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WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—As America’s bridges, roads, and other infrastructure dangerously deteriorate from decades of neglect, there is a mounting sense of urgency that it is time to build a giant wall.
Across the U.S., whose rail system is a rickety antique plagued by deadly accidents, Americans are increasingly recognizing that building a wall with Mexico, and possibly another one with Canada, should be the country's top priority.
Harland Dorrinson, the executive director of a Washington-based think tank called the Center for Responsible Immigration, believes that most Americans favor the building of border walls over extravagant pet projects like structurally sound freeway overpasses.
"The estimated cost of a border wall with Mexico is five billion dollars," he said. "We could easily blow the same amount of money on infrastructure repairs and have nothing to show for it but functioning highways."
Congress has dragged its feet on infrastructure spending in recent years, but Dorrinson senses growing support in Washington for building a giant border wall. "Even if for some reason we don't get the Mexicans to pay for it, five billion is a steal," he said.
While some think that America’s declining infrastructure is a national-security threat, Dorrinson strongly disagrees. "If immigrants somehow get over the wall, the condition of our bridges and roads will keep them from getting very far," he said.
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Washington: Andrew McCabe, the former FBI deputy director and a frequent target of US President Donald Trump's scorn, has been fired by Attorney-General Jeff Sessions.
McCabe promptly declared that his firing, and Trump's persistent needling, were intended to undermine the Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation in which he is a potential witness.
McCabe was fired just two days before he was due to retire - pure Trump malice.
Better the DCM and being denied your full pension than Polonium 210 or Novichok, but it's the same basic idea.
I hope Trump likes next week's The New Yorker cover, "Exposed".
'Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.' Voltaire
'A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.' Edward Abbey
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CBC - McCabe, fired FBI official, reportedly kept memos on Trump that are now with Mueller
Andrew McCabe, the onetime FBI deputy director long scorned by President Donald Trump and just fired by the attorney general, kept personal memos describing interactions with the president that have been provided to the special counsel's office, and are similar to the notes compiled by dismissed FBI chief James Comey, according to The Associated Press.
Though the precise contents are unknown, the memos possibly could help substantiate McCabe's assertion that he was unfairly maligned by a White House he says had declared "war" on the FBI and Mueller's investigation.
CNBC - Comey issues uncharacteristically direct response to Trump: Everyone 'will hear my story very soon'
Former FBI Director James Comey exchanged barbs with President Donald Trump on Saturday, responding to the president's latest broadside by promising to reveal his take on Trump's ongoing struggle with the FBI bureaucracy "very soon."
The former FBI chief is working on a book, expected to be published next month, that is shrouded in secrecy.
Both Comey and McCabe shared at least one thing in common: Both reportedly kept detailed notes on their conversations with Trump.
A report in The Wall Street Journal noted that McCabe passed his notes along to Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who is in the thick of an investigation into Russia's attempts to influence the general election.
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