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Let’s look at a case study in Justice Department and news media bias: the treatment of President Trump compared with the treatment of Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California. The media was gleeful over news – first reported in The New York Times – that a group of anti-Trump bureaucrats took it upon themselves to investigate President Trump as a traitor. The action, which came when the president fired their friend James Comey as FBI director in May 2017, has only served to clarify the establishment and media hostility toward President Trump. With no evidence – save some absurd and...

Scandalous Media Bias: There have been two major ongoing investigations involving President Trump. One is looking into whether Trump colluded with Russia. It's borne no fruit. The other involves abuse of power at the highest levels of government to hurt Trump and is producing damning evidence by the bushel. Guess which one the press is ignoring? National Review writer John Fund relates an interesting story. He was waiting to go on the air and struck up a conversation with another prominent reporter in the network's green room. Why, he asked, aren't reporters actively investigating the suspicious activities at the Justice...

JW Seeks Docs on Obama White House Spying Scandal Mueller Helped Purge Anti-Terrorism Training Material Offensive to Muslims The Seth Rich Controversy Honoring the Fallen Warriors on Memorial Day JW Seeks Docs on Obama White House Spying Scandal With the news this week of the unprecedented spying on Americans by the National Security Agency under President Obama’s direction, it has become even more critical that we get to the truth about any Obama administration surveillance of Donald Trump and his campaign and the subsequent illegal leaking of classified information in an effort to undermine the Trump administration. We filed...

Not for the first time since he took office, President Obama is being accused of looking a lot like his predecessor when it comes to terrorism. This week, the anger came from media reports detailing the scope of National Security Agency (NSA) espionage in Europe, including bugging the cellphone of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and a sweep of French metadata from phone calls, e-mails, and other electronic communications similar to what it has done in the US. For a man who first took office promising change in how America treated the world, it looked like more of the same. Already,...

Russia has ordered a crackdown on Georgian-owned businesses and tighter visa measures as part of the nations' escalating diplomatic dispute.

President Vladimir Putin has warned Georgia not to use the "language of provocation and blackmail" against Russia in a speech in parliament. The Duma went on to vote overwhelmingly for a motion echoing Mr Putin's condemnation of "anti-Russian" and "anti-democratic" policies in Tbilisi. Tension rose in the past week when Georgia detained, then released, four Russian army officers for spying. Russia has imposed a travel and postal ban between the two countries. "I would not advise anyone to talk to Russia in the language of provocation and blackmail," Mr Putin said in the Duma. "I am talking about Georgia here."...

MOSCOW (AFP) - Two spies in the pay of the British have been arrested, a former chief of Russia's FSB security services said in televised comments on the discovery of an alleged British spy operation in Moscow. Britain's Foreign Office said Sunday it was investigating the reports. "Two spies working for Britain were arrested," Nikolai Kovalev, now a lawmaker with the pro-Kremlin party United Russia, told the NTV channel on Saturday, without clarifying their nationality. "Certainly, they are not silent, they are speaking," added Kovalev, who headed the secret services from 1996-1998. His comments came as part of NTV's announcement...

Amnesty for Illegal Wiretappers? Another spy scandal and Bush will be at 60%. By Mickey Kaus Updated Monday, Dec. 26, 2005, at 3:07 AM ET