The Justice Department Inspector General report released Monday vindicated long-held Republican concerns over Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) abuse when it came to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s surveillance of a member of the Trump campaign.
“This was an attempted overthrow and a lot of people were in on it, and they got caught,” Trump said.
The Justice Department’s inspector general report states the FBI possessed an “authorized purpose” to investigate the 2016 Trump campaign, but says the bureau committed wrongdoings in its handling of the operation, according to the Washington Post.
The House Judiciary Committee announced Thursday that it will hold its next impeachment inquiry hearing on Monday, the same day that the Justice Department inspector general’s Russia probe report is scheduled for release.
Attorney General William Barr reportedly disagrees with a finding by the forthcoming Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General (IG) report that the FBI had sufficient reason to monitor the Trump campaign in 2016.
A former lawyer for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is under criminal investigation for allegedly altering a document that was used in the application for a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court warrant to spy on Carter Page, an adviser to then-candidate Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in the 2016 elections.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) announced that DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report on alleged FISA abuses in the 2016 election will be released on December 9. Graham said,
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.
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.
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.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller has officially closed up shop, and the results of his investigation are clear: no collusion, no obstruction. I’m glad the sideshow is over, but some serious questions still need to be answered.
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.
Almost two-thirds of voters (64 percent) believe the FBI knew the Debunked Russia Dossier was fake prior to obtaining a warrant to spy on the Trump campaign.
President Donald Trump concluded Friday his 2016 presidential campaign was spied on, accusing those responsible of “treason.”
Joe diGenova predicted that “some of the people responsible” for concocting and executing the Russia hoax “are going to go to prison.”
Former FBI General Counsel James Baker conceded that the Department of Justice inspector general will find that the bureau made “mistakes” during its counterinvestigation into now-debunked collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 presidential election.
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.
A newly-uncovered document suggests that the Obama DOJ, including the FBI, was “well aware” that foreign agent Christopher Steele was trying to interfere in the 2016 presidential election with disinformation — and yet still used his materials to spy on American citizens and the Trump campaign.
The House Judiciary Committee voted Wednesday to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress for refusing to hand over special counsel Robert Mueller’s unredacted report and underlying evidence.
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 Mueller investigation failed to find any evidence to support the big lie that the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government and failed miserably to prove any obstruction.
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) is planning to send eight criminal referrals to Attorney General William Barr this week, as part of committee Republicans’ investigation into Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Justice Department abuse while probing President Trump’s campaign for alleged Russian collusion.
United States prosecutors said on Thursday that classified information gathered under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) will be introduced in the federal trial of Chinese telecom company Huawei, which has been charged with committing money laundering, bank fraud, and wire fraud in the course of violating U.S. sanctions against Iran.
The fizzling out of the corrupt Mueller investigation is a great victory for the rule of law and our constitutional republic.
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.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” President Trump said he does have plans to release the FISA applications related to the Russia probe. Host Sean Hannity asked, “Do you have plans to release those FISA applications, Gang of
Rep. Greg Steube said the Obama administration’s surveillance of Trump — and Mueller’s operation — had “no legal basis in the first place.”
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) wants to know if former President Barack Obama and former Attorney General Loretta Lynch were in on the decisions to spy on President Donald Trump’s campaign and lend credence to the phony dossier paid for by Hillary Clinton’s campaign that gave way to what became the investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
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.
House Republicans on Monday requested an update from U.S. Attorney John W. Huber, the prosecutor appointed by former Attorney General Jeff Sessions to review decisions made by the top levels of the Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation for bias.
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.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders took to Twitter to publicly criticize James Comey in the wake of his statements about President Trump.
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 what could become a possible issue for James Comey, the former FBI director repeatedly stated in testimony to the House Judiciary Committee that he “never” knew the author of the infamous anti-Trump dossier had been retained to do his work by a U.S.-based law firm.
At the time James B. Comey was fired as FBI director, his agency was still attempting to corroborate claims made in the infamous, largely-discredited anti-Trump dossier, Comey admitted.
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.
