Tag: Byron York

It's not clear whether State Department activity related to former British spy Christopher Steele's Trump dossier took place in the months leading up to the 2016 election, during the transition, or both.

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Byron York: Trump dossier probes now include possible State Department involvement

Byron York · January 16, 2018 11:59 am

Paul Manafort has sued special counsel Robert Mueller saying he exceeded authority in the Russia probe. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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Byron York: Paul Manafort has a point

Byron York · January 12, 2018 11:40 am

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley and subcommittee Chairman Lindsey Graham wrote a letter to the FBI and Justice Department in June seeking "all proposed FISA applications that the FBI and Justice Department submitted to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court" in the course of investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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Byron York: Yes, Congress has seen Trump-Russia secret court surveillance documents. Now what?

Byron York · January 10, 2018 3:58 pm

There are multiple moving parts: The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, a border wall, chain migration, the visa lottery, and hanging over it all, funding the government. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

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Byron York: With DC distracted, immigration debate reaches critical point

Byron York · January 8, 2018 11:13 am

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa (pictured right), and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., wrote a Thursday letter to the Justice Department about Christopher Steele, the author of the Trump dossier. Here's what seems to be going on. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

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Byron York: What the Trump dossier criminal referral means

Byron York · January 6, 2018 11:33 am

"Fire and Fury," now sitting atop the Amazon best-seller chart," has become The Book The White House Doesn't Want You to See. What author or publicist could ask for more? (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

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Byron York: Trump anger fuels Wolff-Bannon-NBC publicity machine

Byron York · January 4, 2018 8:51 pm

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said in an interview: "I'm very disturbed about what the Department of Justice did with this dossier, and we need a special counsel to look into that, because that's not in [Robert] Mueller's charter." (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

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Lindsey Graham: We need new special counsel — just for Trump dossier

Byron York · December 30, 2017 4:27 pm

House Intelligence Committee chairman has issued a subpoena to a former State Department official who, in late Nov. 2016, traveled to London to receive a briefing and a copy of the Trump dossier from its author, a former British spy. (Zach Gibson/Bloomberg)

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Byron York: McCain associate subpoenaed in Trump dossier probe

Byron York · December 27, 2017 7:59 pm

In a seven-hour interview with the House Intelligence Committee Wednesday, FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe repeatedly declined to answer whether the bureau has been able to verify the allegations in the so-called "Trump dossier." (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)

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Byron York: Frustrated lawmakers pressed FBI’s McCabe for answers on Trump dossier. They got nothing.

Byron York · December 22, 2017 3:38 am

President Donald Trump steps off Marine One on the South Lawn at the White House in Washington, Sunday, Dec. 17, 2017, after returning from Camp David in Maryland. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

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Byron York: Amid firestorms, Trump has year of solid policy accomplishments. Can he keep going?

Byron York · December 18, 2017 2:27 am

The Justice Department showed the text to reporters Tuesday night, prior to deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein's appearance before the House Judiciary Committee. Officials say there are about 10,000 Strzok-Page texts in all, but reporters were shown only about 375 of them. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Byron York: After mysterious ‘insurance policy’ text, will Justice Department reveal more on FBI agent bounced from Mueller probe?

Byron York · December 13, 2017 11:41 pm

"I was so deeply concerned about what a Trump presidency might look like from a national security perspective, [...] that I thought it extremely important to come out and say that," CIA Director Michael Morell said. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

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Byron York: Former top spy rethinks: Maybe we shouldn’t have attacked a new president

Byron York · December 12, 2017 5:42 am