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Satellites do the craziest things

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WHY WE ARE WHERE WE ARE IN ALL THIS: James Comey, an acknowledged jerk, acknowledged under oath--and out of fear of "tapes" allegedly held by President Donald Trump--that the President, as critical at times of the Russia "collusion" investigation as he has been, indeed wanted an investigation to learn what Trump termed "satellites" may have been doing during the campaign.  In a March 31 meeting of a foreign policy advisory committee for the campaign, a certain member raised the possibility of using contacts with Russian officials to arrange a public meeting of Trump with Vladimir Putin.  In a discussion of this idea, it was put down by a number of people there, who noted the "optics" of such a meeting, with Senator Jeff Sessions insisting that the idea of such dealings never be talked about again.  At some point, a campaign policy was even put into effect barring any campaign employee from traveling overseas as part of the campaign.  Hence, the...

Keeping perspective on whole "Trump/Russia" investigation

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From June 2017. This discussion of Comey lays out the core position of Trump's denunciation of the witchhunt. It's not a blanket denial of contacts occurring (the Russians try to get into everything), but rather of the running of an operation by the campaign or a reaching out on a par with Ted Kennedy's action in 1984.