Report: FBI-DOJ may have pressed officials to rush FISA warrant on Trump campaign

Report: FBI-DOJ may have pressed officials to rush FISA warrant on Trump campaign

by WorldTribune Staff, April 4, 2018 The FBI pressed officials at the Department of Justice to expedite a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) warrant on a former Trump campaign volunteer, congressional investigators say. The possible improper coordination between the FBI and DOJ was revealed in text messages about a “delay” by investigators from FBI Special Agent […]

Report: FBI agent was close friends with D.C. judge who later recused himself from Flynn case

Report: FBI agent was close friends with D.C. judge who later recused himself from Flynn case

by WorldTribune Staff, March 18, 2018 An FBI agent who was removed from the team of special counsel Robert Mueller over anti-Trump texts he exchanged with his FBI lawyer mistress was close friends with a judge who recused himself from the case against former national security adviser Michael Flynn, newly released documents show. Text messages […]

DOJ Inspector General: Probes of FBI sexual misconduct thwarted under Comey, Lynch

DOJ Inspector General: Probes of FBI sexual misconduct thwarted under Comey, Lynch

by WorldTribune Staff, February 26, 2018 The FBI under Director James Comey and Obama administration Attorney General Loretta Lynch sought to block the Department of Justice’s investigation into several cases of sexual misconduct against FBI agents, a report said. DOJ Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz recently detailed at least 14 instances of improper sexual conduct […]

Page-Strzok text: ‘POTUS wants to know everything we’re doing’

Page-Strzok text: ‘POTUS wants to know everything we’re doing’

by WorldTribune Staff, February 7, 2018 A September 2016 text message between FBI agents Lisa Page and Peter Strzok said that then-President Barack Obama wanted “to know everything we’re doing.” The message from Page to Strzok discussed talking points that were being prepared for then-FBI Director James Comey to give to Obama. The texts were […]

Text-gate: Missing messages from 5 critical months; Gowdy challenges FBI’s objectivity

Text-gate: Missing messages from 5 critical months; Gowdy challenges FBI’s objectivity

by WorldTribune Staff, January 23, 2018 Republican lawmakers are demanding explanations from the FBI after newly-released text messages between a pair of anti-Trump FBI agents referenced a “secret society” being formed to derail then President-elect Donald Trump. Also troubling are missing text messages from 5 critical months. “The day after the election … there is […]

Case of the missing text messages: The ones made public point to Lynch-Comey coordination

Case of the missing text messages: The ones made public point to Lynch-Comey coordination

by WorldTribune Staff, January 22, 2018 Though five months of text messages between FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page remain unaccounted for, the 384 pages that were turned over to the Senate Homeland Security Committee last week indicate former Attorney General Loretta Lynch had advance notice that then-FBI Director James Comey would not call […]

8 top DOJ and FBI officials under a cloud over roles in Clinton, Trump investigations

8 top DOJ and FBI officials under a cloud over roles in Clinton, Trump investigations

by WorldTribune Staff, December 27, 2017 Overlooked in the major media’s focus on the year-long Trump-Russia collusion story is the toll taken by Congressional hearings and inspector general probes. “Eight high ranking Department of Justice and FBI officials have been removed, reassigned or are rumored to be leaving,” according to widely-respected investigative journalist and former […]

Stranger than fiction: Key FBI players discussed ‘insurance policy’ against Trump election

Stranger than fiction: Key FBI players discussed ‘insurance policy’ against Trump election

by WorldTribune Staff, December 14, 2017 A pair of FBI agents working on special counsel Robert Mueller’s team exchanged text messages in which they appear to discuss how to prevent Donald Trump from being elected president. In an Aug. 15, 2016 text message, FBI agent Peter Strzok writes to FBI lawyer Lisa Page: “I want […]

Biased: Text messages between key FBI agent and his mistress, an FBI attorney, reveal partisan pattern

Biased: Text messages between key FBI agent and his mistress, an FBI attorney, reveal partisan pattern

by WorldTribune Staff, December 4, 2017 The objectivity of special counsel Robert Mueller’s team has been further called into question after revelations that an FBI agent who oversaw the team’s Russia investigation exchanged anti-Trump and pro-Hillary Clinton text messages with an FBI attorney with whom he was having an affair. Previous reports found that several […]

House Intelligence chair to cite FBI, DOJ for contempt over ‘hiding documented political bias’

House Intelligence chair to cite FBI, DOJ for contempt over ‘hiding documented political bias’

by WorldTribune Staff, December 3, 2017 The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said he has instructed committee staff to draw up contempt of Congress charges for Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray for their failure to reveal why special counsel Robert Mueller removed a key FBI agent from the Trump-Russia […]