Commentary It’s an open question whether the Commission on Presidential Debates should be abolished altogether or completely reconstituted, but it’s clear now that the current members should resign immediately. They were about as even-handed in their choice of moderators as The New York Times was in its coverage of Trump–Russia “collusion”—in other words, utterly biased. […]

Editorial It’s been nearly four years since the 2016 elections, during which the FBI, with the help of the CIA, conducted a criminal investigation of the Trump campaign. Yet, while the probe—which eventually evolved into the special counsel investigation—has long been concluded, Americans continue to remain in the dark about what exactly transpired and whether […]

Former CIA Director John Brennan on Oct. 6 accused the Trump administration of selectively declassifying agency records for political gain. “It is appalling his selective declassification of information that clearly is designed to advance the political interests of Donald Trump and Republicans who are aligned with him,” Brennan told CNN on Oct. 6. Director of […]

President Donald Trump announced in a Twitter post late on Tuesday he has authorized the “total” declassification of all documents relating to the Russia collusion and Hillary Clinton email probes. “I have fully authorized the total Declassification of any & all documents pertaining to the single greatest political CRIME in American History, the Russia Hoax. […]

The head of the U.S. intelligence community on Oct. 6 declassified a referral sent from the CIA to FBI Director James Comey in 2016, which Comey last week claimed to have no memory of receiving. The three-page referral, released by Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe to members of Congress in partly redacted form, apprised […]

White House chief of staff Mark Meadows told Fox News on Monday that President Donald Trump is working on declassifying documents related to the Russia investigation while he is working from Walter Reed hospital after being diagnosed with COVID-19. “This morning we’ve already had a couple of discussions on items that he wants to get […]

President Donald Trump has directed White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to begin the process of declassifying more documents tied to the Obama administration’s investigation and spying on the Trump 2016 presidential campaign. “He’s already tasked me with getting some declassification rolling, in a follow up to some of the requests that Devin Nunes […]

The Senate Judiciary Committee is postponing a hearing with Andrew McCabe, the former FBI deputy director, after several senators tested positive or were possibly exposed to COVID-19. Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) made the announcement on Monday that the hearing, scheduled for Tuesday, was postponed. It’s not clear when the hearing will be […]

Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe won’t be appearing before a Senate committee this week after two members of the panel tested positive for the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, his lawyer said on Oct. 3. McCabe was scheduled to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Oct. 6 to testify about the FBI’s handling of […]

In a setback for Democrats, the Supreme Court agreed Oct. 2 to hear a challenge by Arizona and state Republicans to Democratic Party efforts to relax electoral integrity measures and throw open the state to ballot harvesting and out-of-precinct voting. But oral arguments in the case have not yet been scheduled, and it doesn’t appear […]

Former FBI Director James Comey testified to Congress that he didn’t know or didn’t remember when asked numerous questions about issues with the investigation on alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. Comey presided over the probe in 2016 and 2017. The Russia probe was heavily criticized by the Justice Department’s inspector general (IG), […]

Former FBI Director James Comey told senators on Wednesday that he wasn’t aware of key exculpatory evidence in secretive spy applications made against a Donald Trump campaign associate. Comey said he did not know that Carter Page was a CIA asset, something that was kept from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) by an FBI […]

Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.) on Wednesday called on FBI Director Christopher Wray to resign. In a letter to Wray, Collins accused him of being “unwilling or unable to bring accountability to the upper echelon of the FBI.” “I am sure you are aware of the recent revelation that the FBI had knowledge that the Russian […]

Former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe has agreed to testify before a Senate committee regarding the bureau’s probe into Russian election meddling and the campaign of President Donald Trump, according to Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). Graham, who chairs the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, said in remarks to Fox News on Sunday that McCabe has agreed […]

Commentary I think it was Pat Moynihan who said that while you are entitled to your own opinions, you are not entitled to your own facts. I appreciate the sentiment behind Moynihan’s observation. It accommodates freedom of expression while also standing up for that species of candor without which freedom of expression degenerates into empty […]

Commentary Fox’s Sean Hannity—Lord love him—has long been at the forefront of the fight to expose the Trump–Russia probe, which, as we learn increasingly nearly every day, was even more immoral, seditious, and anti-American than we’d imagined. Most recently, it has been revealed that the sub-source for the Steele dossier—the guy Christopher Steele relied on […]

The Washington-based Russian national who supplied former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele with most of the unverified claims in the infamous Russia dossier was himself investigated by the FBI on suspicions of being a spy for the Kremlin, according to documents released by Attorney General William Barr. Though he isn’t identified by name in the […]

Former CIA Director John Brennan said Thursday he would gladly testify to Congress. Speaking on MSNBC on the same day that ex-FBI head James Comey agreed to testify to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Brennan said: “I welcome the opportunity to testify publicly in front of the Justice Committee.” “I am happy to talk to them […]

A Senate committee on Sept. 16 authorized its chairman to issue subpoenas for 40 people, including former FBI Director James Comey and Cambridge professor and informant Stefan Halper, in the committee’s review of the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation against Donald Trump’s campaign. The 8–6 party-line vote took place during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee meeting […]

Republican and Democratic heads of the Senate Intelligence Committee rejected a request from two GOP Senate leaders requesting access to the committee’s records in their probe into the probe about how investigators handled Russia and President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign. The acting chairman, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and the vice-chairman, Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), rejected a […]

At least 22 phones used by members of special counsel Robert Mueller’s team had all of their data wiped before an official could review the devices for records, according to documents released on Sept. 10 by the Department of Justice. Some of the phones were wiped by accident. Others were reset after the users entered […]

Commentary It’s our quadrennial national sport—the October Surprise … or is it now the September Surprise? Or, for that matter, the November-December-January Surprise, if, as many predict, the election isn’t concluded Nov. 3 and becomes an endless battle of lawyers over every hanging chad or mail-in vote signed, sealed, and delivered by a veteran of […]

News Analysis The FBI investigation of the Trump campaign for alleged collusion with Russia didn’t start the way former high-level FBI official Peter Strzok portrayed it during a recent CBS News interview, available records show. Strzok would be the one most in the know, since, as the head of the FBI counterintelligence operations in 2016, […]

Former Vice President Joe Biden might lose the 2020 U.S. presidential election due to Russian interference, according to his running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) Asked in an interview with CNN on Sept. 6 if the Russian interference could cost Biden the White House, Harris said “theoretically, of course, yes.” “I am clear that Russia […]

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden directly contradicted the position of Attorney General William Barr and said that it’s Russia, not China, that poses the greatest election security threat to the United States. “There are a lot of countries around the world I think would be happy to see our elections destabilized, but the one that’s […]

The Justice Department (DOJ) and the FBI on Tuesday unveiled several crucial reforms aimed at improving compliance with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) process, including more stringent oversight of surveillance applications targeting elected officials and political campaigns. These reforms are part of the FBI and DOJ’s ongoing efforts to improve compliance and accountability over […]

Commentary The year 2020 has been one of vindication for many of the people who were targets of the massive and ever-expanding Russiagate hoax. I’ve been cataloging this in an ongoing series here at The Epoch Times: Part 1: President Donald Trump; Part 2: Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Michael Flynn; Part 3: historian Svetlana Lokhova; and Part 4: Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) In this, […]

For the last four years, former Trump campaign advisor Carter Page has found himself at the center of the now-disproven Trump-Russia collusion allegations. Last year, Inspector General Michael Horowitz found that the FBI’s applications for warrants to spy on Carter Page were riddled with serious errors. Most notably, the applications were all missing a key […]

The Trump-Russia collusion hoax, the Mueller investigation, the impeachment inquiry, the “weaponization of the coronavirus,” and now the riots raging in major U.S. cities are all intrinsically linked, says investigative journalist Lee Smith. According to him, these were operations with a common purpose: to remove from office the man who obstructed plans to radically transform […]

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) has issued a subpoena to a former State Department official linked to a controversial research dossier authored by British ex-spy Christopher Steele, which played a key role in the FBI’s probe into debunked allegations of a criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia to swing the 2016 election. Johnson, who chairs the […]