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Posted at 9:29 pm on May 31, 2017 by streiff Let me say up front that I am not a Mike Morrell fan. In many ways he symbolizes everything that is wrong with the Intelligence Community. He is a fairly rabid partisan Democrat who hides behind the veneer of the disinterested and professional intelligence officer. This is the type who gave official sanction to the former head of the CIA’s failed Bin Laden unit, a guy named Michael Scheuer, to publish a book on Iraq during the 2004 campaign that was nothing more than a partisan hit job on George Bush.

Posted at 5:00 am on June 1, 2017 by Jay Caruso You may not know the name, Andrew Therriault, but you will. He’s the former Director of Data Science at the Democratic National Committee, having worked there from 2014-2016.

Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman Tom Perez on Wednesday attacked President Trump over reports his administration may return two Russian compounds in the U.S. that were seized by former President Obama as a punishment for election meddling. “[Former] President Obama closed those two compounds because of Russia’s attacks on our democracy,” he said in a statement.

President Trump has granted at least 16 members of his White House staff waivers to work in areas in which they previously lobbied or to interact with colleagues from their past jobs, The New York Times reported Wednesday. The number of waivers granted is more than five times the number issued in the first four months of former President MO

Basketball star Steph Curry said this week that he and President Obama have talked about the "challenges" of being a public figure and learning to live in the public eye. "[Obama] was talking about the challenges of before he was in office," Curry said in a "Good Morning America" interview set to air Thursday and Friday. SPONSORED The Hill 1625 K Street, NW Suite 900 Washington DC 20006 | 202-628-8500 tel | 202-628-8503 fax The contents of this site are ©2017 Capitol Hill Publishing Corp., a subsidiary of News Communications, Inc.

The White House on Wednesday evening released its list of waivers to the Trump administration ethics pledge, exempting at least a dozen White House officials from the rules. The list includes ex-lobbyists who joined the administration to work on policy areas they had covered for their K Street clients.

GREER, S.C. — No matter that this small Southern city sits squarely in the middle of Trump country: The president, with his criticism of German trade policy, was setting off alarm bells in the mind of Mayor Richard W. Danner. Mr. Trump, on his recent trip to Europe, reportedly declared the Germans “bad, very bad” on trade; Greer’s City Hall sits mere miles from a BMW automobile plant that employs about 8,800 people. And so after Mr.

GREER, S.C. — No matter that this small Southern city sits squarely in the middle of Trump country: The president, with his criticism of German trade policy, was setting off alarm bells in the mind of Mayor Richard W. Danner. Mr. Trump, on his recent trip to Europe, reportedly declared the Germans “bad, very bad” on trade; Greer’s City Hall sits mere miles from a BMW automobile plant that employs about 8,800 people. And so after Mr.

CHARLESTON, S.C. — In early January, after a series of closed-court hearings, a federal judge in Charleston allowed Dylann S. Roof to represent himself as prosecutors sought his execution for a murderous 2015 rampage at a historic African-American church.