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Bruce Ohr, the highest-ranking Obama Justice Department official to involve himself in distributing the anti-Trump dossier, carried out his freelancing through numerous meetings, phone calls and emails as a link between the FBI and Hillary Clinton forces.

He told a colleague that the Russia election scandal reached the top � Donald Trump. It was his �duty as a citizen� to spread the unverified allegations around town, he said.

During all of Mr. Ohr�s maneuverings, from the summer of 2016 to Mr. Trump�s election to the fall of 2017, he hid the operation from his bosses.

Mr. Horowitz�s 434-page report on FBI abuse of wiretap laws to target Trump campaign associate Carter Page includes scores of pages on Mr. Ohr and his one-man Washington operation. The inspector general concluded that Mr. Ohr had committed �consequential errors in judgment� and �lapses in judgment.�

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An organization financed by 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg is secretly underwriting an effort to plant left-leaning lawyers in state offices around the country, Republican attorneys general say.

“Bloomberg Philanthropies financed a group that is planting private attorneys into state attorneys general offices for the explicit purpose of pushing back against Trump�s regulatory rollbacks,” the Daily Caller reported over the weekend.

According to the publication, New York University�s State Energy and Environmental Impact Center, which Bloomberg�s philanthropy supported the center with a $6 million grant, is working to “identify and hire NYU Law Fellows who serve as special assistant attorneys general in state attorney general offices, focusing on clean energy, climate and environmental matters.”

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Former General David Petraeus described President Donald Trump�s decision to eliminate Iranian General Qasem Soleimani in Baghdad as the most significant action against terrorism in the Middle East.

�It is impossible to overstate the importance of this particular action. It is more significant than the killing of Osama bin Laden or even the death of [Islamic State leader Abu Bakr] al-Baghdadi,� he said in an interview with Foreign Policy magazine.

Petraeus said President Trump had effectively reestablished the idea any Iranian attack against American targets would be met with considerable force.

�This is the most formidable adversary that we have faced for decades,� he said, noting that Soleimani had previously enjoyed considerable power and freedom to act boldly in the region. �This is a very significant effort to reestablish deterrence, which obviously had not been shored up by the relatively insignificant responses up until now.�

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[Retired Gen. David Petraeus was commander of the U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan and a former CIA director. ]

Al-Shabab, a Somali terror group linked to al-Qaeda, attacked a military base Sunday morning in Kenya that houses some American military personnel, U.S. and Kenyan military said.

Al-Shabab is a Sunni Muslim group and is not linked to Shiite Iran. Last week, a U.S. airstrike killed Iran�s top military commander and Iran vowed retaliation.

At approximately 5:30 a.m., Kenya Defense Forces said terrorists attempted to breach security at the Manda Bay Airfield, which is near the border with Somalia. �The attempted breach was successfully repulsed. Four terrorists bodies have so far been found,� the Kenyan military posted on Twitter.

U.S. Africa Command said the airfield has been �cleared and still in the process of being full secured.� There was damage to the infrastructure and equipment, and a check of personnel is underway.

�U.S. Africa Command acknowledges there was an attack at Manda Bay Airfield, Kenya and is monitoring the situation,� U.S Army Maj. Gen. William Gayler said in a statement. �Al-Shabab resorts to lies, coercion, and the exertion of force to bolster their reputation to create false headlines � It is important to counter al-Shabab where they stand to prevent the spread of this cancer.�

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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) wrote a letter to her Democrat colleagues in the House on Sunday to reveal a new �War Powers Resolution� that amounts to a pre-emptive surrender to Iran in ongoing hostilities.

Pelosi�s letter begins with the declaration that President Donald Trump�s airstrike last week targeting Iranian General Qasem Suleimani, leader of the terrorist Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IGRC) Quds Force, responsible for the murders of hundreds of Americans and for recent attacks on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, was �provocative and disproportionate,� terms suggesting the attack was illegal under international law and could constitute a war crime.

Harvard Law School professor emeritus (and Democrat) Alan Dershowitz argued in Monday�s Wall Street Journal that the strike was not only lawful, but an �easy call�: �The president has the constitutional authority to take military actions, short of declaring war, that he and his advisers deem necessary to protect American citizens. This authority is extremely broad, especially when the actions must, by their nature, be kept secret from the intended target.�

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In a Friday statement, California�s Democrat Party announced it has reached settlements with the five staff members and activists who sued Eric Bauman last year. The former chairman was facing allegations of discrimination, assault and unwanted sexual advances.

In one case, Bauman�s former assistant received $1.75 million after he alleged the former chairman forced him to perform sexual acts several times without his consent.

The other two lawsuits against Bauman, which settled for nearly $1.8 million combined, claimed Bauman regularly groped, verbally harassed and racially discriminated the plaintiffs.

The lawsuits also said these actions were able to continue within the party because its top leadership looked the other way. Plaintiffs said they failed to confront Bauman when the claims were brought to their attention.

However, the California Democrat Party has failed to acknowledge they committed any wrongdoing.

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Iraq’s parliament has voted in favour of a resolution to remove foreign troops from the country, in response to the US drone attack that killed top Iranian General Qassem Soleimani.

It came as sectarian violence broke out across the country in response to the assassination of Major-General Soleimani in a US drone strike on his convoy at Baghdad airport on Friday.

Around 5,000 US soldiers are currently stationed in Iraq, to aid the fight against ISIS.

But today, lawmakers approved a resolution asking the government to end a security agreement between Iraq and the US and expel American forces.

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‘Social justice’ activist Colin Kaepernick is a “racist” and a “loser on and off the field,” according to Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., responding to Kaepernick’s latest tweets in response to the killing of Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani by the United States military.

“He has no idea what the Iranian regime has done to the region. He has no idea they have 600 American deaths as a result of IEDs made in Iran, used in Iraq.”

Graham’s takedown was on the heels of Kaepernick’s latest protest, as he tweeted:

“There is nothing new about American terrorist attacks against Black and Brown people for the expansion of American imperialism.”

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In an interview that breaks every rule of the Hollywood PR handbook, iconoclastic filmmaker Terry Gilliam said that white men are unfairly blamed for everything that is wrong in the world and that the #MeToo movement has become a witch hunt as well as an excuse for some women to avoid taking responsibility for poor decisions.

Gilliam, who is a Monty Python veteran and has directed such visionary movies as Brazil and 12 Monkeys, gave an incendiary interview to the British newspaper the Independent in which he refused to kneel at the altar of political correctness and woke identity politics.

At one point, he jokingly referred to himself as a �black lesbian in transition.�

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