SPLC President Richard Cohen and former US Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama Joyce Vance discuss President Trump, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and civil rights under the Trump administration. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGSwKxqAZkY [comments disabled]
It was good to hear Sessions did some good work, but then his civil rights record was "frightening". Add here, like Trump's.
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RWW News: Rep. Matt Gaetz Appears On Infowars To Deny Being Conspiracy Theorist
Investigation Turns to Kushner’s Motives in Meeting With a Putin Ally [...] > Vnesheconombank has also been used by Russian intelligence to plant spies in the United States. In March 2016, an agent of Russia’s foreign intelligence service, known as the S.V.R., who was caught posing .. https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/evgeny-buryakov-pleads-guilty-manhattan-federal-court-connection-conspiracy-work .. as an employee of the bank in New York, pleaded guilty to spying against the United States. > The spy, said Preet Bharara, then the United States attorney in Manhattan, was under “the guise of being a legitimate banker, gathered intelligence as an agent of the Russian Federation in New York.” https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=131744310 End insert.
Published on Jan 30, 2018 by Mike Malloy [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpU4j-LN_aibXA1gONvWzxw / https://www.youtube.com/user/hschulein , https://www.youtube.com/user/hschulein/videos ] > The U.S. House Intelligence Committee voted along party lines on Monday to release a classified memo that Republicans say shows anti-Trump bias by the FBI and the Justice Department in seeking a warrant to conduct an intelligence eavesdropping operation. > In approving the release under a rule never before invoked, the Republican majority ignored a warning from Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd that making the document public would be "extraordinarily reckless" without submitting it to a security review. > The move added new fuel to bitter partisan wrangling over investigations by congressional committees and Special Counsel Robert Mueller into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election. > Calling it a "sad day" for the intelligence committee, top Democratic Representative Adam Schiff said the panel also voted against releasing a Democratic memo that countered the Republican report and rejected his call for a briefing by Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Christopher Wray. > Full story: https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2018/01/29/us/politics/29reuters-usa-trump-russia-schiff.html [originally aired January 29, 2018] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEBovf93mCs [with comments]
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Did Trump Try to Obstruct the Obstruction of Justice Investigation?: A Closer Look
Americans Are Rising to This Historic Moment - famous last words - not yet we aren't The commitment of ordinary citizens to democratic ideals is being tested each day—and its enduring strength is containing the damage of Trump’s presidency. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/trump-clarifying/550562/
Trump’s gripes against McCabe included wife’s politics, Comey’s ride home WASHINGTON — The day after President Donald Trump fired James Comey as director of the FBI, he became so furious watching television footage of Comey boarding a government-funded plane from Los Angeles back to Washington that he called the bureau’s acting director, Andrew McCabe, to vent, according to multiple people familiar with the phone call. Trump demanded to know why Comey was allowed to fly on an FBI plane after he had been fired, these people said. McCabe told the president he hadn’t been asked to authorize Comey’s flight, but if anyone had asked, he would have approved it, three people familiar with the call recounted to NBC News. The president was silent for a moment and then turned on McCabe, suggesting he ask his wife how it feels to be a loser — an apparent reference to a failed campaign for state office in Virginia that McCabe’s wife made in 2015. McCabe replied, “OK, sir.” Trump then hung up the phone. [...] https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-s-gripes-against-mccabe-included-wife-s-politics-comey-n842161
The Trump admin has notified Congress that last year’s bipartisan Russia sanctions bill is serving as a “deterrent” and as such, specific sanctions aren’t needed at this time. From a State Dept spox: [image of State Dept. statement] https://twitter.com/eschor/status/958110759489294336
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