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Director Defends F.B.I. After Trump Says Bureau Is in ‘Tatters’ By Adam Goldman and Charlie Savage New York Times December 4, 2017 WASHINGTON — Christopher A. Wray, the F.B.I. director, defended his work force in an email on Monday, a day after President Trump said on Twitter that the agency’s standing was the “worst in History” and its reputation was in “Tatters.” In a message to the F.B.I.’s 35,000 agents and support staff that was provided to The New York Times, Mr. Wray said that he was “inspired by example after example of professionalism and dedication to justice…
Prosecutors: Manafort recently collaborated with Kremlin-tied operative TheHill December 4, 2017 Special counsel Robert Mueller asked a federal judge to deny Paul Manafort’s request to release him from house arrest, pointing to a draft of an op-ed the former Trump campaign manager ghostwrote with an associate tied to Russian intelligence, according to court filings. A prosecutor working on Mueller’s team argued that the request should be denied because the op-ed, if it had been published, would’ve violated a court order not to publicly discuss the case. Continue Reading…..
Supreme Court allows full Trump travel ban to take effect By Lydia Wheeler TheHill December 4, 2017 The Supreme Court on Monday gave President Trump another major win by granting his administration’s request to fully reinstate the third version of his travel ban. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and a federal district court in Maryland had said Trump could only block the entry of nationals from the six majority-Muslim countries in the ban — Iran, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia and Chad — if they lacked a bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the United…
Colin Kaepernick a finalist for ‘TIME’ Person of Year By Tom Schad USA TODAY December 4, 2017 Free-agent quarterback Colin Kaepernick was announced Monday as one of 10 candidates for TIME’s Person of the Year for 2017. Kaepernick, who last played for the San Francisco 49ers in 2016, joins President Donald Trump, special counsel Robert Mueller and the #MeToo movement, among others, on the short list for recognition. Each year, the magazine strives to identify “the person or group of people who most influenced the news during the past year, for better or for worse.” Continue Reading…..
Newsmax TV December 4, 2017 0:00 MIRANDA KHAN: There’s been all this talk about what is and what isn’t obstruction of justice. Did the president obstruct justice in your opinion? 0:08 LARRY KLAYMAN: No, he didn’t obstruct justice. Clearly not in what Professor Dershowitz says. And of course, you know he’s a liberal professor. So if he says it, it has to have some credibility. There was no obstruction of justice. 0:19 The president sits on top of the Justice Department, I’m a former alumnus as you know. He can do as he pleases with regard to dismissing James…
President Trump defends Michael Flynn for lying to FBI by claiming Hillary Clinton did the same thing By David Jackson USA TODAY December 4, 2017 WASHINGTON — President Trump defended his former national security adviser Michael Flynn on Monday for lying to the FBI — by bashing 2016 election opponent Hillary Clinton and claiming she did the same thing. “Hillary Clinton lied many times to the FBI, nothing happened to her,” Trump told reporters at the White House. “Flynn lied and they destroyed his life. I think it’s a shame.” Continue Reading…..
Obama: We need to elect more women because ‘men seem to be having problems’ By Jacqueline Thomsen TheHill December 4, 2017 Former President Obama called for more women to be elected to office “because men seem to be having some problems these days,” French news agency AFP reported. Obama, who made the comment at an invitation-only event in Paris on Saturday, was referring to the numerous allegations of sexual misconduct made against prominent men, including several U.S. lawmakers. Continue Reading…..
Mueller poses ‘existential threat’ to Trump’s presidency: Trump friend Chris Ruddy ABC News December 3, 2017 President Donald Trump’s friend Chris Ruddy, the CEO of Newsmax Media, said Special Counsel Robert Mueller “poses an existential threat to the Trump presidency.” Ruddy, who spoke as part of a roundtable on ABC News’ “This Week” Sunday, said he has talked to the president about the federal probe of Russia’s alleged meddling in the 2016 presidential election and possible collusion by Trump associates. Continue Reading…..
Bedeviled by Anti-Israel Boycotters at Duke By Peter Reitzes The Tower December 3, 2017 I recently met a couple who told me that their Jewish daughter attends Duke University, which they believe to be a great school for Jewish students. I would be pleased to share their enthusiasm. But in certain pockets of that institution, a serious, faculty-driven, anti-Israel bias exists, often expressed publicly and unreservedly. Recently, Duke University Press (DUP) published The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability, by Jasbir Puar. Elsewhere, I have written about Paur’s modernized brand of blood libel, which often relies on the…
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