Welcome to the newest incarnation of my weekly recap and analysis: The Synopsis. Announcements: New: I’d like to know if you guys are interested in a podcast version of these recaps – please answer 1- question survey! Basically, I’m envisioning a TL;DR version, with no opinion. Imagine a shortened audio version of what’s below. I made a […]
Welcome to the second part of my weekly summary and analysis of political-legal news: Lost in the Sauce, keeping you caught up on the smaller stories that were overlooked in the landslide of big news like the impeachment inquiry. Why care about these “small” stories? In any other administration, these events would be the big […]
Welcome to the newest incarnation of my weekly recap and analysis: The Synopsis! Please excuse the long intro… Get ready: there will now be two features posted at the beginning of each week. The first is what you are looking at now – The Synopsis is an in-depth review of the biggest stories from the past 7 […]
Welcome to The Synopsis, the newest incarnation of my weekly political recap and analysis! I will be bringing back the newsletter version as well – use the contact form on my page to send me your email address if you’d like to receive this in your inbox. Alternatively, DM me on Twitter. My edition of the […]
The following list takes key quotes from the deposition transcripts released so far in the impeachment inquiry. The key quotes are organized by topic. The intent is to illustrate how these crucial parts of the story are corroborated by multiple witnesses. Yovanovitch was wrongly removed KENT: “Yuriy Lutsenko, as prosecutor general, vowed revenge, and provided […]
My latest projects: Every week I write a recap of the latest political-legal news for Preet Bharara’s venture, CAFE. Those can be found here. I am writing for Forensic News, founded by Scott Stedman. I analyzed the turnover in the Trump administration, comparing it to past administrations, here. I also investigated a troll-bot network on […]
A network of troll/bot accounts on Twitter are pushing for war with Iran. Normally, this wouldn’t be news – except the movement has merged with Trump supporters and Qanon followers, even entering the White House. Read my new piece here
Almost exactly a month ago, Steve Mnuchin and the IRS failed to comply with House Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal’s subpoena for Trump’s taxes. Since then, nothing has happened. On May 22, three weeks ago, New York State passed a law that allows the House Ways and Means Committee to request an individual’s state tax returns, including Trump’s. […]
What is the counterintelligence investigation? Mueller’s report is very narrow: it only answers (1) did Russia interfere in our election and did Trump associates enter into an agreement to cooperate with the hacking of stolen materials (eg Podesta’s emails); (2) did Trump obstruct justice? He was only investigating potential crimes. Anything that could not be […]
Attorney General Bill Barr gave an interview with CBS in which he said that he overruled Mueller’s legal analysis. Transcript and video. we didn’t agree with the legal analysis, a lot of the legal analysis in the report. It did not reflect the views of the department. It was the views of a particular lawyer or lawyers and […]
