Evil-Echo Empire Update….
The GOP has badly lost their way in recent years, so for the sake of the country we should call them out & inform the base. That’s the primary overriding purpose of The Voracs. I ask you please join in our efforts to spread the message so vital to saving America by restoring the Republican Party back to principles & sanity. Our reports based on current news headlines present overwhelming evidence Trump is a thoroughly dishonest & despicable individual. We are also highly critical of the rightwing echo, since those extremist hyper-partisan media manure spreaders keep throwing out crap that’s doing incalculable damage to our nation.
The article hayden-sees-convergence-betwee
Former National Security Agency and CIA Director Michael Hayden said in an interview on Tuesday that he believes there is a “convergence” of interests between President Trump and Russia. “There is an eerie and uncomfortable echo between some of the things the president tweets, the different points of emphasis on Fox News, the thematic stories in the alt-right media, and Russian bots,” Hayden told Politico’s “Off Message” podcast. “I don’t have to create collusion here. Each for their own purposes are well-served by creating deeper divisions within American society. The president, to play to his base; Fox News, for ratings; the alt-right, because they have a conspiratorial view of everything; and the Russians, to mess with our heads,” he continued.
In Rubin’s op-ed trumps-refusal-to-protec
Maybe there are more benign explanations for Trump’s actions, but the onus is on him to explain why he’s neglecting his duties. And if there is interference, real evidence of tampering the American people and Congress must hold him fully accountable. No one who refuses to protect the sanctity of our elections should remain in the Oval Office. And, yet, there he remains, thanks to his Republican protectors.
The title to this link most-americans-think-trump-has
Not just the sanctions but more broadly, my concern is, I believe that President Putin has clearly come to the conclusion there’s little price to pay here, and that therefore I can continue this activity . . . everything, both as the director of NSA and what I see on the Cyber Command side, leads me to believe that if we don’t change the dynamic here, this is going to continue and 2016 won’t be viewed as something isolated. This is something that will be sustained over time.
More statements from Rogers testimony comes from the following excerpts in nsa-director-says-he-hasnt-
A top military cyber official told lawmakers on Tuesday that he has not received specific direction from the Trump administration to disrupt Russian cyberattacks targeting U.S. elections. “I haven’t been granted any additional authorities,” U.S. Cyber Command chief Adm. Michael Rogers, who also serves as director of the National Security Agency (NSA), told lawmakers on the Senate Armed Services Committee. While Rogers said he has not asked for additional authorities to stop Russian cyberattacks at the source, he noted that it would ultimately be up to President Trump to give him that permission. “I need a policy decision that indicates there is specific direction to do that,” Rogers said. “The president ultimately would make this decision in accordance with a recommendation from the secretary of Defense.”
“Essentially, we have not taken on the Russians yet,” said Sen. Jack Reed(D-R.I.), the ranking member, who accused the administration of “essentially sitting back and waiting.” While Rogers pushed back on the notion that the administration has done nothing to counter Russian interference, he acknowledged that the response so far — which has included sanctions passed by Congress — has been insufficient in deterring such behavior. “They haven’t paid a price, at least, that has significantly changed their behavior,” Rogers said.
From the link cnns-begala-why-is-trump-such-
Begala said there is “catastrophic” evidence that Russia attacked the United States during the election to help Trump, and that even intelligence officials appointed by Trump admit as much. Yet Trump won’t act, he said. “Excuse us all for thinking, ‘What do the Russians have on this guy?’” Begala said. “Our president is compromised and we want to know why.”
We’ve now seen where the Russians even penetrated into 2016 voter registration systems in 7 states, while next time they might be able to hack into the voting machines: russians-hacking-seven-states_
Is Trump concerned about the Russian hacks? No he is not. He’s concerned that the FBI is trying too hard to investigate the Russian hacks. He’s concerned that the FBI is interested in a guy who was explicitly recruited by the Russians a few years ago. He’s concerned with “potentially massive FISA abuse” by the FBI when they requested a wiretap on this guy. There was, of course, no FISA abuse. It’s an entirely invented conspiracy theory. But Trump still wants that fake scandal investigated, and not just by some powerless inspector general. He wants it investigated using DOJ lawyers with the power to prosecute. And he’s once again pissed off at his own attorney general for not being enough of a lackey. So it’s not surprising that Rogers has gotten no orders to do anything about the Russians. After all, who knows just what skullduggery that might accidentally uncover? It’s the last thing in the world that Trump wants.
There are also articles below on the aftermath of CPAC, plus how Devin Nunes may lose his committee head position before he maybe winds up in jail. Then we see this link trump-skeptics-gather-to-
Whitehouse suggested that the Trump-era threats to democracy consisted in large part of manipulating the media, new and old, to mislead the public. With some effort, he said, it was fixable. “We changed the way we looked at pollution after the Cuyahoga River fire,” Whitehouse said. “We changed the way we looked at our diets — it used to be canned vegetables, red meat and all that stuff. We live 10 years longer as a result. In the same way we took care of pollution and junk food, we need to figure out, as citizens, how to take care of the pollution and junk food in our news diet.”
Moving on down the related articles below, you can view political updates on Fox fake news & other extremist media sources which pollute our TV’s, radios & internet. So as always in these part 2 echo messages, we expose the evil & lying that have come to define the echo, with our commentary & several links to articles providing ample warning. It’s really difficult to say what is the worst trait of all those in Trump-land, which includes his enablers, pundits, compliant echo & Trumpeter base, is it the fact they’ve lost their minds or lost their morals? So much of the deflections & subterfuge the echo uses to explain away anything about Russia involve blaming Obama or Hillary, which is like saying don’t worry about any oncoming hurricane or tornado, since the light breeze & intermittent rain showers are the more serious weather concerns. The fact is we’ve never seen anything like the Trump Administration & it’s not even close, with all the chaos, dishonesty, bullying, corruption & looking the other way as a foreign power attacks our democracy, yet somehow the Fox/echo crowd is led to believe it’s on par with any other presidency. But we can’t equate an armed robber to a shoplifter, just like we can’t equate Trump to any other president in our lifetimes. Once people escape the fake-news echo bubble, the rest of us can see the mayhem from this administration creates more head-scratching outlandish headlines in a few days than a normal president would create in an entire month. With this White House lowering the bar for normal standards & decency far below the gutter, it could forever diminish the office of the presidency & our nation. And we should never trust Fox & the echo!
The commentary in the link sean-hannity-as-edward-r-
The episode underscores the futility of talking about a single Fox News. There are two or three of them: One is the island of “Fox & Friends,” which has established an early-morning malarkey feedback loop with the president. Another consists of the bona fide news programs headed by folks such as Bill Hemmer, Harris Faulkner, Chris Wallace, Bret Baier and MacCallum; they cover the day’s news. Another is the prime-time contingent of Tucker Carlson, Hannity and Laura Ingraham, where Trumpism in various guises rules the night.
There’s even a reporter discussing the wonderful transition switching from Fox fake news over to doing real journalism alisyn-camerota-loves-doing-jo
“I think that Franklin Graham has failed as a Christian leader, both for what he endorses and for what he has failed to criticize. I speak for a lot of people on that one,” said Richard J. Mouw, president emeritus and professor of faith and public life at the evangelical Fuller Theological Seminary, the nation’s largest full-time seminary. “A lot of us were deeply grateful to Billy Graham for acknowledging that he aligned himself in unhelpful and actually non-Christian ways with a person in power,” Dr. Mouw said in an interview last week. “We’re grateful that he said, ‘I was wrong, that was a dangerous thing to have done.’ And now, here we see the same patterns repeated, even by his own son.” Jerushah Armfield, one of Billy Graham’s granddaughters, has chastised her uncle Franklin and other evangelical leaders for their willingness to overlook behavior by Mr. Trump that is widely seen as immoral and un-Christian. “It’s sending the wrong message to the world about what Christianity is, and what evangelicals are, or I guess, have become,” she recently said on CNN.
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