With the Senate set to vote this week on the nomination of Gina Haspel to be CIA director, the Senate Intelligence Committee suddenly pulled access to a damning classified memo that has been put together by Democratic staff.
I'm told it's not much longer than 20 pages, but many of the senators who will vote on her nomination haven't even read it read, Senate sources say. There is now pressure to make the memo more widely available and restrictions around it may be lifted soon, I'm hearing, but in the meantime, here's my story on it.
For The Young Turks, I interviewed Yasmine Taeb of the Center for Victims of Torture on the politics of the nomination.
Tomorrow there'll be primaries in Nebraska and Pennsylvania. Races in Allentown and Omaha both feature progressives taking on conservative Democrats, and it'll be telling to see whether the grassroots insurgency that's been underway since Trump was elected can prevail in either of these races.
The Lehigh Valley race pits pastor and community organizer Greg Edwards against EMILY's List candidate Susan Wild, whose defense of a police officer caught on video abusing a suspect has become a campaign issue. And then there's John Morganelli, a Democrat who was literally a Trump supporter.
Omaha's race pits Kara Eastman, a pro-choice, progressive-populist, against Brad Ashford, a former Republican.
Tonight, The Intercept and TYT cosponsored a live discussion on the Iran deal in the Capitol, hosted by Sen. Bernie Sanders, part of his ongoing effort to bypass the mainstream media, though I suppose he couldn't bypass us. It's over, but you can watch it here.
If there are typos in tonight's email, that's because my citizen copy editor, my Great Aunt Mimi, decided to play bridge tonight. Can't say I blame her. She'll probably read this when she's dummy and find all the mistakes...
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