who s charlie? could be anyone. could be charlie brown. could be charlie sheen. could be that charlie tuna character from the old ads. could be charlie anybody. may very well be charlie mckenna, who is governor chris christie s chief counsel, who is also suspected today. after bill baroni delivered false testimony to the legislature, making up a story about a traffic story, a traffic study, a traffic study that could only have been intended to cover up what they re really doing, quote, charlie says you did great, great in all caps. the investigation is to find out about abuse of government power and efforts to conceal abuse of government power. everyone known to be involved in the shutdown, and now the governor s re-election campaign, as an entity, have been asked to turn over documents on that, as has the governor s office itself. one question is, is the cover-up worse than the crime? does the way that this goes into all these other entities, does it follow the chain of people who kne
today. the chief justice alone gets to appoint all of the judges, all 11 of the judges, who serve on one very important secret court. the foreign intelligence surveillance court, fisa. that s the court that essentially authorizes the government to conduct top-secret surveillance operations. this is the court that gives the nsa the okay to do things like, say, collect huge amounts of telephone metadata that the government doesn t really admit to in public. the fisa court is really, really powerful and secret. and this one guy, the chief justice of the court, gets to decide who sits on that court. he appoints all of the judges for that court. everything about that court is don in secret. the judges meet in secret, they discuss cases in secret, they make their rulings in secret. nothing is done publicly in this court. and no one involved in the court proceedings, this is important, presents the other side of the argument. there s nobody in those secret court proceedings, representing the
christie s chief counsel, who is also subpoenaed today. after bill baroni delivered false testimony to the legislature, making up a story about a traffic story, a traffic study, a traffic study that could only have been intended to cover up what they re really doing, quote, charlie says you did great, great in all caps. the investigation is to find out about abuse of government power and efforts to conceal abuse of government power. everyone known to be involved in the shutdown, and now the governor s re-election campaign, as an entity, have been asked to turn over documents on that, as has the governor s office itself. one question is, is the cover-up worse than the crime? does the way that this goes into all these other entities, does it follow the chain of people who knew that the cover-up, the whole traffic study bunk, was nuts and who took some part in cooking up that story and applauding it once it s delivered. is that the way that this rises?
she knows what he said isn t true and she says, good job. but it s not just bridget kelly who says it, chris christie s deputy chief of staff. it s not just her who high fives bill baroni for his false testimony to the legislature, it s also nicole, who, reasonably speaking, given the subpoenas today, may turn out to be nicole who is governor christie s campaign chief on his re-election effort. she is the person who got subpoenaed today. her name is nicole. if the crime here was concealing an abuse of government power, that appears to have happened in that testimony that day, before the new jersey legislature. all that false testimony from bill baroni. that was back in november. the documents we have so far indicate that not just governor christie s office in the form of bridget kelly, applauded and said, oh, we re really happy with that false testimony. even though bridget kelly was in a position to know it was false testimony while she was applauding, but now we also know that a pers
forward. the president announced that the bulk collection of telephone metadata will continue, but intelligence officials will now need to obtain specific approval from the fisa court, before they re allowed to tap into all that data, for whatever reason they want to tap into it. they ll no longer have unrestricted access to use that data however they want. we also learned today that president obama plans to move the actual phone records database out of the government s control, and to some sort of outside entity. he gave the attorney general, eric holder, and other intelligence officials, to the end of march to get back to him with a plan as to where that information should be housed going forward. president obama also announced that there will be no more eavesdropping by the u.s. government on foreign leaders. that change comes after the very public and very embarrassing disclosure that the nsa had been tapping, say, the phone of german chancellor angela merkel, our great ally. this