Devin Nunes says it’s now clear the Democrats made it possible for Russia to subvert the 2016 election.
Chairman Nunes: "The people that made the Russians successful [in subverting the election] are the Democrats." pic.twitter.com/Uln9mStw5K
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) October 26, 2017
“This is really a very simple effort by an entrepreneur to get on the plane, fly to Puerto Rico, talk to PREPA when no one else would.”
The spokesman for Whitefish Energy pushes back on ‘conspiracy theories’ and says the whole issue is just that their people had the gumption to get to Puerto Rico first and say they wanted the work.
This is fairly astounding. Apparently President Trump directly ordered the Justice Department to lift a gag order over an FBI informant who is apparently at the center of the John Solomon ‘uranium one’ story. This seems to be to make it possible for this informant to testify before Congress.
A few points to consider here. Read More
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Here’s some background from Norm Eisen, former Obama ethics czar and ambassador, about this issue of Trump ordering the DOJ to drop this gag order tied to the Uranium One story.
Norm Eisen on Trump ordering DOJ to drop this gag order. pic.twitter.com/32qQPd2RCJ
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) October 27, 2017
“The thing I am concerned about … is having something issued so we can convince the public that Oswald is the real assassin.”
This appears to be the most quoted document so far in the trove of Kennedy assassination documents released early this morning. It is a memo dictated by then FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. And it is dated two days after President Kennedy died, November 24th, 1963. It is very fair to say that it is hard to see what blanket certainty he could have had at that point just who killed President Kennedy or more specifically whether anyone else was involved. (The evidence from the start that Oswald was at least a shooter was pretty strong.) Read More
From CNN …
A federal grand jury in Washington, DC, on Friday approved the first charges in the investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller, according to sources briefed on the matter.
The charges are still sealed under orders from a federal judge. Plans were prepared Friday for anyone charged to be taken into custody as soon as Monday, the sources said. It is unclear what the charges are.
As best, I can tell there’s no clarity on who has been charged or what crimes they have been charged with. Here’s a thread on Twitter, from a former federal prosecutor, setting forth some theories about what this could mean. Obvious candidate: Paul Manafort.
Now we know the “Republicans” who first funded Fusion GPS’s investigation of Donald Trump’s ties to Russia (before seeing him win the nomination and thus losing interest.) It was The Washington Free Beacon. Wait, you’re thinking, isn’t that a news site? Well, maybe, maybe not. We also learn the Beacon turns out to be funded “in large part” by GOP mega-donor Paul Singer. The Beacon reportedly frequently employs opposition researchers to drum up news stories. It did so in this case and was reportedly getting a lot of information about Trump’s ties to Russia. But when Trump secured the nomination they lost interest. Here’s the story.
Not sure what to make of this. But it’s worth keeping an eye on. Read More