Trump pardons 15 including Republican allies, contractors convicted in Baghdad massacre
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US Rep Chris Collins, R-N.Y., speaks to reporters as he leaves the courthouse after a pretrial hearing in his insider-trading case, in New York in 2019. Collins, the first member of Congress to endorse Trump to be president, was sentenced to two years and two months in federal prison after admitting he helped his son and others dodge $800,000 in stock market losses when he learned that a drug trial by a small pharmaceutical company had failed. AP file
President Donald Trump has also pardoned a 2016 campaign official ensnared in the Russia probe
Trump grants pardon to Russia probe figure George Papadopoulos, ex-Blackwater contractors convicted in massacre
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Former WNY congressman among several pardoned by Trump
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Trump pardons 15, including Republican supporters
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Don’t Pardon the Intrusion Edward Snowden’s actions immeasurably weakened the United States and strengthened our adversaries.
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The most surprising thing about the failure of U.S. intelligence to discover for nearly nine months the SolarWinds penetration of U.S. government agencies, reportedly including the State, Energy, and Homeland Security Departments as well as private contractors, is that anyone is surprised. After all, the National Security Agency, responsible for protecting the communications of the U.S. government, had such a massive hole punched in its capabilities by a breach in 2013 that Michael McConnell, the former director of first the NSA and then the Office of National Intelligence, assessed “This [breach] will have an impact on our ability to do our mission for the next 20 to 30 years.”