During a nearly hour-long interview in Anchorage, Alaska, CBS News chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford pressed the attorney general on a number of issues from obstruction to his new review of the Russia investigation.
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Trump: Declassification Of Russia Probe Intel Is About Transparency
For over a year, people have asked me to declassify. What I’ve done is declassified everything. [Attorney General William Barr] can look. I hope he looks at the UK and I hope he looks at Australia, and I hope he looks at Ukraine. I hope he looks at everything,” Trump said.
Reuters: Risk of nuclear war now highest since WW2, UN arms research chief says
Renata Dwan, director of the U.N. Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR), said all states with nuclear weapons have nuclear modernization programs underway and the arms control landscape is changing, partly due to strategic competition between China and the United States.
Washington Examiner: Joseph Mifsud has ties to State Department
Although Mueller’s team portrayed Mifsud as a Russian asset with close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Nunes said the team decided to”cherry pick” information from news reports, leaving out that he was described as a Western intelligence asset.
Sharon Tennison: Russia: Travel with a Purpose
Never before has Russia and Russian leadership been more demonized. Never has up-to-date data about Russia been more crucial. Experts say never before has the world been closer to nuclear war. We need eyes and ears on the ground throughout Russia to assess whether the information we get is accurate.
Join a delegation of 100 Americans (Sept 1 – 17, 2019) who will question Russian VIPs in Moscow, travel in two or three-person mini-groups to 30 Russian cities across 11 time zones to get current data. They will operate as “citizen diplomats” listening, learning, collecting impressions to bring back to city/state officials and to the U.S. Congress.
The trip is organized by the Center for Citizen Initiatives (CCI) ( www.ccisf.org), an independent NGO, with a 35 year history working between the two nations. CCI ran citizen-based programs to assist the “new Russia” to move from communism to a market economy for 15 years.
CCI’s largest program trained over 6,000 young Russian entrepreneurs in U.S. companies in over 400 American cities in 45 states over 12 years. They came fro 71 Russian regions. Hence we can place Americans wherever we wish.
Become one of our “informal diplomats” who collects current information in outlying Russian cities. Examine the stereotypes we have about “Putin’s Russia.” Draw your own conclusions depending on what you learn. This first-ever trip has three segments:
Moscow: Meet with a dozen Russian experts for two-hour Q&As. Experts range from Mikhail Gorbachev to Vladimir Pozner, followed by a noted ballistic weapons expert, a highly-respected international financial advisor, journalists in Moscow (both American and Russian), specialists in public and private health care, public educators, exposure to Russia’s five faith traditions, a dissident film maker, political figures who agree and disagree with current state policies.
Second Cities: Minigroups of two-to-three persons fly to some 30 Russian cities across 11 time zones where they use their eyes and ears to assess far-away towns and countrysides, ask questions, get inputs, share ideas and carry out personal diplomacy. Their assessments will be pooled during a group data dump in the final city.
St.Petersburg: The group reconvenes for a day-long reportout session where travelers share their perspectives on the regional cities, the conditions and attitudes of persons they met. Stereotypes will be discussed, validated or discarded. Videographers will capture footage for Youtube videos. With primary work completed, travelers set out to enjoy Russia’s classical arts: museums, palaces, ballets, symphonies, galleries and canal rides in hydrofoil boats or Kayaks!
Trip costs: Three budgets are offered depending on amenities. Low budget, medium and elite accommodations. All three are underpriced compared with ordinary travel agencies. For CCI this trip is a mission, the organization takes no markup for organizing this effort.
We welcome your participation! If interested contact: sharon@ccisf.org
AP: The Latest: Kremlin open to any format for Trump meeting
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s foreign affairs adviser says the Kremlin is prepared to agree to any format for a meeting of Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump.
John Solomon: Ukrainian Embassy confirms DNC contractor solicited Trump dirt in 2016
In its most detailed account yet, the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington says a Democratic National Committee (DNC) insider during the 2016 election solicited dirt on Donald Trump’s campaign chairman and even tried to enlist the country’s president to help.
Defense News: Here’s how much global military spending rose in 2018
Overall military expenditures rose 2.6 percent between 2017 and 2018, to hit a total of $1.82 trillion, according to new research from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
BBC: A Whale of a Story…
Norway finds ‘Russian spy whale’ off Arctic coast.
Sharon Tennison: Be the Diplomatic Link Between the Superpowers…
Become a Citizen Diplomat, learn for yourself, converse with Russian counterparts, hear what Russian experts have to say about a dozen different critical issues: Gorbachev on Cold War I and II, Russian experts’ understanding of national and international politics, Russia’s financial system, the impact of U.S. sanctions, rebuilding Russia’s healthcare and educational systems….
The Hill: Nunes says he will soon send 8 criminal referrals to Barr
Nunes did not say who the referrals are for but said five of them are for crimes that include lying to Congress, misleading Congress and leaking classified information.
National Security Archive: Soviets Sought a Model of Cooperation with U.S. on Regional Conflicts
The Soviet Union withdrew its military forces from Afghanistan 30 years ago this month without achieving demilitarization there or the national reconciliation, including free elections, that they sought during negotiations with the U.S., according to the declassified documents published today by the National Security Archive.
ASEEES: An interview with the film director, Andrei Nekrasov
In 2016, Andrei Lvovich Nekrasov, a Russian film-maker, released The Magnitsky Act – Behind the Scenes. Although the film won many artistic accolades, including a special commendation from the Prix Europa Award for a Television Documentary, public screenings were abruptly canceled in both Europe and the United States. Political pressure and the threat of lawsuits from billionaire William Browder ensured the limitation of the film to a single website.
The Hill: Joe Biden’s 2020 Ukrainian nightmare: A closed probe is revived
Two years after leaving office, Joe Biden couldn’t resist the temptation last year to brag to an audience of foreign policy specialists about the time as vice president that he strong-armed Ukraine into firing its top prosecutor.
War Propaganda from CNN’s Fareed Zakaria
Fareed Zakaria: “The real puzzle remains: Why has Trump been unwilling to confront Putin in any way on any issue?…And will Venezuela be the moment when Trump finally ends his appeasement?”
Mueller does not find Trump campaign knowingly conspired with Russia
WASHINGTON, March 24 (Reuters) – Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian meddling in the 2016 election did not find that any U.S. or Trump campaign officials knowingly conspired with Russia, according to details released on Sunday.
Paul Sperry: Dossier-Tied Firm Pitches Reporters Daily on ‘Collusion’
Key Democratic operatives and private investigators who tried to derail Donald Trump’s campaign by claiming he was a tool of the Kremlin have rebooted their operation since his election with a multimillion-dollar stealth campaign to persuade major media outlets and lawmakers that the president should be impeached.
USA Today: Poll: Half of Americans say Trump is victim of a ‘witch hunt’ as trust in Mueller erodes
Amid signs that special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian election interference may be near its conclusion, a new USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll finds that trust in Mueller has eroded and half of Americans agree with President Donald Trump’s contention that he has been the victim of a “witch hunt.”
Brian Milakovsky: Making a Living in Wartime Donbas
The residents of the Donbas experience the economic crisis brought on by the armed conflict in diverse ways…
RFE/RL: Deputized As Election Monitors, Ukrainian Ultranationalists ‘Ready To Punch’ Violators
They patrol the streets of the Ukrainian capital in matching urban camouflage and march in lockstep through Kyiv with torches…