“Former British ambassador Craig Murray said he has met the person who handed over the emails and they WERE from the Democratic National committee,” the report said. “The emails were released by Mr. Assange’s site and caused damage to Hillary Clinton’s reputation with a number of shock revelations among tens of thousands of emails.”

But Murray told reporters: “I’ve met the person who leaked them, and they are certainly not Russian and it’s an insider. It’s a leak, not a hack; the two are different things.”

He continued: “As Julian Assange has made crystal clear, the leaks did not come from the Russians. As I have explained countless times, they are not hacks, they are insider leaks – there is a major difference between the two.”

 

Anger on Capitol Hill boiled over Wednesday night after the intelligence community’s alleged “intransigence” forced the cancellation of a House Intelligence Committee briefing on claims of Russian interference in the U.S. election.

"Somebody has the time to leak it to The Washington Post and The New York Times, but they don’t have the time to come to Congress," Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., a member of the committee, told Fox News' "The Kelly File." "It’s their job to come. They don’t have any choice. They have to come in, especially when they have created this."

Amid concerns about reports that conflict with details previously provided to the committee, Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., originally had requested a closed, classified briefing for members from the FBI, CIA, Office of the Director of National Intelligence and National Security Agency.

But Fox News was told the CIA Director John Brennan declined to provide a briefer, citing its focus on the full review requested by President Obama. The other agencies did not respond to the committee’s request, which is unusual given the panel is the most-senior committee with jurisdiction.

Nunes had to cancel the briefing in response.

"It is unacceptable that the Intelligence Community directors would not fulfill the House Intelligence Committee’s request to be briefed tomorrow on the cyber-attacks that occurred during the presidential campaign," Nunes said in a statement. "The Committee is deeply concerned that intransigence in sharing intelligence with Congress can enable the manipulation of intelligence for political purposes."

King pointed out the irony in the lack of cooperation.

"The consensus was that there was an attempt by the Russians to put a cloud over the election, to create disunity. Well, that’s what’s happening right now, but it’s the intelligence community that’s doing it,” he said.

King added that lawmakers have not received any assessment from the CIA that Russia interfered to help Trump win the presidency over Hillary Clinton, allegations first reported by The Washington Post Friday.

The intelligence community defended its position late Wednesday, releasing a statement noting senior administration officials regularly provide “extensive, detailed classified and unclassified briefings to members and staff from both parties on Capitol Hill.”

 

‘I Thought You Guys Didn’t Like Polls’: Chris Cuomo Hits RNC Spox For Citing Trump’s Approval Rating

 

It takes one to know one doesn't it little rabbit. Because that's exactly the same thing you did with me when I challenged you.

 

what poll am I talking about....

 

That is an obvious bald faced lie. The Russians did not just release information. The Russians hacked into the DNC, DCCC , Podesta's email account, possibly the RNC and many other government agencies and institutions.

Stop trying to spread this false right wing pro Russian propaganda.

Now watch you contradict yourself. Because here you admit electors in many states are not bound to vote for the candidate who won their state and can cast a vote for someone else.

But then just a little while later you act dumb again.

We hold elections to determine who wins the electoral college. But the constitution provides a check and balance for electors to keep unqualified and/or criminals from becoming president.

 

Y0u were talking about the popular vote and the electoral votes and I am pointing out ..,..

.....Cuomo then went on to explain why Trump’s victory couldn’t be seen as overwhelming, stating that it is one of the lowest electoral margins in history. When Spicer replied that CNN and the rest of the media thought Trump was going to get crushed, Cuomo asked “how is that relevant” and proceeded to tell his guest that Trump lost the popular vote by millions and that it all came down to about 100,000 votes in three swing states.

 

Texas electors face threats for defecting: ‘Vote for Trump or we rape your wife and daughters’
A former Texas elector said this week that he and others had faced threats for refusing to cast their votes for President-elect Donald Trump.

After the election last month, Art Sisneros announced that he was resigning as an elector because he did not think Trump was “biblically qualified” to be president.

Sisneros revealed in an interview published by Texas Monthly on Tuesday that Christopher Suprun, an elector who lives in Dallas, faced violent threats after he said that he would cast his vote for “an honorable and qualified man or woman such as Gov. John Kasich of Ohio.”

According to Sisneros, Suprun asked him to share one of the threats in a Facebook post earlier this month.

“You vote for Trump or we rape your wife and daughters with a knife before we kill you. Do as told or face consequences,” the threat warned.

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“[H]e asked us to share that,” Sisneros explained. “He’s getting a lot of ugly stuff, as did I.”

Sisneros said that while left-leaning groups and so-called Hamilton Electors were diplomatic in their attempts to influence his electoral vote, “the Trump supporters and the people on the right thought that I absolutely had to vote for Trump, and to do otherwise was some kind of treasonous act.”


“They were far more aggressive and far more nasty,” he observed. “I received a lot of threats. I just didn’t think it would do any good to share them or make a big deal out of them. There were several nasty ones—to vote for Trump, or else. Some of them were pretty vague like, ‘We’re going to hunt you down,’ that kind of stuff. Some were like, ‘We’re going to find out where you work and come after you.'”

 

what does the popular vote have to do with a poll you asked me about.....

seems overwhelming to you and all the others that are crying about it.....

 

Stumbly thinks that whoever California picks should be the president, well Cali and NY if those two choose someone then fuck the rest of the country. They don't fucking matter.

 

Trump lost the popular vote by millions and that it all came down to about 100,000 votes in three swing states.

 

Trump allies turn up in Moscow to talk end to sanctions and bash critical Putin news as ‘fake’

Some of Donald Trump’s former campaign advisors are spending this week in Moscow, as questions swirl about Russia’s involvement in the U.S. election and the president-elect’s foreign business interests.

Jack Kingston, the former Republican congressman from Georgia, met Monday with American businesspeople in the Russian capital to discuss what changes they might expect in the relationship between the two nations, reported NPR.

Trump said during his campaign that he would reconsider sanctions against Russia that were imposed after its armed intervention in Ukraine, which the Kremlin and foreign companies that do business in Moscow sorely want lifted.

“Trump can look at sanctions,” Kingston told the network during his overseas visit. “They’ve been in place long enough. Has the desired result been reached? He doesn’t have to abide by the Obama foreign policy. That gives him a fresh start.”

Kingston told NPR that he’d met mostly with business leaders in Moscow but not Russian government officials or American diplomats.

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He urged business leaders to step up and engage in “soft diplomacy.”

That same day, Trump formally announced he had chosen Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson as his nominee to oversee U.S. diplomatic relations as secretary of state.

Tillerson and Exxon had reached an agreement on oil exploration in 63.6 million acres of the Russian Arctic, but that deal — worth up to $500 billion — was put on hold in 2014 after sanctions were imposed.

Trump’s nominee says he got to know Russian President Vladimir Putin while serving as chief executive of the world’s largest oil and gas company.

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Kingston’s visit coincided with another former Trump advisor’s visit to Moscow.

Carter Page, who previously advised Trump on energy and Russia policy, gave a lecture this week at the headquarters for the state-run Sputnik network on global economic stagnation, security threats and fake news.

Page, who is currently under FBI investigation for alleged ties to Russia that caused him to leave the Trump campaign, blamed the U.S. for “arrogant” policies toward the Kremlin and expressed excitement about upcoming changes.

“One of the big news issues and something people are keeping an eye for, and something that will be very important as we watch the new administration develop, who will be our new secretary of state,” Page said.

Page, who worked for Russian Gazprom in the 1990s, left the Trump campaign in September over reports that he’d met with high-level officials in Moscow — where he condemned the U.S. and its NATO allies for their “hypocritical focus on ideas such as democratization, inequality, corruption and regime change.”

He said it was “too early to say” whether sanctions would be lifted, but he blamed “false information” for “misunderstandings” about the Russia government.

“A lot of attempts that Putin tries to do, like fighting terrorism, are ignored by international community,” Page said.

He denied this week any formal involvement with the transition team, but he announced Tillerson as Trump’s pick before the president-elect told Americans.

“I’m very personally excited with this one small example, the major example, is Rex Tillerson being the Order of Friendship, the major ventures he worked to create in Black Sea, the list goes on,” Page said. “Actions speak louder than words, there’s certainly a lot of ways we can certainly work together.”

 

Maybe Hillary should have set foot in Wisconsin if she wanted then to vote for her....

If you ever look at her travel schedule she spent more time raising money tan campaigning.....

 

Kind of early in the day to be hitting the sauce that hard isn't in RandyKnight? Its only early afternoon and already you can't hardly type. I sure hope you are not going to try to drive.

 

what part of, you backed a flawed candidate dont you understand......

I have never typed or spelled very well.....not drinking.....

 

Relations with Russia is an area where I agree with Donald Trump. I am confident that Russia does not want to conquer Western Europe. I am unwilling to fight Russia to oppose Russian efforts to conquer what was part of the Russian Empire prior to World War I.

In Afghanistan the Russians learned, and in Afghanistan and Iraq we have learned that it is unwise to occupy hostile populations that are willing to fight back. If the Russians are foolish enough to conquer the Ukraine and Poland they will learn this once again. When the Russians tried to conquer Finland prior to the German invasion of them, the Russians lost 200,000 dead to 50,000 on the Finish side.

When the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact collapsed it was time to dismantle NATO. Moving NATO to the east was provocative and humiliating to the Russian people.

During the 1990's the Russian bear was wounded. I knew that the Russian bear would recover, and that it was unwise to give it additional wounds it would want to avenge when it recovered.

 

1,200 historians warn Trump is poised to use ‘hysteria and untruths to trample people’s rights’

More than 1,200 scholars who study U.S. history and related fields have signed a statement warning American citizens of frightening parallels they see between the atmosphere surrounding Donald Trump’s election and the hysteria surrounding Joe McCarthy’s anti-Communist witch hunts in the 1950s.

Per Mother Jones, the scholars believe Trump’s rhetoric and demagoguery are similar to not only that of Joe McCarthy, but of the kind of rhetoric used to justify the mass internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.

“Looking back to history provides copious lessons on what is at stake when we allow hysteria and untruths to trample people’s rights,” the scholars write. “We know the consequences, and it is possible, with vigilance and a clear eye on history, to prevent tragedy before it is too late.”

Specifically, the scholars note that some Trump advocates have actually cited the internment of Japanese Americans as a precedent for creating a nationwide “Muslim registry.” They also note that one Trump supporter has created a “watchlist” for professors who allegedly hold “anti-American” views.

Read the whole statement at this link.

 

Conversely, why bother having an election at all if those voting are required to vote in a particular way?