Thursday, July 13, 2017

Clubs and Groups

THE FAMILY
San Francisco, CA, 1400 Portola Road, Woodside
Founded by journalist booted from or in protest of the Bohemian Club around 1901 when the latter club banned Hearst newspapers from the premises.


COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS

TRILATERAL COMMISSION

VALDAI INTERNATIONAL DISCUSSION CLUB

WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM

"Super-Elite" and 2 Americas: Vacation Spots

AMERICA
West Palm Beach, FL
Trump, Tiger Woods, Mark Zuckerberg,

Philipsburg, MT
Weddings: Scarlett Johansson, Kate Bosworth
Ranch at Rock Creek

Aspen, Colorado


Kauai Hawaii
Jennifer Aniston, Katy Perry
St. Regis Princeville


Nantucket, MA


Hamptons, NY

Big Sur, CA

Newport, RI

Napa Valley, CA

Jackson Hole, WY

GLOBAL
Mustique
St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Caribbean
British Royal Family

Lake Como
Italy

Coco Prive, Kuda Hithi
Maldives

St. Barts
French West Indies

Necker
British Virgin Islands
Must get invite from owner Richard Branson for yearly two week window opportunity

Musha Cay, Out Islands, Exumas
Bahamas
Owner: David Copperfield

Laucala Island
Fiji
Owner: Red Bull CEO

Seychelles
North Island

St. Tropez
French Riviera
Super yachts

Los Cabos
Mexico
One &Only Palmilla Retreat

Kenya
Africa
Alfajiri Villas
Cottar's 1920s Camp
Cottar's Homestead

FRANCE
Courchevel
Cheval Blanc hotel

Le Miroir
Chalet Pelerin

YACHTS
Nirvana

"Super-Elite" and 2 Americas: Conference Circuit

At least one thing the invention of the internet has done is make us all more aware of the existence of a completely different world that is happening out there, out of our sight, and, intentionally, out of our access and certainly out of our control. The issue is that many decisions that affect us are originated and progress at these events.

On a daily basis, America's super-rich are having cappuccinos in Martha's Vineyard or in Silicon Valley, attending high-powered dinner parties in Manhattan, and more importantly, spending less connected time with America and more time in a global "nation unto themselves". 1 In contrast to what they share with their neighbors, the "see the same people, ...eat in the same restaurants, and ...stay in the same hotels." says Glenn Hutchins, co-founder, Silver Lake.

But the more important commonality that all these plutocrats share is that without us, there would be no super-elite, no super-rich. There would be no consumer-class, no middle-class, no in-debted class, no mass of millions, hundreds of millions that are content to be there to see their children take their first step and to haul them around to practices, content to personally care for their aging or ill loved one, or content to constantly owe on a mortgage or a credit card or a student loan and to only leave the country when they go on an annual family vacation or a honeymoon, maybe. We are not the less talented lower class. We are their foundation, their primacy.

We are literally what adds the richness to their jet-setting, mega yachting, Davos life.

So let's get a better glimpse of our deliverables.

Here are some "annual" events:

BLIDERBERG
Founded in 1954 by Prince Berhnard (Netherlands).
Website: http://www.bilderbergmeetings.org/
Date: Usually the first or second weekend in June
Locations:
2017 -- Chantilly, VA USA
2016 -- Dresden, Germany
2015 -- Telfs-Buchen, Austria
2014 -- Copenhagen, Denmark
2013 -- Hertfordshire, England (Watford)
2012 -- Chantilly, VA, USA (May 31 -June 3)
2011 -- St. Moritz, Switzerland
2010 -- Sitges, Spain (June 3-6)
Annual conference to foster dialogue--and dialogue only, between North America's and Europe's political leaders and experts from politics, industry, finance, academia, and media--as long as attendee promises not to disclose details (aka Chatham House Rule--free to use content but not reveal source).

ALLEN & CO'S SUN VALLEY MEDIA RETREAT
Founded in 1982 by banker Herbert Allen
Date: July (second weekend)
Sun Valley, Idaho
Hosted by boutique investment bank Allen and Co.as a retreat for media moguls, with the focus on deal-making and recreation.
Attendees inclue Barry Diller (IAC), Larry Page and Sergey Brin (Google), Meg Whitman (eBay), Lebron James, and, under criticism, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump in 2017.

THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM
Founded in 1971 by
Location: Davos, Switzerland

THE BOAO FORUM FOR ASIA
Founded:
Date: Spring
Location: Hainan Island, China

JACKSON HOLE SYMPOSIUM
Founded in 1978 by Fed. Reserve Bank of Kansas City
Date: August
Location: Jackson Hole, WY, (Rocky Mountains)
Focuses on specific economic issue each year, and attended by central bankers, finance ministers, and high-profile economists, and some CEOs.


ASPEN IDEAS FESTIVAL
Founded in 2005 by Aspen Institute (Walter Paepcke)
Date: July
Location: Aspen, CO
A place where global leaders, thinkers, artists, and musicians gather and reflect on values.
Attendees: Walter Isaacsson (CNN), Sec. of State Madeleine Albright, John Doerr (venture capitalist), Michael Eisner (Disney), Alan Greenspan, Eli Broad (philanthropist), Eric Schmidt (Google)

CLINTON GLOBAL INITIATIVE ANNUAL MEETING
Founded in 2005 by President Bill Clinton
Date: Sept.
Location: NYC
To address global problems with statesment, philanthropists, plutocrats, and Nobel Prize winners.
Attendees: Lloyd Blanfein (Goldman Sachs), John Chambers, Cisco Systems), James Dimon (JP Morgan), Jeffrey Immelt (GE)

POPTECH
Founded in 1996 by Bob MetCalfe (invented Ethernet) and John Sculley (Apple)
Location: Camden, Maine
Davos for cool people--to study the social impact of new technologies and more.

BOHEMIAN CLUB
Founded in 1878 by Henry "harry" Edwards when around 100 Bohemians gathered in the Redwoods in Marin County near Taylor State Park for an evening sendoff party for Edwards, who was moving to NYC to further his acting career.
Website:
Date: June for "Spring Jinks" and mid-July for encampment
Location: 20601 Bohemian Avenue,  Monte Rio, CA  at a 2700 acre campground
Two-week, three weekend encampment of some of the world's most prominent men, including artists,(musicians), politicians, business leaders, media executives. Club is limitedly open to spouses, women, children and can be reserved throughout the reset of the year as long as the Club is not being used otherwise.

Ray F. Coyle a member. Ray F. Coyle Company was a tenant in the Foxcroft Building, named after the settlement in Maine where owner Charles Edward Holmes' family was from.

BELIZEAN GROVE
Women's only club in NYC modeled after the Bohemian Grove

THE MILKEN INSTITUTE GLOBAL CONFERENCE
Founded in 1998 by the Milken Institute (Michael and Lowell Milken)
Date: April
Location: Los Angeles
Bring capital-market principles to bear on social and economic challenges.
Attendees: Sumner Redstone (Viacom), Vinod Khosla (venture capitalist), Steve Forbes, Arnold Schwarznegger.

THE TED CONFERENCE
Founded in 1984 by Richard Saul Wurman and Harry Marks
Date: Feb. or March
Location: Long Beach, CA
To spread ideas among different disciplines
Bill Gates, Al Gore, Rupert Murdoch

CORPORATION HOSTED:
GOOGLE'S ZEITGEIST
Location:
Grove Hotel, England

WALL STREET JOURNAL
Date: varies, December


HOSTED DINNER PARTIES
HOST MARIE_JOSEE KRAVIS
Location: Manhattan, Upper East Side
Economist wife of private-equity billionaire Henry.

PHILANTHROPOCENTRIC
OPEN SOCIETY FOUNDATION (Soros)
PETER PETERSON
BILL GATES
MARK ZUCKERBERG
ELI BROAD
JIM BALSILLIE
BILL CLINTON

VICTOR PINCHUK (Ukranian entrepreneur)
hosts a regular lunch on the fringes of Davos
Annual ideas forum in Crimean village (Yalta Conference)

Theeliteevents.com

Secret rulers of the world
Secret Honor (Robert altman)
The Manny

1. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/01/the-rise-of-the-new-global-elite/308343/

The Base in American Politics @ 7 13 2017

I know significant personalities that comprise the Trump Base--it's made of my brother, my sister-in-law, unjust legal practitioners, and my neighbors.

American politicians and parties must acknowledge that these people will always vote against sanity, compassion, and idealism simply because they can. They consider it sport to sacrifice their own children to the destructive vanity and whimsy of the bigots, hypocrites, and thugs--a "blood sport" that they will cling to until the day that they pass from this world. There is no educating them, no debating with them, and no developing them into Maslow-mature human beings.

"The Base" portion of the voting public will always exist in this modern era, and so any party or person with machinations to participate in politics must factor its existence in to their agendas and practices, building a defense. Short of that, The Base will consume your identity, daily routine, your priorities, and progress. Don't believe me? How has that first 6 months of a Trump presidency gone?

@ 7 13 2017

Wednesday, July 12, 2017

Forget about private servers

The Trump senior staff have private email accounts.

That is rich.


Source: Nina Burleigh, Trump White House Senior Staff Have Private RNC Email Accounts, NEWSWEEK, Jan. 25, 2017, http://www.newsweek.com/trump-emails-rnc-reince-priebus-white-house-server-548191

The sexism of defining a woman by a negative life event @ 7 2017

Increasingly, as we witness confirmation hearing questioning, federal campaigns involving female candidates, and local politics unfolding wielding local law enforcement as weapons, an apparent "sophisticated sexism" is entrenching itself into daily discourse. That is, we see relatively high profile women repeatedly and casually defined by one exploitable negative event occurring in her life, while the men enjoy the insulating effect of being defined by the entire context of his life.

We need to turn the this around, and start calling it out, first, and, second, using the technique against the perpetrator.

@ 7 12 2017

Pundits missing Trump Jr., Manafort, and Kushner were blackmailable since June, 2016

We heard Yates testify that she warned the Trump White House on January 26th, 2017, that their National Security Director, Michael Flynn, was blackmailable by the Russians since his misleading the WH and the nation on his discussions of sanctions in his transition phone call with Russia leadership. The short of it was that Flynn, in December, had a phone conversation with a Russian diplomat in which U.S. sanctions against Russia were discussed and subsequent to that conversation, Flynn represented sanctions were NOT discussed. At all times when he made these false representations, the Russians knew that his misrepresentations were false. This makes/made Flynn blackmailable---leverageable, by the Russians.

Over the last three days, we learned, via Trump Jr himself, that he, Manafort, and Kushner held a meeting in June, 2016, with a Russian lawyer that he held because he believed the lawyer was with the Russian government and was going to give them opposition research on their opposing candidate, who is a United States citizen.

Trump and numerous of his representatives have repeatedly asserted that the Trump campaign had NO collusion with Russia in interfering with the 2016 Presidential election campaign. At all times when each of these representations were made, Russia and the Trump campaign knew that the campaign had taken the bait of the June meeting. This is the situational equivalent of Flynn's exposure, making Trump Jr. and Kushner, especially--because they have been "retained" by the President through the transition and had to submit sworn security clearance applications accounting for interactions with foreign entities, especially with Russians.

On their applications, both men blanketly omitted all of there interactions with Russians, including the June meeting which they unequivocally intended to be a meeting with a Russian government representative to obtain secret information about a U.S. citizen and presidential candidate. The applications very clearly warn that they can be prosecuted for felonies for failing to fully answer the prompts on the application. Thus, the Russians also knew, since June, that either men had substantive exposure and risk of criminal prosecution if, for example, that June meeting was exposed.

Thus, just as with Flynn, we--the citizens of the United States, should expect that the intelligence community and the U.S. Attorney General acknowledge the risk of having these two men having, inter alia, security clearances, having access to national secrets, having the ability to injure our nation (or the ability to have already injured our nation), and the risk inherent with not be able to trust that either man is putting the nation before his own interests, especially their interest in self-preservation.

Both men are blackmailable just as Flynn was blackmailable by the Russians and are clear risks that should be removed from their positions and access, however informal, in as complete a fashion as can be accomplished, immediately--not two weeks later.

@ 7 12 2017

Tuesday, July 11, 2017

When Believers control a Representational Government

the nation gets a non-independent thinking malignant narcissist as the leader of the free world.

It would be one thing if the Believer personality type was the large majority of the voting demographic and was not subject to great manipulations in rational or logical thought. Its quite a tragic other thing when the defining characteristic of that personality type is that the person so utterly fails to think critically that he/she is extremely vulnerable to, well, thought manipulation...even by the enemy when it comes to exercising her/his voting right.

A decade or so ago, this nation started showing mass signs of anxiety and dissatisfaction. Mean-ness and corruption affected every level and every facet of daily life, which lead this author to believe that maybe our form of government had reached its utilitarian--and just, peak. This was wrong. The 2016 presidential election demonstrated that this form of representational government had crested in its success at democracy and that serious, elemental reformation is in order.

The irony is that the winning candidate, who ran as a political outsider that would drain the swamp--i.e. take the corruption and politics out of government, is the epitome of "purchase politics"...that with enough money, you can buy the most power governmental office in the world. Its not just that he had an assist from an "enemy" foreign power. Its that he bought his assists--all of them.


Lost at Sea Latitude for Ted Cruz @ 7 2017

For a time, I was privileged to enjoy a mariner's introduction to the seafaring profession aboard a converted cruise ship originally intended for Korean war troop transport. In addition to be blessed with a sailor's mouth through that experience, I also experienced rapid and intense onset of sea-sickness. So, I learned of the "marking" of my "death" at sea by recording the longitude and latitude of the onset of my illness.

Today, at about 10 a.m., Ted Cruz went on live television and stated that no Texas citizen is concerned about or expressed concern to him about, Russian interference with the 2016 presidential election.  Thus, let the onset of his illness be made permanent.

Well before his bloviating ceased being given a televised outlet, I called three of his state offices--all were giving off busy signals. So, I called his D.C. office and left him a message: I certainly have been expressing deep concern about the fact that my, and his other constituents', Constitutional right to participate in choosing the president of our representational democracy, was violated by a foreign entity, namely Russia.

Later this afternoon, I emailed this message via his website:
Category: Crime
Subject: We ARE talking about Russia
Text: Russia interfered with my and other of your constituents' right to choose their president, with mine and their right to vote. You betcha your constituents are talking about Russia, and you betcha we are talking about you NOT caring about Russia screwing with our exercise of our voting right. We just know its no use talking to you about it--that should be a sign to you...if what you said is really true (that no one has indicated a concern to you about Russia), then you should analyze that. The Sec. of State has publicly stated to Putin that "Americans are concerned about the Russia "thing"", and you think that you can gain political leverage or authority by saying Texas citizens are not a part of the concerned "american public." No one believes that statement of yours. That's just bad strategy on your part, if not an outright lie spewed at the expense of your constituents and their right to choose a president by exercising their constitutionally provided right to vote. And, please, do NOT share my address with any other entity that will send me boatloads of mail -- mail from your political allies and nonprofits. Its harassing--the volume and content of it. 

Mind you, I know that it was Trump who allegedly told Putin that it was the American public that was concerned. And, historically, I have asked Cruz to vote a certain way on this or that legislation, and in doing so, I learned the hard way that he "sells" my contact information to his "non-profit" uber-conservative political support groups and they then send my volumes of utter spewing ranting. But lets not get distracted: Our right to participate in choosing our President was violated and Republicans like Trump and Cruz do NOT care and will do nothing to remediate that. This also means that Cruz is aiding and abetting a theft of the highest order.

@ 7 2017

Requiring truthful campaign rhetoric may stop enabling the Thief-in-Chief and Russia @ 7 2017

Look, I am not going to say that I have any sort of preference for any current political party or political bent. Really, just to make people think about the inherently fatal flaws in such labels or categorizations, I have repeatedly said that "If anything, I lean conservative solely because I don't want anyone fucking with my right to be a liberal." That pretty much stops the dialogue, if there even was one to begin with. So, I want all political leaders to hear this...but especially the republican members:

Russia fucked with my constitutional right to cast a vote for the leader of the executive branch of my representational government.

They fucked with all of ours' right.

And the GOP, as I heard Tx Senator Ted Cruz and Donald Trump Jr. say today, is entrenching themselves into this treasonous travesty as if its a partisan concern. Its clearly not a partisan concern. Its a constitutional concern of a "free and democratic" society ...and it abuses all citizens. I only hope that the persons involved with enabling the Thief-in-Chief and Russia to have control over my right to participate in the election pay for that and lose public office ....and go to jail.

Trump and his minions have been calling the inquiries into Russia's meddling as "fake news" and yet almost nothing out of their mouths have demonstrated that they are credible. So, when Trump's lawyer says he wasn't at the June meeting with the Russian lawyer allegedly handing over opposition dirt, it doesn't mean that he wasn't listening in on the conversation, possibly via his own taping system in his own hotel (which he admitted he operates) or via a phone of one of the other attendees (his own campaign officers Manafort and Kushner and his son Donald Jr.) and even texting real time prompts to one of those three.

And no one is buying the GOP default "justification" of "we have to do X, Y, and Z because its what we promised to do." No, GOP politicians will pay for their actions at the polls because of their enabling of an idiot, a traitor, and a thief who stole our constitutional right to elect our president. They will pay for their actions because they enabled Russia to maintain leverage over our executive branch and white house administration. They will pay for their actions because they enabled an idiot, a traitor, and a thief to trade our country's authority and position in the Western world for the ability to improperly manipulate the voting public and abuse an opposing candidate. GOP officials are not going to pay for their actions because they didn't repeal and replace the affordable care act--no voter supporting a GOP candidate made the candidate sign a contract requiring performance of that-or any other, specific act before throwing their vote to the GOP candidate. We all know it just didn't and doesn't work that way.

Which brings me to something that I have been pondering for a year or so now:
That we may need to change our society's three honesty exclusions (well, there are really four).

We are not a society based on the concept of truthfulness. We allow some of the most powerful positions and the most important processes to be infiltrated with dishonesty, and this allowance has brought is to the brink of collapse in terms of our identity with our national values.

We allow, without repercussion or liability:

1. Police officers to lie;

2. Lies to be told in legal proceedings;

3. Political candidates to lie about opposing candidates; and we allow

4. Children to lie.

In terms of this discussion, it is time that we revisit, as a nation, allowing political candidates to publish un-truths, alternative facts, or out-right fictions against opposing candidates. This last presidential campaign has demonstrated the burden of technology, which is the profound and in-correctable impact of the internet -- the broad, prolific, and immediate reach of false stories that create lasting and irreversible persuasion in the neurology of human minds. We certainly can't ensure that the audience of a false story is going to read, to read and understand, or to read, understand, and conclude a corrected impression of any subsequent retraction, correction, or rebuttal. So, let's just not let lies out there.

Besides, we are too busy to be buried with campaign effluva. So, let's make campaign rhetoric "count" and more efficient by making candidates liable for there dishonesty. We don't have to make the threshold so sensitive that campaigns become litigation generators. We just have to make the threshold weed out claims that have no positive and hard FACTUAL support, and to clearly include wildly obvious warnings when a candidate's or political group's statements about another candidate are not supported by more than a specious indicia of hard facts.

@ 7 2017







Monday, July 10, 2017

Tracking the Investigations 2017

House
House Oversight and Gov't Reform Committee
Topic: Probing Trump's security protocols for discussing classified info at Mar-a-Lago. 6
Topic:
Unclear now that Chair has changed 1
Maybe looking at Flynn's payments from Russia to Turkey.  3

Leadership:
Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) is stepping into retiring Chaffetz' seat as leader 1
                    Gerald Connolly (D-Va.) second-ranked Democrat 1
Elijah Cummings, D Maryland. Drives Flynn payments issue, releases evidence.   3

ACTIONS:
Under Chaffetz: 1
Requested Comey meetings with Trump memorandums 1
Requested documents related to Trumps downtown Washington Hotel 1
After Comey fired:
Requested copies of Comey's memos detailing private interactions with Trump
(requested this w S. Jud. Comm (w oversight of the FBI) and S Intl Comm,)   3

Staff:

House Judiciary

House Financial Services Committee
Topic:
Whether Trump has been given any loans backed by Russian interests  3

Lead:
Democratic members only, so far   3

ACTIONS
Requested docs from Deutsche Back    3


House Intelligence Committee
Topic: Likely on HOLD  ("suspended animation" 3)  Investigating alleged Russian election interference and possible Trump links. 1

Its FOUR QUESTIONS:  3
1. What did Russia do to influence the 2016 election?
2. Were there any links b\w Russian operatives " and individuals associated with political campaigns"?
3. How did the federal government respond to these efforts?
4. How and why was classified information leaked during this process?  3

But R's on the Committee use their questioning time to focus their attention on leaks and whether Obama administration "unmasked" intelligence about Trump associates for political purposes. 3

Result Format: Report--maybe bi-partisan reports. Can not suggest criminal charges. 3

Lead:
Devin Nunes, R-CA...   But stepped down temporarily as head of Russia Investigation due Ethics Committee inquiry into whether he improperly disclosed classified information over the course of the investigation 3 (He created appearance of bias in commenting on document leaked to him by Trump WH, which was trying to "prove" to Nunes that Obama admin had improperly unmasked Trump associates surveilled during routine foreign intelligence operations.  3)

Michael Conaway (R-Tex) 1
Adam Schiff, D-CA  it is possible that all of these events are not an "entirely unhappy coincidence", but that they are not coincidental, not disconnected, and not unrelated, and that the Russians used the same techniques to corrupt U.S. persons that they have employed in Europe and elsewhere...and we owe it to the country to find out."  3

Staff:

ACTIONS:
 3 20 2017  Comey testifies in Open Hearing and in Closed Session. Admits FBI investigating Moscow's role in the election and possible collusion with Trump campaign. 2


Senate
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
Topic: Broad inquiry into what, exactly, Russia did to influence the 2016 elections and how that fits into broader "cyber activity and active measures" Russia has used to target the U.S.  3

Result Form: Report with suggestions. No criminal charge(s) recommendations. 3

Leaders:
Richard Burr, R-N.C. Chair [Burr advised the Trump campaign in 2016.]   3
Mark Warner, D-Va, Vice Chair   3

Members:
Kamala Harris, CA   3
Marco Rubio, FL   3
Tom Cotton, AR  3

ACTIONS:
5 10 2017: Issues first subpoena, demanding documents from Flynn after he declined to voluntarily comply with earlier request 2

6 8 2017  Comey (former FBI director) testified: WH lied; I was fired b/c of his handling of the FBI's ongoing investigation into possible Trump campaign coordination with Russian efforts to disrupt 2016 election.   3



Senate Armed Services Committee

Topic: improving cybersecurity and protect against future hacking by foreign actors 3

Lead: John McCain, R-Ariz.   3

Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism
Lead: Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.

Actions:
former acting AG Sally yates testified she had warned Trump WH that Flynn was compromised. 3


Senate Judiciary Committee
Topic
Obstruction of Justice questions raised by Trump's decision to fire Comey.  3
Whether or not former A.G. Loretta Lynch improperly interfered with the FBI investigation into HC's private email server. 3


Justice Dept.

FBI
Topic 1: Moscow's role in U.S. election
Topic 2: Collusion b/w Russia and Trump campaign.

Special Counsel/Investigator: Russia Probe
Topic 1: Any links and/or coordination b/w the Russian gov't and individuals associated with the Campaign of President Donald Trump; and
Topic 2: any matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation.

Lead:
Robert Meuller: from 5 17 2017 to 1

Results form: Can recommend criminal charge(s). Report (on anything it finds 3).

Topic 1: Russia ties 1
Subject 1: Michael Flynn  If military was pushing him out, he saw private sector as consultant as lucrative 1
(5/6) points of legal jeopardy: 1
failed to register as lobbyist for Turkey 1
failed to get defense dept. permission for trip to Russia for tv appearance 1
omitted monies from foreign entities on his sec clearance form 1
Flynn didn't think trump was going to win, even took money from turkey on election day. 1


Subject 2: Roger Stone (Trump confidante who intimated he had inside info about when the hacked emails would be released) 5


Subject 3: Kushner
Subject's Legal Team: Jaime Guerelic (helped the couple with background forms, friends w/ Meuller) 1

Subject 3: Donald Trump Jr., added 7 10 2017, after he admitted via tweet that he met in June with Russia lawyer with ties to Putin with Kushner and Manafort to obtain info on HC. It is a criminal violation of federal election law to accept anything of value from a foreign entity in support of a campaign.  4
Legal Team:
Alan Futerfas, NY sole practitioner, criminal defense  4

Topic 2: Whether Donald Trump or other WH officials improperly acted to impede the FBI investigation and likely includes the circumstances of the dismissals of both former national security adviser Michael Flynn and Comey.  3  (committed Obstruction of Justice) 1
Subject 1:Donald Trump
Subject's Legal Team: jay Sekulow, Kazowez 1
Subject 3:
Subject's Legal Team:


Pot. Subject: Pence
Pot. Subject's Legal Team-

ACTIONS:
5 9 2017  Federal prosecutors issue grand jury subpoenas seeking business records from people who worked with Flynn when he was a private citizen.  2.

Staff 
Aaron Zebley, former FBU Chief of Staff   3
James Quarles, onetime Watergate prosecutor   3
Andrew Weissmann, led DoJ's fraud division and helped investigate Enron  3
Jeannie Rhee, worked at Justice Dept and at Mueller's alw firm WilmerHale  3



CITATIONS
1. WP, Mike DeBonis, June 18, 2017, "Trey Gowdy now has the House Oversight gavel. But will he investigate Trump?"
2. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/russia-election-hacking-us-investigations-everything-we-know-interference-donald-trump-hillary-a7742426.html
3. http://www.npr.org/2017/06/08/531940912/there-are-many-russia-investigations-what-are-they-all-doing
4. http://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/10/donald-trump-jr-hires-lawyer-for-russia-probes.html
5. 7 11 2017  https://www.justsecurity.org/41593/hiding-plain-sight-federal-campaign-finance-law-trump-campaign-collusion-russia-trump/
6. "Chaos Theory" by Philip Elliott, Time, feb 27 - march 6, 2017, p34

Squanderer in Chief and Morbid Incapacity @2017

The report recently published by Australia's ABC reporter, commenting on how Trump is given a fleeting gift (of the most powerful office in the world) and is squandering it. Hear, hear. I have been saddened by that since, oh, about, February, 2017.

I also want to put out there that since the earlier revelations that Kushner met with Russian diplomat(s) to request a private/secret and direct communication channel with the Kremlin, I have been saying that we call a person who does that a "spy". Now, there is talk calling the Kushner, Manafort, DT Jr. meeting with Russian lawyer in June treasonous, or bordering on treason.

This is where we, as a society, as a nation, have to come together and figure out a way for those who voted for an obvious malfeasant, and those who still "support" a person exhibiting a morbid incapacity for the office of President of the United States, to dust themselves off and carry themselves with dignity--and great humility, into a new era where they are dismissive of fake news, instigation, bullying, nepotism, insolence, vulgarity, and monetizing public resources/office for personal profit.