Author: Freedom Watch
What North Carolina’s sweep of Duke really means ESPN.com March 10, 2019 CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Kenny Williams grinned because the entire night was so much fun — the win, the three charges he took to land Duke’s star player in foul trouble, the senior night send-off — but more because he knew the inquiry was coming, and he truly wanted to deliver a pointed response. Sure, North Carolina beat Duke decisively on Saturday, less than a month after doing the same thing at Cameron Indoor. And sure, the 79-70 win gave the Tar Heels a share of…
ICE officials under review for social media posts suggesting Rep. Ilhan Omar took ‘terrorism classes’ By Jessica Schladebeck Boston Herald March 10, 2019 A pair of high-ranking U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are under review after they shared and liked social media posts promoting unfounded conspiracy theories regarding Rep. Ilhan Omar and immigration. One recent post shared on LinkedIn by senior ICE agent Leslie Derewonko and “liked” by Jerry Templet, who is the second-in-command of Homeland Security investigations in San Francisco, described the Minnesota Democrat as a “Trojan horse” who came to the United States because of…
ICE reviewing anti-Ilhan Omar social media post shared and liked by 2 agents By Robert Gearty Fox News March 10, 2019 A social media post insinuating Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn, was a terrorist threat was recently shared and liked by two Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) investigators, according to reports this week. The post described the Muslim-American lawmaker as a “Trojan horse” who came to the U.S. because of a “refugee outbreak” during the Obama administration, ABC News reported Thursday. Continue Reading….. Click to View PDF
NY Times columnist on CNN: Omar ‘has come to be a bridge destroyer’ By John Bowden TheHill March 9, 2019 A New York Times columnist argued Saturday that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) missed an opportunity to build bridges between Muslims and Jews in the U.S. with her recent comments about the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and Israel. In an interview on CNN’s “Smerconish,” Thomas Friedman said Omar’s district, which is composed of sizable Jewish and Somali-American Muslim populations, had teed up the rookie representative to build relationships between the two communities. Continue Reading…..
Dems struggle to turn page on Omar controversy By Cristina Marcos and Mike Lillis TheHill March 9, 2019 Democrats desperately want to turn the page on a painful week, but doing so is proving to be difficult. Freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), who has been the center of a debate on anti-Semitism and other forms of hatred that has exposed deep divisions within the new majority, on Friday signaled she’s not going to stop battling on social media with her critics. Less than 24 hours after the House adopted a resolution broadly condemning bigotry in the wake of…
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House ethics bill would require Supreme Court to adopt code of conduct ABC News March 8, 2019 Congress is trying to force the U.S. Supreme Court to hold justices accountable to standards of ethics and good behavior in this politically-polarized “MeToo” era. The court is currently the only branch of government without an ethical code of conduct or an independent enforcement system to address allegations of wrongdoing. The House of Representatives on Friday passed a sweeping government transparency and ethics reform bill that requires the federal judiciary to “issue a code of conduct which applies to each justice……
NSA in ‘deliberate process’ over future of surveillance program, says spy chief The Washington Times March 8, 2019 The National Security Agency is preparing to potentially abandon a controversial surveillance program exposed by former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, the agency’s director indicated. Paul Nakasone, head of both the NSA and U.S. Cyber Command, vaguely discussed the future of the government’s once-secretive system for obtaining and analyzing domestic telephone records, or metadata, in light of a senior congressional aide recently claiming that it was quietly suspended. Continue Reading…..
Ex-Fox News executive Bill Shine out at the White House By Betsy Klein, Kaitlan Collins and Jim Acosta CNN March 8, 2019 Washington (CNN)White House deputy chief of staff and de facto communications director Bill Shine has stepped down to join the Trump campaign, press secretary Sarah Sanders announced in a statement Friday. Shine, a former Fox News executive, joined the White House in July 2018, the sixth person to fill or be tapped for the top communications role. Jason Miller, Sean Spicer, Mike Dubke, Anthony Scaramucci and Hope Hicks all came before him. He offered his resignation…
Fox News’s Napolitano: Trump can’t survive ‘another week like the last one’ By Morgan Gstalter TheHill March 8, 2019 Fox News senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano said that President Trump can’t survive “another week like the last one” after the tumultuous hearing of his former personal attorney Michael Cohen. Napolitano wrote in a Washington Times opinion piece on Wednesday that the president’s “serious and powerful tormentors” cannot be beaten by “mockery alone.” “He needs to do more than demean them with acerbic tweets, because many of those tormentors can legally cause him real harm. He needs to address…