TEL AVIV — David Kramer, a long-time advisor to late Senator John McCain, revealed that he spent “a good hour or two” talking to two Wall Street Journal editors in a failed attempt to convince them not to publish the name of Christopher Steele, the former British spy who authored the infamous, largely-discredited anti-Trump dossier.
TEL AVIV — David Kramer, a long-time advisor to late Senator John McCain, revealed that he met with two Obama administration officials to inquire about whether the anti-Trump dossier authored by former British spy Christopher Steele was being taken seriously.
Trump mocked McCain for being “last in his class” after reading reports that the deceased senator and his associate David Kramer helped spread the dossier compiled by Christopher Steel to reporters and government officials.
Christopher Steele, the former British spy who created the anti-Donald Trump Russia “dossier,” used unverified information he found on a CNN website where users generated their own content, he told a court last year.
TEL AVIV — In recently released testimony, Bruce Ohr, a career Justice Department official, recounted that he informed the FBI that the infamous, largely discredited anti-Trump dossier authored by Christopher Steele was based on “hearsay” and not tangible evidence.
Bruce Ohr, a career Justice Department official, admitted in recently released testimony that he informed the FBI that the infamous, largely discredited anti-Trump dossier authored by Christopher Steele was tied to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
Attorney James Baker had what D.C. considers a long and distinguished career at the Justice Department – his last position was general counsel of the FBI – until he got himself involved in the anti-Trump machinations of disgraced former Director James Comey and his co-conspirators.
Trump said on Twitter that “Lyin'” James Comey was a “total sleaze” and a “crooked cop” who lead the FBI into “complete turmoil.”
NEW YORK — In testimony, former FBI Director James Comey contracted the claim made during previous testimony by former CIA Director John Brennan that the anti-Trump dossier was not “not in any way used as the basis for the intelligence community’s assessment” that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election.
NEW YORK — In testimony, James Comey admitted that when he infamously briefed then President-elect Donald Trump about the controversial dossier, Comey did not inform the incoming president about who financed the document.
NEW YORK — An FBI email states that the “trigger” for CNN to first break the story revealing salacious and unsubstantiated claims made inside the infamous anti-Trump dossier was the leaking of ex-FBI Director James Comey’s official briefing on the dossier claims to President Donald Trump.
In testimony before the House Judiciary and House Oversight Committees, former FBI Director James Comey made numerous assertions that are seemingly at odds with other statements he made during the course of the same testimony.
In what could become a possible issue for James Comey, the former FBI director repeatedly stated in testimony to the House Judiciary Committee that he “never” knew the author of the infamous anti-Trump dossier had been retained to do his work by a U.S.-based law firm.
In testimony, former FBI Director James Comey says that prior to signing a FISA application to obtain a warrant to conduct surveillance on Carter Page, a former adviser to President Trump’s 2016 campaign, Comey was aware that the dossier authored by former British spy Christopher Steele was financed by Democrats who opposed President Donald Trump.
At the time James B. Comey was fired as FBI director, his agency was still attempting to corroborate claims made in the infamous, largely-discredited anti-Trump dossier, Comey admitted.
An admission by Comey appears to confirm a belief Republican investigators have held since Trump was elected to the White House: The FBI failed to adequately verify the anti-Trump dossier used to surveil Trump campaign members during the 2016 presidential election.
Glenn Simpson, the co-founder of Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm behind the infamous Steele dosser, invoked his Fifth Amendment rights before House investigators on Tuesday.
President Donald Trump struck a positive tone on the special counsel investigation after meeting with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
The former head of the UK’s MI6 has said that there is “significant regret” within the foreign intelligence agency over helping Vladimir Putin come to power by orchestrating an introduction between him and then-Prime Minister Tony Blair.
On Thursday, a dozen Republican congressmen led by New York Representative Lee Zeldin asked President Donald Trump to declassify key documents in the Russian election interference probe.
Bruce Ohr and Christopher Steele apparently worked on an FBI plot to get dirt on President Trump in exchange for visas, according to a report.
George Papadopoulos, a former Trump campaign aide, will stick with his decision to plead guilty to making false statements to the FBI.
The closed-door testimony of Justice Department official Bruce Ohr before House investigators Tuesday revealed new details about the FBI information-gathering steps both prior to and during its surveillance of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in 2016.
Jonathon Moffa, an FBI agent, admitted to Congress his agency leaks stories to the news media, then uses the resulting stories to back up assertions in warrant applications, according to a series of reports Tuesday.
In a Tuesday evening appearance on the Fox News Channel’s The Story with Martha MacCallum, Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX) said Bruce and Nellie Ohr’s ties to Trump dossier author Christopher Steele were absent from the four Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) applications he analyzed.
Lanny Davis, a staunch ally of the Clintons who is now representing Michael Cohen, called all Steele dossier allegations about Cohen “false.”
President Donald Trump said Friday he never respected former CIA director John Brennan, which was partially why he withdrew his security clearance.
Justice Department Official Bruce Ohr is expected to testify in front of the House Judiciary Committee on August 28 about his relationship with Trump dossier author Christopher Steele, according to Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC).
Recently, Republican lawmakers indicated that Bruce Ohr, the former associate deputy attorney general, is becoming more central to their investigation of the soft coup against President Trump.
“Our A.G. is scared stiff and Missing in Action,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “It is all starting to be revealed – not pretty.”
