Puzzling Through the House Requests
In this post, I’ll try to make sense of the requests House Judiciary Committee sent out today.
The requests — which they’ve run by Mueller and SDNY — don’t all make sense. Generally, people are being asked for the documents they’ve already turned over (or had seized) to some investigation. A lot of this is boilerplate, though, so some people are being asked for documents they don’t have.
Alan Garten gets a request, but not Alan Futerfas, in spite of the fact that both Trump lawyers were involved in coaching June 9 meeting testimony.
It excludes some obvious intelligence targets — it doesn’t ask for documents concerning Oleg Deripaska, and Sergei Millian is not on this list — but not others — like WikiLeaks.
Ivanka Trump and Sam Patten are not included.
This is a first run of either the most important association or some surprising ones. I’ll be doing rolling updates of this after more detailed review of the request letters.
Contacts with Russians
I’ve split this into those who were named in requests for documents detailing contacts with Russians, which includes the following, Trump himself, and Konstantin Kilimnik:
- Trump Campaign (letter, document requests)
- Trump Organization (letter, document requests)
- Carter Page (letter, document requests)
- Erik Prince (letter, document requests)
- George Papadopoulos (letter, document requests)
- Jared Kushner (letter, document requests)
- Jeff Sessions (letter, document requests)
- Jerome Corsi (letter, document requests)
- KT McFarland (letter, document requests)
- Michael Cohen (letter, document requests)
- Michael Flynn (letter, document requests)
- Paul Manafort (letter, document requests)
- Rick Gates (letter, document requests)
- Roger Stone (letter, document requests)
- Tom Bossert (letter, document requests)
Those requested for documents showing communications with Russians and the list above:
- Christopher Bancroft Burnham (letter, document requests)
- Jason Maloni (letter, document requests)
- Paul Erickson (letter, document requests)
Meetings with Putin
- Allen Weisselberg (letter, document requests) July 7, 2017, November 11, 2017, July 16, 2018, and November 30, 2018
- Brad Parscale (letter, document requests) July 7, 2017, November 11, 2017, July 16, 2018, and November 30, 2018
- Christopher Bancroft Burnham (letter, document requests) July 7, 2017, November 11, 2017, July 16, 2018, and November 30, 2018
- Corey Lewandowski (letter, document requests) July 7, 2017, November 11, 2017, July 16, 2018, and November 30, 2018
- Don McGahn (letter, document requests) July 7, 2017, November 11, 2017, July 16, 2018, and November 30, 2018
- Donald Trump Jr. (letter, document requests) July 7, 2017, November 11, 2017, July 16, 2018, and November 30, 2018
- Eric Trump (letter, document requests) July 7, 2017, November 11, 2017, July 16, 2018, and November 30, 2018
- Erik Prince (letter, document requests) July 7, 2017, November 11, 2017, July 16, 2018, and November 30, 2018
- Hope Hicks (letter, document requests) July 7, 2017, November 11, 2017, July 16, 2018, and November 30, 2018
- Reince Priebus (letter, document requests) July 7, 2017
- Rick Gates (letter, document requests) July 7, 2017 and November 11, 2017
- Rhona Graff (letter, document requests) July 7, 2017, November 11, 2017, July 16, 2018, and November 30, 2018
- Roger Stone (letter, document requests) July 7, 2017, November 11, 2017, July 16, 2018, and November 30, 2018
- Steve Bannon (letter, document requests) July 7, 2017, November 11, 2017, July 16, 2018, and November 30, 2018
- Tom Bossert (letter, document requests) July 7, 2017, November 11, 2017, July 16, 2018, and November 30, 2018
June 9 Meeting
This category, like the contacts with Russians one, I’ll split onto those named and those asked about the June 9 meeting. The former are here:
- Anatoli Samochornov (letter, document requests)
- Donald Trump Jr. (letter, document requests)
- Irakly Kaveladze (letter, document requests)
- Jared Kushner (letter, document requests)
- Paul Manafort (letter, document requests)
- Rinat Akhmetshin (letter, document requests)
- Rob Goldstone (letter, document requests)
These people were asked about the June 9 meeting but are not named.
- Alan Garten (letter, document requests)
- Don McGahn (letter, document requests)
- Hope Hicks (letter, document requests)
- Jason Maloni (letter, document requests)
- Mark Corallo (letter, document requests)
- Steve Bannon (letter, document requests)
Trump Tower Moscow
- Allen Weisselberg (letter, document requests)
- Donald Trump Jr. (letter, document requests)
- Felix Sater (letter, document requests)
- Jay Sekulow (letter, document requests)
- Matthew Calamari (letter, document requests)
- Michael Cohen (letter, document requests)
- Ronald Lieberman (letter, document requests)
- Sam Nunberg (letter, document requests)
- Sheri Dillon (letter, document requests)
- Stefan Passantino (letter, document requests)
Sanctions relief
- Carter Page (letter, document requests)
- Erik Prince (letter, document requests)
- George Papadopoulos (letter, document requests)
- Jared Kushner (letter, document requests)
- Jason Maloni (letter, document requests)
- J.D. Gordon (letter, document requests)
- Jeff Sessions (letter, document requests)
- Jerome Corsi (letter, document requests)
- KT McFarland (letter, document requests)
- Michael Cohen (letter, document requests)
- Paul Manafort (letter, document requests)
- Rick Gates (letter, document requests)
- Roger Stone (letter, document requests)
- Tom Bossert (letter, document requests)
Cambridge Analytica and sharing of polling data
- Alexander Nix (letter, document requests)
- Brad Parscale (letter, document requests)
- Brittany Kaiser (letter, document requests)
- Cambridge Analytica (letter, document requests)
- Concord Management and Consulting (letter, document requests)
- Jared Kushner (letter, document requests)
- Julian David Wheatland (letter, document requests)
- Paul Manafort (letter, document requests)
- Rick Gates (letter, document requests)
- Sam Nunberg (letter, document requests)
- SCL Group Limited (letter, document requests)
- Tony Fabrizio (letter, document requests)
Peter Smith effort
- Jerome Corsi (letter, document requests)
- John Szobocsan (letter, document requests)
- Matt Tait (letter, document requests)
- Peter Smith (Estate) (letter, document requests)
Hush payments and catch-and-kill
- Allen Weisselberg (letter, document requests)
- American Media Inc (letter, document requests)
- David Pecker (letter, document requests)
- Donald J Trump Revocable Trust (letter, document requests)
- Dylan Howard (letter, document requests)
- Jared Kushner (letter, document requests)
- Keith Davidson (letter, document requests)
- Matthew Calamari (letter, document requests)
- Michael Cohen (letter, document requests)
- Ronald Lieberman (letter, document requests)
- Steve Bannon (letter, document requests)
Corrupt business interests (including emoluments)
- Alan Garten (letter, document requests)
- Allen Weisselberg (letter, document requests)
- Andrew Intrater (letter, document requests)
- Christopher Bancroft Burnham (letter, document requests)
- Columbus Nova (letter, document requests)
- Donald Trump Jr. (letter, document requests)
- Erik Prince (letter, document requests)
- 58th Presidential Inaugural Committee (letter, document requests)
- Flynn Intel Group (letter, document requests)
- Frontier Services Group (letter, document requests)
- George Nader (letter, document requests)
- Jared Kushner (letter, document requests)
- Kushner Companies (letter, document requests)
- Matthew Calamari (letter, document requests)
- Michael Cohen (letter, document requests)
- Michael Flynn (letter, document requests)
- Michael Flynn Jr (letter, document requests)
- Ronald Lieberman (letter, document requests)
- Sheri Dillon (letter, document requests)
- Stefan Passantino (letter, document requests)
- Tom Barrack (letter, document requests)
- Viktor Vekselberg (letter, document requests)
Obstruction (including WHCO advice)
- Annie Donaldson (letter, document requests)
- Don McGahn (letter, document requests)
- Eric Trump (letter, document requests)
- Hope Hicks (letter, document requests)
- Jared Kushner (letter, document requests)
- Jason Maloni (letter, document requests)
- Jay Sekulow (letter, document requests)
- Jeff Sessions (letter, document requests)
- KT McFarland (letter, document requests)
- Mark Corallo (letter, document requests)
- Reince Priebus (letter, document requests)
- Sean Spicer (letter, document requests)
- Steve Bannon (letter, document requests)
- Tom Bossert (letter, document requests)
Pardons
- Michael Cohen (letter, document requests)
- Michael Flynn (letter, document requests)
- Paul Manafort (letter, document requests)
- Rick Gates (letter, document requests)
Contacts with WikiLeaks
- Jerome Corsi (letter, document requests)
- Julian Assange (letter, document requests)
- Michael Caputo (letter, document requests)
- Randy Credico (letter, document requests)
- Roger Stone (letter, document requests)
- Sam Nunberg (letter, document requests)
- Ted Malloch (letter, document requests)
- Wikileaks (letter, document requests)
Government and Private Organization Requests
- Department of Justice (letter, document requests)
- Federal Bureau of Investigation (letter, document requests)
- General Services Administration (letter, document requests)
- NRA (letter, document requests)
- The White House (letter, document requests)
- Trump Campaign (letter, document requests)
- Trump Foundation (letter, document requests)
- Trump Organization (letter, document requests)
- Trump Transition (letter, document requests)
As I disclosed last July, I provided information to the FBI on issues related to the Mueller investigation, so I’m going to include disclosure statements on Mueller investigation posts from here on out. I will include the disclosure whether or not the stuff I shared with the FBI pertains to the subject of the post.
Hopefully a bunch of DC IPs stay tuned for those rolling updates and find the pieces to your puzzle.
Man, I would kill for a nice dish of Calamari right now. I really Hope it’s on the menu tonight, but sometimes they change the menu to something more convenient. Either way, I will eat like a Prince tonight.
Be sure to get some Fredo sauce on the with that
Barbara Les, author of “All Alone on the 68th Floor: How One Woman Changed the Face of Construction”, says that Matt Calamari is known as “The Big Squid”.
Barbara Res, not Les.
Thanks for the correction. Also, I’m reading the Adam Winkler book “Gunfight” you recommended and finding it very interesting. I didn’t realize how much evidence there was to support the individual right to bear arms interpretation of the Second Amendment.
Like the Citizens United thing, Heller and 2nd Amendment is far more complex that people give it credit for. I still think Scalia wrote from the wrong side of the issue, as I think Adam does, but it is, indeed, a complicated issue.
Damn, Wheels, you are a force of nature, a very deep rock spring, a freakin’ Pitbull for the public good. So, how does one go about nominating someone for a Pulitzer, anyway?
Probably not a serious question, but you would start here: https://www.pulitzer.org/page/how-enter
No, it is a serious question.
The Pulitzer judges and board have been making a few forays away from recommending and giving prizes to the Usual Suspects like the NYT and WaPo. Marcy would qualify for Public Service and most especially for Explanatory.
A very serious question. She more than deserves it.
Concur and would vote for her nomination for such august recognition in a heartbeat. Not only is Ms. Wheeler a national treasure, but she’s done all of us an invaluable service with her incredibly insightful analysis.
Amen, here! here!
Not only through her “incredibly insightful analysis” but her selfless questioning innocence inspires minions of blog regulars and occasional visitors to pitch in and assist in her quest for truth.
Majority.FM member here. Thank you for your, “one in a million” work. Again, thank you.
So Trump took an oath to uphold The Constitution, having no idea what it says, nor caring, and in fact, finding it nothing but an impediment.
Can’t that be considered a verbal contract?
IVANKA is named in MANY of the actual document request letters, (like, “All documents relating to the following: Ivanka Trump or her Business Interests”)…
However, I have not found a single mention of Tom Barrack or Colony Capital.
found Barrack – d’uh
Barrack ….and he was asked about Qatar
No Jill Stein.
Any thoughts on why Joel Zamel (Psy-Group, et.al.) is not on any of these lists?
What are the consequences of not complying with one of these requests? Is it then that the Judiciary Committee could issue a subpoena? And, is there any consequence related to lying in one of these responses?
None. Unless it’s in the active furtherance of a conspiracy as defined in the Federal legal code?
Normally you gather the documents so you can prepare to question some party or witness later to clarify, explain or contextualize the documents to fill gaps in your understanding or get the witness’ gloss if helpful.
How do NDA”s play into any of this?
Brad Pascale for example. You know, the fella that started out as the web guy and ended practically inventing “micro targeting” /s
He was, I believe the first to land a cush job on Trump’s 2020 “election campaign” I would assume that meant signing another NDA?
It is interesting to hear that Deripaska was not mentioned anywhere. His name was mentioned multiple times in Manafort’s case and the recent lifting of sanctions that involve him directly was imho was sketchy as hell. I also have a wild hair about the timing of Deripaska’s gift from DJT coinciding with that model from Belarus (under the oddest of circumstances) recanting her claims she had proof of Deripaska plotting with Americans to influence the election
They do not count for jack in the face of a legitimate court subpoena.
Maybe a clarification: I heard Rep Nadler say yesterday that the document requests, to begin with, are for docs already provided to others so as to avoid any privilege claims.
A subpoena is still a subpoena. It can be fought, irrespective of the prior production. But that is mostly gamesmanship and delay.
I’m beginning to think they should subpoena Melania & Paolo Zampolli – her handler who brought her (& others) from East Europe to the US as a model (Paris Max lad-mag?) at 26 & introduced her to Trump a couple years later. What was she doing all that time when she was supposed to be modeling but doesn’t have the docs nor the portfolio to show for it? (until Trump started getting her gigs along with a boob job/major plastic surgery). Anyway, that was the Daily Mail story/book review that Trump’s other lawyer helped kill – wonder what Cohen knows about that as well. Zampolli went from ID Group internet modeling agency to “a Soho broker that specializes in sending hot chicks on property visits… It’s a sweet arrangement, as Paramount co-chairman Paolo Zampolli also runs ID Models, from which the realty hotties come” – no surprise that Paramount’s a Trump partner. Also little surprise that in 2004 Zampolli bid on a modelling agency with Jeffrey Epstein, or that he met his long-time Brazilian partner when she was 19. It all converges rather nicely. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1102230048344465408.html
BTW, here’s a typical Trump media setup in Paris in 1998, spinning Melania as “1 of the top 50 models in the world” and a fake Spanish Harper’s Bazaar edition with her on the cover – https://www.univision.com/univision-news/politics/the-life-and-secrets-of-melania-trump
Also note that Zampolli purchased diplomatic credentials as some sort of UNICEF ambassador from (I think) Dominica. For the low-low price of (again. I think) $150k, he flies the UN flag at his Union Square townhouse and gets 3 free parking spaces right in front (17th Street).
They are going after the Seychelles connection? Think they will investigate MBS, and given the breakout above will someone finally look into that fishy as hell Smith suicide?
Either way Marcy, EW, what’ve the appropriate nomenclature is. Keep it up! Thank you!
Yes. I didn’t lay out the KSA/UAE/Qatar questions specifically; I put them into general graft. But there are requests on those.
I’m very curious how the different committees will be dividing the labor. Cummings obviously has his piece, Engel at Foreign Affairs will have his say, I know Maxine Waters will want to get her share if the action…
This is from 3/2/19:
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1101829510071115777
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[quote] Maxine Waters, the House Financial Services chair, says Deutsche Bank is cooperating with her Committee. // She says Committee staff are going to Deutsche Bank and are now coordinating with the bank to begin reviewing documents related to Trump’s finances. [end quote]
In a bit of rhyming House history, Maxine Waters started out in the House in the early 1990s when Banking Committee Chairman Henry B. Gonzalez was on a seemingly Quixotic crusade to expose the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro / Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BNL/BCCI) scandal.
Gonzalez was laughed at for the way he would go to the floor of the House after regular business was over and launch into long speeches questioning what was going on with these two companies. But he was right — there was a lot of illegal activity going on, involving the US government in some shady ways:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1992/11/16/two-banks-blended-scandal/01f0ddc7-30f1-400d-9fae-7545f2f406eb/
Gonzalez never got a full accounting of what was going on, but he certainly had a major impact, including a criminal indictment and $200 million fine against BCCI, along with indictments of Clark Clifford and Robert Altman (husband of Lynda Carter, not the director):
https://www.deseretnews.com/article/175031/SCANDAL-PLAGUED-BANK-INDICTED-IN-NY-THE-FED-SEEKS-200-MILLION–FINE.html
Mueller was involved in the BCCI investigation back then, by the way.
It certainly seems that Waters has a promising target in Deutsche Bank, and I hope that she is able to hit them at least as hard as Gonzalez was able to hit BCCI and BNL.
Thanks for the interesting history!
The problem with getting Marcy a pulitzer, if f am reading the guidelines correctly, is the nomination can only include 10 samples of the her work.
I would love to see that food fight when you all have to pick exactly which 1O pieces represents EW’s best work. Empty my ass, – What you have here is an embarrassment of riches. The fact is she should be lauded for the volume of news and analysis provided, almost in real time, not just the quality. Do they give similar awards to psycologist? Because she is helping keep a bunch of of sane, that’s for sure.
Hold my beer. I’ll draft a letter to Shinzo Abe and he’ll send a letter and we’ll get her the Pulitzer.
Thanks Marcy. It takes a village to commit conspiracy, corruption and obstruction.
OT but Matt Whitaker just quit the cushy DOJ job Trump likely gave him to try to keep him quiet about their plans/conversations around the SC/SDNY investigations
Considering he’s potentially on the hook for perjuring himself in front of Congress recently one has to wonder if this is a precursor to him cooperating & coming clean about the reasons he was installed as acting AG to begin with
No way. Did you see how he acted before the Committee, on television?
Absent some new information we don’t know yet, I don’t see him wising up. He’s another fool Trump hired to serve a purpose, and he’s chum now that he’s no longer useful.
While I agree that Whittaker wouldn’t wise up on his own, I think it’s possible that a significant other could make him see the light. I believe that’s how Michael Cohen went from “I’d take a bullet for Trump” to the valuable informant currently on display.
Do these Doc requests suggest an attempt to investigate the Nukes to Saudi crimes, Flynn-Kushner-Barrack-Prince-Saudi-Russia-Westinghouse-Brookfield-666 5th Ave bailout-Prince conspiracy?
“Nukes” to Saudis is pushing the enveloppe a bit. We are talking about Pressurized Water Reactors. Not something you can produce a lot of useful (from a military point of view) rubbish with. Yes, there is some plutonium as a byproduct of fission, but good luck with extracting it ; you need tech for this. You need to do something to change a “push button” Westinghouse reactor into something else. If they buy the fuel, for example, there is little they can do. If they want to buy a fuel making factory, like the ones in Iran, that will raise the stakes quite a bit, but nobody said they were interested in that.
And your point is….what?? Are you arguing that it is just dandy to set malefactors like the Sauds up with a series of nuclear reactors? If not, then what exactly are you saying?
My point is that “Nukes” and “Nuclear Reactors” are different things. Just like you do not like “Treason” to be invoked relating to activities on behalf of a country with which no war is declared, or “RICO” to be used about something else than something similar to an actual organized crime family, talking of “nukes” for nuclear reactors is not up to the standard of this blog.
Facts are difficult enough to establish, no need to bring in nuclear war as part of the debate, because it can be most probably proved as untrue…you don’t want EW to be portrayed as a cesspool of lunatics.
The reason why I detailed why they are different is that the confusion is propagated regularly, including by the Trump administration, when it is convenient politically.
Thank you. Important distinction.
with apologies to Steely Dan:
Don’t seem right
I’ve been strung out here all night
I’ve been waiting for the base(d)…
You said you’d bring to me
Trump Campaign
Where the Cuban cigars are smoked with disdain
I went searching for the wrong
You said you’d bring to me
KT lied
You could see it in her eyes
But imagine my surprise
When I saw you
Are you with me Doctor Flynn
Are you really just a shadow
Of the man that once was “in”
She unlawfully, yes she’s sly
And you’re an ordinary guy
Has she finally got to you
Can you hear me Doctor
No Rudy?
This is a lot of work, too- the post and categorizations by EW, and the undertaking by our electeds. Wow.
I am enjoying the date ranges and content of the request for Bannon’s docs, as one example.
I tracked down Schedule B (instructions) and Schedule C (definitions) just to reassure myself as to what the request recipients may or may not try to weasel out of:
Sched B Instructions.pdf
https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/democrats.judiciary.house.gov/files/documents/Sched%20B%20Instructions.pdf
Sched C Definitions.pdf
https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/democrats.judiciary.house.gov/files/documents/Sched%20C%20Definitions.pdf
Thx for these, @Eureka!
Don’t be jealous- this is only the first batch. I’m sure they’ll be sending you a subpoena eventually.
That seems like a really asinine thing to say.
Thanks for sorting out this stuff today, Marcy. I’m so grateful for your guidance into the heart of this darkness. Rayne’s focus on the golf courses wows me. Emptywheel and the comment chorus are an amazing read.
What Nadler said on Maddow Monday night is that these initial requests were for materials that the parties have already produced to other investigations, so they really have no basis to withhold any of it.
As per EW’s usual: thorough and comprehensive. However, I suspect EW has several critical questions in pocket and maybe also a relevant mapping to the specific requests from Round 1 (or suggestions for Round 2?). Give us some hints!
Seems Nadler and Trump have some history.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-and-nadler-have-warred-for-years-but-the-stakes-have-never-been-higher
<<< Yes! Very intersting. As https://twitter.com/justinjm1/status/1102916123161477125 say:
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The revenge of ‘Fat Jerry’
They should investigate Rupert Murdoch.
They should subpoena Julian Assange.
These two Australians destroyed America.
Rupert Murdoch made America a country of Hate and Division.
They should investigate Rupert Murdoch.
Rupert Murdoch should have contributed to some of the crime activities.
Where is Sean Hannity in the list?
https://imgur.com/BLw92ZP
https://imgur.com/WZiTRQ9
Last night on my twitter feed (locked) I saw this. I clicked on the link to take me to EW. The story was about Cohen and it just blasted him and the lies. When on the comments page, there are side pop ups which allows us to go to either the next story in front or following the one I’m on. Here they didn’t click on another story but had one word: TRASH…..RUBBISH
The page I was on at the bottom read: Comments closed
Now. I tweeted bmaz and then posted w/o doc on a page from Rayne. I think it is a phishing issue although I am not sure. I am sure I was freaked out. For myself and privacy and safety to being concerned for EW.
Could someone address this please? Unfortunately, when I freaked out? I closed the fake EW window w/o taking a screenshot of it. Thanks
I did not see your tweet. However, I checked out that thread and this was the post that came up. It is certainly ours. And, yes the preceding one was a post by Rayne called “Rubbish”. Thank you for keeping your eye out for us though!
Oh thank you so much bmaz. I was scared cause I didn’t recognize anyone and the side things. I kinda sorta feel foolish but my computer skills are very limited and I got so anxious. I know there are a lot of ‘forces’ out there that would probably like our Ms. Wheeler to be quiet. Shoulders are down again! Thank you again. Have a great day sir.
Oh no, thank you. We are under constant attack from a lot of angles. And if you see something goofy I indeed want to know about it.
Thank you Ollie, and bmaz!
Last night on Maddow Nadler indicated that “all” of these requests were for records that had already been turned over to other “agencies” with – my take – the exception of OSC and SDNY. He seemed to not foresee much pushback leading to subpoenas in this first round since the records had already been handed over to others, but did not rule it out.
I assume procedurally they have to have all records “given” to them directly before moving wider and deeper and I assume then possibly using subpoenas.
Since he mentioned some interviews were in the process of being scheduled, I assume many interviews are with staff (non public) and not all interviews are done in full committee hearings open or closed.
Some pictures with captions of the laundry list of individuals from Seth Abramson twitter, adding color and texture to the House Judiciary Committee request.
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1102619649802420225
This is great! Here’s an alphabetical list by Philip Bump March 4 at 6:09 PM [WaPo]:
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The 81 people and organizations just looped into the Trump probe — and why they were included https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/03/04/people-organizations-just-looped-into-trump-probe-why-they-were-included/
Always helps to have faces to go with the names. Interesting to see mention of other names that are not on this first list but may be on future ones, especially Conway. The plot thickens…
6:28 AM – 5 Mar 2019
Ted Lieu and Don Beyer
https://twitter.com/tedlieu/status/1102939058966274049
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[quote] have made a criminal referral of Jared Kushner to @TheJusticeDept. // Making false statements or omitting material info on SF-86 security form is punishable by up to 5 years in prison. More info at @politico huddle. Here’s the letter: https://politi.co/2C7nzAM [end quote]
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David Leonhardt mentions [and links] Marcy and this post today in the NYT:
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Well Played, Madam Speaker The Democrats are getting the balance between investigatory zeal and caution just right so far. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/05/opinion/pelosi-democrats-trump-investigation.html
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[quote […] Elsewhere: The national security journalist Marcy Wheeler breaks down the House’s document requests into helpful categories, tying individuals to each. They include: campaign contacts with Russians (Jeff Sessions, Roger Stone, George Papadopoulos); Trump Tower Moscow (Allen Weisselberg, Felix Sater, Jay Sekulow); and potential hush-money payments to women (American Media Inc., David Pecker, Steve Bannon). […] [end quote]
Bloody amazing work!
Barry Levine (AMI) was a name given by Cohen during his testimony that is not on the list.
Conspicuously missing from the requests? Hamburgers.
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WH rejects Cummings request for information about Kushner’s security clearance.
https://oversight.house.gov/sites/democrats.oversight.house.gov/files/documents/2019-03-04_2%20Cipollone%20to%20EEC%20re%20Security%20Clearances.pdf
Quick copy edit: lines 13. and 14. under MEETINGS WITH PUTIN contain duplicate info. Pls ignore if renumbering from elimination of line 13 would be a hassle :-)
J @MsEnergyHealer finds something interesting 11:51 PM – 5 Mar 2019 :
https://twitter.com/MsEnergyHealer/status/1103201440040775680
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[quote] Hmm… going through the House Judiciary doc production letters and raising my eyebrow at Rinat Akhmetshin getting a request for doc related to 2017 & 2018 Trump-Putin meetings… // Goldstone, Kaveladze, Samochornov didn’t get that. It wasn’t common. Not even Sater got that.. / I went through all the document requests and this is the list of the people asked to produce docs on Trump-Putin meetings. Lots of indicted people. // Many of the people on Trump’s campaign were not asked for this production, so Akhmetshin really stands out. [end quote]
Thank you for the lists and the categories. It makes things so much simpler When you’re following a scandal at home in the B.C. Leg, the one in Ottawa, and the American one, it really helps to have lists like this. As long as I remember all of the names, there is no dementia, although some think I’m some what demented for following it all.
it was lovely to read a couple of posts before how there is a connection between one Canadian and the American stuff, Ezra Levant and Jerome Corsi.
its tough when they have Cohen testifying on the same day, last week, as Jody Wilson-Rayboult (Canada) and today, Cohen and Butts (Canada), along with the Clerk of the Privy council.
Had to give up on following Brexit. I’ll wait for the summary version.
I was reading through this piece in The New Yorker again, and was wondering if this name should be added to the list since Alan Garten is on there:
“His predecessor was Jason Greenblatt, whose name appeared on the contract I reviewed. Greenblatt was in charge of the Trump Organization’s due diligence and contracting work. He is now employed at the White House, as the President’s special representative for international negotiations.”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/13/donald-trumps-worst-deal