Comments by "" (@DavidJ222) on "Sen. Joe Manchin: This isn't the Lindsey Graham I know" video.

  1. Don Caligua Trump is now going after the current Director of the FBI Christopher Wray, the very guy he handpicked himself. If Don Caligua is attacking Wray, it can only mean that Wray  has refused to "bend the knee" and become another one of Trump's loyal objects, who's willing to subvert justice, and undermine the law in order to protect Trump. Trump is doing to the FBI, what Putin has only dreamed of doing. Trump is engaged in an all out war on the FBI, America's top investigative agency, the agency responsible for protecting America from acts of espionage from Russia, and from cyber-attacks. Trump has already removed the most experienced and qualified people from the FBI.  Let that sink in for a moment.
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  2. Michael Hayden, the former head of the CIA and National Security Agency, said Kushner, who discussed plans with the Russan Ambassador, to establish a secret communication channel with the Kremlin — using Russian facilities — without any monitoring by the U.S. was “off the map” and like nothing he has seen in his lifetime. “What manner of ignorance, chaos, hubris, suspicion, contempt would you have to have to think that doing this with the Russian ambassador was a good or an appropriate idea?” Hayden stated.  On December 13th, 2016, at Russian Ambassador Kislyak’s urging, Kushner met with Sergey Gorkov, a Russian banker who is close to Putin. Again, what jumps out from Kushner’s account of the meeting is the easy access that the Russians had—“I agreed to meet Mr. Gorkov because the Russian Ambassador has been so insistent,” and “said he had a direct relationship with” Putin, Kushner noted—and the obvious attempts to soften up Trump’s closest aides and family members. Gorkov, whose bank, Vnesheconombank, was affected by the Obama Administration’s sanctions against Russia.. Hayden was also convinced the Trump Tower meeting was a classic “soft approach” by Russian intelligence. Hayden argued that the meeting “is in line with what intelligence analysts would expect an overture in a Russian influence operation to look like,” and that it may have been the “green light Russia was looking for to launch a more aggressive phase of intervention in the U.S. election.” Hayden explained that the Russians would have learned several things from the approach. No. 1 “Would they take the meeting?  So, then you get the willingness.. No. 2, would they report the meeting?” Hayden suggested that Russian intelligence was sophisticated enough to know whether the Trump campaign reported the meeting to the F.B.I., which it didn’t. Not only did they not report the meeting, they lied about the meeting when asked.  So, while Kushner and Don. Jr claimed that the meetings were irrelevant, from a Russian intelligence perspective it would have been seen as a clear signal. “At the end, they have established that these guys are willing,” Hayden said, pausing. “How do I put this? They did not reject a relationship.”
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