For those of you who are C-Span junkies, pop some popcorn and get ready for some key oversight hearings today. Must see TV! Donald Trump’s Treasury Secretary, Bond villain Steve Mnuchin, on Tuesday will be grilled by House lawmakers in back-to-back hearings, where questions about how he plans to handle a formal request for Mr. … Read more
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team of lawyers and investigators were remarkably disciplined during his investigation. They were never the source of any leaks to the press. When asked for comment, Mueller’s media spokesperson, in almost every instance, responded with ‘no comment” (refuting a Buzzfeed report was the rare exception). But now that the Mueller investigation … Read more
Today is the deadline congressional committees have set for Attorney General William Barr to produce the full unredacted Mueller Report to congressional committees. Barr will certainly not comply with congressional demands. As Michael Bryan pointed out in his post about our constitutional crisis, Barr keeps adding categories of information he intends to redact from the … Read more
Rep. Devin Midnight Run Nunes (R-CA), former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee who served on Donald Trump’s transition team, conspired with the Trump White House to push the conspiracy theory that Trump Tower was the target of an Obama administration wiretap, even though those claims have been repudiated by Comey, intelligence chiefs and senior … Read more
I warned you earlier this year that if Special Counsel Robert Mueller did not recommend action against President Donald Trump for obstruction of justice (here is a compendium of instances from the New York Times, Intimidation, Pressure and Humiliation: Inside Trump’s Two-Year War on the Investigations Encircling Him), that Trump would be unbound and feel … Read more