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Tara Copp of McClatchy News has an important story: Cancers strike veterans who deployed to Uzbek base where black goo oozed, ponds glowed U.S. special operations forces who deployed to a military site in Uzbekistan shortly after the 9/11 attacks found...
by xaxnar
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on Fri Dec 20, 2019 at 05:34 AM PST
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I was inspired to write this diary because I’m always getting emails from Daily Kos talking about the layoffs in media, and I don’t see a lot of personal stories about what it’s like. I started working for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in 1994, right...
by Jensequitur
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on Fri Nov 29, 2019 at 09:43 AM PST
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Now that he’s not in a position to write fantasy reports gifting Trump with the cleanest slate since … slate, former chair of the House Intelligence Committee Devin Nunes has been busy testing the limits, and the patience, of the American legal system....
by Mark Sumner
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on Tue Apr 09, 2019 at 01:30 PM PDT
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One of the more specific, and potentially falsifiable, claims of the Steele Dossier was that former Trump personal attorney and fixer Michael Cohen went to Prague in the late Summer of 2016 and met with Russian officials to coordinate the release of...
by KeithDB
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on Fri Dec 28, 2018 at 10:02 AM PST
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It’s bad enough when people lie, but it really takes a special breed of liar to go out and demand an apology from those who (it now appears) told the truth. That special breed now includes Donald Trump, Michael Cohen, and Sean Hannity.
Jonathan...
by Dartagnan
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on Thu Dec 27, 2018 at 12:40 PM PST
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Since Michael Cohen is looking to “clear things up” — he could accelerate the whole process of taking down Trump, if he just answered a few questions.
The Answers to which, the Special Counsel probably already has. Wise up Michael — get right...
by jamess
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on Thu Jul 26, 2018 at 08:48 PM PDT
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I hadn’t seen this article, nor seen it referred to here, so I’m giving it play this morning.
Lot’s of speculation on why Michael Cohen is changing legal teams, midstream. It’s not even sure whether they were fired or they quit. And legal fees may...
by AlyoshaKaramazov
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on Sun Jun 17, 2018 at 07:44 AM PDT
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I’ve run out of energy for creating yet another clever analogy (to help explain this news);
I’m running on empty for cranking out, yet more rhetorical outrage.
So I’ll just post the RNLOTD* Link...
by jamess
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on Thu Jul 13, 2017 at 07:13 PM PDT
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Assume for a moment, that you had a fleet of “drones” and you decide to go for broke, and start your own Pizza Delivery business, by drone. Your motto: “Delivery in 20 Minutes or less, or it’s Free!”
You get your Pizza Supplier(s) lined up....
by jamess
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on Wed Jul 12, 2017 at 07:40 PM PDT
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U.S. sweeping up Russian hackers in a broad global dragnet, a McClatchy article by Tim Johnson, is dated March 31 and was featured in the Fresno Bee on Sunday, April 2. It begins:
The arrests caught the Russian hackers totally by surprise. One was...
by ybruti
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on Sun Apr 02, 2017 at 04:10 PM PDT
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New Trump foreign adviser accused of Holocaust denial: 'Ovens were too small to kill 6 million Jews' After choosing his team of foreign policy advisers, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is once again finding himself deep in it. One of his advisors, Joseph Schmitz, is being accused of anti-Semitic behavior. McClatchyDC reports:
Joseph...
by Leslie Salzillo
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on Fri Aug 19, 2016 at 01:44 PM PDT
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Hillary Clinton has surged to a 15-point lead over reeling, gaffe-plagued Donald Trump, according to a new McClatchy-Marist poll.
Clinton made strong gains with two constituencies crucial to a Republican victory – whites and men — while scoring...
by cycloptichorn
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on Thu Aug 04, 2016 at 01:58 PM PDT
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See if what jumped out to me jumps out to you too.
Mossack Fonseca is a leading global player in the incorporation of offshore companies across the globe. It was the subject of the largest-ever financial breach, and 11.5 million of its...
by ericf
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on Thu Apr 07, 2016 at 06:14 PM PDT
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Honest answer to a reader's question
No snark, no smartassery. This is one of the finest responses I've ever seen to this kind of question.
Setup: The Charlotte Observer's Taylor Batten wrote a ...
by Black Max
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on Mon May 18, 2015 at 08:33 PM PDT
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International law is suddenly very popular in Washington. President Obama responded to Russian military intervention in the Crimea by accusing Russia of a “breach of international law.” ...
by NormanSolomon
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on Mon Mar 03, 2014 at 02:02 AM PST
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Disclaimer: I apologize to Hillary Clinton up front for criticizing a Wall Street bank. I know that these criticisms might affect how much they decide to give to her 2016 presidential campaign but ...
by gnosticator
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on Thu Dec 19, 2013 at 11:36 AM PST
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“The Attorney General hereby is delegated the power to approve the use for intelligence purposes, within the United States or against a United States person abroad, of any technique for which a ...
by markthshark
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on Fri Nov 22, 2013 at 01:35 AM PST
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It's bad enough that National Security Agency (NSA) General Counsel Raj De lied through his teeth in testimony in front of the President’s [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCLOB Privacy and Civil ...
by bobswern
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on Tue Nov 05, 2013 at 10:33 AM PST
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For more than a month, outrage has been profuse in response to news about NSA surveillance and other evidence that all three branches of the U.S. government are turning Uncle Sam into Big Brother.
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by NormanSolomon
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on Wed Jul 10, 2013 at 12:51 PM PDT
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“Hammer this fact home . . . leaking is tantamount to aiding the enemies of the United States,” says a June 1, 2012, Defense Department strategy for the program that was obtained by McClatchy.
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by markthshark
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on Mon Jun 24, 2013 at 04:16 AM PDT
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