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The Senate Judiciary Committee voted Thursday to give committee Chairman Senator Lindsey Graham the power to subpoena dozens of Obama and Trump administration officials as part of the Republican-led committee’s probe of the 2016 Russia investigation. The committee voted 12 to 10 along party lines to green light possible subpoenas for at least 53 people for …

The third party appointed by the federal judge presiding over the Michael Flynn case said in a Wednesday filing that the DOJ’s decision to drop its case against Flynn amounted to “clear evidence of gross prosecutorial abuse.” John Gleeson, a retired New York federal district court judge, said in an 82-page filing that the reversal …

Rod Rosenstein told Congress on Wednesday that he was not sure that he had read the entire FISA renewal application to surveil Carter Page. Rosenstein, the former deputy attorney general during the Obama administration, made the comments during testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee. The committee hearing touched in part on the FBI’s application to …

Transcripts of conversations between former Trump advisor Michael Flynn and Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak were declassified on Friday, Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe announced. The move is the latest in a series of document declassification, initiated by Ratcliffe’s predecessor Richard Grenell, pertaining to the Russia investigation. Conversations between Flynn and Kislyak in 2016 were …

Attorney General Bill Barr has appointed a federal prosecutor to probe deeper into the “unmasking” requests that Obama administration officials submitted against Trump associates, Justice Department spokeswoman Kerri Kupec confirmed Wednesday night. In an interview with Sean Hannity, Kupec said that John Bash, the U.S. attorney for the Western District of Texas, would oversee the …

Former acting Attorney General Rod Rosenstein will testify next week to the Senate Judiciary Committee as part of committee Republicans’ probe into the origins of the FBI’s Russia investigation. Senator Lindsey Graham, who chairs the Judiciary Committee, announced Wednesday that Rosenstein is slated to testify before lawmakers on June 3 during the first public hearing of …

Alabama Senate candidate Jeff Sessions said that President Trump “is not all unjustified” in his frustration over the former attorney general’s 2017 recusal from the Trump-Russia investigation, but insisted his “conscience is clear” with respect to the decision. Sessions, the first high-profile Trump endorsee in 2016, recused himself from supervising the Trump-Russia investigation in March …

Former national security adviser Susan Rice in April 2017 publicly denied knowledge of surveillance of incoming Trump administration officials. During a 2017 interview on PBS’s News Hour, Rice said she was “surprised” by reports from then-House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes (R., Calif.) that communications from Trump and other officials may have been swept up …

In a newly declassified email that Susan Rice sent to herself on January 20, 2017, the former national-security adviser said that former FBI director James Comey had “no indication” that Michael Flynn had passed along classified information to Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak, but stipulated that Comey was nevertheless wary about sharing sensitive information with Flynn …

Senator Lindsey Graham pushed back Thursday against President Trump’s exhortation that he call former President Obama to testify to Congress about efforts by Obama administration officials to “unmask” former national-security adviser Michael Flynn. “If I were a Senator or Congressman, the first person I would call to testify about the biggest political crime and scandal in the history …