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The Steele dossier was a collection of unverified intelligence memos produced in 2016 by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele; investigators and courts have reached mixed conclusions...
The available special counsel investigations reached a consistent legal conclusion: , though both found troubling conduct and intelligence shortcomings. The Mueller report documented extensive Russian...
The reporting shows no credible allegation that John Brennan was charged in any assassination or murder-for-hire plot targeting Donald Trump; the criminal cases tied to such plots name other defendant...
Multiple distinct ethics complaints and congressional censure resolutions filed or publicized against Adam Schiff have alleged two broad categories of misconduct: that he repeatedly misled the America...
A careful review of the available materials shows of people indicted or convicted “in relation to the Russian hoax”; counts vary by definition and by which investigations and timeframes are included. ...
John Durham’s 306‑page unclassified report (released May 15, 2023) concluded the FBI’s Trump‑Russia probe was “seriously flawed,” saying the bureau relied at times on “raw, unanalysed and uncorroborat...
The investigations into Russian interference and the 2016 Trump campaign produced dozens of indictments and convictions of Russian individuals and some Americans connected to the probe, while efforts ...
Intelligence agencies and subsequent prosecutions corroborated only the dossier’s broad, non-specific claims that Russia mounted an active operation to interfere in the 2016 U.S. election and that sto...
The FBI opened a counterintelligence probe into Russian efforts to influence the 2016 U.S. election in mid‑2016—known internally as "Crossfire Hurricane"—after detecting foreign-targeted cyber intrusi...
Andrew McCabe, as FBI Deputy Director, and Peter Strzok, as a senior counterintelligence agent, were centrally involved in the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane counterintelligence probe opened July 31, 2016:...
The Crossfire Hurricane inquiries produced a mix of internal FBI reforms, policy proposals in Congress, and political moves to declassify records — but no single, universally accepted overhaul is docu...
FBI questioning of former Obama officials has led to public assertions, referrals and the opening of investigations by Trump-era officials — but major outlets report that criminal charges were limited...
The Steele dossier played a limited but contested role in the broader Russia investigations: investigators treated it as raw, unverified intelligence that prompted vetting and some follow-up, yet Spec...
The special counsel Robert Mueller investigation concluded that the Trump campaign “welcomed” Russian help but that evidence was insufficient to charge a criminal conspiracy or coordination; Mueller’s...
Robert Mueller’s 2019 investigation did not charge President Trump with criminal conspiracy or “collusion” with Russia, concluding investigators “did not find that the Trump campaign… conspired or coo...
The Mueller report concluded that it did that the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its 2016 election interference, while documenting and numerous contacts between...