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originally posted by: YouMightFindYourself
a reply to: Guyfriday
The paintings are supposedly from the The Biltmore Estate in North Carolina. The picture you’re referencing resonates with me in the same manner but my logical self needs more.
(Buzzfeed) […] I’d also like to share an accounting of how we came to our characterization, to give our audience and people who reasonably raised questions about our reporting as much information as possible about how the story came to be.
Our story was based on detailed information from senior law enforcement sources. That reporting included documents — specifically, pages of notes that were taken during an interview of [Michael] Cohen by the FBI.
originally posted by: CoramDeo
a reply to: interupt42
a reply to: crankyoldman
I42, I had a secondary thought that maybe with Bronfman taking a deal,in that part of any deal would likely be to stop paying for Raniere's legal counsel. He's holding out now and peading not guilty, but how will that change when his A+ legal team is no longer getting paid by his rich benefactor.
Raniere doesn't strike me as someone who is so nobel in his beliefs that he would take the fall for all of this. To be sure, those who have taken deals below him will certainly be testifying against him. He has nowhere to go but up and out at this point if he wants to save his skin.
originally posted by: carewemust
RE: theconservativetreehouse.com...
Rudy Giuliani said today that the Trump Administration counter-report may not be ready for another week or two. They are gaining release of certain testimonies and documents that are now classified. Those will be included in the report.
It's going to be a BLOCKBUSTER!
Russian operatives used cryptocurrency at almost every stage in their online efforts to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, according to Special Counsel Robert Mueller's final report on his investigation. Systems used in the hacking of the Democratic Party were paid for using Bitcoin, as were online hosting services that supported websites which published hacked materials and were used in the targeting of disinformation at American voters. The hacking and disinformation campaigns accounted for the vast majority of Russia's online efforts to influence the 2016 election. All Bitcoin transactions are posted to an immutable public ledger, known as a blockchain. While the blockchain doesn't contain obvious identifying information about the person behind a transaction, once someone figures out a user is responsible for one transaction it can be possible to track their entire Bitcoin history.
trading Bitcoins on exchanges usually requires users to set up Bitcoin wallets that are tied to an email address. Federal investigators were able to access at least some of the email accounts used in the operation, which, Cotten says, would have made tracing Bitcoin transactions a lot easier. Investigators' access to "the other side of the blockchain equation," as he described it, was important because, "Rather than having to search the blockchain for clues, they already had all of the receipts demonstrating which accounts were under the GRU's control."
originally posted by: xuenchen
originally posted by: carewemust
RE: theconservativetreehouse.com...
Rudy Giuliani said today that the Trump Administration counter-report may not be ready for another week or two. They are gaining release of certain testimonies and documents that are now classified. Those will be included in the report.
It's going to be a BLOCKBUSTER!
It will be a glorious blockbuster that will bring history into a new level of Qonsciousness.............😎
(CNN)The partisan warfare over the Mueller report will rage, but one thing cannot be denied: Former President Barack Obama looks just plain bad. On his watch, the Russians meddled in our democracy while his administration did nothing about it. The Mueller report flatly states that Russia began interfering in American democracy in 2014.
Over the next couple of years, the effort blossomed into a robust attempt to interfere in our 2016 presidential election. The Obama administration knew this was going on and yet did nothing. In 2016, Obama's National Security Adviser Susan Rice told her staff to "stand down" and "knock it off" as they drew up plans to "strike back" against the Russians, according to an account from Michael Isikoff and David Corn in their book "Russian Roulette
A legitimate question Republicans are asking is whether the potential "collusion" narrative was invented to cover up the Obama administration's failures. Two years have been spent fomenting the idea that Russia only interfered because it had a willing, colluding partner: Trump. Now that Mueller has popped that balloon, we must ask why this collusion narrative was invented in the first place.
originally posted by: FlyingFox
Interesting admission by CNN:
www.cnn.com...