As Congress embarks on impeachment proceedings, the leadership of federal agencies in Washington are growing increasingly outspoken. Without mentioning the president, they are warning that President Trump’s actions as a threat to democratic government. The American government is fracturing. Call it the Trump crack-up. A new inter-agency agency report illuminates the fissures between president and...
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‘Hatchet Job on Their Own Intelligence Services”
The Ukrainians weren’t the only ones pressured to help President Trump’s 2020 campaign. Attorney General Bill Barr also put the squeeze the British. From U.K.’s liberal The Independent One British official with knowledge of Barr’s wish list presented to London commented that “it is like nothing we have come across before, they are basically asking,...
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70 IGs Blow the Whistle on Barr’s Justice Department
This October 22 letter from 70 inspectors general in the federal government is an extraordinary rebuke of the Office of Legal Counsel in the Justice Department of Attorney General Bill Barr. By trying to block the White House whistleblower’s complaint from going to Congress, the OLC wrongly interpreted the law and weakened the whistleblower process....
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GOP: Welcome to the Collusion Hall of Shame
Marc Thiessen, former aide to Sen. Jesse Helms, voices the Republican response. He says Attorney General Bill Barr’s four-page summaryof Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller’s 300-page report vindicates President Trump. He singles out former CIA director John Brennan Trump was right to revoke Brennan’s security clearance. He is among the worst of the worst, the Trump-Russia...
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Mueller’s Report Blunts the Criticism of Former Spy Chiefs
The report of Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller, as summarized by Attorney General Bill Barr, significantly qualifies the U.S. intelligence community’s January 2017 finding about Russian involvement in the 2016 presidential election. The unclassified findings of the CIA, FBI, and National Security Agency set the stage for the special prosecutor’s investigation by asserting that Russian President...