Minority report

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На фото - сенатор Дайэн Файнстайн (в девичестве Голдман) в свои студенческие годы в Стэнфорде.

The biggest decision of her undergraduate years was running for student body vice president, the highest office women could hold, in the spring of 1954. One of three candidates, she sought votes everywhere she could — including fraternity row, which wasn’t exactly receptive to Feinstein’s stump speeches. “I was probably the first woman ever to campaign that way.” The all-male audiences threw food at her and hauled her into a shower to dunk her.
https://medium.com/stanford-magazine/dianne-feinstein-profile-4e42c215c227

Вчера сенатор Файнстайн легко обыграла Трампа в дискуссии об иммиграционной реформе, а также смелым решением опубликовала протокол показаний в Сенате Глена Симпсона, главы Fusion GPS, несмотря на протесты республиканцев и лично Чака Грассли, главы комиссии.



“After speaking with majority and minority committee staff for 10 hours, Glenn Simpson requested the transcript of his interview be released publicly. The American people deserve the opportunity to see what he said and judge for themselves. The innuendo and misinformation circulating about the transcript are part of a deeply troubling effort to undermine the investigation into potential collusion and obstruction of justice. The only way to set the record straight is to make the transcript public.”
https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=B708D3CB-A945-4436-8FB8-9D85978C5EEF

В показаниях Симпсона принципиально нового нет. Но они имеют вес, поскольку давались под угрозой уголовного наказания за ложные сведения, и поскольку они протыкают пузырь вранья про досье Стила, который пытались надуть Трамп и его прихвостни.

Never seen such Republican ANGER & UNITY as I have concerning the lack of investigation on Clinton made Fake Dossier (now $12,000,000?),....

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 29, 2017

"Republican ANGER & UNITY" оказались бессильными перед фактами. Зная о пристастии российских спецслужб к дезинформации, Кристофер Стил оценивает достоверность досье в 70-90%. Но даже если верны 10-30%, информация там серьезно инкриминирует Трампа и его избирательную кампанию.



Что касается реальных политических шагов, серьезный шаг сделал сенатор Бен Кардин, автор акта Магнитского и последних антипутинских санкций. Подготовленный им и опубликованный сегодня 200-страничный доклад Putin’s Asymmetrical Assault on Democracy in Russia and Europe: Implications for U.S. National Security расскладывает по полочкам историю кремлевской подрывной деятельности и делает конкретные рекоммендации.

First, Mr. Trump must demonstrate presidential leadership by declaring it is U.S. policy to deter all forms of Russian hybrid threats and begin to mobilize our government in defense.
Second, the U.S. government should provide assistance, in concert with allies in Europe, to build democratic institutions within those European and Eurasian states most vulnerable to Russian government interference.
Third, the United States and our allies should expose and freeze Kremlin-linked dirty money.
Fourth, the U.S. government should designate countries that employ malign influence operations to assault democracies as State Hybrid Threat Actors and subject them to a preemptive, escalatory sanctions regime that would be applied whenever the state uses asymmetric weapons like cyberattacks to interfere with a democratic election or disrupt a country’s critical infrastructure.
Fifth, the U.S. government and NATO should lead a coalition of countries committed to mutual defense against cyberattacks, to include the establishment of rapid reaction teams to defend allies under attack.
Finally, U.S. and European governments should mandate that social media companies make public the sources of funding for political advertisements, along the same lines as TV channels and print media.
https://www.foreign.senate.gov/press/ranking/release/cardin-releases-report-detailing-two-decades-of-putins-attacks-on-democracy

Unfortunately, the one person in the U.S. government stopping a truly comprehensive U.S. government response is @POTUS. Never before in our history has so clear a threat to U.S. national security been so clearly ignored by the sitting president. #RussiaReport

— Senator Ben Cardin (@SenatorCardin) January 10, 2018

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История про Файнстайн в Сан Франциско.

It was Feinstein who first heard the gunshots and rushed into the office just feet from hers to find Harvey Milk, the popular, openly gay city supervisor, with five bullet wounds in his head, chest, and wrist. Feinstein pressed her finger to the bullet hole on his wrist. There was no pulse. “When someone’s dead,” the doctor’s daughter says, “you know right away.”
Two hours later, Feinstein stepped before a gaggle of reporters in a City Hall corridor and said, “As president of the Board of Supervisors, it’s my duty to make this announcement: Both Mayor Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk have been shot and killed.” She paused a good 10 seconds before the shouting subsided. “The suspect is Supervisor Dan White.” Within a week, Feinstein was appointed mayor of a city shaken to its core. Through all of it, Blum says, “I never sensed her being terrorized. Ever. In fact, she often does her best when the times get the toughest.”
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/04/dianne-feinstein-versus-donald-trump/

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Презентация доклада Кардина в ASD (https://puppet-djt.livejournal.com/68680.html):

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В показаниях Сипсона было интересное место про то, что у ФБР был свой источник (крот) в компании Трампа.



После публикации показаний журналисты поспешили уточнить, что речь шла не об источники внутри организации, а об австралийском дипломате (https://puppet-djt.livejournal.com/95888.html), который сообщил о Пападопулосе.

Теперь к этому месту прицепился Грассли.

If it is true that your client’s statement to the Committee was a mischaracterization, why did you not attempt to correct your client’s statement as soon as you and/or he realized it was not accurate?
https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/grassley-seeks-clarity-fusion-gps-transcript-following-reported-

Либо Симпсон неправильно интерпретировал то, что ему сказал Стил, либо он выдал информацию, которую ФБР пока что предпочитает держать в секрете. Засылать или вербовать своего крота, чтобы распутать заговор преступной организации - излюбленная тактика ФБР (http://puppet-djt.livejournal.com/42969.html).