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live love laugh

(13,122 posts)
Fri May 19, 2023, 06:03 AM May 2023

Mastodon reminder

https://masto.ai/@DeanObeidallah/110378627533199829

As you read about John Durham's report remember this from The Mueller report: “[T]he investigation established that the Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome and the campaign expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts"
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Lonestarblue

(10,030 posts)
1. Barr effectively buried the Mueller report, and the current DOJ just allowed it to remain buried.
Fri May 19, 2023, 07:02 AM
May 2023

We citizens are not allowed to see what we paid for because its release would now be perceived as politics and an unnecessary embarrassment of a former president. The rich and powerful are certainly held to different standards in the US.

rubbersole

(6,713 posts)
5. Just invest my new reverse mortgage proceeds...
Fri May 19, 2023, 08:20 AM
May 2023

..in RP Funding and get Tom Selleck cosmetic surgery and move to Florida where according to the brilliant governor tells us " Where the folk goes to die"... and I'll get new OTC hearing aids on the internet for 4 easy payments of $99.99...and take a cruise ship to this beautiful deserted island with models running through the surf and....

Magoo48

(4,717 posts)
8. Yes, we are "supposedly" this Government. We pay for this government. Yet, we most often are
Fri May 19, 2023, 09:04 AM
May 2023

excluded. Huge amounts of intelligence, across our government, is kept from us. Buried behind one horseshit reason or another, information we payed to have assembled, information which would help us make much more informed decisions at to poles as well as our personal lives, is hurried away from we who own it.

Worse yet, often those who acquire this information and return it to its rightful owners, us, are many times demoralized and penalized.

Duppers

(28,125 posts)
10. This has been happening for decades.
Fri May 19, 2023, 03:54 PM
May 2023

News sources need to do more, but even then, a great number of the public either will not care nor believe it.

Duppers

(28,125 posts)
9. EXACTLY.
Fri May 19, 2023, 03:49 PM
May 2023

It's as if these things are just swept under the rug and forgotten, as in dust our hands and move on.

Where is Garland?

No wonder the Rethugians believe they can get away with so much.



flying_wahini

(6,620 posts)
7. I'm ticked about the current DOJ that let it slide.
Fri May 19, 2023, 08:52 AM
May 2023

And where’s Mueller? Just turned away and gave up and who could blame him?

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