Author: Freedom Watch
By Jason Howerton Independent Journal Review May 27, 2017 Amid ongoing turmoil at Fox News, an internal battle appears to be brewing between top executives and one of the last remaining vestiges of the lineup that made the network a powerhouse in cable news — Sean Hannity. Hannity has gone “underground” and is actively considering whether or not he will return to Fox News on Tuesday, a source close to Hannity told Independent Journal Review. It’s a stunning development at the network, which has seemingly remained in a constant state of turmoil since the ouster of the late Roger…
Suit against Hillary Clinton over Benghazi deaths and emails is dismissed By Josh Gerstein POLITICO May 27, 2017 A federal judge in Washington has dismissed a lawsuit alleging that Hillary Clinton’s lax security surrounding her emails led to the deaths of two of the Americans killed in the 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya. In a ruling Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson tossed out the wrongful death claims as well as allegations that Clinton essentially slandered the parents of the deceased by contradicting accounts the parents gave of events related to…
Larry Klayman pens open letter to special counsel about surveillance By Larry Klayman WND May 26, 2017 Robert Mueller first hit my radar screen at Judicial Watch just months before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center. Thanks to an introduction by former Clinton House impeachment manager David Schippers in his Chicago law office, I came to meet and later represent FBI Special Agents Robert Wright and John Vincent, of the agency’s Chicago Field Office Counter-Terrorism Field Office. During our meeting, both Special Agents Wright and Vincent revealed to me that they had been conducting…
Egypt bus attack: Coptic Christians targeted, at least 28 killed Fox News May 26, 2017 A team of gunmen opened fire on a bus carrying Coptic Christians south of Cairo Friday, killing at least 28, including children, and wounding 22 other people, Egyptian officials confirmed. As many as 10 attackers stormed the bus dressed in military uniforms and wearing masks, according to witnesses. The victims were on their way to visit a monastery. Continue Reading…..
Whiskey Politics May 26, 2017 During his tenure at Judicial Watch, Freedom Watch’s Larry Klayman obtained a court ruling that Bill Clinton committed a crime, the first lawyer ever to have done so against an American president. We discuss Larry’s new cases suing President Obama over the NSA, CNN over media bias, and Black Lives Matter over the deaths of policemen.
Federal appeals court maintains freeze of Trump’s travel ban. Attorney general vows Supreme Court appeal. By Ann E. Marimow and Robert Barnes Washington Post May 25, 2017 A federal appeals court on Thursday left in place the freeze on President Trump’s revised entry ban, handing the administration another legal setback in its efforts to block the issuance of new visas to citizens of six Muslim-majority countries. The broad, decisive ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit means the Trump administration still cannot enforce its travel order that the government says is urgently needed for…
Manchester bombing: Theresa May to confront Trump on investigation leaks Fox News May 25, 2017 British Prime Minister Theresa May is expected to confront President Donald Trump Thursday about leaks from the investigation into the deadly Manchester Arena attack — leaks that may have come from U.S. officials. May said she planned to raise the issue to Trump at the NATO summit in Brussels, hoping to “make clear to President Trump that intelligence that is shared between our law enforcement agencies must remain secure.” A British official, who spoke to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity, said…
Obama in Berlin: ‘We can’t hide behind a wall’ By Michael Grunwald POLITICO May 25, 2017 Obama made the comment as President Donald Trump, in Brussels for his first NATO leaders summit, was meeting with European Council leaders Donald Tusk and Jean-Claude Juncker. Continue Reading…..
By Larry Klayman Newsmax May 25, 2017 The revelations yesterday that the National Security Agency (NSA) under the Obama administration had been systematically spying on hundreds of millions of Americans under Section 702 of the Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Act comes as no surprise. Indeed, Freedom Watch and I had already obtained two preliminary injunction orders ordering this stop in a case styled Klayman et. al v. Obama et al., which I had filed in 2013 before the federal court in the District of Columbia. The judge, the Honorable Richard J. Leon, ruled that this spying was illegal, that it…
By Solange Reyner Newsmax May 25, 2017 Former FBI Director James Comey used a possibly fake Russian document to justify his decision to end the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server to send classified information during her tenure as Secretary of State, The Washington Post reported. The document, received by the FBI in March 2016, mentioned a supposed email between then-Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schlultz and Leonard Benardo, an official at the Open Society Foundations founded by George Soros, where Wasserman-Schultz said then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch told a top Clinton campaign aide she would…