By MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ APRIL 10, 2017 Several years ago, federal agents traveled to Moscow to enlist the help of their Russian counterparts in arresting one of the world’s most pernicious email spammers. They were rebuffed, a former American law enforcement official who was there said. The spammer, who used the pseudonym Peter Severa, was protected, probably by […]
THE LAST WORD WITH LAWRENCE O’DONNELL 4/7/17 The Trump-Putin theory on Syria that can’t be ruled out Lawrence O’Donnell lays out how Donald Trump’s credibility problems have made an impossible scenario possible. David Corn, Rick Wilson, and Indira Lakshmanan join. Duration: 15:25 CLICK IMAGE ABOVE for link to video. investigatingtrump.com Editor’s note: The link above is […]
Editor’s note: China too, raised the question of whether Trump’s Syrian airstrike was meant to distance him from the Russia scandal. See Huffington Post from April 10th, 2017 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ By JANE PERLEZ APRIL 8, 2017 BEIJING — With President Xi Jinping safely out of the United States and no longer President Trump’s guest, China’s state-run media on Saturday was free […]
By JO BECKER and MATTHEW ROSENBERG APRIL 6, 2017 When Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, sought the top-secret security clearance that would give him access to some of the nation’s most closely guarded secrets, he was required to disclose all encounters with foreign government officials over the last seven years. CLICK IMAGE ABOVE for direct link […]
By ERIC LICHTBLAU APRIL 6, 2017 WASHINGTON — The C.I.A. told senior lawmakers in classified briefings last summer that it had information indicating that Russia was working to help elect Donald J. Trump president, a finding that did not emerge publicly until after Mr. Trump’s victory months later, former government officials say. CLICK ON IMAGE for direct link to NYT story. […]
By BENJAMIN WEISER and WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM APRIL 6, 2017 Nearly a month after he was fired by the Trump administration, Preet Bharara, the former United States attorney in Manhattan, remains mystified by the circumstances of his ouster, saying he had never been told why President Trump changed his mind about wanting him to stay on. CLICK IMAGE ABOVE for […]
By EMMARIE HUETTEMAN and MARK MAZZETTI APRIL 6, 2017 WASHINGTON — Representative Devin Nunes, the embattled California Republican who is chairman of the Intelligence Committee, announced on Thursday he would step aside from leading his committee’s investigation into Russia’s efforts to disrupt last year’s presidential election. CLICK IMAGE ABOVE for direct link to NYT story. CLICK IMAGES BELOW for links to […]
By Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large Washington (CNN) President Trump’s decision to remove chief strategist Steve Bannon from the National Security Council’s principals committee suggests a potentially significant change in the power balance among the four top White House advisers. CLICK IMAGE for link to story & video. Bannon’s placement on the principals committee at the start […]
Ali Watkins April 3, 2017 NEW YORK — A former campaign adviser for Donald Trump met with and passed documents to a Russian intelligence operative in New York City in 2013. The adviser, Carter Page, met with a Russian intelligence operative named Victor Podobnyy, who was later charged by the US government alongside two others for […]
By Bonnie Berkowitz and Denise Lu Updated April 3, 2017 CLICK IMAGE for Wash Post link chart.
