Author: Freedom Watch
Trump, Sessions relationship takes new turn with special counsel decision By Katie Bo Williams and Morgan Chalfant TheHill March 31, 2018 President Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions have a new complication in their historically contentious relationship: The decision by Sessions not to appoint a second special counsel to investigate conservative allegations of abuse at the Justice Department. Sessions on Thursday notified key lawmakers on Capitol Hill that he has tapped Utah’s top prosecutor, John Huber, to coordinate with the department’s inspector general — but he stopped short of ceding to demands for a new special counsel, at…
Israel vows expanded response if Gaza clashes go on as UN calls for investigation into Friday’s violence Fox News March 31, 2018 Israel warned Saturday of a stepped-up response if violent protests in Gaza continued as the head of the United Nations called for an investigation into Friday’s deadly clashes in the volatile border zone. Palestinian health officials said 15 Palestinians were killed and more than 750 wounded by Israeli fire as protesters clashed with Israeli soldiers near the border fence separating Gaza and Israel. Continue Reading…..
Sessions is moving shrewdly on the FISA abuse investigation Power Line March 31, 2018 Early this month, President Trump tweeted: Why is A.G. Jeff Sessions asking the Inspector General to investigate potentially massive FISA abuse. Will take forever, has no prosecutorial power and already late with reports on Comey etc. Isn’t the I.G. an Obama guy? Why not use Justice Department lawyers? DISGRACEFUL! Trump’s tweet was foolish at several levels, as I argued here. For one thing, folks who know what they’re talking about — e.g., Trey Gowdy — say that the Inspector General, Michael Horowitz, is doing…
Larry Klayman: John Huber ‘Not the Right Guy’ to Probe FISA Abuses Newsmax March 31, 2018 Attorney General Jeff Sessions has “buried his head in the sand” by appointing federal prosecutor John Huber to probe FISA abuses by the FBI and potential mishandling of investigations into Hillary Clinton’s Uranium One deal, former federal prosecutor Larry Klayman told Newsmax TV on Friday. “It’s a step backward,” Klayman, founder of the government watchdog Freedom Watch, said to Miranda Khan on Newsmax’s “America Talks Live.” Continue Reading…..
Judge ridicules suggestion ‘deep state’ made him dismiss NSA lawsuits Washington Examiner March 30, 2018 A federal judge dismissed a long-stalled class-action lawsuit against the National Security Agency on Wednesday, writing that a suggestion he was influenced by the “deep state” was no substitute for “well-pleaded” legal arguments. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon wrote that conservative legal activist Larry Klayman had not offered a sufficient legal basis for keeping the case active against the NSA’s bulk collection of domestic call records. Continue Reading…..
Conservatives fume after Sessions declines to appoint new special counsel By Jonathan Easley TheHill March 30, 2018 Conservative are boiling with anger at Attorney General Jeff Sessions for declining to appoint a second special counsel to investigate alleged abuses at the FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ). In a Thursday letter to senior GOP lawmakers in the House and Senate, Sessions explained that he had appointed John Huber, a U.S. attorney from Utah who was first appointed by former President Obama, to work with DOJ’s inspector general to determine whether a second special counsel is necessary. Continue Reading…..
Clinton cites sexism by critics who tell her to exit political stage By Veronica Stracqualursi CNN March 30, 2018 Hillary Clinton suggested Thursday that the criticism she should “go away” following her election loss to President Donald Trump is based in sexism, arguing that her critics never asked that of losing candidates who are male. “That began to happen after the election. … I was really struck by how people said that to me — you know, mostly people in the press, for whatever reason — like, ‘Oh, you know, go away, go away,'” Clinton said at an…
Opinion | Why Robert Mueller could be considering bribery charges By Randall D. Eliason Washington Post March 30, 2018 President Trump’s now-former attorney John Dowd allegedly told lawyers representing Paul J. Manafort and Michael Flynn last year that the president would consider pardoning the two men if they got into legal trouble. (Dowd has denied the reports.) Much of the news coverage has focused on whether offering pardons to induce a witness not to cooperate in the special counsel’s investigation could constitute obstruction of justice. But there is another potential charge that could apply more directly and that…
Tucker Carlson Invited Fabio On His Show, And Things Got Very Weird By Lee Moran HuffPost March 30, 2018 Twitter lit up over model Fabio Lanzoni’s appearance on Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on Thursday. Carlson ostensibly invited Lanzoni, famous for gracing the covers of romance novels in the ’80s and ’90s, to talk about California’s economy and homelessness. But the interview soon took a bizarre turn, as Lanzoni began ranting the Golden State now looked like “the Wild, Wild West” and was worse than a Third-World country 30 years ago. Continue Reading…..
McCabe legal defense fund raises nearly $400K in less than a day By Morgan Gstalter TheHill March 30, 2018 The official legal defense fund established to help fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe raised nearly $400,000 in just one day. A GoFundMe page was set up by friends on Thursday to raise $250,000 for McCabe’s legal defense. More than $386,000 was donated in just 17 hours. As of Friday morning, almost 9,000 people had contributed. Continue Reading…..