• AP Fact Check: Impeachment hearings and that Trump tweet

    AP Fact Check: Impeachment hearings and that Trump tweet

    Nov 16, 2019 10:16 PM EDT

    NUNES: “The whistleblower was acknowledged to have a bias against President Trump.” — hearing Wednesday. THE FACTS: That may or may not be so. Whatever the whistleblower’s political beliefs, though, the whistleblower’s complaint was deemed credible by the inspector general who received it. Moreover, the July 25 phone conversation ...

  • News Wrap: Gunman kills 2 at Southern California high school

    News Wrap: Gunman kills 2 at Southern California high school

    Nov 14, 2019 11:50 PM EDT

    ... says Trump administration officials removed an Iran expert from her post over her Iranian background and her work in the Obama administration. The department's inspector general says Brian Hook, who is the special representative on Iran, made the reassignment. Hook says that he didn't consider any improper factors ...

  • What William Taylor and George Kent shared during public impeachment hearings

    What William Taylor and George Kent shared during public impeachment hearings

    Nov 13, 2019 11:55 PM EDT

    The other thing to note is that the president is now looking into the intelligence community's inspector general, Michael Atkinson. There are reports that he wanted to dismiss him. Today at the White House, the president said he wanted to dig into his actions. This is a person that ...

  • Memos show Trump officials weighed how migrant crackdown might affect 2020 race

    Memos show Trump officials weighed how migrant crackdown might affect 2020 race

    Nov 07, 2019 10:17 PM EDT

    ... Political Aims Trumped U.S. National Security and the Safety of TPS Recipients." Menendez on Thursday also sent a letter to the State Department's Inspector General asking him to investigate the extent to which electoral considerations played a role in terminating the TPS programs. Tillerson's policy staff of ...

  • Whistleblower willing to take written questions, lawyer says

    Whistleblower willing to take written questions, lawyer says

    Nov 03, 2019 05:26 PM EDT

    ... while leveraging power in conducting foreign policy.The whistleblower has become a central focus for Republicans, and in particular the president. The intelligence community's inspector general has said the person could have an "arguable political bias," but he nevertheless found the whistleblower's complaint to be "credible." The president ...

  • Shields and Brooks on Trump's judicial picks, Bill Taylor's testimony

    Shields and Brooks on Trump's judicial picks, Bill Taylor's testimony

    Oct 25, 2019 10:30 PM EDT

    ... was specific. It was factual. It was compelling. And what I found most revealing about this is, I went through Michael Atkinson, who was the inspector general, Michael McKinley, 37 years of service at the State Department, Ambassador Taylor, Marie Yovanovitch, Laura Cooper, Fiona Hill, 163 years of public service ...

  • Turning to Putin, Erdogan ignores U.S. agreement for northeastern Syria

    Turning to Putin, Erdogan ignores U.S. agreement for northeastern Syria

    Oct 22, 2019 10:50 PM EDT

    ... know what was going to happen to those prisoners. And it's just a good reminder that ISIS remains a threat. The Pentagon itself, the inspector general just a few months ago said there were 18,000 ISIS members across Syria and Iraq and in Syria still establishing resurgent cells ...

  • Pilot messages reveal 2016 concerns over safety of Boeing 737 Max

    Pilot messages reveal 2016 concerns over safety of Boeing 737 Max

    Oct 18, 2019 10:42 PM EDT

    ... if it went all the way up to Boeing executives? David Shepardson: We don't know that. There are -- the Justice Department, the FBI, the inspector general from the DOT, there are a lot of reviews going on looking at this very question. We do know there are a lot ...

  • 38 people cited for violations in Clinton email probe

    38 people cited for violations in Clinton email probe

    Oct 18, 2019 09:13 PM EDT

    ... careless" in her use of the private email server as secretary of state but said the FBI would not recommend charges. The Justice Department's inspector general said FBI specialists did not find evidence that the server had been hacked, with one forensics agent saying he felt "fairly confident that ...

  • Pete Sessions appears to be 'Congressman 1' ensnared in Guiliani associates' indictment

    Pete Sessions appears to be 'Congressman 1' ensnared in Guiliani associates' indictment

    Oct 11, 2019 01:18 PM EDT

    ... a manila envelope. Giuliani told The New York Times last week that the documents, which were recently provided to Congress by the State Department's inspector general, were produced by a "professional investigator who works for my company." Yovanovitch was recalled to Washington in May, months before she had been ...