Author: Freedom Watch
Crowdsource the Truth May 17, 2018
By Jonathan Easley TheHill May 17, 2018 A federal judge will rule next week on a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from a conservative group that wants access to correspondences that special counsel Robert Mueller’s team has had with the media. Freedom Watch founder Larry Klayman and Joseph Dugan, the lawyer representing the special counsel, will appear in Washington district court on May 24 at 10:30 a.m. for a status conference with Judge Emmet Sullivan. The Hill viewed the relevant court filings, which are reported here for the first time. Continue Reading…..
Thanks to Trump and Netanyahu, it’s Jew vs. Jew By Samuel G. Freedman CNN May 17, 2018 Samuel Freedman writes that the events of May 14 along the Israel-Gaza border have placed an unbearable strain on the covenant between the two largest Jewish communities in the world, one in the United States and the other in Israel. On that date, the 70th anniversary of Israeli statehood, Israel military forces killed more than 50 Palestinian protestors and wounded another 2,700 in a confrontation, as marchers tried to breach the security fence on the Gaza border. At about the same…
Russia favored Trump in 2016, Senate panel says, breaking with House GOP By Karoun Demirjian Washington Post May 17, 2018 The Senate Intelligence Committee has determined the U.S. intelligence community was correct in assessing Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election with the aim of helping then-candidate Donald Trump, contradicting findings House Republicans reached last month. “We see no reason to dispute the [intelligence community’s] conclusions,” the committee’s chairman, Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), said Wednesday in a joint statement with its vice chair, Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-Va.), who added: “Our staff concluded that the … conclusions were…
Trump team ready to ‘pressure’ Mueller at probe’s one-year mark By Darren Samuelsohn POLITICO May 16, 2018 President Donald Trump’s attorney has an unlikely new role model for special counsel Robert Mueller: James Comey. Frustrated by the open-ended nature of Mueller’s Russia probe, which hits its one-year mark on Thursday, Rudy Giuliani says Mueller should follow the example Comey set in 2016, when the then-FBI director investigated — and then publicly exonerated — Hillary Clinton for her use of a private email server. Continue Reading…..
WATCH: Nikki Haley Slams UN, Walks Out On Palestinian Representative By Bre Payton The Federalist May 15, 2018 U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley slammed the United Nations on Tuesday for pushing an investigation into the measures Israel took to secure its border during violent clashes with Hamas-backed insurgents earlier this week. After she concluded her speech, she walked out of the chamber when a Palestinian representative began to speak. For months, Palestinians have been protesting along the Gaza-Israeli border in objection to Israel’s 70 years in existence. Protestors have been reportedly burning tires in order to create a thick…
Federal judge rejects Manafort’s bid to dismiss Mueller indictment By Josh Gerstein POLITICO May 15, 2018 A federal judge on Tuesday rejected an attempt by Paul Manafort, a former Trump campaign chairman, to get an indictment against him dismissed by claiming that special counsel Robert Mueller’s appointment was flawed. In a blow to Manafort’s defense, U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled that Mueller’s prosecution of the longtime political consultant on charges of money laundering and failing to register as a foreign agent for Ukraine was “squarely” within the authority that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein granted…
Sean Hannity Failed to Tell His Viewers the Truth By Conor Friedersdorf The Atlantic May 15, 2018 Sean Hannity, the Fox News commentator and talk-radio host, is perfectly entitled to support President Donald Trump, to defend Trump’s allies, and to attack Trump’s enemies. But his audience deserves the truth about his relationship to this presidency. He has yet to level with them. Oh, viewers know that Hannity is a right-wing populist who calls himself a conservative and votes Republican. No one is under the impression that he is “fair and balanced,” and the most discerning can calibrate their…
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Mueller: Secret Court Order Suspended Statute Of Limitations On Manafort Charge By Tierney Sneed Talking Points Memo May 15, 2018 Special Counsel Robert Mueller obtained a secret order from a federal magistrate judge to suspend the statute of limitations on one of the charges he ultimately brought against Paul Manafort, a court filing revealed Monday evening. Mueller did not inform Manafort of the secret order until after the former Trump campaign chairman had requested that charge be thrown out, the filing said. Mueller also disclosed in the Monday court filing that, as recently as April 30 of this…