3 Stories You Should Read 2/19/2019: Saudi Arabia, RGB, McCabe
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House Dems Probing Report Trump Officials Pushed Saudi Nuclear Sales
The effort flies in the face of objections from national security and ethics officials.
The Democratic-led House oversight committee opened an investigation Tuesday into the claims by several unnamed whistleblowers who said they witnessed “abnormal acts” in the White House regarding the proposal to build dozens of nuclear reactors across the Middle Eastern kingdom.
The report raises concerns about whether some in a White House marked by “chaos, dysfunction, and backbiting” sought to circumvent established national security procedures regarding nuclear power technology. It also comes as Trump son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner is developing a Middle East peace plan that could include economic proposals for Saudi Arabia.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
In the category of: A collective sigh of relief.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Returns To Supreme Court Bench For First Oral Arguments Since Surgery
She had missed a round of oral arguments in January, the first time she had been absent from them since her appointment to the court in 1993.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is back at the Supreme Court for her first oral arguments since receiving treatment for cancer in December, a spokeswoman for the court confirmed Tuesday.
She had missed a round of oral arguments in January, the first time she had been absent from them since her appointment to the court in 1993.
Ginsburg, 85, who had been working from home since being released from the hospital on Dec. 25, returned to the court on Friday for meetings with her fellow justices.
Last month, doctors gave her the all-clear, saying that there was “no evidence of remaining disease,” according to the Supreme Court.
In the category of: Dark times behind closed doors.
“No one objected. Not on legal grounds, not on constitutional grounds, and not based on the facts.”
During an interview on Tuesday’s edition of Today, former acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe said that in the immediate aftermath of then-FBI Director James Comey’s firing in May 2017, he briefed the “Gang of Eight” about his decision to open a counterintelligence investigation into President Donald Trump — and Republicans raised no objections to it.
“I told Congress what we had done,” McCabe said. “No one objected. Not on legal grounds, not on constitutional grounds, and not based on the facts.”
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