I have received information from multiple U.S. Government officials that the President of the United States is using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 U.S. election.
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Haspel Urged Trump to Release Ukraine Aid
CIA director Gina Haspel has managed to avoid alienating President Trump, even as he turns his wrath on former director John Brennan and the still-anonymous CIA whistleblower who called attention to Trump’s Ukraine deals. But Haspel crossed Trump during his bid to enlist the Ukaine government in his 2020 reelection campaign, the Daily Beast reports....
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Impeachment Frenzy Sets Trump Against the CIA
The long-impending constitutional crisis has arrived, courtesy of a CIA whistleblower. If his or her complaint was conceived as a covert political action operation, it could not have been more effective. The nine-page letter did what Robert Mueller’s 448-page opus did not: jump-start the impeachment process. The day after Trump acknowledged he spoke with the...
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Impeachment and the National Security Status Quo
Writing in the Tom Dispatch blog, Andrew Bacevich, former military officer, captures something missing from today’s political reporting: historical perspective. “Removing from office a vulgar, dishonest, and utterly incompetent president comes nowhere close to capturing what’s going on here.” He asks asks a key questions about popular response to the politics of impeachment. “How do...
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Biden Pressed Corruption Probe While His Son Cashed In
President Trump wants Ukraine to investigate Hunter Biden for “corruption” because he served on the board of directors of a Ukraine energy firm secretly controlled by the country’s energy minister. Trump has not alleged any specific wrongdoing by either of the Bidens. But he has latched on Hunter Biden’s unseemly financial relationship with a corrupt...