Author: Freedom Watch
By Catherine Herridge Fox News November 28, 2017 A government watchdog who played a central role in the Hillary Clinton email investigation during the Obama administration told Fox News that he, his family and his staffers faced an intense backlash at the time from Clinton allies — and that the campaign even put out word that it planned to fire him if the Democratic presidential nominee won the 2016 election. “There was personal blowback. Personal blowback to me, to my family, to my office,” former Intelligence Community Inspector General Charles McCullough III said. Continue Reading…..
By Jonathan Easley TheHill November 27, 2017 A conservative group filed suit on Monday seeking to remove special counsel Robert Mueller from the Justice Department’s investigation into Russian meddling. Conservative lawyer Larry Klayman, the founder of the watchdog group FreedomWatch, filed a complaint in U.S. district court that seeks to force the Justice Department to investigate leaks from the special counsel, as well as “the obvious conflicts of interest among staff.” Continue Reading…..
By Larry Klayman Newsmax November 27, 2017 With news this Thanksgiving holiday weekend that Rt. General Mike Flynn is now cooperating with Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his Trump-hating leftist prosecutorial staff, and with renewed claims by the president’s lawyers attempting, without any known basis, to claim that all is well in the land as concerns their client, one has to do more than wonder what these lawyers are smoking. As a French literature major at Duke University, one of the books which greatly shaped my view of life was Voltaire’s “Candide.” In this classic novel, Candide travels throughout…
Long Divided, Iran Unites Against Trump and Saudis in a Nationalist Fervor By Thomas Erdbrink New York Times November 27, 2017 TEHRAN — The busiest square in Tehran is dominated by an enormous billboard with a drawing of a young man in the uniform of the Revolutionary Guards Corps, extending his hand to invite Iranians to follow his path. Underneath the image, teenagers line up, flashing victory signs, as they take selfies with the placard in the background. In life, the man on the billboard, 26-year-old Mohsen Hojaji, was just as anonymous as the thousands of other Iranians…
Richard Branson accused of sexual harassment Fox News November 26, 2017 Billionaire Richard Branson is the latest high-profile person to be accused of sexual harassment following a party on his Necker Island in 2010. After posting about the alleged incident on her Facebook, Antonia Jenae shared a story with The Sun in which she claims Branson stuck his head between her breasts and “motorboated” them by blowing and making an engine noise. At the time, Jenae was a backup singer for Joss Stone. After a concert, the group was invited by Branson back to his island where the…
Robert Mueller is a hot head who can’t own up to his mistakes, former aides say Newsweek November 26, 2017 One former aide went so far as to say that Mueller is “someone that can’t accept the fact that he screwed up.” The Times profile begins by focusing on Mueller’s tenure at the U.S. Attorney’s Office, where he was criticized for mishandling high-profile cases and for his treatment of government witnesses and subordinates. Continue Reading…..
US backtracks on decision to close Palestinian office in DC Fox News November 25, 2017 The Trump administration backtracked Friday on its decision to order the Palestinians’ office in Washington to close, instead saying it would merely impose limitations on the office that it expected would be lifted after 90 days. Last week, U.S. officials said the Palestine Liberation Organization mission couldn’t stay open because the Palestinians had violated a provision in U.S. law requiring the office to close if the Palestinians try to get the International Criminal Court to prosecute Israelis. The move triggered a major rift…
Freedom Watch TV November 25, 2017
(Washington, D.C., November 27, 2017). Larry Klayman, the founder of both Judicial Watch and now Freedom Watch, and a former federal prosecutor in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (Justice), announced today the filing of a Complaint for Writ of Mandamus and Injunctive Relief in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (Case no. 1:17-cv-02459) to force Justice’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) and Inspector General (IG) to investigate the alleged criminal leaks of grand jury information that have consistently emanated from the Office of the Special Counsel, as well as the obvious conflicts…
Anger at Mueller burns hot on the right By Jonathan Easley TheHill November 25, 2017 Anger at Robert Mueller is burning white-hot on the right and in conservative media, where calls for the special counsel to recuse himself from the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election have reached a fever pitch. President Trump has largely held his fire on Mueller, even as the probe into his campaign officials has intensified. White House lawyers are hopeful that the investigation will end soon and absolve the president and his inner circle of wrongdoing. Continue Reading…..