AvatarPOLITICOAvatarAvatarThe Smearing of Christopher Steeleverified_publisherPOLITICO - By JOHN SIPHERIn his effort to malign the U.S. Justice system and confuse the American people in a hail-Mary attempt to protect President Donald Trump, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes seems to also have confused himself. As we now know, the intent of Nunes’ memo was to suggest that the FBI’s …
AvatarPOLITICOAvatarAvatar#ReleaseTheMemo Wasn’t About Transparencyverified_publisherPOLITICO - By SEN. RON WYDENAs someone who has spent the past decade working to reform government surveillance and rein in unnecessary secrecy, the weekend furor over Rep. Devin Nunes’ laughable memo has been as disorienting as waking up in Wonderland. Overnight, the very same people who just weeks ago passed a sprawling …
AvatarPOLITICOAvatarAvatar‘The Hairs Really Went Up on the Back of Our Necks’verified_publisherPOLITICO - By SUSAN B. GLASSERSubscribe to The Global POLITICO on Apple Podcasts here. | Subscribe via Stitcher here. By the summer of 2016, Victoria Nuland’s “Spidey sense” told her something was very wrong. That spring, Nuland, the top State Department official charged with overseeing U.S. policy toward Russia, was one of those …
AvatarPOLITICOAvatarAvatarHow a U.S.-Backed University in Vietnam Unleashed Old Demonsverified_publisherPOLITICO - By ISABELLE TAFTHO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam — On May 25, 2016, Secretary of State John Kerry took the stage at the luxury Rex Hotel in downtown Ho Chi Minh City. Earlier on their trip together, President Barack Obama had announced a major development in a project Kerry had championed: The Vietnamese government had …
AvatarPOLITICOAvatarAvatarFrom Murphy Brown to Megyn Kellyverified_publisherPOLITICO - By JOANNA WEISSWhen you watch old episodes of Murphy Brown, which I did after CBS announced that the show would be back this year for a 13-episode revival, the first thing you notice is the clothes. A sitcom that premiered in 1988 was naturally a showcase for ‘80s-era fashion, and TV journalist Murphy Brown wore …
AvatarPOLITICOAvatarAvatarHow Twitter Bots and Trump Fans Made #ReleaseTheMemo Go Viralverified_publisherPOLITICO - By MOLLY K. MCKEWOn Tuesday morning—the day after the House Intelligence Committee voted along partisan lines to send Rep. Devin Nunes’ memo, alleging abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, to President Donald Trump for declassification—presidential adviser Kellyanne Conway was confronted with the …
AvatarPOLITICOAvatarAvatarWhy Desperate Families Are Getting Religion on Health Coverageverified_publisherPOLITICO - By PAUL DEMKO and RENUKA RAYASAMWhen Erica Jackson and her husband decided she would quit her job as a nurse and stay at home with their three kids, they knew they couldn’t afford insurance on the individual market. The family of five, who live in Wichita Falls, Texas, near the Oklahoma border, could already barely afford …
AvatarPOLITICOAvatarAvatarHow Feminists Became Democratsverified_publisherPOLITICO - By SAM ROSENFELDBy June 1980, Mary Dent Crisp began to suspect that her office was bugged. Crisp, the co-chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, had wondered for weeks why sensitive information appeared to be leaking from her Washington office to the press, and she noticed a beeping sound on the line …
AvatarPOLITICOAvatarAvatarWhy Carter Page Was Worth Watchingverified_publisherPOLITICO - By LUKE HARDINGOn Friday, Washington was convulsed by a contentious four-page document: the Nunes memo. The memo, according to its putative author, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes, revealed unprecedented abuses by the FBI and Justice Department. The counterview: That Nunes’ memo was a …
AvatarPOLITICOAvatarAvatarWeek 37: The Bombshell Memo Bombsverified_publisherPOLITICO - By JACK SHAFERIn the days leading up to the release of the Nunes memo, both its architects and its critics were united in the belief that its four pages might topple pillars at the FBI and ignite satchels of C-4 at the Department of Justice. Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), the House Intelligence Committee chairman …
AvatarPOLITICOAvatarAvatarWith the Saturday Night Massacre, Nixon Miscalculated. Will Trump?verified_publisherPOLITICO - By JOHN A. FARRELLRichard Nixon’s presidency was damaged and listing in that fall of 1973, but not yet a lost cause. He had tossed his top aides overboard and survived the first surge of the Watergate scandal. His political base stood firm. After a summer of contentious hearings, the Senate Watergate committee was …
AvatarPOLITICOAvatarAvatarEven If You Take the Nunes Memo Seriously, It Makes No Senseverified_publisherPOLITICO - By PAUL ROSENZWEIGLet’s leave aside for now the obvious partisan nature of the Nunes memorandum—the four-page document released Friday by the chair of the House Intelligence Committee, California Rep. Devin Nunes. Let’s leave aside the fact that everyone who has read the underlying classified FISA application for a …