Rowan Scarborough

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

Michael Cohen says Russian collusion charges against him are false

Trump personal attorney Michael Cohen distanced himself from the president during an ABC News exclusive interview, but on one point he remains unchanged: He played no role in Russian government election interference.

July 4, 2018

Paul Manafort case ruling led to Robert Mueller’s extensive investigation

Understanding why special counsel Robert Mueller has widened his Russia investigation beyond the 2016 presidential election may require perusing a federal judge's opinion on June 26 in the Paul Manafort case.

July 1, 2018

Paul Manafort files emergency petition to win release from jail

Paul Manafort has filed an emergency petition with the U.S. Court of Appeals in D.C. to win release from jail a month before his first trial is to begin in Alexandria.

June 29, 2018

‘Even a blind person’ can see Mueller using Manafort to ‘target’ Trump: federal judge

A federal judge says "even a blind person" can see that special counsel Robert Mueller is prosecuting Paul Manafort as a way to acquire evidence against his "true target," President Trump.

June 28, 2018

Bill Clinton says Loretta Lynch meeting on tarmac was innocent

Former President Bill Clinton told investigators that he didn't think the investigation into wife Hillary Clinton's emails "amounted to much, frankly" and thus found nothing wrong with initiating an impromptu meeting with the attorney general on a Phoenix airport tarmac.

June 24, 2018

Michael Cohen denies being in league with Tom Arnold to bring down Donald Trump

Michael Cohen is dismissing media speculation that he has joined in an alliance with caustic anti-Trump actor/comedian Tom Arnold to bring down the president.

June 23, 2018

Kansas is ground zero of illegal voting, yet federal judge issues reprieve

Hundreds and perhaps thousands of non-citizens are illegally registered to vote in Kansas, a state that is at ground-zero in the conservative effort to police voter rolls and the liberal campaign to protect them.

June 23, 2018

Carter Page, subjected to FBI’s ‘reign of terror,’ offers to lead agents’ anti-bias training

Much-investigated Carter Page is volunteering to help the FBI conduct its planned nation-wide anti-political bias training, saying he is an expert on the bureau's "reign of terror" against him.

June 19, 2018

Christopher Steele, Trump dossier writer, grilled by authorities as part of lawsuit

Anti-Trump dossier writer Christopher Steele on Monday underwent his first adversarial questioning since his unverified charges were posted by BuzzFeed in January 2017.

June 18, 2018

Peter Strzok’s Donald Trump messages trouble Michael Horowitz

FBI agent Peter Strzok put the Trump-Russia investigation on a fast track during the 2016 election season at the same time he was sending text messages to his lover condemning the Republican presidential candidate as an "idiot" and vowing to "stop" him.

June 17, 2018

Senate Security director leaked anti-Page information, says indictment

Former Trump campaign volunteer Carter Page has been pursued by Christopher Steele and his dossier, the FBI, Democrats and Russia collusion-minded media. He has proclaimed his innocence throughout the two-year inquisition. Last week, he learned he had another adversary, this one hidden.

June 10, 2018