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Apr 07 2017
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Susan Rice, Michael Flynn, and the politics of surveillance (+video)
Rep. Trey Gowdy (R) of South Carolina leaned forward and addressed FBI director James Comey in a pointed manner. The congressman – a booster of the military, a former prosecutor, and reliable conservative – said he was concerned that the United States isn’t doing enough to protect the privacy of citizens inadvertently swept up in the government’s vast counterterrorism surveillance operations
Christian Science MonitorNov 06 2019
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ABC News denies that it killed Jeffrey Epstein reporting
ABC News was in cleanup mode on Tuesday after a video surfaced of “20/20" co-anchor Amy Robach expressing frustration that the network did not run her 2015 reporting on pedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein.
The video — leaked on YouTube by conservative provocateur James O’Keefe — shows Robach at an anchor desk talking to a producer about a 2015 interview she conducted with Epstein
Los Angeles TimesAug 09 2021
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Aide Who Accused Cuomo of Groping Speaks Out: “What He Did to Me Was a Crime”
The woman who until now had only been identified as “Executive Assistant 1” has publicly identified herself and given details of her allegations of sexual harassment by Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Brittany Commisso, who is one of 11 women Cuomo is accused of sexually harassing, sat down for an interview with CBS News and the Albany Times Union and talked about some of the most serious allegations
SlateJun 23 2020
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How a Conservative Commentator Turned the Left's Cancel Culture Campaign Against Itself
The left-wing mob is recharged and totally insane. They’re back on this cancel culture nonsense. They’re tearing down statues of historical figures they view as problematic. There is no reasoning with them. They’re the intellectual al-Qaeda of our time. You don’t negotiate with terrorists. As Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson, and Roosevelt are being targeted, two things are clear. This has never
TownhallJun 13 2017
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Comey the criminal? Leak admission puts ex-FBI boss in legal jeopardy
It was reported as a damaging day for the White House, but the frank, dramatic admission by fired FBI Director James B. Comey last week about how he managed to put his confidential conversations with President Trump on the front page of the nation’s newspapers has some legal experts saying Mr. Comey may be in trouble himself over unauthorized leaking.
Washington TimesMar 21 2017
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A Republic, If You Can Keep It: The Education Every Student Really Needs
‘If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.” These words come from an 1816 letter written by Thomas Jefferson — one of our most influential Founding Fathers, but not the father of the United States Constitution. That title belongs to James Madison — and less than a third of American college graduates know this.
National Review (News)May 10 2021
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Biden Plans an Order to Strengthen Cyberdefenses. Will It Be Enough?
A hacking of a major pipeline, the latest evidence of the nation’s vulnerabilities to cyberattacks, prompted questions about whether the administration should go further.
A pipeline that provides the East Coast with nearly half its gasoline and jet fuel remained shuttered on Sunday after yet another ransomware attack, prompting emergency White House meetings and new questions about
New York Times (News)May 10 2021
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Concerns mount over Biden's new cybersecurity executive order following Colonial Pipeline hack
Senior government officials are privately sounding the alarm over a new cybersecurity executive order President Joe Biden is poised to sign.
Biden vowed in April to take steps toward securing U.S. cyber-infrastructure and preventing future security breaches like the 2020 SolarWinds hack. The New York Times reported Sunday night, however, that some officials and lawmakers involved in the
Washington ExaminerMay 28 2017
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Watergate Journalist: The Press Needs To Relax And Listen More When Covering The Trump White House
At an Axios event this week in Washington D.C., veteran journalist Bob Woodward had a message for the media: relax and listen more when covering the Trump White House. The Washington Post editor, who covered the Watergate scandal under the Nixon White House, added that President Trump’s firing of James Comey from the FBI is not the same thing (via The Hill):
TownhallDec 09 2015
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San Bernardino shooters began plotting attack before their marriage, FBI chief says
FBI Director James Comey said Wednesday that Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, began scheming to carry out a terror attack long before they were engaged and before she moved to the United States on a fiancee visa last year.
Los Angeles Times