Amerika du hast es besser

[ErpelderNacht]

Dann schauen wir uns mal an, was im Memo drinsteht.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/02/02/the-full-nunes-memo-annotated/?
http://archive.is/mnXGN
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Fazit:
- Mit diesem Memo wurden genügend Zweifel an den Russia-Collusion Untersuchungen gestreut, dass jede Aktion Muellers Trump nicht mehr schaden wird.
- Die Aufmerksamkeit ist jetzt auf die seltsamen Aktivitäten der Demokraten bezüglich des Pipi-Dossiers und auf zwielichtige Beziehungen von FBI- und DOJ-Leuten zu den Demokraten und ihnen zuzuordnenden Firmen und Personen gerichtet. 
- Einen neuen Watergate-Skandal sehe ich - noch - nicht, da können sich die Dems noch rauswieseln. Das sieht zwar nicht gut für sie aus, aber das kann man alles noch auf einen kleinen Personenkreis beschränken und aussitzen.

Mal schauen, wie die Reaktion der Dems aussehen wird. 

Es gibt was Neues:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/about-that-fbi-source-1525992611
http://archive.li/PEEer?

About That FBI 'Source'
Did the bureau engage in outright spying against the 2016 Trump campaign?
The Department of Justice lost its latest battle with Congress Thursday when it agreed to brief House Intelligence Committee members about a top-secret intelligence source that was part of the FBI's investigation of the Trump campaign. Even without official confirmation of that source's name, the news so far holds some stunning implications.

Das fängt ja spannend an. 

Among them is that the Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation outright hid critical information from a congressional investigation. In a Thursday press conference, Speaker Paul Ryan bluntly noted that Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes's request for details on this secret source was "wholly appropriate," "completely within the scope" of the committee's long-running FBI investigation, and "something that probably should have been answered a while ago." Translation: The department knew full well it should have turned this material over to congressional investigators last year, but instead deliberately concealed it.

Hat man etwas zu verbergen? 

House investigators nonetheless sniffed out a name, and Mr. Nunes in recent weeks issued a letter and a subpoena demanding more details. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein's response was to double down—accusing the House of "extortion" and delivering a speech in which he claimed that "declining to open the FBI's files to review" is a constitutional "duty." Justice asked the White House to back its stonewall. And it even began spinning that daddy of all superspook arguments—that revealing any detail about this particular asset could result in "loss of human lives."

Die ultimative Ausrede.

This is desperation, and it strongly suggests that whatever is in these files is going to prove very uncomfortable to the FBI.

The bureau already has some explaining to do. Thanks to the Washington Post's unnamed law-enforcement leakers, we know Mr. Nunes's request deals with a "top secret intelligence source" of the FBI and CIA, who is a U.S. citizen and who was involved in the Russia collusion probe. When government agencies refer to sources, they mean people who appear to be average citizens but use their profession or contacts to spy for the agency. Ergo, we might take this to mean that the FBI secretly had a person on the payroll who used his or her non-FBI credentials to interact in some capacity with the Trump campaign.

So eine Art Inoffizielle Mitarbeiter in Stasi-Manier?

This would amount to spying, and it is hugely disconcerting. It would also be a major escalation from the electronic surveillance we already knew about, which was bad enough. Obama political appointees rampantly "unmasked" Trump campaign officials to monitor their conversations, while the FBI played dirty with its surveillance warrant against Carter Page, failing to tell the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that its supporting information came from the Hillary Clinton campaign. Now we find it may have also been rolling out human intelligence, John Le Carré style, to infiltrate the Trump campaign.

Uiuiui....ein ganz wichtiger Absatz. Die FISA-Warrants mit dem Pipi-Dossier war ja schon eine schmierige Sache, aber ein Spion mitten in der Trump-Kampagne, platziert durch das FBI, das wäre noch eine Stufe schärfer. Mal schauen wie sich diese Story entwickelt. 

[Lt.Havoc]

Ach ja, Wall Street Journal, teil des Rupert Murdoc Medienkonzerns, das die solch einen Artikel verfassen würde, war mir ja schon klar, WSJ hat ja stark nachgelassen seit der Übername. Alle ähnlichen Artikel kommen übrigens von rechts außen webseiten und führen alle zurück zum WSJ, also würde ich sagen, das dieser Artikel keine wert hat und totaler bullshit ist, wie immer also.

Aber was man halt nicht alles tut, damit die Verschwörungstheorie des Deep State FBI plot irgendwie überlebt. Ist schon witzig, sollte das alles war sein, müsste man mal gucken ob J Edgar Hoover von den toten auferstanden ist.

[Peiresc]

Das fängt ja spannend an.

#2426.

[Peiresc]

Scott Pruitt's EPA and the White House sought to block publication of a federal health study on a nationwide water-contamination crisis, after one Trump administration aide warned it would cause a "public relations nightmare," newly disclosed emails reveal.
[...]
More than three months later, the draft study remains unpublished, and the HHS unit says it has no scheduled date to release it for public comment.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/14/emails-white-house-interfered-with-science-study-536950

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Trump vs. the "Deep State". How the Administration's loyalists are quietly reshaping American governance.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/05/21/trump-vs-the-deep-state
[...]
Within the department, Zinke has adopted the President's approach to expertise, loyalty, and dissent. In April, 2017, a scientist named Joel Clement, the director of the department's Office of Policy Analysis, visited Zinke for a briefing. He noticed that Zinke had redecorated the office with a grizzly bear, mounted on its hind legs, and a collection of knives. Zinke has no professional experience in geology, but he routinely describes himself as a "geologist," because he majored in geology in college. (In a 2016 memoir, "American Commander," Zinke wrote that he chose it by "randomly pointing to a major from the academic catalog.") "He doesn't read briefing materials," Clement told me. "He comes over and sits down, and he says, 'O.K., what are we here for?' " To keep Zinke's attention, staff hewed to subjects related to his personal experience. "I briefed him on invasive species," Clement said. "It was one issue where it looked like we might actually get a little traction, because in Montana they had just discovered mussels that could really screw up the agricultural economy." The strategy failed. "He didn't understand what we were talking about. He started talking about other species—ravens and coyotes. He was filling the intellectual vacuum with nonsense. It's amazing that he has such confidence, given his level of ignorance."

Zahlreiche weitere Beispiele, wie die Funktionsfähigkeit der Behörden torpediert wird. Gegen Ende kurzer Bericht über die Dysfunktionalität der amerikanischen Administration nach der Invasion im Irak. Frühe Fehlentscheidungen haben Langzeit-Auswirkungen.

The early mistakes in Iraq were like land mines sown in the soil. They continued erupting for years, in the form of division and decay. Similarly, the mistakes that the Trump Administration has made are likely to multiply: the dismantling of the State Department; the denigration of the civil service; the exclusion of experts on Iran and climate change; the fictional statistics about undocumented immigrants; and the effort to squelch dissent across the government. Absent a radical change, the Administration has no mechanism for self-correction. It will not get normal; it will get worse.

(meine Hervorhebung)

[Lt.Havoc]

Also die Administration ist in Selbstzerstörungsmodus und schafft sich über kurz oder lang selber ab. Der Verfall ist da und schreitet mit großen Schritten voran.

[Peiresc]

Er kriegt kalte Füße / wird erpresst / ist plötzlich delirant geworden / Xi wischt den Fußboden mit ihm

Alt. U.S. Press Sec. hält Erklärung (4) für die wahrscheinlichste:

It's more simple: Trump pushes tarrifs, Xi told a manufacturer to halt production, China used NoKo as leverage, and Trump spun like a top. Now Xi knows that as he opens China's markets, he can get whatever he wants from Trump by threatening a NoKo deal that will never finalize.

Vielleicht ist es aber noch einfacher:

WASHINGTON – A mere 72 hours after the Chinese government agreed to put a half-billion dollars into an Indonesian project that will personally enrich Donald Trump, the president ordered a bailout for a Chinese-government-owned cellphone maker.
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Trump did not mention in that tweet or its follow-ups that on Thursday, the developer of a theme park resort outside of Jakarta had signed a deal to receive as much as $500 million in Chinese government loans, as well as another $500 million from Chinese banks. Trump's family business, the Trump Organization, has a deal to license the Trump name to the resort, which includes a golf course and hotels.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-china-zte_us_5af9f701e4b0200bcab7fa66

[Peiresc]

N. Korea cancels high-level talks with S. Korea over military drill
2018/05/16 03:29

SEOUL, May 16 (Yonhap) -- North Korea said Wednesday it is canceling high-level talks with South Korea planned for later in the day due to ongoing military exercises between the South and the United States.

The North's Korean Central News Agency said the Max Thunder drills between the South Korean and U.S. air forces are a rehearsal for invasion of the North and a provocation amid warming inter-Korean ties.

The high-level talks were meant to take place on the southern side of the truce village of Panmunjom to discuss follow-up measures to the two Korean leaders' summit last month.
(END)

Da ist denn wohl noch ein bissel was zu tun, bevor der Große und der Kleine Dicke zum Nobelpreis anstehen.

[ErpelderNacht]

Da ist denn wohl noch ein bissel was zu tun, bevor der Große und der Kleine Dicke zum Nobelpreis anstehen.

Jetzt, kurz vor dem Gipfel, setzt Kim das Preisschild hoch.
Es wird spannend. Sehr spannend.

[Peiresc]

Es wird spannend. Sehr spannend.

Die amerikanische Führung ist ratlos. Wenn sie zahm sind, dann wird es der nächste Fire-and-Fury-Tweet übern Haufen werfen. Oder wenn sie tough sind, dann kriegen sie widerliche Schmeicheleien für Kim um die Ohren gehauen.
Das State Dept. ist gelähmt, die Experten hat Tillerson rausgeworfen, und das Bauchgefühl des Präsidenten sagt momentan "öhm, sucht mir einen Demokraten, dem ich die Schuld geben kann".

Du hättest wahrscheinlich auch nach der Ermordung von Erzherzog Maximilian gesagt "es wird spannend".

[ErpelderNacht]

Wir werden noch mehr solcher Momente erleben, wo es so aussieht, dass die Gespräche scheitern. Das werden harte Verhandlungen, und das hier war erst der Auftakt.
Kim braucht auch Siege darin, sonst kann er die Ergebnisse seinem Regime und seinem Volk nicht verkaufen.

Kim scheint bereit zu sein, auf die Nuklearwaffen zu verzichten - und es muss ihm von den USA, Japan, China, Russland und Südkorea ein Weg eröffnet werden, wie er ohne Gesichtsverlust auf sie verzichten kann. Die Welt muss ihm seine persönliche Sicherheit, die seiner Familie und die seines Regimes und seiner Regimeanhänger in Nordkorea garantieren. 

Bloß keinen Gesichtsverlust. Kim darf nicht den Anschein geben, dass er sich unterwirft, das wäre ein Zeichen von Schwäche, gefährlich für einen Quasi-Gottkönig. Das muss etwas kosten. 

Und wenn die Südkoreaner für Kim ihre Manöver z.B. eine Woche früher beenden, dann ist das so ein Gewinn. Dem Süden kostet es nur wenig; die militärischen Kapazitäten sind ja trotzdem da. Mal schauen, wie sie das Problem lösen werden. 

Das Schöne für uns Zuschauer - und das Schwierige für die Beteiligten - an diesen Verhandlungen ist, dass sie das im Angesicht und der Aufmerksamkeit der ganzen Welt machen.
Kim muss das Gesicht wahren können, sonst wird das nix.

Ernsthaft: Welches Endergebnis würdet Ihr euch wünschen?

[Peiresc]

Donald Tusk
Verifizierter Account
@eucopresident

Looking at latest decisions of @realDonaldTrump someone could even think: with friends like that who needs enemies. But frankly, EU should be grateful. Thanks to him we got rid of all illusions. We realise that if you need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of your arm.

05:36 - 16. Mai 2018

[Peiresc]

Trump has set a self-defeating standard by talking with old friends and being unable 'to remember who he told what' a day later, a former senior aide says
But Press Secretary Sarah Sanders is focused on blaming aides who leak
'I've personally fired people over leaking before and we certainly would be very willing to do so again,' she vowed
www.dailymail.co.uk

Da wird sie also als nächsten mal den Präsidenten feuern müssen.

[Peiresc]

@SenatorLeahy to Scott Pruitt on his excuse for constant first-class travel—security threats

"What a silly reason to fly first class.... Nobody even knows who you are."

Ein schlimmeres Urteil kann es nicht geben, vgl. #2321. 

[Peiresc]

Wir werden noch mehr solcher Momente erleben, wo es so aussieht, dass die Gespräche scheitern. Das werden harte Verhandlungen, und das hier war erst der Auftakt.

Jon Favreau:
Wait, are you telling me that tweeting some crazy shit at a fellow madman wasn't the magic solution to a nuclear challenge that's eluded presidents of both parties for decades?

[Peiresc]

The Hill has a history of this sort of slip-up. On Election Day in 2016, the paper ran an op-ed by Michael Flynn praising Turkey and its president, without disclosing that Flynn was a paid agent of the Turkish government. Whoops! In general, the site's opinion section acts as a dumping ground for influence-peddling op-eds in Washington. On almost any issue, you can find several Hill op-eds supporting the case of big money interests: net neutrality (author: a fellow at the Koch-funded Mercatus Center); taxes (author: an ALEC executive); the minimum wage (author: a former Koch and ALEC employee); single payer (author: fellow at a Koch-aligned group). For well-funded non-profits—often with innocuous-sounding names and a web of rich donors with an agenda to push—placing op-eds in outlets like the Hill is a routine part of influence campaigns in DC.
https://splinternews.com/the-hill-ran-an-anti-iran-deal-op-ed-by-a-paid-agent-of-1826045693

Ob sie damit zu den Fake Media gehören?