Most agents view their mission as fundamentally nonpolitical, and the right has long been among the agency's biggest supporters. Now critics include a president who handpicked the current FBI leader. On Friday, when a memo the FBI disputes was released, Director Christopher Wray sent a message urging his people to "keep calm and tackle hard."
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They insist their efforts are meant to fulfill their duty to provide oversight of the executive branch and root out suspected bias. But critics say the GOP campaign has been clearly orchestrated to safeguard the president and undercut the inquiry into Russian meddling in 2016.
The memo was merely about oversight of a few potentially bad actors, House Speaker Paul Ryan told reporters. His fellow Republicans say something very different.
The release of the Nunes memo puts much of the Republican leadership fully behind the president in his efforts to discredit the Russia investigation. The support of the House speaker and many other leading Republicans only adds weight to what has become a Trump-led effort to muddy the eventual conclusions of the probe.
In praising the document, Trump continued to attack what he characterizes as the FBI's "Russian Witch Hunt." It was unclear why his tweet put "Trump" in quotation marks, though the president often speaks about himself in the third person.
The Treasury Department attributed the increase to the "fiscal outlook." The Congressional Budget Office was more blunt: Tax receipts are going to be lower because of the new tax law.
Searching online for health information can magnify the pool of potential problems to worry about, and researchers use the term "cyberchondria" to describe the interplay between health searches and health anxiety.
The actress said the Hollywood mogul was sexually aggressive with her and threatened to derail her career, according to a new interview. She also said she felt bad "about all the women who were attacked after I was."
Winning for them is a need, and there is nothing to suggest that should they win a sixth Super Bowl title on Sunday it will soothe the quarterback and his coach into not needing a seventh.
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