I’m often asked in comments when the Intelligence Community (IC) will leak. My answer is always that the intelligence community, both the US’s and that of our allies and partners, will leak when it is in their strategic interest to do so. The targeted leaks in early 2017 about Attorney General Sessions phone calls and …
George Papadopoulos Incriminates the President and Attorney General Sessions in His Defendant’s Sentencing Memorandum
Almost lost in all the news yesterday, largely because it was filed very, very late last night, and despite the best efforts of his handler, George Papadopoulos’s attorneys submitted their Defendant’s Sentencing Memorandum to Judge Moss of the US District Court for the District of Columbia. In the memo, Papadopoulos, speaking through his attorneys, implicated both …
How About We All Take a Deep Breath and Go Awwwwww!
Apparently everyone’s a wee bit stressed out, which is understandable. So rather than explaining the vetting process* on how a series of white supremacists, plagiarists, conspiracists, economic illiterates, white collar criminals, and some, I assume, are good people, I thought something relaxing might be in order. Everyone say awwww!!!! Open thread.
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REPOST: Boston Labor Day Weekend Meet Up?
Adam was kind enough to post this last week. I’m not going to be able to make it myself, but who else in the Boston area is up for a get together this weekend? Mostly lurker, occasional commenter, Big R will be in Boston over Labor Day weekend for the American Political Science Association Annual …
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Vice President Biden’s Eulogy for Senator McCain
Here’s the live feed of Senator McCain’s funeral service in Arizona before his body is flown to Washington, DC to lie in state in the Capitol and a second funeral service on Saturday at the National Cathedral and his final, private funeral service and interment on Sunday at the Naval cemetery at the US Naval …
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Fair Winds and Following Seas to Senator McCain
(Insignia of Attack Squadron/VA 163 – The Saints) Over the decades and the wars that span them, new verses have been written for the Navy Hymn expanding it to cover new naval occupations and their accompanying hazards. There are two verses of the Navy Hymn that were written for naval aviators. The first by Mary …
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Floriduh! Man Goes to the White House: QAnon Edition
A top QAnon promoter met briefly with Trump in the Oval Office on Thursday https://t.co/qmIcFHkjdA pic.twitter.com/odd4jLVtWU — Will Sommer (@willsommer) August 24, 2018 We haven’t been able to get to the bottom of this yet, but of the 4 senior WH aides we asked about how Trump ended up in a photo op w/ this …
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