by Jim Heath | Dec 19, 2020 | Headlines, Trump
Attorney General Bill Barr confirmed the Central Intelligence Agency didn’t stray beyond its international spy brief in 2016. Barr, who is leaving the Justice Department before Christmas, told the Wall Street Journal’s Kim Strassel this week that early on,...
by Jim Heath | Dec 19, 2020 | 2020, Headlines, Trump
Outgoing President Trump yesterday discussed making Sidney Powell, who as a lawyer for his campaign team unleashed a series of conspiracy theories about a Venezuelan plot to rig voting machines in the United States, a special counsel investigating voter fraud....
by Jim Heath | Dec 19, 2020 | Cyber Security, Foreign Affairs, Headlines, Trump
Donald Trump has hit out at Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for blaming Russia for the huge cyber attack. In a swipe at Pompeo, the one-term defeated president who has had a love-type relationship with Russia and its authoritarian leader Vladimir Putin, tweeted today...
by Jim Heath | Dec 18, 2020 | Cyber Security, Foreign Affairs, Headlines, Putin, Trump
A massive suspected Russian hacking campaign that compromised broad swathes of the federal government and private sector is being called a ‘cyber Pearl Harbor’ by members of both political parties. The sprawling attack, which went undetected for nearly...
by Jim Heath | Dec 17, 2020 | Headlines, Trump
President Trump’s neighbors in Florida are seeking to enforce a decades-old compact that says Mar-a-Lago, his private social club, cannot be used as a full-time residence — as Trump has suggested he plans to do after he leaves the White House. NYTimes: Neighbors of...
by Jim Heath | Dec 16, 2020 | 2020, Fox News, Headlines, Trump
The sorest presidential loser in American history spent his morning tearing into Fox News Channel, proclaiming that the right-leaning network was ‘dead.’ ‘Can’t believe how badly @FoxNews is doing in the ratings. They played right into the...