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A new book by Andrew Weissmann, who served on Robert Mueller’s Special Counsel team investigating Russian election meddling in 2016, says the group
Prompted by recent tweets from the president, BuzzFeed News has asked a federal judge to order the government to declassify and release thousands of pages of documents about investigations related to Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election and allegations that President Donald Trump tried to obstruct one of the
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia on Wednesday opened a criminal investigation to establish the cause of unexplained toxic pollution off its far eastern coast that has killed sea creatures and led to their carcasses being washed ashore.
Greenpeace warned last week of an ecological disaster in waters off the Kamchatka region,
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Donald John TrumpFederal judge shoots down Texas proclamation allowing one ballot drop-off location per county Nine people who attended Trump rally in Minnesota contracted coronavirus Schiff: If Trump wanted more infections ‘would he be doing anything different?’ MORE on Thursday swiped at two of his most loyal Cabinet
President Donald Trump is demanding that Attorney General William Barr prosecute his political opponents over the FBI’s Russia probe, but the string of documents declassified from the investigation led by US Attorney John Durham in recent weeks that Trump is using to justify his outrage are in fact another sign
Attorney General William Barr has reportedly told top Republican officials that the Justice Department’s report on the origins of the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election will not be released prior to Election Day, according to Axios.
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Report: Barr says review of Russia investigation
White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said President Trump is pushing for further declassifications of intelligence documents related to the Russia investigation even while he is recovering from the coronavirus at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
Trump has been at the hospital in Bethesda, Maryland, since Friday
President Trump announced that he authorized the declassification of all documents related to both the Trump-Russia investigation and the emails belonging to failed presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
The president said that all documents declassified will not include any redactions.
“I have fully authorized the total
LONDON (AP) — A lawyer for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has told a London court that her client was indirectly offered a “win-win” deal by President Donald Trump that would see him avoid extradition to the U.S. if he revealed the source of a leak of documents from the Democratic
Every Senate Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, including vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris, signed a letter asking the Department of Justice Inspector General to open an investigation into whether a DOJ probe into the Russia investigation is being used for partisan politics ahead of the November election.
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Former FBI Director James Comey’s testimony on the Russia investigation before the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday was shocking, former federal prosecutor Andy McCarthy told “Bill Hemmer Reports”.
“I have to say that having worked for a lot of supervisors in the U.S. Attorney’s office for 20 years, to have somebody
Former FBI Director James Comey in a Senate hearing Wednesday sought to defend the bureau’s efforts to investigate President Donald Trump and his 2016 campaign’s ties to Russia, amid attacks from Republican senators looking to tie him directly to some of the investigation’s missteps.
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Former FBI director James Comey claimed on Wednesday that he learned of various details related to the FBI’s investigation in to collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign from the DOJ Inspector General report on FISA abuse, years after Comey had left his former agency.
Comey headed the FBI from
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican lawmakers on Wednesday confronted former FBI Director James Comey about his oversight of the Trump-Russia investigation during a politically charged hearing that focused attention on problems with a probe that have becoming a rallying cry for supporters of President Donald Trump.
Comey, making his first appearance
Former FBI Director James Comey told a Senate hearing Wednesday that the FBI had a legitimate reason to launch its investigation of the 2016 Trump campaign and defended the agency’s general conduct — but said he would not have approved a controversial part of the probe if he had known
Former FBI Director James Comey in a Senate hearing Wednesday sought to defend the bureau’s efforts to investigate President Donald Trump and his 2016 campaign’s ties to Russia, amid attacks from Republican senators looking to tie him directly to some of the investigation’s missteps.
“In the main, it was done
Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election and helped Donald Trump win. We look back at history and ask: Will they do it again?
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Former FBI Director James Comey, whose 2017 dismissal by President Donald Trump unleashed a broader investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia
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