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Tom Clancy?
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That guy would be an awesome spymaster.
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Strat wrote:
Dan Rather

Watergate is the biggest political scandal of my lifetime, until maybe now. It was the closest we came to a debilitating Constitutional crisis, until maybe now. On a 10 scale of armageddon for our form of government, I would put Watergate at a 9. This Russia scandal is currently somewhere around a 5 or 6, in my opinion, but it is cascading in intensity seemingly by the hour. And we may look back and see, in the end, that it is at least as big as Watergate. It may become the measure by which all future scandals are judged. It has all the necessary ingredients, and that is chilling.

When we look back at Watergate, we remember the end of the Nixon Presidency. It came with an avalanche, but for most of the time my fellow reporters and I were chasing down the story it rumbled along with a low-grade intensity. We never were quite sure how much we would find out about what really happened. In the end, the truth emerged into the light, and President Nixon descended into infamy.

This Russia story started out with an avalanche and where we go from here no one really knows. Each piece of news demands new questions. We are still less than a month into the Trump Presidency, and many are asking that question made famous by Tennessee Senator Howard Baker those many years ago: "What did the President know, and when did he know it?" New reporting suggests that Mr. Trump knew for weeks. We can all remember the General Michael Flynn's speech from the Republican National Convention - "Lock her up!" in regards to Hillary Clinton. If Hillary Clinton had done one tenth of what Mr. Flynn had done, she likely would be in jail. And it isn't just Mr. Flynn, how far does this go?

The White House has no credibility on this issue. Their spigot of lies - can't we finally all agree to call them lies - long ago lost them any semblance of credibility. I would also extend that to the Republican Congress, who has excused away the Trump Administration's assertions for far too long.

We need an independent investigation. Damn the lies, full throttle forward on the truth. If a scriptwriter had approached Hollywood with what we are witnessing, he or she would probably have been told it was way too far-fetched for even a summer blockbuster. But this is not fiction. It is real and it is serious. Deadly serious. We deserve answers and those who are complicit in this scandal need to feel the full force of justice.
Dan Rather is exactly fucking right. Spot-on right.

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Rand Paul is merely disappointing. Fuck Dan Rather, amirite guys? Amirite?!
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Dan Rather is a national fucking treasure and burt needs to shut the fuck up
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Mr. "Third Place in the Ratings" needs to crawl back under whatever rock he hid under when he got fired for making up fake news.

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That shirt is the tits.
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Not bad.
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B looks kinda like auron from final fantasy 10
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Reuters:
Exclusive: U.S. arrests Mexican immigrant in Seattle covered by Obama program

U.S. authorities have arrested an immigrant from Mexico who was brought to the United States illegally as a child and later given a work permit during the Obama administration in what could be the first detention of its kind under President Donald Trump.

Daniel Ramirez Medina, a 23-year-old with no criminal record, was taken into custody last week at his father's home in Seattle by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. The officers arrived at the home to arrest the man's father, though court documents did not make clear the reason the father was taken into custody.

Ramirez, now in custody in Tacoma, Washington, was granted temporary permission to live and work legally in the United States under a program called the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, established in 2012 by Democratic President Obama, according to a court filing.
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Real question: what happens if Flynn decides that he's in legal danger?
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McParadigm wrote: Real question: what happens if Flynn decides that he's in legal danger?

What does he know and what how far will he go in revealing it?
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dimejinky99 wrote:
McParadigm wrote: Real question: what happens if Flynn decides that he's in legal danger?

What does he know and what how far will he go in revealing it?
He'll spill it all once he's looking at a treason charge.
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tragabigzanda wrote:
dimejinky99 wrote:
McParadigm wrote: Real question: what happens if Flynn decides that he's in legal danger?

What does he know and what how far will he go in revealing it?
He'll spill it all once he's looking at a treason charge.
Or....Trump will have him taken out before he can spill anything
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These guys always get pardoned.
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tragabigzanda wrote:
dimejinky99 wrote:
McParadigm wrote: Real question: what happens if Flynn decides that he's in legal danger?

What does he know and what how far will he go in revealing it?
He'll spill it all once he's looking at a treason charge.
Do we even bother trying to go after people for treason anymore? Or is that sedition that's hard to prove?
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He could bring the whole game down. Who's responsible for the questioning and pursuit of truth here?
Look to me like everyone's either afraid of trumps administration or out to get them no matter what. So it's flawed either way in terms of truth.
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