Update: With Bloomberg's third report, it now appears confirmed that Harward is officially out:
Robert Harward, a retired U.S. Navy vice admiral, turned down President Donald Trump’s offer to become national security adviser, officials said, just days after the resignation of Michael Flynn following revelations he misled administration officials over his contact with Russia.
Senator John McCain has been caught breaking the law and flaunting national security in a leaked audio recording in which he discusses possible White House sanctions against Russia and secretly negotiates with a pair of Russian hackers. In a recorded telephone conversation in which McCain thinks he is speaking to the Prime Minister of Ukraine, Volodymyr Groysman, the senator sets out to negotiate possible sanctions against Russia behind President Trump’s back.
A federal court has ordered the FBI to release top-secret evidence that proves Saudi Arabia helped orchestrate the 9/11 attacks. In an unusual Freedom of Information Act trial in Miami scheduled for this March, the FBI has been forced to release information the agency withheld from the public in the 9/11 Review Commission. According to one disclosure, the FBI acknowledge that its agents had found “many connections” between Saudis living Sarasota and the 9/11 hijackers.
Former liberal congressman and presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich said Tuesday:
What’s at the core of this is an effort by some in the intelligence community to upend any positive relationship between the U.S. and Russia. And I tell you there’s a marching band and Chowder Society out there. There’s gold in them there hills. There are people trying to separate the U.S. and Russia so that this military industrial intel axis can cash in.
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