Forget the Steele dossier: Mueller report release shows why Trump-Russia inquiry was required
3 years ago

Forget the Steele dossier: Mueller report release shows why Trump-Russia inquiry was required

Salon  

The last few weeks we have seen the media work itself into something of a frenzy in an attempt to force a "reckoning" on the matter of the Steele Dossier, the opposition research document prepared by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele about then-candidate Donald Trump. Trump had been seeking to do business in Russia for years and was found to have lied throughout the campaign about that, saying that he knew Vladimir Putin, that he didn't know him, that they were "stablemates," that he couldn't comment because it would betray Putin's confidence all the while heaping over-the-top praise on the Russian leader. According to the Senate intelligence report, the Russian government saw that as a signal that they were willing to play ball, particularly when Trump explicitly asked Russia to release Clinton's emails in a public press conference shortly afterward. In a somewhat surprising decision, on Tuesday a federal appeals court reversed a lower court ruling that kept certain redactions in the Mueller Report in place pertaining to Donald Trump Jr's involvement in the investigation and the Mueller team's reasoning for not charging him and others with campaign finance violations.

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The Durham report has bared the American ‘deep state’
1 year, 6 months ago

The Durham report has bared the American ‘deep state’

Live Mint  

In India, we are regularly told by opposition parties that the government uses its intelligence agencies to serve its political ends—the Central Bureau of Investigation, the National Investigation Agency, the Enforcement Directorate and so on. To put it simply, the entire Russia-Trump theory seems to have been a political ploy by the Barack Obama government and the people who managed …

DNC, Clinton campaign agree to Steele dossier funding fine
2 years, 8 months ago

DNC, Clinton campaign agree to Steele dossier funding fine

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee have agreed to pay $113,000 to settle a Federal Election Commission investigation into whether they violated campaign finance law by misreporting spending on research that eventually became the infamous Steele dossier. The Clinton campaign hired Perkins Coie, which then hired Fusion GPS, a research and intelligence firm, …

A key source for the infamous Trump-Russia dossier is charged with lying to the FBI
3 years, 1 month ago

A key source for the infamous Trump-Russia dossier is charged with lying to the FBI

NPR  

A key source for the infamous Trump-Russia dossier is charged with lying to the FBI Enlarge this image toggle caption Jose Luis Magana/AP Jose Luis Magana/AP A Russian national who was a key source of information used in the 2016 dossier of allegations about Donald Trump's alleged ties to Russia has been arrested and indicted on accusations that he lied …

Analyst who aided Trump-Russia dossier charged with lying
3 years, 1 month ago

Analyst who aided Trump-Russia dossier charged with lying

LA Times  

Special counsel John Durham is conducting an inquiry into the federal investigation of Russia’s interference in the 2016 election and alleged ties between Moscow and the Trump campaign. The indictment says Danchenko misled the FBI by denying that he had discussed any allegations in the dossier with a contact of his who worked as a public relations executive and was …

Declassified Russia documents: How Team Trump used Fox News as a laundromat for unverified Russian information about top Democrats
4 years, 2 months ago

Declassified Russia documents: How Team Trump used Fox News as a laundromat for unverified Russian information about top Democrats

CNN  

CNN — While most of the nation was largely fixated over the past week on President Donald Trump’s coronavirus diagnosis, the President and his allies in right-wing media have been engrossed with something else entirely. He also released a memo from the CIA to the FBI, which said some Russians believed Clinton was using Trump’s ties to Russia “as a …

Bipartisan Senate Intel report details Trump campaign contacts with Russia in 2016, adding to Mueller findings
4 years, 4 months ago

Bipartisan Senate Intel report details Trump campaign contacts with Russia in 2016, adding to Mueller findings

CNN  

CNN — The Senate Intelligence Committee released Tuesday the most comprehensive and meticulous examination to date explaining how Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election and the Trump campaign welcomed the foreign adversary’s help, revealing new information about contacts between Russian officials and associates of President Donald Trump during and after the campaign. The committee says it obtained “some information …

Bipartisan Senate Intel report details Trump campaign contacts with Russia in 2016, adding to Mueller findings
4 years, 4 months ago

Bipartisan Senate Intel report details Trump campaign contacts with Russia in 2016, adding to Mueller findings

CNN  

CNN — The Senate Intelligence Committee released Tuesday the most comprehensive and meticulous examination to date explaining how Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election and the Trump campaign welcomed the foreign adversary’s help, revealing new information about contacts between Russian officials and associates of President Donald Trump during and after the campaign. The committee says it obtained “some information …

Fearing Trump interference, FBI agents hid copies of Russia investigation docs
4 years, 4 months ago

Fearing Trump interference, FBI agents hid copies of Russia investigation docs

CNN  

CNN — Adapted from “TRUE CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS: The Investigation of Donald Trump,” by Jeffrey Toobin. But the truth, first reported here, is that neither Mueller nor the Southern District prosecutors sought out Trump’s financial records or obtained his tax returns, as they had the opportunity to do. Mueller’s prosecutors thought Trump’s financial records and tax returns went to possible …

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