Articles by Rowan Scarborough
The White House's suspicions over the motives of besieged FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe go back at least to the first months of President Trump's presidency.
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March 14, 2018
Shares A senior Obama State Department official gave the green light to an FBI agent in 2016 to meet with dossier writer Christopher Steele, a new book says.
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March 13, 2018
Shares Democrats have marked the first year of the House's investigation into Russian election meddling by promoting conspiracy tales in the Christopher Steele dossier and leaking to the press more than two dozen stories, some of which Republicans contend were way off base.
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March 11, 2018
Shares A Russian billionaire writes that George Soros, a major financier of liberal causes, is funding Fusion GPS, the firm that orchestrated the Christopher Steele dossier.
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March 10, 2018
Shares A member of the president's legal team on Thursday strongly defended the "disciplined" way President Trump has handled his job and personnel contacts amid a probe by special counsel Robert Mueller.
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March 8, 2018
Shares Christopher Steele learned he was being paid by Democrats soon after beginning work on his unverified anti-Trump dossier, a timeline element that may contradict the FBI's warrant application to spy on Trump campaign volunteer Carter Page.
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March 6, 2018
Shares Two pieces of evidence that have come together prove anti-Trump dossier writer Christopher Steele was the key source for a Yahoo News story that the FBI cited to support its wiretap application.
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March 4, 2018
Shares Rep. Devin Nunes says the FBI violated its own rules, and may have skirted federal law, by using a Democratic Party-bought dossier to spy on a Trump campaign volunteer.
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March 2, 2018
Shares One of the stories for which the New York Times won a coveted George Polk Award was a Russia-Trump report that was repudiated by former FBI Director James Comey.
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March 1, 2018
Shares The analyst who estimated libel damages for the infamous Hulk Hogan libel trial says that a Russian entrepreneur lost $60 million to $170 million due to BuzzFeed posting the unverified anti-Trump dossier in January 2017.
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February 28, 2018
Shares Twenty months after Christopher Steele first briefed the FBI on his Donald Trump conspiracies, dossier fever has struck Washington as at least eight politicos and groups are trying to prove it is true.
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February 27, 2018
Shares The core Trump-Russia dossier charges against onetime campaign volunteer Carter Page remain unconfirmed after nearly a year of wiretapping by the FBI, says a Republican rebuttal to a Democratic memo on the dossier.
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February 25, 2018
Shares Computer networks owned by a Russian entrepreneur accused in the infamous anti-Trump dossier don't contain any IP addresses used by Moscow to hack Democrats' computers, the entrepreneur's attorney says in a rebuttal to a Buzzfeed court filing.
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February 25, 2018
Shares At the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, a guidance drummed into the heads of new agents is, "Don't do anything to embarrass the bureau."
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February 21, 2018
Shares 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.
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February 20, 2018
Shares 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."
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February 19, 2018
Shares 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.
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February 17, 2018
Shares 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.
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February 16, 2018
Shares 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.
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February 14, 2018
Shares A backlog in security clearances for sensitive White House jobs is not new. Just ask the Clinton administration.
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February 14, 2018
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