WASHINGTON — Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, on Tuesday released the full transcript of the panel’s interview with Glenn Simpson, the co-founder of the firm that researched President Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign. Continue reading “Sen. Dianne Feinstein releases Fusion GPS transcript, escalating dispute with Republicans over Russia probe”
It’s unlikely that we can get this passed in 2018, but a Democratic majority could very well do this next year. Via Ars Technica: A bipartisan group of six senators has introduced legislation that would take a huge step toward securing elections in the United States. Called the Secure Elections Act, the bill aims to eliminate… Continue reading “New bill aims to get rid of paperless voting machines”
Last May, a top White House national security official met in Washington with senior Russian officials and handed over details of a secret operation Israel had shared with its U.S. counterparts. The meeting shocked veteran U.S. counterspies. Continue reading “Putin’s man in the White House”
Trump Admin threat to retaliate against nations that exercise sovereign right in UN to oppose US position on Jerusalem is beyond outrageous. Shows @realDonaldTrump expects blind loyalty and subservience from everyone—qualities usually found in narcissistic, vengeful autocrats.
— John O. Brennan (@JohnBrennan) December 21, 2017
Via The Hill, a blunt tweet from the former CIA director:
Former CIA Director John Brennan slammed President Trump in a tweet Thursday, saying the president shows “qualities usually found in narcissistic, vengeful autocrats.”
Brennan, a vocal critic of Trump, posted the comment shortly after joining Twitter on Thursday. He condemned Trump’s tough stance against critics of his declaration of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
“Trump Admin threat to retaliate against nations that exercise sovereign right in UN to oppose US position on Jerusalem is beyond outrageous,” tweeted Brennan, who led the CIA under former President Obama.
“Shows @realDonaldTrump expects blind loyalty and subservience from everyone—qualities usually found in narcissistic, vengeful autocrats,” he added.
I guess this is part of that “deep state” threat Alex Jones told us about!
The shocking threats against the countries that objected to Trump’s uninformed and inflammatory move to name Jerusalem as the new capital of Israel have met with widespread criticism.
Except from Putin, of course.
During his “Dear Leader” cabinet meeting this morning, Donald Trump made a lot of sick claims about this brutal tax scam bill, but his claim about the individual mandate repeal was especially cynical. Continue reading “‘What kind of insanity is that?’ Bernie Sanders rips into Trump for lying about Obamacare repeal”
Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter opened his show on CNN this Sunday with a warning about the extremely dangerous propaganda we’re seeing generated from Trump and his allies at Fox “News” and in the Republican Party. Now if we could just get his network to follow his lead and quit putting Trump apologists and propagandists on… Continue reading “CNN’s Stelter takes apart the dangerous Fox, GOP, Trump ‘feedback loop’”
Republicans are refusing to name new witnesses in the Congressional investigation into the Trump campaign’s alleged collusion with Russia during the 2016 election and may be prematurely winding down the probe, according to the ranking Democrat in the House Intelligence Committee. Continue reading “Republicans refusing to continue Trump investigation”
You’ve likely seen or heard all the uproar this weekend about the news that Bob Mueller has had the Trump transition team emails since September.
Here’s why they’re important: Mueller requested the transition team to turn over their emails. Trumpers did not realize he could check them against the full email record. This means a lot more people may be charged with lying to the FBI.
Even worse? It seems the Trump people had a coverup arrangement with the GSA’s general counsel not to release the emails to Mueller, but their fixer was in the hospital when Mueller requested the emails. (He later died.) He was a lawyer with (wait for it) Rudy Giuliani’s firm!
You see where this is headed, right?
Now, anyone who’s ever worked for the feds (or any large corporation, really) knows work emails on work servers don’t belong to you. They belong to your employer — in this case, the federal government. Mueller didn’t even need a warrant; he just had to make a request.
This is what all the attacks on Mueller last week were about. Look at Fox News:
.@KellyannePolls: "The fix was in against @realDonaldTrump from the beginning, and they were pro-Hillary… They can't possibly be seen as objective or transparent or even-handed or fair." @WattersWorld pic.twitter.com/5u0mdmcrXL
— Fox News (@FoxNews) December 17, 2017
“Coup In America”? Yeah, that happened a year ago. We’re trying to fix it. Pro tip: You can’t claim executive privilege on an office you didn’t hold yet.
.@RepDeSantis: "The question is, what was the FBI doing to inject itself into the campaign?" pic.twitter.com/SYgcBSDZK5
— Fox News (@FoxNews) December 17, 2017
This is the sort of stuff you see before a head of state purges govt https://t.co/GWMMsP0WLG
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) December 17, 2017
OPINION: @GreggJarrett: Special Counsel Robert Mueller is accused of acting in complete disregard for the law and must be removed. And so, too, must his entire team. https://t.co/17JHGtQzWY
— Fox News (@FoxNews) December 17, 2017
There’s lots more, but you get the idea.
Mueller’s office made a rare comment on the matter:
“Ongoing criminal investigation.” Trump has continued insisting to people it will be done by year’s end, despite all evidence to contrary https://t.co/IY1u5ccBtX
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) December 17, 2017
3/ Funny thing is, we *do* have evidence of a plot in law enforcement to falsify evidence in a criminal investigation and thereby select—via a fraud—the American government preferred by a small group of people at the FBI. It's called the True Pundit Hoax: https://t.co/lFcw8M5oPL
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) December 17, 2017
Clearly, Trump is teeing up to fire Mueller — and GOP leaders are lining up behind them, because some of them are implicated, too. So are Trump’s third-rate lawyers.
Get ready to call, write, or take to the streets. Democracy is going to need us.
This is interesting, because last night, the Wall St. Journal said Mueller requested their emails a couple of months ago. Hmm:
The ranking members of the House Oversight and Judiciary committees want to subpoena two of the data firms hired by President Donald Trump’s campaign team for documents related to their potential engagement with foreign actors like Russia and WikiLeaks during the election.
Reps. Elijah Cummings and Jerry Nadler sent a letter to Cambridge Analytica’s CEO Alexander Nix and Giles-Parscale cofounder Brad Parscale — who also served as the Trump campaign’s digital director — in October. The letter asked whether their firms received “information from a foreign government or foreign actor” at any point during the election.
The letter was also sent to the heads of Deep Root Analytics, TargetPoint Consulting, and The Data Trust, which were among the outfits hired by the Republican National Committee to bolster the Trump campaign’s data operation.
Whereas Deep Root, TargetPoint, and The Data Trust responded to the documents request, Cambridge Analytica did not. Parscale’s response, moreover, was insufficient, the Democrats said.
“As I made clear in the 60 Minutes interview cited in your letter, I share your concerns and would not want foreign governments meddling in our elections,” Parscale wrote, referring to his interview with CBS earlier this year about Russia’s election interference. “But as I stated in that same interview, I do not have any firsthand knowledge of foreign interference in the 2016 election.”
