Section: US & Canada
Kremlin Expresses ‘Hope’ That Trump Admin Won’t Publish Calls With Russia
A spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed “hope” Friday that the U.S. would not publish calls between Putin and President Donald Trump like it did with the call memo of Trump’s conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. “We would like to hope that it wouldn’t come to that in our relations, which are...
Trump Reignites Calls For Schiff’s Resignation Over ‘Parody’ Opening Statement
President Trump is again calling for House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff (D-CA) to resign for, as Trump claims, lying to Congress with his parody opening statement during the hearing with the acting director of national intelligence on Thursday. In tweets on Friday morning, Trump bellyached about Schiff’s opening testimony in...
Pence Initially Advised Trump Not To Release Zelensky Call Memo
Vice President Mike Pence initially counseled President Donald Trump not to release the memo of his July call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, fretting about the precedent it would set. According to the Wall Street Journal, Pence got on board with the memo’s release when Trump made up his mind that the optics of holding it back...
Pelosi concerned about Trump’s whistleblower ‘spy’ comments
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi voiced concern Friday over President Donald Trump’s comments that suggested retaliation against people who helped an intelligence whistleblower whose complaint about Trump’s phone call with Ukraine’s leader is at the centre of the House impeachment probe. …read more Source:: CTV...
Pelosi concerned about Trump’s whistleblower ‘spy’ comments
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is voicing concern over President Donald Trump’s comments that suggested retaliation against people who helped an intelligence whistleblower. The whistleblower’s complaint about Trump’s phone call with Ukraine’s leader is at the centre of the House impeachment probe. …read more Source::...
Kremlin says it hopes US wouldn’t release calls between Trump and Putin calls
Russia voiced hope Friday that the U.S. administration wouldn’t publish private conversations between the two nations’ presidents, like it did with Ukraine. …read more Source:: USA...
What the Whistle-Blower’s Memo Taught Me
Smoking guns are the stuff of spy movies. In real-life intelligence-gathering, they are exceptionally rare. That’s why the business of intelligence typically requires collecting and analyzing fragments of information—putting together secret nuggets with unclassified information—to try to make sense of complex reality. If nothing else, the...
Newsletter: Claims of a White House cover-up
Here are the stories you shouldn’t miss today: TOP STORIES Claims of a White House Cover-Up The House Democrats’ impeachment investigation, centered on President Trump’s efforts to get Ukraine to help him against political rival Joe Biden, has gained strength after a whistleblower’s extraordinary complaint became public....
Kremlin says it hopes U.S. wouldn’t release Trump-Putin calls
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia voiced hope Friday that the U.S. administration wouldn’t publish private conversations between the two nations’ presidents, like it did with Ukraine. The rough transcript of Trump’s call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky released by the White House Wednesday shows that President Trump urged Ukraine...
White House, DOJ learned about whistleblower around same time complaint was filed: report
The White House and Justice Department knew about a whistleblower’s complaint regarding the President Trump’s contacts with Ukraine’s president even as the CIA official who authored it was submitting the complaint to the… …read more Source:: The...
