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Rowan Scarborough

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.

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Devin Nunes expands dossier probe to find out what Obama knew

Rep. Devin Nunes is trying to determine the breadth and reach of the unverified Russia-Trump dossier inside the U.S. government, especially among senior leaders in the Barack Obama administration during the 2016 election.

February 20, 2018

Robert Mueller threatens new charges against Paul Manafort

Special counsel Robert Mueller is threatening to file more criminal charges in new jurisdictions against Paul Manafort, his attorney said in a court filing that suggests prosecutors are deliberately trying to deplete his client's "resources."

February 19, 2018

Infamous Steele anti-Trump dossier disproven by Mueller’s first Russia indictments

The Christopher Steele dossier allegation that an "extensive conspiracy" existed between the Donald Trump campaign and the Kremlin wasn't borne out in the special counsel's first charges of Russian election interference.

February 17, 2018

Military court upbraids Marine commander for bias in hazing case

A military appeals court has chastised a two-star Marine Corps division commander for showing bias in overseeing a hazing court-martial after the general went on a campaign to oust such "jackassery" from the service.

February 16, 2018

Trump lawyers resist Robert Mueller interview, cite Bill Clinton precedent

President Trump's legal team is citing a three-pillar argument to convince investigators, and the public, that President Trump shouldn't sit down for an interview with special counsel Robert Mueller.

February 14, 2018

Bill Clinton White House had security clearance backlog

A backlog in security clearances for sensitive White House jobs is not new. Just ask the Clinton administration.

February 14, 2018

Trump dossier’s 10 core collusion accusations unverified 20 months later

Christopher Steele's unproven dossier is a mix of felony charges against President Trump and his people, as well as supposed gossip inside the Kremlin over computer hacking and personnel firings.

February 12, 2018

All the president’s enemies

A number of determined partisans in and out of law enforcement and politics are arrayed against President Trump in the ongoing, 20-month-old Russia election collusion probe.

February 10, 2018

John Kerry associate played middleman for Hillary agents’ smut and dossier’s Christopher Steele

A former State Department official has confirmed that he played middleman in relaying anti-Trump smut from two Hillary Clinton operatives to dossier writer Christopher Steele who passed it to the FBI.

February 9, 2018

Christopher Steele’s Trump dossier info led FBI to mislead FISA judge

For months, the FBI asked a judge to wiretap a Trump associate based on assurances from dossier writer Christopher Steele, even though public information contradicted what the former British spy was telling the bureau.

February 7, 2018

Christopher Steele misled FBI, Chuck Grassley says in criminal referral

Christopher Steele, author of the infamous Trump-Russia dossier, misled the FBI into making false assertions to a judge to gain a wiretap on a Trump campaign volunteer, according to a Senate document released Tuesday evening.

February 6, 2018

Michael Caputo attacks Yahoo News investigative chief Michael Isikoff

A former Donald Trump campaign worker is attacking Yahoo News investigative chief Michael Isikoff for his dossier-fed pre-election-day story that wound up in the FBI's top secret application to wiretap a Trump volunteer.

February 5, 2018

Debunked anti-Trump dossier left out Hillary Clinton connection

A top Republican senator on Monday released an unpublished portion of the infamous Trump-Russia dossier that showed Hillary Clinton associates fed information to the author, former British spy Christopher Steele.

February 5, 2018

FBI authorized Christopher Steele payments for dossier information

The FBI officially authorized payments to Christopher Steele, who wrote the infamous Trump-Russia dossier, but then fired the former British spy for lying to agents about his covert leaks to the news media.

February 4, 2018

Seven takeaways from the House memo detailing FBI’s surveillance abuses

Republicans released a long-awaited memo Friday detailing government surveillance abuses, showing that the FBI would not have obtained a surveillance warrant for the Trump campaign without using information from a dubious partisan dossier.

February 2, 2018

Mike Morell says more information than Nunes’ memo should be released

A former CIA acting-director and adviser to Hillary Clinton says that if the Nunes memo is to be released there should be more information added, not less as advocated by liberal lawmakers.

February 2, 2018

Cody Shearer, Sidney Blumenthal emerge in Russia dossier case

A shadowy figure tied to the Clintons has suddenly emerged in the Trump-Russia collusion saga.

January 31, 2018

Devin Nunes exposes extent of Democrats’ Trump surveillance

Through targeted subpoenas and threatening letters, Rep. Devin Nunes has forced into the open a fuller story of how the Obama administration investigated suspected Russian ties to the Trump campaign and monitored people connected to the presidential candidate.

January 30, 2018

John Heilemann suggests Devin Nunes is a Russian agent

A member of the mainstream media punditry on Tuesday seriously suggested that Rep. Devin Nunes, California Republican, has been compromised by the Kremlin and is now a traitor.