> Sean Spicer (remember him from above?) conducted a surprise leak crackdown last week, ordering staffers into a conference room and then searching their phones for Confide or other apps
Yeah, like this doofus would have a clue about how to search a phone if the owner took the basic and obvious precaution of using an app-hiding app.
I am cynical enough to suggest that if rational arguments don't work, somebody ought to try convincing the Cheeto in Chief that the DMCA is a Clinton payoff to those sad fake professional protester Hollywood people who keep mocking him because they don't want to Make America Great Again.
Nunes is so utterly lacking in self-awareness that he's actually trying to deflect attention from his hypocrisy with a childish "I'm rubber, you're glue" ploy (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/02/14/fbi-needs-to-explain-why-michael-flynn- was-recorded-gop-intelligence-chairman-says):
> "Where are all the privacy groups screaming now?" [Nunes] asked.
Well, Devin, when you find "privacy groups" that actually said that American intel agencies shouldn't be trying to listen in on *the freaking Russian Ambassador*, let us know whether there's any "screaming" echoing through the phone booth where this group holds its meetings.
> Will these leaks be happening as I deal on N.Korea etc?
I'm guessing that if you keep conducting sensitive national-security business in the middle of an open restaurant, then, yes, you're going to have more leaks, dumbass.
Donald ought to try a "physician, heal thyself" approach, starting by throwing away his obsolete insecure phone (https://www.wired.com/2017/01/trump-android-phone-security-threat/), which could be (and probably already has been) turned into a remote-controlled bug just by tweeting him a malware link designed to catch his attention (e.g. "Miracle Lotion Can Make Your Hands Grow To Normal Size!").
Er, I think your snarkmeter is broken. The point was to mock one pulled-out-of-the-ass figure by putting it in the context of another pulled-out-of-the-ass figure.
Alternative Fact: "Obama was doing the exact same thing"
Real Fact: "In light of the response from Obama administration officials that there never was a point when Iraqi resettlement was stopped or banned, we are updating this ruling to Three Pinocchios." (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/01/29/trumps-facile-claim-that-his-refugee -policy-is-similar-to-obama-in-2011/)
"As many have noted, not a single terrorist attack has come from people from those countries."
No doubt the memos have already gone out to ISIS and al-Qaeda cells to select operatives from countries where Trump owns hotels, secure in the knowledge that no security measures which threaten to inconvenience his customers will be entertained.
"They might simply pass laws that forbid the use of cameras that encrypt images. By declaring them illegal, governments could seize them at the border or whenever they are found."
Making that more difficult is one reason to make it a standard feature rather than a specialist add-on. Any country where tourism is a significant revenue generator for Fearless Leader's Swiss bank account can't afford to have the border goons stealing cameras from every tourist from Topeka.
Re: Re: The story is MUCH bigger than this single return
The only "one simple fact" I see is that he lost almost a billion dollars during the Clinton economy, when a monkey throwing darts at a Wall Street Journal would have picked out a profitable portfolio.
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But without lube.
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You go to the head of the class!
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"We're poised for success... There will be no raises because it will be a difficult year."
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Yeah, like this doofus would have a clue about how to search a phone if the owner took the basic and obvious precaution of using an app-hiding app.
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> "Where are all the privacy groups screaming now?" [Nunes] asked.
Well, Devin, when you find "privacy groups" that actually said that American intel agencies shouldn't be trying to listen in on *the freaking Russian Ambassador*, let us know whether there's any "screaming" echoing through the phone booth where this group holds its meetings.
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Re: And the Worms Ate into Their Brains
Since "leaked" means "exposed, revealed, made public", I'm guessing that the answer is "yes".
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I'm guessing that if you keep conducting sensitive national-security business in the middle of an open restaurant, then, yes, you're going to have more leaks, dumbass.
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Re: Re: Re: Hypocrisy
Got that list sorted in order of number of Trump hotels in the country?
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On the post: Our Humanity
Re: Hypocrisy
Real Fact: "In light of the response from Obama administration officials that there never was a point when Iraqi resettlement was stopped or banned, we are updating this ruling to Three Pinocchios." (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/01/29/trumps-facile-claim-that-his-refugee -policy-is-similar-to-obama-in-2011/)
On the post: Our Humanity
No doubt the memos have already gone out to ISIS and al-Qaeda cells to select operatives from countries where Trump owns hotels, secure in the knowledge that no security measures which threaten to inconvenience his customers will be entertained.
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Each of those Hillary voters who denied Punkinhead a popular vote victory downloaded 196.2 illegal movies.
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Making that more difficult is one reason to make it a standard feature rather than a specialist add-on. Any country where tourism is a significant revenue generator for Fearless Leader's Swiss bank account can't afford to have the border goons stealing cameras from every tourist from Topeka.
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Re: Re: The story is MUCH bigger than this single return
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Re: NYT is wrong
This is (yet another) error on your part. By signing a joint return, he already gave that authorization.
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Re: NYT is wrong
This is (yet another) error on your part. By signing a joint return, he already gave that authorization.
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Fellow senior executives Scammo, Conno, and Fakeeo had other commitments.
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