"IC leaders aren’t used to being held to account by the Justice Department, and their oversight by Congress generally is mild. Theirs is a comfortable world, obfuscated and kept mysterious by the liberal use of their classified-information shield. The demonization of Attorney General Barr has begun — a sign that he is probably on the right track. And the IC leaders are on notice."
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/444802-ag-barr-puts-former-intel-bosses-on-notice
Mods - should I make a separate "Spygate" thread???
Various Obama intel officials are pointing fingers at one another, because they have come to realize that their prior criminality may not be rewarded but rather prosecuted.
Comey, Brennan and Clapper are accusing one another as to who insisted in the unverified dossier be included in the presidential intelligence assessment.
McCabe says Comey authorized him to leak, Comey denies it.
McCabe testified the dossier was the anchoring evidence that the FBI presented to the FISA court. Comey denies it.
McCabe says Rosenstein was serious about wearing a wire to record the President. Rosenstein says that is a lie.
Expect more and more contradictions to surface.
@Salacious-Crumb said in Aussie Politics:
Still wondering about the polling industry? Beginning to think they’re next to useless — until they can calculate and account for the effect of self-censorship in the culture.
Is it a possibility that a good % of people are fed-up with p.c. sjw lynch mob cancel-culture and won’t tell strangers what they think, not even in a confidential opinion poll? Especially in a climate where speaking your religious views can get you sacked from your job??
The only poll that matters is the one a voter answers in the voting booth.
I feel that what you say might have had a few parallels in a few other elections already, but am struggling to remember them right now 
@SammyC said in Hurricanes vs Jaguares:
Aumua is the classic example of the kid who was bigger and stronger than everyone growing up so neglected working on basic skills and fitness.
A bit like Akira??? 
@Nevorian
I hope he's a honest as the day is long, safe pair of hands, good team-man and as great a toiler as his father.
CIA, FBI, National Intelligence work with Barr to review Russia probe
(wonder if results will come out before 2020 election?)
I think the Iron Throne itself should be destroyed.
Just have regional leaders.
Saw this on another forum ....
**A nation that doesn't even know what it wants to be on the world stage has no business telling other nations what to do.
You're worried about extreme economic disparity? Wait till you get a load of the hours that Chinese people work and the amount they're paid. They're truly corporate serfs and the government is totally complicit in this because they are the corporations.
You're worried about government surveillance? Enjoy being gulag'd for having opinions that aren't harmonious.
It's ironic given that this forum is full of skeptics when it comes to things like the Western intellectual/Military Supremacy, The Holocaust and Racism but they blindly believe:
Where do you think these ideas of Chinese exceptionalism come from? Chinese propaganda. They have a rather dedicated international apparatus that seeks to undermine Western values while trumpeting the greatness of China. They try to do this in Western universities through things like the Confucius Institute. Beware any overly optimistic predictions you get about any country, especially China.
They're currently going HAM on capital controls because they're so obsessed with keeping money inside and keeping their best and brightest from siphoning off their wealth and getting passports to other countries. Does this sound like the move of an economically secure country? They want to spread Chinese influence and wealth, but they don't even let their own people take money out of the country to actually go be a shining example to the rest of the world. Not to mention, they create insecurity (through currency manipulation) in the populace which causes them to find ways to siphon off their wealth in an ever-escalating financial arms race within their own country.**
@Duluth said in US Politics:
@Frank said in US Politics:
Could it be that this the threat of China wasn't pushed before because Trump isn't owned by Wall Street but Obama, Bush etc. were in bed with them ???????????????
Romney pushed it hard in 2012
But would Chamber of Commerce Mitt have actually done anything about it ??