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A senior White House spokeswoman said Sunday that she thinks President Trump will support an investigation requested by the father of William “Ryan” Owens, a Navy SEAL, into the circumstances surrounding his death during a raid on al-Qaeda last month in Yemen.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the principal White House deputy secretary, offered that assessment during an appearance on ABC News’s “This Week” in which she was asked to respond to a request by Bill Owens in a Miami Herald interview for an investigation related to his son’s death.
“I haven't had the chance to speak with him directly about that, but I would imagine that he would be supportive of that,” Sanders said of Trump.
The raid — billed as an intelligence-gathering operation on the militant group — turned into an hour-long gunfight as Navy SEALs and troops from the United Arab Emirates clashed with well-entrenched al-Qaeda fighters. Owens reportedly died in the exchange of gunfire. Five other service members were wounded by hostile fire and a hard landing after a Marine transport aircraft crashed near the raid site.
Sanders said that as a parent, she can’t imagine the loss Owens’s parents are facing.
“I know that he paid the ultimate sacrifice when he went on that mission,” Sanders said of the younger Owens, a chief petty officer in the Navy. “And I know that the mission has a lot of different critics, but it did yield a substantial amount of very important intel and resources that helped save American lives and other lives.”
In the Miami Herald interview, Bill Owens said he avoided a chance to meet with Trump when the president and his daughter Ivanka Trump came to Dover Air Force Base to pay his respects to Owens’s family.
“I’m sorry, I don’t want to see him,’’ Owens recalled telling the chaplain who informed him that the president was on his way from Washington, according to the Herald. “I told them I don’t want to meet the president.”
In the interview with the paper, Owens said, “The government owes my son an investigation.”
It’s not clear what such an inquiry would entail. The Defense Department routinely reviews missions that result in death, but a larger formal investigation of combat deaths is rare, and it does not appear that one was started after Owens’s death. His father, however, appears to be calling for a formal inquiry into the decision-making process for the raid, which probably means it would fall on Congress to open an investigation.
Efforts by The Washington Post to reach Bill Owens on Sunday were unsuccessful. Sanders did not respond to a request later in the day Sunday to elaborate on what might be involved.
In recent weeks, White House officials have steadfastly defended the raid as a success.
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At a news briefing this month, White House press secretary Sean Spicer repeatedly called the raid “a huge success” and said that anyone who said otherwise does “a disservice” to the Navy SEAL who lost his life in the hostilities.
The planning for the raid started under the Obama administration, when the Pentagon began preparing for a broader campaign to go after al-Qaeda in Yemen after last year’s U.S.-Emirati operation that retook the Yemeni port city of Mukalla from the extremist group.
Although the White House has said the specific plan for the raid had been pushed from Obama to Trump because of the mission’s specific timing — namely, a night with no moon — Obama administration officials have debated this account. Obama’s National Security Council, the officials said, had seen only broad plans for future operations in Yemen.
Yemeni officials said the operation killed 15 women and children, including the 8-year-old daughter of the Yemeni American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who was killed in 2011 in a U.S. drone strike.
Photos of the dead civilians were posted on social media after the raid. Although the Pentagon initially denied reports of dead civilians, officials acknowledged in the days following the raid that some had been killed and that they had begun a formal investigation. Last week, Human Rights Watch called for an inquiry of the civilian deaths and said that the United States must account for possible law-of-war violations.
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Few political terms have been weaponized as quickly and effectively as "fake news." It's now a mainstay of the Trump White House's rhetoric and a pithy talking point for conservatives. In just eight letters, it says pretty much everything they believe about the mainstream media.
It's also a cop-out.
The biggest problem with "fake news" is that it's a blanket dismissal that requires no elaboration or proof. And almost without fail, this White House doesn't provide any.
The Fix's Callum Borchers noted something unusual about the White House's press strategy this week: It has a tendency to not comment on negative stories until they have already published, and then it simply dismisses them out of hand and attacks the media. It happened with this week's AP story on a draft Department of Homeland Security memo that entertained the idea of dispatching 100,000 National Guard troops to deport illegal immigrants. And it happened with CNN's story about Kellyanne Conway being pulled off TV by the White House.
It's a strategy that, as Borchers notes, suggests the White House isn't really interested in litigating the details of the reporting, but would rather use the stories to label the media the enemy, after the fact.
But perhaps it's also because they realize they can't really litigate the details -- that they don't have a leg to stand on.
A timeline of President Trump's battle with the media since he took office on Jan. 20. (Thomas Johnson/The Washington Post)
A timeline of President Trump's battle with the media since he took office on Jan. 20. A timeline of President Trump's battle with the media since he took office on Jan. 20. (Thomas Johnson/The Washington Post)
Part of the problem with shooting down negative stories before they publish is that you actually have to deal in specifics. When reporters ask for comment, and you push back, you have to make logical arguments about the details contained within the story.
The White House doesn't really do this, even after the fact. The one specific example they cite as proof of "fake news" was a botched pool report that said a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. had been removed from the Oval Office once Trump moved in. They pointed to this over and over again as proof of the media's malfeasance -- despite the fact that it was quickly corrected and was the result of an oversight on the part of the pool reporter.
Another example came this weekend, when White House press secretary Sean Spicer complained about the New York Times getting his birthplace wrong. Aside from the irony involved in this coming from a White House whose president frequently questioned Barack Obama's birthplace, it turns out the Times sought comment and got none.
These factual complaints are the exception rather than the norm. Most often, the White House just dismisses an entire story without saying why.
In his speech Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference, President Trump berated the media for using anonymous sources and pointed to a Washington Post story that used nine anonymous sources. The story in question was the first to report that Trump's national security adviser, Michael Flynn, had spoken with Russia's ambassador to the United States about sanctions when he may have been legally prevented from doing so. And it not only hasn't been proven false; Flynn and the White House have basically confirmed the details of it, and Flynn was fired because he had misled the White House about having discussed those sanctions.
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At the beginning of his speech to the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference, Feb. 24, President Trump slammed "fake news" organizations, saying the media should be required to name sources. (The Washington Post)
At the beginning of his speech to the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference, Feb. 24, President Trump slammed "fake news" organizations, saying the media should be required to name sources. At the beginning of his speech to the 2017 CPAC, Feb. 24, President Trump slammed "fake news" organizations, saying the media should be required to name sources (Photo: Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post)
If the media really is pushing "fake news" via anonymous sources, in other words, this was a very curious example to cite. Apart from that, Trump spent 12 minutes deriding the media in broad terms without any real specifics.
Of course, just because a report hasn't been proven false doesn't mean it's necessarily true. Reliance on anonymous sources may be necessary when dealing with insular political institutions, but it's best avoided because it doesn't provide for accountability for those providing the information. And by using anonymous sources, the media certainly opens itself up to criticism.
When we publish something, we expect it to be picked apart. And it would be nice if the White House spent more time actually doing that rather than just dropping a "fake news" or two and walking away. We would welcome it.
Even people who are skeptical of the media should hope for this kind of back-and-forth that is all too often almost completely absent from the Trump White House's press strategy. It may not suit their political purposes, but it would be great for democracy.
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Here’s where things stand heading into Day 39 of the Trump administration:
The White House says it’s too early to say whether a special prosecutor should look into Russia’s apparent meddling to help President Trump win the 2016 election.
Still, in an interesting development from this weekend, a key Republican lawmaker seems to disagree.
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), right, speaks on a panel with host Bill Maher and guest Fran Lebowitz of Vanity Fair. (Janet Van Ham/HBO via AP)
During an appearance on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), a former chairman of the House Oversight Committee, said allowing Attorney General Jeff Sessions to lead an investigation would be inappropriate given Sessions’s status as a Trump campaign adviser and Cabinet member.
“You’re right, you cannot have somebody, a friend of mine, Jeff Sessions, who was on the campaign and who was an appointee,” Issa said. “You’re going to need to use the special prosecutor’s statute and office.”
This comment made Issa one of the few Republican representatives to publicly voice support for an independent investigation. Calls for a special prosecutor have come mostly from Democrats.
On Sunday, White House spokesman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the congressional committees probing Russia’s actions should be allowed to do their work first. Sanders also said the notion that Russia interfered in the election was being pushed by Democrats still upset by the election result.
“If Democrats want to continue to relive their loss every single day, by doing an investigation or review after review, that’s fine by us,” she told ABC News’s “This Week.” “We know why we won this race. It’s because we had the better candidate with the better message.”
President Trump repeated this argument later in the day on Twitter:
WHITE HOUSE ASKED INTEL OFFICIALS TO COUNTER RUSSIA STORIES
The Washington Post learned that the White House enlisted senior members of the intelligence community in an effort to counter news stories about ties between Trump associates and Russia.
Intelligence officials recently made calls to news organizations at the behest of the White House to contest reporting on Russia, our colleagues reported. The calls came after the White House was unsuccessful in convincing senior FBI officials to do the same.
National Security reporter Greg Miller explains why the Trump administration is enlisting the help of intelligence officials and Members of Congress to counter Russia stories. (Jorge Ribas,Ashleigh Joplin/The Washington Post)
National Security reporter Greg Miller explains why the Trump administration is enlisting the help of intelligence officials and Members of Congress to counter Russia stories. National Security reporter Greg Miller reports that the Trump administration is enlisting extra help to dispute stories alleging Trump-Russia contacts. (Jorge Ribas, Ashleigh Joplin/The Washington Post)
The effort also involved senior lawmakers, including the chairmen of the Senate and House Intelligence committees.
As The Post reported, the decision to involve intelligence officials “could be perceived as threatening the independence of U.S. spy agencies that are supposed to remain insulated from partisan issues,” while involving lawmakers might undercut the credibility of ongoing congressional probes.
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In a rare and surprising move, the White House on Friday blocked a number of major news organizations — CNN, the New York Times, Politico, the Los Angeles Times and BuzzFeed — from attending an informal briefing with press secretary Sean Spicer. Access was given to other reporters, including some representing conservative outlets friendly to Trump’s administration.
The White House barred news outlets, including CNN, the New York Times, Politico and the Los Angeles Times, from a press gaggle Feb. 24. Here is the audio from that briefing. (The Washington Post)
The White House barred news outlets, including CNN, the New York Times, Politico and the Los Angeles Times, from a press gaggle Feb. 24. Here is the audio from that briefing. The White House barred news outlets, including CNN, the New York Times, Politico and the Los Angeles Times, from a press gaggle Feb. 24. (Photo: Matt McClain/The Washington Post)
The move, which again ratcheted up tensions between the press and the Trump administration, drew criticism from media leaders as a betrayal of democratic values.
“The action harks back to the darkest chapters of U.S. history and reeks of undemocratic, un-American and unconstitutional censorship,” said National Press Club President Jeffrey Ballou.
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On July 20, 2016, The New Yorker reported that Trump had threatened to sue his former ghostwriter Tony Schwartz for supposedly "defamatory statements" Schwartz had made to Jane Mayer about the book he "co-wrote" with Trump, The Art of the Deal.
The American Lawyer
On July 20, 2016, The New Yorker reported that Trump had threatened to sue his former ghostwriter Tony Schwartz for supposedly "defamatory statements" Schwartz had made to Jane Mayer about the book he "co-wrote" with Trump, The Art of the Deal.
Sunday, February 26, 2017
US - Russia military talks to be elevated - Google Search | U.S. generals want elevated talks with Russia about Iraq and Syria operations because of aerial collision fears | The Pentagon should consider more discussions with Russia as the battlespace continues to grow more complex in Iraq and Syria in the fight against the Islamic State, a top U.S. Air Force general said Friday. "There is room to elevate [talks with Russia]," Gen. Herbert "Hawk" Carlisle, head of Air Combat Command, told reporters during a breakfast in Washington, D.C. "We have constant communication with the Russians and, when we do, the deconfliction is incredibly valuable." | Dunford Meets Russian Counterpart to Strengthen Mil-to-Mil Contacts
Review - Dunford Meets Russian Counterpart on 2.16.17 in Baku
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The Hill
Trump: 'Russia talk is FAKE NEWS put out by the Dems, and played up by the media'
The Hill
President Trump on Sunday claimed that reports about Russia are "fake news" pushed by the Democrats and the media. "Russia talk is FAKE NEWS put out by the Dems, and played up by the media, in order to mask the big election defeat and the illegal ...
Donald Trump has Twitter freak-out, blames Dems for Russia leaks and 'fake news'Blasting News
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The Hill
President Trump on Sunday claimed that reports about Russia are "fake news" pushed by the Democrats and the media. "Russia talk is FAKE NEWS put out by the Dems, and played up by the media, in order to mask the big election defeat and the illegal ...
Donald Trump has Twitter freak-out, blames Dems for Russia leaks and 'fake news'Blasting News
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Trump Wants Justice Department to Investigate Leakers. How That ...
Daily Signal-Feb 22, 2017
President Donald Trump said he has directed the Department of Justice to open a criminal investigation into leaks that have occurred early in ...
Trump Directs Justice Department to Investigate 'Criminal Leaks'
New York Times-Feb 16, 2017
President Trump said Thursday that he had personally directed the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation and determine who was ...
Can the White House discuss open investigations with the FBI?
CNN-Feb 24, 2017
... communications between Donald Trump's associates and Russians ... and FBI permitted to talk about an ongoing criminal investigation?
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Debt-laden President Trump: His new Washington Hotel owes millions in unpaid debts and he may owe billions to Russians. (Getty Images).
Insiders acutely aware of President Donald Trump’s complicated financial arrangements say he is billions of dollars in debt, much of it to Russia, and lives on the edge of financial ruin.
Besides Russia, Trump also owes at least $2 billion to a partnership that includes The Bank of China.
“Mr. Trump is in bed with Communists and enemies of America,” says one accountant who has worked on Trump’s partnerships but won’t allow use of his name. “Russia owns him.”
Trump, the only President in modern times to refuse to release his tax returns — although he promised to do so early in his campaign — and that continued refusal had led to increasing speculation that he is heavy in debt and owes much to Russia, a country he cozies up to more than other Presidents in actions that worry both military leaders and intelligence officials.
The 45th President hid most of his debt in a 104-page financial disclosure form filed in his run for President, filing to list one debt alone of $2 billion o the Bank of China and other large amounts to Russia, interests in the Middle East and other nations.
“I am the king of debt,” Trump admitted to CNN. “I love debt.”
That love of debt led to at least four of his business bankruptcies as well as defaults that has forced him to sell off personal items and seek emergency financing from questionable interests after American banks declared him a poor credit risk.
To settle his defaults in the past, Trump has had to sell yachts, planes and other symbols of luxury and a bankruptcy court ordered him to live on “an allowance.”
“His name is on the Trump Tower and he lives there but he doesn’t own it,” says one accountant. ‘His creditors do.”
Trump campaigned as “the world’s greatest businessman” with the “best record of success” in history.
His boasts however, fail to mention is many business failures: A mortgage company that closed, a luxury lifestyle magazine that went under with heavy unpaid debts, a debt-ridden winery, closed and bankrupt casinos and hotels and “fire sales” of properties facing foreclosures. Several of his “resort” properties are under water financially, including a highly-touted golf resort in Scotland that is facing foreclosure.
His highly-touted “university” shut down amid revelations that it was just a pyramid scheme that drained the life and retirement savings of those who maxed out their credit cards for things he failed to deliver. Trump settled a myriad of civil suits against what investigators called “a fraud” but the “university” remains the focus of a criminal investigation by the Attorney General of New York.
Several sources tell Capitol Hill Blue privately that the “audit” by the Internal Revenue Service that he has uses as an excuse to withhold release of his tax returns may have already had led to a criminal investigation. The IRS won’t say and Trump refused to answer questions about the audit or his tax returns.
Trump’s companies face thousands of civil lawsuits from small businesses, construction companies and others who worked on his properties and did not get paid. His new “Trump International” hotel in the Old Post Office on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington failed to pay companies large and small and several had suits pending in civil courts in the District of Columbia.
Those who say Trump defrauded them claim he makes “lavish promises that are never kept.”
Asked one: “I wonder what he is promising Russia? And not even God knows what will happen when he breaks a promise to (Russian leader Vladimir) Putin.”
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Pentagon Chief Rules Out US-Russia Military Collaboration
Voice of America-Feb 16, 2017
At a meeting of NATO members in Brussels on Thursday, U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis ruled out any military collaboration between the ...
Mattis Rejects Closer Military Ties With Russia as He Reassures ...
In-Depth-New York Times-Feb 16, 2017
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Rep. Devin Nunes: "We can’t go on a witch hunt against the American people." | AP Photo | AP Photo
By David Siders
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, responding to calls for an independent investigation into contacts between Trump associates and Russia, said Saturday that the House would not engage in a “witch hunt” and that “at this point there’s nothing there.”
“This is almost like McCarthyism revisited,” the California Republican told reporters at the California Republican Party’s spring convention in Sacramento. “We’re going to go on a witch hunt against, against innocent Americans …?”
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Nunes’ remarks came after fellow California Rep. Darrell Issa called for a special prosecutor to oversee the investigation.
“At this point there’s nothing there,” Nunes said. “Once we begin to look at all the evidence, and if we find any American that had any contact with Russian agents or anybody affiliated with the Russian government, then we’ll be glad to, at that point, you know, subpoena those people before the House and let the legislative branch do its oversight and then we would recommend it over to, you know, the appropriate people.”
He added, “But at this point … we can’t go on a witch hunt against the American people, any American people who have not had any contact just because they appeared in a news story.”
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Whose news is fake? Here's the latest in Trump's war with the press
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2016 Presidential Campaign Hacking Fast Facts
Gant Daily September 26, 2016 – During a presidential debate with Clinton, Trump questions whether the DNC cyberattack was carried out by a state-sponsored group or a lone hacker. “It could be Russia, but it could also be China. It could also be lots of other people. and more » |
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