Justice Department kept FBI employees in the dark for years about...
A new Government Accountability Office report says that the Justice Department kept FBI employees in the dark for seven years after Congress updated whistleblower protections for bureau personnel in...
View ArticleRepublicans seek to revoke security clearances for ex-intel officials over...
Several Republican lawmakers want Congress to strip the security clearances of dozens of former U.S. intelligence officials who worked against President Trump in 2020 by asserting that information in...
View ArticleSen. Ron Johnson displays photo of Rachel Levine and Sam Brinton when asked...
Sen. Ron Johnson pushed back on a reporter’s question about the House Ethics Committee report related to attorney general nominee Matt Gaetz, displaying a photograph of Assistant Secretary for Health...
View ArticleWhistleblower warns FBI can't be trusted with background checks for Donald...
An official at FBI headquarters in Washington is warning that the bureau’s security clearance division is politicized and can’t be trusted to screen President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees for top...
View ArticleMike Carey, Frank LaRose, Matt Dolan emerge as contenders in Ohio for J.D....
Several Republicans in Ohio are emerging as potential candidates to fill the Senate seat that will be vacated when Vice President-elect Sen. J.D. Vance takes the oath of office in January.Ohio Gov....
View ArticleRep. Nancy Mace introduces resolution to ban transgender women from female...
Rep. Nancy Mace introduced a resolution Monday to prohibit transgender women from using female bathrooms at the Capitol.Ms. Mace, South Carolina Republican, who often advocates to keep males out of...
View ArticleHakeem Jeffries says GOP lacks mandate to make big changes
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Republicans don't have a mandate to make sweeping changes in the upcoming spending agreement and later when President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White...
View ArticleChristopher Wray on the way out? J.D. Vance, Donald Trump are interviewing...
Vice President-elect J.D. Vance confirmed that he and President-elect Donald Trump are talking to FBI director candidates, which suggests Mr. Trump plans to fire current FBI Director Christopher...
View ArticleRepublican lawmakers accuse Pentagon IG of hiding Jan. 6 evidence
The Committee on House Administration's Subcommittee on Oversight Chairman Barry Loudermilk sent a letter to the Defense Department's inspector general demanding a correction in the Pentagon's Jan. 6...
View ArticleDan Scavino, Trump senior adviser, fuels speculation about a congressional...
A longtime senior adviser to President-elect Donald Trump is wondering aloud about running for the House seat that Rep. Elise Stefanik will vacate when she resigns after Mr. Trump nominates her to be...
View ArticleFormer FBI agents go to bat for Kash Patel to be the bureau's next director
Former FBI agents say they want President-elect Donald Trump to appoint Kash Patel, a former senior national security official, to be FBI Director.The ex-agents said Mr. Patel, who is in the mix of...
View ArticleSen. Charles E. Grassley, Iowa Republican, says Christopher Wray 'has failed'...
Sen. Charles E. Grassley said Sunday that FBI Director Christopher A. Wray has failed at doing his job at the agency.Mr. Grassley, a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, posted on X that...
View ArticleDonald Trump's appointment of Kash Patel to FBI director fuels speculation...
President-elect Donald Trump’s choice of Kash Patel to lead the FBI has ignited a confirmation battle that likely will be as much a fight over the future of America’s premier national law enforcement...
View ArticleChad Chronister, Trump DEA nominee, slammed by conservatives for heavy-handed...
President-elect Donald Trump's pick of Hillsborough County (Florida) Sheriff Chad Chronister to lead the Drug Enforcement Administration ran into opposition from conservatives who say the lawman is a...
View ArticleGOP says FBI overhaul crucial after James Comey 'broke' it
Senate Republicans say the next FBI director must fix a bureau that James Comey “broke.”Democrats have raised concerns that Kash Patel, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee, is...
View ArticlePete Hegseth makes his case as misconduct allegations pile up
Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth is making the rounds on Capitol Hill this week to meet with Republican senators whose votes he will need to be confirmed amid growing allegations of personal...
View ArticleJerry Nadler steps aside in race for spot on House Judiciary Committee
Rep. Jerrold Nadler on Wednesday bowed out of the top Democratic leadership post on the House Judiciary Committee, surrendering to a challenge for the job by Rep. Jamie Raskin.Mr. Nadler endorsed Mr....
View ArticleDonald Trump allies draw 'red line' at Pete Hegseth
The embattled nomination of Pete Hegseth for defense secretary has President-elect Donald Trump and allies working to hold the line on a second pick getting nixed or risk opening the floodgates for...
View ArticleFormer Trump Pentagon official backs Kash Patel for decisions during 2020...
A Pentagon official in President-elect Donald Trump's first term defended FBI Director nominee Kash Patel after a story reemerged about a 2020 SEAL Team 6 rescue mission of an American hostage in...
View ArticleChristopher Wray, FBI director, preparing to resign
FBI Director Christopher A. Wray plans to resign on or before Inauguration Day, The Washington Times has learned.Mr. Wray is calling it quits because he doesn’t want to get fired by President-elect...
View Article