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Category: Russiagate
WATCH: Anti-Trump Movement is Personal
The “No Kings” movement is based as much on personal hatred of the man Donald Trump as it is against his immigration policies, unlike the migration protests Consortium News covered in Scotland last year. CN was also in L.A. on…
Patrick Lawrence: Season of the Sophists
Trump’s disrespect for the law and courts is not the “only question” raised by the disappearing of Mahmoud Khalil. There are several others, from long before Jan. 20.
FBI Redactions on Seth Rich Index Leave No Answers
The F.B.I. met a court-ordered deadline to provide an index of files on slain DNC-staffer Seth Rich’s two computers, but more than 300 pages of redactions shed no light on an alleged connection to WikiLeaks, reports Joe Lauria.
RAY McGOVERN: Gabbard Defangs Ex-Intel Officials
DNI Tulsi Gabbard’s action to strip the security clearances is a clear warning that her boss told her to shut down the deep-state cottage industry of former spies able and willing to interfere in U.S. elections.
FBI Due to Release List of Seth Rich Files Monday
A federal judge in Texas ordered in a FOIA case against the F.B.I. that the bureau must produce an index of the contents of Seth Rich’s laptop computers by Monday, reports Joe Lauria.
Patrick Lawrence: Trump Takes on the Deep State?
The U.S. president’s unfolding offensive against the institutions and agencies comprising the Deep State — the permanent state or the invisible government, as it is also commonly known — continues.
WATCH: For Once Trump Gets It Right on Censorship
Robert Scheer discusses Trump’s executive order banning government censorship and a range of free-press matters with Consortium News’ editor in chief Joe Lauria.
Patrick Lawrence: The Center the Centrists Can’t Hold
What is unfolding now in France and Germany is happening one or another way across the Western powers that form the walls of the neoliberal fortress.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Portents of Chaos
At this moment it is hard to locate the limit of what either of the two main political parties in the U.S. will do to avoid losing.