The very same congressional Democrats who promoted the idea that Russian collusion was a real thing are now denouncing Attorney General William Barr’s statement that there needs to be an investigation into the potentially improper surveillance of the Trump campaign. Continue reading
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The Russian government interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election with the goal of harming the campaign of Hillary Clinton, boosting the candidacy of Donald Trump, and increasing political discord in the United States.
Russia’s covert activities were disclosed to Congress but not the public by the United States Intelligence Community in October 2016, and publicly confirmed by the Director of National Intelligence office three months later.
According to U.S. intelligence agencies, the operation was ordered directly by Russian President Vladimir Putin. Former FBI director Robert Mueller led the Special Counsel investigation into the interference from May 2017 to March 2019. His report confirmed that Russia had attempted to interfere in the election in two ways: disinformation and social media campaigns, and computer hacking and strategic release of information.
The report did not find that Donald Trump or his associates conspired with the Russians in that effort.
Last week was a very big week for Donald Trump after the being cleared in the Mueller report of collusion and obstruction. And now, Trump is telling us that he is going to go public with the FISA documents used by the FBI to investigate his campaign. Continue reading
On Thursday, Republicans formally demanded that Chairman Adam Schiff resign his post as chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Continue reading
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