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Congress' oversight of the White House is put on indefinite hold

Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) seems a little too eager to prove the thesis correct. TPM reported yesterday:

House Oversight Committee Chair Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) said Wednesday that he doesn't think President Donald Trump's tweet attacking department store Nordstrom for dropping his daughter Ivanka Trump's clothing and accessories line is "a big deal" ...

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/congress-oversight-the-white-house-put-indefinite-hold/amp

Congress' oversight of the White House is put on indefinite hold

Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) is bolstering the thesis that Congress "has increasingly become a check only on presidents of the opposite party."

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House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) sits in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill March 19, 2015 in Washington, DC.

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02/09/17 12:52PM — UPDATED 02/09/17 02:34PM
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A fool right yall.

The White House employee who ensures Trump doesn’t get hacked has been fired

A troubling report last month revealed that President Donald Trump still uses “his old, unsecured Android phone” despite protests from security experts and his closest advisers, He was given a more secure device once he took office, but for whatever reason, he refuses to make the switch and continues to tweet from his old phone. As baffling as this is, it’s even more frightening in light of the news that Cory Louie, chief information security officer for the White House’s Executive Office, has left his post ...

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/white-house-employee-ensures-trump-doesn-t-hacked-222351743.html

The White House employee who ensures Trump doesn’t get hacked has been fired

A troubling report last month revealed that President Donald Trump still uses "his old, unsecured Android phone" despite protests from security experts and his closest advisers. He was given a more secure device once he took office , but for...

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Jacob Siegal
BGR News
February 9, 2017

 

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... yeah buddy, folk tired of this mess in Utah.

'DO YOUR JOB!': Crowd repeatedly shouts down House Oversight chairman in raucous town hall meeting

Chaffetz, who represents Utah's 3rd congressional district, took questions on several topics inside a high school auditorium that was filled to capacity, several media outlets reported.

Attendees challenged him on Obamacare, energy policy, and Planned Parenthood — but the audience grew increasingly restless and raucous whenever the discussion turned toward recent controversies roiling the White House ...

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'DO YOUR JOB!': Crowd repeatedly shouts down House Oversight chairman in raucous town hall meeting

Rep. Jason Chaffetz, the Republican head of the House Oversight Committee, faced a rowdy audience...

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Jason Chaffetz town hall



Bryan Logan
Business Insider
February 10, 2017


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Jake Tapper, CNN’s Resident BS Detector, on How to Hold President Trump to Account
The CNN anchor tells The Daily Beast that, much as he would rather focus on Trump’s policies, ‘it becomes difficult to cover when one has to point out that the president is telling falsehoods’


With his repertoire of sullen facial expressions as he confronts the latest whopper emanating from Donald Trump’s White House, it’s not hard to guess what Jake Tapper is thinking.

“I’m trying to keep my face as neutral as possible,” the CNN anchor protested on Wednesday, the morning after his epic, 25-minute televised clash with presidential counselor Kellyanne Conway—in which the usually feisty Conway wilted under fire as Tapper repeatedly called out her boss for what he politely referred to as “falsehoods” ...

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...The+Daily+Beast+-+Latest+Articles)&yptr=yahoo

Jake Tapper, CNN’s Resident BS Detector, on How to Hold President Trump to Account

The CNN anchor tells us that, much as he would rather focus on Trump’s policies, ‘it becomes difficult to cover when one has to point out that the president is telling falsehoods.’

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Loose lips sinks ships

White House pledges to investigate numerous information leaks from within its own ranks

Press Secretary Sean Spicer said in comments carried by The Hill: "We're looking into the situation, yes, and it's very concerning.

"Some of them are done in a way that the release of that information is clearly a breach of a lot of protocols and laws" ...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/white-house-pledges-investigate-numerous-044609639.html

White House pledges to investigate numerous information leaks from within its own ranks

Leaks coming from within US President Donald Trump's White House are being investigated over what has been described as a "breach of protocol". News leaked in recent days includes information on Trump's phone call with Russian President Vladimir...

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The history of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin’s bromance




Harriet Sinclair
International Business Times
February 9, 2017


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Trump said, 'See you in court' and the internet replied, 'What?'

President Donald Trump lost a court battle on Thursday regarding his travel ban on seven Muslim-majority nations.

After the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a block on the ban, the president tweeted an all-caps "SEE YOU IN COURT" ...

http://mashable.com/2017/02/09/trump-see-you-in-court-memes/#QqKVqfcO2kqJ

Trump said, 'See you in court' and the internet replied, 'What?'

Trump wants to see a court in court for upholding a court's decision. Yep.

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Ain't nobody gonna put boots on the ground in Syria, and President Obama was right all along about safe zones (no-fly).

Exclusive: Syria’s Assad rejects Trump’s call for ‘safe zones’

DAMASCUS, SYRIA — Syrian President Bashar Assad, in an exclusive interview with Yahoo News, rejected President Trump’s idea to create “safe zones” inside Syria as “not a realistic idea at all.” He said he could see a role for American troops to fight the Islamic State in Syria, but only with his government’s approval and as part of a “rapprochement” with Russia ...

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Exclusive: Syria’s Assad rejects Trump’s call for ‘safe zones’

Syrian President Bashar Assad, in an exclusive interview with Yahoo News, rejected President Trump’s idea to create “safe zones” inside Syria as “not a realistic idea at all.” He said he could see a role for American troops to fight the Islamic...

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Michael Isikoff
Chief Investigative Correspondent
Yahoo News
February 10, 2017


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Justice Kennedy's opinion in 2015 case looms in U.S. travel ban fight

... Kennedy's opinion showed he is "not prepared to give complete and total deference to the executive branch in the enforcement of immigration laws," Haddad added.

Samuel Alito, one of the court's most conservative justices, signed onto Kennedy's opinion; in total, six of the current eight justices suggested in that 2015 case that the government was not immune from scrutiny over immigration-related decisions if there was evidence of a questionable motive ...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/justice-kennedys-opinion-2015-case-looms-u-travel-163810427.html

Justice Kennedy's opinion in 2015 case looms in U.S. travel ban fight

Justice Anthony Kennedy's legal reasoning in a little-noticed 2015 U.S. Supreme Court immigration ruling could play a pivotal role in deciding the fate of President Donald Trump's travel ban if the high court eventually decides the matter. The...

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U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy arrives to attend the 64th Annual Red Mass at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington, U.S., October 2, 2016. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts




By Lawrence Hurley
Reuters
February 10, 2017



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#StandForSomething



By refusing to visit the White House, Martellus Bennett, Devin McCourty, Dont’a Hightower, and Chris Long are making a bold rebuke of a racist, misogynist, and unqualified President who is hellbent on destroying our already marginalized communities and snatching human rights away from anyone who is not rich, white, and male.

BREAKING: New England Patriots' running back, LeGarrette Blount and defensive tackle, Alan Branch just announced that they are joining Martellus Bennett, Devin McCourty, Dont'a Hightower, and Chris Long in boycotting Trump's White House after their SuperBowl win! ...

https://act.colorofchange.org/sign/stand-for-something/?t=1&akid=6964.1595845.yIWsX1

#StandForSomething

Sign the card and support New England Patriots players who are boycotting the White House.

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Getting closer to jail time

White House goes authoritarian on CNN scoop about Russia dossier

Minutes ago, CNN announced on air a breaking-news story. U.S. investigators, said correspondent Jim Sciutto on Jake Tapper’s show “The Lead,” have corroborated “some of the communications detailed in a 35-page dossier compiled by a former British intelligence agent” ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blog...term=.6dcfd555a17a&wpisrc=nl_opinionsA&wpmm=1

Opinion | White House goes authoritarian on CNN scoop about Russia dossier

Sean Spicer says the network should focus on jobs performance.

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White House press secretary Sean Spicer takes questions at a press briefing at the White House on Jan. 24 in Washington. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)



By Erik Wemple February 10 at 6:06 PM


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