The Washington Post reports that more texts that might have provided important evidence for the January 6th investigation have gone missing, and the details sure sound familiar: Text messages for President Donald Trump’s acting homeland security secretary Chad Wolf and acting deputy secretary Ken Cuccinelli are missing for a key period leading up to the …
Domestic Terrorism Open Thread: The USSS Needs A Thorough Housecleaning
If the Secret Service did this as an organization, might be better to just scrap it and get a new, less-secret agency to be bodyguards. https://t.co/aVDlYnFjgG — southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) July 14, 2022 … Also, the National Archives on Tuesday sought more information on “the potential unauthorized deletion” of agency text messages. The U.S. government’s chief …
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Open Thread: At the Pointy End of ‘Legitimate Political Discourse’
(Drew Sheneman via GoComics.com) one might call it…disarray?https://t.co/pLgHSOs4Td — Ofirah Yheskel (@ofirahy) February 8, 2022 Plenty of media attention for Saint Ashli, but what about the other woman who died during the insurrection? Well, she wasn’t a ‘good’, photogenic victim. From Vanity Fair, “Rosanne Boyland Was Outside the U.S. Capitol Last January 6. How—And …
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My Take On The D.C. National Guard Colonel’s 6 January Memo To Congress
Earlier John noted the reporting about COL Matthews’ memo to Congress alleging that the Department of the Army is attempting to cover its six (for the non veterans reading this, read six as tuchas) regarding decision making made by LTG Piatt, the Army’s then Director of the Army Staff, and (now) GEN Charles Flynn, then …
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Saturday Just Past High Noon EDT Open Thread & Housekeeping Notes
Since we need a new open thread, here’s one. And since I’m going to go out and see if I can avoid heat stroke doing today’s workout before the heat index gets above 105, I don’t have time to do a full post. But I do want to put in two quick housekeeping notes as …
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In Case Anyone Was Wondering Why the Taliban Actually Were Able To Retake Afghanistan So Easily, It Is Because the Trump Administration Agreed the US Would Unconditionally Surrender To Them
The title is not hyperbole. The agreement negotiated by Ambassador Khalilzad, the Special Representative for Afghan Reconstruction working under the direction of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on the direct orders of then President Trump makes the Treaty of Versailles look like strategic genius. The abject surrender is in part one and sections 2 and …
Late Night Open Thread: Anything Not Nailed Down…
The State Department is investigating the whereabouts of a $5,800 bottle of whiskey the Japanese government gave to then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in 2019, according to two people briefed on the inquiry. https://t.co/Dwc2nwI03K — Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 4, 2021 Golly, who was in charge of the State Department? They sound really incompetent. https://t.co/UUDAf0ncVC …
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