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Giddy up… HPSCI Chairman Devin Nunes says either FBI Director Chris Wray and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein give him the “electronic communication” (EC) documents (initiated the counterintelligence operation against candidate Trump in July 2016) or congress will hold an impeachment vote. FBI Director Wray and DOJ Deputy Rosenstein have until tomorrow night.

Sen. John Cornyn took to the Senate floor Wednesday to talk about the backlog of President Trump’s executive nominations, saying he’s “never seen anything quite like it.” As Cortney reported last month, if the current pace continues, it would take 11 years for all of the president’s nominees to be confirmed—long after he’d be out of office even if he did get a second term. "We had an election on November 8, but for many of our colleagues, the election remains undecided. They don't accept the verdict of the American people, the Electoral College, that President Trump won the election....

The State Department on Tuesday said it cannot commit to completing its investigation into 22 "Top Secret" Hillary Clinton emails before the general election in November. "I’m not going to commit to a specific timeline," State Department spokesman John Kirby told reporters on Tuesday. The agency is still working to determine whether the information in the former secretary of state's emails was classified when the messages were originated. The question is important, not just for national security reasons, but also because Clinton has insisted that she did not send or receive information that was classified at the point of origin.

Bolton Prods U.N. To Act on Spending, Human Rights Issues By Colum Lynch Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, November 11, 2005; Page A16 UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 10 -- U.S. Ambassador John R. Bolton said Thursday that inaction by U.N. members is jeopardizing the passage of U.S.- and U.N.-backed initiatives to combat human rights abuses and streamline the agency's bureaucracy. Bolton, speaking at a luncheon hosted by the Foreign Policy Association, hinted that Congress may retaliate against the United Nations if it failed to take steps toward improving the way it conducts business. He later told the General Assembly that the...

Kuwait Sandstorms Tough for U.S. Soldiers (THE SADISTIC UN IS COUNTING ON THIS!!!) Fri Mar 7, 8:09 PM ET CAMP NEW JERSEY, Kuwait - Pfc. Charles Bryant got lost for three hours on the way back to his tent, disoriented by thick clouds of sand swirling at 50 mph in this desert camp near the Iraqi border. Sandstorms, a gritty and miserable fact of life in the Persian Gulf region this time of year, are making things uncomfortable for troops waiting for a possible war with Iraq (news - web sites). They also present major problems for U.S. war planners....

UNITED NATIONS, Feb. 24 — The challenge is formidable, but U.S. and British diplomats are confident they can wring the nine votes necessary to win approval of the new Iraq resolution circulated Monday on the Security Council. The assessment is backed by other diplomats, although all agree that France, the most outspoken opponent as of now, could still use its veto power to kill the measure. UNDER THE U.N. charter, a resolution requires nine “yes” votes among the 15 Security Council members, and cannot be vetoed by the five permanent council members — Britain, China, France, Russia and the United...

WAR with an intransigent dictator is easy. Reasonable demands are made and rejected; patience is demonstrated, then exhausted. After a few years, it is not easy to prove the case for an attack. Until last night, Saddam Hussein was the perfect enemy. He was rejecting the very idea of compromise, ignoring the pleas of his own Arab allies. Now, he has moved, offering the return of weapons inspectors without condition. But this is no surrender. Last night, Saddam sidestepped the West and struck at the fault line of George Bush’s fragile coalition for war. Saddam is one of the world’s...