May 29, 2020 6:21 am
By Adrienne Cobb
Missed and botched opportunities Trump Team Killed Rule Designed To Protect Health Workers From Pandemic Like COVID-19… “If that rule had gone into effect, then every hospital, every nursing home would essentially have to have a plan where they made sure they had enough respirators and they were prepared for this sort of […]
May 28, 2020 4:18 pm
By Adrienne Cobb
Mike Pompeo’s dirty laundry Two weeks ago, President Trump fired State Dept. Inspector General Steve Linick at the request of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. By law, Congress must be notified 30 days in advance before the firing of an IG, giving the watchdog time to wind down his investigations. […]
May 26, 2020 1:45 pm
By Scott Stedman
Forensic News can exclusively report that a District Attorney’s office in Central California is considering a slew of charges against a businessman, Yorai Benzeevi, and his associates who hired the Israeli intelligence company Psy Group to intervene in a 2017 local hospital board election, according to multiple sources directly involved. […]
May 22, 2020 10:26 am
By Jess Coleman
Missed warnings & opportunities The Trump administration delayed a CDC warning about travel from Europe early in the pandemic… About 66,000 European travelers were streaming into American airports every day during the week-long delay. CDC officials say their agency’s efforts to mount a coordinated response to the Covid-19 pandemic have been hamstrung by […]
May 21, 2020 1:16 pm
By Scott Stedman and Eric Levai
According to documents exclusively obtained by Forensic News, a US government agency board member working on a state-of-the-art communications network with Trump administration officials simultaneously served as a US Director for NSO Group, the infamous Israeli spyware company whose surveillance tools have been used by governments across the world to […]
May 19, 2020 8:24 am
By Adrienne Cobb
War on accountability Late Friday night, President Trump continued his purge of inspectors general with the firing of State Dept. IG Steve Linick, who was initially appointed to the position in 2013. Multiple reports indicate that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo recommended Linick’s firing because the IG has opened an investigation into […]
May 12, 2020 6:19 am
By Adrienne Cobb
Loyalists taking over Under the cover of a pandemic, the Trump administration is continuing to purge those who are deemed “disloyal” to the president and install individuals willing to advance Trump’s agenda. Intelligence community At the beginning of April, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) sent a letter to acting-Director of […]
May 11, 2020 1:42 pm
By Jess Coleman
Tests for Trump, not for us Trump and Pence have notably been traveling the country without face masks, making a display of going back to normal. This is definitely a political decision; Trump has told advisors that he believes wearing a face mask would “send the wrong message,” because doing so would […]