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May 22 2020
Analysis
How The Obama Administration Weaponized Surveillance Laws To Target Trump
Federal surveillance laws put in place after Nixon were supposed to protect U.S. citizens. The Obama administration used them to spy on political opponents.
The drip-drip-drip of newly declassified documents related to the Trump-Russia investigation, together with recent reports that a classified leak against former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn might not have come from an
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Jun 27 2022
News
‘What’s Wrong With You?’: Hunter Biden Lashes Out After Lavish Spending On Russia-Connected Escorts Revealed, Report Says
Hunter Biden spent more than $30,000 on escorts, many of those payments made to entities with Russian email addresses, from November 2018 and March 2019, according to documentation reviewed by The Washington Examiner.
The report said that Biden’s escorts were partly funded by his father, President Joe Biden, who sent Hunter $100,000 across multiple installments in December 2018 and
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Oct 20 2022
News
Jailed Harvey Weinstein faces rape trial in Los Angeles
Harvey Weinstein, currently serving a 23-year sentence for sex crimes in New York, is back on trial on criminal charges in Los Angeles, the city where he once held sway as one of the most powerful producers in Hollywood.
Weinstein, 70, is facing 11 charges of rape and sexual assault involving five women in the Beverly Hills and Los Angeles area between 2004 and 2013. Opening arguments
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Nov 04 2022
News
DOJ mulling potential special counsel if Trump runs in 2024
As Donald Trump inches closer to launching another presidential run after the midterm election, Justice Department officials have discussed whether a Trump candidacy would create the need for a special counsel to oversee two sprawling federal investigations related to the former president, sources familiar with the matter tell CNN.
The Justice Department is also staffing up its
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Jun 14 2021
News
Attorney general vows to "move swiftly" amid uproar over seizure of lawmakers' data
Attorney General Merrick Garland pledged Monday he would "move swiftly" to take action in response to an investigation by the Justice Department's inspector general into an effort by the department during the Trump administration to obtain communications data from members of Congress and congressional staff.
In a statement, Garland said there are "important questions that must be
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Sep 10 2019
News
Exclusive: US extracted top spy from inside Russia in 2017
In a previously undisclosed secret mission in 2017, the United States successfully extracted from Russia one of its highest-level covert sources inside the Russian government, multiple Trump administration officials with direct knowledge told CNN.
A person directly involved in the discussions said that the removal of the Russian was driven, in part, by concerns that President Donald
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May 22 2022
Analysis
Israel Killed Reporter Abu Akleh—but US Media Disguised the Facts
Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, a well-known and much-loved Al Jazeera reporter who covered Palestine for two decades, was shot and killed by an Israeli sniper May 11 while documenting an Israeli raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the Occupied West Bank.
Footage of the moments after her death show Abu Akleh, still wearing her press vest and helmet, lying face down on
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Jun 14 2022
News
How US military aids Ukraine with information, not just weaponry
What’s the responsible way to use military intelligence in aid of an ally? The sharing of U.S.-gathered secrets has already helped Ukraine in important ways, but officials also have reasons to be cautious.
When a news story leaked last month that Washington is helping Ukraine kill Russian generals through United States intelligence tips, Pentagon officials quickly took to the podium to
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Oct 27 2021
News
Federal Trade Commission Scrutinizing Facebook Disclosures
Federal Trade Commission staffers have begun looking into disclosures that Facebook Inc.’s FB -0.87% internal company research had identified ill effects from its products, according to people familiar with the matter.
Officials are looking into whether Facebook research documents indicate that it might have violated a 2019 settlement with the agency over privacy concerns, for which the
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Sep 29 2022
News
Kremlin says Putin will sign ‘treaties’ to annex Ukrainian regions
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday will formally move to seize four Ukrainian territories by signing documents that the Kremlin is calling “accession treaties.”
The signing ceremony, to take place in the Grand Kremlin Palace on Friday, marks Putin’s attempt to annex the regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, even though Russia does not fully control any of them
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