War Is A Crime

FBI Director Wray grilled by Republicans over ‘bias’ concerns in Russia, Clinton email cases – Fox News

Goodlatte raises ‘questions regarding the FBI’s impartiality’; wants documents on FISA warrants, Trump dossier – CNS

Goodlatte’s letter to Sessions, Rosenstein and Wray, calling on DOJ and FBI to release information on warrant based on controversial dossier – House Judiciary Committee

Jim Jordan pushes FBI on ties between Peter Strzok and Trump surveillance, calls for a special counsel – washingtonexaminer.com

FBI head seems to confirm Trump Russia probes have asked for wiretap warrants – NBC News

Rep. Gaetz to FBI director: Did Hillary Clinton get special treatment? ‘Did the FBI pay for a dossier on the President?’ – CNS

Gowdy: More revelations of bias, prejudice likely from DOJ – newsmax.com

VIDEO: Congressman Goodlatte questions FBI director Wray – YouTube

VIDEO: Rep. Jordan grills FBI director: Did agent who sent anti-Trump texts bring dossier to FISA court? – Fox News Insider

VIDEO: Gaetz demands FBI director explain “special” treatment of Clinton during investigation – YouTube

VIDEO: Trey Gowdy grills FBI director Christopher Wray on President Trump Russia investigation – YouTube

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By the time you read this, the latest brouhaha will undoubtedly be history — or do I mean “fake history”? — and largely forgotten. It will have been replaced by an explosion of media coverage about some other nightmarish set of presidential tweets or comments. After all, it’s a pattern. I’m referring to President Trump’s recent retweeting read more

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Few Americans ever took in the vastness of the prison outsourcing system the administration of George W. Bush set up from Afghanistan to Iraq, Thailand to Poland, read more

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Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands.  The U.S. got clobbered.  Three category 4 or 5 Atlantic hurricanes of startling intensity, a record read more

If you haven’t seen Charlottesville on the news lately, you should know that the Lee Statue and the Jackson Statue still stand, covered with enormous black garbage bags so that nobody can see them, but everybody can know there’s something ugly there. The state of Virginia forbids localities from removing any war memorials whatsoever, at least if you apply laws retroactively and have no courage. Nobody has made any move to repeal that state restriction, principally because nobody wants to make read more

GOP preps contempt resolution for top FBI, DOJ officials after missed Monday deadline – washingtonexaminer.com

House Intel Committee Chairman Devin Nunes statement on FBI/DOJ obstruction – rutgers.forums

VIDEO: GOP demands answers on FBI agent Strzok’s role in Clinton probe – YouTube

DOJ to hand over FBI agent Strzok’s anti-Trump texts to the House Intelligence Committee, amid contempt threat – Fox News

Mueller aide Strzok fired for anti-Trump texts now facing DOJ review for role in Clinton email probe – Fox News

Justice Department offers up key witness on Trump dossier as House Intel Chair threatens contempt – CNN

The DOJ has been investigating the FBI for 11 months: Attorney General Jeff Sessions, FBI spox and office of DOJ Inspector General release statements – Alex Jones’ Infowars

Gowdy: FBI has had a ‘really bad last 18 months’ – TheHill

Peter Strzok has got to be the most productive deep state FBI agent of all time. A list of his activities – InvestmentWatch

Top Clinton aides, interviewed by Strzok, faced no charges after making false statements to FBI – The Daily Caller

VIDEO: Trump: Hillary Clinton lied many times to FBI and nothing happened to her, Flynn lied and they ruined his life – RealClearPolitics

Anti-Trump FBI agent fired from Mueller probe relied on Trump dossier – Zero Hedge

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Shireen Al-Adeimi is a former middle school teacher and is currently finishing her doctoral studies at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She was born in Yemen and has lived in the United States for 10 years. She recently wrote an article published by Common Dreams titled “Only Americans Can Stop America’s War on Yemen.”

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Daniel Ellsberg’s new book is The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner. I’ve known the author for years, I’m prouder than ever to say. We have done speaking events and media interviews together. We’ve been arrested together protesting wars. We’ve publicly debated electoral politics. We’ve privately debated the justness of World War II. (Dan approves of U.S. entry into World War II, and it seems into the war on Korea as well, though he has nothing but condemnation read more

Although the U.S. peace movement has been on the wane for about a decade, it remains a viable force in American life.  Organizations like Peace Action, the American Friends Service Committee, Physicians for Social Responsibility, the Fellowship of Reconciliation, Jewish read more