The FBI should not have launched a full investigation into then-candidate Donald Trump’s campaign based on unverified intelligence, special counsel John Durham said on June 21. Within three days of receiving word from Australian officials in July 2016 that Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos said Trump’s team had received a suggestion from Russia that it…

We finally know how the FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation began all the way back on July 31, 2016. The official story was that a Trump campaign advisor—George Papadopoulos—got drunk at a bar in London and spilled the beans on the Russia collusion plot to an Australian diplomat, who then took the information to the U.S. embassy…

Keeping alive its investigation of supposed collusion between Donald Trump and Russia, the FBI ignored hundreds of exculpatory statements Trump aides made when secretly recorded by FBI informants. In some cases, the FBI spun the utterings to mean the opposite of what was said, according to the final report by special counsel John Durham. The…

President Donald Trump on Tuesday officially pardoned George Papadopoulos, his former campaign aide who pleaded guilty as part of the probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. In a wave of pre-Christmas pardons, the president pardoned Papadopoulos, 33, as well as 14 others, including several former GOP congressmen. The White House said in…

News Analysis The FBI was listening to at least one phone call of former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos, according to a recently released text message of Peter Strzok, former head of FBI counterintelligence operations. The text raises the question of what authority the FBI had to conduct such surveillance, particularly because, based on the…