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Rachel Maddow looks at Donald Trump's persecution of all of the officials involved in the investigation of Russia's intrusion in the 2016 election in support of Trump, and the particularly hard time the Trump administration and Trump-supporting media have given former F.B.I. deputy director Andrew McCabe, who opened the counterintelligence and obstruction of justice investigations into Trump.
9:31 image: Top national security leaders targeted by Trump. Yates, Comey, McCabe, Strzok, Ohr, Clapper, Brennan and Jim Baker. All systemically targeted by Trump, his people and his helpers in conservative media. McCabe is getting an extra dose of vindictiveness, the demanding of a criminal prosecution against him. It's taken 18 months since the supposed referral for alleged criminal action against McCabe and still no charge? Why?
Justice Department authorized prosecutors to charge Andrew McCabe By Matt Zapotosky and Spencer S. Hsu September 12 [...] Michael Horowitz, the Justice Department’s inspector general, referred his investigation to the U.S. attorney’s office for the District of Columbia and released his report on McCabe in April 2018. Prosecutors began using a grand jury, a sign of the inquiry’s seriousness. Internally, though, there was significant discussion about how best to proceed. Two assistant U.S. attorneys at some point left the case — and one left the U.S. attorney’s office entirely. That person had concerns about how it was being handled, according to people familiar with the matter. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/justice-dept-authorized-prosecutors-to-charge-andrew-mccabe/2019/09/12/5b0d48ea-d418-11e9-9343-40db57cf6abd_story.html
MSNBC Rachel Maddow reports on the backlash within the weather science community over an unsigned statement from NOAA supporting Donald Trump's false claims about the path of Hurricane Dorian, praise for the team that stood up to Trump's misinformation, and the investigation into the genesis of the unsigned statement.
6:04 - See why Nixon put his new agency NOAA into the Commerce Department instead of into Interior where it belonged.
From video:
Commerce Chief Threatened Firings at NOAA After Trump’s Dorian Tweets, Sources Say By Christopher Flavelle, Lisa Friedman and Peter Baker Published Sept. 9, 2019 Updated Sept. 10, 2019 [...] Mr. Ross, the commerce secretary, intervened two days later, early last Friday, according to the three people familiar with his actions. Mr. Ross phoned Neil Jacobs, the acting administrator of NOAA, from Greece where the secretary was traveling for meetings and instructed Dr. Jacobs to fix the agency’s perceived contradiction of the president. P - Dr. Jacobs objected to the demand and was told that the political staff at NOAA would be fired if the situation was not fixed, according to the three individuals, who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the episode. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/09/climate/hurricane-dorian-trump-tweet.html
Government scientists blast Trump weather wars after NOAA defends his hurricane forecast By CAITLIN OPRYSKO 09/09/2019 06:36 PM EDT Updated 09/09/2019 07:30 PM EDT The Trump weather wars are raging on, with top government scientists blasting the politicization of storm forecasts after President Donald Trump repeatedly claimed that Hurricane Dorian posed a dangerous threat to Alabama. https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/09/scientists-trump-noaa-hurricane-alabama-1487628
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