Former FBI special agent: Kavanaugh probe not ‘authentic investigation’
‘This does not fall under the definition of a real, authentic FBI investigation.’
By Caroline Orr - October 05, 2018‘This does not fall under the definition of a real, authentic FBI investigation.’
By Caroline Orr - October 05, 2018Why doesn’t the White House want to let the FBI talk to Kavanaugh?
By Eric Boehlert - October 03, 2018Brett Kavanaugh says he’s innocent and ‘welcomes anything’ that could prove it. So why is he refusing to support an FBI investigation?
By Caroline Orr - September 27, 2018Trump is abusing his power to declassify information and wielding it as a weapon in his ongoing war against the U.S. intelligence community.
By Caroline Orr - September 18, 2018Trump is in ‘the worst mood of his presidency,’ and reportedly spent Labor Day weekend calling friends to rant about Christopher Wray, the man he personally chose to lead the FBI.
By Caroline Orr - September 05, 2018Trump’s war on the free press is not merely ugly and unpresidential — it’s also incredibly dangerous.
By Kaili Joy Gray - August 30, 2018The FBI debunked Trump after he decided to amplify a baseless right-wing conspiracy alleging that Hillary Clinton’s emails were hacked by China.
By Oliver Willis - August 29, 2018Trump and his GOP allies may think they scored a victory with the firing of FBI Agent Peter Strzok, but the real winner is Russia.
By Caroline Orr - August 14, 2018We now know that Trump and Republicans shamelessly lied to the American people about why the FBI decided to investigate the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia.
By Emily Crockett - July 23, 2018Christopher Wray, Trump’s handpicked FBI director, threw some delightful shade at Trump during a press conference Thursday afternoon.
By Caroline Orr - June 14, 2018Desperate to undermine the Russia probe, Trump is now actively endangering national security and forcing the FBI to take emergency steps to mitigate the fallout from his push to expose a confidential informant.
By Caroline Orr - May 18, 2018House Republicans released a new report on Russian election interference and claimed that Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn didn’t break the law. But Flynn pleaded guilty to doing exactly that.
By Oliver Willis - April 27, 2018Eleven congressional Republicans sent a letter to the FBI and Department of Justice demanding criminal investigations of Trump’s top critics, including Hillary Clinton and James Comey.
By Oliver Willis - April 18, 2018Rep. Jim Jordan can’t think of a single Trump lie, and doesn’t seem to mind if Republicans mislead the FBI.
By Eric Boehlert - April 17, 2018The former FBI director nailed Republicans for standing idly by as Trump attacks our democracy.
By Caroline Orr - April 12, 2018The FBI is investigating communications between Trump’s personal fixer, Michael Cohen and pro-Trump allies at the National Enquirer, where multiple stories about Trump were hidden and payoffs were reportedly made.
By Oliver Willis - April 12, 2018Fox News contributor Mike Huckabee went on air to push Trump and the GOP to use police against the FBI — knowing full well Trump takes his governing cues from their network.
By Oliver Willis - April 12, 2018Trump had some angry opinions about the FBI raid on his personal lawyer Michael Cohen. But Cohen himself pulled the rug out from under his lies.
By Alison R. Parker - April 10, 2018Trump’s feeling the heat of Mueller’s investigation, and it shows.
By Kaili Joy Gray - April 09, 2018Somehow, Trump’s previously covered-up affair with a porn star just got even worse for him.
By Kaili Joy Gray - April 09, 2018For House Republicans, the FBI’s top priority should be digging into Hillary Clinton’s emails.
By Oliver Willis - March 28, 2018A new counterintelligence probe looking into Ivanka Trump shows that national security has taken a back seat to nepotism in the Trump White House.
By Caroline Orr - March 01, 2018Josh Campbell, a veteran FBI agent who has worked at the law enforcement agency for over a decade, is quitting in protest of the Donald Trump-led Republican smear campaign against the bureau. In a New York Times op-ed, Campbell, a supervisory special agent in the Los Angeles Field office, makes it clear why he is […]
By Oliver Willis - February 03, 2018After meeting with Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and White House chief of staff John Kelly and beseeching them not to publicly release a dubious, GOP-concocted hit report on the FBI, the bureau went public with its “grave concerns” on Wednesday. Clearing hitting the Republican’s ongoing smear campaign, led by Intelligence Committee chair Devin […]
By Eric Boehlert - January 31, 2018Andrew McCabe is the latest high-profile FBI official driven from the bureau as the White House intensifies its war on law enforcement.
By Eric Boehlert - January 29, 2018Press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders isn’t denying the latest bombshell about the plot to remove the deputy FBI director.
By Tommy Christopher - January 23, 2018The man Trump chose to lead the FBI was willing to risk his job to defend FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe from a Trump-led effort to fire him.
By Caroline Orr - January 22, 2018Bureau staffers fear that the GOP’s witch hunt against the agency will compromise sources and “undermine the integrity of the FBI.”
By Eric Boehlert - January 16, 2018Republicans have spent weeks trying to portray FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe as biased, in what appears to be an attempt to undermine the credibility of a key figure in the ongoing Russia investigation This targeting may be part of why he decided to retire in March. But the FBI tweeted out documented proof that […]
By Matthew Chapman - January 05, 2018Pushing back on the ugly and unprecedented attempt by the Republican Party and the conservative media to destroy public trust in the FBI and in law enforcement’s ability to prosecute public corruption — all in an effort to save Donald Trump’s presidency — Chris Cuomo called out of a former Trump campaign adviser on CNN […]
By Eric Boehlert - December 18, 2017