Former FBI director James Comey endorsed the agency’s capability to impartially investigate allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, writing in a Sunday New York Times op-ed that the bureau is staffed with “people who just want to figure out what’s true.” Such an angle could lead…
Did the FBI really sever its relationship with Christopher Steele?
The disgraced FBI agent's high-minded self-defense is hard to take seriously, but Republicans present no evidence that he did anything to stop Trump.
Hosted by Jim Swift.
Former FBI official to testify before the House judiciary and oversight committees.
His relationship with James Comey could present problems.
On June 14, Michael Horowitz, the Department of Justice’s inspector general, released a long-awaited report on the partisan shenanigans of a few FBI agents in the lead-up to the 2016 election. The report sharply criticizes then-director James Comey for his bad judgment and disregard for agency…
Plus, why Kelly Cohen is a treasure.
Plus, why Kelly Cohen is a treasure.
Revisiting Page's encounter with a Russian spy in the wake of James Wolfe's indictment.
Senator Ron Johnson continues his effort to claw documents out of the grip of a reluctant FBI and Department of Justice. As chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, he has been fighting to acquire materials involving the FBI and DoJ investigations both into…
The Democratic lawmaker recently praised the bureau for its work on the Russia investigation. But the Page-Strzok texts reveal the feeling isn’t mutual.
Correspondence between FBI employees Lisa Page and Peter Strzok has been rendered particularly opaque.
The Justice Department and House Republicans achieve détente Thursday.
Analyzing a former Trump aide’s claim.
Senator Ron Johnson is unhappy about the amount of redactions appearing in documents sent to Congress by the FBI, and he’s doing something about it.
He says he’s never been an anonymous source for a news story. Is that true?
The president called into his favorite TV program for a free-wheeling interivew.
Did the former FBI director try to give himself an advantage with the way he categorized his material?
The former FBI director explains himself to a Manhattan audience that wants to like him but can’t forget his handling of Hillary’s emails.
It's time for the FBI to release them.
When outgoing FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe was fired on the eve of his retirement last month, many Democrats protested that he was being cheated out of his pension for purely political reasons. But the administration’s official line—that McCabe had been fired for “lack of candor” after lying…
I recently wrote in these pages about a conundrum that has long fascinated lawyers and legal scholars, the blackmail paradox (“You’ve Got Blackmail,” Feb. 5). If I know damaging information about you and that information was not acquired under privileged circumstances—that is, I’m not your priest…
The raid on Michael Cohen's offices required layers of approval including a judge and the Justice Department.
Former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe—sacked on the eve of his retirement after allegedly leaking information to a reporter and then misleading investigators about it—has acquired a pair of wildly divergent reputations. In Trumpworld, McCabe is a hack whose partisan actions during the Clinton…
Today on the Daily Standard Podcast, senior writer Michael Warren discusses President Trump's tumultuous weekend: from the firing of Andy McCabe to his resulting tweets.
Andrew McCabe, the former deputy director of the FBI, was fired on Friday by Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Sessions had received a report from the Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General following a probe into McCabe’s conduct while he served in the FBI. McCabe, who took over as…
"The powerful Jews are my enemy," remarked Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan at his organization’s annual “Saviours’ Day” celebration in Chicago on February 25. That was just one of several of his choice anti-Semitic tropes. Another one, oddly stated in the third person: “The FBI has been the…
Top Democratic leaders are calling to provide the FBI and Department of Homeland Security with hefty funding boosts to expose and counter Russian election interference ahead of the 2018 midterm elections.
Today on the Daily Standard Podcast, editor in chief Stephen F. Hayes discusses what the recent Mueller indictments mean. Also, Charlie and Steve discuss America's best and worst presidents, in honor of Washington's birthday.
Donald Trump spent a big chunk of the Sunday before Presidents Day tweeting—about the Mueller investigation, the “fake news” media, and NASCAR. But in one tweet, Trump highlighted new poll numbers. And they weren’t even his own!
California congressman Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said Wednesday that the panel is negotiating with the FBI about narrowly redacting sensitive information contained in a memo intended to counter a Republican document alleging surveillance abuses.
FBI director Christopher Wray fended off accusations of political bias at the bureau Tuesday, amid controversy over a GOP memo that suggests misconduct by officials at the FBI and Department of Justice.
Nick Meyer, 40, became briefly famous a few weeks ago for allegedly stealing more than $1 million of wine from his banker boss. As Goldman Sachs president David Solomon’s personal assistant from 2008 until 2016, Meyer’s job involved such chores as the transport of hundreds of bottles of extremely…
If ever a snare were set for a conspiracy theorist, it would most certainly be the "Steele dossier" released for public consumption by BuzzFeed in January of last year, alleging collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. It has the perfect ingredients for a conspiracy: opposition…
On Tuesday, THE WEEKLY STANDARD noted multiple media outlets were were confirming the existence of a second anti-Trump "dossier" authored by Cody Shearer, a longtime associate of the notorious Sidney Blumenthal, who as a very checkered history of finding himself at the center of Clinton scandals…
When the young Muslim known as “Mo” decided he could no longer live in America, the Islamic State wasn’t his destination of choice. Initially, he said, he wanted to migrate to Saudi Arabia to study at the University of Medina—but he couldn’t get in. A diet of online propaganda convinced him the…
The only thing we can say with absolute certainty regarding the controversy over the Devin Nunes memo is this: It’s unwise to accept any claims made with absolute certitude about its contents and their meaning.
When J. Edgar Hoover died suddenly in May 1972, there had been one director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation during the previous 48 years. In the nearly 46 years since that day, there have been 15 of them.
If former FBI honcho James Comey’s Twitter feed is anything to judge him by, perhaps President Trump was right to can him—on the basis of his grating social media persona alone.
The FBI on Wednesday expressed “grave concerns” about the public release of a Republican-drafted memo that reportedly contains allegations of FBI partisanship and surveillance abuses, a rare display of public displeasure from the usually taciturn agency.
FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe is stepping down from his post at the FBI, NBC News first reported Monday.
Many Republicans and Trump-supporting commentators have embarrassed themselves in recent weeks with their wild-eyed and absurd conspiracy theories about the “deep state.” While the insurrectionist language from some of them might please the InfoWars corner of the conservative movement, it’s deeply…
A man calling himself Nicolas De-Meyer was arrested in Los Angeles last Tuesday. His crime: allegedly stealing $1.2 million worth of wine from his boss, David Solomon, president of Goldman Sachs.
You’ve got to feel for Robert Mueller.
Facebook users were skeptical of a McClatchy DC report on Thursday that the FBI was investigating whether “Russian money went to [the] NRA to help Trump.”
Robert Mueller was supposed to be fired by now. That was, at the end of 2017, the fervent hope of both Democrats eager for a Saturday Night Massacre rerun and of some burn-it-all-down fans of the president. They saw the document demands by GOP lawmakers and their challenges to the impartiality of…
Lawmakers in the House of Representatives are expected to vote Thursday on whether to renew a controversial surveillance power that Trump officials say is vital for protecting against terrorism and other national security threats.
Voting on the final Republican tax bill begins Tuesday, and a pledge Monday afternoon from Maine senator Susan Collins that she would support it all but sealed the deal—she’s the 50th vote in the Senate, and Vice President Mike Pence, if needed, can provide vote number 51.
Donald Trump’s Friday morning appearances were an amusing reminder of a central presidential incongruity: He loves and supports law enforcement, except the ones trying to enforce the law on him.
In May, when deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein appointed former FBI director Robert Mueller to investigate “any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump,” we welcomed the news. So did the president. “As I…
As special counsel Robert Mueller and the FBI circle ever closer to the Oval Office, Washington is convulsed by speculation that the president may take drastic action to cut short the investigation. Donald Trump has escalated his Twitter attacks on the FBI and the Justice Department, and there is a…
The White House is currently insisting that President Donald Trump did not know in January that former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn lied to the FBI about his contacts with Russia, a felony for which he has pleaded guilty. But the administration’s own public statements, taken together,…
President Donald Trump was briefed that Michael Flynn had likely misled the FBI in late January, weeks before the former national security advisor was fired for lying about the extent of his contacts with a Russian diplomat, the president’s lawyer said Sunday.
Former national security adviser Mike Flynn pleaded guilty Friday to knowingly making false statements to the FBI, making him the senior most Trump administration official to be charged in connection with special counsel Robert Mueller’s wide-ranging probe.
It's impossible to know—and difficult even to contemplate—what sort of nihilistic depravity could drive a man to do what Devin Kelley did on the morning of November 5. Kelley killed 26 and injured at least 20 at the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, Texas.
The New York Times reported Monday morning that former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and a business associate were ordered to surrender to federal authorities. News broke Friday that special counsel Robert Mueller had filed the first charges in his investigation into Russia’s meddling in…
For a moment, we were transported back to the 1990s. There was Hillary Clinton being asked about yet another highly suspect circumstance involving gross improprieties and brazen lies and sidestepping the question by blaming that ever-present confederation: her enemies. “I think the real story is…
In July, I noted that Sputnik Radio—an honest-to-God Russian propaganda outlet—had started broadcasting on Washington D.C. airwaves:
The White House has a new argument for why President Donald Trump fired James Comey earlier this year: The FBI director possibly committed perjury. At her Monday briefing, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders faced a question about former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon’s recent…
Special Counsel Robert Mueller has obtained a draft of a letter President Donald Trump composed laying out his reasons for firing FBI director James Comey, the New York Times reported Friday.
Breaking news on the Russia investigation: FBI agents conducted a predawn raid on the home of Trump campaign operative Paul Manafort on July 26, according to a new report by the Washington Post. The agents had a warrant to seize documents and materials, although the significance of the documents…
The Senate confirmed Christopher Wray as the new FBI Director by a 92-5 vote Tuesday, filling the spot left vacant when President Donald Trump fired James Comey in May.
South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham drilled Trump’s nominee for FBI director Wednesday on whether the president’s son should have contacted the FBI after Russian sources offered him dirt on Hillary Clinton.
Intelligence agencies are supplying the House Intelligence Committee with information about unmasking requests made by three former Obama administration officials, a spokesman for the committee chairman told THE WEEKLY STANDARD.
Today on the Kristol Clear podcast, Democrats may want to impeach President Trump for anything or nothing, and Republicans may want to try to protect him, but Bill Kristol argues it isn't politics that will determine who wins that high-stakes contest, but the outcome of Special Counsel Robert…
House Speaker Paul Ryan said Tuesday that special counsel Robert Mueller should be allowed to proceed in his investigation of Russia's election meddling, and said he'd advise President Trump not to fire him, a step some of Trump's close allies have said he is considering.
Who is running the White House's defense against claims of obstruction of justice and others stemming from the ongoing Russia investigation? From the looks of it, it's Marc Kasowitz, the outside counsel of President Donald Trump.
After a brief and uncharacteristic pause, Donald Trump has unloaded on James Comey. Today on the Daily Standard podcast, editor in chief Stephen Hayes comes by to talk about the President's strategy against his former FBI director.
The fallout from last week's Senate Intelligence committee hearing with former FBI director James Comey continues. The White House—and Donald Trump's new outside counsel Marc Kasowitz—has decided on two messages, each distilled into two of the president's Sunday morning tweets.
This week on the Confab, executive editor Fred Barnes tells host Eric Felten about the rules Trump lives by. And senior writer Michael Warren talks about how living by those rules helped get the president in his Comey mess.
Today on the Kristol Clear podcast, editor at large Bill Kristol talks with Eric Felten about what it means, over the long haul, for Republicans to be the party of Trump. And, who had the worse week, Donald Trump or Theresa May?
What did we learn from James Comey, the fired FBI director, when he testified on June 8 before the Senate Select Intelligence Committee? Not enough to prove Donald Trump committed high crimes and misdemeanors warranting impeachment, as the president's most strident opponents were hoping. Neither…
What did we learn from James Comey, the fired FBI director, when he testified on June 8 before the Senate Select Intelligence Committee? Not enough to prove Donald Trump committed high crimes and misdemeanors warranting impeachment, as the president's most strident opponents were hoping. Neither…
A Donald Trump tweet is the reason we have a special counsel investigation into Russia's attempts to influence the 2016 election and possible collusion between Trump associates and Russians, according to testimony from former FBI Director James Comey.
After weeks of anticipation, former FBI director James Comey testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee, speaking publicly for the first time since President Donald Trump fired him last month.
When on the Daily Standard podcast, senior writer Michael Warren and host Eric Felten discuss tomorrow's James Comey testimony today.
South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham suggested Friday that a planned hearing next week with former FBI director James Comey could descend into a political "hit job" if the director focuses only on reported conversations between him and the president.
In this episode of THE WEEKLY STANDARD Confab, Michael Warren joins host Eric Felten to talk about another week dominated by the Trumpiest of tempests. Will the appointment of a Special Counsel calm the waters? Then Philip Terzian comes by to tell us about outrage over Turkish security men beating…
Today on the Daily Standard podcast, editor at large William Kristol wraps up the week in Trump, from the Comey memo to President Trump's "nut job" comment to the Russians. Is there a team who can turn this around for Trump? And if so, would he listen?
The fish, as they say, rots from the head first. And Donald J. Trump is the head of the executive branch. It's not that the U.S. government isn't beset by innumerable problems and systemic dysfunction. But in the here and now, Donald Trump is the problem. The president is the dysfunction.
Washington greeted the news that the Justice Department had named Robert Mueller special counsel to oversee the FBI's investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 election with a collective sigh of relief. The speed and intensity of events and developments about this interference—and the…
Washington greeted the news that the Justice Department had named Robert Mueller special counsel to oversee the FBI's investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 election with a collective sigh of relief. The speed and intensity of events and developments about this interference—and the…
This week Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed a special counsel to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election. It was an important move, and one that President Donald Trump made unavoidable with his erratic and irresponsible behavior over the past fortnight.
The fish, as they say, rots from the head first. And Donald J. Trump is the head of the executive branch. It's not that the U.S. government isn't beset by innumerable problems and systemic dysfunction. But in the here and now, Donald Trump is the problem. The president is the dysfunction.
Today on the Daily Standard podcast, senior writer Mark Hemingway weighs in on the appointment of Robert Mueller as special counsel regarding Russian involvement in the 2016 election.
Robert Mueller—the former FBI director who on Wednesday was appointed by the Department of Justice as a special prosecutor to investigate Russian meddling in the 2016 election, and possible collusion with Trump campaign associates—loves to prosecute.
The Justice Department appointed former FBI director Robert Mueller as special counsel to oversee the FBI probe of Russian interference in the election, multiple news outlets reported Wednesday. That probe includes any potential coordination between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.
Today on the Daily Standard podcast, editor in chief Stephen F. Hayes updates us on the latest details of the fallout resulting from the firing of FBI director James Comey.
"I hope you can let this go," Donald Trump is reported to have said in a private conversation with James Comey. The president was apparently asking the then-FBI director to put the kibosh on the bureau's investigation into former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn. The reported quote is said…
The pressure to respond to a constant stream of Trump administration controversies appears to be taking its toll on congressional Republicans. Strain began to show on Capitol Hill Tuesday even before the New York Times reported that President Donald Trump asked James Comey in February to end the…
Does the president have recordings of the conversations he had with James Comey? It's a question the White House has had to deal with since Friday morning, when President Trump tweeted a vague threat of sorts to the man he had ousted as FBI director. "James Comey better hope that there are no…
Texas senator John Cornyn, a Republican member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, took himself out of the running for FBI director on Tuesday.
The headlines I saw said that only 29 percent of Americans approve of President Trump's decision to fire James Comey. That includes the headline written by NBC News about its own poll, which produced that result.
The three people involved in effecting the termination of FBI director James Comey last week were President Donald Trump and the two highest officers in the Justice Department, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. The Constitution vests in Trump the executive…
Editor at large William Kristol joins the Washington Examiner's Hugo Gurdon and Byron York to discuss the firing of FBI director James Comey.
The firing of FBI director James Comey was a long time coming, to hear the insiders of the Trump administration tell it. But the final actions that put it in motion took place over the course of slightly more than 24 hours—light speed by government standards, and the hastiness and improvisation…
President Donald Trump fired James Comey just as the FBI director moved to expand and intensify the bureau's counterintelligence investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and the possible collusion of Trump advisers in those efforts.
The three people involved in effecting the termination of FBI director James Comey last week were President Donald Trump and the two highest officers in the Justice Department, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. The Constitution vests in Trump the executive…
The firing of FBI director James Comey was a long time coming, to hear the insiders of the Trump administration tell it. But the final actions that put it in motion took place over the course of slightly more than 24 hours—light speed by government standards, and the hastiness and improvisation…
Among the swirling parts of the controversy over President Trump's firing of FBI director James Comey, there's one that matters most. It stands in the way of the naming of a special prosecutor, the creation of a bipartisan, joint House-Senate committee to investigate the Trump-Russia connection, or…
Today on the Daily Standard podcast, senior writer Michael Warren analyzes the various reporting regarding the firing of FBI director Jim Comey. What have we learned? Nothing.
Acting FBI director Andrew McCabe said Thursday that the bureau is continuing its work despite the sudden firing of James Comey, and that there have been no attempts yet to hinder the agency's efforts.
Bloomberg is reporting that President Trump is considering former Rep. Mike Rogers to replace James Comey as FBI director. Rogers is a former FBI agent; by the end of his seven terms in Congress he was the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. Bloomberg's report suggest that Rogers "would…
Why did President Trump fire James Comey? The initial explanation offered by the administration on Tuesday night was that the FBI director had mishandled the investigation of Hillary Clinton's private email server, dating back to a public appearance by Comey back in July 2016—10 months ago. It had…
The Senate Intelligence committee investigation into Russian election interference may face a few procedural bumps but will ultimately be brought to fruition despite the Trump administration's firing of FBI director James Comey, Republican committee members said Wednesday.
Tuesday at the White House began with an almost unusual stillness, with President Trump having no public appearances on his schedule. Trump met with aides, received his daily intelligence briefing, and tweeted a series of criticisms of his former acting attorney general. A normal morning, really.
In the wake of President Trump's surprise firing of FBI director James Comey, Democrats are redoubling their calls for an independent investigation into Russian election interference, including any potential ties between the Trump campaign and Russi.
President Trump has fired the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In a statement, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said James Comey has been "terminated and removed from office." Spicer also stated that both Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the deputy AG, Rod Rosenstein,…
FBI director James Comey stood by his October decision to inform lawmakers that his agency had discovered new emails linked to the Hillary Clinton investigation, an event that Clinton and her allies continue to charge swayed the election at the last minute. Comey testified Wednesday before the…
The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said that the FBI is still not fully cooperating with the committee's request for information pertaining to its Russia investigation, which includes the leaks that precipitated the resignation of former national security adviser General Mike Flynn.
Busting terrorist charities here in the United States was a low priority for the last eight years under Barack Obama. It's time for the Trump administration to instruct the bureaucracy to get back into this important fight.
The House of Representatives will vote Thursday on the American Health Care Act, a bill President Donald Trump has enthusiastically endorsed and what the administration considers its best and perhaps only chance to repeal and replace Obamacare. It's the first and possibly biggest test so far of…
Where to begin? Monday was jam-packed with news regarding Donald Trump and his administration. Unfortunately the best news for Trump, a solid first day of hearings for his Supreme Court nominee (more on that below), was overshadowed by the appearance of FBI director James Comey and National…
Russia waged a conspicuous campaign to undermine the American political process and will continue attempting to do so in coming years, top intelligence and law enforcement officials told lawmakers Monday.
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To hear New York Times correspondent Eric Schmitt tell it, his FBI sources are dishing confidential information from their investigations of Donald Trump's team out of selfless concern for the country. "Many of them are taking risks in order to confirm information that they feel is important for…
The New York Times is reporting that President Donald Trump will keep James Comey on as FBI Director for the foreseeable future.
A file consisting of over 500 pages of heavily reacted documents was posted to the FBI's Freedom of Information Act website Wednesday. The subject of many of the documents is a mystery due to the redaction, but the investigation into Bill Clinton's pardon of Marc Rich and a 2006 incident involving…
It all seems a bit like an ugly fairy tale now—an allegory, set in the heady and hectic late 1960s and early '70s, of good versus evil, order versus chaos, revolution by dynamite sticks and law enforcement by black-bag jobs. This was, in retrospect, a match made in heaven: The Weather Underground…
It all seems a bit like an ugly fairy tale now—an allegory, set in the heady and hectic late 1960s and early '70s, of good versus evil, order versus chaos, revolution by dynamite sticks and law enforcement by black-bag jobs. This was, in retrospect, a match made in heaven: The Weather Underground…
The crosstabs of the latest YouGov poll show that the majority of Democrats have embraced a reading of the November election that is conspiratorial and false:
Is the CIA, or some part of it, angry with Donald Trump? Even before the president-elect perhaps unwisely insulted the agency by citing its failures to assess correctly the status of Saddam Hussein's WMD program, someone high up at the CIA seemed to have it in for the incoming commander-in-chief.
House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said there should be an investigation into Rudy Giuliani's alleged knowledge of FBI activity in the lead-up to Director James Comey's letter to Congress about the review of additional emails related to the Bureau's investigation of Hillary Clinton.
In the days since FBI Director James Comey wrote to congressional leaders revealing new information in the Hillary Clinton email investigation, Clinton defenders have been spinning furiously in an attempt to mitigate the potential political damage. They have attacked Comey, blamed a rogue band of…
FBI investigators are building a case around alleged "pay to play" tactics at the Clinton Foundation, according to a report, and two sources cited in a separate account say they are confident in the increasing body of evidence. But the news comes amid tales of personnel conflict, both within the…
We mastodons who still receive our daily dose of New York Times when the dead-tree version lands on our doorsteps with a dull thud got a special treat Tuesday, a textbook case of the way "the newspaper of record" goes about its business these days. The front page headline read: "Comey Role Recalls…
Democrats have all but gone to war with FBI director James Comey. Their anger at him comes after Comey sent a letter to Congress last week that announced he would be reopening the investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private server as secretary of state. But President Barack Obama, who…
Tim Kaine kept returning to one telling word Sunday. Hillary Clinton's running mate appeared on ABC News's This Week and was on-message responding to Friday's news that FBI director James Comey is looking at a new source of emails in Clinton's home-brew server scandal. "This is an unprecedented…
Bill Kristol says the Federal Bureau of Investigation and its director, James Comey, should come forward as soon as possible with the nature of their reopened investigation into Hillary Clinton's email server. Joining Cokie Roberts on ABC's Good Morning America Saturday morning, the WEEKLY STANDARD…
The mystery of the "unrelated investigation"—by which the FBI director James Comey says the Bureau came across new emails-of-interest involving Hillary Clinton—didn't last long. The New York Times is among sites reporting that the FBI found the emails in question on devices belonging to disgraced…
The FBI has reopened its investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server as secretary of state after the discovery of new, relevant emails.
The Wall Street Journal reports:
Less than 24 hours after the FBI released documents confirming discussions of a bargain between the FBI and State Department over reclassification of at least one classified Hillary Clinton email, the spokesman for the State Department categorically denied that any such discussions ever happened.
A Secret Service agent assigned to protect former President Bill Clinton performed "network assessments" and information technology troubleshooting for the Clinton Foundation and also provided research on security issues for Bill and Hillary Clinton's email server in Chappaqua, New York. These…
On Monday, senior writer Stephen Hayes replied to partisan criticisms of his recent reporting on failed efforts by a State Department official to convince the FBI to reclassify an email on Hillary Clinton's server.
The WEEKLY STANDARD Podcast with senior writer Stephen F. Hayes on his weekend story exposing attempted foul play at the State Department.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation released several documents Monday morning confirming discussions between officials at the State Department and at the FBI about a "quid pro quo" to reclassify documents stored on Hillary Clinton's private email server. Among the 34 released documents, which are…
A senior State Department official repeatedly pressed the FBI to change the classification of emails stored on Hillary Clinton's private server, according to FBI interview summaries set to be released in the coming days. Patrick Kennedy, the undersecretary of state for management, discussed…
When Donald Trump has occasionally alluded to America's rising crime rates, Democratic partisans and the media elite—but I repeat myself!—have torched the Republican nominee. Crime is at historic lows, they cry. We know they're really serious, because they even brandish charts—though, curiously,…
The Associated Press reports:
Last Friday's document release by the FBI revealed a stark contradiction between then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's signed Classified Information Nondisclosure Agreement and her July statements to FBI agents, as THE WEEKLY STANDARD reported. Clinton told the FBI that she could not recall…
Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine said Sunday that FBI documents on the investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server, released Friday, show why the former secretary of state was not indicted.
Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine responded Sunday to the revelation that Hillary Clinton did not know that documents labeled 'C' were classified information by saying that it is hard to tell at times whether information is classified.
The FBI's Labor Day weekend document dump regarding its investigation of Hillary Clinton gives those who thought the result was predetermined much to complain about. The FBI's notes confirm that her former chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, was among the several lawyers representing Clinton in her FBI…
The FBI released interview documents of its investigation of Hillary Clinton Friday, providing details of the bureau's probe into the former secretary of state's use of a private email server in conducting official business.
Either Hillary Clinton lied to the FBI or she lied on a State Department form as she began her tenure as Secretary of State. This conclusion appears inescapable after Friday's FBI document release related to the Clinton email investigation.
The FBI has sent investigative materials into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server to Capitol Hill, including notes from the Bureau's interview with Clinton, it was reported Tuesday.
Did Hillary Clinton commit perjury at a congressional hearing about the Benghazi attack? That's what two House Republican committee chairmen are asking the Justice Department to investigate. On Monday, House Oversight chairman Jason Chaffetz of Utah and House Judiciary chairman Bob Goodlatte of…
Hillary Clinton restated her claim Friday that the FBI assessed her as "truthful" in investigations into her handling of classified material over a private email server, saying she didn't elaborate enough when she used that characterization during a weekend interview with Fox News.
Hillary Clinton again said that the FBI believed her email narrative to be "truthful" Wednesday, despite receiving the highest untruthfulness rating for that claim from several fact-checkers last week.
Hillary Clinton said Sunday that there was no contradiction between her claims that she did not send classified information from her private email server and the FBI's findings that she did.
An ominous “What now?" hung in the air after the FBI circumvented intransigent Apple to hack the San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook's iPhone back in March. The FBI paid a third-party firm that had come forward offering to unlock the phone but wouldn't disclose its methods to the feds. Thus…
With a presidential election four months away and with two cases of executive discretion just out of the news, it may be a good time to reflect on the nature of presidential power.
FBI Director James Comey's choice to recommend against the federal prosecution of former secretary of state Hillary Clinton has spurred no shortage of commentary, to say the least—including THE WEEKLY STANDARD's editorial this week, "Hillary Skates."
There has been much slackjawed amazement about the FBI’s decision to recommend that Hillary Clinton not be charged over her cavalier treatment of classified material on her private email server while secretary of state. FBI director James Comey, both in his initial statement and in a congressional…
FBI Director James Comey delivered a litany of damaging findings Monday from the bureau's investigation of Hillary Clinton's use of personal email while serving as secretary of state. Not only did Clinton violate numerous security protocols, but many of the statements made by Clinton and her…
The FBI director's decision not to recommend prosecution of Hillary Clinton for mishandling highly classified information is a bump in the road for Donald Trump's campaign against her—a pretty big bump. It may halt Trump's gradual narrowing of her lead in the general election race, at least for the…
The WEEKLY STANDARD Podcast with senior writer Stephen F. Hayes on FBI Director Comey's press conference on Hillary's private email server.
The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation offered an assessment of the investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server as secretary of state Tuesday. Many of his conclusions contradicted Clinton's often-repeated assertions and criticized the former secretary of state…
The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation says that while there is evidence Hillary Clinton and her State Department aides violated statutes with regard to her privately held email server, the Bureau will not be recommending the Department of Justice prosecute the former secretary of…
My phone buzzed with a "news alert" from the New York Times Friday morning. Normally, these alerts are reserved for truly breaking, earth-shattering news, like the rise of "man buns" in Brooklyn.
The Senate blocked legislation Wednesday that would expand FBI surveillance powers.
Hillary Clinton avoided saying Tuesday whether the FBI had reached out to interview her as part of an investigation into her use of a private email server as secretary of state.
The FBI has yet to schedule an interview with Hillary Clinton as part of an ongoing investigation into her use of a private email server as secretary of state, Clinton said Thursday.
A State Department watchdog denounced Hillary Clinton's lax use of a private email server Wednesday, writing that Clinton did not properly preserve correspondence and subjected herself to security risks without seeking counsel.
The FBI has yet to interview Hillary Clinton about her use of a homebrew email server as secretary of state, Clinton said Tuesday.
Hillary Clinton said in an interview this morning that it's a Republican "fantasy" that she'll be arrested and put in handcuffs. Clinton laughed it off and insisted in the interview that it won't happen. "There is not even the remotest chance that it's going to happen," she said.
A spokeswoman for the Hillary Clinton campaign seemed to make a bizarre claim on MSNBC. The FBI is not look at Hillary Clinton's server, Karen Finney claimed, they are looking at the emails themselves.
Does the Hillary Clinton campaign have inside knowledge on the FBI investigation into its presidential candidate? That's what Brian Fallon, a spokesman for the Clinton campaign, suggested in an interview on CNN.
Last night, news broke that the man who set up Hillary Clinton's private email server has been granted immunity by the FBI. As the Washington Post reports:
Attorney General Loretta Lynch refused to tell Fox News' Bret Baier whether a grand jury has been convened in the Hillary Clinton investigation.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in an interview this morning that the FBI investigation into her is "not at all political." Clinton did, though, call the investigation "a security inquiry," actively playing down the severity of the matter.
Testifying this morning before a House Appropriations subcommittee, Attorney General Loretta Lynch was asked by Rep. John Carter (R-TX) about the FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server and its role in handling classified and secret information.
During Thursday night's Democratic debate, Hillary Clinton was asked about her email scandal, electability, and other related issues.
Bloomberg's Mark Halperin reported this morning on MSNBC that the White House is buzzing about the FBI's investigation of Hillary Clinton. Halperin also said that the FBI will likely interview Clinton.
Hillary Clinton claimed on CNN this morning that she has not yet been interviewed by the FBI in regards to its investigation into her email server. Clinton made the claim in response to a question from CNN State of the Union host Jake Tapper.
A year before Hillary Clinton apparently asked one of her top aides to remove the classification markings from a sensitive document and send it to her over an unsecured network, she pushed the same aide to remove a different document from the State Department's classified system and email it to her…
Attorney General Loretta Lynch testified on Capitol Hill today that President Obama's opinion of the ongoing investigation by the FBI related to Hillary Clinton has no influence on the Department of Justice. Lynch made the comments after being questioned by Rep. Bob Goodlatte:
Late in yesterday’s Benghazi testimony — well after most of the media declared Hillary Clinton the runaway “winner” — there was an illuminating exchange about her email correspondence with Sidney Blumenthal.
FBI director James Comey refused to comment on the ongoing investigation into the use of Hillary Clinton's private email server. Comey refused to comment at a Capitol Hill hearing:
Hillary Clinton finds the FBI investigation surrounding her funny. At least, in an interview this afternoon with CNN, she laughed when CNN host Jake Tapper mentioned the investigation.
The Republican National Committee is selling a special, "Hillary-Clinton"-branded wipe cloth.
Days after the indictment of FIFA officials and just a day after the indictment of Dennis Hastert, the former speaker of the House, Attorney General Loretta Lynch is scheduled to mee with President Barack Obama. The meeting with take place in the Oval Office.
Liberal pundit Alan Colmes called for the FBI to investigate the Clinton Foundation. He made the comments on Fox News:
Pamela Geller, the woman targeted by terrorists in Texas over the weekend, says the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security have yet to contact her after the thwarted attacked. She made the comments last night in an interview with Sean Hannity.
The full FBI statement on the Sony hacking:
FBI director James Comey talked about Chinese hacking -- and how basically every American company has been targeted -- last night on 60 Minutes. Comey said that it's not the Chinese are so good, it's that they're "prolific." He likened their hacking style to a "drunk burglar."
The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, James Comey, said tonight that Americans fighting for the Islamic State in Syria are "entitled to come back" because they hold American citizenship:
When Hillary Clinton tweeted her support for the more than 200 Nigerian girls held by the extremist group Boko Haram, she probably did not expect that her tenure as secretary of state would soon be critically examined by the press through the lens of that very same mass kidnapping. But examined it…
The Wall Street Journal reports that the feds are investigating the implementation of Cover Oregon, the state of Oregon's now-defunct health insurance exchange as provided under Obamacare. Here's an excerpt:
Four years after Obamacare became law, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is notifying Medicare providers and suppliers of new fingerprint-based background checks. Eventually, all individuals who hold a five percent or greater stake in a Medicare supplier or provider that is…
Four United States Senators have a written a letter to FBI director James Comey about the indictment of author and filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza. Senators Charles Grassley, ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, Jeff Sessions, Ted Cruz, and Mike Lee are the four senators, all Republicans, to have…
The FBI released a press release with this headline just days before Valentine's Day: "Looking for Love? Beware of Online Dating Scams." Criminals use dating sites, too, says the FBI.
A lawmaker at a Benghazi hearing stumped U.S. intelligence officials yesterday with this question:
The FBI is offering a $20,000 reward for information leading to the return of 2 rifles that were, as O’Ryan Johnson of the Boston Herald reports, “stolen from an FBI SWAT emergency response vehicle.”
The FBI released this chilling footage of the Navy Yard shooter:
If the public is to understand the full awfulness of the sequester, it seems that it must first suffer. So, as Eric Katz reports at Government Executive, the FBI will be furloughing agents and cutting costs in a way that, according to its departing director will:
THE WEEKLY STANDARD podcast with Stephen F. Hayes on his recent piece, The Benghazi Talking Points.
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