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By Gabriella Muñoz - The Washington Times
Attorney General Jeff Sessions stood by the Justice Department's controversial firings of Andrew McCabe and James Comey while suggesting more firings could be forthcoming, depending on the contents of an new inspector general's report that will be released Thursday. Published June 14, 2018
FBI agent Peter Strzok put the Trump-Russia investigation on a fast track during the 2016 election season at the same time he was sending text messages to his lover condemning the Republican presidential candidate as an "idiot" and vowing to "stop" him.
Rep. Devin Nunes, chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, said Sunday there will "be hell to pay" if the Justice Department doesn't comply with outstanding requests this week for information related to the Russian investigation.
President Trump defended Paul Manafort, his former campaign chairman, on Friday after news broke that Mr. Manafort's bail was revoked.
A federal judge revoked Paul Manafort's bail Friday and ordered him to remain locked up until his trial later this year, punishing him for allegations that he tried to tamper with witnesses.
President Trump declared victory Friday regarding the revelations in the Department of Justice inspector general report.
Former Rep. Jason Chaffetz on Friday blasted individuals caught up in the fallout from the Department of Justice's inspector general report.
President Trump slammed FBI Director James B. Comey and Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok Friday morning, two prominent figures criticized in a scathing report by the Department of Justice inspector general.
Fired FBI Director James B. Comey was "insubordinate" and a top agent's political bias might have skewed the bureau's focus on candidate Donald Trump instead of Hillary Clinton in the waning days of the 2016 presidential race, the Justice Department's inspector general said in a report that cast shame on the storied bureau.
The FBI will make its employees undergo bias training, Director Christopher A. Wray promised Thursday, after a devastating report found the bureau made bad decisions, has a culture of leaking sensitive information, and may have skewed campaign-season decisions because of bias.
The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a Minnesota law banning voters from wearing political apparel to the polls, saying it was too draconian in stifling Americans' First Amendment rights.
Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman John Podesta criticized former FBI Director James B. Comey on Thursday, the same day that the Inspector General's report on the Clinton investigation is expected to be released.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday defended the Department of Justice's policy to separate children from parents who cross the U.S.-Mexico border.
Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz, an Obama administration appointee, is scheduled to deliver a report this week on DOJ and FBI abuses during the 2016 campaign cycle. Remember: His last investigation of FBI misconduct advised a criminal referral for fired former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, who allegedly lied to federal investigators.
Amid all the happy hoopla over President Donald Trump's trip to Singapore, where he began the process for what he hopes will be the normalization of relations between the United States and North Korea and the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, has come an effort by the House Intelligence Committee to interfere with the criminal investigation of the president.
Recently, President Trump and National Security Adviser John Bolton selected Fred Fleitz to be Mr. Bolton's deputy at the National Security Council. Fred is the right man for this critical job, especially given the ongoing negotiations with Kim Jong-un of North Korea. Fred is one of the most experienced analysts in the U.S. and a true patriot who understands and supports the president's agenda.
The Department of Justice on Wednesday announced a new effort to prevent municipalities from discriminating against religious groups.
Police in the South Carolina town of Mount Pleasant are furious over a school's summer reading list they view as anti-cop indoctrination.
Two members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus on Wednesday announced they have drafted a resolution demanding the Department of Justice release all remaining documents related to the probe of Russian collusion with Trump campaign.
Special counsel Robert Mueller on Wednesday asked for 150 blank subpoenas in the Eastern District of Virginia where he has filed charges against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
James Wolfe, the former security director for the Senate Intelligence Committee, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to federal charges that he lied to FBI agents about his contacts with reporters in an investigation into the leak of classified information to the press.
The law firm representing Michael Cohen is leaving the case, a possible sign that President Trump's personal attorney may flip and cooperate with federal prosecutors, according to a media report Wednesday.
It is a simple and straightforward memorial: a stretch of white marble and plain stars plus this statement: "In honor of those members of the Central Intelligence Agency who gave their lives in the service of their country."
Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the FBI, the Justice Department and its inspector general, alleging the Trump administration violated procedures when it fired him in March just hours before his retirement.
The Department of Justice will again meet with top lawmakers on Thursday to review documents related to special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation and claims U.S. Intelligence spied on President Trump's 2016 campaign.
The University of Michigan changed its speech policies on Tuesday, one day after the Trump administration weighed in on a federal lawsuit alleging the school unfairly trampled on student's First Amendment rights.
A Border Patrol agent in Arizona was shot early Tuesday, authorities said.
A Justice Department watchdog on Tuesday chastised the FBI for its response to a threat posed by a homegrown violent extremist, saying the bureau needs to do more to track potential dangers when someone is held by another agency.
More than 2,300 suspected online child sex offenders were arrested between March and May, the Justice Department announced Tuesday.
Federal authorities have arrested 74 people -- including 42 in the United States -- for allegedly hijacking wire transfer funds through a sophisticated email scam, the Justice Department said Monday.
A federal judge has shut down a Ripley, Mississippi, pharmaceutical company, the Department of Justice announced Monday.
Former Trump campaign volunteer Carter Page has been pursued by Christopher Steele and his dossier, the FBI, Democrats and Russia collusion-minded media. He has proclaimed his innocence throughout the two-year inquisition. Last week, he learned he had another adversary, this one hidden.
Regardless of whatever special counsel Robert Mueller III eventually reports, the 2016 presidential election has spawned enough conspiracy theories to surpass "Who Shot Kennedy?" on any list of supposedly unresolved mysteries, justified or not.
Donald Trump confirmed his interest in the bipartisan bill that would legalize marijuana on a federal level.
Responding to the Justice Department's seizure of a journalist's records in a budding intelligence scandal, President Trump said he supports freedom of the press but not when it comes to leaking of classified information.
James A. Wolfe, a former staffer on the Senate intelligence committee, has been indicted in a leak investigation that resulted in the seizure of New York Times reporter Ali Watkins' phone and email records.
New York Times reporter Ali Watkins had years worth of phone and email records seized by the Trump administration's Justice Department, the paper reported Thursday evening.
Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, is not the most charismatic, telegenic, or gripping figure to have graced the politics of the republic. His soft-spoken Southern manners tend more toward the soporific than the stimulating, and they sometimes lead his critics to underestimate him.
Republican lawmakers are calling for a federal investigation into whether Planned Parenthood has failed to report suspected sexual abuse against minors.
The inspector general reviewing the Obama administration's handling of investigations into Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election plans to release his report June 14.
Whether Paul Manafort remains in home confinement or goes to prison rests on the content of several brief communications he conducted last winter with a former business associate.
President Trump on Thursday complained about a lack of appreciation for his firing former FBI Director James Comey, a move that has drawn attention from federal investigators.
The Drug Enforcement Administration is tackling the opioid crisis in the plains states with the creation of a new field office in Omaha, Nebraska, the Department of Justice announced Thursday.
President Donald Trump on Thursday urged the Department of Justice not to accept a plea agreement from a former IT aide to congressional Democrats who is being prosecuted in a scheme to fraudulently obtain home equity loans.
Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said Thursday he did not know the name of the FBI informant connected to the Trump campaign investigation and wasn't aware of George Papadopoulos during his time as head of the intelligence agency.
Immigrants accounted for more than 30 percent of the federal prison population and nearly all of them are confirmed or suspected illegal immigrants, the government said in a new report Tuesday.
Alice Marie Johnson, whose life sentence was commuted by President Trump, said Thursday she appreciated the mercy he showed her and she plans to make the best of her second chance at life.
Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said Thursday he would make "unmasking" requests to reveal the identity of a U.S. citizen every "couple of weeks" during a more than six-year period.
President Trump praised his efforts on trade and North Korea Thursday on his way to the G-7 summit, while also calling out "13 Angry Democrats" in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigative team into Russia and collusion.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has his critics. That's not unusual: Mr. Sessions is a conservative in good standing and one expects the angriest voices of the left to engage in histrionic screeching over his tenure at the Department of Justice. These criticisms can be discounted as little more that the guttural roar of rejected and defeated partisans.
Special counsel Robert Mueller's team has asked witnesses in the Russia probe to hand over their personal phones to inspect their encrypted messaging programs.
The Justice Department's watchdog report says former FBI Director James B. Comey defied authority and it chastises former Attorney General Loretta Lynch for her handling of the Clinton email probe, according to ABC News.
The attorney for Andrew McCabe, who was fired as FBI deputy director, told Sen. Charles E. Grassley, Iowa Republican, that his client "is eager" to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee that Mr. Grassley leads.
A man with a White House pass was arrested outside the presidential home on a charge of attempted murder -- reportedly weeks after the warrant was issued.
More than a year after a developmentally disabled Missouri man's body was found encased in concrete, two people who operated the home where he lived have been charged in his death, a prosecutor announced Tuesday.
President Trump took another dig at Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday for not telling him about the recusal from the Russian investigation, saying he would have picked someone else to head the Justice Department.
President Trump questioned Tuesday whether the inspector general's report analyzing the FBI's investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server was being altered, causing a delay in its release.
In less than 18 months on the job, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has made significant progress in reducing crime and improving morale among federal, state and local law enforcement.
No Washington establishment — especially the party in power — took Donald Trump seriously as a presidential candidate. Accordingly, the early decisions made in the imbedded intelligence bureaucracies — often called the "deep state" — were clearly made with the assumption that there would never be any review or accountability.
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort made several attempts to tamper with witnesses in his ongoing criminal cases, prosecutors said Monday as they asked a federal judge to consider revoking his house arrest.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions is adding more than 300 new prosecutors across the country to combat the opioid crisis, violent crime and illegal immigration, the Justice Department announced Monday.
Republicans released a long-awaited memo Friday detailing government surveillance abuses, showing that the FBI would not have obtained a surveillance warrant for the Trump campaign without using information from a dubious partisan dossier.
After Roe v. Wade plaintiff Norma McCorvey became a Christian and revealed that she had not been gang raped as her legal team had claimed, many Americans came to understand that this landmark ruling that legalized abortion was based on a lie.
My father joined the FBI and, after a few years, was posted overseas. He then transferred to the CIA at its founding in 1947, where he spent the rest of his career.
Nikolas Cruz, the suspect involved in the shooting at a Florida high school, was charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder on Thursday after several hours of questioning by police.
BuzzFeed has sued the Democratic National Committee seeking evidence of the cyberattack it suffered during the 2016 White House race in hopes of substantiating claims contained in the salacious dossier it published detailing President Trump's alleged ties to Russia.
Christopher Steele's unproven dossier is a mix of felony charges against President Trump and his people, as well as supposed gossip inside the Kremlin over computer hacking and personnel firings.
Former Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said the Trump administration was wrong to have apologized to tea party groups snared in the IRS's targeting scandal, saying it was another example of the new team undercutting career people at the Justice Department who'd initially cleared the IRS of wrongdoing.
Text messages between FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, released Wednesday, raised serious questions about whether President Obama kept tabs on the bureau's 2016 investigation into Hillary Clinton, despite his assurances otherwise.
Republicans released a long-awaited memo Friday detailing government surveillance abuses, showing that the FBI would not have obtained a surveillance warrant for the Trump campaign without using information from a dubious partisan dossier.
The Latest on the departure of FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe (all times local):
Purchasing opioids from China requires little more than a Google search, a credit card and a mailbox, senators said Thursday in a report that accuses the U.S. postal system of failing to "recognize and prepare for" a tide of packages containing deadly fentanyl.
Roughly half of Americans of all political walks -- 49 percent, to be exact -- want a special prosecutor appointed to investigate the FBI for crooked and partisan dealings in their look-sees into Hillary Clinton and President Donald Trump.
Major U.S. cities reported 4.4 percent fewer homicides so far this year, the Brennan Center for Justice says in a new report being released Wednesday that appears to belie fears of a national crime wave.
A prominent conservative federal judge will resign Monday from his seat on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals after facing allegations of sexual harassment.
Fusion GPS, the producer of the infamous Trump dossier, is fending off in court three of Russia's richest oligarchs by painting them as corrupt bankers in bed with President Vladimir Putin.
Deadly overdoses are just the "tip of the iceberg" when it comes to the opioids crisis, Trump administration officials argued Monday, saying that for every person who dies, there are dozens more hooked on prescription drugs or heroin.
Special counsel Robert Mueller removed one of the FBI's top Russian counterintelligence investigators from his team after an internal probe found he sent messages that showed possible bias for Hillary Clinton and against President Trump, the special counsel's office said Saturday.
A revised chronology given by investigators for the Las Vegas massacre is intensifying pressure for police to explain how quickly they responded to what would become the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
