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Intelligence Chief Blows Up Trump Effort to Sow Doubt About Russian Hacking

Keith Girard
FBI Director James Comey belatedly got on board with the rest of the U.S. intelligence community and confirmed the CIA’s finding that Russia was behind the theft of Democratic campaign emails in a bid to boost Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. Right wing media outlets were touting the FBI’s silence on the matter as evidence that the CIA’s assessment of the hacking was somehow off-base or being politicized....
NATIONAL SECURITY

FBI Election Dirty Tricks More Serious, Less Scrutinized Than Russian Hacking

Keith Girard
The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) unprecedented level of election dirty tricks is getting far less scrutiny from the media and lawmakers than the Russian email hacking scandal, even though the rogue agency poses a more serious threat to nation. The nation’s premiere law enforcement agency is supposed to be non-partisan and above politics. But it was anything but in the presidential election....
MEDIA

Elizabeth Warren, Democrats to Press Trump To Divulge, Divest Conflicts

Keith Girard
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) and other Democrats on Capitol Hill are drafting a bill that will force President-elect Donald Trump to disclose his business dealings and divest himself of conflicts of interest that threaten to compromise his governing ability. “This is bigger than our president-elect. This is bigger than this moment,” said Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.), ...
WHITE HOUSE

Donald Trump Saddles Up Four Horsemen for Looming Environmental Apocalypse

David Fagin and Keith Girard
Donald Trump is carrying out his plans for unlimited fossil fuel production with the selection of four top cabinet picks who will lead the United States into an environmental Apocalypse in an effort to extract every last dollar of energy from the earth. The nefarious gang of four includes Rick Perry as Energy Secretary, Scott Pruitt as Environmental Protection Secretary, Cathy McMorris Rodgers as Interior Secretary and ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State....
BUSINESS
Donald Trump has muddled the strategic direction of the U.S. military and still left the armed forces short of men and equipment. (Photo collage: MPG)

Trump F-35 Program Threat Will Hurt U.S. Defense; Another Tip to Russia?

Keith Girard
Donald Trump threatened to cancel the much-maligned F-35 Lightning II Strike Fighter program yesterday, a move that would hurt the nation’s defense and provide a much needed boost to Russia, which would have to develop expensive new counter-measures if the plane goes into combat service. Trump’s unexpected criticism of the program, purportedly because of its cost, came out of left field and sent the plane maker’s stock plummeting yesterday by almost 2 percent....
DEFENSEWHITE HOUSE

Trump Russian Connection: Lots of Smoke, But Can Congress Find Smoking Gun?

Keith Girard
The CIA dropped a bombshell with its investigation of Russia’s effort to aid Donald Trump’s election as president. At this point, its findings are still secret. But lawmakers briefed on the report, like Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz), said the evidence is “clear.” Russia’s hacking of the Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee, however, is only half the story....
CONGRESS
Donald Trump's refusal to stay up to speed on intelligence matters could lead to another serious lapse like the one that led to the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C. (Photo by Robert Giroux/ Getty Images)

Trump Still Blowing Off Security Briefings, Increasing Risk of Terror Attacks

Keith Girard
Donald Trump’s refusal to attend regular intelligence briefings is increasing the nation’s risk of being caught off-guard by a terror attack that could come from the “most complex and diverse array of global threats” faced by the United States in decades. Trump’s failure to stay up to speed on international developments could delay a U.S. response to a global crisis or cause an intelligence failure like the one before the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks....
NATIONAL SECURITY

Trump, Republican Lawmakers Scramble to Play Down Russian Connection

Keith Girard
Donald Trump and a handful of Republican lawmakers are trying to head off or sharply curb a congressional investigation into a finding by the nation’s top intelligence agency that Russia actively worked to influence the U.S. election on Trump’s behalf. Congressional Democrats have called for the investigation into Russia’s interference. But some Republican leaders, who launched multiple investigations of Hillary Clinton, now are suddenly reluctant to move forward....
NATIONAL SECURITY

Trump Accused Goldman Sachs of Rigging Economy, Now It’s Running Economy

Keith Girard
Donald Trump blasted Hillary Clinton and her Wall Street pals for “rigging” the economy against the American people during the election campaign But with his latest economic appointment Trump has effectively turned the economy over to Wall Street. In his latest move, Trump has tapped Goldman Sachs President and Chief Operating Officer Gary Cohn to head the National Economic Council, which advises the president on economic policy....
BUSINESS

Donald Trump Won Big in Nation’s New Post-Industrial ‘Heroin Beltway’ — Study

Keith Girard
Donald Trump out-polled 2012 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney among the most desperate Americans living in the “new post-industrial heroin beltway,” according to a new study. Tragically, the poor are likely to fare even worse under his administration. The Penn State University Department of Agricultural, Economics, Sociology and Education conducted the study, examining voting patterns in 3,106 counties with the highest drug, alcohol and suicide mortality rates in the nation....
ELECTIONS

Trump Bizarro World Takes Shape Through Lies, Intimidation, Vindictiveness

Keith Girard
Donald Trump is already setting a pattern of lies, intimidation and vindictiveness that likely will mark how he’ll operate as chief executive. His administration will be a Bizarro World, where all rules, traditions and protocols no longer apply. In Bizarro World, everything is weirdly inverted or oddly opposite of the real world–an apt metaphor for Trumps’s governing style....
WHITE HOUSE
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Fiona Apple Emerges With Special Donald Trump Christmas Tune (video!)

Keith Girard
Fiona Apple the reclusive New York City chanteuse has surfaced with a special holiday greeting for President-elect Donald Trump. In her own unique style, the singer re-purposes Nat King Cole’s “Christmas Song” with some silly, yet biting new lyrics. The 39-year-old singer has been laying low since the release of her fourth studio album in June 2012, although she hasn’t been completely under the radar....
CELEBRITIES

Hospitals Warn of Financial Apocalypse, if Trump, Congress Repeal ObamaCare

Keith Girard
Hospitals across the country are bracing for a financial apocalypse if President-elect Donald Trump and the Republican congress repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as ObamaCare. Two hospital groups spelled out the details in a new report. The American Hospital Association (AHA) and the Federation of American Hospitals (FAH) today (Dec. 6) sent letters to Trump and Congressional leaders calling attention to the report. It details the impact, if an estimated 20 million people lose health insurance coverage....
CONGRESS

Donald Trump’s Gestapo-Like Police State May Be Closer Than You Think

Keith Girard
Donald Trump’s fascistic tendencies are undeniable, and the nation may be moving closer to a Gestapo-like police state that even his most ardent detractors may realize. They have apparently met the enemy and it’s everyone–but them. In a thoroughly disturbing opinion piece in The New York Observer, Austin Bay, an adjunct professor at the University of Texas, Austin, argues that the FBI needs to crack-down on “malcontents” and Trump administration political opponents....
NATIONAL