The FBI’s core team of Russia investigators reportedly began discussing a wiretap of Trump campaign adviser Carter Page in August 2016, earlier than previously known, but were stalled amid bureaucratic handwringing until the infamous Steele dossier made its way to the bureau more than a month later. That timeline of events, reported by The New […]
Did a Dirty Intelligence Op Create the ‘Collusion’ Probe? by Paul Sperry…
Hidden behind a wall of secrecy is the truth about what really happened during the FBI and CIA’s joint investigation of the Trump campaign and Russia in 2016. Was it, as former President Barack Obama’s top cop and spy insist, an honest national security probe? Or was it, as Republicans suspect, a domestic political intelligence […]
Trump Dossier Author Steele Gets 16-Hour DOJ Grilling…
Ex-FBI, CIA Officials Draw Withering Fire on Russiagate by Ray McGovern…
Rep. Nunes on Christopher Steele’s Grilling by DOJ Investigators: A Lot of the Dossier ‘was just made up’…
Rep. Devin Nunes, the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, said Tuesday he believes the public will soon see that much of the Trump-Russia dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele was “made up.” According to a New York Times report, FBI officials questioned one of Steele’s sources and “came to suspect that […]
DOJ Inspector General’s Testimony Postponed, Amid New Leads in Clinton Case Review…
Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s widely anticipated testimony next week before the House Oversight Committee has been postponed, as the Justice Department IG has pursued new leads in his review of the Hillary Clinton email investigation, according to a congressional letter and sources familiar with the matter. “It is of the utmost importance that your review […]
Obama Justice Dept.’s Attempts to Influence Investigations Exposed in McCabe Probe…
Tucked inside the inspector general’s report on former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe was the story of an August 2016 phone call from a high-ranking Justice Department official who Mr. McCabe thought was trying to shut down the FBI’s investigation into the Clinton Foundation while Hillary Clinton was running for president. The official was “very […]
Meet Andrew McCabe’s Replacement at FBI…
INSPECTOR GENERAL REPORT: Investigation of Certain Allegations Relating to Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe…
This misconduct report addresses the accuracy of statements made by then-Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Deputy Director Andrew McCabe to the FBI’s Inspection Division (INSD) and the Department of Justice (Department or DOJ) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) concerning the disclosure of certain law enforcement sensitive information to reporter Devlin Barrett that was published […]