https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-14-2024
"Five years ago, on September 15, 2019, after about a six-week hiatus during
the summer, I wrote a Facebook post that started:
“Many thanks to all of you who have reached out to see if I'm okay. I am,
indeed (aside from having been on the losing end of an encounter with a yellow
jacket this afternoon!). I've been moving, setting up house, and finishing the
new book. Am back and ready to write, but now everything seems like such a
dumpster fire it's very hard to know where to start. So how about a general
overview of how things at the White House look to me, today....”
I wrote a review of Trump’s apparent mental decline amidst his faltering
presidency, stonewalling of investigations of potential criminal activity by
him or his associates, stacking of the courts, and attempting to use the power
of the government to help his 2020 reelection.
Then I noted that the chair of the House Intelligence Committee, Representative
Adam Schiff (D-CA), had written a letter to the acting director of national
intelligence, Joseph Maguire, on Friday, September 13, telling Maguire he knew
that a whistleblower had filed a complaint with the inspector general of the
intelligence community, who had deemed the complaint “credible” and "urgent.”
This meant that the complaint was supposed to be sent on to the House
Intelligence Committee. But, rather than sending it to the House as the law
required, Maguire had withheld it. Schiff’s letter told Maguire that he’d
better hand it over. Schiff speculated that Maguire was covering up evidence of
crimes by the president or his closest advisors.
And I added: “None of this would fly in America if the Senate, controlled by
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, were not aiding and abetting him.”
“This is the story of a dictator on the rise,” I wrote, “taking control of
formerly independent branches of government, and using the power of his office
to amass power.”
Readers swamped me with questions. So I wrote another post answering them and
trying to explain the news, which began breaking at a breathtaking pace.
And so these
Letters from an American were born."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
