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The Russia Investigation Isn’t Less Popular — It’s Just More Polarizing
And that was inevitable.
By Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux and Julia Wolfe Jun. 18, 2018
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-russia-investigation-isnt-less-popular-its-just-more-polarizing/?ex_cid=538fb

06/20/2018

, found at Democrats for Malcolm Nance

“The Carter Page saga, and the battle over the dueling GOP and Democratic memos, is only one chapter in the investigation.”
“Underneath the tug-of-war between Republicans and Democrats on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, there are probably reams of classified data pertaining to Russiagate—including sources and methods of the intelligence business—about which we, the public, know very little.”
“….what did the CIA and the FBI know about Carter Page—who served for several months as a foreign-policy adviser to Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and who had multiple contacts with high-level Russians—and was it enough to secure a FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) court warrant to surveil him? What the memo wars reveal is that it’s exceedingly difficult and often controversial, to release even bits and pieces of Top Secret data. That includes intelligence that might relate not just to possible Trump-Russia collusion but also to the broader question of what we know, what we don’t know, and what we might learn about the original question: What did Russia do in 2015–16 to affect the course of the vote?”
“The Democrats, in their still-unreleased rebuttal memo, apparently do not agree. They argue that the surveillance of Page—which began in October 2016 and was subsequently renewed three times, until about July 2017—was based on a voluminous series of briefs presented by the FBI to a FISA court judge, and was not based wholly or even for the most part on the so-called “Steele dossier,” a 35-page compilation of raw intelligence compiled by Christopher Steele, a former MI-6 Russia specialist, on behalf of Fusion GPS, a Democratic-funded opposition research firm in Washington.”
The Russiagate Intelligence Wars: What We Do and Don’t Know
By Bob Dreyfuss February 16, 2018
https://www.thenation.com/article/the-russiagate-intelligence-wars-what-we-do-and-dont-know/

06/20/2018

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06/20/2018

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"You're a parent of young children. Don't you have any empathy?" https://t.co/IsDO8qQIVD pic.twitter.com/5A3WqobQZf
— ABC News () June 14, 2018
"Don't You Have Any Empathy?" vs. "Have You No Sense of Decency, Sir? At Long Last?"
by Sean Nelson • Jun 14, 2018
https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2018/06/14/27619936/dont-you-have-any-empathy-vs-have-you-no-sense-of-decency-sir-at-long-last

“ProPublica, the nonprofit investigative news site, has obtained an audio recording of children crying for their parents at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility.
A border patrol agent is heard saying “Well, we have an orchestra in here. What’s missing is a conductor.”
“According to ProPublica, the recording captured 10 Central American children ages 4 to 10 who had been separated from their parents and brought to the unnamed facility within the previous 24 hours. The article describes the children crying “‘Mami’ and ‘Papá’ over and over again, as if those are the only words they know.”
Crying for 'Mami' and 'Papá' at a Border Patrol detention center
Laina Yost Reporter, Yahoo News June 18, 2018
https://www.yahoo.com/news/crying-mami-papa-border-patrol-detention-center-212311468.html
Listen to Children Who’ve Just Been Separated From Their Parents at the Border
ProPublica has obtained audio from inside a U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility, in which children can be heard wailing as an agent jokes, “We have an orchestra here.”
by Ginger Thompson June 18 2018
https://www.propublica.org/article/children-separated-from-parents-border-patrol-cbp-trump-immigration-policy

Listen to Children Who’ve Just Been Separated From Their Parents at the Border
ProPublica has obtained audio from inside a U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility, in which children can be heard wailing as an agent jokes, “We have an orchestra here.”
by Ginger Thompson June 18 2018
https://www.propublica.org/article/children-separated-from-parents-border-patrol-cbp-trump-immigration-policy?utm_campaign=sprout&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_content=1529351580

Trump: 'The United States will not be a migrant camp'
Dylan Stableford Senior Editor, Yahoo News•June 18, 2018
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-administration-tries-explain-family-separation-policy-confusion-ensues-152717690.html

Oprah Winfrey slams Trump's family separation policy: 'Can't stand it'
Erin Donnelly Yahoo Lifestyle June 18, 2018
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/oprah-winfrey-slams-trumps-family-separation-policy-cant-stand-094521518.html

06/20/2018

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Last week a poll of almost 1,000 voters performed by Ipsos for The Daily Beast found limited support for the Administration's policy of separating children at the border from parents seeking to enter the United States. The poll asked if,

"It is appropriate to separate undocumented immigrant parents from their children when they cross the border in order to discourage others from crossing the border illegally.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/poll-republicans-approve-of-trumps-family-separation-policy

The policy, which the Administration falsely attempts to blame on Democrats, was initated on April 6, 2018 pursuant to a Memo from Attorney General Jeff Sessions, directing federal prosecutors,

"To adopt immediately a zero-tolerance policy for all offenses referred for prosecution under section 1325(a). This zero-tolerance policy shall supersede any existing policies. If adopting such a policy requires additional resources, each office shall identify and request such additional resources."

https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1049751/download

Attorney General Sessions was acting to implement a Presidential Memorandum also dated April 6, 2018.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/presidential-memorandum-secretary-state-secretary-defense-attorney-general-secretary-health-human-services-secretary-homeland-security/

The Ipsos poll showed that only 46% of Republicans agreed with the Administrations policy. Only 29% of Independents agreed and just 14% of Democrats agreed. Even Republicans are now speaking out against the policy as Senator Susan Collins, (R-ME), has said that it is,

"Inconsistent with American values."

https://bangordailynews.com/2018/06/17/politics/susan-collins-says-separating-migrant-families-inconsistent-with-american-values/

Former First Lady Laura Bush has said that,

"I live in a border state. I appreciate the need to enforce and protect our international boundaries, but this zero-tolerance policy is cruel. It is immoral. And it breaks my heart.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/laura-bush-separating-children-from-their-parents-at-the-border-breaks-my-heart/2018/06/17/f2df517a-7287-11e8-9780-b1dd6a09b549_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.34bbcff751d0

Terrorizing immigrants of color, be they from Islamic countries in the Middle East seeking shelter from endless civil war, or be they Hispanic seeking asylum from murderous drug cartels in Central America, has been the signature issue that has held the President's ever shrinking base of voters together. Perhaps we are now seeing the beginnings of a huge fracturing of that base.

06/14/2018

Courtesy of The Democratic Road.