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WaPo’s Greg Miller’s “main takeaway from ODNI report is that America’s enemies learned more from Russia-2016 about how to muck around in U.S. elections than the U.S. learned/did about how … Read More
Delaying the transition seems now to be more sinister, even as the eventual discovery of Trumpian crimes could extend into his “second” term. Mike Pompeo is workshopping stand-up material for his 2024 … Read More
MSNBC Hallie Jackson gives me hope. She decimated Trump's spokesman Hogan Gidley for continuing Trump's lies about voter fraud. Hallie Jackson decimates a lying Trump spokesman x x YouTube Video … Read More
Remember that there have been multiple WH attempts to reframe what is primarily a Russian election offensive in 2020 as also parallel to China and Iran activity. It does explain … Read More
That image is not a joke. Lisa Matassa, a country singer and big Trump fan, sent out this tweet and Trump retweeted it. You have to scroll a bit down … Read More
What a sh*tshow. Chris Wallace should have had a microphone kill switch. Many alternative facts got manufactured and Biden won simply by putting up with Trump’s bullying. Daniel Dale will deliver the … Read More
Trump’s tweeted over 60 times so far today. He’s counting on the disinformation firehose and gaslighting, as well as some malign efforts like pickup truck parades. x Trump retweeted a … Read More
Trump’s phone calls with world leaders has probably been a source of much entertainment for the SIGINT community, considering how leaky his channels of communication have been. The current revelations … Read More
New reporting from CNN: From pandering to Putin to abusing allies and ignoring his own advisers, Trump's phone calls alarm US officials In hundreds of highly classified phone calls with … Read More
So two DNI directors are lying, because it looks like Trump continues to do Russia’s bidding, however badly. And Trump lies because that’s the default position, because like Sargent Schultz, … Read More
Trump’s revanchism now manifests itself in the second attempt by Trump to recycle old grievances, mainly from ”Obamagate” first proposed in 2017. Because Trump’s history has always been all about trying to … Read More
From Salon: Women voters who propelled Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, to wins in four consecutive Senate races have increasingly soured on the so-called “centrist” Republican as her record has drifted farther right … Read More
More Roman-fiddling by Trump as he continues to measure his success by the rising death toll and his continuing incompetence. The death toll could reach 233,000 from “reopening”. Trump urgency is only … Read More
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo went on This Week and lied to Martha Raddatz about whether COVID-19 was man-made or not. When caught he punted. Pompeo lied with a straight face unemotionally … Read More
The Atlantic article by Sarada Peri assumes an event will occur that is endemic. Trump has destabilized facts and their media frames. If he’s going to cheat what was he doing … Read More
So much disinformation mischief this evening, some poked at by Trump himself if only to draw attention from his venal stupidity with his DNI choices / purges. x This is a … Read More
It’s still mostly like the 2016 election, considering who the Russians prefer. ENOUGH WITH THE SANDERS-MCGOVERN ANALOGIES: 2020 IS NOT 1972 Bernie Sanders has a more favorable political climate in … Read More
Pelosi quotes Paine: “The times have found us.” x Tune in as I speak live from the U.S. Capitol. https://t.co/j6UMq4TC5u— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) September 24, 2019 The House will move … Read More
It’s a fast-moving day and a press conference was scheduled for 4pm. Trump’s last such presser at the UNGA was “free-wheeling” so the cray-cray might be especially wild. Chances are … Read More
Even if a sitting POTUS* cannot be indicted, plenty of others are coming into view after the rough memo of the Trump conversation with Ukraine president Zelensky. Now that the … Read More
Trump threatened by association the diplomatic corps even as the NY Times got closer to identifying the Whistle-Blower as a male CIA officer formerly assigned to the WH. “You know … Read More
I thought I would summarize what the concensus seems to be on why the Mueller Report basically failed to launch an aggressive impeachment inquiry versus the impact of the intelligence whistleblower … Read More
Well, that escalated quickly: x We have been informed by the whistleblower’s counsel that their client would like to speak to our committee and has requested guidance from the Acting … Read More
It’s very easy to get lost in all the legal BS between the Trump Administration and Congress, but we already know that acting DNI Maquire is not cooperating with the … Read More
It’s no secret that Donald Trump has turned the attorney general of the United States into his personal consigliere. But according to a former CIA official, he’s done far worse … Read More
Speaker Nancy Pelosi has released a statement about the intelligence whisteblower complaint. The third paragraph is probably the most important part of the statement: “The Administration’s blocking of Acting DNI … Read More
Former Trump body-man/adviser/enforcer Corey Lewandowski spent or wasted hours of the taxpayers and Congressional Democrats time and money yesterday, auditioning as the opening act for the Donald Trump troubadours. When … Read More
On CNN this morning, Mike Pence tried to summon as much gravitas as he could — veering dangerously close to the event horizon of fatally constipated — in order to … Read More
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was back in the headlines this week—not for any particular wisdom regarding authoritarian regimes and movements she shared with the House Intelligence Committee, but … Read More
(R) Senator Chuck Grassley is blocking the appointment of William Evanina, an Obama appointee who was nominated by Trump to be director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center in an effort … Read More
As prepared for delivery by the president (provided the president is not named Donald Trump), February 12, 2018. My fellow Americans, I have requested this time tonight to speak to you … Read More
