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In delaying, blocking, and obfuscating attempts to get to the truth about Hillary Clinton’s email, the Justice and State Departments have been acting in bad faith.

James Comey told House investigators that he does not believe firing Robert Mueller would end the Russia probe.

Comey told Congress he would “bet his life” that Mueller is conducting the Russia investigation “the right way.”

An admission by Comey appears to confirm a belief Republican investigators have held since Trump was elected to the White House: The FBI failed to adequately verify the anti-Trump dossier used to surveil Trump campaign members during the 2016 presidential election.

NEW YORK — The nearly 40-page sentencing memo from New York prosecutors claiming that President Trump directed his former attorney, Michael Cohen, to make hush payments to two women that allegedly violated election law presents no actual evidence beyond Cohen’s

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) is asking the Office of the Special Counsel to investigate potential Hatch Act breaches by “then-chief of staff to the Attorney General, Matthew Whitaker.”

Democrat Sens. Blumenthal, Whitehouse, and Hirono filed a lawsuit challenging President Trump’s appointment of acting AG Whitaker.

The Washington Post reported Thursday that the Justice Department has charged WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange — information which was accidentally revealed in an unsealed filing by prosecutors.

(AP) — An environmental group has sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to preserve federal protections for gray wolves.

Border officials rejected more economic migrants who asked for asylum in June, following the far-reaching reforms established by Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced a “one-stop portal” on Monday being created by the Justice Department to help report hate crimes.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) referred Michael Avenatti to the Justice Department for a second criminal investigation after one of his clients claimed he “twisted her words” when providing a sworn statement on Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

Pop megastar Lady Gaga is on the attack against President Donald Trump, this time claiming that his ideas about gender and transgenderism are “driven by ignorance.”

“For every person you ‘help’ due to race, you necessarily hurt another person due to race,” Trump-appointed Judge James Ho (pictured) recently explained in a Louisiana case, as the president’s Justice Department also fights Harvard’s discrimination in Massachusetts against Asian Americans.

Former Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. sent a message of encouragement to discontented Justice Department “career employees” on Friday morning.

The White House said the president did not want to interfere with the Senate hearing concerning Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court and Christine Ford’s accusations of sexual assault.

Sen. Ben Sasse revealed Saturday that he repeatedly thinks about leaving the Republican Party to become an Independent.

First daughter Ivanka Trump and mogul Kim Kardashian West suited up together at the White House this week for a meeting on prison reform.

“Good job Jeff,” Trump wrote sarcastically, referring to Obama-era investigations of two House Republicans.

Two prosecutors tasked with investigating allegations of possible collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign during the 2016 presidential election have left the Office of the Special Counsel.

“Our Justice Department and our FBI have to start doing their job, doing it right, and doing it now because people are angry,” Trump said.

“I don’t know how you can impeach somebody who’s done a great job,” Trump said. “If I ever got impeached I think the market would crash, I think everybody would be very poor.

WASHINGTON – Two Iranian men were indicted on Monday for allegedly spying for Tehran in the United States, including conducting surveillance at a Jewish facility and gathering information on backers of the Iranian opposition group known as Mujahideen-e Khalq, or MEK, the Justice Department said.

President Donald Trump deported a Nazi currently living in the United States from his home in Queens, New York, on Monday.

Drug overdoses, primarily driven by opioids like fentanyl and heroin, killed an unprecedented 72,287 people in the United States in 2017–proving to be more lethal than terrorist attacks across the world during the same period, a Breitbart News analysis of U.S. government data shows.

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.

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.

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.

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.

President Donald Trump expressed impatience Tuesday for the release of the Justice Department’s Inspector General’s report about former FBI Director James Comey’s handling of the Hillary Clinton case.

On Friday, former Attorney General Eric Holder predicted there will be a point where the Department of Justice “will not go any further.” He further stated, “We’re going to be in the middle of some kind of crisis.” Holder said,

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein will face a high-stakes test on Thursday afternoon when he meets with Republican lawmakers seeking information on the FBI’s investigation of the Trump campaign.

“What I want is total transparency, you have to have transparency,” Trump said to reporters at the White House.