The big deal for me about today’s Michael Cohen Guilty Plea is not that Cohen has a new co-operation agreement with Mueller, it was always safe to assume that anything the Southern District of New York knew was directly piped to the Russia inquiry. No, it’s that the specific act he plead guilty to, lying …
November 29, 2018 archive
Nov 29 2018
Pondering the Pundits
Pondering the Pundits” is an Open Thread. It is a selection of editorials and opinions from> around the news medium and the internet blogs. The intent is to provide a forum for your reactions and opinions, not just to the opinions presented, but to what ever you find important. Thanks to ek hornbeck, click on …
Nov 29 2018
Professional Courtesy
It’s why Sharks won’t bite. The late breaking news from yesterday was the admission by Kevin Downing (Manafort’s lawyer) and Rudy Giuliani (Trump’s lawyer) that they continued to participate in a Joint Defense Agreement (basically information sharing) for months after Manafort agreed to co-operate with the Mueller investigation. Normally, while Prosecutors hate it, this is …
Nov 29 2018
Divine Intervention
So the story is Jerome Corsi (you remember him) was on a long airplane flight when he had a “Divine Intervention” (some would call it a revelation) that allowed him to correctly predict the nature of the DNC/Podesta emails and the timing of their release. They didn’t believe it. Jeannie Rhee, one of the prosecutors, …
Nov 29 2018
The Breakfast Club (Convictions)
Welcome to The Breakfast Club! We’re a disorganized group of rebel lefties who hang out and chat if and when we’re not too hungover we’ve been bailed out we’re not too exhausted from last night’s (CENSORED) the caffeine kicks in. Join us every weekday morning at 9am (ET) and weekend morning at 10:00am (ET) (or …