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• Opinion

The Catch-22 of the Mueller report

Rod Rosenstein gets it half-right: The Justice Department should be sensitive to the rights of uncharged people but that standard can't apply to a president.

• Politics

Maryland lawmakers to start 90-day session with conflicting messages on bipartisanship

As Maryland’s 188 lawmakers prepare to head into their annual 90-day session, political party leaders gave them conflicting messages about bipartisanship.

By Pamela Wood

Jan 8, 2019

• Politics

Incoming chairman of U.S. House intelligence committee to address Maryland Democrats

Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the U.S. House intelligence committee, will deliver the keynote address at the Maryland Democratic Party’s annual legislative luncheon on Jan. 8. The California congressman recently raised the prospect of prison time for President Donald Trump.

By Luke Broadwater

Dec 18, 2018

• Opinion

Zurawik: Fox News gives itself totally over to Trump on election eve in a new propaganda low even for Hannity

In my worst fears since 2016 about what President Trump's right-wing media messaging machine would look like and how it might affect our democracy, I never thought I would see what I did Monday night on Fox News starting with the propaganda performance of Sean Hannity.

By David Zurawik

Nov 5, 2018

• Opinion

Witcover: Indictments of Russian operatives cast shadow on Trump-Putin summit

Jules Witcover: The case of Russian meddling that has haunted Mr. Trump through the first year and more of his presidency, dismissed by him so far, is front and center again.

• Opinion

Even if the Schiff memo is "a total political and legal BUST" (it's not), Trump still looks bad

The dueling Nunes/Schiff memos are a sideshow to what's really going on in Robert Mueller's investigation. By now it's clear that the best case scenario for President Donald Trump is still plenty damning.

• Opinion

Witcover: Rebellion in the party of law and order

The Republican party used to stand for law and order, now it rebels against it, says Jules Witcover.

• Opinion

After the Nunes memo — and predictable Trump tweetstorm — Washington needs a time-out

Trump happy to promote partisanship, distrust and anarchy to derail Mueller investigation.

• Opinion

Witcover: Offensive president on the defensive

Witcover: As a result of his deplorable personal behavior and inept political performance, President Donald Trump has dug himself into a hole.

• Baltimore City Paper

Democracy In Crisis: Archaeological Notes on "Russia"

After the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence hearing on Russian interference with the U.S. election, I had to renew my press credential

• Opinion

Horsey: Most Republicans are in denial about the Trump/Russia investigation

The more Republicans downplay contacts between Russians and Trump campaigners, the more it looks like a cover-up.

• Opinion

House Intelligence probe undermined by partisan fiddling

The case has now been significantly strengthened for an independent commission to supplement or take over the congressional investigation into the intelligence findings of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

By Jules Witcover

Mar 27, 2017

• Opinion

The Russian plot thickens

The cloud of suspicion over Russian interference in the American presidential election has widened, with new demands from congressional Republicans as well as Democrats for a special counsel's investigation, akin to the Watergate inquiry that forced the 1974 resignation of Richard Nixon.

By Jules Witcover

Mar 6, 2017

• Maryland

Batavick: Still shell-shocked Democrats lack zeal

The Democrats are doing a pretty good job of mimicking the cowardly lion in "The Wizard of Oz."

• Opinion

Witcover: Coping with the Russian hacking hangover

The controversy over hacked information has further cast a pall on the last weeks of the Obama presidency, says Jules Witcover.

• Maryland

On eve of biopic release, intelligence committee levels fresh criticism of Edward Snowden

Edward Snowden began gathering the classified documents about NSA spying he ultimately leaked to the press after a fight with his bosses, the House Intelligence Committee has concluded — leading the committee's leaders to call his motives into question.

By Ian Duncan

Sep 15, 2016

• Maryland

Enough of game-playing politicians

U.S. Representative Christopher Van Hollen, a Democrat, is Mr. Gerrymander. He first gained national office in 2003 in large part due to the gerrymandering of Maryland's Eighth Congressional District. The reshaping of the Eighth District was done by Maryland Democrats with the intent to eliminate Republican Connie Morella, who had held that seat for about 16 years.

• Politics

Republicans grill Clinton during all-day hearing on Benghazi attacks

WASHINGTON — Republicans on the House Benghazi committee put Hillary Rodham Clinton through an all-day test of political skill and physical endurance Thursday, but ultimately struggled to define a coherent case for their long-running inquiry.

• Opinion

Raw politics drives GOP probes of Benghazi, Planned Parenthood

Like Benghazi, the GOP's Planned Parenthood hearings are just another political gambit, says David Horsey.

• Crime

Drone killings reopen debate on U.S. hostage policy

It wasn't until three months after a drone blasted a suspected al-Qaida compound in Pakistan that America's spies figured out that a captured Rockville contractor was among the dead, the White House acknowledged this week, renewing calls for a change in the government's policy toward hostages.

• Maryland

Al-Qaida hostage from Md. killed in U.S. drone strike in Pakistan

A Rockville man who has been held by Al-Qaida in Pakistan since 2011 was killed in a U.S. drone strike in January, the White House said Thursday.

• Commuting

Good Morning Baltimore: Friday flakes, Ruppersberger replaced; Rice report released

• Politics

Ruppersberger loses seat on Intelligence Committee

Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, a member of the House intelligence committee for a record 12 years, lost his seat on the panel Thursday when House Democratic leaders appointed a replacement.

By Ian Duncan

Jan 8, 2015

• Politics

Pelosi appoints Cummings to lead Democrats on Benghazi panel

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday she would appoint Rep. Elijah E. Cummings of Baltimore to lead Democrats on a controversial select committee to investigate the 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya, that left four Americans dead.

• Politics and Government

NSA director says he's 'not wedded' to surveillance programs

In a public appearance in Baltimore on Thursday, National Security Agency director Keith Alexander forcefully defended surveillance methods that have come under scrutiny this year but acknowledged that some of them may need adjustments.

• Terrorism

Measure defines war on terror