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Special Counsel John Durham may have issued his final report last month, but the Russiagate scandal is far from over. This is not because there is no more to learn about the years-long effort by the Democratic Party, the FBI, CIA, and major news outlets to advance the conspiracy theory that Donald Trump teamed with Vladimir Putin to steal the 2016 election. Rather it’s because Russiagate never ended. Unlike political scandals of the past – from the XYZ Affair to Watergate and Iran-Contra – it is not a discrete set of events with a beginning, middle, and end. Instead, it...

During a joint news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid on Thursday morning in Jerusalem, President Biden said he was “given a list” of reporters to take questions from. The president made the gaffe after taking one question from an Israeli reporter. Afterwards, he was prompted to call on more reporters, when he said, “Um, sure. Uh, I was given a list here,” before reading off the name of Reuters reporter Steve Holland. As the conference went on, Biden repeatedly looked down at his list to call on reporters. “The next person to ask us a question, I guess,...

USA Today added a note to an op-ed written by White House trade adviser Peter Navarro published by the newspaper that the Trump administration official’s op-ed criticizing Dr. Anthony Fauci didn’t meet the newspaper’s fact-checking standards. The editorial note written by USA Today editorial page editor Bill Sternberg appeared to be added to the online version of the story Thursday morning. Sternberg said the editorial board reached out to Navarro, who has been critical of infectious disease expert Fauci, to provide a response published as an “Opposing View” to pair with an editorial the board wrote praising Fauci as a...

Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe apologized to an FBI investigator after changing his story regarding a leak to the media in October 2016, according to documents released Tuesday. McCabe was interviewed May 9, 2017, the same day James Comey was fired as FBI director, regarding two separate leaks to the media. During the interview, FBI agents also asked McCabe whether he knew how FBI information wound up in an Oct. 23, 2016, Wall Street Journal article about an investigation of the Clinton Foundation. McCabe said during that sit-down he did not know how the Journal story came about, but...

Read reports on the files at:Der SpiegelThe New York TimesThe GuardianIntro by Der Spiegel:Close to 92,000 US documents have been uncovered that shed new light on the war in Afghanistan. In an unprecedented development, close to 92,000 classified documents pertaining to the war in Afghanistan have been leaked. SPIEGEL, the New York Times and the Guardian have analyzed the raft of mostly classified documents. They expose the true scale of the Western military deployment -- and the problems beleaguering Germany's Bundeswehr in the Hindu Kush. A total of 91,731 reports from United States military databanks relating to the war in...

On his last day, according to historian Alan Brinkley, he woke up as a president "with admirers and detractors, a man with a record -- some of it good, some of it not. "By the evening of that day, he had become a legend, enshrouded in a fog of grief and posthumous adulation from which he has never fully emerged," Brinkley said. ...The number of books written about John F. Kennedy surpasses 40,000... How JFK went from history to memory -- which is how we choose to remember history -- and how that memory was shaped, is the subject of...

An FBI special agent told Congress earlier in August that the bureau has used leaked news stories as justifications to obtain surveillance warrants against American citizens, a source familiar with the testimony tells The Daily Caller News Foundation. During a closed-door interview with the House Judiciary and House Oversight Committees on Friday, Special Agent Jonathan Moffa told congressional investigators that the FBI and Justice Department have leaked stories to the press and then used them to obtain warrants under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). “He more or less admitted that the FBI/DOJ have previously leaked info to the press...

Paddock's motivation: ISIS support seems to me to make the most sense. Here's a guy who most likely registered Republican five years ago. He was Intelligent, resourceful, generous, mostly courteous, financially successful and well thought of. He was shrewd enough to keep secrets and was a firearm enthusiast who underplayed its extent. But, he may have had a loose or missing screw, hereditarily (father). He struck a group which is the worst enemy of ISIS. He bolsters calls for disarmament of that element. Strafing the crowd was unlikely to harm a Muslim. He proves the worst terror occurred during Trump's...

The Washington Post has retracted its story about Russian hackers penetrating the nation’s electricity grid with a virus found in a Burlington, Vt., electric company laptop. “Authorities say there is no indication of that so far [that Russians had penetrated the US electric grid],” according to an editor’s note attached to a corrected version of the story on the paper’s Web site. “The computer at Burlington Electric that was hacked was not attached to the grid,” the editor’s note read. News of the supposed hack had set off a firestorm of recriminations, with Vermont leaders calling Russian President Vladimir Putin...

"The fact is that everyone wants to make Donald Trump admit to certain things. When are we going to start talking about the other side of this, which is: What did Hillary Clinton do to influence the election? Is she going to be punished in any way? What are we doing to make sure people are not getting the debate questions ahead of time?" Spicer said during a contentious interview on ABC.

Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, Inc., was spotted at Hillary Clinton’s “victory” party last Tuesday wearing a staff badge, according to a picture recently submitted to Politico. Google came under fire earlier this year for allegedly altering search results to paint Hillary Clinton in a more favorable light than Donald Trump. Schmidt stated at the time that Google did not pick sides in the presidential race.

CNN anchor Brianna Keilar claimed on Monday that she witnessed Tea Party protesters spitting on African-American members of Congress and calling them racial slurs when she previously covered the Tea Party as a reporter in 2010. The incident that Keilar alluded to allegedly occurred on March 20, 2010, when thousands of Americans arrived in Washington, D.C. to protest House Democrats preparing to vote for Obamacare. While many reporters said they witnessed the incident, Breitbart News debunked it and found there was no video evidence that it ever happened.

President-elect Trump is refusing to let up on his criticism of the media, blasting the New York Times Sunday morning for publishing "highly inaccurate" coverage of his presidential bid. "Wow the [New York Times] is losing thousands of subscribers because of their very poor and highly inaccurate coverage of the Trump phenomena," the incoming Republican president wrote on Twitter.

MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell was shocked on air Thursday when a picture of President Obama meeting with President-Elect Donald Trump was shown on her program. . . . She continued to report on the historic moment but let her emotions go and appeared shocked before ending her comments. “But, good lord, that is an image a lot of people did not expect to see,” Mitchell said.

Likewise, millions of blue-collar voters who have been sacrificed for political gain by establishment-approved politicians in both parties made their voices heard. Political correctness was thrown out the window, the GOP's slide towards amnesty was halted and corrupt partnerships between big government and big business were put on notice. Second, it's about time the chattering class was knocked off its perch. People who add no value to the nation's economy and spend most of their time denigrating Americans as stupid and unable to function without a nanny government were sent reeling. The American people were heard loud and clear, throwing...

The Huffington Post announced late Tuesday that it is killing the editor's note in all of stories mentioning Donald Trump which states the Republican nominee is a "racist" and "misogynist," among other allegations. The website's Washington D.C. bureau chief, Ryan Grim, emailed staffers Tuesday evening about the organization's decision to remove the note. Grim cited the move as part of its plan to commence post-election Trump coverage with a "clean slate."

Baseball legend Curt Schilling has been slammed for praising a T-shirt that advocates lynching journalists. The All-Star pitcher, 49, who is a vocal Donald Trump supporter, shared a photo of the 'offensive' T-shirt on Twitter. The black top features the slogan: 'Rope. Tree. Journalist. Some assembly required.' Alongside the photo, Schilling commented: 'Ok, so much awesome here...'

Subject: Cruz on CNN CNN is looking for questions. Please send some topical/interesting ones. Maybe a couple on Fiorina. Someone please take point and send them all together by 3pm.

>> I have a new thought on potential interviewer - Maria Elena Salinas of >> Univision. >> >> I would bill it as an interview on college affordability and she would >> ask her a few questions on emails. >> >> As you all know, I had hoped that we could use the "server moment" as an >> opportunity for her to be viewed as having take a big step to deal with the >> email problem

Nancy Pelosi’s proud of Obamacare. Debbie Wasserman Schultz thinks it’s wonderful. Democratic strategists are scared. **SNIP** “We’re trying to deny what everyone knows is happening,” a Democratic polling veteran told Politico. “Anybody who is halfway intelligent knows this is a big … problem for us. It’s impossible not to see. We can try to hide our heads in the sand and pretend it’s not a problem, but it is.” If the past is prologue, that pollster’s right. In the 2010 mid-terms, the last time Americans went to the polls without President Obama on the ballot, Democrats were washed out of...