I cover national security at the FBI and Justice Department for The Associated Press in Washington
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The case was charged via complaint and will have to be presented to a grand jury. DC grand juries have refused to indict a number of high-profile cases.
It's “rare that we have charges this old coming in this nature," said Magistrate Judge Faruqui.
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Breaking: WASHINGTON (AP) 2 ex-FBI intelligence officials have been charged with making false statements to Congress about Hunter Biden's laptop
“That was awesome. He was just laughing. ... He said, ‘I can’t believe this is happening,’” Patricia Hubbard Fox told The Associated Press in a phone interview as she headed to Denver’s airport to catch a flight to San Antonio to meet her brother.
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The @JusticeOIG has declined to investigate the botched investigation and prosecution of David Hearn in the Reflecting Pool case. His lawyers want the office to reconsider.
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Leo Wise, a hard-nosed ex federal prosecutor whose career spanned Enron to Hunter Biden makes a powerful case that the Supreme Court has made public integrity prosecutions impossible — ushering a golden age of corruption.
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New: The Justice Department is escalating its fight with California, warning that local officials who tabulate or process ballots from suspected non-citizen voters are at risk of investigation and prosecution, per letter obtained by @AP. More here:
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FBI employees fired for their roles in the investigation of President Donald Trump’s retention of classified documents at his Florida estate sued on Thursday to get their jobs back, calling their terminations unlawful acts of “political retribution.”
New: Nine former FBI agents, analysts and staff operations specialists who were fired over their roles in investigating President Donald Trump's retention of classified documents have sued the bureau to get their jobs back. More here:
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Rep. Ilhan Omar’s phone seized and relatives subpoenaed in criminal probe, via @AP
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An OpenAI engineer has been arrested and charged after a recording device concealed in toilet paper was found in a company conference room, the FBI says.
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“We aim to remove the capability from the threat actors. We target their infrastructure, their money, and their tools,” FBI Cyber Division Deputy Assistant Director Jason Bilnoski told @AP.
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BREAKING: Former Deputy AG Sally Yates will lead a review of Cornell's handling of sexual assault and harassment reports, the university said. apnews.com/article/cornell-u…
“The record reflects an indictment obtained through unusual haste and a prosecution shaped from the outset by political pressure and built on an inadequate investigation,” they said. “The sprint to charge Mr. Hearn mirrored the rushed renovation itself."
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New: Lawyers for David Hearn are seeking investigations from the DOJ/DOI inspectors general for the handling of the Reflecting Pool case.
“These events,” they said, “demand accountability and full and unconstrained investigations by your offices.”
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