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Donald Trump says documents released by the FBI relating to his former adviser Carter Page's Russian ties show his 2016 presidential campaign was illegally spied upon by US law enforcement, but the president has offered no evidence to support his assertion. In a series of Twitter posts on Sunday, Trump also accused the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Justice of misleading the courts during a probe of Russian interference in the election, but did not elaborate.
US President Donald Trump has asserted without evidence that newly-released documents relating to the wiretapping of his former campaign adviser Carter Page "confirm with little doubt" that intelligence agencies misled the court that approved the warrant. But politicians from both political parties said the documents do not show wrongdoing and that they even appear to undermine some previous claims by top Republicans on the basis for obtaining a warrant against Mr Page.
President Donald Trump tweeted that newly released documents on the wiretapping of onetime campaign adviser Carter Page, who has been interviewed about potential ties to Russia and denied Sunday he ever was an "agent of a foreign power," show that intelligence agencies misled the court that approved the warrant. Page, previously interviewed by FBI about Russia ties, says he's 'never been the agent of a foreign power' The FBI released documents on Saturday related to the surveillance of former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, left, as part of an investigation into whether he conspired with the Russian government to undermine the election.
President Donald Trump's administration has disclosed a previously top-secret set of documents related to the wiretapping of Carter Page, the former Trump campaign adviser who was at the center of accusations by Republicans that the FBI had abused its surveillance powers. Democrats in February rejected the claims by Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee that law enforcement officials had improperly obtained the warrant, accusing them of putting out misinformation to defend Trump and sow doubts about the origin of the Russia investigation.
A Laconia man was sentenced to 50 months in federal prison for methamphetamine trafficking, U.S. Attorney Scott Murray announced Friday. Peter Dauphin, 45, sold "ice" methamphetamine to an buyer cooperating with law enforcement officers on five separate occasions in April and May 2017, according to court documents and statements made in court.
The FBI has released documents on the surveillance of former Trump presidential campaign adviser Carter Page as part of a probe into whether he conspired with the Russian government to undermine the 2016 US election. The 412 pages, mostly heavily redacted and made public by the Federal Bureau of Investigation late on Saturday, included surveillance applications to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and warrants surrounding the investigation into Page.
In the barrage of headlines about President Donald Trump and Russian meddling in the 2016 election, the head of the FBI sat down and offered his thoughts Wednesday on an assortment of issues, including the president's meeting this week with Russian President Vladimir Putin. FBI Director Christopher Wray, in an interview with NBC's Lester Holt at the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado, was very clear that Russia "continues to engage in malign influence efforts to this day."
THE ENDURING image of the U.S.-Russia summit in Helsinki on Monday will be that of President Trump standing next to VladiA mir Putin and suggesting he found Mr. Putin's " powerful " denial at least as persuasive as the U.S. intelligence community's unanimous finding that Russia intervened in the 2016 election. Coupled with another groundless attack on the FBI and an apparent endorsement of a patently disingenuous offer by Mr. Putin to collaborate with the investigation of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, Mr. Trump appeared to align himself with the Kremlin against American law enforcement before the Russian ruler and a global audience.
FBI employees' attitudes about the agency's leadership have worsened over the past year, according to the FBI's most recent "climate survey." The survey, obtained by the national security blog Lawfare through a FOIA lawsuit, reveals that employees do not necessarily agree with FBI Director Christopher Wray's "vision."
The lengths to which the FBI relied on the Hillary Clinton opposition research dossier to investigate her political rival came into sharper focus with the testimony of the lead investigator, FBI agent Peter Strzok. Mr. Strzok told a joint House committee last week that the FBI received from Associate Attorney General Bruce Ohr a raft of documents - including sections of the anti- Trump dossier - during the investigation into Russia election interference.
A day after the Special Counsel looking into Russian interference in the 2016 elections returned a new series of indictments against specific Russian intelligence agents, and just before his first summit with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, President Donald Trump on Saturday blamed the Obama Administration for not doing enough to stop Russia's cyber meddling during his bid for the White House two years ago. "The stories you heard about the 12 Russians yesterday took place during the Obama Administration, not the Trump Administration," the President tweeted from Scotland, where he is spending the weekend at his Turnberry golf resort.
Earlier in the week, former FBI deputy assistant director for counterintelligence and known adulterer Peter Strzok testified before a joint hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and the House Judiciary Committee. I'm not sure what we learned from this beyond seeing just how creepy and unbalanced Strzok is and wondering why any woman would talk to him much less have an extramarital affair.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation's internal process for firearms-related background checks is gearing up for a change. A secondary system, known as the National Data Exchange , will be implemented in conjunction with the National Instant Criminal Background Check System , National Public Radio reported.
The long-awaited questioning of the FBI agent at the heart of the 2016 election probe was always expected to be one for the history books. But Congress outdid itself.
A painting by the modernist master Robert Motherwell that disappeared from a New York warehouse in 1978 and was presumed stolen has been returned after 40 years, federal law enforcement officials announced. U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman unveiled the 1967 painting, "Untitled," at a Manhattan news conference on Thursday where he was joined by FBI officials who helped return the artwork to the foundation that owns the bulk of Motherwell's artworks.
ROCHESTER, Pa/ - The FBI is renewing their call for help 24 years after a teenager went missing from Beaver County and was later discovered dead in Ohio. Fourteen-year-old Sarah Boehm was last seen alive on July 14, 1994 leaving her home in Rochester.
There are times when you watch what's happening in American politics and come to believe you've fallen through the rabbit hole, to a place where everything is upside down. Today was one of those times, as FBI agent Peter Strzok testified in a public hearing before the House Judiciary Committee, the latest chapter in the saga of Republican attempts to prove that any and all investigation into Russia's attempt to manipulate the 2016 election and the Trump campaign's eager cooperation with that effort is a "witch hunt."
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein speaks during a news conference on July 11, 2018, at the Department of Justice in Washington. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein speaks during a news conference on July 11, 2018, at the Department of Justice in Washington.
Peter Strzok, the FBI agent who sent anti-Trump texts, engaged in angry exchanges with House Republicans Thursday as he testified for the first time in public at a joint hearing before the House Judiciary and Oversight committees. One of the first exchanges began when Rep. Trey Gowdy, A South Carolina Republican, said he "didn't give a damn" as Strzok tried to explain the "context" around the texts including one that said "we will stop it," referring to then-candidate Donald Trump.
Note: this isn't our normal fare on WUWT, but we do occasionally carry political pieces. What makes this interesting is that Steve McIntyre is involved in researching it.