So, now that Junior stupidly dropped the emails on Twitter and the blatherati are now gleefully picking away at the carcass … let’s take a moment to recognize that this is still all about the optics. Yes, “optics” is an unctuous political buzzword, but it fits here because this all looks really terrible … despite…
The newscycle is spinning on the Washington Post’s new story about the Obama Administration’s response to Russia’s cyberattack. It’s fairly detailed, it claims that the CIA got smokin’ hot intel directly linking Putin to election interference and it’s been expertly parsed by the indefatigable Marcy Wheeler of Emptywheel. As ever, it seems to leave as…
When the news first broke I immediately expressed some trepidation about the appointment of Robert Mueller as Special Counsel. It’s not that I don’t get it … he’s an FBI stalwart, a friend of Comey and, the understandable logic goes, he will defend the Bureau’s integrity and derail a threat to American democracy. But I…