On July 26, I received an urgent call from a State Department Freedom of Information (FOI) office. "I'm calling about your Freedom of Information request for information/communications regarding the Benghazi attack." First, the officer wanted to know if I still want the records. A reasonable question. After all, it's been four years. I've since changed jobs, gotten […]
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Leaked DNC email: Democrats delighted that news coverage exaggerated anti-Trump protest size
Last May, when Donald Trump met with House Speaker Paul Ryan at Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington D.C., anti-Trump protesters "swarmed" the area. Well, maybe not so much. It turns out news reports at the time seem to have exaggerated the truth. That's one thing we learned from newly-leaked Democratic National Committee (DNC) emails. Democrats had tried […]
"Better off not having invaded Iraq"--Sen. Rockefeller 2006
It was almost ten years ago that Sen. John Rockefeller, a Democrat from West Virginia, told me the U.S. would have been better off if it had never invaded Iraq in 2003...even if it meant leaving Saddam Hussein in power. At the time, it was a startling statement. Today, other Democrats and some Republicans have […]
FBI Pros Question Decision Not to Charge Hillary Clinton
If some in the general public were outraged, so were some in the FBI. This week, FBI Director James Comey testified that Hillary Clinton and her aides had compromised classified information in an extremely careless fashion, exposed it to hostile adversaries, violated public records law, destroyed public documents (some permanently, so that they cannot be forensically recovered) […]
"The Link" between animal cruelty and serial killers
From the Boston Strangler to Jeffrey Dahmer, there's a known link between serial killers and animal cruelty...so why hasn't the FBI been tracking animal abuse crimes in its national database? Sunday on Full Measure, we speak to a psychologist and animal rights defender who changed the way the feds think about "The Link," and how she […]
Marine Deserves Same Leniency as Hillary Clinton, Says Attorney
From Marine Corps Times: The attorney representing a Marine officer accused of mishandling classified information by warning troops in Afghanistan about the threat of an insider attack said he plans to argue that his client deserves the same leniency that Hillary Clinton received. [quote]“And certainly, if Secretary Clinton becomes the next commander-in-chief, it would [be] […]
15 FBI Findings and Why It's Not All About Hillary
The following is a news commentary and analysis It's a felony to mishandle classified information either intentionally or in a grossly negligent way. It's a misdemeanor to knowingly remove classified information from appropriate systems or storage facilities. On these points, there's unanimity. There's not so much unanimity when it comes to how one interprets "intention," […]
Part 2: More on Mrs. Clinton's Benghazi Chapter
The following is a brief excerpt from my book Stonewalled, a New York Times best seller Mrs. Clinton's Benghazi Chapter ...In what looks like a striking attempt to rewrite her post-Benghazi narrative and speeches, Clinton goes heavy in her book on recounting instances in which she used terms such as “heavily armed militants,” “violent attackers,” or […]
