By Rick Manning Several extremely troubling revelations have become known in recent weeks about the orchestrated attempt to take down President Donald Trump before he ever took office. Lee Smith at the Federalist alleges that Fusion GPS has been paying reporters to publish political attack pieces based on manufactured sources to delegitimize the Trump campaign and […]

Cartoon c/o Legal Insurrection. By Robert Romano It’s about the worst-case scenario you can imagine. In 2016, the White House incumbent political party, the Democrats, according to the Washington Post’s Adam Entous, Devlin Barrett and Rosalind S. Heldermant , financed the now-discredited dossier against then-candidate for president, Donald Trump, which alleged that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to hack the Democratic National Committee emails and put […]

By Robert Romano A Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court warrant was obtained against former Trump campaign manager and chairman Paul Manafort at a time when he had an apartment at Trump Tower and was either actively working on the campaign or still in contact with the […]

By Robert Romano An unsealed April 26 court ruling from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Court found that the Obama administration had violated “the NSA’s minimization procedures involving queries of data acquired under Section 702 using U.S. person identifiers. The full scope of non-compliant querying practices had not been previously disclosed to the Court.” Under FISA, the court is supposed […]

By Robert Romano “There were occasions when I would receive a report in which a U.S. person was referred to, name not provided, just a U.S. person, and sometimes in that context in order to understand the importance of that report, and assess its significance, it was […]

By Robert Romano Bloomberg View columnist Eli Lake’s bombshell revelation on April 3 that “former national security adviser Susan Rice requested the identities of U.S. persons in raw intelligence reports on dozens of occasions that connect to the Donald Trump transition and campaign” has sent a political earthquake through Washington, D.C. And it raises some key questions, particularly […]

By Robert Romano This week the House of Representatives is taking up the appropriations bill for Commerce, Science and Justice. This is an opportunity for Congress to exercise its constitutional power of the purse through policy riders that can help limit the size and scope of government. […]

By Robert Romano Some of the senators raising objections to Sen. Chuck Schumer’s (D-N.Y.) so-called media “shield” bill may want to come up with a more coherent argument. Take Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) who is quoted in a Breitbart story saying the bill “was essentially an attempt to deflect… from the Department of Justice […]

By Robert Romano Let’s give the government the benefit of the doubt. For a moment, let’s assume what they say is true. That, only foreign communications are being collected and stored in full by the National Security Agency (NSA), and that, the only part of purely domestic […]