I have never met General H.R. McMaster, but he enjoys a reputation as a truth teller. That becomes apparent when I read his award-winning book, Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam., which lambasts Vietnam-era generals for failing to confront President Johnson with the truth…
As the media reveal more information about the tormented relationship between President Trump and fired FBI director James Comey, some of the best tidbits are coming from his friend Benjamin Wittes. Wittes, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and founder of the popular Lawfare blog, admitted that he was the principal source for a…
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein reportedly told senators that he knew President Trump was going to fire FBI Director James Comey before writing a memo outlining Comey’s alleged failings. That revelation undercuts the timeline promoted by the White House in recent days. Sen. Claire McCaskill told reporters after the briefing that Rosenstein had “acknowledged that…
Rod Rosenstein probably had to negotiate over the language in the infamous memo used as pretext for FBI Director James Comey’s ouster. That’s according to Eric Columbus, who served as senior counsel to the deputy attorney general’s office in the Obama administration, when Rosenstein worked for the department as the United States attorney in Maryland….
There’s a big unawnswered question about the bombshell memo that ex-FBI director James Comey wrote in which he documents that President Trump pressured him to ease up on the investigation into Russia and Michael Flynn. Did deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein see it before writing his own memo that led to Comey’s ouster? According to…
What’s a poor television network to do on a Saturday night when much of the nation will be tuned to NBC to watch “Saturday Night Live” recap the most bizarre week in America’s most bizarre presidency? What could possibly compete? How can you match SNL’s merciless send-up of the Trump-Russia scandal, with its lies, firings…
Following President Trump’s public kneecapping of James Comey and his subsequent tweeted threat that the ousted FBI director “better hope that there are no ‘tapes’ of our conversations,” many Washington insiders are likening the growing scandal to Watergate faster than you can say Archibald Cox. The Atlantic’s James Fallows, for instance, argued Comey’s firing is…
No, the Tuesday Afternoon Massacre is not quite the same as the Saturday Night Massacre. Comey-gate isn’t Watergate. Donald Trump isn’t Richard Nixon. And America is not suddenly embroiled in a constitutional crisis. So far, thank goodness, the Constitution seems to be okay. But the stunning dismissal of FBI Director James Comey should send chills…
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