Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch signed a final rule shortly before leaving her post that will effectively double penalties under the False Claims Act, which could stand to benefit trial lawyers, who overwhelmingly contribute campaign funds to Democrats. Lynch, the attorney general under former President Barack Obama, signed the rule on January 13. It doubles […]
Lynch’s Doubling of False Claims Act Fines Could Be Bonanza for Trial Lawyers…
First Flight of Cuban Deportees Arrives in Havana from U.S….
The “wet foot, dry foot” policy was ended by Barack Obama in January. More than 680 migrants were deported to Cuba Friday, including 117 on a charter flight from the U.S., the first arrivals since the end of the “wet foot, dry foot” policy which guaranteed residency to almost every Cuban who reached U.S. soil. […]
In Its Final Weeks, the Obama Administration Expanded, MIGHTILY, Powers of the NSA Surveillance, Globally…
In its final days, the Obama Administration expanded the power of the National Security Agency (NSA) to share globally intercepted personal communication with the government’s 16 other intelligence agencies before applying any privacy protections. The new rules were issued under section 2.3 of Executive Order 12333 after approval by two Obama Administration officials: Attorney General […]
Mary Jo White Seriously Misled the U.S. Senate to Become SEC Chair…
Less than two weeks after Mary Jo White was nominated to become Chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission by President Barack Obama on January 24, 2013, White filed an ethics disclosure letter advising that she would “retire” from her position representing Wall Street banks at the law firm Debevoise & Plimpton. White wrote on […]
Obama Administration Used Depleted Uranium in Syria…
Officials have confirmed that the U.S. military, despite vowing not to use depleted uranium weapons on the battlefield in Iraq and Syria, fired thousands of rounds of the such munitions during two high-profile raids on oil trucks in Islamic State-controlled Syria in late 2015. The air assaults mark the first confirmed use of this armament […]
Former Obama State Dept Official Explains Why They Never Said ‘Radical Islam’…
A former Department of State official confessed Monday that the reason no one in the Obama administration referred to certain acts of terror as “radical Islam” is because they were scared of alienating Muslim allies. In an op-ed written for The New York Times, Richard Stengel, who previously served as under secretary of state for […]
The Trump Cluster Fark in Yemen…
The White House is spinning like a hamster wheel being driven by a rodent on crack. The raid more than a week ago in Yemen that left a Navy SEAL Petty Officer dead is being touted as a “success: White House spokesman Sean Spicer called the raid “successful … by all standards.” The Pentagon said […]
Zimbabwe to U.S. Critics: ‘Go and hang on a banana tree’…
US critics of Zimbabwe’s human rights record “can go and hang on a banana tree,” a Zimbabwean official said in comments published Tuesday, while he also indicated that the southern African country is waiting for an overture from the administration of President Donald Trump. “We are waiting for a cue from a new government,” Zimbabwe’s […]
Death of the Syrian ‘Moderate’ Fantasy by Jonathan Marshall…
The neoconservative and liberal interventionist case for arming Syria’s rebels lost its last vestige of credibility this week with the routing of Free Syrian Army (FSA) forces by Al-Qaeda-linked Islamists in northwestern Syria. Washington think-tank warriors and editorial writers have long looked to the FSA as America’s natural allies in the Syrian conflict…
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