Graham waiting for answer on evidence of Trump wiretapping
3:39 PM, Mar 15, 2017
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said Wednesday afternoon that FBI Director James Comey has yet to get back to him about whether there is any evidence to support President Trump's claims that he was wiretapped or there was some type of surveillance of his computers or phones during the campaign. "As of right now, no. But I hope he will do so soon," Graham said in response to reporters questions about whether he has heard from Comey. Earlier Wednesday, Graham threatened Comey to subpoena the FBI for Read more
Rep. Adam Schiff: Still no proof of wiretapping after meeting with FBI director
11:36 AM, Mar 10, 2017
The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee said Friday he has not seen any proof to support President Trump's assertion that President Obama illegally wiretapped Trump Tower during the 2016 campaign, even after a classified meeting with FBI Director James Comey. "I haven't seen any evidence whatsoever to substantiate that," Ranking Member Adam Schiff, D-Calif., told CNN. The Democratic lawmaker also criticized White House press secretary Sean Spicer's refusal to talk about his boss's Read more
FBI Director James Comey huddles with lawmakers about wiretapping allegations, WikiLeaks
6:35 PM, Mar 09, 2017
FBI Director James Comey traveled to Capitol Hill on Thursday to meet with congressional leaders about national security issues. Comey has not made any public statements about the meetings, but multiple news outlets reported that he met with the so-called "Gang of Eight" House and Senate lawmakers to discuss President Trump's assertion that his predecessor wiretapped Trump Tower during the election and this WikiLeaks' "Vault 7" CIA document dump. The FBI director reportedly had two meetings Read more
FBI Director James Comey says he'll serve a full 10-year term
1:53 PM, Mar 08, 2017
FBI Director James Comey says not to expect him to be leaving his job anytime soon, signaling Wednesday that he intends to serve the entirety of his 10-year term, which began in 2013. "You're stuck with me for another six and a half years," Comey, told an audience at the beginning of a speech to a cybersecurity conference in Boston. The speech in Boston comes one day after Comey dropped out of SXSW , an annual music, media and film event in Austin, Texas, due to "scheduling conflicts." Comey Read more
Judiciary Republicans demand surveillance answers
1:38 PM, Mar 08, 2017
House Judiciary Committee Republicans wrote FBI Director James Comey on Wednesday asking him to "follow all legitimate investigative leads regarding Russia's alleged interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, as well as leads regarding the mishandling of classified information." The members, led by Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., also asked Comey to brief them on the Russian matters as well as President Trump's explosive weekend claim that he was spied on by American intelligence agenc Read more
Lindsey Graham asks FBI, Justice Department for proof that wiretapping occurred
1:21 PM, Mar 08, 2017
A pair of U.S. senators asked FBI Director James Comey and top Justice Department officials on Wednesday for any information that might validate President Trump's claim that his campaign was wiretapped during the election. "We request that the Department of Justice provide us copies of any warrant applications and court orders ... related to wiretaps of President Trump, the Trump campaign or Trump Tower," Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., wrote in a letter to the two Read more
FBI Director James Comey drops out of SXSW conference
3:35 PM, Mar 07, 2017
FBI Director James Comey has dropped out of SXSW — the annual music, media and film event — in what was expected to be his first public appearance since President Trump accused former President Barack Obama of wire-tapping Trump Tower during the election. According to a statement from SXSW on Tuesday, Comey's speaking engagement scheduled for next Monday at the annual event in Austin, Texas, was canceled "due to scheduling conflicts keeping him in Washington D.C." He is being replaced by FBI Read more
WikiLeaks warns CIA can hack cars for 'undetectable assassinations'
11:38 AM, Mar 07, 2017
The CIA has been investigating ways to manipulate the control systems of modern cars and trucks that could be used for covert assassinations, WikiLeaks said on Tuesday as part of its dump of more than 8,700 documents that it claims are from the CIA's Center for Cyber Intelligence. "As of October 2014 the CIA was also looking at infecting the vehicle control systems used by modern cars and trucks," WikiLeaks said in a statement. "The purpose of such control is not specified, but it would permi Read more
Chaffetz: Reports that FBI is outraged over Trump have 'little to no credibility'
7:44 AM, Mar 07, 2017
Rep. Jason Chaffetz on Tuesday dismissed press reports that say FBI Director James Comey has been trying to delegitimize President Trump's charge that President Obama ordered a wiretap on Trump's phones. Several reports over the weekend and on Monday said Comey asked Trump's Justice Department to publicly reject Trump's claims. CNN reported Tuesday that Comey was " incredulous " at Trump's charges. But on CNN, Chaffetz said he has no reason to believe those reports. "I hear these reports abou Read more
Thanks to the Obama wiretapping controversy, Trump discovers the surveillance state
7:00 PM, Mar 06, 2017
President Trump took to Twitter, his favorite communication outlet, and claimed over the weekend that President Obama had "wire tapped" him during the presidential campaign. Trump provided no actual evidence to back up the assertion: no declassified Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court order for such surveillance, no actual voice cuts or transcripts of intercepted communications by the NSA or FBI of Trump on the phone with anyone during the campaign, etc. Indeed, the origin of Trump's alle Read more
FBI raids house of Washington Post employee accused of impersonating immigration agents
4:58 PM, Mar 06, 2017
FBI and SWAT agents last month raided the house of a Gaithersburg, Maryland, man who is accused of impersonating an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Virginia on multiple occasions, according to a report published Monday. Local law enforcement in Montgomery County, Maryland, served a warrant to Itai Ozderman at his home on Feb. 22 on allegations he pretended to be a federal immigration agent throughout Falls Church, Va., walking around the town with a bullet proof vest, ICE placard Read more
White House: Trump, Comey haven't discussed wiretap allegations
3:23 PM, Mar 06, 2017
White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Monday he is "almost 100 percent" certain that President Trump and FBI Director James Comey have not spoken since the president accused President Obama of wiretapping people involved with his campaign during the election. "To my knowledge, I am almost 100 percent certain that he has not," Spicer told reporters when asked if Comey had contacted Trump since he leveled significant charges against the Obama administration in a series of tweets early Satu Read more
'Trump effect' settles down gun sales to normal pace
1:54 PM, Mar 06, 2017
The election of President Trump has calmed down the pre-election surge in gun sales driven by expectations Hillary Clinton would win and immediately impose gun control. The craze that made 2016 the first year ever to see sales over 27 million, has settled down to normal patterns, according to FBI background check information released Monday. While 2017 is still expected to see near historic sales, driven by blacks, women and buyers reacting to terrorism and crime, the latest National Instant Read more
Grassley rips FBI's reported plans to hire author of Trump dossier
1:45 PM, Mar 06, 2017
The top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee wants the FBI to turn over information related to its alleged offer to hire the author of an unverified and damaging dossier about President Trump. Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, sent a letter Monday to FBI Direct James Comey, asking first if the FBI ever attempted to hire Christopher Steele. He is a former British spy who assembled a dossier on Trump that accused the president during a past trip to Russia of hiring ho Read more
Byron York: Top Republican demands FBI answers about Trump dossier
1:32 PM, Mar 06, 2017
Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has sent a letter to FBI Director James Comey demanding the story behind the FBI's reported plan to pay the author of a lurid and unsubstantiated dossier on then-candidate Donald Trump. Last month the Washington Post reported that the FBI planned to pay Christopher Steele to investigate Trump "a few weeks before the election." Steele was at the time being paid by supporters of the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign. "The i Read more
After hating on him for months, the Left will learn to love James Comey
12:52 PM, Mar 06, 2017
First on the campaign and now during his first 100 days, an unconventional president has repeatedly set conventional political wisdom on its head. As a result, the predictions of prognosticators have about as much credibility as horoscopes. There just aren't safe bets anymore. Well, except one. Real soon Democrats will regret all those mean things they said about FBI Director James Comey. Now that a Republican is in the White House, the top law enforcement official is leaning into the cliché th Read more
FBI asked Justice Department to rebut Trump wiretap claims: Report
5:02 PM, Mar 05, 2017
FBI Director James Comey asked the Justice Department to publicly reject President Trump's claim that former President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower during the 2016 election. Comey argued that the claim is false and must be corrected, but so far the Justice Department hasn't released any statement on the claim, the New York Times reported. The House and Senate intelligence panels, at the White House's request, agreed to look into whether there was any government surveillance of political parties Read more
Senators warn: FBI, other agencies work in buildings owned by China
4:10 PM, Mar 03, 2017
Federal officials are putting sensitive materials in foreign-owned buildings, making them vulnerable to cyberattack and espionage, senators warned Friday. Their alarm bells were set off by a report that said the General Services Administration has been placing FBI agents and other "high-security" government officials in buildings owned by foreign entities in China and other countries. The GSA didn't tell the tenants, according to the government report , so the officials aren't taking addition Read more
Mattis: 'Climate change' is a national security threat
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Byron York: Congress leads Trump down wrong path
03/14/17 11:17 PM
Trump's 2005 tax return leaked to media
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Schiff: Comey isn't telling us everything about Russia
3:30 PM, Mar 02, 2017
The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee said FBI Director James Comey is not providing lawmakers trying to probe Russian interference in U.S. affairs enough information to do their job. "In order for us to do our investigation in a fair and thorough way, we're going to need the full cooperation of the FBI," Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said Thursday. "At this point the director was not willing do that," he said after Comey briefed committee members. Comey wouldn't answer lawmakers' Read more
House Judiciary Democrats demand FBI criminal investigation into Sessions
12:49 PM, Mar 02, 2017
Every Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee sent a letter on Thursday asking FBI Director James Comey for a criminal investigation into Attorney General Jeff Sessions. "Efforts by Attorney General Sessions to assert that his testimony was not false or even misleading because he met with the Russian ambassador in his capacity as a senator, rather than a campaign representative, appear to be disingenuous at best as the questions put to him did not in any way ask if the meeting was campaign Read more
Virginia man gets 11 years in prison for trying to join Islamic State
5:40 PM, Feb 24, 2017
A northern Virginia man who is originally from Sudan was sentenced on Friday to 11 years in prison and a decade of supervised release for attempting to provide material support and resources to the Islamic State and making false statements to the FBI. Mahmoud Amin Mohamed Elhassan of Woodbridge, Va., pleaded guilty on Oct. 24 to aiding and abetting his friend's attempt to travel from the U.S. to Syria to join the terrorist group. Joseph Hassan Farrokh, a 29-year-old from Woodbridge, would trave Read more
Trump aides deny wrongdoing in White House exchange with FBI
2:22 PM, Feb 24, 2017
OXON HILL, Md. — White House officials pushed back Friday on reports that suggested West Wing staff had wrongfully asked the FBI to intervene with reporters writing about President Trump's associates and their alleged contacts with Russian officials during the campaign. "What you guys have done is indefensible and inaccurate," White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Friday of a CNN report published the previous evening. The report had cited unnamed officials in its account of the back-an Read more
Pelosi demands investigation into Priebus' contact with FBI
12:44 PM, Feb 24, 2017
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., wants the Justice Department to investigate if White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus did anything wrong by allegedly contacting the FBI about reports of ties between Trump administration officials and Russia. Recent reports said Priebus tried to get the FBI to tell the press that Trump's team was not in touch with Russia during the campaign, something the White House has rejected. But Pelosi said the report warrants a closer look. "The Trump Wh Read more
Democratic congressman Jim Himes: GOP would be impeaching Clinton if she behaved like Trump
8:57 AM, Feb 24, 2017
A Democratic congressman said Friday if Hillary Clinton were elected president and a report came out about her chief of staff contacting the FBI about an open case, Republicans would be impeaching her the next day. Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn., said on CNN that the report about President Trump's chief of staff Reince Priebus contacting FBI Director James Comey over an investigation into Trump associates' connections to Russian intelligence would have sparked a firestorm of outrage among Republican Read more
Trump tells FBI to find leakers of classified information 'NOW'
7:54 AM, Feb 24, 2017
President Trump slammed the Federal Bureau of Investigation Friday for not being able to control the leaks of classified information coming out of the agency since he became president. "The FBI is totally unable to stop the national security 'leakers' that have permeated our government for a long time," Trump tweeted. "They can't even find the leakers within the FBI itself. Classified information is being given to media that could have a devastating effect on U.S. FIND NOW." The FBI is totall Read more
Report: White House asked FBI to deny Trump team contacted Russia
7:41 PM, Feb 23, 2017
The FBI refused the White House's request to publicly deny media reports that President Trump's campaign members communicated with Russian officials during the 2016 election, according to a CNN report. Top officials in the Trump administration had asked the FBI and other intelligence agencies to denounce reports that were published in mid-February, though those White House advisers denied some details about the logistics of that meeting. FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and Chief of Staff Rei Read more
Senate intelligence panel tells White House not to destroy documents in Russia probe
4:17 PM, Feb 19, 2017
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has reportedly asked more than a dozen organizations, agencies and individuals to preserve all materials related to the probe into Russian interference in the election, including any Trump administration contact with Russian officials. The bipartisan leaders of the committee sent out formal letters late last week asking the White House, Justice Department and FBI to confirm that they are preserving all documentation that shows any contact between Trum Read more
House intelligence chair claims top Obama official leaking to media on Trump
11:43 AM, Feb 19, 2017
The House Intelligence Chair Devin Nunes on Sunday accused Obama-era officials, who are working for President Trump until his administration is staffed up, of illegally leaking intelligence and other reports to the media in an attempt to hurt the Republican leader. "I think there is a lot of innuendo out there that the intelligence agencies have a problem with Donald Trump. The rank and file people that are out doing jobs across the world — very difficult places — they don't pay attention to wh Read more
Rubio 'very confident' in Senate Intelligence probe into Russia's actions
8:23 PM, Feb 17, 2017
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., on Friday said he is confident in the Senate's ability to investigate Russia's hacking of U.S. organizations during the election. "I am now very confident Senate Intel Comm I serve on will conduct thorough bipartisan investigation of #Putin interference and influence," Rubio tweeted Friday evening. I am now very confident Senate Intel Comm I serve on will conduct thorough bipartisan investigation of #Putin interference and influence— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) Febr Read more
FBI chief Comey meets with senators
5:34 PM, Feb 17, 2017
FBI Director James Comey met privately with members of the Senate Intelligence Committee for nearly three hours Friday afternoon as lawmakers continued to grapple with the fallout over national security adviser Mike Flynn's resignation in the wake of reports that he talked about U.S. sanctions with the Russian ambassador in late December. The members of the intelligence panel emerged from the meeting, held in a secure room in the Senate basement used for classified briefings, tight-lipped, refu Read more
