Rowan Scarborough

Christopher Steele broke FBI media rules after being ‘admonished’: Documents

The FBI formally admonished ex-British spy Christopher Steele in early 2016 before he began investigating candidate Donald Trump, according to new documents.

August 4, 2018

Ex-Trump adviser bemoans ‘smear campaign’ against GOP, NRA over Maria Butina connections

President Trump's former campaign national security adviser is decrying a "Trump-Russia smear campaign in miniature" that has erupted in the media over Republican contacts with accused Moscow agent Maria Butina.

August 3, 2018

Peter Strzok, anti-Trump FBI agent, allowed to declassify documents after joining Mueller probe

New internal emails show that anti-Trump FBI agent Peter Strzok demanded to preserve all the powers he held as a deputy assistant director as he agreed to move to special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe in 2017.

August 1, 2018

FBI investigation of Trump, Russia dossier in third year

Two years ago on July 31, 2016, the FBI took the momentous step of opening a counterintelligence investigation into Donald Trump's presidential campaign.

July 30, 2018

James Comey ordered to preserve his government documents

The Department of Justice has ordered former FBI Director James B. Comey to preserve any government records in his possession, a watchdog group says.

July 29, 2018

Judge orders Fusion GPS deposition in libel suit against BuzzFeed

Fusion GPS, the impresario of the infamous Christopher Steele dossier, must undergo a deposition in a libel suit brought by a Russian entrepreneur, a federal judge ruled this week.

July 28, 2018

Hillary Clinton used Christopher Steele’s Trump-Russia dossier that campaign paid for

The Clinton campaign received a steady flow of briefings on its paid-for Christopher Steele dossier, whose unverified Trump-Russia collusion charges made their way into election news stories and Clinton talking points.

July 26, 2018

Rep. Devin Nunes, House intel committee want its Russia hacking report declassified

A House committee wants intelligence agencies to declassify the censored parts of its final report on Moscow election interference in light of the fact that special counsel Robert Mueller's indictment this month of 12 Russians contains some of the same information.

July 24, 2018

FBI used anti-Trump media to obtain spy warrants on Carter Page, campaign

The FBI continued to tell judges that dossier writer Christopher Steele wasn't the source of a news article the bureau used to corroborate a wiretap application when in fact Mr. Steele had publicly acknowledged that he fed the anti-Trump story.

July 22, 2018

Conservative groups: Trump’s actions prove he’s tough on Russia, friendly to Eastern European allies

In response to Democrats' charges of Trump treason at the Helsinki summit, conservative research groups have documented a series of the president's anti-Russia moves both economically and on the battlefield the past two years.

July 21, 2018

Christopher Steele contradicts U.S. on election hacking funding

Dossier writer Christopher Steele's assertion that Moscow bankrolled its election hacking through laundered pension funds via Russian diplomats in Washington isn't supported by two official U.S. reports.

July 18, 2018

Maria Butina charged with acting as illegal agent

The Justice Department on Monday charged that a Russian woman acted as an illegal agent of Moscow to influence U.S. politicians and advocacy groups, including the National Rifle Association.

July 16, 2018

Maria Butina, Russian operative, arrested for trying to infiltrate U.S. political organizations

The Justice Department on Monday charged that a Russian woman acted as an illegal agent of Moscow to influence U.S. politicians and advocacy groups, including the National Rifle Association.

July 16, 2018

Peter Strzok explains Russia dossier route from Hillary Clinton campaign to FBI

The lengths to which the FBI relied on the Hillary Clinton opposition research dossier to investigate her political rival came into sharper focus with the testimony of the lead investigator, FBI agent Peter Strzok.

July 15, 2018

Russian tech whiz claims Mueller indictment of Kremlin officers vindicates him

A Russian tech entrepreneur accused in the infamous Christopher Steele dossier says Friday's indictment of 12 Kremlin intelligence officers exonerates him.

July 14, 2018

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Hassan Rouhani OK’d Paris bomb plot: National Council of Resistance of Iran

The Europe-based opposition to Iran's ruling mullahs charged on Thursday that the plot to bomb its annual resistance rally near Paris on June 30 was approved by Iran's highest leaders.

July 12, 2018

BuzzFeed’s Ben Smith mediation snub sends dossier lawsuit to trial

The first face-to-face encounter between anti-Trump dossier publisher Ben Smith and one of its targets, Russian entrepreneur Aleksej Gubarev, was set to happen last month in a New York City law office.

July 11, 2018

How Mueller’s team and the FBI served up Paul Manafort to Associated Press reporters

The FBI and Justice Department officials gave Associated Press reporters a green light on information they gathered which ended up in a negative story on former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort.

July 10, 2018

Paul Manafort lawyer asks for trial to be moved to Roanoke

Alexandria, Virginia, is too liberal to seat impartial jurors for the money-laundering trial of President Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort later this month, his lawyer says.

July 8, 2018

Devin Nunes wants wide House probe of 42 Obama-era anti-Trump activists

Rep. Devin Nunes is referring 42 Obama administration officials, FBI agents and outside political activists to a House task force for an investigation into how the Justice Department targeted the Donald Trump campaign.

July 7, 2018