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The Senate Judiciary Committee this evening has released 11 transcripts from their Crossfire Hurricane investigation/interviews. Go to the transcripts directly here: https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/fisa-investigation Chairman (for the meantime) Lindsey Graham issued more oh, so tough statements that rang hollow through the halls of Congress along with the transcripts. Excerpt below and more strongly-worded commentary at the press release link. “Former FBI Director Comey and his deputy Mr. McCabe, through their incompetence and bias, have done a great disservice to the FBI and DOJ, and the senior DOJ leadership who signed off on the work product called the Crossfire Hurricane investigation have created...

The Massachusetts House and Senate have given final approval to a bill that would allow Democratic Governor Deval Patrick to appoint an interim US senator to take the seat left vacant by the death of the legendary liberal Edward M. Kennedy. The bill now heads to the desk of the governor, who plans to sign it and could name an appointee as early as Thursday or Friday. The bill was enacted by the House, 95-59, and by the Senate, 24-16, after only brief speeches by lawmakers. Lawmakers did not pass, however, an emergency preamble to the law, meaning that the...

She knew from the beginning. According to a CIA memorandum summarizing briefings to Congress on the use of enhanced interrogation techniques on terrorist detainees, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca) knew from the very beginning that those techniques -- including waterboarding -- were being used on September 2, 2002. According to the memo the very first briefing listed is 9/4/02 with then Rep. Porter Goss & Pelosi. The summary of the briefing says: “Briefing on EITs including use of EITs on Abu Zubaydah, background on authorities, and a description of the particular EITs that had been employed.” This directly contradicts Pelosi’s...

A RAW DEAL FOR AMERICAN FAMILIES: DEMOCRATS' TRILLION-DOLLAR SPENDING BILL PROVIDES $1.10 PER DAY IN TAX RELIEF TO WORKERS, WHILE SADDLING EVERY AMERICAN FAMILY WITH $6,500 IN ADDED DEBT Following are some very tentative quick facts on the trillion-dollar "stimulus" spending deal slated to be rushed through the House and Senate today or tomorrow by Congressional Democrats, as compiled by the Office of House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH). These are based on best estimates on legislative text and scoring and may be subject to revision. 1. GENERATIONAL THEFT: The final agreement will cost each and every household more than...

This is a memo from Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Democratic members sent after the stimulus vote yesterday. Pelosi is apparently panicked at Republicans’ success in uniting against her hyperpartisan actions in shutting them out of the formulation of the stimulus bill and in peeling nearly a dozen Dems off to vote in opposition. Here is the full text of the memo leaked to HUMAN EVENTS this morning. Memo To: Interested Parties From: Brendan Daly Re: The Republican Problem Date: January 29, 2009 The House Republican Leadership put its Members in another politically untenable position yesterday: trying to reclaim the mantle...

Dispirited Senate Republicans enabled Hillary Clinton to be confirmed to be Secretary of State by a vote of 94-2. Even conservative stalwart Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), who had held up her confirmation because of the major conflict of interest posed by Bill Clinton’s foundation accepting millions in donations from foreign nations and interests, voted for Clinton. Cornyn’s vote came after Sen. John McCain (RINO-Az) went to the Senate floor to call Cornyn’s objections “gratuitous.” This week, Senate conservatives have another challenge to face: the confirmation of the radically-liberal Eric Holder to be Attorney General. It will be paralleled by votes...

Author and columnist Ann Coulter doesn’t disappoint in her latest book, Guilty: Liberal “Victims” and Their Assault on America. It is Coulter’s seventh book, effectively making her the Rush Limbaugh of conservative authors. With more than 3 million books sold, Coulter is the 21st century’s most successful conservative writer, male or female. Guilty picks up on the theme of liberals using victims as shields from criticism first outlined in Coulter’s Godless. In her new book, she puts together a solid, substantial case against the phony victims created from liberal fantasies. Coulter writes, “Liberals are the masters of finger-wagging indignation. They...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi plans to re-write House rules today to ensure that the Republican minority is unable to have any influence on legislation. Pelosi’s proposals are so draconian, and will so polarize the Capitol, that any thought President-elect Obama has of bipartisan cooperation will be rendered impossible before he even takes office. Pelosi’s rule changes -- which may be voted on today -- will reverse the fairness rules that were written around Newt Gingrich’s “Contract with America.” In reaction, the House Republican leadership is sending a letter today to Pelosi to object to changes to House Rules this week...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's military leaders approved a plan by the navy on Sunday to station warships permanently in friendly ports across the globe. Underfunded since the 1991 break up of the Soviet Union , the Russian navy has been reasserting itself over the last year by chasing Somali pirates around the coast of east Africa and steaming across the Atlantic to visit allies in South America. "The General Staff has given its position on this issue and it fully supports the position of the (Navy's) main committee," deputy chief of staff Colonel-General Anatoly Nogovitsyn told RIA Novosti news agency....

“Blagojevich Meets with Obama to Address Budget Shortfall Reported by: WMBD/WYZZ News Staff Monday, Dec 1, 2008 @07:24am CST WMBD/WYZZ - SPRINGFIELD Governor Rod Blagojevich is turning to the president elect for help in a billion dollar budget shortfall. The governor will meet Monday and Tuesday Philadelphia with Barack Obama. Their discussion will focus on Illinois’ $2 billion deficit and how the Land of Lincoln will manage its 2009 fiscal year. In November, Blagojevich announced a plan to manage the state’s deficit. Part of that plan requests more than $1 billion dollars in federal money over the next three years,...

Washington, Nov 19 - House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) announced the new leadership team elected by House Republicans today. During House Republican Conference organizational meetings for the 111th Congress, Boehner was re-elected by his colleagues for the post of Republican Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives. He issued the following statement: “The months ahead will present Republicans with an unprecedented opportunity to renew our drive for smaller, more accountable government and offer positive solutions to the challenges facing the American people. We have to seize this opportunity, and seize it together. I’m deeply honored my colleagues have placed...

FORMER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, U.N. AMBASSADOR ALAN KEYES TO JOIN MSNBC “Alan Keyes Is Making Sense” to Air Weeknights at 10PM, ET Beginning January 21st SECAUCUS, NJ- January 7, 2002- Former Presidential Candidate and Reagan-era U.S. Ambassador at the United Nations, Alan Keyes has joined MSNBC as host of a new one-hour commentary show, “Alan Keyes Is Making Sense,” weeknights at 10PM, ET. Erik Sorenson, president and general manager, MSNBC, made the announcement today. “We're excited that Alan is bringing his highly-regarded grasp of global issues and his larger-than-life personality to MSNBC," said Sorenson. "This network has distinguished itself as the ...

Hannity & Colmes (9 p.m. ET) "Usama bin Laden" is a name Americans have come to associate with evil, but how much do we really know about the man himself? Yossef Bodansky, author of Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America, has been following his career since 1981. He joins us tonight.

One last time in Breaking News, then the news outlets are on their own! LOL At the invitation of UPI, Jon Loose and I wrote this op-ed and submitted it a week ago. UPI told us that every single person who read it there said that this was not commentary but that it was news. They have told us they were assigning staff to cover this story. Since Newsmax has broken the story, I thought it time to put out information that has not yet come to light. The Cost of Life By Jon Loose and Connie Hair Hindsight is ...

At the invitation of UPI, Jon Loose and I wrote this op-ed and submitted it a week ago. UPI told us that every single person who read it there said that this was not commentary but that it was news. They have told us they were assigning staff to cover this story. Since Newsmax has broken the story, I thought it time to put out information that has not yet come to light. The Cost of Life By Jon Loose and Connie Hair Hindsight is always 20/20. You see causes and proactive avenues that could have altered the outcome. Sometimes ...

At the invitation of UPI, Jon Loose and I wrote this op-ed and submitted it a week ago. UPI told us that every single person who read it there said that this was not commentary but that it was news. They have told us they were assigning staff to cover this story. Since Newsmax has broken the story, I thought it time to put out information that has not yet come to light. The Cost of Life By Jon Loose and Connie Hair Hindsight is always 20/20. You see causes and proactive avenues that could have altered the outcome. Sometimes ...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- Make no mistake about it, Osama bin Laden is very astute. I'm not referring to last week's horrific attacks on New York and Washington that left thousands dead, much of New York in disarray and the country and the civilized world in shock. I'm talking about his long-term planning. Planning that calls for a revolution in current political thinking throughout Central Asia, the Middle East and the rest of the Islamic world. Like any revolution that needs to survive, bin Laden and his Al-Qaida movement must continue to grow, or it will die. In his ...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- The White House on Wednesday ruled out negotiating with the ruling Taliban militia in Afghanistan over the fate of Osama bin Laden, the administration's prime suspect in terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, as Afghan leaders played for time, demanded evidence and delayed a meeting of religious elders who will weigh bin Laden's fate. "It's time for action, not negotiations," a White House official said, repeating calls for bin Laden's surrender. Eight days after the attacks, and despite endlessly repeated rhetoric of solidarity with the United States, the Bush administration was having trouble rallying ...

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf was warned at a meeting of political party leaders Sunday night that if he cooperates with the Bush administration "we will fight against the USA," United Press International learned Monday. Reading from his own handwritten transcript, one of those present quoted Fazlur Rehman, chief of Jamiat-e-ulama-e-Islam (party of the holy men of Islam) as telling Musharraf, "We will fight against the USA. The army will be against you. We shall go to the mountains and come back at night to launch hit and run attacks." Ajmal Khattak, president of ...

Vice President Cheney said today that there is "no doubt" that bin Laden was involved in the terrorist attacks last Tuesday. It is most important to prove connections to Saddam Hussein if we are to truly eradicate this terrorist threat. The information I'm posting here is from the book: BIN LADEN: The Man Who Declared War on America, published in 1999 by Prima Publishing. The book can be found/ordered here: http://www.primalifestyles.com/books/book/2621/ PAGES 234-325: The development of the Iranian-Saudi rapprochement back in spring of 1998 caused Turabi to revive his efforts to mediate between Saddam Hussein and bin Laden. Baghdad had ...