Monday, March 5, 2018

Reading archive 2018-03-05

State Dept. Was Granted $120 Million to Fight Russian Meddling. It Has Spent $0.

Former Trump aide Sam Nunberg called before grand jury, says he will refuse to go

Nunes echoes Trump’s authoritarian view on press, says Stephen Colbert’s skit about him is a ‘danger’ to the country

Christopher Steele, the Man Behind the Trump Dossier: How the ex-spy tried to warn the world about Trump’s ties to Russia. - "'The problem with the Russia story is that people just weren’t buying it. Today, it’s, like, ‘Of course!’ But back then people thought that we were just desperately peddling conspiracy theories.' After the D.N.C.’s e-mails were hacked, Mook went on TV talk shows and pointed the finger at Russia, but, he says, his comments were often dismissed as 'spin.' On Jake Tapper’s 'State of the Union,' he declared, 'What’s disturbing to us is that experts are telling us that Russian state actors broke into the D.N.C., stole these e-mails, and other experts are now saying that the Russians are releasing these e-mails for the purpose of actually helping Donald Trump.' Tapper then interviewed Donald Trump, Jr., who ridiculed Mook’s accusation as 'disgusting' and 'phony'—even though it’s now known that, just a few weeks earlier, he had met at Trump Tower with a Russian offering dirt on Clinton."

A middle school teacher led a double life as a white nationalist podcaster

Secret NYPD Files: Officers Can Lie And Brutally Beat People — And Still Keep Their Jobs: Internal NYPD files show that hundreds of officers who committed the most serious offenses — from lying to grand juries to physically attacking innocent people — got to keep their jobs, their pensions, and their tremendous power over New Yorkers' lives.

BEN CARSON, RETIRED BRAIN SURGEON, HAS LOBOTOMIZED HUD: After a year of overseeing the anti-poverty department, Carson is realizing he may be in over his head.

Ben Carson on His Vexing Reign at HUD: Brain Surgery Was Easier Than This

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