Author: Freedom Watch

Politico: Mueller Adds Another Lawyer to Russia Probe Team By Wanda Carruthers Newsmax September 16, 2017 A Justice Department attorney recently left work on a high-profile money laundering case to join special counsel Robert Mueller’s team, Politico reported Friday, bringing to 17 the number of lawyers working for the prosecution in the Russia probe. Harvard Law School graduate Kyle Freeny had not been previously reported to be working on the investigation. A spokesman for Mueller’s office confirmed Freeny was working on his staff, but gave no details about her role. Continue Reading….. See also: “Mueller Must Be Removed,…

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Judiciary Chairman Considers Subpoenas in Trump Investigation By Nicholas Fandos New York Times September 16, 2017 WASHINGTON — Senator Charles E. Grassley, facing what he sees as Justice Department stonewalling, is considering subpoenas to compel several witnesses to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee and divulge what they know about President Trump’s connections to Russia and his firing of James B. Comey as F.B.I. director. Mr. Grassley and the committee’s top Democrat, Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, have agreed that the witnesses are key to the committee’s investigation and could compel them to appear despite apparent objections by…

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Chefs react angrily as federal appeals court upholds California ban on foie gras By Maura Dolan, Jenn Harris, Geoffrey Mohan latimes.com September 16, 2017 California may once again scrape foie gras off restaurant plates, after judges ruled in favor of a ban on the delicacy made by force feeding ducks and geese. The decision Friday by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals removes a roadblock to enforcing a 2004 ban that has been idled for more than half the time it has been on the books. Continue Reading…..

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Larry Klayman decries special counsel’s ‘legal jihad unfolding with impunity’ By Larry Klayman WND September 15, 2017 As a former prosecutor of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), founder of Judicial Watch and now Freedom Watch, and its current general counsel and chairman, I filed a complaint Monday before the Office of Professional Responsibility and Inspector General of the DOJ, demanding an investigation and the eventual removal and prosecution of Special Counsel Robert Mueller for his and his conflicted staff — which are Democrat/Clinton political campaign donors and supporters in large part — having illegally leaked grand jury…

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Auntie Maxine Waters to Jeff Sessions: ‘How Does It Feel to Be Dragged & Humiliated? Now You Know How the African Americans You Disrespected Feel’ By Stephen A. Crockett Jr. The Root September 15, 2017 God bless Auntie Maxine Waters, who is truly doing the Lord’s work. On Friday, Waters waded down into the murky mess to take a jab at Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who might be the worst person in America not named Trump. “To Jeff Sessions, how does it feel to be dragged & humiliated? Now you know how the African Americans you disrespected feel,”…

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‘The most humiliating experience in decades’: Trump pushed Jeff Sessions to resign after Mueller appointment By Michelle Mark Business Insider September 14, 2017 After President Donald Trump was informed in May that special counsel Robert Mueller had been appointed to oversee the Trump-Russia investigation, Trump unleashed a torrent of insults upon Attorney General Jeff Sessions and told him he should resign, The New York Times reported on Thursday. Trump reportedly said he believed Mueller’s appointment was Sessions’ fault for recusing himself in March from the Russia investigation. Continue Reading…..

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By Larry Klayman Newsmax September 14, 2017 Click here to pre-order When I founded Judicial Watch on July 29, 1994, and even after that, with my current “People’s Justice Department,” Freedom Watch (www.freedomwatchusa.org) I never thought that the nation would sink to the low ethical, moral, irreligious, and lawless level that we now find ourselves confronting. And, while I am a perpetual optimist — I do what I do because I believe that we can be much better — I am disgusted by not just by our compromised, cowardly, and mostly corrupt political elite in Washington, D.C., and in…

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