Wash Examiner: Dan Rather: Trump’s missile barrage in Syria a convenient distraction from Russia

Wash Examiner: Dan Rather: Trump’s missile barrage in Syria a convenient distraction from Russia

by Daniel Chaitin | Apr 16, 2017 Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather called attention Sunday to what he suggested was a convenient change of narrative for President Trump after he launched an missile strike against the Assad regime. CLICK IMAGE above for direct link to story.  During an interview on CNN’s “Reliable Sources,” Rather and host Brian […]

NYT: Raft of Potential Conflicts In President’s Appointees

NYT: Raft of Potential Conflicts In President’s Appointees

By ERIC LIPTON, BEN PROTESS and ANDREW W. LEHREN APRIL 15, 2017 WASHINGTON — President Trump is populating the White House and federal agencies with former lobbyists, lawyers and consultants who in many cases are helping to craft new policies for the same industries in which they recently earned a paycheck. CLICK IMAGE ABOVE for direct link to NYT story. […]

USA Today: Tax Day protesters demand Trump release his returns

USA Today: Tax Day protesters demand Trump release his returns

Doug Stanglin and Heidi M Przybyla  April 15, 2017  Hundreds of protesters streamed onto the Capitol lawn Saturday carrying signs demanding that President Trump release his tax returns in one of more than 150 Tax Day rallies and marches planned nationwide. CLICK IMAGE ABOVE for direct link to story. Protesters in the nation’s capital came […]

Business Insider: Conservative and liberal watchdogs are railing against Trump over concealed White House visitor logs

Business Insider: Conservative and liberal watchdogs are railing against Trump over concealed White House visitor logs

Bryan Logan April 14th, 2017. News of the Trump administration’s move to keep White House visitor logs secret has prompted criticism from conservative and liberal groups. The administration cited “grave national-security risks and privacy concerns” on Friday as reasons to keep the logs under wraps. CLICK IMAGE AT RIGHT for link to story and video below. Tom […]

NPR: Trump Signs Law Giving States Option To Deny Funding For Planned Parenthood

NPR: Trump Signs Law Giving States Option To Deny Funding For Planned Parenthood

Colin Dwyer April 13, 2017 President Trump quietly signed legislation Thursday that rolls back an Obama-era rule protecting certain federal funds for Planned Parenthood and other organizations that provide legal abortions. That regulation, implemented in the waning days of the Obama administration, required that states pass along family-planning grants — regardless of whether the groups they’re passing them along […]

CNN: British intelligence passed Trump associates’ communications with Russians on to US counterparts

CNN: British intelligence passed Trump associates’ communications with Russians on to US counterparts

By Jim Sciutto, Pamela Brown and Eric Bradner, CNN  Thu April 13, 2017 Washington (CNN) British and other European intelligence agencies intercepted communications between associates of Donald Trump and Russian officials and other Russian individuals during the campaign and passed on those communications to their US counterparts, US congressional and law enforcement and US and European intelligence sources tell CNN. […]

The Guardian: British spies were first to spot Trump team’s links with Russia

The Guardian: British spies were first to spot Trump team’s links with Russia

Luke Harding, Stephanie Kirchgaessner and Nick Hopkins Thursday 13 April 2017 Exclusive: GCHQ is said to have alerted US agencies after becoming aware of contacts in 2015 Britain’s spy agencies played a crucial role in alerting their counterparts in Washington to contacts between members of Donald Trump’s campaign team and Russian intelligence operatives, the Guardian has been told. CLICK IMAGE […]

BBC: CIA chief Pompeo: Wikileaks ‘hostile intelligence service.’ Cited Wikileaks DNC email dump himself as GOP Congressman in 2016

BBC: CIA chief Pompeo: Wikileaks ‘hostile intelligence service.’ Cited Wikileaks DNC email dump himself as GOP Congressman in 2016

US & Canada April 13, 2017 The head of the CIA Mike Pompeo has described anti-secrecy organisation WikiLeaks as a “non-state hostile intelligence service” that is often abetted by states such as Russia. Russian military intelligence used Wikileaks to distribute hacked material during the US election, he added. CLICK IMAGE ABOVE for direct link to […]

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