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The New York Times Botched Their Reporting on Secretary Clinton’s Remarks About a Democratic Primary Candidate Being Groomed

October 22, 2019/82 Comments/in America, Domestic Politics, Election Year, Foreign Affairs, Information Warfare, Open Thread, Politics, Russia, Silverman on Security /by Adam L Silverman

If you can remember back to last week, The New York Times ran a story that Secretary Clinton had stated that the Russians were grooming one of the female Democratic primary candidates for a third party run as a spoiler to ensure the President’s reelection. She also took a justified and accurate swipe at Jill […]

Ambassador Taylor’s Opening Statement to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

October 22, 2019/157 Comments/in America, Domestic Politics, Election 2016, Election Year, Foreign Affairs, Impeachment Inquiry, Open Thread, Politics, Silverman on Security, The Trump Doctrine, The Whistleblower Saga /by Adam L Silverman

The Washington Post has obtained and published Ambassador Taylor’s opening statement to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. The link to it is here. And the pdf can be directly accessed from Balloon Juice below. Ambassador_Taylor_Opening_Statment Open thread!

The Vice President Announces a Ceasefire That Is Not a Ceasefire & the President Announces That Everyone is Happy With It

October 17, 2019/184 Comments/in America, Crimes against humanity, Domestic Politics, Foreign Affairs, Military, Politics, Silverman on Security, The Trump Doctrine, War /by Adam L Silverman

Earlier this afternoon, the Vice President, with the Secretary of State behind him, announced a ceasefire he had gotten Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan to agree to. The President then did an impromptu press gaggle on the tarmac of the Dallas-Ft. Worth Airport where he ran with this news. The President spun the Vice President’s announcement […]

President Obama & His Administration Did Indeed Have a Strategy for Syria: It is Not President Obama’s Fault if You Don’t Understand It and It is Not an Excuse for What the President Did Last Week

October 16, 2019/88 Comments/in Absent Friends, America, Domestic Politics, Election Year, Foreign Affairs, Military, RIP, Silverman on Security, The Trump Doctrine, War /by Adam L Silverman

(Figure 1: Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve Campaign Design) Since the President’s horrendous decision to pull US Special Forces, as well as the US Marine Corps artillery batteries supporting them out of Syria, a cottage industry has sprung up among the President’s supporters and defenders that this is really the fault of President […]

A Badly Executed Mob Shakedown: The President’s Ukraine Mess Is Just An Extension of His Russia Mess

October 14, 2019/170 Comments/in America, Domestic Politics, Election 2016, Foreign Affairs, Impeachment, Mueller Report, Open Thread, Politics, Silverman on Security, The Trump Doctrine /by Adam L Silverman

On Friday I wrote the following in an email explaining what is actually going on with the Ukraine mess that the President has made: I amazed that all of this current brouhaha is just a really bad Russian mob shakedown. The play here is to get Parnas’s and Fruman’s boss in the Russian mob, Dmitri Firtash, […]