Tag Archives: spying

Russian agent Maria Butina reported to her Russian handler that she’d “laid the groundwork for an unofficial channel of communication with the next U.S. administration” during the Trump campaign

By Mark | December 10, 2018

[Republican operative Paul Erickson and his Russian spy lover Maria Butina in happier times… According to prosecutors, Butina “privately expressed ‘disdain’ for him“.] Back in July of 2015, not long after officially launching his presidential campaign, Donald Trump attended a conservative event in Las Vegas called “Freedom Fest.” It was at this event that Trump, […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Alexander Torshin, Donal Trump, Donald Trump, FSB, Jeff Sessions, Kremlin, Maria Butina, Michael Cohen, National Prayer Breakfast, National Rifle Association, NRA, Paul Erickson, Rick Dearborn, Russia, Russiagate, Russian Central Bank, spycraft, Vladimir Putin | 20 Comments

Kavanaugh, having established his history of perjury, and a desire to kill Roe v. Wade, moves toward confirmation

By Mark | September 9, 2018

I think a lot of people expected the Brett Kavanuagh nomination to be shit show, but I don’t think anyone expected it to go this poorly. As I understand it, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell warned Donald Trump at the outset that, if he were to nominate Kavanaugh, it would be difficult, given his considerable […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged abortion, abortion rights, anti-abortion, Brett Kavanaugh, confirmation hearings, Dick Durbin, Donald Trump, George W. Bush, judicial activists, lies, Lisa Murkowski, Manuel Miranda, Mitch McConnell, old white men making decisions on women's health, Orrin Hatch, Patrick Leahy, perjury, reproductive rights, Republican lies, Roe v. Wade, Supreme Court, Supreme Court nominee, Susan Collins, torture, torture memos, warrantless wiretapping, William H. Pryor, women, women's health, women's history | 14 Comments

SOMETHING WE CAN DO TODAY: Demand that our representatives come out in favor of the “Special Counsel Independence and Integrity Act” to protect the Mueller investigation

By Mark | July 22, 2018

Donald Trump just reversed himself yet once again on the subject of Russian election interference. After reluctantly agreeing with U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia had, in fact, sought to influence the outcome of the 2016 election, Donald Trump changed course again this evening, calling the whole thing “a big hoax” perpetrated by President Obama. While […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Brett Kavanaugh, call to action, Chuck Grassley, Donald Trump, election hacking, H.R. 5476, Jeff Flake, Jerrold Nadler, Lindsey Graham, Maria Butina, Mitch McConnell, NRA, Robert Mueller, Russia, Russiagate, S.2644, Senate Judiciary Committee, special counsel, Special Counsel Independence and Integrity Act, Supreme Court, Thom Tillis | 30 Comments

“Spygate” isn’t news. The fact that former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper is saying that Russian interference decided the outcome of the 2016 election is.

By Mark | May 23, 2018

I’ve yet to see it, but apparently James Clapper, who served as Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency under George H.W. Bush, Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency under George W. Bush, and Director of National Intelligence under Obama said today on PBS Newshour that, in his estimation, Russian interference actually decided the outcome of […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged analogies, Carter Page, criminal consipracy, deep state, desperation, Director of National Intelligence, EOS, George Bush, George Papadopoulos, Hillary Clinton, intelligence community, James Clapper, James Comey, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Nunes memo, Obama, post-fact, Russia, Russiagate, Spygate, Stefan Halper, threats to Democracy, Vladimir Putin | 91 Comments

Confronted by numerous new revelations concerning his administration’s collusion with the Russians, Trump, staying true to form, indicates that he’s ready to give the Russians back their spying facilities in Maryland and New York

By Mark | May 31, 2017

Now that all of the confusion over Trump’s mysterious early morning tweet has been cleared up by Sean Spicer, who explained to the American people that “