Evan Osnos, staff writer for the New Yorker. Osnos recently
co-authored a detailed report with Adam Entous about how senior adviser to the
president, Jared Kushner is unable to attain White House security clearance.
Despite not having security clearance Kushner still gets access everyday to the
president’s highly classified daily brief from the intelligence community. We
also learn from the article that Kushner made the decision to meet alone, one on
one with Chinese ambassador Cui Tiankai. Kushner has reportedly discussed his
own business interests alongside policy with Cui. Last year the New York Times reported that eight days after the election Kushner met with an insurance
company tied to the Chinese government that was considering putting millions of
dollars into Kushner’s struggling 666 Fifth Avenue building in Manhattan . Kushner reportedly has to make a
1.2 billion dollar mortgage payment on the building next year despite the fact
that there are no signs he will be able to make that payment.
Saturday, February 24, 2018
Wednesday, February 7, 2018
Tom Hamburger
Tom Hamburger, national reporter for The Washington Post, talks about his new reporting for the post on how Christopher Steele, the infamous Trump dossier author, alerted the FBI about the intel he had found on Trump and
Sunday, February 4, 2018
Chuck Rosenberg
Former U.S.
attorney, Chuck Rosenberg. Here Rosenberg discusses with Rachel Maddow the FISA process and why the FBI’s hands are tied after the release of Devin Nunes’ memo stunt. When Maddow asked, “Should we expect that there would be some
kind of rebuttal that the FBI would issue a public statement clarifying what
are the implicit allegations against them in this memo?” Rosenberg used a
hypothetical situation to explain saying, “Imagine that someone leaked a
document that said that Rachel Maddow, a senior official at a foreign government,
loved Nutella but would only eat it with a red plastic spoon and that becomes public
and is marked top secret and everyone is wondering, ‘why in the world would
that be marked top secret? That seems so innocuous.’ But it turns out only one
person in the world, your Great Aunt Barbra knows you like eating Nutella with
a red plastic spoon. And so we’ve now told the whole world that Great Aunt
Barbra is the source for the United States government, she’s a mole, she’s a
spy and something very bad is going to happen to her in the next couple of days
in that foreign country. So the FBI cannot be in the business of rebutting this
stuff because to rebut it they’re gonna lay out other facts that foreign
governments are going to use to their advantage and our disadvantage.” This is
what Donald Trump has done to the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation in order to obstruct justice
and try to get himself off the hook for conspiring with Russia to win
the office of the presidency.
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