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... Carter Page on suspicion that he was a Russian agent. Page has denied wrongdoing and was never charged with a crime, and a Justice Department inspector general report identified significant errors and omissions in each of the applications submitted to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. The watchdog said the FBI ...
... economic rescue law approved in March. Republicans pointed to his previous experience as an independent watchdog. Miller has worked at the Justice Department and was inspector general for nearly a decade at the General Services Administration, which oversees thousands of federal contracts. Miller helped force out the GSA's director ...
... about Ukraine's role in the 2016 U.S. election. Democrats were probing Trump's pressure on Ukraine to investigate Democrats.Linick is the second inspector general to be fired who was involved with the impeachment process. Michael Atkinson, the former inspector general for the intelligence community, triggered the impeachment ...
... you’re right. I was trying to influence the process to move along. That’s different than influencing the process to hire,'" the report said. Inspector General Mark Lee Greenblatt's office concluded Domenech's actions were specifically aimed at getting his son-in-law hired. “The evidence indicates Domenech ...
... would just perpetuate the abuse that produced the Greatest Political Crime In the History of the U.S., the Russian Witch-Hunt. Fantastic Job!" An inspector general report documented serious mistakes in how the FBI used its authorities during its probe into ties between the Trump presidential campaign and Russia ...
... the organization tasked with protecting our health and safety," said AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka. A group of Senate Democrats asked the Labor Department's inspector general to investigate OSHA's inspections and citations related to COVID-19. The lawmakers, led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., also want the ...
... not something to play politics with." The statements underscored the tortuous process Congress has faced in renewing the surveillance powers in the wake of an inspector general report that documented serious errors and mistakes in how the FBI used its authorities during the Russia investigation. Those problems included errors and ...
... his first months on the job, Rosenstein also signed off on renewing the final application to monitor former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz concluded in a December report that the investigation, which started in July 2016 during the Obama administration, was opened for a ...
... Chinese army garrison in Hong Kong said today that his troops will firmly enforce Beijing's orders.Back in this country, the Pentagon's deputy inspector general, Glenn Fine, resigned weeks after he was removed as overseer of pandemic relief spending. In a brief statement, he praised the watchdog role ...
Trump called the report, based on a late March survey of 323 hospitals nationwide, "just wrong” and suggested that its conclusions were skewed by politics. “Give me the name of the inspector general,” Trump told reporters. “Could politics be entered into that?” Trump later dismissed the report on Twitter as ...
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