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Intelligence Chief Refuses to Say if Trump Sought Help Rebuffing FBI Probe

Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday. (Screenshot: CSPAN)

Flynn to Plead Fifth, Refuse Compliance With Senate Subpoenas

Nadia Prupis, staff writer

Former national security adviser Michael Flynn on Monday will plead the Fifth Amendment and refuse to hand over documents subpoenaed by the Senate Intelligence Committee, according to news reports. Flynn will not give the panel documents detailing his interactions with Russian officials as part of the ongoing investigation into possible collusion...

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Trump Told Russians "Nut Job" Comey Was Fired to Ease Pressure: Report

Common Dreams staff

President Donald Trump characterized former FBI director James Comey, whom the...

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Hold Your Applause, Warnings Over the Pitfalls of Special Counsel Investigation

Lauren McCauley, staff writer

Progressive groups and Democratic lawmakers say that the appointment must be coupled with an independent commission, similar to the 9/11 commission, "to augment the efforts of the special prosecutor and follow the evidence wherever it leads," as Common Cause president Karen Hobart put it. (Photograph: J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

While many welcome the appointment of former FBI Director Robert Mueller to...

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'Comey Memo': Trump Impeachment Could Rest on Obstruction of Justice

For First Time, More Voters Support Trump Impeachment Than Oppose It

What's In the Transcript? There's a Way to Find Out What Trump Told Russia

'Where Are the Tapes, Sean?': As Spicer Demurs, ACLU Requests Comey Records

20 AGs Demand Immediate Appointment of Special Prosecutor for Russia Probe

#WithFewExceptions, Everyone Has Opinion on Trump's Terrible Presidency

Law Expert Says Trump 'High Crimes and Misdemeanors' Already Evident

'More Crazy Than Nixon': Critics Shocked by Trump Admission on Comey

As White House Narrative Unravels, Protests Demand Probe of 'Cover-Up'

'Nixonian': Donald Trump Fires FBI Director James Comey

Yates Confirms She Told White House Gen. Flynn Was 'Compromised' on Russia

Warnings Abound as Trump Wheels and Deals with Despots

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Public Citizen

Comey’s Firing Is an Assault on Democracy; Attorney General Jeff Sessions Must Go

Greenpeace

Exxon Seeks Waiver From Russia Sanctions: Greenpeace Response

Common Cause

New Russian Allegations Arise as Activists Deliver Petitions Nationwide Demanding Independent Commission to Investigate

Human Rights Watch (HRW)

Russia: Government vs. Rights Groups

MoveOn.org

Rep. Nunes Steps Down in Response to MoveOn’s & Other Ethics Complaints

MoveOn.org

MoveOn.org Files Federal Ethics Complaint Against Rep. Nunes for Violating Espionage Act, House Rules

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Steven Harper

A Timeline: Pence’s Role in the White House’s Russia-Related Mess

Robert Parry

‘Getting Trump’ with the New McCarthyism

Douglas Blackmon

'RussiaGate' Has Become a Catastrophic Failure of Leadership — and a Debacle From Which the Trump Presidency Will Not Recover

Robert C. Koehler

The Establishment Remains Hostage to the 'Rules of Espionage'

Joe Conason

Impeach Trump? Transcript Will Tell Whether President Blabbed Secrets To Russians

Jonathan Lee

Just How Sensitive Was the Information Trump Reportedly Revealed to the Russians?

Victoria Bassetti

Following the Money on Senate Russian Investigations

Robert C. Koehler

Classified America: Why Is the US Public Allowed to Know So Little?

Bill Moyers, Michael Winship

We Must Have a Special Prosecutor

Will Bunch

Trump's Tuesday Night Massacre Puts U.S. on 'Banana Republic' Brink

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