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The FBI released a 1,475 page file today on Breitbart News organization. The FBI dumped the documents online just moments ago. One of the first documents shows that the investigation was opened in February 2016 — during an election year. The document says they opened the investigation after Breitbart.news was hit with a denial of service attack. They started targeting Breitbart during an election year because Breitbart suffered a DDoS attack? That’s very odd.

Yesterday’s news became big news on the Fox News Channel last week when former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani brought up the name of President Barack Obama’s childhood mentor, Frank Marshall Davis. It was almost seven years to the day when we published our seminal piece about Davis, “Obama’s Communist Mentor.” Davis was a member of the Communist Party and a suspected Soviet espionage agent. He was included in the FBI’s security index, meaning that Davis could be arrested or detained in the event of a national emergency. The FBI file on Davis documents his anti-white and pro-Soviet views,...

FBI Finally Releases "Communist" Marilyn Monroe's Unredacted Files Miller and Monroe at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, 1957. (via LIFE) The first systematic Hollywood blacklist—which barred screenwriters, actors, directors and anyone in the industry that was a member of or sympathizer of the Communist Party—was instituted on November 25, 1947. In the 1950s a Red Channels (Report of Communist Influence in Radio and Television) pamphlet was published, which listed Arthur Miller as a communist. So when Miller started dating Marilyn Monroe in 1955, The Man started keeping an eye on her as well... and now an unredacted classified file has been...

Advocacy Group Says Minority Leader Guilty of Gross Violation: Leahy and Levin Also Named ALEXANDRIA, VA - The American Conservative Union, the nations oldest and largest conservative grassroots organization, yesterday filed an ethics complaint against Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV). The complaint comes in response to Sen. Reid's May 12th reference to judicial nominee Henry Saad's confidential FBI file on the floor of the United States Senate. "Henry Saad would have been filibustered anyway…," said Reid on the floor of the Senate. "All you need to do is have a member go upstairs and look at his confidential report...

During a debate on the Senate floor May 12, Minority Leader Harry Reid (D.-Nev.) launched an assault on appellate court nominee Henry Saad, who is awaiting confirmation to the 6th Circuit. Reid’s attack included the suggestion that senators review Saad’s confidential FBI report to understand why Democrats oppose his confirmation. “Henry Saad would have been filibustered anyway,” Reid said on the Senate floor. “He’s one of those nominees. All you need to do is have a member go upstairs and look at his confidential report from the FBI, and I think we would all agree there is a problem there.”...

Character assassination apparently has become the Democrats' stock-in-trade these days on Capitol Hill. Witness Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, who departed from his prepared text to denounce one of President Bush's judicial nominees — a victim of Democratic filibustering — by saying the judge has "a problem" based on "his confidential report from the FBI." Reid wasn't offering up any details — which his office seems to think lets him off the hook. Because the problem is that those FBI background reports, as Reid himself conceded, are "confidential." ....Senate rules prohibit a member from publicly disclosing confidential information — on...

Justice Dept. Enters Court Nominee Fight By JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press Writer Sat May 14, 5:39 AM ET The Justice Department is edging into the Senate controversy over judicial nominees, writing key lawmakers after Democratic Leader Harry Reid publicly referred to an FBI file on one of President Bush's controversial appointees. "The letter expressed concern about recent remarks on the floor of the Senate which alluded to an FBI background investigation file provided by the Department of Justice to the Senate Judiciary Committee on a confidential basis in connection with a judicial nomination," a department official said Friday night....

Saad What?!? Harry Reid’s Shameful Trampling of Privacy Rights. By N. Beaujon May 14, 2005 Every day the news gets more reprehensible. Yesterday Harry (“Valley Girl”) Reid, a formerly unknown Congressperson, again, made gossipy headlines by illegally exposing the FBI file of Bush judicial nominee, Judge Henry Saad. At a press conference, otherwise known as “Democrat Shrews take to the Mic to Embarrass Themselves”, Reid stated that “"Henry Saad would have been filibustered anyway…All you need to do is have a member go upstairs and look at his confidential report from the FBI, and I think we would all agree...

The sniping over President Bush's judicial nominees is reaching critical mass, with the Senate expected to vote soon on the so-called nuclear option -- a Senate rule change that would end Democrat filibusters of judicial nominees. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid prompted outrage from Republicans on Thursday, when he criticized one of those stalled judicial nominees on the Senate floor. "Henry Saad would have been filibustered anyway," Reid said. "He's one of those nominees. All you need to do is have a member go upstairs and look at his confidential report from the F.B.I., and I think we would all...

In his enthusiastic quest to deliver on the Democratic Party of "NO"'s apparent commitment to obstruction of all of the Bush administration's nominees, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid made Reference to a Confidential FBI Report, with regard to Henry Saad (the Michigan Appeals Court judge who is nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit) Access to these reports is limited to committee members and the nominee's home-state senators. Interestingly enough Senator Reid would fall into neither category. How then does he reference these records? FYI: Standing Rule of the Senate 29, Section 5: "Any Senator, officer,...

Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 31 minutes ago WASHINGTON - The Justice Department is edging into the Senate controversy over judicial nominees, writing key lawmakers after Democratic Leader Harry Reid publicly referred to an FBI file on one of President Bush's controversial appointees. "The letter expressed concern about recent remarks on the floor of the Senate which alluded to an FBI background investigation file provided by the Department of Justice to the Senate Judiciary Committee on a confidential basis in connection with a judicial nomination," a department official said Friday night. The official, who spoke only on condition of anonymity,...

Minority Leader Harry Reid strayed from his prepared remarks on the Senate floor yesterday and promised to continue opposing one of President Bush's judicial nominees based on "a problem" he said is in the nominee's "confidential report from the FBI." Those highly confidential reports are filed on all judicial nominees, and severe sanctions apply to anyone who discloses their contents. Less clear is whether a senator could face sanctions for characterizing the content of such files. "Henry Saad would have been filibustered anyway," Mr. Reid said on the floor yesterday, about the Michigan Appeals Court judge who is nominated to...

May 13, 2005, 8:59 a.m. Harry Reid Steps Over the Line — Again The GOP calls his description of a Bush nominee "deeply unethical." As the Senate edges closer to a showdown on the issue of Democratic filibusters of the president's judicial nominees, Republicans on Capitol Hill are angry at remarks by Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid which they say smeared one of those blocked nominees. During a debate about the filibusters Thursday, Reid, who has made a series of controversial statements about President Bush, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and others in recent months,...

A former FBI agent assigned to the White House wants John Kerry to approve the official release of his confidential FBI file. Gary Aldrich, who made waves during the Clinton years for writing the New York Times best seller "Unauthorized Access," is leading a citizens' coalition in demanding that the presumptive Democrat nominee release his FBI dossier, protected under U.S. privacy laws. Aldrich, president of the Patrick Henry Center for Individual Liberty, an organization that supports whistleblowers who expose government corruption, told NewsMax he thought it was critically important for Kerry to ask for the files release to clear the...

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