The White House on Friday adamantly denied House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s claim that it leaked plans for a delegation’s proposed commercial flight to Afghanistan, as details from a State Department cable cautioning her office about the trip raised further questions about the allegation. Pelosi’s office, however, maintained that the administration had in fact leaked the details […]
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Trump Cancels All Congressional Trips Using Military Aircraft. Pelosi Congressional Delegation Overseas Trip Grounded…
President Trump on Thursday abruptly denied military aircraft to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for a foreign trip just minutes before the congressional delegation was set to depart, in a stunning response to her call to delay the State of the Union address amid the government shutdown…According to sources, the president pulled the plug on her aircraft […]
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FISA Shocker: DOJ Official Warned Steele Dossier Was Connected to Clinton, Might Be Biased…
When the annals of mistakes and abuses in the FBI’s Russia investigation are finally written, Bruce Ohr almost certainly will be the No. 1 witness, according to my sources. The then-No. 4 Department of Justice (DOJ) official briefed both senior FBI and DOJ officials in summer 2016 about Christopher Steele’s Russia dossier, explicitly cautioning that […]
Former Secret Service Agent Bongino Demands Apology From Pelosi for Lying About, Insulting Secret Service…
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent a letter Wednesday to the White House asking for a postponement of the annual State of the Union address until after the government shutdown has ended. Pelosi cited security concerns over the speech due to “hamstrung” security agencies. Pelosi wrote…
Former Top FBI Lawyer James Baker Under Criminal Investigation for Media Leaks…
Former FBI general counsel James Baker is under criminal investigation for unauthorized leaks to the media. The development was made public in a letter sent Tuesday to the office of U.S. Attorney John Durham for the District of Connecticut by Republican Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio and Mark Meadows of North Carolina. In the letter, […]
Activists Jump Nancy Pelosi’s Mansion Wall with Illegal Immigrants, Demand Entry to Her Home…
Right-wing activists stormed the security wall surrounding House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s California mansion and demanded access into the building Monday. The group was led by Laura Loomer, an activist who has been at the center of many stunts, including interrupting congressional hearings and chaining herself to the doors of Twitter’s New York offices. Loomer was […]
The Vice President’s Men by Seymour M. Hersh…
When George H.W. Bush arrived in Washington as vice president in January 1981 he seemed little more than a sideshow to Ronald Reagan, the one-time leading man who had been overwhelmingly elected to the greatest stage in the world. Biography after inconclusive biography would be written about Reagan’s two terms, as their authors tried to […]
‘Unfathomable’ Wuerl Forgot Allegations, Ciolek Says…
The man who made a 2004 accusation of misconduct against Archbishop Theodore McCarrick said Wednesday he is in disbelief after Cardinal Donald Wuerl told him he forgot about the allegation sometime after becoming Washington’s archbishop in 2006. In a Jan. 15 letter, Wuerl wrote to Washington, DC priests that “when I was asked if I […]
Christopher Steele Told DOJ Official of Oligarch’s Efforts to Investigate Manafort…
Christopher Steele told a top Justice Department official about an effort undertaken on behalf of a Russian oligarch to investigate the business dealings of Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, a revelation that raises new questions about the dossier author’s contacts with the Russian, Oleg Deripaska. During a meeting on July 30, 2016, Steele told Bruce […]
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Putin Asks and Trump Delivers – A List of All the Good Things Trump Did for Russia…
Slate’s Fred Kaplan writes: The Washington Post’s Greg Miller reported Sunday that President Donald Trump’s confiscation of the translator’s notes from a one-on-one conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2017 was “unusual.” This is incorrect. It was unprecedented. There is nothing like it in the annals of presidential history. Not really. Other U.S. leaders […]
Federal Court Orders Discovery on Clinton Email, Benghazi Scandal: Top Obama-Clinton Officials, Susan Rice and Ben Rhodes to Respond to Judicial Watch Questions Under Oath…
Judicial Watch announced today that United States District Judge Royce C. Lamberth ruled that discovery can begin in Hillary Clinton’s email scandal. Obama administration senior State Department officials, lawyers, and Clinton aides will now be deposed under oath. Senior officials — including Susan Rice, Ben Rhodes, Jacob Sullivan, and FBI official E.W. Priestap — will […]
The IRS Is Recalling 46k Workers to Handle Tax Returns…
The Internal Revenue Service is recalling about 46,000 of its employees furloughed by the government shutdown — nearly 60 percent of its workforce — to handle tax returns and pay out refunds. The employees won’t be paid. With the official start of the tax filing season coming Jan. 28, the Trump administration has promised that […]
Attorney General Nominee William Barr Asserts Independence from White House…
Attorney general nominee William Barr professed his independence from President Donald Trump on Tuesday, saying that Robert Mueller isn’t involved in a “witch hunt” and that he wouldn’t fire the special counsel without a good reason. In his testimony, Barr told the Senate Judiciary Committee that he didn’t think Mueller “would be involved in a […]
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Trump Says He Will ‘Never Ever Back Down’ on Wall…
With the government mired in shutdown week four, President Donald Trump rejected a short-term legislative fix and dug in for more combat, declaring he would “never ever back down.” Trump rejected a suggestion to reopen the government for several weeks to negotiate with Democrats over his demands for $5.7 billion for a wall along the […]
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McCabe’s FBI Tried to Re-engage Christopher Steele After Comey Was Fired…
In the days following the firing of FBI Director James Comey by President Donald Trump, the FBI, under Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, sought to re-engage with former MI6 spy and author of the Steele dossier, Christopher Steele. The FBI’s attempts to re-engage Steele, who had been fired by the FBI six months earlier for breaking […]
FBI RETALIATED AGAINST TRUMP OVER COMEY FIRING…
In a Friday night news dump, the New York Times revealed the FBI’s surprisingly flimsy justification for launching a retaliatory investigation into President Donald Trump, their chief adversary during their recent troubled era. Admitting there is no actual evidence for their probe into whether Trump “worked for the Russians,” FBI officials instead cited their foreign […]
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Dems in California Want to Tax Your Drinking Water…
In order to help disadvantaged communities obtain safe and affordable drinking water, California Governor Gavin Newsom is proposing a new statewide water tax. In the newly-released 2019-20 budget, Newsom calls for the creation of a “safe and affordable drinking water fund” that would “enable the State Water Resources Control Board to assist communities, particularly disadvantaged communities, in […]
LA Teachers’ Strike…
Los Angeles teachers on Monday walked off the job Monday morning in their first strike in 30 years, placing hundreds of thousands of students in limbo. About 31,000 members of the teachers union had agreed to walk out to try to win smaller class sizes, more support staff at schools and better pay. Thousands of […]
Fusion GPS-Linked Group Worked With Tech Company Tied to Russian ‘False Flag’ Operation…
A nonprofit group linked to Fusion GPS and partially funded by George Soros worked in recent months with a technology company implicated in a scheme to use fake Russian bots during Alabama’s special Senate election. The groups, the Democracy Integrity Project (TDIP) and New Knowledge, partnered before the 2018 midterms to track alleged Russian disinformation […]
How News Media Omissions Distort Russia Probe Narrative…and Shield
Counterintelligence investigations are by their very nature complex, nuanced and methodically slow, all facts that today’s news media outlets seem to ignore as they chronicle the Russia collusion probe. The past week provided fresh examples of how journalists endlessly seeking to portray the Russia probe in black-and-white terms can misinform the public through omission, cherry-picking […]
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