All posts tagged "Fbi"

FBI Director Kash Patel's planned trip abroad has two top lawmakers and some of his own agents fearing for the nation's secrets.

Patel is reportedly set to travel to Russia as soon as next week, roughly three weeks before the midterm elections, The Atlantic reported Friday. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) and Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT), the top Democrats on the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees, have sent Patel a letter urging him to scrap the visit over concerns he can't be trusted to protect sensitive information.

"As Director of the FBI, you possess information that would be highly valuable to America's adversaries," the lawmakers wrote, per The Atlantic. "Unfortunately, your affinity for the Russian government does not inspire confidence that you will be able to effectively safeguard those secrets."...

Democrat Troy Jackson hammered Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) over a reported FBI corruption probe during their first debate Tuesday night.

Jackson, the former Maine Senate president, laid out the allegations from a September ProPublica investigation as the two candidates clashed over Collins' ethics.

"As late as 2024, the FBI was circling around Senator Collins," Jackson said. "They had emails, they knew about meetings. They've got a great big check for $150,000. It's a pay-to-play scheme involving her office and our taxpayer dollars. And then when Trump came back, his administration dismantled the investigation."...

A former FBI official warned "something is very wrong" after the bureau demoted two supervisors over calls to Stephen Miller's wife.

Frank Figliuzzi, a former FBI assistant director, made the remarks in a Saturday episode of "The Jim Acosta Show," where he and the former CNN anchor discussed a wave of turmoil at the bureau.

Acosta cited an MS NOW report that two veteran FBI counterterrorism supervisors were removed from their jobs after a disagreement over an investigation into alleged harassing phone calls made to Katie Miller, the wife of White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller. The FBI confirmed the demotions....

FBI Director Kash Patel has ordered up a classified internal report examining what the bureau calls past institutional "failures," a document now bearing his own name that insiders worry is less about accountability and more about shaping the bureau's history to suit the president's narrative.

An internal FBI memo obtained by MS NOW describes the so-called "Patel Report" as an effort to "promote fierce organizational accountability and rebuilding public trust" by revisiting "different chapters" in the bureau's past.

Three current and former FBI officials, speaking anonymously to discuss internal matters, told MS NOW they don't yet know the report's specific contents, but expect it to touch on politically charged territory for Trump, including the original Russia investigation and the special counsel probes into classified documents and efforts to overturn the 2020 election....

Two FBI counterterrorism chiefs were demoted over the pace of their probe into alleged threats to the wife of top White House aide Stephen Miller.

Bloomberg Law reported on Saturday that the head of the FBI Washington Field Office's counterterrorism division and his deputy were stripped of their posts Friday and sent to bureau headquarters. Bloomberg Law cited three people familiar with the matter.

The officials were identified as Special Agent in Charge Michael Burgwald and Assistant Special Agent in Charge Courtland Rae. Their division is responsible for threats tied to the Middle East....

A federal judge pushed James Comey's arraignment and trial into 2027 while his motions to throw out the case still await a ruling.

U.S. District Judge Louise W. Flanagan granted the delay in an order filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina.

The order moves the former FBI director's arraignment to January 2027. Comey had asked for trial sometime in February 2027, and Flanagan wrote that the court will set a trial date and filing deadlines after the arraignment if he pleads not guilty....