Section: TPM (USA)
Report: Ex-Nunes Aide Who Helped Smear Russia Probe Now Adviser To New Acting DNI
Kash Patel, Rep. Devin Nunes’ (R-CA) former top aide, is reportedly serving as an aide to acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell. Politico reported that Patel began his new role on Thursday. He previously worked for the White House’s National Security Council after he had left Nunes’ office. As Nunes’...
Why Richard Grenell Is Such A ‘Dangerous’ Pick For Acting DNI
President Trump’s decision to name Richard Grenell to lead the country’s intelligence community raises a staggering array of questions, ranging from the staunch Trump loyalist’s preparedness for the job to his oversight of whistleblowers past and future. Grenell, a vocal Trump loyalist who is currently the ambassador to Germany,...
Assange Claims Rohrabacher Offered Him A Doozy Of A Pardon Quid Pro Quo
It’s one of the few areas where the President has nearly unchecked power. President Trump issued a raft of pardons this week, but news out of London on Wednesday raises questions about whether the tool has been a bargaining chip since the early months of Trump’s presidency. The question comes in the case of Wikileaks founder Julian...
The Hill Goes Easy On John Solomon In Review Of Ukraine Disinfo Columns
The Hill held back from squarely addressing the actions of its former columnist John Solomon in a long-awaited review released Wednesday morning, declining to address factual inaccuracies in Solomon’s 2019 series on Ukraine. Instead, the D.C.-based news website turned its gaze towards an arguably less consequential aspect of the fourteen...
Top Pentagon Official Who Issued Warnings About Ukraine Aid Freeze To Resign
A top Defense Department official who internally raised concerns about freezing military aid to Ukraine is stepping down, CNN and Bloomberg News reported Wednesday. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy at the Pentagon John Rood authored emails pushing for the aid to be released, according to CNN. President Trump’s July order to halt the...
Federal Prosecutor In NY Is DOJ’s New Point Man For Ukraine Matters
The top federal cop in the Eastern District of New York is the Justice Department’s new point man on all things Ukraine — a twist following the President’s recent effort to press Ukraine for political dirt. The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Richard Donoghue, will assist in coordinating “several open matters”...
Bolton: I ‘Really Hope’ My Book Isn’t ‘Suppressed’ By Trump
Former National Security Adviser John Bolton said on Monday night that he was concerned that President Donald Trump and the White House would try to muzzle his tell-all book, “The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir.” “I hope, ultimately, I can get the book published,” Bolton told the audience at an event at Duke University, his first...
Kennedy Revises Impeachable Offense Stance: ‘It Depends On Why He Asked For It’
Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) has revised his stance on what constitutes an impeachable offense for the President during an appearance on CBS’ “Face the Nation” Sunday morning. When asked by CBS’ Margaret Brennan whether he stood by his statement on the show last November that it would be an impeachable offense if the President asked for...
Ukrainian President To Trump: Please Stop Saying My Country Is Corrupt
Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky would like President Donald Trump to lay off the trash talk, please. During an interview with CNN correspondent Christine Amanpour on Saturday, Zelensky expressed dismay over Trump’s repeated claims that Ukraine is “corrupt”; a claim that Trump invokes when defending his withholding of U.S. military aid...
Pelosi Names First Director For Office Of Whistleblower Ombudsman
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has named an official director for the newly established House Office of the Whistleblower Ombudsman. The new director, Shanna Devine, previously worked as an advocate for whistleblower rights at Public Citizen, a public interest organization in D.C., according to a statement from Pelosi. The office was...
