The Fuse Is Burning (TPM)

[struggle4progress]

ByJOSH MARSHALL
PublishedMARCH 9, 2017, 2:37 PM EDT

... 1. Yesterday, Wikileaks released a trove of documents which purport to document numerous hacking tools used by the CIA. The authenticity of these documents hasn't been formally confirmed. But all signs suggest they are real. Knowledgable observers say it is a huge setback for the CIA.

2. Around noon today, someone tipped off Buzzfeed (tip is my surmise but how else would they know to be there?) that Nigel Farage was meeting with Julian Assange at the Ecuadorean Embassy in London where Assange been holed up since 2012 to avoid questioning and possible arrest on a sexual assault accusation in Sweden. Farage is a close ally and advisor to President Trump. He has been regularly visiting Washington and New York since Trump's election and meets with Trump regularly. We don't know what the two men were discussing. But Farage's whole world right now is Trump, Trump and breaking apart the EU ...

5. This afternoon UK time, Assange holds a press conference discussing his new batch of CIA documents and promising more revelations.

6. During Sean Spicer's daily press briefing, an AP reporter asks Spicer about the Farage/Assange meeting and whether he carrying a message from President Trump. Spicer basically ducked the question. But when asked specifically whether Farage was "delivering a message" from Trump, Spicer replied: "I have no idea."

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-fuse-is-burning

[struggle4progress]

1. Can We Get a Read Out?

ByJOSH MARSHALL
PublishedMARCH 9, 2017, 1:10 PM EDT

So how much has Nigel Farage been in DC since the inauguration? "A lot," one close Farage-watcher tells me ... He was here on election night. He was the first foreign politician to meet with Trump after his win. He came to DC again in December. He came at least once in January for the inauguration. And he came again in February ... All of these trips have been about deepening Farage's alliance with President Trump ... The last meeting that we know of between the two men was on February 26th when they dined together at Trump's DC hotel. What business would Farage possibly have meeting secretly with Assange today?

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/can-we-get-a-read-out

[Nitram]

2. In a war between Trump and th CIA, Trump will lose.

The CIA will have every intelligence agency on their side, and they've got deep resources.

[yurbud]

3. yep. I'm not a fan of either, but when intelligence is in your opponent's name and you have

room temperature IQ, you are going down.