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Blogs > Ronald L. Feinman > More Senators Who Made an Impact, Despite First Being Appointed (Not Elected)
Apr 16, 2021
More Senators Who Made an Impact, Despite First Being Appointed (Not Elected)
Sen. Sam Ervin (D-NC) chairs the 1973 Senate Watergate hearings.
Ronald L. Feinman is the author of Assassinations, Threats, and the American Presidency: From Andrew Jackson to Barack Obama
(Rowman Littlefield Publishers, 2015). A paperback edition is now available.
A previous essay identified several US Senators who were initially appointed to their seats, rather than winning election. In the second half of the 20
th century, six other senators achieved historical significance despite originally being appointed on a temporary basis.
Apr 17, 2021
A series of important incidents and events have preceded Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s first face-to-face summit meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden in Washington. These mostly serious and often ominous politico and military developments that have occurred in Europe, the Middle East and elsewhere in the world include:
On April 8, the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations committee chairman said a China-focused bipartisan agreement was reached on a Strategic Competition Act of 2021.
On April 10, Russia was reported to have tried to test the U.S. by deploying a massive military force, it’s largest in years, near the Ukrainian border, both on land and at sea.
Brad ParscaleAides tried to get Trump to stop attacking McCain in hopes of clinching Arizona: reportMORE, Trump’s election data guru, the information that Manafort handed directly to Russian intelligence was of critical importance, determining “98 percent” of the campaign’s resource allocations (such as spending on TV, radio and social media ads, rallies, field operations and so on).
Indeed, the data were so important that Parscale kept a visualization of the information on his iPad at all times, allowing him to tell then-candidate Trump where to conduct his next rally at a moment’s notice.
According to the then-Republican-led Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, the ultra-sensitive campaign information that Manafort passed to a Russian spy “identified voter bases in blue-collar, democratic-leaning states which Trump could swing,” including in “Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Minnesota.”
A School for Spooks: The London University Department Churning Out NATO Spies
Published: April 17, 2021
LONDON Last week,
MintPress exposed how the supposedly independent investigative collective Bellingcat is, in fact, funded by a CIA cutout organization and filled with former spies and state intelligence operatives. However, one part of the story that has remained untold until now is Bellingcat’s close ties to the Department of War Studies at King’s College London, an institution with deep links to the British security state and one that trains a large number of British, American and European agents and defense analysts.
A school for spooks