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  • Code Name Crossfire Hurricane: The Top Secret Origins of the F.B.I.’s Trump Investigation

    05/16/2018 11:26:17 AM PDT · by detective · 54 replies
    The New York Times ^ | May 16, 2018 | Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman and Nicholas Fandos
    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....
  • FBI’s McCabe is fired a little more than 24 hours before he could retire

    03/16/2018 11:30:01 PM PDT · by MarvinStinson · 79 replies
    bostonglobe ^ | MARCH 17, 2018 | Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman
    <p>WASHINGTON — Andrew McCabe, the former FBI deputy director and a frequent target of President Donald Trump’s scorn, was fired Friday after the Justice Department rejected an appeal that would have let him retire this weekend.</p> <p>McCabe promptly declared that his firing, and Trump’s persistent needling, were intended to undermine the special counsel’s investigation in which he is a potential witness.</p>
  • Republicans probe FBI agents' text messages for evidence of leaks

    01/09/2018 8:27:28 AM PST · by Presbyterian Reporter · 14 replies
    Fox News ^ | 1/9/2018 | Judson Berger
    Republican-led committees reportedly are investigating whether FBI officials once involved in Robert Mueller’s Russia probe helped leak to the media, based in part on text messages they exchanged mentioning news outlets. The Hill reported that House and Senate panels are looking anew at the text messages exchanged between agent Peter Strzok and lawyer Lisa Page, who were romantically involved and exchanged anti-Trump views in their now-public texts. They also discussed news articles and strategized on how to react. One set of texts in late October 2016 suggests they knew about a Wall Street Journal article in advance. After Page alerted...
  • NYT Offers Totally Inadequate Defense Of Story Comey Says Is False

    06/10/2017 4:18:17 PM PDT · by ForYourChildren · 33 replies
    The Daily Caller ^ | 06/09/2017 | Rachel Stoltzfoos
    There’s something odd about the explanation The New York Times offered for standing by a blockbuster report that former FBI Director James Comey characterized as “almost entirely wrong” in testimony before Congress Thursday. “Would it be fair to characterize that story as almost entirely wrong?” Republican Sen. Tom Cotton asked Comey during the hearing. “Yes,” Comey replied. And at another point in the hearing he said of the report, “in the main it was not true.” The paper of record reported Feb. 14 that U.S. intelligence officials had intercepted repeated communications between the Trump campaign and senior Russian intelligence officials...
  • U.S. Relies Heavily on Saudi Money to Support Syrian Rebels

    01/23/2016 12:25:00 PM PST · by Theoria · 34 replies
    The New York Times ^ | 23 Jan 2016 | Mark Mazzetti And Matt Apuzzo
    When President Obama secretly authorized the Central Intelligence Agency to begin arming Syria's embattled rebels in 2013, the spy agency knew it would have a willing partner to help pay for the covert operation. It was the same partner the C.I.A. has relied on for decades for money and discretion in far-off conflicts: the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Since then, the C.I.A. and its Saudi counterpart have maintained an unusual arrangement for the rebel-training mission, which the Americans have code-named Timber Sycamore. Under the deal, current and former administration officials said, the Saudis contribute both weapons and large sums of...
  • Obama’s Comments on Clinton Emails Collide With F.B.I. Inquiry (Agents angry with Obama)

    10/16/2015 3:55:08 AM PDT · by kristinn · 55 replies
    The New York Times ^ | Friday, October 16, 2015 | Matt Apuzzo and Michael S. Scmidt
    Federal agents were still cataloging the classified information from Hillary Rodham Clinton’s personal email server last week when President Obama went on television and played down the matter. “I don’t think it posed a national security problem,” Mr. Obama said Sunday on CBS’s “60 Minutes.” He said it was a mistake for Mrs. Clinton to use a private email account when she was secretary of state, but his conclusion was unmistakable: “This is not a situation in which America’s national security was endangered.” Those statements angered F.B.I. agents who have been working for months to determine whether Ms. Clinton’s email...
  • Raid on bin Laden compound avenged CIA deaths [Tom Shah, Molly Huckaby Hardy, killed 1998, Nairobi]

    05/29/2011 10:55:14 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 6 replies
    Associated Press via KPMH ^ | Sunday, May 29, 2011 | Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman
    [Associated Press, so I'm not going to excerpt at all, just link]
  • Government warned of mortgage meltdown

    12/01/2008 7:55:38 PM PST · by abt87 · 13 replies · 713+ views
    WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Bush administration backed off proposed crackdowns on no-money-down, interest-only mortgages years before the economy collapsed, buckling to pressure from some of the same banks that have now failed. It ignored remarkably prescient warnings that foretold the financial meltdown, according to an Associated Press review of regulatory documents. "Expect fallout, expect foreclosures, expect horror stories," California mortgage lender Paris Welch wrote to U.S. regulators in January 2006, about one year before the housing implosion cost her a job. Bowing to aggressive lobbying -- along with assurances from banks that the troubled mortgages were OK -- regulators delayed...
  • What You See (In the Media) Is Not What You Get (In the Libby Trial)

    01/28/2007 10:48:20 PM PST · by the Real fifi · 16 replies · 1,371+ views
    The American Thinker ^ | 1/29/07 | Clarice Feldman
    January 29, 2007 What You See (in the Media) is Not What You Get (in the Libby Trial) By Clarice Feldman In the wake of the first week of the Libby Trial, Patrick Fitzgerald's soufflé has turned into a pancake. Of course, if you are getting your news of the trial from the press you're certain to believe Libby is in trouble. Nothing could be further from the truth. The reporting is as bad as I've ever seen (Matt Apuzzo of AP being the rare exception of a reporter who's getting it mostly right).