In the odd inner workings of Congress, there’s something called a “legislative hold.” It gives any individual senator the power to stop a nominee or a bill— put a hold on them. The idea is to encourage negotiations between those […]
An FBI official who illegally spied on a political rival to Special Counsel Robert Mueller will serve a week in jail. The sentence came Friday after 60-year old Mark Tolson, then an FBI analyst, admitted illegally accessing the computer of
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The deadline for the FBI to provide key information to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court passed on Friday. As of now, there has been no public release filed by the court disclosing what information the FBI provided. The order for
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The following is a transcript of my cover story investigation on “Full Measure.” Watch the video by clicking the link at the end of the page. We begin with an important border issue you probably don’t know much about. Under
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An Illinois state watchdog group has found that a small public university paid dozens of former employees for up to a year after they were told they would be losing their jobs, and while some did little or no work.
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We don’t yet have the FBI’s response, but we now know that on December 5, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ordered a review of wiretap applications touched by an FBI attorney. The attorney got caught by the Department of Justice
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In light of the revelations about FBI misbehavior in surveilling Trump campaign associates in 2016, it’s clear we ignored screaming red flags that told us government abuse was not only possible– but was happening.
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About 2 yrs ago, I wrote about the FBI’s apparent violation of its “Woods Procedures” in investigating the Trump campaign. The recent Department of Justice Inspector General report confirmed FBI violations of the very rules intended to prevent abuses. Original
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