The nomination of the Donald Trump hyper loyalist Kash Patel to serve as FBI director is unusual. First, the job is currently occupied, by one Christopher Wray — himself a Trump appointee — who technically has three years left on his 10-year term of service. On Wednesday, however, Wray preemptively …
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As he fills out his incoming administration, Donald Trump’s nominees have ranged from absolutely unqualified to ideological nightmares. But he might have just made his scariest hire yet. On Saturday night, Trump announced he’s selected Kash Patel to lead the FBI. Patel is one of Trump’s most loyal enforcers and …
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Republican Sen. Bill Hagerty is excited for Kash Patel to dismantle the Federal Bureau of Investigation and is taking credit for encouraging Trump to bring Patel “to the table.” “I’ve encouraged Trump to bring Kash Patel to the table for precisely this reason… He represents the type of change that …
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It was the summer of 2016 when a manager at the Central Intelligence Agency pulled him into a conference room, sat him down at a table, and asked him to read the intelligence they had brought. Michael van Landingham wasn’t naive about what the Kremlin was capable of. His work …
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In response to a lawsuit by Rolling Stone and National Security Counselors, the Department of Justice has turned over two tranches of FBI documents related to former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Rolling Stone’s Freedom of Information Act request, filed hours after the announcement of his death in November 2023, …
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Donald Trump’s attorneys recently argued in court that the former president should be shielded from all criminal prosecution — even if they order the assassination of a political opponent. While no president has yet to test that bold legal theory, Trump and his MAGA allies are now baselessly attempting to …
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The South Carolina man arrested after barreling his car through the FBI‘s front gate in Atlanta on Monday has a long history of far-right posts on social media — and he even wrote “I love you” to Donald Trump, according to new research. Advance Democracy, a nonpartisan nonprofit group that …
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Officials raided two of Sean Combs‘ homes on Monday, a law-enforcement source confirmed toRolling Stone,as part of a federal sex-trafficking investigation. Led by Homeland Security, the raid was carried out just four months after the rap mogul’s ex-girlfriend, singer Cassie, accused Combs of sex trafficking. Helicopters and agents were seen …
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Twitter recently lost one of its premier chaos agents: Jaboukie Young-White, the ace comic responsible for maybe the best single act of trolling in the hellsite’s history. The Illinois native attracted a large social media following in the 2010s thanks to his Instagram posts and tweets brimming with sardonic wit …
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O n an August night in 2003, a young woman who went by the name Paulina sank into the sofa of her modest, rented apartment, opened up her laptop, and began talking about sex with a man she’d recently met in a Yahoo chat group. His name was Stephen Bolen. …
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