Rowan Scarborough
Articles by Rowan Scarborough
Christopher Steele libel trial ends in London
For aficionados of the 2016 Trump-Russia dossier, its creator's defamation trial in London was full of twists and turns, though the plot is relatively simple: Published September 1, 2020
Donald Trump as Russian spy found nowhere in numerous investigations
Assertions by top Obama administration officials that President Trump is a Moscow intelligence asset have not been supported by a string of government investigations begun in July 2016, an analysis shows. Published August 30, 2020
Tempers flare inside team Trump as loyalists miffed over addition of controversial outsider
A foreign policy expert who played a role in trying to change the Ukraine plank in the Republican Party's platform four years ago and later criticized President Trump has nonetheless won a plum White House appointment. Published August 30, 2020
John McCain associate planned leaks to Post’s Ignatius
The associate of John McCain who spread anti-Trump dossier claims around Washington post-election planned to leak a story to Washington Post columnist David Ignatius about Paul Manafort, according to court testimony. Published August 28, 2020
Christopher Steele says FBI didn’t pay for his dossier work
Dossier creator Christopher Steele testified at a defamation trial in London that the FBI stiffed him out of payments he was due for travel in his anti-Trump investigation. Published August 27, 2020
Stefan Halper served as father-confessor/spy: Carter Page book
Stefan Halper took on the character of a sympathizing old friend when he met with Carter Page in 2016-17. The FBI confidential source was trying to see if the former Trump volunteer would incriminate himself in Russia collusion. Published August 25, 2020
White House stiffs campaign loyalists; appoints player in Ukraine platform debacle
A foreign policy expert who played a role in trying to change the Ukraine plank in the Republican Party's platform four years ago and later criticized President Trump has nonetheless won a plum White House appointment. Published August 25, 2020
Two secret documents disprove claims about Paul Manafort, his attorney says
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence's final report on Russian election interference contains a fundamentally inaccurate claim about Paul Manafort, his attorney says, and he claims that two secret documents can prove it. Published August 23, 2020
Govt. documents show six examples of Obama administration spying on Trump camp
President Trump responded to former President Barack Obama's attacks against him Wednesday night during the Democratic National Convention with the Twitter counter-charge that "he spied on my campaign." Published August 20, 2020
FBI declassified documents in Trump-Russia probe reveal pattern of duplicity
The FBI has rung up a striking record of falsehoods and misleading testimony during the bureau's Russia investigation of Donald Trump, according to a public records examination. Published August 16, 2020
Stefan Halper, FBI spy, foretold Michael Flynn’s fall, ex-student says
A onetime associate of FBI spy Stefan Halper says the University of Cambridge professor told him that retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn was "unsuitable" for the post of President Trump's national security adviser and added, "I don't think Flynn's going to be around long." Published August 10, 2020
Lindsey Graham says FBI claim on Christopher Steele source is ‘new crime’
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham on Sunday accused the FBI of committing a "new crime" before a Senate committee in 2018 when the bureau testified that a key source backed up Christopher Steele and his anti-Trump dossier when in fact the source had not. Published August 9, 2020
Clinton accuser burned personal journal; kept infamous photo of Prince Andrew
Virginia Giuffre, a prime accuser of Jeffrey Epstein and partner Ghislaine Maxwell, testified four years ago that she had kept a detailed journal of her forced role in the two's global sex trafficking, but then she burned it in a backyard bonfire. Published August 1, 2020
Black Lives Matter anti-police brutality crusade obscures violent, Marxist agenda
Beyond Black Lives Matter's drive to eliminate police brutality is a far more extensive leftist ideology that would upend American economic and social life, according to an examination of BLM leaders' writings and interviews. Published July 27, 2020
Igor Danchenko outed as Steele dossier source
The shadowy figure who funneled information to Christopher Steele for his notorious election year dossier is Igor Danchenko, a Ukraine-born, Russian-educated researcher who worked in the U.S. and traveled to Moscow to find supposed dirt on candidate Donald Trump. Published July 26, 2020
FBI disguised intentions in Donald Trump ‘briefing,’ declassified documents show
The FBI bought its Russia probe directly to candidate Donald Trump in August 2016, disguising its intentions as a routine counterintelligence briefing on spy threats, newly declassified documents show. Published July 23, 2020
Lockdowns, testing don’t cut COVID deaths: Lancet
Two of the U.S.'s major weapons against the coronavirus---lockdowns and wide testing--do not reduce death rates, according to a study posted in the British medical journal Lancet. Published July 23, 2020
Christopher Steele Trump dossier relied on mystery man, hearsay
A man of mystery in Moscow who fed a cache of anti-Trump hearsay to Christopher Steele in London for his notorious dossier relied on six sources: five friends and a 30-minute call from an anonymous person he never could identify, a newly declassified FBI document shows. Published July 20, 2020
Christopher Steele libel trial — tied to debunked dossier — opens in London
A defamation suit against dossier creator Christopher Steele went to trial in London today, as Russian entrepreneur Aleksej Gubarev made his case that Mr. Steele committed libel by wrongly accusing him of hacking Democratic Party computers in 2016. Published July 20, 2020
New document shows FBI totally debunked New York Times Trump-Russia story
One of the most glaringly bogus Trump-Russia stories by The New York Times in 2017 was picked apart inside the FBI at the time as containing over a dozen major inaccuracies, a newly disclosed document shows. Published July 18, 2020