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Republican congressional investigators expect a potential “smoking gun” establishing that the Obama administration spied on the Trump transition team, and possibly the president-elect himself, will be produced to the House Intelligence Committee this week, a source told Fox News. Classified intelligence showing incidental collection of Trump team communications, purportedly seen by committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., and described by him in vague terms at a bombshell Wednesday afternoon news conference, came from multiple sources, Capitol Hill sources told Fox News. The intelligence corroborated information about surveillance of the Trump team that was known to Nunes, sources said, even before President...

Summary: Rebroadcasts of the CNN/YouTube debate for Republican presidential candidates omitted a question from a retired brigadier general about the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, as well as the candidates' answers to the question. CNN did not note the omission. In rebroadcasts of the November 28 CNN/YouTube debate for Republican presidential candidates, CNN expunged, without disclosure, a segment in which retired Brig. Gen. Keith Kerr asked the candidates to address "why you think that American men and women in uniform are not professional enough to serve with gays and lesbians." Kerr is a member of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,...

Message From Beijing, Part 3Dr. Alexandr NemetsThursday, March 21, 2002Message From Beijing, Part 1Message From Beijing, Part 2 During the recent annual session of the Chinese Parliament, on March 5-12, Hong Kong and Taiwanese media published many reports about a huge new increase in the Chinese military budget and PLA modernization prospects. Some of these reports even claimed that China's real defense expenditures are five times greater than the ones stated officially (the author still believes that real expenses surpass the official by "only" four times). Indeed, almost unlimited financing allows the PLA to purchase hundreds of modern fighters,...