Legislation aimed at ending the nation’s longest government shutdown would also allow eight Republican senators to seek hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages from the Justice Department over alleged privacy violations tied to the Jan. 6 investigation.
The Justice Department placed two Washington-based prosecutors on leave a day after they described the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol as a “riot” carried out by a “mob,” according to four people familiar with the matter.
President Donald Trump is again pushing a debunked claim about the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, alleging that the Biden administration planted FBI agents among the rioters, even though Biden was not yet president at the time.
President Donald Trump said Sunday that he believes it’s possible the Justice Department is investigating FBI Director Christopher A. Wray, calling his behavior “inappropriate.”
Freed from prison by President Trump’s clemency, some of the Jan. 6 rioters are now demanding money.
Less than five years after shouting “Kill ‘em!” during the Capitol riot, former FBI agent Jared Wise is now working as a senior adviser at the U.S. Department of Justice.
A Tennessee man pardoned by President Donald Trump for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison for plotting to assassinate federal agents and attack an FBI office with explosives.
A former FBI agent who encouraged rioters to kill police officers during the Jan. 6 Capitol attack is now advising a Justice Department task force created by President Trump to pursue his political opponents.
