Links for Friday, December 8
Dem support for Haley, yet more domestic spying, RFK murderer news, and more.
A politics-heavy offering for today, starting with news of Democratic support for Nikki Haley — why not? she’s everything both parties want — and news, which never made the news, of yet more domestic spying by our favorite public-private partnership, the US government.
(For those who are curious about today’s musical treat, it’s this.)
Links
Seven links for today. Enjoy.
• Top Democratic Donor Gave $250,000 to a Nikki Haley Super PAC (NY Times)
When Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, urged Democratic donors last week to rally behind Nikki Haley to provide Republican voters an alternative to former President Donald J. Trump, it seemed a far-fetched plea.
But at least one of the Democratic Party’s biggest financiers has already done exactly that.
Reid Hoffman, the billionaire co-founder of LinkedIn and a major Democratic donor, recently gave $250,000 to a super PAC supporting Ms. Haley, the former South Carolina governor who has gained momentum in recent weeks in the 2024 Republican primary race. The donation, which has not been previously reported, was confirmed by Dmitri Mehlhorn, a political adviser to Mr. Hoffman.
Watch out for Haley. I think she has a chance.
She’s also proof perhaps that Dem establishment types don’t hate all fascists; they just hate Trump.
File under “This is how you save us?”
• Letter from Senator Ron Wyden to AG Merrick Garland
I write to request that you clear for public release additional information about the Hemisphere Project. This is a long-running dragnet surveillance program in which the White House pays AT&T to provide all federal, state, local, and Tribal law enforcement agencies the ability to request often-warrantless searches of trillions of domestic phone records. …
AT&T has kept and queries[,] as part of the Hemisphere Project[,] call records going back to 1987, with 4 billion new records being added every day. …
“Queries” is a verb in the last sentence above.
File under “They hate us for our freedom.”