Trump has considered replacing Intelligence Community IG Atkinson …

Trump complained of the disloyalty of his own hand-picked IC IG Michael Atkinson. Atkinson first notified Congress of the whistleblower complaint and met privately with the House Intelligence Committee.

Gates testifies at Stone trial about Wikileaks …

This is not really good news for Trump …

Gates answered questions about Trump’s knowledge of the WikiLeaks release during the second week of trial for Republican operative Roger Stone. He’s on trial in Washington, D.C., facing charges that include lying to Congress, witness tampering and obstructing justice related to the special council probe…

Gates, who worked with former campaign manager Paul Manafort, told the court he overheard a phone call in which he believes Stone told Trump about documents WikiLeaks planned to release. The documents included Democratic National Committee emails obtained by Russian hackers.
Gates also said Manafort told him he would keep Trump informed of WikiLeaks’ plans to release the emails…

If Gates’ testimony is true, it directly conflicts written answers Trump gave to a list of questions from Mueller’s team. The president told investigators he didn’t remember receiving any information about the WikiLeaks release beforehand, nor did Stone or anyone else linked to the campaign have contact with WikiLeaks.

Who needs this science poppycock?

The Environmental Protection Agency wants to downplay scientific evidence in making public health decisions. It sounds crazy, but, that is exactly what proposed new rules by requiring all personal health raw data used in studies.

After years and years of improving air quality in the US has started to decline.

Is this a win for the GOP? For industry?

For review …

Tomorrow the impeachment probe testimony goes public entering a new phase of the investigation.

Here is a handy guide to events so far …

https://twitter.com/AaronBlake/status/1193986049648799745

Pretty extensive, eh?
I am wondering what kind of foolishness the GOP members are going to use to deflect and attempt to undermine these hearings.

Stranger than fiction …

This is just bizarre.

The 63-year-old Sokolov is an assistant professor of history and one of Russia’s most prominent scholarly re-enactors of the Napoleonic wars.
The arms in the backpack are thought to be those of one of his students, Anastasia Yeshchenko, 24, whose dismembered and decapitated body was found in Sokolov’s apartment just a few houses down from where he was hauled out of the water, drenched and intoxicated, police said.

You got to read this.

Laura Cooper testimony …

In her deposition, Pentagon official Laura Cooper describes Trump’s directive to freeze Ukranian aid and her concerns that Trump did not have that authority that was shared by other deputies.