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Breaking News: Nora Dannehy, Senior Deputy to US Attorney John Durham, Has Resigned In Protest Over Politicization of Durham’s Investigation Into the DOJ’s, FBI’s, and US Intel Communities 2016 Russia Investigation

by Adam L Silverman|  September 11, 20204:17 pm| 161 Comments

This post is in: America, Domestic Politics, Election 2016, Foreign Affairs, Open Threads, Politics, Russia, Silverman on Security, Trump-Russia, War

This is what professionals do!

Nora Dannehy, top aide to John Durham’s Trump-Russia investigation, quietly resigns amid concern about pressure from Attorney General William Barr https://t.co/uablnX5lS1

— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) September 11, 2020

From The Hartford Courant (emphasis mine):

Federal prosecutor Nora Dannehy, a top aide to U.S. Attorney John H. Durham in his Russia investigation, has quietly resigned – at least partly out of concern that the investigative team is being pressed for political reasons to produce a report before its work is done, colleagues said.

Dannehy, a highly regarded prosecutor who has worked with or for Durham for decades, informed colleagues in the U.S. Attorney’s office in New Haven of her resignation from the Department of Justice by email Thursday evening. The short email was a brief farewell message and said nothing about political pressure, her work for Durham or what the Durham team has produced, according to people who received it.

Durham, who has never even acknowledged that Dannehy was in Washington working for him, had no immediate comment on the resignation.

Durham recruited Dannehy to join his team after he was appointed by Attorney General William Barr more than a year and a half ago to examine the the FBI’s legal justification for a disputed counterintelligence investigation that looked for ties between President Donald J. Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russian efforts to meddle in the election.

Dannehy is a career prosecutor who worked closely with Durham before leaving the U.S. Attorney’s office about a decade ago for a corporate position in the defense industry. Durham persuaded her to return to the justice department and, within weeks, join his team in Washington in the spring of 2019.

Colleagues said Dannehy is not a supporter of President Donald J. Trump and has been concerned in recent weeks by what she believed was pressure from Barr – who appointed Durham – to produce results before the election. They said she has been considering resignation for weeks, conflicted by loyalty to Durham and concern about politics.

Durham is notoriously circumspect and neither he nor members of his team have revealed anything about the direction of their work. But Durham associates, none of whom have specific knowledge of the investigation, have said recently that it is their belief he is under pressure to produce something – perhaps some sort of report – before the presidential election in November.

The thinking of the associates, all Durham allies, is that the Russia investigation group will be disbanded and its work lost if Trump loses.

More at the link.

We already know, from the findings in the fifth and final volume of the Republican majority Senate Select Committee on Intelligence’s (SSCI) investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election that the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, which shares oversight of the US Intelligence Community (IC) with the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), has concluded that the US Intelligence Community, the DOJ, and the FBI acted reasonably and responsibly and that there was sufficient predicate to open the investigations into what Russia was doing and whether the President, his campaign, his campaign manager Paul Manafort, his business, members of his family involved in both the campaign and the business, and several outside senior advisors to the President during the campaign were somehow compromised by Russia during the 2016 campaign.

The SSCI’s conclusions tells us, if anyone had a question about it, that AG Barr is on a snipe hunt to try to produce an October Surprise to help the President get reelected. We also know that the conspiracy theory that AG Barr’s basis, his predicate for creating Durham’s investigation, is partially rooted in the debunked conspiracy theory that Secretary Clinton and her campaign, in conjunction with the Obama administration and senior Obama administration officials – VP Biden, APNSA Rice, AG Lynch, FBI Director Comey, DNI Clapper, DCI Brennan, and others – were conspiring with the Ukrainian government to interfere in the election to harm the President and his campaign and to blame it on Russia by creating a hoax that Putin was interfering on behalf of the President’s campaign. The fifth volume of the SSCI’s investigation report into Russian active measures and the 2016 election states unequivocally that this conspiracy was created by the Russian Intelligence Services and provided to Paul Manafort by his GRU handler, Konstantin Kilimnik, and that Manafort than provided it to the President and many of his senior appointees, aides, and surrogates. Moreover, we now know that the person responsible for pushing this conspiracy theory right now has been designated as a Russian intelligence officer who has been running the President’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, as usefully idiotic asset!

Now we wait to see what the effect of Deputy US Attorney Dannehy’s resignation has. This is definitely a brush back pitch. Whether it actually changes AG Barr’s behavior is something we’ll have to wait to see. AG Barr has made it clear that he doesn’t feel that the DOJ’s rules regarding releasing information that could affect an election within 60 days of an election. Dannehy’s resignation is a warning shot. Now we have to wait and see if Barr receives the message.

Open thread!

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Traitor-in-Chief Open Thread: Another NYTimes Reporter Has A Book to Sell

by Anne Laurie|  August 31, 202011:46 pm| 90 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Republican Venality, Trump-Russia, Our Failed Media Experiment

Michael Schmidt is a reporter for the New York Times.

Everything in his book is something he could have reported for the New York Times when it was timely. https://t.co/wBOpSkeVrZ

— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) August 31, 2020

And the NYTimes is only too happy to cross-promote the ‘savvy’ of both their reporter and his employer:

… Schmidt, a New York Times correspondent in Washington who was part of two teams that won Pulitzer Prizes in 2018, including one for coverage of Trump’s Russian-inflected scandals, portrays an administration in which all aides may as well always have a resignation letter ready as a safeguard against an angry, flailing president detached from commonly accepted reality. This is a meticulously reported volume that clearly benefits from the author’s extraordinary access to many of the relevant characters, but also from his subjects’ tendency to record, in detail, their time around Trump…

The narrative is sometimes cinematic. It opens with Schmidt chasing down McGahn outside the White House’s front gates and eventually getting him to concede, “I damaged the office of the president; I damaged the office.” It’s a breathtakingly revealing admission from the White House’s chief lawyer and the architect of Trump’s effort to appoint as many conservative judges as possible. (Schmidt says, “I thought he was still understating the gravity of what he had done.”)

McGahn, a staunch libertarian, was frequently in over his head with the lawless president he nicknamed “King Kong,” and he struggled with his highly unusual extended contact with Mueller’s team. Still, despite getting close to resigning, McGahn stuck around far longer than his apparent misery and frequent attempts at principled stands would suggest, largely because of his judicial project’s success. It was only after Trump granted a woman clemency at Kim Kardashian’s request that McGahn knew he truly had to leave the White House. He could no longer abide the accumulation of Trump’s actions…

Lawlessness, meh. But Kim Kardashian?!? — ewwww!

… Comey was always deeply interested in maintaining his and his agency’s public credibility — especially after his wildly controversial intrusions into the 2016 campaign over Hillary Clinton’s emails. After he was fired by Trump, he text-messaged a friend: “I’m with my peeps (former peeps). They are broken up and I’m sitting with them like a wake. Trying to figure out how to get back home. May hitchhike.” It’s just one example of the clearly extensive access Schmidt had to Comey and his wife.

“Donald Trump v. the United States” is full of gritty details about what it’s like for a plugged-in journalist to report on Trump’s intrigue, ranging from the time Schmidt shepherded a valued source to and from the airport, to his learning, secondhand, about a Justice Department official soliciting dirt on Comey at a Cinco de Mayo party. At one point, Schmidt writes, he shattered his cellphone and didn’t fix it for a week because there was too much news; he ended up with pieces of glass in his hands.

More interesting, however, is the constant flow of shocking anecdotes: Schmidt writes that Mitch McConnell fell asleep during a classified briefing on Russia, for example…

But the journalistic stigmata! Such a cinematic detail!

Also from @nytmike’s forthcoming book!

— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) August 30, 2020

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Some tidbits from @nytmike's new book: McGahn, a staunch libertarian, was frequently in over his head with the lawless president he nicknamed “King Kong,” and he struggled with his highly unusual extended contact with Mueller’s team. https://t.co/OgHu47pnhw

— Adam Goldman (@adamgoldmanNYT) August 31, 2020

Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein concluded the FBI had not cleared the threshold needed to conduct a counterintel investigation into the president's ties to Russia. Rosenstein believed the FBI had acted far to hastily to open investigation as it grieved firing of director Comey.

— Michael S. Schmidt (@nytmike) August 30, 2020

Following up on Michael Schmidt's alarming account, on the bookshelves Tuesday, Rod Rosenstein is proven to have protected Trump from evidence he was a Russian agent. https://t.co/9Mv0KxC3jv

— Harland Gundlefinger (@Gundlefinger16) August 30, 2020

It sure seems as though the White House has been less than transparent about this episode and reporters should be asking a lot more questions about it. https://t.co/XTbOwT5AS8 pic.twitter.com/pQ0EEdzFVJ

— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) August 31, 2020

Again, if this is actually in that book, it's not just unconscionable to wait to tell us…it's borderline treasonous. https://t.co/QqFoxc8Amz

— Greg Olear (@gregolear) August 31, 2020

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Donald Trump’s Nonproliferation Ambitions

by Cheryl Rofer|  August 16, 20208:42 pm| 66 Comments

This post is in: Rofer on International Relations, Rofer on Nuclear Issues, Trump-Russia

Today we have a report that Donald Trump would like to meet with Vladimir Putin before the election to present a new arms control agreement to the world.

The easiest thing for Trump to do would be to extend the New START Treaty, which lapses in early February next year. The treaty is written to allow five-year extensions with a minimum of negotiation, and Putin has said he is willing to extend it.

Trump has been surrounded by treaty-haters, though, particularly but not only John Bolton, who would be happy for New START to lapse. Their strategy is to insist that China be a part of arms control negotiations and spin their wheels doing stunts like adding small Chinese flags to places around the table during US-Russian interactions and then whining that China didn’t show up. As China had said it wouldn’t.

Russia and the United States each have 1500 deployed nuclear warheads, whereas China has about 300. China has stated that it sees no reason to join arms control talks until Russia and the United States have brought their numbers closer to its own.

Whether China signs on to arms control has nothing to do with New START. If we want to draw China into arms control talks, we should extend New START and work from there.

That may be what Trump has in mind for a meeting with Putin.

His interview with Jonathan Swan of Axios, however, had a tantalizing hint of something else. (transcript of interview)

Swan asked Trump about a phonecall with Putin on July 23 in preparation for asking him about the story of Russian offers of payments to Taleban in Afghanistan for targeting Americans.

Trump says that the call was about “nuclear proliferation.” After discussion of the alleged payments, Trump says

It’s interesting. Nobody ever brings up China. They always bring Russia, Russia, Russia. If we can do something with Russia in terms of nuclear proliferation, which is a very big problem.

Bigger problem than global warming.

A much bigger problem than global warming in terms of the real world, that would be a great thing.

Trump is not good with complicated concepts, so it’s entirely possible that when he says “nuclear proliferation” he means “arms control.” He says “We discussed numbers things,” which could refer to arms control, although numbers would not be necessary in a discussion of extending New START. Others have interpreted these remarks that way.

In an interview with Ron Rosenburg in 1987, Trump said something similar, in more detail.

It’s a deal with the Soviets. We approach them on this basis: We both recognize the nonproliferation treaty’s not working, that half a dozen countries are on the brink of getting a bomb. Which can only cause trouble for the two of us. The deterrence of mutual assured destruction that prevents the United States and the USSR from nuking each other won’t work on the level of an India-Pakistan nuclear exchange. Or a madman dictator with a briefcase-bomb team. The only answer is for the Big Two to make a deal now to step in and prevent the next generation of nations about to go nuclear from doing so. By whatever means necessary.

“Most of those [pre-nuclear] countries are in one form or another dominated by the U.S. and the Soviet Union,” Trump says. “Between those two nations you have the power to dominate any of those countries. So we should use our power of economic retaliation and they use their powers of retaliation and between the two of us we will prevent the problem from happening. It would have been better having done something five years ago,” he says. “But I believe even a country such as Pakistan would have to do something now. Five years from now they’ll laugh.”

This has Trump earmarks that are now familiar to us. The two strongmen get together to squeeze the little guys not to make nuclear weapons. It seems to have been his dream for a long time.

If I can find that material, so can Putin’s intelligence services. It would be a great lever on Trump, his way to a Nobel prize, in his mind anyway. If Putin is to be his partner in dealing with “a much bigger problem than global warming,” Trump would not want to alienate him.

The evidence is that Trump has other Russian connections that could be corrupting. But when I listened to the Swan interview, I couldn’t help thinking of that 1987 interview.

Cross-posted to Nuclear Diner

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Foreign Interference Open Thread: The *Other* Friday Doc Dump

by Anne Laurie|  August 9, 20205:39 pm| 98 Comments

This post is in: 2020 Elections, Foreign Affairs, Republican Venality, Trump-Russia

Yes, we already heard Trump's remarks about Biden. https://t.co/ysxQhsApZN

— Mig Greengard (@chessninja) August 7, 2020

We report, you decide!

U.S. counterspy chief warns Russia, China, Iran trying to meddle in 2020 election https://t.co/0jOkKvzTtz pic.twitter.com/dObC4Y30px

— Reuters (@Reuters) August 8, 2020

… In an unusual public statement, William Evanina, director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, said the three countries were using online disinformation and other means to try to influence voters, stir up disorder and undermine American voters’ confidence in the democratic process…

Foreign adversaries also may try to interfere with U.S. election systems by trying to sabotage the voting process, stealing election data, or calling into question the validity of election results.

“It would be difficult for our adversaries to interfere with or manipulate voting results at scale,” Evanina said…

Evanina said “Kremlin-linked actors” also are trying to “boost President Trump’s candidacy via social media and Russian television.”

He said his agency assessed that China would prefer that Trump not win re-election, because Beijing regards him as too unpredictable.

He said China has been expanding efforts to influence U.S. politics ahead of the election to try to shape U.S. policy, exert pressure on U.S. politicians it regards as anti-China, and deflect criticism of China.

Evanina said Iran is likely to use online tactics such as spreading disinformation to discredit U.S. institutions and President Trump and to stir up U.S. voters’ discontent…

Many officials who oversee U.S. election technology and outside security experts now worry less about hacking in the elections than about misinformation and logistics such as a shortage of poll workers and slowdowns at the U.S. postal service.

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JUST IN: In new statement, top counterintel official Evanina confirms what @kyledcheney and I reported last week: Intel officials believe “that Russia is using a range of measures to primarily denigrate former Vice President Biden” in runup to election. https://t.co/I11E6frl1D pic.twitter.com/t3EOOqYubU

— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) August 7, 2020

The nation's top counterintelligence official came out and said that Rudy Giuliani's ally and the Kremlin are playing on the same team.https://t.co/3uOWZKnYGh

— Noah Shachtman (@NoahShachtman) August 7, 2020

Rudy Giuliani has been wearing "I ??Putin" boxer shorts for a couple years now. https://t.co/KSv0BolyBZ

— Mig Greengard (@chessninja) August 8, 2020

‘The last person Russia wants in office’ –

this is true just not in the way he thinks https://t.co/xKdvxe5lrM

— Zeddy (@Zeddary) August 8, 2020

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Robert Mueller Speaks

by Cheryl Rofer|  July 11, 20206:43 pm| 241 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Trump Crime Cartel, Trump-Russia

Robert Mueller has an op-ed in the Washington Post. He is getting tired of Trumpian misrepresentation.

I feel compelled to respond both to broad claims that our investigation was illegitimate and our motives were improper, and to specific claims that Roger Stone was a victim of our office. 

It’s short and clear, something that his earlier report could have benefitted from.

We now have a detailed picture of Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election. The special counsel’s office identified two principal operations directed at our election: hacking and dumping Clinton campaign emails, and an online social media campaign to disparage the Democratic candidate. We also identified numerous links between the Russian government and Trump campaign personnel — Stone among them. We did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired with the Russian government in its activities. The investigation did, however, establish that the Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome. It also established that the campaign expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts.

Anyhow, read the whole thing.

Open thread!

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Review and Exposure

by Betty Cracker|  July 1, 20201:01 pm| 254 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Politics, Trump Crime Cartel, Trump-Russia, Trumpery

This Wood Stork was drying its wings on my dock, but it looks like a dirty old man exposing himself to the swamp, doesn’t it?

Review and Exposure

Speaking of exposure, dirty old men and swamps in another context, Josh Marshall argues that the Biden campaign should commit now to exposing Trump’s cover-ups and corruption if Biden wins in November. Marshall says it needn’t necessarily involve prosecutions (another kettle of fish), but he argues that Biden should warn the administration now not to destroy any evidence and make it clear that wherever possible, all evidence of Trump’s cover-ups will be made public if Biden is elected. I think Marshall makes a good case. Here’s an excerpt:

Review and exposure is something we can and must insist on now. There is no tyranny or injustice in simply having your bad acts revealed. If Trump is driven from office, Trumpism won’t end in January 2021. We’ll still have a whole political party devoted to him and his politics. We will still have the machinery of government which it uses to govern through minority rule. But none of these obstacles to and targets of reform will be surmountable without accountability and exposure for the public catastrophe of the last four years. No standards of public service or resistance to public corruption and abuse can be restored without it.

Airing what happened is critical on the domestic front. It is even more critical on the international front. How many elements of our bilateral ties with other countries are based on corrupt acts or transactions? How many actions of state are based on corrupt bargains or betrayals. These relationships or the integrity of American foreign policy cannot be restored without such bad acts being revealed and expunged. We will not otherwise know if corrupt sources of personal or familial enrichment have been engineered to survive his presidency.

If Joe Biden wins the election in November he will immediately be confronted with a broken country and a host of public crises – a pandemic, a wrecked economy, a longterm need to restabilize a sputtering global order. There will be great pressure to turn on the page on the story and simply move on, if only for lack of time. So Biden’s supporters should begin insisting now on a commitment to an orderly process of clearing the executive stables of the dung of Trumpism. This should include, starting now, a warning to all those in power not to destroy any documents or records – in the broadest sense of the term – and that any officials will be held liable for destroying records and evidence which are all the property of the United States government and not any transient officeholder. It’s the one act that should ensure prosecution.

Trumpism has been an historic assault on our civic and democratic order. We cannot simply have it become a normal part of our history. A chief part of the President’s corruption has been abusing his powers to hide his wrongdoing. We can’t move forward without undoing those crimes and unwinding the lies.

“Restoring the soul of the nation” is part of Biden’s campaign pitch, and restoring behavioral norms is part of that. Review and exposure of Trump’s cover-ups would go a long way toward strengthening institutional traditions that the honor system failed to enforce.

One of the knocks on Biden early in the campaign was his instinct toward comity, but there’s reason to hope he wouldn’t insist on turning the page and letting bygones be bygones. His joint op-ed with Senator Warren on ferreting out corruption in the coronavirus relief package is one such sign.

Trump wasn’t the first corrupt president, and he’s certainly not the only one who dabbled in criminality, but he’s also engaged in wrongdoing that deserves to be exposed whether or not it violated the law. Because of the presidency’s unique powers, not every conceivable wrongdoing has been codified — for all their foresight, the Founders didn’t envision a federal government controlled by a low-rent Borgia clan empowered by spineless greedheads in pursuit of eternal minority rule.

Marshall notes the limitations of criminal investigations (see Mueller, Robert) and says Trump and Trumpsters should be criminally prosecuted where appropriate. But here he makes the case that public exposure is an effective remedy in its own right — that fear of public exposure and the resulting risk to enablers of voter sanction/public shame can and should be on the table. I think that’s true.

Open thread.

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Tuesday Evening Open Thread: The Way We Live Now

by Anne Laurie|  June 30, 20206:46 pm| 177 Comments

This post is in: Foreign Affairs, Military, Open Threads, Trump-Russia

I’m sure Cheryl and/or Adam will have serious, information-packed post about this later, but chroist jaysus, as the old folk used to say…

RECEIPTS:

EXCLUSIVE: Data intercepts showed GRU-to-Taliban $ transfers & a key intermediary fled to Russia, bolstering earlier detainee accounts about a Russian bounty op. Trump WH omitted in its briefing to GOP lawmakers as it downplayed intel as murky/contested. https://t.co/bmMd4V7Fjt

— Charlie Savage (@charlie_savage) June 30, 2020

did they crush it up in some peanut butter like how you give a dog his worm medicine https://t.co/WaIdAEITYi

— kilgore trout, a ramp with no steps (@KT_So_It_Goes) June 30, 2020

Ok well I guess now that he's finally been briefed, it's time for him to act on it. Can't wait to see what bold steps he takes to hold Russia accountable.

— Centrism Fan Acct 🔹 (@Wilson__Valdez) June 30, 2020

Repubs: Hide the evidence, y’all!…

Senate strips a provision from an intelligence bill requiring campaigns to report foreign election help https://t.co/92cIZOOxrc pic.twitter.com/TKmFyC2M5a

— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) June 30, 2020

The Senate will incorporate the annual intelligence policy legislation into the National Defense Authorization Act — but only after stripping language from the intelligence bill that would have required presidential campaigns to report offers of foreign election help.

Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said Tuesday that Senate Republicans forced the removal of the election reporting provision as a condition to include the intelligence bill on the must-pass defense policy legislation.

Earlier this month, the Senate Intelligence Committee approved an amendment on an 8-7 vote from Warner and GOP Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, which added a provision to the Intelligence Authorization Act requiring campaigns to notify federal authorities about offers of foreign election help.

That bill, however, was unlikely to get Senate floor time on its own, which is why it’s being included in the National Defense Authorization Act. The effort to strip the foreign election help provision from the intelligence bill was not a surprise, as acting Senate Intelligence Chairman Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican, predicted earlier this month it would be removed before the bill was on the floor, because of an objection from the Senate Rules Committee…

Republicans sending anyone to Moscow for this 4th of July?

— Schooley (@Rschooley) June 29, 2020


And when they go, is there any way we can bar them from returning?

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