Larry O'Connor

Clapper: ‘Wouldn’t have been appropriate’ to warn Trump about Russians

While promoting his new book, Facts and Fears: Hard Truths from a Life in Intelligence, Clapper explained how desperately dangerous the Russian threat is to our country and that threat had manifested itself in the supposed "meddling" in the 2016 presidential election.

Samantha Bee defiant, indignant just hours after apology

Just hours after her public mea culpa over her vile use of the "c-word" in describing White House adviser and daughter of the president Ivanka Trump, Samantha Bee struck a defiant note while accepting an award at the 11th annual Television Honors Awards for her TBS show Full Frontal.

Andrew McCarthy: If the FBI spied on a mosque for the same reasons they spied on Trump campaign…

"We have an important protocol in this country that you do not, as the incumbent administration, use the awesome powers that you were given under counterintelligence law and even the criminal law to investigate and harass your political opposition. The fact that using an informant doesn't infringe on anybody's rights to privacy, under those circumstances, is kind of beside the point."

Samantha Bee vs Roseanne: Equal justice matters

Which brings us, unexpectedly, to the matter of Samantha Bee and Roseanne Barr. The way these two vulgarians have been treated by their respective employers and the mainstream media sends the same, damaging message.

CNN’s Don Lemon goes there: If you watched Roseanne, you’re a bigot

Without the benefit of producers, writers or a telprompter, Lemon said Roseanne was a conspiracy theorist and bigot and people who watched her program "bought into that" and are "part of that."

Chick-fil-a customer tests Starbucks’ new ‘No purchase required’ policy

American leadership: Major European banks cease business with Iran

In a sign that American leadership is alive, well and thriving in the Western world, major European banks have announced they will reverse their policies that had been encouraged under President Barack Obama and cease their business with Iran:

Senator Mike Lee: Even if you believe FBI was looking for Russians, Spygate is ‘deeply troubling’

The latest narrative of those defending President Obama's FBI's behavior in the Spygate scandal is "they were doing noble work defending our election from the Russians."Mind you, this is after the "there was no surveillance" and the "dossier wasn't used for the FISA warrants" and the "spy wasn't really a spy" have all been proven false.

Why didn’t Clapper know about the FBI’s spy operation?

Clapper’s claptrap wearing thin

In a confused and disjointed appearance on CNN's State of the Union hosted by Dana Bash this Sunday, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper responded to one of the most burning questions of Spygate with a nonsensical response.

Cornyn: Comey’s FBI was ‘accountable to no one’

Not so fast Obama, your biggest scandal is unfolding before our eyes

The Comey/Clapper excuse for spying on Trump campaign proves their own incompetence

They were never able to make any arrests. They were never able to stop a single hack of an email account. They were unable to prevent any Russian bots or online advertising efforts. They failed, at every turn.

Sharyl Atkisson on Spygate: Sure looks like FBI’s operation against Trump was political

Tuesday, we broke down how based on publicly disclosed information, it is a logical and reasonable conclusion that politics played a major role in the origins of the FBI's counterintelligence operation involving the Trump campaign and alleged connections with the Russian government.

DiGenova: ‘Probable cause to arrest Comey’ for Spygate right now

Former US Attorney Joe diGenova says there is "probable cause to arrest" former FBI Director James Comey for his role in the Spygate scandal.

Holder urges DOJ/FBI to unconstitutionally defy President: ‘Protect the institutions’

Former Attorney General Eric Holder publicly urged his former employees at the Justice Department to defy President Trump's request for transparency and public disclosures of information related to the unprecedented spy operation launched in 2016 against the Trump campaign.

Levin: ‘Mueller probe unconstitutional’

Based on what we know, the FBI spying operation on Trump was politically motivated

The spy (who wasn’t a spy) was spying on the Trump campaign

You'd be forgiven if you're suffering from a bit of whiplash following the media's coverage of the FBI's spy operation on the 2016 Trump campaign.

Obama spied on Trump’s campaign. Where’s the outrage?