David Steinberg's Blog
June 14, 2017
Why Robert Mueller Leaked Word of Trump Obstruction of Justice Investigation
Bill Palmer (palmerreport.com) on why Robert Mueller has leaked word that he is in fact now investigating Donald Trump for obstruction of justice.
Robert Mueller just cleverly made it so Donald Trump can’t fire him
Sessions Admits to Third Conversation with Kislyak
As Bill Palmer (palmerreports.com) notes, at one point in his testimony Jeff Sessions referred to his three alleged (rather than two belatedly admitted) conversations with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak, thus confirming the meeting he so vociferously denies ever happened. Here’s the exchange:
Marco Rubio: “At any point during the campaign, did you have an interaction [with anyone] who in hindsight you look back and say they tried to gain influence [with you]?”
Jeff Sessions: “I don’t believe [I did] in my conversations with [Kislyak] the three times.”
Why is no one talking about this?
Jeff Sessions slipped up during testimony and admitted to third meeting with Russian Ambassador
June 13, 2017
Comey’s Testimony Was Part of His Master Counterintelligence Plan (Patribotics)
Important new inside information on James Comey’s thinking and strategy related to the Trump-Putin conspiracy, starting with when Trump threatened his job and going through his Congressional testimony yesterday. Thanks again to Patrick Andraste for turning me on to patribotics.blog
Comey Day: ‘Meticulously Executed’ Testimony Was Counterintelligence Plan
Background Information on Louise Mensch
In response to queries, here is some background information on Louise Mensch, the person behind patribotics.blog, taken from a story posted on the National Public Radio website at, http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php…, which she links to from her blog. Most notably: “She was a bestselling author of books for young adults and romantic novels. She became a conservative member of the British parliament. As an aside, she’s also married to the manager of such groups as Metallica and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. In Parliament, Mensch once interrogated media-magnate Rupert Murdoch over a series of scandals at his London tabloid newspapers.” See also Louise Mensch: the former British MP who scooped US media on Trump’s Russian ties https://www.theguardian.com/…/louise-mensch-trump-russia-ti…. She describes patribotics.blog as follows: “Exposing Vladimir Putin’s War on America. Investigative journalism and analysis of the Russian hack on America’s election and related topics. Pro-America, pro-democracy, pro-NATO, pro-Russia, anti-Putin.”
Comey Legally Taped Calls, Meetings with Trump (Patribotics)
The latest from patribotics.blog is that, through use of Comey’s phone, with his consent, investigators have tapes of all Comey’s conversations with Donald Trump, Donald Trump, jr., and others, going back more than a year. This is seriously bad news for Trump and his cohorts.
EXCLUSIVE: Director Comey Legally Taped Calls, Meetings With Trump
June 7, 2017
Why Did Comey Pre-Release the Text of His Opening Testimony
Why did James Comey release the full text of his opening statement testimony a day ahead of his appearance at the Senate Intelligence Committee? Bill Palmer has some interesting thoughts.
James Comey just leaked his own testimony. Now watch Donald Trump panic and incriminate himself.
Trump’s Nominee for FBI Director Has Conflict-of-Interest Issues
Everybody seems to be speaking highly of Christopher Wray, whom Trump today twitter-nominated as the new FBI director. But Bill Palmer notes that Wray’s law firm is itself a party in the Trump-Russia affair, so there are some serious conflict of interest issues here.
Donald Trump tries nominating Christopher Wray, from his own Russia-tinged law firm, as FBI Director
Hear Me Narrate Episode 7 of “The Life and Art of Frank Moore”
I’m delighted to be one of the narrators in the 7th episode of “The life and art of shaman, performance artist, writer, poet, painter, rock singer, director, TV show host, teacher & bon vivant Frank Moore,” just released by Linda Mac, Michael LaBash, and Inter-Relations. (My part is in the middle of the half-hour video, time stamps 8:40-20:26.)
Frank Moore was a true revolutionary artist, brimming with warmth, humor, creativity, insight, and the special kind of outrageous perspective that I like to call crazy wisdom. He was definitely not one of the regular people. I’m honored to have been chosen as one of the readers in this ongoing presentation of Frank’s writing.
Coats’s and Roberts’s Stonewalling a Blessing in Disguise?
An interesting perspective from Bill Palmer (palmerreport.com) on Coats’ and Rogers’ refusal to confirm that Trump pressured them to intervene in the Flynn investigation.
Mike Rogers and Dan Coats did us all a favor today by keeping quiet about Donald Trump (for now)
June 4, 2017
Kindness and Heroism in Response to London Attacks
Dozens of stories of kindness and heroism from everyday people in response to the brutal attacks in London last night in The Guardian (London). Best coverage I’ve seen to get a sense of what this was like for the people who were there.
https://www.theguardian.com/…/london-bridge-closed-after-se…
