• WATCH: House Democrats unveil 2 articles of impeachment against Trump

    WATCH: House Democrats unveil 2 articles of impeachment against Trump

    Dec 10, 2019 11:36 AM EDT

    ... where Republicans have the majority. The president focused Monday on the long-awaited release of the Justice Department report into the 2016 Russia investigation. The inspector general found that the FBI was justified in opening its investigation into ties between the Trump presidential campaign and Russia and that the FBI ...

  • Explosive investigative report says U.S. government misled public on war in Afghanistan

    Explosive investigative report says U.S. government misled public on war in Afghanistan

    Dec 09, 2019 11:40 PM EDT

    ... out the harshest and most frank criticisms from the interviews." Did you get a sense of why that was? Craig Whitlock: Well, I asked the inspector general whose office was behind this project. I said, here you have these commanders and ambassadors and White House officials all saying what a ...

  • Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on Warren vs. Buttigieg, candidates of color

    Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on Warren vs. Buttigieg, candidates of color

    Dec 09, 2019 11:30 PM EDT

    ... report, the Justice Department's inspector general. Very quickly, in 30 seconds, what did you make of the response from President Trump and his attorney general?Tamara Keith: The response from President Trump and his attorney general was almost like they were looking at a different inspector general's report ...

  • WATCH: Partisan fireworks during Judiciary's second day of impeachment hearings

    WATCH: Partisan fireworks during Judiciary's second day of impeachment hearings

    Dec 09, 2019 03:44 PM EDT

    ... is heading out for campaign rallies shifting attention away from the House. Over the weekend, he was focused on a related matter, the Justice Department inspector general's findings on the FBI's decisions to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 election. The president has long called special counsel Robert ...

  • Health researchers disclose $188 million in conflicts of interest, NIH data suggests

    Health researchers disclose $188 million in conflicts of interest, NIH data suggests

    Dec 09, 2019 03:41 PM EDT

    ... next with 294. While the worth of NIH-funded researchers’ financial conflicts of interest has not previously been made public, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services inspector general reported last year that the value of NIH grants associated with such conflicts was $1 billion in fiscal 2018.

  • Judiciary hearing sets the stage for impeachment charges against Trump

    Judiciary hearing sets the stage for impeachment charges against Trump

    Dec 09, 2019 02:16 PM EDT

    ... is heading out for campaign rallies shifting attention away from the House. Over the weekend, Trump was focused on a related matter, the Justice Department Inspector General's findings into the FBI's decisions to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 election. The president has long called special counsel Robert ...

  • Watchdog expected to find Russia probe valid, despite flaws

    Watchdog expected to find Russia probe valid, despite flaws

    Dec 08, 2019 08:40 PM EDT

    ... seize control of the investigation, including by firing James Comey as FBI director, but declined to decide on whether Trump had illegally obstructed justice. The inspector general's investigation began in early 2018. It focuses in part on the FBI's surveillance of a former Trump campaign adviser, Carter Page ...

  • News Wrap: U.S. official says Iran may have killed 1,000 in protest crackdown

    News Wrap: U.S. official says Iran may have killed 1,000 in protest crackdown

    Dec 05, 2019 11:50 PM EDT

    ... setup. The Washington Post and others say that U.S. attorney John Durham found no evidence that U.S. intelligence agencies planted false leads. Attorney General William Barr had hand-picked Durham. A separate review, by the Justice Department's inspector general, has also reportedly found that the FBI probe ...

  • Homeland Security chair requests review of $400 million border wall contract

    Homeland Security chair requests review of $400 million border wall contract

    Dec 05, 2019 11:41 PM EDT

    DICKINSON, N.D. (AP) — The chairman of the U.S. House Homeland Security Committee is asking the Office of the Inspector General to look into a $400 million contract awarded to a North Dakota company for a border wall in Arizona. In a letter dated Wednesday, Congressman Bennie Thompson raised ...

  • Ex-Chicago Police chief says he didn't intentionally 'deceive' anyone

    Ex-Chicago Police chief says he didn't intentionally 'deceive' anyone

    Dec 03, 2019 08:35 PM EDT

    ... Monday for a series of ''intolerable" actions, at a City Hall news conference, including lying to her and public about that evening. She said an inspector general's report, which includes video evidence, showed a different account. She declined to discuss it. "While at some point, the inspector general's ...