Donald Trump, who has spent nearly half his presidency on vacation or visiting a Trump property, has cost taxpayers more than $17 million so far for Secret Service protection, a figure that doesn’t include all of his trips during his two-years in office and is likely to go higher, easily outpacing the same costs for President Obama....
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden continues to cool his heels in Russia to escape prosecution in the United States, but his profile is rising in the nation’s capital on buses plying the streets of Washington, D.C. The bus campaign to call attention to Snowden’s dilemma is in its second day, according to the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF), a D.C-based public interest group....
