House investigators scored a victory this week after the FBI turned over documents detailing how senior law enforcement officials handled “surveillance records,” involving Trump associates, along with documents on the agency’s informant program.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) is giving the Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation by the end of this week to comply with subpoenas for requested information before he starts taking action.
A Russian man who contacted the Trump campaign in May 2016 claiming to be an American citizen named “Hank Greenberg” and offering dirt on Hillary Clinton also worked as an FBI informant for at least 17 years, according to a private investigation undertaken by former Trump campaign adviser Michael Caputo.
Congressional investigators are looking into the role that foreign allies might have played early on in the FBI’s investigation of the Trump campaign, amid irregularities on normal information sharing practices.
Speculation is mounting over the identity of a purported top-secret intelligence source who was part of the FBI’s investigation into the Trump campaign.
Thursday on CNN’s “The Lead,” Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said the Democrats did find “evidence of collusion” during the the House Intelligence Committee investigation. Partial transcript as follows: TAPPER: I want to ask you, you’re the ranking Democrat on the House
Three people who claim to have been at a March 2016 meeting where short-lived Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos suggested reaching out to Russians told Reuters that Attorney General Jeff Sessions was not as negative on the proposal as he told Congress in November.
Holistic analysis of the Justice Department’s (DOJ) and FBI’s interconnected and ostensible investigations of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump amount to “the worst abuse of political power in American history related to elections,” according to Tom Del Beccaro.
“Watch closely for Barack Obama’s fingerprints,” said Rep. Steve King (R-IA) on Saturday, suggesting the recent alleged partisan weaponization of state surveillance powers could be connected to the 44th president. “[Democrats and their allies] will defend Barack Obama at all costs, and they’ll defend Hillary Clinton almost at all costs unless they have to sacrifice her to protect Barack Obama,” he added.
Public release of FISA applications submitted by the FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ) seeking warrants from the Federal Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) to surveil Carter Page “is not going to happen,” Ron Hosko, former assistant director of the Criminal Investigative Division at FBI Headquarters, said during an interview Friday on Sirius XM’s Breitbart News Tonight with Senior Editor-at-Large Rebecca Mansour.
Despite his bluster, there is almost no chance that President Donald Trump will speak to Robert Mueller “under oath” or even face-to-face.
The New York Times reported Saturday that the Russia investigation began in 2016 after George Papadopoulos, a junior foreign policy aide in Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, told an Australian diplomat in May 2016 that Russia had “political dirt” on Hillary Clinton.
During a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) voiced a widespread concern about Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election by asking Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein if the scope of the investigation has widened far beyond its original charter.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) introduced a resolution on Friday calling for former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Robert Mueller to step down from his position as special counsel on the probe into Russian interference.
Clinton Cash author and Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Peter Schweizer joined Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Tuesday to discuss Paul Manafort and Rick Gates surrendering to the FBI after being charged by special counsel Mueller, as well as other elements of the ongoing investigation.
President Donald Trump ridiculed the “fake news” reaction to the indictment of Paul Manafort and his business associate Rick Gates.
The special counsel investigating Russian interference and any possible collusion in the 2016 election announced its first indictments on Monday, against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, his partner Rick Gates, and former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos.
It is an odd coincidence that Robert Mueller launched his indictments as he himself became a focus of public scrutiny.
During Monday’s White House Press Briefing, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders stated that George Papadopoulos, who pled guilty to lying to federal agents, had an “extremely limited” role in the campaign as a volunteer member of a group that
Special Counsel Robert Mueller unveiled the first charges in his investigation into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election on Monday. But after two indictments and a guilty plea, there is still no evidence of any collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government, as Democrats and their media allies have hoped for months.
An early national security adviser to President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has pleaded guilty to giving false statements to the FBI about his communications with Russian-connected officials while serving as an advisor to the campaign.