Sentences with phrase «political opposition research»

Twenty years ago, this information would have been hidden away in FEC records, available in practice only to political opposition research professionals and a handful of activists.

The memo argues the dossier became the basis for the surveillance of Page, the conclusion being that the entire Russia investigation is based on dubious political opposition research.

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In essence, Nunes alleges that the FBI used opposition research put together by a Democratic political operative to go after the Trump campaign without disclosing that clear conflict of interest to the court.

Has the level of scrutiny / opposition research, either by those within the Labour party, people in other political parties, those in the media, or those in social media, increased?

Opposition research has been a part of political campaigns for decades, but the 2010 cycle is different.

Russian hackers successfully infiltrated the Democratic National Committee's computer network over the past year and accessed the political committee's opposition research file on Donald Trump.

America Rising, a new Republican - friendly political action committee devoted to opposition research and headed by former Mitt Romney campaign manager Matt Rhoades, has started posting video clips of McAuliffe's most embarrassing moments.

The issue has become a political football, with Peter Dutton, the opposition health minister, telling a rally in Brisbane on Tuesday that the medical research budget should not be cut but rather raised by $ 212 million (AUD $ 200 million).

Peyser notes that political opposition to charters remains even though numerous studies, «regardless of the sponsoring organization or the research design,» show that Boston's charter schools are among the best - performing urban public schools in the country.

We now know from painstakingly detailed research that the «Tea Party» in the U.S. was not a spontaneous eruption of «grassroots» opposition to President Obama's healthcare initiative but the result of long - standing efforts by Libertarian «think tanks» and political operatives.