Mr Downer has rejected claims he was part of a conspiracy to discredit Mr Trump. “This sort of idea that there is a kind of a ASIS-ASIO-MI6-MI5-FBI-CIA-Ukrainian Government conspiracy to bring down the Trump administration, that this is treason, that I should be in Guantanamo Bay … I mean it’s a little bit sad that people take that kind of thought seriously,” he told the ABC’s Russia If You’re Listening podcast.
Category Archives: Fail!
Did Rudy Giuliani Nullify His Attorney-Client Protections? — ProPublica
legal experts say Giuliani’s apparent hopes of invoking the privilege to avoid providing documents or testifying may be undercut by his own words — specifically, his habit of announcing in public that he is operating in a nonlegal capacity in his international trips. Those trips are of significant interest to congressional investigators. Communications between President Donald Trump and his lawyer aren’t privileged if their substance falls outside the attorney-client relationship. Take a recent conversation Giuliani had with a reporter for The Atlantic about his attempts to enlist officials in Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, to investigate matters that could benefit the president politically. “I’m not acting as a lawyer,” he told the reporter. “I’m acting as someone who has devoted most of his life to straightening out government.”
Source: Did Rudy Giuliani Nullify His Attorney-Client Protections? — ProPublica
Government Plans to Begin DNA Testing on Detained Immigrants – The New York Times – Next? If you – a citizen – get a ticket or lick a stamp, your DNA goes into a national data collection that could be breached by some 14 year-old Russian, Chinese, or North Korean hacker?
The Department of Homeland Security said it would begin testing on hundreds of thousands of immigrants in federal detention facilities.
This cowardly speech reveals Boris Johnson’s armoury is empty | Martin Kettle | Opinion | The Guardian
A general election is now the PM’s only hope of Getting Brexit Done, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle
— Read on www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/02/boris-johnsons-speech-of-coward-conservative-conference
Rudy Giuliani Is a One-Man Wrecking Crew | The New Yorker
John Cassidy writes about Rudy Giuliani’s unclear intentions, and how, by luring Donald Trump into the Ukraine folly, he has ended up bloodying the President more seriously than Robert Mueller or James Comey ever did.
— Read on www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/rudy-giuliani-is-a-one-man-wrecking-crew
‘War for survival’: Brazil’s Amazon tribes despair as land raids surge under Bolsonaro | World news | The Guardian
Activists say onslaught has intensified as illegal loggers and land-grabbers take the president’s verbal offensive against indigenous communities as a green light to act
— Read on www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/02/war-for-survival-brazils-amazon-tribes-despair-as-land-raids-surge-under-bolsonaro
Opinion | Was There Another Cover-Up In Response to the Whistle-Blower? – The New York Times
The Justice Department should have shared a campaign-finance investigation with the Federal Election Commission.
— Read on www.nytimes.com/2019/10/02/opinion/trump-whistleblower-fec.html
Saudi Money Well Spent – In Saner Thought (Not)
The Royals of Saudi Arabia spends record amounts of cash every year buying the best equipment the US has to offer…..plus their troops are sent to the US for advanced training or we send our t…
Trump whistleblower fears for life | News | DW | 30.09.2019 #TraitorTrump
The lawyer for the anonymous whistleblower has pointed to statements from Donald Trump as evidence of a threat against his client. Verbal rampages by the president against his opponents meanwhile show no sign of abating.
Source: Trump whistleblower fears for life | News | DW | 30.09.2019
Agriculture Department Flooded With Appeals to Stop Food Stamp Purge – The New York Times
Efforts by the Agriculture Department to tighten eligibility for food stamps were greeted with a deluge of protests. The comment period ended Monday.
— Read on www.nytimes.com/2019/09/23/us/politics/agriculture-department-food-stamp-purge.html
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