Rowan Scarborough
Articles by Rowan Scarborough
Pharmaceutical firm Aytu BioScience testing UV light treatment
President Trump has been mocked relentlessly for suggesting that ultraviolet light could be brought "inside the body" to kill the coronavirus, but there is ongoing research to do just that. Published April 26, 2020
Michael Flynn attorney claims ‘stunning’ new evidence
The attorney for retired Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn says the Justice Department has provided "stunning" new evidence that proves the former Trump national security officer was "framed" by FBI agents. Published April 25, 2020
Christopher Steele: My anti-Trump dossier records destroyed
Christopher Steele says his computer records for research to write a Democratic Party-financed anti-Donald Trump dossier no longer exist. Published April 24, 2020
FBI forced Christopher Steele’s Trump dossier into intelligence community’s election assessment
Officials included a reference to the anti-Trump dossier in the intelligence community's 2017 Russia election assessment only as a "compromise" with the FBI, which "would have had a major problem" if the document was ignored, according to a Senate report. Published April 23, 2020
Pompeo threatens WHO with permanent cash cutoff
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the U.S. may "never return" to funding the World Health Organization because of the way it operates, including the COVID-19 crisis. Published April 23, 2020
Richard Grenell rejects Adam Schiff’s bid to control national intelligence
Acting-Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell has dinged Rep. Adam Schiff in a new letter, expressing surprise the Trump foe didn't praise the appointment of two women to head counter-terrorism unit and rejecting the congressman's belief that lawmakers control the DNI's day-to-day management decisions. Published April 21, 2020
Richard Grenell reveals Russia fed Christopher Steele disinformation
Two Republican senators knew of some explosive details lurking inside an inspector general's report when on April 2 they reached out to Richard Grenell, the newly installed acting director of national intelligence who was already making his mark in just two months. Published April 19, 2020
China falsely telling Arab world U.S. source for coronavirus: MEMRI
A media research group has released the transcript of a China-produced Arabic-language news report to show how Beijing's propaganda machine is blaming the coronavirus on America. Published April 18, 2020
Belt and road and ‘bribes’: Cotton says China paid off home country of WHO boss
Sen. Tom Cotton said today communist China paid "bribes" to Ethiopia when World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom was a cabinet minister there. Published April 17, 2020
Vladimir Putin, Christopher Steele networked with oligarchs
A newly declassified section of a Justice Department inspector general's report shows not only that the Kremlin fed disinformation for the anti-Trump dossier but also that Vladimir Putin was in a good position to know about it. Published April 15, 2020
NORAD orders release of photos of U.S. troops in action ‘to reassure the American public’
The command for protecting the U.S. stateside has sent an order telling public affairs units to release photos of troops in action "to reassure the American public they don't have to worry about homeland defense" during the COVID-19 era. Published April 13, 2020
Coronavirus hits Italy, Spain, France harder than U.S.
Europe's five largest nations have suffered more than three times the coronavirus deaths as the United States, though collectively they have about the same population. Published April 12, 2020
Dr. Anthony Fauci: China misled the world; coronavirus erupted in mid-December
Dr. Anthony Fauci says that human-to-human transmission of COVID-19 diseases erupted in China in mid-December, yet the communist regime told the U.S. and the world that the virus was only transmitted animal-to-human. Published April 12, 2020
FBI sabotaged Trump’s presidency: Barr
Attorney General William Barr says that what the FBI did to President Trump in the Russia probe was one of the "greatest travesties in American history." Published April 10, 2020
Pentagon says COVID report cited by ABC doesn’t exist
The Pentagon says a supposed intelligence report cited by ABC News on an emerging COVID-19 pandemic doesn't exist. Published April 9, 2020
Pentagon eyeing ‘stop loss’ order in coronavirus fight to keep troops from exiting
The Trump administration is looking at issuing a "stop loss" order in the war on coronavirus that would prevent troops from leaving service once their enlistments ended, according to a Pentagon source. Published April 7, 2020
Nation’s hospitals diagnosed as short on coronavirus staff, gear and money: IG
The frontline fighters in the war on coronavirus are lacking diagnostic tests, protective gear, and cash, the Health and Human Services Department inspector general reported on Monday. Published April 6, 2020
Donald Trump, Richard Grenell to help cull intelligence community
The Trump administration is set to pare desk jobs at the top of the intelligence community, invoking the argument that its staffs are too large and duplicative, knowledgeable sources say. Published April 5, 2020
War on COVID-19 slowing coronavirus growth: Researchers
Pantheon Macroeconomics estimates that in New York City, the American pandemic epicenter, the number of new cases daily peaked a week ago and "appears to now to be failing sharply." Published April 4, 2020
Health agencies’ reports didn’t highlight inventory shortfalls
The federal watchdog for the department that includes the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a total of four press statements on its website in 2019-20, and three of them dealt with the health care of migrant children at the border. Published April 2, 2020