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I’ve seen some folks noting that McCabe could be fired as soon as today. Whispers of charges being brought are out there as well.
In The Strange Timing of Andrew McCabe’s Potential (& Deserved) Firing, I ran through some background on McCabe and why he’s so deserving of an ignominious close to his career.Continue Reading
The New York Times is reporting that former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe may be fired by Jeff Sessions days before he is allowed retirement benefits.
The Times’ story fails to mention most of the underlying details involving McCabe.Continue Reading
Victoria Nuland’s name keeps turning up.
Nuland is the former Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs – serving under John Kerry at Obama’s State Department
I’ve written about Nuland here and here.
It now appears that in mid-2016, Nuland gave the green light for FBI Agent Michael Gaeta to meet with Christopher Steele in London.Continue Reading
President Trump officially fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Tuesday, March 13, 2018.
Tillerson was privately told of the firing on Friday, March 9, 2018:
A senior White House official said Trump asked Tillerson to step down on Friday but did not want to make it public while he was on a trip to Africa.Continue Reading
I wrote on the role of Alexandra Chalupa – a Ukrainian-American DNC operative – who appears at the center of the DNC’s construction of information used in the Steele Dossier.
The role of former Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland in disseminating the Dossier – along with her involvement in shaping Ukraine – was also discussed.
The name Victor Pinchuk was mentioned.Continue Reading
On February 4, 2018, Victoria Nuland, the Assistant Secretary of State in the Obama Administration went on Face the Nation and made the following comment:
During the Ukraine crisis in 2014-15, Chris Steele had a number of commercial clients who were asking him for reports on what was going on in Russia, what was going on in Ukraine, what was going on between them. Chris had a friend [Jonathan Winer] at the State Department and he offered us that reporting free so that we could also benefit from it. It was one of, you know, hundreds of sources that we were using to try to understand what was going on.
Then, in the middle of July, when he was doing this other work and became concerned, he passed two to four pages of short points of what he was finding and our immediate reaction to that was, this is not in our purview. This needs to go to the FBI if there is any concern here that one candidate or the election as a whole might be influenced by the Russian Federation. That’s something for the FBI to investigate.Continue Reading
President Trump signed Trade Section 232 Proclamations on Steel and Aluminum today.
The signing starts a 15-day countdown before a 25% tariff on imported steel and a 10% tariff on imported aluminum goes into effect.
The Executive Order included a clause granting Canada and Mexico a roughly 30-day grace period to avoid being impacted – but only while NAFTA talks continue.Continue Reading
There’s been an increasing number of requests for the appointment of a second Special Counsel to investigate FISA abuse, the Clinton Email Investigation, the Trump-Russia Investigation, the activities of the FBI & DOJ – and the involvement of the Obama Administration.Continue Reading
Mark Levin hosted an interview with Devin Nunes.
The exchange between the two was fascinating.
Levin walked through sequences, establishing fact sets and building a de facto legal case.
The video was posted in three parts. I highlight portions from each.Continue Reading
I came across this twitter thread by pure chance.
It got my attention:
1. Republicans & @tuckercarlson @FoxNews say Democrats are turning California into a 3rd world country.
As lifelong Democrat & progressive it pains me say this: they’re right.
And I just published a 100-page, data-driven report that proves it:https://t.co/azmb6psRmz https://t.co/dizF3gLoGM
— Mike Shellenberger (@ShellenbergerMD) March 3, 2018