The Nevada Assembly on Thursday voted 26-14 on a resolution that asks Congress to propose an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would rein in independent political campaign spending. The party-line vote makes Nevada the 19th state to ask Congress to propose a constitutional amendment that would overturn the 2010 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in […]
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CIA Sought FBI Probe Into Russian Targeting of Trump Campaign…
Former CIA Director John Brennan told a House hearing on Tuesday the CIA first asked the FBI last summer to investigate contacts between Russian intelligence officials and Americans in the Trump campaign. Skirting concerns involving classified information, John Brennan, President Obama’s CIA chief, provided few details on the intelligence related to Russian recruitment attempts against […]
Clapper and Brennan Leave Comey Holding Russian Conspiracy Bag – What Now?…
It is not coincidental the origin of all ‘vast-Russian-conspiracy‘ stories seem to start with a discussion of intelligence gathering beginning in July of 2016. The GOP convention to nominate Donald Trump was July 18-21st of 2016. Surrounding the nomination that stunned the geo-political world almost every foreign government was trying to figure out who and […]
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Go Straight To The Fifth Paragraph Of The Latest NYT ‘Bombshell’ On Russia Collusion…
The New York Times dropped another “bombshell” report on Russian influence on the 2016 election Wednesday, and once again what is presented as salacious news in the headline and lead is revealed to be anything but midway through the report. “Months before the election, U.S. spies learned that top Russians had discussed ways to use […]
Give Me a Break: Did ‘Fake Intel’ Trick Comey into Ending the Clinton Email Probe Early?…
“It didn’t mean anything to the investigation until after [senior FBI officials] had to defend themselves,” one person familiar with the matter told WaPo. “Then they decided it was important. But it’s junk, and they already knew that.” Comey supporters also claim that the document was a good reason for abruptly announcing the close of […]
‘Getting Trump’ with the New McCarthyism by Robert Parry…
Congressional demands for personal and business information from several of Donald Trump’s campaign advisers demonstrate how the Russia-gate investigation continues to spill over into a new breed of McCarthyism infringing on civil liberties, including freedom of speech and freedom of association. The original thinking had been that congressional and other investigations would concentrate on specific […]
Wasserman Schultz Threatened Police Chief for Gathering Evidence on Her IT Staffer’s Alleged Crimes (VIDEO)…
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz threatened the chief of the U.S. Capitol Police with “consequences” for holding equipment that she says belongs to her in order to build a criminal case against a Pakistani staffer suspected of massive cybersecurity breaches involving funneling sensitive congressional data offsite. The Florida lawmaker used her position on the committee that […]
Two of Michael Flynn’s Businesses Slapped with Subpoenas…
The Senate Intelligence Committee has issued subpoenas for the business records of two companies owned by former national security adviser Michael Flynn. North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr and Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, the chairman and vice chairman of the committee, made the announcement Tuesday afternoon, a day after Flynn’s attorney said that the retired lieutenant […]
How Did Russiagate Start? by Matt Taibbi…
Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper appeared on This Week Sunday, and said some head-scratching things. Clapper back in March told Meet the Press that when he issued a January 6th multiagency intelligence community assessment about Russian interference in the election, the report didn’t include evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, […]
Five Corporate Media Journalists and Pundits Who Totally Botched The “Ivanka Fund” Story…
The World Bank announced Sunday at an event with Ivanka Trump, the U.S. president’s daughter and senior White House adviser, that Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates have pledged a combined $100 million to a fund that will assist women entrepreneurs and small business owners. Ms. Trump has made the promotion of women entrepreneurs a […]
Democratic Aide Suspected Of Major Security Breach Under Government Protection In Pakistan…
A criminal suspect in an investigation into a major security breach on the House of Representatives computer network has abruptly left the country and gone to Pakistan, where her family has significant assets and VIP-level protection, a relative and others told The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Investigative Group. Hina Alvi, her husband Imran Awan, and […]
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Excuse Me? Colorado Governor Pardons Bank Robber In Effort To Stop His Deportation Process…
So, check this story out from Colorado. Cuban immigrant Rene Lima-Marin committed a bank robbery 19 years ago, which resulted in his legal residency being revoked. He was sentenced to 98 years behind bars. In 2008, he was paroled by accident, got married, started a family, and got a job installing glass. Then, in 2014, […]
Court Strikes Down N.C. Districts in Racial Gerrymandering Challenge…
Two North Carolina congressional districts, District 1 and District 12, have – as Justice Elena Kagan observed today – “quite the history before” the Supreme Court. In the last 25 years, the districts have been at the heart of four earlier racial gerrymandering cases at the court. Last year, a three-judge district court invalidated both […]
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California Democratic Party Leader Leads ‘F*ck Donald Trump’ Chant at Convention…
Outgoing California Democratic Party chairman John Burton left his post of eight years on Saturday by waving his middle fingers in the air and rallying his party’s annual convention to chant “F*ck Donald Trump!” Outgoing @ca_dem chair @Johnburton gets standing O w final words to his party, finger upraised: “F@ck Donald Trump!”…
More Than 7 Million Voter Registrations Are Duplicated in Multiple States…
More than 7 million voter registrations appear to be registered in two states simultaneously, according to data obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. The new voter data was gathered from the Kansas-run interstate voter registration crosscheck program, which is used to identify “possible duplicate registrations among states”…
After Mueller, Trump Critics Worry: Maybe There’s No Scandal…
Eli Lake is right: The DOJ’s appointment of widely-respected former prosecutor Robert Mueller to lead the special inquiry into the Trump campaign’s potential collusion with Russia is a reprieve for a Trump Administration in crisis—a reprieve that it will almost certainly squander, but a reprieve nonetheless. How do we know? Because the responses from Trump’s […]
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Weeping Anthony Weiner Begs for Forgiveness As He Pleads Guilty for Sexting a 15-Year-Old Girl…
Anthony Weiner wept in court on Friday while begging for forgiveness as he entered a plea of guilty to a single charge of transferring obscene material to a minor. ‘I have a sickness, but I do not have an excuse,’ Weiner told the court, while agreeing to accept any prison sentence of less than 27 […]
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Trey Gowdy Expected to Replace Jason Chaffetz on House Oversight…
Chaffetz is leaving Congress in June and will not seek re-election, as he’s reportedly going to assume an on-air role at Fox News. In his absence, the committee will need a new chairman for the high-profile position, and various members of the House Steering Committee panel (which decides the chairmanship) told Politico Gowdy could “easily” […]
Oh Goodie!: Hillary Clinton Is Launching a New PAC…
Earlier this month at the Women for Women International event in New York City the former Secretary of State said she is now back to being an activist citizen and “part of the resistance.” Shortly after that event, reports emerged that Clinton is gathering resources for a new Super PAC called “Onward Together.” The PAC, […]
Gloria Steinem: Forced Childbirth ‘the Fundamental Cause of Climate Change’…
The founder of Ms. magazine had no trouble linking two of the emblematic leftist causes into one mega issue, arguing that lack of access to “reproductive health services” leads to overpopulation, which in turn causes the earth to warm uncontrollably. Asked by Refinery29 whether climate change wasn’t also a “feminist” issues, Ms. Steinem ran with […]
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