The photo is more of a smoking gun than, well, an actual smoking gun.
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As it happens, a lack of a smoking gun may actually be the smoking gun.
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It's a smoking gun, but killers sometimes even leave a smoking gun at the scene of a crime.
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This is the smoking gun right here — I've seen enough highlighted documents on "60 Minutes" to know what a smoking gun looks like!
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"I'm sorry, I just got a little cough because of this smoking gun I just found," Colbert said while holding up a prop smoking gun.
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It could serve as a "smoking gun" transcript just as the conversation with Haldeman was the "smoking gun" tape of the Watergate scandal that forced Nixon's resignation.
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For Parkhomenko, the discrepancy in dates was a smoking gun.
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"We still haven't found the smoking gun," said Dr. Hughes.
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Then we'll discuss why Democrats call this a smoking gun.
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As you can tell, it's something of a smoking gun.
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There was no obvious cause, no readily apparent smoking gun.
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For Jorie and Courtney, the tattoos were the smoking gun.
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Pine's baby blue optic oceans are this case's smoking gun.
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Not exactly the "smoking gun" that the #Resistance prayed for.
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If he's the smoking gun then they don't have anything.
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However, researchers don't look at this as a smoking gun.
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"There's not a smoking gun, there's a smoking saw," Sen.
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His inquiry there fell short of finding a smoking gun.
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Again, none of was a smoking gun that proved collusion.
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Mr. Yaroslavsky: I had no smoking gun, so to speak.
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"Until recently, the smoking gun was missing," Mr. Akcam said.
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"They found a smoking gun with no smoke," he said.
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The Ukraine scandal, by contrast, began with a smoking gun.
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They say there doesn't have to be a smoking gun.
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"We still don't have a smoking gun," Dr. Kistler said.
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"[It's] certainly not going to be the smoking gun," he says.
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"We have a smoking gun," Wolfe said, referring to the photo.
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Maybe one party will show solid evidence or a smoking gun.
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Al Gore, Clinton's running mate, declared the memo a smoking gun.
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"So far there hasn't been a clear smoking gun," Peterson said.
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They don't see a smoking gun for them to speed up.
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"I'm willing to wager there's a smoking gun here," he said.
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But they are a smoking gun in a later discrimination claim.
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"There's not a smoking gun, there's a smoking saw," said Sen.
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There was no smoking gun, but there were conflicting pressure gauges.
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"When you want to find the pathogen smoking gun, it's gone."
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But, the story doesn't appear to provide a new smoking gun.
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Not every defendant provides the smoking gun halfway through the trial.
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I think Yelp is smoking gun evidence of what can happen.
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It may be the smoking gun challengers have been looking for.
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Similarly, there is no "smoking gun" order in the incidents below.
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Judge Burroughs found that there was no smoking gun of discrimination.
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"There is no smoking gun in there at all," he said.
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"This is the smoking gun," Representative Peter DeFazio of Oregon said.
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There's not yet a smoking gun, so far as we know.
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But it was the gravitational anomalies that served as the smoking gun.
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Neither the Times article nor the CNN report contains a smoking gun.
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"This was the 'smoking gun' for reconnection," Burch said in a statement.
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This video is the true smoking gun of this entire cheating scandal.
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For NanoGRAV, the smoking gun would be a kind of shimmering effect.
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So there is strong circumstantial evidence of this, but no smoking gun.
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One new text message disclosed in Horowitz's report is a smoking gun.
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"As of right now, I don't see a smoking gun," Meeks said.
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And Klock didn't claim a smoking gun connection between Wilde and Orlando.
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"A meeting with Julian Assange would be the smoking gun," said Rep.
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"But for people who have sensitive skin, fragrances are the smoking gun."
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The Mueller report didn't deliver the smoking gun of unrealistic liberal fantasies.
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"Nobody has been able to give one smoking-gun reason," she said.
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One executive demanded to see a smoking gun, recalled the U.S. official.
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His paper found a document that was a smoking gun of sorts.
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And, this time, there's no need to look for the smoking gun.
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But it is most likely that there is no smoking gun coming.
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"We believe these are a smoking gun," Moriarty said of the documents.
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No one has produced a smoking gun demonstrating clear involvement just yet.
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In other words, there's no smoking gun like in the February incident.
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However, it is also not a smoking gun of criminality against Trump.
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"There's no smoking gun here, and there's no direct contradiction," says Larson.
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But again, that data gestures at impropriety but doesn't provide a smoking gun.
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As a general rule, one flag isn't enough to provide a smoking gun.
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"It was great to have the smoking gun, in a way," Nascimbene says.
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Guccifer 2.0's claims were first reported by The Smoking Gun and Gawker.
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SCARAMUCCI: -- if he finds [inaudible] definitive smoking gun proof, he will take action.
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But after two months of work, the volunteers haven't found the smoking gun.
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Anyone looking for a smoking gun in the docs will come away disappointed.
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It's more than a smoking gun -- you can see the bullet being fired.
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Ultimately his recording of this exchange became known as the "smoking gun" tape.
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"There is no smoking gun here; only smoke and mirrors," the filing states.
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"These emails, as far as I'm concerned, are a smoking gun," he said.
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There is no smoking gun indicating that Nixon ordered the break-in personally.
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The smoking gun for this discovery comes in the form of alluvial fans.
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"There's not a smoking gun, there's a smoking saw," the GOP senator said.
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This is clearly a smoking gun to Mary Louise in terms of motive.
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No new facts emerged, no smoking gun that had not already been known.
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"There is not a smoking gun, there's a smoking saw," Mr. Graham said.
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"Smoking gun" documents that show owners acted in a coordinated way are rare.
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That's why I have downplayed it as a smoking gun that proves collusion.
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Democrats say that July call is the "smoking gun" in Trump's impeachment case.
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"Even then there may not be any single 'smoking gun'," he told Reuters.
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Absent some future Nixon-type smoking gun, the Senate will acquit President Trump.
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That's the smoking gun that supposedly proves the two men set up Papadopoulos.
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"There is no smoking gun, only lots of smoke," Mr. de Jong acknowledged.
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Trying to find a smoking gun in a federal investigation is not new.
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It was unclear how The Smoking Gun had become aware of the messages.
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The "smoking gun" fossil, however, shows the creature with its associated trail mark.
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A Web site called the Smoking Gun was already publishing such documents online.
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The weed could be the smoking gun showing Musk violated his company's policy.
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Legislators didn't wait to act until they had a "smoking gun" in hand.
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"All I can say is: no smoking gun here," Connolly said in an email.
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"There's not a smoking gun, there's a smoking saw, " Graham said at the time.
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It was a "smoking gun," Nestle wrote in a commentary alongside Kearns' 2016 paper.
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And then there&aposs a campaign adviser, and there&aposs no smoking gun here.
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But like the CDC study, it's not the smoking gun scientists are looking for.
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If Mr Mueller did not find a smoking gun, they should not expect to.
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"This is a smoking gun for comet contribution to the Earth's atmosphere," said Marty.
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Be smart: Comey's failure to deliver a smoking gun has bought Trump some time .
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She says no way, because if there was a smoking gun ... we'd already know.
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These contacts weren't publicly known until The Smoking Gun reported about them March 8.
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" Davis defends President Trump with the all-encompassing line, "There is no smoking gun.
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"I think it's a pretty strong smoking gun that something is wrong," he said.
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There's no smoking gun or confession, but this is The Jinx-level stuff here.
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I have been through all Cather's surviving letters, and there is no 'smoking gun.
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The drumbeat of "bombshell" disclosures and "smoking gun" stories was disconcerting and, frankly, disgraceful.
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"It's not like there's a smoking gun somewhere in St. John Parish," he said.
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Don't have a smoking gun, only a suspicion because of the coincidence in timing.
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But most intel experts shrugged at its revelations, saying there was no smoking gun.
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Stone's messages with Guccifer 2.0 were first reported by the website The Smoking Gun.
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What the investigators found was fuzzy and inconclusive, lacking a smoking gun but weird.
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Willfulness and intent Documents, on their own, rarely show "smoking gun" evidence of intent.
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The one case with a smoking gun occurred, naturally enough, in the Nixon administration.
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"The Birth Link policy is, in our view, a constitutional smoking gun," Danjuma said.
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At this point, there is no specific allegation, no "smoking gun" as Berkey said.
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If he had a smoking gun, so to speak, he could just say it.
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" Democratic presidential candidates were quick to declare that the transcript was a "smoking gun.
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It began with the smoking gun: a transcript of a "perfect" conversation — perfectly incriminating.
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And maybe there is a smoking gun in this case, I don&apost know.
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Democrats declared it a smoking gun and Republicans accused Pelosi of moving without evidence.
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"There is no smoking gun here; only smoke and mirrors," the department's brief stated.
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In other words, there's no smoking gun video to prove he committed the crime.
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"I've never seen such a strong smoking gun showing one man's malice," Wolfe said.
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The high number of young Hispanic voters is the second smoking gun in the data.
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Levitan says there has never been a smoking gun, and insists there never will be.
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One of the report's authors called it a "smoking gun" proving the use of torture.
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Graham rejected the administration's assertion that there was no "smoking gun" proving Prince Mohammed's involvement.
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In the case of NanoGRAV, the smoking gun would be a kind of shimmering effect.
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He said there was no "smoking gun" showing direct intervention by Abe or his wife.
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But this is a smoking gun which shows Zuma was a protagonist in this affair.
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The tapes were released, the smoking gun tape was discovered, and soon after, Nixon resigned.
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No evidentiary smoking gun has yet emerged demonstrating orders from the Kremlin to impose famine.
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There was no smoking gun or direct testimony, all they had were accusations and circumstances.
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The mainstream media on full high alert, DEFCON level, the smoking gun against Donald Trump.
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No smoking gun has yet to be dredged from the detritus of the successive probes.
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So far, when it comes to Trump's ties to Russia, there is no smoking gun.
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"It looks like V1213 Cen is a rare smoking gun for hibernation theory," Drake said.
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"As of right now, I don't see a smoking gun," Meeks told Politico in March.
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I want to know how to trust this conveniently smoking gun I've never seen before.
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"There won't be any smoking gun," said Mr. Morley, editor of the assassination website JFKfacts.
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Perhaps there's some explanation for why this isn't the smoking gun it appears to be.
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According to The Smoking Gun, half of Newton's 330 seniors got in on the action.
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"This is the smoking gun," Representative Peter DeFazio, Democrat of Oregon, said in an interview.
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"It's a smoking gun for sea-level rise causing an acceleration of erosion," he said.
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Trump himself is the smoking gun, as Representative Pramila Jayapal, a Washington State Democrat, said.
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Attention soon turned to a smoking-gun recording implicating Mr. Nixon in the cover-up.
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On CNN, viewers were told that this is the long-sought "smoking gun" on collusion.
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According to people like Schiff, this was smoking-gun evidence of a secret Russian conspiracy.
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And they see this Princeton's sociologist's work as smoking gun evidence of anti-Asian bias.
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This is clearly, clearly, it seems to me, close to the smoking gun of obstruction. REP.
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But Cohen did not appear to disclose a "smoking gun" that could sink his former boss.
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But to Mininno, these are a combination of smoking gun and a slap in the face.
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According to Cicilline, those plans are "smoking gun" evidence that the company has broken the law.
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Brian Klaas: There are a couple of things that we can claim as the smoking gun.
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But that's an enormous area of space, and there's no obvious smoking gun in the region.
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This story is as close to a smoking gun as many of us could have imagined.
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Can you point to smoking gun evidence that cats are the definite culprit in these extinctions?
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That "smoking gun" tape, documenting his personal involvement in a cover-up, destroyed his Republican support.
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That said, there may not turn out to be a "smoking gun"—a specific piece of
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"It is awfully hard to find a smoking gun" to prove evolution, Professor Mokyr told me.
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Within days of the public learning of the smoking gun tape, Nixon resigned from the presidency.
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That would be very close to a smoking gun and only an idiot would do that.
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I don't know what we were planning to do if we had found a smoking gun.
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The Smoking Gun said in a Twitter message that it was the "reporter" in the reference.
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Jeff Sessions on WikiLeaks Revelation of Hillary Clinton's Support for 'Open Borders': 'It's a Smoking Gun.
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The supposed smoking gun is a video of Brown's daughter Royalty playing with Fiji in Dec.
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"God knows, the container may even have fingerprints on it, it's a smoking gun," he said.
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The defense says prosecutors have not produced a smoking gun showing that he directly bribed anybody.
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" Chuck Todd said that leading Democrats were "looking for a smoking gun and didn't get it.
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HB: So it's wild though, that there's really not any smoking gun within the report itself.
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The Hill: Some House Democrats view the whistleblower complaint as a smoking gun against the president.
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The special counsel report ended up producing a confusing white fog instead of a smoking gun.
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He was a tall Dane, holding a tubed black device that he called a smoking gun.
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I just got a Smoking Gun to smoke foods, and I'm using it on egg dishes.
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Michael Cohen testified: No, Trump's former fixer didn't provide a smoking gun on his old boss.
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"We may never have a single 'smoking gun' proof" that the ball is responsible, Mr Arthur says.
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There is as yet no 'smoking gun' that life on Earth is an offshoot of interstellar spores.
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This never-before-seen video is the smoking gun in the upcoming FOX special, 'The Lost Confession?
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It's another piece of evidence: no smoking gun, but not entirely a benign piece of information either.
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"We haven't really found the smoking gun, but it's partly because we haven't looked yet," said Rasmussen.
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According to Reuters, Alsup chided Waymo for not producing a "smoking gun" in its case against Uber.
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Amateur sleuths among a community of Trump supporters on Reddit claimed to have unearthed a smoking gun.
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That information could someday take the shape of a subpoena seeking the traces of a smoking gun.
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That's a far cry from the smoking gun of collusion during the campaign that Democrats so crave.
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"This memo is a smoking gun," said New Jersey Sierra Club director Jeff Tittel in a statement.
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What will President Trump do if special counsel Robert Mueller gets close to finding a smoking gun?
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But all this bad handwriting is sure to fuel upset conspiracy theorists looking for their smoking gun.
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That stoner sous chef of mine is always stuffing his stash in my smoking gun by mistake.
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Wu said the memo is a "smoking gun" linking Trump himself to the alleged campaign finance violations.
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But it did not find any of this sort of "smoking gun" awareness in the executive's records.
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Politico's Eliana Johnson said there's been no smoking gun in any of the documents released so far.
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Late in the trial, another apparent smoking gun emerged, from the offices of the New York Yankees.
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Barring another 'smoking gun,' GOP senators are unlikely to capitulate on impeachment and vote to remove Trump.
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Experts noted that it can be hard to find a smoking gun in these sorts of cases.
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But without a smoking gun and more research, there's really no basis for concern at the moment.
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Not the oversexed and overhyped Bill Clinton variety, but the real 1974 Richard Nixon smoking-gun version.
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" Factual disconnect Before turning to the legal implications, some factual disconnects exist in this latest "smoking gun.
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You may firmly believe that a smoking gun exists, but so far, no proof has been offered.
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Part of what weakened support for Ellen was this idea of there was no massive smoking gun.
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The companies are also scouring computer logs, emails and other communications to try and find some smoking gun.
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The Bush administration called the tape the "smoking gun" that proves bin Laden's direct responsibility for the Sept.
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But now, Breitbart had published an article that claimed to contain "smoking gun" evidence that Google had indeed.
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The testimony privately shook the confidence of many Republican lawmakers, and Democrats claimed it was a smoking gun.
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GUILFOYLE: And now the smoking gun is the unmasked, so to speak, informant who&aposs been given freedom.
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Since the Trump Jr. meeting became public knowledge, the standard assessment is that this is the smoking gun.
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It's not exactly smoking-gun proof of corruption; none of the emails are to or from Clinton herself.
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But the committee's 22016-page report, released by Republican members, offered no "smoking gun" about Clinton's role. Rep.
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Potentially a lot, but this won't be the smoking gun Trump's fiercest critics might have been hoping for.
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" Ryan also warned that Comey would have to release information immediately if the FBI uncovered a "smoking gun.
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The Duffer Brothers have a smoking gun to prove they didn't rip off "Stranger Things" ... TMZ has learned.
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And, as the "smoking gun tape" recording would reveal, Nixon had been willing to obstruct justice in 1972.
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Dr. Rehen, the Brazilian neuroscientist working on similar research, described caspase-3 as a sort of smoking gun.
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But analysts said the lack of a smoking gun took some of the heat out of oil prices.
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The fabled smoking gun showing that President Trump's campaign team colluded with the Russian government might indeed exist.
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"There's not a smoking gun, there's a smoking saw," Graham said after the briefing from the CIA boss.
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" He's posed with an open hand "ready for the smoking gun," and "impermeable shoes in case of tweetstorms.
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MORE FROM REUTERS COLUMNISTS Commentary: How Comey's 'smoking gun' could kill the Trump presidency Commentary: Calm down, America.
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It has yet to produce a smoking gun, and it smacks of an attempt to rewrite electoral history.
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But I saw no smoking-gun evidence of collusion before I left the government, and I still haven't.
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Can women and minorities have faith in the system protecting them, even if there isn't a "smoking gun"?
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Another mural, images on Iranian news agencies showed, featured a figure resembling Mickey Mouse holding a smoking gun.
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"I haven't found the smoking gun," he added, noting that many scientists disagree with him regarding this hypothesis.
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If this is true, it suggests that there is no "smoking gun" or fire, not even any kindling.
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Trump has handed his own smoking gun to them, his infamous call with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine.
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The inquiry hasn't found a smoking gun; it has found what amounts to a smoking battery of artillery.
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Which I think is getting at what you're talking about, which is, no pun intended, smoking gun evidence.
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On that glorious day, the concept of receipts — the damning, smoking-gun evidence that something occurred — was created.
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But it's not a smoking-gun result— it's first evidence that they could have spotted a kilometer-sized KBO.
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So while the current study is worrying, it's also far from a smoking gun proving the harms of vaping.
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"If there's a smoking gun, let me see it right now," Judge William Alsup told Waymo lawyers on Tuesday.
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"There was no smoking gun," he said in court, according to an article in the San Diego Union-Tribune.
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Yet he clearly found no "smoking-gun" evidence that the Trump team were witting participants in the Russian plot.
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Police seized computers, mobile telephones and sketches in the raids, Steltner said, adding "we haven't found the smoking gun".
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The "smoking gun" tapes offered vivid proof to the nation that Nixon could not be trusted at his word.
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This pattern was the smoking gun, signifying the presence of a floor and a ceiling of a lava tube.
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"The smoking gun is not the holy grail we're looking for," says Representative Jamie Raskin, a Democrat from Maryland.
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Finally, I will not use the terms "smoking gun" or "bombshell" as an adjectival substitute for "potentially significant" changes.
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Based on the Attorney General's letter to Congress summarizing the investigation, the report does not contain a smoking gun.
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" Such questions about the prewar intelligence were left unresolved, despite Mr. Blair's oft-repeated desire for a "smoking gun.
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"I think a smoking gun would certainly help," Blunt said, adding that it is unlikely one will be found.
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That's a formidable threshold to clear in this case without a smoking gun like the Nixon White House tapes.
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This process began with the smoking gun, and the farther the Democrats travel from it — eight witnesses next week?
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There is a lot of circumstantial evidence and reasons to be suspicious, but no smoking gun as of yet.
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A transcript of Baquet's crisis-management meeting became its own smoking gun for conservatives over the past few days.
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This leads them to the erroneous conclusion that it's essential to find a "smoking gun" to impeach a president.
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The hypothesis' smoking gun lies in the Russian city of Cherepovets, which is about 230 miles north of Moscow.
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Here, the clear implication went, was smoking-gun proof that Sanders was telling the truth, and Warren was lying.
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They calculated that it was better to acquit and move on, even if a smoking gun comes out later.
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Whatever else Bolton and the others say on this topic could be the smoking gun Democrats wanted all along.
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Yet the transcript of Trump's call with the Ukrainian president, released by the White House, is the smoking gun.
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The lack of a smoking gun isn't reassuring — if anything, it means whoever did this got away relatively clean.
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Facebook's former chief security officer Alex Stamos, for example, said that there was "no smoking gun" in the report.
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Ever since that epic moment in American history, the "smoking gun" has achieved a mythological status in presidential scandals.
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There may not be a smoking gun here, but, luckily for us, there are oh so many Chinese boxes.
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In terms of intent to collude (and possibly conspiracy), Trump Jr.'s e-mail chain is the smoking gun.
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An image of his birth certificate, posted by the Smoking Gun, lists a Bronx address as Fred Trump's birthplace.
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There's still no public smoking gun evidence proving Stone was involved in the leak of the hacked Democratic material.
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But if the BuzzFeed article is right -- and one of the reporters who bylined the story insisted on CNN Friday morning that the information in the piece is "rock solid" and that the sourcing "goes beyond" the two sources cited -- then this is the smoking gun (or at least a smoking gun).
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Perhaps, in the absence of a smoking gun, the special counsel will find Mr Trump has no case to answer.
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However, he added that the minutes provided no "smoking gun" of a hike at the next FOMC meeting in March.
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For now, it's fair to say there hasn't been a smoking gun piece of research tying cellphones to brain cancer.
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Clarification: This story was updated to reflect the timeline of reporting by The Smoking Gun website and The Washington Times.
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Analysts who follow the company simply didn't see a smoking gun in the report, which has since been taken offline.
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That's not necessarily a smoking gun — sir is a pretty common word that shows up in a lot of poetry!
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The report concluded there was not one "smoking gun," but instead amphibian declines were heavily influenced by local environmental changes.
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His smoking gun is that *gasp* Comet Ping Pong and its owner James Alefantis are mentioned in the Podesta emails.
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Given the political tension between the two nations, the accusation is not unrealistic, but there still is no smoking gun.
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At one point, he declared that Waymo had yet to produce a "smoking gun" despite significant discovery in the case.
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But when the "smoking gun" White House tape was released on August 5, 1974, Nixon's remaining support from Republicans evaporated.
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Clapper, Rogers and Lettre will be under pressure to provide a "smoking gun" linking Russia to the alleged influence campaign.
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He also indicated that Harvey's work contract that allowed for sexual harassment could be a smoking gun in their case.
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Every ill-conceived statement or tweet by Trump is proclaimed as "smoking gun" evidence of this seemingly catch-all crime.
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It would be a shocking claim if true, a smoking gun in conservatives' battle against alleged censorship by Big Tech.
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Trump administration officials have publicly pushed back on that finding, saying there is no "smoking gun" connecting the crown prince.
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Mattis echoed that point telling reporters "we have no smoking gun that the crown prince was involved" in the killing.
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Smoking gun By August, there were enough complaints from parents that the school requested education authorities carry out an investigation.
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There doesn't appear to be any new bombshell revelations or smoking gun corroborations of Ford's testimony in the FBI report.
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Comey himself was cautious when stating that there is no smoking gun (yet?) that indicates Russian influence on the U.
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But Spencer doesn't think that these Nazi salutes are the smoking gun proving that his white-nationalist movement is fascist.
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But the winds of fate have dealt us a different hand, and the smoking gun is already in our possession.
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Plus, no other witnesses came forward to corroborate the woman's story, and there was never a smoking gun ... or knife.
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"We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud," said Condoleezza Rice, national security adviser at the time.
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GE launched a counteroffensive against Markopolos, and analysts who follow the company don't see a smoking gun in the report.
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Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky called the reports a "smoking gun" and said Ms. Rice should be subpoenaed to testify.
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On Friday, I asked an astute source with long experience in the intelligence community if he suspects a smoking gun.
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The smoking gun tape had its power as a "closer" only because of all the work Congress had already done.
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The national opioid and obesity epidemics are both significant parts of the story, but neither amount to a smoking gun.
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It's not every day that Congressional investigations find a smoking gun, but here we have it in internal DOJ documents.
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Muskegon Police Chief Jeffrey Lewis said the investigation did not turn up a "smoking gun," but declined to elaborate further.
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The Economist's reporting suggests that the call was characteristically Trumpian, but that there is no smoking gun in the transcript.
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On Saturday, Daniel Delellis was arrested on charges of battery, according to police reports first obtained by The Smoking Gun.
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The White House record of Mr Trump's "Do us a favour" call to President Volodymyr Zelensky was the smoking gun.
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Still, what is known has set off a scramble across Washington to find a smoking gun, or pieces of one.
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Well, for several reasons -- the biggest of which is this: The transcript is pretty damn close to a smoking gun.
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To my mind, the White House transcript of that call reads more like a smoking gun than an exoneration. 8.
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If you are looking for a smoking gun and you wait for it you might end up with a gunshot.
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But some objects, like colliding black holes or the smoking gun of the Big Bang, don't emit any electromagnetic radiation.
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But some objects — like colliding black holes or the smoking gun of the Big Bang — don't emit any electromagnetic radiation.
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"There is no single piece of evidence that's a smoking gun, but all together there is plenty," she told me.
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There could very well be a tape of Trump that could serve as a smoking gun, shocking some into disavowing him.
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The suspected presence of outgassing was the smoking gun needed to prove that 'Oumuamua is a comet and not an asteroid.
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The content of the undisclosed Clinton emails is unknown, but it's unlikely any of the messages will contain a smoking gun.
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"The smoking gun," Ciccarone said, would be a positive test of a marijuana sample that contained micrograms to milligrams of fentanyl.
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The authors call the Great Read Spot the "smoking gun" that provides the clue to solving the giant-planet energy crisis.
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Smoking gun evidence of who exactly was behind the cancellations has yet to surface, leaving artists wondering who is targeting them.
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On one level, it&aposs hardly a smoking gun since the payment that Trump and Cohen are discussing never actually happened.
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Unless there is a real smoking gun, which there is probably not, it's just going to be a big old mess.
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"Finding the virus in the brain of the fetus in the NEJM study — that's pretty much a smoking gun," he says.
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Maris Ogg, president of Tower Bridge Advisors, said she does not expect a smoking gun to come up with the testimony.
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Ray cautioned, however, that Trump's tweets themselves do not represent a smoking gun that proves the president attempted to obstruct justice.
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"I think that the market actually took this released testimony to indicate that there wasn't a clear smoking gun," said Cabana.
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That's exactly the kind of quid pro quo smoking gun Democrats would take as proof of collusion between Trump and Putin.
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If there is something leading to a possible smoking gun in the case, Mueller's removal in no way erases that evidence.
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This latest filing matters, but it is far from the smoking gun against Trump that some people have been searching for.
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Yet, Republicans ended up voting for impeachment, even before the Supreme Court released the "smoking gun" tape proving Nixon was complicit.
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The nation learned that the President had taped his conversations, which ultimately produced the "smoking gun" tape that brought him down.
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Even if the announcement is substantiated by future missions – and I personally hope it is – water is not a smoking gun.
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As this telescope revealed, the smoking gun turned out to be extreme levels of ultraviolet radiation from the planets' host stars.
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Mueller has not uncovered a "smoking gun," one that proves Trump knew about the numerous contacts between his campaign and Russia.
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He said if that's the case, then the leak of that information to the website The Smoking Gun is a felony.
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The contacts between Stone and Guccifer 2.0 were first reported by The Smoking Gun, before Stone admitted to the contacts himself.
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The investigation began more than five months before the release of the "smoking gun" tape that showed the president obstructing justice.
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The only company-sanctioned description available dates back to 2005, when the Smoking Gun website published an official Hooters employee manual.
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Since 1987, he's bounced between the Democratic, Republican, and Independence parties five times, according to DNA Info and The Smoking Gun.
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Not a smoking gun, for sure, but it's all we know for now, and no one involved in Tiramisu is talking.
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This was a smoking gun of a revelation which blew yet another hole in Trump's false "no collusion, no obstruction" mantra.
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But while there are considerable factors pointing to a likely intrusion, there may never be a smoking gun, according to specialists.
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"There is no smoking gun or mathematic indicator of if a volcano erupts or when," said Michalski of Hong Kong University.
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Instead, prosecutors relied on Mr Reed's semen found in a vaginal swab and presented this to jurors as the "smoking gun".
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"We have the best smoking-gun evidence you're ever going to see about race bias in the jury room," Kagan said.
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For impeachment and removal you don't need a smoking gun, just evidence that proves the point, directly, circumstantially or otherwise.2.
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"Besides proving that he was gullible and he got snookered, it's still not a smoking gun," said one former campaign adviser.
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Some Democrats saw a smoking gun in the document, while some Republicans insisted there was nothing to see there at all.
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It was among a handful of "smoking gun" documents showing that Cardinal Law had been fully aware of Father Geoghan's pedophilia.
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There's no smoking gun here, and I can't bring myself to make the leap into seeing Trump as a Manchurian president.
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This deletion—like tossing a smoking gun into the river, with everybody watching—is unlikely to boost the president's chances in court.
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Image: Google EarthThe smoking gun in this case is the clearcut presence of a landslide deposit directly above the object in question.
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But without being able to open that safe, there is no way to say with certainty that a smoking gun sits inside.
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"This was not a smoking gun situation, where the police show up and there's a guy holding a gun," Tanner tells PEOPLE.
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The smoking gun, a national embarrassment, they literally parrot each other in their talking points until the rhetoric reaches a fever pitch.
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There will likely not be some moment of reckoning -- some smoking gun -- an email that makes it all clear, a "eureka" occasion.
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It's not some smoking gun — just an example of the kind of friendly relationship that the two have had with industry associations.
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One astrophysicist has spent the better part of a decade trying to find the proverbial smoking gun to prove that it is.
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There may never be a smoking gun situation in this case, despite the inevitable comparisons between the Trump-Russia investigations and Watergate.
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There is no single smoking gun within the pages to definitively implicate any senior Saudi leaders for supporting the al Qaeda terrorists.
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It's what many believe to be a smoking gun against R. Kelly ... and the catalyst that led to a 10-count indictment.
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Not a clue, but the smoking gun: every single label executive, publisher, and A&R I had worked with was a man.
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We have no smoking gun at this point, but there is a lot of smoke," Warner told CNN's "State of the Union.
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Maddow's segment may not have found a smoking gun, but it neatly undercut Donald Trump's argument for not releasing his tax returns.
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It is in this way that a set of quotation marks, meant to pose as a creative's fingerprints become a smoking gun.
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While the transcript provides no smoking gun directly tying Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to the killing, it seems to echo Sen.
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Usually, a process like the one that they've been engaged in over the last seven weeks is about finding a smoking gun.
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" The appeals court judges correctly called this "as close to a smoking gun as we are likely to see in modern times.
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"The smoking gun leads to Abu Dhabi," the seat of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed, he said, citing briefings from intelligence officials.
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"There's an awful lot of critics that are going to jump to the conclusion that this is a smoking gun," Holmes said.
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" Separately, Mr. Mattis told reporters on the steps of the Pentagon that "we have no smoking gun the crown prince was involved.
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Gravitational waves "would give you the smoking gun, that direct measurement of the mass of these objects," LIGO's Salvatore Vitale told Axios.
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Bolton's claim -- again, if confirmed -- would be a smoking gun for Trump's use of his office for personal and political gain. Period.
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Here, Jonathan Chait contends that the Comey memo is equivalent to the "smoking gun tape" that eventually brought down President Richard Nixon.
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The evidence was already overwhelming, but now there can be no question about it: Ambassador Gordon Sondland's testimony was the smoking gun.
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That led to Butterfield's revelation, which ultimately led to the narrative's denouement: the "smoking gun" tape implicating Nixon in obstruction of justice.
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"If you are looking for a smoking gun and you wait for it, you might end up with a gunshot," Hickey warned.
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Those who believe that the transcript is a "Smoking Gun" for impeachment, do something about it - have the courage of your convictions.
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On Wednesday the documents were leaked to The Smoking Gun and Gawker, revealing a compilation of Trump's contradictory statements and inflammatory rhetoric.
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Viewed on its face, what we know about the Trump Tower meeting looks a whole lot like smoking-gun evidence of collusion.
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Elijah Cummings, the top ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, called the memo a "smoking gun" and did not rule out impeachment.
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And he famously went to the Supreme Court to withhold the so-called smoking gun audio tapes that eventually led to his resignation.
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This story and this investigation will continue on a path of the slow drip, drip, drip variety; there will be no smoking gun.
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A timeline: It's important to point out that when someone seeks immunity, that isn't a smoking gun that the person committed a wrongdoing.
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And if somebody comes to you and says, 'I've got, you know, the smoking gun on the ... Clinton campaign,' you have that meeting.
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When commentators strain and stretch and repeatedly trumpet that there is another "smoking gun" of criminal liability or constitutional violation, they lose credibility.
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The sources told CNN that the CIA based its assessment on available intelligence, as opposed to any specific smoking gun-type of evidence.
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News of Trump Jr.'s meeting last year has spurred controversy, with some lawmakers calling it a smoking gun in the Russia probe.
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Finally, Williams revealed the smoking gun that proves the singer's allegations against Dr. Luke are false: Why didn't she tape herself being raped?
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As the website The Smoking Gun first reported, Stone's gift for prophecy became acuter the closer WikiLeaks got to its Podesta data dump.
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The blockage at Jade Massage Therapy was the smoking gun that led to the arrest of two people for prostitution and money laundering.
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And, they added, any decent defense lawyer would have eviscerated prosecutors if they tried to portray the Holt interview as a smoking gun.
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Still, because of the nature of cyberspace and government hacking in particular, it's always hard—if not impossible—to find the smoking gun.
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We never saw a smoking gun in the Sony hack, or in the Stuxnet attack on an Iranian nuclear power plant, for example.
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I eventually started using a Smoking Gun to make a certain dish for my wife and I started to fuck around with it.
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And they will note that Wolff's so-called "smoking gun" didn't stop Bloomberg from being elected mayor in 2001 or reelected twice more.
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"I've already given you lots of time for discovery, and you don't seem to have a smoking gun," he said to Waymo's lawyers.
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It feels almost like everyone's waiting for that smoking gun tape, ala Nixon to suddenly magically appear, and then they'll change their minds.
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Democrats have slammed the meeting, calling it a smoking gun proving that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia during the 2016 presidential campaign.
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"The smoking gun they put in the executive order is the idea that they would grant exceptions for minority religions," Mr. Romero said.
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In the process of trying to dance around the insider's account, the president handed House Democrats a smoking gun registered in his name.
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Pramila Jayapal astutely noted that "the President himself is the smoking gun" and that Trump is "the first and best witness" against himself.
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We still haven't found a smoking gun between Palantir and retaliation against organizers or community members that are protecting against undocumented family members.
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This came to be known as the "smoking gun" — a tape that finally nailed down Nixon's direct criminal involvement for all to see.
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A historian has unearthed what he calls "the smoking gun": an original telegram from post-World War I trials that convicted the planners.
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"We (now) have smoking gun evidence of collusion," said Paul Butler, a professor at Georgetown School of Law, and a former federal prosecutor.
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With Ukraine, Americans already have the smoking gun: a memo documenting Trump's efforts to pressure Zelenskiy into investigating the Bidens on spurious grounds.
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"Unfortunately there is no 'smoking gun' evidence that favors one scenario over the other here," Dr. Bauer wrote in a recent blog post.
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Gordon Sondland's newly revised testimony amounts to the smoking gun many House Democrats have been looking for: a quid pro quo on Ukraine.
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Handelsblatt, the major German business newspaper, reported this week that the German Foreign Office had received "smoking gun" evidence from the US State Department that Huawei cooperated with Chinese intelligence agencies; it does not elaborate, making it impossible to tell whether the "smoking gun" refers to already-known incidents, like the Huawei employee arrested in Poland, or another incident that remains classified.
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In short: How would founders prove they didn't get an investment because of gender or racial discrimination, save for some sort of smoking gun?
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Credit: CHFT"We didn't have the smoking gun, the clear evidence of direct removal of gas from the galaxy," noted Boselli in a statement.
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Before concluding it's a smoking gun for word processing, "they should have looked for other evidence in the brain," he said in an email.
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In the Times' story, the photo comes across as a smoking gun; however, Argento makes no mention of this reported photo in her statement.
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In the complicated case of how genes and a dog's environment might make it more or less friendly, today's findings aren't a smoking gun.
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The discovery of the added racist language seemed like a "smoking gun," Sheaffer said—evidence of obvious discrimination that would be easy to reverse.
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White House officials, while recognizing the optics were devastating, tell us they were relieved that the substance of Comey's testimony lacked a smoking gun.
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It is safe to assume that there's classified information that wasn't published and within which lies the "smoking gun" needed to blame the Russians.
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But when it comes to holding Cain unfit for the Fed, the favorite smoking gun is an op-ed he published in May 21625.
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There is (so far) no smoking gun email, no explicit evidence of pay-to-play or coordination between the State Department and the foundation.
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On June 27th, the editor of the Smoking Gun asked Guccifer 22014 if Assange would publish the same material it was then doling out.
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"This is the smoking gun, or at least the smoking phone call," said Bruce Riedel, a former C.I.A. official now at the Brookings Institution.
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"A phone call like that is about as close to a smoking gun as you are going to get," a former C.I.A. officer said.
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"A phone call like that is about as close to a smoking gun as you are going to get," said a former C.I.A. officer.
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"Fox News has now handed me the smoking gun — evidence that they were electronically surveilling Ms. Tantaros's telephone conversations," he said in a statement.
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The idea that Huawei spies for China has been widely spread by the US government, but the US has never published smoking-gun evidence.
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But if Mueller stops short of producing a smoking gun, President Donald Trump is sure to declare all-out victory and claim total vindication.
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Democrats have slammed the meeting, calling it a smoking gun proving that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia during the 2016 presidential campaign. Sens.
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Dan KildeeDaniel (Dan) Timothy KildeeDemocrats see whistleblower report as smoking gun Whistleblower fuels impeachment talk GM under fire from all sides MORE (D-Mich.).
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"The data that are currently available for Venus cannot unequivocally provide the smoking gun," said Tracy Gregg, a geologist at the University at Buffalo.
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But he would have done that even if they had uncovered a smoking gun or were impeaching him for shooting someone on Fifth Avenue.
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There is a far greater chance that Mr. Mueller will uncover a smoking gun than that the Republicans will oust one of their own.
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Teeth aren't necessarily a smoking gun when it comes to shark identification—in fact, sometimes they make the whole process a lot more difficult.
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A YouTube star who made a name for himself touting weed is facing criminal charges ... and the smoking gun is the guy's own video.
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The smoking gun: a letter purportedly written by the women in 000 that an investigative reporter, Zhao Yu, said they gave him at the time.
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The other permutation—examining the frequencies of assists when a player has double-digit points and rebounds—does not yield quite the same smoking gun.
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But first: Picking up from her explosion at their apartment last week, Brittany describes what Jax told ex-SURver Faith on the smoking-gun tape.
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It's not that Benghazi represents a real scandal — it doesn't — or that Gowdy has discovered a smoking gun that proves an Obama administration cover-up.
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Sununu cited the poll as a positive for Trump, but warned against any expectation of a "smoking gun" before Tuesday in the Clinton email investigation.
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I do think that, so like, on the left, any development in this Russian investigation has been called the smoking gun that proves... GUILFOYLE: Yes.
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They are sure – completely positive – that the special counsel will produce a smoking gun they can use to boot President Trump from the Oval Office.
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The smoking gun commentThe malware was directed to scroll through the comments on Spears's photos and search for one that had a specific hash value.
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Simms was charged with trespass and criminal mischief and was being held at the Pinellas County Jail on $300 bond, according to The Smoking Gun.
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"I assume both sides will try to use that photo to its advantage, but it is not a smoking gun for either side," he said.
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Prosecutors argued there might not be a smoking gun, but circumstantial evidence points to Warmus, the Columbia University-educated daughter of a multimillionaire insurance magnate.
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If investigators have a smoking gun, it's hard for me to understand why there hasn't been an indictment already; remember this started 18 months ago.
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Washington (CNN)Sally Yates didn't bring a smoking gun to the latest episode of the long-running political melodrama entwining the White House and Russia.
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And, Bethesda believes there's a smoking gun -- the same bugs that appeared in an earlier version of 'Fallout' also showed up in the "Westworld" game.
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Madonna scoffed at reports she was drunk onstage over the weekend, and the smoking gun proving she's telling the truth is right on her feet.
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And it will look for "smoking gun" evidence proving that Levandowski and his colleagues illegally incorporated elements of Waymo's technology into Uber's own lidar sensors.
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Sources told CNN that the US intelligence agency had based its assessment on available intelligence, as opposed to any specific smoking gun-type of evidence.
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Mattis had said that there was "no smoking gun" linking the crown prince to the death of Khashoggi, contradicting a reported conclusion from the CIA.
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In a "smoking gun" of absolutely nothing, the anonymous poster suggested that the clip showed something untoward about one of America's newest members of Congress.
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Ultimately, scientists still aren't sure what the smoking gun is, but "a short-term crisis" tops the list, the authors of the new study wrote.
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The story of Mr. Trump's draft record has been reviewed by other publications, starting in 21, when The Smoking Gun published his Selective Service documents.
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One of the tapes released was the so-called "smoking gun" tape that revealed Nixon's early complicity in a coverup of the Watergate break-in.
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The Mueller indictments to date have been damp squibs for those expecting a devastating smoking gun with the fingerprints of Trump and the Russian government.
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Yet the report appeared to contain no "smoking gun" showing gross negligence on the part of Clinton or other officials before or after the attacks.
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A CIA official told CNN Friday that there is still is no smoking gun implicating the crown prince directly and the intelligence assessment is ongoing.
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Those DM's appeared in an article on The Smoking Gun, which showed Stone told the hacker he was "delighted" that Twitter had reinstated his account.
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"This is like the smoking gun, because it's very obvious that these munitions were dropped from a fighter jet," he said in a telephone interview.
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A lot of people are trying to put the pieces together, but the state has not said they've found a smoking gun at this point.
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In the end they turn up no smoking gun, no secret confession, no friend who comes forth to say Kavanaugh was lying all this time.
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They say that Democrats have tried to draw out the investigation as long as possible once the anticipated smoking gun proving collusion failed to materialize.
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"We don't have a smoking gun," said David Bottjer, a paleontologist at the University of Southern California who was not involved in the new study.
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The U.S. Attorney says the smoking gun is that Heinel received $20,000 a month from Rick Singer, which prosecutors say is proof of a bribe.
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The scientists also examined quartz grains in some of the boulders and observed that they were fractured, often considered a smoking gun of an impact.
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Back in Florida, The Smoking Gun reports that McLaughlin was released on $1,000 bond and has been scheduled for arraignment at the end of January.
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After all, as Mr. Yglesias claims, "the smoking gun is already in our possession," and it has aired as an interview with NBC's Lester Holt.
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"To confirm if an event is nuclear we need the smoking gun, which is the radio isotopes that are released from a blast," Zerbo said.
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Japanese media breathlessly covered the testimony of Yasunori Kagoike, the administrator of Moritomo, waiting for a smoking gun that would link either Mr. or Mrs.
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In Trump Jr.'s emails, Democrats believe they may have the smoking gun that proves Trump campaign officials colluded with the Russians in that effort.
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And if not, they're not going to magically get some brand new, previously unknown smoking gun, especially not from partisan, dishonest favor-seekers like Lewandowski.
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The company will look for "smoking gun" evidence proving that Levandowski and his colleagues illegally incorporated elements of Waymo's technology into Uber's own lidar sensors.
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So it's this test score gap that a lot of the opponents of affirmative action are claiming as smoking gun evidence of anti-Asian bias.
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The CIA reportedly concluded with high confidence that the crown prince ordered the killing, but the administration has denied a "smoking gun" connecting the two.
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"I wouldn't go so far as to say this is a smoking gun," said David Szakonyi, an expert on Russian affairs at George Washington University.
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So Dan, this Strzok text for me is another huge smoking gun when you combine that with the insurance policy to protect against the Trump presidency.
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All of this is based on the idea that Manafort somehow has the smoking gun about Donald Trump that will prove collusion or something like that.
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A source close to the investigation told KTRK a note reading, "I've been watching you," was found near the still-smoking gun in the family's home.
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Critics of Trump, many of them scorned Democrats, are looking again to Comey -- this time for a smoking gun that connects the White House and Kremlin.
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And despite all his troubling obstruction evidence, he lacked an indisputable smoking gun example, like Trump outright telling witnesses to lie to investigators or destroying evidence.
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Remember how for the past year, the left-wing media, the Democrats promising that Trump Tower meeting was somehow the big smoking gun of Russia collusion?
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"When a neighbor's camera captures an unusual car or an unusual person going by, the camera becomes the smoking gun to solving a crime," he explained.
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At first, I wanted to find a smoking gun or proof of collusion, to be the next Woodward or Bernstein exposing this generation's version of Watergate.
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In Collins' case, the videos are not the same kind of smoking gun, her attorney said, but they do appear to show an officer manipulating evidence.
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The smoking gun: The report identifies the intersection where the WiFi network was active that test devices appear to have used to launch the hacking software.
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As The Smoking Gun reported in August, Rinehart received a malicious Google security alert on March 22, according to a screenshot Rinehart shared with the site.
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There's a very different conversation underway in the House, where Republicans are obsessed with finding a smoking gun that would expose global warming as a myth.
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This isn't a smoking gun for a stolen election or anything like that; the EAC doesn't actually run the elections, nor does it handle voter information.
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"And whether there is a smoking gun, I don't think there is anybody in the room that doesn't believe he was responsible for it," he added.
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Of course, that the FBI's documents don't include a smoking gun for a CIA coverup probably isn't going to change the minds of many conspiracy theorists.
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But it declined to offer up a smoking gun proving that Clinton or other senior officials had willfully ignored security concerns to boost their political careers.
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All of this has been ignored by the conservative media, which is acting as if this is the smoking gun they have spent months looking for.
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"That's as close to a smoking gun or a slam dunk as you'll ever come, but you're never going use that terminology per se," he said.
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But even if an apparent smoking gun were found, in any analysis it too would be questioned by analysts in the broader context of the situation.
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Traders said the response to the released testimony was positive since it showed no smoking gun and included comments that the president was not under investigation.
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Congress in July released 28 previously secret pages detailing suspicious Saudi ties to the 85033/11 hijackers, but the report failed to provide a smoking gun.
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A US official told CNN last week that there is still is no smoking gun implicating the crown prince directly and the intelligence assessment is ongoing.
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"We already have a smoking gun about a campaign getting dirt on their opponent, it was Hillary Clinton," Trump tweeted at the time, quoting the writer.
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Nixon released the tapes, including the so-called smoking gun, which showed he tried to use the CIA to block the FBI investigation of the burglary.
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The senator had in mind Trump administration assertions that there is no "smoking gun" linking the crown prince to the order to kill Khashoggi (The Hill).
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Thayer said in his announcement that even without a smoking gun that showed DarkMatter had misused certificates, the risks demonstrated by the reports were too great.
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Throughout the movie, Mr. Hoback looks for a smoking gun — a revelation that will explain pollution not only in West Virginia, but also in Flint, Mich.
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Even without the smoking gun, enough evidence has emerged for C.I.A. officials to conclude that Prince Mohammed gave the order, according to current and former officials.
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Jones called the ridges "a smoking gun" proving that such pulses happen, but unfortunately, the ridges do not go back to the time of the PETM.
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"We help legal professionals sift through huge volumes of evidence in lawsuits and investigations to find the smoking gun and the incriminating email," Shankar told TechCrunch.
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Absent a smoking-gun discovery of an effort by Swetnick to mislead, it is difficult to see how a false-statement case could be successfully mounted.
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Indeed, in previous decades, the transcript of Trump's phone call with the president of Ukraine would have sufficed as the "smoking gun" leading directly to impeachment.
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Fourth, the redacted readout of the president's phone call with the president of Ukraine and the whistleblower's complaint collectively constitute a smoking gun, plain and simple.
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K.) Kenneth ButterfieldDemocrats see whistleblower report as smoking gun Democrats dread Kennedy-Markey showdown in 2020 The Hill's Morning Report — Trump's new controversy MORE (D-N.
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The 15 pages of these seven memos seemed certain to provide the "smoking gun" that the polarized sides of our political divide were anticipating or dreading.
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"There's no smoking gun," said Dr. Edward Soll, medical director of The Concussion Group and a radiologist who was among those who evaluated Lenzi's brain scans.
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According to The Smoking Gun, shortly after the launch of the campaign, a lawyer representing Slipknot sent a letter to Burger King corporate threatening a lawsuit.
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Former CIA Director James Woolsey says that he sees no "smoking gun" in former FBI Director James Comey's account of his past meetings with President Trump.
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Hunter Biden's decision to join such a company doesn't demonstrate good judgment (as he acknowledged in October), but the document is far from a smoking gun.
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Maybe they think that Robert Mueller, the special counsel, will one day uncover the smoking gun that has become an article of faith among Trump haters.
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Since Trump's election, a number of vigilante Twitter investigators have threaded together breathless tweetstorms implying multidimensional Trump-Russia plots — the smoking gun always just out of reach.
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Dems are calling the admission a smoking gun and a "sea change" that may alter the course of the impeachment process and make it even more complicated.
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"If we are able to identify all three [gases] in the same exoplanet atmosphere, it would be a smoking gun for life on the surface," says Bonfils.
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"I had smoking-gun evidence that a woman was being pursued by her boss", says Ms Auster, who has been litigating workplace discrimination for over 25 years.
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JAMES CLAPPER, FORMER DNI, "MEET THE PRESS"/NBC, MAY 28: At the time I left I did not see any smoking gun asserting to evidence of collusion.
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"I've given you lots of discovery, and so far you don't have any smoking gun" showing that Uber knew Levandowski possessed any Waymo trade secrets, Alsup said.
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The electronic record of communication has proven to be a proverbial smoking gun for prosecutors and regulators in a string of cases, which is likely to continue.
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Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN)The Microsoft font Calibri could be an unlikely smoking gun in a corruption scandal which has mired Pakistan's ruling family and captivated the country.
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"The View" moderator Whoopi Goldberg said she avoided using the term "smoking gun" on air out of respect for one of the show's guests that day, Rep.
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The reason Putin gets away with his constant denials is that, despite lots of convincing evidence of his numerous alleged crimes, no one holds a smoking gun.
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Clinton's campaign and see a smoking gun, while others say it's no big deal, and that besides, it's been doctored or stolen or taken out of context.
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The "smoking gun" tape smoked because it showed that Nixon had tried to stop the F.B.I. from investigating the Watergate break-in on phony "national security" grounds.
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But given the political influence of "Big Sugar" over a Republican-led, pro-growth state, even if he finds the smoking gun, he doubts anything will change.
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Barr may not be able to find a smoking gun that definitively proves Obama loyalists plotted to use specious allegations to wound a Republican candidate for president.
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"If these were obtained through a FISA warrant, as I believe, and the information was leaked to the Smoking Gun, that would constitute a felony," Stone said.
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Investors also remained undeterred by former FBI Director James Comey's testimony on Thursday, which some saw as lacking a "smoking gun" that could derail Donald Trump's presidency.
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Clapper still thinks we lack a "smoking gun" in the collusion investigation, but he does believe that President Trump is waging a disinformation campaign against the country.
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Another slightly weird thing is this holding up of Hillary Clinton's quote about admitting 65,000 Syrian refugees as a smoking gun revealing her true intentions or whatever.
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The video of the incident is the kind of smoking gun prosecutors rarely get ... showing the former Kansas City Chiefs running back shoving and kicking a woman.
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British officials and executives at wireless companies have said the United States did not share smoking-gun evidence that would justify a ban of the Chinese company.
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The smoking gun might or might not be the documents exchanged about the Trump Tower in Moscow [which Trump is said to have been planning to build].
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One source familiar with the discussions told CNN that there was not yet a smoking gun directly linking Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to the murder.
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"I don't know that it's a smoking gun or whatever," Amodei said of the transcript released by the White House of the conversation between the two leaders.
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"Those who believe that the transcript is a 'Smoking Gun' for impeachment, do something about it — have the courage of your convictions," the South Carolina Republican tweeted.
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But at this point, the most salient question is not whether Emanuel micromanaged the case's handling, but whether we really need a smoking gun to hold him responsible.
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When Nawaz Sharif and his family came under scrutiny earlier this year thanks to revelations in the Panama Papers, the smoking gun in the case was a font.
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Iran-Contra did not bring Reagan down, in large part because there was no smoking gun to prove that Reagan knew money was being diverted to the Contras.
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Sessions and other Republicans tried to argue Tuesday that if there isn't a smoking gun of collusion at the heart of the Russia scandal, everything else is okay.
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This is the smoking gun from Andresen: Part of that time was spent on a careful cryptographic verification of messages signed with keys that only Satoshi should possess.
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There was no smoking gun that lead to this proclamation, according to a special report detailing the evidence published online by the New England Journal of Medicine Wednesday.
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And yet, for the anti-Islam lobby, these 15 pages are a smoking gun, cited constantly as proof that America is falling victim to a meticulously orchestrated plot.
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JAMES CLAPPER, FORMER DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE, "MEET THE PRESS"/MAY 28: By the time I left, I did not see any smoking gun certitude evidence of collusion.
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Why I'm voting for Trump Or a sudden global crisis, economic shock -- or even a smoking gun suggesting a hidden Clinton scandal -- could also shake up the race.
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We will update this story once Cooper shares the "forensic" materials and smoking gun she's uncovered, or when Detective Mike Logan (Chris Noth aka Mr. Big) gets involved.
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Episode 5: "Wiped Clean" The advent calendar is the smoking gun, and the boys present it to Chloe and Tanner, who are still both set in their suspicions.
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There are two sections to the report, which was feverishly anticipated because of the possibility it could include some sort of smoking gun implicating Trump in election shenanigans.
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The Smoking Gun reported Simms had a long criminal history, which includes convictions for burglary, weapons possession, grand theft, animal cruelty, drunk driving and carrying a concealed weapon.
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But unless the NCAA finds a smoking gun that we don't know about, it's unlikely the events of draft night will have a major effect on the program.
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Would they just look at a smoking gun and act as if nothing was there, or would some Republicans finally feel compelled to speak out against this administration?
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But Comey's redemption tour is one that appears to be a cynical attempt to promote his book and his personal brand, not show the world a smoking gun.
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Eisen previously declared the meeting at Trump Tower with Russians promising evidence of illegal contributions to the Clinton Foundation to be the long-sought "smoking gun" for prosecution.
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If there is no smoking gun regards to this weeks statement for a June hike then you could see the dollar come under some defensive pressure, Rai said.
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"There's going to be no smoking gun in there," Gerald Posner, the author of "Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK," told CNN's Michael Smerconish.
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"If there is no smoking gun regards to this week's statement for a June hike then you could see the dollar come under some defensive pressure," Rai said.
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How many went into the polling booth or mailed in their vote assuming that a smoking gun was hidden in the trove of emails on Anthony Weiner's computer?
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No smoking gun There was no major revelation to show that Trump was interfering in any FBI investigations or that Comey had been fired to stop a probe.
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Even if no "smoking gun" evidence emerges regarding coordination with Russia or obstruction of justice, that might not be an end to Trump associates' political and legal woes.
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There was no explicit agreement between the two defendants, he said — no ironclad evidence, no smoking gun, no explosive witness or a clear thank-you for services rendered.
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None of this means that the July 8 meeting is the smoking gun, that it will provide the single piece of evidence necessary for Trump Jr.'s indictment.
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It was a while ago, back in day care, and there was a dress-up box with hats and crowns and helmets that was probably the smoking gun.
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Privately, US officials concede there's no evidence Huawei's products have ever been compromised by Chinese intelligence; there's no smoking gun that they will even wink or nod at.
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But what we have learned to date about the former national security adviser and her requests to unmask U.S. person's information is well short of a smoking gun.
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"This document is the smoking gun that tells us these vocational training centers are in fact prisons," said James Millward, a China scholar and historian at Georgetown University.
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The web infrastructure used in the campaign is all publicly available and used by lots of other parties, too, so none of it counts as a smoking gun.
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Of course, it could be that there is a comparable smoking gun that will be found today, relating to contacts between Trump's team and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Mr. Stone had exchanges about the direct messages with the website The Smoking Gun in mid-February; at the time, he said he did not recall the messages.
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André Carson (Ind.) said that while there's been "no smoking gun" linking foundation donations to State Department favors, the perception alone is damaging enough to demand tough firewalls.
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I missed the line of the article that informs us about smoking gun evidence that proves collusion or cooperation between Trump and Russia in tampering with the election.
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I'd never tweeted about KFC before but I like Taco Bell, so I've tweeted about Taco Bell a couple of times, so that's the smoking gun, I guess.
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In September, both VIRGO and LIGO confirmed a new set of gravitational waves emanating from the smoking gun of two black holes that collided 1.8 billion years ago.
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After each question, you can get tips on what you should look out for, including the smoking gun that should've tipped you off that an email was malicious. [Motherboard]
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Now, even if no "smoking gun" evidence emerges regarding coordination with Russia or obstruction of justice, that might not be an end to Trump associates' political and legal woes.
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Of course, plenty of celebrities attended that birthday party, including Aniston's more recent ex Theroux — so it's not exactly like Pitt scoring an invite is a smoking gun, here.
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The smoking gun for this claim comes in the form of red and black residues found on the skulls and other bones of the victims inside the boat-chambers.
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According to a police report obtained by the Smoking Gun, Jymm called the cops in Council Bluffs, Iowa to tell them that he'd just stabbed his brother, Daniel Jymm.
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"There's not a smoking gun, there's a smoking saw," he said, a reference to the bone saw allegedly used to dismember Khashoggi's body at the Saudi Consulate in Turkey.
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Upon watching the episode that Rihanna is basically nominating for an Emmy (season 6, episode 17, "The Smoking Gun"), the gang is in Mexico getting drunk and causing chaos.
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"I think the market is taking less of an alarmist review of this situation because there is no smoking gun here," said Jefferies & Co money market economist Thomas Simons.
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Republicans, including President Trump, are out gloating over former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's shaky performance and the stark lack of any killer TV moments, let alone a smoking gun.
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And another source said there's "absolutely" no smoking gun in the reports, urging the White House to declassify them to make clear there was nothing alarming in the documents.
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But the suspects are all living safely in Russia, so the US will likely never publicly produce a smoking gun or prove in court that Russia worked with WikiLeaks.
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Yet despite the omnipresent threat of foul play, none of this week's scandals are close to a smoking gun, as least when it comes to corruption of the elite.
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After all, a Comey memo could approach "smoking gun" significance if it appears to prove that the President could conceivably be accused of obstructing justice -- potentially grounds for impeachment.
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In Watergate, the smoking gun was a White House tape proving that Richard M. Nixon ordered a cover-up — the final evidence that forced him from the White House.
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It's possible that there will never be a smoking gun that shows a Trump quid pro quo with the Russians or direct communication between Trump associates and Russian officials.
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After it emerged that she had a 1040 form from a single year, it was clear that she and reporter David Cay Johnston did not have a smoking gun.
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There was "no smoking gun," but the agency has "high confidence" that the order to kill Khashoggi must have come from MbS, given the power structure in the kingdom.
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Lazar's writings suggested an eccentric attention-seeker with a keen tabloid sensibility, whose exploits often ended up on such scandal-minded Web sites as the Smoking Gun and Gawker.
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Defense Secretary James Mattis on Wednesday said the United States has "no smoking gun" that connects Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
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According to the The Smoking Gun, the tape's disturbing plot inspired Linda Walker, a US postal inspector, to draft a nine-page report detailing the studio's catalog of movies.
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Rather than a smoking gun, the tape is probably most significant as a piece of a larger puzzle about an apparent hush money and scandal suppression operation for Trump.
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After the Smoking Gun debunked the video as a hoax, the two later updated the description to admit that the video was "a dramatization," before eventually deleting it altogether.
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"Those looking for a smoking gun are coming to the wrong place if they hope 'Frontline' will provide it," The Boston Globe wrote in a review of the documentary.
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Mr. DeGuerin said in an interview that despite 13 days of hearings since February, the prosecution has not produced anything close to "a smoking gun," despite some "unhelpful" testimony.
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Without testimony from Bolton or other White House aides, Democrats wrapped up the House inquiry without a smoking gun that Trump explicitly told anybody about the quid pro quo.
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When the Mueller Report did not provide an easily explainable smoking gun, and so did not move the country, she resisted Democrats who wanted to move forward on impeachment.
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The "smoking gun" tape that doomed Mr. Nixon in 1974 recorded him ordering his chief of staff to have the C.I.A. block the F.B.I. from investigating the Watergate burglary.
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Special counsel Robert Mueller did not find a smoking gun on the collusion question, though he documented multiple efforts by Trump's associates to stop him from looking for one.
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There may be no single smoking-gun tape in Mr. Trump's case, but the sheer weight of financial and ethical wrongdoing could become too much, even for many Republicans.
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It looked like they had found the smoking gun, but only the results of more laboratory studies will show for sure whether this was the cause of Tess's condition.
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The official added that the intelligence community did not expect to find overt, smoking-gun "back doors" in Huawei code clearly meant to permit illicit access to network data.
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Why it matters: Because of the rare comments from special counsel spokesperson Peter Carr, lawmakers and reporters both scaled down the hype of whether BuzzFeed's story is a smoking gun.
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Maybe that's what Republicans want; maybe some of their leeriness is warranted; maybe there is some place between smear campaign and smoking gun where reasonable people can be reasonably apprehensive.
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The memo is positioned as some sort of smoking gun that stops just short of claiming the FBI colluded with the Clinton campaign to stop Donald Trump from becoming president.
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Blink 182 Becomes The Smoking Gun: Early On April 27, 2017 The day that people were supposed to start arriving at Fyre Festival, Blink-182 pulled out of the lineup.
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Diplomats there described a memo detailing the U.S. findings as "smoking gun" evidence that Huawei poses a spying risk, according to a confidential memo seen by the Journal, Bojan reports.
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K.) Kenneth ButterfieldBlack leaders say African American support in presidential primary is fluid North Carolina ruling could cost GOP House seats Democrats see whistleblower report as smoking gun MORE (D).
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It was a "smoking gun of sorts: an actual example of literal hard-ass words," Wolff wrote in New York magazine, which extracted some of the book's more salacious epigrams.
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But Democrats believe they have found a smoking gun with the Ukraine scandal; they have no reason to play the Trump administration's game and let their subpoenas languish in court.
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"This event is not a smoking gun, but it's the first event for which we more seriously prefer one scenario over another," Salvatore Vitale, assistant professor at MIT, told Gizmodo.
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The space agency called these objects clear "smoking gun" evidence of a newly formed star — as new stars blast colossal amounts of energy-rich matter into space, known as plasma.
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Still, many on the left, in your media are rolling out recent actions of one-time Trump attorney Michael Cohen as some kind of huge smoking gun against President Trump.
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At the same time, there is a potentially damaging similarity between Nixon's "smoking gun" tape and what may exist today -- namely, the possibility of attempts to thwart an FBI investigation.
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It's impossible to study in a controlled way, and the sheer number of ingredients we use on a daily basis makes it difficult to ever pinpoint a toxic smoking gun.
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The 800-page document released Tuesday contains new details about the 2012 violence, but it does not reveal a smoking gun showing willful negligence by anyone in the Obama administration.
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That is doubtful: absent a smoking gun tying a specific gift to a specific official act, prosecutors may now have a more difficult time indicting, much less convicting, crooked politicians.
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Despite a wealth of evidence pointing to a terrorist attack, Gowdy kept searching for a smoking gun that would implicate Clinton, including in the notorious emails that dogged her campaign.
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Republicans will see its absence of a smoking gun — in an episode that has not even demonstrated a shot was ever fired — as proof that the exercise was politically motivated.
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The most favorable reading of this reaction is that Pelosi and her allies are still waiting for some kind of magic phrase or smoking gun to legitimize an impeachment process.
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Trump and his supporters maintain that there is no smoking gun and that the President's problems all stem from rogue prosecutors from the "deep state" that has always hated Trump.
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"There's going to be no smoking gun in there," Gerald Posner, the author of "Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK," told CNN's Michael Smerconish on Saturday.
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On this key point, the emails provide a smoking gun that as early as June 2016, there was a concerted plot by the Russians to attack Clinton and elect Trump.
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A clear smoking gun likely would not have toppled a president who long ago adroitly asserted he could shoot people on Fifth Avenue and his supporters would not abandon him.
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They contained what became known as the "smoking gun" recording, in which Haldeman and Nixon, days after the break-in, discuss using the CIA to hamper the FBI's investigative efforts.
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They are difficult to prove because there is rarely a "smoking gun" that definitively shows that an adverse personnel step is taken only to jettison or demote an older worker.
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But when the tapes were finally heard they contained a "smoking gun" — clear evidence that Nixon had tried to use the powers of his office to stymie an FBI investigation.
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Their report notes that there wasn't one smoking gun—rather, that all the evidence taken together makes a strong case for the fact that Zika causes microcephaly and other problems.
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It isn't a smoking gun, in that it doesn't prove Uber is using trade secrets stolen from Google in its self-driving car designs, the aim of the entire suit.
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He stood up for us when no one else did," he said, adding, "There's nothing short of a smoking gun that will make us believe he could have done this.
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"This is the smoking-gun evidence of human-to-human transmission," Yanzhong Huang, a China expert and senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations, told Vox.
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Barbara LeeBarbara Jean LeeThe 13 House Democrats who back Kavanaugh's impeachment Lawmakers mourn death of 'Julia' star Diahann Carroll Democrats see whistleblower report as smoking gun MORE (D-Calif.) Rep.
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This new piece of evidence may be the smoking gun ... made all the more powerful by the fact the government didn't disclose it in a timely fashion ... not even close.
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But nothing justifies the wording of his letter, which to both Hillary Clinton supporters and opponents suggested that a smoking gun may have been found in the newly discovered emails.
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"Someone like Bolton is unlikely to deliver a smoking gun beyond what we already know and may even spin his testimony in ways that are favorable to Trump," she said.
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Finally, as my colleague Matt Ford wrote on Monday, Pelosi and others seemed to be waiting for a smoking gun, incontrovertible proof of guilt that even Sean Hannity couldn't deny.
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U.S. officials continue to investigate Saturday's hit, poring over satellite imagery, analyzing radar tracks, and combing through intercepted communications in search of a smoking gun, the New York Times reports.
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Republican congressmen, whether it be senators or house members, it's going to be very difficult for them to make that (decision on impeachment) unless there's some real smoking gun there.
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"What makes cyberattacks so sexy for foreign powers is that it is nearly impossible to find a smoking gun," Mr. Maassen said in an interview with Phoenix TV Feb. 12.
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Barry Goldwater who precipitated Nixon's resignation by leading a small delegation to tell the president his support among fellow Republicans had collapsed after the "smoking gun tape" had been released.
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Regarding Mr. Nixon, he never reached above 2628 percent support for impeachment and removal until the final days before his resignation, in August 28503 after "smoking gun" tape was revealed.
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On Sunday, the Washington Post ran a full-page ad in which Flynt argues that Trump's presidency is "illegitimate" and asks for "the smoking gun" that could get him impeached.
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According to court documents obtained by The Smoking Gun, Malek "unlawfully, intentionally and publicly exposed a sex organ in the presence of another person" who hasn't consented to seeing all that.
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Photo: NHMIn terms of evidence, the smoking gun was a high-res image of a stuffed anteater that's currently on display at the visitor's center at the Portão do Bandeira gate.
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Some intelligence experts and diplomats said he did not seem to have presented a "smoking gun" showing that Iran had violated the agreement and Iran dismissed Netanyahu's accusations, calling them propaganda.
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There may not be a smoking gun, but there is a lot of evidence and counter-evidence that will swing the pendulum back and forth until it lands at the truth.
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In last week's "The Smoking Gun," the guys ask James Kennedy if he "hung out" with ex-girlfriend Kristen Doute the previous evening, despite the fact they both have significant others.
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Ted Cruz wrapping a strip of bacon around the barrel of an AR-15, pulling the trigger, peeling the bacon off the smoking gun and eating it with a plastic fork.
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K.) Kenneth ButterfieldBlack leaders say African American support in presidential primary is fluid North Carolina ruling could cost GOP House seats Democrats see whistleblower report as smoking gun MORE (D-N.
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The suspect admitted "he messed up"Clearwater police also released security camera footage that captured the suspect fleeing, although it looks like it's dated 2015 for some reason:[The Smoking Gun]
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According to a police report obtained by The Smoking Gun, she allegedly "became enraged after ordering her food," spat at employees, and then broke the restaurant's windows with a baseball bat.
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This speech thing is a tempest in a teapot that will soon blow over (particularly if you release the text of your speeches to prove that there is no smoking gun).
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Donald Trump's camp claims the center armrest separating him from a fellow passenger is the smoking gun proving she's a liar ... but we did some digging and she's on solid ground.
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All of this is interesting evidence, but there's certainly no smoking gun to indicate Apple's intentions — either with regards to integrating Sonder's technology into the MacBook, or to acquiring the startup.
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As security experts weighed in, it became more clear that the leaked tools were legitimate, and the Snowden documents released today are the closest we may get to the smoking gun.
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But Updegrove said unless there's a "smoking gun piece of evidence" that shows that Trump was indisputably involved in collusion with Russia, he will not face the same fate as Nixon.
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No proof — here — of collusion Rosenstein emphasized during his news conference that none of the information amounted to a smoking gun proving allegations of collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign.
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The first Guccifer 2000 blog post, and messages Guccifer 2.0 sent along with packages of files that same day to the websites Gawker and The Smoking Gun, also denounced the Illuminati.
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The most obvious, and prevalent, would be the "smoking gun" -- proof positive that President Donald Trump personally negotiated or signed off on the terms of Moscow's meddling in the 2016 election.
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When Judge William Alsup learned that plaintiffs' "smoking gun" document was nothing more than an internal summary of a publicly available report, he rebuked plaintiffs' attorney for being less than truthful.
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"There's not a smoking gun, there's a smoking saw," said Graham, referring to reports that the Saudi team had included a forensic expert who arrived with equipment to dismember Khashoggi's body.
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If you need a smoking gun that the Democrats have officially embraced socialism, you had some evidence in what one Democrat said in response to the State of the Union address.
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During Nunes' two-week push to declassify the memo, Republican lawmakers and pundits touted the document as a smoking gun destined to set the record straight on the Trump-Russia investigation.
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In general, the police documents describe the evidence they used to conclude that Mr. Smollett staged the attack, but they don't contain a smoking gun that unequivocally confirms the brothers' account.
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The real smoking gun, however, is the command and control server used in several of the apps found on the Play Store to send the data back to the malware operators.
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To be clear, Trotter and Downing do not point to a specific smoking gun of a third party stealing and selling health data that users shared on Facebook at mass scale.
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The chairman of the House's special committee investigating the 85033 terror attack in Benghazi, Libya, called Hillary Clinton's unique "home brew" email setup a "smoking gun" in an interview this week.
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"I don't think you will find a smoking gun," Father Norbert Hofmann, the top Vatican official in charge of religious relations with Jews, told Reuters in an interview in his office.
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That included three x-ray sources, one at the center of each of the three galaxies, and a smoking-gun infrared signature of one of the black holes sucking up matter.
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In a post on Twitter, Trump insisted the memo "totally vindicates" him, and once again branded the Russia probe as a "witch hunt" that has yet to uncover a smoking gun.
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While Democrats like Cohen have no qualms about talking impeachment now, he acknowledged there would likely have to be a "smoking gun" to get Republicans and even wary Democrats on board.
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In the past, scientists have looked to the radiation left behind from the Big Bang — its smoking gun — to calculate what the rate of the expanding universe ought to be today.
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The real smoking gun was at the edge of the Kuiper belt, the disk of debris that circles the Solar System and is home to dwarf planets like Pluto and Eris.
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"It is important that we use the Mueller testimony as a building block ... and not overly emphasize this as a smoking gun," said Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, who sits on Nadler's panel.
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Its first attempt in November 663 presented accusations from workers at the Moscow testing laboratory who alleged that the director, Grigory Rodchenkov, had destroyed samples—but the investigation produced no smoking gun.
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Unlike the catastrophic impact event that killed off the dinosaurs 66 million years ago, there is no obvious smoking gun that explains why these marine badasses were edged out of existence forever.
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"What I'd be looking for is not so much a smoking gun, I'd be looking for a geopolitical event ... a black swan somewhere, a trade war, an event with Korea," Roberts said.
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The danger here, of course, is that if the investigation reveals no smoking gun, Trump's supporters will insist -- and with some authority, then -- that nothing his detractors say should ever be believed.
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There was no smoking gun linking the Saudi government to the terrorists in 28 declassified pages released this summer, but many think the Saudis were at least complicit in al Qaeda's rise.
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"This is the first smoking gun that indicates that process can happen," says Stella Offner, an assistant professor of astronomy at the University of Massachusetts, who was not involved in the study.
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The 28 pages outlined several seemingly suspicious connections between Saudi government officials and the 9/11 hijackers but failed to include a smoking gun definitively linking the kingdom to the terror attacks.
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"We've never really found a smoking gun where someone said, 'Locate here because we want pollution to blow into the next state,'" says Monogan, an assistant professor at the University of Georgia.
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"Our team predicted exactly where to find the Majorana fermion and what to look for as its 'smoking gun' experimental signature," Shoucheng Zhang, a physics professor at Stanford, said in a statement.
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But the video provides little in the way of a smoking gun, as far as the U.S. election itself is concerned, and the only snippet of speech recorded doesn't concern the campaign.
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Graham after the briefing said there is not a "smoking gun" but there is a "smoking saw," a reference to the bone saw the Saudi agents reportedly used to dismember Khashoggi's body.
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Ultimately, there will be no smoking gun linking China's botched response back to Xi. China's propaganda apparatus and methods of social control are in fact designed to absolve him of any responsibility.
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"It's difficult to produce a greater smoking gun than explicitly saying you are hoping to help the GOP by increasing white voting power," the legal scholar Richard Hasen wrote in Slate. 3.
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But he also called their assessments misleading, and alluded to Mr. Mattis's insistence that American officials had seen "no smoking gun" to indicate Prince Mohammed was to blame in Mr. Khashoggi's killing.
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Breitbart News described the 2016 video as a "smoking gun" because it showed Sergey Brin, the Google co-founder, telling everyone how he felt about the new leader of the free world.
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Humbly speaking, now having read it in its entirety: the memo can't be considered the proverbial "smoking gun," and, so far, it has not resulted in irreparable damage to our intelligence institutions.
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While the signed check from Trump to Cohen for $35,000 is powerful evidence that Trump knew about and participated in the hush-money payment scheme, it is not quite a smoking gun.
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"Doing public relations work in order to get the hacked material out as an exclusive story with the Daily Caller or Gawker or the Smoking Gun, that is new," Mr. Rid said.
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Yet it never seemed to grab the energy pulsing through the national reckoning over sexual assault and harassment, in part because, aside from Ms. Brennan's wrenching testimony, no smoking gun has emerged.
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But reports ahead of the deadline suggested that the White House intends to double down on its defense of the crown prince, insisting there was no smoking gun linking him to the killing.
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It became ground zero for players looking for evidence that Hello Games had deceived them, a digital smoking gun that proved No Man's Sky designer Sean Murray was, in fact, full of shit.
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Yet neither Trump nor his White House has come up with a strong counterargument to the potential smoking-gun testimony of the US top diplomat in Ukraine, which is still reverberating through Washington.
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"The smoking gun would be audiences that [the Trump campaign] had created for [the Russians] and then pushed to them," Zac Moffatt, digital director of Mitt Romney's 0003 presidential campaign, told BuzzFeed News.
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Watters hopes the LRO team will be able to re-analyze fault scarps imaged by the orbiter since 2009 to find evidence of movement—that would be a smoking gun signature, he said.
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The fact of the matter is that without any more information than we already have, we already know Trump's conduct is almost as outrageous as what Nixon acknowledged in the smoking gun tape.
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The truth is that the odds of impeachment remain extremely low -- barring Robert Mueller's team revealing some kind of "smoking gun" evidence of impeachable activity by President Trump of the most extreme degree.
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Although a "smoking gun" of Huawei involvement in government-directed espionage remains elusive, Washington has compelling security and economic reasons to consider limiting the involvement of Chinese telecommunications companies in its domestic networks.
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The most persistent of these questions is also the most pernicious one: Is there a smoking gun that would decisively prove that Trump colluded with Russia to help him win the 2016 election?
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Yet, the prognosticators who claimed to be "close to Comey" or "familiar with his thinking" are refusing to give up, holding out hope that there will be some evidence or smoking gun produced.
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He also referenced how the paper had to quickly pivot in its coverage of Russia-Trump collusion story when it became clear the Mueller investigation would not provide a smoking gun for impeachment.
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How else to explain his judgment that the rough log of a smoking gun call with Ukraine's President in which he is shown as asking for a quid pro quo "favor" is "perfect"?
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Based on Mia's earlier confessions about Mitch, and the implications from her co-workers that she benefited heavily from their secret romance, viewers are led to believe that Mia is Mitch's smoking gun.
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While the administration insists the intelligence offers no smoking gun tying the Crown Prince to the plot, lawmakers emerged from last year's closed door session with Haspel even more convinced MBS was responsible.
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But his address to Turkey's parliament on Tuesday will have pleased US President Trump as much as it will have the Saudis: it contained no smoking gun directly implicating his Middle East ally.
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A declassified version of a more granular document provided to President Obama and some lawmakers, it is primarily made up of already public information and provides no "smoking gun" or detailed technical evidence.
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Why it matters: Democrats hoped to sway public opinion with revelations about a smoking gun of Trump's involvement in a quid pro quo, but the numbers highlight the power of an emotional appeal.
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As I wrote when the Ukraine call was initially released, it reads pretty close to a smoking gun that Trump used the power of his office to further his own personal, political interests.
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Before-and-after versions of the documents, seen by Reuters, do not appear to amount to a "smoking gun" showing direct intervention in the land sale by either Abe or his wife, Akie.
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Particularly in light of the recently revealed smoking gun evidence that the question was designed precisely to underrepresent minorities, the lower courts might issue a ruling against the question that will hold up.
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There is no smoking gun that reveals the NHL applied pressure to have the Arizona Coyotes trade Scott to the Montreal Canadiens but there is enough evidence to indicate it may have happened.
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Legal experts agree that the regulators are stringing together a series of successful cases on spoofing and the smoking gun is often the electronic communications, instant messages, and chat rooms that solidify the evidence.
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Now, while liberals in the media are hysterical, absolutely beside themselves with giddiness, thinking this is the big smoking gun about Paul Manafort, there is another major shoe dropping in these major Democratic scandals.
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That is not quite a smoking gun for those pushing the "Putin did the emails" theory, but it's still unsettling and adds another unprecedented subplot to an election that was already overstuffed with them.
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The fact of the matter is that without any more information than we already have, we already know Trump's conduct is at least as outrageous as what Nixon acknowledged in the smoking gun tape.
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But even without them, the site was "filled with all sorts of weirdness," said Toni Gidwani, Director of Research at ThreatConnect, the cybersecurity company The Smoking Gun called in to assist with its investigation.
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Trump and his allies claimed this is a smoking gun, proving that anti-Trump forces in the FBI hatched a plan to falsely launch the Russia investigation and undermine Trump if he ever won.
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The 9/11 Commission report said that neither the Saudi government "as an institution" nor its senior officials funded the attackers, and 85033 recently declassified pages from a congressional report contained no smoking gun.
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So Spyros, in his own words, goes "the full le Carré," arranging a melodramatic midnight meetup with Connerty in which he hands the eager attorney a smoking gun … with Wendy's fingerprints all over it.
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He sees his past 11 trips not as a string of failures, but as a slow and steady accumulation of evidence that will lead him, one day, to the smoking gun he's looking for.
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So given that you did not see the files, how were you able to build this into an argument with Judge Friedman that this was the smoking gun, essentially, of the black farmers' case?
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There's no smoking gun to prove that Streeling is Buttigieg, but Feinberg lays out a lot of evidence that whoever runs the account has some close connection with the politician and/or his campaign.
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The administration has taken the stand that there is no smoking gun linking bin Salman to the murder, pinning its defense in part on the way intelligence works and the nature of this case.
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Scholars are skeptical of drawing any direct comparisons between Trump and Watergate, given that there is still no smoking gun on the investigation into whether his campaign and Russia colluded to sway the 2016 election.
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If there's such a thing as a smoking gun email, here it is: Donald Trump Jr. plainly stating that he'd "love" a Russian government lawyer to provide dirt on Hillary Clinton to the Trump campaign.
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If these results are inspiring you to use your sleeping partner's thumb to unlock their iPhone — and no, that's not a recommendation — be aware that you may not find the smoking gun you're looking for.
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The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) took until November 2015 to publish a report: there was no smoking gun, but staff at the Moscow testing laboratory testified that the director, Grigory Rodchenkov, had destroyed samples.
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"Gault is the best 'smoking-gun' example of a fast rotator right at the two-hour limit," study lead author Jan Kleyna from the University of Hawaii in the Hubble said in a press statement.
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The famous "smoking gun" tape didn't come until the very end of the process, after Congress and prosecutors had slowly built a strong case and discovered what had taken place in Nixon's broken White House.
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As William Bastone detailed recently in the Smoking Gun, Trump proudly unveiled the lavish cars, complete with Italian leather upholstery, liquor dispensers, TVs, and paper shredders, at a trade show in Atlantic City in 1988.
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In the video, which was submitted as evidence in the case, you can hear a voice which sounds like Broner demanding his money back ... but it's dark and blurry -- so, not exactly a smoking gun.
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But bill opponents point out that 28 declassified pages of a congressional report released over the summer did not contain a smoking gun proving senior Saudi officials had a hand in the 9/11 attacks.
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There was no smoking gun offered up by even the most obsessive tape grinder for why any of this happened, and no clear or multi-part answer has emerged as far as scheme or technique.
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"Attribution is almost never a clean, smoking-gun," said Paul Vixie, creator of the first commercial anti-spam service, whose latest firm, Farsight Security, helps firms track down cyber attackers to identify and block them.
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However, showing a direct connection between usage and depression is a terrible smoking gun and, perhaps, it might encourage us all to pull the plug every few days for a little family time without screens.
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" Pix11 are reporting that that law enforcement searched a van that Collins took to hospital and found three firearms with ballistics tests showing that one of them was "the smoking gun used in the homicide.
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On Wednesday, Gawker and the Smoking Gun published the Democratic National Committee's opposition research files on Republican presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump, which the DNC admitted earlier in the week had been stolen by hackers.
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So unless he dramatically changed his legal analysis to protect Trump, this could mean the special counsel's obstruction evidence was more along the lines of a troubling pattern of behavior rather than a smoking gun.
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There's never been a smoking gun proving that Shakespeare had a collaborator for these plays — and, after all, they appear in the First Folio with Shakespeare's name on the cover, with no co-author mentioned.
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"What the public wants is a smoking gun," he said, adding that if the Electra can't be found, "they want a bone with D.N.A. that matches Earhart's D.N.A." That is what the dogs are for.
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The Rhodium Report notes that the U.S. has not found any "smoking gun" evidence that Chinese VC in the U.S. has led to leakage of sensitive U.S. technology to China that could harm national security.
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Mr. Trump's allies repeatedly invoke the special counsel investigation into his campaign's dealings with Russia during the 2016 election, which failed to produce the smoking gun-type revelations that many on the left had predicted.
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As early as June 23, 1972, Nixon conspired with Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman to close the F.B.I.'s inquiry — a recorded conversation later known as the "smoking gun tape," which forced Nixon's resignation.
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However, the administration has taken the stand that there is no smoking gun linking bin Salman to the murder, pinning its defense in part on the way intelligence works and the nature of this case.
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Ron KindRonald (Ron) James KindAmerica's workers and small business owners need the SECURE Act Blood cancer patients deserve equal access to the cure Democrats see whistleblower report as smoking gun MORE (D-Wis.) and Rep.
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" MSNBC legal analyst Paul Butler declared that the meeting in Trump Tower "is the smoking gun of evidence" of the crime of "soliciting a campaign contribution from a foreign national like a Russian government operative.
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The New York Daily News: "The House Intelligence Committee presents a coherent and compelling case for impeachment ... There may be no single, smoking gun, but there's ample acrid black stuff rising from the White House."
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Cory BookerCory Anthony BookerBooker: Trump enablers 'will go down in history as despicable actors' 2020 Democrats seize on Trump, Ukraine transcript: 'This is a smoking gun' Poll: Warren overtakes Biden, Sanders in New Hampshire MORE.
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Some House Democrats seem to hope that rhythm—fervent denials of wrongdoing, followed by a smoking gun that proves them wrong, followed next by some kind of action—will magically repeat itself for Donald Trump.
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Hans-Georg Maassen, the head of Germany's domestic intelligence service, said that although there was no "smoking gun," Russia was likely to be involved in the increase in online misinformation aimed at destabilizing German politics.
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In 2006, however, Frey came under fire when website The Smoking Gun stated that they could not verify many of the sensational elements within the book that Frey purported to be true to his life.
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The uproar over the Rice reports—senator Rand Paul (R-KY) went so far as to call it a "smoking gun"—has escalated to the point that at least one senator demanded she testify under oath.
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But critics say it's really about a deeper question: Will the new conservative majority on the court ignore what opponents of the question call "smoking-gun evidence" that the case is really about preserving "white power"?
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The senior senator from South Carolina, and a close ally of President Donald Trump, told reporters on Capitol Hill that "there's not a smoking gun, there's a smoking saw" connecting the crown prince to Khashoggi's slaying.
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And, especially of late, the mainstream press has made numerous reckless reporting errors — most chronicled by the Intercept's Glenn Greenwald — in a sometimes frenzied effort to find a smoking gun in the Trump-Russia collusion narrative.
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While no smoking gun evidence of collusion has yet emerged, the synchronicity between the Trump campaign's efforts and efforts made by Russians who Mueller says were working for Trump's benefit points to some sort of coordination.
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Even worse was that his fruitless job search proved to be a smoking gun helping to prove that the league's owners had colluded to reduce free agents' salaries, in violation of MLB's collective-bargaining agreement (CBA).
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October 18, 2016: The Smoking Gun, a news site specializing in mug shots and legal filings, published a piece by founder William Bastone featuring a photo of Trump and Daniels at the Lake Tahoe golf tournament.
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Even if we can eventually prove that Moscow was responsible for those hacks of the Democratic National Committee emails, can anyone really even name a single "smoking gun" email that sealed the deal against Hillary Clinton?
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Critics hammered Comey's vague letter — filed two days before the warrant was issued — for igniting a firestorm of speculation that the new emails contained a "smoking gun" without providing any substantive information for voters to judge.
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October 18, 53: The Smoking Gun, a news site specializing in mug shots and legal filings, published a piece by founder William Bastone featuring a photo of Trump and Daniels at the Lake Tahoe golf tournament.
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Trump's opponents should be very skeptical of Comey—and still shouldn't hold out hope that a smoking gun will emerge showing collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin—but the Russia story isn't going away.
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But for any of that to go anywhere in a majority Republican House where articles of impeachment would have to pass, the committee will need to get the equivalent of a smoking gun out of Comey.
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The Smoking Gun reports that ThreatConnect analyzed the emails it received from Guccifer 85033 and found those emails were sent using the same anonymity service, called a VPN, as he had in communications with other journalists.
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If all this is not enough to begin an impeachment inquiry, then the House will have legitimized presidential transgressions short of "smoking gun" proof that he conspired with a foreign power to rig an American election.
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He is currently appealing, but proving a case of retaliation or discrimination is often doomed; rather than a smoking gun, there tends to be an accumulation of adverse events and subtle stereotypes that shape a career.
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So far, no one has dug anything out of the pile of files that comes anywhere close to a smoking gun that implicates, say, Lyndon Johnson in the murder, as Republican strategist Roger Stone has fantasized.
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"The spelling of 'force' and the empty details window are indeed odd, but I noticed odd grammar errors in other ASUS software installed on this system, so it's not a smoking gun by itself," he noted.
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" And while he conceded that the report still wasn't quite "a smoking gun," Colbert went on that this new revelation is at least "a gun, meeting with a Russian bullet about their mutual desire to smoke.
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For those in the first camp, like Maureen Orth, a special correspondent for Vanity Fair, "Leaving Neverland" is the smoking gun in the final act of a detective story filled with near misses and false alarms.
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No, Sean Hannity, FBI director Christopher Wray didn't happen upon a "smoking gun" when he reviewed the infamous "memo" on Capitol Hill two days ago, and then storm back to headquarters and demand McCabe's resignation. 2628.
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While Cohen does not have a smoking gun for every element of his testimony, think of the corroborating evidence as a series of solid posts that lend structural support to the overall fencing of his testimony.
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It was not immediately clear if Cohen's day in the spotlight would bolster the arguments of Democrats who already favor impeachment, since he did not have smoking gun evidence of collusion between Trump aides and Russia.
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Lehel uploaded documents to a U.S. website, The Smoking Gun (here), saying there he had used methods including guessing the answers to security questions to access accounts at Facebook, Comcast Corp, AOL Inc and other companies.
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But the document's nine other GOP co-sponsors, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, are pushing a position that directly challenges the view from Trump's senior advisors that there was no "smoking gun" that incriminates bin Salman.
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He was the one who translated the transphobic smoking-gun video into English immediately after the n-word controversy, months after it had already made the rounds on Russian social media platform Telegram in November of 2017.
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We know Trump blocked the aid, but we haven't quite seen smoking-gun proof that it was part of a quid pro quo for investigations — perhaps because Sondland didn't want to talk about it via text message.
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Here's the smoking gun from The Intercept:The evidence that ties the ShadowBrokers dump to the NSA comes in an agency manual for implanting malware, classified top secret, provided by Snowden, and not previously available to the public.
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"As long as the government is withholding documents like these, it&aposs going to fuel suspicion that there is a smoking gun out there about the Kennedy assassination," said Patrick Maney, a presidential historian at Boston College.
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"The U.S. government has not, at least publicly, pointed to a smoking gun," Peter Harrell, an adjunct senior fellow in the energy economics and security program at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), told Mashable.
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Judge Alsup has said that there is strong evidence that Levandowski stole documents, but said in court that Waymo has yet to offer up a "smoking gun" that Uber used or even knew of the stolen documents.
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A 353-page examiner's report into the collapse of Washington Mutual Inc extinguished hopes of stockholders that it would unearth billions of dollars of hidden value or smoking gun evidence the government wrongly seized its banking operation.
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There is no smoking gun where a Trump confidant asks Russian operatives to hack Clinton's emails — well, aside from the time Trump asked Putin to do so in public — or advises them on when to release them.
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The White House continues to deny the Trump campaign coordinated with Moscow during the presidential election, but some lawmakers have expressed concern over the Trump Jr. meeting and called it a smoking gun in the Russia probe.
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If the OIG draws a connection between McCabe's political relationships and the decisions he made, therein would lie the elusive "smoking gun" that FBI senior leadership purposely distorted their fealty to the Constitution and the bureau's mission.
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There is nothing in this transcript that the source could describe as a "smoking gun" -- a snippet of conversation or phone call that directly ties bin Salman to the so-called hit team, and to Khashoggi's murder.
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"A further pick-up in the pace of wage gains could be the 'smoking gun' for the Fed to express any shift away from 'roughly balanced' risks to inflation," said Mizuho analyst Vishnu Varathan in a note.
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Yet while US intelligence agencies have attributed the DNC hack to the Russian government, and stolen emails eventually showed up on WikiLeaks, there remains no smoking gun tying Trump associates to the DNC hack or leak specifically.
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As reported by The Smoking Gun, in an altercation at a Saint Petersburg Red Lobster this weekend, a Florida woman allegedly decided to reach right into the lobster tank and grabbed herself a lobster for the road.
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Greece and Cyprus, with close ties to Moscow, were unwilling to do so without a smoking gun, and some small countries, like Malta, did not want to lose all representation in Moscow and risk breaking relations entirely.
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"This may indicate that Republicans don't think there's a smoking gun, nothing that ties the president to a conspiracy," said Elaine Kamarck, a senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution, a think tank in Washington.
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She had picked "A Million Little Pieces" for her popular book club and wanted some answers after the Smoking Gun website, in prosecutorial fashion, had revealed just how much of Frey's addiction story had been made up.
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It is quite another thing, however, to insinuate — wink wink — that as the former DNI or CIA director, you're sure that any minute now, smoking gun evidence of collusion is going to emerge in the Mueller probe.
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Ron KindRonald (Ron) James KindDemocrats see whistleblower report as smoking gun Here are the House Democrats who aren't backing Trump impeachment inquiry Here are the Democrats who aren't co-sponsoring an assault weapons ban MORE (D-Wis.).
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After a year of being assured that "bombshell" developments and "smoking gun" evidence was sealing the criminal case against Trump, the dissonance was too great for many who refuse to accept the obvious meaning of this disclosure.
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As Vox's Tim Lee noted, none of the emails contained a smoking gun demonstrating that the primary was rigged for Clinton — or even that DNC officials set in motion any of the plans to derail Sanders's candidacy.
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In the weeks after Mr. Khashoggi's death, classified evidence piled up that senior Saudi royals approved the Khashoggi operation, even as American officials insisted that there was no "smoking gun" directly tying the crown prince to it.
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WikiLeaks hasn't dropped a single smoking-gun email proving any kind of illegal activity, and often the context of the emails (which the transparency organization generally fails to provide) gets muddled in the reporting and re-reporting.
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As Vox's Tim Lee noted, none of the emails contained a smoking gun demonstrating that the primary was rigged for Clinton — or even that DNC officials set in motion any of the plans to derail Sanders's candidacy.
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The suit included developments like the last-minute discovery of a yellowed songbook from 1922, which the plaintiffs' lawyers called "a proverbial smoking gun" because it included a version of the popular birthday song without proper copyright notice.
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From the Post's report: A smoking-gun email from Eli Manning proves he quarterbacked a conspiracy to defraud collectors by pawning off phony game-worn gear as the real deal, according to court documents obtained by The Post.
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It's notable that in Nixon's case, the "smoking gun" recording that preceded his resignation included audio in which the president appeared to order an aide to convince the FBI to drop its investigation of the Watergate break-in.
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" The smoking gun: FireEye spotted an ammeutrish security mistake by the developer of the group's malware, which "inadvertently disclosed personal data showing that the actor was operating from an IP address and access point associated with North Korea.
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The Pentagon chief late last month he said that there was "no smoking gun" linking the bin Salman to the death of Khashoggi, who who was critical of the Saudi government in his columns in The Washington Post.
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In the home however, police found what they believed is a smoking gun: on one of the girls' phones was a document containing several answers to the written exam, and it was dated before the test took place.
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But if Trump is seen by the GOP base as being the victim of a witch-hunt by a biased prosecutor, it's less likely GOP House members will be on board for impeachment absent a true smoking gun.
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" National Review's Rich Lowry called the coverage "abysmal and self-discrediting—obsessive and hysterical, often suggesting that the smoking gun was right around the corner, sometimes supporting its hoped-for result with erroneous, too-good-to-check reporting.
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Its handlers had also provided the Smoking Gun with the password to the Clinton press aide's e-mails posted on DCLeaks, demonstrating its unique access to the site, and, by extension, its ties to a coördinated propaganda effort.
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The smoking gun for Mr. Schmack was evidence that Mr. McCullough, who at the time went by John Tessier, placed a collect phone call to his parents from a pay phone at a post office in Rockford, Ill.
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"It's unlikely that there's one specific smoking gun type of a chemical that's causing these issues, but it's likely to be a unique combination," said Irina Mordukhovich, a research associate at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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Watch the VICE News documentary: Superbugs: The Dark Side of India's Drug Boom: "There was, if not complicity — and there is no smoking gun — there was certainly incompetence in not being able to contain the violence," said Ganguly.
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While the Mueller hearings may not have produced a smoking gun, they did give the Democrats a road map to haul many of Mueller's witnesses to the Hill to testify about things that aren't necessarily in the report.
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In Trump's case, there's no need for extensive litigation over a secret tape because the smoking gun already aired in the form of an interview with NBC News's Lester Holt, where Trump explained his reasons for firing Comey.
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Contemporaries wrestled with the question of whether a clear-cut legal infraction was necessary, and the most aggressive members of Congress (and some of the most self-serving) started several investigations to find some kind of smoking gun.
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GOP leaders faced tough pressure to unveil a smoking gun during Clinton's marathon, 11-hour testimony in October, but failed to present damning evidence that she had fallen down on the job or severely misled the American public.
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Damning public revelations drove the comfortable 67 percent approval rating of President Richard Nixon down to 24 percent, even before the release of the "smoking gun" tape showing that he obstructed the investigation of the Watergate break in.
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And one more thing about Nixon: The Trickster at least knew enough about violating his oath to fight the release of his own smoking gun, the tapes that implicated him in a cover-up and doomed his presidency.
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Trump has said he did nothing wrong, and has accused Democrats of starting another "witch hunt" against him, while Democrats believe the whistleblower report is smoking-gun proof of criminal behavior and have launched an official impeachment inquiry.
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Beto O'RourkeBeto O'Rourke22019 Democrats seize on Trump, Ukraine transcript: 'This is a smoking gun' 2020 Democrats demand more after Trump authorizes release of Ukraine call Warren leads primary field by 8 points in California poll MORE (Texas), Sen.
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Here's video of a bloody, bruised and busted up Lenny Dykstra on the night he claims cops beat him to a pulp in L.A. County jail ... video Lenny claims is the smoking gun in his $15 million lawsuit.
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A UN investigator failed to find a "smoking gun" that explicitly incriminated MBS, but said the mission required "significant government coordination, resources and finances" and recommended a further probe, Axios' Orion Rummler and Rashaan Ayesh reported in June.
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We had only to wait about 24 hours after the first reports of the hacks before the headline-grabbing opposition document showed up on file-sharing networks, then on Gawker and The Smoking Gun for everyone to read.
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Nixon, the White House had to hand over what became known as the "Smoking Gun" conversation in which Nixon approved using the CIA to thwart the FBI's investigation into the Watergate break-in, sealing the fate of his presidency.
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House Republicans seem to believe they've uncovered the "smoking gun" in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, while House Democrats decry the recent hysteria as an effort to derail the Russia investigation, discredit the FBI, and fuel false conspiracy theories.
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The White House finally complied, and on August 5 they released what became known as the "smoking gun" recording, in which Haldeman and Nixon, days after the break-in, discuss using the CIA to hamper the FBI's investigative efforts.
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"This event is not a smoking gun, but it's the first event for which we more seriously prefer one scenario over another"The LIGOs spotted the most the most recent wave event, GW170104, on January 4 of this year.
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The smoking gun was the unlikely orbital configuration of celestial objects in orbit beyond the Kuiper Belt—configurations that could only be explained through the presence of a large gravitational body in the outer reaches of the solar system.
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But what we do know, the "smoking gun" that eventually forced Nixon out of office, was that Nixon ordered his chief of staff to get the CIA to force the FBI to abandon its investigation into the break-in.
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None of this new data constitutes a smoking gun that can clearly frame Russia as the culprit behind the almost unprecedented hacking campaign that has hit the DNC and several other targets somewhat connected to the US presidential election.
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What, for example, are the impulses that drive someone to crack open A Million Little Pieces in 2016, long after the smoking gun exposé of James Frey's exaggerated drug addiction, and his famous showdown on "The Oprah Winfrey Show"?
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"Unlike Democrats, who will never break with a president, no matter what they do -- I mean I don't care, they can find him with a smoking gun and a picture, they wouldn't break with him -- Republicans will," he warned.
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"The primary reason I doubt we're going to see that smoking gun, is that it's hard to see why it would be in Russia's interest to loop the Trump campaign in on their interference campaign," he wrote in May.
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But I simply have a hard time believing it's either enough of a smoking gun to warrant the ongoing "it's the beginning of the end for Trump" narrative or that there's the political will to impeach him over it.
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Technical experts familiar with the recent history of the cyber escalation between Russia and Ukraine, say these latest attacks are part of the wider political and military conflict, although no "smoking gun" has been found to identify the culprits.
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Whether the Nunes memo is a smoking gun or a pop gun, it deserves to see the light of day — and the editorial writers should think about how they came to support prior restraint over sunshine and open debate.
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In 1974, the release of the June 23rd tape, which became known as the smoking gun, was the final goad to Goldwater and the other Republicans to cease their defense of Nixon and to join calls for his ouster.
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The US and Saudi Arabia are searching through the wreckage of weapon systems used in last weekend's attacks on Saudi oil facilities to find a "smoking gun" definitively tying Iran to the attacks, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday.
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The timing of Comey's letter — sent just 11 days before the presidential election — created a media and political firestorm, and seemed to pose the prospect of some sort of smoking gun deeply implicating Clinton that could swing the election.
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Others familiar with the secret case against the company say there is no smoking gun — just a heightened concern about the firm's rising technological dominance and the new Chinese laws that require Huawei to submit to requests from Beijing.
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Cory BookerCory Anthony BookerBooker: Trump enablers 'will go down in history as despicable actors' 2020 Democrats seize on Trump, Ukraine transcript: 'This is a smoking gun' Poll: Warren overtakes Biden, Sanders in New Hampshire MORE and South Bend, Ind.
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But with no smoking gun in her testimony — Ms. Wilson-Raybould acknowledged during questioning that no one in the government ever instructed her to order prosecutors to reach a settlement — the damage to Mr. Trudeau may ultimately be contained.
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Their reactions directly contradict statements by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis last week that there was no "smoking gun" intelligence directly implicating the crown prince, who is the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia.
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There isn't necessarily any smoking gun of wrongdoing here and we shouldn't be surprised perhaps that a major drug manufacturer would use every tool at its disposal, including money and influence, to figure out how to advance its interests.
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The "smoking gun" that did in President Nixon, in the end, was a tape that revealed he ordered his chief of staff to get the CIA to stop the FBI's investigation into the Watergate break-ins, as Dylan Matthews explains.
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"There's not a smoking gun, there's a smoking saw," Graham said after emerging from a classified briefing in December, referring to reports that the Saudi team had included a forensic expert who arrived in Turkey with equipment to dismember Khashoggi's body.
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Our big story tonight, the former interim DNC Chair Donna Brazile is now saying that she has the smoking gun evidence that Hillary Clinton rigged the DNC in order to keep socialist from Vermont, Bernie Sanders, from winning the Democratic primary.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis said on Wednesday the United States has "no smoking gun" that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was involved in the killing of U.S.-based Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul last month.
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The authors even came across one pattern that could be described as a smoking gun: at times when residents in a given area reported poor internet connections, the correlation between social-media and anti-refugee violence in that region weakened.
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But unless Mr Kaepernick's legal team can deliver a smoking gun, his case may end up looking more like that of Barry Bonds, a baseball superstar who used performance-enhancing drugs (though he maintains he did not know what they were).
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The crater, which dates to exactly the same moment in time as the disappearance of dinosaurs in the fossil record, was lauded by some as smoking gun evidence that a giant impact triggered the KT-extinction 66 million years ago.
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The irony is that all of this is still unlikely to produce the kind of "smoking gun" evidence that Trump's enemies so clearly wish existed, proof that the president conspired with Putin or others in Moscow to win the election.
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While early flybys offered hints of geologic activity, there's never been a smoking gun to prove Dione is alive inside—particularly when compared with its next-door neighbor (and orbital resonance partner) Enceladus, which is spewing seawater out of enormous geysers.
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The White House downplayed the hearing by pointing out the lack of a smoking gun -- a reality that so far has been central to the administration's claims that the Russia story is an invention of Democrats smarting at losing the election.
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Half a year later, Blair addresses another note to Bush, advising that Saddam could use any delay to "mess us about, sucking us back into a game of hide and seek with the [weapons] inspectors" until "a smoking gun" — i.e.
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On the other hand, there's no smoking gun in her camp, either, no moment where she comes across as insincere or politically motivated in her public accusations that Thomas sexually harassed her when she worked for him 10 years earlier.
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"In some ways, I personally am thankful that we haven't seen a 'smoking gun'—though I would say we have seen some substantive changes—because our overall mission is to promote evidence-based environmental governance in the public interest," Gehrke said.
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This case, brought by Stephen B. Bright, president and senior counsel of the Southern Center for Human Rights and a visiting lecturer at Yale Law School, presented what was lacking in nearly all other Batson follow-up cases: a smoking gun.
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Because there is no smoking gun, Republicans say there is no linkage between the nearly $400 million in U.S. financial aid to Ukraine, which Trump froze temporarily over the summer and later released, and the investigations Trump sought from Zelensky.
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By revealing less, in their own ways, than past candidates, they're at odds with the clangor of the internet, where disclosure and exposure blur, in a parade of social-media posts, smoking-gun documents and ever-more-harrowing tell-all essays.
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To be clear: Nothing that emerged on Friday -- or in the sentencing memo of former national security adviser Michael Flynn that was released earlier this week -- is any sort of smoking gun that pins collusion or obstruction of justice on Trump.
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Ken Starr's sprawling investigation into President Bill Clinton's scandals also failed to turn up a smoking gun until 1998, when Linda Tripp revealed that White House intern Monica Lewinsky had preserved her blue dress after a sexual encounter with the president.
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Davis opened the door to what is now known as the "intent doctrine," which emerged in later cases as a simplistic search for a smoking gun — individual bad actors intentionally doing bad things with nothing but racial animus on their minds.
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Waymo contends that report revealed the fact that Levandowski was sitting on a trove of its confidential documents, and that the report could be the smoking gun showing Uber knew Levandowski had the files and chose to acquire his company anyway.
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Because it is rare to have a "smoking gun" statement from a manager, such as "You are too old to do the job," the best defense is a good offense, advises Laurie A. McCann, a staff lawyer for AARP Foundation Litigation.
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The big picture: Though the WikiLeaks email leaks got nearly all the attention, other press outlets — including The Hill, The Smoking Gun and Gawker — also received leaked documents from the hackers of the Democratic National Committee and Democratic Congressional Committee.
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Oprah selected A Million Little Pieces for her book club and book sales skyrocketed; three years later, reporters at The Smoking Gun discovered that his 87 days in jail had been wildly exaggerated—he only spent three hours locked up.
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There hasn't been a smoking gun for the struggles the past two weeks (125 yards on 46 carries, 2.7-yard average), but the Cowboys have been particularly poor running from heavy personnel (20 carries for 34 yards, 33-yard average).
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Without the smoking-gun science that can win a legal battle against a deep-pocketed industry, there's no role in the campaign for tech safety for someone like Mike Moore, the former Mississippi attorney general who sued 13 tobacco companies.
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In the grand scheme of things, out of Mr. Nixon's over 3,000 hours of recorded conversations, 18 and a half minutes doesn't seem like a lot — but let's remember that the smoking-gun tape itself was only eight minutes long.
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This revelation came shortly after Giuliani claimed to have a uncovered a "smoking gun" involving former Vice President Joe Biden's son, Hunter, that would legitimate Trump's request last July for Ukraine's then-new president to investigate him and his father.
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Federal law requires a plaintiff to prove either disparate treatment (that is, "smoking gun" evidence of intentional discrimination) or disparate impact (statistical proof that a group of applicants, for example, racial minorities or white women, were disproportionately rejected for employment).
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Absent evidence along the lines of the "smoking gun" recording of President Richard M. Nixon discussing the Watergate break-in, proving such a case will be especially difficult because the standard is proof of intent to obstruct beyond a reasonable doubt.
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A Turkish historian based in the U.S. has unearthed what he calls "the smoking gun": an original telegram from post-World War I trials that convicted the planners, held in a mysteriously inaccessible archive by the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem.
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Christopher Sidoti, an Australian human rights expert, acknowledged that no "smoking gun" linked the six military leaders directly to orders to carry out genocide, but pointed to inferences of their role based on a strict chain of command in Myanmar.
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Cohen, 52, was a close aide of Trump for years and his testimony could increase the legal and political pressure on the Republican president, but he did not appear to reveal a "smoking gun" that would sink his former boss.
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Steve BullockSteve Bullock2020 Democrats seize on Trump, Ukraine transcript: 'This is a smoking gun' Bullock: Only option is impeachment proceedings if Congress is denied whistleblower report Krystal Ball: Democrats on track to nominate Warren, lose to Trump MORE, former Rep.
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Democrats are calling the emails and meeting, which was also attended by Kushner and Trump's then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort, the smoking gun in the ongoing Russia investigation, proving the campaign sought to collude with Moscow's meddling in the 2016 election.
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According to a police report obtained by PEOPLE and first received by The Smoking Gun, 62-year-old Ernest Ford is accused of shoving the 60-year-old victim to the ground during a discussion over the hearings in Washington.
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"The hearings should be mostly a non-event for stocks unless there is some kind of unforeseen 'smoking gun' either way – detrimental to the president or beneficial to him," said Bucky Hellwig, senior vice president at BB&T Wealth Management in Birmingham, Alabama.
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While Lehman has said there's "no smoking gun" that shows the support was from the Saudi government, as opposed to individuals, Lehman says the evidence of Saudi involvement was never sufficiently investigated and that the commission wasn't given time to do so.
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Eight months after Deutsche Bank settled a lawsuit claiming it manipulated gold and silver prices, documents it disclosed as part of the accord provide "smoking gun" proof that UBS, HSBC, Bank of Nova Scotia, and other firms rigged the silver market, plaintiffs claim.
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That fundamental misunderstanding of how a president should -- and should not -- use the power of his office is the only explanation for why Trump would release the rough transcript of his call with Zelensky, which, if not a smoking gun, is pretty close.
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A hacker, identifying himself as Guccifer 2.0 (in a nod to the Romanian hacker responsible for a number of high-level breaches), leaked what is purported to be a 237-page opposition research report on Trump to The Smoking Gun and Gawker.
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It's not the smoking gun that scientists are looking for, but it strongly suggests a link; the placental barrier regulates the exchange of substances—including infectious diseases—between mother and and fetus, while the amniotic fluid is the protective liquid around the fetus.
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While some observers have treated the Donald Trump Jr. emails as the proverbial smoking gun, it's also the case that we don't know the extent to which then-candidate Trump was aware of that meeting — or aware of other contacts with Russians.
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Finally, the "smoking gun" recording that Congress heard on August 5, a few days after the Supreme Court unanimously ruled the President had to hand over the tapes on July 24, 1974, exposed how President Nixon had attempted to block the FBI investigation.
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The Citron Research report Andrew Left issued to support his short-sell position made several critical claims regarding Jumia, but labeled "the smoking gun" as alleged material inconsistencies between an October 249, Jumia investor presentation and Jumia's April SEC Form F-226.
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Democrats have based their entire political strategy around convincing their core voters across the nation that it is "Mueller time" and that the special counsel is going to magically produce a smoking gun that will take down Trump once and for all.
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By contrast, Democrats see the phone call between Mr. Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, as a smoking gun, a view that has been bolstered by several witnesses and will be crucial to the case they make against the president.
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Environmental review is an essential, if wonky, maze that cannot compete with the smoking-gun clarity, and villainy, of the "Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee" note that announced the scheme to tie up traffic at the George Washington Bridge.
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At the time, pressure was building inside the DOJ and the FBI to find smoking-gun evidence against Trump in the Russia case because the Steele dossier — upon which the early surveillance warrants were based — was turning out to be an uncorroborated mess.
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Maybe there was no smoking gun tying these decisions to politics, but a culture of bias that was evident at the top of the FBI has worked to interfere with our elections and is criminalizing our politics — and we have to stop it.
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With the fair assumption that President Trump will continue firing back at the intelligence community, Democrats will continue striking at the president, and the FBI will continue struggling to find the smoking gun — it seems that the entire nation loses this battle.
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The reactions to the memo after it was released on Wednesday varied wildly between the two parties — with Democrats instantly characterizing it as a "smoking gun" that proved Trump urged a foreign leader to investigate a rival for his own political gain.
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The day it made its début, it reached out to the Smoking Gun and to Gawker, offering hacked material—a conspicuous but purely symbolic gesture, since it had posted the very same documents to a personal Web page, created that day on WordPress.
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The US and Saudi Arabia are searching for a "smoking gun" among the wreckage of weapons that they hope will definitively link Iran to the weapons used in the attack last weekend on Saudi oil facilities, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday.
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He shared his views on the "smoking gun" evidence that local health officials in Wuhan — the epicenter of the outbreak — downplayed the severity of the new coronavirus, why China's disease surveillance system failed, and his concerns about the consequences of a mass quarantine.
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Mr. Graham's remarks came after Mr. Giuliani claimed in an interview on Saturday night with Fox News that he had found a "smoking gun" in his investigation into the Bidens and called on Mr. Graham to investigate Hunter Biden's business dealings in Ukraine.
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That has left top Democrats with a choice: They could fight in court to obtain potential smoking-gun documents and testimony from acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former national security adviser John Bolton.
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The ensuing revelations range from damaging personal information (like the identities of high-level staffers who used corporate funds to pay for sex) to a potential smoking gun in the case of Frank Gathers, the gang lord whose murder Lucious arranged behind bars.
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The White House finally complied, and on August 5, it released what became known as the "smoking gun" recording, in which chief of staff HR Haldeman and Nixon, days after the break-in, discuss using the CIA to hamper the FBI's investigative efforts.
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Moore's attorney, Phillip L. Jauregui, did not deny Nelson's allegations — that he trapped her in a car, grabbed her breasts and tried to force her head into his lap — instead he focused on the yearbook inscription as some sort of indecipherable smoking gun.
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Graham, who has become one of the president's most vocal allies, said there may not be a "smoking gun," but that there was a "smoking saw," a reference to a bone saw that investigators said was used to cut up Khashoggi's body.
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The resolution directly contradicts statements from Trump administration officials, including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Secretary of Defense James Mattis, who have said publicly that there is no definitive evidence or "smoking gun" connecting the Saudi crown prince to Khashoggi's killing.
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The original documentation from 1977 doesn't exist anymore, but ROM dumps do, and they found their smoking gun: What followed was a slow, experimental dissection of the code by three different people, as they worked backwards to try and to coax meaning from the code.
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" Their reunion will have to wait until next week, where we'll find out how D'Agostino, Jr. sorts out his complicated relationship with Singer and Morgan – and what de Lesseps has to say about Bethenny Frankel's mysterious smoking gun that could "blow up this whole engagement.
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We forget that the Supreme Court sealed the president's fate by demanding the "smoking gun" tape, and the crucial role of the special prosecutor, the Senate hearings, the Department of Justice and the FBI, and congressional Republicans when they finally cut bait on Nixon.
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For me, this may be a smoking gun for a prosecutor, but I think there have been not just smoking guns but explosions going off all over the place for years [that] show exactly what this latest meeting showed: collusion between the Russians and Trump.
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So when the first photos of the two kissing surfaced on June 15, people immediately began combing through pictures taken before and after the Met Gala in search of a smoking gun, and found this creeper gem: look at her, in the back. Tom. smh.
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" Fox News' Jesse Watters (one of the 45 Twitter accounts Trump follows) used the onscreen headline "A COUP IN AMERICA?" this weekend as he decried what he called "smoking-gun evidence" the probe of Trump is tainted: Watters: "Is the FBI part of the resistance?
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Like many of the prior cases, where the firms cooperated with the investigations and were given credit for doing so, the proverbial "smoking gun" in the case was the record of online chat rooms where traders discussed markets, prices, and their strategies and actions.
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But if Comey comes into that room with some type of smoking gun regarding collusion, or efforts by Trump to get Comey to back off on the investigation while he ran the bureau, that might make investors finally care about instability in the White House.
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" Yardeni spoke as U.S. stocks were trading mostly higher on Friday as investors shook off an unexpected poor show of Prime Minister Theresa May's party in the U.K. general election and former FBI James Comey's testimony, which some saw as lacking a "smoking gun.
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We're interpreting it as a signal that the Fed will remain on hold for a little while, but again there could be some out there that are a little bit disappointed that there wasn't really a smoking gun here that the Fed is absolutely done.
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"I have yet to see the smoking gun that definitively connects [both of the two major Manchester leaks] to the United States government," said Phillip Lohaus, a former Defense Department analyst who now specializes in U.S. and foreign intelligence at the conservative think tank AEI.
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Kyros attempted to model litigation after the NFL concussion lawsuit that led to a $1 billion settlement, but the football players were able to force a settlement because there was "smoking gun" evidence of the NFL trying to deceive the players about head injuries.
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"Dean, whose testimony during the Watergate investigation played a vital role in Nixon's impeachment proceedings, told CNN that the memo is "a direct parallel to what was in the 'smoking gun tape' where the president asked the CIA to intervene and halt the FBI investigation.
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NEW YORK, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Citing "the rare smoking gun," a federal judge said investors may sue five big banks for conspiring to rig prices on hundreds of billions of dollars of bonds issued by mortgage financiers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac over seven years.
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So far the best explanation is that a virulent antigravitational force dubbed "inflation" — and strangely allowed by Einstein's equations — briefly switched on during the first split trillionth of a second of time and sent everything flying, but astronomers still lack the smoking-gun proof.
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Trump responded to this testimony by repeatedly citing the September 9 call — one in which Trump reportedly told Sondland, "I want nothing ... that's what I want from Ukraine" — as smoking-gun evidence that the impeachment inquiry is nothing more than a partisan witch hunt.
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" -- Rich Lowry's post for NRO: "The media coverage of the Russia investigation was abysmal and self-discrediting —obsessive and hysterical, often suggesting that the smoking gun was right around the corner, sometimes supporting its hoped-for result with erroneous, too-good-to check reporting.
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J.) and former hedge fund manager and activist Tom SteyerThomas (Tom) Fahr Steyer2020 Democrats seize on Trump, Ukraine transcript: 'This is a smoking gun' Poll: Warren overtakes Biden, Sanders in New Hampshire The Hill's 12:85033 Report: Trump defends call as Ukraine controversy deepens MORE.
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" The former federal prosecutor went on to dismiss the transcript of Trump's phone call with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine that was released by the White House, saying, "If there's a smoking gun there, I can't even find the gun, whether it's smoking or not.
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I imagine I'll mostly follow along from updates pushed to my phone and if something really insane happens, basically smoking gun or Trump is about to resign, I will head over to a TV, along with a good portion of the office, I'd imagine.
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Trump spent two years turning the phrase "no collusion" into a rallying cry for his base, and the lack of smoking-gun evidence had made the issue of collusion an elusive target for Democrats intent on highlighting questionable connections between the Trump campaign and Russia.
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The Smoking Gun – On the Back of an Envelope The case against Harding was strengthened by one crucial piece of evidence found in a dumpster: a handwritten note in which Harding had written the address of the skating center where Kerrigan trained in South Dennis, Massachusetts.
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Traders said Comey's firing could lead to serious complications for the administration, but without a "smoking gun" that showed Comey's firing was motivated by something other than Comey's handling of a probe into then-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, there was likely to be limited market reaction.
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Lehman stressed that the 9 pages, which consists mostly of summary reports produced by the FBI, contain "no smoking gun," and he supports the final report's finding that there was "no evidence that the Saudi government as an institution or senior Saudi officials individually funded" al Qaeda.
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The investigator, Agnes Callamard of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, did not find a "smoking gun" that explicitly incriminated MBS but said the mission required "significant government coordination, resources and finances" — and recommended a further probe into the crown prince's role.
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Intelligence experts and diplomats said Netanyahu's presentation, in a prime-time television presentation, did not seem to have a "smoking gun" showing a violation by Iran but it could strengthen the hand of advisers to U.S. President Donald Trump who want to scrap the nuclear agreement.
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The takeaway, Democrats found, is that low- and middle-class workers are suffering the effects of wage stagnation, higher health-care costs and a lack of congressional action to boost infrastructure projects — smoking-gun evidence, Democrats say, that Trump's economic arguments are little more than bluster.
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Yet cases alleging that sports leagues colluded are often difficult to win because there is rarely a so-called smoking gun document or directive instructing owners to act in a coordinated way against a player or players, Feldman said, and personnel decisions can be highly subjective.
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Viewing these charges in isolation, there is no smoking gun case that Manafort, in his capacity as the chairman of the Trump campaign, was tied to Russian intelligence in their efforts to meddle in the 2016 election — which is precisely Manafort's claim in his recent lawsuit.
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Over this period, support for impeachment grew steadily, but it wasn't until the House Judiciary Committee recommended impeachment in July of 1974 and the Supreme Court ordered the release of the tapes—including the "smoking gun"—that public opinion shifted dramatically in favor of removing Nixon.
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At least two candidates, Senator Elizabeth Warren and the former housing secretary Julián Castro, called the reconstructed transcript of Mr. Trump's Ukraine call a "smoking gun," and that was before the release of the whistle-blower complaint, which included accusations of a White House cover-up.
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Judy ChuJudy May ChuDemocrats see whistleblower report as smoking gun Lawmakers urge DNC to name Asian American debate moderator US must stay true to its values and fight the public charge rule MORE (D-Calif.), head of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, delivered a similar assessment.
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A judge this week dismissed the lawsuit saying there was "no smoking gun" that showed Foresman, acting with four other foreign executives named in the lawsuit, entered into any "unlawful agreement" with Russian state oil company, Rosneft, to pre-arrange the auction in the consortium's favour.
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Schiff cited Mick Mulvaney as providing the smoking gun Asked by Tapper whether any witness had directly linked Trump to the holdup in nearly $400 million in military aid for Ukraine in exchange for an investigation announcement, Schiff named acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney.
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Washington (CNN)A Republican member of the House Intelligence Committee said Tuesday that the panel's Democratic leader must resign his chairmanship due to his rhetoric about the Mueller investigation, which officially concluded last week with no apparent smoking gun of collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign.
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After settling with Deutsche Bank for $143 million in 2016, the investors obtained 350,000 pages of documents and 75 audio tapes, including chat messages, that they said offered "smoking gun" evidence that the five other banks broke the law despite not being part of the fix.
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So when you read this report you can&apost help feel like number one, obviously it&aposs very thorough report and goes into a lot of the shocking bias but, the conclusion is we don&apost have a smoking gun so we can&apost do anything about it.
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"It's incredible that these authors were able to go back to 20-year-old observations from the Galileo spacecraft with new information and fresh eyes and find this smoking-gun evidence that Galileo encountered one of Europa's plumes," Jessie Christiansen, staff scientist at the NASA Exoplanet Archive, told Gizmodo.
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All of which leads to the very unsatisfying conclusion that a testosterone booster may be good for your health and lifespan, but we don't know enough to say for sure one way or another and no one will be handing down a smoking gun on the issue anytime soon.
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The researchers from Florida State University and Johns Hopkins Medicine were only able to study the effects of Zika on neural stem cells in a petri dish, so the study doesn't prove a direct link between the virus and microcephaly—but it's one hell of a smoking gun.
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Traders said Comey's firing could lead to serious complications for the administration, but without a "smoking gun" that showed Comey's firing was motivated by something other than the director's handling of a probe into then-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, there was likely to be limited market reaction.
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MORE FROM REUTERS Election debacle for UK government Unusual moments from a turbulent election Exclusive: Trump targets illegal immigrants Commentary: How Comey's smoking gun could kill the Trump presidency May has shown remarkable coolness in the aftermath of what the media were already screaming to be a disaster.
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One reason that this report took so long to be published is that it's very hard to verify: There is no smoking gun showing communications between Trump and Russia, for instance, and you can't prove a negative—that is, you can't prove that Russia doesn't have this information.
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When the final "smoking gun" tape emerged, it was three leading Republicans—the minority leaders of the Senate and the House, Hugh Scott and John Rhodes, and Barry Goldwater, tribune of the modern conservative movement—who went to the Oval Office and told Richard Nixon that it was over.
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"There were no documents or statements coming from anyone that we could call a 'smoking gun,' not a single one," said William Burck, a co-chair of Quinn Emanuel's Washington D.C. practice for white collar and government investigations, and who coordinated the internal, independent probe on BTG Pactual.
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As Mr. Trump struggles to rebound from revelations that he bragged in 2005 about his power to sexually assault women, Republican allies say he has come to believe that WikiLeaks could yield a critical mass of negative and destructive information — if not a smoking gun — that drives up Mrs.
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The sense that had begun to emerge back in 2010 that Taylor was being a little bit strategic, a little bit manipulative with the way she was playing the whole Kanye situation, returned with a vengeance — only this time, it was accompanied by what looked like a smoking gun.
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If they are looking for a motive in making the payment, federal prosecutors may already have the smoking gun, if there is one; they seized thousands of documents and at least a dozen electronic devices from Cohen last month and are looking into campaign finance violations and bank fraud.
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F.B.I. agents who secretly investigated Saudi connections to the 9/11 attacks for more than a decade after high-level officials discounted government links found circumstantial evidence of such support but could not find a smoking gun, a joint investigation by The New York Times Magazine and ProPublica shows.
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More distressing is the fact that the weapon is a blatantly smoking gun: Its origin clearly announces that Putin approved the hit, didn't care that it would be traced back to the SVR, and therefore was a defiant statement to the world that Russia will do whatever it wants.
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Bloomberg: Tom SteyerThomas (Tom) Fahr Steyer2020 Democrats seize on Trump, Ukraine transcript: 'This is a smoking gun' Poll: Warren overtakes Biden, Sanders in New Hampshire The Hill's 12:85003 Report: Trump defends call as Ukraine controversy deepens MORE invests in companies he says are part of the problem.
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LL: Well, today when a mom does a search for a pediatrician in Washington, D.C., she's seeing this sort of Google Plus box at the top, and I think that is a way where Google's directly harming consumers, and that's really the smoking gun that the FTC missed.
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