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Today's News (2020/1/12)
Jan. 12th, 2020 11:57 pmPelosi says Trump ‘impeached for life’ despite McConnell’s ‘gamesmanship,’ ‘coverup’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/pelosi-says-trump-impeached-for-life-despite-mcconnells-gamesmanship-coverup/2020/01/12/4e75531a-3544-11ea-9541-9107303481a4_story.html
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Sunday that President Trump is “impeached for life” regardless of “any gamesmanship” by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), whom she accused of orchestrating a “coverup” of Trump’s actions as the Senate waits for the House to transmit the articles of impeachment.
Challenging McConnell to hold a serious trial that includes testimony from witnesses, Pelosi did not rule out the possibility that the House would subpoena former national security adviser John Bolton if the Senate chooses not to. She repeatedly chastised McConnell for signaling that he is not interested in fully weighing the House’s charges.
“Dismissing is a coverup. Dismissing is a coverup. If they want to go that route again, the senators who are thinking now about voting for witnesses or not — they will have to be accountable for not having a fair trial,” Pelosi said on ABC News’s “This Week.”
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https://twitter.com/Stonekettle/status/1216376068048859136
The Secretary Of Defense DIDN'T see the intelligence. [Intelligence which 45 claims indicated four US embassies were under immediate threat]
Secretary of Defense didn't see the intelligence THAT HE IS PERSONALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR, that was the justification for military strikes THAT HE WAS PERSONALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR.
Let that sink in.
What embassies?
Four embassies were in danger? Which ones? Where? Were non essential personnel evacuated? Were addition security measures put in place? Was congress briefed?
What embassies?
Why isn't the Press asking?
The vast majority of US Intelligence works for the Secretary of Defense. The CIA, DIA, NSA, Army, Navy, AF Intel, and the Secretary of Defense didn't see the intelligence.
So ... WHO briefed the President? And why wasn't the SecDef briefed? How is that even possible?
Why hasn't the SecDef BEEN briefed in the time since?
HOW are the agencies that WORK FOR THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE bypassing him to brief the president directly?
I mean, what's HIS job then?
The hell is going on here?
[Relevant video at link]
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https://twitter.com/RepAdamSchiff/status/1216500725993394183
Representative Adam Schiff
Trump has made it clear he wants no trial, no witnesses, no documents, no verdict.
He wants the case dismissed, so Americans never know the extent of his efforts to get Ukraine to help him cheat in the election.
But the Senators must decide: will they insist on a fair trial?
[Includes link to Trump tweet saying that an actual impeachment trial - as required by the Constitution - would give the impeachment "credibility that it otherwise does not have."]
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Ben Wallace interview: We can’t rely on US
The defence secretary says it is important for Britain’s armed forces to ‘diversify’ in the Trump era, while online encryption presents a host of new threats
Britain must prepare to fight wars without America, the defence secretary has warned, amid concerns that President Donald Trump will pursue an ever more isolationist foreign policy.
In an interview with The Sunday Times, Ben Wallace admitted that the prospect of America withdrawing from the world “keeps me awake at night”.
He said the government needed to rethink military assumptions, in place since 2010, that the UK would always be fighting alongside the Americans — and should use the upcoming defence review to buy new kit to insure that the armed forces do not have to rely on US air cover and spy planes in future conflicts.
[NOTE: Business Insider has additional quotes if you don't/can't see the Times version.
https://www.businessinsider.com/uk-abandoning-trump-iran-us-withdraw-leadership-world-qassem-soleiman2020-1
]
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An Iranian-born woman held at the Canadian border for 11 hours tells her story
The Bellevue woman, who works at Microsoft, was held by U.S. Border Patrol with dozens of others.
https://crosscut.com/2020/01/iranian-born-woman-held-canadian-border-11-hours-tells-her-story
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Arizona Republican Proposes Trio of Laws That Would Allow Schools to Discriminate Against Transgender Students
https://www.newsweek.com/arizona-republican-proposes-trio-laws-that-would-allow-schools-discriminate-against-transgender-1480960
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/pelosi-says-trump-impeached-for-life-despite-mcconnells-gamesmanship-coverup/2020/01/12/4e75531a-3544-11ea-9541-9107303481a4_story.html
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Sunday that President Trump is “impeached for life” regardless of “any gamesmanship” by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), whom she accused of orchestrating a “coverup” of Trump’s actions as the Senate waits for the House to transmit the articles of impeachment.
Challenging McConnell to hold a serious trial that includes testimony from witnesses, Pelosi did not rule out the possibility that the House would subpoena former national security adviser John Bolton if the Senate chooses not to. She repeatedly chastised McConnell for signaling that he is not interested in fully weighing the House’s charges.
“Dismissing is a coverup. Dismissing is a coverup. If they want to go that route again, the senators who are thinking now about voting for witnesses or not — they will have to be accountable for not having a fair trial,” Pelosi said on ABC News’s “This Week.”
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https://twitter.com/Stonekettle/status/1216376068048859136
The Secretary Of Defense DIDN'T see the intelligence. [Intelligence which 45 claims indicated four US embassies were under immediate threat]
Secretary of Defense didn't see the intelligence THAT HE IS PERSONALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR, that was the justification for military strikes THAT HE WAS PERSONALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR.
Let that sink in.
What embassies?
Four embassies were in danger? Which ones? Where? Were non essential personnel evacuated? Were addition security measures put in place? Was congress briefed?
What embassies?
Why isn't the Press asking?
The vast majority of US Intelligence works for the Secretary of Defense. The CIA, DIA, NSA, Army, Navy, AF Intel, and the Secretary of Defense didn't see the intelligence.
So ... WHO briefed the President? And why wasn't the SecDef briefed? How is that even possible?
Why hasn't the SecDef BEEN briefed in the time since?
HOW are the agencies that WORK FOR THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE bypassing him to brief the president directly?
I mean, what's HIS job then?
The hell is going on here?
[Relevant video at link]
-----
https://twitter.com/RepAdamSchiff/status/1216500725993394183
Representative Adam Schiff
Trump has made it clear he wants no trial, no witnesses, no documents, no verdict.
He wants the case dismissed, so Americans never know the extent of his efforts to get Ukraine to help him cheat in the election.
But the Senators must decide: will they insist on a fair trial?
[Includes link to Trump tweet saying that an actual impeachment trial - as required by the Constitution - would give the impeachment "credibility that it otherwise does not have."]
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Ben Wallace interview: We can’t rely on US
The defence secretary says it is important for Britain’s armed forces to ‘diversify’ in the Trump era, while online encryption presents a host of new threats
Britain must prepare to fight wars without America, the defence secretary has warned, amid concerns that President Donald Trump will pursue an ever more isolationist foreign policy.
In an interview with The Sunday Times, Ben Wallace admitted that the prospect of America withdrawing from the world “keeps me awake at night”.
He said the government needed to rethink military assumptions, in place since 2010, that the UK would always be fighting alongside the Americans — and should use the upcoming defence review to buy new kit to insure that the armed forces do not have to rely on US air cover and spy planes in future conflicts.
[NOTE: Business Insider has additional quotes if you don't/can't see the Times version.
https://www.businessinsider.com/uk-abandoning-trump-iran-us-withdraw-leadership-world-qassem-soleiman2020-1
]
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An Iranian-born woman held at the Canadian border for 11 hours tells her story
The Bellevue woman, who works at Microsoft, was held by U.S. Border Patrol with dozens of others.
https://crosscut.com/2020/01/iranian-born-woman-held-canadian-border-11-hours-tells-her-story
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Arizona Republican Proposes Trio of Laws That Would Allow Schools to Discriminate Against Transgender Students
https://www.newsweek.com/arizona-republican-proposes-trio-laws-that-would-allow-schools-discriminate-against-transgender-1480960
