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Rep. Eric Swalwell (D., Calif.), who has accused Republicans of enabling Russia, took maximum campaign donations from a top lobbyist for Nord Stream 2 AG, the company behind an oil transportation project dubbed "Putin’s pipeline." Swalwell, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, received $2,900 last year from Vincent Roberti Sr., the chairman of lobbying powerhouse Roberti Global. Roberti gave $5,400 to Swalwell’s campaign in 2018. Roberti Global received $2.4 million in 2021 from Nord Stream 2 AG, a Switzerland-based subsidiary of Russian oil giant Gazprom. Critics of the 761-mile pipeline have long said it would allow Vladimir Putin to...

Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s “kowtowing” to President Donald Trump had been disappointing. Host Jake Tapper said, “Is Secretary Rubio able to do the two main jobs there?” Warner said, “I don’t know how anybody could do these two big jobs, and they’re frankly very different. One is actually trying to diplomatically work with friends and adversaries around the world. And unfortunately, the number of adversaries has gone up dramatically as Trump’s approach has been so awful to our allies. The other are our national security adviser...

Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) said Monday on CNN’s “The Situation Room” that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth should be fired or resign after reports that military details were shared in a second Signal group chat. Warner said, “This is a guy that’s in so far over his head that you know, he didn’t say anything there about denying that he did this gross, sloppy misuse of classified information. Sharing now with his family members. We heard about the misuse earlier when this information was shared with other senior members of the of the administration.” He continued, “It is way past time...

Regarding the recently released Russiagate files. Again, emphasizing that process matters, let me explain how and why we are being purposefully misled, even with Trump ‘allies’ in control of various govt agencies (silos). Using the reference of the James Wolfe storyline, let me outline how process matters and how you can tell when the process is being used to coverup corrupt activity in Washington DC. Former Senate Intelligence Community Security Chief, James Wolfe, leaked the Carter Page FISA application to journalist Ali Watkins. We know from the DOJ indictment of James Wolfe [SEE HERE], a very specific set of evidence...

Air Force Gen. Timothy Haugh had been both the head of U.S. Cyber Command and the director of the NSA, a role he'd held since February 2024. The director and the No. 2 official at the National Security Agency were ousted from their positions Thursday, according to a defense official and three sources with knowledge of the matter. It was not immediately clear why Air Force Gen. Timothy Haugh and his deputy were dismissed, the sources said. The White House National Security Council did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday night. Haugh was both the head of...

Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) claimed Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that Trump administration officials who were saying the content of a Signal group chat on military strikes against the Houthis was not classified information was insulting Americans. Host Martha Raddatz said, “There have been very strong denials from the administration that there was anything classified. So, quite simply, was this classified information or not?” Warner said, “Absolutely. It was such a nature when you are doing the actual battle plans and the timing, what type of aircraft were being sent out, if you had a traditional military officer or a...

Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA director John Ratcliffe “lied” under oath to the Senate Intelligence Committee when denying classified information was included in a Signal group chat on military strikes against the Houthis. Co-host host Mika Brzezinski said, “Senator, do these text messages that are now released by The Atlantic, by Jeffrey’s reporting, answer some of the questions that you couldn’t get answers to yesterday?” Warner said, “Well, it sure answers the question that the two witnesses, I believe, lied when they said, ‘Oh, nothing to...

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and Central Intelligence Agency Director John Ratcliffe both said in sworn testimony to the Senate on Tuesday that there was no classified information or material shared on the group chat created by National Security Adviser Mike Waltz to coordinate on military strikes against the Houthis.Gabbard testified, “There was no classified material that was shared in that Signal chat,” while Ratcliffe said, “My communications, to be clear, in the signal message group were entirely permissible and lawful and did not include classified information.”The sworn statements undercut what Democrats and Trump critics are trying to claim...

Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) harped on President Donald Trump’s national security officials after a journalist was inadvertently added to an encrypted group chat that discussed military strikes before they occurred — despite his own recent history of secret messages with a lobbyist for a Russian oligarch closely allied with Vladimir Putin getting leaked. Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, dug into CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard, and FBI Director Kash Patel during a hearing Tuesday, after the Atlantic‘s Jeffrey Goldberg published “The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans” on...

Special Counsel John Durham’s lead prosecutor withdrew from the criminal case against Igor Danchenko, the main source for the Trump-Russia dossier paid for by Hillary Clinton’s camp. The trial against Danchenko is set to begin in October. Assistant special counsel Andrew DeFilippis withdrew from the case late Sunday evening, the Washington Times reported. Recall, DeFillipis oversaw the cases against Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann and FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith. The Washington Times reported:

If you ever needed a good point to highlight the nature of political Lawfare, this is a great example. Julie Kelly essentially notes that Special Prosecutor Jack Smith is asking DC Judge James Boasberg to decide what evidence should be given to Florida Judge Aileen Cannon. Julie Kelly – “It appears that records related to the grand jury proceedings in DC on the classified docs case remain under seal and have not been transmitted to Judge Cannon or defense. Recall that almost the entire investigation into the classified docs matter took place in Washington DC–not southern FLA even though it...

Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) claimed Tuesday on CNN’s “The Situation Room” that it is “disgusting” that President Donald Trump is not standing with democracies like Ukraine. Co-host Pamela Brown asked, “Is the United States on team Russia now?” Warner said, “This has been a, you know, a two week streak. Remember a week ago last Monday, for the first time ever, America in the United Nations voted with with Russia, Iran, North Korea, Nicaragua denying who started the war in Ukraine. The whole world knows Russia started it. Now you’ve got these this effort after the breakout in the White...

You cannot make this stuff up? USAID, which blessedly is no more, paid for a radical Islamic terrorist’s college tuition. Past receipts show that the former agency footed the bill for Anwar Awlaki’s higher education. Awlaki lied about the country of his birth to obtain funds for college through the State Department. Awlaki later became the point of the lance for al-Qaeda’s digital jihad arm. Investigative Catherine Herridge has more: Looks like USAID supported college tuition for Anwar Aulaqi (Awlaki) who later became a high level al Qaeda terrorist. Aulaqi falsely claimed he was born in Yemen to secure the...

Elizabeth Warren and other Democrats are now sending threatening letters to people and companies that donated to Trump’s inauguration. This is from the same party that has spent the last eight years calling Trump a fascist. You may also recall that they have no problem with contributions like this when they are made to to Democrats, just Trump.

North Virginia doctor Siavash Sobhani stated he was in “shock” after a State Department official allegedly told him his U.S. citizenship was stripped over a bureaucratic reason, according to The Washington Post. Sobhani, 61, who specializes in internal medicine, received a letter from a State Department official after applying for a new passport in February, according to the outlet. What the north Virginia doctor received, however, was not what he expected as he had gone through the passport renewal process several times previously without any issues. Sobhani was informed he should have never been granted citizenship in the first place...

Harriet Hageman is on my personal short list of people I hope President Trump is considering for vice president. During a recent interview Hageman shows she is not going along with the pretending. Every word about Joe Biden and the length of time the issues have been visible is correct and accurate. “Who is running our country?” WATCH: The full interview is below: On “Forbes Newsroom,” Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-WY) reacted to President Biden’s debate performance with alarm, slamming the press for its coverage of Biden, questioning who is running the U.S., and whether she supports invoking the 25th Amendment.

Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), an influential centrist who is close with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), is working to gather support among Democratic senators to ask President Biden to drop his reelection bid, according to two sources familiar with the effort. Warner is concerned that Biden could perform so badly in November that he risks taking down senators who were thought to be in relatively safe seats, such as fellow Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.). “He talks to a lot of his colleagues all of the time. There’s a statewide race going on in Virginia,” said a source familiar...

CHARLESTON – West Virginia Secretary of State Mac Warner and chief election officers in eight other states have joined to bring legal action to try to stop an executive order issued by President Joe Biden they say would federalize state elections. Warner – along with the secretaries of state of Arkansas, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, New Hampshire, Tennessee and Wyoming – filed an amicus brief May 28 asking the U.S. Supreme Court to rule Executive Order 14019 is unconstitutional and violates the authority granted to the states to regulate elections by the United States Constitution. Specifically, the secretaries of state...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WBOY) — West Virginia Secretary of State Mac Warner (R) said Wednesday that the state will not accept applications “illegally gathered by Federal agents.” At issue is an Executive Order signed by President Joe Biden in March of 2021, but in a press release, Warner said it was just last week that the country’s chief election officials were told on a call with the White House that it’s implementing voter registration policies. Mississippi’s Secretary of State Michael Watson wrote in an op-ed published Wednesday that he “had the chance to ask a White House official about the plans...

On Tuesday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) responded to a question on why Democrats didn’t pass a border bill when they controlled both chambers of Congress and the White House by stating that coming up with immigration bills is hard and by pointing to other immigration bills that came up in other Congresses. Co-host Kailey Leinz asked, “Senator, what we heard from President Biden, speaking from the White House today, was that he intends to make this known to voters that if this fails, he says it fails because of Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans....