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Former national security adviser Susan Rice in April 2017 publicly denied knowledge of surveillance of incoming Trump administration officials. During a 2017 interview on PBS’s News Hour, Rice said she was “surprised” by reports from then-House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes (R., Calif.) that communications from Trump and other officials may have been swept up …
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In a newly declassified email that Susan Rice sent to herself on January 20, 2017, the former national-security adviser said that former FBI director James Comey had “no indication” that Michael Flynn had passed along classified information to Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak, but stipulated that Comey was nevertheless wary about sharing sensitive information with Flynn …
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An unfortunate if longstanding political brawl intensified last week. The Department of Justice, acting under Attorney General William Barr, filed a motion (the Barr Report) in the Federal District Court for Washington DC asking that the criminal charges brought by Robert Mueller’s Special Counsel’s Office against Michael Flynn for lying to the FBI be dropped …
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House Judiciary Committee chairman Jerry Nadler (D., N.Y.) said Friday that the panel will hold hearings to probe the Justice Department’s decision to drop its case against former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn. “We’re looking into all of this,” Nadler said. “We are going to hold hearings on the Flynn matter,” Nadler told CNN’s …
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President Trump late Thursday night inquired about the fate of the FBI’s “302” report on the Michael Flynn case that officials say vanished after the president’s first national security adviser met with federal agents in January 2017. Watch the latest video at foxnews.com “Where is the 302? It is missing. Was it stolen or destroyed? General …
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Senator Lindsey Graham pushed back Thursday against President Trump’s exhortation that he call former President Obama to testify to Congress about efforts by Obama administration officials to “unmask” former national-security adviser Michael Flynn. “If I were a Senator or Congressman, the first person I would call to testify about the biggest political crime and scandal in the history …
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President Trump said Thursday that the Obama officials who sought to “unmask” former national-security adviser Michael Flynn in surveillance documents should go to jail for their actions. “People should be going to jail for this stuff and hopefully, a lot of people are going to have to pay,” Trump said during a Fox Business interview that …
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The federal judge overseeing the criminal case against former national-security adviser Michael Flynn is weighing charges of perjury or contempt for Flynn even as the Justice Department seeks to have the case dismissed. Judge Emmet Sullivan said he has appointed a former federal judge to argue against the Justice Department’s controversial move to dismiss the case against …
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The Biden campaign on Wednesday brushed off the former vice president’s presence on a list of Obama administration officials who apparently sought to “unmask” former national-security adviser Michael Flynn, saying Biden was unaware of Flynn’s identity when the requests for information were made. Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell declassified a memo this week listing …
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The judge presiding over the Michael Flynn case ordered the appointment of a third party to “to present arguments in opposition” to the Department of Justice’s decision to drop the case against the former Trump national security adviser. U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan, who said on Tuesday that he would allow outside briefs to …