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FBI Admits It Inflated Number of Supposedly Unhackable Devices
We’ve learned that the FBI has been misinforming Congress and the public as part of its call for backdoor access to encrypted devices. For months, the Bureau has claimed that encryption prevented it from legally searching the contents of nearly 7,800 devices in 2017, but today the Washington Post reports that the actual number is far lower due to "programming errors" by the FBI.
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F.B.I. Used Informant to Investigate Russia Ties to Campaign, Not to Spy, as Trump Claims
President Trump accused the F.B.I. on Friday, without evidence, of sending a spy to secretly infiltrate his 2016 campaign “for political purposes” even before the bureau had any inkling of the “phony Russia hoax.” In fact, F.B.I. agents sent an informant to talk to two campaign advisers only after they received evidence that the pair had suspicious contacts linked to Russia during the campaign.
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Justice Department and F.B.I. Are Investigating Cambridge Analytica
Federal prosecutors have sought to question former employees of the now-defunct political data firm and banks that handled its business.
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Robert Mueller Subpoenas Ukrainian Politician to Testify Before Grand Jury
Special Counsel Robert Mueller has subpoenaed Ukrainian politician Andrii Artemenko to testify before a grand jury on Friday about communications he had about a peace plan with Donald Trump‘s lawyer Michael Cohen and business associate Felix Sater. According to Politico, Artemenko, who was booted from his political party and stripped of citizenship over a meeting viewed as scandalous in his home country, did not provide specifics...
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Giuliani Says Cohen Never Spoke With Trump About His Big-Dollar Clients
Donald Trump’s longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen was paid millions of dollars in consulting fees by corporate clients, but never discussed those clients with the president, Trump’s new lawyer said Friday. “The president had no knowledge of it,” Rudy Giuliani told HuffPost in an interview. Cohen received $600,000 from AT&T, $1.2 million from Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis and $500,000 from an investment bank affiliated with a Russian oligarch, all following Trump’s unexpected election win in 2016.
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The Mueller probe ain't ending anytime soon
President Donald Trump really wants the Russia probe led by special counsel Robert Mueller over. He has called the probe a "witch hunt" and a "hoax" many times and, as recently this morning, tweeted that the Mueller probe was started "with illegally leaked classified information." (Narrator voice: It wasn't.) Back in March, then-Trump lawyer John Dowd called for an "end to alleged Russia collusion investigation manufactured by McCabe's boss James Comey based upon a fraudulent and corrupt dossier."
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Comey book likens Trump to mafia boss 'untethered to truth'
Ex-FBI director’s book A Higher Loyalty – seen by the Guardian – calls president ‘unethical’ and compares presidency to a ‘forest fire’. The former FBI director James Comey denounces Donald Trump as “untethered to truth” and likens the president to a mafia boss in an explosive new book expected to bring fresh turmoil to the White House.
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The FBI Used Classified Hacking Tools in Ordinary Criminal Investigations
The FBI’s Remote Operations Unit has hacking tools typically reserved for protecting national security. But an overlooked section of a new report says ROU has used these secret techniques in criminal cases.
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FBI, Kentucky State Police raid Horse Cave Police Department
The FBI and Kentucky State Police raided a small town's police department. It happened Monday at the Horse Cave Police Department, about 80 miles south of Louisville. The FBI is not saying why it raided the police station, or what agents were looking for. "As part of an ongoing federal investigation, the FBI and KSP executed legal process authorized by a federal judge earlier today at the Horse Cave Police Department," David Habich with the FBI said.
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EFF: Geek Squad has been working with the FBI for a decade
When the defense in a California doctor's child pornography case accused the FBI of paying Geek Squad's crew to look for evidence in the defendant's computer, Best Buy denied it enjoys close ties with the agency. Now, according to the EFF, the big-box retailer's team of IT technicians are even closer to the feds than previous reports indicated. The non-profit has received the results to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) it filed last year and found that Best Buy has been enjoying "a particularly close relationship with the agency" over the past 10 years, at least.
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Geek Squad repair workers 'paid by FBI'
Digital rights groups say that the relationship threatens computer owners' rights.
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Does a Hacker Hero Always Have to Have a Past?
Marcus Hutchins single-handedly stopped one of the most dangerous cyberattacks ever. Then the FBI arrested him.
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FBI tip line caller described young man 'about to explode'
A woman close to the Parkland, Florida, school shooter called an FBI tip line in early January to describe a young man with an arsenal of knives and guns who was "going to explode" and said she feared him "getting into a school and just shooting the place up."
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Mueller Charges Lawyer With Lying in Russia Probe
An attorney who worked for a prominent law firm was charged with making false statements to federal authorities as part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of Russian collusion in the 2016 presidential election.
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Trump’s Lawyers Want Him to Refuse an Interview in Russia Inquiry
Lawyers for President Trump have advised him against sitting down for a wide-ranging interview with the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, according to four people briefed on the matter, raising the specter of a monthslong court battle over whether the president must answer questions under oath.
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Justice department: Mueller inquiry lawful, Manafort suit lacks merit
The justice department has backed special counsel Robert Mueller over a lawsuit filed against him by Paul Manafort, Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, and argued that the case should be dismissed. Manafort sued Mueller on 3 January, saying his office’s investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia in the 2016 election exceeded its legal authority.
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McCabe stepped down after pressure from FBI director: report
FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe stepped down from his post after facing pressure from FBI Director Christopher Wray to leave the position.
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It’s Now Likely Mueller Thinks Trump Obstructed Justice
Thursday’s explosive New York Times story that President Donald Trump ordered the firing of special counsel Robert Mueller last June renewed the public’s focus on the obstruction of justice investigation against Trump, which will soon culminate in Trump’s interview by Mueller. The case against Trump has grown stronger in recent months, and it now appears likely that Mueller will conclude that Trump obstructed justice.
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Trump says he would speak to Mueller under oath in Russia probe
President Trump said Wednesday that he plans to speak with special counsel Robert Mueller, laying the groundwork for a high-stakes meeting that could shape the course of the Russia investigation. “I'm looking forward to it," Trump told reporters at the White House when asked whether he would submit to questioning by Mueller's team. "I would do it under oath," he added.
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FBI investigating whether Russian money went to NRA to help Trump
FBI agents are examining whether a top Russian banker who forged ties with the National Rifle Association funneled money to the gun rights group to bankroll its efforts to boost Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.
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