Nothing to see here. Not retaliation, just TPS Report covers…

Gotta drain that swamp.

Look, just use the new TPS cover sheet already.

Next you’re going to tell me that HR is actually there to protect the company from lawsuits rather than protect employee rights.

So apparently they overruled the career guys denial of 25 different people’s clearances?

That’s insane. Apparently past administrations had MAYBE one case like that. Trump had 25.

And it was outside of the norm to the degree that guys like John Kelly specifically wrote a memo about it to put on file. John Kelly, Trump’s chief of staff, specifically wrote memos for the file saying “this is messed up.”

That’s amazing.

Hey, crime bosses need their criminals around 'em.

This is the low point in the history of the American Presidency. Can it get much lower? See what Trump does tomorrow.

Lindsey Graham et al will be aghast at this breach of national security.

I will pull his fainting couch out of storage.

The have illegal immigrants to do that kind of heavy lifting.

Man, we went from “total exoneration” to “well, obviously there’s gonna be terrible stuff in there,” pretty fast.

Sure. They got the headlines they wanted. Now they just need to soft-sell the rest for a while. By the time we actually see it, everyone will just shrug and move on.

“It’s 100% fact that President Putin never used the word ‘collusion’ when discussing cooperating with the Trump campaign. It’s all right there in the report. Not once!”

Pretty in-depth legal analysis of the Barr letter from a relatively apolitical laywer:

Escalation.

Even Philip Dick’s letters to the editor remain relevant today.

The Wall St Journal tried to exonerate Nixon? Whodathunkit?

Huh. How about that.

Yep, as TPM notes tonight, the Times is apparently playing cleanup on aisle 3 after they/Haberman got snookered by the whole “exoneration” shit.

Imagine that.