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Much as we want the Department of Justice to charge Donald John Trump for his possession and misuse of classified government documents, that prosecution might be just the case Donald John Trump needs. Trump took possession of classified documents,...
by TRPChicago
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on Wed Feb 15, 2023 at 12:32 PM PST
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Such a Big Deal has been made of the leak of a draft opinion from the Supreme Court last spring. It turned out to be pretty close to what the Supreme Court has now declared the law of the land. We in the public were not supposed to see it until it got...
by AndySchmookler
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on Thu Jan 19, 2023 at 12:01 PM PST
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This post was authored by Richard Zitrin for Public Justice The horrific OxyContin story is not over. But it has been exposed: how at Purdue Pharma, everyone from top executives to the sales force repeatedly lied to physicians and the public about this...
by Paul Bland for Public Justice
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on Thu May 19, 2022 at 10:05 AM PDT
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by Mark Fiore
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on Fri Feb 18, 2022 at 05:00 AM PST
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This is by Eric Garland. It is important
by danikos
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on Thu Apr 23, 2020 at 12:38 PM PDT
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In an internal May 8 Department of Defense memo that was only sent to selected members of Congress afterThe Washington Post first brought it to light, Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan has laid out new limits on how the Pentagon shares...
by Meteor Blades
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on Thu May 23, 2019 at 06:57 AM PDT
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So I had a carefully thought out diary draft where I was going to posit that Barr couldn’t release anything not publicly known about the Mueller report. Here is what I will be reading for when I ...
by PiRierran
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on Tue Apr 16, 2019 at 08:00 AM PDT
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Conspiracy theories have existed since the dawn of humanity. Typically, it was the uninformed who concocted fantasies, either for their own benefit, or to explain circumstances that they deemed disadvantageous to their wellbeing. In November 2016...
by JohnBAlexander
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on Thu Oct 04, 2018 at 09:47 AM PDT
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Today hundreds of US news organizations are participating in the Boston Globe's press freedom initiative. The Globe challenged editorial boards across the nation to publish op-eds promoting freedom of the press.
The campaign is in direct response to...
by Mark Taylor Canfield
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on Thu Aug 16, 2018 at 05:38 PM PDT
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Is it PAST time to re-cycle an ages old intervention= The UNDERGROUND RAILROAD? Because & still yet- if NO USA Loving Christian church families, People-of-Color who’ve historically been-there-done-that-know-how-it-feels-and-ends group families, or...
by Shortmd
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on Sat Jun 23, 2018 at 01:43 PM PDT
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We were not moved by the trickle of despair that leaked out of Iraq.
Let us be clear. Ultimately, law enforcement is carried out by the people who govern. That is, the citizens. So, the public is the ultimate judge and if criminality is to be...
by hannah
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on Fri Jun 15, 2018 at 05:11 AM PDT
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On 12/20/17, Politico broke the story about Republican Congressman Devin Nunes (CA District 22) secret Republican-only investigation into the leadership of the FBI and the DOJ predicated on the notion they are biased against Trump. I live in the...
by soulfulpsy
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on Fri Dec 29, 2017 at 02:49 AM PST
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Now the Senate is poised to vote on their verisions of the tax repeal bill, we need to speak out louder than ever before. This tax bill is getting more and more like the recent overturned tax policies of Kansas’s Legislature, via the Koch Brothers. The...
by Getting1
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on Mon Nov 27, 2017 at 10:20 AM PST
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Confronted with charges that the state prevents citizen awareness KS moves to stifle citizen protest The Kansas City Star provided a detailed look inside the Kansas State House, addressing issues of transparency within the state house. The articles alleged that Kansas Citizenry have a difficulty finding out what is going on, and where their...
by Christopher Reeves
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on Sun Nov 19, 2017 at 03:13 PM PST
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This article pulls no punches and shows how tangled the whole thing is:
This is not a bill to improve health care; it's a bill to repeal taxes on very wealthy people.
The House-passed version of the American Health Care Act would strip $834...
by El Mimbreno
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on Wed Jun 21, 2017 at 08:09 AM PDT
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NOTE: Some actions you can take to oppose this disturbing new development are at the bottom of this column. YOU ONLY HAVE A FEW Days!
However, be aware that even if the AHCA bill is abandoned, it may still be too late to save OBAMACARE.
What...
by TeeBryanToo
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on Wed Jun 14, 2017 at 10:59 PM PDT
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The Washington Post has really been on its game.
They are reporting that House majority leader Kevin McCarthy told his Republican colleagues in 2016 that Vladimir Putin pays Donald Trump and Dana Rohrabacher.
They claim to have heard a recording...
by First Amendment
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on Wed May 17, 2017 at 03:32 PM PDT
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The Indianapolis Star is reporting that in an unprecedented move, Governor Mike Pence—and soon to possibly be the guy running the show while the Donald speaks at rallies of racists—is trying very hard to pull his email communications out of the...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Mon Nov 14, 2016 at 09:57 AM PST
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This long and thoughtful article, from a Times reporter who got to know Hillary in the early 1990s, attempts to explain what lead to her present difficulties.
DK is filling up with diaries expressing confusion, bewilderment, outrage, and pain as...
by SChelydra
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on Fri Sep 16, 2016 at 03:58 AM PDT
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There’s obviously been a lot of recent discussion of “classified materials” WRT Hillary Clinton’s emails (and Colin Powell’s and Condoleezza Rice’s), but not a lot of cites about where the definition of classified materials originates. Since I’ve been...
by DButch
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on Wed Aug 03, 2016 at 09:24 PM PDT
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