The House Intelligence Committee is holding a hearing this morning on the Mueller Report and its counterintelligence implications. I just noticed that C-Span was not airing it until a few minutes ago. And the cable news networks don’t appear to be broadcasting it either. I’m not sure if this is a result of the snooze …
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The Need to Speak With One Voice: Strategic Communication and Message Discipline Going Into the 2020 Election Cycle
One of the major frustrations for a lot of people now, as well as a seemingly lively source of discussion in the comments over the past couple of days, is why the Democrats and the center left to left of center organizations that support them cannot seem to get on the same page with their …
Well, This Seems Like Quite an Admission
At least now he is admitting to what we all know.
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Impeachable (Open Thread)
I’ve talked myself off the “Trump must be impeached now!” ledge by acknowledging two obvious facts: impeachment is a political instrument, and there aren’t enough House Democrats in favor of it right now to proceed. It was inexcusably naive of me to think of it any other way, of course. As a political instrument, impeachment …
Creeping Authoritarianism Watch
Authoritarian kleptocracies typically maintain a democratic facade, but the strongman and his cronies ensure that institutions ostensibly created to represent the people serve the regime instead. I’ve always thought Trump, a Dollar Store-brand Putin wannabe, is too dumb and incompetent to completely subvert our democracy to the extent more capable autocrats have achieved. But recent …
Mueller’s Letter to Barr
Prior to the release of the redacted Mueller report, when Barr’s con-job summary was setting the Beltway press narrative of NO COLLUSION COMPLETE EXONERATION, I figured if Mueller objected to a PR blitz that misrepresented his report, he’d say so. Turns out he did: Here’s the letter from Robert Mueller to Bill Barr. pic.twitter.com/vvgKDt8zO4 — …
Hillary Clinton: It’s the National Security Threat, Stupid
Clinton published a must-read op-ed in Le Post this afternoon. Here are a couple of excerpts: Our election was corrupted, our democracy assaulted, our sovereignty and security violated. This is the definitive conclusion of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s report. It documents a serious crime against the American people. The debate about how to …
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