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January 31, 2020

Former FBI translator gets probation for doctored transcript

A former FBI translator was sentenced to probation Friday after he admitted doctoring transcripts when his own voice came up on intercepts of phone calls placed by a terrorism suspect.

January 30, 2020

Ex-Trump aide Carter Page files suit against DNC over dossier: ‘This is only the first salvo’

EXCLUSIVE: Former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page filed a lawsuit Thursday in federal court against the Democratic National Committee, law firm Perkins Coie and its partners tied to the funding of the unverified dossier that served as the basis for highly controversial surveillance warrants against him.

January 30, 2020

Kristin Smart investigation: California police seize two vans belonging to family of primary suspect

In response to renewed public interest surround the 1996 disappearance of California college student Kristin Smart, and reports that the FBI told her mother to hire a spokesperson amid a possible break in the cold case, the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office released an update on the nearly quarter-century-long investigation – announcing Wednesday it’s seized two vans as evidence.

January 29, 2020

Michael Flynn takes on 'egregious' FBI misconduct, little-known FBI agent in guilty plea withdrawal

"I did not lie to them." With those words in a declaration and motion filed Wednesday, former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn formally asked a federal judge for permission to withdraw guilty plea for making false statements to two FBI agents in the White House back in January 2017.

January 29, 2020

Most wanted female terrorist lives in freedom in Jordan despite extradition request for bombing that killed Americans

Ahlam Ahmad al-Tamimi is the most wanted woman in the world. U.S. officials charge her with “conspiring to use and using a weapon of mass destruction."

January 24, 2020

Job scams are getting easier thanks to technology, FBI warns

Not only is technology making job scams easier to pull off, but it's also making the scams more lucrative, the FBI has warned. 

January 24, 2020

Carter Page FISA warrant lacked probable cause, DOJ admits in declassified assessment

At least two of the FBI’s surveillance applications to secretly monitor former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page lacked probable cause, according to a newly declassified summary of a Justice Department assessment released Thursday by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC).

January 23, 2020

US informant may have received taxpayer funds to spy on Trump campaign, Grassley says

The Defense Department may have used taxpayer funds to pay longtime informant Stefan Halper, a Cambridge University professor, to recruit members of the Trump campaign as sources in the run-up to the 2016 election, Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa said in an explosive letter Wednesday.

January 18, 2020

Rod Rosenstein says he authorized release of Strzok-Page texts: DOJ

Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said it was his call to release hundreds of politically charged text messages between former FBI agent Peter Strzok and former FBI lawyer Lisa Page to the media, according to a Friday court filing by the Department of Justice. 

January 18, 2020

Former Florida mayor gets prison after buying BMW, beach condo with $650G in United Way funds

A former Florida mayor was reportedly sentenced to 51 months in prison and required to pay full restitution Friday for embezzling more than $650,000 from United Way -- after a Navy veteran's testimony played a key role in his conviction.