Author: Freedom Watch

Jennifer Aniston To Play Lesbian President In Netflix’s ‘First Ladies’ By Cole Delbyck HuffPost May 19, 2018 The White House just got a whole lot friendlier. Jennifer Aniston has been tapped to star in Netflix’s new political comedy “First Ladies” as the president of the United States. “One Mississippi” actress Tig Notaro will be playing her wife. The film follows America’s first female president, the fictional Beverly Nicholson, and her wife, Kasey, as they move into the White House and prove that “behind every great woman… is another great woman,” the official description says. Continue Reading…..

Warner: It’s ‘potentially illegal’ to identify FBI source in effort to undercut Russia probe By Clare Foran CNN May 19, 2018 Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, warned on Friday it could be illegal for lawmakers to uncover the identity of an intelligence source in an attempt to undercut the federal investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election. “It would be at best irresponsible, and at worst potentially illegal, for members of Congress to use their positions to learn the identity of an FBI source for the purpose of undermining the…

By Larry Klayman WND May 18, 2018 The end may now be in sight for Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his rabid band of left-wing prosecutors headed by the notorious hack prosecutor Andrew Weissmann. In this regard, five months ago on behalf of Freedom Watch, the public interest watchdog I founded after my run for the U.S. Senate in Florida in 2003-04, I filed a simple Freedom of Information Act Request (FOIA) with the Office of the Special Counsel, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and its Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The “beauty” of this FOIA was that…

By Bob Unruh WND May 17, 2018 A Washington watchdog lawyer suing to obtain access to special counsel Robert Mueller’s communications with the media is asking a court to order that the documents be made available now — not in “dribbles” over coming months or years. Veteran courtroom fighter Larry Klayman of Freedom Watch has filed a response to government plans to roll out the documents — beginning months from now — in small releases. Continue Reading…..

Federal judge who ripped Mueller team obtains ‘scope memo’ detailing Russia probe By Alex Pappas Fox News May 17, 2018 The federal judge who recently ripped into Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team has obtained a copy of the so-called “scope memo” that lays out the parameters of the Russia probe. A court document filed Thursday in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia shows that prosecutors have turned over the memo, under seal, to U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III. Continue Reading…..

Crowdsource the Truth May 17, 2018

By Jonathan Easley TheHill May 17, 2018 A federal judge will rule next week on a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from a conservative group that wants access to correspondences that special counsel Robert Mueller’s team has had with the media. Freedom Watch founder Larry Klayman and Joseph Dugan, the lawyer representing the special counsel, will appear in Washington district court on May 24 at 10:30 a.m. for a status conference with Judge Emmet Sullivan. The Hill viewed the relevant court filings, which are reported here for the first time. Continue Reading…..

Thanks to Trump and Netanyahu, it’s Jew vs. Jew By Samuel G. Freedman CNN May 17, 2018 Samuel Freedman writes that the events of May 14 along the Israel-Gaza border have placed an unbearable strain on the covenant between the two largest Jewish communities in the world, one in the United States and the other in Israel. On that date, the 70th anniversary of Israeli statehood, Israel military forces killed more than 50 Palestinian protestors and wounded another 2,700 in a confrontation, as marchers tried to breach the security fence on the Gaza border. At about the same…

Russia favored Trump in 2016, Senate panel says, breaking with House GOP By Karoun Demirjian Washington Post May 17, 2018 The Senate Intelligence Committee has determined the U.S. intelligence community was correct in assessing Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election with the aim of helping then-candidate Donald Trump, contradicting findings House Republicans reached last month. “We see no reason to dispute the [intelligence community’s] conclusions,” the committee’s chairman, Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), said Wednesday in a joint statement with its vice chair, Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-Va.), who added: “Our staff concluded that the … conclusions were…

Trump team ready to ‘pressure’ Mueller at probe’s one-year mark By Darren Samuelsohn POLITICO May 16, 2018 President Donald Trump’s attorney has an unlikely new role model for special counsel Robert Mueller: James Comey. Frustrated by the open-ended nature of Mueller’s Russia probe, which hits its one-year mark on Thursday, Rudy Giuliani says Mueller should follow the example Comey set in 2016, when the then-FBI director investigated — and then publicly exonerated — Hillary Clinton for her use of a private email server. Continue Reading…..