Author: Freedom Watch
Pompeo and Bolton Appointments Raise Alarm Over Ties to Anti-Islam Groups By Laurie Goodstein New York Times April 7, 2018 Nearly two months after the Boston Marathon bombing, Mike Pompeo, then a congressman from Kansas, took to the floor of the House to denounce American Muslim leaders for what he called their “silence” in response to the heinous terrorist attack. “Silence has made these Islamic leaders across America potentially complicit in these acts,” Mr. Pompeo said, reading from prepared remarks. In fact, more than half a dozen American Muslim organizations had issued statements condemning the bombing within hours…
Gowdy: ‘I don’t have a lot to show for the last seven years’ in Congress By Max Greenwood TheHill April 7, 2018 Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) says he doesn’t have “a lot to show for the last seven years” of his time in Congress, adding that the legislative branch is hampered by “ineffectiveness.” “To the extent men judge themselves based on what they do for a living, I don’t have a lot to show for the last seven years,” Gowdy told Vice News Tonight on HBO in an interview. Gowdy acknowledged the hyperpartisan nature of Congress, and that…
April 7, 2018
By Larry Klayman WND April 6, 2018 Some of you may remember a film by Woody Allen called “Match Point.” Despite his comedic genius, the movie was a sad thriller that ended in tragedy, all in line with Allen’s dark view of life. Today, We the People are living another tragedy in the making, and while also suitable for leftist Hollywood production, there are grave consequences for both the president and those of us who are dedicated not to just “Making America Great Again,” but saving the republic and restoring the vision of our Founding Fathers. I would call…
Mueller will drop midterm Russia bombshells on GOP Congress By Brent Budowsky, opinion contributor TheHill April 5, 2018 This week we learned from the Washington Post, in a story that ran in the Wednesday paper, that special counsel Robert Mueller plans to release a report about President Trump’s actions while in office discussing the issue of obstruction of justice. It will probably be finished by June or July. Next week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will testify before a joint hearing of the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees on Tuesday and before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on…
Newsmax TV April 5, 2018
Why nobody knows what’s going on inside the Mueller investigation By Zachary Fryer-Biggs Vox April 5, 2018 Special counsel Robert Mueller and his team of lawyers won their first conviction, sending Alex van der Zwaan to jail on Tuesday. They are methodically working their way through their investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, with 19 indictments and five pleas thus far. Everyone wants to know whom the investigation will target next. But the people who actually know, Mueller and his team of at least 17 people, have done something remarkable for Washington in the Trump era…
Mueller’s Russia probe shows it pays to cooperate AP News April 5, 2018 WASHINGTON (AP) — George Papadopoulos, taken by surprise by FBI agents at an airport last summer, now tweets smiling beach selfies with a Mykonos hashtag. Rick Gates, for weeks on home confinement with electronic monitoring, gets rapid approval for a family vacation and shaves down his potential prison time. Michael Flynn, once the target of a grand jury investigation, flies cross-country to stump for a California congressional candidate and books a speaking event in New York. The message is unmistakable: It pays to cooperate with…
Judge Andrew Napolitano: What Is Robert Mueller looking for? By Andrew Napolitano Fox News April 5, 2018 Robert Mueller is the special counsel appointed by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in May 2017 to probe the nature and extent of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign. The investigation began in October 2016 under President Barack Obama when the FBI took seriously the boast of Carter Page, one of candidate Donald Trump’s foreign policy advisers, that he had worked for the Kremlin. The FBI also had transcripts of telephone conversations and copies of emails and text messages of…
By Larry Klayman Newsmax April 5, 2018 On July 29, 1994, I founded Judicial Watch to police judges, after 17 years of toiling in the legal profession, having spent a few years as an associate with a prestigious Miami, Florida, litigation law firm, moving after that to the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice as a trial attorney serving on the team which broke up AT&T and creating competition in the telecommunications industry, and then as a senior lawyer with an international trade law firm. In 1983, I left to start my own legal practice in Washington,…