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  1. 13 hours ago, triplehorn said:

    I think it's more of a matter of Rudy traveling to Ukraine/Madrid, acting on behalf of Trump as his personal atty, more or less as a cover to conceal communications.

     

    "It is much more plausible that the privilege referred to is attorney-client privilege, not Executive privilege. Giuliani works as a private attorney for President Trump. In late July, he traveled overseas to Madrid for a secret meeting with a top aide to the new Ukrainian President. In the meeting, Giuliani pressured the aide to release information pertaining to Joe Biden, Democratic front-runner for the 2020 election.

    [...]

    In May 2019, Giuliani met with Ukrainian political consultant Andrii Telizhenko “as part of aggressive efforts aimed at gathering information to undermine Democrats in the United States” the Washington Post reported. Telizhenko is just one of many Ukrainian contacts that Giuliani has developed in recent years.

    Pavel Fuks, a property developer in Ukraine and Russia who once partnered with Trump, recently declaredGiuliani a “lobbyist” for Kharkiv, Ukraine. In 2018, Fuks admits he hired Giuliani “under a one-year deal to help improve Kharkiv’s emergency services and bolster its image as a destination for investment.” Giuliani never registered as a foreign agent under FARA.

    [...]

    With this in mind, the declaration that the complaint “involves confidential and potentially privileged matters relating to the interests of other stakeholders in the Executive Branch” becomes significantly more understandable when applied to the Trump-Giuliani relationship. The contents of Giuliani’s trip representing Trump are not public, making them confidential in nature. Given his formal role as one of Trump’s private attorneys, conversations Giuliani had may potentially be privileged (or not, considering there is no legal matter ongoing with Trump in Ukraine and attorney-client privilege does not cover discussions by attorneys and clients to break the law).

    Similarly, the phrase “interests of other stakeholders in the Executive Branch” makes far more sense when it is taken to refer to Trump in his personal capacity and not his formal capacity as President.

    cont."

    Maybe Surly litigators can set me straight, but how could AC privilege be claimed with regards to communications made to (or in the presence of) third parties (e.g., the Ukrainians)? Doesn’t that destroy privilege? Not to mention the crime/fraud concerns?

  2. None of this will matter. Trump got away with telling Lester Holt on live television he fired Comey because of the Russia thing. This will get bogged down in fights over executive privilege, Trump is really fighting the corruption of the “Biden Family” and is actually a hero, Trump can say what he wants to foreign leaders, etc. Best case scenario is he loses in 2020, some of the political fever passes, and he answers to charges then. Zero chance this resolved before the election. 

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  3. I'm down to play one tough non-conference game a year.  The rest should be tune-ups.  Our schedule is filled with some real heavyweights in the next several years.  There's general goodwill between the Texas and Rice programs, lots of alumni/family overlap, tons of UT alums in Houston, and we always beat them.  Holgerson will make UH more dangerous and there's reason to give them that pedestal.  Screw UH, happy to continue playing Rice.

  4. 2 minutes ago, Zavala said:

    Booty blasted over that ranking huh? If the rankings are so off why do you care so much about them?

    Florida is in the 3-0 club, all that matters. Tennishit is next.

    Real rough stretch in the schedule there 

  5. 2 hours ago, phdhorn said:

    Well, to be accurate, if you're talking about this guy:
    tankman.jpg

    No, they didn't squash him (whether they "squashed" other people remains to be seen).  The guy successfully forced the tanks to stop.

    However what happened to him is still a mystery; some reports have him executed within 2 weeks of the incident.  Others are that he's alive and doing well in Taiwan.

    Anyway, accuracy in history - because any other way leads to stuff as horror-inducing Surly Cloak Room posts

    One of the better PBS frontline documentaries I've seen is on the Tank Man.  Worth the time:  https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tankman/

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  6. 4 minutes ago, Machinator said:

    Yes, let's run our one good running back into the ground in an early season nonconference matchup, that'll be a great look for the program!

    Okay, so what do you propose?  Put him in a glass case because he might get hurt?  He can handle 20 carries and, while not ideal, I think we can limp into the bye week in okay shape.  But Ingram is going to have bear the brunt of things.  It is what it is.

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  7. Two thoughts:

    1) There were zero legitimate options in the transfer portal besides Feaster.  We'd have been better off talking Kyle Porter into staying.  

    2) We need to run Ingram into the ground against LSU if that is what it takes.  Motion Smith/Duvernay into the backfield or run some jet sweeps to eat up 5-6 carries and give Roschon 5-8.  We can treat Rice like a bye week, manufacture carries at RB, and give Ingram another week to rest up for Okie State (Young may also be back for this).  Then we get to the bye.  Obviously if Ingram turns an ankle or something we're screwed.

  8. LSU ran the ball really poorly in their opener. If they can’t get consistent yardage on the ground (a la Georgia in the Sugar Bowl), I’m confident that we’ll win. As someone said above, we see this spread passing shit on the reg and where we struggle is when it is combined with a good running game, especially a mobile QB. 

  9. 8 hours ago, zork said:

     

     

    so, whodoneit?

    I have no idea.  His roladex was pretty big and any number of persons could have wanted him dead.  There are so many questions about this guy.  Where did he get his money?  Why did Acosta let him off with a slap on the wrist?  Who are his clients?  This is a huge political scandal IMO that isn't getting near the attention it deserves.

  10. At this point, I think it's more conspiratorial to think he wasn't murdered.  Taken off suicide watch (despite just having committed attempted suicide)? Check. Guards asleep and not routinely checking in on the most high profile prisoner in the jail? Check. Cameras magically not working? Check. Relationships and potentially damaging information on lots of powerful people? Check.  I mean, WTF.

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