INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “On Tuesday [7-17-18], President Donald Trump said he was tripped up by a double negative. On Wednesday [7-18-18], the White House claimed he was simply declining to respond when he replied ‘no’ to a reporter’s question about whether Russia is still targeting America’s democratic government. Trump’s position on Russian interference in America’s […]
Category: Intelligence
7/18/2018
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/MEDIA/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The White House denied Wednesday [7-18-18] that President Donald Trump said he does not believe that Russia is targeting the United States, despite him directly answering a question about it earlier in the day. Speaking during a Cabinet meeting at the White House, Trump was asked by a reporter if Russia […]
7/18/2018
DHS/IMMIGRATION/INTELLIGENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The Trump administration was warned by intelligence analysts that ending protections for hundreds of thousands of Central Americans living in the US would likely drive a spike in illegal immigration. They did it anyway. That intelligence assessment was made public late Tuesday [7-17-18] as part of an ongoing lawsuit against the […]
7/18/2018
INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Wednesday [7-18-18] defended his conduct at a news conference earlier in the week alongside Russian leader Vladimir Putin, a day after he reversed his public questioning of U.S. intelligence agencies following a barrage of criticism…The president later Wednesday morning wrote on Twitter that unspecified people hated that he […]
7/18/2018
INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Wednesday [7-18-18] continued to defend his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, a day after walking back his remarks in which he would not endorse US intelligence findings on Russian election meddling over Putin’s denial. ‘So many people at the higher ends of intelligence loved my press conference […]
7/17/2018
GOP/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Republicans scrambled on Tuesday [7-17-18] to mitigate the damage done by President Trump’s embrace of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia over his own intelligence agencies, setting a public hearing in the Senate next week, examining new sanctions on Moscow and reaffirming the fraying Western alliance…After Republicans pleaded privately with the White […]
7/17/2018
FBI/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Maybe it was the F.B.I.’s fault for unnerving him. Or maybe the White House staff had left President Trump ill-prepared before his stunning remarks in Helsinki Monday [7-17-18], when he sided with Russia over his own intelligence agencies. At a bar in central Pennsylvania, voters wondered if election meddling was really so terrible. […]
7/17/2018
CIA/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “John O. Brennan spent a career in the Central Intelligence Agency defending the United States against its enemies. For decades, that meant terrorists, rogue regimes or the Russians. For him now, it means the president of the United States. When Mr. Brennan accused President Trump of treason following Monday’s [7-17-18] meeting with […]
7/17/2018
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Top Democrats in the House and the Senate demanded on Tuesday [7-17-18] that Republican leaders stifle conservative attacks on the special counsel’s Russia investigation and compel President Trump’s senior national security advisers to testify to Congress about Monday’s [7-17-18] extraordinary summit meeting with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia…Republicans […]
7/17/2018
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump said on Tuesday [7-17-18] that he had misspoken a day earlier in Helsinki, Finland, when he appeared to take the word of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia over the conclusion of his own intelligence agencies on Russian election meddling in 2016. On Tuesday, Mr. Trump said he ‘accepts’ […]
7/17/2018
INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump hoped his hotly anticipated summit talks with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin would amount to a triumphant television event. Instead, he returns to Washington facing sharp rebukes even from allies as his stunned aides wonder what went wrong. For many of Trump’s advisers, Monday’s [7-16-18] performance amounted to a […]
7/17/2018
CHUCK SCHUMER/GOP/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called on Republican colleagues to join in ‘demanding testimony’ from President Donald Trump’s national security team present during the Helsinki summit earlier this week, including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, “immediately’…Schumer said the American people need more information on anything Trump promised Russian President Vladimir Putin, […]
7/17/2018
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A day after questioning the U.S. intelligence community’s findings that Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election, President Donald Trump reversed course on Tuesday [7-17-18], saying he accepted its conclusion. Mr. Trump, whose comments at his news conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki prompted a backlash in Congress and […]
7/17/2018
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump, facing an onslaught of bipartisan fury over his glowing remarks about Vladimir Putin, said more than 24 hours afterward that he had misspoken during his news conference with the autocratic Russian leader. In one of the only times of his presidency he’s admitted to a mistake, Trump said […]
7/17/2018
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It was possible that Vladimir Putin would be the man in a tough spot after his summit meeting Monday [7-16-18] with President Donald Trump. Instead, most of the squirming is being done not by the Russian leader, but by Republicans in Congress, by the American intelligence community and by overseas allies. […]
7/17/2018
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump tried on Tuesday [7-17-18] to calm a storm over his failure to hold Russian President Vladimir Putin accountable for meddling in the 2016 U.S. election, saying he misspoke in a joint news conference in Helsinki. Trump stunned the world on Monday [7-16-18] by shying away from criticizing […]
7/17/2018
2016 ELECTION/CONGRESS/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump faced outrage on Tuesday [7-17-18] for his failure to hold Russia accountable for meddling in the 2016 U.S. election, and some U.S. lawmakers threatened action in Congress to punish Moscow and show support for U.S. intelligence agencies. At a joint news conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin […]
7/16/2018
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump, standing beside Russian leader Vladimir Putin, questioned the U.S. intelligence conclusion that Moscow meddled in the 2016 election, a move lawmakers of both parties said was a stunning alignment with an adversary. Mr. Trump said he and the Russian president ‘spent a great deal of time’ discussing the […]
7/16/2018
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Standing side by side with Vladimir Putin, U.S. President Donald Trump refused on Monday {7-16-18] to blame the Russian leader for meddling in the 2016 U.S. election, casting doubt on the findings of his own intelligence agencies and sparking a storm of criticism at home. On a day when he […]
7/16/2018
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Without consulting the White House, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats decided to reassert the intelligence community’s assessment that Moscow interfered in the 2016 election Monday [7-16-18], publicly breaking with President Donald Trump, who earlier had expressed doubts about that finding over Russian President Vladimir Putin’s denial. Coats faced ‘a choice’ […]
7/16/2018
2016 ELECTION/GOP/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “After President Donald Trump’s stunning news conference Monday [7-16-18] next to Russian President Vladimir Putin, members of Congress — including some powerful Republicans — were quick to rebuke Trump’s performance on the world stage and Trump’s refusal to call Putin out for interfering in the US election. House Speaker Paul Ryan […]
7/16/2018
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “US President Donald Trump, in a stunning rebuke of the US intelligence community, declined on Monday [7-16-18] to endorse the US government’s assessment that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election, saying he doesn’t ‘see any reason why’ Russia would be responsible. Instead, Trump — standing alongside Russian President Vladimir Putin […]
7/16/2018
2016 ELECTION/GOP/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Top congressional Republicans sharply criticized President Donald Trump Monday [7-16-18] after he cast doubt on Russian interference in the 2016 election during a press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin…Standing next to Mr. Putin, Mr. Trump said he trusted the Russian president’s denial that Moscow had interfered in the 2016 presidential […]
7/16/2018
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Monday [7-16-18] publicly questioned the U.S. intelligence conclusion that Moscow interfered in the 2016 presidential election as he stood beside Russian leader Vladimir Putin, after the leaders met for four hours on issues including arms control and the future of Syria. U.S. lawmakers and former administration officials […]
7/16/2018
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/NATO/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump’s week-long adventure on the world stage in Europe came to a raucous conclusion in Helsinki on Monday [7-16-18], with American allies fuming and confused and Russian President Vladimir Putin literally smiling at his good fortune. Trump’s trip to Belgium, Britain and Finland was marked by his frequent […]
7/16/2018
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Asked whether he believes his own intelligence agencies, which say that Russia interfered in the 2016 United States election, or Mr. Putin, who denies it, Mr. Trump refused to say, but he expressed doubt about whether Russia was to blame. Mr. Trump raised the matter of Russian electoral meddling, the two […]
6/2/2018
INTELLIGENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “‘John Brennan, no single figure in American history has done more to discredit the intelligence community than this liar. Not only is he a liar, he’s a liar about being a liar.’ Dan Bongino on @foxandfriends” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 2, 2018 7:06 am […]
6/2/2018
INTELLIGENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: ‘”John Brennan, no single figure in American history has done more to discredit the Intelligence community than this liar. He’s a liar about being a liar.’” – Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 2, 2018 6:57 am […]
5/24/2018
DEMS/GOP/INTELLIGENCE/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Top Senate and House party leaders and Intelligence Committee leaders from both parties will be briefed Thursday [5-24-18] on whether an informant was embedded in President Donald Trump’s campaign, according to a person familiar with the matter. The briefing comes after complaints from Senate Democrats and some Republicans about the adminstration’s […]
4/30/2018
CHINA/INTELLIGENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It sounds like something out of a science fiction movie: In April, China is said to have tested an invisibility cloak that would allow ordinary fighter jets to suddenly vanish from radar screens. This advancement, which could prove to be a critical intelligence breakthrough, is one that American officials fear China may […]
4/4/2018
INTELLIGENCE/SENATE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A former business associate of President Donald Trump who worked as an informant for U.S. government agencies met with representatives of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday [4-4-18], according to three people familiar with the meeting. The sources said committee officials spoke with Felix Sater, a long-time government informant and businessman who […]
3/22/2018
DEMS/GOP/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The House Intelligence Committee voted along party lines Thursday [3-22-18] to release the Republican report on Russian meddling, which concludes the committee found no evidence of collusion between Donald Trump’s team and Russian officials. The Republican report also disagrees with the intelligence community’s assessment that Russian President Vladimir Putin was trying to […]
3/17/2018
HOUSE OF REPS/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA: “As the House Intelligence Committee has concluded, there was no collusion between Russia and the Trump Campaign. As many are now finding out, however, there was tremendous leaking, lying and corruption at the highest levels of the FBI, Justice & State. #DrainTheSwamp” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Mar. 17, 2018 12:11pm […]
3/15/2018
GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA: “House Republicans are privately venting that they’ve fumbled the release of their own Russia probe report. The blaring headline the GOP wanted from this week’s rollout was clear: After a year of searching, Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee found no evidence that President Donald Trump or his associates aided Moscow’s scheme […]
3/13/2018
2016 ELECTION/DEMS/GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA: “Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee said Tuesday [3-13-18] that they are drafting their own report on Russian interference in the 2016 election, ending any chance of reaching a bipartisan conclusion with Republicans on the panel. Democrats released a memo on Tuesday evening arguing that the Republican-led investigation is being prematurely […]
3/12/2018
2016 ELECTION/GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/INTELLIGENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Republican lawmakers on the House Intelligence Committee have drafted a report saying the panel’s yearlong probe into Russian election interference found no evidence that Moscow colluded with Donald Trump’s campaign or that the Kremlin favored Mr. Trump in the 2016 race. The panel found ‘bad judgment’ and some ‘inappropriate […]
3/12/2018
2016 ELECTION/HOUSE OF REPS/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “THE HOUSE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE HAS, AFTER A 14 MONTH LONG IN-DEPTH INVESTIGATION, FOUND NO EVIDENCE OF COLLUSION OR COORDINATION BETWEEN THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN AND RUSSIA TO INFLUENCE THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Mar. 12, 2018 07:49pm […]
3/8/2018
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/INTELLIGENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee says another former senior aide to President Donald Trump should be subpoenaed for refusing to answer questions — this time former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski. Lewandowski returned to the intelligence panel Thursday [3-8-18] to answer more questions in a second interview […]
3/8/2018
CYBERWAR/INTELLIGENCE/NORTH KOREA/TURKEY: “Suspected North Korean hackers blitzed Turkish financial institutions and a government organization last week, seeking intelligence for a future heist, a new report says. The attacks on March 2 and 3, identified by cyber researcher McAfee LLC in a Thursday [3-8-18] report, attempted to lure targets with faux links to a popular cryptocurrency […]
3/6/2018
2016 ELECTION/CYBERWAR/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The top U.S. intelligence official said on Tuesday [3-6-18] President Donald Trump’s administration is ‘actively engaged’ in efforts to prevent Russian efforts to influence the November midterm elections, even as he warned of Moscow’s continuing ‘malign activities.’… Coats and other U.S. intelligence officials have warned repeatedly that Russia is already trying […]
3/5/2018
CYBERWAR/FOREIGN POLICY/INTELLIGENCE/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA: “A Belarusian escort with close ties to a powerful Russian oligarch said from behind bars in Bangkok on Monday [3-5-18] that she had more than 16 hours of audio recordings that could help shed light on Russian meddling in United States elections. The escort, Anastasia Vashukevich, said she would hand over the […]
3/5/2018
BUSINESS/FBI/INTELLIGENCE/TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP FAMILY/IVANKA: “US counterintelligence officials are scrutinizing one of Ivanka Trump’s international business deals, according to two sources familiar with the matter. The FBI has been looking into the negotiations and financing surrounding Trump International Hotel and Tower in Vancouver, according to a US official and a former US official. The scrutiny could be […]
2/27/2018
INTELLIGENCE/LEGAL/NONTRUTHS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Hope Hicks, the White House communications director, told House investigators on Tuesday [2-27-18] that her work for President Trump, who has a reputation for exaggerations and outright falsehoods, had occasionally required her to tell white lies. But after extended consultation with her lawyers, she insisted that she had not lied about matters material […]
2/27/2018
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “White House Communications Director Hope Hicks, testifying before a House committee investigating Russia’s role in the 2016 election, discussed the presidential campaign but declined to answer questions about her work as one of President Donald Trump’s most trusted advisers, lawmakers said. After hearing her refusal, Democrats on the House Intelligence […]
2/25/2018
2016 ELECTION/DEMS/INTELLIGENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A feud flared over the weekend between President Donald Trump and the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee over the release of a Democratic memo defending federal investigators’ handling of surveillance of a former Trump campaign adviser. Rep. Adam Schiff of California accused the White House of delaying the memo’s […]
2/24/2018
DEMS/INTELLIGENCE/POLITICS: “The Democrat memo response on government surveillance abuses is a total political and legal BUST. Just confirms all of the terrible things that were done. SO ILLEGAL!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 24, 2018 06:16pm […]
2/15/2018
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/LEGAL/STEVE BANNON: “Former White House adviser Steve Bannon drew bipartisan ire on Capitol Hill Thursday [2-15-18] by refusing to answer a range of questions from the House Intelligence Committee, with lawmakers vowing to take more drastic steps to compel his testimony. Mr. Bannon, a onetime confidant of President Donald Trump who has since become […]
2/14/2018
FBI/INTELLIGENCE/JOHN KELLY/NATIONAL SECURITY/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Nine days into the Rob Porter scandal, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is pushing for senior officials who made the decisions surrounding the former White House staff secretary’s security clearance to take over the task of explaining—and defending—those decisions to the public. Since Tuesday [2-13-18], when FBI director Chris […]
2/11/2018
DEMS/INTELLIGENCE/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The White House signaled Sunday [2-11-18] that a classified Democratic memo it blocked last week could see the light of day soon, after changes are made to address concerns raised by Justice Department officials. The comments from a senior administration official came as Democrats said they were open to making changes […]
2/10/2018
DEMS/INTELLIGENCE/POLITICS: “The Democrats sent a very political and long response memo which they knew, because of sources and methods (and more), would have to be heavily redacted, whereupon they would blame the White House for lack of transparency. Told them to re-do and send back in proper form!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 10, 2018 09:20am […]
2/9/2018
DEMS/FBI/GOP/INTELLIGENCE: “The White House is inclined to approve the release of a classified Democratic memo that rebuts Republican allegations of abuse by the FBI in its application to monitor a former Trump campaign aide, according to a person familiar with the matter. John Kelly, White House chief of staff, said earlier this week that he […]
2/8/2018
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/VOTING: “The Senate Intelligence Committee is drafting a report on vulnerabilities in the U.S. election system that is expected to be released in the coming weeks, according to lawmakers and aides, in what will be the first product of a yearlong investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. The leaders of the Senate […]
2/7/2018
DEMS/INTELLIGENCE/JOHN KELLY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “White House lawyers have until Thursday [2-8-18] to recommend whether President Donald Trump should release a classified Democratic memo rebutting Republican allegations of wrongdoing in the federal investigation of a former Trump campaign aide. White House chief of staff John Kelly said Tuesday he told lawyers reviewing the document to ‘get […]
2/7/2018
FBI/INTELLIGENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “NEW FBI TEXTS ARE BOMBSHELLS!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 7, 2018 11:10am […]
2/7/2018
INTELLIGENCE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said Wednesday [2-7-18] that he is unfazed by taunts from President Donald Trump, lamenting on CNN that such rhetoric has become ‘the new normal.’ Trump listed Clapper this week among the ‘biggest liars and leakers in Washington,’ a group that the president said also includes Rep. […]
2/6/2018
DEMS/GOP/INTELLIGENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump was set to be briefed later Tuesday [2-6-18] afternoon on a classified Democratic memo that rebuts GOP allegations of partisan motives in the federal investigation of his former campaign aide, as the president decides whether to authorize the document’s release. White House Chief of Staff John Kelly told reporters […]
2/5/2018
DEFENSE/INTELLIGENCE/NATIONAL SECURITY/STATE/TREASURY/TRUMP MEMORANDA: “SUBJECT: Delegation of Certain Functions and Authorities under Section 1238 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 301 of title 3, United States Code, I hereby delegate […]
2/5/2018
2016 ELECTION/CATER PAGE/DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/INTELLIGENCE: “The House Intelligence Committee on Monday [2-5-18] voted unanimously to release a classified Democratic memo that defends the federal investigation into a Trump campaign associate, a move that gives the White House five days to allow or reject its disclosure. Democrats wrote the 10-page memo as a response to a […]
2/4/2018
DEMS/GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/INTELLIGENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The House Intelligence Committee on Monday [2-5-18] is expected to consider whether to release a Democratic rebuttal to a GOP-authored document about surveillance of a onetime Trump campaign adviser, according to people familiar with the matter. The four-page Republican document, released Friday, alleged political bias by federal law-enforcement officials in […]
2/2/2018
FBI/GOP/INTELLIGENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump accused senior officials and investigators at the Federal Bureau of Investigation of being biased against Republicans and favoring Democrats, as the White House is expected approve the release of a classified memo that Republicans allege shows improper surveillance of one of the president’s former campaign aides… A White House […]
2/1/2018
2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/CATER PAGE/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA: “Carter Page, who served as a foreign-policy adviser to Donald Trump’s campaign, was known to U.S. counterintelligence officials for years before he became a prominent figure in a dossier of unverified research about the future president’s ties to Russia. The White House is expected to release as early as this week a […]
2/1/2018
FBI/HOUSE OF REPS/INTELLIGENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The House intelligence committee’s top Democrat charged Republicans late Wednesday [1-31-18] with sending the White House ‘an altered version’ of a classified memo alleging misconduct by the FBI in its probe of a former campaign adviser to President Donald Trump. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) made the accusation against Republicans on […]
1/31/2018
FBI/GOP/INTELLIGENCE/JOHN KELLY/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “FBI Director Christopher Wray sent a striking signal to the White House Wednesday [1-31-18], issuing a rare public warning that a controversial Republican memo about the FBI’s surveillance practices omits key information that could impact its veracity. The move sets up an ugly clash with the President who wants it […]
1/30/2018
2016 ELECTION/GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/INTELLIGENCE/PAUL RYAN: “House Speaker Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) defended Tuesday [1-30-18] the GOP decision to make public a classified Republican-authored memo that alleges surveillance abuses against an associate of President Donald Trump dating to the 2016 campaign… The GOP-led House Intelligence Committee voted Monday night to release the memo, which was drawn […]
1/29/2018
2016 ELECTION/GOP/INTELLIGENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A congressional panel voted on Monday [1-29-18] to make public a classified Republican-authored memo that alleges surveillance abuses against an associate of President Donald Trump dating back to the 2016 campaign. The GOP-led House Intelligence Committee invoked an obscure rule in its effort to release the memo that was drawn from […]
1/28/2018
FBI/INTELLIGENCE/TRUMP FAMILY/DONALD JR: “President Donald Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump, Jr., said Sunday [1-28-18] that he is betting the Democratic response to the much talked about House intelligence memo will leak to the media before the actual memo is made public… Trump Jr. was referring to Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and a Democratic rebuttal to […]
1/25/2018
INTELLIGENCE/NATIONAL SECURITY/NORTH KOREA: “A Chinese middleman who is allegedly one of the largest facilitators of North Korean trade invested around $500,000 with his wife in a fund that put them on a path toward becoming U.S. permanent residents, according to a court document filed on Thursday [1-25-18]. Law-enforcement officials seized the funds in October, and […]
1/24/2018
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said Wednesday [1-24-18] he was willing to testify under oath in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, the latest twist in a probe that he has repeatedly denounced as a ‘witch hunt.’ Mr. Trump’s statement was more emphatic than his answer […]
1/24/2018
INTELLIGENCE/POLITICS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Senior administration officials said a legislative provision granting the Trump administration broad latitude to fund intelligence programs wasn’t devised as a way for the White House to bypass Congress, in response concerns from senators about its purpose. According to officials on Capitol Hill and in the administration, the intelligence provision was inserted […]
1/23/2018
FBI/INTELLIGENCE: “Where are the 50,000 important text messages between FBI lovers Lisa Page and Peter Strzok? Blaming Samsung!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Jan. 23, 2018 10:54pm […]
1/23/2018
FBI/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A top FBI agent last spring expressed skepticism about the burgeoning investigation into Trump associates’ ties to Russian electoral meddling, according to a newly released text message, a few months before his texts critical of the president cost him his role in the special counsel’s probe. The agent, Peter Strzok, sent a […]
1/23/2018
CYBERWAR/GOP/INTELLIGENCE/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA: “Senior U.S. congressional Democrats urged social media companies on Tuesday [1-23-18] to investigate reported actions by automated Russia-linked accounts, in connection with a Republican memorandum that was said to be critical of special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of President Donald Trump’s ties with Russia. Senator Dianne Feinstein, a senior member of the Senate […]
1/19/2018
2016 ELECTION/HOUSE OF REPS/INTELLIGENCE/POLITICAL FIGURES: “House conservatives are demanding the public release of a memo spearheaded by Rep. Devin Nunes, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, detailing allegations of FBI missteps during the 2016 election — a move that Democrats say is an effort to torpedo special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into the Trump […]
1/19/2018
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Just signed 702 Bill to reauthorize foreign intelligence collection. This is NOT the same FISA law that was so wrongly abused during the election. I will always do the right thing for our country and put the safety of the American people first!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Jan. 19, 2018 03:53pm […]
1/19/2018
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Congress is probing the Obama administration’s decision to use research by an ex-British spy to justify, in part, surveillance of an associate of Donald Trump, as Republican scrutiny rises of law-enforcement actions during 2016 presidential campaign. In the final days of the campaign, the Justice Department used information from Christopher […]
1/18/2018
HOUSE OF REPS/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Hope Hicks’ highly anticipated testimony before the House Intelligence Committee was abruptly delayed Thursday [1-18-18] amid questions about whether the White House communications director would be able to respond to inquiries about topics after the campaign season, four sources told CNN. The surprise move came after Steve Bannon refused to answer […]
1/18/2018
HOUSE OF REPS/INTELLIGENCE: “Transcripts of testimony given by Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson to the U.S. House Intelligence Committee includes allegations the Trump Organization may have engaged in money laundering, the panel’s top Democrat said in a statement on Thursday [1-18-18]. Transcripts of testimony given by Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson to the U.S. House […]
1/18/2018
CYBERWAR/INTELLIGENCE: “The U.S. Senate on Thursday [1-18-18] voted to reauthorize for six years a key surveillance law, sending a bill that permits a wide range of electronic spying to President Donald Trump for his approval. With the bill’s passage, Congress rejected an attempt by a coalition of conservative Republicans, civil libertarians and liberal Democrats to […]
1/18/2018
INTELLIGENCE/LEGAL/RUSSIA: “The House Intelligence Committee on Thursday [1-18-18] voted to release the transcript of its interview with Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson, with Democrats and Republicans joining together in a move likely to shed new light on the opposition research dossier on Trump and Russia. The committee voted in a closed-door meeting to release the […]
1/18/2018
INTELLIGENCE/STEVE BANNON: “The House Intelligence Committee has agreed to give former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon until the end of the month to return to the panel and finish his closed-door interview, according to a source with knowledge of the matter. Bannon’s attorney, in a letter to the committee shared with CNN, said the […]
1/17/2018
HOUSE OF REPS/INTELLIGENCE: “The House Intelligence Committee will vote Thursday [1-18-18] on whether to release the transcript of the panel’s interview with Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson, according to two sources familiar with the matter. The committee has a business meeting scheduled for Thursday posted on its website, in which it plans to vote on […]
1/15/2018
CHINA/INTELLIGENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP FAMILY/JARED KUSNER: “U.S. counterintelligence officials in early 2017 warned Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, that Wendi Deng Murdoch, a prominent Chinese-American businesswoman, could be using her close friendship with Mr. Kushner and his wife, Ivanka Trump, to further the interests of the Chinese government, according to people familiar […]
1/11/2018
DEMS/INTELLIGENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Democrat Dianne Feinstein should never have released secret committee testimony to the public without authorization. Very disrespectful to committee members and possibly illegal. She blamed her poor decision on the fact she had a cold – a first!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Jan. 11, 2018 10:01pm […]
1/11/2018
INTELLIGENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “With that being said, I have personally directed the fix to the unmasking process since taking office and today’s vote is about foreign surveillance of foreign bad guys on foreign land. We need it! Get smart!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Jan. 11, 2018 09:14am […]
1/11/2018
HOUSE OF REPS/INTELLIGENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: ” ‘House votes on controversial FISA ACT today.’ This is the act that may have been used, with the help of the discredited and phony Dossier, to so badly surveil and abuse the Trump Campaign by the previous administration and others?” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Jan. 11, 2018 07:33am […]
1/9/2018
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In congressional testimony released Tuesday, a founder of a research firm behind a controversial dossier about Donald Trump provided a detailed account of how the investigation began and how that information ended up in the hands of federal law-enforcement agencies during the 2016 presidential campaign. The 35-page dossier, which contained salacious […]
1/4/2018
HOUSE OF REPS/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A federal judge has denied a bid by the private investigation firm Fusion GPS to prevent the House Intelligence Committee from obtaining the firm’s bank records, as part of a congressional probe into the funding and creation of a so-called dossier containing a variety of accurate, inaccurate and salacious claims […]
12/22/2017
HOUSE OF REPS/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA: “House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi sent a letter Thursday [12-21-17] to House Speaker Paul Ryan urging him not to allow the House Russia investigation to be shut down… Rep. Adam Schiff of California, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, warned last week that he was concerned House Republicans might end the […]
12/20/2017
FOREIGN POLICY/INTELLIGENCE/NORTH KOREA/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UN: “Presenting newly declassified intelligence reports, the U.S. has urged the United Nations Security Council to blacklist 10 ships it says have violated international sanctions against North Korea, American officials said. The American intelligence was provided in recent weeks to try to persuade a sanctions committee that reports to the […]
12/19/2017
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA: “Members of Congress have not made life easy for the leaders of the Justice Department this month, and FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe is next in line for some special attention on Tuesday [12-19-17]. McCabe is set to testify behind closed doors before the House Intelligence Committee as part of its […]
12/18/2017
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/POLITICAL FIGURES/POLITICS/RUSSIA: “The top congressional committee investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election has set its sights on the Green Party and its nominee, Jill Stein. Dennis Trainor Jr., who worked for the Stein campaign from January to August of 2015, says Stein contacted him on Friday saying the Senate Intelligence Committee had […]
12/18/2017
2016 ELECTION/FBI/INTELLIGENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “An FBI agent’s reference to ‘an insurance policy’ in a much-debated text message was meant to convey that the bureau needed to aggressively investigate allegations of collusion between Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia, according to people familiar with his account. The agent didn’t intend to suggest a secret plan to harm […]
12/17/2017
INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TERRORISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Russian President Vladimir Putin thanked U.S. President Donald Trump by telephone for intelligence that the Kremlin said had helped prevent a series of terrorist bombings in St. Petersburg, Mr. Putin’s office said Sunday [12-17-17]. The Kremlin said Mr. Putin had asked Mr. Trump to convey his appreciation to the Central Intelligence Agency […]
12/8/2017
INTELLIGENCE/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT: “The top U.S. intelligence official has ordered tighter restrictions on how the names of Americans kept secret in intelligence reports can be revealed during presidential transitions, according to documents seen by Reuters. The move follows unsubstantiated charges by President Donald Trump and his allies that his predecessor’s administration spied on Trump and improperly […]
12/6/2017
2016 ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP FAMILY/DONALD JR: “President Donald Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., returned to Congress on Wednesday [12-6-17] to face questions from lawmakers about alleged Russian efforts to influence the 2016 U.S. election and possible collusion with Moscow by his father’s presidential campaign. Trump arrived shortly before 10 a.m. EST (1500 GMT) for what was […]
12/6/2017
INTELLIGENCE/LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Congressional investigators are scrutinizing trips to Europe taken last year by several associates of President Donald Trump, amid concern they may have met with Kremlin-linked operatives as part of Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election. Several people close to then-candidate Trump visited Europe during and after the campaign, including his […]
12/4/2017
FBI/INTELLIGENCE/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT: “The Justice Department has agreed to allow congressional investigators to interview a key FBI employee believed to have served as the main contact, or ‘handler’ of, former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele, who compiled the so-called ‘dossier’ of allegations about President Donald Trump’s connections to Russia, according to a department spokesperson. The interview, […]
11/30/2017
2016 ELECTION/GOP/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump over the summer repeatedly urged senior Senate Republicans, including the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, to end the panel’s investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, according to a half dozen lawmakers and aides. Mr. Trump’s requests were a highly unusual intervention from a president into a […]
11/30/2017
2016 ELECTION/HOUSE OF REPS/INTELLIGENCE/JEFF SESSIONS/LEGAL/RUSSIA: “U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions met behind closed doors on Thursday [11-30-17] with members of the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee as it investigates possible Russian efforts to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election. He was expected to spend at least two hours in the interview. The panel is among […]
11/16/2017
2016 ELECTION/CARTER PAGE/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA: “Former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page on Thursday [11-16-17] delivered subpoenaed documents he described as ‘irrelevant and unnecessary’ to two congressional committees investigating alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Page, an oil industry consultant with numerous contacts in Russia, told Reuters in a text message that he delivered the documents […]