Tom Price is just the latest nominee to Trump’s Cabinet plagued with wide-ranging conflicts of interests salon.com By Sophia Tesfaye December 15th, 2016 President-elect Donald Trump may have canceled a press conference meant to address his personal conflicts of interest this week, but some of his Cabinet nominees may still have to answer for their own apparent conflicts of interests […]
By REENA FLORES CBS NEWS December 16, 2016, 9:35 AM John Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s campaign chair who was the target of a massive cyberattack of his personal emails earlier this year, blasted the “broken” FBI Friday over how the agency has handled Russian hacking of the U.S. presidential election. In a blistering Washington Post op-ed published late Thursday, Podesta […]
By John Shattuck December 16th, 2016 A specter of treason hovers over Donald Trump. He has brought it on himself by dismissing a bipartisan call for an investigation of Russia’s hacking of the Democratic National Committee as a “ridiculous” political attack on the legitimacy of his election as president. Seventeen US national intelligence agencies have […]
By Eric Lipton, David E. Sanger and Scott Shane December 13th, 2016 WASHINGTON — When Special Agent Adrian Hawkins of the Federal Bureau of Investigation called the Democratic National Committee in September 2015 to pass along some troubling news about its computer network, he was transferred, naturally, to the help desk. CLICK IMAGE for direct […]
By Peter Lance Nov. 5th 2016 The HuffPost reported last night that Trump advisor Rudy Giuliani changed his story yesterday about how he’d spoken to active duty FBI agents in the days prior to Director James Comey’s bombshell letter to Congress which has narrowed the presidential race in favor of Donald Trump. That HuffPost by Chris D’Angelo contains links […]
By Peter Lance Oct 29th 2016 From 2003 to 2013 I wrote four investigative books for HarperCollins critical of the FBI’s performance in counter-terrorism and organized crime. Starting in 1989 my reporting spanned a period of 25 years, citing massive Bureau lapses during the presidencies of George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama. I […]
Dec 16, 2016 9:53am PST by MeemaSue WHY RUSSIA HELPED TRUMP? On 4/4/2016, Lilia Shevtsova wrote in The American Interest about the powerful effect of US-European sanctions against Russia and Syria. Frozen assets in the U.S. of the oligarch Yuri Kovalchuk, a close ally of Putin, have totaled $572 million. In Italy, the Rottenberg brothers have also […]
Putin turns political power into extreme wealth Rachel Maddow explains how Russia, under Boris Yeltsin, privatized its national assets to a few powerful bank oligarchs, and how Vladimir Putin learned to take advantage of that system to make himself, according to US intelligence, the richest man in the world. Duration: 21:33
By WILLIAM M. ARKIN, KEN DILANIAN and CYNTHIA MCFADDEN 12.15.16 U.S. intelligence officials now believe with “a high level of confidence” that Russian President Vladimir Putin became personally involved in the covert Russian campaign to interfere in the U.S. presidential election, senior U.S. intelligence officials told NBC News. Two senior officials with direct access to […]
by WILLIAM M. ARKIN, KEN DILANIAN, ROBERT WINDREM and CYNTHIA MCFADDEN EXCLUSIVE DEC 15 2016, 6:55 PM ET The Obama administration didn’t respond more forcefully to Russian hacking before the presidential election because they didn’t want to appear to be interfering in the election and they thought that Hillary Clinton was going to win and a potential cyber war with Russia […]
