• 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 EST

    ... 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 EST

    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 EST

    ... 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 ...

  • What’s ahead for the impeachment inquiry?

    What’s ahead for the impeachment inquiry?

    Dec 02, 2019 11:55 PM EST

    ... through the House altogether. I want to point out a couple other dates in December that may affect everything. December 9, that's when the inspector general at the Department of Justice releases a report about the FBI's handling of the Russia investigation. That's something Republicans say will ...

  • News Wrap: China bars U.S. military from Hong Kong

    News Wrap: China bars U.S. military from Hong Kong

    Dec 02, 2019 11:50 PM EST

    ... his car at a stop sign near his home. He acknowledged that he had had a few drinks. But Mayor Lori Lightfoot said today an inspector general's report showed that Johnson was not truthful with her. Lori Lightfoot: Eddie Johnson intentionally lied to me several times, even when I ...

  • Chicago mayor fires city’s top cop over ‘ethical lapses’

    Chicago mayor fires city’s top cop over ‘ethical lapses’

    Dec 02, 2019 09:02 PM EST

    ... drinks. Named to the job in the wake of a police shooting that killed a black teenager, Johnson was dismissed after the mayor reviewed an inspector general’s report and video evidence related to the night in mid-October when officers discovered Johnson unconscious in his SUV. He initially blamed ...

  • AP Fact Check: Trump’s Ukraine defense collides with facts

    AP Fact Check: Trump’s Ukraine defense collides with facts

    Nov 30, 2019 09:21 PM EST

    ... try some form of retribution attack, and we are postured and prepared for that.” The U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency warned this month in an inspector general’s report that IS was expected to rebuild its capability to attack the West now that counterterrorism efforts by U.S. and allied ...

  • Report finds U.S. lacked technology to properly document separated families

    Report finds U.S. lacked technology to properly document separated families

    Nov 27, 2019 10:17 PM EST

    ... some parents languishing in custody for weeks without knowing the location of their children. The report by the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General found the agency lacked proper systems when Border Patrol agents took children from parents set to be criminally prosecuted for illegal entry. Most ...

  • Official says White House gave Navy go-ahead on Gallagher

    Official says White House gave Navy go-ahead on Gallagher

    Nov 24, 2019 05:40 PM EST

    ... the Navy of trying to remove the SEAL designation in retaliation for Trump’s decision to restore his rank. Gallagher filed a complaint with the inspector general accusing Rear Adm. Collin Green, the Naval Special Warfare commander, of insubordination for defying Trump's actions. Speaking Sunday on “Fox & Friends,” Gallagher ...

  • News Wrap: DOJ report finds political bias did not affect FBI’s Russia probe

    News Wrap: DOJ report finds political bias did not affect FBI’s Russia probe

    Nov 22, 2019 11:55 PM EST

    ... FBI's probe of links between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia. The Washington Post, The New York Times and others say the department's inspector general makes that finding in a forthcoming There's word that a former FBI lawyer allegedly altered a document on surveillance of a Trump ...