Plus: Sen. Tom Cotton Wary of Chinese Spying on, DNA Tracking of American Olympians
February 16 2022
Good morning from Washington, where a special counsel pursues evidence that Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign spied on Donald Trump before and after he entered the White House. Hans von Spakovsky unpacks the unprecedented allegations. Sen. Tom Cotton explains his fears about China’s plans for Olympic athletes, on the debut of a fact-based podcast hosted by Kevin Roberts, The Heritage Foundation’s new president. Plus: a teacher asks Virginia’s highest court to affirm his right not to use deceptive personal pronouns; a woke journalist’s defense of BLM leaders’ greed; and photos of protesting truckers in Canada. On this date in 1968, America’s first official "911" call is made in Haleyville, Alabama, though it will be years before the emergency system’s nationwide adoption.
A presidential campaign quite possibly used its allies in the tech sector to engage in political espionage—not just against the opposition candidate, but against a sitting president.
In an exclusive interview on “The Kevin Roberts Show,” Sen. Tom Cotton says he is worried that some U.S. Olympic athletes could be exposed to long-term surveillance by China.
A Virginia teacher was fired for refusing to call a girl a boy. Now, the state Supreme Court has the opportunity to decide whether the school board violated the teacher’s legal rights.
“One of the most consistent things … is that there’s been really no impact from masking,” says Ian Miller, author of “Unmasked: The Global Failure of COVID Mask Mandates.”
