US Police Kill Twice As Many People Every Year As We’ve Been Told

The Most Censored News with Lee Camp hosted by comedian/ writer/ raconteur/ provocateur/ saboteur Lee Camp is a twice-weekly look at the most censored stories within corporate media hosted by the new video platform Behind the Headlines – a MintPress video project that is 100% viewer supported.  Camp both brings to light stories that are […]

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The Most Censored News with Lee Camp hosted by comedian/ writer/ raconteur/ provocateur/ saboteur Lee Camp is a twice-weekly look at the most censored stories within corporate media hosted by the new video platform Behind the Headlines – a MintPress video project that is 100% viewer supported.  Camp both brings to light stories that are

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In ‘Chilling’ Attack on Press Freedom, Trump’s DOJ Seizes Records of Reporter

“This decision by the Justice Department will endanger reporters’ ability to promise confidentiality to their sources and, ultimately, undermine the ability of a free press to shine a much-needed light on government actions.”

Julia Conley
By Julia Conley
James Wolfe, center, former director of security with the Senate Intelligence Committee, escorts former FBI director James Comey to a secure room to continue his testimony on the 2016 election and his firing by President Donald Trump, on Capitol Hill in Washington,June 8, 2017. J. Scott Applewhite | AP

Crossing a line that the Obama administration was previously attacked for breaching, the Department of Justice seized the phone and email records of a national security reporter at the New York Times in the Trump administration's effort to stop government

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White House: Trump Does Not Accept Comey’s Wiretap Denial

Pushback against Trump’s accusation continues to grow with increasingly more republicans now rejecting the president’s claims

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FBI Director James Comey testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2015, before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Comey said the two San Bernardino shooters were radicalized at least two years ago and had discussed jihad and martyrdom as early as 2013. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

(REPORT) --- Having thrown the Justice Department under the bus yesterday, it appears the FBI Director has not managed to pass the hot potato of blame/responsibility for Trump's wiretap accusations. As The Hill reports, a White House spokeswoman on Monday said she "doesn't think" Trump accepts Comey's denial of the president's claims. As a

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WikiLeaks’ Podesta Emails Highlight Strong Ties Between DOJ & Clinton Campaign

‘Fantastic lawyer. Kept me out of jail,’ wrote John Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s campaign chair, in a 2008 email about an assistant attorney general at the Department of Justice who is now overseeing the FBI’s investigation of Clinton’s emails.

Mint Press News Desk
By Mint Press News Desk
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton checks her mobile phone after her address to the Security Council at United Nations headquarters, March 12, 2012.

MINNEAPOLIS --- WikiLeaks’ archive of emails taken from the Gmail account of Hillary Clinton’s campaign chair continue to shed new light on the close relationships between the Democratic Party elite and the U.S. government. The latest wave of John Podesta’s emails to be published by WikiLeaks has thrust into the spotlight Peter Kadzik, a

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Cops Who Write Tickets Solely For Revenue May Soon Face Prison Time

Under The Fair Justice Act, any police officer charged with enforcing criminal or traffic laws for the sole purpose of raising revenue could face up to five years of prison time.

Jake Anderson
By Jake Anderson
A police officer proudly displays his bounty taken from a police seizure.

It can be argued that police departments across the country practice a form of legal extortion, in which victimless misdemeanors and infractions are punished with excessively punitive citations. The generation of state and city revenue via Kafkaesque civil and municipal violations is perhaps most apparent in the application of parking tickets,

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More Deaths Linked To General Motors Ignition Switches

Eventually, GM issued a recall order for the faulty ignition switches and roughly 2.6 million cars were recalled. But the recall order appears to have come well after GM knew about the problem, which is where the Department of Justice might come in.

Dan Wright
By Dan Wright
File: A keychain with several keys and metal charms attached. Heavy key chains could cause a defect in some General Motors' vehicles to shut off the engine, causing over 100 deaths according to the latest figures. (Morguefile)

This article was published in partnership with Shadowproof. While the Justice Department considers whether or not to charge General Motors (GM) with a crime for failing to inform drivers of defects in the company’s ignition switch, a study by a consultant hired by GM has led to a nearly ten fold increase in the number of deaths linked to the

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