“When the C.I.A. noticed in late 2010 that its spies were disappearing…as fears of a mole grew, the government set up a secret task force….A veteran F.B.I. counterintelligence agent, Charles McGonigal, was assigned to run it,” reported @nytimes in 2018.
Director of FBI when McGonigal was named to head counterintelligence task force in 2010 was Robert Mueller.
“Democratic lawmakers raised concerns about a potential conflict of interest on the part of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin in his decision to lift sanctions on companies controlled by the Russian oligarch Oleg V. Deripaska,” reported @nytimes in 2019.
Three weeks before his fateful announcement about Hillary Clinton, October 2016, Comey and FBI made this announcement about Charles McGonigal:
Then, on October 31, 2016, @nytimes reported this:
"Investigating Donald Trump, F.B.I. Sees No Clear Link to Russia."
This was 8 days before the Trump-Clinton election.
It was 27 days after Comey named McGonigal to head Counterintelligence for FBI's New York Field Office.
@nytimes Now that McGonigal has been arrested, will he testify and tell the American people exactly what was going on during the days before the 2016 election?
@nytimes And does Comey have anything to say to Americans about McGonigal's arrest?
On its fiftieth anniversary, CBS airs roll call of its past and then-present news and entertainment stars, one after another, in front of Television City in Hollywood--forty-five years ago this week--watch (3 mins.):
@peterbakernyt In which John Connally richly earns his reputation for being cynical, self-centered, rapacious and coldblooded. Congrats to @peterbakernyt for revealing details of this important historical moment.
@peterbakernyt Look what kind of soulless pirate John Connally was. In Dallas car in 1963, he was shot and JFK was killed. Here, in JFK's old Oval Office, he poses for 1971 photo with shotgun next to Kennedy's old rival, sucking up to Nixon in effort to become his Presidential successor:
@peterbakernyt What Connally did to delay the Iran hostage release so Reagan could cinch 1980 election echoes what Nixon's emissaries did to sabotage LBJ's peace talks to cinch the 1968 election for Nixon. Connally was extremely close to Nixon in 1980. Any chance Nixon gave Connally the idea?
This late Chicago mobster bit a policeman's finger off, but that was hardly the worst thing he ever did. Anyone know who he was? (My fellow Chicagoans are welcome to reply.)
Which eminent American leader had recently resided for years (and would again) in the hotel where the New York mobster Albert Anastasia in 1957 took his final breath?
The Park Sheraton Hotel barber shop where the mobster Anastasia was gunned down in 1957 much later became a Starbucks, whose managers wisely chose to ignore history and not display New York tabloid photos of Anastasia's long-ago demise on their floor.
Walter Cronkite’s call-in show from Oval Office, “Ask President Carter,” this month 1977:
Watch Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd as Walter Cronkite and Jimmy Carter on SNL, 1977. Includes Carter’s advice on caller's Orange Sunshine overdose and call from mysterious ex-President in California looking for money:
Aykroyd on SNL as the hip President Carter: "Peter, what kind of acid did you take?"