Although she refused to overturn a jury verdict against Monsanto finding its weed killer Roundup caused a San Francisco Bay Area man’s terminal cancer, a California judge on Monday left open the possibility of a new trial if the man refuses a $211 million reduction in his punitive damages award. In a written ruling, San […]
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Paid Protest Firm “Crowds on Demand” Sued in $23 Million Extortion Plot…
“Paid protesters are real,” writes the Los Angeles Times, after a lawsuit filed by a Czech investor against a business rival spotlighted the seedy, and very real business of people hired to express fake outrage, support, and everything in between. According to a lawsuit filed by investor Zdenek Bakala, Prague-based investment manager Pavol Krupa hired […]
Trump Says Saudis Engaged in ‘Worst Coverup Ever’ as U.S. Imposes Penalties…
President Trump said Tuesday that Saudi officials had engaged in the “worst coverup ever” after the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi earlier this month, as the administration took its first concrete step to penalize Saudi Arabia, revoking visas for its agents implicated in the killing. That initial penalty was modest, since 18 of the 21 […]
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NATIONAL EMERGENCY…
Since President Trump threatened to close the Southern border due to Honduras’ unwillingness to comply with his requests for assistance in stopping a migrant caravan marching toward the US, the migrants have successfully crossed into Mexico and on Sunday regrouped after being temporarily delayed at the Mexican border by border guards who failed to force […]
CIA Director Gina Haspel Heads to Turkey on Eve of Recep Erdogan’s ‘naked truth’ speech on Khashoggi’s Death…
CIA Director Gina Haspel is headed to Turkey, days after it was revealed that Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi was killed in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul earlier this month. The Washington Post reports Haspel departed Monday, the same day President Trump said he was dissatisfied with information Saudi Arabia has provided about Khashoggi’s death. “We […]
Saudi Arabia’s Saud al-Qahtani ‘ran Khashoggi Killing via Skype’…
Reuters news agency has reported that Saud al-Qahtani, a former royal court media adviser and top aide to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, orchestrated Khashoggi’s killing at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul after being beamed into a room of the building via Skype. Al-Qahtani was fired on Saturday during Riyadh’s efforts to contain the […]
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MUST READ: MSNBC and Daily Beast Feature UAE Lobbyist David Rothkopf with No Disclosure: a Scandalous Media-Wide Practice by Glenn Greenwald…
On Thursday, the Daily Beast published an article about the Saudi/US relationship by David Rothkopf, a long-time member in good standing of the U.S. Foreign Policy elite. Until last year, he was the editor-in-chief of the establishment journal Foreign Policy, named to that position in 2012 when it was owned by the Washington Post. He’s […]
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A 90-Minute Flight, 45 Presidents, and an 8-Year-Old American Boy…
Sometimes, you meet special people, people who have an impact not just on your day, but on your outlook in life. People who provide you a priceless gift by letting you see the world through their eyes, and thus showing you that everything is a little better than you thought it was before you met […]
“Rank and File” – A Conspicuous Absence of Visible Indignation…
Against a rather enlightening week of activity from within the DOJ and FBI, last night I posited the question: “If the FBI and DOJ were not institutionally corrupt wouldn’t we have seen multiple whistle-blowers this year?” The purpose of the question is to draw attention to an empirical reality. By now we understand many of […]
Rosenstein Defends the Mueller Probe…
Well, did you think Rod Rosenstein was going to say, “You got me. The Mueller probe was inappropriate and politicized?” No, you didn’t. And the deputy attorney general did not disappoint. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday, Rosenstein defended the investigation as “appropriate and independent.” The Journal’s Sadie Gurman observes that […]
Why Are the DOJ and FBI Hiding Potentially Exculpatory Info on Papadopoulos?…
Republican lawmakers have hinted for months that the FBI had exculpatory information on Papadopoulos at the time that the Bureau applied for its first a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. Fox News first reported that Republicans are interested in less than a dozen pages of documents related […]
FBI Acknowledges Using Multiple Informants in Investigation of Trump Campaign Aide…
The U.S. government revealed in court filings Friday that the FBI used multiple confidential informants, including some who were paid for their information, as part of its investigation into former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. “The FBI has protected information that would identify the identities of other confidential sources who provided information or intelligence to […]
Mueller Report PSA: Prepare for Disappointment…
President Donald Trump’s critics have spent the past 17 months anticipating what some expect will be among the most thrilling events of their lives: special counsel Robert Mueller’s final report on Russian 2016 election interference. They may be in for a disappointment. That’s the word POLITICO got from defense lawyers working on the Russia probe […]
CONFIRMED: Saudi Journalist Jamal Khashoggi Killed in Istanbul Consulate, After Claiming He Left Alive…
The Saudi government acknowledged early Saturday that journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed while visiting the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, saying he died during a fist fight. The announcement, which came in a tweet from the Saudi foreign ministry, said that an initial investigation by the government’s general prosecutor found that Khashoggi been in discussions with […]
Judge Tells Prosecutors to Clarify Case Against Russian Company…
A federal judge on Thursday asked prosecutors to flesh out their arguments in the case against a Russian company accused of funding the Kremlin’s effort to influence the 2016 presidential election. U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich in a three-page order asked prosecutors with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office to clarify their position on whether Concord […]
Justice Department Charges Russian with Interfering in Midterms…
The Justice Department charged a Russian national on Friday with conspiring to interfere in America’s midterm elections. Elena Alekseevna Khusyaynova, 44, is charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States in the first criminal case to confront Russian efforts to interfere in the upcoming elections. Khusyaynova, who is not in American custody, is alleged to […]
Manafort Sentencing Date Set for February…
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was brought into a Virginia courtroom in a wheelchair Friday afternoon for a hearing to set his sentencing date, even as lawyers argued his confinement was already negatively affecting his health. Though he didn’t elaborate, Manafort’s attorney, Kevin Downing told U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III that his client […]
Saudi Storm Darkens for Trump…
President Trump edged toward a harder line with Saudi Arabia on Thursday. But the shift came only after the administration faced pressure for a response to the apparent killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi that critics condemned as timorous and unsteady. “Their message is muddled in part because they haven’t settled on policy,” GOP strategist Alex […]
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State Department Provided ‘Clearly False’ Statements to Derail Requests for Clinton Docs, ‘Shocked’ Federal Judge Says…
In a combative exchange at a hearing Friday in Washington, D.C., a federal judge unabashedly accused career State Department officials of lying and signing “clearly false” affidavits to derail a series of lawsuits seeking information about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email server and her handling of the 2012 terrorist attack on the […]
FBI Documents Detail Weiner Laptop / Clinton Email Find Just Before the 2016 Election…
Judicial Watch announced today that it has received 45 pages of FBI documents that reveal a “significant number” of 340,000 emails on the laptop of disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner were between the former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her top aide Huma Abedin. Judicial Watch obtained the documents as the result of a […]
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