Julia COnley, Common Dreams Jack Teixeira, the Air National Guard member suspected of leaking hundreds of classified Pentagon documents to members of an online forum, was arrested Thursday in Dighton, Massachusetts after The New York Times reported on his alleged identity. CNN aired footage of Teixeira, who was known as …
Read More »New House Weaponization Panel To Probe FBI, IRS, ATF
Jennifer Shutt, Georgia Recorder U.S. House Democrats on Thursday urged the GOP lawmakers running the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government to work with them on genuine oversight investigations that weren’t political or focused on leveling grievances. Maryland Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin said during the panel’s …
Read More »U.S. Justice Department To Appeal Trump Special Master Order
Jacob Fischler, Louisiana Illuminator The U.S. Justice Department will appeal a Florida federal judge’s ruling this week appointing an independent arbiter to review thousands of sensitive materials the FBI seized from former President Donald Trump’s Palm Beach residence, the department notified the court Thursday. Government prosecutors are also asking U.S. …
Read More »Trump-Appointed Judge Orders Halt to DOJ Review of Seized Materials
Political observers on Monday said U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon “engaged herself in obstruction of justice” by ruling that the U.S. Department of Justice must halt its review of materials seized at former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago. Cannon, who was appointed by the former Republican president and …
Read More »DOJ Releases Photo of ‘Top Secret’ Documents Seized From Trump’s Home
Jake Johnson, Common Dreams The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday released a photo of classified documents it retrieved from Donald Trump‘s Florida home earlier this month, the latest disclosure in its investigation into the former president’s removal of secret government records from the White House following his 2020 election loss. …
Read More »Court Releases Partially Redacted Affidavit For Mar-a-Lago Search
Jennifer Shutt, New Jersey Monitor A federal court released a partially redacted affidavit Friday detailing some of the reasons the Federal Bureau of Investigation provided to a judge in order to get a search warrant for former President Donald Trump’s private residence in Mar-a-Lago. The request to search the property …
Read More »Suspect Killed By Ohio Police After Attempting To Breach FBI Office
An armed suspect who attempted to breach an FBI office in Cincinnati was shot and killed by police after fleeing into a nearby rural area and exchanging gunfire with officers, law enforcement said Thursday evening. Lt. Nathan Dennis, a spokesperson for the Ohio State Highway Patrol, said efforts to negotiate …
Read More »Search Warrant Indicates FBI Investigating Trump for Espionage Act Violation
This is a developing story… Please check back for possible updates… Former President Donald Trump is being investigated for potential violations of the Espionage Act, obstruction of justice, and unlawful removal of government records, according to the warrant authorizing the recent federal search of Mar-a-Lago, which was released Friday. “This …
Read More »FBI Search Of Trump Home Was Likely Vetted Carefully, Despite Republicans’ Claims Of A Witch Hunt
Matthew Choi, The Texas Tribune The FBI raid Monday on former President Donald Trump has Texas Republicans rallying to his defense, echoing his unfounded claims that it was a political hit job. But legal experts assert there would have been a very high standard of probable cause to execute such …
Read More »Former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Largo Home Searched By FBI
Former President Donald Trump announced that FBI agents had conducted a raid of his Mar-a-Lago property in Florida, and some House Republicans were quick to take his side. It was not immediately clear what the FBI may have been seeking, though the former president made a point of saying in …
Read More »Three Men Plead Guilty To Plotting White Supremacist Attack On Power Grid
by Jake Zuckerman, Missouri Independent February 24, 2022 Three men pleaded guilty to federal terrorism charges after admitting plans to attack the power grid “in furtherance of white supremacist ideology,” according to documents unsealed Wednesday. Christopher Brenner Cook, 20, of Columbus, Ohio; Jonathan Allen Frost, 24, of West Lafayette, Indiana, …
Read More »Department of Justice Forms Domestic Terrorism Unit
The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday announced it is forming a unit to combat domestic terrorism as national security officials warn of a “persistent and evolving” threat of violent extremism within the U.S. Matthew Olsen, the assistant attorney general for national security, made the announcement as he noted that the …
Read More »Justice Department indicts two men over REvil ransomware attacks
On Monday, the U.S. Department of Justice announced two foreign nationals have been charged for their involvement in deploying REvil ransomware attacks. The feds also announced they have seized $6.1 million allegedly traceable to ransom payments. The two face up to 115 and 145 years in prison, respectively. They’re charged in …
Read More »Navy Nuclear Engineer, Wife Arrested; Accused of Selling Submarine Secrets
A Navy nuclear engineer and his wife have been arrested for trying to sell secret information about the design of nuclear-powered warships to someone they thought was representing a foreign power, but was actually an undercover FBI agent, according to the United States Department of Justice. 42-year-old Jonathan Toebbe and …
Read More »DOJ To Address Threats Of Violence Against School Board Members
Citing an increase in harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence against school board members, teachers and workers in our nation’s public schools, Monday, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland directed the FBI and U.S. Attorneys’ Offices to meet in the next 30 days with federal, state, Tribal, territorial and local law …
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