The Latest News about Spygate

The Justice Department plans to interview two senior CIA officers as part of a sweeping review of surveillance activities against the Trump campaign, The New York Times reported. Sources briefed on the plans told The Times that U.S. Attorney John Durham, who is leading the DOJ review, wants to speak with a senior CIA counterintelligence official and a senior CIA ...

California Rep. Devin Nunes said Wednesday that he has finally seen the Justice Department memo that laid out the parameters of the special counsel’s probe. Nunes, a Republican, indicated in an interview on Fox News’s “Hannity” that the Aug. 2, 2017 memo shows the infamous and unverified Steele dossier was relevant to the special counsel’s probe. “Ultimately, that Steele dossier ...

Carter Page said Sunday that his contacts with Stefan Halper, an alleged FBI informant, “intensified” in the month before the U.S. government obtained its first spy warrant against the former Trump campaign aide. “My conversations with him intensified right, the month before my illegitimate FISA warrant, in September 2016, when all these defamatory articles were being placed by the DNC,” ...

North Carolina Rep. Mark Meadows said Friday night that the FBI knew within 60 days of opening the Trump-Russia probe that the investigation was “built on a foundation of sand.” “Within 60 days of them opening the investigation, prior to [Robert] Mueller coming on, the FBI and the [Department of Justice] knew that Christopher Steele was not credible, the dossier ...

A top House Republican is asking the Justice Department’s inspector general whether Peter Strzok is the former FBI official accused of leaking sensitive materials to the press and accepting gifts from a reporter. Georgia Rep. Doug Collins, the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, sent a letter Thursday to Michael Horowitz, the Justice Department inspector general (IG), inquiring about ...

Former FBI Director James Comey accused Attorney General William Barr on Saturday of peddling “conspiracy theories” about the origins of the Russia investigation during an interview with CBS News. Bill Barr on CBS offers no facts. An AG should not be echoing conspiracy theories. He should gather facts and show them. That is what Justice is about. — James Comey ...

Attorney General William Barr offered his most pointed rebuke to date against conspiracy theories that President Donald Trump is in bed with Russia. “Mueller has spent two and half years and the fact is there is no evidence of a conspiracy. So it was bogus, this whole idea that the Trump was in cahoots with the Russians is bogus,” Barr ...

The intelligence community is nearly done with a classification review of more than 50 transcripts from the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence’s Russia investigation, a spokesperson for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence tells The Daily Caller News Foundation. “Throughout this process, we have cooperatively worked with the committee to complete the review in a timely manner, ...

Attorney General William Barr says that official statements about the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation “are just not jiving” with information he has learned during his short stint in office. “I assumed I’d get answers when I went in and I have not gotten answers that are well satisfactory, and in fact probably have more questions,” Barr said in an ...

If America’s legal system assumes innocence until proven guilty, then Mueller, his crew and the Democrat party, have corrupted it to a frightening level. What happened to the venerated assumption of innocence until proven guilty? Democrats and the leftist press repeatedly state that the president isn’t above the law, so they claim his automatic guilt despite the absence of corroborating ...

After two years and 30 million dollars,2800 subpoenas,500 witnesses interviewed 19 lawyers and 40 FBI agents, Mueller’s report showed no collusion and no obstruction by Trump. Now to go after the real guilty parties Comey, Brennan, Clapper, Strzuk, Page and Loretta Lynch and of course the chief ring leader Hillary. At a hastily arranged Wednesday press conference, Special Counsel Robert ...

House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler responded to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s first public remarks since his report was released, hinting that it is likely Mueller will be subpoenaed to testify in front of Congress. In a statement released by Nadler after Mueller’s press conference at the Department Of Justice, Nadler thanked Mueller for his service and said that “although Department ...

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham asserted Sunday that the former government officials pushing back on President Trump’s order to declassify Russia probe documents “are worried about being exposed for taking the law into their own hands.” In an interview on “Fox News Sunday” with Chris Wallace, Graham also argued that Democrats are unconcerned with whether the FBI misled the ...

John Brennan and other intelligence community operatives are circling the wagons against President Trump’s declassification directive, claiming that it could expose top-secret sources and methods used in the Trump-Russia probe But Brennan’s complaint may be misplaced given that virtually all of the significant leaks about sources and methods used in the investigation have been given to left-leaning news outlets In ...

President Trump said Friday that he hopes that the attorney general looks at the roles played by the British, Australian, and Ukrainian governments in the investigation of the Trump campaign Trump called out the allied governments when asked about his decision to authorize Barr to declassify a slew of documents related to the origins of the Russia probe ‘I hope ...