Republicans boycott committee hearing on national security
Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee cite the committee's lack of hearings on FISA abuse as the reason for their boycott.
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Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee cite the committee's lack of hearings on FISA abuse as the reason for their boycott.
Graham vowed Sunday that he would "get to the bottom" of FISA warrant system shortcomings on "Face the Nation."
The FBI obtained a warrant in 2016 to eavesdrop on the former Trump national security aide on suspicions that he was secretly a Russian agent.
The attorney general said he and the FBI director had agreed to establish an additional layer of scrutiny before the FBI targets a presidential campaign.
The judge demanded that the bureau give the court a plan by next month to ensure that the information in its surveillance applications is accurate.
The former FBI director admitted the bureau acted with "real sloppiness" in its applications to wiretap former Trump campaign aid Carter Page.
The Justice Department's inspector general testified on Capitol Hill on Wednesday about his report, which concluded that the FBI's investigation had problems but no political bias.
Inspector General Michael Horowitz released his report on the origins of the Russia investigation Monday.
The attorney general told NBC News in an interview he believes there were "gross abuses" and "inexplicable behavior" on the part of the FBI in its investigation of ties between Russia and the Trump campaign.
The report is said to be about 500 pages long, and its findings have remained a closely held secret
"The goal from my standpoint is to make as much of our report public as possible," Inspector General Michael Horowitz wrote to lawmakers
"At the right time, we will be absolutely releasing" them, he told Fox News' Sean Hannity
A look at how President Trump's tweets Monday mischaracterize the released FBI documents on its wiretapping of Carter Page
While the documents were heavily redacted in places, visible portions of the documents show the FBI telling the intelligence court that Page "has been collaborating and conspiring with the Russian government"
Much of the substance of and inferences made by the president's tweet are wrong
"What does the Department of Justice and FBI have to hide?" President Trump tweeted Saturday afternoon
The announcement comes after Republicans have called for further review of warrants obtained for former Trump campaign aide Carter Page
The request for an investigation appears to stem from allegations outlined in a GOP-authored memo
It became clear just how two fundamentally political documents containing classified information could, in an unprecedented and spectacular fashion, be released publicly
"Everything that I have seen the FBI acted completely appropriately," said Schiff of the FISA warrant application
The White House released a letter Friday night saying the president would not release a Democratic rebuttal to a GOP memo
President Trump declassified the memo Friday and said of the information in the memo that "a lot of people should be ashamed"
Schiff warned that the memo's release could lead to the intelligence community becoming a "lot less willing" to share information with Congress
President is reportedly "okay" with publishing the GOP memo that alleges abuses of a key surveillance law
CBS News has obtained the letter Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd wrote to Capitol Hill