by Jim Heath | Nov 25, 2020 | Headlines, Mueller Investigation, Trump
President Trump pardoned a turkey yesterday, and today pardoned his former national security adviser Michael Flynn who had pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI. Flynn pleaded guilty to a felony in December 2017, admitting that he had misled investigators about details...
by Jim Heath | Aug 31, 2020 | Headlines, Mueller Investigation
A federal judge can scrutinize the Justice Department’s decision to drop the criminal case against President Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn, a federal appeals court in Washington ruled today, allowing the legal saga to continue. The decision...
by Jim Heath | Aug 18, 2020 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines, Mueller Investigation, Trump
A sprawling report released today by a Republican-controlled Senate panel that spent three years investigating Russia’s 2016 election interference laid out an extensive web of contacts between Trump campaign advisers and Russian government officials and other...
by Jim Heath | Aug 15, 2020 | FBI, Headlines, Mueller Investigation
A former FBI lawyer has agreed to plead guilty to altering an email that helped justify surveillance of a former Trump campaign adviser as part of the 2016 investigation into Russian interference in the election, according to his lawyer and a person familiar with the...
by Jim Heath | Jul 30, 2020 | Headlines, Mueller Investigation
The entire Federal Appeals Court in Washington said that it would take up a case involving Attorney General William P. Barr’s decision to drop the prosecution of President Trump’s former national security adviser Michael T. Flynn, erasing a split decision by a...
by Jim Heath | Jul 11, 2020 | Headlines, Mueller Investigation
Here is a response by Robert Mueller following Donald Trump’s clemency of longtime crony Roger Stone. The work of the special counsel’s office — its report, indictments, guilty pleas and convictions — should speak for itself. But I feel compelled to respond both...
