February 1, 2018

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — President Trump is expected to approve the release of a classified memo spearheaded by the staff of House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes. According to a Thursday afternoon pool report, a White House official confirmed upon arrival to West Virginia that the president "has read the memo."... (more)

February 1, 2018

THE HILL — Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein approved an application last year to extend surveillance of former Trump campaign associate Carter Page, according to a secret Republican memo detailed in a The New York Times report.... (more)

February 1, 2018

BYRON YORK — As expected, there is a desperate last-minute fight going on over the release of the House Intelligence Committee "FISA abuse" memo. In a statement Wednesday, the FBI expressed "grave concern" over the memo, saying it contained "material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo's accuracy."... (more)

February 1, 2018

BOB UNRUH — Rev. Franklin Graham says there's a "digital coup d'etat" being waged against President Trump. "The left is trying to destroy this man," he said in a radio interview with Fox News. "It's almost like we're in the middle of a digital coup d'etat. That's what it is, a digital coup d'etat. They're wanting to force him out of office and take control of the government."... (more)

February 1, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — The oldest son of late Cuban leader Fidel Castro killed himself on Thursday after months of treatment for depression, state media reported. He was 68. Official website Cubadebate said that Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart had been in a "deeply depressed state." A brief note read on state television said his treatment had "required a hospitalization regime then outpatient follow-up."... (more)

February 1, 2018

FOX NEWS — The leader of the private investigative team who has spent years trying to crack the D.B. Cooper hijacking case claimed Thursday he believes the mysterious criminal was a CIA operative whose identity has been covered up by federal agents. Thomas Colbert, a documentary filmmaker who helped put together the 40-member team, told the Seattle PI his team made the connection from work a code breaker uncovered in each of the five letters allegedly sent by Cooper.... (more)

February 1, 2018

SALT LAKE TRIBUNE — Mitt Romney has always been an adopted Utahn. Although a graduate of Brigham Young University, a Mormon and, to some, the revered savior of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Romney wasn't born in the state and spent most of his life living elsewhere. But he now resides in Holladay where he built his dream house. And he could be Utah's next senator.... (more)

February 1, 2018

CLIFF KINCAID — Will the investigation of anti-Trump bias in the FBI turn into something even more ominous? Consider the well-established fact that President Barack Hussein Obama, using a pseudonym, knowingly exchanged emails with Hillary on her private unsecure server. He then lied about it. That's why Hillary was spared. The FBI spared her to protect him.... (more)

February 1, 2018

NEWSMAX — Two snap polls show that President Donald Trump graded out favorably with Americans who watched his first State of the Union address. Seventy-five percent of Americans who watched Trump's SOTU approved of the speech, while 25 percent disapproved, according to a CBS News poll.... (more)

February 1, 2018

NBC NEWS (YOUTUBE) — Watch President Donald Trump's 2018 State of the Union's speech. Trump addressed a joint session of congress from the United States Capitol.... (more)

February 1, 2018

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — As White House lawyers pored over a memo on Wednesday that contains allegations of government surveillance abuse, they may well have been preparing to do battle with the agency investigating President Trump over alleged Russian collusion.... (more)

February 1, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — A rare public challenge by the FBI to Republican lawmakers has intensified the battle over a contentious House intelligence committee memo that accuses the bureau and the Justice Department of political bias against Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election.... (more)

February 1, 2018

NEWSMAX — House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes on Wednesday ripped the FBI's "spurious" objection to releasing his memo alleging agency abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, calling it "no surprise."... (more)

February 1, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — Through targeted subpoenas and threatening letters, Rep. Devin Nunes has forced into the open a fuller story of how the Obama administration investigated suspected Russian ties to the Trump campaign and monitored people connected to the presidential candidate.... (more)

February 1, 2018

ART MOORE — The Washington watchdog Judicial Watch released 42 pages of State Department documents Wednesday, asserting they provide evidence that the Obama administration was trying to undermine Donald Trump's upcoming administration.... (more)

February 1, 2018

WASHINGTON TIMES — The FBI knew for at least a month that emails possibly related to an investigation of Hillary Clinton had been found before telling Congress, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday evening. According to the report, citing "text messages reviewed by The Wall Street Journal," FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe knew by Sept. 28, 2016, about the findings on Anthony Weiner's computer.... (more)

January 30, 2018

ALAN KEYES — n an article this week headlined "Lindsey Graham, the uninvited guest," Ann Coulter asks, "Why does Lindsey Graham have a seat at the table on immigration?" The answer has to be, because Donald Trump helped to credential him.... (more)

January 30, 2018

CHELSEA SCHILLING — FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe has resigned from his position, effective Monday -- and his sudden departure is triggering speculation about McCabe's role in secret surveillance of Trump campaign officials, leaks to the media, Hillary Clinton-linked cash given to McCabe's wife and a so-called "insurance policy" against Trump's election.... (more)

January 30, 2018

NEWSMAX — A senior official who headed the FBI's response to the terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California, is expected to replace FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, The Washington Post reported Monday night.... (more)

January 30, 2018

FOX NEWS — The House Intelligence Committee on Monday evening voted to release a classified memo circulating in Congress that purportedly reveals government surveillance abuses. The vote was announced to reporters by California Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the committee, who called it a "very sad day, I think, in the history of this committee." The motion passed on a party-line basis, he said.... (more)

January 30, 2018

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — Let's say I'm an assistant United States attorney in, oh I don't know, Montana. I get to work one morning and I say to myself, "Self, you know what would be really interesting? Why, to ask Barack Obama some questions."... (more)

January 29, 2018

BYRON YORK — The House Intelligence Committee meets at 5 p.m. Monday in the Capitol. The meeting will give the committee its first opportunity to vote on the question of releasing the so-called "FISA abuse" memo that has captured Washington's attention in recent days. Since the GOP holds a 13 to 9 advantage on the committee, the overwhelming likelihood is that if there is a vote, the panel will decide, along party lines, to release the memo.... (more)

January 29, 2018

ROBERT KNIGHT — Two lovebirds and others at the FBI need to be investigated on charges of plotting to influence a presidential election and later cripple a presidential administration. From July 2015 to July 2017, Peter Strzok, an FBI counterintelligence official who assisted in the Hillary Clinton email probe, exchanged more than 50,000 text messages with senior FBI lawyer Lisa Page, with whom he was reportedly having an affair. Some of them are quite damning.... (more)

January 29, 2018

SEN. TED CRUZ — This week, Americans are celebrating National School Choice Week, a time to raise awareness about the educational options available to families and to advocate for giving them even more choice. A quality education is a right for every child, every family, and every community, but providing it requires us to acknowledge that every child is different -- which is why families should have a variety of options when deciding how to educate their children.... (more)

January 29, 2018

'It's just too coincidental to be chance. We were vessels, being used'

ALICIA POWE — Armed with an AK-47, a pistol, a box cutter, 270 rounds of ammunition and a bottle of gasoline during a high-speed railway ride, Ayoub el-Khazzani's mission was clear: Slaughter every passenger on the crowded train that was transporting more than 500 innocent lives. El-Khazzani, an Islamist militant, shot and slashed passengers with a knife until he encountered something he hadn't anticipated -- three brave Americans who refused to give in to fear.... (more)