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Shortly after the firing, Mr. Trump told senior Russian officials in the Oval Office that the dismissal relieved “great pressure” on him. And his lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, has said Mr. Comey was fired for refusing to publicly exonerate Mr. Trump.
Mr. Rosenstein did not engage with Mr. Sessions as he deliberated whether to appoint a special counsel.
On the afternoon that Mr. Mueller’s appointment was announced, Mr. Sessions was in the Oval Office with the president discussing candidates to be F.B.I. director when they both learned that Mr. Rosenstein had made his decision. Mr. Trump erupted in anger, saying he needed someone overseeing the investigation who would be loyal to him. Mr. Sessions offered to resign.
Mr. Sessions felt blindsided by Mr. Rosenstein’s decision. After leaving the White House, Mr. Sessions’s chief of staff, Jody Hunt, confronted Mr. Rosenstein, demanding to know why he had not given them advance warning, according to a lawyer briefed on the exchange. Mr. Rosenstein has told others that he was worried at the time he would be fired by the president.
Andrew C. White, a former federal prosecutor who worked with Mr. Rosenstein and remains close to him, said he believed Mr. Rosenstein “had every right to be furious.”
“The White House put Greyhound tire tracks on his back,” Mr. White said. “They threw him under the bus.”
WASHINGTON — U.S. intelligence agencies believe that North Korea has increased its production of fuel for nuclear weapons at multiple secret sites in recent months — and that Kim Jong Un may try to hide those facilities as he seeks more concessions in nuclear talks with the Trump administration, U.S. officials told NBC News.
The intelligence assessment, which has not previously been reported, seems to counter the sentiments expressed by President Donald Trump, who tweeted after his historic June 12 summit with Kim that "there was no longer a nuclear threat from North Korea."
Analysts at the CIA and other intelligence agencies don't see it that way, according to more than a dozen American officials who are familiar with their assessments and spoke on the condition of anonymity. They see a regime positioning itself to extract every concession it can from the Trump administration — while clinging to nuclear weapons it believes are essential to survival.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
“It means a lot when someone whose had it all in their career just says, ‘I can’t do this any longer,’” one senior State Department official said of Melville’s retirement. “I just wonder who’s next.”
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ha ha it’s called TDS. (Trump Derangement Syndrome) mental illness is a serious problem in today’s politics.
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On Friday, NBC News publicized an assessment by U.S. intelligence agencies that North Korea has continued to enrich uranium for use in nuclear weapons at “multiple secret sites” recently.
Notably, these activities have continued even as North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has pursued a new round of diplomatic outreach to South Korea and the United States, culminating in two summit meetings with South Korean President Moon Jae-in and one summit meeting with U.S. President Donald J. Trump in Singapore—the first of its kind between a North Korean and U.S. leader. The intelligence assessment also finds that Kim has likely made a decision to conceal these covert facilities in upcoming technical negotiations with the United States.
The NBC News report is notable for the breadth of its sourcing: 12 sources, ostensibly inside the U.S. intelligence community, spoke to reporters about these assessments. On the surface, the scale of this remarkable leak suggests significant dissatisfaction within the U.S. intelligence community with recent political messaging around the outcome of the Singapore summit. Significantly, the assessments totally undercut Trump’s view of the state of the threat from North Korea on his return from Singapore.
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The most fascinating — and explosive — revelation in the NBC report is the discussion of an assessment by the U.S. intelligence community that North Korea “intended to deceive the U.S.” in ongoing negotiations. The report follows up on that statement by underlining that NBC “agreed to withhold some details of the latest intelligence assessment that officials said could put sources at risk.” Reading between the lines, the implication here is that existing intelligence assessments of North Korea’s intentions are likely based on robust signals or human intelligence sources. These sources and methods may be compromised as a result of this report.
When combined with the breadth of sources, the sensitivity of these reported assessments underlines just how strongly parts of the U.S. intelligence community are pushing back on the White House’s post-Singapore summit messaging on the state of North Korea’s denuclearization. Not only does the North Korea threat remain very real, the U.S. intelligence community is willing to put sensitive sources and methods on the line to publicize this.
It’s impossible to pin down the motivations behind these leaks, but it’s likely too that their timing—just one week before Pompeo’s July 6 trip to North Korea to conduct further talks—was tactically astute. Had these leaks not emerged and had the United States and North Korea miraculously arrived at some sort of arrangement involving international inspectors and verification, Pyongyang may have just declared the known centrifuge facility at Yongbyon, immediately revealing to the United States that it was negotiating in bad faith.
With Kangson and the third site now firmly in the public domain, North Korea will be under additional pressure to allow these sites to become part of the horse-trading game with the United States. Despite Trump’s touting of the Singapore agreement, the fact remains that it is the U.S.-South Korea alliance that has made the greatest concessions in exchange for reversible cosmetic giveaways from North Korea.
The unverified and likely reversible dismantlement of tunnel entrances at the Punggye-ri nuclear test site and a likely upcoming dismantlement of the static liquid fuel engine test stand at the Sohae Satellite Launching Station are largely meaningless in face of Trump’s decision to cancel joint U.S.-South Korea exercises. By casting a spotlight on North Korea’s covert enrichment sites, the U.S. intelligence community lights a flame under the White House and Pompeo to take the denuclearization agenda seriously.
As of this writing, Trump has yet to comment publicly on the NBC report. He may choose to deride it as “fake news” or to publicly declare that these leakers will be sought out, but what’s likeliest is that he’ll simply choose to ignore these inconvenient truths. Much of what NBC reports was available to Trump before the Singapore summit, but that made little difference to the outcomes of that summit and to subsequent messaging.
Until something changes in how this administration chooses to face the facts of North Korea’s nuclear complex, Kim’s fissile material stockpiles will continue to grow.
Useful thread by a real expert analyzing how the new “postcard” for tax returns is more complicated, leads you to fill in more additional schedules and will cost more to comply with. It’s costly political theater.
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