The controversial memo written up by Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee reveals that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein approved an application to renew surveillance of a former Trump campaign employee shortly after he was sworn in last spring.
Rosenstein …
Continue ReadingFBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe stepped down from his post at the FBI on Monday because of pressure from the head of the bureau. McCabe had announced his retirement months ago and was expected to stay on until March. His …
Continue ReadingFBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe has informed FBI staff that he is stepping down effective today. President Trump has been informed of the departure the White House says.
It was revealed last week Attorney General Jeff Sessions has been pressuring …
Continue ReadingPresident Trump is breaking with Justice Department officials in calling for the release of a classified memo that alleges abuses by the FBI in the execution of FISA, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The DOJ had previously told House Intelligence …
Continue ReadingThe revelation that Russian hackers broke into U.S. computer systems and used the information to meddle the U.S. elections may have come from Dutch intelligence services, Dutch media reported today.
The Vokskrant newspaper reported that Dutch intelligence officials were …
Continue ReadingPresident Trump called recent reports that he tried to fire special counsel Robert Mueller “fake news” today. The story was first reported by The New York Times last night. “Fake news, folks, fake news,” President Trump said. …
Continue ReadingPresident Trump ordered the firing of special counsel Robert Mueller last year, relenting only when White House Counsel Don McGahn threatened to resign in protest. Robert Mueller learned about the incident recently as members of his investigative team interviewed current …
Continue ReadingSenate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley said that he will release the transcript of his committee’s interview with Donald Trump Jr., about a meeting at Trump Tower with Russian lawyers. Grassley said that his committee is finished looking into that …
Continue ReadingThe Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz has told Congress that messages between two FBI agents that were presumed to be deleted because of technical issues, have been found today. The DOJ had previously said that the FBI “failed …
Continue ReadingDemocrats on the House Intelligence Committee have written their own memo in response to a Republican memo detailing alleged abuses by the FBI and the Justice Department in administering the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA.
It has been reported …
Continue ReadingPresident Donald Trump suggested that DACA recipients will be allowed to remain in the country and will ultimately be given a pathway to citizenship as a part of a broader immigration deal he expects to strike with Congress in the …
Continue ReadingAn FBI agent expressed skepticism that the special counsel’s investigation into Russian meddling would uncover any serious wrongdoing in a text message to another agent. “You and I both know the odds are nothing. If I thought it was likely, …
Continue ReadingFormer FBI Director James Comey was questioned last year by special counsel Robert Mueller as part of the investigation into Russian meddling. The interviews with James Comey occurred last year and were hitherto undisclosed. The Justice Department confirmed this …
Continue ReadingThe Justice Department confirmed today that Attorney General Jeff Sessions was questioned by Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigation Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. The meeting took place week and lasted several hours according to a spokeswoman. …
Continue ReadingThree hundred and eighty-four pages of text messages between two “anti-Trump” FBI agents seem to suggest that former Attorney General Loretta Lynch knew in advance of former FBI Director James Comey’s July 2016 press conference that he would recommend no …
Continue ReadingThe FBI has failed to record five months’ worth of text messages between two FBI agents that expressed anti-Donald Trump views, the Bureau said last week. The FBI made the disclosure in a letter from the Justice Department to …
Continue ReadingThe FBI is being prevented from seeing a controversial memo that purports to show abuses committed by the Bureau and the Justice Department in obtaining FISA warrants. “The FBI has requested to receive a copy of the memo in order …
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