Rowan Scarborough
Articles by Rowan Scarborough
Richard Grenell calls on Adam Schiff to honor his promise to release transcripts of investigations
Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell is calling on Rep. Adam B. Schiff to honor his pledge upon taking control of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence to release transcripts of investigations. Published May 6, 2020
U.S. allies report China deliberately destroyed laboratory evidence, made whistleblowers disappear
Communist China deliberately covered up the outbreak of COVID-19 in December-January by destroying laboratory evidence, and then silencing and "disappearing" whistleblowing physicians, according to an Australian newspaper based on a Western intelligence report. Published May 5, 2020
Pentagon official spoke regularly with Washington Post columnist, records show
Newly released records show that a senior Pentagon official engaged in regular conversations with The Washington Post's David Ignatius, the columnist who put his mark on the Trump-Russia affair by disclosing top secret intercepted telephone calls by retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn. Published May 3, 2020
COVID-19 no match for youth, CDC numbers show
At the coronavirus pandemic's three-month mark in America, statistics show COVID-19's death stare spares the young. Published May 1, 2020
Department of Justice investigations: Flynn didn’t conspire with Russian election interference
Two lengthy Department of Justice investigations show there never was evidence that retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn conspired in any way in Russian election interference, a fact now coming into play in his bid to have a federal judge throw out his false statements case. Published April 30, 2020
Michael Flynn’s ex-defense counsel failed to turn over thousands of files
A federal judge has ordered the former attorneys for retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn to search anew for case documents after their firm acknowledged failing to turn over thousands of emails and other materials to his new defense counsel. Published April 29, 2020
U.S. military’s Northern Command moves to new ‘stabilize’ phase in COVID-19 fight
U.S. Northern Command, which is overseeing the military role for fighting COVID-19, has shifted to a stabilizing effort with an eye to scaling down anti-virus support activities, a Pentagon source said on Monday. Published April 27, 2020
Pharmaceutical firm Aytu BioScience testing UV light treatment
President Trump has been mocked relentlessly for suggesting that ultraviolet light could be brought "inside the body" to kill the coronavirus, but there is ongoing research to do just that. Published April 26, 2020
Michael Flynn attorney claims ‘stunning’ new evidence
The attorney for retired Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn says the Justice Department has provided "stunning" new evidence that proves the former Trump national security officer was "framed" by FBI agents. Published April 25, 2020
Christopher Steele: My anti-Trump dossier records destroyed
Christopher Steele says his computer records for research to write a Democratic Party-financed anti-Donald Trump dossier no longer exist. Published April 24, 2020
FBI forced Christopher Steele’s Trump dossier into intelligence community’s election assessment
Officials included a reference to the anti-Trump dossier in the intelligence community's 2017 Russia election assessment only as a "compromise" with the FBI, which "would have had a major problem" if the document was ignored, according to a Senate report. Published April 23, 2020
Pompeo threatens WHO with permanent cash cutoff
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the U.S. may "never return" to funding the World Health Organization because of the way it operates, including the COVID-19 crisis. Published April 23, 2020
Richard Grenell rejects Adam Schiff’s bid to control national intelligence
Acting-Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell has dinged Rep. Adam Schiff in a new letter, expressing surprise the Trump foe didn't praise the appointment of two women to head counter-terrorism unit and rejecting the congressman's belief that lawmakers control the DNI's day-to-day management decisions. Published April 21, 2020
Richard Grenell reveals Russia fed Christopher Steele disinformation
Two Republican senators knew of some explosive details lurking inside an inspector general's report when on April 2 they reached out to Richard Grenell, the newly installed acting director of national intelligence who was already making his mark in just two months. Published April 19, 2020
China falsely telling Arab world U.S. source for coronavirus: MEMRI
A media research group has released the transcript of a China-produced Arabic-language news report to show how Beijing's propaganda machine is blaming the coronavirus on America. Published April 18, 2020
Belt and road and ‘bribes’: Cotton says China paid off home country of WHO boss
Sen. Tom Cotton said today communist China paid "bribes" to Ethiopia when World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom was a cabinet minister there. Published April 17, 2020
Vladimir Putin, Christopher Steele networked with oligarchs
A newly declassified section of a Justice Department inspector general's report shows not only that the Kremlin fed disinformation for the anti-Trump dossier but also that Vladimir Putin was in a good position to know about it. Published April 15, 2020
NORAD orders release of photos of U.S. troops in action ‘to reassure the American public’
The command for protecting the U.S. stateside has sent an order telling public affairs units to release photos of troops in action "to reassure the American public they don't have to worry about homeland defense" during the COVID-19 era. Published April 13, 2020
Coronavirus hits Italy, Spain, France harder than U.S.
Europe's five largest nations have suffered more than three times the coronavirus deaths as the United States, though collectively they have about the same population. Published April 12, 2020
Dr. Anthony Fauci: China misled the world; coronavirus erupted in mid-December
Dr. Anthony Fauci says that human-to-human transmission of COVID-19 diseases erupted in China in mid-December, yet the communist regime told the U.S. and the world that the virus was only transmitted animal-to-human. Published April 12, 2020