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Former White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin said Monday that former President Trump’s indictment was worse than what his “greatest detractors” thought it could be. “There’s liability that comes with representing Donald Trump,” Griffin said on CNN. “It’s the same reason he struggled to hire really credible staff even on the campaign and the reelection side of things because you expose yourself to things like Walt Nauta is now seeing where you yourself can be guilty of committing a crime under his purview.” “What I think I’m so struck by in this is this indictment, I think, is worse...

NLPC has uncovered a plan by the White House New Media operation to hire a technology vendor to conduct a massive, secret effort to harvest personal information on millions of Americans from social networking websites. The information to be captured includes comments, tag lines, emails, audio, and video. The targeted sites include Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, YouTube, Flickr and others – any space where the White House “maintains a presence.” In the course of investigating procurement by the White House New Media office, NLPC discovered a 51-page solicitation of bids that was filed on Friday, August 21, 2009. Filed as Solicitation...

Monitoring the court fight between activist Terri Hall and the Texas Department of Transportation is a lot like staring at a buffet line full of warmed over hospital cafeteria food. On the one hand, you're hungry and interested in eating. But on the other, you really can't get excited about the choices before you. It's tempting but unpalatable to root for Hall, who has adopted the noble cause of trying to stop TxDOT from spending millions of dollars on a PR blitz to build support for toll roads. Despite Hall's impressive gifts of organizing, public speaking and rabble-rousing, she is...

Seems the American news media is groping in the dark as to whether or not the sudden Presidential visit to Iraq was nothing more than grand-standing and, at best, a dishonest, misleading adventure. However, their attempts in this effort seem to be rather subjective and clearly based on political biases.I hereby propose the establishment of clear 'performance parameters' as to whether in fact this sudden and historic 2003 Thanksgiving Day trip by the President of the United States was a 'success' or not. Objective parameters lie solely in whether THE TRIP HAD A POSITIVE, A NEGATIVE OR A NEUTRAL...