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on March 29, 2017 in World News

State Dept Employee With Top Secret Security Clearance Arrested For Lying About Contact With Foreign Agents

By: Joshua Yasmeh A State Department employee from the Caucasus Affairs office has been arrested and charged “with obstructing an official proceeding and making false statements to the FBI, both felony offenses, for allegedly concealing numerous contacts that she had over a period of years with foreign intelligence agents,” according to a statement released by the Department of Justice’s Office of Public Affairs. “Candace Marie Claiborne is a U.S. State Department employee who possesses a Top Secret security clearance and allegedly failed to report her contacts with Chinese foreign intelligence agents who provided her with thousands of dollars of gifts… View Article

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on March 29, 2017 in World News

CNN Fact Checks Sean Spicer Joke About Salad Dressing

by Ezra Dulis CNN has published a stinging fact check of the Trump Administration, exposing several falsehoods in a joke that White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer made Tuesday about salad dressing. During the afternoon’s White House press briefing, Spicer made a quip about conspiracy theories that U.S. President Donald Trump is an agent of Russian President Vladimir Putin — recruited via blackmail in 2013 — and how the professional journalists who believe this conspiracy might add consumption of “Russian dressing” to their pile of circumstantial evidence. Case closed? Hardly. CNN’s Michelle Krupa dug deep and found that ACKSHUALLY, Russian… View Article

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