Epstein Secrets

at should tell people something. The call went on for twenty-six minutes. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019954 7 RUSSIA ven before there was reason to suspect Sally Yates, they suspected her. The transition E report said Trump wouldn’t like the fifty-six-year-old Atlanta-born University of Georgia career Justice Depart

ns against the Russians, an assurance Pence publicly repeated. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019955 Yates now told the White House that Flynn’s conversation with Kislyak had actually been captured as part of an “incidental collection” of authorized wiretaps. That is, a wiretap had presumably been authorized on the Rus

ared the next day under three other bylines—indicating that DeYoung’s interview was hardly the point of the story—contained new leaked details of the Kislyak phone call, which the Post now said had indeed dealt with the issue of sanctions. The article also contained Flynn’s denial—‘he twice said ‘no’ ”—as

t, he would shortly be on to something else. When the meeting ended, Priebus and Bannon thought they had bought some breathing room. Later that day, Sally Yates and former director of National Intelligence James Clapper appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Crime and Terrorism subcommittee— and wer

ze and delight in both the insult and his personal impunity, the president met with Russian bigwigs in the Oval Office, including Russia’s Ambassador Kislyak, the very focus of much of the Trump-Russia investigation. To the Russians he said: “I just fired the head of the FBI. He was crazy, a real nut job.

fe, this was less than innocent: they would, with a sense of deepening threat, suspect Bannon of leaking the information about Kushner’s meeting with Kislyak. OOK Ok Few jobs in the Trump administration seemed so right, fitting, and even destined to their holder as Jeff Sessions’s appointment as the nati

n text messages to his mistress," and prosecutor Andrew Weissman, also a member of Mueller's team, "sent an email to former acting Attorney General Sally Yates in late January praising her decision to defy Trump's travel ban executive order," have given President Trump's allies an "opportunity to push back"

pplication for a US security clearance." The Washington Examiner (12/8, Bedard, 301K) reports the "bottom line" is that Sessions' "two contacts with Kislyak in 2016 did not have to be revealed to the FBI on his SF-86 security clearance application, part of his confirmation process." The Hill (12/10, Man