• Barr Names Outside Prosecutor to Review Obama Officials’ Unmasking of Flynn

    Barr Names Outside Prosecutor to Review Obama Officials’ Unmasking of Flynn

    Attorney General Bill Barr has appointed a federal prosecutor to probe deeper into the “unmasking” requests that Obama administration officials submitted against Trump associates, Justice Department spokeswoman Kerri Kupec confirmed Wednesday night. In an interview with Sean Hannity, Kupec said that John Bash, the U.S. attorney for the Western District of Texas, would oversee the …
  • Rosenstein to Testify to Senate Committee Probing Russiagate Origins

    Rosenstein to Testify to Senate Committee Probing Russiagate Origins

    Former acting Attorney General Rod Rosenstein will testify next week to the Senate Judiciary Committee as part of committee Republicans’ probe into the origins of the FBI’s Russia investigation. Senator Lindsey Graham, who chairs the Judiciary Committee, announced Wednesday that Rosenstein is slated to testify before lawmakers on June 3 during the first public hearing of …
  • How Russiagate Began With Obama’s Iran Deal Domestic Spying Campaign

    How Russiagate Began With Obama’s Iran Deal Domestic Spying Campaign

    Michael Flynn posed a threat to the former president’s legacy and was made to pay for it. Barack Obama warned his successor against hiring Michael Flynn. It was Nov. 10, 2016, just two days after Donald Trump upset Hillary Clinton to become the 45th president of the United States. Trump told aide Hope Hicks that …
  • Chris Wallace Bashes Kayleigh McEnany, Jonah Goldberg Calls Her “Indefensible and Grotesque”

    Chris Wallace Bashes Kayleigh McEnany, Jonah Goldberg Calls Her “Indefensible and Grotesque”

    She must be doing something right. On Friday, Kayleigh McEnany ended her latest press conference by once again doing her homework and being prepared. She laid out the case for why the media’s lack of curiosity into the Michael Flynn affair, and the corruption of the Trump-Russia investigation in general, makes no sense and reveals …
  • FBI Director Orders Internal Review of Bureau’s Handling of Flynn Investigation

    FBI Director Orders Internal Review of Bureau’s Handling of Flynn Investigation

    FBI Director Christopher Wray has ordered an internal review to assess the bureau’s handling of the investigation into former national-security adviser Michael Flynn, the FBI announced Friday. “FBI Director Christopher Wray today ordered the Bureau’s Inspection Division to conduct an after-action review of the Michael Flynn investigation,” the FBI said in a statement. The review will determine …
  • DNI Grenell Says Flynn-Kislyak Call Transcripts ‘Are Coming’

    DNI Grenell Says Flynn-Kislyak Call Transcripts ‘Are Coming’

    Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell on Friday implied that he plans to release the transcripts of December 2016 phone calls between former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn and Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak. “Those are coming. It’s very important for the public to see ALL of them. For too long the public has …
  • Dem Senator Labels Federal Judge ‘Cartoon of a Fake Judge’ over Flynn Ruling

    Dem Senator Labels Federal Judge ‘Cartoon of a Fake Judge’ over Flynn Ruling

    Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D., R.I.) called Judge Naomi Rao “a cartoon of a fake judge” after she ruled that the judge presiding over Michael Flynn’s case must explain why he hasn’t complied with the government’s request to drop the case. “Where you see Neomi Rao, you can expect a lot of Trumpy dirt to follow. …
  • Newly Declassified Susan Rice Email Contradicts 2017 Claim That She Had No Knowledge of Trump Campaign Surveillance

    Newly Declassified Susan Rice Email Contradicts 2017 Claim That She Had No Knowledge of Trump Campaign Surveillance

    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 …
  • Declassified Susan Rice Email Shows Comey Had ‘No Indication’ Flynn Passed Classified Info to Russian Ambassador

    Declassified Susan Rice Email Shows Comey Had ‘No Indication’ Flynn Passed Classified Info to Russian Ambassador

    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 …
  • Michael Flynn’s Political Enemies

    Michael Flynn’s Political Enemies

    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 …