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William Barr says review of origins of Russia inquiry highly unlikely to lead to criminal investigation of Obama and Biden William Barr with Donald Trump last month. Barr said on Monday: ‘Not every abuse of power, no matter how outrageous, is necessarily a federal crime.’ Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images As Donald Trump continued […] More
Emmet Sullivan shows reluctance to let justice department drop prosecution of ex-Trump aide Michael Flynn, a former US national security adviser, leaves the district court in Washington after a sentencing hearing. Photograph: Joshua Roberts/Reuters A US judge has signalled reluctance to allow the Department of Justice to drop its criminal prosecution of Michael Flynn, tasking […] More
Retweet storm after justice department drops Flynn case Obama: US ‘rule of law’ is at risk under Trump Opinion: Under Trump, American exceptionalism means misery For God and Country: Christian case for Trump is a thin read Donald Trump meets with Republican members of Congress on Friday. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images Donald Trump […] More
In Deep review: Trump v intelligence – and Obama vs the people Pulitzer-winner David Rohde dismisses the Deep State theory – but also shows government does pursue entrenched interests Donald Trump speaks at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, in January 2017. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images The 2016 election left the US gaping at a brewing […] More
After Watergate, we worked for impartiality. Trump, Roger Stone and William Barr have dragged us back to the swamp “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it sometimes rhymes,” Mark Twain is supposed to have said. My first job after law school was as an attorney at the Department of Justice (DoJ). I reported for work September […] More
Chris Wray tells Congress Moscow waging social media campaign but says he has not seen new effort to hack election infrastructure The FBI director, Christopher Wray, has warned that Russia is engaged in “information warfare” heading into the 2020 presidential election, though he said law enforcement has not seen ongoing efforts by Russia to target […] More
