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Issa: Trump-Russia probe requires a special prosecutor
Saturday February 25th, 2017 at 8:41 AM

Rep. Darrell Issa emphasized that "there may or may not be fault" with President Donald Trump's associates but said Russian President Vladimir Putin's brutality toward political enemies highlighted the need for such a probe. | Getty

A Republican congressman who aligned with President Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign called Friday for a special prosecutor to oversee the investigation into Trump associates' contacts with Russia.

Rep. Darrell Issa said on HBO's "Real Time" that Attorney General Jeff Sessions — who Trump appointed as the nation's top law enforcement officer — should not handle the problem.

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"You cannot have somebody, a friend of mine Jeff Sessions, who was on the campaign and who is an appointee," the California Republican said in response to a question from host Bill Maher. "You're going to need to use the special prosecutor's statute and office to take — not just to recuse. You can't just give it to your deputy. That's another political appointee."

Issa emphasized that "there may or may not be fault" with Trump's associates but said Russian President Vladimir Putin's brutality toward political enemies highlighted the need for such a probe.

Issa supported Trump during the 2016 election, a fact that Democrats exploited in an attempt to topple Issa in his bid for a ninth term in the House. Issa prevailed by less than a percentage point, and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton beat Trump in the district by a wide margin. That result immediately left Issa as a top Democratic target for 2018.

Trump personally vouched for Issa during his reelection bid, tweeting on Nov. 1 "@DarrellIssa is a very good man. Help him win his congressional seat in California."

Trump administration sought to enlist intelligence officials, key lawmakers to counter Russia stories
Friday February 24th, 2017 at 9:18 PM

The Trump administration has enlisted senior members of the intelligence community and Congress in efforts to counter news stories about Trump associates’ ties to Russia, a politically charged issue that has been under investigation by the FBI as well as lawmakers now defending the White House.

Acting at the behest of the White House, the officials made calls to news organizations last week in attempts to challenge stories about alleged contacts between members of President Trump’s campaign team and Russian intelligence operatives, U.S. officials said.

The calls were orchestrated by the White House after unsuccessful attempts by the administration to get senior FBI officials to speak with news organizations and dispute the accuracy of stories on the alleged contacts with Russia.

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The White House on Friday acknowledged those interactions with the FBI but did not disclose that it then turned to other officials who agreed to do what the FBI would not — participate in White House-arranged calls with news organizations, including The Washington Post.

Two of those officials spoke on the condition of anonymity — a practice President Trump has condemned.

(Reuters)

President Trump denied he has any connections to Russia during a news conference at the White House on Feb. 16. Trump discusses reports of possible contacts between his campaign staff and Russian intelligence (Reuters)

The officials broadly dismissed Trump associates’ contacts with Russia as infrequent and inconsequential. But the officials would not answer substantive questions about the issue, and their comments were not published by The Post and do not appear to have been reported elsewhere.

White House spokesman Sean Spicer confirmed that the White House communicated with officials with the aim of contesting reporting on Russia, but maintained that the administration did nothing improper. “When informed by the FBI that [the Russia-related reporting] was false we told reporters who else they should contact to corroborate the FBI’s version of the story.”

The decision to involve those officials could be perceived as threatening the independence of U.S. spy agencies that are supposed to remain insulated from partisan issues, as well as undercutting the credibility of ongoing congressional probes. Those officials saw their involvement as an attempt to correct coverage they believed to be erroneous.

The effort also involved senior lawmakers with access to classified intelligence about Russia, including Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) and Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), the chairmen of the Senate and House intelligence committees. A spokesman for Nunes said that he had already begun speaking to reporters to challenge the story and then “at the request of a White House communications aide, Chairman Nunes then spoke to an additional reporter and delivered the same message.”

Unlike the others, Nunes spoke on the record and was subsequently quoted in the Wall Street Journal.

In an interview, Burr acknowledged that he “had conversations about” Russia-related news reports with the White House and engaged with news organizations to dispute articles by the New York Times and CNN that alleged “repeated” or “constant” contact between Trump campaign members and Russian intelligence operatives.

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Chief White House Strategist Steve Bannon walks with White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus to Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)

“I’ve had those conversations,” Burr said, adding that he regarded the contacts as appropriate provided that “I felt I had something to share that didn’t breach my responsibilities to the committee in an ongoing investigation.”

The administration’s push against the Russia coverage intensified Sunday when White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus said in television interviews that he had been authorized “by the top levels of the intelligence community” to denounce reports on Trump campaign contacts with Russia as false.

Priebus’s denunciations ranged from calling the articles “overstated” to saying they were “complete garbage.”

Administration officials said that Priebus’s comments had been cleared by FBI Director James B. Comey and Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. In doing so, the FBI’s leadership would appear to have been drawing a distinction between authorizing comments by a White House official and addressing the matter themselves.

Former intelligence officials expressed concern over the blurring of lines between intelligence and politics, with some recalling Republican accusations that the Obama administration had twisted intelligence in its accounts of the 2012 attacks on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya.

“I doubt that there was any enthusiasm from the intelligence leadership to get involved in this in the first place,” former CIA director Michael Hayden said, noting that it seemed unlikely that Priebus’s bluntly worded denials were consistent with the “precise language” favored by intelligence analysts.

“Think Benghazi here,” Hayden said in an interview by email. “This is what happens when the intel guys are leaned on for the narrative of the political speakers. The latter have different rules, words, purposes. Getting intel into that mix always ends unhappily, [and] it looks like we just did.”

The Trump administration’s actions reflect its level of concern about coverage of its relationship with Russia. Trump has continued to praise Russian President Vladimir Putin, even after U.S. intelligence agencies concluded that Russia had interfered in the U.S. presidential race to help Trump win.

Trump has also repeatedly disparaged the intelligence agencies that his administration last week turned to for support. Shortly before taking office, Trump accused U.S. spy agencies of a Nazi-style leaks campaign to smear him.

The White House statements on the issue Friday came after CNN reported that the FBI had refused administration requests to publicly “knock down” media reports about ties between Trump associates and Russian intelligence.

Administration officials disputed the account, saying that rather than soliciting FBI feedback, Priebus had been pulled aside by McCabe on the morning of Feb. 15 and told, “I want you to know” that the New York Times story “is BS.”

The FBI declined to discuss the matter.

White House officials declined to comment on the administration’s subsequent effort to enlist other government officials and would not agree to allow the identification of the intelligence officials who had spoken to The Post last week. In separate calls, those individuals insisted on being identified only as “a senior intelligence official in the Trump administration” and “a senior member of the intelligence community.”

In a brief interview on the night of Feb. 15, the senior intelligence official said that the suggestion that there was frequent contact between Russians and Trump associates was false, describing any conversations as sporadic, limited and based on Russia’s interest in building a relationship with the future Trump administration rather than shaping the 2016 presidential race.

The senior intelligence official appeared to be referring to contacts between Trump’s designated national security adviser, Michael Flynn, and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak before Trump was sworn in as president. Flynn was forced out of his job earlier this month after The Post reported that Flynn had discussed U.S. sanctions against Russia with Kislyak and then misled Trump administration officials about the nature of his contacts.

Officials at the CIA and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence declined to comment on whether senior officials at those agencies had discussed Russia coverage with the White House or been involved in efforts to refute stories on that subject.

CIA Director Mike Pompeo is the senior-most intelligence official in the administration, with former senator Dan Coats (R-Ind.) still awaiting confirmation as director of national intelligence.

As a Republican member of Congress, Pompeo was among the most fiercely partisan figures in the House investigation of Benghazi, which centered on accusations that the Obama administration had twisted intelligence about the attacks for political purposes.

It is not unusual for CIA leaders to have contact with news organizations, particularly about global issues such as terrorism or to contest news accounts of CIA operations. But involving the agency on alleged Trump campaign ties to Russia could be problematic.

The CIA is not in charge of the investigation. Given the history of domestic espionage abuses in the United States, CIA officials are typically averse to being drawn into matters that involve U.S. citizens or might make the agency vulnerable to charges that it is politicizing intelligence.

A U.S. intelligence official declined to discuss any Pompeo involvement except to say that he was “not involved in drafting or approving statements for public use by the White House this past weekend on alleged Russian contacts.”

Whether there were such contacts remains a major point of contention. Beyond Flynn, the investigation has focused on other figures including Paul Manafort, Trump’s former campaign chairman, who had previously served as a paid political adviser to the Putin-backed president of Ukraine.

U.S. intelligence reports cite multiple contacts between members of Trump’s team and Russians with links to the Kremlin, during the campaign and afterward, according to officials who have seen them. Such reports were based on intercepted Russian communications and other sources, the officials said.

Nunes, who served as a member of Trump’s transition team, has resisted calls for his House committee to investigate alleged contacts between Trump associates and Russia. He said in an interview that after months of investigations, U.S. authorities have turned up no evidence of such contacts.

“They’ve looked, and it’s all a dead trail that leads me to believe no contact, not even pizza-delivery-guy contact,” Nunes said, appearing to rule out even unwitting contact between Trump officials and Russian agents. Investigators, Nunes said, “don’t even have a lead.”

Philip Rucker, Ellen Nakashima and Julie Tate contributed to this report.

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U.S. generals want elevated talks with Russia about Iraq and Syria operations because of aerial collision fears
Friday February 24th, 2017 at 8:58 PM

An F-22 Raptor approaches a KC-10 Extender before aerial refueling during a mission on Feb. 12. (Staff Sgt. Matthew B. Fredericks/U.S. Air Force)

BAGHDAD — Senior U.S. military officials want to elevate talks with Russia about air operations over Iraq and Syria, an effort that is meant to protect pilots from collisions but complicated by concerns at the Pentagon that doing so will make it look like Washington and Moscow have begun to collaborate on the battlefield.

The talks, known as deconfliction, began in 2015 after the Russian military deployed forces to Khmeimim Air Base, a military installation along Syria’s Mediterranean coastline that has been used to launch airstrikes against opposition forces in Syria in support of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Russia’s arrival in Syria complicated U.S.-led operations against the Islamic State military group in Syria, which began a year earlier.

An agreement signed between Washington and Moscow in fall 2015 called for the use of specific communication frequencies and the establishment of a phone hotline in which a U.S. colonel in Qatar and a Russian counterpart in Syria “deconflict” operations regularly but do not share intelligence. When there are points of contention between the two militaries, though, the existing arrangement has not left many options for U.S. officers, said Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Harrigian, the top Air Force commander in the Middle East.

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“Our perspective has been that there needs to be another layer that allows us to have a more senior-level discussion, and we’ve got to work through where that layer is,” Harrigian told reporters in Baghdad this week, suggesting that adding a U.S. general with somewhere between one and three stars and a Russian counterpart would be helpful.

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Harrigian said that U.S. aircraft “on occasion get out of the way” of Russian jets. This was especially true a few months ago when both countries were launching airstrikes regularly near the Syrian city of Palmyra, he said. Such decisions could be hampering the overall operation, however.

“In essence, we had some conflicting operational desires that ultimately we ended up working our way through over time because we were never able to elevate this discussion,” Harrigian said. “Did we miss targets? I can’t say that for sure, but I would tell you that optimally we would have gone after that in a different manner.”

U.S. military officials also have advocated upgrading the technology used to communicate with the Russians, which up until now has consisted of “little more than a commercial phone line,” said Air Force Col. John Thomas, a spokesman for U.S. Central Command. Doing so, he said, would boost the safety of flight operations, “and that’s certainly a big reason for considering making the communication more robust.”

The discussions are complicated by legislation passed in 2014 after Moscow’s military bloody intervention into Ukraine and annexation of the Crimean Peninsula. With few exceptions, the law banned military-to-military cooperation between the United States and Russia unless Russian forces withdraw from Ukraine. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis can make an exception on issues where he considers it in U.S. interests, but is not ready to do so anytime soon, according to two people familiar with his thinking who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the issue.

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, left, with Iraqi Defense Minister Arfan al-Hayali at the Ministry of Defense in Baghdad on Feb. 20. (Air Force Tech. Sgt. Brigitte Brantley via European Pressphoto Agency)

During a Feb. 16 visit to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Brussels, Mattis said that the conditions are not right presently for the U.S. and Russian militaries to work together and that Moscow would have to “prove itself” first.

“We are not in a position right now to collaborate on a military level, but our political leaders will engage and try to find common ground or a way forward so that Russia, living up to its commitment, can return to a partnership of sorts here with NATO,” Mattis said.

Senior U.S. military officials and the Obama administration last year discussed establishing a new, higher-level channel for communicating with Russia about Syria that could have involved three-star generals, but Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter opted not to make a change before leaving office, according to people who were aware of discussions at the time and spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to speak candidly.

The individuals said that one of the concerns was potentially creating the appearance that Russia and the United States were carving up sections of Syrian airspace for their differing missions, effectively collaborating. Another was that senior U.S. military officials already could consult senior civilian officials at the Pentagon in cases where they ran into any difficulty with the Russians.

Elissa Slotkin, one former senior defense official involved in the discussions at the time, said that until the Trump administration makes policy decisions about how it wants to interact with Russia in regard to Syria, it would be unwise to increase interaction between the U.S. and Russian militaries any more than needed to keep pilots safe. She said Defense Secretary Jim Mattis might address the issue in a plan he has been directed to deliver to Trump by the end of the month on how to accelerate the war against the Islamic State, she said.

Concerns about a potential collision in the air have persisted as U.S., Russian, Syrian and Turkish aircraft increasingly converge on the same areas of Syria, like the city of al-Bab. Pilots who have recently flown combat sorties over Iraq and Syria said that existing ways of deconflicting don’t always work well and Russian pilots sometimes do not respond to radio communications.

Air Force Brig. Gen. Charles Corcoran, commander of the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing that flies combat missions against the Islamic State, said that the military has opted to fly advanced F-22 Raptors above U.S. aircraft in a “stack” formation in part because their sensors can better keep track of other aircraft. At times, he said, information gathered in the F-22 has been used to shift other U.S. planes to make room for an incoming Russian aircraft.

In October, U.S. military officials were particularly alarmed by an incident over Syria in which a Russian jet passed within a half-mile of a coalition E-3 Sentry, better known as an Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) plane. The encounter was close enough to knock out the radar on the AWACS, Corcoran said.

Operations have improved since then, Corcoran said, but he said he’d still welcome additional dialogue. Russian jets not only encounter American aircraft over Syria, he said, but over the Iraqi city of Mosul and surrounding areas, as Russian jets travel to Syria from southern Russia after crossing south down the Caspian Sea and west over Iran.

“I think it would be helpful,” Corcoran said of elevating talks. “It’s never a bad thing to have [military-to-military] ties. How many times during the Cold War did we say that having them stopped bad things from happening? We all have our objectives, but we have to talk.”

Marine Gen. Joseph F. Dunford was open to elevating deconfliction talks to higher levels of the military, individuals familiar with previous discussions said. He met Feb. 16 with his Russian counterpart, Gen. Valeriy Gerasimov, in Baku, Azerbaijan, marking their first face-to-face meeting since Russia’s intervention in Ukraine in 2014.

A spokesman for Dunford, Navy Capt. Greg Hicks, said that the U.S. military continues to ensure the safety of flights over Syria and concerns are met through existing communication channels but declined to characterize Dunford’s talks with the Russian general.

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US, Russia Need More Talk on ISIS Fight, Air Force General Says
Friday February 24th, 2017 at 8:50 PM

Gen. Hawk Carlisle, the Air Combat Command commander, engages with the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces during a hearing in Washington, D.C., July 13, 2016. (Photo: Senior Airman Hailey Haux)

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."

The Washington Post reported senior U.S. military officials are considering more talks, even if it could be construed as increased cooperation with Moscow. Carlisle, who will retire next month after leading the command since 2014 and having almost 40 years in service, said while he has not been intimately involved in the ongoing discussions, it's an obvious choice.

"Increased dialogue has got to happen because it's going to become more and more complex as time goes on. And as we continue to squeeze ISIS and continue to take more territory away from them, it becomes more complex," he said. "I think we have to continue to work that avenue because in the defeat of ISIS, everything we do ... as we work together with the Russians [is] incredibly important in the deconfliction -- to [avoid] any miscalculations, any mistakes, any unintended consequences."

Carlisle continued, "To me, it makes sense. The more you can build an understanding between those flying in the same … airspace, the better off you're going to be."

The U.S. is operating under a memorandum of understanding signed in 2015, which established a phone "hotline" the militaries could use to alert one another of actions they're taking in Syria.

Officials including the Air Force's top general in the Middle East, Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Harrigian; U.S. Central Command commander Gen. Joseph Votel; and Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend, commander of the Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve, are weighing new options with Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, Carlisle said.

The reasons to do so are mounting, he added.

"It's a dense surface-to-air threat in portions of Syria," Carlisle said. Aircraft must be ready at all times to act, he said, because "the [surface-to-air missile] systems the Russians and Syrians have over there are active systems."

He clarified that while the SAM systems are operative, they're not necessarily painting U.S. aircraft with target tracking radars "to any great extent that I know of."

Mattis, during his trip last week to Europe to reassure NATO allies on emerging Russian threats, assured them that Russia's actions within Syria and in Ukraine and the Baltic states are not looked on favorably by the U.S.

"Russia's aggressive actions have violated international law and are destabilizing," he said during a speech to NATO defense ministers in Brussels.

Mattis said of further military cooperation, "Russia is going to have to prove itself first."

-- Oriana Pawlyk can be reached at oriana.pawlyk@military.com. Follow her on Twitter at @Oriana0214.

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Friday February 24th, 2017 at 8:31 PM

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by WorldTribune Staff, February 24, 2017

The Pentagon will present to President Donald Trump a “full range of options” to fight Islamic State (ISIS) that could include U.S. boots on the ground in Syria.

“I’m in the business of providing the president with options,” Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said on Feb. 23.

Related: U.S. ground troops in Syria called one option Pentagon is weighing, February 16, 2017

Following through on a campaign promise, Trump on Jan. 28 ordered a 30-day review of the U.S. strategy on ISIS. Defense Secretary Jim “Mad Dog” Mattis is expected to present the president with the plan next week, according to the Pentagon.

“We’ve been given a task to go to the president with options to accelerate the defeat of ISIS specifically, but obviously other violent extremist groups as well,” Dunford said. “So we’re going to go to him with a full range of options from which he can choose.”

The Trump administration reportedly scrapped a detailed plan left by former President Barack Obama’s administration that outlined a strategy to train Kurdish forces, provide them with new equipment, and help them retake Raqqa, instead telling the Pentagon to come up with new options, according to a Feb. 23 report by McClatchy’s D.C. Bureau.

In his first week in office, Trump said he would “absolutely do safe zones in Syria” for people displaced by the violence in order to stem the flow of refugees from the country, a move that would require boots on the ground.

There are currently around 500 U.S. Special Operations forces in Syria, in what Dunford called “about as complex an environment as you can be,” working with Syrian Kurdish and Arab forces to close in on the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa. Dunford on Feb. 23 repeatedly declined to rule out committing U.S. ground troops to battle ISIS in Syria.

The head of U.S. Central Command, Gen. Joseph Votel, said on Feb. 22 that he was “concerned about maintaining momentum” in efforts to defeat ISIS in Syria, and that it could be a possibility to “take on a larger burden ourselves.”

Dunford said the recommendations also will include ways to battle transnational terrorist groups beyond just Syria and Iraq, especially given the flow of foreign fighters into the region, the McClatchy report said.

Those options would also target Al Qaida, he said.

To defeat ISIS, the U.S. and its allies must “cut the connective tissue between regional groups that now form a trans-regional threat … and then working in combination with local and coalition forces to drive the threat down to the level where local law enforcement can deal with that threat,” Dunford said.

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When Does Contact Between the FBI and the White House Cross the Line?
Friday February 24th, 2017 at 7:53 PM

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When President Obama left, I stayed on at the National Security Council in order to serve my country. I lasted eight days.

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Like most of my fellow American Muslims, I spent much of 2016 watching with consternation as Donald Trump vilified our community. Despite this––or because of it––I thought I should try to stay on the NSC staff during the Trump Administration, in order to give the new president and his aides a more nuanced view of Islam, and of America's Muslim citizens.

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An Actual False-Flag Operation at CPAC

Meet the protesters who tricked conference attendees into waving Russian flags.

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Jason Charter, 22, and Ryan Clayton, 36, passed out roughly 1,000 red, white, and blue flags, each bearing a gold-emblazoned “TRUMP” in the center, to an auditorium full of attendees waiting for President Trump to address the conference. Audience members waved the pennants—and took pictures with them—until CPAC staffers realized the trick: They were Russian flags.

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When Does Contact Between the FBI and the White House Cross the Line?

The administration admits to asking the bureau’s deputy director to help it knock down a damaging story about the Trump campaign’s Russia contacts.

The White House’s admission that it asked the Federal Bureau of Investigation to publicly dispute stories in the New York Times describing contacts between the Trump campaign and Russian officials raises serious ethical questions, according to former Justice Department officials.

"It's quite inappropriate for anyone from the White House to have a contact with the FBI about a pending criminal investigation, that has been an established rule of the road, probably since Watergate," said Michael Bromwich, a former Department of Justice inspector general and director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management under Obama. "When I was in the Department in the ‘90s, that was well understood to be an inviolable rule."

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When Evidence Says No, but Doctors Say Yes

Long after research contradicts common medical practices, patients continue to demand them and physicians continue to deliver. The result is an epidemic of unnecessary and unhelpful treatments.

First, listen to the story with the happy ending: At 61, the executive was in excellent health. His blood pressure was a bit high, but everything else looked good, and he exercised regularly. Then he had a scare. He went for a brisk post-lunch walk on a cool winter day, and his chest began to hurt. Back inside his office, he sat down, and the pain disappeared as quickly as it had come.

That night, he thought more about it: middle-aged man, high blood pressure, stressful job, chest discomfort. The next day, he went to a local emergency department. Doctors determined that the man had not suffered a heart attack and that the electrical activity of his heart was completely normal. All signs suggested that the executive had stable angina—chest pain that occurs when the heart muscle is getting less blood-borne oxygen than it needs, often because an artery is partially blocked.

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What on Earth Is Going On With the Stock Market?

Millions of Americans are worried that Donald Trump is an ominous figure. Investors have another theory: maybe not.

Donald Trump so permeates the collective consciousness of the country that it is hard to imagine now living in a world without him. But there is one place where the president seems to be relatively invisible—the U.S. stock market.

The Dow, S&P, and Nasdaq have set record highs in the months after Trump’s election. On Thursday, the Dow has its tenth consecutive record closing in a row, at 20,810. This is happening, despite the fact that investors seemed terrified of a Trump presidency in the general election campaign. Trump came into office promising to antagonize America’s allies and economic partners while crushing the international establishment. None of this is particularly favorable to multinational corporations. Even worse, Trump’s first few weeks in office were a maelstrom of hasty lawmaking and furious backtracking, exactly the sort of behavior one might consider a threat to the all-important “certainty” that markets ostensibly crave. What’s more, mainstream economists are nearly united in their certainty that Trump’s core policies, like scrapping free trade agreements while severely limiting immigration, would be bad for the country.

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President Trump is scheduled to address a conservative conference, a shock loss for the U.K.’s Labour Party, and more from the United States and around the world.

—President Trump is to address the Conservative Political Action Conference this morning.

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For Kim Jong Nam, a sad ending to a lonely life
Friday February 24th, 2017 at 7:48 PM

SEOUL — Kim Jong Nam led a life of loneliness and fear and seclusion, rejected by his father, orphaned by his mother, stuck in a shadowy exile where he constantly had to worry about spies and secret agents and reporters.

And it all came to a pitiful end, with Kim slumped in a chair in a Malaysian airport clinic, his belly protruding from his navy-blue polo shirt, then dying in an ambulance en route to the hospital. He had been smeared with VX, a lethal nerve agent that is used as a chemical weapon.

“He’s like a country-and-western song — it’s sad, sad stuff,” said Michael Madden, editor of the North Korea Leadership Watch website.

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Kim’s painful demise is a blow for the United States and South Korea, which have lost a potential source of intelligence on the world’s most secretive regime. They also have lost a potential replacement for his half brother Kim Jong Un, the North Korean leader who again has thrown down the gauntlet to the outside world.

“Kim Jong Un is testing nukes and missiles like crazy,” said Alexandre Mansourov, a North Korea leadership expert who once studied at Kim Il Sung University in Pyongyang. “Now he feels confident enough to send his goons around the world to assassinate people he doesn’t like.”

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CCTV footage released on Feb. 20 purportedly shows the attack on Kim Jong Nam, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's half brother, at Kuala Lumpur airport in Malaysia a week earlier. The footage has been edited for clarity. CCTV footage purportedly shows the attack on Kim Jong Nam, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's half brother, at Kuala Lumpur airport in Malaysia. (CCTV via Fuji TV)

Kim Jong Un feels this emboldened because he keeps challenging the outside world, especially the United States, and it does nothing to stop him, Mansourov said. “It’s a sign of supreme confidence that he can get away with anything, that he can literally get away with murder.”

The blame for the well-planned attack on Kim Jong Nam in a Kuala Lumpur airport terminal on Feb. 13 is, however, being directed squarely at the leader of North Korea.

[North Korean diplomat wanted in killing of Kim Jong Un’s half brother]

Malaysia says that Kim died because of exposure to VX, and it has implicated eight North Koreans in the attack, including a diplomat and a scientist.

South Korean intelligence officials have said that Kim Jong Un put out a “standing order” for his older half brother’s assassination years ago, but even so, analysts agree that he would have had to give the green light for this attack.

“The fact that so many North Korean agents were involved shows that the operation was planned well in advance and was done with Kim Jong Un’s blessing,” said Sue Mi Terry, a former North Korea analyst at the CIA.

It would not be the first time Kim Jong Un has acted in such a ruthless way. The 33-year-old has ordered the purge or execution of several hundred officials during his five years at the helm. These included his uncle, Jang Song Thaek, who had been a mentor to Kim Jong Nam and was accused of amassing too much power.

“This fits into the larger narrative of what Kim Jong Un wants to do,” said Ken Gause, a North Korea leadership expert at CNA, a Virginia-based consulting firm. “He’s getting rid of potential contenders to the throne.”

‘Without even one friend’

Kim Jong Nam was the result of a secret relationship between North Korea’s second-generation leader, Kim Jong Il, and his consort, an actress named Sung Hye Rim.

He led a lonely childhood in Pyongyang, “without even one friend,” Sung’s sister wrote in her memoir.

When he was 8, Kim moved to Moscow with his aunt and grandmother, but he hated it. He then moved on to Geneva. There he seemed to fit in better, although he still lived in a cloud of half-truths.

“He introduced himself as the son of the North Korean ambassador,” said Anthony Sahakian, a Swiss businessman who went to school with Kim, whom he knew as “Lee.”

“North Korea, South Korea — we were 13 years old. We didn’t know the difference,” Sahakian said.

But some things did make Kim different — for instance, he had a driver’s license that said he was older than he was.

“That was strange because he showed up in a Mercedes 600, driving it himself,” Sahakian said, referring to the huge sedan that was a favorite among dictators. “At the time, all we wanted to do was drive, so we were very jealous. We’d skip class and go somewhere else during the day to drink coffee.”

Kim was multilingual as a result of his international childhood. He spoke fluent English and French, and Sahakian said they conversed in Russian.

In 1988, when he was almost 18, Kim went back to Pyongyang and to a life of cloistered misery, the polar opposite from his freewheeling youth in Europe. To boot, he found that the affection his father once had showered upon him now was directed at a new family, which included a young boy called Jong Un.

Kim Jong Nam had talked about “life in the palace” being oppressive. “He had everything he could possibly desire, but he was in a black depression there,” said a school friend who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive details.

[Kim Jong Un is a top suspect in half brother’s death. But questions abound.]

So Kim Jong Il struck a deal with his son: If he got married and had a child, he could leave, the friend said.

Kim Jong Nam married and had a son in 1995, although it is not known exactly when he left North Korea.

Certainly a turning point came in 2001, when the family was caught entering Japan on false Dominican Republic passports. Kim, whose passport name was Chinese for “Fat Bear,” told the authorities that they had wanted to go to Tokyo Disneyland.

After that, the family moved to Macau, where they were under Chinese protection and could live relatively freely, with Kim indulging his passion for gambling. He traveled to Beijing, where he was thought to have another family, and around Southeast Asia, popping up in Indonesia and Singapore.

He also traveled regularly to Europe — sometimes to see his oldest son, who had been studying in France, and sometimes on business, apparently buying wine or property for wealthy Asian clients.

He always kept his wits about him, said Sahakian, who had seen his old friend several times in Geneva in recent years. “He wasn’t paranoid, but he was worried,” he said. “When he was out he was careful, and he avoided talking to Asians because he was worried they were spies. He was on his guard, but it wouldn’t stop him.”

Dynastic competition

Although he had been mentioned as a potential leader in dynastic North Korea, friends say he did not have any interest in the prospect.

But he appears to have antagonized his younger brother just enough. In 2010, the day before Kim Jong Un was to make his first appearance as heir apparent in North Korea, Kim Jong Nam gave an interview to Japan’s TV Asahi in which he said that the choice was his father’s and that there appeared to be internal reasons for hurrying the process along.

“Personally speaking, I am opposed to the third-generation succession,” he said, a statement that might be considered anodyne elsewhere but was tantamount to treason in North Korea.

[Malaysian assassination focuses new attention on North Korean leader]

Madden, of North Korea Leadership Watch, said that there was always a chance of Kim Jong Nam’s being thrust into leadership. “Jong Nam still had a power base, and there was always a remote possibility that he would take power,” he said.

Terry, the former CIA analyst, agreed. “However improbable, there are always rumors that Kim Jong Nam could replace Kim Jong Un as the head of the regime at the behest of China or the U.S.” she said.

There have been reports in South Korea that Kim Jong Nam had acted as a middleman between South Korean President Park Geun-hye and officials in North Korea. Just a few days before his death, a South Korean newspaper reported that Kim Jong Nam had tried to defect to South Korea several years ago.

This would have given the regime ample reason to get rid of him, said Cheong Seong-chang, senior fellow at the Sejong Institute, a South Korean think tank.

Indeed, Kim’s defection would have been much more catastrophic for the regime than that of Thae Yong-ho, the deputy North Korean ambassador in London who fled to South Korea last year, said one former official in the regime.

“Imagine how detrimental the impact would have been if Kim Jong Un’s half brother were to speak out against Kim Jong Un,” said the former official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity out of concern for his safety. “It would have a much bigger impact than Thae Yong-ho is having now in South Korea.”

Thae has become an outspoken critic of the regime, calling for a flood of information into North Korea to encourage people there to flee or rise up.

The downside for the United States and South Korea is that they have lost the opportunity to recruit someone in the family to provide information. They also have lost someone who could be installed as a slightly friendlier leader in North Korea while still maintaining the Kim family bloodline — an important factor in Korean culture.

“They wanted him alive, not dead,” said Mansourov. “The only party interested in his premature departure was Pyongyang.”

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Trump Denounces F.B.I. Over Leaks, Demanding Investigation
Friday February 24th, 2017 at 7:32 PM

WASHINGTON — President Trump on Friday assailed the F.B.I. as a dangerously porous agency, charging that leaks of classified information from within its ranks were putting the country at risk — and calling for an immediate hunt for the leakers.

Mr. Trump’s complaints were his latest attacks on his own government’s law enforcement and intelligence agencies, which he has characterized as misguided, irresponsible and politically motivated. The criticisms appeared to be a response to a news report Thursday night indicating that a White House official had asked the F.B.I. to rebut an article detailing contacts between Mr. Trump’s associates and Russian intelligence officials.

The report on Thursday night by CNN asserted that a White House official had called top leaders at the F.B.I. to request that they contact reporters to dispute the account, which appeared last week in The New York Times. Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, told reporters on Friday morning that the CNN report was “indefensible and inaccurate,” and he has also called the Times article untrue.

But on Friday morning, Mr. Trump’s focus was on which members of his administration were sharing unflattering information about him with reporters, and his desire to find the perpetrators.

Mr. Spicer argued on Friday that CNN had misreported a series of exchanges between Reince Priebus, the White House chief of staff, and leaders of the F.B.I. in the wake of the Times report.

At a briefing conducted on the condition of anonymity for the White House press pool, senior administration officials said it was top F.B.I. officials — first Andrew G. McCabe, the deputy director, and later James B. Comey, the director — who approached Mr. Priebus the day after the article appeared to say that it was false.

Mr. Priebus, according to the White House officials, then asked the men what they could do to rebut it publicly. They apologized and said they were unable to issue a statement or otherwise comment on the matter, according to the White House briefing.

At one point, the White House officials said, Mr. Priebus asked Mr. McCabe if he could say publicly that “senior intelligence officials” had informed him that the Times article was inaccurate, and he was told that he could. Mr. Priebus did that in an interview on Sunday.

The F.B.I. on Friday declined to provide its account of those conversations and declined to comment on Mr. Trump’s Twitter statements.

The executive editor of The Times, Dean Baquet, said on Friday that “The Times had numerous sources confirming this story.”

“Attacking it does not make it less true,” Mr. Baquet said.

An F.B.I. official confirmed on Thursday night that the White House had asked last week for the bureau’s help disputing the story, and that senior F.B.I. officials had rejected the request, citing the continuing investigation into Russian efforts to affect the election.

The official declined to say whether White House officials had reached out directly to Mr. Comey, Mr. McCabe or others. The official said the White House had reached out to American intelligence agencies in the hopes of enlisting their help.

Tension between the F.B.I. and the White House is not unheard-of. President Bill Clinton had an icy relationship with his F.B.I. director, Louis J. Freeh, whose agents investigated the president and his associates for years. But it is very unusual for a president to openly criticize the entire bureau.

Mr. Trump’s remarks add to an already unusual moment in history for the F.B.I. The bureau, along with other American intelligence agencies, has concluded that Russia unleashed a hacking campaign to disrupt the 2016 presidential election, in part to help Mr. Trump. F.B.I. agents are also investigating some of Mr. Trump’s former campaign advisers and associates.

Mr. Trump has been disparaging the intelligence community for months, particularly in response to its conclusion that Russia sought to influence the election on his behalf.

In December, he suggested that United States intelligence agencies could not be trusted because they erroneously concluded that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. In January, he denounced leaks emanating from the intelligence community and argued that they were politically motivated. “Are we living in Nazi Germany?” he said.

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White House Bars Times and Other News Outlets From Briefing
Friday February 24th, 2017 at 7:02 PM

WASHINGTON — Journalists from The New York Times and several other news organizations were prohibited from attending a briefing by President Trump’s press secretary on Friday, a highly unusual breach of relations between the White House and its press corps.

Reporters from The Times, BuzzFeed News, CNN, The Los Angeles Times and Politico were not allowed to enter the West Wing office of the press secretary, Sean M. Spicer, for the scheduled briefing. Aides to Mr. Spicer only allowed in reporters from a handpicked group of news organizations that, the White House said, had been previously confirmed.

Those organizations included Breitbart News, the One America News Network and The Washington Times, all with conservative leanings. Journalists from ABC, CBS, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and Fox News also attended.

Reporters from Time magazine and The Associated Press, who were set to be allowed in, chose not to attend the briefing in protest of the White House’s actions.

“Nothing like this has ever happened at the White House in our long history of covering multiple administrations of different parties,” Dean Baquet, the executive editor of The Times, said in a statement. “We strongly protest the exclusion of The New York Times and the other news organizations. Free media access to a transparent government is obviously of crucial national interest.”

The White House Correspondents’ Association, which represents the press corps, quickly rebuked the White House’s actions.

“The W.H.C.A. board is protesting strongly against how today’s gaggle is being handled by the White House,” the association president, Jeff Mason, said in a statement. “We encourage the organizations that were allowed in to share the material with others in the press corps who were not. The board will be discussing this further with White House staff.”

The White House move came hours after Mr. Trump delivered a slashing attack on the news media in a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference. The president denounced news organizations as “dishonest” purveyors of “fake news” and mocked journalists for claiming free speech rights.

“They always bring up the First Amendment,” Mr. Trump said to cheers.

A White House spokeswoman, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, played down the events in an email on Friday afternoon.

“We invited the pool so everyone was represented,” Ms. Sanders wrote. “We decided to add a couple of additional people beyond the pool. Nothing more than that.”

Mr. Spicer’s small-group Friday session, known as a gaggle, was scheduled as a no-camera event, less formal than his usual briefings that are carried live on cable news. But past administrations have not hand-selected outlets that can attend such sessions.

“It was clear that they let in a lot of news outlets with less reach who are Trump-friendly,” said Noah Bierman, a White House reporter for The Los Angeles Times, who was barred. “They let in almost every network but CNN. That’s concerning, the handpicking aspect of it.”

Two of the barred outlets, CNN and The Times, have been a particular focus of Mr. Trump’s ire. And during the presidential campaign, some journalists from BuzzFeed News and Politico were prohibited from attending Trump rallies.

Representatives of the barred news organizations made clear that they believed the White House’s actions on Friday were punitive.

“Apparently this is how they retaliate when you report facts they don’t like,” CNN said in a statement.

Ben Smith, editor in chief of BuzzFeed, called it “the White House’s apparent attempt to punish news outlets whose coverage it does not like.”

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Friday February 24th, 2017 at 6:34 PM

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On the roster: - How broken are Democrats? - White House pushed FBI to stifle reports on Russia ties - Annnnnd…Trump responds to report slamming FBI in tweets - Power Play: CPAC pop quiz! - We used to call this ‘childhood’HOW BROKEN ARE DEMOCRATS?
What kind of party do Democrats want to have?

Simple: One that stops losing elections.

As the members of the Democratic National Committee gather this weekend in Atlanta to choose a new leader, much as been said about the paths forward for the party.

One, personified by Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., is maximal confrontation. Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress, urges his party to face down Trump as not just wicked but also criminal.

It was at least three years before Republicans in the Obama era had to deal with bleating from their base about impeachment, but Ellison & Co. are already there.

Think about that for a second. A sitting member of Congress potentially in line to lead a major political party is calling for the impeachment of a president who has been in office for five weeks. Whatever you think of Donald Trump, that’s gonzo stuff.

The other way forward is being cast in the press as a more moderate choice, that of former Labor Secretary Tom Perez.

The very fact that Perez, a staunch uber-liberal, is being depicted as some sort of squish tells you how bad off the Democrats are now.

If you thought John Boehner and Reince Priebus had it bad keeping Republicans from swallowing their tongues in the Obama era, Perez and other basically normal Democrats are about to walk through a hellscape even more diabolical in nature.

Where Republicans had Obama’s supposedly forged birth certificate, Democrats have Vladimir Putin rigging the election. The Democrat’s conspiracy theory is less insane sounding, but will be equally damaging to the party and its mental health – if not more so.

From a practical point of view, dealing with Trump for Democrats would be a pretty straightforward matter. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has basically said as much: Find the points on which Trump, no conservative, agrees with Democrats -- especially on stimulus spending, labor policy and trade -- and then jam the GOP.

One of the advantages of having a non-ideological president was supposed to be all the deal-making that would get done. But instead, Washington is still stuck.

Yes, that is in part because Trump and his fellow Republicans can’t quite get the signal calling down on moving the big legislation still in the discussion phase, but also because no Democrat other than those from bright-red states feel free to work with Trump on anything.

If Schumer really wanted to be in Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s head, the Democrat would be paying multiple visits to his fellow New Yorker at the White House.

But Schumer knows that he can’t because his party’s base doesn’t even consider Trump the legitimate president, just as some Republicans, including Trump, felt about Obama.

If Perez wins this weekend, his task of leading a political party, not a resistance, will be daunting to say the least. It would be easier for him than it is for Schumer since the party isn’t concerned with policy so much as fundraising and organizing.

Even so, dealing with the frothiest parts of his party is a task no prospective Democratic chairman, save perhaps Ellison, could relish.

The last time Democrats were in the wilderness like this was 13 years ago after the emotionally devastating defeat of John Kerry by incumbent president George W. Bush. Obama proved an unlikely but effective Moses for his party by effectively absorbing the energy the kooks of the far left and channeling it into more productive aims.

Right now, there is no one on the horizon with the potential exception of California Sen. Kamala Harris who could unite this angry, broken party.

This weekend we will find out just how angry and broken it is.

THE RULEBOOK: CODEPENDENT “Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires.” – Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 10
TIME OUT: SACKEDSmithsonian Magazine: “The fate of Greenland’s Vikings—who never numbered more than 2,500 – has intrigued and confounded generations of archaeologists… [O]ver the last decade a radically different picture of Viking life in Greenland has started to emerge from the remains of the old settlements… [I]n the 13th century, after three centuries, [the Vikings’] world changed profoundly. First, the climate cooled because of the volcanic eruption in Indonesia. Sea ice increased, and so did ocean storms…Second, the market for walrus ivory collapsed, partly because Portugal and other countries started to open trade routes into sub-Saharan Africa, which brought elephant ivory to the European market…And finally, the Black Death devastated Europe…The Norse probably could have survived any one of those calamities separately…But all three blows must have left them reeling…The Greenland Vikings were essentially victims of globalization and a pandemic.”

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WHITE HOUSE PUSHED FBI TO STIFLE REPORTS ON RUSSIA TIES
AP: “White House chief of staff Reince Priebus asked a top FBI official to dispute media reports that President Donald Trump's campaign advisers were frequently in touch with Russian intelligence agents during the election, a White House official said. The official said that Priebus' request came as the White House sought to discredit a New York Times report about the contacts last week. As of Thursday, the FBI had not commented publicly on the report and there was no indication it planned to. The New York Times reported that U.S. agencies had intercepted phone calls last year between Russian intelligence officials and members of Trump's 2016 campaign team. Priebus' discussion with FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe sparked outrage among some Democrats, who said that the chief of staff was violating policies intended to limit communications between the law enforcement agency and the White House on pending investigations.”

Annnnnd…Trump responds to report slamming FBI in tweets - Fox News: “President Trump, after a brief hiatus, returned to throwing Twitter bombs Friday morning to accuse his own FBI of failing to crack down on leaks – on the heels of reports about a conversation his chief of staff had with the bureau about Russia-related allegations…The White House pushed back, claiming in response that while Priebus did speak with FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, McCabe initiated the contact to inform Priebus that The New York Times report about campaign contacts with Russia was incorrect…[Trump tweeted] ‘The FBI is totally unable to stop the national security ‘leakers’ that have permeated our government for a long time. They can't even…. find the leakers within the FBI itself. Classified information is being given to media that could have a devastating effect on U.S. FIND NOW.’”

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AUDIBLE: PASS “Sooner or later, I'm going to eat your ass.” – Gov. Jim Justice, D-W.Va. in an interview with radio host Hoppy Kercheval in which Justice was describing himself as a grizzly bear and a Republican state senator with whom he is feuding as a “barking poodle.”

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FROM THE BLEACHERS“Why isn’t anyone talking about the two countries responsible for 50% of the industrial worlds CO2 emissions in 2013? Two countries with 45% of the world’s population but little in environmental controls. If you want to stop rising CO2 levels, how is it done without huge efforts by China and India? Two countries identified as emerging industrial economies.” – Les Pappas, Scottsdale, Ariz.
[Ed. note: Well, some people are talking about it, but the fact is it seems highly unlikely that any action will be taken on that front anytime in the next four years. And while your point is well taken, we also remember that if Britain and Germany had told the U.S. to scale back our industrial revolution in the 1880s, we would have scoffed too.]

“Your estimate that perhaps ten percent of the country is illegal seems way too high. Pew puts it 3.5 percent.” – Brien Downes, Delmar, N.Y.

[Ed. Note: I was told there would be no math! No, you are quite right. That was my simple sloppy calculation. The Pew estimate of 11 million illegal immigrants out of a total population of 318 million is as close to authoritative as we are likely to get. Good catch.]

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How broken are Democrats?
Friday February 24th, 2017 at 6:33 PM

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White House defends contacts with FBI over Russia reports

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WASHINGTON — The White House on Friday defended chief of staff Reince Priebus against accusations he breached a government firewall when he asked FBI Director James Comey to publicly dispute media reports that Trump campaign advisers had been ...

Comey faces pressure as White House fights Russia reports

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WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI Director James Comey is again in a familiar spot these days — the middle of political tumult. As a high-ranking Justice Department official in the George W. Bush administration, he clashed with the White House over a secret ...

White House says no pressure applied on FBI about Russia reports

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FILE - In this Feb. 23, 2017 file photo, White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus speaks in Oxon Hill, Md. Priebus asked top FBI officials to dispute media reports that President Donald Trump's campaign advisers were frequently in touch ... more >.

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In a background briefing, two senior Trump administration officials inveighed against a CNN report that the FBI rejected a White House request to “publicly knock down” a story first reported by the New York Times. That report, published on Feb. 14 ...

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President Donald Trump escalated his attacks against the news media at a gathering of conservative activists Friday hours after lashing out at the FBI over leaks about an agency investigation into contacts between his campaign and Russian officials.

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White House defends contacts with FBI over Russia reports
Friday February 24th, 2017 at 6:07 PM

President Donald Trump's spokesman, Sean Spicer, argued Priebus had little choice but to seek Comey's assistance in rebutting what Spicer said were inaccurate reports about contacts during last year's presidential campaign. The FBI did not issue the statement requested by Priebus and has given no sign one is forthcoming.

"I don't know what else we were supposed to do," Spicer said.

The Justice Department has policies in place to limit communications between the White House and the FBI about pending investigations. Trump officials on Friday not only confirmed contacts between Priebus and the FBI, but engaged in an extraordinary public airing of those private conversations.

Spicer said it was the FBI that first approached the White House about the veracity of a New York Times story asserting that Trump advisers had contacts with Russian intelligence officials during the presidential campaign. Spicer said Priebus then asked both FBI Director James Comey and Deputy Director Andrew McCabe if they would condemn the story publicly, which they declined to do.

"The chief of staff said, well, you've put us in a very difficult situation," Spicer said. "You've told us that a story that made some fairly significant accusations was not true. And now you want us to just sit out there."

The FBI would not comment on the matter or verify the White House account.

Friday's revelations were the latest wrinkle in Trump's already complicated relationship with the FBI and other intelligence agencies. He's accused intelligence officials of releasing classified information about him to the media, declaring in a tweet Friday morning that the FBI was "totally unable to stop the national security 'leakers' that have permeated our government for a long time."

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi accused Priebus of "an outrageous breach of the FBI's independence" and called on the Justice Department's inspector general to look into all conversations Priebus and other White House officials have held with the FBI on ongoing investigations.

"The rule of law depends on the FBI's complete independence, free from political pressure from the targets of its investigations," Pelosi said.

A 2009 memo from then-Attorney General Eric Holder said the Justice Department is to advise the White House on pending criminal or civil investigations "only when it is important for the performance of the president's duties and appropriate from a law enforcement perspective."

Ron Hosko, a retired FBI assistant director who oversaw criminal investigations, said the discussions between the FBI and the Trump White House were inadvisable.

"It is a very slippery slope," Hosko said. "Do I get in the position of where I'm updating the White House on my priority criminal cases? The answer is no, I should not be doing that."

Other FBI veterans said the interactions between Priebus and the FBI were not unprecedented. Robert Anderson, a retired executive assistant director who served under Comey and oversaw counterintelligence investigations, said contacts between the bureau and White House are "usually very-well documented" in order to avoid the perception of inappropriate contacts.

CNN first reported that Priebus had asked the FBI for help, and a White House official confirmed the matter to The Associated Press Thursday night. On Friday morning, two other senior White House officials summoned reporters to a briefing to expand on the timeline of events.

The White House officials would only discuss the matter on the condition of anonymity. Two hours later, Trump panned news stories that rely on anonymous sources, telling a conservative conference that reporters "shouldn't be allowed to use sources unless they use somebody's name."

Spicer later briefed some reporters on the record. The Associated Press declined to participate in that briefing because some major news organizations were not invited, but audio of the briefing was later circulated by reporters who attended.

Trump has been shadowed by questions about potential ties to Russia since winning the election. U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that Russia meddled in the campaign in an effort to help Trump defeat Democrat Hillary Clinton.

On Feb. 14, The New York Times reported that intelligence agencies had collected phone records and call intercepts showing frequent communication between Trump advisers and Russian intelligence agents during the campaign. Trump has said he is not aware of such contacts.

The White House says Priebus was holding a previously scheduled meeting with McCabe the morning after the Times story was published. According to Spicer, McCabe told Priebus in "very colorful terms" that the report was inaccurate, prompting the chief of staff to ask if the FBI would make its view known publicly.

Spicer said McCabe told the White House the bureau did not want to be in the practice of rebutting news stories. A similar message was conveyed to Priebus later in the day by Comey, according to the White House spokesman.

The White House said McCabe and Comey instead gave Priebus the go-ahead to discredit the story publicly, something the FBI has not confirmed.

Priebus alluded to his contacts with the FBI over the weekend, telling Fox News that "the top levels of the intelligence community" had assured him that the allegations of campaign contacts with Russia were "not only grossly overstated but also wrong."

During the campaign, Trump and other Republicans strongly criticized a meeting between Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former President Bill Clinton, husband of Trump's general election opponent. The meeting came as the FBI — which is overseen by the Justice Department — was investigating Hillary Clinton's use of a private email address and personal internet server.

Spicer said he was not aware of an FBI investigation into Trump campaign advisers' contacts with Russia. Administration officials have acknowledged that the FBI interviewed ousted national security adviser Michael Flynn about his communications with Russia's ambassador to the U.S. during the transition.

Flynn was fired after it was revealed that he misled Vice-President Mike Pence and other White House officials about the content of those conversations.

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Associated Press writers Eric Tucker, Vivian Salama, Jill Colvin and Ken Thomas contributed to this report.

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Sputnik International: What's Behind North Korean Missile Strategy
Friday February 24th, 2017 at 2:36 PM

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North Korea's nuclear program has long been a source for concern for its closest neighbors, Japan and South Korea, as well as for the global community. On February 12, Pyongyang launched a medium-range ballistic missile into the Sea of Japan and declared the test successful.

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» mikenov on Twitter: Issa: Trump-Russia probe requires a special prosecutor https://t.co/zuEA8eHSuG
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Issa: Trump-Russia probe requires a special prosecutor https://t.co/zuEA8eHSuG Posted by mikenov on Sat Feb 25 12:06:13 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: BBC News - Trump's 'brain' Steve Bannon emerges from the shadows https://t.co/cg4IdUzLgR
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BBC News - Trump's 'brain' Steve Bannon emerges from the shadows https://t.co/cg4IdUzLgR Posted by mikenov on Sat Feb 25 09:32:15 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: Trump administration sought to enlist intelligence officials, key lawmakers to counter Russia stories
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mikenova shared this story . The Trump administration has enlisted senior members of the intelligence community and Congress in efforts to counter news stories about Trump associates’ ties to Russia, a politically charged issue tha...

» mikenov on Twitter: Trump administration sought to enlist intelligence officials, key lawmakers to counter Russia stories https://t.co/sA2pZMkV2w
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Trump administration sought to enlist intelligence officials, key lawmakers to counter Russia stories https://t.co/sA2pZMkV2w Posted by mikenov on Sat Feb 25 02:18:31 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: RT @washingtonpost: German intelligence agency spied on foreign journalists, including BBC and N.Y. Times, report says https://t.co/rtTE8iD…
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RT @washingtonpost: German intelligence agency spied on foreign journalists, including BBC and N.Y. Times, report says https://t.co/rtTE8iD… Posted by mikenov on Sat Feb 25 02:08:42 2017. 180 retweets mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: U.S. generals want elevated talks with Russia about Iraq and Syria operations because of aerial collision fears https://t.co/kCgRftDUy5
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U.S. generals want elevated talks with Russia about Iraq and Syria operations because of aerial collision fears https://t.co/kCgRftDUy5 Posted by mikenov on Sat Feb 25 01:59:06 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: U.S. generals want elevated talks with Russia about Iraq and Syria operations because of aerial collision fears
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mikenova shared this story . An F-22 Raptor approaches a KC-10 Extender before aerial refueling during a mission on Feb. 12. (Staff Sgt. Matthew B. Fredericks/U.S. Air Force) BAGHDAD — Senior U.S. military officials want to elevate...

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: US - Russia military talks to be elevated - Google Search
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mikenova shared this story . US generals want elevated talks with Russia about Iraq and Syria ... Washington Post - Feb 23, 2017 BAGHDAD — Senior U.S. military officials want to elevate talks with Russia about air operations over I...

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: US, Russia Need More Talk on ISIS Fight, Air Force General Says
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» mikenov on Twitter: US, Russia Need More Talk on ISIS Fight, Air Force General Says https://t.co/KYPCIXYpr2 via @Militarydotcom
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US, Russia Need More Talk on ISIS Fight, Air Force General Says https://t.co/KYPCIXYpr2 via @Militarydotcom Posted by mikenov on Sat Feb 25 01:50:03 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: RT @Militarydotcom: US, #Russia Need More Talk on #ISIS Fight, Air Force General Says https://t.co/iFdYHcKW28 https://t.co/dd62h4yIb5
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RT @Militarydotcom: US, #Russia Need More Talk on #ISIS Fight, Air Force General Says https://t.co/iFdYHcKW28 https://t.co/dd62h4yIb5 Posted by mikenov on Sat Feb 25 01:49:24 2017. 6 retweets mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: RT @thehill: CNN fires back after being excluded from WH press briefing: This is "unacceptable"https://t.co/3TSxJZVisU https://t.co/P1pIfy…
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RT @thehill: CNN fires back after being excluded from WH press briefing: This is "unacceptable" https://t.co/3TSxJZVisU https://t.co/P1pIfy… Posted by mikenov on Sat Feb 25 01:48:29 2017. 1289 retweets mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: RT @CNNPolitics: Democrats: White House contact with the FBI is an "outrageous breach of the FBI's independence" https://t.co/HXhgw9uRGF ht…
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RT @CNNPolitics: Democrats: White House contact with the FBI is an "outrageous breach of the FBI's independence" https://t.co/HXhgw9uRGF ht… Posted by mikenov on Sat Feb 25 01:48:13 2017. 371 retweets mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: RT @MSNBC: BREAKING: Fifty-three percent of Americans want congressional probe of Trump, Russia, new NBC News/WSJ poll shows https://t.co/P…
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RT @MSNBC: BREAKING: Fifty-three percent of Americans want congressional probe of Trump, Russia, new NBC News/WSJ poll shows https://t.co/P… Posted by mikenov on Sat Feb 25 01:47:54 2017. 989 retweets mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: RT @thehill: Outspoken Putin Critic: Media excluded from briefing should investigate Trump ties to Russia instead https://t.co/cjZsxpRuH3 h…
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RT @thehill: Outspoken Putin Critic: Media excluded from briefing should investigate Trump ties to Russia instead https://t.co/cjZsxpRuH3 h… Posted by mikenov on Sat Feb 25 01:47:05 2017. 254 retweets mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: RT @politico: Ruth Bader Ginsburg: We're 'not experiencing the best of times' https://t.co/oaqAuobbat https://t.co/sGx6bSrTR1
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RT @politico: Ruth Bader Ginsburg: We're 'not experiencing the best of times' https://t.co/oaqAuobbat https://t.co/sGx6bSrTR1 Posted by mikenov on Sat Feb 25 01:46:26 2017. 215 retweets mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: RT @thehill: National Press Club: White House banning media outlets "deeply disturbing" https://t.co/TaIrKzB3cK https://t.co/ym2AlIN7Q3
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RT @thehill: National Press Club: White House banning media outlets "deeply disturbing" https://t.co/TaIrKzB3cK https://t.co/ym2AlIN7Q3 Posted by mikenov on Sat Feb 25 01:46:19 2017. 232 retweets mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: RT @thehill: Bloomberg joins growing list of news orgs canceling annual correspondents' dinner events https://t.co/rMAihY3xF4 https://t.co/…
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RT @thehill: Bloomberg joins growing list of news orgs canceling annual correspondents' dinner events https://t.co/rMAihY3xF4 https://t.co/… Posted by mikenov on Sat Feb 25 01:46:05 2017. 291 retweets mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: RT @thehill: Fox's Bret Baier rips White House after outlets barred from briefing https://t.co/TLZPH6RyEY https://t.co/XidMy2o5sx
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RT @thehill: Fox's Bret Baier rips White House after outlets barred from briefing https://t.co/TLZPH6RyEY https://t.co/XidMy2o5sx Posted by mikenov on Sat Feb 25 01:45:44 2017. 181 retweets mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: RT @thehill: Brietbart CEO reveals major Trump donors are part owners https://t.co/MCIPPJrRZ0 https://t.co/uGtUVXWzsh
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RT @thehill: Brietbart CEO reveals major Trump donors are part owners https://t.co/MCIPPJrRZ0 https://t.co/uGtUVXWzsh Posted by mikenov on Sat Feb 25 01:45:10 2017. 208 retweets mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: RT @politico: George Soros denies any direct connection to the growing tide of anti-Trump demonstrations https://t.co/13dnSPU3Uo https://t.…
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RT @politico: George Soros denies any direct connection to the growing tide of anti-Trump demonstrations https://t.co/13dnSPU3Uo https://t.… Posted by mikenov on Sat Feb 25 01:45:05 2017. 105 retweets mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: RT @thehill: CNN considers backing out of Trump's White House correspondents' dinner https://t.co/vf4oJxcD6n https://t.co/Wm1mqnO8db
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RT @thehill: CNN considers backing out of Trump's White House correspondents' dinner https://t.co/vf4oJxcD6n https://t.co/Wm1mqnO8db Posted by mikenov on Sat Feb 25 01:44:11 2017. 152 retweets mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: RT @CNN: .@jaketapper: This White House does not value an independent press. There is a word for that: Un-American. https://t.co/OsCezWmRic…
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RT @CNN: .@jaketapper: This White House does not value an independent press. There is a word for that: Un-American. https://t.co/OsCezWmRic… Posted by mikenov on Sat Feb 25 01:43:59 2017. 5274 retweets mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: RT @thehill: Washington Post: How could our story be fake if it made you fire Flynn? https://t.co/S4dvTyt2dL https://t.co/FfCLxupu4W
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RT @thehill: Washington Post: How could our story be fake if it made you fire Flynn? https://t.co/S4dvTyt2dL https://t.co/FfCLxupu4W Posted by mikenov on Sat Feb 25 01:43:43 2017. 409 retweets mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: RT @thedailybeast: The White House reportedly asked intelligence officials and lawmakers to downplay Russia stories: https://t.co/TdYxxnYmz…
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RT @thedailybeast: The White House reportedly asked intelligence officials and lawmakers to downplay Russia stories: https://t.co/TdYxxnYmz… Posted by mikenov on Sat Feb 25 01:43:26 2017. 110 retweets mikenov on Twitter

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» mikenov on Twitter: As 30-day deadline to Pentagon for ISIS plan nears, Trump to weigh options => https://t.co/9iJ6Jmj2qO
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As 30-day deadline to Pentagon for ISIS plan nears, Trump to weigh options => https://t.co/9iJ6Jmj2qO Posted by mikenov on Sat Feb 25 01:32:01 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: Comey faces pressure as White House fights Russia reports https://t.co/KGRirGLTM3
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Comey faces pressure as White House fights Russia reports https://t.co/KGRirGLTM3 Posted by mikenov on Sat Feb 25 01:12:42 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: When does contact between the FBI and the White House cross the line? https://t.co/p8mVOr1sEN
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When does contact between the FBI and the White House cross the line? https://t.co/p8mVOr1sEN Posted by mikenov on Sat Feb 25 00:53:17 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: Fact Check: Trump Blasts ‘Fake News’ and Repeats Inaccurate Claims at CPAC https://t.co/ExjDZ0wUBb
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Fact Check: Trump Blasts ‘Fake News’ and Repeats Inaccurate Claims at CPAC https://t.co/ExjDZ0wUBb Posted by mikenov on Sat Feb 25 00:36:09 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: Trump Denounces F.B.I. Over Leaks, Demanding Investigation https://t.co/2JTzfblyoO
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Trump Denounces F.B.I. Over Leaks, Demanding Investigation https://t.co/2JTzfblyoO Posted by mikenov on Sat Feb 25 00:32:13 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: Anatomy of American Totalitarianism: Trump tries to muzzle the free press, then - every free mouth in the country, and asks for FBI help...
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Anatomy of American Totalitarianism: Trump tries to muzzle the free press, then - every free mouth in the country, and asks for FBI help... Posted by mikenov on Sat Feb 25 00:18:05 2017. mikenov on Twitter

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» mikenov on Twitter: Trump turns his fire on the FBI https://t.co/6LZ1XQqvfz
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Trump turns his fire on the FBI https://t.co/6LZ1XQqvfz Posted by mikenov on Sat Feb 25 00:05:54 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: Trump bars Press - Google Search
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mikenova shared this story . Trump White House Bars News Organizations From Press Briefing Huffington Post - 35 minutes ago The White House blocked several news outlets from attending a closed-door briefing Friday afternoon with press se...

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: White House Bars Times and Other News Outlets From Briefing
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mikenova shared this story . WASHINGTON — Journalists from The New York Times and several other news organizations were prohibited from attending a briefing by President Trump’s press secretary on Friday, a highly unusual bre...

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White House Bars Times and Other News Outlets From Briefing https://t.co/FJxbHSD9Q4 Posted by mikenov on Fri Feb 24 23:59:52 2017. mikenov on Twitter

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» mikenov on Twitter: Trump and FBI - GS - 6:23 PM 2/24/2017 - https://t.co/4C9cDYQ5tS*
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Trump and FBI - GS - 6:23 PM 2/24/2017 - https://t.co/4C9cDYQ5tS * Posted by mikenov on Fri Feb 24 23:28:17 2017. mikenov on Twitter

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mikenova shared this story . WASHINGTON — The White House on Friday defended chief of staff Reince Priebus against accusations he breached a government firewall when he asked FBI Director James Comey to publicly dispute media repor...

» mikenov on Twitter: White House defends contacts with FBI over Russia reports https://t.co/WiehC0j8n9 via @YahooCanada
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White House defends contacts with FBI over Russia reports https://t.co/WiehC0j8n9 via @YahooCanada Posted by mikenov on Fri Feb 24 23:06:54 2017. mikenov on Twitter

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» mikenov on Twitter: RT @washingtonpost: Perspective: President Trump wants to put on a show. Governing matters less.https://t.co/CP0PN4NV6T via @posteverything
24/02/17 16:26 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
RT @washingtonpost: Perspective: President Trump wants to put on a show. Governing matters less. https://t.co/CP0PN4NV6T via @posteverything Posted by mikenov on Fri Feb 24 21:26:27 2017. 196 retweets mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: RT @DailyCaller: White House Official To NATO: ‘If You Want To Maintain Relevancy’ Join US War On Jihad [VIDEO] https://t.co/zwuP4MGvXn htt…
24/02/17 16:26 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
RT @DailyCaller: White House Official To NATO: ‘If You Want To Maintain Relevancy’ Join US War On Jihad [VIDEO] https://t.co/zwuP4MGvXn htt… Posted by mikenov on Fri Feb 24 21:26:09 2017. 34 retweets mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: RT @thedailybeast: He’s the Social Democrat candidate for German chancellor and the antithesis of the Trumpistas https://t.co/Ex3EahMsKy ht…
24/02/17 16:24 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
RT @thedailybeast: He’s the Social Democrat candidate for German chancellor and the antithesis of the Trumpistas https://t.co/Ex3EahMsKy ht… Posted by mikenov on Fri Feb 24 21:24:30 2017. 13 retweets mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: RT @NBCNewYork: A little something for everybody daydreaming about the weekend from their office right now https://t.co/iYgioZyXs3 https://…
24/02/17 16:23 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
RT @NBCNewYork: A little something for everybody daydreaming about the weekend from their office right now https://t.co/iYgioZyXs3 https://… Posted by mikenov on Fri Feb 24 21:23:06 2017. 2 retweets mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: RT @AEI: Perhaps the most powerful defense of market #capitalism you will ever read. #CPAC2017 https://t.co/ApkLxXTUkQ
24/02/17 16:22 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
RT @AEI: Perhaps the most powerful defense of market #capitalism you will ever read. #CPAC2017 https://t.co/ApkLxXTUkQ Posted by mikenov on Fri Feb 24 21:22:38 2017. 6 retweets mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: RT @defense_news: Air Force anticipates F-35 deployment to Middle East in 'not too distant future.' https://t.co/l6LKffEyfs https://t.co/21…
24/02/17 16:21 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
RT @defense_news: Air Force anticipates F-35 deployment to Middle East in 'not too distant future.' https://t.co/l6LKffEyfs https://t.co/21… Posted by mikenov on Fri Feb 24 21:21:54 2017. 18 retweets mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: RT @JohnAvlon: Got to read this from @michaeldalynyc & @michaeldweiss: The Crook Behind the Trump-Russia 'Peace' Plan https://t.co/DiuK9Gvx…
24/02/17 16:21 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
RT @JohnAvlon: Got to read this from @michaeldalynyc & @michaeldweiss: The Crook Behind the Trump-Russia 'Peace' Plan https://t.co/DiuK9Gvx… Posted by mikenov on Fri Feb 24 21:21:31 2017. 45 retweets mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: RT @MilitaryTimes: Air Force anticipates F-35 deployment to Middle East in 'not too distant future.' https://t.co/g0rbiJvmcD https://t.co/0…
24/02/17 16:12 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
RT @MilitaryTimes: Air Force anticipates F-35 deployment to Middle East in 'not too distant future.' https://t.co/g0rbiJvmcD https://t.co/0… Posted by mikenov on Fri Feb 24 21:12:45 2017. 10 retweets mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: RT @FRANCE24: Russia to veto Syria sanctions over chemical weapons https://t.co/M0qoe28QwN https://t.co/CrkhryGYWU
24/02/17 16:12 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
RT @FRANCE24: Russia to veto Syria sanctions over chemical weapons https://t.co/M0qoe28QwN https://t.co/CrkhryGYWU Posted by mikenov on Fri Feb 24 21:12:21 2017. 16 retweets mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: RT @DailyCaller: Bolton: Comey Should Have Been Gone On Day One https://t.co/tCF6QxebHA https://t.co/gruTyoCsHx
24/02/17 16:11 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
RT @DailyCaller: Bolton: Comey Should Have Been Gone On Day One https://t.co/tCF6QxebHA https://t.co/gruTyoCsHx Posted by mikenov on Fri Feb 24 21:11:29 2017. 54 retweets mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: RT @FoxNews: Terrifying drone video shows great white shark stalking surfers https://t.co/9LVNg0AvWv https://t.co/CNSl9PxTdb
24/02/17 16:10 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
RT @FoxNews: Terrifying drone video shows great white shark stalking surfers https://t.co/9LVNg0AvWv https://t.co/CNSl9PxTdb Posted by mikenov on Fri Feb 24 21:10:23 2017. 154 retweets mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: RT @YahooNews: Trump uses #CPAC event to attack the media: “They have no sources. They just make them up” https://t.co/jEIITxeIo5
24/02/17 16:10 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
RT @YahooNews: Trump uses #CPAC event to attack the media: “They have no sources. They just make them up” https://t.co/jEIITxeIo5 Posted by mikenov on Fri Feb 24 21:10:02 2017. 14 retweets mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: RT @mikenov: Trump vows military build-up, hammers nationalist themes https://t.co/wORjNLpk5T via @Reuters
24/02/17 16:09 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
RT @mikenov: Trump vows military build-up, hammers nationalist themes https://t.co/wORjNLpk5T via @Reuters Posted by mikenov on Fri Feb 24 21:09:32 2017. 1 retweet mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: RT @politico: GOP governor: Republicans need to pay attention to town hall protests https://t.co/WXVyLgEhRr https://t.co/vRofnKOTLx
24/02/17 16:09 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
RT @politico: GOP governor: Republicans need to pay attention to town hall protests https://t.co/WXVyLgEhRr https://t.co/vRofnKOTLx Posted by mikenov on Fri Feb 24 21:09:19 2017. 153 retweets mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: RT @MSNBC: Martin O'Malley: The Trump administration is 'malicious' https://t.co/P4V2iLG7Q6 https://t.co/bfHmXFvqgz
24/02/17 16:09 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
RT @MSNBC: Martin O'Malley: The Trump administration is 'malicious' https://t.co/P4V2iLG7Q6 https://t.co/bfHmXFvqgz Posted by mikenov on Fri Feb 24 21:09:08 2017. 188 retweets mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: RT @politico: White House blocks reporters from off-camera briefing with @seanspicer https://t.co/4DM8kfIOOv via @Hadas_Gold https://t.co/w…
24/02/17 16:08 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
RT @politico: White House blocks reporters from off-camera briefing with @seanspicer https://t.co/4DM8kfIOOv via @Hadas_Gold https://t.co/w… Posted by mikenov on Fri Feb 24 21:08:55 2017. 206 retweets mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: RT @thehill: GOP lawmaker calls on Trump to release his tax returns during town hall https://t.co/o8HEidJRI4 https://t.co/QqRVz6wTuZ
24/02/17 16:08 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
RT @thehill: GOP lawmaker calls on Trump to release his tax returns during town hall https://t.co/o8HEidJRI4 https://t.co/QqRVz6wTuZ Posted by mikenov on Fri Feb 24 21:08:44 2017. 145 retweets mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: RT @thehill: Chicago PD fires back at Trump: We asked White House for help and never heard back https://t.co/2NWxMI44EA https://t.co/74nxtq…
24/02/17 16:08 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
RT @thehill: Chicago PD fires back at Trump: We asked White House for help and never heard back https://t.co/2NWxMI44EA https://t.co/74nxtq… Posted by mikenov on Fri Feb 24 21:08:35 2017. 251 retweets mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: RT @thehill: NYT: This is the first time we've ever been banned from a WH press briefing https://t.co/MlkMEHbYOt https://t.co/Kl1rgQ8pm7
24/02/17 16:08 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
RT @thehill: NYT: This is the first time we've ever been banned from a WH press briefing https://t.co/MlkMEHbYOt https://t.co/Kl1rgQ8pm7 Posted by mikenov on Fri Feb 24 21:08:24 2017. 480 retweets mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: RT @BI_Defense: Trump's controversial national security aide reportedly tied to far-right, anti-semitic group https://t.co/dJzdo6twjS https…
24/02/17 16:08 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
RT @BI_Defense: Trump's controversial national security aide reportedly tied to far-right, anti-semitic group https://t.co/dJzdo6twjS https… Posted by mikenov on Fri Feb 24 21:08:11 2017. 24 retweets mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: FBI refused White House request to knock down recent Trump-Russia storieshttps://t.co/WG8Rv2OQL5
24/02/17 14:38 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
FBI refused White House request to knock down recent Trump-Russia stories https://t.co/WG8Rv2OQL5 Posted by mikenov on Fri Feb 24 19:38:42 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: Sputnik International: What's Behind North Korean Missile Strategy
24/02/17 14:36 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from Russia News Review. North Korea's nuclear program has long been a source for concern for its closest neighbors, Japan and South Korea, as well as for the global community. On February 12, Pyongyang launche...

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: Opinions: President Trump attacks nine sources
24/02/17 14:35 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from Opinions Review In Brief. Opinions Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: One Month in, Anti-Trump Movement Shows Signs of Sustained Momentum
24/02/17 14:35 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from World News Review. U.S. Representative Leonard Lance, who has held more than 40 town hall-style meetings with constituents in his central New Jersey district, has never faced a crowd like he did on Wednesd...

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: RSS for National Security: While U.S. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly and U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson tried to alleviate Mexico's concerns during a visit to Mexico City, President Donald Trump was fanning the
24/02/17 14:34 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from U.S. National Security and Military News Review. While U.S. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly and U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson tried to alleviate Mexico's concerns during a visit to Mexico Ci...

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: Voice of America: Heroin Overdose Deaths Quadruple Between 2010 and 2015: Study
24/02/17 14:33 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from Russia News Review. Deaths caused by heroin overdoses in the United States quadrupled between 2010 and 2015, according to a new report. The National Center for Health Statistics says there were 12,989 over...

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: Heroin Overdose Deaths Quadruple Between 2010 and 2015: Study
24/02/17 14:33 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from Voice of America. Deaths caused by heroin overdoses in the United States quadrupled between 2010 and 2015, according to a new report. The National Center for Health Statistics says there were 12,989 overdo...

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: Officials: Trump adviser asked FBI to dispute Russia reports
24/02/17 14:32 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from Puerto Rico News - Selected Feeds Review. WASHINGTON (AP) -- White House chief of staff Reince Priebus asked top FBI officials to dispute media reports that Donald Trump's campaign advisers were f...

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: FBI issues warning of FBI phone number scam - KSAT San Antonio
24/02/17 14:31 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from FBI News Review. KSAT San Antonio FBI issues warning of FBI phone number scam KSAT San Antonio SAN ANTONIO - The FBI office in San Antonio issued a warning Friday about a telephone scam involving an FBI of...

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: Don't Forget the Russia Sanctions Are Russia's Fault - Foreign Policy (blog)
24/02/17 14:31 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from Russia, Putin and Putinism. Foreign Policy (blog) Don't Forget the Russia Sanctions Are Russia's Fault Foreign Policy (blog) Three years ago this week, disgraced Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych aband...

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: Defense One - All Content: US Air Force to Send F-35 to Fight ISIS … In a Few Years
24/02/17 14:31 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from U.S. National Security and Military News Review. A U.S. Air Force weapons load crew assigned to the 33rd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron loads a live GBU-12 into an F-35A January 18, 2017, at Eglin Air Force...

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: At CPAC, Trump tightens his grip on the GOP
24/02/17 14:29 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from World News Review. OXON HILL, Md. — President Donald Trump arrived at the Conservative Political Action Conference as a conqueror, not just of Hillary Clinton and all other 2016 contenders, but of any riva...

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: U.S. new home sales rebound; consumer sentiment dips
24/02/17 14:28 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from Markets and Business News Review. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New U.S. single-family home sales rose less than expected in January, likely held back by heavy rains and flooding in California, but continued to p...

» mikenov on Twitter: Republican senators embrace Russia probe that could hurt Trump https://t.co/CasuG49dYB via @bpolitics
24/02/17 13:35 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
Republican senators embrace Russia probe that could hurt Trump https://t.co/CasuG49dYB via @bpolitics Posted by mikenov on Fri Feb 24 18:35:34 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: News Reviews and Opinions: Начальник Генерального штаба Вооруженных Сил Росси... https://t.co/bKjapVrblt
24/02/17 12:42 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
News Reviews and Opinions: Начальник Генерального штаба Вооруженных Сил Росси... https://t.co/bKjapVrblt Posted by mikenov on Fri Feb 24 17:42:42 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: News Reviews and Opinions: » mikenov on Twitter: Top Trump envoys signal no q... https://t.co/t2nR0TlL2Q
24/02/17 12:39 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
News Reviews and Opinions: » mikenov on Twitter: Top Trump envoys signal no q... https://t.co/t2nR0TlL2Q Posted by mikenov on Fri Feb 24 17:39:59 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: Top US, Russian military officials agree on 'enhanced communications' to avoid 'unintended incidents' https://t.co/wGkv3HX2Ll
24/02/17 12:01 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
Top US, Russian military officials agree on 'enhanced communications' to avoid 'unintended incidents' https://t.co/wGkv3HX2Ll Posted by mikenov on Fri Feb 24 17:01:53 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: Russia in Syria Monitor, Feb. 14-21, 2017 | Russia Matters https://t.co/2pWedpYoe4
24/02/17 11:52 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
Russia in Syria Monitor, Feb. 14-21, 2017 | Russia Matters https://t.co/2pWedpYoe4 Posted by mikenov on Fri Feb 24 16:52:15 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: Начальник Генерального штаба Вооруженных Сил России провел в Баку переговоры с военным руководством Азербайджана
24/02/17 10:10 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from RSS. В ходе совместной работы стороны обсудили состояние и перспективы сотрудничества двух стран в военной области. Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: Военачальники России и США договорились о совместной работе по снижению напряженности в мире
24/02/17 10:09 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from RSS. Начальник Генерального штаба ВС РФ генерал армии Валерий Герасимов и председатель Комитета начальников штабов ВС США генерал Джозеф Данфорд на встрече в Баку обменялись мнениями о состоянии российско-...

» mikenov on Twitter: Top Trump envoys signal no quick changes to US-Russia ties https://t.co/I213Hqkzcs
24/02/17 10:04 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
Top Trump envoys signal no quick changes to US-Russia ties https://t.co/I213Hqkzcs Posted by mikenov on Fri Feb 24 15:04:16 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: Team Trump on Russia: Words and Actions | Russia Matters https://t.co/yEGiwJ50XD
24/02/17 09:39 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
Team Trump on Russia: Words and Actions | Russia Matters https://t.co/yEGiwJ50XD Posted by mikenov on Fri Feb 24 14:39:53 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: 2.16.17 Meeting in Baku: Dunford - Gerasimov - Article - https://t.co/Agho2NI7D3
24/02/17 09:32 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
2.16.17 Meeting in Baku: Dunford - Gerasimov - Article - https://t.co/Agho2NI7D3 Posted by mikenov on Fri Feb 24 14:32:11 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: Article from: ? - https://t.co/dILJgfZmMa
24/02/17 09:27 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
Article from: ? - https://t.co/dILJgfZmMa Posted by mikenov on Fri Feb 24 14:27:15 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: RT @russia_matters: Interested in McMaster's position on Russia? Here it is: https://t.co/d0abMH0rz9 https://t.co/O1hrjGWdA1
24/02/17 09:25 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
RT @russia_matters: Interested in McMaster's position on Russia? Here it is: https://t.co/d0abMH0rz9 https://t.co/O1hrjGWdA1 Posted by mikenov on Fri Feb 24 14:25:23 2017. 5 retweets mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: Joint Chiefs of Staff Media Photos https://t.co/U3FZs7eOQY
24/02/17 09:20 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
Joint Chiefs of Staff Media Photos https://t.co/U3FZs7eOQY Posted by mikenov on Fri Feb 24 14:20:12 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: Joint Chiefs of Staff Media Photos https://t.co/rO2wZyG7uf
24/02/17 09:19 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
Joint Chiefs of Staff Media Photos https://t.co/rO2wZyG7uf Posted by mikenov on Fri Feb 24 14:19:45 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: Joint Chiefs of Staff Media Photos https://t.co/gwekQRMwVW
24/02/17 09:18 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
Joint Chiefs of Staff Media Photos https://t.co/gwekQRMwVW Posted by mikenov on Fri Feb 24 14:18:54 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: Dunford - Gerasimov meeting of 2.16.17 - Past week reports - Searched on 2.24.17 - GS - https://t.co/Hy3PgntCYF
24/02/17 09:14 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
Dunford - Gerasimov meeting of 2.16.17 - Past week reports - Searched on 2.24.17 - GS - https://t.co/Hy3PgntCYF Posted by mikenov on Fri Feb 24 14:14:03 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: Dunford - Gerasimov - 2.16.17 - DOD - https://t.co/CFHAq3ajMB
24/02/17 08:27 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
Dunford - Gerasimov - 2.16.17 - DOD - https://t.co/CFHAq3ajMB Posted by mikenov on Fri Feb 24 13:27:16 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: Dunford Meets Russian Counterpart to Strengthen Mil-to-Mil Contacts https://t.co/xCP0DYgoa1
24/02/17 08:20 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
Dunford Meets Russian Counterpart to Strengthen Mil-to-Mil Contacts https://t.co/xCP0DYgoa1 Posted by mikenov on Fri Feb 24 13:20:43 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: Dunford - Gerasimov meeting 2.16.17 - https://t.co/HH7eZ56pkv
24/02/17 08:18 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
Dunford - Gerasimov meeting 2.16.17 - https://t.co/HH7eZ56pkv Posted by mikenov on Fri Feb 24 13:18:48 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: Generals want talks with Russia about Iraq, Syria operations because of aerial collision fears https://t.co/uSm5a0tW2I via @PittsburghPG
24/02/17 08:03 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
Generals want talks with Russia about Iraq, Syria operations because of aerial collision fears https://t.co/uSm5a0tW2I via @PittsburghPG Posted by mikenov on Fri Feb 24 13:03:23 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: Andrew McCabe - GS - https://t.co/SgXp5LMD6v
24/02/17 07:55 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
Andrew McCabe - GS - https://t.co/SgXp5LMD6v Posted by mikenov on Fri Feb 24 12:55:16 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: RT @washingtonpost: Analysis: Stephen Bannon’s nationalist call to arms, annotatedhttps://t.co/njUN2FcSDK
24/02/17 07:48 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
RT @washingtonpost: Analysis: Stephen Bannon’s nationalist call to arms, annotated https://t.co/njUN2FcSDK Posted by mikenov on Fri Feb 24 12:48:19 2017. 38 retweets mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: White House adviser asked FBI to dispute Russia reports - ABC News - https://t.co/x2TAuSalxL via @ABC
24/02/17 07:47 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
White House adviser asked FBI to dispute Russia reports - ABC News - https://t.co/x2TAuSalxL via @ABC Posted by mikenov on Fri Feb 24 12:47:20 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: Trump and conservatives - GR - https://t.co/qdetepV69P
24/02/17 07:45 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
Trump and conservatives - GR - https://t.co/qdetepV69P Posted by mikenov on Fri Feb 24 12:45:43 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: Trump Puts in Doubt US-Russia Strategic Deals in an 'Alarming' Signal to Moscow: https://t.co/kE8wbj2kK1 via @SputnikInt
24/02/17 07:40 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
Trump Puts in Doubt US-Russia Strategic Deals in an 'Alarming' Signal to Moscow: https://t.co/kE8wbj2kK1 via @SputnikInt Posted by mikenov on Fri Feb 24 12:40:35 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: 2 officers wounded, 1 suspect killed in DC shooting https://t.co/RYSVaEEEBN via @fox25news
24/02/17 07:38 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
2 officers wounded, 1 suspect killed in DC shooting https://t.co/RYSVaEEEBN via @fox25news Posted by mikenov on Fri Feb 24 12:38:07 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: US warship plunges towards Russia as Putin fumes over NATO https://t.co/kN15XkLD83
24/02/17 07:05 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
US warship plunges towards Russia as Putin fumes over NATO https://t.co/kN15XkLD83 Posted by mikenov on Fri Feb 24 12:05:15 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: White House Asked FBI To Dispute Stories About Trump-Russia Contacts: Reports https://t.co/uwa7ZYfDZY
24/02/17 02:29 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
White House Asked FBI To Dispute Stories About Trump-Russia Contacts: Reports https://t.co/uwa7ZYfDZY Posted by mikenov on Fri Feb 24 07:29:07 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: White House Asked FBI To Dispute Stories About Trump-Russia Contacts: Reports
24/02/17 02:22 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. White House chief of staff Reince Priebus asked the FBI to discredit media reports that President Donald Trump's campaign advisers were frequently in touch with Russian i...

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: Deadly blast hits chemical plant in Uzbekistan
24/02/17 02:19 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. TASHKENT (Reuters) - An explosion occurred at a chemical plant in the city of Ferghana in Uzbekistan, killing an undisclosed number of people, the Central Asian country's emergency min...

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: Malaysia murder mystery breaks with North Korean assassin tradition
24/02/17 02:19 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. SEOUL (Reuters) - The bizarre assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's estranged half-brother marks a departure from the isolated country's repertoire of overseas operations,...

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: Malaysia says VX nerve agent was used in murder of Kim Jong Nam
24/02/17 02:18 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian police said on Friday a preliminary report showed the murder of Kim Jong Nam was carried out with a highly toxic chemical known as VX nerve agent. Mi...

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: Malaysia says highly toxic VX nerve agent used in murder of Kim Jong Nam
24/02/17 02:18 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - VX nerve agent, a chemical on a U.N. list of weapons of mass destruction, was used to kill the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in las...

» mikenov on Twitter: VX nerve agent killed North Korean leader's half brother: Malaysian police https://t.co/DoKrQc7Avp via @Reuters
24/02/17 02:16 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
VX nerve agent killed North Korean leader's half brother: Malaysian police https://t.co/DoKrQc7Avp via @Reuters Posted by mikenov on Fri Feb 24 07:16:41 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: Trump Wants to Expand U.S. Nuclear Arsenal, Make It ‘Top of the Pack’
23/02/17 18:23 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from U.S. National Security and Military News Review. By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said on Thursday he wants to ensure the U.S. nuclear arsenal is at the "top of the pack," say...

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: Trio of military men gain growing influence with Trump
23/02/17 18:21 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from Puerto Rico News - Selected Feeds Review. WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a White House laden with competing power centers, a trio of military men has emerged as a force to be reckoned with.... Mike Nova's Shared Ne...

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: Peace Train: Relations between US/NATO and Russia - Colorado Daily
23/02/17 18:20 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from U.S. National Security and Military News Review. Peace Train: Relations between US/ NATO and Russia Colorado Daily During 2016, the relations between the U.S./ NATO and Russia continued to worsen. Accordin...

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: Pence condemns Jewish center bomb threats and visits desecrated cemetery in Missouri - Los Angeles Times
23/02/17 18:19 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Los Angeles Times Pence condemns Jewish center bomb threats and visits desecrated cemetery in Missouri Los Angeles Times Visiting Fenton, Mo., on Wednesday, Vice President Mike P...

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: Republicans are facing the ire of the anti-Trump movement this week. Will it last? - Washington Post
23/02/17 09:04 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Washington Post Republicans are facing the ire of the anti-Trump movement this week. Will it last? Washington Post YORKTOWN, Va. — The raucous anti-Trump movement poured into thi...

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: Task Force 76 chief of staff dies in recreational accident on Okinawa
23/02/17 09:03 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from U.S. National Security and Military News Review. The chief of staff for the Navy’s forward deployed amphibious force — based on Okinawa — died Tuesday in an off-duty recreational accident, Navy officials s...

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: The Guardian: Мифы и правда о Путине - Хартия'97
23/02/17 09:01 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from Putin and Putinism - News Review. Хартия'97 The Guardian: Мифы и правда о Путине Хартия'97 Изучив движения Путина по видеозаписям, Коннорс заключила, что у него есть ослабляющий здоровье и, вероятно, врожд...

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: Совещание с постоянными членами Совета Безопасности
23/02/17 08:59 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from Putin and Putinism - News Review. Владимир Путин провёл совещание с постоянными членами Совета Безопасности. Обсуждались актуальные международные вопросы и различные темы, связанные с внутрироссийской пове...

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: Exclusive: Russia asks energy companies for PR info ahead of election
23/02/17 08:49 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Russian government summoned energy companies last week to give it advance notice about developments that could influence public opinion in the period up to May n...

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: King of Spain's brother-in-law avoids jail while appealing tax-fraud conviction
23/02/17 08:48 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. MADRID (Reuters) - A Spanish court decided on Thursday not to hold the King of Spain's brother-in-law in custody while he awaits an appeal against a six-year jail sentence for charges ...

» mikenov on Twitter: RT @thehill: Clinton trolls GOP lawmakers for skipping town halls to avoid angry constituents: https://t.co/h2FmFf1SpK https://t.co/qfTQhHx…
23/02/17 08:38 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
RT @thehill: Clinton trolls GOP lawmakers for skipping town halls to avoid angry constituents: https://t.co/h2FmFf1SpK https://t.co/qfTQhHx… Posted by mikenov on Thu Feb 23 13:38:55 2017. 25 retweets mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: RT @ReutersBiz: U.S. house prices to rise; analysts wary of deregulation: Reuters poll https://t.co/jmcWXXHQgm
23/02/17 08:38 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
RT @ReutersBiz: U.S. house prices to rise; analysts wary of deregulation: Reuters poll https://t.co/jmcWXXHQgm Posted by mikenov on Thu Feb 23 13:38:23 2017. 9 retweets mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: https://t.co/5XKmOON84y | Armerding: Leaky intelligence community is swamping President Trump
23/02/17 08:07 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
https://t.co/5XKmOON84y | Armerding: Leaky intelligence community is swamping President Trump Posted by mikenov on Thu Feb 23 13:07:32 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: https://t.co/G29WvC9YRQ
23/02/17 08:04 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
https://t.co/G29WvC9YRQ Posted by mikenov on Thu Feb 23 13:04:21 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: Opinion | I didn’t think I’d ever leave the CIA. But because of Trump, I quit. https://t.co/3k5qDwtWpy
23/02/17 07:58 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
Opinion | I didn’t think I’d ever leave the CIA. But because of Trump, I quit. https://t.co/3k5qDwtWpy Posted by mikenov on Thu Feb 23 12:58:43 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: Former NSC spokesman Edward Price resigns over Trump and Stephen Bannon https://t.co/pqPinkmMW7 via @Mic
23/02/17 07:57 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
Former NSC spokesman Edward Price resigns over Trump and Stephen Bannon https://t.co/pqPinkmMW7 via @Mic Posted by mikenov on Thu Feb 23 12:57:25 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: Trump and CIA - Review - 2.23.17https://t.co/I99JdDUgNw
23/02/17 07:53 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
Trump and CIA - Review - 2.23.17 https://t.co/I99JdDUgNw Posted by mikenov on Thu Feb 23 12:53:51 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: Journalist: Trump Is 'Openly Dismissive' Of The Intelligence World https://t.co/zcp97ABMjo
23/02/17 07:09 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
Journalist: Trump Is 'Openly Dismissive' Of The Intelligence World https://t.co/zcp97ABMjo Posted by mikenov on Thu Feb 23 12:09:13 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: Criminal Justice News Coverage in 2016 https://t.co/WWt3tI0VFK via @thecrimereport
23/02/17 07:07 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
Criminal Justice News Coverage in 2016 https://t.co/WWt3tI0VFK via @thecrimereport Posted by mikenov on Thu Feb 23 12:07:19 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: The possible ties between Trump and Russia, explained https://t.co/huOd9uBTHU via @PolitiFact
23/02/17 07:03 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
The possible ties between Trump and Russia, explained https://t.co/huOd9uBTHU via @PolitiFact Posted by mikenov on Thu Feb 23 12:03:57 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: McMaster May Reorganize Trump’s Foreign Policy Team Once Again https://t.co/6xKJp0qucy
23/02/17 06:59 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
McMaster May Reorganize Trump’s Foreign Policy Team Once Again https://t.co/6xKJp0qucy Posted by mikenov on Thu Feb 23 11:59:09 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: The Kremlin and GOP Share a New Friend—and Boy, Does She Love Guns https://t.co/0cxKujazck via @thedailybeast
23/02/17 06:56 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
The Kremlin and GOP Share a New Friend—and Boy, Does She Love Guns https://t.co/0cxKujazck via @thedailybeast Posted by mikenov on Thu Feb 23 11:56:26 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: Opinion | What does Putin want from the Ljubljana Summit with Trump? https://t.co/iyKQyIg3m1
23/02/17 06:51 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
Opinion | What does Putin want from the Ljubljana Summit with Trump? https://t.co/iyKQyIg3m1 Posted by mikenov on Thu Feb 23 11:51:22 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: Opinion | What does Putin want from the Ljubljana Summit with Trump? https://t.co/iyKQyHYrXr
23/02/17 06:51 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
Opinion | What does Putin want from the Ljubljana Summit with Trump? https://t.co/iyKQyHYrXr Posted by mikenov on Thu Feb 23 11:51:11 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: McMaster - R https://t.co/nGuI72LCbu
23/02/17 06:28 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
McMaster - R https://t.co/nGuI72LCbu Posted by mikenov on Thu Feb 23 11:28:04 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: Trump has a problem: Americans increasingly think he's incompetent https://t.co/kcffBCvMBA via @bi_politics
23/02/17 06:20 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
Trump has a problem: Americans increasingly think he's incompetent https://t.co/kcffBCvMBA via @bi_politics Posted by mikenov on Thu Feb 23 11:20:42 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: Trump and Media - Review - https://t.co/GrUHbZiJ5o
23/02/17 06:18 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
Trump and Media - Review - https://t.co/GrUHbZiJ5o Posted by mikenov on Thu Feb 23 11:18:15 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: https://t.co/PfTMwo0IcT via @youtube
23/02/17 05:25 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
https://t.co/PfTMwo0IcT via @youtube Posted by mikenov on Thu Feb 23 10:25:41 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: UN Envoy Says Russia Asked Syria To Halt Bombings During Talks
23/02/17 04:33 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Russia has asked Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime to halt bombings during peace talks this week in Geneva, UN envoy Staffan de Mistura has said, adding that a pe...

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: In Syria And Ukraine, Russia Positions Itself As Solution To Problems It Created
23/02/17 04:32 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. The world is becoming ever more tumultuous. But amid the general storm one country can be relied upon to maintain a sanguine -- and sanguinary -- course: Vladimir Putin's...

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: Sent to Die in the Mediterranean
23/02/17 04:31 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. The migrant boat that carried more than 70 migrants to their death on Monday was left floating without an engine for days. Smugglers are also taking the unusual risk of sending out boats du...

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: Mexico: Murders up by a third following Guzman's extradition
23/02/17 04:30 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from BBC News - World. Power vacuum left by the extradition of "El Chapo" Guzman to the US prompts a spike in violence. Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: President Trump approval rating falls to 38 percent: Poll - AL.com
23/02/17 04:30 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. AL.com President Trump approval rating falls to 38 percent: Poll AL.com President Trump rally in Florida President Donald Trump salutes as he arrives a Palm Beach International A...

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: With Big Red Stamp, Russia Singles Out What It Calls ‘Fake’ News
23/02/17 04:28 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. The Foreign Ministry’s website now highlights articles it considers to be false, but critics say that the ministry’s designation should be considered a “medal.” Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: Donald Trump is losing his war with the media - Washington Post
23/02/17 04:21 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from World - Google News. Washington Post Donald Trump is losing his war with the media Washington Post It's pretty clear what President Trump is doing by going after the media. He sees someone who is tough on ...

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: Who Is Paul Manafort's Man In Kyiv? An Interview With Konstantin Kilimnik
23/02/17 04:17 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. An elusive Ukrainian associate of Paul Manafort says he briefed the former campaign chairman for U.S. President Donald Trump on Ukraine during last year's presidential ra...

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: Melania Trump re-files Daily Mail lawsuit without controversial wording
23/02/17 03:55 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from BBC News - World. The new complaint drops wording that said she lost the chance to profit from her brand. Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: The spy next door
23/02/17 03:54 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from BBC News - World. The remarkable double life of undercover agent Jack Barsky who lived the American dream at the KGB's expense. Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks

» mikenov on Twitter: https://t.co/LUU7B96sDb via @youtube
22/02/17 16:30 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
https://t.co/LUU7B96sDb via @youtube Posted by mikenov on Wed Feb 22 21:30:08 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: Pence in Brussels, seeking 'deeper' ties with EU
22/02/17 15:12 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. BRUSSELS (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Mike Pence told senior European Union officials in Brussels on Monday that the Trump administration was looking at ways to "deepen our relation...

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: Iran summons Turkish envoy over comments by president, foreign minister
22/02/17 15:11 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. BEIRUT/ANKARA (Reuters) - Iran summoned the Turkish ambassador in Tehran on Monday over comments made by Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu and President Tayyip Erdogan accusing...

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: Malaysia says cause of death still unknown in killing of North Korean
22/02/17 15:09 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian authorities said on Tuesday they had yet to determine a cause of death in the killing of the half-brother of North Korea's leader, and had still to c...

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: Leader of Germany's far-right party meets Putin allies in Moscow
22/02/17 15:09 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. BERLIN/MOSCOW (Reuters) - The leader of Germany's far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) held talks with Russian officials during a visit to Moscow at the weekend, including wit...

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: Trump to leave protections for 'dreamer' migrants
22/02/17 15:08 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's administration will leave protections in place for immigrants who entered the country illegally as children, known as "dreamers," but wi...

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: Russia's Lavrov says Moscow waits for U.S. suggestions on cooperation in Syria
22/02/17 15:05 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia waits for the United States to come up with proposals on a possible cooperation in Syria, Interfax news agency quoted Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov a...

» mikenov on Twitter: The American "Deep State", incl. The Prez. is both a myth and the very pressing reality. Ex-press it & de-pressurize it.
22/02/17 14:37 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
The American "Deep State", incl. The Prez. is both a myth and the very pressing reality. Ex-press it & de-pressurize it. Posted by mikenov on Wed Feb 22 19:37:35 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: Rebellion Brews in Washington—But American ‘Deep State’ Is Only a Myth https://t.co/Tr96Wzo3J6
22/02/17 14:02 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
Rebellion Brews in Washington—But American ‘Deep State’ Is Only a Myth https://t.co/Tr96Wzo3J6 Posted by mikenov on Wed Feb 22 19:02:02 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: Kremlin says not in talks with U.S. on timing of Putin-Trump meeting
22/02/17 13:46 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from Reuters: World News. MOSCOW (Reuters) - Moscow and Washington are not currently holding talks on possible dates for a first meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump,...

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: In Trump's future looms a familiar shutdown threat
22/02/17 13:45 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from AP Top News at 12:55 p.m. EST. WASHINGTON (AP) -- Add a potential government shutdown to embattled President Donald Trump's growing roster of headaches.... Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: Russia military acknowledges new branch: info warfare troops
22/02/17 13:44 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from AP Top News at 12:55 p.m. EST. MOSCOW (AP) -- Along with a steady flow of new missiles, planes and tanks, Russia's defense minister said Wednesday his nation also has built up its muscle by formin...

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: What killed Kim Jong Nam, who did it and why still not known
22/02/17 13:43 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from World. More than a week has passed since the North Korean leader’s estranged half brother died in Malaysia, but what killed him, who instigated it and why are still unknown. Malaysian authorities have iden...

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: US existing home sales rise to 10-year high - Reuters
22/02/17 13:41 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Reuters US existing home sales rise to 10-year high Reuters A house-for-sale sign is seen inside the Washington DC Beltway in Annandale, Virginia January 24, 2016. REUTERS/Hyungw...

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: Russian President To Travel To Central Asia
22/02/17 13:40 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan on February 27-28, a presidential aide has said. Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks

» mikenov on Twitter: KremlinGate Enters Uncharted Waters as Russian Links Overwhelm DC https://t.co/HhSXfGbWKx
22/02/17 11:49 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
KremlinGate Enters Uncharted Waters as Russian Links Overwhelm DC https://t.co/HhSXfGbWKx Posted by mikenov on Wed Feb 22 16:49:55 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: The XX Committee: Rebellion Brews in Washington—But American ‘Deep State’ Is Only a Myth
22/02/17 10:17 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from U.S. National Security and Military News Review. No secret entrenched bureaucracy is plotting to overthrow Donald Trump As Donald Trump’s White House fumbles mounted in his first month in office, including...

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: Syria peace talks: is there any hope for an end to six years of war?
22/02/17 10:16 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from Russia and Ukraine News Review. UN talks resume in Geneva with US lacking a strategy, Turkey taking steps away and Bashar al-Assad going nowhere When the UN’s special envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, r...

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: Kremlin Denies Knowledge of Ukraine Plan Pushed by Trump Associates - New York Times
22/02/17 10:14 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. New York Times Kremlin Denies Knowledge of Ukraine Plan Pushed by Trump Associates New York Times A Ukrainian soldier sat with people waiting for humanitarian aid in Avdiivka thi...

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: One officer dead, another injured in shootout after report of traffic collision in Whittier - Los Angeles Times
22/02/17 10:14 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Los Angeles Times One officer dead, another injured in shootout after report of traffic collision in Whittier Los Angeles Times One officer was killed and a second injured in a s...

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: Trump Chooses HR McMaster as National Security Adviser - New York Times
22/02/17 10:13 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. New York Times Trump Chooses HR McMaster as National Security Adviser New York Times President Trump made the announcement at his Mar-a-Lago getaway in Palm Beach, Fla., where he...

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: Active shooter holed up in Ben Taub Hospital in Houston, source says - Chron.com
22/02/17 10:12 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Chron.com Active shooter holed up in Ben Taub Hospital in Houston, source says Chron.com An active shooter has been cornered in Ben Taub Hospital amid reports of shots fired insi...

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: More tests needed on Russian UN ambassador's cause of death - Salon
22/02/17 10:11 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from Top Stories - Google News. Salon More tests needed on Russian UN ambassador's cause of death Salon More tests needed on Russian UN ambassador's cause of death A picture of Vitaly Churkin, Russia's ambassad...

» mikenov on Twitter: Deeper - Darkerhttps://t.co/y3gu1eNBgx
22/02/17 08:50 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
Deeper - Darker https://t.co/y3gu1eNBgx Posted by mikenov on Wed Feb 22 13:50:00 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: RT @Salon: Why has Trump been so slow to confront anti-Semitism? https://t.co/XWl25zSz0O
22/02/17 08:48 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
RT @Salon: Why has Trump been so slow to confront anti-Semitism? https://t.co/XWl25zSz0O Posted by mikenov on Wed Feb 22 13:48:29 2017. 14 retweets mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: RT @Salon: World views from the Stasi Museum in Berlin to the flooded streets of Jakarta after torrential rain https://t.co/Hy4sZ5lFBt
22/02/17 08:47 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
RT @Salon: World views from the Stasi Museum in Berlin to the flooded streets of Jakarta after torrential rain https://t.co/Hy4sZ5lFBt Posted by mikenov on Wed Feb 22 13:47:59 2017. 6 retweets mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: RT @Salon: Trump adviser Stephen Miller has repeatedly championed Big Tobacco’s alarming lies https://t.co/MwB53ewxp4
22/02/17 08:47 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
RT @Salon: Trump adviser Stephen Miller has repeatedly championed Big Tobacco’s alarming lies https://t.co/MwB53ewxp4 Posted by mikenov on Wed Feb 22 13:47:37 2017. 26 retweets mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: News - Trump - https://t.co/2T6wGwJxca
22/02/17 08:41 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
News - Trump - https://t.co/2T6wGwJxca Posted by mikenov on Wed Feb 22 13:41:36 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: M.N.: NSC & Adm-n transforms & consolidates, the correct & wise path. Ideologies are not helpful... & can be non-pragmatic & non-productive.
22/02/17 08:24 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
M.N.: NSC & Adm-n transforms & consolidates, the correct & wise path. Ideologies are not helpful... & can be non-pragmatic & non-productive. Posted by mikenov on Wed Feb 22 13:24:48 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: General Mcmaster - GS - https://t.co/eUMrAB8r6e
22/02/17 07:58 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
General Mcmaster - GS - https://t.co/eUMrAB8r6e Posted by mikenov on Wed Feb 22 12:58:22 2017. 1 like mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: More U.S. Troops May Be Needed Against ISIS in Syria, a Top General Says https://t.co/olrjcttVfZ
22/02/17 07:42 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
More U.S. Troops May Be Needed Against ISIS in Syria, a Top General Says https://t.co/olrjcttVfZ Posted by mikenov on Wed Feb 22 12:42:24 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: Top news from Google - https://t.co/QAXnYgIK4L
22/02/17 07:40 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
Top news from Google - https://t.co/QAXnYgIK4L Posted by mikenov on Wed Feb 22 12:40:50 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: Trump's new warrior-scholar https://t.co/j4MKt9gT1X
22/02/17 07:37 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
Trump's new warrior-scholar https://t.co/j4MKt9gT1X Posted by mikenov on Wed Feb 22 12:37:32 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: Trump's new national security adviser is hawkish on Russia — a big reversal from Flynn https://t.co/2QYbsTb0rO via @BI_Defense
22/02/17 07:35 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
Trump's new national security adviser is hawkish on Russia — a big reversal from Flynn https://t.co/2QYbsTb0rO via @BI_Defense Posted by mikenov on Wed Feb 22 12:35:10 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: Trump’s new national security adviser: A soldier who can say ‘No, sir’ https://t.co/4Mjwof6h6U
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Trump’s new national security adviser: A soldier who can say ‘No, sir’ https://t.co/4Mjwof6h6U Posted by mikenov on Wed Feb 22 12:33:11 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: How Trump can end his intel wars https://t.co/cGQxkqKay7
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How Trump can end his intel wars https://t.co/cGQxkqKay7 Posted by mikenov on Wed Feb 22 12:31:14 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: Trump would be willing to remove Bannon from National Security Council | https://t.co/TWdeZ6Wboj
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Trump would be willing to remove Bannon from National Security Council | https://t.co/TWdeZ6Wboj Posted by mikenov on Wed Feb 22 12:28:21 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: Wednesday Morning Briefing: Iran ready to give U.S. ‘strong slap in the face’ https://t.co/7jcHrGqIYK via @Reuters
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Wednesday Morning Briefing: Iran ready to give U.S. ‘strong slap in the face’ https://t.co/7jcHrGqIYK via @Reuters Posted by mikenov on Wed Feb 22 12:25:51 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: News - Trumphttps://t.co/dVtbpea5ZO
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News - Trump https://t.co/dVtbpea5ZO Posted by mikenov on Wed Feb 22 12:21:55 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: Trump taps military strategist as national security adviser https://t.co/QeDCLtXsRL via @NewsHour
22/02/17 07:18 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
Trump taps military strategist as national security adviser https://t.co/QeDCLtXsRL via @NewsHour Posted by mikenov on Wed Feb 22 12:18:30 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: What we know about U.S. investigations into Russia and possible ties to Trump's campaign https://t.co/8YW8TX6m08 via @NewsHour
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What we know about U.S. investigations into Russia and possible ties to Trump's campaign https://t.co/8YW8TX6m08 via @NewsHour Posted by mikenov on Wed Feb 22 12:15:33 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: RT @realDonaldTrump: Congratulations to our new National Security Advisor, General H.R. McMaster. Video: https://t.co/BKn9r225Kk https://t.…
22/02/17 07:09 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
RT @realDonaldTrump: Congratulations to our new National Security Advisor, General H.R. McMaster. Video: https://t.co/BKn9r225Kk https://t.… Posted by mikenov on Wed Feb 22 12:09:26 2017. 14122 retweets mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: News - Felix Sater https://t.co/4AHkfizDPO
22/02/17 07:00 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
News - Felix Sater https://t.co/4AHkfizDPO Posted by mikenov on Wed Feb 22 12:00:13 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: After delay and amid pressure, Trump denounces racism and anti-Semitism https://t.co/kyVixOsN3D
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After delay and amid pressure, Trump denounces racism and anti-Semitism https://t.co/kyVixOsN3D Posted by mikenov on Wed Feb 22 11:36:35 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: Why is Felix Sater at the centre of US power? https://t.co/Q1vZITnzQO
22/02/17 06:32 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
Why is Felix Sater at the centre of US power? https://t.co/Q1vZITnzQO Posted by mikenov on Wed Feb 22 11:32:29 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: Felix Sater https://t.co/wvTHpEYQs9
22/02/17 06:29 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
Felix Sater https://t.co/wvTHpEYQs9 Posted by mikenov on Wed Feb 22 11:29:15 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: Will this mystery man bring down Trump's presidency? https://t.co/sN2FopsDyf via @phillydotcom
22/02/17 06:25 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
Will this mystery man bring down Trump's presidency? https://t.co/sN2FopsDyf via @phillydotcom Posted by mikenov on Wed Feb 22 11:25:22 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: New national security adviser pick marks big change on Russia https://t.co/QXQ9zJ7ZxQ
22/02/17 06:16 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
New national security adviser pick marks big change on Russia https://t.co/QXQ9zJ7ZxQ Posted by mikenov on Wed Feb 22 11:16:09 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: McMaster Would Need Trump's OK to Bump Bannon from NSC https://t.co/5m4odEEAgF via @Militarydotcom
22/02/17 06:12 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
McMaster Would Need Trump's OK to Bump Bannon from NSC https://t.co/5m4odEEAgF via @Militarydotcom Posted by mikenov on Wed Feb 22 11:12:48 2017. mikenov on Twitter

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» mikenov on Twitter: Trump's new security advisor differs from him on Russia, other key issues https://t.co/2BXIqHKIK9 via @Reuters
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Trump's new security advisor differs from him on Russia, other key issues https://t.co/2BXIqHKIK9 via @Reuters Posted by mikenov on Wed Feb 22 11:03:36 2017. 1 like mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: At Tehran Gala, Cakes, Fruit and Anti-Israeli Slogans https://t.co/naEfu9Im6L
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At Tehran Gala, Cakes, Fruit and Anti-Israeli Slogans https://t.co/naEfu9Im6L Posted by mikenov on Wed Feb 22 10:59:44 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: Now, Let General McMaster Do His Job https://t.co/tAllwS9Pvo
22/02/17 05:53 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
Now, Let General McMaster Do His Job https://t.co/tAllwS9Pvo Posted by mikenov on Wed Feb 22 10:53:16 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: 3 Generals Bound by Iraq Will Guide Trump on Security https://t.co/mHnsk3sVF6
22/02/17 05:47 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
3 Generals Bound by Iraq Will Guide Trump on Security https://t.co/mHnsk3sVF6 Posted by mikenov on Wed Feb 22 10:47:54 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: Killer, kleptocrat, genius, spy: the many myths of Vladimir Putin https://t.co/A4BL6DAEOG
22/02/17 05:09 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
Killer, kleptocrat, genius, spy: the many myths of Vladimir Putin https://t.co/A4BL6DAEOG Posted by mikenov on Wed Feb 22 10:09:25 2017. mikenov on Twitter

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» mikenov on Twitter: https://t.co/yXxlK50GEg via @youtube
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» mikenov on Twitter: News Reviews and Opinions: JAZZ https://t.co/pG3tqTWm4f
21/02/17 15:50 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
News Reviews and Opinions: JAZZ https://t.co/pG3tqTWm4f Posted by mikenov on Tue Feb 21 20:50:46 2017. mikenov on Twitter

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https://t.co/BwJTvAWsiH Posted by mikenov on Tue Feb 21 20:36:32 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: RT @NPR: Grad Student Discovers A Lost Novel Written By Walt Whitman https://t.co/MmSsDOkFBn
21/02/17 15:22 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
RT @NPR: Grad Student Discovers A Lost Novel Written By Walt Whitman https://t.co/MmSsDOkFBn Posted by mikenov on Tue Feb 21 20:22:58 2017. 202 retweets mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: RT @HuffPostPol: National Security Council spokesman resigns over Trump's "disturbing" actions https://t.co/VQX5Z1bhMc https://t.co/RQpzpl9…
21/02/17 15:22 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
RT @HuffPostPol: National Security Council spokesman resigns over Trump's "disturbing" actions https://t.co/VQX5Z1bhMc https://t.co/RQpzpl9… Posted by mikenov on Tue Feb 21 20:22:52 2017. 109 retweets mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: RT @TelegraphWorld: Vast majority of illegal immigrants in US subject to deportation under new Trump administration guidelines https://t.co…
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RT @TelegraphWorld: Vast majority of illegal immigrants in US subject to deportation under new Trump administration guidelines https://t.co… Posted by mikenov on Tue Feb 21 20:22:30 2017. 2 retweets mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: RT @TelegraphNews: Vladimir Putin told to keep out of Stoke by election after pro-Russia Twitter accounts target Ukip and Paul Nuttall http…
21/02/17 15:22 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
RT @TelegraphNews: Vladimir Putin told to keep out of Stoke by election after pro-Russia Twitter accounts target Ukip and Paul Nuttall http… Posted by mikenov on Tue Feb 21 20:22:15 2017. 14 retweets mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: RT @seattletimes: Sticky situation: Glue spill closes westbound Redmond Way at Northeast 76th Street https://t.co/SDMnBv0eCc https://t.co/3…
21/02/17 15:21 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
RT @seattletimes: Sticky situation: Glue spill closes westbound Redmond Way at Northeast 76th Street https://t.co/SDMnBv0eCc https://t.co/3… Posted by mikenov on Tue Feb 21 20:21:40 2017. 5 retweets mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: RT @guardian: Could Donald Trump’s ‘junta’ be his salvation? | Mary Dejevsky https://t.co/8ZbfCfYoUL
21/02/17 15:20 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
RT @guardian: Could Donald Trump’s ‘junta’ be his salvation? | Mary Dejevsky https://t.co/8ZbfCfYoUL Posted by mikenov on Tue Feb 21 20:20:57 2017. 6 retweets mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: RT @DailyCaller: Iranian Leader Says Third Intifada Has Begun Against Israel https://t.co/FwvrgogGjf https://t.co/ENw7AN2YcM
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RT @DailyCaller: Iranian Leader Says Third Intifada Has Begun Against Israel https://t.co/FwvrgogGjf https://t.co/ENw7AN2YcM Posted by mikenov on Tue Feb 21 20:20:42 2017. 35 retweets mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: RT @Reuters: Democratic Socialists make headway in U.S. after Trump's win https://t.co/b9YiWSFfiq https://t.co/t41RSEQp7q
21/02/17 15:19 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
RT @Reuters: Democratic Socialists make headway in U.S. after Trump's win https://t.co/b9YiWSFfiq https://t.co/t41RSEQp7q Posted by mikenov on Tue Feb 21 20:19:44 2017. 67 retweets mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: RT @ABC7NY: Immigration memos announce more than 15,000 new hires: https://t.co/UOdbgOrcZ7 https://t.co/9O2zejOCFF
21/02/17 15:19 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
RT @ABC7NY: Immigration memos announce more than 15,000 new hires: https://t.co/UOdbgOrcZ7 https://t.co/9O2zejOCFF Posted by mikenov on Tue Feb 21 20:19:25 2017. 5 retweets mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: RT @FOX59: A California officer was killed when a recently paroled gang member involved opened fire, police say https://t.co/PSYP9xt8Nx
21/02/17 15:19 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
RT @FOX59: A California officer was killed when a recently paroled gang member involved opened fire, police say https://t.co/PSYP9xt8Nx Posted by mikenov on Tue Feb 21 20:19:05 2017. 2 retweets mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: RT @thehill: Milo Yiannopoulos resigns from Breitbart News after backlash over his remarks about pedophilia https://t.co/cJzBtBXTrY https:/…
21/02/17 15:18 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
RT @thehill: Milo Yiannopoulos resigns from Breitbart News after backlash over his remarks about pedophilia https://t.co/cJzBtBXTrY https:/… Posted by mikenov on Tue Feb 21 20:18:28 2017. 78 retweets mikenov on Twitter

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» mikenov on Twitter: The Russification of America https://t.co/Fae46oECfh
21/02/17 14:44 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
The Russification of America https://t.co/Fae46oECfh Posted by mikenov on Tue Feb 21 19:44:59 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: Trump’s Russia Motives https://t.co/qRETKJp7ex
21/02/17 14:09 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
Trump’s Russia Motives https://t.co/qRETKJp7ex Posted by mikenov on Tue Feb 21 19:09:43 2017. mikenov on Twitter

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https://t.co/dVtbpea5ZO Posted by mikenov on Tue Feb 21 19:05:19 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: Congress needs to do its job and investigate Trump's ties to Russia https://t.co/wpIMGP9Hv8
21/02/17 13:42 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
Congress needs to do its job and investigate Trump's ties to Russia https://t.co/wpIMGP9Hv8 Posted by mikenov on Tue Feb 21 18:42:18 2017. 3 likes, 3 retweets mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: John Podesta: Comey may have bowed to pressure from anti-Clinton FBI officials https://t.co/X9eIXQ5Lqk
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John Podesta: Comey may have bowed to pressure from anti-Clinton FBI officials https://t.co/X9eIXQ5Lqk Posted by mikenov on Tue Feb 21 18:35:28 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: News Reviews and Opinions: Searches - 2.20.17 - Current https://t.co/9TI4VqNnnD
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News Reviews and Opinions: Searches - 2.20.17 - Current https://t.co/9TI4VqNnnD Posted by mikenov on Tue Feb 21 17:39:05 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: Exclusive: CIA-backed aid for Syrian rebels frozen after Islamist attack - sources https://t.co/YdwtInSCdT via @Reuters
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Exclusive: CIA-backed aid for Syrian rebels frozen after Islamist attack - sources https://t.co/YdwtInSCdT via @Reuters Posted by mikenov on Tue Feb 21 17:28:16 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: Exclusive: White House delivered EU-skeptic message before Pence visit - sources https://t.co/wUbcJvYonA via @Reuters
21/02/17 12:24 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
Exclusive: White House delivered EU-skeptic message before Pence visit - sources https://t.co/wUbcJvYonA via @Reuters Posted by mikenov on Tue Feb 21 17:24:28 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: RT @ABCPolitics: Everything you need to know about Trump's new national security adviser HR McMaster: https://t.co/AqVwqTDtBN https://t.co/…
21/02/17 10:34 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
RT @ABCPolitics: Everything you need to know about Trump's new national security adviser HR McMaster: https://t.co/AqVwqTDtBN https://t.co/… Posted by mikenov on Tue Feb 21 15:34:40 2017. 4 retweets mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: RT @thehill: "Yes, it's war: how the media should fight back against Trump" https://t.co/ocFsvILp66 https://t.co/uYp5X7teVb
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RT @thehill: "Yes, it's war: how the media should fight back against Trump" https://t.co/ocFsvILp66 https://t.co/uYp5X7teVb Posted by mikenov on Tue Feb 21 15:14:59 2017. 36 retweets mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: RT @Newsweek: For the second time this week, NATO has intercepted Russian bombers above the Baltic https://t.co/nlSZ5IeYWS https://t.co/peX…
21/02/17 10:12 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
RT @Newsweek: For the second time this week, NATO has intercepted Russian bombers above the Baltic https://t.co/nlSZ5IeYWS https://t.co/peX… Posted by mikenov on Tue Feb 21 15:12:55 2017. 52 retweets mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: RT @thedailybeast: Donald Trump: “Anti-Semitism is horrible and it’s going to stop" https://t.co/kUm2c9ULG1 https://t.co/Z04QRQaUPN
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RT @thedailybeast: Donald Trump: “Anti-Semitism is horrible and it’s going to stop" https://t.co/kUm2c9ULG1 https://t.co/Z04QRQaUPN Posted by mikenov on Tue Feb 21 15:11:44 2017. 11 retweets mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: RT @NBCNewYork: Four people injured after two SEPTA subway trains crashed just outside of Philadelphia Tuesday morning https://t.co/D8CJoXn…
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RT @NBCNewYork: Four people injured after two SEPTA subway trains crashed just outside of Philadelphia Tuesday morning https://t.co/D8CJoXn… Posted by mikenov on Tue Feb 21 15:11:09 2017. 11 retweets mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: Mix - Gurdjieff - Oriental Suite - [N4,N5 Metropole Orchestra] https://t.co/ssdt55dAFA via @youtube
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Mix - Gurdjieff - Oriental Suite - [N4,N5 Metropole Orchestra] https://t.co/ssdt55dAFA via @youtube Posted by mikenov on Tue Feb 21 15:00:47 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» mikenov on Twitter: Gunman who killed Whittier officer had fatally shot another man hours earlier, police say https://t.co/CrXZUxwpPW
21/02/17 09:34 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
Gunman who killed Whittier officer had fatally shot another man hours earlier, police say https://t.co/CrXZUxwpPW Posted by mikenov on Tue Feb 21 14:34:00 2017. mikenov on Twitter

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: Priebus denies collusion between Trump campaign and Russian officials
20/02/17 07:17 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from World News Review. White House chief of staff Reince Priebus said Sunday there was no collusion between anyone involved in President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign and Russian officials. Mike Nova's Shared N...

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: SPIEGEL ONLINE - International: Rubble and Delusion: A Journey Through Assad's Syria
20/02/17 07:16 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from World Press. With the fall of Aleppo, the regime of Bashar Assad once again controls the country's second-largest city. But is reconciliation possible in the country? A journey through the dictator's rump ...

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: Rubble and Delusion: A Journey Through Assad's Syria
20/02/17 07:16 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from World Press. With the fall of Aleppo, the regime of Bashar Assad once again controls the country's second-largest city. But is reconciliation possible in the country? A journey through the dictator's rump ...

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: Лукашенко отправляется на неделю в Сочи
20/02/17 07:15 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from Ukraine News. Ранее белорусский президент неоднократно проводил в Сочи встречи, в том числе неформальные, с руководством России Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: НАТО и Россия: настоящий триллер, а в основе сюжета — международный заговор - inoСМИ.Ru
20/02/17 07:09 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from Nato - Russia News. inoСМИ.Ru НАТО и Россия : настоящий триллер, а в основе сюжета — международный заговор inoСМИ.Ru « НАТО является основой нашей безопасности» — так формулируется современное политическое...

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: Жуткое ДТП на Филиппинах: автобус разнесло вдребезги, погибли 14 человек
20/02/17 07:08 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from Ukraine News. Транспортное средство, в котором находилось 50 человек, врезалось в столб Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: Jim Mattis
20/02/17 07:04 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from World News Review. BAGHDAD (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Monday the United States does not intend to seize Iraqi oil, shifting away from an idea proposed by President Donald Trump tha...

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: 'NATO are planning to attack Russia' Shock warning from Putin's military bosses - Daily Star
20/02/17 07:03 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from Nato - Russia News. Daily Star ' NATO are planning to attack Russia ' Shock warning from Putin's military bosses Daily Star ... and Russia despite US President Donald Trump talking up fixing relations with...

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: Global arms trade hits highest level since end of Cold War
20/02/17 07:02 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from Markets and Business News Review. Global arms trade reached the highest levels since the end of the Cold War in 2016, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute said Monday. Mike Nova's Shared Ne...

» Mike Nova's Shared NewsLinks: Trump's first month augurs stormy trans-Atlantic relations
20/02/17 07:02 from 1. My News Blogs from mikenova (2 sites)
mikenova shared this story from Puerto Rico News - Selected Feeds Review. BRUSSELS (AP) -- Europeans have reacted to President Donald Trump's first month in office with demonstrations, counter-barbs and sheer angst that a centur...

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