Tag: FBI

FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe told the agency's staff to "hang in there" after James Comey was fired. "As men and women of the FBI, we are at our best when times are tough. Please stay focused on the mission, keep doing great work, be good to each other and we will get through this together." (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

National Security

RNC chair: Trump asking the FBI director who he voted for was ‘just a conversation’

Pete Kasperowicz · January 24, 2018 1:08 pm

Former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn did not tell President Trump about his secret meeting with FBI officials, including Peter Strzok, on Jan. 24, 2017, and the president only learned of it two days later from former acting attorney general Sally Yates. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

National Security

Michael Flynn secretly met with FBI officials at White House a year ago today: Report

Anna Giaritelli · January 24, 2018 1:01 pm

Looking for the Real ‘Nicolas De-Meyer,’ Mysterious Goldman Sachs Wine Thief

Alice B. Lloyd · January 24, 2018 12:39 pm

The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board was established by 2007 legislation, but wasn't fully functional until 2013 and took a major role reviewing programs exposed that year by whistleblower Edward Snowden. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Trump’s nominee to lead surveillance oversight board likes surveillance too much for privacy activists

Steven Nelson · January 24, 2018 5:01 am

Rep. John Ratcliffe, R-Texas, claims that there are "inconsistencies" with former FBI Director James Comey's September 2016 testimony before the House Judiciary Committee. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Interest brews in House Judiciary Committee for more testimony from James Comey: Report

Diana Stancy Correll · January 24, 2018 3:25 am

Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., said Tuesday he is confident the White House will allow the release of a memo reportedly detailing abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act by the Obama administration to spy on associates of President Trump. (AP Photo/Steve Cannon, File)

Rep. Matt Gaetz: Trump will allow the release of the memo on alleged FISA abuses

Daniel Chaitin · January 24, 2018 3:09 am

President Trump had invited the Federal Bureau of Investigation's deputy director, Andrew McCabe, to the White House to get to know him better, just after Trump fired former FBI Director James Comey. Trump then asked McCabe about who he voted for in the presidential election. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump asked James Comey stand-in at FBI whom he voted for in 2016 election: Report

Diana Stancy Correll · January 24, 2018 1:21 am

Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D- N.Y., said Tuesday he wants access to a four-page, GOP-produced memo detailing possible misuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act committed by members of the intelligence community during the Obama presidency. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Democrat wants source material for memo of alleged FISA abuses released to House Judiciary

Naomi Lim · January 24, 2018 12:55 am

"You guys are absolutely obsessed with everything to do with collusion," Sarah Sanders said on Tuesday. "We hope that you'll take some of that same obsession, energy and direct it to the places where it looks like there could have been inappropriate and possibly illegal behavior." (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Sarah Sanders: Missing FBI texts, House Intel memo show ‘possibly illegal behavior’

Sarah Bedford · January 23, 2018 9:59 pm

For the first sixth months of 2017, overall violent crime decreased 0.8 percentage points compared with the same time period in 2016. In 2015 and 2016, the violent crime rate increased nationwide. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

FBI: Violent crime falls, but murders rise during first half of 2017

Kelly Cohen · January 23, 2018 9:21 pm

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Washington Secrets

Anti-Trump FBI officials texted about ‘impeachment,’ ‘case of our lives’ in Russia probe

Paul Bedard · January 23, 2018 8:12 pm

FBI Chief of Staff James Rybicki, center, who served former FBI Director James Comey, will leave for the corporate sector, FBI Director Christopher Wray announced Tuesday. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

National Security

FBI Director Wray replaces Comey-era chief of staff holdover

Kelly Cohen · January 23, 2018 7:52 pm