A very large weapon of "mass distraction."

 I am on the road tonight, field hands.

But this Guardian story as reported in The Slatest got me to thinking.

"Buried in the last paragraph of a Guardian story about British intelligence alerting the U.S. to contact between Trump advisers and Russian officials is this sort-of bombshell

One source suggested the official [American] investigation was making progress. “They now have specific concrete and corroborative evidence of collusion,” the source said. “This is between people in the Trump campaign and agents of [Russian] influence relating to the use of hacked material.”

That's a bombshell because evidence that Trump advisers were involved in any way with the release of hacked Hillary Clinton-related emails would be an impeachment-level smoking gun in a scandal that currently involves a lot of reports about sketchy relationships but no proof of clearly illegal conduct. It's only sort of a bombshell because, well, who is this one random source and why does he/she seem to be the only person anywhere who knows this potentially world-shaking information?

Here's a McClatchy article about what former national intelligence director James Clapper said he knew about collusion when he left office in January:

Clapper ... said he knew of no evidence that members of Trump’s campaign had colluded with Russia during the election campaign and that no suggestion that they had was made in a January report on the subject.

“We did not include anything in our report … that had any reflection of collusion between members of the Trump campaign and the Russians,” he said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “There was no evidence of that included in our report. We had no evidence of such collusion.”

 

And here's Rep. Adam Schiff, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, answering CNN anchor Jake Tapper's April 2 question about whether evidence of collusion exists:

I don’t think we can say anything definitively at this point. We are still at the very early stages of the investigation.

 

(Update, 1:40 p.m.: I'm reminded that Schiff also said on March 22 that he'd seen "more than circumstantial evidence" of collusion—but then stopped short of saying that it was "direct" evidence.)

So ... where did the Guardian's source get this information? I guess we'll find out either soon, in a few months, or never!" [Source]

Is it any wonder that trump is dropping weapons of mass distraction in Afghanistan to distract from the more serious issues facing his administration.

Americans, of course, won't care. The fact that trump is dropping big bombs on evil doers (with nothing to show) will hold our attention for awhile
.   

 

Saving "our civilization", and being accountable for a lie.

I have never been to Iowa, and unless I have a very rich relative who lives there and says that as a condition of his or her will I have to visit, it's a safe bet that it is one place that I will never visit in my lifetime.

Visiting Iowa is just not on my bucket list of things to do before I visit that ganja farm in the sky.

Anyway, Iowa has been in the news recently because a person who the citizens of that state sent to Washington, Steve King, tweeted the following comment in support of Dutch politician, Geert Wilders:

"Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny. We can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies". [Source]

Oh boy!

Maybe it would be a good idea if republican politicians just stay off twitter for awhile.

Speaking of staying of twitter, Herr trump must be wishing that he did just that when he accused former president Obama of wiretapping his phone last week.

Now the house intelligence committee is demanding that trump provides proof or evidence that Barak Obama wiretapped trump tower by tomorrow. This should be fun. Since we all know that there is no  proof or evidence of such a wiretap, as we (like trump) know that it didn't happen.

Trump threw a grenade into the public discourse and ran off and hid, and now his surrogates and fellow gang members in the republican party are tired of answering for him while he sits back in the cut and says nothing.

"I think the president has one of two choices: either retract or to provide the information that the American people deserve, because, if his predecessor violated the law, President Obama violated the law, we have got a serious issue here, to say the least," Sen. John McCain said." [Source]

You can't just lie and hide from the lie forever. Even if you are the president of the United States.

*Pic from thinkprogress.com




 

Wrongdoing in New York but not with Benghazi.

And now this from the news you will never hear on FOX VIEWS department:




"The House Intelligence Committee, led by Republicans, has concluded that there was no deliberate wrongdoing by the Obama administration in the 2012 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans, said Rep. Mike Thompson of St. Helena, the second-ranking Democrat on the committee.


The panel voted Thursday to declassify the report, the result of two years of investigation by the committee. U.S. intelligence agencies will have to approve making the report public.


Thompson said the report "confirms that no one was deliberately misled, no military assets were withheld and no stand-down order (to U.S. forces) was given."


That conflicts with accusations of administration wrongdoing voiced by Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Vista (San Diego County), whose House Government Oversight and Reform Committee has held hearings on the Benghazi attack."


Oh my! What is the "car thief" going to do now? He wasted millions of dollars on his investigation witch-hunt to score political brownie points, and, as it turns out, he hid the truth from the country for over a year.




He went from stealing cars to stealing from the American people.




Now on to New York, where the videotaped chokehold killing of Eric Garner has spurred a new debate about police brutality and police misconduct.




The killing has been ruled a homicide by the New York City Medical Examiner's office, and the minority residence of the country's largest city are demanding justice.




I would like to say that justice will be forthcoming, but sadly, I am not that optimistic. Already we are learning that the citizen who bravely filmed the tragic incident has been arrested. (Mr. Orta, it might be time to leave New York)




Now, to add insult to death, the police union in New York has declared that the officer who murdered Mr. Garner was following proper police practices, and that the ME report was politically motivated. I have to give it to you boys in blue; you sure know how to get each other's back no matter what.




But this is the environment in which New Yorkers are seeking justice. Good luck with that.




Finally, did you hear the one about some dude who was trying to take a selfie with his gun and shot himself to death?  That's crazy, right? 




Well, you know what's really crazy?  Here in this country the NRA is advocating letting blind people own guns. Yep. As if it's not bad enough that children get their hands on guns with tragic results. Now we have to add blind people to the mix.




I bet Darrell Issa is a card carrying member of the NRA. They both deserve each other.