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Post by Admin on Mar 3, 2018 18:18:45 GMT
Megyn Kelly grills Vladimir Putin on Russian interference in U.S. elections NBC News reporter and Today anchor Megyn Kelly has scored her second interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Watch a clip below. The sit-down was announced today by Lester Holt at the beginning of the NBC Nightly News broadcast. Kelly’s interview arrives as Putin rattled a sabre about Russia’s nuclear capabilities, warning the West that his country’s new intercontinental ballistic missile can evade any sort of detection and strike anywhere. He was asked by Kelly if his comments would ignite a new Cold War. “My point of view is the individuals who is said that a new Cold War has started are not really analysts,” Putin replied. “They do propaganda. If you were to speak about arms race, then an arms race began at exactly the time and moment when the U.S. opted out of the anti-ballistic missile treaty.”
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Post by Admin on Mar 5, 2018 18:19:00 GMT
Schiff's memo is a point-by-point rebuttal of Republican memo released weeks ago.
The Democratic memo counters that the FBI did not omit such information when obtaining an application, that its rationale for obtaining a FISA warrant on Page was clearly laid out, and that the application for a warrant on Page came after he had terminated his association with the campaign. The memo also says that Steele’s findings in the dossier had no bearing on the FBI’s decision to initiate an investigation into Russian election interference and possible collusion with the Trump campaign, noting that the FBI had launched an investigation in July of 2016, and received Steele’s information that was contained in the dossier almost two months later.
The memo was released Saturday following negotiations between the Democrats on the committee and experts in the FBI and Department of Justice, according to a fact sheet provided by Schiff’s office. No new information has been declassified, and the portions the memo redacted contain classified information. The House Intelligence committee had voted to release the Democratic counter-memo earlier this month, but President Trump had previously declined to release it, sending it back to the committee on February 9. In a letter sent that day to the committee, White House Counsel Don McGahn said the President decided not to release the memo because it contained “numerous properly classified and especially sensitive passages,” but offered the Department of Justice to assist in reworking a draft that could meet standards for release.
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Post by Admin on Mar 26, 2018 18:28:43 GMT
The Trump administration is expelling 48 envoys and 12 other Russian diplomats as well as closing the Consulate in Seattle, joining allies in condemnation of Russia's attack on the UK. Rich Edson has more from the State Department.
One must assume that many or most of the Russian diplomats designated for expulsion are intelligence operatives. Thus the cumulative impact on Russia's overseas intelligence activities could be considerable.
Russia must now ponder what actions it will take in response. But President Putin could never have imagined there would be this degree of solidarity.
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Post by Admin on May 28, 2018 18:09:45 GMT
One of the founders of the conservative Federalist Society is advancing a controversial legal theory that Robert Mueller’s special counsel investigation is unconstitutional.
In a guest editorial in the Wall Street Journal earlier this month and a call with reporters Friday afternoon, Northwestern law professor Steven Calabresi argued that Mueller cannot oversee such a broad investigation because he was not confirmed by the Senate.
Calabresi argues that under the Appointments Clause of the Constitution, an official overseeing the probe would be a “principal officer,” and thus would have to be someone who was appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate.
“[Mueller] is a principal officer, and since he has not been nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate, everything he has done since May 1, 2017 has been unconstitutional and has been illegal,” he told reporters on the call, which was hosted but not endorsed by the Federalist Society.
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Post by Admin on Jul 2, 2018 18:12:33 GMT
President Trump on Monday seized on a joke from Senate Intelligence Committee ranking Democrat Mark Warner over the weekend that the Virginia senator has inside information on special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation. The tweet was sent as Trump was onboard Air Force One en route to a rally in Columbia, S.C. The president was referencing a joke Warner made during a dinner Friday night in Martha’s Vineyard as part of a Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee retreat. Rachel Cohen, a spokeswoman for Warner, responded that the senator's comment was "obviously a joke."
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