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FBI Director Christopher Wray Testifies Before House Judiciary Committee By Miles Parks NPR.org December 7, 2017 FBI Director Christopher Wray headed to Capitol Hill on Thursday and defended his agency publicly for the first time since President Trump denigrated it on Twitter last weekend. “There is no shortage of opinions out there,” Wray told the House Judiciary Committee. “What I can tell you is the FBI I see is tens of thousands of agents and analysts and staff working their tails off to keep Americans safe from the next terrorist attack; gang violence; child predators; spies from Russia,…
Deputy AG Rosenstein Says He’s Satisfied With Mueller’s Work NBC4 Washington December 6, 2017 The U.S. Department of Justice official who appointed special counsel Robert Mueller to investigate Russian efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election said he is satisfied with the special counsel’s work. When the News4 I-Team asked Deputy U.S. Attorney General Rod Rosenstein if he was satisfied with the work thus far of the U.S. Office of the Special Counsel, Rosenstein said yes. Continue Reading…..
TIME Person of the Year Runner Up: Robert Mueller By Massimo Calabresi Time December 6, 2017 See why Special Counsel Robert Mueller, was named as a runner up on TIME’s Person of the Year 2017 shortlist. Continue Reading…..
Freedom Watch December 5, 2017
Top Clinton Aides Face No Charges After Making False Statements To FBI Via @dailycaller The Daily Caller December 5, 2017 The FBI agent who was fired from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation team for sending anti-Donald Trump text messages conducted the interviews with two Hillary Clinton aides accused of giving false statements about what they knew of the former secretary of state’s private email server. Neither of the Clinton associates, Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin, faced legal consequences for their misleading statements, which they made in interviews last year with former FBI section chief Peter Strzok. Continue…
Director Defends F.B.I. After Trump Says Bureau Is in ‘Tatters’ By Adam Goldman and Charlie Savage New York Times December 4, 2017 WASHINGTON — Christopher A. Wray, the F.B.I. director, defended his work force in an email on Monday, a day after President Trump said on Twitter that the agency’s standing was the “worst in History” and its reputation was in “Tatters.” In a message to the F.B.I.’s 35,000 agents and support staff that was provided to The New York Times, Mr. Wray said that he was “inspired by example after example of professionalism and dedication to justice…
Prosecutors: Manafort recently collaborated with Kremlin-tied operative TheHill December 4, 2017 Special counsel Robert Mueller asked a federal judge to deny Paul Manafort’s request to release him from house arrest, pointing to a draft of an op-ed the former Trump campaign manager ghostwrote with an associate tied to Russian intelligence, according to court filings. A prosecutor working on Mueller’s team argued that the request should be denied because the op-ed, if it had been published, would’ve violated a court order not to publicly discuss the case. Continue Reading…..
Supreme Court allows full Trump travel ban to take effect By Lydia Wheeler TheHill December 4, 2017 The Supreme Court on Monday gave President Trump another major win by granting his administration’s request to fully reinstate the third version of his travel ban. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and a federal district court in Maryland had said Trump could only block the entry of nationals from the six majority-Muslim countries in the ban — Iran, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia and Chad — if they lacked a bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the United…
Colin Kaepernick a finalist for ‘TIME’ Person of Year By Tom Schad USA TODAY December 4, 2017 Free-agent quarterback Colin Kaepernick was announced Monday as one of 10 candidates for TIME’s Person of the Year for 2017. Kaepernick, who last played for the San Francisco 49ers in 2016, joins President Donald Trump, special counsel Robert Mueller and the #MeToo movement, among others, on the short list for recognition. Each year, the magazine strives to identify “the person or group of people who most influenced the news during the past year, for better or for worse.” Continue Reading…..
Newsmax TV December 4, 2017 0:00 MIRANDA KHAN: There’s been all this talk about what is and what isn’t obstruction of justice. Did the president obstruct justice in your opinion? 0:08 LARRY KLAYMAN: No, he didn’t obstruct justice. Clearly not in what Professor Dershowitz says. And of course, you know he’s a liberal professor. So if he says it, it has to have some credibility. There was no obstruction of justice. 0:19 The president sits on top of the Justice Department, I’m a former alumnus as you know. He can do as he pleases with regard to dismissing James…