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FBI Director's Olympic Celebration Sparks Scrutiny Amid Domestic Crises
FBI Director Kash Patel attended the Winter Olympics while FBI dealt with Mar-a-Lago shooting. Critics question priorities and use of resources.
#FBIDirector, #KashPatel, #WinterOlympics, #MarALago, #NationalSecurity
https://newsletter.tf/fbi-director-olympics-trip-criticism-mar-a-lago/
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FBI Director Kash Patel's trip to the Winter Olympics is facing criticism. This comes as the FBI is dealing with serious domestic issues, including a shooting at Mar-a-Lago.
#FBIDirector, #KashPatel, #WinterOlympics, #MarALago, #NationalSecurity
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Mueller's Demise, Trump's Defiance: A Posthumous Barrage
Former FBI Director Robert Mueller, who led the Russia investigation, has died at 81. President Trump reacted with harsh words, sparking debate.
#RobertMueller, #DonaldTrump, #FBIDirector, #RussiaInvestigation, #USPolitics
https://newsletter.tf/trump-says-good-he-is-dead-after-mueller-dies/
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President Trump made very harsh comments after Robert Mueller's death, saying 'good he is dead.' This is very different from what most people said.
#RobertMueller, #DonaldTrump, #FBIDirector, #RussiaInvestigation, #USPolitics
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Wait a second! This dude actually has a girl friend? Does she know? :-) That is the real story here!
The head of the FBI’s critical incident response group (a 27 year veteran) was told he could resign instantly or be fired after flight schedules and tail tracking information for one of the FBI's private jets was public. The flight info detailed FBI Director Kash Patel's use of the private jet to go on a date night with his girlfriend. Jet tracking data is fully in the public domain.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/02/fbi-fires-top-official-kash-patel-jet-use #FBI #PrivateJets #FlightAware #FBIDirector #FlightTracking #N708JH #DoJ #GulfstreamG550 -
September 25, 2025 – by Heather Cox Richardson
https://substack.com/session-attribution-frame
September 25, 2025
Sep 25, 2025
Today, with the popularity of President Donald J. Trump and his administration dropping, Trump’s disastrous performance at the United Nations, the return of comedian Jimmy Kimmel to the airwaves, and the Tuesday’s election in Arizona of Democratic representative Adelita Grijalva, who will provide the final signature on a discharge petition to demand a floor vote in the House over releasing all the government files on convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the administration appears to be making a dramatic push to seize complete control of the government.
Last night, Office of Management and Budget director Russell Vought tried to jam the Democrats into passing the Republicans’ continuing resolution to fund the government. Officials leaked a memo to Politico, Punchbowl News, and Axios—publications that focus on events concerning Capitol Hill—saying that if the Democrats refuse to pass the Republicans’ measure, the administration will try to fire, rather than furlough, large numbers of federal employees.
Such a move would be challenged in the courts, and the government has been forced to rehire many of the people it forced out earlier this year after those firings left agencies badly understaffed. But the threat is not idle; Vought is a Christian nationalist who has called for a “radical Constitutionalism” that demolishes the modern American state and replaces it with a powerful executive.
House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) responded: “Listen Russ, you are a malignant political hack. We will not be intimidated by your threat to engage in mass firings. Get lost.” Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said in a statement: “Donald Trump has been firing federal workers since day one—not to govern, but to scare. This is nothing new and has nothing to do with funding the government. These unnecessary firings will either be overturned in court or the administration will end up hiring the workers back, just like they did as recently as today.”
Trump appears focused on September 30, when the government funding crisis will hit, and the days after it. Although courts have ruled that he does not have the power to impose tariffs willy-nilly, today Trump announced new tariffs of 100% on pharmaceuticals, 50% on kitchen and bathroom cabinets, 30% on upholstered furniture, and 25% on “Heavy (Big!) Trucks” beginning on October 1. On social media, he claimed such tariffs were necessary “for National Security and other reasons.”
Today, James LaPorta of CBS News reported that the National Archives and Records Administration improperly released Democratic representative Mikie Sherrill’s full military records to an ally of her Republican opponent, Jack Ciattarelli, in the New Jersey governor’s race. The two candidates are tied, and Ciattarelli appears to be trying to link Sherrill to the 1994 Naval Academy cheating scandal involving more than 100 midshipmen.
Sherrill had an unblemished career in the Navy and as a midshipman, LaPorta notes. She did not turn in her cheating classmates, but she was never accused of cheating herself. The unredacted release of Sherrill’s records appears to violate the 1974 Privacy Act. Sherrill said: “That Jack Ciattarelli and the Trump administration are illegally weaponizing my records for political gain is a violation of anyone who has ever served our country. No veteran’s record is safe.”
While the National Archives maintained the release was a mistake and apologized for it, the administration’s influence in the Department of Justice tonight could not be explained away.
Days after Trump demanded that the Department of Justice move “now” to prosecute those he perceives to be his enemies, a federal grand jury has indicted former FBI director James Comey for allegedly lying to Congress and obstructing an investigation. Comey was an early casualty of Trump’s first administration, fired after he refused to kill the FBI investigation of the ties between Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russian operatives.
Over last weekend, Trump exploded at then–acting U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Erik Siebert, a career prosecutor, after Siebert concluded there was not enough evidence of a crime to charge Comey for allegedly lying to Congress or New York attorney general Letitia James for alleged mortgage fraud.
On Monday Trump replaced Siebert with White House aide and Trump’s former personal lawyer Lindsey Halligan, and yesterday three sources told Ken Dilanian and Carol Leonnig of MSNBC that they expected Halligan to try to get a grand jury to indict Comey before the five-year statute of limitations on lying to Congress runs out next Tuesday.
Editor’s Note: My emphasis below… –DrWeb
Tonight the DOJ delivered an indictment against Comey.
“My family and I have known for years that there are costs to standing up to Donald Trump,” Comey said tonight in a video. “But we…will not live on our knees, and you shouldn’t either. Somebody that I love dearly recently said that fear is the tool of a tyrant, and she’s right, but I’m not afraid, and I hope you’re not either. I hope instead you are engaged, you are paying attention, and you will vote like your beloved country depends upon it, which it does. My heart is broken for the Department of Justice, but I have great confidence in the federal judicial system. I’m innocent. So let’s have a trial and keep the faith.”
Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: September 25, 2025 – by Heather Cox Richardson
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Former FBI Director James Comey indicted amid Trump push to prosecute foes – The Washington Post
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Former FBI director James Comey indicted amid Trump push to prosecute foes
Comey, who has denied wrongdoing, is charged in connection with allegations he lied to Congress.
Updated, September 25, 2025 at 8:50 p.m. EDT, 10 minutes ago, 5 min
Former FBI director James B. Comey in 2023. (Dia Dipasupil / Getty Images)By Salvador Rizzo, Jeremy Roebuck and Perry Stein
Former FBI director James B. Comey was indicted Thursday on allegations he lied to Congress following an extraordinary demand from President Donald Trump for the Justice Department to prosecute a man he has long considered a political foe.
The indictment [ see below ] by a federal grand jury in Alexandria charges Comey with one count of making false statements and one count of obstruction of Congress, charges punishable by up to five years in prison.
Editor’s Note: The PDF is embedded here, and a download link.
3dfc2eb1-be26-42eb-b814-b3d9518949adDownloadGrand jurors rejected a third false statement count sought by prosecutors, the panel’s foreperson said during a brief court proceeding following their decision.
The White House recently forced out the previous top prosecutor on the case and replaced him with one of Trump’s former personal attorneys. The indictment makes Comey the first of several Trump targets to face charges following the president’s extraordinary demand last weekend that Attorney General Pam Bondi move swiftly to bring cases against several of his perceived political adversaries.
The case also means Comey is the first former senior government official to face prosecution in connection with an investigation that has become a central grievance for Trump since his first term — the FBI’s probe of Russian interference in his 2016 election victory.
Comey declared his innocence in a video statement posted to social media and vowed to take his case to trial.
“My family and I have known for years that there are costs to standing up to Donald Trump, but we couldn’t imagine ourselves living any other way,” he said. “We will not live on our knees and you shouldn’t either.”
Trump derided Comey as “the former Corrupt Head of the FBI” in a social media post Thursday evening after the indictment was returned.
“JUSTICE IN AMERICA!” Trump wrote, adding later of Comey: “He has been so bad for our Country, for so long, and is now at the beginning of being held responsible for his crimes against our Nation”
Bondi, in a statement Thursday, said “no one is above the law.”
“Today’s indictment reflects this Department of Justice’s commitment to holding those who abuse positions of power accountable for misleading the American people,” she said. “We will follow the facts in this case.”
Comey was originally appointed as FBI director in 2013 by President Barack Obama. He was fired by Trump in 2017 amid acrimony largely stemming from the FBI’s handling of the Russia investigation.
The case against him centers on testimony he gave before the Senate Judiciary Committee in September 2020 during a hearing on the FBI’s Russian interference investigation. Under questioning from Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Comey testified he’d never authorized leaks to the media about the Russia investigation or a separate probe into then-Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server.
Prosecutors now contend that answer was untrue, forming the basis for the first charge against him. The second count, obstruction of a congressional proceeding, relates to the same September 2020 testimony but does not specify the “false and misleading statements” Comey is alleged to have made that forms the basis for the charge.
Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Former FBI Director James Comey indicted amid Trump push to prosecute foes – The Washington Post
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Kash Patel Confirmed as FBI Director Amid Controversy
https://www.indiaweekly.biz/kash-patel-fbi-chief-trump-loyalist/
#KashPatel #KashPatelFBIDirector #FBIDirector #Federalagency #FBIInternational #FBIdirectorKashPatel #DonaldTrump
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Kash Patel Confirmed as FBI Director Amid Controversy
https://www.indiaweekly.biz/kash-patel-fbi-chief-trump-loyalist/
#KashPatel #KashPatelFBIDirector #FBIDirector #Federalagency #FBIInternational #FBIdirectorKashPatel #DonaldTrump
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#TFG #Patel #ForeignAgent #FBIDirector #PublicCitizen
"In a recent Senate hearing on how he could possibly be fit to run the nation’s top law enforcement agency, Patel claimed not to be familiar with a far-right podcaster who promotes antisemitism and white supremacism — even though he has been on the man’s podcast eight times.
But hold on, we’re just getting started:
Last week, we found out that Patel has served as a paid agent of the nation of Qatar and failed to identify himself as such under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
He also took $25,000 from a Russia-linked firm to appear in anti-FBI propaganda.
And he admits he owns up to $5 million worth of stock in a gigantic and controversial Chinese company — which he says he will refuse to give up even if he becomes FBI director.
Look, whenever we talk about the FBI, we must acknowledge that as an institution it has a long history of discrimination, corruption, and brutality."
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#TFG #Patel #ForeignAgent #FBIDirector #PublicCitizen
"In a recent Senate hearing on how he could possibly be fit to run the nation’s top law enforcement agency, Patel claimed not to be familiar with a far-right podcaster who promotes antisemitism and white supremacism — even though he has been on the man’s podcast eight times.
But hold on, we’re just getting started:
Last week, we found out that Patel has served as a paid agent of the nation of Qatar and failed to identify himself as such under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
He also took $25,000 from a Russia-linked firm to appear in anti-FBI propaganda.
And he admits he owns up to $5 million worth of stock in a gigantic and controversial Chinese company — which he says he will refuse to give up even if he becomes FBI director.
Look, whenever we talk about the FBI, we must acknowledge that as an institution it has a long history of discrimination, corruption, and brutality."
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#TFG #Patel #ForeignAgent #FBIDirector #PublicCitizen
"In a recent Senate hearing on how he could possibly be fit to run the nation’s top law enforcement agency, Patel claimed not to be familiar with a far-right podcaster who promotes antisemitism and white supremacism — even though he has been on the man’s podcast eight times.
But hold on, we’re just getting started:
Last week, we found out that Patel has served as a paid agent of the nation of Qatar and failed to identify himself as such under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
He also took $25,000 from a Russia-linked firm to appear in anti-FBI propaganda.
And he admits he owns up to $5 million worth of stock in a gigantic and controversial Chinese company — which he says he will refuse to give up even if he becomes FBI director.
Look, whenever we talk about the FBI, we must acknowledge that as an institution it has a long history of discrimination, corruption, and brutality."
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#TFG #Patel #ForeignAgent #FBIDirector #PublicCitizen
"In a recent Senate hearing on how he could possibly be fit to run the nation’s top law enforcement agency, Patel claimed not to be familiar with a far-right podcaster who promotes antisemitism and white supremacism — even though he has been on the man’s podcast eight times.
But hold on, we’re just getting started:
Last week, we found out that Patel has served as a paid agent of the nation of Qatar and failed to identify himself as such under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
He also took $25,000 from a Russia-linked firm to appear in anti-FBI propaganda.
And he admits he owns up to $5 million worth of stock in a gigantic and controversial Chinese company — which he says he will refuse to give up even if he becomes FBI director.
Look, whenever we talk about the FBI, we must acknowledge that as an institution it has a long history of discrimination, corruption, and brutality."
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#TFG #Patel #ForeignAgent #FBIDirector #PublicCitizen
"In a recent Senate hearing on how he could possibly be fit to run the nation’s top law enforcement agency, Patel claimed not to be familiar with a far-right podcaster who promotes antisemitism and white supremacism — even though he has been on the man’s podcast eight times.
But hold on, we’re just getting started:
Last week, we found out that Patel has served as a paid agent of the nation of Qatar and failed to identify himself as such under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
He also took $25,000 from a Russia-linked firm to appear in anti-FBI propaganda.
And he admits he owns up to $5 million worth of stock in a gigantic and controversial Chinese company — which he says he will refuse to give up even if he becomes FBI director.
Look, whenever we talk about the FBI, we must acknowledge that as an institution it has a long history of discrimination, corruption, and brutality."