Rowan Scarborough

Christopher Steele: My anti-Trump dossier records destroyed

Christopher Steele says his computer records for research to write a Democratic Party-financed anti-Donald Trump dossier no longer exist.

April 24, 2020

FBI forced Christopher Steele’s Trump dossier into intelligence community’s election assessment

Officials included a reference to the anti-Trump dossier in the intelligence community's 2017 Russia election assessment only as a "compromise" with the FBI, which "would have had a major problem" if the document was ignored, according to a Senate report.

April 23, 2020

Pompeo threatens WHO with permanent cash cutoff

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the U.S. may "never return" to funding the World Health Organization because of the way it operates, including the COVID-19 crisis.

April 23, 2020

Richard Grenell rejects Adam Schiff’s bid to control national intelligence

Acting-Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell has dinged Rep. Adam Schiff in a new letter, expressing surprise the Trump foe didn't praise the appointment of two women to head counter-terrorism unit and rejecting the congressman's belief that lawmakers control the DNI's day-to-day management decisions.

April 21, 2020

Richard Grenell reveals Russia fed Christopher Steele disinformation

Two Republican senators knew of some explosive details lurking inside an inspector general's report when on April 2 they reached out to Richard Grenell, the newly installed acting director of national intelligence who was already making his mark in just two months.

April 19, 2020

China falsely telling Arab world U.S. source for coronavirus: MEMRI

A media research group has released the transcript of a China-produced Arabic-language news report to show how Beijing's propaganda machine is blaming the coronavirus on America.

April 18, 2020

Belt and road and ‘bribes’: Cotton says China paid off home country of WHO boss

Sen. Tom Cotton said today communist China paid "bribes" to Ethiopia when World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom was a cabinet minister there.

April 17, 2020

Vladimir Putin, Christopher Steele networked with oligarchs

A newly declassified section of a Justice Department inspector general's report shows not only that the Kremlin fed disinformation for the anti-Trump dossier but also that Vladimir Putin was in a good position to know about it.

April 15, 2020

NORAD orders release of photos of U.S. troops in action ‘to reassure the American public’

The command for protecting the U.S. stateside has sent an order telling public affairs units to release photos of troops in action "to reassure the American public they don't have to worry about homeland defense" during the COVID-19 era.

April 13, 2020

Coronavirus hits Italy, Spain, France harder than U.S.

Europe's five largest nations have suffered more than three times the coronavirus deaths as the United States, though collectively they have about the same population.

April 12, 2020

Dr. Anthony Fauci: China misled the world; coronavirus erupted in mid-December

Dr. Anthony Fauci says that human-to-human transmission of COVID-19 diseases erupted in China in mid-December, yet the communist regime told the U.S. and the world that the virus was only transmitted animal-to-human.

April 12, 2020

FBI sabotaged Trump’s presidency: Barr

Attorney General William Barr says that what the FBI did to President Trump in the Russia probe was one of the "greatest travesties in American history."

April 10, 2020

Pentagon says COVID report cited by ABC doesn’t exist

The Pentagon says a supposed intelligence report cited by ABC News on an emerging COVID-19 pandemic doesn't exist.

April 9, 2020

Pentagon eyeing ‘stop loss’ order in coronavirus fight to keep troops from exiting

The Trump administration is looking at issuing a "stop loss" order in the war on coronavirus that would prevent troops from leaving service once their enlistments ended, according to a Pentagon source.

April 7, 2020

Nation’s hospitals diagnosed as short on coronavirus staff, gear and money: IG

The frontline fighters in the war on coronavirus are lacking diagnostic tests, protective gear, and cash, the Health and Human Services Department inspector general reported on Monday.

April 6, 2020

Donald Trump, Richard Grenell to help cull intelligence community

The Trump administration is set to pare desk jobs at the top of the intelligence community, invoking the argument that its staffs are too large and duplicative, knowledgeable sources say.

April 5, 2020

War on COVID-19 slowing coronavirus growth: Researchers

Pantheon Macroeconomics estimates that in New York City, the American pandemic epicenter, the number of new cases daily peaked a week ago and "appears to now to be failing sharply."

April 4, 2020

Health agencies’ reports didn’t highlight inventory shortfalls

The federal watchdog for the department that includes the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a total of four press statements on its website in 2019-20, and three of them dealt with the health care of migrant children at the border.

April 2, 2020

White House’s favorite coronavirus model overshot hospital bed count

An institute's coronavirus projections, which President Trump is greatly relying upon to set COVID-19 policy, said the U.S. would need 135,000 hospital beds by today -- yet only about 31,000 patients are hospitalized.

April 2, 2020

On-scene British reporters say Chinese markets again selling bats, likely source of deadly pandemic

China is permitting wild animal markets to resume selling bats, believed to be the source for the deadly coronavirus now killing people across the globe, including over 2,500 Americans to date, British reporters say.

March 30, 2020