Len Zwelling

Is Trump More Nixon Or McCarthy? By Leonard Zwelling It’s hard to know whether Trump is more the Trickster or the Bully. There can be no doubt that the current administration is as loaded with snakes as was Mr. Nixon’s White House. Even those who are not criminals are liars and deceivers like Kellyanne Conway […]

I Was John Brennan By Leonard Zwelling I know what it means to be shut out after having been on the inside. There was a time when I was privy to many of the darkest secrets of the leadership of MD Anderson. There was a time when I was the keeper of those secrets in

This Is Not That Different From Watergate By Leonard Zwelling One of the great myths that surrounds the Watergate hearings and the run-up to the resignation of Richard Nixon is that the effort to rid America of its Crook President was bipartisan. It was not. As this terrific NY Times op-ed by Michael Conway (who

I Understand Why Omarosa Taped Her Firing. I Wish I Had Taped Mine. By Leonard Zwelling On Meet The Press Sunday, August 12, Chuck Todd interviewed Omarosa Manigault Newman, the former White House staffer who is black. She was the highest ranking black staffer in the Trump Administration. Her high profile allegiance to Donald Trump

Inside Out By Leonard Zwelling The news broke this morning (August 8, the anniversary of Richard Nixon’s resignation announcement) that Congressman Christopher Collins (R-NY) was arrested along with his son and the father of his son’s fiancé for insider trading and lying to the federal government. When are these guys going to learn from Martha

The Beginning Of The End By Leonard Zwelling The end of the Trump Presidency has begun to roll out. Even Mr. Trump has admitted that the meeting in Trump Tower in June of 2016 in which his son Donald, Jr. and son-in-law Jared Kushner participated was with Russians and was to gain dirt on Hillary

The Bleeding Edge By Leonard Zwelling And you think the drug companies are corrupt. Check out The Bleeding Edge directed by Kirby Dick, a documentary about the medical device industry, its oversight (or lack thereof), and who is making money off the patients, despite the large number of these people being harmed by the devices.

I Feel Jeff Sessions’ Pain By Leonard Zwelling Apparently, Mr. Trump has suggested via yet another Tweet Storm that Attorney General Jeff Sessions ought to pull the plug on the Mueller probe. Mr. Sessions, to his credit, is largely ignoring his boss, something that the recused AG has gotten really good at over the months

Moving Forward-Tomorrow By Leonard Zwelling This blog has made the case for a thorough review of how the mess at MD Anderson that culminated in the dismissal of Ron DePinho ever occurred in an institution of such high repute. How did conflict of interest become a way of life at Anderson? When did executives at

Do Investigations Into The Past Matter? By Leonard Zwelling It seems that the more we investigate misdeeds, the fewer miscreants actually go to jail. It seems that way, but the Mueller probe suggests that this conclusion has its exceptions. Already five people including a former National Security Advisor have pleaded guilty and over 30 people