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| mueller – Google News: Here’s why special counsel Robert Mueller might investigate Ivanka Trump – Raw Story | ||
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| james b. comey – Google News: The multiplicity of Russian contacts can’t be a coincidence – Washington Post | ||
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| mueller – Google News: Will Trump Fire Mueller? President’s Aides Try to Stop Rage Over Russia Probe – Newsweek | ||
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| Andrew McCabe – Google News: Judicial Watch: New FBI Records Show FBI Leadership’s Conflicts of Interest Discussions on Clinton Email Investigation – Standard Newswire (press release) | ||
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| fbi – Google News: The Story Behind the FBI’s Hate Crime Data – Human Rights First (blog) | ||
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| mueller – Google News: Vanity Fair: Kushner worried Mueller probe will ‘get’ Trump – The Hill | ||
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| mueller – Google News: Special Counsel Mueller Probes Jared Kushner’s Contacts With Foreign Leaders – Wall Street Journal | ||
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| mueller – Google News: Mueller investigating Kushner’s communication with foreign leaders: report – The Hill | ||
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| mueller – Google News: Mueller Investigating Kushner’s Contacts With Israeli Officials – Forward | ||
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| Federal Bureau of Investigation: Pennsylvania Congressman Is Under F.B.I. Scrutiny, Court Records Show | ||
Representative Robert A. Brady, a Philadelphia Democrat, has denied that he paid a political opponent $90,000 to drop out of a primary election race. |
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| mueller – Google News: Kushner Worried Mueller’s Probe Would ‘Get’ President Trump – Newsweek | ||
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| mueller – Google News: Mueller is turning up the heat on Jared Kushner – Business Insider | ||
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| mueller – Google News: Ex-Watergate prosecutor: ‘Complete fantasy’ Mueller probe will be done by January – The Hill (blog) | ||
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| mueller – Google News: See Dershowitz unleash on Mueller – WND.com | ||
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| fbi – Google News: Terror convict: I was mentally incompetent, entrapped by FBI – 10TV | ||
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| fbi – Google News: Terror convict: I was mentally incompetent, entrapped by FBI – Cincinnati.com | ||
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| fbi – Google News: FBI investigating days after police chase, officer-involved shooting in Alexandria – WJLA | ||
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| mueller – Google News: Russia probe: Mueller holds all the cards – Yakima Herald-Republic | ||
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| fbi – Google News: Jared Kushner Urged Trump to Fire FBI Director James Comey, Reports Say – Newsweek | ||
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| mueller – Google News: There’s no end in sight for Mueller probe – Minnesota Lawyer | ||
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| fbi – Google News: Court docs: FBI goes after Congressman Bob Brady’s emails – PW-Philadelphia Weekly | ||
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| mueller – Google News: Mueller Sets His Sights on the Kremlin’s Favorite Congressman – Vanity Fair | ||
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| FBI politicization – Google News: Judicial Watch Releases New DOJ Documents Showing McCabe’s Conflict of Interest in Clinton Investigation – Townhall | ||
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| Today’s Headlines and Commentary | ||
Saad Hariri, Lebanons prime minister, rescinded his resignation after returning to Lebanon and meeting with President Michel Aoun, Reuters reported. Hariri said he agreed with Aoun that it would benefit Lebanons stability for Hariri to continue as prime minister. The announcement puts the political crisis in Lebanon that began when Hariri said was he resigning while on a trip to Saudi Arabia on Nov. 4.Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Myanmars military carried out a campaign of ethnic cleansing against Rohingya Muslims, the Washington Post reported. The military operations against the Rohingya population have caused over 600,000 Rohingya to flee to neighboring Bangladesh. The U.S. joins a chorus of international organizations that have described the atrocities in Myanmar as ethnic cleansing. Special Counsel Robert Mueller is investigating Jared Kushners interactions with foreign leaders during the presidential transition, the Wall Street Journal reported. Muellers team is looking into Kushners role in a dispute at the U.N. over a resolution condemning Israeli settlement activity. Kushner initially failed to list any foreign contacts on his security clearance form but later updated it to include over 100 instances of contact with foreign representatives. The American-led U.N. Command in South Korea said North Korea violated the terms of the 1953 truce when its troops fired on one of their own soldiers defecting across the demilitarized zone, the Times reported. The U.N. Commandwhich oversees the armistice that ended hostilities on the Korean peninsulasaid North Korea breached the ceasefire agreement when its soldiers fired across the border line and when one of its troops went on the other side of the line. A U.S. Navy transport plane crashed into the ocean near Japan, the Post reported. The U.S. 7th Fleet said its ships had rescued eight of the 11 passengers on the plane, leaving three still missing. The incident is the latest in a series of accidents among 7th Fleet forces, including two collisions between U.S. warships and civilian ships that left seventeen dead. The U.S. attorneys office in the southern district of New York denied Turkeys allegations that the office is carrying out politically motivated prosecutions, the Times reported. Turkey has charged that the case against Reza Zarrab, a Turkish businessman accused of evading U.S. sanctions on Iran, is motivated by political opposition to the Turkish government. Acting U.S. Attorney Joon Kim denied that Gulenists, a group of political opponents to the Turkish regime, had any role in the case. A U.N. tribunal convicted Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian-Serb commander, of war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity in the wars following the breakup of Yugoslavia, the Times reported. Mladic led the Bosnian-Serb military operations that killed thousands of Muslims and Croats at the siege of Sarajevo, in concentration camps and in massacres like that at Srebrenica that killed 8,000 Muslims. The verdict is one of the last for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, which convicted Bosnian-Serb Radovan Karadzic of similar crimes last year. A U.S. airstrike in central Somalia killed over 100 al-Shabab militants on Tuesday, Reuters reported. The pace of U.S. strikes against militants in Somalia has increased dramatically since a bombing in Mogadishu, Somalias capital, that killed hundreds in October. The Department of Defense said it had coordinated with Somalias government to orchestrate the strike. ICYMI: Yesterday on Lawfare Garrett Hinck outlined the threats against submarine communications cables and the legal regime protecting them. |
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| President Trump pardons “Wishbone” and “Drumstick” – KNSS | ||
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