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Rowan Scarborough

Articles by Rowan Scarborough

Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, waving to thousands of members of the Mujahedeen-e Khalq at Ashraf-3, their new home in Albania on June 20, 2020, at an event marking the 40th anniversary of the start of the organization's resistance against the ruling theocracy. (Photo by Siavosh Hosseini, TME)

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

In this Dec. 16, 2016, file photo, President Barack Obama speaks during a news conference in the briefing room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)  **FILE**

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

In this Dec. 1, 2017, file photo, former President Donald Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn leaves federal court in Washington. Newly released FBI documents show the FBI concluded Mr. Flynn believed he was telling the truth at the time of his interviews with bureau agents. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

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

President Donald Trump gives a thumbs-up while walking across the tarmac as he boards Air Force One at Morristown Municipal Airport, Sunday, June 14, 2020, in Morristown, N.J. Trump is returning to Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

‘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