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House memo states disputed dossier was key to FBI's FISA warrant to surveil members of Team Trump

  News Updates from CLG 03 February 2018 http://www.legitgov.org/ All links are here: http://www.legitgov.org/#breaking_news   Previous edition:  Trump signs executive order to keep Guantanamo Bay prison open   House memo states disputed dossier was key to FBI's FISA warrant to surveil members of Team Trump  | 02 Feb 2018 | A much-hyped memo that shows alleged government surveillance abuse during the 2016 campaign has been released to the public and cites testimony from a high-ranking government official who says the FBI and DOJ would not have sought surveillance warrants to spy on a member of the Trump team without the infamous, Democratic-f-nded anti-Trump dossier. Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee released the  memo  Friday. The White House responded by saying the memo "raises serious concerns about the integrity of decisions made at the highest levels of the Department of Justice and the FBI to use the ...

Tom Engelhardt | Creating an Empire of Graveyards? At the Circus With Donald Trump

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25 January 18 It's Live on the HomePage Now:   Reader Supported News WHATEVER WE GAINED IN DECEMBER WILL BE LOST IN JANUARY - In December we made our goal of 33K for only the second time in the past year. January is turning out to be so bad that we will likely lose all that we gained and potentially much more. This community that we serve could easily turn this around in 48 to 72 hours. A few hundred donations is all that would take. In earnest. / Marc Ash -Founder, Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! FOCUS: Tom Engelhardt | Creating an Empire of Graveyards? At the Circus With Donald Trump    Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch   Engelhardt writes: "Who could deny that much of the attention he's received has been based on the absurdity, exaggeration, unsettling clownishness of it all, right down to the zany crew of subsidiary clowns who have helped keep him pumped up and cable newsed in the Oval Office?"   READ MORE Contribute to RSN Be...

CLG Founder and NYU Professor Michael Rectenwald Sues NYU, University Colleagues for Defamation

  News Updates from CLG 14 January 2018 http://www.legitgov.org/ All links are here: http://www.legitgov.org/#breaking_news   Previous edition:  Judge: Sailors' Fukushima Radiation Case Doesn't Belong in US   Breaking:   CLG Founder and NYU Professor Michael Rectenwald Sues NYU and NYU Colleagues for Irreparable Damage from Defamation  -- 'Deplorable' NYU professor sues colleagues for defamation  | 13 Jan 2018 | The "politically incorrect" NYU professor  accused of "incivility"  by liberal colleagues and put on leave is now suing the college and four fellow profs for [insanely] calling him everything from a dr-g addict to Satan. The "malicious" statements appeared in an e-mail thread that blasted out over five days in May from school accounts to more than 100 university staffers, claims a defamation lawsuit filed Friday by professor Michael Rectenwald. He blames NYU for doing nothing to stop the "nasty sc...