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Rowan Scarborough

Rowan Scarborough

Articles by Rowan Scarborough

Christopher Steele, a former British spy who wrote a 2016 dossier about alleged links between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, leaves the High Court in London following a hearing in the libel case brought against him by Russian businessman Aleksej Gubarev, Wednesday July 22, 2020. A key sub-source for material in the Steele dossier has been unmasked: Igor Danchenko, a Ukraine-born think-tank analyst. (Victoria Jones/PA via AP) **FILE**

Igor Danchenko outed as Steele dossier source

The shadowy figure who funneled information to Christopher Steele for his notorious election year dossier is Igor Danchenko, a Ukraine-born, Russian-educated researcher who worked in the U.S. and traveled to Moscow to find supposed dirt on candidate Donald Trump. Published July 26, 2020

Jose Peraza, sous chef at The Barrel Room, wears a mask while working at the restaurant in San Francisco, Tuesday, July 14, 2020. The Barrel Room, a San Francisco wine bar and restaurant, cautiously reopened this month, hoping to salvage as much of 2020 as possible from the coronavirus pandemic and the lockdowns meant to contain it. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Lockdowns, testing don’t cut COVID deaths: Lancet

Two of the U.S.'s major weapons against the coronavirus---lockdowns and wide testing--do not reduce death rates, according to a study posted in the British medical journal Lancet. Published July 23, 2020

This Tuesday, March 7, 2017, file photo shows Christopher Steele, the former MI6 agent who set up Orbis Business Intelligence and compiled a dossier on Donald Trump, in London. (Victoria Jones/PA via AP) ** FILE **

Christopher Steele Trump dossier relied on mystery man, hearsay

A man of mystery in Moscow who fed a cache of anti-Trump hearsay to Christopher Steele in London for his notorious dossier relied on six sources: five friends and a 30-minute call from an anonymous person he never could identify, a newly declassified FBI document shows. Published July 20, 2020

Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, waving to thousands of members of the Mujahedeen-e Khalq at Ashraf-3, their new home in Albania on June 20, 2020, at an event marking the 40th anniversary of the start of the organization's resistance against the ruling theocracy. (Photo by Siavosh Hosseini, TME)

National Council of Resistance of Iran expand annual summit with virtual event

The world's largest Iranian dissident organization is set to activate its annual global summit Friday, overcoming the social distancing COVID-19 era with a virtual event that aims to link potentially millions of supporters at 30,000 locations in more than 100 countries to calls for Iran's theocratic dictatorship to be replaced by a democracy. Published July 15, 2020

In this Dec. 16, 2016, file photo, President Barack Obama speaks during a news conference in the briefing room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File) **FILE**

Democratic Presidents Clinton, Obama left a legacy of political pardoning

President Trump on Friday commuted the three-plus-years prison sentence of former adviser Roger Stone for misleading Congress, prompting the expected outrage from his political detractors. But clemency for politically connected individuals knows no party monopoly. Published July 11, 2020

In this Dec. 1, 2017, file photo, former President Donald Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn leaves federal court in Washington. Newly released FBI documents show the FBI concluded Mr. Flynn believed he was telling the truth at the time of his interviews with bureau agents. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

FBI shut down Michael Flynn probe but didn’t lock it up

Defense attorney Sidney Powell has mounted a tenacious battle to convince the Justice Department and the courts that her client, retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, deserves a clean slate in what she claims was an FBI set-up to get him to lie about a phone call with a Russian diplomat. Published July 9, 2020

President Donald Trump gives a thumbs-up while walking across the tarmac as he boards Air Force One at Morristown Municipal Airport, Sunday, June 14, 2020, in Morristown, N.J. Trump is returning to Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

‘We caught them’: Donald Trump hits FBI leaders on dossier hoax

It has been two months since Washington learned that the Kremlin fed anti-Trump disinformation into the infamous dossier, and there had been no reaction from the president. That is until now. During an exclusive Oval Office interview last week with The Washington Times, President Trump was asked about Russian lies targeting him through the FBI-favored, Democratic Party-funded dossier. Published June 22, 2020