My head is already spinning from the connections of the Trump/Putin effort to hijack our election and the GOP effort to cover it all up. Sometimes connecting the dots seems pretty straight forward, and sometimes you have to question the connections, but it seems most of the dots at one point or another go through Trump and Putin.
Ok, this connection may or may not be important, but it’s going to make you dizzy.
So everybody knows about Nunes’ midnight run to the White House to get intelligence that he could come back and report about to Ryan and Trump. So a couple of days ago, the NYT reports on the people who gave the classified information to Nunes.
That does not appear to be the case. Several current American officials identified the White House officials as Ezra Cohen-Watnick, the senior director for intelligence at the National Security Council, and Michael Ellis, a lawyer who works on national security issues at the White House Counsel’s Office and was previously counsel to Mr. Nunes’s committee.
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Mr. Cohen-Watnick, 30, is a former Defense Intelligence Agency official who served on the Trump transition team and was originally brought to the White House by Michael T. Flynn, the former national security adviser.
So now we’ve got dots connecting Nunes, Cohen-Watnick, and Flynn. And we already know that Flynn is connected to Russia on multiple fronts.
But who is this Cohen-Watnick?
He was nearly pushed out of his job this month by Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, who replaced Mr. Flynn as national security adviser, but survived after the intervention of Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law, and Stephen K. Bannon, Mr. Trump’s chief strategist.
So even though the National Security adviser didn’t want him in an intelligence job, he apparently has close enough ties with Bannon and Kushner that they got Trump to overrule Gen. McMaster.
Well, the young Mr. Cohen-Watnick has a private life so he can forget about the concerns of the day. In fact, he recently announced his engagement to Rebecca Miller.
Like Kushner, Cohen-Watnick is Jewish. His marriage to Rebecca Miller was listed on a newsletter from Ohr Kodesh Congregation, a Conservative synagogue located just outside Washington, D.C.
Ms Miller is a talented person who recently worked as a Content Executive for a large PR firm called Ketchum.
Ketchum works with great brands from all around the world, and we pride ourselves on break through work that delivers results.
Well, one of those great brands that they were delivering results for was, wait for it…
In October 2010, Ketchum announced it took a majority position in Maslov PR, the Moscow-based, full-service Russian public relations company. Since then, the company has operated as Ketchum Maslov.
The Moscow-based team of Ketchum Maslov and its partner network in the key locations of Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan and Belarus manage the representation of interests of major Russian and international companies, operating in different industries and segments of the market. These include the automotive, aviation, finance, telecommunications and IT, industrial, tourism, luxury, and many other areas.
But I guess the web started getting a bit too tangled and the relationship ended a couple of years ago.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has dropped his American PR company.
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Its biggest success was a controversial opinion piece in The New York Times written by Putin himself. The 2013 article criticized "American exceptionalism," and sparked a media backlash against the agency.
So Mr. Cohen-Watnick not only has connections to Russia through Flynn, he also has a possible connection through his future wife.
And remember, this investigation into the Trump’s campaign to assist a hostile Russian dictator to attack our democracy, is just getting started. Not all the dots are going to lead somewhere, but I just can’t get over how Trump and Putin seem to have their tiny hands somewhere on the path.
RESIST!