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CrowdStrike, the outside firm relied upon by James Comey’s FBI to conclude Russia hacked the Democratic National Committee’s servers, was brought in to oversee the matter for the DNC by Perkins Coie, the law firm that represented the Hillary Clinton campaign.

Former Vice President Joe Biden admitted Tuesday morning that he had known about efforts to investigate incoming National Security Advisor Michael Flynn in January 2017 — after initially claiming that he did not know about it.

Recently released transcripts show that Clapper may have lied when he told Congress he did not brief Obama on Flynn’s calls.

Yates hid from Congress that she first learned about Flynn’s calls with a Russian ambassador from then-President Obama.

President Donald Trump hinted that Barack Obama and Joe Biden could soon be implicated for their alleged roles in the controversial Russia collusion investigation.

President of Judicial Watch Tom Fitton told Breitbart News that General Michael Flynn only got justice because he had lawyers who “insisted upon it” and pushed back “against the entire political class” in Washington, D.C.

Here are seven things you need to know about the new developments in the Michael Flynn case — and about what happens next in the saga.

Then-President Barack Obama was intimately aware of the details of an intercepted phone call between Flynn and Kislyak.

Almost immediately after the Department of Justice announced  it was dropping the charges against former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, former FBI Director James Comey came out swinging at the Trump administration, decrying the Justice Department had “lost its way.” Representative Doug Collins (R-GA), a candidate for U.S. Senate in Georgia, indicated that was to be expected from someone like Comey.

President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign is demanding to know more about former Vice President Joe Biden’s role in the outgoing Obama administration’s failed effort to take down Gen. Michael Flynn (Ret.).

Jim Bognet said the case against former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn highlighted the abuses of power under former FBI Director James Comey. 

A declassified transcript published on Tuesday revealed a “confidential human source” (CHS) from the FBI deriding Israelis as “fucking spies” and “fucking cocksuckers” who should be “executed” while surreptitiously surveilling George Papadopoulos two weeks after the 2016 presidential election.

Former FBI Director James Comey express dismay at the Department of Justice dropping criminal charges against retired Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, saying that the nation’s top law enforcement agency has “lost its way.”

President Donald Trump on Thursday rejoiced at the White House to the news that the Justice Department had abandoned his production case of his former National Security Advisor General Michael Flynn.

The Department of Justice is reportedly dropping its prosecution of former National Security Adviser General Michael Flynn (Ret.), according to the Associated Press.

Brandon Van Grack, one of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s handpicked prosecutors, has withdrawn from the case against former National Security Adviser General Michael Flynn (Ret.).

James Clapper, former director of national intelligence under President Barack Obama, took extreme umbrage when he was accused of lying to Congress after he lied under oath to Congress during 2013 testimony about the administration’s program of widespread surveillance of American citizens.

Former FBI Director James Comey and other senior officials in the Obama administration likely committed federal crimes in their use of “lawfare” against former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn and President Donald Trump, said Sidney Powell, Flynn’s attorney.

Former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent Peter Strzok kept the investigation of incoming National Security Advisor Gen. Michael Flynn (Ret.) open because the “7th floor” — senior leadership — wanted it so.

Revelations the past few days and weeks about the FBI’s so-called Russia collusion probe raise more than enough questions to warrant a renewed government investigation into actions taken at the agency during James Comey’s tenure there.

New documents show that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had drafted a document dropping the case against incoming National Security Advisor Gen. Michael Flynn (Ret.) — until agent Peter Strzok intervened.

President Donald Trump reacted strongly on Thursday to new documents showing the F.B.I set up his former National Security Advisor Gen. Michael Flynn to get him to lie.

New revelations about the possible motives of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in meeting with then-National Security Advisor Michael Flynn in January 2017 raise questions about then-Vice President Joe Biden’s role.

Amid the charges from critics that national security advisor Michael T. Flynn was “framed” by the Obama administration, it may be instructive to recall a largely unreported section of an Inspector General report revealed the FBI under James Comey underhandedly sent a senior member of the team investigating alleged Russian collusion to conduct an official briefing with Flynn and President Trump.

Newly declassified documents raise serious questions about James Comey potentially withholding damning information regarding the credibility of Russia collusion charges repeatedly relied upon to obtain four successive warrants to spy on a member of Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.

Newly declassified documents show that in order to build its dubious case of Russian collusion to a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court, James Comey’s FBI utilized the misleading Democratic Party talking point that Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign had the Republican Party platform gutted so as to “not provide defensive weapons to Ukraine.”

Newly declassified documents spotlight the role of John Kerry’s State Department in fueling the FBI’s dubious Russia collusion probe, showing it was the State Department that provided “information” leading to the controversial surveillance of Carter Page.

As early as 2015, a unit within the FBI was skeptical of dossier author Christopher Steele’s Russian contacts and recommended that his work be put through a validation review.

FBI Director Christopher Wray must produce “all records” from the bureau’s Russia collusion investigation that evidence declassified this week revealed to be “infected by Russian disinformation,” two Republican senators wrote in a letter Thursday.

Newly released material exposes that James Comey’s FBI obtained information from a source that the wild and unsubstantiated “golden showers” claim about President Trump was not only false but was likely a product of Russian disinformation.

Newly released material exposes previously unknown details showing the extent of the FBI’s controversial surveillance of Carger Page, who served as a tangential campaign adviser to President Donald Trump.

A transcript between a confidential source working for the FBI and George Papadopoulos, the former adviser to then-presidential candidate Donald Trump, shows numerous instances of the FBI source clearly trying to lead Papadopoulos into linking Russia with the Trump campaign.

Anticipation over Durham’s investigation is growing, as Barr recently hinted he is building the case to prosecute people.

FISA reforms are meaningless without prosecutions of intelligence officials who surveiled Trump’s 2016 campaign, said Rep. Warren Davidson.

The FBI missed opportunities to stop homegrown jihadis from killing and injuring Americans between November 2009 and January 2017,under the Obama administration and the leadership of the agency’s former director James Comey, an audit released this week by the inspector general (IG) at the Department of Justice (DOJ) revealed.

Hillary Clinton proclaims she is the “most investigated innocent person in America” in a new Hulu autobiographical docuseries about the twice-failed presidential candidate, according to the Daily Mail.