Rowan Scarborough
Articles by Rowan Scarborough
Susan Rice: Edward Snowden may hold key in ‘unmasking’ scandal
The question of what kinds of communications got Donald Trump aides caught up in incidental U.S. wiretaps may be answered by the ultra-leaker on such matters: Edward Snowden. Published April 4, 2017
Al Qaeda comeback widens terror war for Donald Trump
Al Qaeda is making a comeback in the Middle East and North Africa by expanding its armies and infiltrating new territories, complicating President Trump's priority of destroying the world's other major Salafist Sunni group, the Islamic State. Published April 2, 2017
Noncitizens voting research irks liberal professors
More than 90 political scientists have signed an open letter calling for the blacklisting of studies done by Virginia professors who estimated that thousands, and perhaps millions, of noncitizens register to vote and vote illegally in U.S. elections. Published March 29, 2017
Ricardo Branch, Army sergeant, faces discharge for email to brass about classified data
The Army is booting out a 13-year public affairs sergeant for including in an unclassified government email the same information about a special operations unit and Osama bin Laden found on Army.mil web pages. Published March 26, 2017
Discredited dossier detailing Trump, Russian collusion embraced by Democrats
In trying to bolster a discredited dossier by a former British spy, Rep. Adam B. Schiff on Monday recounted the document's telling of a supposed meeting between an informal Donald Trump adviser and a Russian oligarch. Published March 21, 2017
Noncitizens voting across U.S., Frederick County count suggests
The debate over noncitizens voting was a hot topic a few years ago in Frederick County, a prosperous Maryland suburb wedged between Washington's urban metropolis and the state's rural western gateway to the rest of America. Published March 19, 2017
Navy SEALs found Yemeni enemies well-prepared for combat in deadly raid
An after-action review of the deadly SEAL Team 6 raid of a terrorist compound in Yemen shows that the Jan. 29 mission was not compromised, but it also concludes that the enemy was more ready to fight than expected and that women in one building surprised the commandos by firing weapons. Published March 15, 2017
Donald Trump’s Coast Guard cutter cut prompts bipartisan protest
A Republican congressman has upped the pressure on President Trump over proposed cuts to the Coast Guard budget, asking House appropriators to restore $500 million that the White House erased for a new national security cutter, the Coast Guard's largest to protect the homeland. Published March 14, 2017
Iran counter-drone weapon, jamming device takes warfare to next level
Iran has deployed a new counter-drone weapon -- a rifle-shaped jamming device that the regime says can electronically separate a remotely piloted aircraft from its command pilot and even reprogram it to turn on its owner. Published March 12, 2017
Iranian leader, military use billions of dollars for terror ops, weapons, dissidents’ ebook says
Iran has spent up to $100 billion the last five years financing operations in Syria, says a new ebook by Iranian dissidents. Published March 8, 2017
H.R. McMaster, national security adviser, supports Donald Trump’s goal to defeat ISIS
When Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, President's Trump's national security adviser, appeared at a Washington think tank last year, he asserted that the Islamic State terrorist group "can't be contained." Published March 5, 2017
Chris Coons walks back talk of Russia-Trump collusion
Sen. Chris Coons, Delaware Democrat, on Sunday walked back his bombshell declaration about transcripts showing Russia-Trump collusion, saying he had no proof such documents exist and apologizing for any "hyperventilating." Published March 5, 2017
Chris Coons: FBI may possess transcripts showing ‘collusion’ between Trump campaign, Russia
Sen. Christopher Coons set the liberal Twitter world ablaze Friday night when he told MSNBC that the FBI has transcripts of intercepted calls that may spell out collusion between President Trump's campaign and top Russians, maybe even President Vladimir Putin. Published March 4, 2017
Donald Trump rapped for inattention, lack of funding for Coast Guard: ‘Nonsensical’
President Trump's pledge Tuesday night in an address to Congress to rebuild the military did not include the armed services' fifth branch -- the U.S. Coast Guard. Published March 2, 2017
Noncitizens lurking on Virginia voter rolls
When Virginia Delegate Robert Marshall asked the state's 133 local governments to provide numbers on noncitizens and jury pools, Loudoun County produced some hefty figures. Published March 1, 2017
Homeland Security report undercutting Donald Trump’s travel ban drafted to be leaked to press
Trump administration officials believe that a Department of Homeland Security report that undercut the president's position on his travel ban was drafted with the express intent of leaking it to the press, a source close to the department says. Published February 26, 2017
Coast Guard icebreakers in Arctic vital to U.S. access
Russian President Vladimir Putin not only is lurking in the Middle East and Eastern Europe but also is building up military forces in the expansive Arctic as the U.S. watches. Published February 19, 2017
Nearly 2 million non-citizen Hispanics illegally registered to vote
A large number of non-citizen Hispanics, as many as 2 million, were illegally registered to vote in the U.S., according to a nationwide poll. Published February 15, 2017
Army depicted Hillary Clinton as insider threat in cyber security training
The U.S. Army depicted former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as an insider threat in a Powerpoint presentation to soldiers on cyber security. Published February 15, 2017
Iran growing network to train foreign terrorists, dissident group says
Iran's hard-line Islamic regime has escalated its overseas terrorist operations, establishing a network of over a dozen internal training camps for foreign fighters, the regime's largest resistance group said at a press conference on Tuesday in Washington. Published February 14, 2017
