Tag Archives: State Department

There was never a plan for navigating the aftermath of Soleimani’s killing

By Mark | January 5, 2020

As it’s been reported that, several days before the assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, Donald Trump had told members of his Mar-a-Lago golf club that his administration would soon be delivering a “big” response to the Iranian regime, we can assume that the administration had time to plan not just the killing itself, but […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged assassination, bad planning, Brian Hook, credibility, deescalation, diplomacy, Donald Trump, foreign affairs, foreign policy, Gang of Eight, House Intelligence Committee, imminent threat, Iran, John McLaughlin, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mar-a-Lago, Mike Pompeo, national security, noise, offending allies, Qassem Soleimani, Secretary of Defens, Senate Intelligence Committee, war | 103 Comments

The enduring beauty of the deep state… Marie Yovanovitch provides the best counterpoint to Trumpism to date

By Mark | November 18, 2019

I had the good fortune to be on vacation this past Friday, so I was able to watch quite a bit of Marie Yovanovitch’s courageous testimony before the House Intelligence Committee in real-time. While there’s a great deal that I could say about the shameful behavior of Republicans on the committee and the response to […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Adam Schiff, bravery, civil service, conspiracy theory, corruption, Courage, deep state, diplomacy, Donald Trump, House Intelligence Committee, Hunter Biden, intimidation, Jennifer Williams, Joe Biden, Marie Yovanovitch, Mike Pence, Mike Pompeo, Rudy Giuliani, rule of law, smear, Twitter, Ukraine, Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelensky, witness intimidation, Yuriy Lutsenko | 6 Comments

Citing a “betrayal of our national security”, Nancy Pelosi goes all-in on impeachment

By Mark | September 24, 2019

Things appear to be taking a decisive turn in Washington. With evidence mounting that Donald Trump had attempted to coerce the President of Ukraine into assisting with the swiftboating of Joe Biden, and news breaking that the intelligence community whistleblower who first brought the charges to the attention of the IGIC had reached out to […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2020, bribery, cult of victimhood, Dan Pfeiffer, foreign aid, House Intelligence Committee, Hunter Biden, IGIC, impeachment, Inspector General, Joe Biden, Joseph Maguire, Mark Warner, Michael Atkinson, Mike Pompeo, Mitt Romney, Nancy Pelosi, national security, Preet Bharara, presidential harassment, quid pro quo, Richard Burr, Richard Nixon, Rudy Giuliani, Sally Yates, Senate Intelligence Committee, Swiftboating, transcript, treason, Ukraine, Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelensky, whistle blower, William Barr | 103 Comments

11 are dead in the most deadly anti-Semitic attack in U.S. history

By Mark | October 28, 2018

Remember how, not so long ago, we were talking about how the Republicans, in a desperate attempt to remain in power and avoid being held responsible for their actions, had made a conscious decision to spread a false story about a bloodthirsty gang of would-be terrorists, funded by “globalists” (code word for Jews), making their […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic, asylum, caravans, Chris Farrell, conspiracy theory, eschewing responsibility, fake news, fascism, FOX News, Gab.com, George Soros, get out the vote, globalist, hate crime, HIAS, holocaust, Jews, Judicial Watch, Lou Dobbs, Lügenpresse, lying press, mass shootings, nationalism, Nazi, racism, right-wing extremism, Robert Bowers, Rose Mallinger, Tree of Life Synagogue, voting, white nationalism, Zionist occupied government, ZOG | 25 Comments

Mueller now knows that Erik Prince’s meeting in Seychelles was for the purposes of establishing a communications backchannel between Trump and Putin

By Mark | March 7, 2018

OK, now that we’ve talked about how reprehensible of a human being Betsy DeVos is, let’s talk about her brother, Erik Prince, the man behind the extremely shady private military company Blackwater… You remember Prince, right? He’s the enthusiastic, far-right Trump supporter who, not too long ago, told members of the House Intelligence Committee that […]