A former federal prosecutor is facing serious legal trouble after being indicted for allegedly stealing and concealing sensitive government records. Carmen Lineberger, who previously served as the managing assistant U.S. attorney in Fort Pierce, Florida, is accused of mishandling an unreleased volume of the report compiled by special counsel Jack Smith. As detailed by the U.S. Department of…
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Kash Patel announced that a former Department of Justice (DOJ) U.S. attorney was charged with stealing "confidential investigation documents" relating to former special counsel Jack Smith's investigation of President Donald Trump.
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Donald Trump has committed a broad swatch of crimes, including crimes committed as a private or corporate person after becoming President. And his personal defense attorney, Todd Blanche, in his role as Acting Attorney General, just claimed to absolve him of all those crimes.
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Former special counsel Jack Smith, who targeted Trump and his allies, reportedly claimed the DOJ has been "corrupted" by the administration.
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The Biden Justice Department’s data collection on political opponents was more expansive than initially thought, according to documents released Tuesday by the Senate Judiciary Committee.... Read More
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Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor... Read More
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The White House says that President Donald Trump will preserve his administration’s records, despite the legal opinion of his Justice Department that he doesn’t need... Read More
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For the second time in less than a month, former FBI agents involved in former special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation of President Donald Trump have... Read More
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The newly disclosed Jack Smith team memo advances a more specific theory of why President Donald Trump retained classified material after leaving office in 2021: prosecutors believed some of the documents were relevant to his business interests, and that relevance could help establish motive. House Judiciary Democrats say the memo shows Trump kept records whose […]
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By handing Jamie Raskin details of the stolen documents investigation covered by grand jury secrecy, DOJ not just broke the law, but they made it more likely that Knight First Amendment Institute and American Oversight will be able to liberate Volume Two of the Jack Smith report.
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When the FBI raided Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in 2022 and found that the former president had stolen hundreds of classified documents from the White House, stashing them in the club’s closets and showers, one question stood out: Why? Was Trump coordinating with Russian intelligence? Hiding proof of aliens?
As it turns out, the answer was more self-serving: Former special counsel Jack…
Newly released Justice Department documents provide details on former special counsel Jack Smith’s subpoenas for phone records of current administration officials and members of Congress.... Read More
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Days before the Senate is set to delve into the Justice Department’s potentially politicized conduct during the Biden administration, two ousted FBI agents involved in... Read More
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Last summer, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) said Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) is “a real Republican” who is trying to make it appear he is a MAGA Republican in order to keep his seat.
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Sen. John Cornyn's (R-TX) record is receiving increased scrutiny as the Washington establishment spends tens of millions to save the embattled incumbent from a grassroots challenge by MAGA-aligned Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
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FBI Director Kash Patel revealed that the Biden administration subpoenaed records of phone calls that both he and now-White House chief of staff Susie Wiles... Read More
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She’s baaaaack: Judge Aileen Cannon just barred the Department of Justice from releasing the second volume of former special counsel Jack Smith’s report on Donald Trump.
In a 15-page order Monday, Cannon approved two motions to block the public release of Volume II of Smith’s report, writing that its release would “plainly offend” her original dismissal order and the “substantial discovery” held…
DOJ's improper seizure of Fulton County's 2020 ballots may be a test of the new powers John Roberts gave Donald Trump in his 2024 opinion in Trump v. US.
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