(The second in a series of diaries from the oddest congressional race in America) Early evening, May 23rd, a fire station in Liberty, New York. Brian Flynn, a Democratic candidate for Congress, is getting ready to hold a town hall on health care issues. Flynn, a businessman and former Citibank …
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So, Roger Stone. Lots of things we can call him: Agent of chaos. Champion ratfucker. Longtime friend of Donald Trump. Maybe-FBI-informant (though he staunchly denies it). At the moment, Stone is a little bit more defensive, given his current situation as a not-yet-indicted – yet likely – target of one …
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As we observe the first anniversary of Robert Mueller‘s appointment as special counsel of the inquiry into the Trump team’s Russia ties, we also ought to commemorate the 45th anniversary of the appointment of Archibald Cox as special prosecutor of the Watergate investigation. We know how the Cox story ended. …
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Bang bang bang! At about 2:45 p.m. on April 2, 2014, on a drizzly afternoon in Staten Island, New York, an aspiring music producer in his late thirties named Ibrahim Annan was sitting in his car when a noise outside startled him. “Open the fucking window!” Tall and slender, with …
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