A lawyer for Michael Flynn made a surprising request in a court filing Tuesday. Sidney Powell is asking prosecutors to provide Flynn’s legal team with data from two phones belonging to Joseph Mifsud, the mysterious Maltese professor who is linked to George Papadopoulos. Powell said that the government “recently” obtained the phones. Michael Flynn’s attorney made a surprising request in ...

A top State Department official told lawmakers on Tuesday that he had concerns in 2016 with corruption at Burisma Holdings, the Ukrainian energy company linked to Hunter Biden. George Kent said that he raised those concerns ahead of an event involving Burisma and USAID. Kent was also highly critical of Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who pushed for investigations of Burisma ...

Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch, the co-founders of Fusion GPS, are published a book in December. In the book, Simpson and Fritsch will defend their roles in commissioning the Steele dossier, which has been largely debunked by the special counsel’s investigation. Fusion GPS hired former British spy Christopher Steele in June 2016 on behalf of the Clinton campaign and DNC. ...

Rep. Adam Schiff said Sunday that the House Intelligence Committee might not need to interview the CIA analyst who filed a whistleblower complaint against President Donald Trump, a reversal for the Democrat, who has come under fire for failing to disclose the whistleblower’s contacts with his office. Schiff acknowledged he initially supported the whistleblower testifying about the Aug. 12 complaint, ...

President Trump announced on Twitter on Friday that Kevin McAleenen will be leaving as acting director of homeland security after a six-month stint in which he dealt with an unprecedented influx of asylum-seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border. Kevin McAleenan has done an outstanding job as Acting Secretary of Homeland Security. We have worked well together with Border Crossings being way ...

Andrew McCabe offered his most candid remarks to date on the FBI’s decision to open the Trump campaign investigation, as well as about the Steele dossier The former FBI deputy director was largely defensive of both, but he said that dossier author Christopher Steele acknowledged he could not vouch for the accuracy of some parts of his report McCabe, a ...

Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, plans to testify to the House under subpoena next week about his knowledge of President Donald Trump’s actions towards Ukraine, which are part of a Democrat-led impeachment inquiry. On Tuesday, the State Department directed Sondland not to appear before a group of House committees leading the impeachment inquiry, which centers on ...

Two associates of Rudy Giuliani who helped the Trump lawyer investigate Joe Biden’s activities in Ukraine were arrested late Wednesday on campaign finance-related charges, according to The Wall Street Journal. Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, the two Giuliani associates, are expected to appear in federal court on Thursday for arraignment, according to The Journal. The U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan ...

An analyst at the Defense Intelligence Agency has been charged with leaking top-secret information about a foreign country’s weapons systems to two journalists, including one he was romantically involved with, according to an indictment unsealed on Wednesday. Henry Kyle Frese, 30, is charged with two counts of the willful transmission of national defense information. According to the indictment, in April ...

Sen. Tom Cotton, a Republican member of the Senate Intelligence Community, accused Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson of being “evasive” and “obstructive” during a closed-door hearing last week in which he refused to shed light on the potential political bias of the Trump whistleblower. “Your disappointing testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee on September 26 was evasive to the ...

The U.S. attorney probing FBI and CIA counterintelligence activities related to the Trump campaign has expanded the scope of the inquiry, according to Fox News. John Durham, the U.S. attorney in Connecticut, is using additional agents and resources as part of the inquiry, which is also looking at the activities of foreign intelligence agencies. Senior administration officials told Fox News’ ...

The White House said in a blistering letter sent Tuesday to top House Democrats that officials in the executive branch will not cooperate with House Democrats’ “constitutionally illegitimate” impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump. In the letter, White House counsel Pat Cipollone accused Democrats of attempting to both overturn the results of the 2016 election and influence the outcome of ...

California Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff and other Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee are considering masking the identity of the Trump whistleblower during any potential interview out of what they say are concerns that Republicans will leak the identity of the individual. Three sources told The Washington Post that the committee is considering interviewing the whistleblower, a CIA analyst, with ...

“Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd blew up on Sen. Ron Johnson on Sunday after the Republican brought up possible CIA leaks during the Trump-Russia investigation. “Senator Johnson, please,” Todd bellowed at one point during the contentious interview. “Can we please answer the question that I asked you instead of trying to make Donald Trump feel better here that you’re ...

Michael Atkinson, the Intelligence Community Inspector General, testified Friday that the Trump whistleblower did not disclose contacts with Adam Schiff’s office when filing his complaint on Aug. 12 IC IG forms require whistleblowers to disclose contacts related to their complaints with other government officials Schiff’s office confirmed this week that the whistleblower reached out to one of the Democrat’s aides, ...