NEWSMAX — House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes said on Friday that the Republican memo alleging FBI surveillance abuses was justified because "I have an obligation to the American people when we see FISA abuse" -- denying that he coordinated its release with President Donald Trump or his private attorneys.... (more)

ART MOORE — In the wake of the release Friday of a controversial memo he spearheaded that alleges politically motivated abuse of the nation's surveillance system by the FBI and the Justice Department, he's being called a Russian agent and much worse, and there are demands that he be removed from the chairmanship of the House Intelligence Committee.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — The Nunes memo released Friday shows special counsel Robert Mueller is investigating the wrong people "on purpose," contends talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh. The declassified report by the Republican majority on the House Intelligence Committee confirms that Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Democratic National Committee paid for a British spy to produce a salacious and discredited opposition report on Donald Trump that was submitted by the Justice Department to a top-secret surveillance court as evidence to obtain warrants to spy on a Trump campaign adviser.... (more)

GREG COROMBOS — President Trump declassified the highly anticipated memo from House Intelligence Committee Republicans on Friday, and the four-page summary of federal FISA abuses convinces former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli that the government manipulated the system for partisan purposes and that the entire FISA system must be reformed.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — The release of a declassified memo on FBI surveillance abuses against the Trump campaign prompted calls Friday for Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to explain his involvement to Congress, or even to resign. The memo from Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee shows that at least one of the questionable surveillance warrant applications was signed by Mr. Rosenstein, who already has had a difficult relationship with President Trump. The memo said information supporting the application was obtained from a partisan anti-Trump dossier funded by Hillary Clinton's campaign.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Former CIA Director John Brennan has signed on to be a talking head on NBC and MSNBC. He will serve as a senior national security and intelligence analyst for the networks and make his first official appearance on NBC News's "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd on Sunday.... (more)

NEWSMAX — The Department of Defense has put a primary focus on a multibillion-dollar effort to update its nuclear deterrence against Russia, according to its recently released Nuclear Posture Review, CNN reported Friday. The report acknowledges publicly for the first time a "new intercontinental, nuclear-armed, nuclear-powered, undersea autonomous torpedo," known as the "Status-6" system it said Russia was "developing."... (more)

BBC NEWS — Researchers have found more than 60,000 hidden Maya ruins in Guatemala in a major archaeological breakthrough. Laser technology was used to survey digitally beneath the forest canopy, revealing houses, palaces, elevated highways, and defensive fortifications. The landscape, near already-known Maya cities, is thought to have been home to millions more people than other research had previously suggested.... (more)

BYRON YORK — The House Intelligence Committee has released its controversial memo outlining alleged abuses of secret surveillance by the FBI and Justice Department in the Trump-Russia investigation. Here are some key points: * The Steele dossier formed an essential part of the initial and all three renewal FISA applications against Carter Page.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Utah billionaire and philanthropist Jon Huntsman Sr., who overcame poverty to become one of the state's most successful and powerful people, died Friday at age 80. Huntsman's longtime assistant Pam Bailey said he died in Salt Lake City but she declined to name a cause of death. The Huntsman Corp., his company, said in a statement that Huntsman at his home, surrounded by family.... (more)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)