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    House intelligence committee unanimously votes to release Democratic memo

    The House Intelligence Committee voted unanimously Monday evening to make public the Democratic memo rebutting GOP allegations that the FBI abused surveillance laws, the committee's top Democrat said, a move that will put the issue back on President Donald Trump's desk this week. The classified...
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    Republicans expected to release democrat memo

    Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee are likely to vote Monday evening to make public the Democratic memo rebutting GOP allegations that the FBI abused surveillance laws, a move that will put the issue back on President Donald Trump's desk this week. The classified memo from Rep. Adam...
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    Can Trump be indicted?

    Turns out a memo from Kenneth Starr, during the Whitewater investigation, put forth that he can be indicted. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/07/22/us/document-Savage-NYT-FOIA-Starr-memo-presidential.html
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    As if he needed more bad news...

    South Carolina Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy said the recently released, controversial GOP memo alleging FBI abuses of its surveillance authority does not have "any impact on the Russia probe," and even without the Steele dossier, there would be a Russia investigation. "There is a Russia...
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    American people: "Trump should talk to Mueller under oath"

    A large majority of Americans in both political parties think President Donald Trump should consent to an interview with special counsel Robert Mueller, according to a new poll. The Monmouth University survey released Thursday found that 71% of Americans think Trump should agree to an...
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    Democratic, GOP lawmakers: Memo doesn’t clear Trump in probe

    The "revised" Nunes memo, and further revelations about Russian involvement with Trump staffers has started to erode republican support for Trump. Rep. Chris Stewart, R-Utah, said the memo doesn’t end the need for the Mueller investigation. “I think it would be a mistake for anyone to suggest...
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    Regrets

    The much-anticipated Nunes memo, released Friday after weeks of feverish build-up on the far-right, appears to be a dud. The declassified report accuses a group of current and former Justice Department and F.B.I. officials—including James Comey, his former deputy Andrew McCabe, and current...
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    Highest-ranking career US diplomat to retire in blow to State Department

    Shannon’s departure means Tillerson has another high-level opening at the department, which has been hobbled by delays in White House approval of proposed appointees, efforts to cut its budget as much as 30 percent and Tillerson’s slow-moving reorganization plan. Without Shannon, only two out...
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    He just can't help himself...

    President Donald Trump again keyed in on crowd size, this time claiming that the 45.6 million who watched the State of the Union address was the “highest number in history.” It’s not. President Barack Obama’s first State of the Union in 2010 drew 48 million viewers, and Bill Clinton and George...
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    More trouble for Trump

    Why worry about Russia’s efforts to undermine our democratic system or possible obstruction of justice by the President when there’s a “secret society” within the FBI, a deep state attempting a coup and a Satanist plot to sell your children? As special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation...
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    Ties that bind

    It sounded like an exhausted parent scolding a tantrum-prone toddler with a penchant for tossing toys from his stroller. In November 2008, Steven Molo, an attorney for Deutsche Bank, wrote a letter to the Supreme Court of New York about one of the company’s most troublesome clients. At issue...
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    Nunes Memo was altered

    By Wednesday, the release of the Republicans’ memo seemed imminent. Trump, who has attacked the credibility of the law enforcement agencies tasked with investigating him, assured a lawmaker on Monday evening that he “100%” plans to release the memo. But on Wednesday night, Schiff announced a...
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    And another one...

    The head of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention resigned Wednesday on the heels of a bombshell report that she had purchased stock in a tobacco company soon after taking her job, which oversees smoking-cessation programs. Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald, who is an ob-gyn, also had...
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    Denial? Well, no, not really...

    ‘I Do Not Know Where It Came From’ Stephanie Clifford, the former pornographic-film actress known as Stormy Daniels, is not making life easy for the Trump administration. Just minutes after President Trump’s first State of the Union address ended Tuesday night, Ms. Clifford appeared on “Jimmy...
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    Creative and educational

    Many pundits and companies have tried to illustrate how the net neutrality repeal will affect internet users, but YouTuber Rob Bliss has made one of the best demonstrations yet. It’s good because it’s simple, it isn’t trying to sell you hamburgers, and it confused police officers. The...
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    Rock and a hard place:

    The Trump administration faced blowback on Capitol Hill Tuesday for declining to implement new sanctions against Russia for interfering in the 2016 presidential election. The State Department on Monday said it would not immediately levy penalties on entities doing business with Russia’s defense...
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    Nunes is now in it:

    Devin Nunes Won’t Say if He Worked With White House on Anti-FBI Memo The House intel committee GOP leader refused to answer behind closed doors if he coordinated with the president’s team on his report blasting Rosenstein, Comey, and McCabe. The Republican chairman of the House intelligence...
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    Whitewater prosecutor says that there may be grounds for impeachement of Trump

    [B]/Donald Trump denies report he tried to fire Robert Mueller in June[B] If Donald Trump lied to the American people when he called reports he tried to fire Robert Mueller “fake news”, that would be grounds for impeachment, the independent counsel who investigated the Clinton White House said...
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    "Yabut, Clinton used an insucure server!"

    President Trump still uses his unsecured Android phone, The New York Times reported Wednesday. The decision to keep using the old phone was protested by some of his aides, according to the publication. Before the president's inauguration, The Associated Press reported that Trump had given up...
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    "Who DOESN'T want him impeached?"

    One of Donald Trump’s fiercest defenders in the conservative media has lambasted the president and called for his impeachment for seeking to preserve a program protecting young immigrants. Firebrand commentator and author Ann Coulter has been one of the staunchest defenders of Mr Trump and his...
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