Rongone wrote:

Common Sense wrote:

Rongone wrote:

The same bunch of uninformed security "experts" that refer people to Fox 'news', Drudge, Breitbart, and conspiracy theorist sites like legalinsurrection have latched on to this story as another deflection for Trump's Russian troubles. Rather than explain it and "let the process happen", these bozos grasp at straws gleaned from false stories in an effort to distract from what's really going on here. In their latest storyline, they have picked up on a name they bashed in their never ending Benghazi 'investigation: Susan Rice. They figure, if they resurrect this ogre from the past, it will give their diversive actions more credibility. It would be a lot easier if they just disclosed Trump's ties to Russia. Then, maybe he'd get on with the business of actually governing.

But, he won't . . . He's too caught up with things that irritate him so he can engage in another tweetstorm.

What the heck are you talking about?  Spewing nonsense. Take five minutes and watch what Rice said in her own words. On PBS she said she knew NOTHING about what happened then when the news broke she was the person who ordered the unmasking she said it legal/proper for her to do it on MSBNC. 

I love it when Trump tweets... It sends the media into a tail spin!

 
With all due respect Common, it seems that people who buy into all this deflection (and that's all it is -- deflection with absolutely no basis in fact) have completely lost their grasp on reality, reasonableness, and rationality when it comes to Russian connections, wiretapping Trump, and blaming others for self inflicted missteps in governance. I want elected officials to concentrate on doing their jobs rather than raising funds for re-election, kowtowing to political contributors, participating in highly partisan political attacks, and participating in deflective conspiracy theories.

Apparently, based on verified intelligence reports, Russia was actively engaged in trying to influence our elections. Several people in the Trump inner circle have been positively linked to/admitted to having close ties to Russian government/intelligence services. This is unprecedented and dangerous to our representative republic. The Russian government has a strategy to effect elections in Europe and the U.S. through directly influencing politicians and the voting public through social media and news outlets. This nefarious activity is designed to erode traditional democratic governments and eventually replacing them with political regimes that are more aligned with Russian interests around the world. There's nothing more that Vlad Putin would like to see than burgeoning oligarchies throughout the West.

From my perspective, thus far, the Trump administration has put a smile on the face of Putin and his henchmen.

BINGO ! 

Investigate Rice, OK, BUT the real issue is the interference of a foreign government into the underpinnings of our own government. 

I don't get the people who don't want to assume that the interference is NOT the real and biggest issue other that they are so ingrained in partisan politics that they choose not to care.