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 […]
Feds Open Clergy Abuse Probe in Pennsylvania…
The U.S. Justice Department has opened an investigation of child sexual abuse inside the Roman Catholic Church in Pennsylvania, using subpoenas to demand confidential files and testimony from church leaders, according to two people familiar with the probe. The subpoenas, served last week, follow a scathing state grand jury report over the summer that found […]
Mueller to Present Key Findings Related to Russia Probe After Midterms…
Special counsel Robert Mueller is reportedly expected to present findings related to key aspects of his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election after this November’s midterm elections. Bloomberg News, citing a pair of unidentified U.S. officials, reported on Wednesday that Mueller is close to finalizing his inquiry into a pair of the […]
U.S. Announces Intent to Withdraw from Universal Postal Union…
The United States says it intends to withdraw from the 192-country Universal Postal Union (UPU), an agency that governs international postal rates, the White House announced on Oct. 17. The yearlong withdrawal process was set in motion via a Letter of Denunciation served in Switzerland on the same day. During the process, the Trump administration […]
New Evidence Directly Ties McCabe to Illegal Leak About General Flynn…
The identity of one of the key SpyGate leakers inside the Department of Justice appears to have been revealed this Monday morning, thanks to a surprise document dump. The Department of Justice, without any advance announcement that it would do so, suddenly released a bombshell report. In it, there is a new clue that hints […]
AUDIO RECORDING: KHASHOGGI ASSASSINATED IN SEVEN MERE MINUTES…
It took seven minutes for Jamal Khashoggi to die, a Turkish source who has listened in full to an audio recording of the Saudi journalist’s last moments told Middle East Eye. Khashoggi was dragged from the Consul General’s office at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul and onto the table of his study next door, the […]
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Senate Security Staffer and Media Leaker James Wolfe Pleads Guilty to One Count of Lying to FBI Investigators…
Damn this is frustrating. Sorry folks, but this absolutely confirms the ongoing corruption within the DOJ that Attorney General Jeff Sessions is allowing. This is a Trump administration cover-up. The DOJ has issued a press release [SEE HERE] outlining a plea agreement with Mr. Wolfe where all charges are dropped except a single count of […]
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