Kenny Stancil, Common Dreams Democratic Reps. Carolyn Maloney and Adam Schiff on Saturday asked federal intelligence officials to immediately review the top secret documents that FBI agents retrieved during last week’s search of former President Donald Trump’s resort in Florida and to provide a classified briefing on their findings as …
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 »Here’s How Government Documents Are Classified To Keep Sensitive Information Safe
Jeffrey Fields, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Documents sought by the U.S. Justice Department from former President Donald Trump may contain material related to what The New York Times described as “some of the most highly classified programs run by the United States.” The Washington Post reported …
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 »DOJ Moves to Unseal Warrant Used to Search Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Home
Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday moved to unseal the warrant authorizing Monday’s FBI search of former President Donald Trump‘s Florida home, explaining that he personally authorized the decision to raid Mar-a-Lago but offering few details about the unfolding case. Speaking briefly in an afternoon …
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 »The ‘Missing Text Messages’ Timeline: Incompetence, Obstruction, or Worse?
Steven Singer, Common Dreams Behind the story of missing text messages from the U.S. Secret Service and its parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security, is a bigger scandal: Former President Donald Trump placed his loyalists in key executive branch positions for a reason. Many are still there. Trump’s Loyalists …
Read More »Following Trump’s Lead, GOP Pushes Bill to Make Federal Workers Fireable ‘At Will’
Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams U.S. Rep. Chip Roy’s introduction Friday of a bill to make federal bureaucratic personnel at-will employees further stoked fears that marginalized workers will suffer discriminatory firings under a future Republican administration or even GOP-controlled Congress. The Public Service Reform Act “will empower federal agencies to swiftly …
Read More »‘Authoritarianism 101’: Trump Plot to Purge Civil Servants If Reelected Draws Alarm
Julia Conley, Common Dreams Government watchdogs on Friday warned that a plan by former President Donald Trump to drastically remake the federal workforce should he win the presidency in 2024 would “utterly destroy” public service in the United States. As Axios reported Friday, central to Trump’s plans for a second …
Read More »As First Series of Jan. 6 Hearings Ends, Watchdogs Say Trump ‘Must Be Prosecuted’
Jake Johnson, Common Dreams The House January 6 committee’s first series of public hearings came to a close Thursday with a primetime event featuring fresh evidence that former President Donald Trump gave a “green light” to the right-wing mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol last year and ignored pleas to …
Read More »Trump ‘chose not to act’ As U.S. Capitol Underwent Attack, Jan. 6 Panel Says
Jacob Fischler, Virginia Mercury Donald Trump ignored White House staff, family members and outside advisers who urged the president to call off the mob attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, according to testimony before the U.S. House panel investigating the insurrection at its eighth and final hearing of …
Read More »Jan. 6 Panel To Detail Trump’s 187 Minutes Of Delay As Insurrection Grew
Jacob Fischler, Michigan Advance The U.S. House committee investigating the Jan.6 attack and Donald Trump’s role in it will focus in a Thursday evening hearing on the former president’s refusal for more than three hours to call off the rioters storming the U.S. Capitol, committee aides said Wednesday. The hearing …
Read More »Secret Service Deleted Text Messages From Jan. 5-6, Watchdog Group Says
Text messages from January 5 and January 6, 2021, were deleted by the Secret Service, according to a letter sent by the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General to the House and Senate Homeland Security committees. Though the Secret Service maintains that the text messages were lost as …
Read More »Trump Tweet Invited ‘wild’ Mob To Block Transfer Of Power On Jan. 6, House Panel Says
by Jacob Fischler, Florida Phoenix The U.S. House panel investigating Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results described Tuesday how the president explicitly called on his supporters to come to Washington on Jan. 6, 2021 for a “wild” protest — resulting in an insurrection. Trump exerted extraordinary …
Read More »‘Witness Intimidation. Clear as Day’: Jan. 6 Panel Teases Evidence of Cover-Up Effort
Congresswoman Liz Cheney on Tuesday revealed some attempts to intimidate witnesses cooperating with the House committee investigating the January 6, 2021 insurrection and signaled that the panel plans to share additional details at future hearings. The Wyoming Republican provided examples during her closing remarks at a surprise hearing that focused …
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