WSJ- 10/28/2017 ’Tis the season of tossing out nondisclosure agreements. Victims and employees of Harvey Weinstein clamor to be released from their NDAs so they can talk about his abuse. Perkins Coie, the Washington law firm for the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton campaign, showed the way by voluntarily releasing Fusion GPS from its duty to remain mum on Democrats who... Read more
Archive for the ‘Russia’ Category
The Trump Dossier Dam Is Breaking
November 1 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Jenkins, Liberal Press, Party Politics, Russia, TrumpAnd the Evidence is…
October 5 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Russia, The Left, TrumpWell, I’m still waiting… ==== WSJ 10/5/2017 Russia Reality Check As the Republican Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee and the Democratic Ranking Member held a press conference Wednesday about their investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 presidential election, a nearby sign highlighted their effort: 11 open hearings, 100plus people interviewed, 4,000 transcript pages and 100,000 pages of documents. As for results, Senators Richard... Read more
Trump-Russia Story Starts Making Sense – WSJ
June 2 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Liberal Press, Party Politics, Russia, TrumpPut a sticky-note on this one. ============== WSJ – By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. May 26, 2017 8:06 p.m. ET The Trump -Russia business is finally coming into clearer, more rational focus. Former Obama CIA chief John Brennan, in testimony this week, offered no evidence of Trump campaign cooperation with Russian intelligence. Instead he spoke of CIA fears that Russia would try to recruit/blackmail/trick... Read more
A ‘Pentagon Papers’ on Russia?
March 30 | Posted by mrossol | Liberal Press, Russia, The LeftAlong with the Imprimis article on Putin, this piece is also insightful. ==== WSJ – 4/25/2017 By Holman W Jenkins The American media needs to get a grip. News in essence is about how today differs from yesterday, a corollary of which is that yesterday was different from today. Reporters commit the fallacy of anachronism out the wazoo with their treatment of a report... Read more
The Ultimate Trump-Putin Deal
March 12 | Posted by mrossol | RussiaRussia: the forever mystery. ====== WSJ 3/11/2017 By Mikhail Khodorkovsky Russia went glaringly absent from President Donald Trump’s speech to Congress last week. Although Russians expect relations with Washington to change, they are anxiously asking how. Will Mr. Trump confront Moscow with the brash rhetoric he has directed at others? Will he be President Vladimir Putin’s lap dog, as many American critics and Kremlin... Read more
America’s Decadent Leadership Class
October 18 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Noonan, RussiaHit nail on head! ========= It is quite dreadful and a showing of the gravest disrespect that, if U.S. intelligence agencies are correct, Russia’s Vladimir Putin has inserted himself into America’s presidential election. And it could not have deeper implications. If Russia is indeed behind the leaks of the emails of Democratic Party operatives Mr. Putin may have many reasons, as he often... Read more
