Reprinted with permission from AlterNet. The sound you hear is the fingers of Robert Mueller drumming on his desk. The special prosecutor wants to talk to President Trump. He has some questions. He’s had these ...
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein revealed Tuesday at an event at Washington, D.C.’s Newseum that he has been privately “threatened,” a troubling indication of the level of threat the rule of law faces under President Donald ...
After far more drama and tension than should have been necessary, the infamous House intelligence committee memo on alleged surveillance abuses by the FBI against President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign was released. And it was, predictably, a ...
Reprinted with permission from Shareblue. They can hide from Trump’s lies, but not from the truth. Donald Trump spent his weekend spewing lies about the Republicans’ false intelligence memo, but he and the rest of his administration ...
Reprinted with permission from Shareblue. With the long-anticipated release of House Intelligence Chair Devin Nunes’ memo on purported FBI abuses, the overwhelming consensus is that it is a complete bust. Even House Speaker Paul Ryan appears ...
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true ...
With its echoes of Richard Nixon’s infamous “Saturday Night Massacre” during Watergate, to fire Robert Mueller sounds like an insane, almost suicidal proposition. And yet when asked by George Stephanopoulos on ABC News’ This Week ...
The Trump rationale for firing Comey -- as stated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein -- is obviously false for several reasons, even aside from the fact that Trump had ...
"It is essential that we find new leadership for the FBI that restores public trust and confidence in its vital law enforcement mission," Trump said in a letter to Comey released by the White House.
Rod Rosenstein, a top federal prosecutor nominated by President Trump to be deputy attorney general, testified that he was "not aware" of any reason he couldn't oversee such a probe of Kremlin-led election interference.