Tag: FBI

"The false statements involved mirror the false statements to White House officials which resulted in his resignation in February of this year," President Trump's lawyer, Ty Cobb, said. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

National Security

Trump lawyer: ‘Nothing’ in Michael Flynn’s guilty plea implicates Trump or White House

Sarah Bedford · December 1, 2017 4:58 pm

Michael Flynn, U.S. national security advisor, right, exits a vehicle outside the U.S. Courthouse in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Friday, Dec. 1, 2017. Flynn, who was fired as President Donald Trump's national security adviser after revelations that he lied about his communications with Russia's ambassador, is expected to plead guilty Friday morning to lying to federal agents about the contact. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg

National Security

Michael Flynn to testify that Trump asked him to make contact with Russians: Report

Melissa Quinn · December 1, 2017 4:32 pm

Beltway Confidential

How Michael Flynn’s guilty plea implicates Israeli intelligence, and perhaps the Logan Act

Tom Rogan · December 1, 2017 4:15 pm

Since being appointed special counsel in May, Robert Mueller has hired more than 16 attorneys, with expenses for FBI agents, support staff, travel, office materials, and prosecutors. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

National Security

Cost of Robert Mueller’s Russia probe exceeds $5 million: Report

Melissa Quinn · December 1, 2017 3:16 pm

Michael Flynn is charged with one count of "willfully and knowingly" making "false, fictitious and fraudulent statements" to the FBI regarding conversations he had during his time at the White House with Russia's ambassador. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

National Security

Read the full charge against Michael Flynn for lying to the FBI

Washington Examiner Staff · December 1, 2017 2:36 pm

Michael Flynn is charged with one count of "willfully and knowingly" making "false, fictitious and fraudulent statements" to the FBI regarding conversations he had during his time at the White House with Russia's ambassador. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)

National Security

Michael Flynn pleads guilty to lying to FBI, will cooperate with special counsel Mueller

Kelly Cohen · December 1, 2017 2:23 pm

Members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, including Chairman Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., have said President Trump has pressured them to wrap up their probe into Russian interference in the 2016 elections. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

White House refutes report that Trump asked senators to wrap up Russia probe

Diana Stancy Correll · December 1, 2017 3:13 am

Cindy Estrada, vice president of United Auto Workers, was renominated to the post Thursday, virtually ensuring she'll remain in the position near the top of the group embroiled in an ongoing corruption scandal. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

Top UAW official re-elected as feds investigate her role in corruption scandal

Sean Higgins · December 1, 2017 12:30 am

There was widespread indignation at Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney's call to cut Community Development Block Grants that fund the senior assistance program. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Beltway Confidential

The big White House flip-flop on Community Development Block Grants

Philip Wegmann · November 30, 2017 7:57 pm

Manafort has agreed to pledge four of his properties -- one in Alexandria, Va., one in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., and two in New York -- that are worth a combined $11.65 million. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Paul Manafort offers up four properties to make $10 million bail

Kelly Cohen · November 30, 2017 7:49 pm

Criminologists asks Justice Department, FBI to release more crime data

Kelly Cohen · November 30, 2017 7:45 pm

"We're not investigating Antifa as Antifa -- that's an ideology and we don't investigate ideologies," FBI Director Christopher Wray told lawmakers. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

FBI investigating people animated by ‘Antifa ideology’

Kelly Cohen, Joel Gehrke · November 30, 2017 7:12 pm