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full title.....................EXCLUSIVE: Senior adviser Valerie Jarrett has convinced President Obama to FIRE FBI director James Comey after the election................ After persistent prodding by Valerie Jarrett, President Obama has agreed to fire America's top cop A White House source familiar with the decision says Jarrett and the president held lengthy discussions over the past several days about the political and legal ramifications of firing FBI director The president was furious with Comey for reopening the FBI's investigation of Hillary's emails But he was reluctant to move against Comey for fear that it would open him to charges of obstruction of justice....

An Iowa Congressman claimed on Sunday that Republicans on Capitol Hill have copies of the 650,000 emails the FBI recovered from a computer belonging to Anthony Weiner. 'The good thing is, Congress has preserved them for our access,' Iowa Rep. Steve King said before a Donald Trump rally in Sioux City. 'So the Weiner leaks, the WikiLeaks, you name your leaks, we've got our hands on all of them – 650,000 emails.' King also suggested that the number of emails related to the FBI investigation may be larger than 650,000. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3910766/We-ve-got-hands-Congressman-says-Republican-lawmakers-set-Anthony-Weiner-s-650-000-emails.html#ixzz4PG6SQciZ Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail...

At last! My (well-received, thank y'all!) video, "'Mahogany Row': National Security in our Department of State under Hilliary Clinton" Is now uploaded as a single, continuous video filehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTKLHUI-duc Or, as a single link: Mahogany Row--full length You should be able to spot it easily, becuse I (now a "Verified" YouTube user) can upload custom "thumbnail images", and this one is: (I'll also point folks on the previous thread to this one...)

Obama got his first intelligence briefing as the Democratic US presidential candidate this week and spy agencies are ready to do the same for Republican rival John McCain, a senior US official said today. Thomas Fingar, deputy director of national intelligence for analysis, said US spy agencies had also begun reanalysing and updating reports from around the world in preparation for the next president, who will take office in January. "We've begun to engage with the campaigns," Mr Fingar told an intelligence conference in Florida. "Senator Obama received a briefing on Tuesday (local time)." Intelligence officials would not discuss what...

The Chinese military hacked into a Pentagon computer network in June in the most successful cyber attack on the US defence department, say American ­officials. The Pentagon acknowledged shutting down part of a computer system serving the office of Robert Gates, defence secretary, but declined to say who it believed was behind the attack. Current and former officials have told the Financial Times an internal investigation has revealed that the incursion came from the People’s Liberation Army. One senior US official said the Pentagon had pinpointed the exact origins of the attack. Another person familiar with the event said there...

Bill Keller, the executive editor of The Times, issued the following statement in response to the German government's statements today about the report published in The Times today. Michael Gordon's report was attributed to a classified Joint Forces Command study on the development of Iraq's military strategy, dated 2005. On the matter of German involvement, the Joint Forces Command study is explicit and unqualified. It shows a picture of the sketch, the one we reproduced in the paper today. The sketch is identified as a plan that was presented at a Dec. 18, 2002 meeting of Mr. Hussein and his...

Germany denied on Monday that its intelligence officials obtained a copy of Saddam Hussein's defence plan for Baghdad and passed it on to U.S. commanders a month before the 2003 Iraq invasion. The allegation that two German spies operating in the Iraqi capital before the war provided key military information to the United States -- at a time when the Berlin government was voicing strong public opposition to a U.S. invasion -- appeared on Monday in an article in the New York Times. [snip]A BND spokesman was even more categorical: "I would say the article is incorrect on all points."

<p>March 22 (Bloomberg) -- No laws were broken when the U.S. Treasury Department released documents to former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, who presented them to an author to write a critical book on President George W. Bush, the department's inspector general said in a report.</p>

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A Pakistani computer expert linked to U.S. security alerts and the arrest of 11 terrorism suspects in Britain was part of an undercover sting operation before Washington revealed his name, a Pakistani intelligence source and British media reports said yesterday. U.S. officials revealed the name of captured al Qaeda suspect Mohammed Naeem Noor Khan while he was still cooperating with Pakistani authorities in a sting operation, an intelligence source told Reuters news agency.

For the past twenty four hours, I was limited to fm radio for several hours. During this time, I switched over to NPR and was shocked at what I heard coming from a nationally broadcasted radio station, that our very own Government funds. Last night, approximately 8:30 PM EST, the anchor was interviewing a corresponded in the theater. The female voice asked the male voice several questions about the goings on with the 3rd and 1st(I believe) infantry divisions. One question was, "How many American troops are advancing?" The corresponded, embedded, told her! The next question, "Where are they going...