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Editor's Choice: Scroll below for our monthly blend of mainstream and alternative April 2018 news and views
April 26
Washington Post, Senate Judiciary Committee backs bill to protect special counsel Robert S. Mueller III from being fired by President Trump, Staff report, April 26, 2018. The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 14-7 to advance legislation that would protect Mueller after the panel’s Republican chairman backed off from changes that threatened the bipartisan support for the bill.The committee voted to approve the bill, which would delay any action to fire a special counsel by 10 days and guarantee the ousted special counsel a chance to have three federal judges swiftly review the decision, after the panel adopted an amendment from chairman Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) to require that Congress be notified 30 days in advance of any special counsel being terminated.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has said he would not bring the bill to the floor, but the bipartisan authors of the bill, and Grassley, have said they are working to change his mind. This is a developing story. It will be updated.
Trump CIA Nominee's Dark Past Revealed
National Security Archive, Gina Haspel’s CIA Torture File, Staff report, April 26, 2018. The National Security Archive is a non-partisan research center based at the George Washington University in Washington, DC. Findings:
CIA nominee supervised detainee torture at Thailand black site - Drafted cable to destroy videotape evidence
- Helped feed repeated lies about effectiveness of torture to CIA superiors, Congress, two Presidents
The Trump administration’s nominee to be CIA director, Gina Haspel (shown at right), personally supervised the torture of a CIA detainee in 2002 leading to at least three waterboard sessions, subsequently drafted the cable that ordered destruction of the videotape evidence of torture, and served as a senior CIA official while the Agency was lying to itself, Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, the Congress, and the public about the effectiveness of torture in eliciting useful intelligence, according to declassified documents posted today by the National Security Archive at George Washington University.
The documents include a new and less-redacted version of the CIA Inspector General’s report from 2004, repeated references in the declassified Senate Intelligence Committee torture report to Ms. Haspel’s tenure as chief of base of the CIA black site (“Detention Site Green” in Thailand) in 2002, and other CIA documents on the shyster shrinks, James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen, whose torture program Ms. Haspel supervised in November 2002 and supported through multiple senior CIA positions until President Obama ended the torture program in 2009.As a senior officer in the CIA Counterterrorism Center and then at the National Clandestine Services (where she was chief of staff in 2005), Ms. Haspel played a leading role in the creation and perpetuation of the CIA’s false claims that torture uniquely produced actionable intelligence that saved lives. The exhaustive Senate Intelligence Committee torture report reviewed over 6 million pages of the CIA’s own documents and proved these justifications “rested on inaccurate claims of their effectiveness” and were “wrong in fundamental respects.”
Trump VA Nominee Withdraws After Misconduct Claims
Washington Post, Jackson withdraws as nominee to lead VA after misconduct allegations, Lisa Rein, John Wagner and Josh Dawsey, April 26, 2018. White House physician Ronny L. Jackson, President Trump’s choice to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs, called the allegations against him “completely false and fabricated.” But his nomination had become imperiled even before Capitol Hill Democrats released new claims of professional misconduct, including allegations that Jackson (shown at right) had wrecked a government vehicle after getting drunk.Stormy Daniels Admission
President Trump and Porn Star Stormy Daniels (File photos)
Washington Post, Trump says for first time that Cohen represented him in Stormy Daniels case, Philip Rucker, April 26, 2018. The president has previously denied knowledge of a $130,000 payment to the adult film star that was arranged by his personal attorney Michael Cohen (shown at right) and is the subject of a federal investigation.Washington Post, Analysis: Did Trump just make a ‘hugely damning admission’ in the Stormy Daniels case? Aaron Blake, April 26, 2018. President Trump made a rare public comment about the Michael Cohen-Stormy Daniels case Thursday morning, playing down the lawyer's work for him and insisting that he didn't know about Cohen's business activities.But Trump also said something that would seem ... less than ideal. While describing Cohen's allegedly limited work for him — a “tiny fraction” of his legal work, Trump assured — Trump confirmed to “Fox and Friends” that Cohen “represented” him in the Daniels case.“Michael would ...
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