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Because that's often the way diplomacy works with unfriendly nations. Kissinger conducted years of secret talks with the Chinese before Nixon's huge historic breakthrough. And not that reality ever gets in your way, Trump is highly suspicious of the State Dept, so of course he'd bypass it....

are you blind, Dim, or just playing stupid. If Obama officials didn't commit felonies by illegally leaking, then who did, the permanent intelligence community? Is that what you are alleging? Because it's a binary choice. Susan Rice reports directly to the president. Are you saying that The Chosen...

Quibble. When you're done, a crime was committed against tRump - and that's all. Name a crime that tRump is even ALLEGED to have committed, and link me to the allegation. All I see is fluff, from H.R. Puffinstuff - enough! The flowering, glowering clouds Shoulder boulders down! They surround each...

1. tRump DID speak with putin - Nov. 15th. tRump and Putin, sitting in a tree 2. The outgoing administration was hostile - on the record - to the incoming. Obama had joked that tRump would never be pResident, and had stated many times that he was very confident the American people would not choose ...

There is nothing wrong with an incoming president asking the State Dep't or the outgoing administration to help create those contacts, so why did it have to be back-channel? Trump spoke to several world leaders during the transition. Why the secrecy with just this one?...

It's not shorthand. Unmasking is not a crime. The leaking of a unmasked name is. Those are two completely different things....

Flashback to 1998 for Clem. What game is Joe diGenova playing?...

Rachel Maddow reminded me tonight of who Joseph diGenova is. He was obsessed with the Monica Lewinsky affair and spent many hours on TV talking about it. Last year he said that Hillary Clinton would not be able to continue her campaign because she would be indicted within 60 days. DiGenova has a l...

Making an unmasking public is a crime - don't quibble over shorthand. It was easy for obi's boy to make that public "for kicks."...

Why would Trump have needed to establish a back-channel line of communication with Moscow? And why go all the way to the Seychelles Islands in the middle of the Indian Ocean? That doesn't strike you as the least bit strange?...