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Judge Amy Berman Jackson: "Court is one of those places where facts still matter."
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New: Peter Strzok has sued the FBI and the Justice Department over his firing, saying they were influenced by "unrelenting pressure" from the president to force him out
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Mueller's team, like the rest of the planet, has caught notice of Papadaopoulos' tweets. "Following the defendant’s sentencing," they note, "he made a variety of public statements that appear to be inconsistent with his stated acceptance of responsibility at sentencing."
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MOSCOW (AP) — An organization established by an exiled Russian tycoon says it has obtained emails showing collaboration between Russian government officials and the Russian lawyer who met with Donald Trump Jr. in 2016.
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A week before she was killed, Sgt. Nicole Gee cradled a baby in her arms at the Kabul airport.
She posted the photo on Instagram and wrote, “I love my job.”
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Acting AG Matt Whitaker had breakfast at the Willard Hotel this AM with former AG Ed Meese, who tells me Whitaker told him John Huber continues his investigation into various FBI-related concerns raised in the last year by GOP lawmakers, including claims of improper surveillance
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Two important appeals court cases are being argued today in DC: one about whether former White House counsel Don McGahn can be made to testify before Congress, the other about whether Congress can have access to Mueller grand jury material. Follow
@shermancourt
and me for updates
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SCOOP from me and
@ChadSDay
: At a July 2016 breakfast between Chris Steele and Bruce Ohr, Steele told him that Russian intelligence believed it had Trump
"over a barrel." Details of that breakfast were shared this morning in a private interview with lawmakers
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NEW YORK (AP) — Sally Yates, the former acting U.S. attorney general, says President Donald Trump would lose the "moral authority" to lead the nation should he refuse to be interviewed by special counsel Robert Mueller. via
@sppeoples
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Attorneys for George Papadopoulos have filed motion to withdraw from the case.
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NEW: Justice Dept is preparing to announce big counterintelligence case involving a former diplomat. Two sources tell
@AP
the FBI has arrested Manuel Rocha, ex-US ambassador to Bolivia. He’s accused of serving as agent for Cuba. W/
@APjoshgoodman
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“The White House’s contention that so much of the book was classified appeared to be a tacit admission that many of Bolton’s allegations were accurate — as inaccurate information could not be classified.”
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(AP) _ Sen. Mitch McConnell is warning Democrats to think carefully about "presidential harassment" if they win majority of the House. The Kentucky Republican told AP that threats to investigate Trump's finances and businesses would "help the president get re-elected" in 2020.
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Happening today: Trump is scheduled to sit for a deposition in wrongful termination/Privacy Act violation lawsuits filed by former FBI employees Pete Strzok and Lisa Page. The deposition was supposed to take place at Mar-a-Lago but was moved to New York.
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Schiff: "If right doesn't matter, we're lost. If the truth doesn't matter, we're lost. The framers can't protect us from ourselves if right and truth don't matter."
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Peter Strzok's lawyer calls on Congress to release transcript of last week's closed-door interview: "If members of Congress actually want to be honest with the American people and seek a fair process, they must publicly release the transcript of Pete's previous 11-hour testimony"
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NEW YORK (AP) _ A lawyer for Steve Bannon quit defending him in a federal fraud case a day after Bannnon made inflammatory comments about Anthony Fauci and Chris Wray. Defense attorney William Burck told a judge that he was withdrawing from the case. He did not give a reason why.
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Per sources, Justice Dept. lawyer Bruce Ohr says spy Chris Steele was quoting an ex-Russian intelligence head as saying Russian intel believed "they had Trump over a barrel." Not just Steele's assessment from dossier, but something he heard Russian intel official was saying
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U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson ordered that the parties provide her with a copy of the executive order that commuted Stone’s sentence. She also asked for clarity about the scope of the clemency.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The trial of a Chinese businesswoman charged with lying to a Secret Service agent and trespassing at Mar-a-Lago bogged down Monday before jury selection over her lack of underwear, the latest bizarre moment in a case that's been filled with them.
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Today marks exactly 5 YEARS since the release of the Mueller report. So, so many memories, including this inimitable sentence: “If had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the President clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state.”
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Besides naming Garland to the role of attorney general, Biden tomorrow will also tap three women to senior roles — Lisa Monaco as deputy,
@vanitaguptaCR
as associate AG and
@KristenClarkeJD
as head of civil rights. W/
@MikeBalsamo1
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Comey to
@nytimesbooks
on what book he'd encourage Trump to read. "The United States Constitution isn’t a book, so I would pick 'The Road to Character,' by David Brooks."
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Flynn has returned to the courtroom after a recess. He is sitting quietly in his chair between his lawyers. Not smiling
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Peter Strzok also alleges in his lawsuit that the Trump administration forced his firing over a political opinions the administration didn't like even as it tolerates other viewpoints, including from Kellyanne Conway, that are favorable to the White House
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General William Barr has told the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee that he's combing through special counsel Robert Mueller's report, removing classified and other information in hopes of releasing it to Congress in April.
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MOSCOW (AP) — A doctor for imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who is in the third week of a hunger strike, says his health is deteriorating rapidly and the 44-year-old Kremlin critic could be on the verge of death.
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Carter Page, speaking at Kevin Clinesmith sentencing hearing: "Each and every member of of my family has been severely impacted by the fourth FISA application as well."
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Lawsuit: "The campaign to publicly vilify Special Agent Strzok contributed to the FBI's ultimate decision to unlawfully terminate him as well as to frequent incidents of public and online harassment and threats of violence to Strzok and his family ... that continue to this day"
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With 40 minutes left until the deadline, it’s looking increasingly like the Mueller team is waiting for redactions to be approved before the Manafort sentencing memo can show up online
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By the time of his firing from the FBI two years ago, according to
@HMHbooks
, Pete Strzok “Strzok had seen more than enough to convince him that the commander in chief had fallen under the sway of America’s adversary in the Kremlin.”
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"Ranking Member, it's Lieutenant Colonel Vindman, please" _ Lt. Col. Alex Vindman to Ranking Member Devin Nunes on how he should be addressed
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Mueller filing in Manafort case: "The government will take custody and control of the real property commonly known as 721 Fifth Avenue." Otherwise known as Trump Tower.
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Interesting moment occurred in government opening statement as prosecutor rattled off Manafort’s life of luxury. Judge interrupted: “It isn’t a crime to have a lot of money and be profligate in your spending.”
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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis said in an interview with The Associated Press last week that her team is making solid progress, and she’s leaning toward asking for a special grand jury with subpoena power to aid the investigation into Trump.
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He also says the Justice Department violated his privacy by disclosing hundreds of his text messages to reporters
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WASHINGTON (AP) _ Feds charge prominent Republican fundraiser Elliott Broidy in covert lobbying effort to drop Justice Department probe
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(AP) A federal prosecutor says a grand jury that was involved in special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation is "continuing robustly." David Goodhand made the revelation Wednesday during a court hearing over whether court filings in the Mueller probe should be unsealed
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Destroyed documents. Suggestions of pardoning violent rioters. Quiet talks among cabinet officials about whether Donald Trump should be removed from office.
Takeaways from the 1/6 transcripts, with
@MCJalonick
@colvinj
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This tweet is incorrect. Here’s a February
@AP
story that explains the role the FISA warrant played, and did not play, in the Russia investigation.
So we now find out that it was indeed the unverified and Fake Dirty Dossier, that was paid for by Crooked Hillary Clinton and the DNC, that was knowingly & falsely submitted to FISA and which was responsible for starting the totally conflicted and discredited Mueller Witch Hunt!
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Election security experts and multiple secretaries of state told me that it’s essentially impossible for foreign actors to mail in, undetected, millions of fake ballots from overseas.
Here’s why:
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Judge Sullivan is back on the bench, says he misspoke in suggesting Flynn was a foreign agent while in the White House. And also says he never meant to suggest that Flynn committed treason. He says not to read too much into the questions he asks
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"Bob Mueller is a very quiet man," Rod Rosenstein said yesterday when asked
@seattleulaw
why he had announced last week's Russia indictment. He also said: "I am accountable for what he does."
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Judge in Manafort/Gates case chided lawyers today for number of sealed filings. "The fact that this case is of significant public interest is not a reason to seal things," said Judge Amy Berman Jackson. "It's a reason to unseal things."
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(AP) _ A second Republican senator has called for President Donald Trump to step down in the wake of the Capitol rioting this past week. Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania is calling on Trump to resign for what Toomey says would be the good of the country.
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There was no “illegal deletion by Mueller” of Strzok/Page text messages, an assertion
@AP
and other news organizations have repeatedly fact-checked. In fact, here’s a fact check on this false claim from just last month: .
This is one of the most horrible abuses of all. Those texts between gaga lovers would have told the whole story. Illegal deletion by Mueller. They gave us “the insurance policy.”
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(AP) — Oklahoma and 2 other states say they've denied a request by Russian officials to be present at polling stations during the election.
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Mueller “tracked an elaborate operation that injected chaos into a U.S. presidential election and tried to help Trump win. He followed a GOP campaign that embraced the Kremlin’s help and championed stolen material. He revealed layers of lies and deception”
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“If Hill’s tone is restrained, it is damning by a thousand cuts. It lays out how a career devoted to understanding and managing the Russian threat crashed into her revelation that the greatest threat to America comes from within.”
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Former Ambassador Bill Taylor, a pivotal figure in the first impeachment case, said at a virtual event today with Fiona Hill, Marie Yovanovitch and Alex Vindman that standing up as a witness "was not that hard...We just told the truth. It's harder to try not to tell the truth."
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Member of Ford's team says had she been questioned by FBI, she would have told agents they're focusing on wrong night. They've questioned people from a July 1, 1982 gathering, but Ford says she would have remembered had it taken place that night bc she knows those people well
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NEW: Brittney Griner’s wife tells
@AP
the WNBA star tried nearly a dozen times to call her on Saturday, their anniversary. But they never connected because no one picked up at the US embassy in Moscow, which was supposed to have patched the call through.
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“Being a whistleblower is not a partisan job nor is impeachment an objective. That is not our role,” says
@MarkSZaidEsq
in offering to have his whistleblower client answer written questions from Republicans
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More from Sessions: "The allegations that the Inspector General has confirmed are part of his ongoing investigation, if proven to be true, would raise serious questions of public trust."
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NEW YORK (AP) — A prosecutor says new charges and arrests are possible in the prosecution of a U.S. Treasury Department employee accused of giving a journalist confidential banking reports related to special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe.
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Per announcement from
@USAO_MD
, former Mueller team member and Roger Stone prosecutor Aaron Zelinsky is the new deputy chief of the office's National Security and Cyber Crime Section.
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NEW YORK (AP) _ Federal prosecutors investigating Rudy Giuliani's work in Ukraine say they do not plan to criminally charge him
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Curious activity today in Michael Flynn's case. His lawyers say they've been fired and now the government is moving to file documents under seal.
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Presidents enjoy broad immunity from lawsuits over actions taken in their official duties as commander-in-chief. But, importantly, this lawsuit alleges that Trump’s actions to undermine the election results were wholly divorced from his presidential duties
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(AP) Federal prosecutors have closed their investigation into a college land deal involving the wife of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders and decided not to charge her, a spokesman for the couple said. Jane Sanders was informed by the U.S. attorney's office that she would not be charged.
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WASHINGTON (AP) White House: Venezuela has freed two American detainees, including oil executive jailed since 2017
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(AP) — A jury of 12 people was seated in Donald Trump’s history-making hush money trial, propelling the proceedings closer to opening statements and the start of weeks of dramatic testimony. W/
@mikesisak
@jennpeltz
@jangelooff
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“”A lot of people have asked me about whether Mr. Trump knew about the release of the hacked Democratic National Committee emails ahead of time,” Cohen says in the prepared testimony. “The answer is yes.”
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After Strzok was transferred to Human Resources Division, FBI Deputy Director David Bowdich told him it could be worse. Imagine if Trump had gotten ahold of your texts, he said, pantomiming tweeting from a phone.
Two months later, the texts became public.
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NEW tonight: Navy veteran Michael White, released last week from an Iran prison on a medical furlough, has symptoms consistent with coronavirus and is in the hospital. Bill Richardson has asked Iran on family's behalf for an immediate humanitarian medical transfer back home
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NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Cohen pleads guilty to lying to Congress about Trump real estate project in Russia.
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BOSTON (AP) — Some of America’s most deeply held secrets may have been stolen in a disciplined, monthslong operation being blamed on elite Russian government hackers. The possibilities of what might have been purloined are mind-boggling.
@fbajak
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““I just could not understand why so many resources of the government were put into this when, in fact, actually the republic itself is at risk,” juror Michael Meyer said after the Greg Craig acquittal
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NEW: WASHINGTON (AP) — Ambassador says he kept Secretary Pompeo, top US officials, in loop about pressure on Ukraine for investigations.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump frankly acknowledged Thursday that he’s starving the U.S. Postal Service of money in order to make it harder to process an expected surge of mail-in ballots, which he worries could cost him the election.
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Judge asking Flynn if he wants to postpone sentencing until AFTER his cooperation is totally done, warns him that if he's sentenced now won't take into account any future cooperation he offers and the credit he would be entitled to for it
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The case against Roger Jason Stone Jr. has been assigned to none other than Judge Amy Berman Jackson.
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House Democrats are set to hold a caucus meeting at noon, the first since Wednesday’s harrowing events at the Capitol, and could take up articles of impeachment against Trump as soon as next week.
@ZekeJMiller
and
@MCJalonick
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EXTON, Pa. (AP) — The suburban Philadelphia home of one of the attorneys defending former President Donald Trump in his impeachment trial has been vandalized with graffiti.
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FBI names Minneapolis SAC Jill Sanborn as head of the counterterrorism division _ the first woman to hold the position
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A recently retired U.S. diplomat whose abrupt removal by President Donald Trump from her post as ambassador to Ukraine became a focus of the impeachment hearings is receiving an award for “excellence” in the conduct of diplomacy.
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I read through hundreds of pages of depositions of Trump taken over the years. They reveal a witness who is voluble, boastful, unapologetic, sometimes combative -- but, importantly, unmistakably deft. Here's my story on the subject
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Just in: 2 former staff members of congressman charged in distribution of "private, nude images and videos" of member and member's spouse
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WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI Director Chris Wray is raising national security concerns about TikTok, warning Friday that control of the popular video sharing app is in the hands of a Chinese government “that doesn’t share our values.”
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ICYMI: FBI Director Chris Wray leveled sweeping criticism last night at the Chinese government, saying the threat from Beijing was more brazen than ever before and accusing it of stealing astonishing volumes of ideas and innovation from the United States.
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I’ve had the pleasure of sitting next to
@PaulaReidCBS
at DOJ briefings for years, and it’s a testament to her integrity and commitment to fairness that her tough and deliberate interrogation of government officials sounds exactly the same no matter who is standing at the lectern
"You know your're a fake. Your whole network," Trump said to Paula Reid of CBS.
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WASHINGTON (AP) _ Barrett 'can't offer an opinion' on whether she'd recuse herself from any election lawsuits involving Trump
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NEW: Clark County, Nevada is among the locations to have received a subpoena from DOJ special counsel Jack Smith, per subpoena obtained by
@AP
tonight through a public records request.
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Chapter 12 in the book, "Judge Amy Berman Jackson Doesn't Play." She has denied Manafort's request to skip Friday's court hearing, citing, among other reasons, "the number of court appearances defendant has been permitted to waive" and "the significance of the issues at stake."
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WASHINGTON (AP) — New declassified report: Russian President Vladimir Putin 'ordered' campaign to influence presidential election.
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The Mueller team has filed a response in the Concord Management case. But in a development that will surprise no one, they have passed up the chance to confirm or deny the claim that they are indeed in possession of a nude selfie.
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Sheila Jackson Lee to Whitaker: "We are not joking here and your humor is not acceptable."
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The US and Russia just carried off a dramatic and surprise prisoner swap in a European country, trading Trevor Reed for Konstantin Yaroshenko, a Russian pilot convicted of drug trafficking.
More here on this breaking story with
@APDiploWriter
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WASHINGTON (AP) _ Justice Dept. asks appeals court to overturn appointment of special master to review documents seized from Trump home
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(AP) — In a highly unusual move, US diplomats have drafted two cables condemning President Trump’s incitement of the assault on the Capitol and calling for administration officials to support invoking the 25th Amendment to remove him
@APDiploWriter
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HARRISBURG (AP) — It appears that an election worker’s decision to throw out nine military ballots in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, amounted to a mistake and not “intentional fraud,” the state’s top elections official said Wednesday.
@houseofbuddy
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) Wisconsin Republican Party chairman says hackers stole $2.3 million from account dedicated to Trump reelection
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One of the misstatements in the debate came near the end when Pence said this about the Mueller report: “It was found that there was no obstruction, no collusion. Case closed.”
We explain here why that’s off the mark, along with some other misstatements
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New election-related hacking case out of DOJ. More coming: WASHINGTON (AP) _ US charges 2 suspected Iranian computer hackers, alleging they tried to intimidate voters ahead of presidential election
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Here's my updated
@AP
story on Andrew McCabe's memos that he kept on Trump and that, I'm told, are similar to those maintained by Jim Comey:
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Hillary Clinton had a non-custodial interview, which, per FBI and Justice Department policy, would not have been recorded. FBI/DOJ policy on recording interviews applies to people in custody
So General Flynn lies to the FBI and his life is destroyed, while Crooked Hillary Clinton, on that now famous FBI holiday “interrogation” with no swearing in and no recording, lies many times...and nothing happens to her? Rigged system, or just a double standard?
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