Author: BooMan

Were They Spying on Trump?

Let’s say, for the sake of argument, that President Obama ordered phones in Trump’s offices in Trump Tower to be tapped during the campaign. If that was part of an official investigation and had warrants to back it...

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Military Top Brass Wants Money for State

What was I saying about Donald Trump going too hard after the State Department? Oh, yes, that’s right, I was saying that it was going to split the Republicans and would create a big bipartisan opposition in the Senate....

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What Trump Could Learn from Reagan

I generally avoid Rush Limbaugh like the plague, but I decided to take a look at his take on the Jeff Sessions controversy. Part of what he says is very predictable and basically unhinged, but other parts are roughly accurate....

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Sessions and the September 8th Meeting

Now that we know that Jeff Sessions met with the Russian ambassador in his private Senate office on Thursday, September 8th, 2016, we need to try to put that time period in some context so we can assess the plausibility that the...

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Bush Ethics Lawyer Says Sessions Must Go

Richard W. Painter, who served as the Bush administration’s chief White House ethics lawyer from 2005 to 2007, was pretty quick to put together a little opinion piece for the New York Times after news broke last night that...

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