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On TV, Maddow appears in slim black blazers over black shirts. She wears smoky eye shadow and subtly glossy lipstick, and her short hair is swept elegantly away from her forehead. The only tell that her business-casual femininity is a mirage created for television is that she has not modified her look for 11 years. It is a uniform she selected for work and steps into every day, so that she never has to make an aesthetic choice that can be picked apart by the commentariat and elevated above what she has to say. When the show is over, she wipes off her makeup, removes her contacts and changes into her civilian clothing.

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I suspect the Clinton Campaign went through their Law firm to pay a former British intelligence officer, then living in Russia and working freelance, for the salacious Trump dossier, for a similar reason.

What's the "similar reason" here? Snood's question was about open contempt for lawfully issued subpoenas.

Pompeo says State Dept. officials won’t show up for scheduled impeachment depositions this week

Big ******* Surprise

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Pompeo says State Dept. officials won’t show up for scheduled impeachment depositions this week

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Barr personally asked foreign officials to aid inquiry into CIA, FBI activities in 2016

Iran's judiciary says it has convicted three people of spying for the US, sentencing one of them to death, and another person of spying for the UK.

Spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili said two men, Ali Nafariyeh and Mohammadali Babapour, had received 10-year prison sentences for working for the CIA.

Mohammad Amin Nasab was jailed for 10 years for aiding British intelligence.

Mr Esmaili said he would not identify the person sentenced to death because the verdict was subject to appeal.

It was not clear if any of those convicted were among 17 people who Iran's intelligence ministry said had been arrested for spying for the CIA earlier this year.

The ministry alleged they had been collecting information in nuclear and military facilities and in the private sector - allegations that US President Donald Trump dismissed as "totally false".

Mr Esmaili also confirmed on Tuesday that the Iranian authorities had arrested the British-Iranian anthropologist Kameel Ahmady.

A veteran federal judge on Monday warned U.S. prosecutors either to charge former acting FBI director Andrew McCabe or to drop their investigation into whether he lied to investigators about an unauthorized media disclosure, saying their indecision was undermining the credibility of the Justice Department.
If a decision is not made, U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton of Washington, D.C., said at a hearing that he would order the Justice Department to release internal FBI documents related to McCabe’s firing by Nov. 15.
The extraordinary warning by Walton — a 2001 President George W. Bush appointee and former presiding judge of the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court — marked the latest turbulence in an investigation that McCabe’s defenders say is a move by the Trump administration to punish the president’s perceived political enemies.

Thanks for your explanation. You know, I wasn't criticizing you, I just wasn't sure of your meaning. Do you think that, regardless of "the legal issues involved", simply dismissing lawfully issued subpoenas — stonewalling — should be a standard practice when members of an administration are suspected of wrongdoing?

Jesus. There have been over 74 thousand posts to this thread. If I had charged one dollar for each contribution I'd probably be close to breaking even.