“WE MUST let good people rule and ensure that bad people have no power to cause trouble and turmoil,” stated King Maha Vajiralongkorn, quoting his late father, on the eve of Thailand’s election on March 24th. Yet turmoil there was. Late on polling day the Election Commission announced without explanation that it would not, after…
WASHINGTON — The investigation led by Robert S. Mueller III found no evidence that President Trump or any of his aides coordinated with the Russian government’s 2016 election interference, according to a summary of the special counsel’s key findings made public on Sunday by Attorney General William P. Barr. Mr. Mueller, who spent nearly two…
President Trump led a victory parade of Republican lawmakers and White House insiders after a summary of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation released on Sunday showed no evidence of collusion with Russia. An hour after the four-page letter from Attorney General William Barr was released, Trump claimed “total exoneration” on Twitter. Boarding Air Force One…
China has big ambitions for the EU — and the bloc seems rattled. The EU is trying to hammer out a coherent policy to deal with China, while Beijing has been actively courting relationships with individual EU countries. Experts say this could be part of China's playbook to pit EU states against each other, to…
ROBERT MUELLER toiled over his report for two years, slightly longer than it took Herman Melville to write Moby Dick. Mr Mueller’s epic may be the most eagerly anticipated work in American literature, but though he passed it to the attorney-general, William Barr, on Friday March 22nd, it is unclear when or in what form…
Mr. Khuzami’s departure will not directly affect most of the other Trump-related investigations, which Mr. Berman has supervised. Mr. Berman’s name, for example, appeared on a February grand jury subpoena served on the president’s inaugural committee. For the most part, the investigations surrounding the president and his associates have been assigned to career prosecutors in…
As the world waits to learn what is contained within the Mueller report, the culmination of Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, it seems appropriate to expand on last week’s column about the security of electronic voting systems. I recently spoke to Nimit Sawhney, CEO…
Attorney General William Barr will not recuse himself from the Russia probe, a Justice Department spokesperson told INSIDER on Tuesday. Barr was confirmed as attorney general last month after a contentious confirmation hearing during which Democratic lawmakers grilled him about whether he would recuse himself from overseeing the special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russia's…
ROBERT MUELLER has concluded his investigation into links and/or co-ordination between President Donald Trump’s electoral campaign and the Russian government. This is a big moment. The special counsel’s probe has already been the downfall of some of Mr Trump’s closest former advisers. Many of the president’s opponents are hoping his final report, now sitting on…
Despite pledging transparency, Mr. Barr may be reluctant to release the part of Mr. Mueller’s report that may be of most interest: who the special counsel declined to prosecute and why, especially if Mr. Trump is on that list. The department’s longstanding practice, with rare exceptions, is not to identify people who were merely investigative…
