Investigation based on ‘dodgy’ Russian dossier in 3rd year with no end in sight

Investigation based on ‘dodgy’ Russian dossier in 3rd year with no end in sight

by WorldTribune Staff, July 31, 2018 The FBI on July 31, 2016 launched its investigation into the Trump campaign, relying heavily on the infamous and unverified dossier authored by ex-British spy Christopher Steele. On July 31, 2018, there is still no end in sight to the probe. To date, no Trump associate has been charged […]

How Devin Nunes found himself in Washington’s crosshairs

How Devin Nunes found himself in Washington’s crosshairs

by WorldTribune Staff, July 29, 2018 In seeking answers on the FBI’s activity during the 2016 presidential election, Rep. Devin Nunes has “provoked extraordinary partisan and institutional fury in Washington,” a report said. Nunes’s efforts have put the chairman of the House Select Committee on Intelligence in the crosshairs in D.C. “across the aisle, in […]

Federal judge orders deposition of Clinton opposition research group in Russian’s libel suit

Federal judge orders deposition of Clinton opposition research group in Russian’s libel suit

by WorldTribune Staff, July 29, 2018 A federal judge in Miami is requiring the firm which played a major role in distributing the unverified Trump dossier to undergo a deposition in a libel suit filed by a Russian entrepreneur against the news site which first published Christopher Steele’s December 2016 memo in full. Judge Ursula […]

Multiple links tie Hillary Clinton’s opposition research to continued Russia probe

Multiple links tie Hillary Clinton’s opposition research to continued Russia probe

by WorldTribune Staff, July 27, 2018 Major media analysts and assorted fact-checkers have asserted that Hillary Clinton never used the infamous “dossier” that her campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) paid for. But, “a check of the public record shows otherwise,” Rowan Scarborough noted in a July 26 analysis for The Washington Times. “Although […]

Documents reveal FBI misled FISA court on sourcing, used anti-Trump media reports

Documents reveal FBI misled FISA court on sourcing, used anti-Trump media reports

by WorldTribune Staff, July 23, 2018 The FBI misrepresented its findings to the FISA court on several fronts in order to secure a wiretap to spy on Trump campaign associate Carter Page, recently released documents show. “The FBI continued to tell judges that dossier writer Christopher Steele wasn’t the source of a news article the bureau used to corroborate […]

Report: BuzzFeed, FBI embraced, did not seek to verify Russia dossier

Report: BuzzFeed, FBI embraced, did not seek to verify Russia dossier

by WorldTribune Staff, July 13, 2018 None of the charges made in ex-British spy Christopher Steele’s so-called Trump dossier have been confirmed. Yet, BuzzFeed published the dossier and the FBI used it as a springboard to launch the investigation into alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. And neither have been able to verify […]

State Dept. had access to Steele dossier before FBI; U.S. embassy in London played key role

State Dept. had access to Steele dossier before FBI; U.S. embassy in London played key role

by WorldTribune Staff, June 22, 2018 The Obama State Department had access to parts of the discredited Trump dossier before the FBI had obtained the document, a report said. “State Department officials obtained and reviewed parts of the infamous Steele dossier by mid-July 2016, well before FBI headquarters had access to the document,” The Daily […]

‘Elaborate hoax’: Manafort’s attorney cites Mueller’s confirmation no evidence exists

‘Elaborate hoax’: Manafort’s attorney cites Mueller’s confirmation no evidence exists

Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, May 28, 2018 “[A]n examination of the year-old official public record” reveals that special counsel Robert Mueller has failed to find evidence supporting the hypothesis justifying his investigation, according to a report by Rowan Scarborough. The lack of such data did not prevent the major U.S. media from establishing a rationale […]

Brief: Mueller admits failure in finding evidence Manafort communicated with Russian officials

Brief: Mueller admits failure in finding evidence Manafort communicated with Russian officials

by WorldTribune Staff, May 4, 2018 Special counsel Robert Mueller has disclosed he lacks any evidence that former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort communicated with Russian government officials, a defense attorney for Manafort said in a brief filed in federal court. “The special counsel has not produced any materials to the defense – no tapes, […]

Nunes: ‘No intelligence’ justified FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation

Nunes: ‘No intelligence’ justified FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation

by WorldTribune Staff, April 26, 2018 The FBI’s investigation of alleged Trump-Russia collusion during the 2016 presidential campaign was a product of Democratic Party opposition research and not independent intelligence, the chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence said. “So what we found now after the investigators have reviewed it is that, in […]