Barr gave a heads up about this last night on Hannity.
I’d assume that as part of the agreement, Clinesmith will be state’s witness against the other coup conspirators. Comey’s been pretty quiet recently, I suspect on advice from his lawyer. It will be interesting to see how, if at all other than Fox, the media covers this.
Yes, having the Chairman of the JCS call out the military if Trump refuses to leave office is a terrible idea, on multiple levels. This is Trump derangement to the max.
This is amazing: “On January 12, 2017 a felony leak about phone calls between the Russian Ambassador and General Flynn was published by The Washington Post. This led to Flynn’s downfall and reignited the Trump-Russia investigations still tearing our nation apart. 48 hours before the leak was published, my former supervisor Halper eerily laid out what was about to happen to Flynn, something he had no independent reason to know.”
It would appear that Halper was the leaker. And kudos to Matt Taibbi for trying to expose it.
Here is his opening statement. The hearing has apparently been delayed because Nadler was in an auto accident this morning, but he’s apparently uninjured.
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Related: An AP reporter finds a visit to Portland “eye-opening.”
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in that hearing you witnessed people whose salaries you pay, accuse a man of murder and treason – then refuse to let him speak or defend himself. you think the unbending mob on the street is worse? no, this is. and it's coming for you.