Rep. John Ratcliffe’s (R-TX) nomination to become the next Director of National Intelligence (DNI) earned high praise due to his experience in national security and intelligence and his commitment to public service.
The internal watchdog at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) this week suggested that the FBI may have obtained approval for secret surveillance using inaccurate or even nonexistent documentation to support factual assertions made to judges when seeking a warrant.
Top officials from the Obama-era U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) privately told Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller that they were concerned about the FBI’s conduct in investigating President Donald Trump’s former national security advisor Michael Flynn.
FISA reforms are meaningless without prosecutions of intelligence officials who surveiled Trump’s 2016 campaign, said Rep. Warren Davidson.
Obama’s national security leaders came out this week right before Super Tuesday to announce their support for former colleague Joe Biden.
At CPAC, Doug Collins noted the “swamp” failed to stop U.S. President Donald Trump’s supporters from electing him to office. nor were they able to remove him from office.
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) on Friday vowed to hold people “accountable” for spying on the Trump campaign in 2016, saying GOP lawmakers will do everything in their power to provide the U.S. Department of Justice with the evidence needed to convict anyone responsible.
Thursday during an appearance on Fox News Channel, Rep. Doug Collins (R-GA), formerly the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, emphasized the threats of not putting into place FISA reforms, which is being held up by congressional Democrats. The
Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) said on Thursday during the CPAC conference that Congress should be ashamed if they reauthorized FISA without significant reform.
Democrats are claiming Republican senators investigating the Ukraine-linked activities of White House hopeful Joe Biden and his son Hunter are doing so to help President Donald Trump’s re-election chances in November.
Fired FBI Director James Comey lashed out at President Donald Trump in a Monday opinion-editorial, referring to him as a “shrunken, withered figure.”
The FISC did not order the FBI to recheck FISA applications involving other officials who made omissions and errors.
U.S. Navy veteran and former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page told Breitbart News on Tuesday that Schiff has not apologized to him yet.
The scandal surrounding the FBI requesting a surveillance warrant from the FISA court to spy on Trump presidential campaign aide Carter Page based on uncorroborated information and ommissions may be far from over.
The FISA court “should be eliminated,” recommended Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) in a Thursday interview with Breitbart News.
Democrats and the left corrupt American tradition and institutions in their campaign against President Donald Trump, said Peter Schweizer.
The Senate has held two hearings on the release of a DOJ IG report detailing FBI misconduct, but the House has yet to hold one.
Rep. Deivn Nunes said that he warned the FISC twice last year of FBI FISA abuse but that the court did “absolutely nothing” about it.
The FISC said in an order the FBI’s handling of the warrant applications was “antithetical” to its “heightened duty of candor.”
The fraudulent House impeachment effort has matters exactly backward. President Trump didn’t commit high crimes, he is a crime victim. If anyone should be put on trial in the Senate, it is Rep. Adam Schiff.
During an appearance on Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” former Rep. Trey Gowdy hammered former FBI Director James Comey for his remarks in an interview earlier regarding wrongdoing in the handling of the FISA process.
On this week’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday,” Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) reacted to Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report on the launch of the FBI’s Russia probe.
On this week’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday,” former FBI Director James Comey said that the Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report on the launch of the FBI’s Russia probe’s use of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) was unacceptable.
Thursday during an appearance on Fox News Channel’s “Fox News @ Night,” Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) reacted to the recently released Department of Justice Inspector General’s report by calling for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to undertake “a major overhaul.”
The DOJ IG report revealed Kevin Clinesmith doctored an email that proved that Carter Page was working with the U.S. government.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) stated that DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz was “clear some things that happened before that FISA court are unacceptable” and called for reforms to FISA courts. Durbin
On Wednesday, “Fox News Sunday,” anchor Chris Wallace reacted to Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s Senate Judiciary Committee testimony by suggesting the FBI deserved the benefit of the doubt.
Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General (IG) Michael Horowitz appeared to admit Wednesday that political bias was a possible factor in the abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) process to spy on Trump campaign aide Carter Page.
The Justice Department inspector general report released on Monday shed light on some disturbing findings with how the FBI handled the investigation and surveillance of the Trump campaign.
At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Sen. Lindsey Graham said top federal officials abused their power to try to take down Donald Trump.
Former FBI Director James Comey was either “asleep at the switch or politically biased against” Donald Trump, determined Charles “Cully” Stimson, a senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation, in a Tuesday interview with Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily.
“Some people should go to jail,” said Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) of FBI officials’ misconduct in obtaining FISA court authorizations for surveillance warrants against persons involved with President Donald Trump’s 2016 White House campaign, offering his remarks in a Tuesday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.
Justice Department Inspector General (IG) Michael Horowitz’s report reveals political and partisan biases against President Donald Trump within the FBI according to Wall Street Journal columnist Kimberly Strassel, author of Resistance (At All Costs): How Trump Haters Are Breaking America, in a Monday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak.
Tuesday on “Fox & Friends,” network senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano weighed in on the release of the Department of Justice Inspector General report. Napolitano voiced his issues with FISA, saying it operates in secret and its standards conflict with the
Dems last year smeared Nunes when he issued a memo with findings that the FBI abused the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act process.
The DOJ audit on the origins of the Russian collision hoax released by the inspector general (IG) found “at least 17 significant errors and omissions” in the Carter Page federal surveillance application.
The Democrats’ 2018 memo made several factual assertions about the FBI and FISA, many of which were partly or fully refuted in the IG report.
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), the former Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, said Monday that Americans should be “disgusted” and “terrified” by the FBI’s spying on Americans.
Former FBI Director James Comey claimed he was exonerated by the Inspector General report on Monday, despite significant findings of mismanagement by Justice Department IG Michael Horowitz.
Members of the GOP reacted to the release of the Justice Department’s inspector general (IG) report, proclaiming that media allies of Democrats are desperately “spinning hard.”
