WASHINGTON – The Justice Department inspector general’s office told witnesses set to review draft sections of its long-awaited report on the FBI investigation of President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign that they would not be allowed to submit written feedback, but ...
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The FBI on several occasions in recent years queried the government’s foreign intelligence holdings seeking information on Americans – including its own personnel – doing so in violation of surveillance law and constitutional privacy protections, according to a newly disclosed ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A veteran FBI agent who wrote derogatory text messages about Donald Trump filed a lawsuit Tuesday charging that the bureau caved to “unrelenting pressure” from the president when it fired him. The suit from Peter Strzok also ...
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WASHINGTON – FBI Director Christopher Wray told lawmakers Tuesday that the bureau has recorded about 100 arrests of domestic terrorism suspects in the past nine months and that most investigations of that kind involve some form of white supremacy – ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI Director Chris Wray said Tuesday that he does not consider court-approved FBI surveillance to be “spying” and said he has no evidence the FBI illegally monitored President Donald Trump’s campaign during the 2016 election. His comments ...
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A pair of actresses, Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman, were the big names that immediately popped out of the arrests and indictments Tuesday in connection with a sprawling FBI investigation into college admissions fraud. However, a number of figures from ...
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WASHINGTON – Former FBI lawyer Lisa Page defended herself and the bureau last year against accusations that anti-Trump bias affected federal investigations of the Trump campaign’s suspected Russia ties and Hillary Clinton’s emails, according to a transcript released Tuesday by ...
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The gunman who killed 58 people in Las Vegas in 2017 was not fueled by any “single or clear motivating factor,” the FBI said, mirroring the conclusions of local police who said they could not determine what motivated the massacre. ...
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A group of non-profit organizations are suing the Federal Bureau of Investigation and several other federal agencies to get detailed information about law enforcement computer hacking techniques that they claim invade the privacy of law-abiding citizens. The complaint was initially ...
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A Georgia man was charged Wednesday with plotting a terrorist attack on the White House, after he allegedly told an undercover FBI agent he “wanted to do as much damage as possible” and hoped to be a martyr, according to ...
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WASHINGTON – The FBI investigation into President Donald Trump that was opened almost immediately after he fired then-Director James Comey also included a counterintelligence component to determine if the president was seeking to help Russia, and if so, why, according ...
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Read More »Though DNA has revolutionized modern crime fighting, the clues it may hold aren’t revealed quickly. Samples of saliva, or skin, or semen are sent to a crime lab by car (or mail), and then chemists get to work. Detectives are ...
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