Flooding the Zone

 

Via ZDNet.

I'm going to be really skeptical in all directions about the report on Iranian interference in the election from our notoriously unqualified Director of National Intelligence, ex-Congressman John Ratcliffe, who got Trump's attention in 2017-18 alongside Devin Nunes as the two of them worked to turn the House Intelligence Committee into an adjunct of the Trump campaign, was criticized for not coming close to meeting the statutory requirements for the job

50 US Code § 3023, “Any individual nominated for appointment as Director of National Intelligence shall have extensive national security expertise.”

and lying about it in the most ridiculous way

Christie's secret keeper

Too many krises (Kriskris? Krisses?), from brisi.org.

Chris Christie tells @NicolleDWallace Trump's comments to Comey were "normal New York City conversation" he didn't realize was inappropriate

— Eli Stokols (@EliStokols) June 7, 2017

That part of New York moved to Jersey after Sammy Gravano testified. https://t.co/kREkmHV8kJ

— Yastreblyansky (@Yastreblyansky) June 8, 2017

There's a story about Trump's apparent pick for FBI director, Christopher Wray, that isn't getting told as widely as it needs to be; I happen to know about it because great news staffers at WNYC, my local radio station, Andrea Bernstein and Matt Katz, did a lot of the original reporting, but it's also very nicely written up by Brendan Morrow at Heavy, and it involves New Jersey governor Christopher Christie, who used to work with Wray "a lot" back in the oughts when he was US Attorney for the New Jersey district and Wray was running the criminal division of the federal Department of Justice.

He was also Christie's lawyer during the investigation of the "Bridgegate" scandal that arose when two of three lanes onto the George Washington Bridge in Fort Lee were closed at the morning rush hour in the first week of school in September 2013 for an imaginary traffic study, causing devastating delays and public fury, apparently as punishment from the governor's office for Fort Lee's Democratic mayor Mark Sokolich for not supporting Christie's reelection campaign, and we were supposed to believe Christie was entirely unaware of this criminal activity by the avengers on his staff.

Christie thinks Wray is a terrific choice for FBI director!