An expiring surveillance program known as the “crown jewel” for American intelligence agencies allows for an opportunity for civil liberties advocates and deep state-skeptical Republicans to push for reform.
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case on the controversial 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) for the first time.
A business partner Hunter Biden called “the chief spy of China” assigned to Hunter a secretary who fed him oppo research to help Joe Biden.
Clinesmith will plead guilty to a felony count for falsifying an email that was used to obtain a wiretap on Trump campaign aide Carter Page.
The Senate voted against an amendment on Wednesday sponsored by Sens. Steve Daines (R-MT) and Ron Wyden (D-OR) that would curb law enforcement agencies’ ability to obtain web browsing and Internet search data without a warrant.
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.
FISA reforms are meaningless without prosecutions of intelligence officials who surveiled Trump’s 2016 campaign, said Rep. Warren Davidson.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
Christopher Steele feared threats to his business from then-candidate Donald Trump while composing his dossier, mused Hans von Spakovsky.
“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.
Dems last year smeared Nunes when he issued a memo with findings that the FBI abused the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act process.
Michael Horowitz, the U.S Department of Justice’s (DOJ) inspector general (IG), said Thursday that he is almost done finalizing the report into possible abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
NEW YORK — Democratic Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee claimed several times during a hearing that four members of the Trump campaign were the subjects of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) investigations.
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) on Wednesday slammed former National Intelligence Director James Clapper for claiming he did not purposely lie to Congress when asked about an NSA mass surveillance program in March 2013, saying he sent the longtime intelligence official the question ahead of the hearing.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-SC) are calling for a second special counsel to investigate potential bias, conflicts of interest, and decisions made by the Justice Department and FBI in 2016 and 2017.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions appointed prosecutors in 2017 to investigate matters Congress referred to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) as growing scandals possibly involved criminal activities. These prosecutors will report directly back to Sessions, who told Fox News on Wednesday night that he will then decide whether a second special prosecutor is necessary to take these matters to court.
Holistic analysis of the Justice Department’s (DOJ) and FBI’s interconnected and ostensible investigations of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump amount to “the worst abuse of political power in American history related to elections,” according to Tom Del Beccaro.
But the revelations in the memo raise five big questions to which lawmakers should also find answers.
“Watch closely for Barack Obama’s fingerprints,” said Rep. Steve King (R-IA) on Saturday, suggesting the recent alleged partisan weaponization of state surveillance powers could be connected to the 44th president. “[Democrats and their allies] will defend Barack Obama at all costs, and they’ll defend Hillary Clinton almost at all costs unless they have to sacrifice her to protect Barack Obama,” he added.
Public release of FISA applications submitted by the FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ) seeking warrants from the Federal Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) to surveil Carter Page “is not going to happen,” Ron Hosko, former assistant director of the Criminal Investigative Division at FBI Headquarters, said during an interview Friday on Sirius XM’s Breitbart News Tonight with Senior Editor-at-Large Rebecca Mansour.
The classified House Intelligence Committee could vote on releasing a classified memo detailing FBI abuse related to its investigation of the Trump campaign as early as next week, according to a Republican congressman and two sources.
While Congress is engulfed in a year end fight to fund government programs into next year and historic tax reform is being ushered to the president’s desk, there is another issue that is sliding under the radar – government surveillance authority.
Intelligence agencies violated the constitutional rights of American citizens through illegal surveillance during the Obama administration, recently declassified documents from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) show.
A senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee told Brietbart News that retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn was treated unfairly–and perhaps illegally–in the scandal that ended his tenure as National Security Adviser.
With the pubic distracted by the FBI battling Apple for an iPhone backdoor, President Obama is secretly working to trash President Ronald Reagan’s restrictions on the number of federal agencies that can spy on Americans and others.
A case of industrial espionage linked to China concluded with prison time, property forfeiture, and possible deportation on Wednesday, as 46-year-old Mo Hailong—a Chinese citizen described as a “permanent resident of the United States” by the New York Times—pled guilty to charges of stealing high-tech seed corn from American companies.
