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.
President Trump has repeatedly claimed that the FBI turned rogue and spied on his campaign in 2016 in what he said was “perhaps the biggest scandal in the history of our country.”
A former FBI lawyer is accused of altering a document related to the 2016 Russia investigation.
A deputy assistant attorney general was looking at “sexually explicit” material on two Justice Department computers and later lied about it, according to a report by Inspector General Michael Horowitz.
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.
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Will the report be a bombshell? Probably. A draft of the Justice Department’s Inspector General report addressing a wide-ranging set of allegations that department protocols were flouted when the FBI investigated Hillary Clinton’s handling of classified information, has been completed, CNN reports, citing unnamed sources with knowledge of the matter. Inspector…
The Justice Department inspector general revealed on Wednesday that he hopes to finish his review by early spring to determine whether FBI Director James Comey improperly made public statements about the Hillary Clinton investigation ahead of the 2016 election.
The Justice Department’s Inspector General revealed the FBI was not reporting “high-risk security concerns” about some agents, concluding that “systemic” misconduct issues were not properly addressed.
