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This Report Says I Was Wrong. But That's Good for the F.B.I. - The Department of Justice's independent watchdog, the inspector general, has released a report that is critical of my decisions as F.B.I. director during the investigation of Hillary Clinton's email account.
Under the proposal, passengers would travel between downtown Chicago and O'Hare airport in 16-person vehicles travelling at 240km/h, slashing travel time to 12 minutes, from the current 30-45 minutes Chicago has selected Elon Musk's Boring Co to build a futuristic US$1 billion underground transit system that will whisk people from Chicago's downtown Loop district to O'Hare International Airport at 240km/h, the billionaire entrepreneur and Mayor Rahm Emanuel said on Thursday.
This Report Says I Was Wrong. But That's Good for the F.B.I. - The Department of Justice's independent watchdog, the inspector general, has released a report that is critical of my decisions as F.B.I. director during the investigation of Hillary Clinton's email account.
FBI Director James Comey testifies before the House Intelligence Committee on March 20, 2017 about President's Trump wiretapping claims and Trump's presidential campaign links to Russian hackers. FBI Director James Comey testifies before the House Intelligence Committee on March 20, 2017 about President's Trump wiretapping claims and Trump's presidential campaign links to Russian hackers.
"The Justice Department's internal watchdog found that former FBI Director James Comey's actions in the Hillary Clinton email investigation were 'extraordinary and insubordinate' and flouted the department's norms but that Comey was not motivated by political bias. The inspector general released a sweeping report Thursday detailing a series of failures by the top federal officials in charge of the investigation ahead of the election, concluding that the FBI's actions ultimately 'cast a cloud' over the bureau and senior leaders did lasting damage to the FBI's reputation."
This Report Says I Was Wrong. But That's Good for the F.B.I. - The Department of Justice's independent watchdog, the inspector general, has released a report that is critical of my decisions as F.B.I. director during the investigation of Hillary Clinton's email account.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders gestures while speaking to the media during the daily briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Thursday, June 14, 2018. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders gestures while speaking to the media during the daily briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Thursday, June 14, 2018.
One of the paradoxes of Donald Trump's election was that it seemed like a dramatic repudiation of Barack Obama - after the first black president, a birther; after a cool liberal academic, a roaring populist; after a multicultural "world man," an American nationalist - and yet it happened at a time when Obama was quite popular.
Nine Takeaways From the Inspector General's Report on the Clinton Email Investigation - It is perhaps not a surprise that the Justice Department inspector general's report on the FBI's handling of the Clinton email investigation quickly became, for all sides, vindication for the narratives they already believed. Sessions cites Bible in defense of breaking up families, blames migrant parents - The attorney general, in a speech to law enforcement officers in Indiana, called on his "church friends" not to blame him for the policy.
Rollercoaster terror at Florida theme park: Two riders are flung 34 FEET to the ground and others are left hanging perilously from the tracks as car derails and rescuers scramble to save them 'But my emails': Hillary Clinton tweets biting three-word response as she calls out James Comey for using a private Gmail account for FBI business, after she was probed for doing the same thing 'Viva le Resistance': IG report reveals more Justice Department bias as FBI lawyer working on Mueller's Russia probe texted colleague that he was 'numb' after Trump's election The real reason for your PMS - and how to fix it: Fertility specialist shares the eight ways to balance your hormones - and the ONE superfood you should eat A date with the Queen? Melania is set to take her first plane trip since kidney operation and join Trump on his official visit to the UK, where the couple are expected to meet Her ... (more)
Advocates for an immigrant who faces deportation to Honduras despite the need for a kidney transplant say a six-month reprieve won't be long enough. Supporters, including Democratic Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy rallied Thursday evening in front of Hartford's federal building in support of Nelson Rosales Santos, who entered the country illegally 30 years ago.
Dan Pfeiffer, former assistant and senior adviser to President Barack Obama, thinks he knows the exact date the modern era of fake news was born: April 27, 2011. "I had walked into the briefing room that morning with 50 copies of Barack Obama's birth certificate," Pfeiffer recalls in a memoir, " Yes We Can: Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump ," set to be published next week.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders gestures while speaking to the media during the daily briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Thursday, June 14, 2018. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders gestures while speaking to the media during the daily briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Thursday, June 14, 2018.
While the focus was on judgment calls by former FBI Director James Comey, Republicans immediately seized on secondary findings by Inspector General Michael Horowitz, including that five FBI officials expressed hostility toward Trump before his election as president. Horowitz said their actions have been referred to the bureau for possible discipline.
Demonstrators line up to protest U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and immigration reform at Parkview Field in Fort Wayne, Ind. Thursday, June 14, 2018.
U.S. Border Patrol agents take a father and son from Honduras into custody near the U.S.-Mexico border on June 12, 2018 near Mission, Texas. A House Republican immigration plan would curb the Trump administration's widely criticized policy of separating children from parents seeking asylum at the U.S. border, but other provisions may lessen its chances of being enacted.
The strangeness of the largest migrant children's center in the United States, near the border with Mexico, shows up in the details. Here, there are 1,469 boys, ages 10 to 17, housed inside the 250,000-square-foot shell of a former Walmart superstore.
House Republican leaders on Thursday circulated a proposal to end the Trump administration's practice of separating immigrant children from their families when they are apprehended at the border - one that would, in effect, allow children to be detained alongside their parents. The provision is included in a "discussion draft" of broader GOP legislation aimed at striking a compromise between conservative and moderate Republicans on immigration by balancing relief for young undocumented immigrants, billions of dollars for President Donald Trump's border wall and changes to legal immigration programs.