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On Wednesday, FBI Director Christopher Wray shut down Republican criticism at a congressional hearing. GOP representatives have blasted the bureau’s handling of the investigation into Hunter Biden and claimed that the Department of Justice had encouraged companies to censor conservative views. The Republican narrative that the federal agencies have been “weaponizing” their powers against their party was perpetuated initially by Donald Trump, who has accused the Justice Department of wrongfully charging him of willful retention of national security information, despite voluminous evidence to do...
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On Wednesday, the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee interrogated FBI Director Christopher Wray about the alleged “weaponization” of federal law enforcement agencies against Donald Trump. Democrats on the panel sought information about Trump’s role in the January 6 attack on the Capitol and the 37-count indictment that was brought against him last month. In anticipation of the committee’s questions, Wray focused his opening remarks on all of the ways that the FBI has served the country, though only gets credit for a few high-profile cases. “I want to talk about the sheer breadth and impa...
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The U.S. government has successfully recovered $2.27 million of the $4.4 million ransom payment paid by Colonial Pipeline to the Russian hacking ring DarkSide. Colonial Pipeline, one of the East Coasts’ largest fuel suppliers, was attacked in early May and lost control of its files for about a week until it paid off the hackers. This is the first successful financial recovery made by the new ransomware task force, Digital Extortion Task Force, at the Justice Department. Ransomware is a type of attack in which a victim’s files are locked up by the perpetrator in exchange for money. It has been ...
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FBI Director Christopher Wray was under attack Friday from the White House for remarks he made on the security of mail-in voting. Chief of Staff Mark Meadows criticized Wray after he testified before Congress that he had not seen any evidence of widespread voter fraud in an election. Meadows argued that Wray is prematurely coming to the conclusion before he has “actually heard the case.”While testifying on Thursday, Wray stated that the U.S. has only experienced occasional voter fraud. Specifically, he told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, in response to a quest...
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