The Department of Justice has opened an investigation into Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta’s role in negotiating a controversial plea deal with a wealthy New York investor accused of molesting more than 100 underage girls in Palm Beach. The probe is in response to a request by Sen. Ben Sasse, a a Nebraska Republican and […]
DOJ Letter to Sen Ben Sasse…
How Anti-Trump Leakers Moved From Offense to Defense…
A trail of evidence appearing in major news outlets suggests a campaign to undermine President Trump from within the government through illegal leaks of classified information, and then thwart congressional investigators probing the disclosures. On Monday the Justice Department released a handful of texts and other documents that included two former officials known for their […]
Day Two: Kavanaugh Stresses Independence in Senate Hot Seat…
Judge Brett Kavanaugh touted judicial independence Wednesday as Senate Democrats grilled the Supreme Court nominee with pointed questions about his views of executive authority, including on the president’s authority over a special counsel. Democrats drilled in on Kavanaugh’s views of executive power, raising concerns about whether he believes a president can fire certain executive branch […]
Fired FBI Director Andrew McCabe Requests Criminal Immunity in exchange for Congressional Testimony…
Wait, what? We’ve obviously come a full 180° from the place where Democrats were proclaiming McCabe’s innocence; and we’ve entered the phase where McCabe is requesting criminal immunity in exchange for testimony about what he knows of the corrupt FBI operations in 2016 and 2017. In a series of letters going back and forth between […]
Senate Panel Moves to Take Up Bill Protecting Mueller…
The Senate Judiciary Committee is moving forward with legislation to limit President Trump’s ability to fire special counsel Robert Mueller. Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) wants to add the bill to the panel’s business meeting agenda scheduled for Thursday, a spokesman for the senator confirmed to The Hill. “In order to do that, the Minority […]
WATCH LIVE: AG Sessions to Be Grilled by Senate Judiciary on Russian Nuclear Bribery Case…
The Senate Judiciary Committee has launched a probe into a Russian nuclear bribery case, demanding several federal agencies disclose whether they knew the FBI had uncovered the corruption before the Obama administration in 2010 approved a controversial uranium deal with Moscow. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the committee chairman, gets his first chance to raise the […]
Comey’s Memo Clearing Clinton Drafted Nearly 3 Months Before17 Key Witnesses Were Even Interviewed…
As of early May 2016, the FBI had not yet interviewed Secretary Clinton. Moreover, it had yet to finish interviewing sixteen other key witnesses, including Cheryl Mills, Bryan Pagliano, Heather Samuelson, Justin Cooper, and John Bentel.[4] These individuals had intimate and personal knowledge relating to Secretary Clinton’s…
Feinstein Calls for Sessions to Testify Before Judiciary Committee on Russia Ties…
Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) sent a letter to Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley (R-IA) asking him to call Attorney General Jeff Sessions before the committee about conversations he allegedly had with former Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak during the 2013 election. Feinstein cited a Friday Washington Post report that the intelligence community intercepted communications that Kislyak […]