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Treasury Department Confirms There Was ‘Collusion’ Between Trump 2016 Campaign and Russian Intelligence

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New Russian sanctions announced today by the Treasury Department reveal a direct line between Trump’s 2016 campaign chief Paul Manafort and Russian intelligence agencies. This intelligence was always in the possession of the Trump administration, but appears to have been withheld from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. New scandal: was it withheld? Today’s Russian sanctions … Read more

Senate Republicans are a vehicle for ‘laundering’ Russian influence campaign in 2020 election

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Last week the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, chaired by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) was still working to secure witness depositions for current and former advisers to Joe Biden as part of an investigation into the former vice president’s son, an escalation of GOP scrutiny of the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee and his family. … Read more

U.S. extracted top spy from inside Russia because of concern Trump mishandles classified intelligence (Updated)

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The United States Intelligence Community is operating on the working presumption that Donald Trump is a national security risk who cannot be entrusted with highly classified national security information. The president of the United States is a national security risk to the United States. Period. Full stop. (If there truly was a “deep state” conspiracy … Read more

Julian Assange of Wikileaks arrested, to face extradition (Updated)

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When he was CIA Director, Mike Pompeo denounced WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as a “narcissist” who works in concert with Russia, and declared “It is time to call out WikiLeaks for what it really is: a non-state hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors like Russia.” CIA chief calls WikiLeaks ‘non-state hostile intelligence service’. Maybe Pompeo should have … Read more