Greg Krasovsky: FBI Director James Comey says that Russia is the biggest threat to US Democracy!
Really?
What about
- the rigged two-party system that doesn't give American voters any choice outside of the two establishment parties?
- the unchecked campaign contributions made by millionaires, billionaires, corporations and PACs?
- the major mainstream media controlled by a handful of financial-industrial groups representing the American money establishment?
- those tampered and rigged electronic voting machines as well as vote-tallying central servers?
- gerrymandering, restrictive voter laws (including prohibiting felons from voting for the remainder of their lives long after they have repaid their debt to society, election commissions controlled by the-two party system and other civil/voter right violations which disenfranchise millions of voters due to the color of their skin, their spoken language or party affiliation?
- a legislative branch that's been bought by special interests through campaign contributions and other benefits?
- state judiciaries where judges are elected thanks in large part to campaign contributions from lawyers & law firms?
- the federal judiciary where judges are appointed for life by the President as a representative of the two-party system and the financial industrial groups behind it?
- the executive branch that's headed by a two-party system candidate who's usually completely dependent on and beholden to his party's major donors (i.e. owners)?
- the Military-Industrial Complex whose billion dollar campaign contributions and jobs (post-retirement or post public service) for military, intelligence, law enforcement and other federal personnel ensure it's budget (and the wars/threats needed to justify them) will continue to suck out at least 40% of the federal budget (including black/secret budget items).
- The Deep State and the political, financial, corporate, and industrial interests that it represents and protects without any real accountability before the American electorate?
- the Federal Reserve System, a privately owned banking group, which acts like a fox guardian the federal financial chicken coup?
- The Department of Justice and its federal prosecutors who are appointed by the President (his political party and its donors) and cannot objectively and independently conduct investigations and prosecutions of political corruption at the highest levels?
- the FBI, CIA and NSA that have been violating the constitutional rights of millions of Americans by
-- monitoring (eavesdropping on) their communications,
-- infiltrating and sabotaging political parties & movements,
-- destroying the reputations & lives as well as assisting in selective prosecutions of political leaders they find "dangerous" (i.e. anti-establishment),
-- surreptitiously & illegally funding the press and recruiting its journalists,
-- planting false stories in friendly media outlets,
-- persecuting anti-establishment whistle-blowers and/or arranging for leaks of classified information that will damage their political opponents.
- the CIA, The State Department and The Pentagon, that have endangered and caused the loss of lives of countless Americans by supporting dictators, authoritarian regimes, nationalists and radical religious groups in clandestine operations abroad, including to change regimes (sometimes the military overthrow of democratic ones that opposed the U.S.), influence elections and control governments abroad?
- a federal government that has long ago exceeded the limited powers granted to it by the Founding Fathers in the U.S. Constitution and is now able to control state and municipal governments through spending and/or federal legislation?
Aren't the above greater threats to U.S. Democracy than Russia, whose threat is based on unproven allegations?
Or is Russia a great threat because it, as a major nuclear superpower and one that's able to oppose U.S. foreign policy, has the ability and will-power to bring attention to the above deficiencies of U.S. democracy?
But then again, what else could we expect from James Comey, the head of J. Edgar Hoover's FBI?
What's sad is that today's liberals are lapping up this propaganda just because they blame Hillary Clinton's defeat on Russia as Trump's supposedly secret ally or sponsor.
These are the same folks (or their children) who supported the Civil Rights Movement and Dr. Martin Luther King, opposed the Vietnam War, Nixon's Watergate, the Iran-Contra affair, Abu Ghraib Prison scandal in Iraq, Guantanamo in Cuba and etc.
The same folks who are members or supporters of the ACLU, NAACP, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and etc.
So who'll be left to defend American Democracy?
The Republican conservatives (who were belittled by liberals for decades) that call into question the propaganda and attacks on President Trump over Russia's alleged PR support in the 2016 presidential election?
Isn't it ironic...
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FBI Director James Comey says Russia is 'greatest threat of any nation on Earth'.
The Independent, May 3, 2017
"FBI Director James Comey says that Russia is the "greatest threat of any nation on Earth, given their intent and capability."
Mr Comey made the comments during a Senate hearing in which he discussed the ongoing investigation into Russian influence on the 2016 US election. The top FBI official told senators that Russians have been meddling in American politics and that they have continued to do so recently.
"One of the biggest lessons learned is that Russia will do this again. Because of 2016 election, they know it worked," Mr Comey said of the threat that Russia might try to influence future elections."
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/russia-james-comey-hearing-putin-greatest-threat-any-nation-earth-a7716016.html
FBI's Comey: Russia is 'greatest threat of any nation on Earth' to US democratic process
CNBC, May 3, 2017
- FBI's James Comey says Kremlin is still involved in the U.S. democratic process
- Comey said the probe into 2016 election interference is still active
"FBI Director James Comey told senators Wednesday that Russia remains involved in American politics, saying he thinks the country poses the "greatest threat" to the U.S. political process of any in the world.
During a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham — a foreign policy hawk — asked Comey "what kind of threat" Russia presents "to the democratic process."
"Certainly, in my view, the greatest threat of any nation on Earth, given their intention and their capability," Comey said.
The FBI director did not elaborate on what Moscow has done recently to try to influence American politics, but the bureau is actively investigating that question.
The U.S. intelligence community concluded that Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. election, according to a declassified report released in January by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
"Russia's goals were to undermine public faith in the U.S. democratic process, denigrate Secretary Clinton, and harm her electability and potential presidency," that report said. "We further assess [Russian President Vladimir] Putin and the Russian Government developed a clear preference for President-elect Trump. We have high confidence in these judgments.""
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/03/fbis-comey-russia-is-greatest-threat-to-us-democratic-process.html
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Really?
What about
- the rigged two-party system that doesn't give American voters any choice outside of the two establishment parties?
- the unchecked campaign contributions made by millionaires, billionaires, corporations and PACs?
- the major mainstream media controlled by a handful of financial-industrial groups representing the American money establishment?
- those tampered and rigged electronic voting machines as well as vote-tallying central servers?
- gerrymandering, restrictive voter laws (including prohibiting felons from voting for the remainder of their lives long after they have repaid their debt to society, election commissions controlled by the-two party system and other civil/voter right violations which disenfranchise millions of voters due to the color of their skin, their spoken language or party affiliation?
- a legislative branch that's been bought by special interests through campaign contributions and other benefits?
- state judiciaries where judges are elected thanks in large part to campaign contributions from lawyers & law firms?
- the federal judiciary where judges are appointed for life by the President as a representative of the two-party system and the financial industrial groups behind it?
- the executive branch that's headed by a two-party system candidate who's usually completely dependent on and beholden to his party's major donors (i.e. owners)?
- the Military-Industrial Complex whose billion dollar campaign contributions and jobs (post-retirement or post public service) for military, intelligence, law enforcement and other federal personnel ensure it's budget (and the wars/threats needed to justify them) will continue to suck out at least 40% of the federal budget (including black/secret budget items).
- The Deep State and the political, financial, corporate, and industrial interests that it represents and protects without any real accountability before the American electorate?
- the Federal Reserve System, a privately owned banking group, which acts like a fox guardian the federal financial chicken coup?
- The Department of Justice and its federal prosecutors who are appointed by the President (his political party and its donors) and cannot objectively and independently conduct investigations and prosecutions of political corruption at the highest levels?
- the FBI, CIA and NSA that have been violating the constitutional rights of millions of Americans by
-- monitoring (eavesdropping on) their communications,
-- infiltrating and sabotaging political parties & movements,
-- destroying the reputations & lives as well as assisting in selective prosecutions of political leaders they find "dangerous" (i.e. anti-establishment),
-- surreptitiously & illegally funding the press and recruiting its journalists,
-- planting false stories in friendly media outlets,
-- persecuting anti-establishment whistle-blowers and/or arranging for leaks of classified information that will damage their political opponents.
- the CIA, The State Department and The Pentagon, that have endangered and caused the loss of lives of countless Americans by supporting dictators, authoritarian regimes, nationalists and radical religious groups in clandestine operations abroad, including to change regimes (sometimes the military overthrow of democratic ones that opposed the U.S.), influence elections and control governments abroad?
- a federal government that has long ago exceeded the limited powers granted to it by the Founding Fathers in the U.S. Constitution and is now able to control state and municipal governments through spending and/or federal legislation?
Aren't the above greater threats to U.S. Democracy than Russia, whose threat is based on unproven allegations?
Or is Russia a great threat because it, as a major nuclear superpower and one that's able to oppose U.S. foreign policy, has the ability and will-power to bring attention to the above deficiencies of U.S. democracy?
But then again, what else could we expect from James Comey, the head of J. Edgar Hoover's FBI?
What's sad is that today's liberals are lapping up this propaganda just because they blame Hillary Clinton's defeat on Russia as Trump's supposedly secret ally or sponsor.
These are the same folks (or their children) who supported the Civil Rights Movement and Dr. Martin Luther King, opposed the Vietnam War, Nixon's Watergate, the Iran-Contra affair, Abu Ghraib Prison scandal in Iraq, Guantanamo in Cuba and etc.
The same folks who are members or supporters of the ACLU, NAACP, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and etc.
So who'll be left to defend American Democracy?
The Republican conservatives (who were belittled by liberals for decades) that call into question the propaganda and attacks on President Trump over Russia's alleged PR support in the 2016 presidential election?
Isn't it ironic...
https://www.facebook.com/URA.Observer/
***
FBI Director James Comey says Russia is 'greatest threat of any nation on Earth'.
The Independent, May 3, 2017
"FBI Director James Comey says that Russia is the "greatest threat of any nation on Earth, given their intent and capability."
Mr Comey made the comments during a Senate hearing in which he discussed the ongoing investigation into Russian influence on the 2016 US election. The top FBI official told senators that Russians have been meddling in American politics and that they have continued to do so recently.
"One of the biggest lessons learned is that Russia will do this again. Because of 2016 election, they know it worked," Mr Comey said of the threat that Russia might try to influence future elections."
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/russia-james-comey-hearing-putin-greatest-threat-any-nation-earth-a7716016.html
FBI's Comey: Russia is 'greatest threat of any nation on Earth' to US democratic process
CNBC, May 3, 2017
- FBI's James Comey says Kremlin is still involved in the U.S. democratic process
- Comey said the probe into 2016 election interference is still active
"FBI Director James Comey told senators Wednesday that Russia remains involved in American politics, saying he thinks the country poses the "greatest threat" to the U.S. political process of any in the world.
During a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham — a foreign policy hawk — asked Comey "what kind of threat" Russia presents "to the democratic process."
"Certainly, in my view, the greatest threat of any nation on Earth, given their intention and their capability," Comey said.
The FBI director did not elaborate on what Moscow has done recently to try to influence American politics, but the bureau is actively investigating that question.
The U.S. intelligence community concluded that Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. election, according to a declassified report released in January by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
"Russia's goals were to undermine public faith in the U.S. democratic process, denigrate Secretary Clinton, and harm her electability and potential presidency," that report said. "We further assess [Russian President Vladimir] Putin and the Russian Government developed a clear preference for President-elect Trump. We have high confidence in these judgments.""
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/03/fbis-comey-russia-is-greatest-threat-to-us-democratic-process.html
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