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A former employee of the Senate intelligence committee has been arrested on charges of lying to the FBI about contacts he had with multiple reporters, federal prosecutors said Thursday. James A. Wolfe, the longtime director of security for the committee - one of multiple congressional panels investigating potential ties between Russia and the Trump campaign - was indicted on three false statement counts after prosecutors say he misled agents about his relationships with reporters.
The Justice Department's internal watchdog was pressed Monday to probe the circumstances that resulted in Attorney General Jeff Sessions and other top officials repeatedly touting a bogus statistic exaggerating the degree of the "Going Dark" problem posed by digital encryption. A coalition of 21 groups including the American Civil Liberties Union, Electronic Frontier Foundation and Human Rights Watch wrote the department's inspector general, Michael Horowitz, after the FBI admitted last month that the number of encrypted mobile devices federal investigators have lawfully seized but been unable to access data from is "substantially lower" than previously stated.
President Trump complained Sunday morning that the Federal Bureau of Investigation never warned him about its investigation into Paul Manafort before he joined Trump's 2016 presidential campaign team. In a handful of tweets, Trump asked why the FBI did not tell Democrat Hillary Clinton and him about a secret investigation into Manafort after they had won their respective party's nominations.
Josh Campbell, a former FBI special agent who served as special assistant to former FBI Director James Comey, posted on Twitter Saturday that he believes the Inspector General report set to be released this month will "slam the FBI for violating policies and procedures in handling the Clinton email investigation." As Comey's assistant, Campbell would be in a position to know how the Clinton investigation was handled-or mishandled.
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People who retire are finally allowed to say what they actually think. So liberating! Outgoing Rep. Trey Gowdy says the FBI not only did nothing wrong in using an informant, but that they did what the public would want them to do : Outgoing Rep. Trey Gowdy , the House Oversight Committee chairman and a Trump supporter, said in an interview on Fox that the FBI was justified in using a secret informant to assist in the Russia investigation.
On tonight's NBC 5 Investigates: new trouble for a convicted ISIS recruit after he is returned to federal custody for violating terms of his release. NBC 5's Phil Rogers has more.
The FBI has issued a warning to home and office internet users that a hack has been found involving Russian malware. You are asked to reboot your router in order to load the latest protections.
The Department of Homeland Security logo is seen at one of its annex facilities in Fairfax, Virginia, July 22, 2015. The U.S. government on Tuesday released an alert with technical details about a series of cyberattacks it blamed on the North Korean government that stretch back to at least 2009.
So are defense lawyers in three white-collar crime cases in New York, as they try to scuttle prosecutions by claiming that FBI leaks of grand jury material were so damaging the charges can't stand. Las Vegas gambler Billy Walters, who was convicted of insider trading last year, has made the issue the centerpiece of an appeal that's set to be heard Tuesday.
The WVU Forensics Science program wasn't always viewed as a high-quality program with world-class equipment and learning material. "Adjuncts who would come in from law enforcement and from the FBI because they were very interested in working with fingerprint data," said Dr. Suzanne Bell, Department Chair.
Trump Pulls Conspiracy Theories From the Fringes to the Oval Office - WASHINGTON - As a candidate, Donald J. Trump claimed that the United States government had known in advance about the Sept. 11 attacks.
The FBI is trying to thwart a Russian-linked malware system linked to Russia that has infected hundreds of thousands of internet routers, and they're asking for help. What can you do? Take your router, turn it off, and turn it on again.
A global network of hundreds of thousands of routers is already under the control of Russia's military intelligence agency, the Justice Department said last week The FBI is urging anyone with an Internet router to turn it off and the back on to help thwart Russian malware attacks. Hoping to thwart a sophisticated malware system linked to Russia that has infected hundreds of thousands of internet routers, the FBI has made an urgent request to anybody with one of the devices: Turn it off, and then turn it back on.
Hoping to thwart a sophisticated malware system linked to Russia that has infected hundreds of thousands of internet routers, the FBI has made an urgent request to anybody with one of the devices: Turn it off, and then turn it back on. The malware is capable of blocking web traffic, collecting information that passes through home and office routers, and disabling the devices entirely, the bureau announced Friday.
In this May 5, 2018, file photo, Rudy Giuliani, an attorney for President Donald Trump, speaks at the Iran Freedom Convention for Human Rights and democracy in Washington. President Donald Trump's legal team would advise that he refuse to submit to an interview with special counsel Robert Mueller unless the team can review classified information shared with select lawmakers about the origins of the FBI investigation into Russia's election meddling, Giuliani said Sunday, May 27. less FILE- In this May 5, 2018, file photo, Rudy Giuliani, an attorney for President Donald Trump, speaks at the Iran Freedom Convention for Human Rights and democracy in Washington.
Hoping to thwart a sophisticated malware system linked to Russia that has infected hundreds of thousands of internet routers, the FBI has made an urgent request to anybody with one of the devices: Turn it off, and then turn it back on. The malware is capable of blocking web traffic, collecting information that passes through home and office routers and disabling the devices entirely, the bureau announced Friday.
" F.B.I. Used Informant to Investigate Russia Ties to Campaign, Not to Spy, as Trump Claims ," read the headline on a lengthy New York Times story May 18. "The Justice Department used a suspected informant to probe whether Trump campaign aides were making improper contacts with Russia in 2016," read a story in the May 21 edition of The Wall Street Journal . So much for those who dismissed charges of Obama administration infiltration of Donald Trump's campaign as paranoid fantasy.
An FBI spokesperson says the man who shot and wounded patrons at a Lake Hefner restaurant last week was investigated twice by the agency after concerns were brought forward regarding videos posted to a social media account, but both times the cases were closed as the bureau deemed the reports not specific enough or the videos protected under the constitution. On Friday, an Oklahoma City woman said she had contacted Oklahoma City Police and the FBI earlier this month after coming across videos posted by Tilghman on his YouTube channel.
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation recommended in a Friday statement that "any owner of small office and home office routers" reboot the devices, hopefully reducing their exposure to a widespread malware attack linked to Russian government actors. The FBI has reportedly seized a server used to escalate the infection, making rebooting an effective way to disable it.