Author: Jeff Anderson

Mitch McConnell shifts positions, now backs a bipartisan investigation into whether Russia helped Trump win

Mitch McConnell shifts positions, now backs a bipartisan investigation into whether Russia helped Trump win

Posted by | Dec 12, 2016 | |

Since this weekend’s bombshell story in the Washington Post at least five leading Republican senators — including John McCain and Lindsey Graham — are calling for a congressional investigation into Russian hacking, the Republican Party has been scrambling to figure out how to respond. [AdSense-A] On Monday, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell became the most powerful Republican to call for an investigation. McConnel’s statement comes as a major switch from the reports this weekend that he had led the effort to keep the Obama Administration from releasing information about Russian hacking in the 2016 election. Mitch McConnell said he wanted a “bipartisan”...

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BREAKING: Bipartisan Electors Demand: Release Facts on Outside Interference in U.S. Election

BREAKING: Bipartisan Electors Demand: Release Facts on Outside Interference in U.S. Election

Posted by | Dec 12, 2016 | |

[AdSense-A] On Monday, a bipartisan group of electors released a joint statement demanding that Director of National Intelligence James Clapper release the facts on outside interference, specifically Russian hacking, in the 2016 election. The full statement can be read below: Open Letter to Director of National Intelligence James Clapper: We are Electors who were selected by the voters of our states to represent them in the Electoral College on December 19, 2016. We intend to discharge our duties as Electors by ensuring that we select a candidate for president who, as our Founding Fathers envisioned, would be “endowed with...

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BREAKING: Clinton Campaign Demands that Electoral College be briefed on Russian election hack

BREAKING: Clinton Campaign Demands that Electoral College be briefed on Russian election hack

Posted by | Dec 12, 2016 | |

With just one week before the Electoral College is set to vote, John Podesta -Hillary Clinton campaign chair – released a statement in support of a movement by some of the electors to receive the intelligence briefing. [AdSense-A] On Monday, 10 presidential electors, mostly from states Clinton won, signed a letter requesting the briefing from Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. Hillary Clinton’s campaign is supporting the members of the Electoral College request  to receive an intelligence briefing on possible Russian interference in the presidential election before that body makes the results official on December 19. “The bipartisan electors’ letter...

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Donald Trump Says He Won’t Sell His Businesses To Address Conflicts Of Interest

Donald Trump Says He Won’t Sell His Businesses To Address Conflicts Of Interest

Posted by | Dec 11, 2016 | |

Donald Trump said Sunday that he will not sell his business to avoid conflicts of interest during his presidency. Instead, he will allow his children to run the business – an idea which has come under fire because it doesn’t alleviate any conflicts. [AdSense-A] “My executives will run it with my children. It’s a big company. It’s a great company. But I’m going to have nothing to do with management,” Trump told Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday. Trump had recently suggested that he would take steps to separate himself from his business and that he would announce the...

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Bipartisan group of senators calling on congress to confront Russian cyberattacks

Bipartisan group of senators calling on congress to confront Russian cyberattacks

Posted by | Dec 11, 2016 | |

[AdSense-A] As Trump continues to dismiss the CIA’s ability to gather intelligence, a bipartisan group of four senators have called on Congress to confront Russian cyber attacks. “Congress’s national security committees have worked diligently to address the complex challenge of cybersecurity, but recent events show that more must be done,” the senators said. “While protecting classified material, we have an obligation to inform the public about recent cyberattacks that have cut to the heart of our free society. Democrats and Republicans must work together, and across the jurisdictional lines of the Congress, to examine these recent incidents thoroughly and...

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