Author: Freedom Watch

House ethics bill would require Supreme Court to adopt code of conduct ABC News March 8, 2019 Congress is trying to force the U.S. Supreme Court to hold justices accountable to standards of ethics and good behavior in this politically-polarized “MeToo” era. The court is currently the only branch of government without an ethical code of conduct or an independent enforcement system to address allegations of wrongdoing. The House of Representatives on Friday passed a sweeping government transparency and ethics reform bill that requires the federal judiciary to “issue a code of conduct which applies to each justice……

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NSA in ‘deliberate process’ over future of surveillance program, says spy chief The Washington Times March 8, 2019 The National Security Agency is preparing to potentially abandon a controversial surveillance program exposed by former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, the agency’s director indicated. Paul Nakasone, head of both the NSA and U.S. Cyber Command, vaguely discussed the future of the government’s once-secretive system for obtaining and analyzing domestic telephone records, or metadata, in light of a senior congressional aide recently claiming that it was quietly suspended. Continue Reading…..

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Ex-Fox News executive Bill Shine out at the White House By Betsy Klein, Kaitlan Collins and Jim Acosta CNN March 8, 2019 Washington (CNN)White House deputy chief of staff and de facto communications director Bill Shine has stepped down to join the Trump campaign, press secretary Sarah Sanders announced in a statement Friday. Shine, a former Fox News executive, joined the White House in July 2018, the sixth person to fill or be tapped for the top communications role. Jason Miller, Sean Spicer, Mike Dubke, Anthony Scaramucci and Hope Hicks all came before him. He offered his resignation…

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Fox News’s Napolitano: Trump can’t survive ‘another week like the last one’ By Morgan Gstalter TheHill March 8, 2019 Fox News senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano said that President Trump can’t survive “another week like the last one” after the tumultuous hearing of his former personal attorney Michael Cohen. Napolitano wrote in a Washington Times opinion piece on Wednesday that the president’s “serious and powerful tormentors” cannot be beaten by “mockery alone.” “He needs to do more than demean them with acerbic tweets, because many of those tormentors can legally cause him real harm. He needs to address…

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Ocasio-Cortez fundraises off claim that AIPAC is ‘coming after’ her, Omar, Tlaib By John Bowden TheHill March 8, 2019 Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) issued a call for donations from her supporters on Thursday following a pro-Israel activist’s apparent threat to organize against her and two fellow Democrats. In an email to supporters who funded her successful congressional bid with a wave of small-dollar donations, Ocasio-Cortez conveyed a line from an interview that American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) activist Stephen Fiske gave to The New York Times in which Fiske predicted that Ocasio-Cortez, as well as Reps. Ilhan…

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Omar bails out Trump By Eliana Johnson, Melanie Zanona POLITICO March 8, 2019 She snidely refers to him as “Individual 1.” She has denounced him for “sabotaging the economy.” And she has accused him of engaging in “dehumanizing rhetoric.” But this week, freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) has been President Donald Trump’s dream come true. Amid a punishing run of bad news for Trump — ranging from his failed North Korea summit to the scathing testimony of his former lawyer Michael Cohen to an imminent political rebuke by the Republican Senate — Omar has instead consumed the political…

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WND March 8, 2019 Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Democrat from Minnesota, a Muslim and a newcomer to Congress, already is causing controversy, with a series of anti-Semitic comments, her defense of al-Qaida, her explosions at reporters and her alignment with an extreme left faction in the Democratic Party. She’s already the target of a petition demanding her resignation. Now, the Department of Homeland Security is being urged to investigate her and begin deportation or other removal proceedings. Continue Reading…..

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Tom Fitton on Twitter Twitter March 7, 2019 “Recipients can refuse to comply with document requests and seek court relief from any harassing subpoenas…The House could be made to go to federal court 80 different times to pursue its harassment of @realDonaldTrump… Lou Dobbs @LouDobbs: #DrainTheSwamp — @SidneyPowell1: GOP needs to quash the subpoenas and fight them in any way they can. @TomFitton: Targets should just say no. This is an abuse of power. The coup against @POTUS is being continued through this abuse of congressional power. #MAGA #TrumpTrain #Dobbs pic.twitter.com/IVOtte9juh 5:08 PM – 4 Mar 2019 Continue…

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WASHINGTON, D.C., March 6, 2019 — Larry Klayman, founder of Judicial Watch and now Freedom Watch and a former U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecutor is calling upon the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and/or DOJ to investigate anti-Semitic and terrorist-connected freshman U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) for immigration marriage fraud and to initiate deportation proceedings as supported by the factual investigation. Her links to terrorist connected groups, as demonstrated by her speaking engagements, also need immediate investigation. Today, Larry Klayman also demanded that the U.S. House of Representatives investigate, consider and take remedial action pursuant to Freedom…

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