Trump is continuing his war on the Department of Justice and the intelligence community by threatening to declassify documents related to Bruce Ohr, an FBI agent whose name is not well-known to the American public, but who has been a target in conspiratorial right-wing circles. ...read more

Yesterday, the House Intelligence Committee released a memo that not only counters the one that Devin Nunes wrote but proves that the information contained in it was untrue. At the beginning of February, Nunes released a memo alleging that the FBI had overstepped its boundaries ...read more

In the relentless PR war to convince America that there was no collusion, no Russian hacks and no need to investigate the president for crimes against his own country, Donald Trump tweeted this in support of the widely ridiculed Devin Nunes today:  Nunes will go down in history ...read more

The controversial four-page memo about the Trump-Russia investigation drafted by pro-Trump stooge Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) was released unredacted to the public today and, as predicted, it's a con-job from start to finish. It alleges that FBI and Department of Justice ...read more

After weeks of hype, the much anticipated "secret memo" put together by Devin Nunes (with apparently a lot of help from the White House) was released (a day late) on Friday. Republicans and white Republican voters have been in a state of almost constant frenzy leading up the big ...read more

With all the news this week over the Nunes Memo and the resignation of Andrew McCabe, it's easy to forget that the Trump Administration isn't America's only enemy. The Russians, who aided and abetted him in stealing our election, have not been duly punished, and show no signs of ...read more

I've been attempting to write an article for the past three days about the need to find common ground with those you disagree with politically, no matter how ideologically you might be apart. I will still publish this piece, but my God does the left's contrarian-in-chief Glenn ...read more

In an extraordinary statement on Twitter, former FBI director James Comey ripped into Trump and the Republican Party's attempts to smear the agency with the ludicrous 'Nunes Memo':  To refer to the President of the United States and the major political party in power as ...read more

Two major news stories dropped yesterday, so let's cut right to the chase.  First, we learned that Donald Trump apparently demanded that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein pledge his loyalty to Trump, asking Rosenstein if he's "on my team." The meeting occurred this past ...read more

When John Oliver coined the phrase "Stupid Watergate" he couldn't possibly have known just how perfectly he'd capture the entire spectacle of the Trump administration and its toadies in the Republican Party colluding with Russia and desperately looking for ways to end the ...read more

Shortly after the inaugural last January, acting Attorney General Sally Yates warned Donald Trump that his National Security Adviser, Michael Flynn, had been less than forthcoming regarding his conversations with Russians. Trump's immediate response was to fire Mrs. Yates... To ...read more

We are watching a massive propaganda effort to legitimize the destruction of the rule of law in America and the shamelessness of Republicans in engineering it will not be forgotten. Last Spring, Republicans had a Trump problem. He had swooped in and stolen their carefully ...read more

In November 2016, I felt pretty ashamed to be an American, but damn proud to be a Californian. The last year has only made me happier for my home state as we've led the Resistance and served as a role model for the rest of the country in how to eat progressive policies. This has ...read more

Because America is so far through the Looking Glass right now that Alice is living in fear of being moved on like a bitch, on Thursday, the Senate Intelligence Committee held a public hearing on its investigation into just how far Russia meddled with 2016 election. Not ...read more

**UPDATE BELOW: Nunes cancels public hearing** Hours after House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes held two press conferences to say he had seen information confirming that Donald Trump and/or his associates were incidentally surveilled between November and January, I ...read more

By now it is painfully clear that the Trump administration and its allies are doing everything they can to make plausible the president's unfounded claim President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower. Apparently, that includes pretending to offer new information.   To wit, early ...read more