The House Intelligence Committee on Tuesday morning interviewed a key character in the sprawling saga surrounding the so-called Steele dossier, a compendium of unconfirmed opposition research into then-candidate Donald Trump. The panel questioned David Kramer, a former State Department official who is now a senior director at the nonprofit McCain Institute, according to multiple sources […]
Inside the Trump Dossier Handoff: McCain’s ‘Go-Between’ Speaks Out…
The man who says he acted as a “go-between” last year to inform Sen. John McCain about the controversial “dossier” containing salacious allegations about then-candidate Donald Trump is speaking out, revealing how the ex-British spy who researched the document helped coordinate its release to the FBI, the media and Capitol Hill. “My mission was essentially […]
Pentagon’s Top Weapons Buyer to John McCain: ‘Excuse me, we hold people responsible’…
Ellen Lord, the Defense Department’s acquisition chief, said Wednesday that a shakeup of department personnel overseeing weapons purchasing programs is already in the works after facing tough questioning from Sen. John McCain about government waste. A review of staff in the Office of the Secretary of Defense and military services is looking at whether or […]
House to Vote on Giving Amazon $53B Deal to Become Main Pentagon Supplier…
Members of the US House of Representatives and Senate Armed Services committees announced Wednesday that they have reached agreement on the proposed $700 billion National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the annual defense spending bill. This astronomical figure—an $80 billion increase over spending in 2016 and roughly $26 billion more than was…
Is Mitch McConnell Behind Roy Moore’s November Surprise?…
What a disgusting cesspool of self-serving corruption is the nation’s capital and no better example of that can be found today than Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell who, according to longtime political activist, Ned Ryun, was a primary source of the anti-Roy Moore stories that are now attempting to sway the upcoming Alabama special election…
Senate Sends Budget-Busting Defense Bill to Trump…
The Senate gave final approval to the $700 billion compromise defense policy bill Thursday that would advocate a major military buildup called for by congressional defense hawks, but would bust through strict caps on defense spending to do it. The National Defense Authorization Act was quickly passed by voice vote, without any final debate or […]
McCain and the POW Cover-Up…
John McCain, who has risen to political prominence on his image as a Vietnam POW war hero, has, inexplicably, worked very hard to hide from the public stunning information about American prisoners in Vietnam who, unlike him, didn’t return home. Throughout his Senate career, McCain has quietly sponsored and pushed into federal law a set […]
GOP Senators Hold Up Disaster Aid Over Puerto Rico Concerns…
At least two Senate Republicans are delaying swift passage of a disaster aid package — demanding that Puerto Rico be made permanently exempt from a 1920 law that has complicated efforts to send supplies to the hurricane-ravaged territory. Sens. Jeff Flake of Arizona and Mike Lee of Utah are holding up the legislation, according to […]
Fueling More Bloodshed in Ukraine…
Last January, Sen. John McCain led a delegation along with his longtime sidekick, Sen. Lindsey Graham, to a contingent of Ukrainian troops not far from the front line in eastern Ukraine. In the presence of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, Graham told the soldiers: “Your fight is our fight… 2017 will be the year of offense. […]
Johnny Boy Doesn’t Like Nationalism. Rather, He Prefers “the world we have organized and led for three quarters of a century…” aka the World’s Cop…
“To fear the world we have organized and led for three-quarters of a century, to abandon the ideals we have advanced around the globe, to refuse the obligations of international leadership and our duty to remain ‘the last best hope of the Earth’ for the sake of some half-baked, spurious nationalism cooked up by people […]
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