House Judiciary Committee leaders are requesting the Justice Department’s internal watchdog investigate the FBI’s training academy after 16 women accused the bureau of gender discrimination.
The Democrat-controlled House of Representatives is expected to vote Tuesday to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress after he refused to turn over unreacted copies of the Robert Mueller report.
Even though Robert Mueller said a Justice Department policy prevents charging a sitting president, Attorney General William Barr said the special counsel could have declared whether President Trump broke the law.
Special counsel Robert Mueller made his first public statement on the Russia investigation Wednesday, saying the inquiry is officially closed and he’s retiring from the Justice Department.
Former Deputy Secretary of Transportation Jeffrey Rosen, who has no experience as a prosecutor, is now the second-in-command at the Justice Department.
A federal grand jury has indicted Michigan state Rep. Larry Inman on charges of attempted extortion, bribery and lying to an FBI agent.
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com
A translator working for the FBI has been arrested on charges that he lied to investigators about having contact with a suspect in a terrorism investigation.
Abdirizak Jaji Raghe Wehelie, 66, of Burke, Virginia, was arrested Saturday and charged with obstructing an investigation and making false statements to the FBI, the Justice Department wrote in a news release.
The Justice Department has accused Wehelie of having a personal relationship with a terrorism suspect, who had left a voicemail on Wehelie’s phone. When Wehelie translated the call, he failed to disclose the connection or reveal that it was his phone that the suspect had called.
The terrorism suspect’s phone was under court-ordered surveillance.
According to federal prosecutors, Wehelie later disclosed that he had been friends with the suspect for years.
Wehelie faces up to 25 years in prison.
The House Judiciary Committee is planning to vote Wednesday on whether to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena to turn over special counsel Robert Mueller’s redacted report.
