When lobbyists like Manafort get arrested, and other lobbyists like Tony Podesta start crawfishing, can members of Congress be far behind? After all, if the lobbyists have been engaging in illegal activities, with whom would those illegal activities be conducted?
On this day of spooks (of all kinds) we’re learning some spooky things about goings-on in Washington. Specifically, we now know that a group of people were lobbying (another word for acting as paid agents of) at least one foreign power in an attempt to influence both foreign and domestic policy in the U.S.
So, on Friday, yet another “unidentified source” leaked the information that the Special Counsel for Russian Interference had obtained the first indictments from a federal grand jury. Whoever decided to leak this material is engaging in an attempt to generate a plethora of stories about the possibilities of what crime has been committed and who is going to be arrested.
“That’s old news.” “That’s been litigated.” “That’s like investigating McGovern for Watergate.” “Trump’s people wanted to get information from WikiLeaks.” All these statements and more are being thrown around in an attempt to mitigate what may be or may not be criminal activity. As I pointed out yesterday, the Russians have been trying to interfere in U.S. politics for almost a century, and it is no surprise to find their fingers once again stirring the melting pot that is U.S. politics.
So, welcome to my new blog. What you’re going to find here are just thoughts, maybe an idea or two, and a lot of personal, hopefully informed opinion. I may push the edges of your individual political, religious, or philosophical envelope a bit, but that’s what good dialogue does.