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The expensive tastes of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson are under renewed scrutiny after leaked emails appeared to show he was personally involved in choosing a wildly expensive furniture set for his office’s dining room—a claim that he previously denied. An email from August seen by CNN, sent by department staffer to Carson’s assistant, had the subject line “Secretary’s dining room set needed,” and refers to “printouts of the furniture the Secretary and Mrs. Carson picked out.” HUD spokesperson Raffi Williams said last month that Carson and his wife had “no awareness” that the set was being purchased, with another spokesperson saying: “The secretary did not order a new table. The table was ordered by the career staffers in charge of the building.” The order was swiftly canceled after it became public knowledge, with Carson himself claiming he was “shocked” by the price of it. Presented with the new emails on Tuesday, Williams said only: “When presented with options by professional staff, Mrs. Carson participated in the selection of specific styles.”

19 hours ago, DC Tom said:

Once again, Trump puts the left in a bind.  They so badly want to bad-mouth Haspel as a proponent of torture and someone who's destroyed evidence of criminal CIA activities...but at the same time, praise her for being the first woman to direct the CIA.

 

Intentional or not, it's hilarious to watch Trump tie the left into knots.  :lol:

You Trumpbots are what is hilarious! Seriously! Thanks for the comic relief

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One key civil servant served under both Thatcher and Blair.

 

When he came to Thatcher to discuss the fine details of upcoming policy decisions she argued incessantly with him, thanked him and adopted many of his views and thanked him publicly for them.

 

Blair nodded and smiled and said it was very interesting and never changed a thought in his head.

 

 

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FOR IMMEDIATE DNC RELEASE: March 15, 2018

 

Instruction to Liberal lemmings for next 24 - 48 hours;

 

No matter what subject you respond to, make sure there is some type of reference to.........."Right Wing/ GOP voters are waking up / regretting / turning against Trump" 

 

 

 

 

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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s infamous trip to Kentucky to watch the solar eclipse last August cost taxpayers $33,000 because the secretary traveled on a military aircraft rather than on a commercial flight, according to new travel documents. The records, obtained by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), show that the government spent nearly $1 million for Mnuchin’s flights on military aircraft. Mnuchin’s wife Louise Linton was criticized after she posted an Instagram photo of the couple descending from the plane, and referring to the fashion labels she was wearing.

 
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Well....................that's a hell of a 'correction' there Chief

 

Correction: Trump’s Pick to Head CIA Did Not Oversee Waterboarding of Abu Zubaydah

https://www.propublica.org/article/cia-cables-detail-its-new-deputy-directors-role-in-torture

 

ProPublica erred when it reported in 2017 that Gina Haspel was in charge of a secret prison in Thailand during the infamous interrogation of an al-Qaida suspect.

 

 

 

 

Doesn't matter now. She's already been branded as a torturer. Onto the next innocent person to smear..

 

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1 hour ago, B-Man said:

Well....................that's a hell of a 'correction' there Chief

 

Correction: Trump’s Pick to Head CIA Did Not Oversee Waterboarding of Abu Zubaydah

https://www.propublica.org/article/cia-cables-detail-its-new-deputy-directors-role-in-torture

 

ProPublica erred when it reported in 2017 that Gina Haspel was in charge of a secret prison in Thailand during the infamous interrogation of an al-Qaida suspect.

 

 

 

 

Doesn't matter now. She's already been branded as a torturer. Onto the next innocent person to smear..

 

 

True.  But that comes across as a legitimate attempt to clear up the misreporting.  This isn't the typical page 37, small type, "we said x, but actually meant y, oops, wink, wink."

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27 minutes ago, Taro T said:

 

True.  But that comes across as a legitimate attempt to clear up the misreporting.  This isn't the typical page 37, small type, "we said x, but actually meant y, oops, wink, wink."

 

Yes, that's to their credit, but the rest holds true............................the lemmings have their narrative.

 

 

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1 hour ago, B-Man said:

 

Yes, that's to their credit, but the rest holds true............................the lemmings have their narrative.

 

 

 

 

They do.  And they'll trash her regardless of the correction.  But they'd also trash her regardless of the original article getting published or not.

 

 

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Just now, B-Man said:

“The story also said she mocked the prisoner’s suffering in a private conversation-Neither of these assertions is correct & we retract them” https://twitter.com/propublica/status/974415667783860225 

 

Why bother?  "She mocked someone in private!  The horror!"

 

God forbid we should find that she hangs the toilet paper in improper "underhand" fashion.  

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