The DOJ audit on the origins of the Russian collision hoax released by the inspector general (IG) found “at least 17 significant errors and omissions” in the Carter Page federal surveillance application.
Former Attorney General Eric Holder, like many of his Democrat counterparts, on Monday claimed victory following the release of the Justice Department’s inspector general (IG) report.
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), the former Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, said Monday that Americans should be “disgusted” and “terrified” by the FBI’s spying on Americans.
Members of the GOP reacted to the release of the Justice Department’s inspector general (IG) report, proclaiming that media allies of Democrats are desperately “spinning hard.”
The Justice Department’s inspector general (IG) report states fired FBI Director James Comey conceded that the Steele dossier was “not ripe enough, mature enough,” to be a complete “intelligence product,” despite it being used by the bureau to obtained a FISA warrant to surveil former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
Michael Horowitz, the U.S Department of Justice’s (DOJ) inspector general (IG), said Thursday that he is almost done finalizing the report into possible abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
Intelligence agencies may be scared of indictments yielded by U.S. Attorney John Durham’s investigation of Russiagate’s origins, said Hans von Spakovsky.
Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz is finalizing his report on his review into whether the FBI abused the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act when obtaining a surveillance warrant on a former Trump campaign official Carter Page in October 2016.
Newly released FBI records reveal the FBI used senior Justice Department official Bruce Ohr as a conduit to “pee dossier” author British ex-spy Christopher Steele in 2016 and 2017.
Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller refused to answer questions about the Steele dossier during his testimony before the House Intelligence Committee Wednesday and declined to even say whether or not he read the document, which played a significant role in the origins of his investigation.
Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller refused to confirm that he interviewed Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence operative who authored the now-debunked dossier alleging collusion between President Donald Trump and Russia, during his 22-month investigation into election interference.
John Kerry, President Obama’s secretary of state, seems to be having trouble staying within the legal bounds of the Logan Act, so it’s not surprising that his State Department lieutenants were getting their hands dirty in the conspiracy to bring down Donald Trump.
John Durham, the U.S. attorney selected by Attorney General William Barr to examine the origins of the FBI’s investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign’s alleged ties to Russia, has hit the ground running for answers, according to a report.
I moderated a Judicial Watch panel of experts this week probing into the targeting of President Trump and the attacks on our Republican form of government through the illicit use of the spy agencies.
NEW YORK — Democratic Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee claimed several times during a hearing that four members of the Trump campaign were the subjects of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) investigations.
NEW YORK — Former Vice President Joe Biden was reportedly one of the few Obama administration officials who participated in secretive meetings during the early stages of the Obama-era intelligence community’s initial operations regarding suspected Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign.
Barr’s review of the origins of the Russia investigation is focused on intelligence gathering before the FBI opened its probe in July 2016.
Attorney General William Barr discussed the Department of Justice’s investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia probe during an interview broadcast on Friday. He called the dossier compiled by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele “opposition research” with “clear mistakes.”
The text of emails buried in a footnote in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s final report reveals that President Trump asked disgraced ex-FBI Director James Comey and former Director of National Intelligence and Trump critic James Clapper to publicly refute the infamous Steele dossier after the discredited charges were first leaked to the news media.
Devin Nunes said he believes that FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok’s “insurance policy” was a reference to obtaining a FISA warrant on former Trump campaign advisor Carter Page in order to read Trump campaign emails.
Attorney General William Barr has assigned the United States attorney in Connecticut to look into the origins of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s probe into the Trump campaign, according to reports.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) sent letters Friday to State Department and Justice Department officials regarding communication between one State Department official and Christopher Steele.
House Judiciary Committee ranking member Doug Collins (R-GA) said Wednesday that Democrats want to neutralize Attorney General William Barr because they fear what he might discover regarding FISA abuses at the Justice Department.
NEW YORK — A largely unreported footnote in Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller’s final report raises immediate questions about the Obama-era FISA warrant obtained to monitor the communications of Carter Page, a tangential adviser to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.
The FBI sent a government investigator posing as a research assistant to meet with former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos.
Former Trump 2016 campaign adviser Michael Caputo said Tuesday that a Russian FBI informant attempted to frame him by offering damaging information on then-Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton during the election.
The Obama-era FISA warrant obtained to monitor the communications of Carter Page was most likely utilized as a gateway to spy on the rest of Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, contended William Binney, a former highly placed NSA official turned whistleblower.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said his committee will start to investigate the FBI and DOJ’s abuse of the FISA warrant process and surveillance of the Trump campaign and called for a special counsel to investigate these potential abuses of power during a press conference on Monday.
Attorney James Baker had what D.C. considers a long and distinguished career at the Justice Department – his last position was general counsel of the FBI – until he got himself involved in the anti-Trump machinations of disgraced former Director James Comey and his co-conspirators.
NEW YORK — In testimony, James Comey admitted that when he infamously briefed then President-elect Donald Trump about the controversial dossier, Comey did not inform the incoming president about who financed the document.
Christopher Steele, the former British spy who prepared the Russia “dossier” that has led to more than two years of investigations into President Donald Trump’s campaign, told a London court that he was hired to provide a basis to challenge the legitimacy of the 2016 presidential election in the event that Trump won.
In testimony, former FBI Director James Comey says that prior to signing a FISA application to obtain a warrant to conduct surveillance on Carter Page, a former adviser to President Trump’s 2016 campaign, Comey was aware that the dossier authored by former British spy Christopher Steele was financed by Democrats who opposed President Donald Trump.
An admission by Comey appears to confirm a belief Republican investigators have held since Trump was elected to the White House: The FBI failed to adequately verify the anti-Trump dossier used to surveil Trump campaign members during the 2016 presidential election.
Trump threatened to declassify documents that would expose the DOJ, FBI, and Clinton campaign if Democrats probe into his administration.
Trump dropped a bombshell on Wednesday when he appointed his former Sessions chief of staff Matthew Whitaker to serve as acting attorney general.
Carter Page, a former foreign policy adviser to President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, is suing the Democratic National Committee and law firm Perkins Coie for defamation over their role in the Steele dossier.
President Trump will reportedly declassify documents that are expected to reveal how the government justified its investigation into his campaign.
On Thursday, a dozen Republican congressmen led by New York Representative Lee Zeldin asked President Donald Trump to declassify key documents in the Russian election interference probe.
Jonathon Moffa, an FBI agent, admitted to Congress his agency leaks stories to the news media, then uses the resulting stories to back up assertions in warrant applications, according to a series of reports Tuesday.
Justice Department Official Bruce Ohr is expected to testify in front of the House Judiciary Committee on August 28 about his relationship with Trump dossier author Christopher Steele, according to Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC).
