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WASHINGTON—Eleven pages of State Department documents released on Jan. 7 in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch show that Jonathan Winer, an assistant to then-Secretary of State John Kerry, used his private email address to convey information he received from former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele to top U.S. diplomatic officials. “I will send them to her [his assistant, Nina Miller] from my non-State email account, not copying myself,” Winer said in response to a December 2014 email from Paul Jones, principal deputy assistant secretary for European Affairs. Jones wanted Winer to use the State...

Obama hold-over Ambassador Paul W. Jones tried to sabotage Trump’s trip to Poland according to diplomatic sources. Jones attempted to mislead the Trump advance team to believe that the Polish people still love former Polish President Lech Walesa and to hold extensive meetings and photo ops with him. Despite Walesa’s historical achievements during Solidarity, numerous scandals since that time including accusations of his work as a Communist collaborator have altered views of Lech Walesa in Poland. At this point, Lech Walesa has fallen out of favor with much of Poland, and the current Law and Justice Party, which welcomed President...

Democratic presidential race-leader Hillary Clinton has a new strategy for dealing with The Donald: He is no longer a laughing matter. At a campaign stop in Waterloo, Iowa this week, the former secretary of state took the Republican front-runner to task in unusually blunt language that she has so far avoided when discussing him. Instead of a laugh and a shrug, Clinton called out Trump for his proposal this week to ban Muslim immigrants, saying it was 'shameful' and 'dangerous.' Campaign aides say it is the new face of a still-evolving strategy to take Trump's campaign seriously and expose it...