déjá vu all over again

"Float like a butterfly, 
Sting like a bee..."

~  Mohammedd Ali

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     Last night on You Tube, I was listening to Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing where Secretary of State Mike Pompeo testified.

     One of the main questions was, What did Presidents Trump and Putin discuss and/or agree to, in the two-hour meeting alone with no one else in the room but the translator?

     (Some members of Congress want to call upon the translator to testify and give information, so that Americans will be allowed to know the same information that the Russian people are allowed to know.)

     "Why are we being kept in the dark?" was the unspoken question.

     About the time last week when we heard Pres. Trump say America was foolish and Mr. Putin was "very strong," I thought -- Well, that's new.  I've never heard any U.S. president say something like that, before.

     I played a couple of videos of the hearing, on my tablet last night, while doing things at home.  (We were talking about this, one day at work -- when you are home, chores and little adjustments and organizing projects are never really All Finished -- as a co-worker said wisely, "There is always something to do.")

     So for me last night it was like, Cat food, toilet paper, Mike Pompeo, kimchi, facial cleanser....

     I listened to him answer questions from Senator Menendez of New Jersey, and Senator Bob Corker, Tennessee, and I felt like, "he's not answering the questions, he's just -- talking about other stuff instead."  But then thought -- (scooping kitty litter, sprinkling baking soda) -- "maybe I'm not hearing every word, maybe I didn't listen closely enough, maybe Secretary Pompeo did answer the questions..."

     But then Senator Corker said to Mr. Pompeo:  "I notice that you are not responding to what I'm saying."
     Pompeo answered, insisting that he had responded and answered what was asked.
     Corker said, evenly, "No, you didn't."

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Mueller indictment (continued)
[highlights provided, for readers who prefer to skim]

45.     The Conspirators conducted operations as Guccifer 2.0 and DCLeaks using overlapping computer infrastructure and financing.

     a.     For example, between on or about March 14, 2016 and April 28, 2016, the Conspirators used the same pool of bitcoin funds to purchase a virtual private network ("VPN") account and to 

lease a server in Malaysia.  

In or around June 2016, the Conspirators used the Malaysian server to host the dcleaks.com website.  On or about July 6, 2016, the Conspirators used the VPN to log into the @Guccifer_2 Twitter account.  The Conspirators opened that VPN account from the 

same server that was also used to register malicious domains

for the hacking of the DCCC and DNC networks.

     b.     On or about June 27, 2016, 

the Conspirators, posing as Guccifer 2.0, contacted a U.S. reporter with an offer 

to provide stolen emails from "Hillary Clinton's staff."  The Conspirators then sent the reporter the password to access a nonpublic, password-protected portion of dcleaks.com containing emails stolen from Victim 1 by LUKASHEV, YERMAKOV, and their co-conspirators in or around March 2016.

46.     On or about January 12, 2017, the Conspirators published a statement on the Guccifer 2.0 WordPress blog, 

falsely claiming that the intrusions and release of stolen documents had "totally no relation to the Russian government."

(to be continued)

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