Nunes Played The Press Like A Fiddle. Why Do Journalists Keep Falling For This Trick?
Mother Jones; Susan Walsh/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It’s a weird feeling when your organization’s reporting ends up at the center of a scandal bordering on constitutional crisis. But things have been weird, and here we are: MoJo‘s October 2016 story about the Steele dossier is a key data point…
Donald Trump Craters the Stock Market
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The stock market had a bit of a bad day today: Donald Trump didn’t mention this in his tweetbragging about the economy today, and liberals are so damn honest that every mention I’ve seen is about how this isn’t really his fault anyway. Which is…
There’s a Brutal New Campaign Ad Targeting Devin Nunes and His Memo
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) with Rep. Peter King (R-NY) and Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) on Capitol Hill in Washington in October 2017.Susan Walsh/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Update (1/2/2018): Citing a senior campaign aid, the Atlantic‘s Natasha Bertrand reported that Nunes’ Democratic opponent, Andrew Janz,…
The Nunes Memo Proves One Thing, And It’s The Opposite Of What It Tries To Prove
Mother Jones; J. Scott Applewhite/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After days of much frothing, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) and his fellow Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee—with an assist from President Donald Trump—finally on Friday released the memo: a document cooked up by the panel’s Republican staff that claims the infamous…
We Have Known For Weeks What Was In the Nunes Memo
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I’m not going to flood the zone on the Nunes memo. Others can do that. But I want to highlight a point I made in the previous post: we’ve known what was in the memo for weeks. There have been…
It’s Mission Accomplished for the Nunes Memo
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I have read the entire Nunes memo. It took two minutes. There is nothing there that hasn’t already been leaked. It basically claims that the FBI relied on the Steele dossier in its FISA application for a wiretap on Carter Page, but didn’t reveal to…