US News Jamaal Bowman defeats high ranking House Democrat Elliot Engel. [Link] A black man in Michigan was wrongfully arrested after being identified by facial recognition. He was held for 30 hours before being released on bail. [Link] The FBI doubles down on...
Ray McGovern reflects on the demise of "Russiagate," now that two central pieces of the narrative have fallen apart. The first comes from newly-released transcripts of the House Intelligence Committee's 2017 interview with a senior member of Crowdstrike, the firm that...
New House Documents Sow Further Doubt That Russia Hacked the DNC House Intelligence Committee documents released Thursday reveal that the committee was told two and half years ago that the FBI had no concrete evidence that Russia hacked Democratic National Committee...
In The New Yorker: The case against you relies in part on the claim that you helped in “facilitating the commission of a crime.” Did you do anything to encourage the hacking of cell phones or other devices? No. In fact, when the source first talked to me, he had...
US News Illinois changes a law that suspended driver's licenses for unpaid parking tickets. [Link] Reports say Trump will add seven countries to his travel ban list. [Link] Iranian students with valid visas are being detained when they get to the US and some of them...
As TFTP reported in April, several men in black suits, surrounded by a dozen cops, raided the Ecuadorian embassy in London and kidnapped Julian Assange. Since that day, Assange has been rotting in solitary confinement as his health drastically deteriorated. “Unless...
Gareth Porter explains why the claim that the Russian government "hacked all 50 U.S. states" is false—namely, the states themselves know that their systems were intact! The narrative has nonetheless been pushed continuously, as democrats try to justify Hillary...
He faces 170 years. The indictment is garbage. It begins by citing public requests by Wikileaks for classified documents from a number of governments. As though this is different in kind from what any investigative reporter might do. (Please assume the term...
