Sessions, leaks, security, Manafort and 'false news.'
Six fun (sad/awful/false/infuriating) stories emerged from the swamp in the last couple of days. Peter Taylor noted elsewhere on the site some vows made by Attorney-General Jeff Sessions on the issue of "leaks." Some of the usual suspects have pretended that this is a "Threat" against the noble profession of prostitution journalism.
The strongest or least-false coverage of this issue from that point of view may be from font of evul Politico ... in a story called Jeff Sessions' Attack on th
From the blog "Friends and Foes"
A somewhat puzzling couple of events concerning Paul Manafort.
The Special Counsel Robert Mueller's counter-intelligence probe had obtained cooperation from Paul Manafort (as previously reported here) and was until a couple of days ago expected to update the court on the progress of the cooperation.
Instead, yesterday, Mueller filed with the court a document essentially tearing up any deal. Manafort breached the deal by lying to investigators even after his guilty plea ...
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