5/17/17: Time reports that U.S. intelligence experts have been hard at work trying to understand the depth of Russian efforts to undermine the U.S. election process. How did U.S. counterintelligence first get wind of enemy efforts to harm the Clinton campaign?
Time explains:
Like many a good spy tale, the story of how the U.S. learned its
democracy could be hacked started with loose lips. In May 2016, a Russian military intelligence officer
bragged to a colleague that his organization, known as the GRU, was
getting ready to pay Clinton back for what President Vladimir Putin believed
was an influence operation she had run against him five years earlier as
Secretary of State. The GRU, he said, was going to cause chaos in the upcoming
U.S. election.
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DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL Rod Rosenstein
appoints Robert Mueller as Special Counsel. (See: 5/11/17.)
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5/18/17: During a press conference with the President of Colombia, an aggrieved President Trump insists he is victim of “the greatest witch hunt” in U.S. history.
Nobody in his campaign had anything to do with the Russians.
Period.
Hope Hicks told the same lie on November 10, 2016. Now Trump is repeating it from the bully pulpit.
(See: “So Much Winning: A
Hundred Days of Trump!”)
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Paul Manafort in pink tie - he had multiple contacts with Russians. |
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5/19/17: Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos tells members of Congress she hopes to redirect $250 million to a program to help parents pay for children to attend private schools.
A lawmaker asks what she will do if private schools discriminate against lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender students.
Not her problem, she says. “For states that have programs that allow for parents to make choices, they set up the rules around that.” Parents should have a final say on what kind of schools their children attend and what kind of children they sit beside.
I think this is called Plessy v. Ferguson.
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