Former FBI Director James Comey met with the Senate Intelligence Committee in multiple private sessions in which he detailed Loretta Lynch's reaction of silence to his evidence from the FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server.

Comey met with the committee multiple times over the last couple months and detailed an encounter with Lynch, who served as former President Barack Obama's attorney general, shortly before Clinton's email probe was shut down, Circa reported.

Comey told lawmakers in the close door session that he raised his concern with the attorney general that she had created a conflict of interest by meeting with Clinton's husband, the former President Bill Clinton, on an airport tarmac while the investigation was ongoing.

During the conversation, Comey told lawmakers he confronted Lynch with a highly sensitive piece of evidence, a communication between two political figures that suggested Lynch had agreed to put the kibosh on any prosecution of Clinton. [...]

The sources also said that Comey's testimony in private conflicted with recent reports in the news media suggesting the FBI had intercepted an email between Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who at the time was the Democratic Party chairwoman, and a third party. Those media reports suggested that the information about the email was more than likely fake and a ruse possibly planted by the Russians.

The Washington Post story suggested the dubious email is what motivated Comey, who still was not sure of the intelligence, to come forward with his findings in the Clinton investigation and shut down the case.

An international legal team is preparing a lawsuit against NATO over the alliance's alleged use of depleted uranium munitions during its bombing of Yugoslavia. These have allegedly caused a rise in cancer-related illnesses across the region over the years.

"The NATO bombing of Serbia in 1999 used between 10 and 15 tons of depleted uranium, which caused a major environmental disaster," said Srdjan Aleksic, a Serbian lawyer who leads the legal team, which includes lawyers from the EU, Russia, China and India. The legal team was formed by the Serbian Royal Academy of Scientists and Artists. "In Serbia, 33,000 people fall sick because of this every year. That is one child every day," he claimed.

NATO's press office says it's now aware of Serbia's allegations, but gave no further comment. When asked as of why Serbia has decided to sue NATO 19 years after the attacks, the lawyer said

"considering the horrific consequences for our population... it is never too late to sue someone who has caused an environmental catastrophe, someone [who] bombed Serbia with a quasi-nuclear weapon, i.e. depleted uranium."

The accusations cannot be immediately believed but they should be investigated with seriousness.

Sources in Turkey have named the United Arab Emirates as one of the main culprits behind the failed coup attempt against the regime of Recep Tayyip Erdogan which was launched in the summer of 2016.

Turkey initially blamed the exiled political Islamist and cleric Fethullah Gülen who was an erstwhile ally of Erdogan's before the two fell out. Turkey now considers Fethullah Gülen's movement a terrorist sect which is proscribed in Turkey.

In 2016, Turkey also pointed its finger at the United States for allegedly financing Gülen who has been living in the US since fleeing Turkey.

Now though, according to Turkish journalist Mehmet Acet who writes for the pro-regime Yeni Safak newspaper, it was the UAE who financed the coup to the tune of $3 billion.

Questioning of Attorney General Jeff Sessions results in no answers, indicating how the Russiagate scandal is now going round in circles.

Supporters of Russiagate, endeavouring to find some material in former FBI Director Comey's essentially empty testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, seem to have convinced themselves that certain comments of Comey's somehow pointed to Attorney General Jeff Sessions being in some way implicated in the scandal.

I am unable to see why. Whilst I did get the impression from Comey's testimony that he and Sessions didn't think much of each other, I couldn't see anything in what Comey said that suggested that Sessions might be a person of interest either to the Russiagate inquiry or to anyone else or that his role in Comey's own sacking was any greater than had been disclosed previously.

Nonetheless the conviction that Sessions is hiding some dark and sinister secret appears to have taken root, which doubtless explains why he was asked to give testimony today.

In the event Sessions's testimony turned out to be an exercise in total pointlessness.

The Still Report, Synopsis:I got this in a couple of hours ago from an anonymous source. That being said, it purports to be from a "girlfriend" of Seth named Claudia Kash. This is not the same girlfriend that was pictured with the Rich family when they visited the scene of the crime in August of 2016 - a month after the crime.

So let's see what Claudia Kash had to say. This letter is dated July 21 at 4:03 pm:

From Claudia Kash:

I know why Seth Rich had to die. There were two sets of polling places this primary season - one set for most of the voters, who went on state websites to find their polling locations, and a second set for Hillary Clinton supporters who looked on Hillary Clinton's website to find their polling location.

The Secretary of State for each state had one set of locations on the record; the other set of locations, the ones listed on Hillary's website, were not on the state record. I know this because I looked on her website to find where a friend should vote...then double-checked the state website, which shows a different address. I thought there must be a mistake, but I kept checking, right up to election day. But until they killed Seth Rich, I couldn't figure out why there would be two different polling places.

Republicans and Unionists are set to clash over Westminster funding as Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams dispatches his abstentionist MPs to rattle the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) with the threat of a Corbyn coalition.

The ancient Irish foes look set to bring their beef into the heart of British politics as the DUP argue the price of joining the Tories in an alliance would be to hit Sinn Fein funding.

Meanwhile Sinn Fein president Adams is set to send his seven MPs to Westminster, purportedly to sign up for expenses and register as newcomers.

The pro-western liberal satisfied his constituency - the western mainstream media - at the cost of alienating even more Russians

The Russia wide protests organized by Navalny on June 12 were a flop.

This was not unexpected, given the lack of enthusiasm on social networks - in Moscow, there were 20% fewer people expressing interest in going to this event relative to the March 26th protest on Facebook. The earlier event had translated into 8,000 people, which is pretty much a "fail" so far as a 13 million population metropolis is concerned.

In the smaller Russian cities, where the June 12 protests went ahead as agreed with the local authorities, turnout was unimpressive, typically numbering in the low 100′s.

As the intelligence community, Congress, and the press investigate alleged Russian tampering with the US presidential election, Stone shows Putin's side of the story.

Three-time Academy Award winner Oliver Stone—the Vietnam veteran and Purple Heart recipient who made some of Hollywood's greatest antiwar movies—was interviewed on the anniversary of D-Day at his Santa Monica office. The hallmark of Stone's cinematic oeuvre has been artistically creating counternarratives, which has pitted him against not only government forces but also the mainstream media. In 1986, when President Ronald Reagan pursued the Iran-Contra covert operation Stone showed the other side of the story in Central America in the riveting Salvador. Later that year and in 1989, with the Vietnam-set Best Picture Oscar winner Platoon and Best Picture nominee Born on the Fourth of July, Stone took on militarism with his war-is-hell classics. While Reagan ballyhooed unbridled capitalism, in 1987's Wall Street Stone questioned the "greed is good" ethos. Perhaps most memorable is Stone's demolishing of the Warren Commission Report in 1991's JFK, implicating US intelligence agents in the Kennedy assassination. And in his colossal 796-minute 2012 documentary series, Untold History of the United States, Stone compellingly presented an alternative view of the Cold War and more.

SAS troopers have been deployed on British streets disguised as road sweepers and homeless people to guard against terrorist attacks, according to reports.

Their deployment is aimed at preventing another attack like those in Manchester and on London Bridge in recent weeks, a source told the Daily Mirror newspaper.

"The view is there are so many homeless people out there undercover operators will remain safe and anonymous," the unnamed military source told the newspaper.

"Anyone trying to pick on them would be extremely foolish and the public should feel reassured that a lot is being done to minimize the effect of another attack."

Former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director James Comey could legally be jailed for up to 35 years for admitting in a congressional testimony last week that he had deliberately leaked a confidential conversation with President Donald Trump, ex-National Security Agency (NSA) senior analyst and whistleblower William Binney told Sputnik.

"That's something that whistleblowers are in jail for between five and 35 years,"

Binney noted about Comey's testimony last week to the US Senate Intelligence Committee in which he admitted to leaking a memo of his conversation with Trump.