• Ex-Judge Says Dropping Flynn Case Amounts to ‘Gross Prosecutorial Abuse,’ Urges Sentencing

    Ex-Judge Says Dropping Flynn Case Amounts to ‘Gross Prosecutorial Abuse,’ Urges Sentencing

    The third party appointed by the federal judge presiding over the Michael Flynn case said in a Wednesday filing that the DOJ’s decision to drop its case against Flynn amounted to “clear evidence of gross prosecutorial abuse.” John Gleeson, a retired New York federal district court judge, said in an 82-page filing that the reversal …
  • Rod Rosenstein Tells Congress He’s ‘Not Sure He Read Every Page’ of Carter Page FISA Renewal Application

    Rod Rosenstein Tells Congress He’s ‘Not Sure He Read Every Page’ of Carter Page FISA Renewal Application

    Rod Rosenstein told Congress on Wednesday that he was not sure that he had read the entire FISA renewal application to surveil Carter Page. Rosenstein, the former deputy attorney general during the Obama administration, made the comments during testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee. The committee hearing touched in part on the FBI’s application to …
  • Trump aids Putin on rejoining G-7 and gets a Russian insult in return

    Trump aids Putin on rejoining G-7 and gets a Russian insult in return

    President Trump used a phone call on Monday with Russian President Vladimir Putin to suggest that Moscow return to the G-7. In doing so, he is undermining U.S. allies and boosting an ardent adversary. What’s more, the Kremlin promptly reciprocated by attacking the Trump administration’s handling of the ongoing riots. Referring to U.S. efforts to …
  • DNI Ratcliffe Declassifies Transcripts of Flynn-Kislyak Conversations | National Review

    DNI Ratcliffe Declassifies Transcripts of Flynn-Kislyak Conversations | National Review

    Transcripts of conversations between former Trump advisor Michael Flynn and Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak were declassified on Friday, Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe announced. The move is the latest in a series of document declassification, initiated by Ratcliffe’s predecessor Richard Grenell, pertaining to the Russia investigation. Conversations between Flynn and Kislyak in 2016 were …
  • 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 …
  • Sessions Says Trump’s Anger over Russiagate Recusal Is ‘Not All Unjustified,’ But Stands By Decision

    Sessions Says Trump’s Anger over Russiagate Recusal Is ‘Not All Unjustified,’ But Stands By Decision

    Alabama Senate candidate Jeff Sessions said that President Trump “is not all unjustified” in his frustration over the former attorney general’s 2017 recusal from the Trump-Russia investigation, but insisted his “conscience is clear” with respect to the decision. Sessions, the first high-profile Trump endorsee in 2016, recused himself from supervising the Trump-Russia investigation in March …
  • Michael Jordan on tape: I didn’t want Isiah Thomas on Dream Team

    Michael Jordan on tape: I didn’t want Isiah Thomas on Dream Team

    A portion of ESPN’s 10-part documentary series “The Last Dance” explored the prolonged tension between Michael Jordan and Isiah Thomas, digging into the infamous walk-off game and Thomas curiously being left off the 1992 Olympic Dream Team. Over the years, Jordan denied having any involvement in Thomas not making the Dream Team, the first American …
  • 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 …
  • 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 …