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fromwww.mediaite.com
2 weeks agoKash Patel's Push To Investigate Trump Foe Despite Lack of Evidence Has Raised Alarms' at FBI: WaPo
FBI Director Kash Patel's push to investigate Rep. Eric Swalwell raises concerns among FBI colleagues due to lack of evidence and potential risks to law enforcement.
fromwww.mediaite.com
4 days agoTrump Denies Knowing About Melania's Epstein Presser Beforehand Amid CNN Report That He Got a Heads-Up
I reject their mean-spirited attempts to ruin my reputation, Melania Trump said of those spreading what she called rumors and mistruths about the nature of her relationships.
US politics
Law
fromThe Atlantic
1 month agoThe Unbearable Lightness of Signalgate
The Uniform Code of Military Justice enforces discipline across all military ranks through 158 articles covering both civilian crimes and military-specific offenses, with recent courts-martial demonstrating consistent enforcement of conduct standards.
Information security
fromtechcrunch.com
1 month agoFBI investigating hack on its wiretap and surveillance systems: report
Hackers breached FBI networks managing wiretaps and foreign intelligence surveillance warrants, marking another major U.S. government cybersecurity incident amid ongoing threats from Chinese and Russian threat actors.
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Privacy professionals
fromTheregister
3 weeks agoPatel dodges question about FBI buying location data
FBI Director Kash Patel admitted the agency purchases commercially available information from data brokers, potentially including location data, which Senator Wyden argues violates the Fourth Amendment without warrant requirements.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks agoProsecutors examined whether Trump disclosed classified map on plane after leaving office
Federal prosecutors are investigating whether Donald Trump showed a classified map to individuals on his plane after his presidency, including his chief of staff, Susie Wiles.
US politics
Privacy professionals
fromNextgov.com
1 month agoFBI queries of Americans' data under FISA 702 rose 35% in 2025
FBI searches of Americans' data collected under Section 702 of FISA increased 35% from December 2024 to November 2025, while the percentage of searches returning relevant information declined significantly.
Privacy professionals
fromWIRED
1 month agoUS Lawmakers Move to Kill the FBI's Warrantless Wiretap Access
Bipartisan Congress members introduced legislation requiring FBI warrants for backdoor searches of Americans' communications, aligning with a 2025 federal court ruling against warrantless surveillance practices.
Right-wing politics
fromThe American Conservative
1 month agoTrump Seeks to Extend Domestic Spying Powers He Once Condemned
Trump reversed his position on FISA surveillance powers, shifting from demanding abolition to quietly seeking extension through 2027 despite previously claiming illegal use against his campaign.
fromTechCrunch
1 month agoHacker broke into FBI and compromised Epstein files, report says | TechCrunch
An unidentified foreign hacker broke into the FBI's field office in New York in 2023 and compromised files related to the bureau's investigation into the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to Reuters. The hack took advantage of a server at the Child Exploitation Forensic Lab in the FBI's New York Field Office that was left inadvertently vulnerable by an FBI special agent working on the case.
Privacy professionals
fromSecuritymagazine
3 weeks agoTrump's Former Counter-Terrorism Official Investigated Over Alleged Leaks
Joe Kent, President Trump's former top counter-terrorism official, is under investigation by the FBI's Criminal Division for allegedly improperly sharing classified information. The investigation began months before Kent's recent resignation, according to four individuals with direct knowledge of the probe who spoke to Semafor.
US politics
Information security
fromEmptywheel
2 months agoI Con the Record Admits All This Spying Also Serves Counterintelligence
The Intelligence Community uses online anonymity and networking tools to collect foreign intelligence, including counterintelligence and cybersecurity, while asserting legal limits on targeting US citizens.
US politics
fromAxios
3 weeks agoComey subpoenaed in alleged "grand conspiracy" against Trump
Trump administration officials are investigating Democratic leaders for alleged misconduct in investigating Trump, with Comey subpoenaed regarding the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment on Russian election interference.
fromwww.mediaite.com
1 month agoKash Patel Reportedly Fires at Least 10 FBI Agents for Investigating Trump
Patel called the action outrageous and deeply alarming, claiming the agency used flimsy pretexts and attempted to evade all oversight on the subpoenas. His disclosure of the discovery on Wednesday in a statement to Reuters came mere hours before multiple sources told CNN, CBS, and Reuters that Patel had fired the FBI officials.
US politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month agoHillary Clinton accuses Republicans of fishing expedition' in Epstein testimony
You have compelled me to testify, fully aware that I have no knowledge that would assist your investigation, in order to distract attention from President Trump's actions and to cover them up despite legitimate calls for answers.
US politics
US politics
fromwww.mediaite.com
1 month agoFox News Anchor Asks House Republican If DOJ Suppressed' Trump-Epstein Info In Files Release
Rep. Fallon argues the Clintons obstructed House Oversight Committee investigations into Epstein connections, contrasting their resistance with other subpoenaed witnesses' compliance.
US politics
fromEmptywheel
2 months agoMike Rogers Doesn't Exculpate Trump on "Collusion" Like Trump Once Thought
Tulsi Gabbard stripped security clearances from 37 intelligence personnel, undermining critical US intelligence capabilities and prioritizing political loyalty to Trump over national security.
US politics
fromNextgov.com
1 month agoWhite House seeks clean extension on controversial spying law
The Trump administration seeks a clean reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act without warrant requirements for searching U.S. person data, despite documented FBI misuse of the surveillance power.
fromwww.mediaite.com
2 months agoRaskin Shreds DOJ's Baffling' Redactions, Like Email Contradicting Trump's Claim He Kicked Epstein Out of Mar-A-Lago
The law required a wide release of millions of documents, photos, videos, and other files, with redactions limited to victims' names and other identifying information. The DOJ missed that deadline, and since then, there have been additional releases of files that have revealed additional powerful people who were in communication with Epstein, thousands of mentions of Trump, and controversial failures to redact victims' names.
US politics
US politics
fromwww.mediaite.com
2 months agoFormer Special Counsel Jack Smith to Testify Publicly About Trump Criminal Probes
Jack Smith will publicly testify about criminal investigations alleging President Trump conspired to overturn the 2020 election and retained highly classified documents at Mar-a-Lago.
US politics
fromNextgov.com
1 month agoFBI gathered intelligence on reporters, religious orgs using 'assessment' authority, watchdog report says
FBI assessments examined over 1,000 journalists, religious groups, politicians and others using intelligence tools without needing a criminal predicate or warrant-level evidence.
fromEmptywheel
2 months agoIf the Steele Dossier Is Disinformation, Republicans Have Become Willful Participants in the Operation
In August 2018, I laid out six specific false claims made in the dossier that would have led Democrats or the FBI to take action counter to their own interests: Russians hadn't had success hacking targets like Hillary Russians were planning to leak dated FSB intercepts rather than recent stolen emails Misattribution of both what the social media campaign included and who did it, blaming Webzilla rather than Internet Research Agency
fromEmptywheel
2 months agoIgor Danchenko Would Have Been a Crucial Witness to Understanding the Disinformation in the Dossier
As one supervisory special agent has agreed, "one of the upshots [of the Crossfire Hurricane Investigation] has been a relationship with [Mr. Danchenko] which has provided the FBI insights into individuals and to areas that it otherwise was lacking [ ] because of the difficulty with which the FBI has in recruiting people from that part of the world." The agent further agreed that the FBI's relationship with Mr. Danchenko was "one thing that in terms of usefulness really did result from this [investigation]."
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