Tag: FBI

FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe Calls It Quits

Andrew Egger · January 29, 2018 6:32 pm

Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe steps down. He will remain on leave until springtime when he can formally retire, according to a report. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

National Security

FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe resigns

Kelly Cohen · January 29, 2018 5:42 pm

The House Intelligence Committee is slated to vote on the release of the controversial memo, put together by Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., as early as this week, and that could come Monday night during a 5 p.m. regularly scheduled business meeting. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

National Security

Devin Nunes memo shows Trump’s Justice Department extended Carter Page surveillance: Report

Kelly Cohen · January 29, 2018 2:09 pm

That five-month stretch of missing text messages included President Trump's inauguration, the firings of FBI Director James Comey and National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, and the appointment of Robert Mueller.

New FBI texts divide Congress over need for second special counsel

Susan Ferrechio · January 29, 2018 5:01 am

Trump's upcoming interview with Robert Mueller has some of his allies nervous that the president's greatest Russia-related challenges lie ahead. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke File)

Russia probe casts long shadow over State of the Union, Trump agenda

Sarah Bedford · January 28, 2018 8:11 pm

"I have confidence in Mueller, I have questions about others within the FBI and the DOJ, especially what's come out in the texts, especially what it's been based on," House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

National Security

Kevin McCarthy has confidence in Robert Mueller but is worried about bias in FBI and DOJ

Kyle Feldscher · January 28, 2018 4:44 pm

"I mean, the idea that you could have some kind of a cabal to organize or control the government in some way and have it not leak or somebody go sell the story to a magazine or to a book publisher doesn't comport with reality," said former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

National Security

Robert Gates laughs off the idea of the ‘deep state’

Kyle Feldscher · January 28, 2018 2:10 pm

MSNBC television anchor Joe Scarborough wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post, saying Republicans on Capitol Hill are using "wild tales" and "conspiracies" about the Russia inquiry, the FBI, and the Department of Justice to defend the president's decision to consider firing special counsel Robert Mueller. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Joe Scarborough: Republican lawmakers pushing ‘preposterous narratives’ to defend Trump

Katie Leach · January 27, 2018 8:18 pm

President Donald Trump delivers a speech to the World Economic Forum, Friday, Jan. 26, 2018, in Davos. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Washington Secrets

Weekly Trump Report Card: Big world welcome tempered by Mueller firestorm

Paul Bedard · January 27, 2018 4:21 pm

There is much confusion over some basic facts of the Strzok-Page texts, and even then, the answers are complicated. So far, the Justice Department has identified about 50,000 of them. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Beltway Confidential

Byron York: Justice Department withholds majority of FBI texts

Byron York · January 27, 2018 2:59 pm

Senate Judiciary Committee racking member Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., has requested an interview with White House counsel Don McGahn. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Dianne Feinstein wants Don McGahn to spill the beans on White House communications about Robert Mueller

Daniel Chaitin · January 27, 2018 4:04 am

In a letter made public on Friday, Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, (pictured above) and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., of the Judiciary Committee requested more information from the Democratic National Committee and Hillary for America about the work of "Trump dossier" author Christopher Steele. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Grassley-Graham duo press DNC, Clinton campaign for answers about ‘Trump dossier’ author’s work

Diana Stancy Correll · January 27, 2018 1:49 am