President Trump continued to lash out at the FBI at a rally in Hershey, Pa., on Tuesday night, calling bureau leaders “scum” and doubling down on his claims of a “deep state” conspiracy to undermine his campaign.
Former FBI attorney Lisa Page filed a lawsuit against the bureau and Justice Department for disclosing text messages between her and another FBI employee with whom she was having an affair.
Former FBI Director James Comey said Monday that the Inspector General’s report on Trump’s campaign and Russian meddling vindicated him and the bureau.
President Trump ripped into FBI Director Christopher Wray on Tuesday morning, presumably for backing the inspector general’s conclusion that the bureau didn’t improperly open its investigation into the Trump campaign.
Director Christopher Wray provided the following letter to the Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General in response to the report titled “Review of Four FISA Applications and Other Aspects of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane Investigation,” released today. December 6, 2019 The Honorable Michael Horowitz Inspector General U.S. Department of Justice Washington, D.C. 20530 Dear Inspector…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Justice Department inspector general’s report dismissed some conservatives’ longstanding allegations about the investigation into the Trump campaign — including that top FBI officials were motivated by political bias and illegally spied on Trump advisers. At the same time, the report that examined the FBI’s probe into connections between Trump campaign…
President Trump tapped Anthony Ornato, deputy assistant director of the Secret Service, as his new deputy chief of staff for operations.
The Justice Department’s internal watchdog is set to announce today that top FBI officials did not illegally spy on Trump’s campaign in 2016, delivering a blow to one of the president’s most repeated conspiracy theories.
