Category: Republican

Hidden figures: What Trump’s AG pick Jeff Sessions wants to keep in the shadows

As the Senate hearings for Jeff Sessions’ nomination as attorney general ran into their second day, I kept thinking about the movie “Hidden Figures,” which my wife Judith and I saw three days earlier. The film is based on a book by Margot Lee Shetterly about three African-American women in the early 1960s who lived in the segregated South while working on NASA’s first manned space missions.

Russian hackers could go after Congress next a ” and not just to read their email

Members of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday took turns questioning top intelligence officials, who say investigative agencies found compelling evidence of Russian cyber-hacking throughout the 2016 election cycle. Senate Intelligence Committee member Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., during the committee’s hearing Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017, on Russian intelligence activities.

Trump’s boldest campaign promises are getting a reality check

President-elect Donald Trump holds his first news conference since July 27, 2016, on Jan. 11, 2017, in New York City. During his campaign, Donald Trump repeatedly promised voters a “big, beautiful wall,” an Obamacare replacement ” immediately ” and a new era for a Veterans Affairs agency that had “failed” service members.

US Intel: Russia hacked Republican groups during election

Democratic groups and figures weren’t the only ones targeted in Russia’s suspected campaign to influence last year’s U.S. election. Russian cyberspies also targeted computers from state-level Republican groups and stole information from local voter registration records, FBI director James Comey said.

U.S. spy chief ‘resolute’ on Russia cyber attack, differs with Trump

The top U.S. intelligence official said on Thursday he was “even more resolute” in his belief that Russia staged cyber attacks on Democrats during the 2016 election campaign, rebuking persistent skepticism from Republican President-elect Donald Trump about whether Moscow was involved. James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, said he had a very high level of confidence that Russia hacked Democratic Party and campaign staff email, and disseminated propaganda and fake news aimed at the Nov. 8 election.

Intelligence Chiefs ‘Stand More Resolutely’ Behind Finding Of Russia Election Hacking

Intelligence agency leaders repeated their determination Thursday that only “the senior most officials” in Russia could have authorized recent hacks into the U.S. electoral and political system. The director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, affirmed an Oct. 7 joint statement from 17 intelligence agencies that the Russian government directed the election interference – and went further.

U.S. Senators Call for More Sanctions Against Russia

U.S. senators are continuing to call for even stronger sanctions against Russia over allegations Russian agencies meddled in November’s U.S. election. Senators John McCain, Lindsey Graham and Amy Klobuchar visited the country Georgia over the weekend and vowed action against Russia.

GOP Joe Walsh Claims ‘Many’ Fox People Think Obama’s A Muslim

Deadbeat dad former Congressman Joe Walsh , who has denigrated double-amputee Tammy Duckworth’s war record despite never bothering to serve his country himself, went on quite the Twitter rant today accusing President Obama of being a Muslim.From Walsh’s Twitter feed : For the past week, everybody has been asking again why Obama hates Israel. The answer is simple really: I think Obama is Muslim.

Marco Rubio wants CRTC Super Bowl ad decision reversed by BJ Siekierski

Florida Senator Marco Rubio and Wisconsin Republican Senator Ron Johnson have written a letter to Canadian Ambassador to the U.S. David MacNaughton asking the Canadian government to reverse the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission’s 2015 decision to ban the simultaneous substitution of the 2017 Super Bowl broadcast. “The NFL and its Canadian broadcast partner have a business relationship that is based upon the ability to sell Canadian ads in the Canadian market.

Trump Transition Team: Russia Hacks And Wikileaks Had No Effect On Election

Rep. Chris Collins, the first House member who backed Donald Trump and now a member of his transition team told CNN that he believes Russia was behind the hacks, but they had no bearing on the outcome of the general election. The proof is that during the election season, Donald Trump and his surrogates relentlessly and breathlessly repeated every hacked email and unconfirmed rumor that emanated from these leaks, including many from the New York FBI field office, and never stopped hammering away at them.

Trump Transition Team: Russia Hacks And Wikileaks Had No Effect On Election

Rep. Chris Collins, the first House member who backed Donald Trump and now a member of his transition team told CNN that he believes Russia was behind the hacks, but they had no bearing on the outcome of the general election. The proof is that during the election season, Donald Trump and his surrogates relentlessly and breathlessly repeated every hacked email and unconfirmed rumor that emanated from these leaks, including many from the New York FBI field office, and never stopped hammering away at them.

Trump is delivering on his promise to be unpredictable on foreign…

President-elect Donald Trump’s telephone call with Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen was a prime example of his unpredictability, a strategy that carries a lot of risk, foreign policy experts say. President-elect Donald Trump’s telephone call with Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen was a prime example of his unpredictability, a strategy that carries a lot of risk, foreign policy experts say.

Hero-astronaut John Glenn to lie in state in Ohio

John Glenn’s original jumpsuit he wore during his orbit around the earth aboard the Friendship 7 scapecraft is displayed alongside a photograph of the astronaut at the John & Annie Glenn Museum, Friday, Dec. 9, 2016, in New Concord, Ohio. Glenn, whose 1962 flight as the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth made him an all-American hero and propelled him to a long career in the U.S. Senate, died Thursday.

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1966 edition of LIFE Magazine bearing the likeness of John Glenn rests in a showcase at the John & Annie Glenn Museum, Friday, Dec. 9, 2016, in New Concord, Ohio. Glenn was the first American to orbit Earth, pilot… .