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It is perhaps not a surprise that the Justice Department inspector general’s report on the FBI’s handling of the Clinton email investigation quickly became, for all sides, vindication for the narratives they already believed. [read post]
13 May 2019, 6:00 am by Guest Blogger
For the symposium on Sanford Levinson and Jack M. [read post]
8 Jun 2017, 4:50 pm by Benjamin Wittes
The Department of Justice, for example, released a statement today in response to Comey’s testimony that Attorney General Jeff Sessions had failed to respond verbally when Comey told him that he could not allow the FBI Director to be left alone with the President. [read post]
13 Jun 2017, 5:16 am by Amira Mikhail, Jordan Brunner
The court also mentions that in a letter, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly recommended that Trump direct a temporary pause in entry from countries that are “unable or unwilling to provide the United States with adequate information about their nationals or are designated as state sponsors of terrorism. [read post]
4 Jun 2020, 7:37 am by Benjamin Wittes
The United States is facing three concurrent crises: a pandemic of a type not seen since 1918, an economic catastrophe of a type not seen since 1929, and an eruption of protests and police violence of a type not seen since 1968. [read post]
30 Jul 2019, 9:09 am by David Priess
The nomination-by-tweet of Republican Representative John Ratcliffe of Texas as Director of National Intelligence to replace outgoing DNI Dan Coats has drawn rapid and harsh condemnation from many political observers and even former intelligence officers for his apparent partisanship and lack of experience. [read post]
9 Jan 2017, 9:22 am by Quinta Jurecic
Tuesday, January 10th at 9:30am: The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a confirmation hearing for Senator Jeff Sessions, Donald Trump's appointee for Attorney General. [read post]
7 Feb 2024, 7:57 am by Karen Gullo
We, the undersigned, representing a broad spectrum of the global security research community, write to express our serious concerns about the UN Cybercrime Treaty drafts released during the sixth session and the most recent one. [read post]
The Washington Post this afternoon published a stunning story reporting that President Trump disclosed highly-classified information to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Ambassador Sergey Kislyak during their visit to the Oval Office last week. [read post]
9 Jul 2020, 12:03 pm by kblocher@hslf.org
., who plans to introduce a companion bill when the Senate is in session, also hailed introduction of the Safe Line Speeds in COVID-19 Act: “Since mid-March, outbreaks of Covid-19 have continued to surge in meatpacking plants across the country, infecting tens of thousands of workers and tragically killing more than 100. [read post]
28 Feb 2017, 6:47 am by Susan Hennessey, Benjamin Wittes
That said, the questions of whether Attorney General Jeff Sessions should recuse himself from the current matters and whether the Justice Department should step aside entirely and appoint a Special Counsel to conduct the investigation are largely distinct from the question of congressional investigations. [read post]
3 Jul 2018, 10:57 am by Carrie Cordero, Quinta Jurecic
As the chaos unspooled from President Trump’s executive order on family separations, a conventional wisdom quickly emerged: This order was an echo of the very first executive order of Trump’s presidency—the travel ban. [read post]
11 Jun 2018, 4:30 am by Quinta Jurecic
And instead of firing Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, Trump complains about them on Twitter, apparently in the hope that they’ll resign out of sheer embarrassment. [read post]
When President Trump fired James Comey as FBI director last May, the special agent in charge of the Detroit field office, David Gelios, wrote an email to his staff: I just saw CNN reporting that Director Comey has been fired by President Trump. [read post]
5 Dec 2015, 5:38 am by Elina Saxena
Paul followed up his primer by posting a letter signed by several former high-level national security officials to Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) in opposition to the Senator’s proposals to halt the resettlement of Syrian refugees to the United States. [read post]
29 Apr 2019, 11:34 am by Scott R. Anderson
On the morning of April 18, just hours before the long-awaited release of the Mueller report, Attorney General William Barr convened a press conference to reiterate what he viewed as the report’s “bottom line”: that the special counsel had failed to find sufficient evidence to show that President Trump or his campaign had colluded with Russia or obstructed subsequent investigations. [read post]
7 Jun 2017, 4:38 am by Susan Hennessey, Benjamin Wittes
A large number of reporters have been calling us over the past few days asking for our speculation about James Comey’s testimony tomorrow before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. [read post]
29 Mar 2013, 1:02 pm by Jeffrey P. Hermes
As Bob Ambrogi reports, on February 19, 2013, Massachusetts Superior Court Justice Peter Lauriat held a hearing in the case of Commonwealth v. [read post]
26 May 2016, 7:22 am by Gritsforbreakfast
So next session will be an excellent moment to show up proposing solutions, both for the chairman and for advocates hoping to effect bail reform statewide. [read post]