Article snippet: The Trump administration is raising hackles in Congress by cloaking in official secrecy an unusual amount of data about the longest armed conflict in American history. Senator John McCain is not signing off quietly, despite his battle with deadly brain cancer. The support of Senator Joe Donnelly, Democrat of Indiana, should provide enough of a margin for Haspel’s confirmation. Representative Devin Nunes has become a fierce critic of the Justice Department as it conducts investigations with a possible connection to the Trump White House. The frantic final days before the president’s announcement demonstrate that the Iran deal remained a complicated, divisive issue inside the White House. “They’re not bad people,” he told NPR. “They’re coming here for a reason. And I sympathize with the reason. But the laws are the laws.’’ “We are in a moment when humanity and decency are being eroded, when the very notion of empirical fact is being attacked,” Tapper said. “They’re not bad people,” he told NPR. “They’re coming here for a reason. And I sympathize with the reason. But the laws are the laws.’’ Biden says Senator John McCain in a genuine hero and ‘‘he deserves better — so much better.’’ Ground Game The discussion has gotten to the point where the former governor found himself declaring, “I am not a Russian spy.” The House on Thursday approved an election-year bill to revive the mothballed nuclear waste dump at Nevada’s Yucca Mountain despite opp... Link to the full article to read more