Former U.S. attorney Preet Bharara said Sunday that President Trump should “be very worried” about his former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, potentially cooperating with the special counsel’s investigation if Trump has “done bad things.”
“It depends on what the president has done and what the president’s conversations with Michael Flynn and others have been,” Bharara told CNN’s “State of the Union” when asked if Trump should be concerned.
The following article by Brandon Carter was posted on the Hill website November 21, 2017:
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team of investigators are looking into White House senior adviser and President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and his contact with foreign leaders, according to a new report.
The following article by Julia Ioffe was posted on the Atlantic website November 13, 2017:
The transparency organization asked the president’s son for his cooperation—in sharing its work, in contesting the results of the election, and in arranging for Julian Assange to be Australia’s ambassador to the United States.
Julian Assange in May at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. Mr. Assange confirmed on Twitter that he had been approached before the 2016 election by the chief executive of Cambridge Analytica. Credit Peter Nicholls/Reuters
Just before the stroke of midnight on September 20, 2016, at the height of last year’s presidential election, the WikiLeaks Twitter account sent a private direct message to Donald Trump Jr., the Republican nominee’s oldest son and campaign surrogate. “A PAC run anti-Trump site putintrump.org is about to launch,” WikiLeaks wrote. “The PAC is a recycled pro-Iraq war PAC. We have guessed the password. It is ‘putintrump.’ See ‘About’ for who is behind it. Any comments?” (The site, which has since become a joint project with Mother Jones, was founded by Rob Glaser, a tech entrepreneur, and was funded by Progress for USA Political Action Committee.)
The following article by Craig Timberg and Elizabeth Dwoskin was posted on the Washington Post website October 30, 2017:
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Facebook plans to tell lawmakers on Tuesday that 126 million of its users may have seen content produced and circulated by Russian operatives, many times more than the company had previously disclosed about the reach of the online influence campaign targeting American voters.
The company previously reported that an estimated 10 million users had seen ads bought by Russian-controlled accounts and pages. But Facebook has been silent regarding the spread of free content despite independent researchers suggesting that it was seen by far more users than the ads were.
The following article by Aaron Blake was posted on the Washington Post website October 26, 2017:
Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein appears at the Global Cyber Security Summit in London this month. (Mary Turner/Reuters)
Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein is in charge of overseeing special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. The U.S. intelligence community has said explicitly that it has no opinion on whether Russian interference affected the election.
But Rosenstein does — at least when it comes to the ads for which Russia paid.
