Kremlin trolls burned across the Internet as Washington debated optionsabout 1 hour ago

WASHINGTON – The first email arrived in the inbox of CounterPunch, a left-leaning American news and opinion website, at 3:26 a.m. – the middle of the day in Moscow. The FBI was tracking Donovan as part of a months-long counterintelligence operation code-named "NorthernNight."

Political humorist identified as Roger Stone’s link to WikiLeaks: Sources

And he has repeatedly refused to answer, saying he had a "go-between" who did not wish to be named. On Tuesday, however, Randy Credico, a New York comedian and political activist who hosts his own radio show, tweeted a picture of a congressional subpoena compelling him to appear on Dec. 15 before the House Intelligence Committee investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Cambridge Analytica, Trump data firm linked to Julian Assange

The head of a data analytics firm that worked for President Trump's 2016 campaign wanted WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to help locate Hillary Clinton's missing emails, according to a report Wednesday. Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix reached out to Mr. Assange in an attempt to recover and release about 33,000 emails that were erased from Mrs. Clinton's private email server from when she was secretary of state, the Daily Beast reported.

Report: Kelly Not Letting Senate Russia Advocate Near Trump

U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher says White House Chief of Staff John Kelly is preventing him from getting information to President Donald Trump. The California Republican told Business Insider that Kelly and "a coalition of people in the White House" are keeping him from talking to the president about information that could clear WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and the Russian government in meddling in the U.S. presidential election.

Lawmaker tried negotiating deal with Trump to help WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher of California called White House Chief of Staff John Kelly this week to negotiate a deal to help WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday. The report claims that Rohrabacher, who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats, would have submitted evidence that Russia was not the source of the thousands of hacked emails published by WikiLeaks during the contentious 2016 US presidential election.

Critics fear Dana Rohrabacher creatingWikiLeaks back channel to Trump

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher of California has returned from Europe with a plan to brief President Trump on a meeting with WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange that he says touched on information disproving RussiaA s role hacking Democratic emails. The Orange County Republican visited Assange inside EcuadorA s London embassy last week and told the Washington Examiner on Thursday, shortly after his return, that "I would not talk on the telephone" with the president about the three-hour conversation.

California congressmen meets Wikileaks founder, who denies Russia was source of DNC leaks

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange told Costa Mesa congressman Dana Rohrabacher on Wednesday that Russia was not involved with leaking controversial emails from the Democratic National Committee during last year's presidential campaign. “He reaffirmed his aggressive denial that the Russians had anything to do with the hacking of the DNC during the election,” Rohrabacher said by phone from London.

Donald Trump won the election, and we don’t know whether he…

Donald Trump won the election, and we don't know whether he colluded - but he's not a legitimate president We know for sure Trump wants to shut down the Russia investigation, and that's more than enough to disgrace him Here's the biggest problem in discussing President Donald Trump's ongoing Russia scandal: Everyone has a bias, and there's no such thing as a neutral party. For many Democrats, there is the bias of wanting to retroactively vindicate Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign, despite her shocking loss in the November election.

Julian Assange: Democrats ‘Doomed’ Over Russia Issue

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Saturday that "'we didn't lose, Russia won' narrative" has "doomed" the Democrats and called on core supporters to "start a new party since the party elite shows no signs that they will give up power." "Without the 'we didn't lose, Russia won' narrative, the party's elite and those who exist under its patronage would be purged for being electorally incompetent and ideologically passe," Assange said in a statement released via his Twitter account.