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axeil posted:This is a "holy poo poo" level story. Multiple FinCEN employees are compromised/active Russian agents. More quote:Six sources told BuzzFeed News that at least two FinCEN analysts were reported to Treasury’s inspector general over suspicions that they might have been working against the interests of the US. I'm not being hyperbolic, these guys were literally acting as spies. Good god.
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axeil posted:This is a "holy poo poo" level story. Multiple FinCEN employees are compromised/active Russian agents. I know we've been saying this a lot but holy poo poo buzzfeed has been pulling some insane scoops lately
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Thanks for posting, axeil, this stuff is all hitting me at once and it's overwhelming.
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Riptor posted:Tell me more, noted real person name Z. Autobahn SA is very much NOT a massive public square? I use my real name on Facebook and Twitter?
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axeil posted:More even more, finCEN violated all the whistleblower protections the government is required to follow. quote:At least 10 FinCEN employees have filed formal whistleblower complaints about the department. The whistleblowers say they tried multiple times to raise concerns about issues they believed threatened national security, but that they faced retaliation instead of being heeded. Some of FinCEN’s top officials quit in anger. One senior adviser has been arrested and accused of releasing financial records to a journalist. and all the initial russian cooperation was just a smokescreen to get info on their enemies. the article doesn't say it, but i'm curious if the people they wanted info on are the same people who've turned up dead in the past 2 years. quote:Senior officials from the terror unit had multiple meetings with top officials at Rosfinmonitoring to discuss jointly tracking the financing of ISIS. Among the negotiators was the Russian financial watchdog’s second-in-command, Yuri Korotky. Korotky went to a KGB finishing school the same year that Putin finished his training there, and worked for its successor, the FSB, after the collapse of the Soviet Union. finCEN also employees some real dummies. quote:“They sent this to a GMAIL account? Is that normal?” she asked in an email to a half dozen colleagues on November 28, 2016. quote:“El-Hindi’s failure to make decisions is legend at FinCEN,” this official said. “At one point, the previous director had him put together a decision-making seminar in hopes he might learn how to decision-make.” BuzzFeed News sent El-Hindi detailed messages personally and through Treasury, but received no response. The previous director also did not respond to queries. If you haven't had a chance to read the article yet, I'd advise you to do it. This is Pulitzer-level reporting. https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedNews/status/1075810783957803008 axeil fucked around with this message at 20:31 on Dec 20, 2018 |
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Heads are going to roll, god drat, that is some of the most egregious poo poo. I remember back in 2016 there was some talk about a bunch of oddities around financial records of people in the Trump orbit that were either turning up missing, being accessed at otherwise improper times, or potentially being flat-out altered. Holy poo poo that this is apparently the followup
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What's finCEN? Obviously it's to do with Treasury but I've never heard of it before.
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mistaya posted:What's finCEN? Obviously it's to do with Treasury but I've never heard of it before. Federal financial crimes enforcement network. https://www.fincen.gov
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axeil posted:and all the initial russian cooperation was just a smokescreen to get info on their enemies. the article doesn't say it, but i'm curious if the people they wanted info on are the same people who've turned up dead in the past 2 years. Just merc-ing peeps based on this information probably wasn't their goal. Knowing every person in government with more power than the office coffee maker who happens to be in deep financial poo poo and really, really open to being compromised? Being able to surgically strike the finances of anyone that does a thing they don't like? Now you're talking their language.
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That's who gets all the fbars manafort didn't file lol
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Well. That’s bad. Wanna bet it’ll be Bolton?
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What a week, huh? E: is it infrastructure week by chance? mobby_6kl fucked around with this message at 00:28 on Dec 21, 2018 |
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Mattis' resignation is 100% worth reading and is extremely direct https://twitter.com/Elizabeth_McLau/status/1075881565216010246
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Herstory Begins Now posted:Mattis' resignation is 100% worth reading and is extremely direct Quite the gently caress you.
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That is about as "gently caress you" as a SecDef can get to his Commander in Chief.
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I cannot imagine the failson willing to join the administration at this point.
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Sodomy Hussein posted:I cannot imagine the failson willing to join the administration at this point. Erik prince
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mobby_6kl posted:Erik prince Good lord.
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He won’t pass a confirmation.
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It says so much that even b tier political folks are refusing to take jobs in the Trump admin.
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So what are we eventually looking at acting Sec Def Mike Mulvaney?
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BrandorKP posted:So what are we eventually looking at acting Sec Def Mike Mulvaney? Who’s that?
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Yikes https://twitter.com/merica/status/1075898630043774981
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Who’s that? The guy who is acting CoS, was acting head of the CFPB, who was orginally appointed to what was it? OMB? Bar Ran Dun fucked around with this message at 02:30 on Dec 21, 2018 |
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BrandorKP posted:The guy who is acting CoS, was acting head of the CFPB, who was orginally appointed to what was it? OMB? I like that if you started as coffee boy in the Trump administration you had a legit shot at running an entire agency within six months. https://www.washingtonpost.com/inve...m=.f7046333cf04
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Herstory Begins Now posted:Heads are going to roll, god drat, that is some of the most egregious poo poo. I have to think some FBI are agents are wondering if they should just grab some zip ties and a bus and go over there in the morning.
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Herstory Begins Now posted:Mattis' resignation is 100% worth reading and is extremely direct Letter so serious it got "Little" Marco Rubio from this: https://twitter.com/marcorubio/status/1075886822906126336 to this: https://twitter.com/marcorubio/status/1075895147454439426 https://twitter.com/marcorubio/status/1075895427029975040
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Just wait for bolton to wake up from the inside of his coffin for the reality of how our republic will be movingm please remember mattis is the guy who STOPPED trump from bombing all russian assets in syria. I am loving terrified of what happens next mass casualty event 
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Joke’s on Mattis, Trump will never read a word of his letter, it’s too long and doesn’t have pictures
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Flowers For Algeria posted:Joke’s on Mattis, Trump will never read a word of his letter, it’s too long and doesn’t have pictures Everyone who ever worked for him knows that lol, it's pandering to "reasonable" Republicans and  types in general.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:He won’t pass a confirmation. What makes you think anyone trump puts up won't be confirmed? They've been putting unqualified judges in lifetime positions for two years. I fully expect them to confirm whichever blood drinker he nominates.
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Meatball posted:What makes you think anyone trump puts up won't be confirmed? They've been putting unqualified judges in lifetime positions for two years. I fully expect them to confirm whichever blood drinker he nominates. At the very least appointing the head of a PMC to Secretary of Defense endangers some of their grifts.
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Xand_Man posted:At the very least appointing the head of a PMC to Secretary of Defense endangers some of their grifts. hell yeah eric prince for sod lets stave off the recession by invading iran and administering the countryy with PMCs
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In case it isn't obvious, two malignant nodules in the lung is not a good thing. They say there's "no evidence of remaining disease", but depending on what the primary cancer is, there's a really good chance that there are other microscopic foci. She will almost certainly get chemotherapy of some sort -- hard to say for sure until it's clear what the primary diagnosis is.
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I guess breaking those ribs turned out to be a blessing in disguise. On the other hand, Lewd Mangabey posted:In case it isn't obvious, two malignant nodules in the lung is not a good thing. They say there's "no evidence of remaining disease", but depending on what the primary cancer is, there's a really good chance that there are other microscopic foci. She will almost certainly get chemotherapy of some sort -- hard to say for sure until it's clear what the primary diagnosis is. Then there's this https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/1076170278315720704 I don't think he's wrong at all, but I did literally lol for a good while. What a world.
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