Liz Cheney Considers 3rd-Party Run to Oppose Trump ‘Threat’

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Liz Cheney Considers 3rd-Party Run to Oppose Trump ‘Threat’

(Eli Pacheco, Headline USA) Disgraced former Wyoming representative Liz Cheney said she’s considering a third-party White House bid, Newsmax reported.

“We face threats that could be existential to the United States, and we need a candidate who is going to be able to deal with and address and confront all of those challenges,” she claimed in a Monday interview with the Washington Post.

Cheney said she’d run as a third-party conservative candidate. Another option would be a bipartisan ticket or a newly formed party. She said she’d decide about the run in the coming months.

“Several years ago, I would not have contemplated a third-party run,” she said. “I happen to think democracy is at risk at home, obviously, as a result of Donald Trump’s continued grip on the Republican Party, and I think democracy is at risk internationally as well.”

Cheney, co-chair of Nancy Pelosi’s hand-picked Jan. 6 Committee, consistently riles conservatives with her words and deeds as one of former President Donald Trump’s biggest detractors.

During her 2022 re-election bid, she suffered a lopsided loss in the GOP primary to MAGA-backed Harriet Hageman and was censured by the state Republican Party over her vote to impeach Trump.

Prior to being voted out of office, Cheney also lost her role in the Republican House leadership over her various defections and betrayals.

Cheney, who was able to secure a cushy teaching gig at the University of Virginia, has been angling for public attention following the release of her memoir, Oath and Honor: a Memoir and a Warning.

On Sunday, she helped leftist media outlets launch a coordinated campaign to smear Trump as a “dictator” during an appearance on CBS. She has also discussed her unlikely partnership with Pelosi in related interviews.

GOP Moves to ‘Defund’ and ‘Expel’ the United Nations

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GOP Moves to ‘Defund’ and ‘Expel’ the United Nations

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Republicans in Congress vowed to introduce legislation to “defund” and “expel” the unelected globalist United Nations.

UN has been pushing to assert itself as a single-world government in the decades since its inception, which is an un-American agenda that directly conflicts with conservative Republican values, according to Slay News.

As expected, globalist Joe Biden and his administration have been pushing to deepen ties with the organization.

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, has indicated that he will file a measure to “defund the United Nations,” as a response to the UN’s mounting power grab.

“Tomorrow I will file by bill to #DefundTheUN. Please like and repost if you’d like to see that bill become law,” Lee posted on Twitter.

Some Republicans in the U.S. House responded to the call by pledging to also push legislation to get rid of the globalist organization.

“So will I :)” Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, wrote in response to Lee’s post.

Roy’s office’s Twitter account also shared a similar message.

“The UN doesn’t deserve a single DIME of American taxpayer money. That’s why Rep. Roy is looking forward to introducing House legislation alongside @RepMikeRogersAL and @SenMikeLee that would DEFUND it.”

Even though pulling funding from the UN would certainly appeal to conservatives, such legislation will likely be dead on arrival since it probably wouldn’t have enough support to move through Congress.

Aside from expressing his support for cutting off UN funding, Lee also suggested that the United States should “expel them too.”

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres declared earlier this year that “global boiling” has arrived on Earth.

Last week, during his fearmongering remarks at the COP28 summit in Dubai, Guterres warned of “the sickness bringing our climate to its knees.”

“A sickness only you, global leaders, can cure. Earth’s vital signs are failing,” he said.

In addition to that, he also demanded that all nations agree to a complete “phaseout.”

Leftists Enraged over Flattering Actor Chosen to Portray Trump in Biopic

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Leftists Enraged over Flattering Actor Chosen to Portray Trump in Biopic

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Hunky Captain America actor Sebastian Stan has been cast as a young Donald Trump in the upcoming movie The Apprentice, sending leftists into hysterics, the New York Post reported.

The biopic is being directed by Iranian filmmaker Ali Abbasi, whose best known American screen credit to date is two episodes of the pandemic-inspired HBO series The Last of Us.

The movie, which delves into Trump’s early relationship with anti-communist prosecutor Roy Cohn, is described as “an exploration of power and ambition set in a world of corruption and deceit,” according to Deadline.

“It’s a mentor–protégé story that charts the origins of an American dynasty,” said the industry trade publication. “Filled with larger-than-life characters, it reveals the moral and human cost of a culture defined by winners and losers.”

While there may be good cause for Trump supporters to be wary of its eventual portrayal of the the president and his guiding principles, the casting of the Marvel star made waves on social media for all the right reasons by triggering Trump-deranged snowflakes conditioned to regarding the silver screen as their safe space.

One Twitter user complained that Stan was too attractive for the younger Trump, alluding to the flattering castings used in the portrayals of the British royal family on Netflix’s The Crown.

Others were no less hysterical, but admitted that Stan and the former president do in fact look alike, noting that Stan “DOES look ugly” like Trump.

“That’s the whole point, trump is an ugly f@sc!st, stop trying to find a way to compliment his look, period.”

Another complained that it’s “too early” for a movie about Trump, whom the user “absolutely” hates.

Another Twitter user cited by the Post remarked about how offensive it would be for Stan to be cast as the former president.

“This must be April the 1st,” said the  now-removed tweet. “If someone wanted to cast me as Donald Trump I would be personally offended.”

Stan, 41, has a history of playing real-life characters whose machismo and morals don’t always work in perfect tandem.

He earned an Emmy nomination last year for playing sex-charged Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee in Hulu’s miniseries Pam & Tommy.

Stan also portrayed figure skater Tonya Harding’s abusive ex-husband, Jeff Gilooly, in 2017’s I, Tonya opposite Margot Robbie and Allison Janney, who won a best supporting actress Oscar for her performance.

In The Apprentice, he will be joined by Maria Bakalova as Trump’s first wife, Ivana, and Jeremy Strong as Cohn.

The film, being produced by Gidden Media’s Amy Baer, has not yet set a release date.

Trump himself is not known to have commented publicly about the film.

Calls for Jewish Genocide Are ‘Context-Dependent,’ Ivy League Heads Say

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Calls for Jewish Genocide Are ‘Context-Dependent,’ Ivy League Heads Say

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) The presidents of three top universities in the United States said during a high-profile congressional hearing that calling for the genocide of Jewish people may not be against the universities’ codes of conduct because the situations are “content-dependent.”

Even though three leaders from Harvard University, MIT and the University of Pennsylvania [Penn] acknowledged that Jewish and Israeli students started feeling extremely unsafe on college campuses since Oct. 7, 2023, they still didn’t define what kinds of anti-Semitic and anti-Israel speech could be formally disciplined on campus, the Jerusalem Post reported.

All three presidents said that the answer depends on the context when they were asked directly by Rep. Elise Stefanik, R–N.Y. if calling for the genocide of Jews is against the universities’ respective codes of conduct.

“It is a context-dependent decision,” Penn President Liz Magill said.

The response led Stefanik to reply.

“Calling for the genocide of Jews is dependent on the context? That is not bullying or harassment? This is the easiest question to answer ‘yes,’ Ms. Magill,” she said.

When asked the same question, Harvard President Claudine Gay said that the university would take action only when “speech crosses into conduct,” while MIT President Sally Kornbluth said that such language would only be “investigated as harassment if pervasive and severe.”

However, the presidents admitted that anti-Semitism was a serious problem on their campuses that had grown more severe since Hamas’s terrorist attack on Israel that happened on Oct. 7, 2023.

“I know some Israeli and Jewish students feel unsafe on campus. As they bear the horror of the Hamas attacks and the history of antisemitism, these students have been pained by chants in recent demonstrations,” Kornbluth said.

Testimonies of the presidents came amid increased tensions on college campuses all around the country since Pro-Palestinian students and faculty — including in Harvard, Penn and MIT — have made headlines for speech and actions on campus that a range of critics have called anti-Semitic or inappropriate.

Fake News Launches Shamelessly Coordinated Campaign to Declare Trump a ‘Dictator’

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Fake News Launches Shamelessly Coordinated Campaign to Declare Trump a ‘Dictator’

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) The mainstream media appears to have launched a coordinated smear campaign to brand former President Donald Trump as a dangerous dictator, Townhall reported.

The initiative is being led by publications like the New York Times, the Washington Post and The Atlantic.

The latter recently dedicated a series of 24 op-eds to addressing the dangers of a second Trump term (although it remains unclear how this differs from what the TDS-afflicted magazine otherwise would have written about).

Naturally, they reached the conclusion in the series, “If Trump Wins,” that if Trump were to return to the White House, his second term would be much worse than the first.

While some of the attacks seemed to have been coordinated well in advance, other media hopped aboard the bandwagon the wake of a Tuesday night Trump campaign event in Davenport, Iowa, during which the GOP frontrunner took the bait by responding to a question from moderator Sean Hannity about the media attacks.

 

Trump was asked point blank if he would ever “abuse power” or seek “retribution.”

In response, the former president said he would bolster America’s oil production and shore up the border—two prerogatives deemed controversial by the media.

“We’re closing the border and we’re drilling, drilling, drilling,” Trump said, alluding to the reawakening of the oil industry. “After that, I’m not a dictator.”

Ripping his remarks out of context, the leftist media has had a field day calling Trump a dictator.

France’s AFP warned of “dark scenarios” ahead with its “grim predictions” about the nature of a second Trump term.

The news agency cited former Rep. Liz Cheney, who said Sunday that America was “sleepwalking into dictatorship,” while hinting at a possible third-party run, which would likely pull votes from Trump’s opponent.

NeverTrump neocon Robert Kagan also penned a recent Washington Post op-ed warning that “a Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable. We should stop pretending.”

Comparing Trump to Rome’s Julius Caesar, Kagan said that Trump is pursuing the office of “president for life.”

For current President Joe Biden, the moment is so dire that he feels compelled to run again, despite the fact that he is 81 years old.

“If Trump wasn’t running, I’m not sure I’d be running. But we cannot let him win,” the Democrat said at a recent Massachusetts campaign event.

Writing for the conservative Townhall, Kaelan Door, the chief marketing officer for Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign and former head of global engagement for GETTR, expressed skepticism that these attacks all happened organically.

“[H]aving been a communications professional in Washington D.C. for the better part of a decade, I can assure you there are no such things as coincidences as far as legacy media is concerned,” Door wrote.

“[Y]et we’re supposed to believe that the Atlantic rolled out ten op-eds about an authoritarian Trump on the same day that the New York Times and Washington Post also decided to publish articles about how a second Trump administration would be ‘radical,’ and a ‘dictatorship‘?” he continued. “The State-owned and manipulated media feels awfully authoritarian to me.”

Meanwhile, The Federalist noted that the panic-mongering seemed a bit disingenuous considering all the things that critics were warning Trump would do were things that the Biden administration had already done to Trump and his supporters—hence the word “retribution” in Hannity’s question.

“Surely the reporters and editors behind this laughable piece of agitprop know that this is exactly what the Biden Justice Department and powerful Democrats nationwide are now doing to Trump,” wrote the website’s John Daniel Davidson.

Nonetheless, he said, they’ve dug a hole so deep for themselves that their only option is to keep on digging.

“They lean into the gaslighting, claiming over and over in the most outlandish terms that a second Trump term will bring about everything that’s happening now under President Biden,” wrote Davidson.

“Why? Because they’re desperate,” he continued. “They know that owing to the weakness and corruption and unpopularity of the current president, there’s a chance Trump just might win next year.”

Headline USA’s Ben Sellers contributed to this report.

Ex-Speaker McCarthy to Exit Congress by End of Year—Victory for MAGA or Dems?

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Ex-Speaker McCarthy to Exit Congress by End of Year—Victory for MAGA or Dems?

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Two months after his historic ouster as U.S. House speaker, Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said Wednesday that he is resigning and will leave Congress by the end of the year.

McCarthy’s announcement prompted celebrations from MAGA supporters, who have criticized the former Speaker for, among other things, failing to curtail government spending increases, and supporting a costly U.S. proxy war in Ukraine.

But others noted that his departure will leave the already paper-thin House GOP majority even tighter, with just a few seats to spare.

McCarthy’s exit adds to the wave of retirements in the House, which has been split by Republican infighting, and the rare expulsion last week of indicted GOP Rep. George Santos of New York—dashing hopes for major accomplishments and leaving the majority straining to conduct the basic business of governing.

Some have gone as far as to suggest that congressional RINOs would rather cede power to Democrats than let MAGA Republicans assume control.

“With Santos being expelled, and Kevin McCarthy, Patrick McHenry, and Bill Johnson announcing retirement, we are going to have Speaker Hakeem Jeffries by March 1, 2024,” predicated conservative pundit Laura Loomer.

McCarthy had brought the Republicans into the majority but found it was much more difficult to lead the GOP’s factions.

In the speaker’s job, McCarthy’s well-known savvy for fundraising and political glad-handing appeared ill-suited for corralling his party’s MAGA members. Deals he cut to become speaker — including a rules change that allowed any single lawmaker to file a motion to remove him — left him vulnerable.

It wasn’t immediately clear what would happen with the vacancy, which could have implications for Republican control. Only a handful of seats separates the two parties.

In California, Friday is the last day for candidates to file paperwork to enter the 2024 elections. If the vacancy occurs before the end of that period, Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom would be required to call a special election to fill McCarthy’s seat.

If McCarthy steps down after that time, it would be up to the governor to decide whether to call a special election.

McCarthy has been credited with helping recruit a new, more diverse generation of GOP House members, including in his home state, where the delegation includes two South Korean immigrants, both women.

Rep. Carlos Gimenez, R-Fla., who was handpicked by McCarthy in 2020 to run for a House seat that had swung back and forth between Democrats and Republicans for several elections, said McCarthy’s departure could put House Republicans at a financial disadvantage in their efforts to keep the majority.

“Nobody could raise funds like Kevin McCarthy could. To replace him at this point, at this short time for the next election, that’s an impossible task for Speaker Johnson. If he comes even close, I will take my hat off to him.”

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.

Senator Reveals How Gov’t Agencies Spy on Smartphone Apps

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Senator Reveals How Gov’t Agencies Spy on Smartphone Apps

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) It seems like the public is learning about new ways the U.S. government spies on it nearly every day.

Wednesday was no exception. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., revealed in a letter to the Justice Department that investigators are employing an innovative method to surveil how their targets use smartphone apps.

Wyden said he received a tip about a year ago that government agencies were demanding records from Google and Apple about users’ “push notifications”—instant alerts delivered to smartphone users by apps, such as a notification about a new text message or a news update.

According to Wyden, push notifications aren’t sent directly from apps to their users. Instead, the apps typically send their notifications to Google or Apple, which serve as a “digital post office” of sorts, passing along those notifications to the user.

For iPhones, this service is provided by Apple’s Push Notification Service; for Android phones, it’s Google’s Firebase Cloud Messaging.

While these services are convenient for users and developers, they have their drawbacks, Wyden noted.

“These services ensure timely and efficient delivery of notifications, but this also means that Apple and Google serve as intermediaries in the transmission process,” Wyden warned.

“As with all of the other information these companies store for or about their users, because Apple and Google deliver push notification data, they can be secretly compelled by governments to hand over this information,” he said.

“Consequently, Apple and Google are in a unique position to facilitate government surveillance of how users are using particular apps.”

According to Wyden, Google and Apple have declined to share information with his office on the grounds that they’re prohibited from doing so by the government. Wyden asked Attorney General Merrick Garland to allow the companies to inform users how the DOJ spies on their push notifications.

“Apple and Google should be permitted to be transparent about the legal demands they receive, particularly from foreign governments, just as the companies regularly notify users about other types of government demands for data,” the senator said.

“These companies should be permitted to generally reveal whether they have been compelled to facilitate this surveillance practice, to publish aggregate statistics about the number of demands they receive, and unless temporarily gagged by a court, to notify specific customers about demands for their data.”

Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.

Pentagon Scientists Seek to Create Cybernetic ‘Super Soldiers’

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Pentagon Scientists Seek to Create Cybernetic ‘Super Soldiers’

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Top Defense Department scientists recently discussed the Pentagon’s ambitions to create “super soldiers” modeled after the likes of Captain America and Iron Man, according to a recent report from Vice.

A journalist from Vice attended the Nov. 29  Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference, or I/ITSEC, which it described as an annual conference where military leaders come to talk shop and simulation corporations gather to demo new products.

One specific panel caught the Vice journalist’s attention: “Black Swan—Dawn of the Super Soldier,” which reportedly included Defense Acquisition University analyst Lauren Reinerman-Jones, U.S. Army Developmental Command representatives George Matook and Irwin Hudson, research scientist J.J. Walcutt, and Richard McKinley, who works on “non-invasive brain stimulation” for the Air Force.

According to Vice, much of the conversation revolved around the ethical and legal boundaries of creating super soldiers.

“What risks are we willing to take? There’s all these wonderful things we can do,” Matook reportedly aid. “We want our guys to be over-matching any possible enemies, right? So why aren’t we giving them pharmaceutical enhancements? Why are we making them run all week when we could just be giving them steroids? There’s all these other things you could do if you change societal norms and ethics.”

Specific enhancements discussed included giving soldiers synthetic blood, and replacing night-vision goggles with eye drops—to initiatives currently underway at the Pentagon.. A slide from the panel also reportedly showed a “soldier of the future” whose body is “flooded with pain-numbing stimulants” and has the “ability to regrow limbs & quickly heal wounds like a lizard.”

To top it off, the panelists provided a grim outlook for what would happen to super soldiers once they outlive their usefulness for Uncle Sam.

“Termination,” Hudson said, reportedly drawing a chuckle from his colleagues.

While Pentagon officials may have high hopes for futuristic soldiers, congressional Democrats apparently have their sites set lower. Sens. Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin have proposed addressing the military’s recruitment shortfalls with illegal immigrants.

“My colleague from Illinois [Sen. Tammy Duckworth] has a bill that says if you’re an undocumented person in this country and you can pass the background test and the like, you can serve in our military. And if you do it honorably, we will make you citizens of the United States,” Durbin said on the Senate floor Monday.

“Do we need that? Do you know what the recruiting numbers are at the Army, Navy and Air Force? They can’t find enough people. And there are undocumented people who want to serve this country. Should we give them the chance? I think we should.”

Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.

Biden Suggests He Wouldn’t Be Running For Reelection If Trump Wasn’t Also Running

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Biden Suggests He Wouldn’t Be Running For Reelection If Trump Wasn’t Also Running

(Headline USA) President Joe Biden reportedly told a group of Democratic donors on Tuesday that he would not be running for reelection if it weren’t for former President Donald Trump.

“If Trump wasn’t running, I’m not sure I’d be running,” the 81-year-old said. “But we cannot let him win.”

The comment from Biden comes as concerns grow within the Democratic Party about his age and low poll numbers ahead of the 2024 election.

Several recent polls have found Biden losing to Trump in key swing states as a majority of voters admit Biden’s mental acuity is a primary concern of theirs. The RealClearPolitics average of recent national polls shows Trump with 46.7% national support compared to Biden at 44.7%.

Biden has also privately admitted that he often feels “tired,” according to author Franklin Foer.

And although Biden has insisted over the past two years that he would run for reelection, some Democrats have been quick to remind him that he signaled during the 2020 campaign that he would only serve one term if elected.

“If Biden is elected, he’s going to be 82 years old in four years and he won’t be running for reelection,” an adviser to the Biden campaign said at the time. “He’s going into this thinking, ‘I want to find a running mate I can turn things over to after four years, but if that’s not possible or doesn’t happen then I’ll run for reelection.’”

The problem for Biden now is that his running mate, Vice President Kamala Harris, is even more unpopular than he is.

The weakness of the Biden–Harris ticket led Trump to predict this week that Democrats will end up nominating someone else to head their ticket before the 2024 deadline.

“I personally don’t think he makes it,” Trump said during a Fox News townhall on Tuesday. “I watched him at the beach. He wasn’t able to lift a beach chair which is meant for children to lift … and mentally I would say he’s possibly equally as bad and maybe worse.”

Sen. Mike Lee Slams Wray’s ‘Disgraceful’ Abuse of Domestic-Surveillance Law

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Sen. Mike Lee Slams Wray’s ‘Disgraceful’ Abuse of Domestic-Surveillance Law

(Casey Harper, The Center Square) Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, blasted FBI Director Christopher Wray during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday over the agency’s spying on Americans without a warrant.

The agency has been under fire since news broke that the FBI used the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Section 702 to spy on hundreds of thousands of American citizens without a warrant.

The FISA law was intended to allow federal surveillance to monitor foreign residents’ communications within the U.S. but has since been expanded much more.

“You have a lot of gall sir,” Lee told Wray at the hearing. “This is disgraceful. The Fourth Amendment requires more than that and you know it.”

Lee’s comments come after Wray admitted during the hearing that the FBI had also ignored the requirement to obtain court orders to monitor Americans even though they are legally obligated to do so in some circumstances.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence declassified FISA Court opinions in 2021 showing a pattern of the FBI monitoring American citizens without the proper legal authority. ODNI reported there were hundreds of thousands of improper searches of the FBI database, which includes Americans’ communications, in recent years by the FBI with no reasonable expectation of a crime committed or real intelligence to gather.

“Would abuse of Section 702 by an FBI employee, would that be something that would warrant the revocation of security clearance?” Lee asked Wray at the hearing, referring to FBI employees who used the agency’s search for personal reasons.

Wray agreed that abuse could possibly qualify for discipline but that he may not agree what constitutes an abuse of the program.

Lee also asked Wray about searches conducted by the agency on political figures and even a judge who had complained about the FBI.

Wray pointed to new measures the agency has put in place to prevent abuses, but Lee pushed back, pointing out that lawmakers have not been able to see the details of those changes.

“I’ve been on this committee for 13 years,” Lee said. “During the entirety of those 13 years I’ve expressed concerns to FBI Directors appointed by presidents of both political parties and three different presidential administrations. Every darn one of them has told me the same thing: ‘Don’t worry about it. We’ve got new procedures. It’s going to be different now.’”

In reality, the corrupted law-enforcement agency has become a master of stonewalling those responsible of providing oversight, Lee noted.

“It’s never different,” Lee said.

“You haven’t changed, and you keep referring to these policies, these new procedures. We haven’t seen that,” he continued. “We’re not even allowed to have access to it, and we have absolutely no reason to trust you because you haven’t behaved in a manner that’s trustworthy.”

Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., sent a letter to the FBI in August on this issue blasting the agency and calling for accountability.

Notably, the 702 provision expires at the end of this year unless Congress reauthorizes it. Wray has offered options to make changes to improve the program, but Scott shared Lee’s sentiment, saying those changes were broad and lacked details or a sense of substantial reform.

“In the face of these rampant abuses, it was disappointing that you are lobbying Congress to renew the Section 702 authorities without substantial reforms, and without public disclosure of accountability,” the letter said.

“If you agree with me that the hundreds of thousands of unlawful, warrantless searches of U.S. citizen information your agency has conducted under Section 702 are entirely unacceptable, to attempt to regain the American public’s trust, please explain the accountability for those rogue agents who conducted those illegal queries,” it added.

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