In this July 19, 2011, file photo, Rep. Betty Sutton, D-Ohio takes part in a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington to discuss their support for a bill that will penalize criminals who finance and bring children to dogfights and cockfights. Sutton plans to jump into the 2018 Ohio governor's race, bringing a solid track record of election wins and fundraising that could position her as the initial Democratic front-runner.
The problem is, Trump fires off flares he knows will get his base frothing at the mouth and in the end, it winds up giving cover to the Obama administration. Clouded up, is the possibility the United States government might have monitored the Trump campaign and any contact it had with the Russian government.
Thanks to the Tweeter In Chief, the internet is abuzz today with talk of wiretapping, McCarthyism, FISA courts and Russian spying. The problem is, Trump fires off flares he knows will get his base frothing at the mouth and in the end, it winds up giving cover to the Obama administration.
President-elect Donald Trump took to Twitter on Tuesday night to say that a planned intelligence briefing for him on "so-called 'Russian-hacking'" had been delayed until Friday, a development he called 'very strange!" However, a U.S. official says there has been no delay in the briefing and that the intelligence community was confused by Trump's tweet. The official was not authorized to discuss the issue publicly and spoke only on condition of anonymity.
To continue reading up to 10 premium articles, you must register , or sign up and take advantage of this exclusive offer: President-elect Donald Trump took to Twitter on Tuesday night to say that a planned intelligence briefing for him on "so-called 'Russian-hacking'" had been delayed until Friday, a development he called "very strange!"   The tweet was the latest sign of Trump's skepticism about a case pressed by the Obama administration, based on the work of U.S. intelligence and law-enforcement agencies, that Russia tried to influence the U.S. presidential election by hacking Democratic email accounts, among other actions. Several leading Republicans have also endorsed that view.
It's the time of year for looking forward. It's when people look for the good in the world, and in one another, and try and let bygones be bygones.
WikiLeaks has received the most attention when it comes to document and e-mail leakers from the 2016 campaign, but a hacker going by the moniker Guccifer 2.0 also leaked several documents from Democratic Party institutions and officials during the 2016 campaign. Unlike WikiLeaks, his leaks weren't searchable, he frequently showed questionable news judgement and once seemed to lie about the contents of a leak.
Greetings Power Lunchers, and welcome to yet another edition in the increasingly weird contest for state party chair of the Florida Democratic Party. FDP OMG: In order to parse the latest news, that state Sen. Dwight Bullard of Miami is in the running for Florida Democratic Party state chair as a state committeeman from the Panhandle county of Gadsden, we need to look at how we got here.