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Trump Announces Elite Pedophile Human Trafficking Ring Investigation
This is YUUUUUUGE! President Trump has announced a federal investigation into the Pizzagate elite pedophile scandal involving human trafficking on Tuesday and promised to help put an end to the “horrific, really horrific crimes taking place.”
The president held a short, dramatic press conference after meeting with human trafficking experts to announce that he will direct “the Department of Justice,...
AG Sessions Vows to Tackle Cartels, Illegal Immigration
There’s a new sheriff in town.
Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions was officially sworn-in as US attorney general by Vice President Mike Pence Thursday in the Oval Office.
Calling him a “man of integrity” and “total, utter resolve,” President Donald Trump said Sessions’ Department of Justice would be directed to address criminal drug cartels, help reduce violent crime, and stop crimes against...
Assange stands by US extradition offer, promises big publishing year ahead
WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, has said he’ll stand by his promise to be extradited to the US following Chelsea Manning’s commutation, while promising a “big publishing year ahead.”
In a press conference broadcast on Periscope on Thursday, Assange said he “stands by everything I said including the offer to go to the United States if Chelsea Manning’s sentence was commuted.”
“We...
Ted Cruz Incinerates Corrupt Senate Democrats at Sessions Hearing
Democrat senators were taken behind the woodshed and thrashed without remorse by expert litigator, Ted Cruz, at Jeff Sessions’ confirmation hearing on Tuesday.
After Democrats attempted to smear and degrade Sessions’ character with their worn out, baseless accusations of racism and xenophobia, debate champion Cruz stepped up to the plate to remind the world of some of the most egregious Constitutional...
Lynch says she regrets tarmac meeting with Clinton
Attorney General Loretta Lynch said Sunday that the fallout from her tarmac meeting with former President Bill Clinton was “painful” for her.
“I do regret sitting down and having a conversation with him, because it did give people concern. And as I said, my greatest concern has always been making sure that people understand that the Department of Justice works in a way that is independent and...
NSA court plea: ‘Let us spy 6 more months’
Department of Justice officials have asked a federal court to restart the NSA spy programs shut down when portions of the Patriot Act expired on June 1. The US government claims the Freedom Act allows surveillance to continue for six more months.
In a filing to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), revealed Monday, the Department of Justice (DOJ) requested permission to continue the...
Actor Steven Seagal: ‘We have to take this country back’
Hollywood superstar Steven Seagal had a few words to say at the Western Center for Journalism’s recent gathering which took place on Feb. 22, 2014.
Seagal said he had no idea he was speaking that night, but some think otherwise as he spoke on the need to “take this country back”.
Seagal said:
“When we have a leadership that thinks the Constitution is a joke–when we have a president who...
US prison population jumps 27% in a decade over harsh drug sentencing
The number of Americans incarcerated in federal prisons throughout the country has increased by nearly 30 percent over the past ten years, according to a new report by an investigative arm of Congress.
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) report released Monday attributed the 27 percent surge in prison population to mandatory sentencing minimums. The practice, in which a judge’s discretion...
Over 700,000 people on US watch list: Once you get on, there’s no way off
The names of nearly three-quarters of a million individuals have been secretly added to watch lists administered by the United States government, but federal officials are adamant about keeping information about these rosters under wraps.
A report by the New York Times’ Susan Stellin published over the weekend attempted to shine much-deserved light on an otherwise largely unexposed program of federal...
DOJ wants Bush, senior cabinet members exempt from Iraq War trial
The United States Department of Justice has requested that former President George W. Bush and the highest figures in his administration receive full exemption from being tried for the Iraq War, which the DoJ says was in line with international law.
Apart from Bush, the names listed in the paper the DoJ filed on Tuesday are former Vice President Richard Cheney, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld,...
America No Longer Has a Functioning Judicial System
The Department of Justice told a federal court this week that the NSA’s spying “cannot be challenged in a court of law”.
(This is especially dramatic given that numerous federal judges and legal scholars – including a former FISA judge – say that the FISA spying “court” is nothing but a kangaroo court.)
Also this week, the Department of Justice told a federal court that the courts cannot...
Big banks take advantage of money laundering epidemic in US
The attorney general of the United States says the country’s largest banks may be too big to jail, but the former chief economist for the International Monetary Fund isn’t exactly convinced.
Simon Johnson, the former top IMF economist and a current professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, published a blistering editorial in Bloomberg News this week that makes an argument for imprisoning...
Obama administration to overturn Washington & Colorado marijuana legalization
New legislation in Washington state went into effect this week that legalizes for the first time in ages the possession of marijuana. Federal law still says otherwise, though, setting up the Justice Department to make some serious determinations.
Even as smoking up became protected by state law in Washington starting Thursday, coast-to-coast prohibition as provided by a long-standing federal ruling...
The DHS is and Plans to Continue to Collect Children's DNA
A series of documents released through a Freedom of Information Act submitted by the Electronic Freedom Foundation shows that homeland security plans to collect data from children, possibly younger than 14.
The documents appear to show the DHS planning to line up with existing regulations put out by the DOJ which already call for the collection of all arrested citizens over age 14.
An article published...
TSA Under Pressure in Texas
Alex Jones’ spontaneous decision calling on Texans to protest the government’s egregious threat of a federal blockade if the Texas Senate passed an anti-TSA groping bill resulted in hundreds of protesters storming the Capitol in Austin yesterday afternoon.
As we reported yesterday, the TSA and the Department of Justice resorted to financial terrorism by threatening a federal blockade that...