CARRIE JOHNSON March 8, 2017 The FBI director has no plans to leave the post before the end of his 10-year term. CLICK IMAGE ABOVE for direct link to NPR story. “You’re stuck with me for about 6 1/2 years,” James Comey said at a cyber conference in Boston on Wednesday, urging conference organizers to invite […]
THE LAST WORD WITH LAWRENCE O’DONNELL 3/7/17 Lies can be impeachable offense. Lawrence O’Donnell explains how President Donald Trump is “unfaithfully” executing his duties as president by lying about President Obama – and how that could lead to his impeachment. Duration: 8:07 CLICK IMAGE for link to video
By Martin Robinson, Uk Chief Reporter For Mailonline , 7 March 2017 | Ex-MI6 officer Christopher Steele has suddenly reappeared in London after almost two months in the shadows when he was unmasked as the author of the Trump ‘dirty dossier’. CLICK IMAGE ABOVE for link to story. CLICK IMAGE BELOW for link to video. The British father-of-three, 52, who worked as a […]
By JOSH MEYER and KENNETH P. VOGEL 03/07/17 Campaign leaders knew in advance of Carter Page’s Russia visit in July 2016, former aide says. Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski approved foreign policy adviser Carter Page’s now-infamous trip to Moscow last summer on the condition that he would not be an official representative of the campaign, according to […]
By ERIC LICHTBLAU MARCH 6, 2017 WASHINGTON — Known as a no-nonsense, even-keeled prosecutor, Rod J. Rosenstein was expected to sail through Senate confirmation to be the Justice Department’s second-in-command. But that process has become enmeshed in the drama surrounding questions about President Trump’s campaign ties to Russia. CLICK IMAGE for link to story. Mr. […]
By SCOTT SHANE, MATTHEW ROSENBERG and ANDREW W. LEHREN MARCH 7, 2017 WASHINGTON — In what appears to be the largest leak of C.I.A documents in history, WikiLeaks released on Tuesday thousands of pages describing sophisticated software tools and techniques used by the agency to break into smartphones, computers and even Internet-connected televisions. The documents amount to a detailed, highly technical catalog of […]
By Peter Lance investigatingtrump.com & The Huffington Post. March 5th, 2017. After green lighting the continuation of the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline in an executive order January 24th, President Trump declared as recently as last week that the pipeline had to use American made steel “or we’re not building one.” But on Friday, Trump spokeswoman Sarah […]
By Jeremy Diamond, Jeff Zeleny and Shimon Prokupecz, March 4, 2017 (CNN) President Donald Trump made a stunning claim Saturday, alleging without offering evidence that his predecessor, Barack Obama, wiretapped his phones at Trump Tower ahead of the 2016 election. “Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. […]
By Philip Bump March 3 at 1:05 PM In the most abstract sense, there is nothing noteworthy about a government official meeting with an ambassador from a foreign country. When such an interaction becomes important is when that official is an ally of a presidential campaign that’s got a complex set of possibly inappropriate relationships with other […]
Tony Cook , March 2, 2017 Vice President Mike Pence routinely used a private email account to conduct public business as governor of Indiana, at times discussing sensitive matters and homeland security issues. Emails released to IndyStar in response to a public records request show Pence communicated via his personal AOL account with top advisers on topics ranging from security […]
