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CFPB’s ‘NSA-Like’ Surveillance in Limbo with Leadership Tussle…

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The fight for control of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau may have significant effects on the bureau’s mass acquisition of private financial records, according to privacy advocates. The CFPB pools vast quantities of data for research purposes, including millions of people’s credit card records, which it says are anonymized, commercially available and tracked to help […]

What Really Happened with the GOP Platform and Russia…

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It’s one of the enduring misconceptions of the Trump-Russia affair. During the 2016 Republican convention, the story goes, the Trump campaign weakened a critical passage in the GOP platform to go easy on Russia. The Trump team acted, according to this narrative, as part of an ongoing conspiracy with Russian President Vladimir Putin to help […]

What Trump and Putin Talked About for an Hour…

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President Trump spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin by phone for more than an hour on Tuesday about issues ranging from terrorism to Ukraine, the White House said in a statement. The two leaders stressed the need “to peacefully resolve the Syrian civil war, end the humanitarian crisis, allow displaced Syrians to return home, and […]

Donna Brazile: First She Says the Primary Was ‘Rigged’ NOW She Says 2016 ‘was not a legitimate election’…

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Former Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Donna Brazile on Tuesday called the 2016 presidential election illegitimate, and said it may have ended differently had Russia not interfered. “My personal view is that it was not a legitimate election,” Brazile told MSNBC “Hardball” host Chris Matthews Tuesday night. “So it doesn’t count?” Matthews asked. “Chris, remember, I […]

Here Are the White House Visitor Records the Trump Administration Didn’t Want You to See…

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The Trump White House tried to block public access to visitor logs of five federal offices working directly for the president even though they were subject to public disclosure through the Freedom of Information Act. Property of the People, a Washington-based transparency group, successfully sued the administration to release the data and provided the documents […]

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