Sally Yates testimony

[dc2london]

Cruz: When did you start surveilling the Trump campaign?

Yates: Thefuq? No. Carter Page wasn't on the campaign anymore when the FISA was initiated on Mr Page

[cakewench]

Aug 5, 2020 10:44:45 GMT -6 jkjacq said:

So hi, i forgot this was on until this thread, then I was wfh for the morning, then I missed a bunch driving into the office.

I dont know why the GOP is even there, cuz they no care

For the free exposure on StateTV, of course.

[dc2london]

Cruz: how many other campaigns were being surveilled? hUH? HUH???!!!!!

Yates: well none of the rest of y'all were having suspicious interactions with the Russians so?

[dc2london]

No, CoffeeBoi wasn't under surveillance. He had a phone call with someone who was.

Why are they so bad at this?

[dc2london]

Aug 5, 2020 10:44:45 GMT -6 jkjacq said:

So hi, i forgot this was on until this thread, then I was wfh for the morning, then I missed a bunch driving into the office.

I dont know why the GOP is even there, cuz they no care

because this

[jkjacq]

45 musta paided for reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaallllllllllllllllllly good blow jobs for Cruz and Graham. Cuz the switch they did after they dropped out in 16 is AHMAZHING

[dc2london]

LOL another GOP talking point just blew up. Bruce Ohr wasn't even assigned to this. He had nothing to do with any of the FISA apps.

Ted doesn't know what to do. He just went completely silent for several seconds.

[dc2london]

Hirono: the only person who has politicized the Justice Department is Bill Barr

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Hirono: The FBI has taken over 40 corrective steps to address the findings of Mr Horowitz. So will my Republican friends shut up? Oh. Right.

[athn64]

Aug 5, 2020 10:48:37 GMT -6 dc2london said:

LOL another GOP talking point just blew up. Bruce Ohr wasn't even assigned to this. He had nothing to do with any of the FISA apps.

Ted doesn't know what to do. He just went completely silent for several seconds.

He needed to be given new directives for his programming

[jkjacq]

I dont know that I've ever seen another chair talk as much when its not their turn as much as Graham.

[cakewench]

Aug 5, 2020 10:53:09 GMT -6 athn64 said:

Aug 5, 2020 10:48:37 GMT -6 dc2london said:

LOL another GOP talking point just blew up. Bruce Ohr wasn't even assigned to this. He had nothing to do with any of the FISA apps.

Ted doesn't know what to do. He just went completely silent for several seconds.

He needed to be given new directives for his programming

This made me laugh way too hard

[dc2london]

exactly the point: If you think the decision to deter and punish Russia from/for attacking our elections is a "policy disagreement" you just showed how little you actually care about our country's values.
Just like if you think making sure people can exercise their right to vote is "partisan"

[dc2london]

Aug 5, 2020 10:53:55 GMT -6 jkjacq said:

I dont know that I've ever seen another chair talk as much when its not their turn as much as Graham.

he just makes it so obvious that this is all about spin

[dc2london]

MUELLER DIDN'T SAY THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE. HE SAID THERE WAS INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE.

[dc2london]

Yates is pushing back.

[dc2london]

Marsha:

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Blackburn: was there any difference between how you handled this FISA application and any other FISA application?

Yates: Well, yeah, duh, because this one was so sensitive

[jkjacq]

I <3 the gif liveblog dc2london,

[dc2london]

can't wait for all the articles about how rude the Republicans are being to the witness like there were sooooo many articles about how mean the Democrats were to Barr last week.

I won't hold my breath.

[dc2london]

Yates: I didn't know about Bruce Ohr knowing Christopher Steele. And nobody knew about Pete and Lisa, except them.

Marsha:

[jkjacq]

Aug 5, 2020 11:01:53 GMT -6 dc2london said:

Yates: I didn't know about Bruce Ohr knowing Christopher Steele. And nobody knew about Pete and Lisa, except them.

Marsha:

WAIT WHAT?  Pete and Lisa didnt announce their affair to the entire office?  SHOCKED

[dc2london]

By my count, Yates is the 6th DOJ official to testify that the suggestion that anyone at DOJ tried to prevent 45* from winning would be insanity and that it would NEVER have happened.

[dc2london]

oh fuck off Marsha

[dc2london]

Booker coming in like

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Yates: No, of course it's not legal for a campaign to solicit help from foreign persons. And if it's offered, it should be reported right away.

[LaRo422]

Aug 5, 2020 10:59:20 GMT -6 jkjacq said:

I <3 the gif liveblog dc2london,

Seriously, can everything be live gif-blogged?

[jkjacq]

Aug 5, 2020 11:07:03 GMT -6 dc2london said:

Yates: No, of course it's not legal for a campaign to solicit help from foreign persons. And if it's offered, it should be reported right away.

Cory should have followed up with DO YOU HEAR THAT REPUBLICANS!!!

[dc2london]

Booker talking about Bill Barr like

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Yates: We always ensure that we not use the DOJ in any way that would impact an election, whether it's for president or Sheriff. We want to be fair, and we want the public to have confidence in our elections and in the Department.
For example, I spoke with the prosecutor working on the Manafort case, even though Manafort wasn't even on the 45* campaign anymore, because we didn't want anything leaking out of the Manafort case and possibly damaging 45*'s campaign unfairly.