Former CIA chief: Putin recruited Trump as an 'unwitting agent' of Russia

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  1. Surfer Joe

    Surfer Joe Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    People who would know are starting to come out of the woodwork to denounce Trump as completely unfit for potus.
    His obsessive vanity and self-absorbption and immaturity are glaringly evident every time he opens his mouth.
    His character defects have led to him becoming a useful idiot for the Russians to use against the US, and he has played right along, goaded by Manafort, who is most likely a Russian agent.
    Everyone else tried to tell the right-wingers that they were supporting a defective character, but they were blinded by their own fears and hatreds.
    Now, what happens when they lose in November?
    Will they riot mindlessly? Will they double down on their intransigence and intolerance? Will they stop, reflect and learn from their mistakes?


    Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/michael-morell-endorses-clinton-226707#ixzz4GSpyVJs6
     
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    This deserves its own thread.
     
  3. 9/11 was an inside job

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    wow an agent from a terrorist organization-the CIA has said this,must be true.:roflol:
     
  4. Your Best Friend

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    Why would the CIA suddenly get involved in domestic elections like this? Are they saying they are all for the globalist candidate in the pockets of Wall Street vs.
    the nationalist candidate who threatens the elite? I guess their actions speak louder than their words.

    If this one agent is speaking strictly for himself the CIA had better make that clear.
     
  5. Surfer Joe

    Surfer Joe Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    What it is is a steady stream of assessments from experienced people in all walks of life standing up and saying that Trump lacks the character to be potus.
    It's not about any particular policy, but about his enormous character defects, which clearly indicate that he is unfit for the job.
    Now he's trying to play nice with Ryan and McCain, but it's all a sham and people know it.
    He will get baited on something else soon enough and then he'll whine and obsess about it for days.
     
  6. Habana

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    Establishment pulling out all the stops for the queen of bribery. They all stand to make a lot of money selling influence, pushing more jobs overseas & big fat contracts to deal with illegals. They'll be swinging in Clinton cash.
     
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    What are you going to do whine about it? Your guy is losing. Maybe if he was more substantive?
     
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    Bill Clinton went to Moscow to rally [and not for Capitalism] when he was a young student. He went to Moscow for real [there is who sustains that KGB tried and recruit him as well].
     
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    https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Michael_Morell


    :lol:
     
  10. Habana

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    You support a corporate whore who has more corporate "sponsors" than NASCAR. She isn't substantive either, just the typical political speak. She changes positions depending on which way the money is flowing. Of course your post is typical of the Clintonian mind, they just don't care she's dirty. They actually respect her for being so good at taking bribes

    The way she treated Bernie people was a lot more authoritarian and Putin like than anything Trump has done. But hey Clintonians are all for authoritarian heavy handness as long as they are the ones doing it.
     
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    Ex-CIA spook who whitewashed Benghazi endorses Hillary
    By Kenneth R. Timmerman August 5, 2016

    Hillary has become a spook’s candidate. Former deputy CIA Director Michael Morell, who so conveniently covered her tracks in Benghazi, has now confirmed it.

    In a glowing endorsement his friends at The New York Times prominently featured Friday, Morell gave his full-throated support to Clinton, while insisting that he was no partisan and had even voted Republican in the past.

    Like an obedient party hack vying for a new job, Morell spouted the party line that Donald Trump was “not only unqualified for the job, but he may well pose a threat to our national security.”

    Those are strong words, especially coming from someone who we are led to believe is an unimpeachable source. But is he?

    The “non-partisan” Morell was caught “mis-speaking” to Congress about his role in sanitizing the infamous CIA talking points prepared for US Ambassador Susan Rice to deliver on the Sunday talk shows after the Benghazi attacks. And when he was caught out, like a faithful soldier, he fell on his sword.

    Here’s how it happened: After Susan Rice’s outlandish claims on the Sunday talk shows that the Benghazi attacks began as a spontaneous protest over a “hateful” YouTube video, Congress began asking where she had gotten that information. This is how lawmakers discovered that the intelligence community had drafted her talking points, with input from the White House and Hillary Clinton’s staff.

    Early drafts of the talking points included a mention of al Qaeda. But that reference was removed in the final drafts. Sen. Lindsay Graham explained to me what happened next.

    “On Nov. 27, 2012, Morell and Susan Rice came into my office,” he told me. “I asked Morell who changed [the talking points]. He said, the FBI deleted the reference to al Qaeda because of an ongoing criminal investigation. So I called the FBI. They said, no, they didn’t change the talking points. They were furious.”

    Apparently, that was an understatement: Someone at a senior level at FBI called the CIA to protest directly. Graham continued the story: “At 4 p.m. that day, CIA called me and said Morell ‘mis-spoke’ in his meeting with me, and that CIA deleted [the reference to al Qaeda], but they couldn’t give a reason why.”

    Graham thought the reason was obvious: “If the truth had been known that al Qaeda killed four Americans seven weeks before an election, it would have been a different political story.”

    Remember what Obama and his surrogates were saying? “Osama is dead, GM is alive.” That was their campaign mantra.

    In fact, it was Morell himself who made those changes.

    Morell subsequently testified before the House Select Committee on Intelligence, and eventually before the Benghazi Select Committee, twisting himself into a pretzel to explain why he removed any mention of the al Qaeda involvement in the attacks.

    He ultimately claimed he believed news reports calling the Benghazi attacks a protest gone wild were more credible than repeated e-mails and cables from his own station chief in Libya insisting there had never been a protest.

    It was an admission of gross incompetence — or partisanship. But that was the party line Clinton was putting out.

    Morell was rewarded after the 2012 election. When he retired from CIA, Morell took a position with Beacon Global Strategies, a company cofounded by Andrew Shapiro and Philippe Reines, members of Hillary Clinton’s inner circle at the State Department.

    In his Times op-ed, Morell claims Donald Trump is an “unwitting agent” of Russia because he makes friendly remarks toward Putin. But Trump has never taken a dime from Putin. As we now know, Clinton and her husband have both profited handsomely from their relations to Russian state-owned banks and corporations — and actually helped Russia get its hands on a company with rights to a fifth of US uranium. Does that make her a “witting agent” of Russia?

    This former spook’s willingness to skewer the truth on behalf of a political patron should suffice to make any thinking person reject his judgment.

    As for the truth about Hillary, well, we’ve seen her selling political favors to foreign countries and companies while secretary of state through the Clinton Foundation. And lying to the public incessantly — about Benghazi, her e-mails, you name it. Just imagine what she’ll do if elected president.

    Kenneth R. Timmerman’s latest book, Deception: the Making of the YouTube Video Hillary and Obama Blamed for Benghazi, was released two weeks ago and is already in its 4th printing.


    The guy is looking for a new job with Hills. Wake up, people!
     
  12. Surfer Joe

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    Lol...Yeah, because anyone who disagrees with Trump is obviously corrupt.
    Meanwhile, Trump's chum, Putin, just got Russia kicked out of the Paralympics because his government is totally corrupt and imposes a culture of cheating on their athletes. It's a total embarrassment for Russians to put up with this unreconstructed kgb thug as their leader, but they have little experience with freedom. But this is the same thug that Trump panders to and his chumps worship as some macho Obama-basher.
    Trump and his followers are essentially anti-American and would like to make the US more like Russia.
     
  13. Garm Zandor

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    Hillary is corrupt, establishment is corrupt, political system allowing lobbying is corrupt, delegate system is corrupt, anyone who disagrees with Trump - just disagrees with Trump.
    Regarding olympics - it has nothing to do with dope or corruption. Politics infiltrated in sports too far and it will result in the decline or even end of olympic legacy.
    I'll skip cold war style bashing and propaganda, but I haven't heard in any of Trumps speeches that he is willing to adopt vertical hierarchical structure of subordination, that is practiced in Russia.
     
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    Trump promotes the strongman form of government that Putin practices.
    His cult of followers also applaud Putin's thuggery and would blindly allow Trump to do the same if it meant keeping the hispanics and blacks down.
    We've seen this sort of rancid demagoguery before.
     
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    Cult of personality is practiced everywhere and for any side. There was Obama "black hope" cult, with anarchy breakouts on the streets. Now there are Hillary "dynasty" cult for SJW, welfare moochers and the rest of left wing defending their "champion" with zeal. And Trump "black horse " or "outsider" cult for everyone upset with the establishment, current society and economy state, and willing to oversee eccentric personality over the party program - also defending their "champion" with equal zeal.
     
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    Yes. Just witnessed it in your regrettable post.
     
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    Hillary's resident CIA agent has said Putin did it.

    Whatever's bad, Putin did it. :roflol:
     
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    I'm confused, are you saying Russia and Putin are a threat to the US or national security? Just want to know your position on this before I quote Obama from 2012.
     
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    Our choice is between one with the maturity of a child and another with the moral integrity of your average criminal. Which is less damaging to the country? Who the hell knows, so I guess we are all gonna take our chances with whoever best fits our politics. The same as we always do.
     
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