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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. 

The FBI sent a government investigator posing as a research assistant to meet with former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos.

Andrew McCabe accused President Trump of acting like a dictator and a mob boss in his soon-to-be-released book.

FBI agent Peter Strzok, who sent text messages expressing bias against President Donald Trump, was escorted out of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s headquarters on Tuesday as part of disciplinary action, according to multiple reports.

Sen. Grassley said in a letter FBI Director Wray that “it’s disturbing” that James Comey had a private email account while investigating Hillary Clinton’s email scandal.

Mark Meadows said that Rod Rosenstein “must be held accountable for his obstructionist conduct” after the Inspector General (IG) report was released.

President Donald Trump expressed impatience Tuesday for the release of the Justice Department’s Inspector General’s report about former FBI Director James Comey’s handling of the Hillary Clinton case.

Stone criticized the president’s decision to allow the Justice Department’s inspector general to look into whether there was political influence in the FBI’s investigation of the Trump campaign. 

This week, Republican lawmakers will shine new light on alleged misconduct carried out by top officers at the Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation in relation to the 2016 presidential election.

A new report suggests an imminent Inspector General (IG) report may rule that FBI and Justice Department officials broke the law in their handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation.

The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has referred fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia for criminal prosecution, multiple reports indicated Thursday.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions sent a letter in reply to a group of leading Republicans on Thursday, indicating he would not be appointing a special counsel to investigate certain aspects of the FBI’s handling of probes into Russian election interference.

The Department of Justice Office of Inspector General announced Wednesday it is launching a review into whether the Justice Department and the FBI violated the law and applicable policies when using the Steele dossier to obtain a surveillance warrant on a former Trump campaign member.

Department of Justice Inspector General (DOJ-IG) Michael Horowitz’s long-awaited report will accuse outgoing FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe of improper leaking to the press and deliberately misleading DOJ-IG investigators, according to Thursday reporting in the New York Times and Washington Post.

The Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz informed lawmakers Thursday that he has found the missing five months of text messages between senior FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page that the DOJ said were lost due to a technical glitch.

Trump Justice Department Spokesman Ian Prior said that they were “very disappointed with the issues that occurred in the Obama administration” over reports of sexual misconduct at the DOJ.

A report from the Justice Department alleges that agents of the Drug Enforcement Agency had “sex parties” with prostitutes in the employ of drug cartels.