Sentences with phrase «foreign policy adviser»

According to recently unsealed court documents, former Trump foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos said that it was at an April 26 meeting at a London hotel that he was told by a professor closely connected to the Russian government that the Kremlin had obtained compromising information about Clinton.

The panel never interviewed key witnesses such as former foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos or former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn.

In that memo, Republicans took aim at the FBI and the Justice Department over the use of information from former British spy Christopher Steele in obtaining a secret warrant to monitor former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page.

The move came after Miller was revealed to be a senior aide who had an email exchange with former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos, who mentioned «interesting messages» from Moscow.

The only example the memo cites is an October 21, 2016, request by the Department of Justice and FBI for permission under FISA powers to snoop on former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page.

Previously Sir John spent three years as foreign policy adviser to the then - prime minister Tony Blair.

The memo focuses on surveillance of Carter Page, a Trump campaign foreign policy adviser with business ties to Russia and open sympathies with the Kremlin's foreign policy.

The New York Times reported separately this past week that at least one government informant met several times with Carter Page and George Papadopoulos, both former foreign policy advisers for Trump's Republican campaign.

We still don't know (but presumably Mueller does) why Mike Flynn, Trump's chief foreign policy adviser during the campaign and his short - lived national security adviser, was talking during the transition to the Russian ambassador about lifting sanctions Obama had imposed in retaliation against Russia's meddling in the election.

She was also one of George W. Bush's top foreign policy advisers during the whole of Bush's two terms.

The Trump campaign foreign policy adviser also had connections with Russia — he had been approached by a Russian - linked professor in London in the spring of 2016 who told him the Kremlin had dirt on Hillary Clinton — and was also under FBI suspicion.

During a night of heavy drinking at an upscale London bar in May 2016, George Papadopoulos, a young foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign, made a startling revelation to Australia's top diplomat in Britain: Russia had political dirt on Hillary Clinton.

A few minutes later, court documents were unsealed showing that George Papadopoulos, an unpaid foreign policy adviser on Trump's campaign, pleaded guilty to making a false statement to the FBI about his efforts to broker a relationship between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Carter Page, a former investment banker with Merrill Lynch, was an early foreign policy adviser to Trump.

The meeting, Papadopoulos wrote, would be «for August or September in the UK (London) with me and my national chairman, and maybe one other foreign policy adviser and you, members of president putin's office and the mfa to hold a day of consultations and to meet one another.»

Ambassador Sergei Kislyak's accounts of two conversations with Sessions, then a U.S. senator and key foreign policy adviser to Republican candidate Donald Trump, were intercepted by U.S. intelligence agencies, the officials told the Post.

Politico: «Corey Lewandowski, a former campaign manager for President Donald Trump, said Tuesday night his «memory has been refreshed» regarding his email exchange with Carter Page in which the former foreign policy adviser requested Lewandowski's permission to travel to Moscow.

Another odd note is that toward the end of the campaign, Trump foreign policy adviser Michael Flynn signed on to do consulting for the SCL Group.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes said he believes former President Obama's foreign policy adviser Ben Rhodes was aware of a dossier about Trump that circulated during the 2016 presidential campaign.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's chief scientist nominee, Sam Clovis, withdrew his name from consideration amid revelations that he was among top officials on the Trump campaign who was aware of efforts by foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos to broker a relationship between the campaign and Russian officials.

Dan Senor, a former Republican foreign policy adviser and husband of TV - reporter - turned - education - reformer Campbell Brown, is on the board of directors for StudentsFirstNY.

The campaign adviser said Page participated in three dinners held for the campaign's volunteer foreign policy advisers in the spring and summer of 2016, coming from New York to Washington to meet with the group.

May 7, 2018 • Obama foreign policy adviser Colin Kahl was reportedly targeted by the Israeli company Black Cube: «It's especially awful that they not only went after me, but that they went after my family.»

The Nunes memo focuses on surveillance of Carter Page, a Trump campaign foreign policy adviser with business ties to Russia and open sympathies with the Kremlin's foreign policy.

The New York Times reported separately this week that at least one government informant met several times with Carter Page and George Papadopoulos, both former foreign policy advisers for Trump's Republican campaign.

From what's been publicly reported about the Nunes memo, the key allegation in it is that the FBI abused its power when requesting a surveillance warrant on Trump foreign policy adviser Carter Page.

He was also formerly Director General of Political and Military Affairs of the EU's Council of Ministers, and former chief foreign policy adviser to British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

The Trump campaign foreign policy adviser also had connections with Russia — he had been approached by a Russian - linked professor in London in the spring of 2016 who told him the Kremlin had dirt on Hillary Clinton.

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Underneath all the drama though, perhaps the most illuminating news was that the impetus for the FBI investigation into Trump's Russia ties turned out not to be the Trump - Russia dossier, but rather a drunken admission from Trump's former foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos to an Australian diplomat that Russia had «dirt» on Hillary Clinton.

Mueller's office has obtained a wealth of subpoenaed documents about the president's conduct and has taken secret testimony from cooperating witnesses — Michael Flynn, former foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos and former campaign aide Rick Gates — any one of whom would be in a position to contradict Trump and expose him to perjury charges.

The four - page document, prepared by committee chair Rep. Devin Nunes (R - CA), focuses on surveillance of Carter Page, a Trump campaign foreign policy adviser with business ties to Russia and open sympathies with the Kremlin's foreign policy.

Rep. Bob Goodlatte has sent requests to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and the Justice Department seeking information about the surveillance of former Trump foreign policy adviser Carter Page.

These political figures, the dossier alleges, included «a delegation from Lyndon LaRouche, presidential candidate Jill Stein of the Green Party, Trump foreign policy adviser Carter Page, and former DIA director Michael Flynn.»

Mueller's team announced charges in October against three other Trump campaign officials, former chairman Paul Manafort and his business associate Rick Gates, and a former campaign foreign policy adviser, George Papadopoulos.

«This has to be the first time that a major presidential candidate has actively encouraged a foreign power to conduct espionage against his political opponent,» said Jake Sullivan, chief foreign policy adviser to Clinton.

The Office of the Special Counsel also revealed Monday that George Papadopoulos, formerly a foreign policy adviser to Trump's campaign, had pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI in a January 2017 interview about his contact with a Russian professor.

And I don't mean that as a compliment, even though I served as a foreign policy adviser to Rubio's presidential campaign.

Certainly the mission was to create a unified, impenetrable position with China that will challenge Trump and our foreign policy advisers when they attempt to reduce the potential for a military / nuclear confrontation.

Denis McDonough, a foreign policy adviser to Senator Tom Daschle and then to Senator Obama, is now chief of staff.

One of the three charged, former Trump foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos, admitted to making a false statement to FBI investigators who asked about his contacts with foreigners claiming to have high - level Russian connections.

The premise of the Nunes memo is that the FBI and DOJ corruptly sought a FISA warrant on a former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser, Carter Page, and deliberately misled the court as part of a systematic abuse of the FISA process.

Last July, the month that WikiLeaks began releasing the hacked emails, Carter Page, a foreign policy adviser to Mr. Trump, visited Moscow for a speaking engagement.

It argues that during the 2016 presidential election, the FBI used the so - called Steele dossier, a largely unconfirmed opposition research document alleging collusion between Trump and Russia, as the basis for a warrant to surveil former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page.

In late October, we learned that for months during the 2016 campaign, foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos was in contact with people he believed were connected to the Russian government, as he tried to set up a meeting with Russian government officials or a trip to Russia.

The latest problem for Sessions stems from news that George Papadopoulos, a foreign policy adviser to Trump's campaign, had pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russians.

George Papadopoulos, who served as a foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign, secretly pleaded guilty three weeks ago to charges that he lied to federal agents about meetings he had with Russians linked to the Kremlin during the 2016 presidential campaign.

His withdrawal is a casualty of this week's major developments in the Mueller probe — most notably, the revelation that George Papadopoulos, a foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign whom Clovis supervised as national co-chair, had recently pleaded guilty to making false statements to the FBI about his contacts with Russians.

The memo Duncan is referring to is a four - page memo written by Republican Rep. Devin Nunes (R - CA), which allegedly details abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that the FBI used to wiretap Carter Page, a foreign policy adviser for President Trump's presidential campaign.