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[Q]: White House: Nomination of Alabama Lawyer Brett Talley 'Will Not Be Moving Forward'
The nomination of  Brett Talley   the Justice Department official in line for a lifetime judicial appointment  "will not be moving forward " a Trump administration official told NPR on Wednesday.
 Talley  had been rated "unanimously unqualified" for the post by the American Bar Association this year after an evaluation that questioned his experience.  Talley  had never argued a case  or even a motion  in federal court  he testified.
Even after  Talley 's nomination advanced through the Senate Judiciary Committee on an 11-9 party-line vote  media reports and good government groups cast doubt on his credentials for the spot on the U.S. District Court in Alabama  along with raising questions about his alleged failures to disclose blog posts and his wife's work in the Trump White House.
 Talley   a Harvard Law School graduate  came to personify a wave of criticism over the Trump administration's judicial selections.
The pressure intensified this week  when Sen. Charles Grassley  R-Iowa  who leads the Judiciary Committee  called on the White House to withdraw  Talley 's nomination.
The Alliance for Justice  a left-leaning group that follows judicial selection  said the reconsideration of  Talley  could amount to "a real turning point  if the White House uses this moment to reassess its criteria for judicial nominations and to put forward nominees who will be serious about upholding critical legal rights and protections for all."
Earlier in his career   Talley  worked as a speechwriter for Republicans including Mitt Romney and Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio. And he had the support of Sen. Luther Strange  R-Ala.  for whom he worked in the office of the state attorney general.  Talley  is currently an official in the Justice Department office that helps pick judges.
[A]: Brett Talley


[Q]: This mystery professor is likely  Joseph Mifsud of the University of Stirling in Scotland . According to a calendar entry on the Valdai clubâs website   Mifsud  spoke on a Valdai panel on April 19  2016  titled  âWorld Energy: Key Trends and Political Risks.â  Mifsud  grew up in the Mediterranean nation of Malta  where  he  served in various government posts;  he  was the only Londoner and the only professor on the panel. The Mueller legal filing revealed that Papadopoulos had extensive contacts with the professor as part of an effort to set up a meeting between Trump campaign representatives and Russian officials. Papadopoulos told his campaign supervisors about this effort and was encouraged to proceed. Papadopoulos has pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his communications with the professor and others connected to Russia.
The Washington Post noted on Monday that  Mifsud  is probably the professor cited in the Mueller statement. One of the emails quoted in the document  according to the Post  âappears to match one described to the Washington Post in August in which Papadopoulos identified the professor with whom he met as Joseph Mifsud  the director of the London Academy of Diplomacy.â But the Post reported that in August Mifsud told the newspaper he had âabsolutely no contact with the Russian government â and he insisted his ties to Russia were purely academic.
The public record  though  contains information contradicting  Mifsud  and showing that  he  has had contacts with Russian government officials. According to photos on the website of Russiaâs embassy in the United Kingdom   Mifsud  met with embassy representative Ernest Chernukhin in July of this year (weeks before  he  issued  his  denial to the Post). A biography from a 2013 business conference says  Mifsud  âhas advised Governments on international education issues in many countries including Morocco  Syria  Russia  Tunisia  and Italy.â  Mifsud  also met with Russian Ambassador to the UK Alexander Yakovenko in May of 2014  according to a 2014 Russian embassy press release.
Additionally  in early 2017   Mifsud  invited Alexey Klishin  a department head and professor in the international law division of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations  a school run by Russiaâs Foreign Ministry  to the London Academy of Diplomacy to present a lecture. Klishin was a former member of the upper house of the Russian parliament. According to a January 2017 press release from the Institution of the Russian Academy of Sciences  âKlishinâs presentation was devoted to international law and national legal systems [and] to their coexistence in the era of Brexit and the new presidency in the United States.â The release noted that Klishin had âvisited the London Academy of Diplomacy at the University of Stirlingâ¦at the invitation of  the Director Joseph Mifsud .â Hereâs a photo with  Mifsud  (second from the right) and Klishin (center) standing next to each other:
 Mifsud  did not respond to a request for comment from Mother Jones.
One obvious question for the professor is why he told the Post he had âabsolutelyâ no contacts with Russian officials when on-line material suggests he has. There are no indication in the Mueller statement whether his team has questioned  Mifsud  about the Clinton âdirtâ or Papadopoulosâs initiative to create a back-channel bond between the Trump campaign and Vladimir Putinâs office.
Thereâs another reason why  Mifsud  could be of interest to Mueller and his investigators. In the past year  the New York Times has reported that US intelligence agencies collected information in the summer of 2016 indicating that top Russian intelligence and political officials were looking to gain influence over Trump through his advisers and that US spy agencies had intercepted calls showing that Trump campaign aides and other Trump associates had repeated interactions with senior Russian intelligence officials  perhaps unwittingly. (In June  former FBI chief James Comey  in congressional testimony  disputed the Times story disclosing contacts between the Trump aides and Russian intelligence  but he did not specify what was wrong with the article.) So Mueller is no doubt looking for possible instances of when Russian intelligence infiltratedâor tried to infiltrateâthe Trump campaign  either directly or through witting or unwitting cut-outs. And the Papadopoulos episode could be a case not only of a Trump aide trying to establish a campaign connection with the Kremlin but of Russian intelligence attempting to score a contact within the Trump campaign.
[A]: Joseph Mifsud


[Q]: PBS announced Wednesday that it has âindefinitely suspendedâ the âTavis Smileyâ show and its namesake host amid sexual misconduct allegations  but  the talk show host  said  he  plans to âfight back.â
 Smiley  took to social media after the announcement and unequivocally denied the accusations of any wrongdoing against  him .
My response to PBS suspension full text here: [Link] pic.twitter.com/8KX2QIr660 â Tavis Smiley (@tavissmiley) December 14  2017
The investigation âfound credible allegations that  Smiley  had engaged in sexual relationships with multiple subordinatesâ and that some feared âtheir employment status was linked to the status of a sexual relationship with  Smiley  â an unnamed PBS spokeswoman told PBS NewsHour.
The investigation   Smiley  alleged on social media  was âbiased and sloppy  which led to a rush to judgment  and trampling on a reputation that I have spent an entire lifetime trying to establish.â
What else did  Smiley  say?
âI have the utmost respect for women and celebrate the courage of those who have come forth to tell their truth. To be clear  I have never groped  coerced  or exposed myself inappropriately to any workplace colleague in my entire broadcast career  covering 6 networks over 30 years â  Smiley  wrote. âNever. Ever. Never.â
How did  Smiley  learn about the investigation and  his  suspension?
The story of  his  suspension first broke on Variety  and  according to  Smiley   Variety knew about it before  he  did.
âI learned of the investigation when former staffers started contacting me to share the uncomfortable experience of receiving a phone call from a stranger asking whether  I had ever done anything to make them uncomfortable  and if they could provide other names of persons to call â  he  wrote.
 Smiley  threatened a lawsuit after learning about the inquiries.
PBS investigators âreluctantlyâ agreed to a meeting that lasted three hours   he  said. Soon after the meeting ended on Wednesday  Variety published the story.
In February  Observer published a piece written by Jacques Hyzagi  a former producer on Smileyâs television show. Hyzagi wrote about a trip he and  Smiley  took together for a special show taping.
 Smiley âs âmisogyny is always creeping around  barely camouflaged by Midwestern good manners â Hyzagi wrote.
[A]:
Tavis Smiley