Tag: Trump investigation

Rep. Schiff warns of subpoenas, lawsuit over Mueller report

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) Credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images

WASHINGTON — A top House Democrat threatened on Sunday to call special counsel Robert Mueller to Capitol Hill, subpoena documents and sue the Trump administration if the full report on Mueller’s Russia investigation is not made public.

Rep. Adam Schiff, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said his committee will keep close watch on new Attorney General William Barr to see if he were “to try to bury any part of this report.” Schiff, D-Calif., also pledged to “take it to court if necessary.”

He said anything less than complete disclosure would leave Barr, who now oversees the investigation, with “a tarnished legacy.”

View the complete February 24 article by Mary Clare Jalonick and Hope Yen of the Associated Press on The Washington Post website here.

Trump Team’s Mueller Strategy: Limit the Investigation and Attack the Investigators

The following article by Peter Baker was posted on the New York Times website May 21, 2018:

President Trump’s new strategy appears to be aimed at turning the focus away from the conduct of the president to that of his pursuers, while laying out a series of red lines to limit the reach and duration of the Russia investigation. Credit:
Doug Mills/The New York Times

WASHINGTON — Frustrated and impatient, fed up with waiting and eager to fight back, President Trump has embarked on what amounts to a two-prong strategy to contain the threat and undercut the credibility of the escalating investigations targeting him and his associates.

The blizzard of Twitter messages combined with a string of public statements by his lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, in recent days seemed aimed at turning the focus away from the conduct of the president or his team to that of their pursuers while laying out a series of red lines to limit the reach and duration of the primary inquiry. Continue reading “Trump Team’s Mueller Strategy: Limit the Investigation and Attack the Investigators”

Code Name Crossfire Hurricane: The Secret Origins of the Trump Investigation

The following article by Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman and Nicholas Fandos was posted on the New York Times website May 16, 2018:

F.B.I Building Credit: Al Drago for The New York Times

WASHINGTON — Within hours of opening an investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia in the summer of 2016, the F.B.I. dispatched a pair of agents to London on a mission so secretive that all but a handful of officials were kept in the dark.

Their assignment, which has not been previously reported, was to meet the Australian ambassador, who had evidence that one of Donald J. Trump’s advisers knew in advance about Russian election meddling. After tense deliberations between Washington and Canberra, top Australian officials broke with diplomatic protocol and allowed the ambassador, Alexander Downer, to sit for an F.B.I. interview to describe his meeting with the campaign adviser, George Papadopoulos. Continue reading “Code Name Crossfire Hurricane: The Secret Origins of the Trump Investigation”

Stephanopoulos: “Transition teams have no expectation of privacy’

There’s been a lot written about the Trump legal team saying the Mueller investigation obtained the Trump transition team’s emails illegally.  This Sunday, George Stepahnopoulos, who served in the Clinton transition and administration, had something to say about that.

Here’s the video from the December 17, 2017, Good Morning America segment (Stephanopoulos’ comments come at about the 3:40 mark):

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