Burn Before Pleading

This week on Bombshell, Quinta Jurecic of Lawfare (and Washington Post!) fame joins us to break down the Mueller investigation, AUMF debate, and whether Mike Flynn is really a character from a Coen Brothers' movie. We also discuss the president's trip to Asia and do our best to understand the drama in Lebanon and Saudi Arabia, which is all happening without the benefit of a functioning State Department. Quinta confesses her love of James Comey's Twitter account, while Erin and Loren do their best cosplay courtesy of Rag and Bone. Episode Reading: Quinta Jurecic, "Robert Mueller can't save us," The Washington Post Benjamin Wittes, "The Lawfare Podcast, Special Edition: A Person of Flynnterest," Lawfare Julia Ioffe, "The Secret Correspondence Between Donald Trump Jr. and WikiLeaks," The Atlantic James V. Grimaldi, Shane Harris, and Aruna Viswanatha, "Mueller Probes Flynn's Role in Alleged Plan to Deliver Cleric to Turkey," The Wall Street Journal Daniel W. Drezner, "Why Donald Trump's foreign policy ambitions will always collapse," The Washington Post Zeeshan Aleem, "8 photos that sum up Trump's rollicking Asia tour so far," Vox Anne Barnard, "Where's Saad Hariri? Lebanon Wants to Know," The New York Times Louisa Loveluck and Suzan Haidamous, "Lebanese prime minister whose resignation shook the region says he will return 'very soon,'" The Washington Post The Economist, "Saudi Arabia's unprecedented shake-up," The Economist Zack Beauchamp, "The purge in Saudi Arabia, explained," Vox Amb. Barbara Stephenson, "Time to Ask Why," American Foreign Service Association Charlie Savage, "Will Congress Ever Limit the Forever-Expanding 9/11 War?," The New York Times Scott Anderson and Sabrina McCubbin, "Summary: Senate Foreign Relations Committee's AUMF Hearing," Lawfare Rag & Bone, Star Wars Collection (December 1, 2017)