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August 18, 2020

Gregg Jarrett: Trump didn’t collude with Russia to get elected, Senate panel belatedly concludes

It took the committee three years to figure out the obvious: there is “absolutely no evidence that then-candidate Donald Trump or his campaign colluded with the Russian government to meddle in the 2016 election.”

August 18, 2020

Senate Intel says FBI gave 'unjustified credence' to Steele dossier, Russia 'took advantage' of Trump transition team

The Senate Intelligence Committee found that the FBI gave the unverified anti-Trump dossier “unjustified credence,” and that Russia “took advantage” of members of the Trump transition team’s “relative inexperience in government” in its final report as part of its years-long bipartisan Russia investigation.

August 17, 2020

Former CIA officer arrested, charged with espionage, accused of sending top-secret info to China

Former CIA officer Alexander Yuk Ching Ma was arrested Friday, on charges that he conspired with a relative who also served in the CIA to send Top Secret classified information to the People’s Republic of China (PRC). 

August 17, 2020

House Republicans demand answers on arrest of pro-life activists, cast as 'unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination'

EXCLUSIVE: Republicans on the House Judiciary and Oversight Committees are demanding answers on the arrests of pro-life protesters in Washington, D.C., in what they are calling “unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination.”

August 15, 2020

Andrew McCarthy: Michael Flynn will lose battle but win war to end his prosecution

General Michael Flynn is going to lose the battle. That was the takeaway from Tuesday’s hearing before the D.C. Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. Flynn will eventually win the war, but President Trump’s first national security adviser is still in a slog, and there are more scraps ahead.

August 15, 2020

NYC man wanted for torching NYPD car busted after taunting feds

A Queens man wanted for allegedly torching a cop car had spray-painted “TOO LATE!” on his wall to taunt the feds — but he didn’t flee fast enough and FBI agents nabbed him anyway, Brooklyn prosecutors said.

August 14, 2020

Lisa Boothe: 'Hard to believe' FBI agents weren't trying to harm Trump during Russia investigation

“It’s hard to believe the FBI agents weren’t trying to harm President Trump," said "Outnumbered" panelist Lisa Boothe Friday in response to new developments in Connecticut U.S. Attorney John Durham's probe into the of the origins of the Russia investigation.

August 14, 2020

Family of children 'kidnapped' in Saudi calls on government for proof of life

The now legal rift between ex-intel top brass Saad Aljabri and Riyadh’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) continues to grow.

August 14, 2020

Trump suggests Clinesmith guilty plea 'just the beginning' of Durham probe fallout

President Trump said Friday the news that former FBI attorney Kevin Clinesmith will plead guilty to making a false statement is "just the beginning" of the fallout from U.S. Attorney John Durham's review of the Russia investigation.

August 14, 2020

US seizure of Iran fuel bound for Venezuela was largest confiscation of its kind ever, DOJ confirms

The Justice Department (DOJ) on Friday announced the U.S. government’s “largest-ever” seizure of fuel shipments from Iran in a successful disruption of a multimillion-dollar shipment by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a designated foreign terrorist organization, that was bound for Venezuela.