After Thanos’ Snap it’s presumed Captain Marvel is the universe’s main hope in Avengers 4. After all why would Nick Fury send her a distress call as he turned to ash in the Avengers Infinity War post-credits scene if she wasn’t a match for the Mad Titan? Marvel fans are hoping Captain Marvel’s solo outing, […]
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Mueller obtained a new search warrant against Manafort last month, and it could signal a huge shift in the Russia investigation
The special counsel Robert Mueller obtained a search warrant against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort as recently as March 9, new court documents show. The search warrant was related to “ongoing investigations that are not the subject of the current prosecutions involving Manafort.” The revelation indicates Mueller’s focus on Manafort is now shifting from […]
Senate Republicans obtained Susan Rice’s email 8 months before they sent her a letter about it
Lauren Victoria Burke/AP Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley obtained a copy of former National Security Adviser Susan Rice’s email memorializing a January 2017 meeting on June 16, 2017. But Grassley and committee member Lindsey Graham didn’t raise questions about the email, which they described as “unusual” and “disturbing,” until February 8, 2018. It’s unclear […]
Trump lawyer says ‘Russiagate’ probe head Mueller illegally obtained 10,000s emails
FBI Special Counsel Robert Mueller, looking for collusion between US President Donald Trump and Russia, has breached the law by requesting a government agency to hand over confidential emails, Trump’s counsel told Congress. In a letter sent to the House and the Senate and seen by Fox News, Kory Langhofer, lawyer for Trump’s transition team, […]
Kaspersky: Yes, we obtained NSA secrets. No, we didn’t help steal them
Enlarge (credit: Mikhail Deynekin) For almost two months in 2014, servers belonging to Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab received confidential National Security Agency materials from a poorly secured computer located in the United States that stored the files, most likely in violation of US laws, company officials said. The classified source code, documents, and executable binaries were […]
NotPetya developers may have obtained NSA exploits weeks before their public leak [Updated]
Enlarge / A computer screen displaying Eternalromance, one of the NSA exploits used in Tuesday’s NotPetya outbreak. (credit: Matthew Hickey) Update: This post was revised throughout to reflect changes F-Secure made to Thursday’s blog post. The company now says that the NotPetya component was probably completed in February, and assuming that timeline is correct, it didn’t […]
The FBI reportedly obtained a FISA warrant to surveil a former Trump adviser
AP The FBI obtained a FISA warrant last summer to monitor the communications of Carter Page, who was an early foreign-policy adviser to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday. The energy-consultant-turned-foreign-policy adviser was named in an unverified dossier about President Donald Trump’s ties to Russia as a liaison between the Trump […]
3 US senators want to know whether Trump’s national security aide illegally obtained US citizenship
Alex Wong/Getty Images Three US senators say they want Sebastian Gorka — a deputy assistant to President Donald Trump — investigated over his immigration status. Sens. Dick Durbin of Illinois, Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, and Ben Cardin of Maryland sent a joint letter to the US Justice Department on Friday asking the agency to look […]