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Trump Allies Flip Out After Mueller Lands Tens Of Thousands Of Emails By Steve Holland HuffPost December 17, 2017 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An organization established for U.S. President Donald Trump’s transition to the White House a year ago said on Saturday that the special counsel investigating allegations of Russian meddling in the 2016 election had obtained tens of thousands of emails unlawfully. Kory Langhofer, counsel to the transition team known as Trump for America, Inc., wrote a letter to congressional committees to say Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team had improperly received the emails from the General Services Administration,…
By Steven Nelson Washington Examiner December 17, 2017 The short timeframe may give individual senators the ability to force a temporary expiration of the law, as Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., did in 2015 with a separate and since-revised surveillance law. If the law lapses, the Trump administration reportedly plans to continue programs under a legal argument that orders from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court last through April 2018. Continue Reading…..
Scoop: Mueller obtains “tens of thousands” of Trump transition emails Axios December 16, 2017 Trump officials discovered Mueller had the emails when his prosecutors used them as the basis for questions to witnesses, the sources said. The emails include 12 accounts, one of which contains about 7,000 emails, the sources said. The accounts include the team’s political leadership and the foreign-policy team, the sources said. Continue Reading…..
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By Larry Klayman WND December 15, 2017 I conceived of and then founded Judicial Watch on July 29, 1994 — nearly 24 years ago — with the mission to investigate and prosecute government corruption. In effect, after 17 years of toiling in the bowels of the legal and judicial system, I created a “Justice Department for the American People,” as the government sanctioned one of which I was an alumnus, then run by the corrupt Attorney General Janet Reno under the watchful and evil eyes of Bill and Hillary Clinton, the Bonnie and Clyde of American politics, had become…
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Biden says he owes Anita Hill an apology By Maegan Vazquez CNN December 14, 2017 Former Vice President Biden says he owes Anita Hill an apology for not doing more for her during confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Biden chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee when Hill testified there in 1991. Hill said she was sexually harassed by Thomas while he was her supervisor at the Department of Education. Thomas denied the allegations, calling the questioning during the hearing a “high-tech lynching.” Continue Reading…..
Hamas will reverse Trump’s Jerusalem move, leader tells Gaza rally By Reuters Editorial Reuters December 14, 2017 GAZA (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of Palestinians including hundreds of gunmen rallied in Gaza on Thursday to mark the 30th anniversary of Hamas’s founding and its chief vowed to reverse U.S. President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Earlier in the day, Israel shut its border crossings with Gaza in response to daily rocket fire from the Hamas-ruled enclave since Trump’s announcement on Dec. 6, which stirred anger across the Arab and Muslim world and concern among Washington’s…
Report: Paul Ryan Is Considering Retirement After 2018 Midterms Via @dailycaller The Daily Caller December 14, 2017 A new report published Thursday indicates that House Speaker Paul Ryan may be retiring in the near future. According to Politico, “Ryan has made it known to some of his closest confidants that this will be his final term as speaker.” The report also indicates that Majority Whip Steve Scalise and Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy have begun to plan to replace Ryan as speaker. Continue Reading…..
DOJ fuels doubts about integrity of Mueller probe By Darren Samuelsohn POLITICO December 14, 2017 Amid a rising drumbeat of Republican criticism of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe, members of Congress and former prosecutors say the Justice Department has amped up the pressure by quietly putting out information bolstering claims that the investigation is unfairly biased against President Donald Trump. Through a series of small and sometimes subtle moves, DOJ’s actions appear to run counter to the goal of keeping Mueller’s probe free of political meddling. Continue Reading…..