Tonight, we sit down with classicist and historian Victor Davis Hanson to discuss the rise of critical social justice and woke ideology, growing limits on freedom of speech, and his take on the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump. “It’s like a public-shaming like the Communist Party used to make people wear dunce […]

Declassified notes of the FBI’s interview with former British spy Christopher Steele show that he betrayed the FBI by leaking to the media at the direction of his client, Hillary Clinton, because the FBI had reopened the investigation into Clinton’s use of an unauthorized private email server to conduct government work. Just the News obtained […]

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Thursday released interview transcripts from an inquiry into the FBI’s Trump-Russia probe, code-named Crossfire Hurricane, claiming the documents show incompetence and corruption at the heart of the investigation. Graham, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, released hundreds of pages of transcripts from the committee’s inquiry into the origins of the […]

Former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page alleges that an FBI counterintelligence agent used an alias during multiple interviews with him in 2017, a tactic that one former FBI official describes as highly unusual. Page leveled the allegation on Friday in a $75 million lawsuit against the FBI, Justice Department, and multiple current and former FBI […]

The FBI relied heavily on news articles and open sources in its efforts to corroborate claims in the infamous Steele dossier that was used to obtain a spy warrant on members of the Trump 2016 presidential campaign, according to a recently declassified spreadsheet kept by bureau analysts. CBS News reporter Catherine Herridge and Just the […]

A federal judge on Aug. 17 dismissed a defamation lawsuit filed by former Trump national security aide Carter Page.

The primary source for the infamous Steele dossier was a business analyst from Russia who lived in Washington, the source’s attorney confirmed to The Epoch Times on July 26. Following the lead of open-source reporting by internet sleuths, The Epoch Times identified and contacted the analyst, Igor Danchenko, on July 19, but received no response […]

A British court on July 8 ordered Christopher Steele to pay damages to Russian businessmen who sued him over claims in one of the memos in Steele’s infamous dossier. In a lengthy opinion, High Court of England and Wales Justice Mark Warby ruled that Steele and his company, Orbis Business Intelligence, failed to properly verify […]

What is in the surprising timeline of events surrounding President Obama’s January 5, 2017 Oval Office meeting where former Trump national security advisor Michael Flynn was discussed? What is “unmasking,” and were the unmaskings of General Flynn routine intelligence work, as some claim? And what do we discover when we put key events, described in […]

The story of a man who supposedly was the “central” source of some of the most outrageous allegations regarding President Donald Trump in the Steele dossier has been full of contradictory claims and speculation. Read original article here.

A claim by a former senior FBI official that there was no indication of Russian disinformation in the 2016 Clinton campaign’s anti-Trump dossier has been contradicted by newly declassified information. The FBI learned in January 2017 that a part of the dossier was assessed by a certain source to be a product of Russian disinformation, […]

Several Republican lawmakers have raised the concern that the FBI was fed Russian disinformation and used it as a justification to spy on Americans, a concern that’s been exacerbated by revelations in the Dec. 9, 2019, report by the Justice Department’s Inspector General (IG). The report revealed that the FBI applied for a deeply intrusive […]

President Donald Trump’s former campaign aide Carter Page filed a lawsuit against the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the Perkins Coie law firm over the salacious and unverified dossier they helped fund that was produced by ex-British spy Christopher Steele. The lawsuit, filed this week in the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of Illinois, […]

WASHINGTON—Eleven pages of State Department documents released on Jan. 7 in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch show that Jonathan Winer, an assistant to then-Secretary of State John Kerry, used his private email address to convey information he received from former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele to top U.S. diplomatic […]

Former British spy Christopher Steele spread other accusations against President Donald Trump that were not included in his well-publicized, discredited dossier, according to the Justice Department’s report on FBI misconduct during Operation Crossfire Hurricane. The report by Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz, published earlier this month, showed that claims made by Steele were used by […]

Commentary Anyone who watched more than a few minutes of the painful hearings with former special counsel Robert Mueller on July 24 discovered a sad truth the Democrats and many in the media continue to hide: Mueller neither wrote his report, nor did he master the content of it. Repeatedly during the day, the former […]

Former special counsel Robert Mueller said while testifying to Congress on July 24 that he was “not familiar” with Fusion GPS, the intelligence firm behind the infamous dossier filled with unsubstantiated claims about President Donald Trump and used by Trump’s opponents to claim the president was potentially being blackmailed by Russia. Rep. Steve Chabot (R-Ohio) […]

News Analysis A recently released State Department memo revealed that dossier author Christopher Steele met with Kathleen Kavalec, then-deputy assistant secretary for European and Eurasian affairs, on Oct. 11, 2016, just 10 days prior to the FBI obtaining a FISA warrant on Trump campaign adviser Carter Page on Oct. 21, 2016. Notably, Victoria Nuland is […]

Newly released notes revealed the apparent political purposes of the infamous Steele dossier which was used by the FBI to secure a warrant to spy on former Trump campaign associate Carter Page. Lindsey Graham, the Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman, sent a letter (pdf) to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on May 10 requesting that the […]

Eyebrows were raised among Democratic officials and activists on Jan. 21 when Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) announced her 2020 presidential nomination bid and listed Marc Elias as her campaign’s general counsel. Elias, head of the Perkins Coie LLP law firm’s political law practice, is among the Democratic Party’s top campaign finance experts and a recognized […]

In the days following the firing of FBI Director James Comey by President Donald Trump, the FBI, under Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, sought to re-engage with former MI6 spy and author of the Steele dossier, Christopher Steele.  The FBI’s attempts to re-engage Steele, who had been fired by the FBI six months earlier for […]

Commentary As the long-cherished Trump–Russia election collusion narrative of the political left trudges slowly to its grave, some members of the mainstream media just can’t let it go. Desperate stories from frantic reporters trying to save the narrative attest to this. First, we had the Guardian putting out an absurd story in late November about […]

News Analysis On Aug. 9, reporter John Solomon at The Hill released a report containing several bombshells, the biggest of which was the revelation that a key source used for “much of” the Steele dossier’s Trump–Russia allegations was a former Russian intelligence officer that resides in the United States. Bruce Ohr, the Department of Justice’s […]

News Analysis A little-known FBI unit played an outsized role in allowing controversial claims by a former British MI6 spy about Donald Trump to reach the highest levels of the FBI and State Department. The Eurasian Organized Crime unit, which was headed by Michael Gaeta at the time, specializes in investigating criminal groups from Georgia, […]

News Analysis Bruce Ohr, the fourth-highest-ranking official at the Department of Justice (DOJ), actively shared information he received from former MI6 spy Christopher Steele with the FBI, after the agency had terminated Steele as a source. Interactions between Ohr and Steele stretched for months into the first year of Trump’s presidency and were documented in […]

The House Judiciary Committee is looking to interview—and will subpoena if necessary—Justice Department (DOJ) official Bruce Ohr and his wife, Nellie Ohr, along with several current and former FBI and DOJ officials. “We plan to interview the people noted in the coming weeks and we will issue subpoenas to compel their attendance if necessary,” a committee […]

The Federal Bureau of Investigation “admonished” former British spy Christopher Steele eight months before using his anti-Trump opposition research dossier to apply for a warrant to spy on former Trump campaign volunteer Carter Page, according to documents released by the agency on Aug. 3. The admonishment shows the FBI had a working relationship with Steele […]

BuzzFeed News sued the Democratic National Committee (DNC) Tuesday to force the release of information that the news outlet hopes will help it defend against a lawsuit related to the Steele dossier. BuzzFeed is seeking digital information that could shed light on the cyber attacks against the DNC during the presidential campaign. The news outlet […]

Fusion GPS, the firm behind a controversial dossier on Donald Trump, paid journalists who reported on topics related to alleged Russian interference in the elections, court documents show. The documents, filed in the District of Columbia by the deputy general counsel for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Scott Glabe, show that at least […]

The infamous “Trump dossier” was funded by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the Clinton campaign during the 2016 election. Who would have thought it? Before the news broke, Trump joked (or was he not joking?) a couple of times on Twitter that the DNC, Hillary Clinton, or the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had […]