Rowan Scarborough, Author at Political Newswires

Donald Trump associates weigh defamation lawsuits over Russia probe

May 22, 2019

Some Trump associates are contemplating lawsuits against the people who they believe defamed them in the Russia election collusion investigation. A possible road map: the successful lawsuit of wrongly suspected biological weapons scientist Steven Hatfi...

Devin Nunes, who exposed Russia dossier truth, to give up intelligence committee gavel

November 11, 2018

Rowan Scarborough

ANALYSIS: Beyond President Trump, Washington's dominant liberal establishment dislikes no one more than Rep. Devin Nunes. The California Republican last year broke from the town's incessant Trump-Russia collusion storyline. He steered his House Permane...

Hollywood, Nancy Pelosi, George Soros gang up on Devin Nunes

March 31, 2018

Rowan Scarborough

Rep. Devin Nunes, whose investigation revealed that the Democratic Party funded the Christopher Steele dossier and that the FBI used the unverified charges to spy on a Trump volunteer, says Hollywood and George Soros are combining to try to take his co...

Coast Guard icebreakers in Arctic vital to U.S. access

February 19, 2017

Rowan Scarborough

Russian President Vladimir Putin not only is lurking in the Middle East and Eastern Europe but also is building up military forces in the expansive Arctic as the U.S. watches. Rep. Duncan Hunter, a California Republican whose House subcommittee oversee...

Iran growing network to train foreign terrorists, dissident group says

February 14, 2017

Rowan Scarborough

Iran's hard-line Islamic regime has escalated its overseas terrorist operations, establishing a network of over a dozen internal training camps for foreign fighters, the regime's largest resistance group said at a press conference on Tuesday in Washing...

Noncitizen voters feud between academics resurfaces with fraud probe

February 12, 2017

Rowan Scarborough

A small research group has entered the debate on voter fraud, siding with academics who estimate that large numbers of noncitizens illegally register and vote in U.S. elections. Just Facts, founded in New Jersey 20 years ago by a Brown-educated mechani...

Obama appointees flee Pentagon, Trump left with scores of vacancies to fill

February 8, 2017

Rowan Scarborough

The Pentagon has been stripped of almost all of its political appointees from the Obama administration, but an uncertain Senate future awaits the candidates whom President Trump will nominate to remake the armed forces in his image. Of Mr. Obama's 163 ...

Kellyanne Conway correctly spoke about Bowling Green Iraqi terrorists, misspoke on ‘massacre’

February 5, 2017

Rowan Scarborough

When senior White House adviser Kellyanne Conway misspoke and described a terrorist "massacre" in Bowling Green, Kentucky, it was a garbled reference to the fact that two Iraqi refugees ...

Obama refugee vetting procedure enabled Iraqi terrorists to enter U.S.

January 31, 2017

Rowan Scarborough

Aws Mohammed Younis Al-Jayab in 2012 was among the first Iraqi refugees to enter the U.S. after President Obama lifted a six-month freeze on such entries as his aides tightened a shaky vetting process. Once on U.S. soil, it took Al-Jayab a matter of we...

Hillary Clinton received 800,000 votes from noncitizens, bolsters Trump argument, study finds

January 26, 2017

Rowan Scarborough

Hillary Clinton garnered more than 800,000 votes from noncitizens on Nov. 8, an approximation far short of President Trump's estimate of up to 5 million illegal voters but supportive of his charges of fraud. Political scientist Jesse Richman of Old Dom...