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Declassified Intelligence Report Shows FBI Withheld Key Details About Steele Dossier (The Daily Caller)
FBI officials left key details about former British spy Christopher Steele and his infamous dossier out of a newly declassified Intelligence Community Assessment regarding Russian interference in the 2016 election.
The two-page document, which Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe declassified this week, describes Steele’s allegations about possible links between the Trump campaign and Russian government. It says that an FBI source — Steele — had provided information thought to be credible regarding Russia’s goals in meddling in the election. [Read More]
A longtime UCLA professor has been placed on leave after facing backlash over his response to a student’s request to postpone the final exam for African American students, considering the impact of George Floyd’s death.
For complete coverage of the situation in Minneapolis visit CBSMinnesota.com and stream CBSN Minnesota.
Gordon Klein received the email on June 2, and rejected the request, stating the following, according to a change.org petition calling for his termination: [Read More]
We’ll buy the paint.
DC Mayor paints political statement on street: “Black Lives Matter”/Allows “Defund the Police” as well!@JudicialWatch demands equal access under First Amendment to paint our motto, “Because No One is Above the Law!” https://t.co/cyWAop3YJF pic.twitter.com/DGYCNximqy
— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) June 11, 2020
Biden says Floyd death having bigger global impact than MLK assassination (The Hill)
Former Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday said that he thinks the killing of George Floyd in police custody last month is having a greater global impact than even the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King.
Speaking at a roundtable discussion in Philadelphia, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president said that the advent of smartphones had allowed the reality of police brutality against people of color to spread like it never has before, comparing it to how the rise in the number of homes with televisions in the 1960s showed Americans the police violence that marked the civil rights movement. [Read More]
Senior citizens will be the ‘deciding factor’ in 2020 election (Washington Examiner)
The ad shows a drive-by of rural post-industrial unnamed town in this western Pennsylvania county. The woman in the ad explains her name is Janie. She is a fisher who caught two legal Northern Pike the day her daughter was born, voted for Donald Trump in 2016, and now believes the choice was wrong because of his attempt to try to cut Medicaid.
The most important bit of information in the ad is her age; she is 82 years old, and strategists and experts agree she and her peers may be the most important voting bloc in November’s election. [Read More]
This is NOT What Democracy Looks Like (Townhall)
“This is what Democracy looks like!” That’s the chant we’ve grown accustomed to hearing when legions of angry Americans have taken to the streets to voice their displeasure and righteous anger over an issue they feel about passionately.
As hundreds of protesters march and let their elected officials know that their passion will translate into votes in the next election cycle, they shout in unison: “This is what Democracy looks like!” [Read More]
I’m a conservative, and I agree that black lives matter. Why is this even controversial?
Conservative’s policies, values, and principles have demonstrated over the decades our deep concern and compassion for black lives, black futures, black upward mobility, and black educational progress. Meanwhile, progressive policies put in practice in Democratic-controlled cities across America and the national education system from K through graduate school have created, nurtured, and empowered the most devastatingly racist outcomes in the past century for black Americans. [Read More]
