Donald Trump interviewed Robert Mueller for the position of FBI director, a senior administration official has confirmed. The confirmation comes one day after Trump friend and Newsmax Media CEO Chris Ruddy appeared on “PBS Newshour” Monday and said the president had interviewed Mueller for the position just days before he was appointed to be special […]
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Sessions Obliterates Charges of Improper Russian Contacts…
Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday forcefully denied improper contact with Russian officials, insisted he was within his rights to recommend the dismissal of FBI Director James Comey and disputed part of Comey’s testimony last week. Sessions called the suggestion he acted improperly during the 2016 campaign an “appalling and detestable lie.” He was generally […]
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UVA Student Otto Warmbier, Said to Be in a Coma, Released from North Korea…
University of Virginia student Otto Warmbier, who has been detained in North Korea for 17 months, has been medically evacuated from the country in a coma, his parents told The Washington Post Tuesday. Warmbier, who is 22, is due to arrive home in Cincinnati on Tuesday evening, having been evacuated through an American military base […]
Establishment Mueller Stacks Investigation with Democrat Donors…
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich sparked a mini-meltdown in the media Monday with a tweet challenging the fairness of the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Gingrich, who also appeared on “The Laura Ingraham Show,” pointed to the early hires special counsel Robert Mueller has made. “Republicans are delusional if they think […]
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AG Sessions Asked to Make Tuesday’s Hearing Open to the Public…
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has asked for Tuesday’s hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee to be public. Sessions is expected to field questions about his influence in former FBI Director James Comey’s firing. He, along with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, wrote a memo to the White House explaining why they believed it would be […]
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Comey’s Second Confrontation with the Former AG Ended in ‘Steely Silence’…
Ex-FBI Director James Comey has privately told members of Congress that he had a frosty exchange with Obama Attorney General Loretta Lynch last year when he confronted her about possible political interference in the Hillary Clinton email investigation after showing Lynch a sensitive document she was unaware the FBI possessed, according to sources who were […]
Feinstein: Congress Should Probe Whether Lynch Provided Cover for Clinton…
Sen. Dianne Feinstein on Sunday said Congress should look into former FBI Director James Comey’s revelation that former Attorney General Loretta Lynch asked him to downplay the nature of his investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails. Testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday, Comey said Lynch had asked him to refer to the probe as […]
Senate Judiciary Committee to Comey’s Close Friend: Cough Up The Memos You Leaked…
Yesterday during testimony in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee, former FBI Director James Comey admitted to giving his memos about conversations with President Donald Trump to a “close friend.” That friend, Columbia Law Professor Daniel Richman, then sent the memos to the New York Times where reporters published a story alleging President Trump asked […]
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New York Times Calls Sanders Progressives ‘Militant’ and ‘Often Raucous’…
The People’s Summit took place in Chicago last weekend. Predictably, the establishment media is trying to attack the conference, which brought together hundreds of progressive and activist organizations. On June 11, The New York Times published an article entitled, “Democrats in Split-Screen: The Base Wants it all, the Party wants to Win.” The article propagated […]
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Former Official: Obama Admin ‘Systematically Disbanded’ Units Investigating Iran’s Terrorism Financing Networks…
The Obama administration “systematically disbanded” law enforcement investigative units across the federal government focused on disrupting Iranian, Syrian, and Venezuelan terrorism financing networks out of concern the work could cause friction with Iranian officials and scuttle the nuclear deal with Iran, according to a former U.S. official who spent decades dismantling terrorist financial networks. David […]
Bill Cosby Trial: Defense Rests After Just 6 Minutes…
Bill Cosby’s attorneys raced through a startlingly brief, six-minute defense Monday, bringing to a close testimony in one of the most high-profile criminal cases in recent American history. Cosby and his wife, Camille — who made her first appearance at the courthouse Monday — watched as defense attorney Brian McMonagle called a single police witness […]
A Newly Produced Hillary Clinton Email Appears to Conflict with Her FBI Testimony…
Early in her tenure as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton suggested to an acquaintance she had overcome the opposition of her agency “security hawks” so she could continue using her private email device, according to a newly produced email that appears to conflict with her testimony to the FBI. Clinton told the FBI in a […]
DOJ Bans Holder-Era Settlement Payouts to ‘Slush Fund’…
The US Justice Department will no longer pay settlements to third parties that were “neither the victims nor the parties of the lawsuit.” The funds were meant for community organizations but conservatives said only liberal organizations benefitted. On Wednesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the Justice Department would no longer allow federal prosecutors to […]
Senate Intel Chiefs to Meet with Mueller Next Week…
The top senators on the Senate Intelligence Committee will meet next week Bob Mueller, the special counsel appointed to lead the investigation into Russia’s involvement in the election, and any possible links to President Trump’s campaign. Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) told CNN on Thursday that “we’ve got it scheduled [for] next week.” A spokeswoman for […]
Trump’s Lawyer: “the President was not being investigated for colluding with the or attempting to obstruct that investigation”…
In sum, it is now established that there the President was not being investigated for colluding with the or attempting to obstruct that investigation. As the Committee pointed out today, these important facts for the country to know are virtually the only facts that have not leaked during the long course of these events”…
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Two Top Intel Officials Said They ‘Never Felt Pressured’ to Interfere in the Russian Probe…
Two top U.S. intelligence officials told the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday that they did not feel any pressure from President Trump to interfere in the FBI’s Russia probe. “In the three-plus years that I have been director of the national security agency, I have never been directed to do anything I believe to be […]
Trump’s Battle with the European ‘Old Order’ Is Just Old Fashioned Politics by John Lee…
We’re five months into Donald Trump’s rollercoaster presidency, Brexit is rocking the foundations of the EU, and Islamist terrorism threatens our way of life – the old order is crumbling. There is a new ideological conflict, but who are the combatants? This lyric, written 50 years ago about another time could apply to our world […]
The House Voted to Condemn the Turkish President’s Bodyguards’ Attack on Protesters…
The House approved a bipartisan resolution to condemn the attacks perpetrated by the Turkish bodyguards and against peaceful protesters last month in Washington, reports CBS News. The resolution calls for members of the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s security detail to be brought the justice. The resolution is backed by both House Majority Leader Kevin […]
Comey Releases Prepared Remarks Ahead of Tomorrow’s Hearing…
I first met then-President-Elect Trump on Friday, January 6 in a conference room at Trump Tower in New York. I was there with other Intelligence Community (IC) leaders to brief him and his new national security team on the findings of an IC assessment concerning Russian efforts to interfere in the election. At the conclusion […]
Trump to Nominate Christopher Wray to Lead FBI…
President Trump on Wednesday announced he will nominate Christopher A. Wray to serve as the new FBI director. “I will be nominating Christopher A. Wray, a man of impeccable credentials, to be the new Director of the FBI,” the president tweeted early Wednesday morning. “Details to follow”…
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