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Warriors want revenge, not National Basketball Association history
A victory in Game 3 of the NBA Finals would be the Warriors' 15th straight in the postseason and give them the longest winning streak in the major professional sports. Golden State Warriors forward Kevin Durant (35) celebrates with teammates after the Warriors defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers 118-113 in Game 3 of basketball's NBA Finals in Cleveland , Wednesday, June 7, 2017. [Full Article...]
Reality Winner, Accused NSA Leaker, To Enter Not Guilty Plea
The intelligence agency logs its print jobs. The Justice Department has charged Ms Winner with removing classified material from a government facility and mailing it to a news outlet. The hackers are believed to have then used data from that operation to create a new email account to launch a spear-phishing campaign targeting USA local government organizations, the document said. [Full Article...]
Chris Christie: Trump's Talks With Comey Just 'Normal NYC Conversation'
In fairness to Trump , its always good to let your administration's top officials know that you aren't, in fact, paying Russian women to pleasure you on business trips. "I will match that against his verbal testimony and weigh that against the evidence to date". Comey was the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation until May when President Donald Trump fired him. [Full Article...]
Trump far less credible than Comey - but majorities don't trust either
President Trump's lawyer, Marc Kasowitz, welcomed fired FBI Director James Comey's account of his conversations with President Trump, saying in a statement that Mr. The White House initially said Trump fired Comey on the recommendation of the Justice Department, citing as justification a memo from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein that criticized Comey's handling of the Hillary Clinton emai... [Full Article...]
Russian Officials Targeted Top Trump Advisers Last Summer, Say U.S
A retired Army lieutenant general, Flynn became one of Trump's closest campaign advisers two months after he was paid in 2015 to speak at a Moscow gala, where he was seated next to Russian President Vladimir Putin . White House national security adviser, and Carter Page, who served briefly in the Trump campaign as a foreign policy adviser had also received similar letters. [Full Article...]
Fired FBI director Comey 'asked not to be left alone with Trump'
National television networks are breaking into regular programing to cover the blockbuster hearing . On July 5, 2016, he managed both at the same time. "In order to take the politics out of it - for the benefit of the country - we need to make sure we get the facts and the elements of what we have to prove". [Full Article...]
Sessions to take travel ban fight to Supreme Court
Wynn said such action "contravenes the authority Congress delegated to the President in the Immigration and Nationality Act". Even if the appeals court had sided with the Trump administration, the president's order would have remained on hold because of a separate opinion from a federal judge in Hawaii. [Full Article...]
Trump picks Christopher Wray as Head of Federal Bureau of Investigation
He once threatened to quit the Justice Department: Wray asked Comey in 2004, when he was threatening to quit over a dispute with the White House, to let him know so he could leave too. Trump had entertained current and former politicians for the role, including former Sen. In May, Yates testified in front of a Senate judiciary subcommittee regarding the Trump campaign's alleged ties to Russian ... [Full Article...]