A response to the formal summons from the Senate, notifying the Executive Office of the President of impeachment proceedings, was due at 6:00pm ET today. The White House has responded [WH pdf link – and embed below] with a seven-page position answer…
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Puerto Rico Governor Fires Two More Officials Over Hidden Emergency Relief Supplies…
Updating a story we shared last night; and the latest information only makes the situation seem much worse. To say this story is infuriating would be an understatement. As an individual with some personal knowledge of how the recovery process works, the actions by these government officials in Puerto Rico are beyond tragic. There are […]
NSC Russia Expert Escorted from White House Under Intelligence Investigation…
CTH held off reporting on this explosive story until we could see if a tell-tale consequence surfaced; perhaps it has. On Friday the National Security Council senior director for European and Russian affairs, Andrew Peek, was escorted from the White House grounds and is currently under a security investigation. There are few details about why […]
Five California Mountain Lions Caught on Video Outside Home in Rarity for Solitary Creatures…
Five California mountain lions were seen together on home surveillance video in a rare gathering of the notoriously solitary big cats. The footage was recorded at a rural residence at the edge of the El Dorado National Forest east of Sacramento, KTXL-TV reported Wednesday. “We shared the videos and photos with several of our wildlife […]
Flynn Update – Judge Sullivan Grants Continuance, Requests Briefs and Sets Hearing Date…
Judge Emmet Sullivan has granted the Flynn motion for continuance and established a briefing schedule for consideration on the Flynn motion to withdraw his guilty plea. Judge Sullivan has set February 27th, 2020, as the next date for a hearing in his courtroom. It will be interesting to watch how the Bill Barr DOJ responds […]
A Full Third of Flint’s Emergency $390 Million Water Funds Did Not Go to Clean Water…
Four years ago this month, then-Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder declared an emergency in Flint, and $390 million in state aid began pouring in. Much of the money, however, was spent on activities only peripherally related to lead in water, state spending data show. About $129 million was spent on economic development and “social development,” nearly […]
GOP Lawmakers Press Spy Court for Answers About Ex-DOJ Official Picked to Monitor FBI Reforms…
Two leading Republican lawmakers pressed the judge presiding over the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) on Thursday to explain his choice of former Justice Department official David Kris to monitor the FBI’s proposed reforms in response to an inspector general’s report regarding surveillance of a Trump campaign adviser. “If the FISC’s goal is to hold […]
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Michael Flynn Withdraws Guilty Plea – Cites DOJ “bad faith, vindictiveness and breach of plea agreement”…
Moments ago, citing prosecutorial vindictiveness and the DOJ changing their position on sentencing, lawyers for Lt. General Michael Flynn filed a motion to withdraw the guilty plea. (pdf link – PDF embed link below). This is good news. Withdrawing the plea will now force the government to prove its case…Prosecutor Brandon Van Grack knowingly sought […]
Mueller Witness George Nader Pleads Guilty to Child Porn, Sex Trafficking…
A political hobnobber who featured prominently as a key witness in former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation faces at least a decade in prison after pleading guilty to charges of child sex trafficking and possessing child pornography. Lebanese-American businessman George Nader, 60, entered a plea deal Monday in federal court in Alexandria, Va., admitting […]
DOJ Has Launched a Second Probe into Comey’s History of Leaking Classified Intel…
The New York Times just published a bombshell report that’s faintly reminiscent of the scoops that the Liberal paper of record used to publish during the spring and summer of 2017, when the Mueller probe was in its infancy. Except this time, instead of the the leak focusing on alleged wrongdoing by President Trump and […]
Federal Judge Orders Justice Department to Explain Why Awan Documents Are Being Kept Secret…
An apparently frustrated federal judge ordered attorneys for the Department of Justice (DOJ) to appear Wednesday in a “snap” hearing to explain why the government is not producing documents sought by Judicial Watch concerning former Democratic information technology aide Imran Awan. U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Judge Amit Mehta’s unusual order followed […]
Elementary School Kids Doused As Jet Dumps Fuel Before Emergency Landing…
An airplane returning to Los Angeles International Airport Tuesday morning dropped jet fuel onto a school playground, dousing several students at Park Avenue Elementary School in Cudahy, officials said. Delta Flight 89 — a Boeing 777 — had taken off from LAX with 149 passengers on board and was en route to Shanghai when it […]
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Devin Nunes Reacts to Appointment of Sketchy FISA Court Advisor David Kris…
DOJ-NSD lawyer David Kris has been a defender of the FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation and Lawfare critic of Devin Nunes’s 2018 memo on alleged FISA abuses. Sketchy Mr. Kris was recently picked by FISC presiding judge James Boasberg, to serve as the court’s amicus curiae — a position that is supposed to provide impartial advice to […]
Former Senior Treasury Financial Crimes Official Pleads Guilty to Leaking Records of Cohen, Manafort, Gates, Butina and More…
As you review this story keep in the back of your mind that U.S. DC Attorney Jessie Liu has been recently moved to head the Financial Crimes Division of the Treasury Department. CTH noted last year when John Fry, an intelligence analyst with the IRS’s law enforcement arm, was arrested that something more was happening […]
The FISA Court Is Complicit in the FBI Abuses It’s Raising Cain Over…
Shortly after Inspector General Michael Horowitz released his report detailing the government’s egregious abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Rosemary M. Collyer, the presiding judge of the FISA court, issued a rare public order demanding answers. Today is the deadline Collyer set for the government to “inform the Court in a sworn written submission […]
Top FBI Official Who Leaked Court-Sealed and Sensitive Information About to ‘Terrorism and Law Enforcement’ to Reporters…
The identity of a former top FBI official who leaked sensitive information by sending hundreds of texts to six reporters and playing golf with them has been revealed. Washington Examiner named Bryan Paarmann, the deputy assistant director of the FBI’s International Operations Division from 2016 to 2017, as the official after obtaining a report through […]
The Trump Doctrine: On Zig-Zagging, Keeping Hands Off Our People, and America First…
These past three days, the Left Democrats and their Corrupt Journalist Corps have given voice to a zillion reasons to attack President Trump’s decision to OK the whack on Qassem Soleimani, the arch-terrorist arch–mass murderer. A key criticism has been that the president has no discernible foreign policy, that he just has no idea what […]
Jeffrey Epstein’s Accusers Insist There’s ‘No Way’ He Killed Himself…
Several of Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged victims say they have doubts that the billionaire took his own life last year. Epstein was arrested on July 6, 2019 and pleaded not guilty to federal charges of sex trafficking involving dozens of girls as young as 14 years old. He was found dead on August 10 in his […]
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New Details About Meeting FBI Source Suggest Carter Page Was Set Up…
Yesterday’s exclusive at The Federalist, revealing that Carter Page first met Stefan Halper at a small dinner at Magdalene College in Cambridge, triggered an immediate response from Svetlana Lokhova, the Russian-born British citizen who sued Halper last year for defamation for branding her a Russian spy. Magdalene College was Halper’s college, Lokhova tweeted, adding that […]
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Announces She Is Cancer Free…
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg announced this week that she is cancer-free after her latest treatments for pancreatic cancer. “I’m cancer-free. That’s good,” Ginsburg told CNN’s Joan Biskupic. The 86-year-old Supreme Court justice underwent three weeks of radiation treatment at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in August 2019 after doctors discovered a cancerous […]