By Jim Sciutto, Pamela Brown and Eric Bradner, CNN Thu April 13, 2017 Washington (CNN) British and other European intelligence agencies intercepted communications between associates of Donald Trump and Russian officials and other Russian individuals during the campaign and passed on those communications to their US counterparts, US congressional and law enforcement and US and European intelligence sources tell CNN. […]
Luke Harding, Stephanie Kirchgaessner and Nick Hopkins Thursday 13 April 2017 Exclusive: GCHQ is said to have alerted US agencies after becoming aware of contacts in 2015 Britain’s spy agencies played a crucial role in alerting their counterparts in Washington to contacts between members of Donald Trump’s campaign team and Russian intelligence operatives, the Guardian has been told. CLICK IMAGE […]
US & Canada April 13, 2017 The head of the CIA Mike Pompeo has described anti-secrecy organisation WikiLeaks as a “non-state hostile intelligence service” that is often abetted by states such as Russia. Russian military intelligence used Wikileaks to distribute hacked material during the US election, he added. CLICK IMAGE ABOVE for direct link to […]
April 12th, 2017. The FBI obtained a secret court order last summer to monitor the communications of Carter Page, an adviser to then-candidate Donald Trump, because the government had reason to believe Page was acting as a Russian agent, The Washington Post has reported. CLICK IMAGE for direct link to AP story. Page is among […]
By JACK GILLUM, CHAD DAY and JEFF HORWITZ Apr. 12, 2017 WASHINGTON (AP) — Last August, a handwritten ledger surfaced in Ukraine with dollar amounts and dates next to the name of Paul Manafort, who was then Donald Trump’s campaign chairman. CLICK IMAGE ABOVE for direct link to AP exclusive. Ukrainian investigators called it evidence of off-the-books payments from a […]
By MIKE McINTIRE APRIL 12, 2017 Aug. 19 was an eventful day for Paul Manafort. That morning, he stepped down from guiding Donald J. Trump’s presidential campaign, after a brief tenure during which Mr. Trump won the Republican nomination, Democrats’ emails were hacked and the campaign’s contacts with Russia came under scrutiny. Dogged by revelations about past financial […]
BY MAX GREENWOOD AND MEGAN R. WILSON – 04/12/17 Paul Manafort, the former chairman of Donald Trump‘s presidential campaign, might register as a foreign agent with the Department of Justice, a spokesman for Manafort said Wednesday. CLICK IMAGE for direct link to story on the hill.com The spokesman said Manafort is “taking appropriate steps in response to the guidance” he was […]
By Ellen Nakashima, Devlin Barrett and Adam Entous April 11 The FBI obtained a secret court order last summer to monitor the communications of an adviser to presidential candidate Donald Trump, part of an investigation into possible links between Russia and the campaign, law enforcement and other U.S. officials said. CLICK IMAGE for link to WP VIDEO CLICK HERE for […]
Editor’s note. For background on the significance of Eric Trump’s statement read: HuffPost ____________________________________________________________________ By Simon Johnson and Gordon Rayner, political editor 11 APRIL 2017 Donald Trump’s decision to launch a cruise missile attack on Syria proved he is not in league with Russia and will not be “pushed around” by Vladimir Putin, the US President’s son has told The Daily Telegraph. […]
MATTHEW ROZSA SUNDAY, APR 9, 2017 If President Donald Trump did indeed collude with Russia to defeat Hillary Clinton, his best chance of getting away with it rests on manipulating our culture’s notoriously distractible attention span. Indeed, there has been so much thrown out there about this issue — from countless interactions between Trumpers and unsavory […]
