Espionage

Feebs are closing in. Rudy’s electronic devices have now been seized in a NYC raid on his Manhattan apartment (and a Park Avenue office location). Darn that Deep State down by the Four Seasons Lawn Center. The buried lede is that the warrant was blocked under the former guy, but Merrick Garland unblocked...

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  • April 28, 2021

“As in the Times Op-Ed from which the book originated, the title refers to the results of studies conducted in Germany from the mid-nineteen-eighties onward, which reported, among other intriguing findings, that eighty per cent of East German women always experienced orgasm during sex, compared to sixty-three per cent of...

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  • April 8, 2021

It seems clear that Trump will continue to be a Russian asset, with the bonus of classified information transferred even beyond his presidency. A new book by Craig Unger features a former KGB spy, Yuri Shvets as a source. …Trump first appeared on the Russians’ radar in 1977 when he...

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  • January 30, 2021

Something strange is going on over undocumented immigrants. President Biden’s acting secretary of Homeland Security, David Pekoske, issued a memo on January 20 halting almost all deportation proceedings for 100 days: Review of and Interim Revision to Civil Immigration Enforcement and Removal Policies and Priorities [PDF] I’ve gone over the...

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  • January 26, 2021

As Trump’s one term winds to a thankful close, one of the largest scandals remains seemingly forgotten and bizarrely unexplained.  There not only has never been a counter-intelligence investigation into Trump’s connections with Russia and Russia’s interference in the 2016 election — but we have learned that this is because that investigation was secretly thwarted...

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  • January 17, 2021

Suddenly, we’re all talking about the felony murder doctrine. Broadly, that’s a legal principle stating that if someone is involved in the commission of a felony, and the circumstances of that crime result in a death, then they are guilty of the offense of murder even if they weren’t directly...

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  • January 8, 2021

There will be plenty of memorials to the Trump reign, but the most significant one will be the betrayal of democracy. It raises the matter of Washington Monument sized piles of information stolen from the US government. But maybe he’ll be remembered for promising some of his advisors that “he will refuse...

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  • December 16, 2020

There are now so many pardon requests there’s a spreadsheet for them, but Trump’s so angry at the lost loyalty, the list could be smaller. Trump just sees no evil, even in a mirror. There may be a firing spree, among other irrational acts by a Trump now confronted by...

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  • December 16, 2020

“The hack is seen as so significant that a National Security Council meeting was held at the White House on Saturday over it, according to Reuters.” Because having at Commerce, a former head of a bank known for Russian money laundering in Cyprus and a Treasury head who approved lifting financial...

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  • December 14, 2020

Rudy Giuliani hasn’t kept his gaslight under a bushel, but may get prosecuted, not for his quasi-espionage or actions supporting Trump’s re-election, but simply for defrauding the US Treasury. x To get the amount of money Giuliani did, business owners must prove payroll expenses between $720,000 and $1.68 million in 2019....

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  • September 17, 2020

“As the death toll in the coronavirus pandemic neared 100,000 Americans this Memorial Day weekend, President Trump derided & insulted perceived enemies & promoted a baseless conspiracy theory, in between rounds of golf.” https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1264717545787006976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Perhaps Howard Stern, of all people, said it best: “The oddity in all of this is...

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  • May 25, 2020

The NY Times has a new article describing the dirty trick campaigns in this election cycle designed to subvert Democratic party supporters. The Erik Prince training of Project Veritas stooges seem to have become operational with numerous moles infiltrating liberal organizations. These are likely only the tip of the intelligence operations mimicking...

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  • March 7, 2020

Right now, Texas is under siege, and there’s not too much our military can do about it. On Jan. 7, Gov. Greg Abbott told the Domestic Terrorism Task Force that the Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) measured, over a 48-hour period, a colossal increase of cyberattacks from Iran on...

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  • January 18, 2020

I am generally tough on the host of NBC’s Meet the Press and MSNBC’s Meet The Press Daily, Chuck Todd. His piece on the new McCarthyism, however, is very important. Most importantly it was very well done. Maybe if we remember to give positive acknowledgment when due, then corporate media, the...

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  • December 7, 2019

Here is The Politicus Top 5 Political Books of October 2019: An unprecedented behind-the-scenes portrait of the Trump presidency from the anonymous senior official whose first words of warning about the president rocked the nation’s capital. In a dramatic account of violence and espionage, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan Farrow...

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  • October 29, 2019

In advance of more stalled China trade talks this week, impeachment-embattled Trump asked China to interfere in the 2020 election. The quid pro quo for China will now be as obvious as the Ukraine price of $250+ million for election “dirt”. x With the party over, Beijing needs to see...

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  • October 5, 2019

The Trumpists are trying anything that will draw your attention away from the 25 July “favor” request for dirt in exchange for releasing arms. The greatest irony is Trumpian claims that they were combating corruption (by being corrupt). x Cuomo to Rudy Giuliani: “Did you ask the Ukraine to investigate...

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  • October 3, 2019

Welp, Bernie announced so I suppose a lot of energy around here today will be dead-icated to re-fighting the 2016 Primary War. Pro tip: We don’t nominate a candidate for 18 months. In other news someone hung a huge, and I mean huge, Russian flag on Salisbury Cathedral early Sunday morning, on...

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  • February 19, 2019

This is a quick hopefully audience-friendly guide to the main charges that will (and won’t!) play a part in prosecuting collusion with Russia. In particular, I want to highlight the requirements for proving each of these offenses, because that’s valuable for understanding Mueller’s strategy as the various parts of this saga start to...

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  • December 14, 2018

I was thinking about defender of slavery and traitor Jefferson Davis tonight because of the Senate debate in MS, and I am not sure if I ever wrote about how Davis’ slaves reacted to their “benevolent” slave owner.  First up, there is William Jackson who was a slave in the...

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  • November 21, 2018

As press and cable media scramble to cover President Trump’s antics surrounding presidential pardons — including the possibility that he could use the pardon to interfere with the Special Counsel’s investigation of Trump himself — we would do well to acknowledge that this scenario has played out previously.  In 1992, after he had lost...

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  • June 7, 2018

When Trump associates get caught talking to the Russians, the excuse du jour is that they were talking about “Syria” and military cooperation in Syria.  Remember the non-denial-denial excuse floated for Kushner’s attempts to hide his Russian talks on Russian secure lines? President Donald Trump's son-in-law and now top White...

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  • June 3, 2017

Just in case there are any F**king Idiots left out there after OPOL's AWESOME DAMN DIARY, I'm going to link you to an interview – conducted just this past Monday, June 10, 2013 – with some guy you've probably never heard of.  But he's important.  And his name is Thomas...

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  • June 13, 2013