The Russians? Twitter finds #ReleaseTheMemo went viral thanks to Americans

The Russians? Twitter finds #ReleaseTheMemo went viral thanks to Americans

by WorldTribune Staff, January 24, 2018 Twitter’s analytics show that the #ReleaseTheMemo social media campaign went viral because of interested Americans, not Russian troll and bot farms as Democrats had suggested. The #ReleaseTheMemo campaign seeks the release of a four-page report by Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee that alleges abuses related to the discredited […]

Blackwater founder charges Washington Post and U.S. intelligence colluded to violate his rights

Blackwater founder charges Washington Post and U.S. intelligence colluded to violate his rights

by WorldTribune Staff, December 8, 2017 The founder of the Blackwater private security firm told Congress in testimony last week that he was the subject of illegal surveillance by Obama administration operatives as confirmed by an article in The Washington Post. The combination, he charged, amounted to a hit job and “political abuse of the […]

Page: FBI used discredited dossier as template for investigation

Page: FBI used discredited dossier as template for investigation

by WorldTribune Staff, November 9, 2017 The “core foundation” of the FBI’s questioning of Trump associate Carter Page was based on the “dodgy dossier” funded by the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton campaign, Page said in congressional testimony on Nov. 2. Page testified before the House Intelligence Committee, which released a transcript of the testimony on […]

Opposition research firm behind discredited Trump dossier desperate to conceal who paid for it

Opposition research firm behind discredited Trump dossier desperate to conceal who paid for it

by WorldTribune Staff, October 25, 2017 Fusion GPS, which funded the discredited Trump dossier by a former British spy, is pulling out all the stops to keep a House committee from discovering who hired them. The firm says that a House Intelligence Committee subpoena seeking its bank records could ruin its business and put the […]

Report reveals Samantha Power as a near-daily ‘unmasker’ in final weeks of Obama era

Report reveals Samantha Power as a near-daily ‘unmasker’ in final weeks of Obama era

by WorldTribune Staff, September 21, 2017 U.S. Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power made “unmasking” requests on a daily basis in 2016 and continued making the requests in the days prior to President Donald Trump’s inauguration, a report said. Power “was ‘unmasking’ at such a rapid pace in the final months of the Obama administration […]

Susan Rice admits unmasking Trump aides Flynn, Bannon, Kushner

Susan Rice admits unmasking Trump aides Flynn, Bannon, Kushner

by WorldTribune Staff, September 20, 2017 Obama administration national security adviser Susan Rice told a congressional committee last week that she asked intelligence agencies to unmask the names of three Trump advisers, according to news reports. Rice had previously denied any role in politicizing intelligence information she had access to despite reports to the contrary. […]

Podesta takes some of the heat on Russian interference, but behind closed doors

Podesta takes some of the heat on Russian interference, but behind closed doors

by WorldTribune Staff, June 28, 2017 Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign chairman met with the House Intelligence Committee in a behind-closed-doors meeting on June 27 amid breaking news that Democrats and the Obama administration knew well before the election of Russia’s attempted meddling. John Podesta, whose hacked emails led to much embarrassment for the Clinton campaign, […]

Democrats at Comey hearing repeatedly cited ex-British spy’s discredited dossier

Democrats at Comey hearing repeatedly cited ex-British spy’s discredited dossier

by WorldTribune Staff, March 22, 2017 In questioning FBI Director James Comey and NSA chief Mike Rogers, several Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee on March 20 referenced the so-called “Trump dossier” which has been widely dismissed as a subsidized work of fiction. The dossier by former British spy Christopher Steele suggested the Russians had […]

Comey sheds light on Russians’ thought process about Hillary Clinton’s chances

Comey sheds light on Russians’ thought process about Hillary Clinton’s chances

by WorldTribune Staff, March 21, 2017 Like most U.S. pollsters and pundits, the Russians apparently felt Donald Trump had no chance of winning the presidency so set out to undermine Hillary Clinton, FBI Director James Comey said on March 20. “Late in the summer they concluded based on the polling that a lot of people […]

Hemingway and Trump: Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean the FBI isn’t on your case

Hemingway and Trump: Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean the FBI isn’t on your case

by WorldTribune Staff, March 21, 2017 Bestselling novelist Jack Engelhard notes that U.S. President Donald Trump “can take heart from Ernest Hemingway…” In the last years of his life, Hemingway “was especially fearful of the FBI and the IRS” and believed “he was being wiretapped,” Engelhard, author of Indecent Proposal, wrote for Israel’s Arutz Sheva […]