Rowan Scarborough
Articles by Rowan Scarborough
Peter Strzok: FBI Crossfire Hurricane watching Trump the day he took oath of office
FBI Agent Peter Strzok and his FBI Crossfire Hurricane unit were focused on the White House during President Trump's inauguration celebration, so much so that the "angry" agent complained he was kept out of the loop on a bureau counter-intelligence briefing there. Published July 17, 2020
National Council of Resistance of Iran expand annual summit with virtual event
The world's largest Iranian dissident organization is set to activate its annual global summit Friday, overcoming the social distancing COVID-19 era with a virtual event that aims to link potentially millions of supporters at 30,000 locations in more than 100 countries to calls for Iran's theocratic dictatorship to be replaced by a democracy. Published July 15, 2020
Andrew Weissmann says Roger Stone now key to removing Trump
Andrew Weissmann, the Democratic Party donor who became Robert Mueller's right-hand-man in trying to bring down President Trump, has a new way to get the president. Published July 13, 2020
Democratic Presidents Clinton, Obama left a legacy of political pardoning
President Trump on Friday commuted the three-plus-years prison sentence of former adviser Roger Stone for misleading Congress, prompting the expected outrage from his political detractors. But clemency for politically connected individuals knows no party monopoly. Published July 11, 2020
FBI shut down Michael Flynn probe but didn’t lock it up
Defense attorney Sidney Powell has mounted a tenacious battle to convince the Justice Department and the courts that her client, retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, deserves a clean slate in what she claims was an FBI set-up to get him to lie about a phone call with a Russian diplomat. Published July 9, 2020
Michael Flynn-Svetlana Lokhova relationship claims pushed by Stefan Halper, liberal media: lawsuit
Retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn is nearing victory in his battle with the FBI, but the liberal media raised rumors in a parallel operation about the career intelligence officer, his appearance at a dinner in Cambridge, England, and a Russia-born, British citizen scholar. Published July 8, 2020
Dossier author Christopher Steele loses suit against billionaire Moscow bankers
Christopher Steele has lost his first court case brought by targets of his infamous dossier that falsely accused President Trump and his aides of a conspiracy with the Kremlin in the 2016 election. Published July 8, 2020
Chuck Grassley says DoD office that paid FBI spy Stefan Halper ‘has lost its way’
Sen. Charles E. Grassley, Iowa Republican and Senate Finance Committee chairman, is seeking to cut in half the budget for an in-house Pentagon think tank, citing in part dubious contracts awarded to the FBI's main spy in its Trump-Russia probe. Published July 4, 2020
Chuck Grassley: DoD office that paid FBI spy Halper ‘has lost its way’
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley is seeking to cut in half the budget for an in-house Pentagon think tank, citing in part dubious contracts awarded to Stefan Halper, the FBI's main spy in its Trump-Russia probe. Published July 3, 2020
Donald Trump, Jeff Sessions, Sergey Kislyak Mayflower Hotel speech drove empty Russia scandal
Attorney General William P. Barr may have one particular storyline in mind when he says liberal media were doing "all they could to sensationalize and drive" the empty Russia scandal: the Mayflower Hotel. Published June 29, 2020
Michael Flynn probe represents broader Obama administration assault on Trump presidency
The collapse of the Obama administration's dogged pursuit of retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn has come to represent a broader assault on the Trump campaign, transition and presidency that Attorney General William P. Barr has concluded amounted to FBI "sabotage." Published June 24, 2020
‘We caught them’: Donald Trump hits FBI leaders on dossier hoax
It has been two months since Washington learned that the Kremlin fed anti-Trump disinformation into the infamous dossier, and there had been no reaction from the president. That is until now. During an exclusive Oval Office interview last week with The Washington Times, President Trump was asked about Russian lies targeting him through the FBI-favored, Democratic Party-funded dossier. Published June 22, 2020
Chuck Grassley asks Pentagon official if he leaked Michael Flynn information to press
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley is pressing a Pentagon official to disclose more about his source relationship with The Washington Post's David Ignatius, whose January 2017 column triggered the FBI to target retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn. Published June 21, 2020
Intelligence document highlights FBI’s faith in anti-Trump dossier
A newly declassified intelligence document underscores the FBI's absolute commitment to the discredited Christopher Steele dossier even to the point of providing the CIA its most damaging allegations against then-President-elect Trump. Published June 14, 2020
Devin Nunes says Rod Rosenstein’s testimony shows investigation driven by dossier
Rep. Devin Nunes of California says former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein's Senate testimony last week shows that the special counsel probe into President Trump was driven by the discredited Democratic Party-financed dossier. Published June 7, 2020
Lancet, renowned medical journal, backtracks on celebrated anti-hydroxychloroquine paper
The editors of The Lancet, a London-based journal renowned for accurate medical research, are disclosing "serious scientific questions" about a paper they published May 22 knocking the use of the Trump-endorsed hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19. Published June 4, 2020
Coronavirus will make China leader in ‘new world order’: Beijing propaganda
China's propaganda machine is telling the Arab world that the coronavirus pandemic will propel the communist regime to a "leading role in the new world order," supplanting the United States. Published June 3, 2020
Antifa: End ‘whiteness’ as a race, stop funding police departments
A prime goal of far-left Antifa is to rid America of "whiteness" as a race, according to a handbook written by a historian who helped organize the anarchist "Occupy Wall Street" movement in 2011. Published June 1, 2020
Eric Swalwell battles with Richard Grenell on Twitter about Trump-Russia collusion
Democrats have not given up on selling a Trump-Russia election conspiracy, according to Rep. Eric Swalwell's Twitter battle with former acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell. Published May 31, 2020
U.S. health experts, WHO differ over coronavirus protocols
The U.S. and the World Health Organization do not agree on two major virus blockers -- masks and social distance -- resulting in inconsistent public advice on how to prevent COVID-19 infections. Published May 31, 2020