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NSA Whistleblower Backs Trump Up on Wiretap Claims - Bill Binney, who resigned from NSA in 2001, did not elaborate on President Obama's specific role in surveilling Trump. - A veteran of the NSA has said President Donald Trump is righ to claim he was wiretapped and monitored.
TYT metadata: "Poor people don't fund Jason Chaffetz's campaigns, so they can take a long walk off a short pier. Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks it down.
Protesters chant during a rally against Trump's immigration order at San Diego International Airport on March 6, 2017. Protesters chant during a rally against Trump's immigration order at San Diego International Airport on March 6, 2017.
The Legal Aid Society warned that New York City's unique program for helping detained immigrants going through deportation hearings will need $12 million in the next fiscal year, nearly twice as much as its current budget. Adriene Holder, the attorney in charge of the Legal Aid Society's civil practice, said the program was already taking more cases than expected toward the end of President Barack Obama's administration.
Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said President Donald Trump's "dangerous games" - like accusing former President Barack Obama of wiretapping his Trump Tower telephones during the campaign - "weakens the office of the presidency." "No such wiretap took place," Panetta, who also served as CIA director under Obama, told Wolf Blitzer on CNN's "The Situation Room."
The House intelligence committee will investigate President Donald Trump's claim that Barack Obama ordered his phones tapped during the closing days of last year's presidential election campaign, the committee's chairman announced Tuesday. Rep. Devin Nunes, a California Republican, said the claim would be part of the committee's first open hearing on Russian meddling in the U.S. election, which is now set for March 20. The witness list for that hearing, Nunes said, includes the heads, or former heads, of most of the major American intelligence agencies and may grow.
More palatable, but still problematic: That's the judgment of some legal experts who have examined President Donald Trump's revised travel ban, issued after a month of legal wrangling over the original. It also attempts to erase the notion that it was designed to target Muslims by spelling out more of a national security rationale.
Donald Trump targeted the wrong president when he criticised the Obama administration for releasing "122 vicious prisoners" from the Guantanamo Bay detention centre who later resumed militant activities. The latest report from the office of the Director of National Intelligence shows that 122 men who were held at the US base in Cuba are confirmed to have re-engaged in hostilities after they were released.
A family's ownership stake in Breitbart News throws a fresh spotlight on the publicity-averse political donors Bob and Rebekah Mercer, who now occupy a prominent place in Donald Trump's Washington. Who are mega-donors Bob and Rebekah Mercer, and why are they influential? A family's ownership stake in Breitbart News throws a fresh spotlight on the publicity-averse political donors Bob and Rebekah Mercer, who now occupy a prominent place in Donald Trump's Washington.
U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham and President Donald Trump shared a meal on Tuesday, their first face-to-face meeting since the election. The private lunch in the White House presidential dining room might mark the re-set of a professional and personal relationship that has had its share of road bumps over the past year and a half.
In a surprise move, state leaders are exploring the use of special budget "riders" to avoid a special legislative session over the likely repeal of Obamacare. Senate and House leaders said Tuesday that because of uncertainty over how much federal funding will be available to Texas for health care programs, should Congress repeal the Affordable Care Act, they are skeptical that a state budget can be finalized by the time the legislature adjourns in June.
With Attorney General Jeff Sessions 's decision Thursday to recuse himself from any investigations into Russia's connections to Donald Trump 's presidential campaign, focus is turning to the Department of Justice's secondary leaders. Deputy Attorney General nominee Rod Rosenstein and Aassociate attorney general nominee Rachel Brand will face the national spotlight Tuesday during their confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Long-awaited legislation to dismantle Obamacare was unwrapped on Monday by U.S. Republicans, who called for ending health insurance mandates and rolling back extra healthcare funding for the poor in a package that drew immediate fire from Democrats. In a battle waged since the 2010 passage of the Affordable Care Act, Democratic President Barack Obama's signature domestic policy achievement, Republicans including President Donald Trump have long vowed to repeal and replace the law.
Politics, it is said, makes curious bedfellows, and the longstanding relationship between Barack Obama and presidential adviser and confidante Valerie Jarrett is curious indeed. It had become curiouser and curiouser with the news that Jarrett is moving into Obama's D.C. home, which is to serve as the nerve center to the resistance to the presidency of Donald Trump.
In what has already been a historically bad year for Democrats, it just may be that they're about to lose again to Donald Trump, this time in a high-stakes game of Russian roulette. The Dems' Putin smear was supposed to paint President Trump as a friend of the tyrant and beneficiary of Russian meddling in the election.
"This is an extraordinary time in journalism," said CNN Worldwide President Jeff Zucker this morning referencing the Donald Trump era. "Many organizations in the United States have never done better work.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions sought Monday to clarify his denial to the Senate about contact with Russian officials during the presidential campaign, a misstatement that led him to recuse himself from overseeing federal investigations into meddling by the Kremlin in the U.S. election. Reports that Mr. Sessions met with the Russian ambassador twice during the campaign sparked a storm of demands last week on Capitol Hill for the former U.S. senator from Alabama to recuse himself from the investigations or resign.
Former Obama administration spokesman Josh Earnest is scheduled to participate in a Harvard University forum about interactions between the White House and the media. Earnest was White House press secretary under Democratic President Barack Obama from 2014 until Republican President Donald Trump took office in January.
FBI Director James Comey is set to visit Massachusetts to mark the opening of the Boston FBI division 's new offices and to speak at a cybersecurity conference amid wiretapping accusations lodged by Republican President Donald Trump . Trump claims Democratic former President Barack Obama tapped his phones during last year's election.