Tag: FBI

A Texas man who posted on Facebook that he was selling his own guns was placed under warrantless surveillance by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). The ATF investigated the man, found no evidence, yet gave his information to the FBI to monitor him for at least six months. According to internal documents reviewed by The Epoch ...

FBI employees and agents inappropriately searched foreign surveillance data for the last names of a state senator and a U.S. senator, said a court opinion that was released Friday. The newly disclosed finding is included in the release of a 117-page order (pdf) declassified on July 16 by the federal judiciary’s foreign intelligence surveillance court in April—a rare move as that court ...

During a House Judiciary Committee hearing on July 12, Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) pressed FBI Director Christopher Wray over the agency’s armed raid and arrest of Christian pro-life activist Mark Houck at his home last fall. ...

Despite the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment, which prohibits warrantless government searches, U.S. agencies are proving to be ever more intrusive in their routine surveillance of Americans’ speech and activities. Often working in collaboration with private companies and banks, agencies like the FBI have been misusing laws against foreign terrorism to vacuum up and sift through the private data of millions of ...

The FBI on Thursday arrested a businessman in the wake of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s impeachment, a move that came amid new questions about the men’s dealings raised by financial records the Republican’s lawyers made public to try to clear him of bribery allegations. Real estate developer Nate Paul, 36, was taken into custody by federal agents Thursday afternoon. ...

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said that FBI Director Christopher Wray will face charges of contempt if he doesn’t prove a document that alleges a bribery scheme between President Joe Biden and a foreign national to the House Oversight Committee. “We have a responsibility of oversight,” the California lawmaker told Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” in an interview with host ...

According to a whistleblower who provided testimony to the House Judiciary Committee, Bank of America handed over Jan. 6 banking records without informing its customers. Furthermore, the bank did this completely of its own volition; the FBI didn’t even ask it to do this. And, if you happened to have purchased a gun using a Bank of America credit card, ...

FBI conducted as many as 3.4 million U.S. person queries of Section 702 data in one year and used FISA data in Jan. 6 investigations News Analysis The FBI’s use of warrantless “backdoor searches” of a vast amount of information known as the Section 702 database—which is intended for targeted surveillance of foreign persons located outside the United States—to spy on ...

Republicans are now moving to hold FBI Director Christopher Wray in contempt of Congress. The House Oversight Committee previously gave Wray six days to provide a document that they claim shows evidence against Hunter Biden and other members of the Biden family. After having not handed over the document, the charge is now going forward. Meanwhile, the Taliban is threatening ...

FEC United Michigan, a Constitutional rights advocate movement and supporters, hold a sidewalk protest at 12:00 p.m. ET on May 20 to “Speak Truth to Government” and call on the FBI to comply with the House Committee. ...

News analysis While it’s bad enough the debunked dossier the FBI used to spy on the Trump campaign was paid for by the Clinton campaign and authored by a foreign FBI informant and his carousing researcher, the newly released report of Special Counsel John Durham strongly suggests a top Justice Department official and his wife had an early hand in ...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has introduced articles of impeachment against Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Christopher Wray. “Director Wray has failed to uphold his oath and has instead overseen a denigration of the principles of our democratic republic by utilizing the Federal Bureau of Investigation as a Federal police force to punish or intimidate anyone who questions or opposes the ...

The FBI as an institution “should not have existed in the first place” and should be shut down, says entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, who is running for president as a Republican in 2024. “What we learned here is this was intentional, all the way down. They knew it was based on fraudulent premises. And yet they went on this hoax of ...

Commentary The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security are ramping up efforts to counter CCP intelligence operations in the U.S. On May 11, the FBI arrested an alleged Chinese spy in Boston. Litang Liang was accused of spying on U.S.-based Chinese dissidents and critics of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime. This latest arrest comes as part of an ...