BY CASSADY FENDLAY, HEAD OF COMMUNICATIONS WOMEN’S MARCH ON WASHINGTON RELEASES MISSION AND VISION FOR JANUARY CONVENING IN WASHINGTON, DC National grassroots movement addresses the choice to use the historical name, honors the legacy of defending equity and human rights November 21, 2016 (New York, NY)–The organizers of the Women’s March on Washington released a […]
By John Cassidy December 16, 2016 Over the past few weeks, a number of anguished friends and acquaintances, and even some strangers, have got in touch with me to ask what they might do to oppose Donald Trump. Being a fellow sufferer from oats—Obsessing About Trump Syndrome—my first instinct has been to tell people to […]
By Callum Borchers November 13th, 2016 President-elect Donald Trump sounded very much like presidential candidate Donald Trump on Sunday morning in a pair of misleading tweets about the New York Times. According to the New York Times Co.’s latest earnings report, the number of print copies it sold in the third quarter was down from […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
By Peter Lance December 15th, 2016. Huffington Post Back in the Eighties I started out as a correspondent for ABC News covering the dark side of the Reagan presidency for 20/20, Nightline and World News Tonight. I cut my teeth on investigations into Pentagon cost overruns, rigged Pershing II missile tests and FAA cover-ups on near […]