Author: Freedom Watch

By Bob Unruh WND May 25, 2018 Thousands of government documents that should reveal the details of special counsel Robert Mueller’s contacts with the media — even though that may seem unusual since he’s running a secret investigation — now are scheduled to become public by early September. U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan Thursday gave the government until Sept. 4 to provide thousand of documents that already have been identified under a Freedom of Information Act case. Continue Reading…..

McConnell says he backs Mueller probe after classified briefing By Max Greenwood TheHill May 25, 2018 Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Thursday after attending a classified briefing that he continues to support special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Moscow. McConnell told NPR that Mueller’s investigation and a separate probe by the Justice Department’s inspector general into the FBI’s actions during the 2016 election will ultimately provide answers to a number of questions swirling around the presidential race. Continue Reading…..

Iran lists demands for staying in nuclear deal BBC News May 23, 2018 Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has set out several conditions for staying in the nuclear deal with world powers. The conditions include protecting Iran oil sales and safeguarding trade. US President Donald Trump has said he is withdrawing from the deal, and on Monday Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said sanctions lifted after the 2015 deal would be re-imposed. Continue Reading…..

Press Conference to Follow on Courthouse Steps Place: D.C. Federal Courthouse Courtroom 24A (Hon. Emmet Sullivan) 333 Constitution Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20001 Time: 10:30 A.M. on Thursday, May 24, 2018 (Washington, D.C. May 23, 2018). Larry Klayman, the founder of Judicial Watch and now Freedom Watch, will appear as counsel for Freedom Watch at a hearing to take place this Thursday at 10:30 A.M. in Courtroom 24A of the D.C. federal courthouse. Klayman will then argue before the Honorable Emmet Sullivan, the jurist who has been assigned the criminal prosecution of Rt. General Michael Flynn as well, to…

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House Republicans to call for second special counsel to investigate alleged FISA abuse, Hillary Clinton probe By Samuel Chamberlain Fox News May 22, 2018 A group of congressional Republicans will introduce a resolution Tuesday calling for the appointment of a second special counsel to investigate alleged misconduct at the FBI and Justice Department. The resolution is backed by Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., the chairman of the conservative House Freedom Caucus as well as two of the group’s co-founders — Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and Rep. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla. Continue Reading…..

Watchdog report to fault FBI for Clinton probe delay New York Post May 22, 2018 Top FBI officials — including former director James Comey — will be criticized in an upcoming report from the Justice Department’s internal watchdog for failing to quickly review a trove of Hillary Clinton’s e-mails discovered in the last months of the 2016 election, a report on Monday said. The DOJ inspector general will say that leading FBI officials knew about the e-mails on former Rep. Anthony Weiner’s laptop in September 2016 but didn’t get a warrant to review them until the next month,…

Adolf Hitler definitely died in WWII, new research says By Chris Ciaccia Fox News May 22, 2018 A team of French researchers who recently examined Adolf Hitler’s remains say the leader of the Nazi party definitely died in Berlin and not elsewhere, as has been rumored about for decades. “There is no possible doubt. Our study proves that Hitler died in 1945,” co-author Philippe Charlier told AFP by way of The Washington Post, following the paper’s publication on the European Journal of Internal Medicine. Continue Reading…..

Opinion | Trump just escalated his war on Mueller. Here are three big takeaways. By Greg Sargent Washington Post May 21, 2018 THE MORNING PLUM: In what can perhaps best be described as an act of appeasement, the Justice Department has announced that its inspector general will examine whether the FBI acted out of political motivation in conducting its investigation into links between Russia and the Trump campaign. This comes in response to President Trump’s tweet that he will “officially” demand that the Justice Department investigate whether the department or the FBI “infiltrated or surveilled the Trump Campaign…

DOJ asks watchdog to probe Trump campaign surveillance claims By Brett Samuels TheHill May 21, 2018 The Department of Justice (DOJ) has asked its inspector general to look into whether the FBI surveilled President Trump’s campaign for “inappropriate purposes.” “If anyone did infiltrate or surveil participants in a presidential campaign for inappropriate purposes, we need to know about it and take appropriate action,” Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said in a statement. DOJ spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores said in a separate statement that “the Inspector General will consult with the appropriate U.S. Attorney if there is any evidence…