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  U.S. Virgin Islands seeks $190 million from JPMorgan in Jeffrey Epstein suit The U.S. Virgin Islands is seeking at least $190 million in damages from JPMorgan Chase in its lawsuit over its ties to Jeffrey Epstein, who kept money at the bank from 1998 to 2013, according to a court filing. posted 5m ago by  Chloe Atkins   via   NBC News Top Stories  

  FBI Director Rejects Claims of Political Bias Within the Bureau posted at 16:30:33 UTC   via   voanews.com FBI director Christopher Wray defended his agency against Republican accusations of political bias Wednesday, dismissing claims he was “protecting” Democratic President Joe Biden’s family while going after former President Donald Trump, a Republican, and other conservatives. “Absolutely not,” Wray retorted during a combative House Judiciary Committee hearing when asked by Republican member and staunch Trump supporter Matt Gaetz if he was “protecting the Bidens.” “The FBI does not, has no interest in protecting anyone politically,” Wray said. The hearing marked Wray's first appearance before the oversight panel since Republicans recaptured the House of Representatives following the 2022 midterm elections. Wray, who was appointed by Trump and retained by Biden, has become a lightning rod for Republican criticism that the Biden Administration has “weaponized” the FBI ...

  White House Plumbers Is a Hilarious Take on the Watergate Break-In posted on Jul 14 2023 17:47:21 UTC   via   jacobin.com I’m thrilled to report how much I liked the premiere episode of the new five-part HBO miniseries  White House Plumbers.  It’s a raucously funny satirical comedy about the way right-wing loons E. Howard Hunt (Woody Harrelson) and G. Gordon Liddy (Justin Theroux) failed upward through the early 1970s to their ultimate peak of insane incompetence, bungling the Watergate break-in in their idiotic attempts to preserve Richard Nixon’s presidency. Episode One covers Hunt’s destroyed CIA career after his disastrous leadership in the Bay of Pigs fiasco, which he blames on “that pussy JFK.” He’s soon given another chance when he’s teamed with ex-FBI nutter Liddy to find a way to take down Daniel Ellsberg, the Pentagon Papers leaker. They’re given this assignment by Egil ”Bud” Krogh (Richard Sommer), a special advisor to Nixon whose 2007 book,  I...

FBI's Comey Commits an Act of Crime Fiction - SpyTalk posted at 03:32:30 UTC   via   "comey" - Google News FBI's Comey Commits an Act of Crime Fiction   SpyTalk

  FBI, Homeland Security 'failed to sound the alarm' ahead of Jan. 6, report says posted at 13:57:02 UTC   via   komonews.com by CORY SMITH | The National Desk Tue, June 27th 2023, 8:18 PM UTC FILE - Violent protesters, loyal to President Donald Trump, storm the Capitol, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) FBI, Homeland Security 'failed to sound the alarm' ahead of Jan. 6 ... - KOMO News posted at 13:44:59 UTC   via   "Criminality in FBI" - Google News FBI, Homeland Security 'failed to sound the alarm' ahead of Jan. 6 ...   KOMO News

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