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In this June 8, 2017 file photo, former FBI director James Comey speaks during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, in Washington. Comey defended the agency Thursday on Twitter, writing, “All should appreciate the FBI speaking up.
President Trump prepares to sign the Executive Order on Promoting Free Speech and Religious Liberty during the National Day of Prayer event at the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington D.C., on May 4, 2017. WASHINGTON -- Presidents don't win fights with the FBI.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., a close ally of President Donald Trump who has become a fierce critic of the FBI and the Justice Department, strides to a GOP conference at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018. House Speaker Paul Ryan is defending a vote by Republicans on the House intelligence committee to release a classified memo on the Russia investigation.
AUGUST 28: North Carolina 11th District GOP Congressional nominee Mark Meadows speaks during the Republican National Convention at the Tampa Bay Times Forum on August 28, 2012 in Tampa, Florida. Today is the first full session of the RNC after the start was delayed due to Tropical Storm Isaac.
Most presidents have had the sense not to bully the FBI by defaming its leaders and -- ridiculously -- painting its agents as leftist political hacks. Most members of Congress have also understood how unwise it would be to pull such stunts.
With concern at the White House about potential blowback from FBI Director Christopher Wray, the FBI continues to have "grave concerns" over release of a memo from House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes, a source said Thursday. The House Intelligence Committee, in a party-line vote on Monday, moved to release the highly controversial memo alleging abuse of surveillance powers by the FBI and put release of the memo in President Donald Trump's hands.
President Donald Trump boards Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, Feb. 1, 2018, en route to a House and Senate Republican conference at the Greenbrier in West Virginia. President Trump is expected to approve Thursday morning the release of a controversial congressional memo alleging surveillance abuses by the FBI, after the White House agreed to some redactions at the bureau's request, according to senior administration officials.
Democrats are ratcheting up pressure on House Speaker Paul Ryan to intervene in the growing controversy involving House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, who quietly changed his explosive memo alleging FBI abuse without informing many of his colleagues. The top Democrat in the Senate and the House say Republicans have "decided to sow conspiracy theories" and "attack the integrity and credibility of federal law enforcement as a means" to protect President Donald Trump and undercut special counsel Robert Mueller.
In a highly unusual move, the FBI issued a statement challenging the classified memo's anticipated release, saying: "We have grave concerns about the material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact" its accuracy. The FBI's statement followed remarks made by President Donald Trump on Tuesday night indicating he wanted the document to be made public.
The FBI said Wednesday it has "grave concerns" about the accuracy of a classified memo on the Russia investigation that President Donald Trump wants to release to the public. It was the first time the bureau has weighed in publicly on an issue that has openly divided the Justice Department and the White House.
The FBI needed probable cause to believe he was an agent of a foreign power, a standard that is not hard to meet. The controversy over FBI surveillance of Carter Page, who advised Donald Trump on foreign policy during his presidential campaign, tends to obscure how easy it is to get permission for a wiretap of a suspected foreign agent.
During the past year, we've heard reference to all of the above to explain away any suggestion of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia in the 2016 presidential election.
Jaboree Williams was a pimp and drug dealer who brutally abused and psychologically tortured his victims. And thanks to the joint efforts of the FBI and local law enforcement, he will spend the next 30 years in federal prison.
The president of the United States will stand in the chamber of the House of Representatives this evening and read a speech that one of his aides, Stephen Miller, has prepared for him. If Donald Trump follows an annual tradition, he'll assure the legislators, justices, military leaders and cabinet members gathered to hear him that "the state of our union is strong."
The GOP-majority House Intelligence Committee voted Monday to release an explosive memo allegedly accusing the Department of Justice and FBI of misusing their authority to get a secret surveillance order on an ex-Trump campaign aide. Rep. Adam Schiff of California, who announced the action at a news briefing, complained the Republican members voted against also releasing a minority memo that rebuts the data in that written by panel chairman Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif.
A secret, highly contentious Republican memo reveals that Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein approved an application to extend surveillance of a former Trump campaign associate shortly after taking office last spring, according to three people familiar with it. The renewal shows that the Justice Department under President Trump saw reason to believe that the associate, Carter Page, was acting as a Russian agent.
FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, a frequent target of President Donald Trump's criticism who led the bureau for months last year following the firing of James Comey, is leaving his position Monday ahead of a previously planned retirement this spring, people familiar with the decision said Monday. McCabe had been widely expected to retire upon his eligibility date, but his departure from the FBI's No.
A new reports claims AG Jeff Sessions has been pressuring FBI Director Christopher Wray to fire his Deputy Director, but the plan appears to have backfired. Nathan Rousseau Smith reports.
Andrew McCabe, the deputy director of the FBI and a man frequently targeted by President Donald Trump, has stepped down from his position. Although McCabe will remain on the FBI payroll until he can retire in March with full pension benefits, he announced that he is "stepping aside" on Monday, according to NBC News .