Good morning.
Friday in Whitewater will see occasional afternoon snow showers and a high of nine. Sunrise is 7:15 AM and sunset 4:59 PM, for 9h 44m 03s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 74.5% of its visible disk illuminated.
Today is the eight hundred seventh day.
On this day in 1932, Janesville continues its prohibition on Sunday dancing (“the Janesville council deadlocked, 3-3, on an ordinance that would have permitted public dancing on Sundays”).
Recommended for reading in full:
Mark Mazzetti, Eileen Sullivan, and Maggie Haberman report Roger Stone, Adviser to Trump, Is Indicted in Mueller Investigation:
Roger J. Stone Jr., a longtime informal adviser to President Trump, was charged as part of the special counsel investigation over his communications with WikiLeaks, the organization behind the release of thousands of stolen Democratic emails during the 2016 campaign, in an indictment unsealed Friday.
Mr. Stone was charged with seven counts, including obstruction of an official proceeding, making false statements and witness tampering, according to the special counsel’s office.
F.B.I. agents arrested Mr. Stone before dawn on Friday at his home in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and he was expected to appear in a federal courthouse there later in the morning. F.B.I. agents were also seen carting hard drives and other evidence from Mr. Stone’s apartment in Harlem.
The indictment is the first in months by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, who is investigating Russia’s interference in the 2016 election and possible coordination with Trump campaign associates. Citing details in emails and other forms of communications, the indictment suggests Mr. Trump’s campaign knew about additional stolen emails before they were released and asked Mr. Stone to find out about them.
Here’s the Stone Indictment:
[embeddoc url=”https://freewhitewater.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Stone-Indictment-012419.pdf” width=”100%” download=”all” viewer=”google”]Laura Strickler, Ken Dilanian, and Peter Alexander report Officials rejected Jared Kushner for top secret security clearance, but were overruled:
Jared Kushner’s application for a top secret clearance was rejected by two career White House security specialists after an FBI background check raised concerns about potential foreign influence on him — but their supervisor overruled the recommendation and approved the clearance, two sources familiar with the matter told NBC News.
The official, Carl Kline, is a former Pentagon employee who was installed as director of the personnel security office in the Executive Office of the President in May 2017. Kushner’s was one of at least 30 cases in which Kline overruled career security experts and approved a top secret clearance for incoming Trump officials despite unfavorable information, the two sources said. They said the number of rejections that were overruled was unprecedented — it had happened only once in the three years preceding Kline’s arrival.
The sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the information, said the Trump White House attracted many people with untraditional backgrounds who had complicated financial and personal histories, some of which raised red flags.
Kushner’s FBI background check identified questions about his family’s business, his foreign contacts, his foreign travel and meetings he had during the campaign, the sources said, declining to be more specific.