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An FBI agent who quit his top position over the bureau’s handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation is heading to Congress to testify. John Giacalone, who led the Clinton investigation for the first seven months, will reportedly expose former President Barack Obama and fired FBI Director James Comey for corruptly helping Clinton. There’s a massive media blackout on this because Giacalone is expected to testify that top brass at the FBI rigged the investigative process so that Clinton could skirt charges for clear violations of the law. Exposing Comey also shines a big light on Obama, who many believe...

A new federal rewards program dishes out cash to people who turn in friends, relatives and employers for fudging their tax returns. For 24 years Vincent A. Spondello toiled away as an accountant for a group of related companies known as Monex, a large Newport Beach, Calif. precious metals dealer. A trusted employee, he prepared tax returns and was given such tasks as overseeing the destruction of old corporate documents. It turns out that some records that were supposedly destroyed he took home instead. In May Spondello sent 25 boxes of original Monex papers to the Internal Revenue Service--documents that...

The same day the WH Press Secretary dismissed protests as "Astroturfing," I received this email from MoveOn, asking me to call Sens. Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor: Based upon my math, I am not aware that Republicans have sufficient numbers to hold anything hostage in the Senate. After all, it is Target #60 Sen. Lincoln who mentioned last week that she and her colleagues on the Senate Finance Committee have been "thorough and taken our time." Republicans also do not have sufficient numbers to "obstruct" health care in the Senate, especially in light of the recent pronouncement by Sen. Chuck...

Doctors, teachers and social workers will be told to act as informers to identify potential violent offenders for monitoring by the police and other agencies. Ministers hope that by spotting binge-drinkers, drug addicts and young gang members early before they commit serious crimes they can be placed on a national database and steered away from offending behaviour. The plans have been dubbed the Minority Report powers, a reference to the 2002 Tom Cruise movie in which a futuristic "precrime" police unit uses psychics to arrest and imprison criminals just before they carry out attacks. But civil liberty campaigners and union...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- William Chrisman had three wives and nine children to support, he had a felony criminal record, and he struggled with panic attacks. Nevertheless, after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, he was determined to assist the federal government. He became an informant for the FBI, and his work helped authorities charge two men -- both Muslim converts, like Chrisman -- who were suspected of supporting terrorism. One of them, Derrick Shareef, 23, pleaded guilty Wednesday to plotting to set off grenades in an Illinois shopping mall. The other, Hassan Abujihaad, a former Navy sailor, has pleaded...

May 9, 2006 As Chinese Students Go Online, Little Sister Is Watching By HOWARD W. FRENCH SHANGHAI, May 8 — To her fellow students, Hu Yingying appears to be a typical undergraduate, plain of dress, quick with a smile and perhaps possessed with a little extra spring in her step, but otherwise decidedly ordinary. And for Ms. Hu, a sophomore at Shanghai Normal University, coming across as ordinary is just fine, given the parallel life she leads. For several hours each week she repairs to a little-known on-campus office crammed with computers, where she logs in unsuspected by other students...

WASHINGTON - Sen. Robert Torricelli, D-N.J., led congressional efforts in the mid-1990s that handcuffed the CIA's abilities to recruit spies - a key policy that helped allow the attacks of Sept. 11 to take place with no intelligence warnings. Current and former CIA operatives say that Clinton administration policies, which forbade the CIA from recruiting known terrorists and other criminals, left the U.S. government bereft of all intelligence about such terrorist groups. In 1995, then-Rep. Robert Torricelli, D-N.J., made secrets public at the behest of left-wing activist Bianca Jagger, his girlfriend at the time, according to Newark Star-Ledger columnist Paul...

Former FBI agent Mark Felt has been identified as "Deepthroat." The extremist left wing media is praising him for his anti-Nixonism and calling him an American hero. He is not a hero, he is a rat, a snitch, an informer.Felt, who apparently never had a problem breaking the law for FBI purposes, utilized the position of trust he held and violated his oaths of office to utilize inside information for his own political ends and beliefs. He did this by turning over information to those who could use the information he supplied for their own political ends and beliefs.Felt didn't...

May 13, 2005 - 07:38 PM Refugee Group Interview: North Korean Neocons! Defectors, Interviews, Politics, Refugeesby OneFreeKorea a/k/a WonsanGhetto Thanks again to reader Brendan Brown and his North Korean refugee students in Seoul, who have agreed to a second group interview to share their opinions about their homeland and give us a rare--albeit unscientific--glimpse into the perspective of ordinary North Koreans. Undoubtedly, it took great courage for them to discuss matters that could put them or their families at risk. For their protection, I have redacted details that could identify them. Brendan is an Australian national who teaches English to...

Informer told police of Spanish bomb plot By Isambard Wilkinson in Madrid (Filed: 25/04/2005) A political row over the al-Qa'eda train bombings in Madrid was rekindled yesterday after it emerged that a police informer had issued a warning three months before that Islamist terrorists were plotting the massacre. The Socialist government of Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, which came to power three days after the attacks, accused its centre-Right predecessor of "lies" and a "monumental lack of foresight" after the information emerged when security services documents were made public by the judge in charge of the case, Juan del Olmo. The...

The coming economic crisis. Unemployment. Health care for the poor. The almost 1,500 dead soldiers. The almost 100,000 dead Iraqis. Armstrong Williams and Maggie Gallagher. The Christian Conservative takeover of our nation. The missing 9 billion. The missing weapons of mass destruction. The impending invasion of Iran, and Syria. The total failure to protect us on 9-11.

New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) has long been rumored as desperately seeking the democratic nomination for president in 2008. And while many political observers fully expect the power hungry former First Lady to hit the campaign trail within only a few months of being re-elected as a US Senator in 2006, US News & World report claims to have a confirmation of sorts. From USNews.Com's Washington Whispers: Hillary's in… You don't have to take it from us about Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton 's desire to run for president. Her brothers, Hugh and Tony Rodham, say it's true. Friends...

MADRID, Spain - The suspected leader of a militant Muslim cell plotted to deal Spain the “biggest blow of its history” — a suicide truck bomb laden with half a ton of explosives aimed at killing the country’s top judges investigating Islamic terror and destroying their case files, officials said Wednesday. Police said they had intercepted hundreds of letters from suspected cell members in which they said they were willing to stage suicide attacks.

Cousin of Saddam Blamed for Tip to U.S. By JAMIE TARABAY, Associated Press WriterMOSUL, Iraq - A cousin of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) is blamed by neighbors for tipping off coalition forces that the ousted Iraqi leader's sons Odai and Qusai were staying with him and his family.   If true — and American officials won't say — Sheik Nawaf al-Zaydan Muhhamad will suddenly be $30 million richer. In any case, he's already become an outcast in his neighborhood. The U.S. occupation administration had offered $15 million each for information leading to Saddam's wanted sons and $25 million...

The Justice Department's vague proposal for a legion of citizen-informants - Operation TIPS - didn't get a warm reception when the DOJ floated the idea recently. Public outcry led House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-Tex.) to try to kill Operation TIPS in his markup of the Homeland Security Department bill. But it's not dead yet. As the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported on July 22, President Bush - Congress be damned - is going ahead with the program anyway. "The administration is continuing to pursue Operation TIPS," confirmed Justice Department spokeswoman Barbara Comstock. Why worry about Operation TIPS? What could possibly...