Donald Trump and his allies are throwing every bucket of chum they can at their base in their ongoing efforts to distract from the administration’s bungling of the Jeffrey Epstein case, and this time they may have caught a fish that’s too big to fry. Following a request from Sen. …
Read More »The Man Behind the Steele Dossier Is Ready to Talk
O n the day Igor Danchenko believes he was betrayed by the U.S. government — when the federal government’s chief law-enforcement officer effectively outed the Russian émigré, then a confidential FBI informant, as the architect of one of the most explosive and controversial documents in American political history — Danchenko …
Read More »Classified Russian Election Meddling Intel Vanished From Trump White House: Report
A binder containing highly classified information regarding Russia’s efforts to meddle with the 2016 election disappeared from the West Wing at the end of Donald Trump’s presidency —- and has never been found, according to a report from CNN. The binder, described as 10 inches thick and containing a trove …
Read More »I Pled Guilty to Robert Mueller. Here's My Story
Sam Patten became briefly notorious during special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of alleged Russian collusion in the 2016 U.S. presidential election when Patten pled guilty to failing to register as a foreign agent for a Ukrainian politician. An international political operative, Patten had worked on the same team in Ukraine …
Read More »Ex-FBI Official Set to Plead Guilty to Illegally Working for Russian Oligarch
A former senior FBI counterintelligence agent is attempting to negotiate a plea deal over charges of violating economic sanctions and money laundering related to his work for Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska. In January, the Department of Justice brought two simultaneous cases against Charles McGonigal, who served as the head of …
Read More »'Reality' Finally Gives Sydney Sweeney Her Movie-Star Moment
On the afternoon of June 3, 2017, Reality Winner parked her car in front of her modest home in Augusta, Georgia. A former member of the U.S. Air Force who was fluent in three Middle Eastern languages — Farsi, Dari, and Pashto — she’d worked as a linguist before getting …
Read More »Bill Barr's Handpicked Prosecutor Relied on Russian Intel
Earlier this month, Kevin McCarthy announced the creation of a new “Weaponization of the Federal Government” select committee aimed at investigating overreach by the Justice Department. One case that House Republicans are likely to ignore is Special Counsel John Durham’s probe into the Russia investigation, despite The New York Times …
Read More »Trump Threatened to Out Confidential Sources From Russia Investigation
Donald Trump in the final days of his presidency repeatedly threatened to out government sources involved in the Trump-Russia investigation, an anti-Deep State revenge fantasy he still obsesses over to this day, according to two former senior Trump aides and another person familiar with the matter. One of these sources …
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