Devin Nunes Case Study

Since the two reporters from The Washington Post were beginning to put together the entire story piece-by-piece, the government soon began conducting their own investigation. What the authorities did not know was that an inside source who had access to all of the FBI files, nicknamed “Deep Throat”, was secretly confirming information for Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward to publish in the newspaper (Crawford-Mason, Clare). It was not until 2005 when “Deep Throat” would reveal his identity as Mark Felt – the director of the FBI at the time of the Watergate Scandal (“The Watergate Story: The Post Investigates”).

Dean faced the committee for four days of Questioning, after his opening statement. During these four days the republicans focused on what happened in these meetings between Dean and the president, which was the only evidence the president. The question that Senator baker asked and was being wondered throughout the nation was, what did the president know and when did he know it? (Westerfled, 43)

Donald Trump, the POTUS or better known as President of the United States has recently lied about having communication ties with Russia. In a press

Communications director Michael Dubke lauded the Trump administration’s commitment to transparency in a statement and cited national security concerns in making the decision.

Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta said the information provided by Mr Comey was "long on innuendo" and "short on facts".

The SSBI significantly increased the amount of work required for investigations for Top Secret clearances. A revision of Director of Central Intelligence Directive 1/14 in 1992 added neighborhood investigations to PRs for Top Secret clearances. The 1994 “Joint Security Commission” report recommended standardization, computerization, and changes in investigative scope for security clearances. In response to the 1994 amendment to the National Security Act of 1947, Executive Order 12986 (1995) established the Security Policy Board to develop a common set of investigative and adjudicative standards, improve clearance reciprocity, strengthen appeal procedures, and improve

The Panama Papers executes the conspiracy of the world intelligence agencies, to implicate the leadership for extortion. PP accuracy is in doubt!

The truth-laden conspiracy took root when it came to light that the Clinton campaign and the DNC had hired Fusion GPS to fund research about Trump. Christopher Steele, an ex British spy, was one of the main informants on Trump’s connections with Russia.

Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump have been leading forces in the White House despite their limited political experience. Ivanka Trump is currently serving as a special assistant to her father and Kushner will be the White House senior adviser. As the senior adviser to the president, Kushner will be involved in a variety of activities, such as government operations, Middle East policy, and trade deals. As Kushner is completing these tasks, he has already been reported to be a “person of interest” by the Justice Department. He has been given this title following his work during the Trump campaign. While Trump was campaigning, Kushner had oversight of digital operations. This is a substantial role which could aid in learning more about the Russian

The defendant published a false statement; about the plaintiff; to a third party. Buzzfeed published a statement that linked XBT Holdings to hacking operations of the DNC. Buzzfeed admitted in writing that they had no idea if the dossier was true or not. Buzzfeed issued an apology to Gubarev and redacted his name form the report after initial publication on Jan. 10, 2017.

President Trump accused the “Fake Media” on Thursday of ignoring new details about the 2010 approval of a controversial uranium deal with a Russian company, amid scrutiny of potential “conflicts of interest” for Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration.

Documents released Monday in the Hillary Clinton email investigation show intense disagreement last year between the State Department and the F.B.I. over whether some of Mrs. Clinton’s emails should be considered classified, including a discussion of a possible “quid pro quo” to settle one dispute.

And what’s really important about WikiLeaks is that the Russian government has engaged in espionage against Americans. They have hacked American websites, American accounts of private people, of institutions. Then they have given that information to WikiLeaks for the purpose of putting it on the Internet.” This is non sequitur fallacy Hillary had used during third/final presidential debate at Los Vegas Nevada. This is non sequitur because Hillary Clinton after commenting on the email issue, pivots into doubting the motive of the source and then concludes with the Russian political interference in American politics. This is a diversion and the conclusion does not connect with her reasoning on the question raised by anchor on the issue of WikiLeaks report of Hillary’s speech in support of open trade with open boarder. Hillary used this fallacy to steer away the initial topic of boarder control and to disapprove WikiLeaks authenticity and independency on collecting reports to show to audiences that she had not talked or showed support of free trade with open boarder. This is her strategic deceptive approach to show that she is

Earlier in 2010, a cache of a quarter-million confidential American diplomatic cables was posted on WikiLeaks, an organization devoted to revealing secret government documents. These documents provide “an unprecedented look at backroom bargaining by embassies around the world, brutally candid views of foreign leaders and frank assessments of nuclear and terrorist threats” (Shane and Lehren). The disclosure sent shudders through the diplomatic establishment, and strained relationships between multiple countries, influencing international affairs in unpredictable ways (Shane and Lehren).

With that being said, there are certain people who wants evidence such as Michael Goodwin. Goodwin’s story talks about how the media released unverified allegations about Donald Trump involving Russia and his responses to the allegation. Goodwin also brought a good point when he asked “Would the Times and Washington Post make the same decision if the unverified allegations were about President Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton?” (2017). Questions like that makes you think, did the media released the unverified allegation to sabotage Donald Trump’s reputation or is it because they believe it to be true and they are just doing their job? I guess we will never know. The author’s rhetorical tools make the article stronger.