The Justice Department’s inspector general said Monday he’s launching an investigation into whether any department officials “engaged in an improper attempt” to overturn the presidential election.
The FBI’s top official in Los Angeles has been quietly reassigned after an Inspector’s General’s report found he and other top bureau officials violated ethics regulations by holding a sensitive meeting at a 2018 Los Angels Dodgers during a playoff game.
The inspectors general of the Justice Department and Homeland Security have launched an investigations into how federal agents have used of force and detained protesters during demonstrations in Portland and Washington D.C.
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.
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.
The Justice Department’s internal watchdog is set to announce today that top FBI officials did not illegally spy on Trump’s campaign in 2016, delivering a blow to one of the president’s most repeated conspiracy theories.
