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Donald Trump Casually Suggests New Nuclear Arms Race, Causing Uproar

Keith Girard
Donald Trump dropped another multi-megaton Twitter bomb, casually suggesting today that the nation start a new nuclear arms race “until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes.” The reaction on social media was spontaneous outrage. The United States already has more nuclear weapons that every other nation outside of Russia. Together, they control 93 percent of all warheads....
MILITARY

Obama Urged to Name Special Prosecutor to Probe Russia Election Hacking

Keith Girard
President Obama is being urged to appoint a special prosecutor to conduct an independent investigation of Russian interference in the presidential election and possible collusion with the Trump campaign. The petition, created by political Web site Daily Kos, is acutally a vote of “no confidence” in a planned bi-partisan Congressional investigation into the hacking....
POLITICS

FBI Director Hung Out to Dry by Baseless Search Warrant for Clinton Emails

Keith Girard
FBI Director James Comey’s bombshell letter upending Hillary Clinton’s election campaign not only violated Justice Department protocols, but was based on a search warrant that was baseless and possibly illegal, according to a lawyer who obtained the documents. Los Angeles lawyer Randy Schoenberg, who made the request, said he was “appalled” by the search warrant and the FBI’s actions....
LAW

Donald Trump’s Big Lie: Why He Won’t Bring Back Manufacturing Jobs

Keith Girard
Donald Trump will never be able to bring back manufacturing jobs, a campaign promise that helped him win traditionally Democratic states like Michigan and Pennsylvania and propel him into the White House. It was a false promise from the get go, and a new study shows why. Aside from Trump’s Ohio Carrier plant public relations stunt, he won’t keep his promise because he can’t, according to a new Brookings Institution study....
BUSINESS
Donald Trump and Steve Bannon

Trump Russian Embrace Dovetails With White Supremacist World View on Race

Keith Girard
Donald Trump’s embrace of Russia dovetails chillingly with the views of white supremacists promoted by alt-right propagandist Steve Bannon. They see the world divided in racial terms making mostly white “Christian” Russia a natural ally of the United States and all other races potential enemies. There’s no other way to explain Trump’s unilateral tilt toward Russia, which is contrary to decades of U.S. policy....
POLITICS

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