If U.S. Congress is going to form a special subcommittee looking at government overreach and illegality, then it should do exactly that.
John Kiriakou: GOP Has Not Created a New Church Committee
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GOP won’t bird-dog defense budget with these hawks at the helm
Speaker McCarthy may have promised to cut defense spending, but his early actions suggest that he has little interest in rocking the boat.
GOP won’t bird-dog defense budget with these hawks at the helm
When the FBI Attacks Critics as “Conspiracy Theorists,” It’s Time to Reform the Bureau
Below is my column in the Hill on the need for a new “Church Committee” to investigate and reform the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) after years of scandals involving alleged political bias. In response to criticism over its role in Twitter’s censorship system, the FBI lashed out against critics as “conspiracy theorists” spreading disinformation. However, it still refuses to supply new information on other companies, beyond Twitter, that it has paid to engage in censorship.
When the FBI Attacks Critics as “Conspiracy Theorists,” It’s Time to Reform the Bureau
Previously:
The FBI Paid Twitter $3.4 Million for Processing Requests:
Twitter’s “Guidelines for law enforcement” does state under a section titled “Cost reimbursement” that “Twitter may seek reimbursement for costs associated with information produced pursuant to legal process and as permitted by law (e.g., under 18 U.S.C. §2706).” But the fact that this garnered millions from the FBI was not, as far as I can tell, known until now.
[2020] Republicans blasting China forget that the GOP enabled Beijing’s rise
As a deadly pandemic wreaks havoc in an election year, Republicans are leveling relentless attacks against China. To be sure, Beijing’s initial response to the coronavirus outbreak was littered with errors, egregious injustices and conspiracy-mongering.
Republicans blasting China forget that the GOP enabled Beijing’s rise
Related:
What Republicans did 15 years ago to help create Donald Trump today
Urged on by their presidential standard-bearer, Texas Gov. George W. Bush, and by nearly all of the business lobbyists who represented the core of the party’s donor class, three-quarters of House Republicans voted to extend the status of permanent normal trade relations to China. They were more than enough, when added to a minority of Democrats, to secure passage of a bill that would sail through the Senate and be signed into law by President Bill Clinton.
State TikTok Bans Are A Dumb Performance And Don’t Fix The Actual Underlying Problem
For decades, U.S. politicians leaders utterly refused to support most meaningful privacy protections for consumers. They opposed any nationwide privacy law, however straightforward. They opposed privacy rules for broadband ISPs. They also fought tooth and nail to ensure the nation’s top privacy enforcement agency, the FTC, lacked the authority, staff, funds, or resources to actually do its job.
State TikTok Bans Are A Dumb Performance And Don’t Fix The Actual Underlying Problem
Top US general says US will support Ukraine’s defence ‘for as long as it takes’
US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley on Wednesday said America’s support for Ukraine’s defence efforts will remain a priority for the Pentagon until Kyiv’s forces accomplish their own goals at their own pace.
Top US general says US will support Ukraine’s defence ‘for as long as it takes’
H/T: Biden debunks Elensky. CIA Burns in Kiev. General Milley, ‘as long as it takes.’ U/1 via Alex Christoforou
Guess negotiations are out of the question, now?!
‘The quiet part out loud’: Wisconsin GOP gubernatorial nominee makes extreme promise to supporters if he wins
In the 2022 midterms, MAGA election deniers haven’t necessarily been as overt as Arizona GOP gubernatorial nominee Kari Lake or her Pennsylvania counterpart Doug Mastriano. Some have never acknowledged that President Joe Biden legitimately won the 2020 election but avoid discussing the Big Lie. In Wisconsin, however, Democrats are slamming Republican gubernatorial nominee Tim Michels for saying “the quiet part out loud” and essentially promising that if he defeats Democratic incumbent Gov. Tony Evers on November 8, he would simply throw out any election results that he doesn’t like.
‘The quiet part out loud’: Wisconsin GOP gubernatorial nominee makes extreme promise to supporters if he wins
Sen. Cramer to Ukraine: Don’t fear a GOP-led Congress
Sen. KEVIN CRAMER (R-N.D.) doesn’t want Ukraine to worry that a Republican-led Congress means less support for its war against Russia.
The Senate Armed Services Committee member said the “blank check” comment by his colleague, KEVIN McCARTHY (R-Calif.), the presumptive speaker of the House should Republicans prevail in the midterms, was taken out of context.
Sen. Cramer to Ukraine: Don’t fear a GOP-led Congress
#SSDD
Voices: J. D. Vance wouldn’t know what to say to a real Appalachian like me. Ohio deserves better
I sometimes joke that J.D. Vance is my evil twin. Born a year and a half before me, Vance and I are both the grandchildren of Appalachian out-migrants. He is the first in his family to obtain a university degree, and so am I. He grew up about 30 miles from where I grew up in the decaying Rust Belt cities between Dayton and Cincinnati. Jackson, from where his grandmother hailed and from whence J.D. claims his Appalachian identity, is 45 miles from my grandmother’s home town — and where I spent much of my childhood and graduated high school — in Hyden.
Voices: J. D. Vance wouldn’t know what to say to a real Appalachian like me. Ohio deserves better
Related:
J.D. Vance’s First Attempt to Renew Ohio Crumbled Quickly
Video via More Perfect Union
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