{"id":12177,"date":"2017-06-07T17:58:48","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T00:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12177"},"modified":"2017-06-07T17:57:56","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T00:57:56","slug":"comeys-senate-testimony-and-callers-on-trump-impeachment-nsa-leaker-reality-winner-bradcast-672017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12177","title":{"rendered":"Comey’s Senate Testimony and Callers on Trump Impeachment, NSA ‘Leaker’ Reality Winner: ‘BradCast’ 6\/7\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

On today’s BradCast<\/i><\/a>, it’s great to be back live<\/i> at our flagship Los Angeles affiliate station, KPFK<\/a> on the Pacifica Radio Network<\/a> in Los Angeles after their recent fund drive. So we throw open the phones to listeners in celebration after several insanely busy news weeks! [Audio link to show is posted below.<\/i>]\n

But, first, former FBI Director James Comey released his prepared statement<\/a> [PDF] in advance of his much-anticipated testimony on Thursday before the U.S. Senate Intelligence committee. In the remarks, Comey details a number of his one-on-one meetings with and phone calls from Donald Trump, including the infamous “loyalty dinner” at the White House in late January and the similarly-infamous early-February meeting in the Oval Office, the day after National Security Adviser Michael Flynn was forced to resign, where Comey charges that he was asked by the President to end the FBI’s investigation of Flynn.<\/p>\n

We review the details of that prepared testimony, including Comey’s confirmation that he did, in fact, indicate to Trump on three different occasions that he was not personally being investigated by the Bureau at the time. Trump’s personal attorney cites<\/a> that testimony to claim the President is “completely and totally vindicated” by it. Others, however, regard the testimony as “explosive”<\/a> and as confirmation that Trump attempted to obstruct justice<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Also today, more on the leaked NSA analysis<\/a> charging that Russian intelligence attempted to access the computers of election officials around the country after successfully sending spear-phishing emails to employees at a private voter registration firm. That rather rudimentary hacking effort just before last year’s election, no matter who did it (as explained in much more detail on yesterday’s show<\/a>), may have allowed access for the intruders to the computers that program voting machines, results tabulators and voter registration systems around the country. Also, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden’s offers a response<\/a> to the arrest of the alleged leaker, Reality Leigh Winner<\/a>, and the charges filed against her under the 1917 Espionage Act.<\/p>\n

Then, as just-retired Dir. of National Intelligence James Clapper charges<\/a> “Watergate pales…compared to what we’re confronting now,” we take calls on all of the above and whether listeners believe Democrats should begin impeachment proceedings against Trump (as The Nation’s<\/i> John Nichols argued<\/a> earlier this week on the show) or at least promise such proceedings if they are elected to the majority in Congress in 2018. We received some rather surprising answers to that question from callers, as well as in regard to the charges filed against Winner!<\/p>\n

Finally, we’re joined by Desi Doyen with the latest Green News Report<\/i><\/a> on the swift and global fallout following Trump’s decision to pull the U.S. out of the historic Paris Climate Agreement…<\/p>\n

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