thebuzzardman wrote:
Agreed. There was an article or editorial somewhere that the country needs to have a hard look at it's kleptocracy problem, around the Manafort case - the implication being there are LOTS of people making money off public money in an underhanded way. I'll try to find it. The article didn't doubt his guilt, just felt that part of the bigger picture was important.
What i find fascinating about the video, and I'm only 30 minutes in (yay off day!)
-> The source is NOT part of the Trump inner circle or republican inner circle
-> That she's alarmed such a person could have had access to this information regarding the hard pivot on Syria/Russia/Israel/Saudi Arabia. She later states her source had a role in hacking the election. (I guess the implication is that there was too much coordination on foreign policy with foreigners BEFORE the election, as the plan was ready to go and Flynn got marching orders from Trump hours after the WIN, no less the inauguration etc. Now, I don't think it's necessarily wrong for channels to be established by people running ahead of time, but making promises etc is over the line. Anyway, people who are experts in what is allowed or not seem convinced of foul play)
-> The person was spreading false information to her and others, she had proof of brute force attacks on the account for her blog and attempts were made to try and post comments as her.
-> Not specifically from the video, but another site (I was trying to figure out the timeline of video date - July 22) and article about her revealing her source to the FBI (July 10) but in that article, she states she felt some fear for her life, but feels protected in that if anything happened to her, either murder or theft of documents, hack etc, it would be clear exactly who was behind it.
-> Her speculation is that this person had this information so readily, and the pivot was so soon, that this Syria deal with Russia via Flynn was payoff for the assistance of hacking the election.
So, after all that, I was wondering who approached her. She had reason to fear this person, or his contacts. Yet not in the Trump circle (rules out Sater or Cohen or Bannon). Feels like a Russian embassy person. Who either has real information or all this is part of the ongoing campaign to create confusion.
It's tough to even try to guess because she has to be so cautious with what she divulges, but considering that, she gives so much more than I had heard before. The Syria decision and connection could end up being a big deal, it'd make a move to prove collusion a lot stronger if it has legs and she sounds VERY confident that it does. I listened to it when it dropped, so I'm glad you've thrown up some of the more interesting tidbits. It's a really eye-opening interview from start to finish.
But seriously, I am not at all concerned here. I'll wait for the outcome of the investigation. Something tells me Mueller doesn't have much more time. He needs to show judges or someone at that level what he has in order to continue, because thus far, we have seen nothing. 
