Alexei Navalny was poisoned by a rare nerve agent that was developed in Russia, German officials say. Navalny, a leading critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, is being treated in Berlin's Charité hospital, seen here behind the Reichstag. Christoph Soeder/dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images hide caption
toggle caption
Christoph Soeder/dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images
Alexei Navalny was poisoned by a rare nerve agent that was developed in Russia, German officials say. Navalny, a leading critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, is being treated in Berlin's Charité hospital, seen here behind the Reichstag. Christoph Soeder/dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images
Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny was poisoned by a military-grade nerve agent from the Russian-created Novichok family, according to toxicology tests carried out by a German army laboratory. A Germany government spokesman says the evidence is "without a doubt."
Novichok is the same nerve agent used to poison former KGB spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, in a 2018 attack in Britain that Western nations have blamed on Moscow.
Steffen Seibert, a spokesman for German Chancellor Angela Merkel, says that Germany condemns the attack in the strongest possible terms and urges the Russian government to explain what happened.
Days after he was poisoned on Aug. 20, Navalny was airlifted from Siberia to the Charité hospital in Berlin. He remains in a medically induced coma and on a ventilator, but in a recent update, German doctors said Navalny's condition is stable and that his life is not in danger.
The Novichok group of nerve agents was "developed in a top-secret laboratory in Moscow and was once a closely held secret of the Russian government," as NPR's Geoff Brumfiel has reported. The name means "newcomer" in Russian — the chemical weapons were developed in the last years of the Cold War, in a bid to create agents that are both lethal and very difficult to detect.
Navalny is one of Russian President Vladimir Putin's most prominent critics. The opposition leader has also investigated well-placed officials over potential instances of corruption and abuse of office.
The activist and politician fell ill on a commercial flight from Siberia to Moscow, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing. His spokesperson, Kira Yarmysh, said she saw him drink one thing: a cup of tea at the airport in Tomsk.
Merkel's office says the government is hoping for Navalny to make a full recovery from his poisoning.
Both Sergei and Yulia Skripal survived the March 2018 attack in Salisbury, England, and the U.K. charged two Russian men with the crime. Then-Prime Minister Theresa May said that the U.K.'s security and intelligence agencies determined the men were "officers from the Russian military intelligence service, also known as the GRU." NPR's Esme Nicholson contributed to this report.
Hospital tests have shown Putin critic Alexei Navalny was 'without doubt' poisoned with a nerve agent from the novichok group, according to the German government.
As the world continues to wage war on the coronavirus, Wednesday marks the end of another far deadlier global war exactly 75 years ago. On Sept. 2, 1945, America accepted the surrender of Japan to end World War II. FOX News
The Trump 2020 Campaign launched new ads in five key early voting states Wednesday — after a brief hiatus during the Democratic and Republican conventions — with a renewed focus on President Trumps law and order message amid unrest in cities across the country. FOX News
Claim: While sitting alongside Erdogan before their talks, Trump told … and Syrian-Russian patrols, Trump has called his own deal with Erdogan … No ethnic and religious groups, including Kurds, Arabs, Christians and ….. Nothing less than paradigm shift in German security policy, Merkel “informed’.
_______________________________________________________ Post Link | Links:
The Joe Biden campaign is pushing ahead with a major swing-state ad blitz addressing the rioting that’s gripped many U.S. cities head-on and blaming President Trump for the violence, casting the Democratic nominee as a calming force who will “lower the temperature” of the national discourse. FOX News
The FBI counterintelligence investigation was shut down before any substantial inquiry was made, Schmidt reports.
New revelations about Muellers investigation raise serious questions about how and why Rosenstein shielded Trump Raw Story rawstory.com/2020/09/new-re
Only by neutralizing McCabe, removing him, and discrediting him could Trump evade the greatest risk he faced a counterintelligence investigation into his Russian dealings.
That truncated FBI investigation that needs to be resumed immediately. rawstory.com/2020/09/new-re
There was no Russia investigation. Let’s say it again for those in the back. There was no Russia investigation.
It sounds like the oddest thing to say. Didn’t we spend the better part of three years covering the Russia investigation every day? The part where the Trump campaign most certainly absolutely did collude with Russia to “win” the election, as confirmed by the Senate Intelligence Committee’s recent Russia report, and, if you could get through it, the Mueller Report? And the part where Donald Trump obstructed that investigation at every turn? Did we … imagine all that?
No, we did not. Let us explain.
The news, broken by New York Times reporter Michael Schmidt in his new book Donald Trump v. The United States: Inside the Struggle to Stop a President, is that former deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein secretly manipulated the parameters of the Russia investigation during the handoff between the regular FBI investigation and the beginning of newly appointed special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe. Specifically, Rosenstein got rid of the counterintelligence portion of the investigation, the part that was supposed to actually figure out whether or not Donald Trump is a fucking Russian intelligence asset or agent, witting or unwitting.
Schmidt explains in the Times, in a piece adapted from his book:
The Justice Department secretly took steps in 2017 to narrow the investigation into Russian election interference and any links to the Trump campaign, according to former law enforcement officials, keeping investigators from completing an examination of President Trump’s decades-long personal and business ties to Russia.
The special counsel who finished the investigation, Robert S. Mueller III, secured three dozen indictments and convictions of some top Trump advisers, and he produced a report that outlined Russia’s wide-ranging operations to help get Mr. Trump elected and the president’s efforts to impede the inquiry. But law enforcement officials never fully investigated Mr. Trump’s own relationship with Russia, even though some career F.B.I. counterintelligence investigators thought his ties posed such a national security threat that they took the extraordinary step of opening an inquiry into them. Within days, the former deputy attorney general Rod J. Rosenstein curtailed the investigation without telling the bureau, all but ensuring it would go nowhere.
In other words, Rosenstein did the cover-up for Donald Trump LOOOOOOONG before Bill Barr was doing cover-ups for Trump.
Michael Schmidt broke the news in January of 2019 that the FBI had indeed opened a counterintelligence investigation into Trump and Russia in spring of 2017. It was ordered by then-deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe, just after Trump fired then-FBI director James Comey in an attempt to end the Russia investigation. They were worried Trump was literally a threat to national security. The FBI was really spooked when Trump admitted on TV that he had fired Comey in order to kill that investigation. They started to think, hey wait is this Trump obstruction of justice investigation related to the investigation into the Russian attack on the election and whether the Trump campaign and the Russians colluded? Is there something much bigger going on here? Thus, a counterintelligence investigation.
They legitimately were scared the sitting president of the United States was an actual Russian asset. We still are.
We have long wondered where the hell that investigation went. Why didn’t it seem like anybody was looking at Trump’s financial ties to Russia? Who was working on getting to the bottom of questions about why Trump deferred to Vladimir Putin in every situation, at every opportunity? Why does Trump push Kremlin-based foreign policy even on matters he sure as hell doesn’t know a goddamn thing about? Why does he take Russia’s side on Ukraine? Why does he trust Putin over America’s intelligence agencies? Why does he leak code-word-level classified intel to the Russians in the Oval Office? Why is he so hellbent on destroying western alliances like NATO, which serves no one more than Putin? Why is he so submissive to Putin?
Oh well, don’t know, because there was no Russia investigation.
Blame Rod Rosenstein, and certainly not Mueller. Rosenstein took the FBI investigation from Andy McCabe and appointed the special counsel. McCabe was extremely happy about this. Trump was attacking him on the regular, he had just fired James Comey, and McCabe was scared Trump would fire him, and then the entire investigation would go POOF! He thought Rod Rosenstein had done a good thing.
Instead, without telling anyone, Rosenstein chose that moment to memoryhole the part of the investigation meant to find out if Donald Trump is literally a Russian agent, and if so, how and why. (You know, the most important part. And yes, that would include following Trump’s money up Russia’s ass, as following the money is Counterintelligence 101.) Mueller was operating under the impression the FBI was handling that side, and the FBI thought Mueller was doing it, and NOBODY WAS FUCKING DOING IT. Schmidt reports, “Mr. McCabe said in an interview that had he known Mr. Mueller would not continue the inquiry, he would have had the F.B.I. perform it.”
“We opened this case in May 2017 because we had information that indicated a national security threat might exist, specifically a counterintelligence threat involving the president and Russia,” Mr. McCabe said. “I expected that issue and issues related to it would be fully examined by the special counsel team. If a decision was made not to investigate those issues, I am surprised and disappointed. I was not aware of that.”
There was no Russia investigation. At least not the way we thought.
“It was first and foremost a counterintelligence case,” Mr. McCabe said. “Could the president actually be the point of coordination between the campaign and the Russian government? Could the president actually be maintaining some sort of inappropriate relationship with our most significant adversary in the world?”
Mueller told Congress he passed counterintelligence findings to the FBI, because he thought they were doing something with them. There were FBI agents embedded in his investigation, taking that information and transferring it to the FBI for that specific purpose. Mueller’s remit from Rosenstein was to find crimes, and nothing more. And he found quite a few! Schmidt reports that Rosenstein instructed Mueller that if he felt like he needed to broaden his inquiry, he could always come and ask, but again, he thought the FBI was actually handling that side. Mueller was still under that impression when he testified to Congress in July of 2019, after releasing his report, which had no classified information in it.
And this entire time, we’ve just been wondering where those counterintelligence findings are, and what the status is of that investigation. House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff has been demanding information from Bill Barr about it for ages. We guess it just wasn’t there, because there was no Russia investigation.
Schmidt has Rosenstein’s side of the story, such as it is, if you want to hear why he’s such an idiot, assuming you’re in the mood to believe him:
Mr. Rosenstein concluded the F.B.I. lacked sufficient reason to conduct an investigation into the president’s links to a foreign adversary. Mr. Rosenstein determined that the investigators were acting too hastily in response to the firing days earlier of James B. Comey as F.B.I. director, and he suspected that the acting bureau director who approved the opening of the inquiry, Andrew G. McCabe, had conflicts of interest.
“Lacked sufficient reason”? Well golly goddammit, Rod, maybe if you’d read Wonkette you’d know more about what the fuck went on between July 2016, when the Russian election attack went public, and May 2017, when Trump fired Comey to end the Russia investigation. Mission accomplished, we guess!
As for the rest of it, fuck off.
Schmidt appeared on Maddow last night, and they both talked a lot about WTF about who what why now, and how we still literally have no idea, two months before an election where Russia is currently attacking to help re-install Trump as president, just how much of a Russian asset Trump is.
Michael Schmidt’s book comes out today. Maybe you’d like to buy a copy.
[New York Times] Follow Evan Hurst on Twitter RIGHT HERE, DO IT RIGHT HERE! Wonkette is fully funded by readers like YOU. If you love Wonkette, WE NEED YOUR LOVE GIFTS TO KEEP US GOING. Do your Amazon shopping through this link, because reasons.
“That truncated FBI investigation that needs to be resumed immediately.” (!!! – M.N.)
Only by neutralizing McCabe, removing him, and discrediting him could Trump evade the greatest risk he faced a counterintelligence investigation into his Russian dealings.
That truncated FBI investigation that needs to be resumed immediately.
New revelations about Muellers investigation raise serious The FBI News Review
Only by neutralizing McCabe, removing him, and discrediting him could Trump evade the greatest risk he faced a counterintelligence investigation into his Russian dealings. That truncated FBI investigation that needs to be resumed immediately. New revelations about Muellers investigation raise serious questions about how and why Rosenstein… Donald Trump was never investigated to determine if he is a Russian agent or asset, according to an explosive book published today by a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter. In Trump v. The… <a href=”http://rawstory.com” rel=”nofollow”>rawstory.com</a> 7:26 AM 9/2/2020 – “That truncated FBI investigation that needs to be resumed immediately.” (!!! – M.N.) “Donald Trump was never investigated to determine if he is a Russian agent or asset, according to an explosive book published today by a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter.”
There was no Russia investigation. Let’s say it again for those in the back. There was no Russia investigation.
It sounds like the oddest thing to say. Didn’t we spend the better part of three years covering the Russia investigation every day? The part where the Trump campaign most certainly absolutely did collude with Russia to “win” the election, as confirmed by the Senate Intelligence Committee’s recent Russia report, and, if you could get through it, the Mueller Report? And the part where Donald Trump obstructed that investigation at every turn? Did we … imagine all that?
No, we did not. Let us explain.
The news, broken by New York Times reporter Michael Schmidt in his new book Donald Trump v. The United States: Inside the Struggle to Stop a President, is that former deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein secretly manipulated the parameters of the Russia investigation during the handoff between the regular FBI investigation and the beginning of newly appointed special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe. Specifically, Rosenstein got rid of the counterintelligence portion of the investigation, the part that was supposed to actually figure out whether or not Donald Trump is a fucking Russian intelligence asset or agent, witting or unwitting.
Schmidt explains in the Times, in a piece adapted from his book:
The Justice Department secretly took steps in 2017 to narrow the investigation into Russian election interference and any links to the Trump campaign, according to former law enforcement officials, keeping investigators from completing an examination of President Trump’s decades-long personal and business ties to Russia.
The special counsel who finished the investigation, Robert S. Mueller III, secured three dozen indictments and convictions of some top Trump advisers, and he produced a report that outlined Russia’s wide-ranging operations to help get Mr. Trump elected and the president’s efforts to impede the inquiry. But law enforcement officials never fully investigated Mr. Trump’s own relationship with Russia, even though some career F.B.I. counterintelligence investigators thought his ties posed such a national security threat that they took the extraordinary step of opening an inquiry into them. Within days, the former deputy attorney general Rod J. Rosenstein curtailed the investigation without telling the bureau, all but ensuring it would go nowhere.
In other words, Rosenstein did the cover-up for Donald Trump LOOOOOOONG before Bill Barr was doing cover-ups for Trump.
Michael Schmidt broke the news in January of 2019 that the FBI had indeed opened a counterintelligence investigation into Trump and Russia in spring of 2017. It was ordered by then-deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe, just after Trump fired then-FBI director James Comey in an attempt to end the Russia investigation. They were worried Trump was literally a threat to national security. The FBI was really spooked when Trump admitted on TV that he had fired Comey in order to kill that investigation. They started to think, hey wait is this Trump obstruction of justice investigation related to the investigation into the Russian attack on the election and whether the Trump campaign and the Russians colluded? Is there something much bigger going on here? Thus, a counterintelligence investigation.
They legitimately were scared the sitting president of the United States was an actual Russian asset. We still are.
We have long wondered where the hell that investigation went. Why didn’t it seem like anybody was looking at Trump’s financial ties to Russia? Who was working on getting to the bottom of questions about why Trump deferred to Vladimir Putin in every situation, at every opportunity? Why does Trump push Kremlin-based foreign policy even on matters he sure as hell doesn’t know a goddamn thing about? Why does he take Russia’s side on Ukraine? Why does he trust Putin over America’s intelligence agencies? Why does he leak code-word-level classified intel to the Russians in the Oval Office? Why is he so hellbent on destroying western alliances like NATO, which serves no one more than Putin? Why is he so submissive to Putin?
Oh well, don’t know, because there was no Russia investigation.
Blame Rod Rosenstein, and certainly not Mueller. Rosenstein took the FBI investigation from Andy McCabe and appointed the special counsel. McCabe was extremely happy about this. Trump was attacking him on the regular, he had just fired James Comey, and McCabe was scared Trump would fire him, and then the entire investigation would go POOF! He thought Rod Rosenstein had done a good thing.
Instead, without telling anyone, Rosenstein chose that moment to memoryhole the part of the investigation meant to find out if Donald Trump is literally a Russian agent, and if so, how and why. (You know, the most important part. And yes, that would include following Trump’s money up Russia’s ass, as following the money is Counterintelligence 101.) Mueller was operating under the impression the FBI was handling that side, and the FBI thought Mueller was doing it, and NOBODY WAS FUCKING DOING IT. Schmidt reports, “Mr. McCabe said in an interview that had he known Mr. Mueller would not continue the inquiry, he would have had the F.B.I. perform it.”
“We opened this case in May 2017 because we had information that indicated a national security threat might exist, specifically a counterintelligence threat involving the president and Russia,” Mr. McCabe said. “I expected that issue and issues related to it would be fully examined by the special counsel team. If a decision was made not to investigate those issues, I am surprised and disappointed. I was not aware of that.”
There was no Russia investigation. At least not the way we thought.
“It was first and foremost a counterintelligence case,” Mr. McCabe said. “Could the president actually be the point of coordination between the campaign and the Russian government? Could the president actually be maintaining some sort of inappropriate relationship with our most significant adversary in the world?”
Mueller told Congress he passed counterintelligence findings to the FBI, because he thought they were doing something with them. There were FBI agents embedded in his investigation, taking that information and transferring it to the FBI for that specific purpose. Mueller’s remit from Rosenstein was to find crimes, and nothing more. And he found quite a few! Schmidt reports that Rosenstein instructed Mueller that if he felt like he needed to broaden his inquiry, he could always come and ask, but again, he thought the FBI was actually handling that side. Mueller was still under that impression when he testified to Congress in July of 2019, after releasing his report, which had no classified information in it.
And this entire time, we’ve just been wondering where those counterintelligence findings are, and what the status is of that investigation. House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff has been demanding information from Bill Barr about it for ages. We guess it just wasn’t there, because there was no Russia investigation.
Schmidt has Rosenstein’s side of the story, such as it is, if you want to hear why he’s such an idiot, assuming you’re in the mood to believe him:
Mr. Rosenstein concluded the F.B.I. lacked sufficient reason to conduct an investigation into the president’s links to a foreign adversary. Mr. Rosenstein determined that the investigators were acting too hastily in response to the firing days earlier of James B. Comey as F.B.I. director, and he suspected that the acting bureau director who approved the opening of the inquiry, Andrew G. McCabe, had conflicts of interest.
“Lacked sufficient reason”? Well golly goddammit, Rod, maybe if you’d read Wonkette you’d know more about what the fuck went on between July 2016, when the Russian election attack went public, and May 2017, when Trump fired Comey to end the Russia investigation. Mission accomplished, we guess!
As for the rest of it, fuck off.
Schmidt appeared on Maddow last night, and they both talked a lot about WTF about who what why now, and how we still literally have no idea, two months before an election where Russia is currently attacking to help re-install Trump as president, just how much of a Russian asset Trump is.
Michael Schmidt’s book comes out today. Maybe you’d like to buy a copy.
[New York Times] Follow Evan Hurst on Twitter RIGHT HERE, DO IT RIGHT HERE! Wonkette is fully funded by readers like YOU. If you love Wonkette, WE NEED YOUR LOVE GIFTS TO KEEP US GOING. Do your Amazon shopping through this link, because reasons.
Austrophobia, or the traditional, historical since mid-19 Century Anti-Austrian Sentiment in politics and military affairs (can be considered as the specifically indicative, "pathognomonic sign")
Photo: Ernst Uhrlau, former chief of BND and later the "consultant on geopolitical risks" for the Deutsche Bank, and the political ally of Gerhard Schroeder. Uhrlau was the chief of the Hamburg police when the core group of 9/11 hijackers, the so called Hamburg Cell, lived and received training there. He was uncooperative and hostile towards 9/11 Investigationinquiries.
»German Intelligence Chief Wilhelm Franz Canaris24/01/19 06:17 from Mike Nova’s Shared NewslinksMichael_Novakhov shared this story from Warfare History Network. Adolf Hitler’s spymaster, Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, was actually a dedicated anti-Nazi who did everything he could to frustrate the Führer’s plans. by David…
»Canaris and Heydrich – Axis History Forum24/01/19 06:16 from Mike Nova’s Shared NewslinksMichael_Novakhov shared this story . Canaris and Heydrich #1 Post by Ezboard » 29 Sep 2002, 21:37 GFM2001 Member Posts: 55 (8/20/01 12:32:55 pm) Reply Canaris and Heydrich ————————————————————…
»Service record of Reinhard Heydrich24/01/19 05:43 from Mike Nova’s Shared NewslinksMichael_Novakhov shared this story . SS- service record cover of Obergruppenführer und General der Polizei Reinhard Heydrich The service record of Reinhard Heydrich was a collection of official SS documents maintained at the SS Pers…
»Heydrich’s homosexuality? – Axis History Forum24/01/19 04:52 from Mike Nova’s Shared NewslinksMichael_Novakhov shared this story . Heydrich’s homosexuality? #1 Post by Ezboard » 29 Sep 2002, 19:03 HannahR New Member Posts: 1 (5/26/01 5:43:01 pm) Reply Heydrich’s homosexuality? ————————————————…
Alexei Navalny was poisoned by a rare nerve agent that was developed in Russia, German officials say. Navalny, a leading critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, is being treated in Berlin's Charité hospital, seen here behind the Reichstag. Christoph Soeder/dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images hide caption
toggle caption
Christoph Soeder/dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images
Alexei Navalny was poisoned by a rare nerve agent that was developed in Russia, German officials say. Navalny, a leading critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, is being treated in Berlin's Charité hospital, seen here behind the Reichstag. Christoph Soeder/dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images
Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny was poisoned by a military-grade nerve agent from the Russian-created Novichok family, according to toxicology tests carried out by a German army laboratory. A Germany government spokesman says the evidence is "without a doubt."
Novichok is the same nerve agent used to poison former KGB spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, in a 2018 attack in Britain that Western nations have blamed on Moscow.
Steffen Seibert, a spokesman for German Chancellor Angela Merkel, says that Germany condemns the attack in the strongest possible terms and urges the Russian government to explain what happened.
Days after he was poisoned on Aug. 20, Navalny was airlifted from Siberia to the Charité hospital in Berlin. He remains in a medically induced coma and on a ventilator, but in a recent update, German doctors said Navalny's condition is stable and that his life is not in danger.
The Novichok group of nerve agents was "developed in a top-secret laboratory in Moscow and was once a closely held secret of the Russian government," as NPR's Geoff Brumfiel has reported. The name means "newcomer" in Russian — the chemical weapons were developed in the last years of the Cold War, in a bid to create agents that are both lethal and very difficult to detect.
Navalny is one of Russian President Vladimir Putin's most prominent critics. The opposition leader has also investigated well-placed officials over potential instances of corruption and abuse of office.
The activist and politician fell ill on a commercial flight from Siberia to Moscow, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing. His spokesperson, Kira Yarmysh, said she saw him drink one thing: a cup of tea at the airport in Tomsk.
Merkel's office says the government is hoping for Navalny to make a full recovery from his poisoning.
Both Sergei and Yulia Skripal survived the March 2018 attack in Salisbury, England, and the U.K. charged two Russian men with the crime. Then-Prime Minister Theresa May said that the U.K.'s security and intelligence agencies determined the men were "officers from the Russian military intelligence service, also known as the GRU." NPR's Esme Nicholson contributed to this report.
Hospital tests have shown Putin critic Alexei Navalny was 'without doubt' poisoned with a nerve agent from the novichok group, according to the German government.
As the world continues to wage war on the coronavirus, Wednesday marks the end of another far deadlier global war exactly 75 years ago. On Sept. 2, 1945, America accepted the surrender of Japan to end World War II. FOX News
The Trump 2020 Campaign launched new ads in five key early voting states Wednesday — after a brief hiatus during the Democratic and Republican conventions — with a renewed focus on President Trumps law and order message amid unrest in cities across the country. FOX News
Claim: While sitting alongside Erdogan before their talks, Trump told … and Syrian-Russian patrols, Trump has called his own deal with Erdogan … No ethnic and religious groups, including Kurds, Arabs, Christians and ….. Nothing less than paradigm shift in German security policy, Merkel “informed’.
_______________________________________________________ Post Link | Links:
The Joe Biden campaign is pushing ahead with a major swing-state ad blitz addressing the rioting that’s gripped many U.S. cities head-on and blaming President Trump for the violence, casting the Democratic nominee as a calming force who will “lower the temperature” of the national discourse. FOX News
The FBI counterintelligence investigation was shut down before any substantial inquiry was made, Schmidt reports.
New revelations about Muellers investigation raise serious questions about how and why Rosenstein shielded Trump Raw Story rawstory.com/2020/09/new-re
Only by neutralizing McCabe, removing him, and discrediting him could Trump evade the greatest risk he faced a counterintelligence investigation into his Russian dealings.
That truncated FBI investigation that needs to be resumed immediately. rawstory.com/2020/09/new-re
There was no Russia investigation. Let’s say it again for those in the back. There was no Russia investigation.
It sounds like the oddest thing to say. Didn’t we spend the better part of three years covering the Russia investigation every day? The part where the Trump campaign most certainly absolutely did collude with Russia to “win” the election, as confirmed by the Senate Intelligence Committee’s recent Russia report, and, if you could get through it, the Mueller Report? And the part where Donald Trump obstructed that investigation at every turn? Did we … imagine all that?
No, we did not. Let us explain.
The news, broken by New York Times reporter Michael Schmidt in his new book Donald Trump v. The United States: Inside the Struggle to Stop a President, is that former deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein secretly manipulated the parameters of the Russia investigation during the handoff between the regular FBI investigation and the beginning of newly appointed special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe. Specifically, Rosenstein got rid of the counterintelligence portion of the investigation, the part that was supposed to actually figure out whether or not Donald Trump is a fucking Russian intelligence asset or agent, witting or unwitting.
Schmidt explains in the Times, in a piece adapted from his book:
The Justice Department secretly took steps in 2017 to narrow the investigation into Russian election interference and any links to the Trump campaign, according to former law enforcement officials, keeping investigators from completing an examination of President Trump’s decades-long personal and business ties to Russia.
The special counsel who finished the investigation, Robert S. Mueller III, secured three dozen indictments and convictions of some top Trump advisers, and he produced a report that outlined Russia’s wide-ranging operations to help get Mr. Trump elected and the president’s efforts to impede the inquiry. But law enforcement officials never fully investigated Mr. Trump’s own relationship with Russia, even though some career F.B.I. counterintelligence investigators thought his ties posed such a national security threat that they took the extraordinary step of opening an inquiry into them. Within days, the former deputy attorney general Rod J. Rosenstein curtailed the investigation without telling the bureau, all but ensuring it would go nowhere.
In other words, Rosenstein did the cover-up for Donald Trump LOOOOOOONG before Bill Barr was doing cover-ups for Trump.
Michael Schmidt broke the news in January of 2019 that the FBI had indeed opened a counterintelligence investigation into Trump and Russia in spring of 2017. It was ordered by then-deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe, just after Trump fired then-FBI director James Comey in an attempt to end the Russia investigation. They were worried Trump was literally a threat to national security. The FBI was really spooked when Trump admitted on TV that he had fired Comey in order to kill that investigation. They started to think, hey wait is this Trump obstruction of justice investigation related to the investigation into the Russian attack on the election and whether the Trump campaign and the Russians colluded? Is there something much bigger going on here? Thus, a counterintelligence investigation.
They legitimately were scared the sitting president of the United States was an actual Russian asset. We still are.
We have long wondered where the hell that investigation went. Why didn’t it seem like anybody was looking at Trump’s financial ties to Russia? Who was working on getting to the bottom of questions about why Trump deferred to Vladimir Putin in every situation, at every opportunity? Why does Trump push Kremlin-based foreign policy even on matters he sure as hell doesn’t know a goddamn thing about? Why does he take Russia’s side on Ukraine? Why does he trust Putin over America’s intelligence agencies? Why does he leak code-word-level classified intel to the Russians in the Oval Office? Why is he so hellbent on destroying western alliances like NATO, which serves no one more than Putin? Why is he so submissive to Putin?
Oh well, don’t know, because there was no Russia investigation.
Blame Rod Rosenstein, and certainly not Mueller. Rosenstein took the FBI investigation from Andy McCabe and appointed the special counsel. McCabe was extremely happy about this. Trump was attacking him on the regular, he had just fired James Comey, and McCabe was scared Trump would fire him, and then the entire investigation would go POOF! He thought Rod Rosenstein had done a good thing.
Instead, without telling anyone, Rosenstein chose that moment to memoryhole the part of the investigation meant to find out if Donald Trump is literally a Russian agent, and if so, how and why. (You know, the most important part. And yes, that would include following Trump’s money up Russia’s ass, as following the money is Counterintelligence 101.) Mueller was operating under the impression the FBI was handling that side, and the FBI thought Mueller was doing it, and NOBODY WAS FUCKING DOING IT. Schmidt reports, “Mr. McCabe said in an interview that had he known Mr. Mueller would not continue the inquiry, he would have had the F.B.I. perform it.”
“We opened this case in May 2017 because we had information that indicated a national security threat might exist, specifically a counterintelligence threat involving the president and Russia,” Mr. McCabe said. “I expected that issue and issues related to it would be fully examined by the special counsel team. If a decision was made not to investigate those issues, I am surprised and disappointed. I was not aware of that.”
There was no Russia investigation. At least not the way we thought.
“It was first and foremost a counterintelligence case,” Mr. McCabe said. “Could the president actually be the point of coordination between the campaign and the Russian government? Could the president actually be maintaining some sort of inappropriate relationship with our most significant adversary in the world?”
Mueller told Congress he passed counterintelligence findings to the FBI, because he thought they were doing something with them. There were FBI agents embedded in his investigation, taking that information and transferring it to the FBI for that specific purpose. Mueller’s remit from Rosenstein was to find crimes, and nothing more. And he found quite a few! Schmidt reports that Rosenstein instructed Mueller that if he felt like he needed to broaden his inquiry, he could always come and ask, but again, he thought the FBI was actually handling that side. Mueller was still under that impression when he testified to Congress in July of 2019, after releasing his report, which had no classified information in it.
And this entire time, we’ve just been wondering where those counterintelligence findings are, and what the status is of that investigation. House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff has been demanding information from Bill Barr about it for ages. We guess it just wasn’t there, because there was no Russia investigation.
Schmidt has Rosenstein’s side of the story, such as it is, if you want to hear why he’s such an idiot, assuming you’re in the mood to believe him:
Mr. Rosenstein concluded the F.B.I. lacked sufficient reason to conduct an investigation into the president’s links to a foreign adversary. Mr. Rosenstein determined that the investigators were acting too hastily in response to the firing days earlier of James B. Comey as F.B.I. director, and he suspected that the acting bureau director who approved the opening of the inquiry, Andrew G. McCabe, had conflicts of interest.
“Lacked sufficient reason”? Well golly goddammit, Rod, maybe if you’d read Wonkette you’d know more about what the fuck went on between July 2016, when the Russian election attack went public, and May 2017, when Trump fired Comey to end the Russia investigation. Mission accomplished, we guess!
As for the rest of it, fuck off.
Schmidt appeared on Maddow last night, and they both talked a lot about WTF about who what why now, and how we still literally have no idea, two months before an election where Russia is currently attacking to help re-install Trump as president, just how much of a Russian asset Trump is.
Michael Schmidt’s book comes out today. Maybe you’d like to buy a copy.
[New York Times] Follow Evan Hurst on Twitter RIGHT HERE, DO IT RIGHT HERE! Wonkette is fully funded by readers like YOU. If you love Wonkette, WE NEED YOUR LOVE GIFTS TO KEEP US GOING. Do your Amazon shopping through this link, because reasons.
“That truncated FBI investigation that needs to be resumed immediately.” (!!! – M.N.)
Only by neutralizing McCabe, removing him, and discrediting him could Trump evade the greatest risk he faced a counterintelligence investigation into his Russian dealings.
That truncated FBI investigation that needs to be resumed immediately.
New revelations about Muellers investigation raise serious The FBI News Review
Only by neutralizing McCabe, removing him, and discrediting him could Trump evade the greatest risk he faced a counterintelligence investigation into his Russian dealings. That truncated FBI investigation that needs to be resumed immediately. New revelations about Muellers investigation raise serious questions about how and why Rosenstein… Donald Trump was never investigated to determine if he is a Russian agent or asset, according to an explosive book published today by a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter. In Trump v. The… <a href=”http://rawstory.com” rel=”nofollow”>rawstory.com</a> 7:26 AM 9/2/2020 – “That truncated FBI investigation that needs to be resumed immediately.” (!!! – M.N.) “Donald Trump was never investigated to determine if he is a Russian agent or asset, according to an explosive book published today by a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter.”
There was no Russia investigation. Let’s say it again for those in the back. There was no Russia investigation.
It sounds like the oddest thing to say. Didn’t we spend the better part of three years covering the Russia investigation every day? The part where the Trump campaign most certainly absolutely did collude with Russia to “win” the election, as confirmed by the Senate Intelligence Committee’s recent Russia report, and, if you could get through it, the Mueller Report? And the part where Donald Trump obstructed that investigation at every turn? Did we … imagine all that?
No, we did not. Let us explain.
The news, broken by New York Times reporter Michael Schmidt in his new book Donald Trump v. The United States: Inside the Struggle to Stop a President, is that former deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein secretly manipulated the parameters of the Russia investigation during the handoff between the regular FBI investigation and the beginning of newly appointed special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe. Specifically, Rosenstein got rid of the counterintelligence portion of the investigation, the part that was supposed to actually figure out whether or not Donald Trump is a fucking Russian intelligence asset or agent, witting or unwitting.
Schmidt explains in the Times, in a piece adapted from his book:
The Justice Department secretly took steps in 2017 to narrow the investigation into Russian election interference and any links to the Trump campaign, according to former law enforcement officials, keeping investigators from completing an examination of President Trump’s decades-long personal and business ties to Russia.
The special counsel who finished the investigation, Robert S. Mueller III, secured three dozen indictments and convictions of some top Trump advisers, and he produced a report that outlined Russia’s wide-ranging operations to help get Mr. Trump elected and the president’s efforts to impede the inquiry. But law enforcement officials never fully investigated Mr. Trump’s own relationship with Russia, even though some career F.B.I. counterintelligence investigators thought his ties posed such a national security threat that they took the extraordinary step of opening an inquiry into them. Within days, the former deputy attorney general Rod J. Rosenstein curtailed the investigation without telling the bureau, all but ensuring it would go nowhere.
In other words, Rosenstein did the cover-up for Donald Trump LOOOOOOONG before Bill Barr was doing cover-ups for Trump.
Michael Schmidt broke the news in January of 2019 that the FBI had indeed opened a counterintelligence investigation into Trump and Russia in spring of 2017. It was ordered by then-deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe, just after Trump fired then-FBI director James Comey in an attempt to end the Russia investigation. They were worried Trump was literally a threat to national security. The FBI was really spooked when Trump admitted on TV that he had fired Comey in order to kill that investigation. They started to think, hey wait is this Trump obstruction of justice investigation related to the investigation into the Russian attack on the election and whether the Trump campaign and the Russians colluded? Is there something much bigger going on here? Thus, a counterintelligence investigation.
They legitimately were scared the sitting president of the United States was an actual Russian asset. We still are.
We have long wondered where the hell that investigation went. Why didn’t it seem like anybody was looking at Trump’s financial ties to Russia? Who was working on getting to the bottom of questions about why Trump deferred to Vladimir Putin in every situation, at every opportunity? Why does Trump push Kremlin-based foreign policy even on matters he sure as hell doesn’t know a goddamn thing about? Why does he take Russia’s side on Ukraine? Why does he trust Putin over America’s intelligence agencies? Why does he leak code-word-level classified intel to the Russians in the Oval Office? Why is he so hellbent on destroying western alliances like NATO, which serves no one more than Putin? Why is he so submissive to Putin?
Oh well, don’t know, because there was no Russia investigation.
Blame Rod Rosenstein, and certainly not Mueller. Rosenstein took the FBI investigation from Andy McCabe and appointed the special counsel. McCabe was extremely happy about this. Trump was attacking him on the regular, he had just fired James Comey, and McCabe was scared Trump would fire him, and then the entire investigation would go POOF! He thought Rod Rosenstein had done a good thing.
Instead, without telling anyone, Rosenstein chose that moment to memoryhole the part of the investigation meant to find out if Donald Trump is literally a Russian agent, and if so, how and why. (You know, the most important part. And yes, that would include following Trump’s money up Russia’s ass, as following the money is Counterintelligence 101.) Mueller was operating under the impression the FBI was handling that side, and the FBI thought Mueller was doing it, and NOBODY WAS FUCKING DOING IT. Schmidt reports, “Mr. McCabe said in an interview that had he known Mr. Mueller would not continue the inquiry, he would have had the F.B.I. perform it.”
“We opened this case in May 2017 because we had information that indicated a national security threat might exist, specifically a counterintelligence threat involving the president and Russia,” Mr. McCabe said. “I expected that issue and issues related to it would be fully examined by the special counsel team. If a decision was made not to investigate those issues, I am surprised and disappointed. I was not aware of that.”
There was no Russia investigation. At least not the way we thought.
“It was first and foremost a counterintelligence case,” Mr. McCabe said. “Could the president actually be the point of coordination between the campaign and the Russian government? Could the president actually be maintaining some sort of inappropriate relationship with our most significant adversary in the world?”
Mueller told Congress he passed counterintelligence findings to the FBI, because he thought they were doing something with them. There were FBI agents embedded in his investigation, taking that information and transferring it to the FBI for that specific purpose. Mueller’s remit from Rosenstein was to find crimes, and nothing more. And he found quite a few! Schmidt reports that Rosenstein instructed Mueller that if he felt like he needed to broaden his inquiry, he could always come and ask, but again, he thought the FBI was actually handling that side. Mueller was still under that impression when he testified to Congress in July of 2019, after releasing his report, which had no classified information in it.
And this entire time, we’ve just been wondering where those counterintelligence findings are, and what the status is of that investigation. House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff has been demanding information from Bill Barr about it for ages. We guess it just wasn’t there, because there was no Russia investigation.
Schmidt has Rosenstein’s side of the story, such as it is, if you want to hear why he’s such an idiot, assuming you’re in the mood to believe him:
Mr. Rosenstein concluded the F.B.I. lacked sufficient reason to conduct an investigation into the president’s links to a foreign adversary. Mr. Rosenstein determined that the investigators were acting too hastily in response to the firing days earlier of James B. Comey as F.B.I. director, and he suspected that the acting bureau director who approved the opening of the inquiry, Andrew G. McCabe, had conflicts of interest.
“Lacked sufficient reason”? Well golly goddammit, Rod, maybe if you’d read Wonkette you’d know more about what the fuck went on between July 2016, when the Russian election attack went public, and May 2017, when Trump fired Comey to end the Russia investigation. Mission accomplished, we guess!
As for the rest of it, fuck off.
Schmidt appeared on Maddow last night, and they both talked a lot about WTF about who what why now, and how we still literally have no idea, two months before an election where Russia is currently attacking to help re-install Trump as president, just how much of a Russian asset Trump is.
Michael Schmidt’s book comes out today. Maybe you’d like to buy a copy.
[New York Times] Follow Evan Hurst on Twitter RIGHT HERE, DO IT RIGHT HERE! Wonkette is fully funded by readers like YOU. If you love Wonkette, WE NEED YOUR LOVE GIFTS TO KEEP US GOING. Do your Amazon shopping through this link, because reasons.
Austrophobia, or the traditional, historical since mid-19 Century Anti-Austrian Sentiment in politics and military affairs (can be considered as the specifically indicative, "pathognomonic sign")
Photo: Ernst Uhrlau, former chief of BND and later the "consultant on geopolitical risks" for the Deutsche Bank, and the political ally of Gerhard Schroeder. Uhrlau was the chief of the Hamburg police when the core group of 9/11 hijackers, the so called Hamburg Cell, lived and received training there. He was uncooperative and hostile towards 9/11 Investigationinquiries.
»German Intelligence Chief Wilhelm Franz Canaris24/01/19 06:17 from Mike Nova’s Shared NewslinksMichael_Novakhov shared this story from Warfare History Network. Adolf Hitler’s spymaster, Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, was actually a dedicated anti-Nazi who did everything he could to frustrate the Führer’s plans. by David…
»Canaris and Heydrich – Axis History Forum24/01/19 06:16 from Mike Nova’s Shared NewslinksMichael_Novakhov shared this story . Canaris and Heydrich #1 Post by Ezboard » 29 Sep 2002, 21:37 GFM2001 Member Posts: 55 (8/20/01 12:32:55 pm) Reply Canaris and Heydrich ————————————————————…
»Service record of Reinhard Heydrich24/01/19 05:43 from Mike Nova’s Shared NewslinksMichael_Novakhov shared this story . SS- service record cover of Obergruppenführer und General der Polizei Reinhard Heydrich The service record of Reinhard Heydrich was a collection of official SS documents maintained at the SS Pers…
»Heydrich’s homosexuality? – Axis History Forum24/01/19 04:52 from Mike Nova’s Shared NewslinksMichael_Novakhov shared this story . Heydrich’s homosexuality? #1 Post by Ezboard » 29 Sep 2002, 19:03 HannahR New Member Posts: 1 (5/26/01 5:43:01 pm) Reply Heydrich’s homosexuality? ————————————————…
Post Link | The News And Times Information Network: Blogs, Sites, News Reviews Selected Articles | In Brief | Current News In Brief | Blogs Blogs | Sites Sites | News Review Links from | The Brookyn Times Posts | BklynTimes.com – On Twitter The Brookyn Times Posts | Links and Pages | The News And Times Blog | The Brooklyn News And Times Blog All Articles Review | Selected Articles Review | Shared Links | Opinions Review | Video Review | Audio Review | Brooklyn and NY Video News | New York Weather Putin News | Pandora Papers | Panama papers | Russian Fifth Column | “ksors usa” – Google News | Trump and the Russian Mob Brooklyn News Review | Brooklyn News from Google | Brookly...
8:09 AM 9/10/2020 - Saved and Shared Stories In 50 Posts https://tweetsandnews.blogspot.com/2020/09/809-am-9102020-trump-administration.html ___________________________________________ Saved and Shared Stories Michael Novakhov - SharedNewsLinks: 7:25 AM 9/10/2020 - Tweets: Sexual harassment in the FBI - the hidden epidemic. What do we really know about it? mikenov on Twitter: Airport coronavirus screenings: Trump administration intends to end Covid-19 screenings of passengers arriving from overseas msn.com/en-us/news/us/ mikenov on Twitter: By fostering crime, de Blasio has deepened the two New Yorks divide nypost.com/2020/09/09/by- mikenov on Twitter: Belarusian opposition leader Maria Kolesnikova being held on suspicion of state treason | The Independent independent.co.uk/news/world/eur mikenov on Twitter: Robert Hadden, Ex-Doctor Accused Of Abusing Dozens Of Patients, Is Indicted : NPR npr.org/2020/09/09/911 mikenov on Twitter: The massive West Coast wildfires ha...
https://tweetsandnews.blogspot.com/2020/03/637-am-3142020-michael-novakhov.html _________________________________________________________________ Berlin bookburning rally Michael_Novakhov shared this story from The FBI News Review. By Michael Novakhov (Mike Nova) 10:00 AM 9/7/2019 The Content is the King, Media - just waves, Platforms - just stages, Hosting Services - just Servers, and should be just the servants. They cannot be allowed to be The Switch Keepers, and to control The Internet. - Michael Novakhov By Michael Novakhov (Mike Nova) My Blogs By Michael Novakhov - Google Search Michael Novakhov - SharedNewsLinks℠ In 25 Posts Michael Novakhov - SharedNewsLinks℠ | Michael Novakhov - SharedNewsLinks℠ - on RSS Dog | Michael Novakhov – SharedNewsLinks℠ – In Brief | Trump Investigations News In Brief – http:...
https://tweetsandnews.blogspot.com/2020/04/119-pm-442020-cluster-analysis-of.html Cluster Analysis of Coronavirus cases in the U.S .: The hypothesis of transmission by the fecal aerosols to respiratory tract (by the infectious "toilet plumes", and/or due to plumbing problems, creating such aerosols, e.g. dysfunctioning "vent pipes"), dispersed by the central ventilation, heating, or air conditioning systems, and including possibly intentionally contaminated food as the source and origin. The largest and the most clearly defined clusters of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in the U.S., by the places of occurrence, are: Nursing Homes and similar facilities, Prisons and jails, And large ships. CASES CONNECTED TO CASES Cook County Jail; Chicago 270 Travel overseas 178 Travel within the U.S. 175 Life Care nursing facility; Kirkland, Wash. 129 Community in New Rochelle, N.Y. 119 Gallatin Center for Rehabilitation and Healing;...
The News And Times Information Network - newsandtimes.net The News And Times Information Network Blogs | This Post Link ____________________________________________________ Pages - Tweets And News - From Michael Novakhov - https://tweetsandnews.blogspot.com/ Home Posts Sites Blogs and Sites On Twitter CoronaVirus News Israel News Review Michael Novakhov - SharedNewsLinks℠ TWEETS BY MIKENOV - 250 Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks Review In 250 Brief Posts Saved and Shared Stories and Recent Tweets Saved and Shared Stories In 100 Headlines and Posts Saved and Shared Stories In 100 Headlines Saved and Shared Stories In 250 Brief Posts CoronaVirus News - Saved Stories VIDEO NEWS Review - The News And Times _____________________________
https://tweetsandnews.blogspot.com/2020/04/trumpism-reveals-covid-19-monday-april.html ________________________________________________________________ "Trumpism" reveals Covid-19 Monday April 13 th , 2020 at 9:07 AM Ideas: All The News On Le Monde.Fr. 1 Share To those who, three years after Donald Trump came to power, are wondering about the foundations of "Trumpism", the management of the coronavirus pandemic by the President of the United States could provide some elements of the answer. Between denial of reality, search for a scapegoat, omnipresence in the media, ousting of discordant voices, political approach, isolationism and short-term vision vis-à-vis the greatest health challenge of recent decades, Mr. Trump has, during the weeks past, given to see some of the aspects that have shaped his presidency since January 2017. A mandate which confirmed what politicians and historians foresaw when he came to powe...
The murky origins of the Coronavirus and the Covid-19 The question about the origins of Coronavirus and the origins of Covid-19 are complex, multi-faceted, and they include, in my opinion, the Criminological and the Intelligence work aspects, in addition and beside the Medical - Epidemiological and Biological - Microbiological ones. "...There was manipulation around this virus. ...the coronavirus of the bat, someone added sequences, in particular of HIV, the virus of AIDS. […] It is not natural. It’s the work of professionals, of molecular biologists. […] A very meticulous work", opined Luc Montagnier, the 2008 Nobel Prize winner for AIDS research, hinting that "COVID-19 coronavirus disease was artificially created in a lab by biologists working on an AIDS vaccine." "China’s narrative about the origin of COVID-19 is starting to unravel", claimed Lawrence Sellin, the Retired US Army Colonel, the observer with the Military-Intelligence background...
New York region suffers record deaths, and small businesses struggle to secure loans. - NYT https://tweetsandnews.blogspot.com/2020/04/707-am-482020-acting-navy-secretary.html ________________________________________________________________ » Masked crowds fill streets, trains after Wuhan lockdown ends 08/04/20 06:18 “I've been inside for 2 1/2 months. I'm so happy Wuhan has defeated the virus," Wang said after again donning her mask. Like so many others in the city, Wang was still waiting to hear about when she would get back to work. M.N.: Irony not lost: China celebrates, America and the world are suffocating and muzzled. 8:20 AM 4/8/2020 ______________________________________________________ CoronaVirus News | CoronaVirus News Review In Brief » The FBI News Review – fbinewsreview.blogspot.com – Blog by Michael Novakhov: 8:05 AM 3/25/2020 – Why New York? Because that’s where the GRU – Russian Ma...
The Biobot team analyzed four samples taken before the first known US case of COVID-19, and all tested negative for the virus. All 10 samples taken between March 18 and March 25 tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, at levels higher than the res... https:// cen.acs.org/content/cen/ar ticles/98/i15/Novel-coronavirus-found-surprisingly-high.html … via @cenmag Selected Links - 6:19 AM 4/17/2020 - 4.10.20 https://tweetsandnews.blogspot.com/2020/04/selected-links-619-am-4172020-41020.html 4.17.20 Crucial coronavirus antibody tests destined for New York City caught in red tape in China - ABC News Coronavirus symptoms: 10 key indicators and what to do - CNN Coronavirus targets many organs of the body Coronavirus targets many organs of the body - Google Search coronavirus symptoms - Google Search What is Coronavirus, what are its symptoms, and when should I call a doctor? | World ...
This graphic shows the deadly strain that hit Europe (in blue) and the mild strain that mostly hit the US such as Seattle (in orange) ________________________________________________________________ https://tweetsandnews.blogspot.com/2020/04/why-is-covid-19-mild-for-some-deadly.html ________________________________________________________________ Viral strain SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, is a single-stranded RNA virus that has the ability to mutate quickly. Over time, and as it spreads around the world, it will develop genetically distinct strains. Some of these strains may spread more easily, or cause more severe disease. However, to date there is no evidence that the SARS-CoV-2 viruses circulating now are clinically very different from each other or that their minor genetic differences explain the range of symptom severity patients are experiencing. ________________________________________________ M.N.: Hypothetically, if this virus was genetically mani...
Comments
Post a Comment