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A senior Barack Obama State Department official gave the green light to an FBI agent in 2016 to meet with dossier writer Christopher Steele, a meeting that touched off a relationship that would fuel the ongoing investigation into possible Donald Trump-Russia election collusion. And, the sensational Steele allegation that led to an FBI wiretap on Trump volunteer Carter Page came from “pillow talk” with the lover of a Kremlin official, a new book says. The disclosure that Victoria Nuland started the process is contained in “Russian Roulette,” a book released Tuesday by Yahoo News report Michael Isikoff and Mother Jones...

The Hawaiian state health official who personally reviewed Barack Obama's original birth certificate has affirmed again that the document is "real" and denounced "conspiracy theorists" in the so-called "birther" movement for continuing to spread bogus claims about the issue. ...Fukino said, she wanted to inspect the files — and did so, taking with her the state official in charge of vital records. She found the original birth record, properly numbered, half typed and half handwritten, and signed by the doctor who delivered Obama, located in the files. She then put out a public statement asserting to the document's validity. She...

The Hawaiian state health official who personally reviewed Barack Obama's original birth certificate has affirmed again that the document is "real" and denounced "conspiracy theorists" in the so-called "birther" movement for continuing to spread bogus claims about the issue. "It’s kind of ludicrous at this point," Dr. Chiyome Fukino, the former director of Hawaii's Department of Health, said in a rare telephone interview with NBC. Fukino, sounding both exasperated and amused, spoke to a reporter in the aftermath of Donald Trump's statements on the NBC Today show last week questioning whether Obama has a legitimate birth certificate. Trump, who says...

There is no bigger deal in Washington, DC this week than the Karl Rove business. To catch up, I recommend most strongly that you review previous Mullings: "The Sweet Mint Teapot Dome Scandal" "Joe Wilson Can't Find the Truth, Either" What we know is this: Rove, according to an internal e-mail leaked to Newsweek's Michael Isakoff, was warning Time Magazine's Matt Cooper off the Joe Wilson story. At the time the story was swirling around that the office of Vice President Cheney had authorized the trip and then buried Wilson's report. SIDEBAR If you don't think the popular press is...

Company: Newsweek magazine Position: PUBLICIST Location: New York, New York Job Status: Not Specified Salary: Not Specified Ad Expires: June 30, 2005 Job ID: 314547 Website: http://www.msnbc.com/news/NW-front_Front.asp Description: Newsweek Magazine seeks a PUBLICIST. You will be responsible for pitching stories to TV and radio producers, securing TV and radio appearances for reporters, drafting trade and editorial press releases, managing the communications department on weekends and supervising weekend writers and assistants. You will also interact with top editors and counsel reporters for interviews, promote breaking news on the internet, place photos from Newsweek events in trade publications, promote special issues, assist...

A Murder at Newsweek William John Hagan Houston Home Journal (Perry and Warner Robins, GA) 05/25/2005 By now we have all read about the incendiary riots in Afghanistan and throughout the Middle East that were sparked by a false report in Newsweek Magazine that United States interrogators at the Guantanamo Detention Facility had flushed a copy of the Koran down a toilet to entice detainees to speak. The story was authored by famed journalist Michael Isikoff, who was first to discover the Clinton-Lewinsky affair but refused to run the story. He claimed not to trust the source, but the end...

Here is a capture of the closed captioning from the Hissy Chrissy Show on PMSNBC today, 05/16/05. My video card has a feature that let's me capture the closed captioning for the HEARING IMPAIRED...and saves it as HTML. After viewing Britt Hume's show, I enjoy hearing the LIARS in the MSM put THEIR spin on the 'news'... Chrissy opens the show with the NewsWeak LIES...Some pics to start, will post more as they finish the segment... G Image #1Image #2Image #3Image #4Image #5Image #6

As investigative reporters and “oppo” researchers flock to Vermont to dig into Howard Dean’s past, they have run into a roadblock. A large chunk of Dean’s records as governor are locked in a remote state warehouse—the result of an aggressive legal strategy designed in part to protect Dean from political attacks. DEAN—WHO HAS BLASTED the Bush administration for excessive secrecy—candidly acknowledged that politics was a major reason for locking up his own files when he left office last January. He told Vermont Public Radio he was putting a 10-year seal on many of his official papers—four years longer than previous...

As investigative reporters and “oppo” researchers flock to Vermont to dig into Howard Dean’s past, they have run into a roadblock. A large chunk of Dean’s records as governor are locked in a remote state warehouse—the result of an aggressive legal strategy designed in part to protect Dean from political attacks. DEAN—WHO HAS BLASTED the Bush administration for excessive secrecy—candidly acknowledged that politics was a major reason for locking up his own files when he left office last January. He told Vermont Public Radio he was putting a 10-year seal on many of his official papers—four years longer than previous...