Rudy’s indicted ‘assistant’ Lev Parnas also assisted Rep. Devin Nunes
November 21, 2019
I have a real problem with Rep. Devin Midnight Run Nunes, a co-conspirator and accessory to Donald Trump’s obstruction of Congress and obstruction of justice, being the ranking minority member in the impeachment hearings. This is the equivalent of the Trump criminal enterprise having a capo on the committee to directly obstruct Congress and obstruct justice. … Read more
Senate Intelligence Committee’s chair threatening to identify the whistleblower
November 21, 2019
BuzzFeed News reports today that The Senate Has Been Quietly Interviewing People Involved In The Whistleblower Complaint: The Senate Intelligence Committee has in recent weeks interviewed several people as it looks into the handling of the whistleblower complaint at the center of the first impeachment inquiry in more than two decades, committee leadership told BuzzFeed … Read more
‘All The President’s Men’: John Dean on Ambassador Sondland’s ‘John Dean moment’
November 21, 2019
Today’s headlines are echoes of Watergate after John Dean’s dramatic testimony. From the New York Times: News, Sondland Says He Followed Trump’s Orders to Pressure Ukraine. Analysis, In an Echo of Watergate and John Dean, an Adviser Points to Trump. The Times editorializes, Sondland Has Implicated the President and His Top Men. From the Washington … Read more
Some early analysis of Ambassador Sondland’s testimony
November 20, 2019
Continuing with today’s theme, Ian Millhiser writes at Vox, Gordon Sondland is being called the next John Dean. Here’s why. Forty-six years ago, President Nixon’s former White House counsel took an oath before a congressional committee and delivered testimony that eventually brought down the president. On Wednesday, not long after Gordon Sondland, President Trump’s ambassador … Read more
Breaking news today about the whistleblower
November 20, 2019
I explained the whistleblower statute and related provisions of law in early November. Donald Trump and his thugs in Congress are openly violating the whistleblower law and engaging in unlawful witness intimidation. Republicans are still doing it, it is a central feature of their raving and ranting to disrupt the impeachment hearings. The Washington Post … Read more
Ambassador Sondland delivers a John Dean moment in the impeachment hearings
November 20, 2019
Well, not quite John Dean. John Dean had a photographic memory and laid out incredibly detailed riveting testimony from his memory of events, later remarkably verified in the Nixon tapes. Ambassador Gordon Sondland concedes that his memory is not that good without access to reference to documents and readouts of conversations, which he says the … Read more
Republican star witnesses blow up GOP conspiracy theories, implicate Trump
November 20, 2019
Former U.S. Special Envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker, and Tim Morrison, the National Security Council’s former senior director covering Russia and Ukraine, and previously a longtime Republican congressional staffer, were called to testify by Republicans. They were supposed to be their star witnesses. Instead, these witnesses blew up the conspiracy theories being propagated by Republicans in … Read more
The Arizona Ground Game Wants You to Know What You are Voting For
November 20, 2019
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There is nothing more important during an election cycle than ensuring that voters are fully informed of the background, campaign positions, and the pros and cons of supporting either a candidate or ballot initiative. All public servants, regardless of political persuasion, should embrace this attitude. Sadly, that is not always the case as some political … Read more
