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Former CIA director John Brennan reacts to the new report that Donald Trump granted Ivanka Trump a security clearance over objections. And Brennan tells Lawrence why he expects Mueller to issue more indictments.
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| Clapper: Trump ordering Kushner security clearance is dangerous |
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Former Director of National Security James Clapper told CNN's Wolf Blitzer he "hadn't heard of that happening before," when asked about the New York Times report that President Donald Trump personally ordered top security clearance for his son-in-law, Jared Kushner. #CNN #News
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| Trump says he joked about wanting Russian help in 2016. The facts tell a different story. - KITV Honolulu |
Trump says he joked about wanting Russian help in 2016. The facts tell a different story. KITV HonoluluIn the heat of the presidential campaign in July 2016, Trump publicly encouraged Russia to hack Clinton's private server and release her emails. |
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CNN’s John Berman asked for Clapper’s reaction to The Intercept’s Glen Greenwald report: “The very first NSA program we revealed from Snowden documents, the mass domestic spying program of Americans’ phone records which James Clapper lied about and Obama insisted was vital to national security has been shut down.”
“Well, the original thought behind this, and this program was put in place as a direct result of 9/11, the point was to be able to track quickly a foreign communicant talking to somebody in this country who may have been plotting a terrorist plot, and was put in place during the Bush Administration for that reason,” Clapper said. “I always regarded it as kind of a safeguard or insurance policy so that if the need came up you would have this to refer to.”
“As far as the comment, the allegation about my lying, I didn’t lie, I made a big mistake and I just simply didn’t understand what I was being asked about. I thought of another surveillance program, Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act when I was being asked about Section 215 of the Patriot Act at the time, I just didn’t understand that” he continued.
When Berman said because it has been reported no terrorists have been caught using the surveillance program, he asked Clapper if it suggests it does not work.
“Well, that’s true, and I think probably at the time contemporaneously back 2013 or so when all this broke that we may have oversold it a bit because, you know, we were hard-pressed to point out to a specific case in point,” Clapper admitted. “What this was was just trying to capitalize on the lesson learned from 9/11. I will say that — and I’ve said this publicly many times before, that what this did prove was the need for the intelligence community to have been more transparent.”
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The most successful and spectacular bankruptcy protection for Donald Trump: the Presidency of the United States
M.N.: If Trump’s (and Kushner’s) debts are held by the Russian banks, specifically by the Sberbankand VEB (who bought them at a discount, with the group of oligarchs as guarantors, from the Deutsche Bank, probably somewhere up to 10B), this might be his most spectacular win in fighting his bankruptcies. The Russians will have the great difficulty in collecting this debt in cash or real estate from the American President. And for Trump, the Presidency was the only and the only sure way to avoid this bankruptcy, by peddling his favors to the Russians. This hypothesis might be able to explain the major dynamics between the players but the details, mechanisms, persons and personalities, etc., etc. have to be investigated and elucidated.
And this is the only thing he was really good at: the bankruptcy protection fights.
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Representative Adam Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said in a statement that Goldman joined the panel in February as senior adviser and director of investigations. Schiff also named a new budget director and three other people for various roles.
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The committee's probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible collusion with the Trump campaign has taken on new life since the Democrats took control of the House in November elections.
The panel is set to hear testimony from Michael Cohen, the president's onetime "fixer," for a second time on Wednesday since he turned on his former boss.
Goldman was an assistant US attorney in the Southern District of New York for a decade through 2017, serving as the lead prosecutor in the conviction of Las Vegas sports gambler William "Billy" Walters for insider trading.
But likely more relevant to the committee's probe is Goldman's tenure as deputy of the Southern District's Organised Crime Unit, where he oversaw a major Russian mob case against more than 30 individuals for money laundering and racketeering.
Goldman has also worked as a legal analyst for NBC News and MSNBC, commenting on Special Counsel Robert Mueller's 22-month-old investigation into links between the Trump campaign and Russia. NBC did not return a request for comment.
Goldman attended last northern summer's trial of former Trump campaign Chairman Paul Manafort and was at the December sentencing of Cohen, who is due to start a three-year sentence in May for violating campaign finance laws and other crimes.
As the wheels continue to turn to the investigation into Trump's ties with Russia, a federal judge said on Tuesday that the publication of a book last month by the president's former political adviser which criticised Special Counsel Robert Mueller Roger Stone may violate a media gag order.
The transgression could land the self-proclaimed "dirty trickster" behind bars.
Judge Amy Berman Jackson for the US District Court for the District of Columbia ordered Stone and his lawyers to provide her with a report by Monday explaining how he plans to comply with the order, and also demanded that he turn over certain records detailing everything he knew about the book's release.
"There is no question that the order prohibited and continues to prohibit the defendant from making any public statements, using any medium, concerning the investigation," Jackson wrote.
"It does not matter when the defendant may have first formulated the opinions expressed, or when he first put them into words: he may no longer share his views on these particular subjects with the world."
Stone, a longtime Republican operative, is the 34th person to face charges as part of Mueller's investigation into whether Trump's campaign colluded with Russia.
He has pleaded not guilty to seven counts of obstruction, witness tampering and making false statements.
Trump has denied any collusion with Russia occurred and called Mueller's probe a witch hunt.
Shortly after Stone was charged, Jackson gave him wide latitude to discuss the case against him as long as it was not in the vicinity of the federal courthouse.
But just days later, she tightened the reins with a sweeping gag order after Stone posted a photo of her on his Instagram account next to an image resembling the crosshairs of a gun and a message critical of both her and Mueller.
In issuing her gag order on February 21, Jackson warned Stone he would not have a second chance if he violated it. She also said his apologies about the posting, which was later removed, rang hollow.
After the gag order, Jackson learned that a 2017 book by Stone originally titled The Making of the President 2016 had been re-published under the name The Myth of Russian Collusion and that it criticised Mueller in its introduction.
In addition, Stone also in March posted an item on Instagram that said "Who framed Roger Stone." It was later removed.
Stone's lawyers have said the book does not violate the gag order because it came out on February 19, before the order was issued.
But Jackson blasted them for failing to disclose it to her when they had the chance, and said Stone must provide her with records including communications with the publisher, information on the publication of the book and other details related to his Instagram posts.
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