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(4 comments) SHARE        Friday, December 1, 2017
Flynn Guilty Plea Shows He Committed a More Serious Offense Than Lying to the FBI On Friday morning, special counsel Robert Mueller announced that he had filed a criminal charge against Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump's short-lived national security adviser (who had led the "lock her up" cheers at the last Republican convention), on two counts of lying to the FBI, and soon after that Flynn pleaded guilty in a federal court in Washington as part of a cooperation deal with Mueller.

SHARE        Wednesday, November 29, 2017
Will the House Intelligence Committee Get the Truth From Erik Prince? Prince has been an avid cheerleader for Trump (donating $250,000 to help elect him), an informal post-election adviser for Trump, and a pal of Stephen Bannon. Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law, and Bannon recruited Prince earlier this year to draft a plan that would replace US troops in Afghanistan with for-profit mercenaries -- supplied, of course, by a military contractor like Prince.

(1 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, November 22, 2017
Note to Robert Mueller: Hope Hicks Was Part of the Cover-Up Hope Hicks' time in the barrel may come soon. Special counsel Robert Mueller is reportedly aiming to interview the White House communications director as part of the Trump-Russia investigation. When he and his team of lawyers do so, they presumably will be mindful that the 29-year-old Hicks told one of the biggest whoppers of the 2016 campaign.

(1 comments) SHARE        Monday, October 30, 2017
Robert Mueller Releases Information Showing Trump Campaign Tried to Collude With Russia The Manafort and Gates indictments may not be directly related to the question of Trump interactions with Russia. But the Papadopoulos statement is further evidence the campaign was looking to collude with Putin's crew. As significant as the Manafort and Gates arrests are, the Papadopoulos statement is far more important for developing a public understanding of how Trump's gang did scheme with the enemy.

(2 comments) SHARE        Friday, October 27, 2017
The Trump-Russia Scandal Is a Huge Media Fail By the time Steele and I spoke, Putin's meddling in the 2016 campaign -- with Russian intelligence hacking Democratic targets, stealing sensitive material, and then publicly dumping the material via several cut-outs, including WikiLeaks -- should have been a massive scandal. But it wasn't.

(3 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, October 11, 2017
Why You Really Should Be Scared Sh*tless About Trump and Nuclear Weapons It is indeed worrisome that Trump seemed to adopt a simplistic and dangerous more-is-better approach to nuclear weapons. But what's even more unsettling is that Trump has a history of making comments about nuclear weapons that both display his profound ignorance about this all-important subject and suggest he believes a nuclear conflict is inevitable and perhaps destined for the near future.

(2 comments) SHARE        Saturday, October 7, 2017
Did Russia Hack the 2016 Vote Tally? This Senator Says We Don't Know for Sure The Department of Homeland Security has noted that its assessment that there was no finagling with the vote count was made with only "moderate confidence." For Wyden, that's not good enough for such a sensitive and significant matter -- and it sends the misguided signal that the voting system is doing just fine.

SHARE        Friday, September 29, 2017
Watch Roy Moore, the Latest GOP Star, Argue for Criminalizing Homosexuality The controversial Moore -- who was twice booted off the Alabama Supreme Court for defying federal orders (once for violating a same-sex marriage ruling, once for resisting an order blocking him from placing a Ten Commandments monument at a courthouse) -- is the favorite to win a Senate seat in the general election.

(2 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, September 13, 2017
How Donald Trump Lied to Conceal His Moscow Business Partner Trump has told many lies and falsehoods. He's lied about the Russia scandal. He's lied about his ties to organized crime. Perhaps he's lied so much that freshly excavated prevarications don't register greatly. Yet recent news reports revealing that Trump was pursuing a huge development deal in Moscow in late 2015 and early 2016 show that during the campaign Trump committed a tremendous act of deception.

(2 comments) SHARE        Saturday, September 9, 2017
Is Donald Trump Jr. Trying to Con Congress on the Russia Scandal? As Trump Jr. was being questioned by congressional investigators, the New York Times published a story quoting from his prepared opening statement. And several of Trump Jr.'s assertions in that statement conflict with the emails related to the meeting.

(6 comments) SHARE        Friday, August 25, 2017
Can Anyone Stop Trump From Launching Nuclear Weapons? No senior intelligence community veteran has ever publicly questioned the mental health of a president and suggested the sitting commander-in-chief was too imbalanced to be trusted with the nuclear codes. Clapper's remarks were a stark reminder that Trump does hold the ultimate power.

(1 comments) SHARE        Monday, August 21, 2017
Trump Official Once Praised a Defender of Holocaust Deniers Donald Trump appointed Teresa Manning, a leading anti-abortion activist, to be a deputy assistant secretary at the Department of Health and Human Services. The pick was controversial because Manning, formerly a legislative analyst at the conservative Family Research Council and a lobbyist for the National Right to Life Committee. She had once praised a defender of Holocaust deniers.

(8 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, July 11, 2017
Donald Trump Jr.'s Emails Sound Like the Steele Dossier Trump Jr., the Times disclosed, had set up a meeting with a Russian attorney in the hopes of receiving derogatory information on Hillary Clinton straight from Putin's regime. As the Times was publishing this story, Trump Jr. tweeted out those same emails.

SHARE        Saturday, July 1, 2017
Hey GOP, Trump's Misogyny and Obsession With Revenge Are Nothing New Trump has a long history of touting his love of revenge, and for years in speeches and public talks he has declared that a key to success is vengeance: "Get even with people. If they screw you, screw them back 10 times as hard. I really believe it."

(1 comments) SHARE        Saturday, June 10, 2017
James Comey's Big Message: Donald Trump Can't Be Trusted In his prepared testimony, Comey recounted in just-the-facts manner a series of private communications with Trump, during which the president asked Comey to pledge him loyalty, to go easy on Flynn, to "lift the cloud" created by the Russia investigation, and to publicly state that Trump was not personally under investigation.

(1 comments) SHARE        Friday, March 24, 2017
Nunes (Kind of) Confesses He Went Off Half-Cocked Asked repeatedly about the information that was the basis for his charge that Trump and his associates were inappropriately "unmasked" in classified intelligence reports based on legally authorized top-secret surveillance of foreign targets, Nunes said he did not have that material in hand. He says he ran to the mics and the White House before thoroughly reviewing all the documents.

SHARE        Saturday, March 18, 2017
Trump: Don't Blame Me When I Quote Fox News At a short press conference with German leader Angela Merkel, Trump indicated that he believed there was nothing to apologize for. Asked by a German reporter about the wiretapping allegation, he made a reference to "fake news" without addressing the matter. When a second German reporter pressed Trump on the issue, Trump first made a joke that he had something in common with Merkel. (The NSA had listened in on her cellphone.)

(11 comments) SHARE        Friday, February 10, 2017
Bombshell Report Suggests Trump's National Security Adviser Is Dishonest and a Threat to US Policy On Thursday night, after a long and wild day of Trump news (Trump attacking Sen. John McCain, Kellyanne Conway seemingly breaking the law, an appeals court ruling against Trump's Muslim travel ban, and much more), the Washington Post dropped a bomb: a thoroughly reported article with the headline "National Security Adviser Flynn Discussed Sanctions With Russian Ambassador, Despite Denials, Officials Say."

(1 comments) SHARE        Saturday, January 21, 2017
GOP Senator Calls for Investigating What FBI Did About Russia-Trump Intelligence The night before Donald Trump was sworn in as president, the New York Times dropped a bombshell: intelligence and law enforcement agencies have been examining intercepted communications and financial transactions in an investigation of possible contacts between Trump associates and Russian officials.

(1 comments) SHARE        Friday, January 20, 2017
Investigators on the Trump-Russia Beat Should Talk to This Man With subpoena-wielding investigators on this beat, here's a suggestion: The gumshoes ought to talk to an American from Belarus named Sergei Millian, who has boasted of close ties to Trump and who has worked with an outfit the FBI suspected of being a Russian intelligence front.

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