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Stephen Hadley Fast Facts Here is a look at the life of Stephen J. Hadley, former national security adviser to US President George W. Bush. Personal Birth place: Toledo, Ohio Other Facts Has served on several corporate and advisory boards, including Raytheon, the Bessemer Group, RAND’s Center for Middle East Public Policy and the State Department’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board. Timeline 1974-1977 – Member of the National Security Council under President Gerald Ford. 1986-1987 – Works as counsel to the Tower Commission, which investigated US arms sales to Iran. 1989-1993 – Serves as ...

plausible deniability plausible deniability is a age-old political tactic. The guy in charge often wants to do things, and doesn't want the public to know that he ordered them done. So he has a private chat with a subordinate, the subordinate does the dirty, and then if things go wrong the subordinate can take the rap. As there is no record that his superior knew what was going on, he can thus deny involvement and be believed. Hence the name. It works because the burden of proof is on those seeking to show that he was involved, and all he has to do is sow enough doubt.

>> yeah, these are two different branches. so mueller is investigating out of the department of justice. congress is exercising its constitutional prerogative of oversight as a check on another branch. this is a part of our history. this happened in watergate, in iran contra, the tower commission investigated while lawrence walsh, the special prosecutor investigated. you know, the 9/11 commission investigated 9/11 while the fbi was conducting its criminal and counterintelligence investigation. this yours truly doesn't really make sense when you consider the entities have different functions an...

The reports coming out of congress that's different from what the mueller investigation is looking at. so this is really duplicative in many ways and is going to be a political show at the end of the day. >> asha is shaking her head "no". >> we have to wait to see what the mueller report shows. >> we do. we do. >> we have to see what that counterintelligence investigation shows -- >> chris? >> and we need to let mueller do his job and not step on the toes of mueller while he's trying to do it. >> it's good to hear that last part, because certainly the president hasn't been following your advic...

Bad enough. then the bulk of information, never verified, never tell the judges, four times she paid for it. now we have a spy in the trump campaign? okay, this is not the united states if this is allowed to stand. yeah. that is right. i think the worst part is that we have been covering this throughout the entire trump presidency. and really even during at the end of the campaign. there is still confusion about what our government did to try to undermine and influence the presidential election. you have got to repeat that yourself a couple of times and let it sink in. this is a constitutional...