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We chose the gesture purposefully. Our bodies were like flags flown at half-mast to mark a tragedy.
It baffles me that our protest is still being misconstrued as disrespectful to the country, flag and military personnel. We chose it because it’s exactly the opposite. It has always been my understanding that the brave men and women who fought and died for our country did so to ensure that we could live in a fair and free society, which includes the right to speak out in protest.
White House Senior Adviser Jared Kushner has used both a private email account and an official email address to communicate with other government officials, his attorney says.
Responding to media reports about Kushner’s email habits, his lawyer said, “All non-personal emails were forwarded to his official address.”
The emails between Kushner’s personal account and his White House colleagues number fewer than 100, according to Kushner’s attorney, Abbe Lowell, in a statement relayed to us by NPR’s Tamara Keith. Lowell said, “Mr. Kushner uses his White House email address to conduct White House business.”
Emails have been a central theme for Kushner’s father-in-law, President Trump, who has repeatedly said that Democratic rival Hillary Clinton should face federal criminal charges over her use of private email while serving as secretary of State.
Jared Kushner Used Private Email In Trump Administration, Lawyer Confirms
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Ismail Royer’s conversion followed his prison exchanges with terrorist ‘shoe bomber’ Richard Reid.
A judge sentencing Bryant Neal Vinas, a former altar boy from Long Island who later plotted attacks, had to weigh cooperation that dealt the terrorist network a staggering blow.
Now is a good time to review the legal definition of obstruction of justice and how it might apply to the firing of the FBI Director
Criminal charges are especially unlikely in this context, however, because (1) the burden of proof makes proving obstruction in this context difficult, and (2) discretion over criminal investigation and prosecution is committed to the Department of Justice, headed by Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, both of whom recommended Comey’s dismissal.
Trump’s firing of the F.B.I. director, James Comey, amounts to a premeditated and terrifying attack on our system of government.
By John Cassidy
At a time like this, it is important to express things plainly. On Tuesday evening, Donald Trump acted like a despot. Without warning or provocation, he summarily fired the independent-minded director of the F.B.I., James Comey. Comey had been overseeing an investigation into whether there was any collusion between Trump’s Presidential campaign and the government of Russia. With Comey out of the way, Trump can now pick his own man (or woman) to run the Bureau, and this person will have the authority to close down that investigation.
That is what has happened. It amounts to a premeditated and terrifying attack on the American system of government. Quite possibly, it will usher in a constitutional crisis. Even if it doesn’t, it represents the most unnerving turn yet in what is a uniquely unnerving Presidency.
Early looks at Washington Post and New York Times front pages for Wednesday after Pres. Trump fires FBI Director Comey.
The most clueless man in Washington
The takeaway from Trump’s first 100 days in office isn’t a list of accomplishments or failures but rather a nugget of hard-won knowledge about the president himself: He is so comprehensively ignorant of policy and history, so thoroughly lacking in a core of settled beliefs or convictions, that the Oval Office might as well be unoccupied.
I understand that journalists have no choice but to cover him. When the man holding the office of the presidency gives a speech or an interview, or when he tweets, it’s news. But the rest of us — even those of us paid to analyze these presidential statements and actions — can respond to them in the right way, as what they really are. And what they are is a thoroughgoing distraction, a sick joke, a novel, outlandish, and corrosive form of mass entertainment. Libertarians and some constitutional conservatives have long railed against the imperial presidency and advocated for a diminished head of the executive branch. Well, my friends, we’ve got it now. The only remaining question is just how small the office can become under this most unpresidential of presidents.
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BREAKING: FBI Director Comey explains his decision to advise Congress of the new Clinton emails inquiry just ahead of the presidential election.
FBI releases never-before-seen photos from 9/11 Pentagon attack
The FBI on Thursday released to the public about two dozen never-before-seen photos from the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attack on the Pentagon. The 9/11 attacks – in New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania – killed nearly 3,000 people, including 184 at the Pentagon, where a hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the west side of the building. The “9/11 Attacks and Investigation Images” were posted to “The Vault,” the FBI’s Freedom of Information Act Library. More photos here
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Masha Gessen weighs in on Putin, Trump and what we should really be afraid of. By SUSAN B. GLASSER
Is Russiagate “a conspiracy trap” and a “colossal distraction”? How much is President Trump like President Putin after all? And what about the press—are we really the new “opposition party,” as Trump and his top adviser, Steve Bannon, have labeled the media?
Author and journalist Masha Gessen has emerged as a perceptive, prolific—and not at all predictable—analyst of the two presidents as American politics has been consumed by the investigations surrounding the Russian hacking of the U.S. election and whether Trump and his team might have colluded with it. The Russia-born New Yorker, author of a critical biography of Putin, “The Man With No Face,” joined The Global POLITICO this week to talk about the strange confluence of two leaders, her worries about the investigation that might be leading Trump’s critics right down a paranoid rabbit hole—and what we really should be afraid of when it comes to Trump and Putin.
And in fact, that may be the most surprising aspect of our conversation. Gessen, who says her family’s traumatic experiences in the upheavals of the 20th century in the Soviet Union gave her the “catastrophic imagination” so many Americans lack, now worries not as much about a new Trump-Putin grand bargain selling out our allies as about a falling out between the two tough-guy leaders. In other words, “a nuclear holocaust.”
“The danger,” she says, “of having these two unhinged, power-hungry men at their respective nuclear buttons cannot be overestimated.”
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A lawyer who defends Muslim-Americans has become a consultant to the popular television show, which is about terrorism involving Islamic extremists.
The deployment marks a new escalation in the war in Syria.
The U.S. is being drawn into a bitter struggle over territory liberated from the Islamic State.
