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In the latest development surrounding last week's announcement by Devin Nunes, according to which President Trump and his associates were incidentally swept up in foreign surveillance by American spy agencies, the NYT reports that the pair of White House officials who played a role in providing Nunes with the intelligence reports behind his claim, have been identified. The NYT has outed the Nunes sources, who it claims are Ezra Cohen-Watnick, the senior director for intelligence at the National Security Council, and Michael Ellis, a lawyer who works on national security issues at the White House Counsel’s Office and formerly worked...

Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman testified on Tuesday that he bypassed his chain of command and went directly to the National Security Council’s legal counsel to raise his concerns about President Donald Trump’s July phone call with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. The implication appears to be that Vindman had an agenda, which was only strengthened by his claim in his opening statement that Trump demanded Zelensky open an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden, though according to the White House’s partial transcript, the commander in chief did no such thing. Republican Rep. Brad Wenstrup...

‘Thanks! Hopefully we are being successful, and the reporters are having difficulty finding anybody to comment about things’ – Rod Rosenstein (Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch today released 14 pages of records from the Department of Justice showing officials’ efforts in responding to media inquiries centering on talks within the DOJ/FBI allegedly invoking the 25th Amendment to “remove” President Donald Trump from office and former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein offering to wear a “wire” to record his conversations with the president. The records show that, following a September 21, 2018, report on Rosenstein suggesting he would wear a...

SAN FRANCISCO -- After years of wrangling over legal procedures, the lawyer for a defunct Islamic charity laid out his case Wednesday that former President George W. Bush's secret wiretapping program was illegal - an argument that an Obama administration attorney refused to discuss. "May the president of the United States break the law in the name of national security? ... We're asking this court to say, 'no,' " Jon Eisenberg, lawyer for the Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation, told a federal judge in San Francisco. Neither the president's constitutional powers as commander in chief nor Congress' authorization to use military force...

House Panel to Ask for NSA Spying Probe A congressional panel will ask the National Security Agency's internal watchdog to investigate whether the super-secret spy agency eavesdropped without warrants on a Muslim scholar and later hid that evidence in a 2005 terror prosecution that got him a life sentence.The House Select Intelligence Oversight Panel and the judge overseeing the case want the NSA's inspector general to find out if the government failed to disclose evidence that might have cleared the name of a Northern Virginia spiritual leader Ali al-Timimi, Rep. Rush Holt (D- New Jersey) told the New York Times.That...

“ADHD is a prime example of a fictitious disease.” These were the words of Leon Eisenberg, the “scientific father of ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder),” in his last interview before his death. Leon Eisenberg made a luxurious living off of his “fictitious disease,” thanks to pharmaceutical sales. Coincidentally, he received the “Ruane Prize for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Research. He has been a leader in child psychiatry for more than 40 years through his work in pharmacological trials, research, teaching, and social policy and for his theories of autism and social medicine,” according to Psychiatric News.

DOVER — Convicted hostage taker Leeland Eisenberg was sent back to prison for 3 1⁄2-to-7-years on Thursday for a February probation violation where he went on a 24-hour drug and alcohol bender. Eisenberg took the stand in his own defense during the probation violation hearing and pointed the finger at officials with Strafford County Community Corrections for his current predicament. He said they wanted him to fail. (snip) The 3 1⁄2-to-7-year prison sentence is a suspended sentence that stems from the November 2007 incident where Eisenberg strapped road flares to his chest and entered the downtown Rochester campaign office of...

CONCORD, N.H. — New Hampshire authorities say the man who took hostages at a Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign office in 2007 has cut off his electronic monitoring bracelet and is a fugitive who is a danger to the public. Strafford County Attorney Thomas Velardi says Leeland Eisenberg cut off the bracelet Tuesday morning. Verlardi says that was a day after Eisenberg was given a “last chance” at freedom by a judge who released him despite probation violations. Velardi says Eisenberg should not be approached.

ROCHESTER, N.H. - The stepdaughter of a distraught New Hampshire man, who touched off a hostage drama at Hillary Clinton’s campaign headquarters in Rochester, N.H., said she feared her stepfather was going to be gunned down. “I was fearful. I just hoped everything would turn out OK,” Leeland Eisenberg’s stepdaughter Erin Warren told the Herald today outside Rochester District Court. “I thought it would end pretty extreme, I thought it was going to be a shooting thing,” she added. Eisenberg was arraigned today on a host of charges, including kidnapping, in connection to Friday’s hostage taking in downtown Rochester. He...

(Enjoy the mocking) HILLARY AND THE HOSTAGE CRISIS ON GOOGLE VIDEOS NOTE: Hillary had the headlines during the so-called hostage crisis. JILL ZUCKMAN: Clinton rushes to comfort beseiged campaign crew SUSAN CORNWELL: Clinton impresses with handling of hostage drama TONY ALLEN-MILLS: Cool Hillary shines in hostage crisis

ROCHESTER, N.H. - In the hours before he allegedly took five people hostage at Hillary Clinton's campaign office Friday, Leeland Eisenberg sat drinking rum and cokes with his stepson in his trailer. He drank heavily, and in a fog of frustration and delusion, said he could no longer afford his medication for bipolar disorder, his stepson, Benjamin Warren, said by phone last night. Unemployed, Eisenberg had no money to see a doctor; a local hospital turned him away when he went for help, Warren said.

BY modern American standards it was a very minor crisis, but a bizarre hostage-taking episode at one of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign offices in New Hampshire on Friday offered the former first lady an unexpected opportunity to display her leadership qualities. Clinton was far from the scene and never at risk from a mentally unstable man who eventually surrendered to police after holding three campaign workers hostage. Yet her calm demeanour and authoritative response to a potentially ugly drama was yesterday earning her widespread praise. Clinton followed the incident from her home in Washington, then flew to New Hampshire to...

Hillary bomb stunt latest in suspect's long, twisted path By STEPHANIE GASKELL in SOMERSWORTH, N.H., and LARRY McSHANE in NEW YORK DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS Saturday, December 1st 2007, 3:19 PM 'He's capable of anything,' said Leeland Eisenberg's former neighbor, Kathleen Carlsen. 'I don't want anything to do with that man.' The trailer where Eisenberg lived for a time with his now estranged wife. She filed for divorce three days before the hostage incident. The note that Eisenberg's family taped to the door. The neatly dressed man who took hostages in Hillary Clinton's New Hampshire campaign office was known as...

ABC News' Kate Snow reports: ABC News has learned that Leeland Eisenberg -- the man accused of holding hostages at Hillary Clinton's Rochester, N.H., campaign office for six hours on Friday -- allegedly cited one of Clinton's campaign commercials when police say he entered the office and claimed to have a pipe bomb strapped to his chest. According to sources, the campaign office intruder was complaining about insurance issues and mentioned a recent campaign ad widely seen by New Hampshire voters. "She helped that guy, she can help me," Eisenberg allegedly told Clinton campaign staffers, referring to Joe Ward, a...

When the hostages had been released and their alleged captor arrested, a regal-looking Hillary Rodham Clinton strolled out of her Washington home, the picture of calm in the face of crisis. The image, broadcast just as the network news began, conveyed the message a thousand town hall meetings and campaign commercials strive for — namely, that the Democratic presidential contender can face disorder in a most orderly manner. "I am very grateful that this difficult day has ended so well," she declared as she stood alone at the microphone. Little more than three hours later, just in time for the...

ROCHESTER, N.H. - A man wearing what looked like a bomb beneath his sweater and tie walked into Hillary Clinton's campaign office yesterday, taking three staff members, a volunteer, and an infant hostage, forcing the closure of the senator's campaign offices throughout Iowa and New Hampshire, and paralyzing this small city on the Maine border, authorities said. ...Eisenberg, formerly known as Ralph E. Woodward Jr., served time at Bridgewater State Hospital and MCI-Concord, according to court records. In 2002, he filed a lawsuit in Suffolk Superior Court against Bernard Cardinal Law, in Law's capacity as Roman Catholic Archbishop of Boston,...

"A man is holding hostages in the Hillary Clinton for President Headquarters in Rochester NH"--just reported by Susan Wornick on WCVB TV in Boston

Conservatives Wary Over GOP Nominee For Finance Chairman By Jim Burns CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer January 18, 2002 (2nd Add: Includes additional background on Lewis Eisenberg, finance chairman of the Republican National Committee.) (CNSNews.com) - Lewis Eisenberg's nomination as Republican Party Finance Chairman has upset many conservatives. He was to be nominated on Friday at the party's annual winter meeting in Austin, Tex. Ralph Reed, chairman of the Georgia Republican Party, accepted the original request to nominate Eisenberg, but on Thursday he reversed the decision. He said he changed his mind after talking with Republican National Committee members and conservative...