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What’s Going on With Putin and Trump and Why It’s a Big, Big Deal
I was just talking to David Kurtz about this and he noted that coverage of the Russia/Trump story has been simultaneously so cursory and outlandish that anything short of ironclad confirmation of Trump’s being a Russian spy will seem like a big come-down and hardly worth noting. I have been talking to various cybersecurity experts today to try to get a handle on just what level of confidence we should have in the claims that Russia hacked the DNC servers and then leaked the email cache to Wikileaks to upend the Democratic convention. As David notes, the Russian hacking part of this is so cartoonish and out there that it’s simply hard to know what to make of it, other than the fact that Trump is himself such a cartoonish figure that perhaps it all matches up.
So I thought I’d take a moment to explain what I see as a sober, one-step-at-a-time explanation of what questions need to be answered and explored.
We now know that the two Tulsa World reporters behind the blockbuster story about the allegedly falsified training records in the Eric Harris shooting left to join a soon-to-be-launched local news website. So what’s the status of their story? In a follow up interview, the Executive Editor of the Tulsa World tells us that while she has no reason to doubt the sources behind she says, “their sources are not sources to anyone else in my newsroom right now. So I’m trying to establish contact with those sources and make sure that they are standing by that.”
Catherine Thompson has our report.
Just as the federal investigation into Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) was reaching a boil, the U.S. attorney overseeing the whole thing announced he is stepping down.
Let me start by saying there’s absolutely no evidence this is related to the DA murders in Texas. But a West Virginia sheriff was shot and killed this morning in front of a court house in Williamson, West Virginia.
No evidence, as I said, but law enforcement officials aren’t shot down like this very often.