{"id":26328,"date":"2017-02-15T14:16:47","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T22:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=26328"},"modified":"2017-02-15T14:16:47","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T22:16:47","slug":"the-noose-tightens-or-does-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/02\/15\/the-noose-tightens-or-does-it\/","title":{"rendered":"The Noose Tightens, or Does It?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every day, we get more and more evidence implicating Putin’s Puppet and his deplorable minions in criminal collusion with a foreign power.  Most recently, we learned that there were repeated contacts between senior members of the Trump campaign and Russian Intelligence Officers at the same time that Russian Intelligence was interfering with the US election to help Trump usurp the Residency.  But will we see justice?<\/font><\/p>\n

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Phone records and intercepted calls show that members of Donald J. Trump\u2019s 2016 presidential campaign and other Trump associates had repeated contacts with senior Russian intelligence officials in the year before the election, according to four current and former American officials.<\/p>\n

American law enforcement and intelligence agencies intercepted the communications around the same time they were discovering evidence that Russia was trying to disrupt the presidential election by hacking into the Democratic National Committee, three of the officials said. The intelligence agencies then sought to learn whether the Trump campaign was colluding with the Russians on the hacking or other efforts to influence the election.<\/p>\n

The officials interviewed in recent weeks said that, so far, they had seen no evidence of such cooperation.<\/p>\n

But the intercepts alarmed American intelligence and law enforcement agencies, in part because of the amount of contact that was occurring while Mr. Trump was speaking glowingly<\/a> about the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin. At one point last summer, Mr. Trump said at a campaign event<\/a> that he hoped Russian intelligence services had stolen Hillary Clinton\u2019s emails and would make them public<\/strong>… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Even as this news came in, Rachael Maddow<\/a> was already wondering about justice for Republican crimes.  Here are three clips from her show.  In the first she delves into the litany of questions the Reich had generated, and how partisan loyalty (IOKIYAR) is interfering with investigations.<\/font><\/p>\n