in luxury with his wife while dropping chemical bombs on his own people. Some of those missiles fired at those targets were British and French. Does anyone think the British and French will take any actions to please Trump, for the benefit of his domestic problems? Well, the Russians and Iranians are upset. The same Russians accused of poisoning their own former agents. And who cares if the Iranians are upset? WTF are they doing in Syria during a Civil War? Hezbollah spokesmen are saying Trump is a Hollywood President, filled with fantasies. Hezbollah has acknowledged it is being armed by the Iranians.

I was in Europe this past summer with my wife, nephew and niece. A musical performance exchange for music students. We left Bonn for Prague. We had to show our Visas with our boarding passes on the train. I can't say one way or the other anything about car traffic, no personal experience, but I understand they use an EasyPass type system that reads the pass data as you cross borders between the two nations and non-EU citizens are required to stop and identify themselves with the local border stations. This is the same type of EasyPass system that is currently being used on major bridge and tunnel systems for the greater NYC metropolitan area, and which is proposed for the East River bridges between Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn, as well as Manhattan congestion pricing.

I'd wag my dog, but he's too heavy for me to pick up, let alone wag. He weighs in at about 120lbs. It takes my vet, his assistant, and myself to get him up on the examining table.

Does anyone believe anything CNN reports anymore? Does anyone even watch CNN anymore? Why are cable companies threatening to drop CNN?