A supervisory intelligence analyst (SIA) for the FBI has been fired following an internal watchdog’s report that alleged he had possessed and viewed child pornography, the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) announced Monday.
At least 45 guns issued to FBI agents were lost or stolen over a three-year period, according to the Justice Department’s Inspector General.
The Justice Department’s inspector general criticized the FBI’s handling of U.S.-based extremists who tried or successfully carried out attacks against Americans after the bureau investigated them.
FBI Director Christopher Wray pledged Wednesday to fix the flaws found in the bureau’s applications for Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
FBI Director Christopher Wray will take the hot seat Wednesday as he testifies before the House Judiciary Committee about flaws found in the bureau’s investigation into ties between Russia and the Trump campaign.
President Trump has long seized on anti-Trump tweets between two FBI employees to push his unfounded conspiracy theories that the bureau tried to undermine his candidacy.
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.
