Whistleblower: Intelligence On Russia, White Supremacists Altered To Suit Trump

 

Of all the dangerous, if not treasonous, national security lies and coverups that the assministration of the malignant loser engaged in, this has to be close to the top of the list:

All The Best People, Coronavirus Edition

The nation's chief sexual predator Russian asset chief law enforcement officer economic wizard chief medical officer has sumpin' to say:

The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA. We are in contact with everyone and all relevant countries. CDC & World Health have been working hard and very smart. Stock Market starting to look very good to me!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 24, 2020

Lookin' good, stock market!

But, never fear, your government is... what's that?

Hey Von Clownstick, try checking DHS / Ken Cuccinelli’s TL about this. He’s looking on the Internet for information about it. Can’t get around a pay wall

— Tom Joseph (@TomJChicago) February 24, 2020

You mean this Cooch, your acting Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security?

Has the Johns Hopkins map of the coronavirus stopped working for other people, or just me?  https://t.co/36uda8fm6P

— Acting Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli (@HomelandKen) February 24, 2020

I just tried again, and it looks like Johns Hopkins put the information behind a membership wall of some kind.  Seems like bad timing to stop helping the world with this (previously) useful resource. Here's hoping it goes back up soon.

— Acting Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli (@HomelandKen) February 24, 2020

Maybe someone should say something to Cooch --

there is literally an ENTIRE FEDERAL AGENCY working for you that you could ask to provide you and all Americans with the latest information on the Coronavirus https://t.co/sbXdLaOOeg

— L.D. Burnett (@LDBurnett) February 24, 2020

In summary,
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Sen. Rand Paul Hires Ken Cuccinelli, Now Has A Fool For A Lawyer

There's no honor among thieves plagiarists:

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has been caught using purloined passages in several of his speeches. Now the aspiring presidential candidate stands accused of filing a lawsuit stolen from its author. 

Since December, the libertarian lawmaker, a tea party favorite, had been working with former Reagan administration lawyer Bruce Fein to draft a class-action suit seeking to have the National Security Agency’s surveillance of telephone data declared unconstitutional; the two men appeared together as early as last June to denounce the NSA’s activities. 

But when Paul filed his suit at the U.S. District Court in Washington on Wednesday morning, Fein’s name had been replaced with that of Ken Cuccinelli, the failed Republican gubernatorial candidate in Virginia who until last month had been the state’s attorney general. Cuccinelli has never argued a case in that courthouse, and he isn’t even a member of the D.C. bar (he also filed a motion Wednesday seeking an exception to allow him to argue this case in D.C.). But he is, like Paul, a tea party darling. 

Fein, who has not been paid in full for his legal work by Paul’s political action committee, was furious that he had been omitted from the filing he wrote. “I am aghast and shocked by Ken Cuccinelli’s behavior and his absolute knowledge that this entire complaint was the work product, intellectual property and legal genius of Bruce Fein,” Mattie Fein, his ex-wife and spokeswoman, told me Wednesday. “Ken Cuccinelli stole the suit,” she said, adding that Paul, who “already has one plagiarism issue, now has a lawyer who just takes another lawyer’s work product.”

Bruce Fein, who has a reputation to uphold, should just walk away from these ethically-challenged dimbulbs and consider this a lucky break.

UPDATE:  Looks like Fein isn't interested in his reputation so much.

(Photo:  Sen. Aqua Buddha and Transvaginal Probe Cooch)

Probe Cooch, Not Women!

While it's clear that Virginia Gov. Bob "Blowdry Bob" McDonnell's scandal-tainted Governorship is sinking fast -- there's speculation that he may even resign shortly -- it was thought that Rethug gubernatorial nominee and transvaginal probe enthusiast Ken "Cooch" Cuccinelli would escape the taint.  Not so fast. It appears that the same corporate individual that was lavishing Blowdry Bob's family with gifts and favors has been "nice" to Cooch, too. Here are the details.

Maybe it's Cooch that need to be further probed.

(image:  Not so pleasant when the probe's on the other....foot)

Blowdry Bob McDonnell: Blowin' in the Wind?

Ruth Marcus summarizes the earlier case against Virginia Rethuglican Gov. "Blowdry Bob" McDonnell and his family's sticky fingers, but then, she notes, things got worse:

Now comes reporting that raises the story to a new level of outrage: Williams last year gave $70,000 — supposedly a loan — to a corporation owned by McDonnell and his sister; plus $50,000 to Maureen McDonnell in 2011, and $10,000 as a wedding present this year to another McDonnell daughter.

As astonishing is the governor’s technocratic defense: that he is complying with the letter of Virginia disclosure rules, which do not require reporting of gifts to family members. “To, after the fact, impose some new requirements on an official,” McDonnell told a Norfolk radio show, “obviously wouldn’t be fair.”

But gifts and entanglements like these are simply wrong, a violation of the governor’s duty to citizens, whatever the rules. That McDonnell doesn’t get this basic point makes him unfit for office. Obviously.

Rethuglican officials in the Commonwealth are doing an up-tempo version of the Virginia reel to distance themselves from the guy some in the party wanted to run as One Percent Mitt's VP.  That includes uber right-wing Rethuglican Atty. Gen. Ken "Cooch" Cuccinelli, who's running for the Governorship this year, and fears even the slightest connection to the scandal.  Given Cooch's extremist record, that should almost be the least of his concerns.

(Photo:  "Blowdry Bob" McDonnell -  just leave the cash in plain brown envelopes, please.)

Cuccinelli Wants Northern Virginians To Think He's A Democrat

Ultra-right culture warrior, transvaginal probe enthusiast and Rethuglican nominee for Governor of Virginia Ken "Cooch" Cuccinelli has had an ad playing in the Northern Virginia market for a couple of weeks now,  apparently with the intention of making those folks think he's running on some Democratic rather than theocratic Rethuglican principles:



Um, sorry, Cooch.  That dog isn't hunting. 

Meet E.W. Jackson

We want you to know a little (as little as possible will do) about Bishop E.W. "Ewwww" Jackson, the nominee for Lieutenant Governor of the Petri dish that is the Rethuglican/ New Confederate/ Stupid Party in Virginia, and its most recent gift to Virginia Democrats.  He'll be running in November with goobernatorial nominee and transvaginal probe enthusiast Ken "The Cooch" Cuccinelli.  What you should know about Jackson, and why he perfectly encapsulates the zeitgeist of his ultra-reactionary party, has been summarized by Alex Seitz-Wald at Salon.  Here are but a few of Jackson's greatest hits:

1. On gay people: “Their minds are perverted, they’re frankly very sick people psychologically, mentally and emotionally and they see everything through the lens of homosexuality. When they talk about love they’re not talking about love, they’re talking about homosexual sex.”
2. On gay people (again): “Homosexuality is a horrible sin, it poisons culture, it destroys families, it destroys societies; it brings the judgment of God unlike very few things that we can think of… It’s an authoritarian, totalitarian spirit.”
3. Political predictions: Jackson said a few weeks before the 2012 election that black voters would “overwhelmingly” vote against Barack Obama because he had endorsed marriage equality. Over 90 percent of African Americans voted for the president.
4. On Democrats: “I liken them to slave masters who brag about how good their slaves are and how well-behaved they are but let them try to be free, let them try to escape and then you find out that they don’t really think very much of them.”
5. On Planned Parenthood and the KKK: “Planned Parenthood has been far more lethal to black lives than the KKK ever was. And the Democrat Party and the black civil rights allies are partners in this genocide.”

There's more at the link, if you need any more proof that this guy is a certifiable godbothering nut -- and thus fits the political mold most favored by his party's frothing base.

Also:  How's that rebranding coming along?

Excuses, ExCooches

We've seen this movie before: the Rethugs try to delegitimatize the President by claiming he's a Socialist Muslim, he wasn't born in the U.S., etc. etc. Now, there's a fraudster movement underway among the delusional far right, who are claiming that the lack of voter suppression laws enabled President Obama to "steal" the election. Virginia's notorious Rethuglican Attorney General Ken "Cooch" Cuccinelli implied on a wing nut radio program that implementing voter ID laws in key states would have given Willard "One Percent" Romney the election (overlooking a number of states that went for Willard which don't have restrictive voter ID laws). Cooch is infamous for supporting the transvaginal probe indignity with Virginia's Rethug state legislators (small government, you say?), and is running for the Rethug nomination for Governor. But with a state trending more and more blue, it may be a rough slog in the general election for Cooch and his "probing" mind.

(photo: A female constituent offers to give Cooch a transpenile probe.)

Virginia's "Obamacare" Suit Rejected

Rethug crackpot Virginia Attorney General Ken "Chooch" Cuccinelli (Secessionist-VA) had his suit challenging the Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare") tossed out on its sorry ass today by the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals. The court ruled that Chooch didn't have standing to sue (we suspect Chooch hasn't had anything "standing" in some time now). Nice waste of taxpayers money to satisfy the monomania of this teahadist nitwit.

(Photo: The Chooch sez, "Ayyyyyy!")

Activist Judge Rules HCR Unconstitutional

As expected, Federal district judge Henry Hudson, appointed to the bench by Dumbya, has declared the individual mandate in the health care reform law unconstitutional. (Rejoice, wingnuts!) Two previous attempts by right wingers to stop HCR in its tracks were shot down by Federal judges. The ruling, in a case brought by Virginia's ultra-right wing Attorney General Ken "The Kook" Cuccinelli, will ultimately be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. As Steve Benen thoughtfully points out, the individual mandate was a Rethug idea before the inmates took over the asylum. But these days, when it's far more important to destroy the Obama presidency than be philosophically consistent, hey, what's the prob?!

Also, if Hudson were a liberal, wouldn't he be excoriated as an "activist judge?"

UPDATE: If Hudson had a major conflict of interest, wouldn't he be excoriated as a "corrupt judge?"