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Rowan Scarborough

Rowan Scarborough

rscarborough@washingtontimes.com

Rowan Scarborough spent over 30 years at The Washington Times covering national security, including the Democrats' "Russia Hoax." He wrote two books, "Rumsfeld's War" and "Sabotage." A Navy veteran, Mr. Scarborough graduated summa cum laude from the University of Maryland. He reported for The Salisbury (Md.) Daily Times, Wilmington (Del.) News Journal and Defense Week.

Articles by Rowan Scarborough

Glenn R. Simpson, Fusion GPS co-founder and the orchestrator of the Christopher Steele dossier, tried to sell the story about Trump-Russia collusion using a computer server. (Associated Press/File)

Donald Trump-Alfa Bank server conspiracy interest drops

Amid all the Trump-Russia conspiracy stories -- such as prostitutes in Moscow, a secret trip to Prague and hush money to computer hackers -- Democrats seem to have lost interest in at least one of them.

March 10, 2019
Hoda Muthana now describes herself as having been brainwashed by the same type of online Islamic State propaganda she later spewed as a jihadi. (Associated Press/File)

Hoda Muthana’s social media messages on MEMRI record

A research group that monitors jihadi social media has assembled a detailed dossier on Hoda Muthana, the former Alabama resident who embraced mass killings as a three-time Islamic State bride in Syria but now wants to return to America.

March 3, 2019
Not one of Christopher Steele's conspiracy charges was proved true and most were outright rejected by the special counsel investigation. (Associated Press/File)

Christopher Steele libel trial to begin in fall

Anti-Trump dossier creator Christopher Steele will face a London defamation trial later this year, one of two court cases in which he was forced to produce his first and only on-the-record statements on how he investigated and spread Democratic Party opposition research.

February 24, 2019
In this Friday, Jan. 18, 2019, image made from video provided by the Survival Media Agency, a teenager wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat, center left, stands in front of an elderly Native American singing and playing a drum in Washington. (Survival Media Agency via Associated Press) **FILE**

Nick Sandmann’s lawyer to file defamation suits this week

The lawyer for Covington Catholic High School junior Nick Sandmann says he will begin filing defamation lawsuits this week, as the Kentucky school's diocese released a private investigative report clearing students of instigating the Jan. 18 incident at the Lincoln Memorial.

February 17, 2019
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., speaks with reporters after his panel voted in a closed session to send more than 50 interview transcripts from its now-closed Russia investigation to special counsel Robert Mueller, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019. Two associates of President Donald Trump have been charged with lying to the committee and Schiff said Mueller should consider whether additional perjury charges are warranted. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Adam Schiff to probe Trump, family money laundering

ANALYSIS: Rep. Adam Schiff in 2017 kicked off the House's most publicized hearing into Russia election interference by leveling a number of felony charges against President Trump's associates, citing news reports and a former British intelligence officer's dossier on the Trump campaign.

February 10, 2019
Then-Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) ** FILE **

Not one Republican senator asked intel chiefs about border crisis during ‘threats’ hearing

Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats provided a pessimistic picture of continuing flows of illegal immigrants to the southern border during his appearance before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. But while Republicans asked him a series of questions about Russia, China and cybersecurity under the hearing's agenda of "Worldwide Threats," none brought up what President Trump calls a border "crisis."

February 6, 2019