Rowan Scarborough

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A top Republican senator on Monday released an unpublished portion of the infamous Trump-Russia dossier that showed Hillary Clinton associates fed information to the author, former British spy Christopher Steele.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

January 30, 2018

Women-packed court gets Coast Guard rape conviction overturned

The nation's highest military court has thrown out the 2012 rape conviction of a Coast Guard enlisted man because admirals and prosecutors packed the seven-member jury with five women, four of whom held jobs as advocates for victims of sexual assault.

January 28, 2018

Team Trump claims unprecedented cooperation in Robert Mueller’s probe

President Trump's lawyers say they have provided the most transparent response in the history of independent and special counsels investigating an administration.

January 25, 2018

Michael Cohen, Carter Page, linked to Russian spies, pressured further by Democrats

Nearly a year after their probe began, Democrats are not giving up on insinuating that Trump attorney Michael Cohen and former campaign volunteer Carter Page played spy games with the Russians.

January 23, 2018

ISIS shifts tactics to guerrilla warfare to reclaim caliphate territory

Islamic State is far from defeated in Iraq and Syria, actively sending out messages to its extremists to revert to the terrorist group's tactics of assassinations, bombs and ambushes.

January 21, 2018

Fusion GPS, Democrats credit anti-Trump dossier for non-existent scoops

Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson is defending the Democrat-financed Russia dossier by crediting its author with turning up facts that can be found on the Internet.

January 20, 2018

Iran tortures, kills protesters; 8,000 citizens arrested

Iran's rulers have inflicted death by torture and gunfire on citizen protesters in a crackdown since the Dec. 28 street uprising erupted, the main opposition group said Tuesday.

January 16, 2018

Glenn Simpson upset New York Times passed on Trump-Russia story before election

Glenn Simpson, whose investigative firm Fusion GPS produced the unverified Democrat-financed dossier, bemoaned the fact he could not persuade The New York Times to run a Trump-Russia conspiracy story days before the Nov. 8, 2016, election.

January 14, 2018