By Steve Neavling In a May 2018 call with U.S. attorneys along the border with Mexico, then-Attorney General Jeff Session was blunt about what President Trump wanted. “We need to take away children,” Sessions told the five prosecutors, referring to Trump’s “zero tolerance” family separation policy, according to an investigation by the Justice Department’s inspector…
By Steve Neavling A U.S. judge has ordered Iran’s government to pay $1.45 billion to the family of former FBI agent Robert A. Levinson, whose 2007 disappearance while on an unauthorized CIA mission remains a mystery. U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Kelly last week awarded Iran to pay Levinson’s family $1.35 billion in punitive damages…
By Steve Neavling Kristi Koons Johnson has been named assistant director in charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office. Johnson was serving as the special agent in charge of the Omaha Field Office in Nebraska. Johnson became an FBI special agent in 1999, working for a decade in the Chicago Field Office, where she…
By Steve Neavling Attorney General William Barr will self-quarantine after refusing to do so on Friday following possible exposure to the coronavirus from members of President Trump’s inner circle. A Justice Department spokesperson told The Associated Press that Barr plans stay inside his home for several days after attending a meeting at Justice Department headquarters,…
By Steve Neavling Secret Service agents are trained to take a bullet for the U.S. president. But on Sunday, agents faced an entirely different – and unnecessary – risk when they drove President Trump, infected with COVID-19, around Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. The jaunt drew strong criticism from current and former Secret Service…
A portion of this story, which appears in Spy Talk, is being republished here with permission. By Elaine Shannon Does the world need another Deep State conspiracy theory? Amazon Studios obviously thinks so. In these grim times, with tens of millions of Americans frightened, angry and ready to believe the worst about their government and…
By Steve Neavling At least 11 employees tested positive for COVID-19 at a Secret Service training facility in Maryland in August, according to a new report. It’s believed the employees were infected during training sessions and a graduation ceremony that lacked social distancing, The New York Times reported on Friday morning. The Times learned about…
