Month: January 2018

Why Did the FBI Go After Clinton Before Trump?

The most confounding thing about the Trump-Russia affair is the behavior of the FBI, including it’s former director, James Comey. Specifically, the FBI did two things in the last weeks of the campaign that badly hurt...

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Trump Lawyer Slaps Defamation Suit on BuzzFeed

Follow-up on yesterday’s release of Glenn Simpson’s testimony by Dianne Feinstein where Fusion GPS literally destroyed all credibility of Bill Browder and undermined the Congressional arguments for the anti-Russian...

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New Senators Get Committee Assignments

My geekiest feature is my obsession with the makeup of Senate committees, so I was impatiently waiting to get the news of how things would be organized in the post-Roy Moore/Al Franken world. And I am pleased. Very pleased. The...

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GOP Cares More About Agenda Than Midterms

Ron Brownstein has a pretty good analysis of the Republicans’ electoral strategy, but I think he’s missing one important ingredient. He identifies two basic decisions that the Republicans have already taken that will...

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Fusion GPS Transcript of Testimony Released

Quite interesting, Glenn Simpson worked for a Russian oligarch to defeat the Magnitsky Act. In his testimony Simpson literally destroys Bill Browder!!! See also my earlier diaries …. Source inside Trump campaign reported...

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