Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Schneiderman, Vekselberg: 3 News Stories You Should Read Today – 5/9/2018
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In the category of: That’s a whole new spin on expert testimony.
9/11 Architect Asks to Weigh in on Gina Haspel’s Confirmation
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the principal planner behind the 9/11 attacks, has asked for permission to brief U.S. senators on his thoughts regarding Gina Haspel’s nomination as head of the CIA.
Mohammed, who was captured in 2003 and subsequently waterboarded repeatedly, has asked a military judge at Guantanamo Bay permission to share six paragraphs of information related to Haspel with the Senate, the New York Times reports. It is unclear whether the judge will rule in time for the information to be shared prior to Haspel’s Wednesday confirmation hearing.
In the category of: Thank God Mueller is always ten steps ahead.
Exclusive: Mueller’s team questions Russian oligarch about payments to Cohen
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigators have questioned a Russian oligarch about hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments his company’s US affiliate made to President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen, after the election, according to a source familiar with the matter.
In the category of: OMG! I can’t unknow what I just read.
Call Me ‘Master’: Ex Says Former New York Attorney General Was Into Racist Role-Playing During Sex
The words come from the on-record account of one of Schneiderman’s former paramours, Tanya Selvaratnam, author of The Big Lie: Motherhood, Feminism, and the Reality of the Biological Clock. In the piece, Selvaratnam not only called Schneiderman “a misogynist and a sexual sadist” but also claimed that he said he would have to kill her if she left (he denies that part).
As referenced in the tweet above, Selvaratnam also said that Schneiderman used to beat her to get her to agree to sexual threesomes, and that when they had sex, he used to make the brown-skinned Sri Lankan call him “master” and say that she was his “brown slave” and “his property.”
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