Congressional lawmakers made a criminal referral Wednesday to the Department of Justice Attorney General Jeff Sessions against former senior-level Obama administration officials, including employees of the FBI connected with the unverified dossier alleging collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, as well as those involved in the warrants used to spy on a former Trump […]
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Press Briefing – U.S. Japan Summit at Mar-a-Lago (Audio and Transcript)…
White House Press Briefing by National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow and National Security Council Senior Director for Asian Affairs Matthew Pottinger. Today’s briefing is happening during a Presidential summit with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Kudlow is discussing the trade and economic issues; Pottinger is discussing national security issues surrounding negotiations with North Korea. […]
Gorsuch Joins Liberals To Make Deportations Harder…
The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a provision of federal law Tuesday that allows the deportation of foreign nationals convicted of certain felonies. Justice Neil Gorsuch joined with the court’s four liberals to strike down the law, in keeping with longstanding conservative anxieties about sweeping and imprecise grants of power to bureaucrats and regulators. Justice […]
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An Eye Popping Review of the #Backpage Indictment into Sex Trafficking…
Every single person who lamented the seizure of #backpage #backpageseized needs to read this. Especially page 31, the beginning of Section E. Don’t cry for these people that were arrested. Fun fact: a lot of the women and minors being exploited in the illegal sex trafficking trade -get this! – don’t get to keep any […]
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Mike Pompeo Met with Kim Jong Un over Easter Weekend…
CIA Director Mike Pompeo met secretly with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in recent weeks to set up a meeting between Mr. Kim and President Trump, two administration officials said Tuesday. Mr. Pompeo, now the president’s nominee for secretary of state, traveled to North Korea over Easter weekend to talk to the reclusive communist leader, […]
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Albuquerque Mom of 2 Identified as Victim of Southwest Airlines Mid-Air Engine Explosion…
Many nationwide were shocked Tuesday by news that a bizarre midair accident aboard a Southwest Airlines plane led to the death of a female passenger when an engine exploded, sending shrapnel through a nearby window. Then came word that stunned New Mexico’s business and nonprofit communities: The victim was well-known Albuquerque banking executive Jennifer Riordan, […]
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Barbara Bush Dies at 92…
Barbara Bush, who was the wife of one president and the mother of another and whose embrace of her image as America’s warmhearted grandmother belied her influence and mettle, died April 17. She was 92. The office of her husband, former president George H.W. Bush, issued a statement announcing her death but did not disclose […]
Facts Continue Supporting Trump’s Decision to Fire James Comey by Sharyl Attkisson…
A lot of new information has come out in the year since President Trump fired FBI Director James Comey. No matter whether you admire Trump, Comey, both or neither — it’s now difficult to argue that Trump made the wrong move in removing Comey. Even many of Trump’s detractors would agree that no president should […]
Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund Given Millions of Dollars That Have Gone Missing…
Fresh off their success helping international victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, former presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, bitter rivals from 1992, reunited Sept. 5, 2005, in Houston, Texas, to solicit funds and then give grants to organizations aiding Americans pummeled by Hurricane Katrina. On the surface level, it was appealing to […]
Robert Mueller Office Warns “Many Stories About our Investigation Have Been Inaccurate”…
An interesting release from the spokesperson for Robert Mueller comes against the backdrop of the renewed ‘Michael Cohen travel to Prague’ story being pushed by Fusion-GPS and Glenn Simpson. According to the Washington Times via Robert Mueller: “What I have been telling all reporters is that many stories about our investigation have been inaccurate,” the […]
OPINION: Justice for Scooter Libby – Trump Pardoned a Man Bush Left Behind on the Battlefield…
On April 7, 2015, these columns said the next Republican President should pardon I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby “in his first week in office.” President Trump waited a little longer, but in pardoning the former chief of staff to Dick Cheney on Friday Mr. Trump rectified a legal injustice and corrected one of George W. Bush’s […]
1 Dead After Southwest Airplane with 148 Aboard Makes Emergency Landing at Philadelphia International Airport…
A passenger died Tuesday after a Southwest Airlines plane was forced to make an emergency landing at Philadelphia International Airport when its engine exploded on a flight from New York to Dallas, authorities said. Robert Sumwalt, chairman of the National Transportation Safety Review Board, confirmed the fatality but declined to give details. Philadelphia Fire Commissioner […]
Judge Won’t Let Trump Attorney Cohen Review Seized Files Before the Feds…
A federal judge on Monday denied a request from President Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen to review the documents seized from the lawyer’s home and office last week before prosecutors see them, dealing a setback to Trump’s legal team. U.S. District Judge Kimbra Wood said that she had faith in the Justice Department’s so-called “taint […]
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After the Inspector General Report, Questions Grow Over the Lack of a Criminal Referral for McCabe by Jonathan Turley…
Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz has released his watchdog report on the conduct of former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe and it is scathing. As I discussed in an earlier column, McCabe took the unprecedented step of a top former FBI officer of asking for donations on GoFundMe and racked in more than half […]
Trail of James Comey’s Dirt on Loretta Lynch Discovered Within IG Report on Andrew McCabe…
A very interesting development is unfolding as a result of internet researcher TracyBeanz [Twitter HERE – YouTube HERE] and some insightful dot connecting by those following. The outline begins via a relatively under-reported accusation about former Attorney General Loretta Lynch by former FBI Director James Comey in his upcoming book. According to ABC News Comey […]
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Comey Says Hillary Email Probe Reopened to Legitimize Her Presidency When She Won…
In a pre-recorded interview set to air on Sunday night on ABC News, former FBI Director James Comey revealed that he announced that he was reopening the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server in October 2017 because he assumed she would win the election and he did not want her to […]
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Trump Issues Pardon for Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby…
President Donald Trump on Friday pardoned Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the chief of staff to former Vice President Dick Cheney who was caught up in the investigation into the leak of the identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame. “I don’t know Mr. Libby,” Trump said in a statement, adding, “but for years I have heard that […]
INSPECTOR GENERAL REPORT: Investigation of Certain Allegations Relating to Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe…
This misconduct report addresses the accuracy of statements made by then-Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Deputy Director Andrew McCabe to the FBI’s Inspection Division (INSD) and the Department of Justice (Department or DOJ) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) concerning the disclosure of certain law enforcement sensitive information to reporter Devlin Barrett that was published […]
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Los Angeles Approves Plan to Pay Property Owners to Build Houses or Renovate Garages to Shelter the Homeless…
City officials in Los Angles want to help pay homeowners with extra space to put small accommodations in their backyards for homeless people. Los Angeles county has been facing a growing homeless population, and there are currently nearly 58,000 people without living shelter. Last month protests called ‘Not in my backyard,’ blocked new homeless housing […]
Trump and Mueller Legal Teams Prepare to Continue Without Trump Interview…
The legal teams on both sides of the Russia investigation are preparing to continue with strategies under circumstances without a presidential interview, according to NBC News. For months President Trump’s legal team discussed with special counsel Robert Mueller’s office a potential interview with President Trump, but the likelihood of an interview occurring tarnished earlier this […]