By MATTHEW ROSENBERG, MATT APUZZO, GLENN THRUSH and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT FEB. 13, 2017 WASHINGTON — Michael T. Flynn, the national security adviser, resigned on Monday night after it was revealed that he had misled Vice President Mike Pence and other top White House officials about his conversations with the Russian ambassador to the United States. Mr. Flynn, who served in […]
By Adam Entous, Ellen Nakashima and Philip Rucker February 13 at 8:17 PM The acting attorney general informed the Trump White House late last month that she believed Michael Flynn had misled senior administration officials about the nature of his communications with the Russian ambassador to the United States, and warned that the national security adviser was potentially vulnerable to […]
By Peter Lance: February 13th, 2017. At today’s press conference following the White House visit of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, President Donald J. Trump took softball questions from reporters from the conversative website dailycaller.com and right-wing Sinclair Broadcast Group’s local Washington, DC TV station WJLA. But the two leading national security stories that dominated […]
by KAILANI KOENIG NEWS FEB 12 2017, 12:47 PM ET WASHINGTON — White House Senior Policy Adviser Stephen Miller on Sunday would not answer a question about whether President Trump still has confidence in his National Security Advisor, retired Gen. Michael Flynn. CLICK HERE for link to story. CLICK IMAGES for links to videos. “That’s the question that I […]
By John R. Schindler • 02/12/17 10:00 am In a recent column, I explained how the still-forming Trump administration is already doing serious harm to America’s longstanding global intelligence partnerships. In particular, fears that the White House is too friendly to Moscow are causing close allies to curtail some of their espionage relationships with Washington—a development with grave implications […]
Herb Jackson, The (Bergen County, N.J.) Record Published 1:44 p.m. ET Feb. 11, 2017 A New Jersey congressman says a rarely invoked 1924 law could be used to examine President Donald Trump’s tax returns for possible conflicts of interest and Constitutional violations. CLICK IMAGES FOR LINK TO STORY Rep. Bill Pascrell, a Democrat who serves on […]
BY BEN KAMISAR AND REBECCA KHEEL – 02/11/17 12:00 PM EST Donald Trump and John McCain wrote a new chapter in their long feud this week, when the president ripped the Arizona GOP senator for emboldening the enemy by calling last month’s U.S. raid in Yemen a failure. CLICK IMAGE for link to story, The nasty jousting between a […]
By MICHAEL D. SHEAR and ERIC LICHTBLAU FEB. 11, 2017 WASHINGTON — Across the vast federal bureaucracy, Donald J. Trump’s arrival in the White House has spread anxiety, frustration, fear and resistance among many of the two million nonpolitical civil servants who say they work for the public, not a particular president. At the Environmental Protection Agency, a group of scientists […]
By Jim Sciutto and Evan Perez, CNN Updated 5:25 PM ET, Fri February 10, 2017 Washington (CNN) For the first time, US investigators say they have corroborated some of the communications detailed in a 35-page dossier compiled by a former British intelligence agent, multiple current and former US law enforcement and intelligence officials tell CNN. As CNN first reported, then-President-elect Donald […]
By Greg Miller, Adam Entous and Ellen Nakashima February 9 at 11:25 PM National security adviser Michael Flynn privately discussed U.S. sanctions against Russia with that country’s ambassador to the United States during the month before President Trump took office, contrary to public assertions by Trump officials, current and former U.S. officials said. CLICK TOP IMAGE for video. CLICK HEADLINE […]
