By SCOTT SHANE, MATTHEW ROSENBERG and ANDREW W. LEHREN MARCH 7, 2017 WASHINGTON — In what appears to be the largest leak of C.I.A documents in history, WikiLeaks released on Tuesday thousands of pages describing sophisticated software tools and techniques used by the agency to break into smartphones, computers and even Internet-connected televisions. The documents amount to a detailed, highly technical catalog of […]
By Jeremy Diamond, Jeff Zeleny and Shimon Prokupecz, March 4, 2017 (CNN) President Donald Trump made a stunning claim Saturday, alleging without offering evidence that his predecessor, Barack Obama, wiretapped his phones at Trump Tower ahead of the 2016 election. “Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. […]
By Philip Bump March 3 at 1:05 PM In the most abstract sense, there is nothing noteworthy about a government official meeting with an ambassador from a foreign country. When such an interaction becomes important is when that official is an ally of a presidential campaign that’s got a complex set of possibly inappropriate relationships with other […]
Tony Cook , March 2, 2017 Vice President Mike Pence routinely used a private email account to conduct public business as governor of Indiana, at times discussing sensitive matters and homeland security issues. Emails released to IndyStar in response to a public records request show Pence communicated via his personal AOL account with top advisers on topics ranging from security […]
By CAROL E. LEE, CHRISTOPHER S. STEWART, ROB BARRY and SHANE HARRIS March 2, 2017 WASHINGTON—U.S. investigators have examined contacts Attorney General Jeff Sessions had with Russian officials during the time he was advising Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, according to people familiar with the matter. CLICK IMAGE ABOVE for link to video. CLICK HERE for direct link to story. The outcome of the […]
Del Quentin Wilber and Sarah D. Wire March 2, 2017 The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee criticized the FBI on Thursday, complaining that it failed to share enough information about its investigation into alleged Russian interference in the presidential election.CLICK IMAGE for direct link to story “We cannot represent to the American people that we’re doing […]
Steve Reilly March 2nd 2017 5:00 pm. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is not the only member of President Trump’s campaign who spoke to Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak at a diplomacy conference connected to the Republican National Convention in July. At least two more members of the Trump campaign’s national security officials also spoke with Kislyak at […]
By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT, MATTHEW ROSENBERG and MATT APUZZO MARCH 2, 2017 WASHINGTON — Michael T. Flynn, then Donald J. Trump’s incoming national security adviser, had a previously undisclosed meeting with the Russian ambassador in December to “establish a line of communication” between the new administration and the Russian government, the White House said on Thursday. CLICK IMAGE for direct link […]
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The Rachel Maddow Show: 3/2/17 Intriguing overlap in paths of Russian oligarch, Trump campaign Rachel Maddow looks at a line of investigation into the intersections of the travel of a prominent Russian oligarch’s plane and the Donald Trump campaign. CLICK IMAGES for links to video David Cay Johnston, founder of DCReport.org, talks with Rachel Maddow about journalistic […]
