CONGRESS/FBI/LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump’s chief of staff and a White House lawyer representing the president in the Russia investigation were present on Thursday [-5-24-18] at the start of two classified meetings requested by members of Congress to review sensitive material about the F.B.I.’s use of an informant in the inquiry. The two men left […]
Category: FBI
5/24/2018
2016 ELECTION/DEMS/DEVIN NUNES/FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Senior Justice Department and FBI officials are set to brief lawmakers Thursday [5-24-18] afternoon about a confidential informant used in the early stages of an investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, scrambling to accommodate Democrats who had complained that the briefing would be a GOP-only affair. Late Wednesday […]
5/24/2018
ANDREW MCCABE/FBI/JAMES COMEY/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Not surprisingly, the GREAT Men & Women of the FBI are starting to speak out against Comey, McCabe and all of the political corruption and poor leadership found within the top ranks of the FBI. Comey was a terrible and corrupt leader who inflicted great pain on the FBI! #SPYGATE” -Donald […]
5/24/2018
2016 ELECTION/DEMS/FBI/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Senior U.S. lawmakers attended classified briefings on Thursday [5-24-18] on the FBI’s probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election after President Donald Trump made unsubstantiated claims about a ‘spy’ being used against his campaign, and a top Democrat said afterward he heard nothing to support Trump’s allegation. The briefings […]
5/23/2018
FBI/JARED KUSHNER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, has been granted his permanent security clearance, a person briefed on the matter said on Wednesday [5-23-18], ending a period of uncertainty that had fueled questions about whether Mr. Kushner was in peril in the special counsel investigation. Mr. Kushner is a senior presidential […]
5/23/2018
FBI/JAMES CLAPPER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump tweeted on Wednesday [5-23-18] that Mr. Clapper, the former director of national intelligence, said he ‘should be happy that the F.B.I. was spying on his campaign.’ Mr. Clapper did not say that. False. Mr. Trump is referring to comments by James R. Clapper Jr., who was the director of […]
4/23/2018
FBI/JAMES COMEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former FBI Director James Comey pushed back on President Donald Trump’s spying claims on Wednesday [5-23-18], warning that attacking the FBI ‘will do lasting damage to our country.’ In a tweet that did not address the President by name, the former FBI director wrote, ‘Facts matter. The FBI’s use of Confidential […]
5/23/2018
FBI/PAUL MANAFORT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A federal judge expressed skepticism on Wednesday [5-23-18] toward a request by lawyers for President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort to suppress evidence seized by FBI agents working for Special Counsel Robert Mueller. The hearing before U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson gave Manafort another opportunity to hinder the […]
5/23/2018
FBI/JAMES CLAPPER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Trump should be happy that the FBI was SPYING on his campaign’ No, James Clapper, I am not happy. Spying on a campaign would be illegal, and a scandal to boot!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 23, 2018 6:33 am […]
5/22/2018
FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When President Trump publicly demanded that the Justice Department open an investigation into the F.B.I.’s scrutiny of his campaign contacts with Russia, he inched further toward breaching an established constraint on executive power: The White House does not make decisions about individual law enforcement investigations…Almost since he took office, Mr. […]
5/22/2018
2016 ELECTION/DEMS/FBI/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Two Republican lawmakers, and no Democrats, are expected to attend a meeting scheduled for Thursday [5-24-18] to review classified information relating to U.S. President Donald Trump’s suggestion the FBI might have used an informant to gather information on his 2016 election campaign, the White House said on Tuesday [5-22-18]. Trump’s closest […]
5/21/2018
2016 ELECTION/DEVIN NUNES/FBI/GOP/ROBERT MULLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The White House brokered an agreement on Monday [5-21-18] with intelligence and law enforcement officials that will allow Republican congressional leaders to view some of the most highly classified information related to the Russia investigation, administration officials said. For months, a small group of lawmakers close to Mr. Trump […]
5/21/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/OBAMA ADMIN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump has wrenched the United States back to the brink of a constitutional showdown after a weekend of rage culminated in his demand for an investigation into claims that the Obama administration inserted a spy in his 2016 campaign. Trump’s power play injected fresh intensity into […]
5/21/2018
CIA/FBI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….top of the FBI. Brennan started this entire debacle about President Trump. We now know that Brennan had detailed knowledge of the (phony) Dossier…he knows about the Dossier, he denies knowledge of the Dossier, he briefs the Gang of 8 on the Hill about the Dossier, which….” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 21, […]
5/20/2018
FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/OBAMA ADMIN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump on Sunday [5-20-18] demanded that the Justice Department investigate whether the department or the F.B.I. ‘infiltrated or surveilled’ his campaign at the behest of the Obama administration, following through on his frequent threats to intervene in the special counsel inquiry as he targets those he views as political […]
5/20/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump demanded Sunday [5-20-18] that his Justice Department look into whether it or the FBI spied on his presidential campaign for political reasons…The tweet comes after it was reported that the FBI dispatched a confidential source to speak with some aides to Trump’s presidential campaign about its possible […]
5/18/2018
FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump ramped up pressure against the Justice Department on Friday [5-18-18], raising concerns about the possibility of a government informant inside his presidential campaign and saying ‘if true’ it is the ‘all time biggest political scandal!’ In a pair of tweets on Friday morning, the president offered his latest salvo […]
5/18/2018
CIA/FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “An unsupported theory circulating on Capitol Hill and conservative media outlets about an ‘informant’ spying on the Trump campaign reached new heights Friday [5-18-18] morning, as President Donald Trump tweeted about the ‘all time greatest political scandal.’ But US officials tell CNN that the confidential intelligence source was not planted inside […]
5/18/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/OBAMA ADMIN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump and his supporters are circulating an explosive theory: The FBI, they say, may have planted a mole, or ‘spy,’ inside the 2016 campaign to bring him down. The unverified allegation has lit up conservative media and earned space on Trump’s Twitter feed just as special […]
5/18/2018
FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday [5-18-18] escalated his attacks on the Justice Department, suggesting that the FBI may have planted or recruited an informant in his 2016 presidential campaign. Trump stopped short of accusing the FBI of spying on his campaign, instead citing unnamed reports that at least one […]
5/18/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/MEDIA/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Reports are there was indeed at least one FBI representative implanted, for political purposes, into my campaign for president. It took place very early on, and long before the phony Russia Hoax became a ‘hot’ Fake News story. If true – all time biggest political scandal!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 18, […]
5/18/2018
ANDREW MCCABE/FBI/HILLARY CLINTON/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Why isn’t disgraced FBI official Andrew McCabe being investigated for the $700,000 Crooked Hillary Democrats in Virginia, led by Clinton best friend Terry M (under FBI investigation that they killed) gave to McCabe’s wife in her run for office? Then dropped case on Clinton!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 18, 2018 […]
5/17/2018
FBI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Wow, word seems to be coming out that the Obama FBI ‘SPIED ON THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN WITH AN EMBEDDED INFORMANT.’ Andrew McCarthy says, ‘There’s probably no doubt that they had at least one confidential informant in the campaign.’ If so, this is bigger than Watergate!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 17, 2018 7:45 […]
5/17/2018
FBI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Wow, word seems to be coming out that the Obama FBI ‘SPIED ON THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN WITH AN IMBEDDED INFORMANT.” Andrew McCarthy says, ‘There’s probably no doubt that they had at least one confidential informant in the campaign.’ If so, this is bigger than Watergate!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 17, 2018 6:56 […]
5/16/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Within hours of opening an investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia in the summer of 2016, the F.B.I. dispatched a pair of agents to London on a mission so secretive that all but a handful of officials were kept in the dark. Their assignment, which has not been previously […]
5/7/2018
FBI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Lisa Page, who may hold the record for the most Emails in the shortest period of time (to her Lover, Peter S), and attorney Baker, are out at the FBI as part of the Probers getting caught? Why is Peter S still there? What a total mess. Our Country has to get […]
5/3/2018
FBI/JAMES COMEY/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Former FBI Director James Comey defended the bureau on Thursday [5-3-18] after Rudy Giuliani compared FBI agents to ‘stormtroopers’ over last month’s raid on President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen…The term ‘stormtroopers’ originated during World War I to describe German assault troops, but it’s also been applied to enforcers of […]
5/3/2018
FBI/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Federal investigators wiretapped the phone lines of U.S. President Donald Trump’s longtime lawyer Michael Cohen before the FBI seized records and documents in a raid last month on his offices, hotel room and home, NBC News reported on Thursday [5-3-18]. NBC, citing sources familiar with legal proceedings involving Cohen, […]
4/26/2018
FBI/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In the 15 months since Donald Trump shut him out of a White House job, Michael Cohen, the president’s personal lawyer, has made a show of publicly dining with a vocal Trump critic, the billionaire Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban. After lunch at Freds restaurant in New York in April […]
4/26/2018
FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump took shots at the FBI and the Justice Department during a half-hour phone interview on ‘Fox and Friends’ Thursday morning [4-26-18], hinting that at ‘some point’ he might step in and take action. ‘You look at the corruption at the top of the FBI — it’s a […]
4/26/2018
FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump acknowledged for the first time Thursday 4-26-18] that his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, is representing him with regards to legal matters involving Stormy Daniels, the porn star who says she had an affair with Trump. On Cohen, the President both solidified his link with Cohen on the […]
4/26/2018
FBI/JEFF SESSIONS/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday [4-26-18] defended his decision not to appoint a second special prosecutor to investigate Republicans’ concerns about the FBI by noting that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe had already taken on ‘a life of its own.’ Speaking to a U.S. House appropriations panel […]
4/26/2018
FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said he has decided not to interfere with the Justice Department, which is conducting an investigation of his associates’ alleged ties to Russia, but suggested there was a point at which he might. ‘I’m very disappointed in my Justice Department. I have decided I won’t be involved,’ Mr. […]
4/19/2018
ANDREW MCCABE/FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The Justice Department’s internal watchdog referred its finding that former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe had misled investigators to federal prosecutors to determine whether he should be charged with a crime, according to people familiar with the matter. The inspector general concluded in a report released last week that Mr. McCabe […]
4/19/2018
FBI/JAMES COMEY/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former FBI Director James Comey in memos recounting conversations with U.S. President Donald Trump last year said Trump repeatedly raised concern over salacious allegations in an intelligence dossier, the need for loyalty and ferreting out leakers. The partially redacted memos were handed over on Thursday [4-19-18] by the U.S. Justice […]
4/20/2018
DEMS/FBI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Just heard the Campaign was sued by the Obstructionist Democrats. This can be good news in that we will now counter for the DNC Server that they refused to give to the FBI, the Debbie Wasserman Schultz Servers and Documents held by the Pakistani mystery man and Clinton Emails.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
4/20/2018
DEMS/FBI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Just heard the Campaign was sued by the Obstructionist Democrats. This can be good news in that we will now counter for the DNC Server that they refused to give to the FBI, the Wendy Wasserman Schultz Servers and Documents held by the Pakistani mystery man and Clinton Emails.” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]
4/19/2018
FBI/JAMES COMEY/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “James B. Comey is currently a lot of things: ex-director of the F.B.I., ex-United States attorney, author, moral crusader, ‘slimeball’ (according to President Trump) and so ubiquitous that he is impossible to ignore. But whether you think he is a heroic truth teller or a self-aggrandizing grandstander, and there are arguments […]
4/19/2018
FBI/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen, has dropped a defamation lawsuit against BuzzFeed over the publication of an unsubstantiated intelligence dossier that alleged he played a role in working with Russia to help Mr. Trump become president. Mr. Cohen is also dropping a similar defamation suit against Fusion GPS, the […]
4/18/2018
ANDREW MCCABE/FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump wasted no time before seizing on last week’s report by the Justice Department’s internal watchdog on misconduct allegations against the FBI’s former No. 2 official, Andrew McCabe. Trump tweeted it was proof that his archrival James Comey, the former FBI director, ‘totally controlled’ McCabe. But the report […]
4/18/2018
FBI/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Lawyers for President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen have asked a federal judge to consider four candidates to review material seized by the FBI that may be protected by attorney-client privilege, rather than let prosecutors look at it first. In a Tuesday [4-17-18] night letter to U.S. District Judge Kimba […]
4/18/2018
FBI/JAMES COMEY/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said Wednesday [4-18-18] that former FBI Director James Comey was not fired because of the Russia investigation — a statement directly at odds with the President’s own comments on Comey’s dismissal. ‘Slippery James Comey, the worst FBI Director in history, was not fired because of the phony Russia […]
4/18/2018
FBI/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Lawyers for President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen have asked a federal judge to consider four candidates to review material seized by the FBI that may be protected by attorney-client privilege, rather than let prosecutors look at it first. In a Tuesday [4-17-18] night letter to U.S. District Judge Kimba […]
4/18/2018
FBI/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump and his outside advisers are increasingly worried that his longtime personal attorney might be susceptible to cooperating with federal prosecutors. Two sources close to the president said people in Trump’s inner circle have in recent days been actively discussing the possibility that Michael Cohen — long seen as […]
4/18/2018
FBI/JAMES COMEY/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Slippery James Comey, the worst FBI Director in history, was not fired because of the phony Russia investigation where, by the way, there was NO COLLUSION (except by the Dems)!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 18, 2018 7:05 AM […]
4/18/2018
FBI/LEAKS/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration’s drive to crack down on government leaks scored its first guilty pleas on Tuesday [4-17-18] as a former FBI special agent admitted to leaking classified information to the media and to keeping classified information at his home without permission. Former FBI Agent Terry Albury, 39, appeared in federal court […]
4/17/2018
FBI/JAMES COMEY/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A source close to President Trump said he’s still ‘apoplectic’ about the FBI raids on Michael Cohen’s hotel room, office and home. He continues to be fixated on the raid over everything else, including former FBI Director James Comey’s new book, the source said. The source said he’s concerned about […]
4/17/2018
FBI/MEDIA/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Fox News said on Tuesday [4-17-18] it was putting its ‘full support’ behind television host Sean Hannity after it was revealed that he had an ‘informal relationship’ with U.S. President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen. Fox News said that it did not know about the relationship. The Federal Bureau of Investigation […]
4/17/2018
FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump probably can’t fire special counsel Robert Mueller himself. So if he wants to end or limit Mueller’s Russia probe, he’ll need to find someone who will. He may have his man in Solicitor General Noel Francisco, a little-known Trump appointee who happens to have an ax to grind […]
4/17/2018
FBI/LEGAL/ MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A US judge said President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen could review materials seized when the FBI raided his home, office and hotel room last week for any communications with the President, but held off on deciding how prosecutors will ultimately be able to use the evidence. In a […]
4/16/2018
FBI/JAMES COMEY/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “For decades, James B. Comey cultivated an image of purity as a lawman who stood above politics and politicians. Then came the book tour. With the release of his memoir this week and a set of high-profile media interviews to publicize it, Mr. Comey — whose firing by President Trump made […]
4/16/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/GOP/JAMES COMEY/MEDIA/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump, his White House staff and the Republican National Committee escalated their attacks on Monday [4-16-18] against the former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation who called Trump a ‘morally unfit’ leader in an interview. James Comey, who was fired by Trump last year amid an […]
4/15/2018
FBI/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Lawyers for President Donald Trump say they should be allowed to review the material seized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation last week from Mr. Trump’s longtime lawyer Michael Cohen before government investigators begin their own, according to a court filing late Sunday [4-15-18]. The filing asks a Manhattan federal judge […]
4/15/2018
FBI/JAMES COMEY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Slippery James Comey, a man who always ends up badly and out of whack (he is not smart!), will go down as the WORST FBI Director in history, by far!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 15, 2018 8:07 am […]
4/13/2018
ANDREW MCCABE/FBI/HILLARY CLINTON/JAMES COMEY/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Andrew McCabe, the fired FBI deputy director, misled investigators multiple times about his role in a news media disclosure about Hillary Clinton just days before the 2016 presidential election and authorized the release of information to “advance his personal interests,” according to a Justice Department watchdog report. The report alleges […]
4/13/2018
FBI/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Shortly before news became public on Monday [4-9-18] of an F.B.I. raid on the hotel room and office of President Trump’s longtime personal lawyer, Mr. Trump’s legal team met in Washington to draft a proposal that would allow him to be interviewed by the special counsel in the Russia investigation, […]
4/13/2018
FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, asked a federal judge in Manhattan on Friday [4-13-18] to block the Justice Department from reading documents related to his decade-long legal representation of Mr. Trump and that were taken in a recent F.B.I. raid. Mr. Trump and Mr. Cohen still were […]
4/13/2018
FBI/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The FBI raid of the office of President Donald Trump’s attorney caused the President’s team to back off presenting a proposal they were preparing for special counsel Robert Mueller about an interview with the President, according to sources familiar with the matter. Trump’s legal team is now re-evaluating what, if […]
4/13/2018
FBI/JAMES COMEY/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump took aim at former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey on Friday [4-13-18], calling him a ‘weak and untruthful slime ball’ days ahead of the publication of a new book by Mr. Comey that refers to the president as a ‘deeply flawed person and leader.’ In a […]
4/13/2018
FBI/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “A lawyer for adult film star Stormy Daniels argued in a court hearing on Friday [4-13-18] that materials seized by federal investigators from U.S. President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer may concern his client, who claims the president slept with her. Daniels, whose legal name is Stephanie Clifford, has said she […]
4/13/2018
FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump this week stepped up preparations to counter political and military challenges that could reshape his presidency, girding for a strike against Syria and pushing a campaign to discredit the Justice Department. Several aides described Mr. Trump seething over an FBI raid of his personal attorney’s files and […]
4/12/2018
FBI/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The longest-serving Republican senator in history offered a sharp rebuke Thursday [4-12-18] to anyone recommending that President Donald Trump fire special counsel Robert Mueller. ‘Anyone advising the President — in public or over the airwaves — to fire Bob Mueller does not have the President or the nation’s best interest at […]
4/11/2018
FBI/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “FBI agents who raided the home, office and hotel of Donald Trump’s personal lawyer sought communications that Trump had with attorney Michael Cohen and others regarding the infamous ‘Access Hollywood’ tape that captured Trump making lewd remarks about women a month before the election, according to sources familiar with the matter. […]
4/11/2018
CONGRESS/DEVIN NUNES/FBI/GOP/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The latest fight between congressional Republicans and the Justice Department over FBI documents has Republicans threatening to hold Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in contempt of Congress — and openly floating the notion of impeaching him — which could provide a new pretext for President Donald Trump to potentially fire Rosenstein […]
4/11/2018
FBI/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TWITTER: “Donald Trump is acting like he feels the walls are closing in. The President perceives a marauding special counsel, an FBI plot to persecute him and a conspiracy within his own government to unfairly pry deep into his personal confidences held by a cherished confidant and personal attorney. Aides say he […]
4/11/2018
FBI/PAUL RYAN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As President Donald Trump fumed over an FBI raid targeting his personal attorney, U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan said on Wednesday [4-11-18] he has been assured Trump does not intend to fire the special counsel investigating Russian election meddling. A Senate panel prepared meanwhile to consider a bill that would […]
4/10/2018
FBI/MICHAEL COHEN/SYRIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump canceled a trip to South America that was to have begun on Friday [4-13-18], the White House announced on Tuesday [4-10-18], citing the crisis in Syria as Mr. Trump fumed publicly about F.B.I. raids targeting his personal lawyer. In a brief statement, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press […]
4/10/2018
FBI/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “The F.B.I. agents who raided the office of President Trump’s personal lawyer on Monday [4-9-18] were looking for records about payments to two women who claim they had affairs with Mr. Trump, and information related to the publisher of The National Enquirer’s role in silencing one of the women, several people […]
4/10/2018
FBI/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WOMEN: “The F.B.I. agents who raided the office of President Trump’s personal lawyer on Monday [4-9-18] were looking for records about payments to two women who claim they had affairs with Mr. Trump as well as information related to the role of the publisher of The National Enquirer in silencing one […]
4/10/2018
FBI/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Federal prosecutors in New York asked the Trump Organization, President Donald Trump’s flagship company, for records relating to a $130,000 payment to a former adult-film actress as part of an investigation into Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer, according to a person familiar with the matter. The request came in connection with […]
4/10/2018
FBI/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In his first comments since the FBI raid on his home and office, Michael Cohen said the FBI agents ‘were extremely professional, courteous and respectful.’ The comments contrast with President Donald Trump who complained Monday [4-9-18] that agents ‘broke into the office of one of my personal attorneys…’ Cohen did not […]
4/10/2018
FBI/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It was a photo-op meant to portray President Donald Trump at his most commanding: Flanked by senior military leaders, Trump was there to plot America’s response to a suspected chemical gas attack in Syria. Instead, his boiling display in the White House Cabinet Room on Monday [4-9-18] evening only served to […]
4/9/2018
FBI/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Monday’s [4-9-18] FBI raids on Michael Cohen’s office, home and hotel room are the clearest sign yet that the president’s longtime attorney is in serious legal jeopardy. They also represent yet another threatening development facing Donald Trump after more than a year of investigations into his campaign and presidency—perhaps the most […]
4/9/2018
FBI/HILLARY CLINTON/JAMES COMEY/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Justice Department, accused by President Trump of ‘slow walking’ its response to a congressional inquiry into the F.B.I.’s handling of the Hillary Clinton email case, said on Sunday [4-8-18] that it was appointing a United States attorney to speed the production of documents. The Republican-led House Judiciary Committee […]
4/9/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “The F.B.I. on Monday [4-9-18] raided the office of President Trump’s longtime personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, seizing records related to several topics including payments to a pornographic-film actress. Federal prosecutors in Manhattan obtained the search warrant after receiving a referral from the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, […]
4/9/2018
FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The F.B.I. raided the Rockefeller Center office and Park Avenue hotel room of President Trump’s longtime personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, on Monday [4-9-18] morning, seizing business records, emails and documents related to several topics, including a payment to a pornographic film actress. Mr. Trump, in an extraordinarily angry response, […]
4/9/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/HILLARY CLINTON/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Thousands of pages of internal FBI documents related to bureau’s decisions emanating from the 2016 election were delivered to congressional investigators Monday [4-9-18], officials said — the latest document handover in a six-month-old probe that has proved frustrating for Republicans up to President Donald Trump. The delivery comes amid a […]
4/6/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The man sat at a restaurant table, grasping a glass of white wine. His sandy hair was close cropped, he wore a cardigan sweater and in the afternoon bustle he looked like just another office worker at lunch…Yet in Washington these days, the man, Konstantin V. Kilimnik, has turned up in […]
4/5/2018
DEVIN NUNES/FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The House Intelligence Committee may have concluded its Russia investigation, but the panel’s Republican chairman, Devin Nunes, is not finished grilling the FBI over its probe into Kremlin election meddling. In a letter to the Justice Department, Nunes is demanding an unredacted copy of the document that initiated the FBI’s investigation […]
4/3/2018
ANDREW MCCABE/FBI/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Jill McCabe on Monday [4-3-18] called President Donald Trump’s attacks on her family, culminating in her husband’s firing, a ‘nightmare.’ The wife of former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe called out the President for his public attacks, centered on her 2015 run for the state Senate in Virginia, in a Washington Post […]
4/2/2018
FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TWITTER: “President Donald Trump ended a 12-day respite from Twitter assaults about the Justice Department Monday [4-2-18], resurrecting a charge levied by Republican lawmakers that the department and FBI are dragging their feet in handing over documents related to several controversial investigations. ‘So sad that the Department of ‘Justice’ and the FBI […]
3/30/2018
ANDREW MCCABE/FBI/LEGAL/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who was fired by the Trump administration but has said he was terminated because he is a crucial witness in the Russia investigation, has raised more than $292,000 in seven hours to help cover costs defending against other ongoing government probes, the funding website showed. […]
3/29/2018
FBI/GOP/JEFF SESSIONS/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions is not naming a new special counsel to investigate Republican-driven accusations against the FBI — at least for now. Instead, Sessions revealed Thursday [3-29-18]that Utah’s top federal prosecutor, John Huber, is looking into allegations that the FBI abused its powers in surveilling a former Trump campaign adviser, and […]
3/28/2018
FBI/JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Justice Department’s internal watchdog unit will investigate how the FBI and federal prosecutors obtained warrants from the nation’s secret spy court to surveil a former Trump campaign adviser, the inspector general’s office said Wednesday [3-28-18]. The statement confirms an investigation that Attorney General Jeff Sessions had requested and disclosed […]
3/19/2018
FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Former federal prosecutor Joseph diGenova will join President Donald Trump’s legal team later this week, adding to the president’s Russia response another bulldog lawyer who argued earlier this year that Trump had been framed by the Justice Department and FBI with a falsely created crime…’ The addition of diGenova […]
3/18/2018
ANDREW MCCABE/FBI/JAMES COMEY: “Spent very little time with Andrew McCabe, but he never took notes when he was with me. I don’t believe he made memos except to help his own agenda, probably at a later date. Same with lying James Comey. Can we call them Fake Memos?” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Mar. 18, 2018 07:22am […]
3/18/2018
FBI/JAMES COMEY: “Wow, watch Comey lie under oath to Senator G when asked ‘have you ever been an anonymous source…or known someone else to be an anonymous source…?’ He said strongly ‘never, no.’ He lied as shown clearly on @foxandfriends.” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Mar. 18, 2018 07:02am […]
3/17/2018
ANDREW MCCABE/FAKE NEWS/FBI: “The Fake News is beside themselves that McCabe was caught, called out and fired. How many hundreds of thousands of dollars was given to wife’s campaign by Crooked H friend, Terry M, who was also under investigation? How many lies? How many leaks? Comey knew it all, and much more!” -Donald Trump, […]
3/16/2018
ANDREW MCCABE/FBI/JAMES COMEY: “Andrew McCabe FIRED, a great day for the hard working men and women of the FBI – A great day for Democracy. Sanctimonious James Comey was his boss and made McCabe look like a choirboy. He knew all about the lies and corruption going on at the highest levels of the FBI!” […]
3/6/2018
FBI/LEGAL/MICHAEL FLYNN/NATIONAL SECURITY/RUSSIA: “Michael Flynn, the retired Army general and ex-Trump national security adviser who pleaded guilty last year to lying to FBI agents about his Russian contacts, has put his Virginia home up for sale to pay mounting legal fees, friends and family members told ABC News. Flynn’s 13-year-old, three-bedroom townhouse in Old Town […]
3/5/2018
BUSINESS/FBI/INTELLIGENCE/TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP FAMILY/IVANKA: “US counterintelligence officials are scrutinizing one of Ivanka Trump’s international business deals, according to two sources familiar with the matter. The FBI has been looking into the negotiations and financing surrounding Trump International Hotel and Tower in Vancouver, according to a US official and a former US official. The scrutiny could be […]
3/1/2018
FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A Justice Department review is expected to criticize the former F.B.I. deputy director, Andrew G. McCabe, for authorizing the disclosure of information about a continuing investigation to journalists, according to four people familiar with the inquiry. Such a damning report would give President Trump new ammunition to criticize Mr. McCabe, who […]
2/27/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Tuesday [2-27-18] that the Justice Department’s internal watchdog will investigate how the FBI and federal prosecutors obtained warrants from the nation’s secret spy court to surveil a former Trump campaign adviser. His statement came in response to a question at a press conference about whether […]
2/27/2018
CALIFORNIA/FBI/GOP/POLITICAL FIGURES: “Rep. Duncan Hunter, already staring down an FBI investigation, is running into serious turbulence for reelection. Sensing that the five-term congressman is mortally wounded by a federal investigation into alleged misuse of campaign money and a recent POLITICO report about his freewheeling Washington lifestyle, Republicans in Hunter’s San Diego-area district are lining up […]
2/24/2018
DEMS/FBI: “Dem Memo: FBI did not disclose who the clients were – the Clinton Campaign and the DNC. Wow!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 24, 2018 06:20pm […]
2/22/2018
CRIME/CRISIS/FBI/GUNS: “Nearly a week after the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, a top FBI official acknowledged that proper protocols weren’t followed on the tip about Nikolas Cruz, the confessed shooter. ‘There was a mistake made, we know that,’ acting FBI deputy director David Bowdich told reporters at a news conference Thursday. ‘Our job is to […]
2/21/2018
FBI/GOP/GUNS/NRA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s tentative embrace of a narrow background-checks bill is about to hit a towering hurdle: members of his own party. The White House is signaling support for a bipartisan bill that would enhance reporting of violent criminals to the FBI’s background-checks database in order to stop them from buying firearms. […]
2/20/2018
FBI/GUNS/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “White House press secretary Sarah Sanders tried to finesse a weekend tweet from President Donald Trump blaming the FBI’s Russia investigation for missing a tip about the Florida shooting, saying the agency should not focus on a ‘hoax in terms of investigating the Trump campaign.’… Sanders, speaking to reporters Tuesday in […]
2/18/2018
FBI/IRAN/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/OBAMA ADMIN: “Never gotten over the fact that Obama was able to send $1.7 Billion Dollars in CASH to Iran and nobody in Congress, the FBI or Justice called for an investigation!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 18, 2018 07:02am […]
2/17/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/MCMASTER/RUSSIA: “General McMaster forgot to say that the results of the 2016 election were not impacted or changed by the Russians and that the only Collusion was between Russia and Crooked H, the DNC and the Dems. Remember the Dirty Dossier, Uranium, Speeches, Emails and the Podesta Company!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 17, 2018 […]