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The DOJ, FBI, and IRS in Trump's first term seemed to let a large number of Trump antagonists off the hook for their potential criminality. It remains to be seen how the second Trump DOJ will handle possible high-profile prosecutions.The Justice Department, FBI, and IRS during the first Trump administration slow-walked, declined to aggressively pursue, or squashed investigations into potential criminal behavior by James Comey, Hillary Clinton and her Clinton Foundation, now Sen. Adam Schiff, Hunter Biden, and other politically-sensitive figures.A host of declassifications published by Just the News in recent weeks have revealed new details about these investigations by...

The FBI spied extensively on a Roman Catholic priest who declined to disclose private conversations he had with a parishioner, according to a report released earlier this week from the House Judiciary Committee that has raised religious liberty concerns. “This new information demonstrates that the FBI not only used its federal law enforcement resources to surveil certain Catholic Americans, but it also used these resources to investigate a clergy member,” the committee said, according to the July 22 report that Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, shared with the Catholic News Agency. After he expressed reluctance to comply with a January 2023...

If the FBI officials who buried the Hunter Biden laptop story aren’t held responsible, it will be impossible for Americans to have any faith in the agency — or the electoral process.. A new report released on Tuesday shows the FBI imposed a “gag” order in relation to the Hunter Biden laptop to conceal the truth about its authenticity from voters ahead of the 2020 election. Internal FBI chat messages obtained by investigative journalists Catherine Herridge and Michael Shellenberger show that “senior bureau officials actively [shut] down discussion of the laptop’s credibility days before the 2020 presidential election.” According to...

The American public is still learning more about the Biden regime’s sinister nature and how it felt about its political opponents. On Friday, DNI Director Tulsi Gabbard declassified documents that revealed that Americans who opposed the draconian and cruel COVID mandates were declared “Domestic Violent Extremists.” Michael Shellenberger’s Public and Catherine Herridge Reports first obtained the newly declassified records. Former FBI agent Steve Friend explained to Public that the designation created an “articulable purpose” for FBI or other government agents to open an “assessment” of individuals, which is often the first step toward a formal investigation. In other words, COVID...

A bombshell report from the office of U.S. Inspector General Michael Horowitz confirmed that the FBI was present and involved in the events of January 6, 2021, with IG Horowitz saying that the initial reports from the FBI related to January 6 were “inaccurate” and not reflective of what actually transpired at the U.S. Capitol. For context, in a press release from December 12, 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General, Michael E. Horowitz, confirmed that after a thorough review, it was clear that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was involved in responding to the...

Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson 🚨Mike Benz says U.S. Intelligence Agencies KNEW AHEAD OF TIME That Ryan Routh Had Plans To Assassinate President Trump, He Was On Their Radar: "Routh was on their radar. He was specifically referred to DHS for investigation. Highly likely they knew Ryan Routh had this plan." 0:27 / 4:55 2:21 PM · Apr 15, 2025

An internal FBI chat log newly obtained by the Committee shows the FBI deliberately withheld information about the FBI having Hunter Biden’s laptop and an ongoing criminal investigation involving the Biden family’s corruption: “do not discuss biden matter.”

Florida Republican Sen. Ashley Moody detailed on Thursday the obstruction she faced when she tried to investigate the second assassination attempt against now-President Donald Trump. Moody recently served as attorney general of Florida until she was appointed to take the Senate seat vacated by now-Secretary of State Marco Rubio. In her last office, she took up the mantle of investigating the second attempted Trump assassination, which took place one Sunday morning in September at Trump International Golf Club in Florida while the then-Republican presidential nominee was hitting the links. She detailed the absurd levels of resistance to her investigation mounted...

The Justice Department did little, if anything, to stop the millions of illegals that the Biden administration openly allowed to come across the border. The illegals crossing included gangs, terrorists, killers, rapists, and tens of thousands of young Chinese men. And now, on Joe Biden's, Merrick Garland's and Christopher Wray's way out, we learn that Chinese "transactional criminal organizations" are getting licenses to sell marijuana in Maine. Anyone who would think this is only going on in Maine needs to have his head examined. The Chinese have been allowed to essentially infiltrate America in many ways, including the Biden administration...

Federalist CEO Sean Davis blasted the FBI for stonewalling Congress’s investigation into the first assassination attempt against President-elect Donald Trump. The moment came during a Friday interview, in which Davis was asked by conservative commentator Tucker Carlson what information is publicly available about Thomas Crooks, the would-be assassin who tried to kill Trump at a July rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. The 20-year-old was killed by law enforcement shortly after the attempt on the incoming president’s life and information about his activities leading up to the shooting has remained scarce.Davis noted despite the near assassination having occurred months ago, Americans “still...

FBI Director Wray explains why he’s resigning, defends feds’ raid of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Outgoing FBI Director Christopher Wray said Sunday he’s leaving his post when President-elect Donald Trump assumes office to avoid throwing the bureau “deeper in the fray” as he defended the agency’s 2022 raid of the 45th president’s Florida estate. The head of the FBI addressed his impending resignation, the controversial search for classified documents at Mar-a-Lago and how China is the “defining threat of our generation” in a wide-ranging interview on CBS’s “60 Minutes” Sunday night. Wray, 58, said deciding to step down before completing his 10-year...

FBI Director Christopher Wray on Friday insisted that the bureau must sidestep "partisanship and politics" in the future in order to maintain "independence" and "objectivity" during a farewell speech at the FBI headquarters. Pause Unmute Remaining Time -1:14 Picture-in-Picture Fullscreen By Misty Severi Published: January 10, 2025 9:16pm Article Dig Deeper FBI Director Christopher Wray on Friday insisted that the bureau must sidestep "partisanship and politics" in the future in order to maintain "independence" and "objectivity" during a farewell speech at the FBI headquarters. Recommended for you BlueChew is all about having fun with your partner. Try it for free...

As Donald Trump re-enters the White House on a pledge to end national security state overreach, the Federal Bureau of Investigation is still hiding critical details on the Russia conspiracy investigation that engulfed his first term. In response to a Freedom of Information request filed by RealClearInvestigations in August 2022, the FBI on Dec. 31, more than two years later, released a heavily redacted copy of the document that opened an explosive and unprecedented counterintelligence probe of the sitting president as an agent of the Russian government. The Electronic Communication, dated May 16, 2017, claimed to have an “articulable factual...

Authorities no longer believe there are any other suspects involved in the New Year's truck attack on Bourbon Street in New Orleans that killed 14 people and injured 35 others, the FBI said Thursday. After investigators reviewed all of the surveillance videos more closely, it appears that the suspect -- 42-year-old Army veteran Shamsud-Din Jabbar, who also died in the attack -- placed explosive devices in the area himself and then changed clothes, multiple law enforcement sources told ABC News. The FBI is still investigating whether there were individuals Jabbar spoke to or messaged with prior to the early Wednesday...

A new report released by the Committee on House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight into the January 6 pipe bomber shows the FBI stopped looking for the suspect in 2021 and covered up evidence. The FBI is now refusing to cooperate with Congressional investigators. In September, former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino said according to a whistleblower, after the pipe bombs were found at the RNC and DNC headquarters, “assets on the ground, including a whistleblower, was briefed about the pipe bombs the next day and show a picture of a guy in a hoodie.” However, according to the whistleblower, the...

Can you imagine the danger to our republic if the Executive Branch could secretly, for months on end, and without any clear and compelling justification, surveil the very people in Congress conducting oversight of those agencies? That chilling constitutional nightmare transpired. And we’re only getting the details about the separation-of-powers-eviscerating, civil liberties-undermining, and transparency-imperiling activity seven years after it started. The revelations come in a recently released Justice Department Inspector General report. Like much of this corrupt activity, the story begins with Russiagate. In the spring and summer of 2017, the first year of the Trump presidency, CNN, The New...

The bureau also warned people not to shine lasers at what they believe are drones.The FBI’s Newark, New Jersey, office on Monday evening called on residents not to shoot or shine lasers at objects in the sky amid a spate of drone sightings across the region in recent weeks that have prompted alarm among elected officials.In a statement, the FBI said that both the bureau and New Jersey State Police are alerting residents “about an increase in pilots of manned aircraft being hit in the eyes with lasers because people on the ground think they see an Unmanned Aircraft Systems...

The review acknowledged that several informants were in Washington on Jan. 6, but said that only a handful were collecting information for the F.B.I. that day, contrary to conspiracy theories.More than two dozen F.B.I. informants were in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021, but, contrary to widespread conspiracy theories, bureau officials did not instruct them to encourage anyone to break the law as a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol that day, according to a report by a Justice Department watchdog released on Thursday.After a four-year investigation, the inspector general, Michael E. Horowitz, determined that F.B.I. leaders acted appropriately by dispatching some...

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FBI Director Chris Wray may have read the writing on the wall in terms of his tenure but he has a scheme that could hamper President Trump and his FBI Director pick Kash Patel’s plans to overhaul the broken agency. As The Gateway Pundit reported, Wray announced his resignation on Wednesday after seven years in charge of the FBI. He will still serve until the end of Biden’s term in January. This news of Wray’s departure comes after reports emerged this week he was preparing to step aside to avoid getting sacked by Trump. Once Wray officially steps down, Deputy...