CNN: Lev Parnas is willing to testify against Rep. Devin Nunes

Update to Rudy’s ‘assistant’ Lev Parnas also assisted Rep. Devin Nunes. CNN reports in an Exclusive: Giuliani associate willing to tell Congress Nunes met with ex-Ukrainian official to get dirt on Biden: A lawyer for an indicted associate of Rudy Giuliani tells CNN that his client is willing to tell Congress about meetings the top … Read more

Senate Intelligence Committee’s chair threatening to identify the whistleblower

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’

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

How Russian state disinformation works with its American right-wing counterparts

Last Wednesday, Attorney General William “Coverup” Barr — who has been globetrotting around Europe in pursuit of the “deep state” conspiracy theory that it was really Ukraine and the Democrats who interfered in the 2016 election, not the “innocent” Russians, in an attempt to discredit the Mueller report and to obtain Brady exculpatory evidence to … Read more