White House Chief of Staff Jon Kelly announced new measures aimed at improving the White House’s security clearance process this week. The move comes in the wake of intense scrutiny the White House has received over the way it handled …
Continue ReadingNational Security Adviser General H.R. McMaster said that evidence of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election is now “incontrovertible.” McMaster was speaking at a security conference in Munich on Saturday.
Responding to a question from a Russian delegate, …
Continue ReadingSpecial counsel Robert Mueller has indicted thirteen Russian citizens on charges that they interfered with the 2016 presidential election.
“Defendants knowingly and intentionally conspired with each other (and with persons known and unknown to the Grand Jury) to defraud the …
Continue ReadingFlorida Governor Rick Scott has called on FBI Director Christopher Wray to resign in the wake of an admission by the FBI that it missed a tip that may have prevented a school shooting in Parkland, Florida, that killed seventeen …
Continue ReadingSpecial counsel Robert Mueller has announced the indictment of thirteen Russian nationals for interfering in the 2016 presidential election. The charges include supporting Donald Trump’s campaign as well as “disparaging” Hillary Clinton.
At a press conference, Deputy Attorney General Rod …
Continue ReadingRanking Member on the House Intelligence Committee Adam Schiff is criticizing the FBI for redacting too much information contained in the Democratic memo. The memo was written in response to a Republican memo that alleges abuse by the FBI in …
Continue ReadingThe Director of National Intelligence, testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee today, said that the U.S. remains under Cyber attack and that the attacks are continuous. “Frankly, the United States is under attack. Under attack by entities that are …
Continue ReadingRepublican Senators Lindsey Graham and Chuck Grassley have sent a letter to former National Security Adviser under President Obama, Susan Rice, asking her to explain an email she sent to herself on the last day of the Obama administration and …
Continue ReadingRepublican Senator Jeff Flake suggested that the security clearance backlog for federal employees should be the subject of a federal review, on Sunday. “There are signs it does need to be reviewed,” Flake said during an interview. “I think …
Continue ReadingControversial Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Devin Nunes has begun his own media outlet. “The California Republican” is a news site dedicated to delivering “the best of U.S., California and Central Valley news, sports, and analysis.”
Nunes has …
Continue ReadingDozens of White House staffers and other administration officials still have not been fully cleared in terms of security, it’s been learned. CNN has put the number at between thirty to forty individuals, including Jared Kushner, the President’s son-in-law, …
Continue ReadingDemocratic Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Dianne Feinstein, issued a minority report today criticizing the criminal referral that fellow committee members, Senators Grassley and Graham, sent to the Department of Justice over Christopher Steele, the author of the …
Continue ReadingPresident Trump has declined to release a Democratic memo that was written in response to the Republican memo released last week alleging abuses by the FBI. The President has sent the memo back and allowed the House Intelligence Committee to …
Continue ReadingRachel Brand, the associate attorney general and No. 3 official at the Justice Department, will be leaving her post it was learned today. Brand had been in that role for just nine months.
Brand had become the subject of much …
Continue ReadingTwo more government officials have resigned this week in relation to text messages exchanged between two FBI agents.
The inspector general for the Department of Justice has been conducting an investigation into the actions of the FBI as they relate …
Continue ReadingFBI monitoring of conversations of former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page may have picked up conversations Page had with senior Trump aide at the time, Steve Bannon. Page, a former foreign policy advisor to Trump campaign, has been under …
Continue ReadingSenator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin has made the second misleading claim regarding FBI texts and the Trump administration over the last several weeks. This one is about alleged involvement former President Barack Obama had in the FBI investigation into Hillary …
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