Tag: DOJ

The top brass of the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) was on hand Tuesday for a 9/11 Remembrance vigil at the main DOJ building in Washington, DC.

President Trump will reportedly declassify documents that are expected to reveal how the government justified its investigation into his campaign.

Fifteen people and five businesses are facing charges for their alleged involvement in a $5.5 million call center scheme out of India that defrauded more than 2,000 Americans.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Reality television star Kim Kardashian West, who successfully pushed President Donald Trump to grant a pardon for a drug offender earlier this year, returned to the White House on Wednesday for a meeting with senior aides as part of the administration’s efforts on criminal justice reform.

Attorney General Jeff Session will meet with various state attorneys general this month to discuss growing concern that social networking giants are “intentionally stifling,” freedom of expression, according to the Department of Justice. 

In a Tuesday evening appearance on the Fox News Channel’s The Story with Martha MacCallum, Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX) said Bruce and Nellie Ohr’s ties to Trump dossier author Christopher Steele were absent from the four Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) applications he analyzed.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday issued a forcefully worded response to President Donald Trump’s claim that Sessions “never took control” of the Justice Department (DOJ); then, hours later, the two reportedly worked together without incident.

Special agents from the Department of Homeland Security arrested an Ethiopian refugee after he was indicted on Tuesday on felony charges of allegedly fraudulently obtaining U.S. citizenship.

It has been two full years since the FBI formally launched its investigation into the Trump campaign on July 31, 2016, but it has yet to find any evidence of collusion with Russia.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions said on Monday that a “dangerous movement” in the United States is threatening the religious freedom of the American people.

Rep. Matt Gaetz suspects the DOJ paid people to gather information on the inner workings of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. 

Judicial Watch has taken the lead nationwide in defending state voter ID laws and other commonsense election integrity measures, filing amicus briefs in the Supreme Court and in several circuit courts of appeal and trial courts.

Reps. Mark Meadows (R-NC), Jim Jordan (R-OH), and other House Republicans introduced articles of impeachment against Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.

AWR Hawkins talks with Cody Wilson about his battle with the Department of Justice and the overlooked agreement reached with the State Department.

Maria Butina, a 29-year-old Russian woman, was arrested Sunday and charged with being part of conspiracy to act as a foreign agent without registering with the Justice Department (DOJ).

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein holds a press conference Friday “for a law enforcement announcement.”

Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson might have lied under oath to Senate and House investigators when he said he never communicated with the FBI about the dossier that the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee hired him to produce. 

Cody Wilson’s Defense Distributed and Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) reached a settlement with the Department of Justice allowing unfettered publication of 3D gun files and other information in a case centered on free speech.

Investigators have found additional communications between FBI official Peter Strzok and his lover, former FBI lawyer Lisa Page, that show his team was rushing in the fall of 2016 to find evidence of collusion by then-candidate Donald Trump.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) on Monday referred ten current and former U.S. officials to the House Judiciary and Oversight & Government Reform Committees’ joint task force, as it investigates potential DOJ and FBI wrongdoing related to the Trump-Russia probe. 

The House on Thursday passed a resolution demanding that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein turn over all Justice Department and FBI documents requested by members of Congress investigating the FBI’s handling of the Trump-Russia investigation by July 7. 

The House Judiciary Committee approved a resolution on Tuesday demanding that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein turn over all requested documents regarding the FBI’s handling of the Trump-Russia investigation in seven days, or else face potential impeachment or contempt.

Little is as unnerving as trouble with the IRS, especially if you haven’t done anything wrong. That happened repeatedly during the Obama administration, as his IRS enthusiastically targeted conservative groups.

The Washington Post broke a story Thursday claiming the administration had reversed itself and would abandon “zero tolerance” immigration enforcement for parents who bring their children with them. Hours later, they were forced to correct elements of the story.

The Department of Justice (DOJ), acting on President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to keep parents charged with illegally crossing the U.S. border united with their children, asked the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California Thursday to grant the government relief from 1997’s “Flores Settlement.”

One of the activists who chased Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen out of a Mexican restaurant in Washington, D.C., Tuesday night is a career employee of the Justice Department, according to reports.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) is giving the Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation by the end of this week to comply with subpoenas for requested information before he starts taking action.

FBI agent Peter Strzok, who sent text messages expressing bias against President Donald Trump, was escorted out of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s headquarters on Tuesday as part of disciplinary action, according to multiple reports.

The Justice Department inspector general report released Friday revealed more personal messages between FBI agents working on the Clinton email probe that suggest a cooked outcome.

Friday on his nationally syndicated radio show, conservative talker Rush Limbaugh criticized FBI Director Christopher Wray for his reaction to the Department of Justice Inspector General’s report. Limbaugh noted Wray interpreted the report as saying the FBI had no “political

The Inspector General’s report shows the FBI may actually have neglected an investigation into emails found on Anthony Weiner’s laptop in an effort to stop Donald Trump from winning.

BuzzFeed News editor in chief Ben Smith criticized the Justice Department on CNN’s Reliable Sources Sunday for revealing his former reporter Ali Watkins was engaged in a romantic relationship with Senate Intelligence Committee security veteran James Wolfe.

James Wolfe, the former Senate Intelligence Committee security director charged with lying about his contacts with a series of journalists – including his former paramour, New York Times reporter Ali Watkins – appeared in court Friday after his arrest late Thursday night.

Representatives of the Justice Department (DOJ) and FBI proposed a second meeting with the leaders of both parties in Congress Wednesday, offering to flesh out the information on one or more “informants” in the 2016 Trump campaign they provided at a briefing last month.

Just how much did the Department of Justice abuse the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) when it decided to go after Donald Trump?