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Index Steele dossier

The Steele dossier, also known as the Trump–Russia dossier, is a controversial political opposition research report compiled by Christopher Steele that was published without permission as an unfinished compilation of "unverified, and potentially unverifiable" raw intelligence reports—"not established facts, but a starting point for further investigation".[1]

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  1. 422 relations: A Higher Loyalty, ABC News (United States), Adam Goldman, Adam Schiff, Agence France-Presse, Alan Huffman, Aleksandr Torshin, Alfa-Bank, Alternative facts, Andrew C. McCarthy, Andrew McCabe, Andrew Wood (diplomat), Anthony Trenga, AOL, Aras Agalarov, Arizona State University, Ashley Feinberg, Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections, Asset (intelligence), Associated Press, Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election, Attorney–client privilege, Australian Financial Review, Axios (website), Barack Obama, Barbara Fontaine, Barbara McQuade, Barry Meier, BBC, BBC News, Ben Smith (journalist), Benjamin Wittes, Blackmail, Bloomberg Law, Bloomberg News, Bob Woodward, Book TV, Boris Johnson, Botnet, Bribery, British intelligence agencies, Brookings Institution, Broward County, Florida, Bruce Ohr, Business Insider, BuzzFeed, BuzzFeed News, C-SPAN, Cabal, Campaign finance in the United States, ... Expand index (372 more) »

  2. 2016 documents
  3. Controversies of the 2016 United States presidential election
  4. Opposition research
  5. Whistleblowing

A Higher Loyalty

A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership is a book by James Comey, the former Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), discussing ethics and leadership Comey encountered throughout his life, his career in public office, and his relationship with President Donald Trump, who fired him in May 2017.

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ABC News (United States)

ABC News is the news division of the American television network ABC.

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Adam Goldman

Adam Goldman is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist.

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Adam Schiff

Adam Bennett Schiff (born June 22, 1960) is an American lawyer, author, and politician serving as a U.S. representative from California since 2001.

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Agence France-Presse

Agence France-Presse (AFP) is a French international news agency headquartered in Paris, France.

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Alan Huffman

Alan Huffman is an American author and journalist.

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Aleksandr Torshin

Aleksandr Porfiryevich Torshin (Алекса́ндр Порфи́рьевич То́ршин; born 27 November 1953) is a Russian politician.

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Alfa-Bank

Alfa-Bank JSC (Альфа-банк АО) is the largest of the private banks in Russia.

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Alternative facts

"Alternative facts" was a phrase used by U.S. Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway during a Meet the Press interview on January 22, 2017, in which she defended White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer's false statement about the attendance numbers of Donald Trump's inauguration as President of the United States. Steele dossier and Alternative facts are 2017 controversies in the United States and 2017 in American politics.

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Andrew C. McCarthy

Andrew C. McCarthy III (born 1959) is an American lawyer and columnist for National Review.

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Andrew McCabe

Andrew George McCabe (born March 18, 1968) is an American attorney who served as the Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from February 2016 to March 2018 and as the acting Director of the FBI from May 9, 2017, to August 2, 2017.

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Andrew Wood (diplomat)

Sir Andrew Marley Wood GCMG (born 2 January 1940) is a former British diplomat.

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Anthony Trenga

Anthony John Trenga (born 1949) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia as well as the Presiding Judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.

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AOL

AOL (stylized as Aol., formerly a company known as AOL Inc. and originally known as America Online) is an American web portal and online service provider based in New York City, and a brand marketed by Yahoo! Inc. The service traces its history to an online service known as PlayNET.

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Aras Agalarov

Aras Iskanderovich Agalarov (Araz İsgəndər oğlu Ağalarov; Ара́з Исканде́рович Агала́ров; born 8 November 1955) is an Azerbaijani Russian billionaire real estate developer.

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Arizona State University

Arizona State University (Arizona State or ASU) is a public research university in the Phoenix metropolitan area.

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Ashley Feinberg

Ashley Feinberg is an American journalist, covering politics, media, and technology.

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Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections

Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections (also abbreviated as Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections, Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent Elections or simply Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions) is a report issued by the United States Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) that assessed the extent and basis of Russia's interference in United States' elections in 2016.

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Asset (intelligence)

In intelligence, assets are persons within organizations or countries being spied upon who provide information for an outside spy.

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election

After Democratic nominee Joe Biden won the 2020 United States presidential election, Republican nominee and then-incumbent president Donald Trump pursued an unprecedented effort to overturn the election, with support and assistance from his campaign, proxies, political allies, and many of his supporters. Steele dossier and Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election are Donald Trump controversies.

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Attorney–client privilege

Attorney–client privilege or lawyer–client privilege is the common law doctrine of legal professional privilege in the United States.

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Australian Financial Review

The Australian Financial Review (AFR) is an Australian business-focused, compact daily newspaper covering the current business and economic affairs of Australia and the world.

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Axios (website)

Axios (stylized as ΛXIOS) is an American news website based in Arlington, Virginia.

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Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017.

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Barbara Fontaine

Barbara Janet Fontaine (born 29 December 1953) is a British retired judge and solicitor.

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Barbara McQuade

Barbara Lynn McQuade (born December 22, 1964) is an American lawyer who served as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan from 2010 to 2017.

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Barry Meier

Barry Meier is a writer and former New York Times journalist who wrote the 2003 non-fiction book Pain Killer: A Wonder Drug's Trail of Addiction and Death.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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Ben Smith (journalist)

Benjamin Eli Smith (born November 4, 1976) is an American journalist who is the co-founder of Semafor, a global news organization he formed with Justin Smith in early 2022.

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Benjamin Wittes

Benjamin Wittes (born November 5, 1969) is an American legal journalist.

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Blackmail

Blackmail is a criminal act of coercion using a threat.

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Bloomberg Law

Bloomberg Law is a subscription-based service that uses data analytics and artificial intelligence for online legal research.

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Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News (originally Bloomberg Business News) is an international news agency headquartered in New York City and a division of Bloomberg L.P. Content produced by Bloomberg News is disseminated through Bloomberg Terminals, Bloomberg Television, Bloomberg Radio, Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg Markets, Bloomberg.com, and Bloomberg's mobile platforms.

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Bob Woodward

Robert Upshur Woodward (born March 26, 1943) is an American investigative journalist.

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Book TV

Book TV is the name given to weekend programming on the American cable network C-SPAN2 airing from 8 a.m. Eastern Time Sunday morning to 8 a.m. Eastern Time Monday morning each week.

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Boris Johnson

Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (born 19 June 1964) is a British politician and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2019 to 2022.

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Botnet

A botnet is a group of Internet-connected devices, each of which runs one or more bots.

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Bribery

Bribery is the offering, giving, receiving, or soliciting of any item of value to influence the actions of an official, or other person, in charge of a public or legal duty and to incline the individual to act contrary to their duty and the known rules of honesty and integrity.

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British intelligence agencies

The Government of the United Kingdom maintains several intelligence agencies that deal with secret intelligence.

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Brookings Institution

The Brookings Institution, often stylized as Brookings, is an American think tank that conducts research and education in the social sciences, primarily in economics (and tax policy), metropolitan policy, governance, foreign policy, global economy, and economic development.

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Broward County, Florida

Broward County is a county in Florida, United States, located in the Miami metropolitan area.

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Bruce Ohr

Bruce Genesoke Ohr is a former United States Department of Justice official.

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Business Insider

Business Insider (stylized in all caps, shortened to BI, known from 2021 to 2023 as Insider) is a New York City–based multinational financial and business news website founded in 2007.

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BuzzFeed

BuzzFeed, Inc. is an American Internet media, news and entertainment company with a focus on digital media.

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BuzzFeed News

BuzzFeed News was an American news website published by BuzzFeed beginning in 2011.

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C-SPAN

Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network (C-SPAN) is an American cable and satellite television network, created in 1979 by the cable television industry as a nonprofit public service.

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Cabal

A cabal is a group of people who are united in some close design, usually to promote their private views or interests in an ideology, a state, or another community, often by intrigue and usually without the knowledge of those who are outside their group.

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Campaign finance in the United States

The financing of electoral campaigns in the United States happens at the federal, state, and local levels by contributions from individuals, corporations, political action committees, and sometimes the government.

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Campaign Legal Center (CLC) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) government watchdog group in the United States.

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Canada's National Observer

Canada's National Observer (CNO) is a news website that features daily news, analysis and opinion on energy, climate, politics, and social issues.

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Capri

Capri (adjective Caprese) is an island located in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the Sorrento Peninsula, on the south side of the Gulf of Naples in the Campania region of Italy.

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Carl Bernstein

Carl Milton Bernstein (born February 14, 1944) is an American investigative journalist and author.

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Carrot and stick

The phrase "carrot and stick" is a metaphor for the use of a combination of reward and punishment to induce a desired behaviour.

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Carter Page

Carter William Page (born June 3, 1971) is an American petroleum industry consultant and a former foreign-policy adviser to Donald Trump during his 2016 presidential election campaign. Steele dossier and Carter Page are Controversies of the 2016 United States presidential election.

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Cayman Islands

The Cayman Islands is a self-governing British Overseas Territory, and the largest by population.

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CBS News

CBS News is the news division of the American television and radio broadcaster CBS.

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Cell site

A cell site, cell phone tower, cell base tower, or cellular base station is a cellular-enabled mobile device site where antennas and electronic communications equipment are placed (typically on a radio mast, tower, or other raised structure) to create a cell, or adjacent cells, in a cellular network.

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Center for American Progress

The Center for American Progress (CAP) is a public policy research and advocacy organization which presents a liberal viewpoint on economic and social issues.

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Central Intelligence Agency

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), known informally as the Agency, metonymously as Langley and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT) and conducting covert action through its Directorate of Operations.

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Charlie Savage is an American author and newspaper reporter with The New York Times. In 2007, when employed by The Boston Globe, he was a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize.

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Chris Wallace

Christopher Wallace (born October 12, 1947) is an American broadcast journalist.

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Christopher Steele

Christopher David Steele (born 24 June 1964) is a British former intelligence officer with the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) from 1987 until his retirement in 2009. Steele dossier and Christopher Steele are Russia–United Kingdom relations and united Kingdom–United States relations.

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Chuck Grassley

Charles Ernest Grassley (born September 17, 1933) is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from Iowa, having held the seat since 1981.

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Chuck Schumer

Charles Ellis Schumer (born November 23, 1950) is an American politician serving as Senate Majority Leader since 2021 and as a United States senator from New York since 1999.

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Chuck Todd

Charles David Todd (born April 8, 1972) is an American television journalist who was the 12th moderator of NBC's Meet the Press.

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Clint Watts

Clint Watts is a senior fellow at the Center for Cyber and Homeland Security at George Washington University and a Foreign Policy Research Institute fellow. Steele dossier and Clint Watts are Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.

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CNBC

CNBC is an American business news channel owned by NBCUniversal News Group, a unit of Comcast's NBCUniversal.

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CNN

Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.

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Coda Media is a nonprofit news organization that produces journalism about the roots of major global crises.

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Columbia Journalism Review

The Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) is a biannual magazine for professional journalists that has been published by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism since 1961.

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Communications Decency Act

The Communications Decency Act of 1996 (CDA) was the United States Congress's first notable attempt to regulate pornographic material on the Internet.

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Compromised (book)

Compromised: Counterintelligence and the Threat of Donald J. Trump is a 2020 non-fiction book authored by former FBI agent Peter Strzok.

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Consciousness of guilt

In the law of evidence, consciousness of guilt is a type of circumstantial evidence that judges, prosecutors, and juries may consider when determining whether a defendant is guilty of a criminal offense.

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Conservatism in the United States

Conservatism in the United States is based on a belief in individualism, traditionalism, republicanism, and limited federal governmental power in relation to U.S. states.

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Since 2016, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump and his allies have promoted several conspiracy theories related to the Trump–Ukraine scandal.

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Corey Lewandowski

Corey R. Lewandowski (born September 18, 1973) is an American political operative, lobbyist, political commentator and author who is politically associated with Donald Trump.

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Counterintelligence

Counterintelligence (counter-intelligence) or counterespionage (counter-espionage) is any activity aimed at protecting an agency's intelligence program from an opposition's intelligence service.

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Courthouse News Service

Courthouse News Service is an American news service primarily focusing on civil litigation.

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Cover-up

A cover-up is an attempt, whether successful or not, to conceal evidence of wrongdoing, error, incompetence, or other embarrassing information.

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Covert listening device

A covert listening device, more commonly known as a bug or a wire, is usually a combination of a miniature radio transmitter with a microphone.

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Criminal referral

A criminal referral or criminal recommendation is a notice to a prosecutorial body, recommending criminal investigation or prosecution of one or more entities for crimes which fall into that body's jurisdiction.

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Crossfire Hurricane (FBI investigation)

Crossfire Hurricane was the code name for the counterintelligence investigation undertaken by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from July 31, 2016, to May 17, 2017, into links between Donald Trump's presidential campaign and Russia and "whether individuals associated with presidential campaign were coordinating, wittingly or unwittingly, with the Russian government's efforts to interfere in the 2016 U.S. Steele dossier and Crossfire Hurricane (FBI investigation) are Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.

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Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia (Czech and Československo, Česko-Slovensko) was a landlocked state in Central Europe, created in 1918, when it declared its independence from Austria-Hungary.

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Dabney L. Friedrich

Dabney Langhorne Friedrich (née Patricia Dabney Langhorne; born June 19, 1967) is an American attorney and jurist serving as a United States district court judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.

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Daily Mirror

The Daily Mirror is a British national daily tabloid newspaper.

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Dan Abrams

Daniel Abrams (born May 20, 1966) is an American media entrepreneur, television host, and author.

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Dan Goldman

Daniel Sachs Goldman (born February 26, 1976) is an American attorney, politician, and heir; he is a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 10th congressional district.

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David Corn

David Corn (born February 20, 1959) is an American political journalist and author.

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David Frum

David Jeffrey Frum (born June 1960) is a Canadian-American political commentator and a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush.

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David J. Kramer

David J. Kramer (born 1964) was United States Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor from 2008 to 2009.

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David Shedd

David R. Shedd is a retired U.S. intelligence officer whose final post was as the acting Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency.

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Defamation

Defamation is a communication that injures a third party's reputation and causes a legally redressable injury.

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Democracy Now!

Democracy Now! is an hour-long TV, radio, and Internet news program based in Manhattan and hosted by journalists Amy Goodman (who also acts as the show's executive producer), Juan González, and Nermeen Shaikh.

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Democratic National Committee

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is the principal committee of the United States Democratic Party.

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Democratic National Committee cyber attacks

The Democratic National Committee cyber attacks took place in 2015 and 2016, in which two groups of Russian computer hackers infiltrated the Democratic National Committee (DNC) computer network, leading to a data breach. Steele dossier and Democratic National Committee cyber attacks are Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.

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Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.

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Der Spiegel

(stylized in all caps) is a German weekly news magazine published in Hamburg.

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Devin Nunes

Devin Gerald Nunes (born October 1, 1973) is an American businessman and politician who is chief executive officer of the Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG).

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Dianne Feinstein

Dianne Emiel Feinstein (June 22, 1933 – September 29, 2023) was an American politician who served as a United States senator from California from 1992 until her death in 2023.

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Digby (blogger)

Digby is the short name of American political blogger Heather Digby Parton from Santa Monica, California who founded the blog Hullabaloo.

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Director of National Intelligence

The director of national intelligence (DNI) is a senior cabinet-level United States government official, required by the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 to serve as executive head of the United States Intelligence Community (IC) and to direct and oversee the National Intelligence Program (NIP). Steele dossier and director of National Intelligence are Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.

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Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency

The Director of the United States Defense Intelligence Agency is a military officer who, upon nomination by the President of the United States and confirmation by the Senate, serves as the United States' highest-ranking military intelligence officer.

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Discovery (law)

Discovery, in the law of common law jurisdictions, is a phase of pretrial procedure in a lawsuit in which each party, through the law of civil procedure, can obtain evidence from other parties by means of methods of discovery such as interrogatories, requests for production of documents, requests for admissions and depositions.

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Dmitry Peskov

Dmitry Sergeyevich Peskov (p; born 17 October 1967) is a Russian diplomat and the press secretary for Russian president Vladimir Putin.

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Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign

The 2016 presidential campaign of Donald Trump was formally launched on June 16, 2015, at Trump Tower in New York City.

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Donald Trump Jr.

Donald John Trump Jr. (born December 31, 1977), often called Don Jr., is an American businessman.

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Donald Trump's disclosures of classified information

Donald Trump's handling of United States government records, especially those containing classified information, during his tenure as the 45th U.S. president has come under scrutiny. Steele dossier and Donald Trump's disclosures of classified information are 2017 controversies in the United States, 2017 in American politics and Russia–United States relations.

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Donna Brazile

Donna Lease Brazile (born December 15, 1959) is an American political strategist, campaign manager, and political analyst who served twice as acting Chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC).

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Durham Report

The Report on the Affairs of British North America, (Rapport sur les affaires de l’Amérique du Nord britannique, 1839) commonly known as the Durham Report or Lord Durham's Report, is an important document in the history of Quebec, Ontario, Canada and the British Empire.

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Durham special counsel investigation

The Durham special counsel investigation began in 2019 when the U.S. Justice Department designated federal prosecutor John Durham to review the origins of an FBI investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections. Steele dossier and Durham special counsel investigation are Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.

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E. W. Priestap

Edward William Priestap, also known as Bill Priestap (born April 5, 1969) is an American attorney and United States intelligence official.

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Eastern Europe

Eastern Europe is a subregion of the European continent.

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Eavesdropping

Eavesdropping is the act of secretly or stealthily listening to the private conversation or communications of others without their consent in order to gather information.

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Emin (singer)

Emin Aras oghlu Agalarov (Emin Araz oğlu Ağalarov, Эмин Аразович Агаларов; born 12 December 1979), also known as Emin Arazovich Agalarov, is an Azerbaijani singer and businessperson.

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Espionage

Espionage, spying, or intelligence gathering is the act of obtaining secret or confidential information (intelligence).

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In military tactics, extraction is the process of removing personnel or units from an area; when conducted with stealth in an area controlled by the enemy, this is referred to as exfiltration.

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In an extradition, one jurisdiction delivers a person accused or convicted of committing a crime in another jurisdiction, into the custody of the other's law enforcement.

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FactCheck.org

FactCheck.org is a nonprofit website that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics by providing original research on misinformation and hoaxes.

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FBI Counterintelligence Division

The Counterintelligence Division (CD) is a division of the National Security Branch of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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Federal Bureau of Investigation

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency.

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Federal Election Commission

The Federal Election Commission (FEC) is an independent agency of the United States government that enforces U.S. campaign finance laws and oversees U.S. federal elections.

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Federal Security Service

The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB or FSS) is the principal security agency of Russia and the main successor agency to the Soviet Union's KGB; its immediate predecessor was the Federal Counterintelligence Service (FSK) which was reorganized into the FSB in 1995.

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Financial Times

The Financial Times (FT) is a British daily newspaper printed in broadsheet and also published digitally that focuses on business and economic current affairs.

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FindLaw

FindLaw is a business of Thomson Reuters that provides online legal information in the form of state laws, case law and codes, legal blogs and articles, a lawyer directory, DIY legal services and products, and other legal resources.

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Fiona Hill (presidential advisor)

Fiona Hill (born October 1965) is a British-American foreign affairs specialist and author.

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First Amendment to the United States Constitution

The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution prevents the government from making laws respecting an establishment of religion; prohibiting the free exercise of religion; or abridging the freedom of speech, the freedom of the press, the freedom of assembly, or the right to petition the government for redress of grievances.

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FiveThirtyEight

538, originally rendered as FiveThirtyEight, is an American website that focused on opinion poll analysis, politics, economics, and sports blogging in the United States.

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Forbes

Forbes is an American business magazine founded by B. C. Forbes in 1917 and owned by Hong Kong-based investment group Integrated Whale Media Investments since 2014.

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Foreign Agents Registration Act

The Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) is a United States law that imposes public disclosure obligations on persons representing foreign interests.

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Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) is a United States federal law that establishes procedures for the surveillance and collection of foreign intelligence on domestic soil.

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Foreign Policy

Foreign Policy is an American news publication founded in 1970 focused on global affairs, current events, and domestic and international policy.

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Fortune (magazine)

Fortune (stylized in all caps) is an American global business magazine headquartered in New York City.

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Four Corners (Australian TV program)

Four Corners is an Australian investigative journalism/current affairs documentary television program.

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Fox & Friends

Fox & Friends is an American daily morning news and talk program that airs on Fox News.

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Fox News

The Fox News Channel (FNC), commonly known as Fox News, is an American multinational conservative news and political commentary television channel and website based in New York City.

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Free Law Project

Free Law Project is a United States federal 501(c)(3) Oakland-based nonprofit that provides free access to primary legal materials, develops legal research tools, and supports academic research on legal corpora.

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Freedom of speech

Freedom of speech is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or a community to articulate their opinions and ideas without fear of retaliation, censorship, or legal sanction.

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Fresh Air

Fresh Air is an American radio talk show broadcast on National Public Radio stations across the United States since 1985.

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FTI Consulting

FTI Consulting (earlier Forensics Technologies International) is a business consultancy firm founded in 1982 and headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States.

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Fusion GPS

Fusion GPS is a commercial research and strategic intelligence firm based in Washington, D.C. The company conducts open-source investigations and provides research and strategic advice for businesses, law firms and investors, as well as for political inquiries, such as opposition research. Steele dossier and Fusion GPS are opposition research and Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.

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George Papadopoulos

George Demetrios Papadopoulos (born August 19, 1987) is an author and former member of the foreign policy advisory panel to Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.

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George Stephanopoulos

George Robert Stephanopoulos (born February 10, 1961) is an American television host, political commentator, and former Democratic advisor.

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Georgia (country)

Georgia is a transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and West Asia.

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German Khan

German Borisovich Khan (Герман Борисович Хан; born 24 October 1961) is a Ukrainian-Russian oligarch, billionaire, and businessman.

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Glencore

Glencore plc is a Swiss multinational commodity trading and mining company with headquarters in Baar, Switzerland.

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Glenn R. Simpson

Glenn Richard Simpson (born 1964) is an American former journalist who worked for The Wall Street Journal until 2009, and then co-founded the Washington-based research business Fusion GPS. Steele dossier and Glenn R. Simpson are opposition research.

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Google Scholar

Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines.

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Gordon Sondland

Gordon David Sondland (born July 16, 1957) is an American businessman.

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Grand Central Publishing

Grand Central Publishing is a book publishing imprint of Hachette Book Group, originally established in 1970 as Warner Books when Kinney National Company acquired the Paperback Library.

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Greens/Green Party USA

The Greens/Green Party USA (G/GPUSA) was a political organization formed out of the Green Committees of Correspondence in 1991 and was recognized as a national political party by the FEC from 1991 to 2005.

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Guccifer 2.0

"Guccifer 2.0" is a persona which claimed to be the hacker(s) who gained unauthorized access to the Democratic National Committee (DNC) computer network and then leaked its documents to the media, the website WikiLeaks, and a conference event.

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Haaretz

Haaretz (originally Ḥadshot Haaretz –) is an Israeli newspaper.

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Hail Mary pass

A Hail Mary pass is a very long forward pass in American football, typically made in desperation, with an exceptionally small chance of achieving a completion.

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Halifax International Security Forum

Halifax International Security Forum (also Halifax Forum or HFX) is an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization headquartered in Washington, D.C. It is a forum and network for international government and military officials, academic experts, authors and entrepreneurs.

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Harper (publisher)

Harper is an American publishing house, the flagship imprint of global publisher, HarperCollins, based in New York City.

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High Court of Justice

The High Court of Justice in London, known properly as His Majesty's High Court of Justice in England, together with the Court of Appeal and the Crown Court, are the Senior Courts of England and Wales.

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Hillary Clinton

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (Rodham; born October 26, 1947) is an American politician and diplomat who served as the 67th United States secretary of state in the administration of Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013, as a U.S. senator representing New York from 2001 to 2009, and as the first lady of the United States to former president Bill Clinton from 1993 to 2001.

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Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign

The 2016 presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton was announced in a YouTube video on April 12, 2015.

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Hillary Clinton email controversy

During her tenure as United States Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton drew controversy by using a private email server for official public communications rather than using official State Department email accounts maintained on federal servers. Steele dossier and Hillary Clinton email controversy are Controversies of the 2016 United States presidential election and Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.

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Hope Hicks

Hope Charlotte Hicks (born October 21, 1988) is an American public relations executive and political advisor who served in President Donald Trump’s administration from 2017 to 2018 and 2020 to 2021.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) is an American publisher of textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, and reference works.

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Howard Blum

Howard Blum (born 1948) is an American author and journalist.

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HuffPost

HuffPost (The Huffington Post until 2017; often abbreviated as HuffPo) is an American progressive news website, with localized and international editions.

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Hulu

Hulu (styled hulu in its logo) is an American subscription streaming media and content hub within the Disney+ streaming service owned by The Walt Disney Company.

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Igor Danchenko

Igor Yurievich Danchenko (born May 5, 1978) is a Russian citizen and U.S. resident currently residing in Virginia who works as a Eurasia political risk, defense and economics analyst.

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Igor Sechin

Igor Ivanovich Sechin (И́горь Ива́нович Се́чин; born 7 September 1960) is a Russian oligarch and a government official, considered a close ally and "de facto deputy" of Vladimir Putin.

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Ike Kaveladze

Irakly "Ike" Kaveladze (Georgian: ირაკლი კაველაძე) is a Georgian-American business executive.

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Impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump

The inquiry process which preceded the first impeachment of Donald Trump, 45th president of the United States, was initiated by then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on September 24, 2019, after a whistleblower alleged that Donald Trump may have abused the power of the presidency. Steele dossier and impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump are Donald Trump controversies.

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Informant

An informant (also called an informer or, as a slang term, a "snitch", "rat", "canary", "stool pigeon", "stoolie" or "grass", among other terms) is a person who provides privileged information, or (usually damaging) information intended to be intimate, concealed, or secret, about a person or organization to an agency, often a government or law enforcement agency.

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Inspector General report on the Crossfire Hurricane investigation

Review of Four FISA Applications and Other Aspects of the FBI's Crossfire Hurricane Investigation is a report by the United States Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General which was released on December 9, 2019 by Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz.

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Intelligence agency

An intelligence agency is a government agency responsible for the collection, analysis, and exploitation of information in support of law enforcement, national security, military, public safety, and foreign policy objectives.

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Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament

The Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament (ISC) is a statutory joint committee of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, appointed to oversee the work of the UK intelligence community.

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International sanctions during the Russo-Ukrainian War

International sanctions have been imposed against Russia and Crimea during the Russo-Ukrainian War by a large number of countries, including the United States, Canada, the European Union, and international organisations following the Russian annexation of Crimea, which began in late February 2014.

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Internet Research Agency

The Internet Research Agency (IRA; translit), also known as Glavset (Главсеть), and known in Russian Internet slang as the Trolls from Olgino (ольгинские тролли) or Kremlinbots (кремлеботы), was a Russian company which was engaged in online propaganda and influence operations on behalf of Russian business and political interests.

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Investigative journalism

Investigative journalism is a form of journalism in which reporters deeply investigate a single topic of interest, such as serious crimes, racial injustice, political corruption, or corporate wrongdoing.

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Ivana Trump

Ivana Marie Trump (Zelníčková,; February 20, 1949 – July 14, 2022) was a Czech-American businesswoman, socialite, and model.

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Ivanka Trump

Ivana Marie "Ivanka" Trump (born October 30, 1981) is an American businesswoman.

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J. D. Gordon

Jeffrey D. "J.D." Gordon is an American communications and foreign policy adviser, who served as a Pentagon spokesman during the George W. Bush Administration and later a national security adviser to Donald Trump.

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Jack Shafer

Jack Shafer (born November 14, 1957) is an American journalist who writes about media for Politico.

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Jake Tapper

Jacob Paul Tapper (born March 12, 1969) is an American journalist.

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James Clapper

James Robert Clapper Jr. (born March 14, 1941) is a retired lieutenant general in the United States Air Force and former Director of National Intelligence.

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James Comey

James Brien Comey Jr. (born December 14, 1960) is an American lawyer who was the seventh director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from 2013 until his termination in May 2017.

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Jane Mayer

Jane Meredith Mayer (born 1955) is an American investigative journalist who has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1995.

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Jeff Sessions

Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III (born December 24, 1946) is an American politician and attorney who served as the 84th United States attorney general from 2017 to 2018.

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Jeff Stein (author)

Jeff Stein (born February 13, 1944) is the editor-in-chief of SpyTalk, a newsletter covering U.S. intelligence, defense and foreign policy, on the Substack platform.

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Jill Stein

Jill Ellen Stein (born May 14, 1950) is an American physician, activist, and politician.

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Jim Jordan

James Daniel Jordan (born February 17, 1964) is an American politician currently serving in his ninth term in the U.S. House of Representatives as the representative for since 2007.

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Jim Sciutto

James Ernest Sciutto (born March 10, 1970) is an American news anchor and former government official who has been the chief national security correspondent for CNN since September 2013.

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Joe Biden

Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. (born November 20, 1942) is an American politician who is the 46th and current president of the United States since 2021.

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John Brennan (CIA officer)

John Owen Brennan (born September 22, 1955) is a former American intelligence officer who served as the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from March 2013 to January 2017.

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John Durham

John Henry Durham (born March 16, 1950) is an American lawyer who served as the United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut (D. Conn.) from 2018 to 2021.

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John McCain

John Sidney McCain III (August 29, 1936 – August 25, 2018) was an American politician and United States Navy officer who served as a United States senator from Arizona from 1987 until his death in 2018.

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John Podesta

John David Podesta Jr. (born January 8, 1949) is an American political consultant who has been serving as Senior Advisor to the President for International Climate Policy since 2024, having previously served as the Senior Advisor to the President for Clean Energy Innovation and Implementation from 2022 to 2024.

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John Ratcliffe (American politician)

John Lee Ratcliffe (born October 20, 1965) is an American politician and attorney who served as the Director of National Intelligence from 2020 to 2021.

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Jonathan Chait

Jonathan Chait is an American pundit and writer for New York magazine.

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Joseph Mifsud

Joseph Mifsud (born 1960) is a British/Maltese academic, who had dual citizenship in the United Kingdom and Malta.

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Judiciaries of the United Kingdom

The judiciaries of the United Kingdom are the separate judiciaries of the three legal systems in England and Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland.

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Julian Borger

Julian Borger is a British journalist and non-fiction writer.

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Julian Sanchez (writer)

Julian Sanchez (born March 14, 1979) is an American writer living in Washington, D.C. Formerly a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, he previously covered technology and privacy issues as the Washington editor for Ars Technica.

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KABC (AM)

KABC (790 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Los Angeles, California, and serving the Greater Los Angeles area.

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Keith Schiller

Keith Schiller (born) is an American former law enforcement official and security consultant who served as Deputy Assistant to U.S. President Donald Trump and Director of Oval Office Operations.

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Ken Dilanian

Ken Dilanian is an American journalist of Armenian descent.

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KGB

The Committee for State Security (Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti (KGB)) was the main security agency for the Soviet Union from 13 March 1954 until 3 December 1991.

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Kickback (bribery)

A kickback is a form of negotiated bribery in which a commission is paid to the bribe-taker in exchange for services rendered.

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King's Bench Division

The King's Bench Division (or Queen's Bench Division when the monarch is female) of the High Court of Justice deals with a wide range of common law cases and has supervisory responsibility over certain lower courts.

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Kompromat

Kompromat is damaging information about a politician, a businessperson, or other public figure, which may be used to create negative publicity, as well as for blackmail, often to exert influence rather than monetary gain, and extortion.

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Konstantin Kosachev

Konstantin Iosifovich Kosachev (Константин Иосифович Косачев; born 17 September 1962) is a Russian politician and former diplomat.

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Kyle Cheney (journalist)

Kyle Cheney is an American journalist working as a congressional reporter for Politico and as a political analyst for CNN and MSNBC.

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Kyle Pope

Kyle Pope is an American journalist, who is the editor and publisher of the Columbia Journalism Review.

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L. Lin Wood

Lucian Lincoln Wood Jr. (born October 19, 1952) is an American former attorney who made claims about the existence of widespread election fraud during the 2020 US presidential election.

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La Trobe University

La Trobe University is a public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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Lanny Davis

Lanny Jesse Davis (born December 12, 1945) is an American political operative, lawyer, consultant, lobbyist, author, and television commentator.

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Law360

Law360 is a subscription-based, legal news service based in New York City.

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Lawfare (website)

Lawfare is an American online non-profit multimedia publication dedicated to national security issues, published by The Lawfare Institute in cooperation with the Brookings Institution.

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Legal immunity, or immunity from prosecution, is a legal status wherein an individual or entity cannot be held liable for a violation of the law, in order to facilitate societal aims that outweigh the value of imposing liability in such cases.

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Lindsey Graham

Lindsey Olin Graham (born July 9, 1955) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States senator from South Carolina, a seat he has held since 2003.

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Since Donald Trump was a 2016 candidate for the office of President of the United States, myriad suspicious links between Trump associates and Russian officials have been discovered by the FBI, Special counsel, and several United States congressional committees, as part of their investigations into the Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections. Steele dossier and links between Trump associates and Russian officials are Controversies of the 2016 United States presidential election and Russia–United States relations.

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List of newspapers in the Cayman Islands

The Cayman Islands is a group of three islands in the Caribbean Sea.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.

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Luke Harding

Luke Daniel Harding (born 21 April 1968) is a British journalist who is a foreign correspondent for The Guardian.

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Lyndon LaRouche

Lyndon Hermyle LaRouche Jr. (September 8, 1922 – February 12, 2019) was an American political activist who founded the LaRouche movement and its main organization, the National Caucus of Labor Committees (NCLC).

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Magnitsky Act

The Magnitsky Act, formally known as the Russia and Moldova Jackson–Vanik Repeal and Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act of 2012, is a bipartisan bill passed by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama in December 2012, intending to punish Russian officials responsible for the death of Russian tax lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in a Moscow prison in 2009 and also to grant permanent normal trade relations status to Russia. Steele dossier and Magnitsky Act are Russia–United States relations and Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.

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Marc Elias

Marc Erik Elias (born February 1, 1969) is an American Democratic Party elections lawyer.

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Marco Rubio

Marco Antonio Rubio (born May 28, 1971) is an American politician and lawyer serving as the senior United States senator from Florida, a seat he has held since 2011.

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Margaret Sullivan (journalist)

Margaret M. Sullivan is an American journalist who is the former media columnist for The Washington Post.

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Mark Warner

Mark Robert Warner (born December 15, 1954) is an American businessman and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Virginia, a seat he has held since 2009.

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Marriott International

Marriott International, Inc. is an American multinational company that operates, franchises, and licenses lodging brands that include hotel, residential, and timeshare properties.

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Mass media in Jersey consist of several different types of communications media: television, radio, newspapers, magazines, and Internet-based Web sites.

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Master (judiciary)

A master is a judge of limited jurisdiction in the superior courts of England and Wales and in numerous other jurisdictions based on the common law tradition.

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Matt Gaetz

Matthew Louis Gaetz II (born May 7, 1982) is an American lawyer and politician who has served as the U.S. representative for since 2017.

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Matt Taibbi

Matthew Colin Taibbi (born March 2, 1970) is an American author, journalist, and podcaster.

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Max Boot

Max Boot (born September 12, 1969) is a Russian-born naturalized American author, editorialist, lecturer, and military historian.

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McClatchy

The McClatchy Company, or simply McClatchy, is an American publishing company incorporated under Delaware's General Corporation Law.

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Media manipulation refers to orchestrated campaigns in which actors exploit the distinctive features of broadcasting mass communications or digital media platforms to mislead, misinform, or create a narrative that advance their interests and agendas.

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Media Matters for America (MMfA) is a non-profit left-leaning watchdog journalism organization. Steele dossier and Media Matters for America are opposition research.

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Mediaite is an American news website focusing on politics and the media.

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MI6

The Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), commonly known as MI6 (Military Intelligence, Section 6), is the foreign intelligence service of the United Kingdom, tasked mainly with the covert overseas collection and analysis of human intelligence on foreign nationals in support of its Five Eyes partners.

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Miami Herald

The Miami Herald is an American daily newspaper owned by The McClatchy Company and headquartered in Miami-Dade County, Florida.

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Michael E. Horowitz

Michael Evan Horowitz (born September 19, 1962) is an American attorney and government official.

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Michael Flynn

Michael Thomas Flynn (born December 24, 1958) is a retired United States Army lieutenant general who was the 24th U.S. national security advisor for the first 22 days of the Trump administration.

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Michael Hayden (general)

Michael Vincent Hayden (born March 17, 1945) is a retired United States Air Force four-star general and former Director of the National Security Agency, Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence, and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

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Michael Isikoff

Michael Isikoff (born June 16, 1952) is an American investigative journalist who used to be the Chief Investigative Correspondent at Yahoo! News.

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Michael Morell

Michael Joseph Morell (born September 4, 1958) is an American former career intelligence analyst.

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Michael S. Rogers

Michael S. Rogers (born October 31, 1959) is a retired four-star admiral of the United States Navy.

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Mikhail Fridman

Mikhail Maratovich Fridman (also transliterated Mikhail Friedman; Михаил Маратович Фридман; מיכאיל פרידמן; born 21 April 1964) is a Ukrainian-born, Russian–Israeli tycoon.

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Mimi Rocah

Miriam Elizabeth "Mimi" Rocah (born July 28, 1970) is an American attorney currently serving as District Attorney for Westchester County, New York.

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Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia)

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (MFA Russia; Министерство иностранныхдел Российской Федерации, МИД РФ) is the central government institution charged with leading the foreign policy and foreign relations of Russia.

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Mother Jones (magazine)

Mother Jones (abbreviated MoJo) is a nonprofit American progressive magazine that focuses on news, commentary, and investigative journalism on topics including politics, environment, human rights, health and culture.

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MSN

MSN (meaning Microsoft Network) is an American web portal and related collection of Internet services and apps for Windows and mobile devices, provided by Microsoft and launched on August 24, 1995, alongside the release of Windows 95.

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MSNBC

MSNBC (short for Microsoft NBC) is an American news-based television channel and website headquartered in New York City.

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Mueller report

The Mueller report, officially titled Report On The Investigation Into Russian Interference In The 2016 Presidential Election, is the official report documenting the findings and conclusions of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 United States presidential election, allegations of conspiracy or coordination between Donald Trump's presidential campaign and Russia, and allegations of obstruction of justice.

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Mueller special counsel investigation

The Robert Mueller special counsel investigation was an investigation into 45th U.S. president Donald Trump regarding Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections and was conducted by special prosecutor Robert Mueller from May 2017 to March 2019. Steele dossier and Mueller special counsel investigation are 2017 in American politics and Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.

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Mysophobia

Mysophobia, also known as verminophobia, germophobia, germaphobia, bacillophobia and bacteriophobia, is a pathological fear of contamination and germs.

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Nancy Pelosi

Nancy Patricia Pelosi (born March 26, 1940) is an American politician who served as the 52nd speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2007 to 2011 and again from 2019 to 2023.

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National Review

National Review is an American conservative editorial magazine, focusing on news and commentary pieces on political, social, and cultural affairs.

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National security

National security, or national defence (national defense in American English), is the security and defence of a sovereign state, including its citizens, economy, and institutions, which is regarded as a duty of government.

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National Security Agency

The National Security Agency (NSA) is an intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense, under the authority of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI).

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NBC News

NBC News is the news division of the American broadcast television network NBC.

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Never Trump movement

The Never Trump movement, also called the #nevertrump, Stop Trump, anti-Trump, or Dump Trump movement, is an ongoing moderate conservative movement that opposes Trumpism and former U.S. president Donald Trump.

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New York (magazine)

New York is an American biweekly magazine concerned with life, culture, politics, and style generally, with a particular emphasis on New York City.

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New York University School of Law

The New York University School of Law (NYU Law) is the law school of New York University, a private research university in New York City.

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News Corp Australia

News Corp Australia is an Australian media conglomerate and wholly owned subsidiary of the American News Corp.

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Newsweek

Newsweek is a weekly news magazine.

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NPR

National Public Radio (NPR, stylized as npr) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California.

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Nunes memo

The Nunes memo (formally titled Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Abuses at the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation) is a four-page memorandum written for U.S. Representative Devin Nunes by his staff and released to the public by the Republican-controlled House Intelligence Committee on February 2, 2018. Steele dossier and Nunes memo are Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.

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NY1

NY1 (also officially known as Spectrum News NY1 and spoken as New York One) is an American cable news television channel founded by Time Warner Cable, which itself is owned by Charter Communications through its acquisition in May 2016.

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Oleg Deripaska

Oleg Vladimirovich Deripaska (Олег Владимирович Дерипаска; born 2 January 1968) is a Russian oligarch and billionaire.

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Opposition research

In politics, opposition research (also called oppo research) is the practice of collecting information on a political opponent or other adversary that can be used to discredit or otherwise weaken them.

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Paste (magazine)

Paste is an American monthly music and entertainment digital magazine, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, with studios in Atlanta and Manhattan, and owned by Paste Media Group.

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Paul Manafort

Paul John Manafort Jr. (born April 1, 1949) is an American former lobbyist, political consultant, and attorney.

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Paul Singer (businessman)

Paul Elliott Singer (born August 22, 1944) is an American hedge fund manager, activist investor, and the founder, president, and co-CEO of Elliott Management.

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Paul Wood (journalist)

Paul Wood is a British journalist.

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PBS

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and non-commercial, free-to-air television network based in Crystal City, Virginia.

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Perkins Coie

Perkins Coie LLP is a global law firm headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

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Peter Strzok

Peter Paul Strzok II (like struck; born March 7, 1970) is a former United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent.

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Petr Aven

Petr Olegovich Aven (also transliterated Pyotr Aven; Пëтр Олегович Авен; Latvian: Pjotrs Avens; born 16 March 1955) is a Russian businessman, economist and politician who also holds Latvian citizenship.

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Plausible deniability

Plausible deniability is the ability of people, typically senior officials in a formal or informal chain of command, to deny knowledge of or responsibility for actions committed by or on behalf of members of their organizational hierarchy.

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Political journalism

Political journalism is a broad branch of journalism that includes coverage of all aspects of politics and political science, although the term usually refers specifically to coverage of civil governments and political power.

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Politico

Politico (stylized in all caps), known originally as The Politico, is an American political digital newspaper company.

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PolitiFact

PolitiFact.com is an American nonprofit project operated by the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Florida, with offices there and in Washington, D.C. It began in 2007 as a project of the Tampa Bay Times (then the St. Petersburg Times), with reporters and editors from the newspaper and its affiliated news media partners reporting on the accuracy of statements made by elected officials, candidates, their staffs, lobbyists, interest groups and others involved in U.S.

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Prejudice (legal term)

Prejudice is a legal term with different meanings, which depend on whether it is used in criminal, civil, or common law.

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Presidency of Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton's tenure as the 42nd president of the United States began with his first inauguration on January 20, 1993, and ended on January 20, 2001.

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Probable cause

In United States criminal law, probable cause is the legal standard by which police authorities have reason to obtain a warrant for the arrest of a suspected criminal and for a court's issuing of a search warrant.

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ProPublica

ProPublica, legally Pro Publica, Inc., is a nonprofit organization based in New York City dedicated to investigative journalism.

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Pseudonym

A pseudonym or alias is a fictitious name that a person assumes for a particular purpose, which differs from their original or true name (orthonym).

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Qatar

Qatar (قطر) officially the State of Qatar, is a country in West Asia. It occupies the Qatar Peninsula on the northeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula in the Middle East; it shares its sole land border with Saudi Arabia to the south, with the rest of its territory surrounded by the Persian Gulf.

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Quid pro quo

Quid pro quo (Latin: "something for something") is a Latin phrase used in English to mean an exchange of goods or services, in which one transfer is contingent upon the other; "a favor for a favor".

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Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act

The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act is a United States federal law that provides for extended criminal penalties and a civil cause of action for acts performed as part of an ongoing criminal organization.

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Random House

Random House is an imprint and publishing group of Penguin Random House.

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Raw intelligence

Raw intelligence is raw data gathered by an intelligence operation, such as espionage or signal interception.

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Reason (magazine)

Reason is an American libertarian monthly magazine published by the Reason Foundation, with the tagline "Free Minds and Free Markets".

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Republican National Convention

The Republican National Convention (RNC) is a series of presidential nominating conventions held every four years since 1856 by the Republican Party in the United States.

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Republics of the Soviet Union

The Republics of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or the Union Republics (r) were national-based administrative units of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).

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Reuters

Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters.

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Rhode Island

Rhode Island (pronounced "road") is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.

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Richard Tofel

Richard Tofel is the principal of Gallatin Advisory, a journalism consultancy, and former president of ProPublica, a non-profit investigative journalism organization.

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Rob Goldstone

Robert Ian Goldstone (born 3 December 1960) is a British publicist, music manager, and former tabloid journalist who gained international attention for his activities during the 2016 American presidential election campaign.

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Robby Mook

Robert E. Mook (born December 3, 1979) is an American former political strategist.

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Robert Mueller

Robert Swan Mueller III (born August 7, 1944) is an American lawyer who served as the sixth director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from 2001 to 2013.

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Robert S. Litt

Robert S. Litt was the second General Counsel of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI); the U.S. Senate confirmed his nomination by unanimous consent on June 25, 2009.

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Roger Friedman

Roger Friedman is an American journalist and gossip blogger.

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Roger Stone

Roger Jason Stone (born Roger Joseph Stone Jr.; August 27, 1952) is an American conservative political consultant and lobbyist.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture.

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Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeast Europe.

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Rome

Rome (Italian and Roma) is the capital city of Italy.

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Ron Johnson

Ronald Harold Johnson (born April 8, 1955) is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from Wisconsin, a seat he has held since 2011.

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Rorschach test

The Rorschach test is a projective psychological test in which subjects' perceptions of inkblots are recorded and then analyzed using psychological interpretation, complex algorithms, or both.

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Rosneft

PJSC Rosneft Oil Company (stylized as ROSNEFT) is a Russian integrated energy company headquartered in Moscow.

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Rossotrudnichestvo

The Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Humanitarian Cooperation or Rossotrudnichestvo is an autonomous Russian federal government agency under the jurisdiction of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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Rudy Giuliani

Rudolph William Louis Giuliani (born May 28, 1944) is an American politician and disbarred lawyer who served as the 107th mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2001.

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Russia investigation origins counter-narrative

The Russia investigation origins counter-narrative, or Russia counter-narrative, is a narrative embraced by Donald Trump, Republican Party leaders, and right-wing conservatives attacking the legitimacy and conclusions of investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 elections, and the links between Russian intelligence and Trump associates. Steele dossier and Russia investigation origins counter-narrative are Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.

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Russia–United States relations

Russia and the United States maintain one of the most important, critical, and strategic foreign relations in the world.

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Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections

The Russian government was one of several foreign governments that interfered in the 2016 United States elections, with the goals of sabotaging the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton, boosting the presidential campaign of Donald Trump, and increasing political and social discord in the United States. Steele dossier and Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections are Controversies of the 2016 United States presidential election, Donald Trump controversies and Russia–United States relations.

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Russian oligarchs

Russian oligarchs (oligarkhi) are business oligarchs of the former Soviet republics who rapidly accumulated wealth in the 1990s via the Russian privatisation that followed the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

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Russian Roulette (Isikoff and Corn book)

Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump is a 2018 book by journalists Michael Isikoff and David Corn.

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Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow.

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Salon.com

Salon is an American politically progressive and liberal news and opinion website created in 1995.

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Sam Clovis

Samuel Harvey Clovis Jr. (born September 18, 1949) is a former United States Air Force officer, talk radio host, and political figure.

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Sarah Ferguson (journalist)

Sarah Ferguson (born 31 December 1965) is an Australian journalist, reporter and television presenter.

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Sarah Huckabee Sanders

Sarah Elizabeth Huckabee Sanders (born August 13, 1982) is an American politician serving since 2023 as the 47th governor of Arkansas.

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Sean Hannity

Sean Patrick Hannity (born December 30, 1961) is an American conservative broadcast host and writer.

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Senate Intelligence Committee report on Russian interference in the 2016 United States presidential election

The Senate Intelligence Committee report on Russian interference in the United States presidential election, officially titled Report of the Select Committee on Intelligence United States Senate on Russian Active Measures Campaigns and Interference in the 2016 U.S. Election, is the official report in five volumes documenting the findings and conclusions of the United States Senate Intelligence Committee concerning the Russian attack efforts against election infrastructure, Russia's use of social media to affect the election, the U.S.

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Sergei Millian

Sergei Millian (born Siarhei Kukuts; October 22, 1978) is a Belarusian-American businessman and former president of the Russian-American Chamber of Commerce.

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Sergey Kislyak

Sergey Ivanovich Kislyak (p; born 7 September 1950) is a Russian senior diplomat and politician.

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Sheldon Whitehouse

Sheldon Whitehouse (born October 20, 1955) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the junior United States senator from Rhode Island since 2007.

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Shepard Smith

David Shepard Smith Jr. (born January 14, 1964) is a former American broadcast journalist.

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Sidney Blumenthal

Sidney Stone Blumenthal (born November 6, 1948) is an American journalist, political operative, and Lincoln scholar.

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Sky News

Sky News is a British free-to-air television news channel and organisation.

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Slate (magazine)

Slate is an online magazine that covers current affairs, politics, and culture in the United States.

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Snopes

Snopes, formerly known as the Urban Legends Reference Pages, is a fact-checking website.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Spygate (conspiracy theory)

Spygate is a disproven conspiracy theory peddled by 45th U.S. president Donald Trump and his political base on many occasions throughout his presidential term. Steele dossier and Spygate (conspiracy theory) are Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.

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Stanford University

Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University) is a private research university in Stanford, California.

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StB

State Security (Státní bezpečnost, Štátna bezpečnosť) or StB / ŠtB, was the secret police force in communist Czechoslovakia from 1945 to its dissolution in 1990.

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Stephen Holmes (CIA)

Stephen Holmes (also known as Steven Hall) is a CIA officer who, as of 2013, was the Station chief at the Embassy of the United States in Moscow, the top U.S. intelligence representative with Russia. Steele dossier and Stephen Holmes (CIA) are Russia–United States relations.

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Steven Van Zandt

Steven Van Zandt (né Lento; born November 22, 1950), also known as Little Steven or Miami Steve, is an American musician and actor.

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Strategic lawsuit against public participation

Strategic lawsuits against public participation (also known as SLAPP suits or intimidation lawsuits), or strategic litigation against public participation, are lawsuits intended to censor, intimidate, and silence critics by burdening them with the cost of a legal defense until they abandon their criticism or opposition.

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Superior Court of the District of Columbia

The Superior Court of the District of Columbia, commonly referred to as DC Superior Court, is the trial court for the District of Columbia, in the United States.

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Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States.

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Tampa Bay Times

The Tampa Bay Times, called the St.

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Terry Gross

Terry Gross (born February 14, 1951) is an American journalist who is the host and co-executive producer of Fresh Air, an interview-based radio show produced by WHYY-FM in Philadelphia and distributed nationally by NPR.

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The Arizona Republic

The Arizona Republic is an American daily newspaper published in Phoenix.

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The Atlantic

The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher.

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The Australian

The Australian, with its Saturday edition The Weekend Australian, is a broadsheet newspaper published by News Corp Australia since 14 July 1964.

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The Baltimore Sun

The Baltimore Sun is the largest general-circulation daily newspaper based in the U.S. state of Maryland and provides coverage of local, regional, national, and international news.

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The Carlton Moscow

The Carlton, Moscow (Карлтон Москва) (formerly The Ritz-Carlton, Moscow) is a 334-room 5-star luxury hotel in the center of Moscow.

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The Daily Beast

The Daily Beast is an American news website focused on politics, media, and pop culture.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Fresno Bee

The Fresno Bee is a three-times a week newspaper serving Fresno, California, and surrounding counties in that U.S. state's central San Joaquin Valley.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Hill (newspaper)

The Hill is an American newspaper and digital media company based in Washington, D.C., that was founded in 1994.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Intercept

The Intercept is an American left-wing nonprofit news organization that publishes articles and podcasts online.

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The Nation

The Nation is a progressive American monthly magazine that covers political and cultural news, opinion, and analysis.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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The New Zealand Herald

The New Zealand Herald is a daily newspaper published in Auckland, New Zealand, owned by New Zealand Media and Entertainment, and considered a newspaper of record for New Zealand.

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The Rachel Maddow Show

The Rachel Maddow Show (also abbreviated TRMS) is an American news television program that airs on MSNBC, running in the 9:00 pm ET time slot Monday evenings.

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The Scotsman

The Scotsman is a Scottish compact newspaper and daily news website headquartered in Edinburgh.

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The Spectator

The Spectator is a weekly British news magazine focusing on politics, culture, and current affairs.

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The Sunday Times

The Sunday Times is a British Sunday newspaper whose circulation makes it the largest in Britain's quality press market category.

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The Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, Australia, and owned by Nine.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London.

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The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), also referred to simply as the Journal, is an American newspaper based in New York City, with a focus on business and finance.

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The Washington Free Beacon

The Washington Free Beacon is an American conservative political journalism website launched in 2012.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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The Week

The Week is a weekly news magazine with editions in the United Kingdom and United States.

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Theresa May

Theresa Mary, Lady May (born 1 October 1956) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2016 to 2019.

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This Week (American TV program)

This Week, originally titled as This Week with David Brinkley and billed as This Week with George Stephanopoulos since 2012, is an American Sunday morning political affairs program airing on ABC.

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Thomas Roberts (television journalist)

Thomas Albert Roberts (born October 5, 1972) is an American television journalist who served as a news anchor for MSNBC, a cable-news channel.

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Time (magazine)

Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.

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Tom Perez

Thomas Edward Perez (born October 7, 1961) is an American politician and attorney currently serving as senior advisor to the president of the United States and director of the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, holding both positions since June 2023.

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Tommy Vietor

Thomas Frederick Vietor IV (born August 31, 1980) is an American political commentator and podcaster.

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Tony Brenton

Sir Anthony Russell Brenton, (born 1 January 1950) is a former British diplomat.

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Trey Gowdy

Harold Watson "Trey" Gowdy III (born August 22, 1964) is an American television news presenter, former politician and former federal prosecutor who served as the U.S. representative for from 2011 to 2019.

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Trump Tower meeting

A meeting took place at Trump Tower in New York City on June 9, 2016, between three senior members of the 2016 Trump campaignDonald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, and Paul Manafort four other U.S. citizens, and Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya. Steele dossier and Trump Tower meeting are 2017 controversies in the United States and Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.

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Trump–Ukraine scandal

The Trump–Ukraine scandal was a political scandal that arose primarily from the discovery of U.S. President Donald Trump's alleged attempts to coerce Ukraine into investigating a Biden–Ukraine conspiracy theory, and thus potentially damage 2020 Democratic Party presidential candidate Joe Biden.

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U.S. News & World Report

U.S. News & World Report (USNWR, US NEWS) is an American media company publishing news, consumer advice, rankings, and analysis.

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United States Congress

The United States Congress, or simply Congress, is the legislature of the federal government of the United States.

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United States Department of Justice

The United States Department of Justice (DOJ), also known as the Justice Department, is a federal executive department of the United States government tasked with the enforcement of federal law and administration of justice in the United States.

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United States Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General

The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for the Department of Justice (DOJ) is responsible for conducting nearly all of the investigations of DOJ employees and programs.

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United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma

The United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma (in case citations, W.D. Okla. or W.D. Ok.) is a federal court in the Tenth Circuit (except for patent claims and claims against the U.S. government under the Tucker Act, which are appealed to the Federal Circuit).

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United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court

The United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), also called the FISA Court, is a U.S. federal court established under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) to oversee requests for surveillance warrants against foreign spies inside the United States by federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies.

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United States House of Representatives

The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber.

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United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

The United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), also known as the House Intelligence Committee, is a committee of the United States House of Representatives, currently chaired by Mike Turner.

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United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary

The United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, informally known as the Senate Judiciary Committee, is a standing committee of 21 U.S. senators whose role is to oversee the Department of Justice (DOJ), consider executive and judicial nominations, and review pending legislation.

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United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

The United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (sometimes referred to as the Intelligence Committee or SSCI) is dedicated to overseeing the United States Intelligence Community—the agencies and bureaus of the federal government of the United States that provide information and analysis for leaders of the executive and legislative branches.

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University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England.

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University of Oxford

The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England.

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Unmasking by U.S. intelligence agencies

Unmasking by U.S. intelligence agencies typically occurs after the United States conducts eavesdropping or other intelligence gathering aimed at foreigners or foreign agents, and the name of a U.S. citizen or entity is incidentally collected.

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Urolagnia

Urolagnia (also urophilia, and, more colloquially, a golden shower or watersports) is a paraphilia in which sexual excitement is associated with the sight or thought of urine or urination.

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Ursula Mancusi Ungaro

Ursula Mancusi Ungaro (formerly Ungaro-Benages; born January 29, 1951) is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

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USA Today

USA Today (often stylized in all caps) is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company.

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Vanity Fair (magazine)

Vanity Fair is an American monthly magazine of popular culture, fashion, and current affairs published by Condé Nast in the United States.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is an American magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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Vetting

Vetting is the process of performing a background check on someone before offering them employment, conferring an award, or doing fact-checking prior to making any decision.

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Vice (magazine)

Vice (stylized in all caps) is a Canadian-American magazine focused on lifestyle, arts, culture, and news/politics.

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Victoria Nuland

Victoria Jane Nuland (born July 1, 1961) is an American diplomat who served as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from 2021 to 2024.

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Viktor Yanukovych

Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych (born 9 July 1950) is a former Ukrainian politician who served as the fourth president of Ukraine from 2010 to 2014.

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Vladimir Kryuchkov

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kryuchkov (Влади́мир Алекса́ндрович Крючко́в; 29 February 1924 – 23 November 2007) was a Soviet lawyer, diplomat, and head of the KGB, member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU.

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Vox (website)

Vox is an American news and opinion website owned by Vox Media.

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Washington Monthly

Washington Monthly is a bimonthly, nonprofit magazine primarily covering United States politics and government that is based in Washington, D.C. The magazine also publishes an annual ranking of American colleges and universities, which serves as an alternative to Forbes and U.S. News & World Reports rankings.

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Wayne Barrett

Wayne Barrett (July 11, 1945 – January 19, 2017) was an American journalist.

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Whistleblowing

Whistleblowing (also whistle-blowing or whistle blowing) is the activity of a person, often an employee, revealing information about activity within a private or public organization that is deemed illegal, immoral, illicit, unsafe or fraudulent.

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White House Correspondents' Association

The White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) is an organization of journalists who cover the White House and the president of the United States.

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WikiLeaks

WikiLeaks is a non-profit media organisation and publisher of leaked documents. Steele dossier and WikiLeaks are Whistleblowing.

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William Barr

William Pelham Barr (born May 23, 1950) is an American attorney who served as the United States attorney general in the administration of President George H. W. Bush from 1991 to 1993 and again in the administration of President Donald Trump from 2019 to 2020.

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Wiretapping

Wiretapping, also known as wire tapping or telephone tapping, is the monitoring of telephone and Internet-based conversations by a third party, often by covert means.

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Work-product doctrine

In American civil procedure, the work-product doctrine protects materials prepared in anticipation of litigation from discovery by opposing counsel.

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Yahoo!

Yahoo! (styled yahoo! in its logo) is an American web services provider.

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Yahoo! Finance

Yahoo! Finance is a media property that is part of the Yahoo! network.

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Yahoo! News

Yahoo! News is a news website that originated as an internet-based news aggregator by Yahoo!.

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Ynet

Ynet (stylized as ynet) is one of the major Israeli news and general-content websites, and is the online outlet for the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper.

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Yuri Shvets

Yuri Borysovych Shvets (Юрий Борисович Швец, Юрій Борисович Швець, born 16 May 1953) is a former Soviet intelligence officer of Ukrainian origin.

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2015 FIFA corruption case

In 2015, United States federal prosecutors disclosed cases of corruption by officials and associates connected with the Fédération internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the governing body of association football, futsal and beach soccer.

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2016 Democratic National Committee email leak

The 2016 Democratic National Committee email leak is a collection of Democratic National Committee (DNC) emails stolen by one or more hackers operating under the pseudonym "Guccifer 2.0" who are alleged to be Russian intelligence agency hackers, according to indictments carried out by the Mueller investigation. Steele dossier and 2016 Democratic National Committee email leak are Controversies of the 2016 United States presidential election and Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.

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2016 Democratic National Convention

The 2016 Democratic National Convention was a presidential nominating convention, held at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from July 25 to 28, 2016.

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2016 Republican Party presidential primaries

Presidential primaries and caucuses of the Republican Party took place within all 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and five U.S. territories between February 1 and June 7, 2016.

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2016 United States presidential election

The 2016 United States presidential election was the 58th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 2016.

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2018 Russia–United States summit

The 2018 Russia–United States summit (also known as the Helsinki 2018 or the Trump–Putin summit) was a summit meeting between United States President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin on July 16, 2018, in Helsinki, Finland. Steele dossier and 2018 Russia–United States summit are Russia–United States relations.

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See also

2016 documents

Controversies of the 2016 United States presidential election

Opposition research

Whistleblowing

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steele_dossier

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