Author: Freedom Watch
Marco Rubio Breaks With Trump: FBI ‘Did Not Spy’ On President’s Campaign By Hayley Miller HuffPost July 22, 2018 Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said on Sunday he doesn’t believe the FBI “spied” on President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, as Trump and his allies have repeatedly claimed. Rubio disputed Trump’s characterization during an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, saying that FBI investigators were justified in their October 2016 wiretapping of Carter Page, a former Trump campaign adviser. The agents, it has been learned, had reason to believe Russia had sought to recruit Page as part of the scheme to…
Gowdy: Trump advisers should consider quitting over Russia By Eli Okun POLITICO July 22, 2018 House Oversight Chairman Trey Gowdy chastised Donald Trump for inviting Russian President Vladimir Putin to Washington, saying Sunday that some members of the president’s administration should consider quitting if Trump won’t listen to their advice. “The fact that we have to talk to you about Syria or other matters is very different from issuing an invitation,” Gowdy said on “Fox News Sunday” of the Putin invitation, which the White House confirmed last week would be extended for the fall. “Those should be reserved…
Katie Pavlich – Judicial Watch: The FBI is Supposed to Release Documents About the FISA Warrant on a Trump Campaign Official Today By Katie Pavlich Townhall July 21, 2018 Government watchdog Judicial Watch expects the FBI to release a series of redacted documents Friday related to the FISA warrant used to surveil former Trump campaign official Carter Page. “The warrants are controversial because the FISA court was never told that the key information justifying the requests came from a minimally-corroborated “dossier” that was created by Fusion GPS, a paid agent of the Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee,”…
Freedom Watch TV July 21, 2018
By Larry Klayman WND July 20, 2018 President Donald J. Trump took a pounding this week, even from his “beloved” Fox News, over his comments at his joint press conference Monday with Russian President Vladimir Putin. This stemmed from his statement questioning the so-called “intelligence” of our intelligence community — namely that Russia is the culprit for hacking the servers of the Democratic National Committee and by extension the 2016 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign. The president cited the obvious fact that the intelligence agencies, comprised of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the National…
Newsmax TV July 20, 2018
Judge Jeanine Pirro and Whoopi Goldberg shout it out over ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ By Gabriella Mu����oz The Washington Times July 20, 2018 Judge Jeanine Pirro sparked a yelling match Thursday with “The View” host Whoopi Goldberg with a comment about “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” Ms. Pirro was on TV show to discuss her new book “Liars, Leakers and Liberals,” when she pointed at Ms. Goldberg to suggest she had “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” Continue Reading…..
Will Congress ever hold our federal agencies accountable for contempt? By Jonathan Turley, opinion contributor TheHill July 19, 2018 FBI official Peter Strzok’s recent testimony before the House Judiciary Committee continued a time-honored practice of elected members of Congress doing nothing about the open contempt of federal departments or agencies and their unelected officials. Strzok was just the latest in a long procession of officials, from both Democratic and Republican administrations, who refused to answer questions, produce documents, or otherwise comply with the constitutional authority of Congress to exercise oversight. Aside from outraged words of protest or toothless…
Trump invites Putin to Washington in the fall By Dave Boyer The Washington Times July 19, 2018 The White House is extending an invitation to Russian President Vladimir Putin to visit Washington in the fall, following up on his summit this week with President Trump. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Thursday that Mr. Trump asked national security adviser John Bolton to invite Mr. Putin to Washington this autumn, “and those discussions are already underway.” Continue Reading…..
FBI Director Wray hints that he considered resigning, restates belief in Russian election meddling NBC News July 19, 2018 ASPEN, Colo. — FBI Director Chris Wray suggested on Wednesday that he has threatened to resign — and pushed back against President Donald Trump’s recent comments that cast doubt on Russian interference in the election. “My view has not changed, which is that Russia attempted to interfere with the last election and that it continues to engage in malign influence operations to this day,” Wray told NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt at the Aspen Security Forum. Continue Reading…..