While details are sparse, the U.S. Secret Service has just placed the White House on lockdown after yet another fence jumper decided to hop over the bike rack along the North Fence Line of Penn Ave.. The suspect has since been taken into custody.
Secret Service responding to an individual who jumped the bike rack along the North Fence Line of Penn Ave. Suspect in custody.
— U.S. Secret Service (@SecretService) May 16, 2017
Authored by Robert Parry via The Strategic Culture Foundation,
Where is Stanley Kubrick when we need him? If he hadn’t died in 1999, he would be the perfect director to transform today’s hysteria over Russia into a theater-of-the-absurd movie reprising his Cold War classic, “Dr. Strangelove,” which savagely satirized the madness of nuclear brinksmanship and the crazed ideology behind it.
Infamous Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein, having criticized both Comey and Clinton in recent months, is now taking aim at President Trump. In a Sunday interview on CNN, Bernstein said current White House conditions could be more dangerous than the Watergate scandal.
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As Bloomberg reports, the 11 candidates under consideration as a permanent replacement for Comey:
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