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Former Vice President Dick Cheney said the U.S. should restart the harsh detention and interrogation practices used on terror suspects after 9/11, and called on the Senate to confirm CIA nominee Gina Haspel. Brutal interrogation practices are currently banned under U.S. law, but debate on the issue has re-surfaced during Haspel's confirmation process because she was once involved in the CIA's interrogation program.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday hired a veteran attorney who represented Bill Clinton during his impeachment process as the White House shifted to a more aggressive approach to a special counsel investigation that has reached a critical stage. The White House announced the hiring of lawyer Emmet Flood after disclosing the retirement of Ty Cobb, who for months has been the administration's point person dealing with special counsel Robert Mueller.
President Donald Trump hired a veteran attorney who represented Bill Clinton during his impeachment process as the White House shifted to a more aggressive approach to a special counsel investigation that has reached a critical stage. The White House announced Wednesday the hiring of lawyer Emmet Flood after disclosing the retirement of Ty Cobb, who for months has been the administration's point person dealing with special counsel Robert Mueller.
"I don't know Mr. Libby," President Donald Trump said when announcing the pardon of former Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff. "But for years I have heard that he has been treated unfairly.
Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen Used the Same Delaware Company for Payment Deals to Two Women - Federal probe looks closely at money flowing in and out of Essential Consultants - Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's personal attorney, used the same Delaware limited-liability company Trump was right to pardon 'Scooter' Libby - Justice deferred may be justice denied. But for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby - former Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, who was convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice in 2007 - President Trump's pardon on Friday, however belated, was welcome.
Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein tells confidantes he is prepared to be fired - WASHINGTON - Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has struck a stoic and righteous tone in private conversations he has had this week about the fate of his job as President Donald Trump has launched public criticism Comey says Trump asked if he could disprove salacious prostitute allegations in 'dossier' - Former FBI director James Comey says President Donald Trump asked him to investigate the salacious allegations from the so-called "dossier" to "prove that it didn't happen" and said it would be Publisher printing 850,000 copies of James Comey book - Comey: Briefing Trump felt like out-of-body experience - The publisher of James Comey's book "A Higher Loyalty" is printing 850,000 copies to meet the expected demand from buyers.
A White House official said President Donald Trump is expected to pardon Scooter Libby, the chief of staff to former Vice President Dick Cheney. Libby, who served as chief of staff to then-Vice President Dick Cheney, was convicted of perjury in the probe into who leaked the identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame.
President Bush in October, 2002, signing the authorisation for use of force in Iraq, which the congressional leaders around him approved. Photo: Reuters For months and years, George Bush and Tony Blair built the case with certainty that Iraq is an evil power that possessed Weapons of Mass Destruction .
Has the State Department been subjected to an ideological purge under the auspices of President Donald Trump? Inquiring House Democrats want to know. In a letter sent to White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan on Thursday, Representatives Elijah Cummings and Eliot Engel, the ranking Democrats on the House Oversight and Foreign Affairs committees, are demanding an explanation after receiving "disturbing new documents" from a whistle-blower indicating that senior political appointees at State worked to push out or demote career diplomats deemed insufficiently loyal to Trump and his agenda, with the assistance of right-wing activists and White House officials.
The well-educated and well-spoken African responded: "Yes, it is true, and the U.S. Embassy is the biggest hut next to my hut!" It was funny then, until my friend was asked that same question at her school in Washington. President Trump's reported statement that when Nigerians see America they never want to go back to "their huts" is downright appalling.
In this June 25, 2014, file photo, an inert Minuteman 3 missile is seen in a training launch tube at Minot Air Force Base, N.D. Here's a question rarely raised before Donald Trump ran for the White House: If the president ordered a pre-emptive nuclear strike, could anyone stop him? The answer is no. Not the Congress.
Both former Bush presidents, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush have broken their silence on the current president, Donald Trump, in a new book being released later this month called, Trump's howling loyalists have taken even the most benign statements by either Bush as treason against the throne, insisting that the men are holding a grudge, because of how Jeb Bush was treated by Trump during the primaries. Yeah.
A grand jury has issued subpoenas in connection with a June 2016 meeting that included President Donald Trump's son, his son-in-law and a Russian lawyer, two sources said on Thursday, signalling an investigation is gathering pace into suspected Russian meddling in the 2016 US election. The sources added that US Special Counsel Robert Mueller had convened the grand jury investigation in Washington to help examine allegations of Russian interference in the vote.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, when asked Thursday about the friction playing out in the public eye between White House chief of staff Reince Priebus and new White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci, said conflict between White House staff is the result of "healthy competition." Sanders' comment came hours before the New Yorker magazine published a vulgarity-laced interview with Scaramucci.
My fellow members of the mainstream media spent last week turning the Trump presidency into a soap opera. Tune in each day and see how the Donald turns.
This image released by HBO shows President Barack Obama, left, with filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi during the filming of "The Words That Built America," airing on the Fourth of July on HBO. This image released by HBO shows President Donald Trump during the filming of "The Words That Built America," airing on the Fourth of July on HBO.
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"Hamilton" is still the hottest ticket in town, but demand for the much-coveted seats have dropped among one sector: Republican pols. Interest from the right side of the aisle started to sag after Vice President Mike Pence's much discussed visit to the red-hot Broadway hit , Public Theater artistic director Oskar Eustis told us at the Public's annual gala at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park.
To journalist Chris Whipple, President Donald Trump's approach to running the White House "is the most dysfunctional " in modern history. Whipple has some ideas about the subject, having just written " The Gatekeepers : How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency," his new book with interviews of 17 former chiefs, including Rahm Emanuel, Dick Cheney, Leon Panetta and Donald Rumsfeld.
Russia 's involvement in last year's White House race was no "act of war," former CIA and NSA Director Michael Hayden said Tuesday, discounting claims raised across Washington amid lingering accusations over Moscow's role in the 2016 U.S. presidential race. "I would never use that term," the retired four-star Air Force general told The Hill in an interview Tuesday, separating himself from a growing list of Democrats and Republicans who claim Russia committed an "act of war" by interfering in last year's presidential election.