DAILY BELLWETHER 03/02/2018 WHY IS THE FBI DRAGGING IT'S HEELS ON EVERYTHING THAT COULD PROVE TREASON AGAINST HUMA. HILLARY AND OTHERS?

WH: Trump Protecting Americans With Steel, Aluminum Tariffs President Donald Trump will impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports next week in order to ensure that "we're doing everything we can to protect American workers," White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Thursday. "The president is concerned about the men and women of this country who have been forgotten about, the industries that our country was founded and built on," Sanders told reporters at the daily briefing. "This shouldn't come as a surprise to anybody," she added. "This is something, frankly, the president has been talking about for decades." Trump told steel and aluminum executives in a White House meeting that ... Read More

Democrats Demand Bill with Expanded Background Checks, Gun Confiscations Senate Democrats offered their ante Thursday in the renewed gun control debate, saying any bill must expand background checks and allow court-ordered gun confiscations while demanding a vote on a semi-automatic rifle ban — though they said that is not a deal-breaker if it doesn’t become law. Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer of New York said his Democratic caucus is prepared to provide a “very large” number of votes for those priorities. He called for a free-ranging debate on the chamber floor, where he said he would accept the outcome. Read More

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FBI Denies Secret Comey-Obama Meeting Raises Integrity and Public Trust Issues The FBI states it will not expedite the release of documents about secret meetings between FBI Director James Comey and former President Barack Obama, according to a letter the bureau sent to The Daily Caller News Foundation. Such information is not “a matter of widespread and exceptional media interest in which there exists possible questions about the government’s integrity which affects public confidence,” David Hardy, the section chief for the bureau’s Record/Information Dissemination Section, told TheDCNF in a Feb. 26 letter. The DCNF, under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), requested ... Read More

Russia Uses Facebook to Undermine Dakota Access Pipeline, Other US Energy Projects Russian agents working to undermine America’s fossil fuel industry use Facebook, Twitter, and other social media tools to spread propaganda and try to turn U.S. public opinion against domestic energy production, according to a new congressional report. The report found that between 2015 and 2017, “an estimated 9,097 Russian posts or tweets regarding U.S. energy policy or a current energy event,” such as approval of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, appeared on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. In addition, 4,334 social media accounts connected to a Russian agency that manipulates media platforms spread across Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, the report from the committee’s majority staff says. After reviewing documents ... Read More

Sen. Johnson Wants Answers From FBI on Delay in Weiner Laptop Review Republican Sen. Ron Johnson sent a letter to the Justice Department asking for more clarity about the delay in the FBI's investigation of emails found on Anthony Weiner's laptop before the 2016 election, Fox News reports. Johnson, Senate Homeland Security Committee chairman, sent the letter to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein on Thursday about the timeline, Fox reports. "The cryptic and disjointed nature of the text messages, in addition to heavy redactions applied to other FBI documents, make it difficult to understand fully the sequence of events," Johnson wrote to Rosenstein, Fox reported. Johnson gave Rosenstein a deadline of ... Read More