It's about not putting on trial the deals done with overseas oligarchs that MANY Washington politicians use to enrich themselves. If this trial had come down to being about Hunter Biden, Ukraine and Burisma, it would shine a light on an old method that the Washington...
In The Nation, Eric Alterman reminds us of Elliot Abrams's lying on behalf of Salvadoran death squads in the Reagan years. This was 20 years before the W. Bush administration's "El Salvador Option" in Iraq, using the Badr Corps to hunt and kill Sunnis, which...