Hundreds of former Justice Department employees are calling on Congress to “swiftly and forcefully respond” if President Trump fires special counsel Robert Mueller or Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who is overseeing the probe.
Republican Rep. Devin Nunes, who threatened to hatch a plan to impeach senior Justice Department officials, said Wednesday he’s “finally” received a highly classified document that launched the FBI’s investigation into Trump’s campaign and Russia.
The Justice Department, under intense pressure from Republicans and President Trump, said on Tuesday its tapping a federal prosecutor in Chicago to produce documents related to the FBI’s handling of the Hillary email investigation.
Federal authorities on Friday shut down and seized Backpage.com, a classifieds website that has drawn intense scrutiny for its sex ads, some of which included teenagers.
A former Minnesota FBI agent has been charged with leaking confidential documents to a news organization, becoming the first target of the Justice Department’s crackdown on federal government leaks.
Democratic senators, unable to gain enough support from Republicans to pass a bill to protect special counsel Robert Mueller from being fired, are now reaching out to the Justice Department for help.
Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe spoke out about his termination, denying in a Washington Post op-ed that he did anything wrong.
Donald Trump, who has escalated his high-stakes campaign to discredit federal investigators involved in the special counsel investigation, hired a tenacious, longtime Washington lawyer who has peddled a conspiracy theory that the FBI and Justice Department framed the president.
