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The report stopped short of assessing whether Russia succeeded in swaying the election result.

Putin and other Russian officials have repeatedly denied interfering in the U.S. election.

What has Trump said about Russia's role in the election?

Trump has not taken a clear public position.

"I will tell you this, Russia: if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing," Trump said at a July 2016 news conference, in reference to an FBI probe into Clinton's use of a private email system when she was secretary of state and emails that had possibly been deleted.

Trump subsequently dismissed reports, including from U.S. intelligence officials, that Russia had attempted to intervene in the election on his behalf.

The first time Trump said he accepted the findings of the intelligence agencies was at a Jan. 11 news conference ahead of his inauguration. "As far as hacking, I think it was Russia," Trump said, although he added: "It could have been others also."

Earlier this month, Trump said China may have hacked the emails of Democratic officials to meddle with the election, offering no evidence and countering the view of intelligence officials.

How many U.S. probes are there into Russia's election meddling?

The Justice Department announced on May 17 that it has appointed Robert Mueller, a former FBI director, as special counsel to lead an independent Russia probe. Mueller would, if the evidence merits, work in tandem with the FBI, which is investigating, to handle any related criminal prosecutions.

Committees in the House of Representatives and the Senate are also investigating and those probes will continue. Comey has been invited to testify about the agency's Russia investigation and his dismissal.

Has there been any fallout for Trump associates over contacts with Russia before, during or after the election campaign?

Michael Flynn, Trump's national security adviser, was fired in February. The White House said he had misled Vice President Mike Pence about the contacts he had with Russia's ambassador to the United States, Sergei Kislyak, before Trump took office.

On May 9, federal prosecutors issued grand jury subpoenas seeking business records from people who worked with Flynn when he was a private citizen.

On May 10, the Senate Intelligence Committee issued the first subpoena in its Russia investigation, demanding documents from Flynn after he declined to voluntarily comply with an earlier request.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions had to recuse himself from involvement in Russia-related probes at the Justice Department because he had not told Congress of his own contacts with Kislyak in 2016. Rod Rosenstein, the deputy U.S. attorney general, is handling matters related to Russia; he appointed Mueller as special counsel.

Will the FBI probe continue after Comey's dismissal?

Comey told the House Intelligence Committee on March 20 that the FBI was investigating Moscow's role in the election, including possible collusion with Trump's campaign. It was the first time he publicly acknowledged the agency was investigating the matter.

Comey's departure does not necessarily mean the FBI's Russia investigation will be disrupted or ended as the career FBI officials Comey put in charge of it will likely continue working on the matter even as the search for a new director begins.

FBI acting Director Andrew McCabe, who will lead the agency until a new director is named, promised the Senate Intelligence Committee that Comey's firing will not affect the investigation and that he will notify the committee of any attempt to delay or derail it.

Why was Comey fired?

Attorney General Sessions sent Trump a May 9 letter attaching a memo from Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, on "Restoring Confidence in the FBI" that recommended Comey's dismissal.

Rosenstein's memo said Comey erred in July 2016 by announcing the FBI had been examining Clinton's use of a private email server and that the case should be closed without prosecution. Rosenstein's view was that Comey's decision to make a public statement on the matter broke with longstanding FBI precedent and should have been handled by the then-U.S. attorney general, Loretta Lynch.

Trump called Comey a "showboat" and "grandstander" in an interview with NBC News on May 11, saying that he would have fired Comey regardless of Rosenstein's recommendation.

>>137983
>over 150,000 unique users
>870 suspected pedophiles (368 in Europe alone) have been arrested

~wow~

>>137983
By the time anyone cares enough to revisit he's either going to be raped to death in prison or become like a god to the other pedos

>>138016
Yep...

In an interview with NBC's Lester Holt on May 11, Trump said he was going to fire Comey "regardless" of the recommendations of Rosenstein and Attorney General Jeff Sessions. He called Comey "a showboat" and "a grandstander" and said he fired the director because the FBI was in "turmoil." (Acting Director Andrew McCabe denied that the bureau had lost faith in Comey.)

During a press conference that day, however, Trump appeared to fall back on the White House's talking point that he had fired Comey at Rosenstein's recommendation.

Rosenstein reportedly threatened to resign — after two weeks on the job — because he was made to be the administration's scapegoat. The Justice Department denied that Rosenstein had made the threat, but the White House ultimately shifted the responsibility off Rosenstein.

"After watching Director Comey's testimony last Wednesday, the president was strongly inclined to remove him," the White House said on May 11 as part of what it said was a timeline of the president's decision-making process.

Matthew Miller, a former spokesman for the Justice Department who has been critical of Trump, tweeted on Thursday that Rosenstein's admission was "terrible" because it showed that he "completely compromised DOJ's independence & his integrity."

"A real blow to the department," Miller said, before questioning whether Rosenstein knew when he agreed to write the memo that Trump had asked Comey to end the investigation into Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser. (Comey reportedly wrote a memo about the incident, which he shared with top FBI officials.)

Susan Hennessey, a former lawyer for the National Security Agency, agreed that Rosenstein's admission was terrible but said it was "a good sign he acknowledged it directly in congressional testimony and did not decline to answer or otherwise obfuscate."

>>141070
1941-th year. The Nazis burned the Ukrainians in the concentration camps.
2017-th year. Ukrainians do not consider Nazi symbols - symbols of the Nazis.

LOL SYKA! L O L !

>>141074

^ this ^

>Flynn and other advisers on Trump’s campaign were in contact with Russian officials and others with Kremlin ties in at least 18 calls and emails during the last seven months of the 2016 presidential race, current and former US officials familiar with the exchanges told Reuters news agency.

>The previously undisclosed interactions form part of the record now being reviewed by FBI and congressional investigators investigating Russian interference in the US presidential election and contacts between Trump’s campaign and Russia.

>Six of the previously undisclosed contacts described to Reuters were phone calls between Sergei Kislyak, Russia's ambassador to the US, and Trump advisers, including Flynn, three current and former officials said.

>Conversations between Flynn and Kislyak accelerated after the November 8 vote as the two discussed establishing a back channel for communication between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin that could bypass the US national security bureaucracy, which both sides considered hostile to improved relations, four current US officials said.

>In January, the Trump White House initially denied any contacts with Russian officials during the 2016 campaign.

>The White House and advisers to the campaign have since confirmed four meetings between Kislyak and Trump advisers during that time.

Lavrov's response

>In a related development, Sergei Lavrov, Russian foreign minister, said on Thursday he saw "no secrets" in US news media reports of apparent security threats by ISIL that were divulged by Trump last week.

>US news media has reported that Trump disclosed classified information about a planned operation by ISIL, or the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant group, to Lavrov when they met at the White House on May 10.

>"As far as I can recall, maybe one month or two months earlier, the Trump administration had a laptop ban from seven Middle Eastern countries, and that it was connected directly to a terrorist threat," Lavrov said in Nicosia, Cyprus.

>"If you are talking about that, I can see no secrets here."

>The comments were the first on the issue by Lavrov since his meeting with Trump at the White House and the subsequent controversy over what was discussed.

>On Wednesday Russian President Vladimir Putin also dismissed suggestions that anything in the conversation was classified. He said he was ready to prove it by supplying Congress with a transcript.

>>141015
>Not using the picture of the guy jamming the stick into his bicycle

>>140707
>tommorow
today?

>>140884
yes

>>140707

Funny how nobody ever suggests that the parasitical do-nothing jewbankers adopt “austerity measures”…

>>140699
>Hey, Rocky! Watch me pull a rabbit out of my..

With some sweet tag-team action

>>140491
Easy, just allow China to annex South Korea.

>>140694
You meant North Korea ,right?

My take is we divide North Korea in two. China doesn't want refugees, South Korea will have to take them.

>>138580
Go back to infowars, Alex, and take your racebait shitpiece with you.

>>138592
How did you know the op's name?!

>>138580
A: Infowars, not news
B: A lot of people of various colors will have to die for racism to end. Because they were brought up with it and won't change their ways
C: Not news

They have policies regarding school uniforms in my country (Australia), this is nothing new.

I do not think that it is a human rights issue as in many schools across the world you cannot dye your hair green, pink, purple or any other unnatural colours.


I think that because Japan is 99.9% Asian other hair colours will be very obviously dyed.

Surely Japan has a lot of more important issues such as low fertility rate, ageing population, high suicide rate, hikkikomori and ballooning government debt.

I think that you should stop reading the Huffington Post as a news source because they are very leftist in an adversarial way regarding identity politics yet they do not offer substantive coverage regarding actual legitimate issues.

>>136042
OP: I assume that you are a native speaker of Japanese? Most of us will not be able to read the article, except by automatic translation. Therefore, your opinion here is very valuable. I will write in simple sentences to ease translation.

Are people within Japan taking this seriously? Does any adult inside Japan or East Asia really believe this is a human rights issue? If not, then your government perhaps needs better communication with foreign media.

All Japan's schools have to do is explain to the world that children are assholes. They already have the research to do so: spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intelligence/children-beating-up-robot

(see second paragraph: "Now, a new study by a team of Japanese researchers shows that, in certain situations, children...")

>>136052
>Does any adult inside Japan or East Asia really believe this is a human rights issue
doubt it.
assuming someones natural hair colour is black in a country where almost everyone has black hair is not some human rights violation or racism or whatever they want to call it.

>Dr. Brinkman said the museum was careful not to inhibit industrial activity when retrieving fossils so that excavators weren’t afraid to call when they found something. “These are specimens that would never be recovered otherwise,” Dr. Brinkman said. “We get two or three significant specimens each year.”

>>139748
That's pretty dang neat.

Mummies aren't real and Dinosaurs are DEAD get over it.

http://metro.co.uk/2017/05/13/lib-dems-pledge-to-legalise-weed-while-greens-promise-to-legalise-sex-work-6634904/

if you have a tory mp

>VOTE GREEN

VOTE LIB DEM

>VOTE GREEN

VOTE LIB DEM

send the politicians a message they can hear

>>139446
>LIB
no

>DEM
no

Kill yourself, op

>>140757
Maybe they will finally shut up about there not being any evidence when there obviously is.

>the White House was not informed until just 30 minutes before the media was informed (Src: ABC)

l m a o
They must be shitting themselves

so this is interesting because either trump fires him and proves once and for all that he's completely insane and thinks he literally can do whatever he wants like putin or he shows restraint and proves that he's not a total psycho, if he fires him he's fucked but also we're probably fucked because he'll literally try to nuke something before he's ousted or if he stays quiet it means he's less fucked and we're less fucked. Lose lose lose

I dont know how his advisors resist suicide every single day desu

1) Trump does something retarded
2) Spend an immense amount of effort damage controlling, calling the allegations false, and developing a workable story as to what 'really' happened
3) Trump directly contradicts your carefully spun narrative in 140 characters on Twitter

>>140366
They arent used to this sort of transparency in government yet. Whether he should or shouldnt have said whatever was said, it was legal and he is telling the american people that he did it. Isnt this the honesty people have been looking for in their leaders?

>>140362
>Trump shares info with Russia
>WaPo falsely report it as classified to cover up Seth Rich story breaking
>Trump and co forced to go on defensive in meantime regardless of validity
>later on print a retraction/correction once uproar dies down
>public safely contained with approved thoughts while you attempt to drown Seth rich story into oblivion

already posted

>>140776
buzzfeed really is shit, Anon, and I say that as a democrat