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Reps. Clyde and Boebert: No Warrants, No FISA
When there’s a real chance of protecting Americans’ privacy, the deep state always runs the same playbook. Slow walk votes on reforms. Allow the clock to run out. Highlight a potential national security scare. And reiterate the status quo while calling it reform. That’s why we must deliver real reforms before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance… -
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Here’s How the IRS Is Taking on the Networks Potentially Funding Antifa
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told reporters Thursday that the Internal Revenue Service and the FBI have made substantial progress on investigating the networks funding Antifa leftist agitators, and he mentioned one concrete policy change that could undermine nonprofits’ ability to prop up the violent movement. “In October, the Treasury Department started working with the FBI… -
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Gunman Killed After Firing at White House Security Checkpoint
A gunman was killed and a bystander wounded in an exchange of fire that occurred at a White House security checkpoint about a block from the West Wing. The suspect, 21-year old male Nasire Best, was shot by Secret Service agents and died on the way to the hospital. “Shortly after 6 p.m Saturday an… -
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‘Culture of Fraud’: 15 People Indicted in Minnesota Health Care Scandal
A grand jury indicted 15 people Thursday for an alleged health care scheme that illustrates a “culture of fraud” in Minnesota, the FBI and the Justice Department announced. “It is a crisis in Minnesota,” claimed Colin McDonald, assistant attorney general for fraud enforcement, in a DOJ press conference. “A culture of fraud has taken root.”… -
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What You Can Do to Hold the Southern Poverty Law Center Accountable
The Southern Poverty Law Center faces charges of wire fraud, bank fraud, and conspiracy for sending $3 million to members of white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups. This indictment led me to update the book I wrote in 2020, “Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center.” At the end of the update,… -
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‘What Is Not Ready?’: Maria Bartiromo Presses Acting AG on Probe Into Trump-Russia Hoax
THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—“Sunday Morning Futures” host Maria Bartiromo questioned acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on Sunday about the progress of probes into abuses of power targeting President Donald Trump. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard in July released documents and a memo detailing what she called a “years-long coup” against Trump after he defeated Hillary Clinton in… -
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Victor Davis Hanson: Comey’s Bizarre Beach Post Exposes FBI Hypocrisy
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. James Comey, the former director of the FBI, was again indicted recently, this time for putting a picture of seashells on his social media that were arranged… -
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FBI Raids Minnesota Daycares in Fraud Investigation
Federal agents raided 22 locations in Minnesota on Tuesday as part of an investigation into widespread taxpayer fraud. “Today the FBI with federal, state and local law enforcement is involved in court-authorized law enforcement activity as part of an ongoing fraud investigation,” a Department of Justice spokesperson said in a statement. The raids focused on… -
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Kash Patel and the Russia Hoax Reckoning
FBI Director Kash Patel delivered a promise about the Trump–Russia collusion hoax on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo that Americans have waited nearly a decade to hear. “We’ve got all the evidence,” Patel declared. “We’re working with our prosecutors at the DOJ under Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, and we are going to be making… -
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Fulton County Numbers Don’t Match After FBI Seizure
Officials from Fulton County, Georgia, wanted to quash a subpoena from the Georgia State Board of Elections because providing “approximately 750 boxes” of material would be too burdensome. Yet, when the FBI came knocking in a Jan. 28 raid, federal agents left with 656 boxes (653 by one count), prompting a top Georgia election official… -
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Tulsi Gabbard Addresses Fulton County FBI Probe
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard explained why she traveled to Fulton County, Georgia, in January for a federal election records probe. Gabbard testified at the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on worldwide threats Wednesday, alongside FBI Director Kash Patel, Defense Intelligence Agency Director James Adams, acting U.S. Cyber Command chief William Hartman, and CIA Director… -
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FBI Recorded Susie Wiles Phone Call With Lawyer Without Her Knowledge, Per Reports
FBI Director Kash Patel revealed that the Biden administration subpoenaed records of phone calls that both he and now-White House chief of staff Susie Wiles made in 2022 and 2023. The subpoenas were part of the FBI’s probe of President Donald Trump. “It is outrageous and deeply alarming that the previous FBI leadership secretly subpoenaed… -
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Watchdog Alleges Netflix Coordinated With FBI to Promote Left-Wing Narratives
A new report alleges that the streaming giant Netflix has worked closely with federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies in ways that amount to government-assisted propaganda. The report released Tuesday by the Oversight Project, a government watchdog group, contends that the FBI, the CIA, and the Defense Department (now the War Department) exercised influence over… -
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BREAKING: Bongino Announces When He Will Resign From FBI
After months of speculation, FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino announced his resignation on Wednesday. “I will be leaving my position with the FBI in January,” Bongino wrote on X. “I want to thank President [Donald] Trump, AG [Pam] Bondi, and Director [Kash] Patel for the opportunity to serve with purpose. Most importantly, I want to… -
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Hawley Presses Garland on FBI Memo Targeting Catholics: ‘How Many Informants Do You Have in Catholic Churches?’
Sen. Josh Hawley on Wednesday pressed Attorney General Merrick Garland on the FBI memo urging agents to probe the alleged nexus between racially motivated violent extremists and “radical-traditional Catholics." "How many informants do you have in Catholic churches across America?" Hawley, R-Mo., repeatedly asked during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. Garland responded that the FBI… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Mark Houck’s Family, Children Relive Harrowing FBI Encounter in Daily Signal Tell-All Documentary
KINTNERSVILLE, Pa.—Mark Houck’s children were startled awake by a loud banging on their door. The older girls looked out the window, saw flashing lights, and ran out to the landing to see what was going on. The little boys sat up in their beds, sleepy and startled. Mark Houck Jr. rushed to the stair railing… -
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Gov. Youngkin Demands ‘Full Transparency and Accountability’ From FBI in Wake of ‘Radical-Traditional Catholic’ Memo
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Virginia's Republican governor, Glenn Youngkin, expressed shock at the FBI Richmond bureau's memo on "radical-traditional Catholic ideology" that cited the leftist Southern Poverty Law Center and demanded "full transparency and accountability" in the FBI's review of how the bureau compiled and published the internal report. The FBI memo urged agents to… -
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Joe Biden Cares So Much About the Catholic Church, He Won’t Condemn the FBI Citing a Leftist Group Suggesting It’s a ‘Hate Group’
President Joe Biden, who attends a Roman Catholic church and identifies as Catholic despite his support for abortion and same-sex marriage, has remained silent after the FBI cited a left-wing smear factory that suggests the Roman Catholic Church holds pernicious views that might qualify it as a “hate group.” The Biden White House did not… -
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Catholic Leader Demands Probe Into FBI Memo, ‘Pattern of Anti-Catholic Bigotry’ That Represents ‘The New Inquisition’
Brian Burch, the president of Catholic Vote, is demanding that Congress investigate the recent FBI memo urging agents to probe the alleged nexus between racially-motivated violent extremists and "radical-traditional Catholics," citing the Southern Poverty Law Center. Burch warned against a "pattern of anti-Catholic bigotry" at the Department of Justice that represents "the new Inquisition" against… -
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EXCLUSIVE: The Daily Signal Demands Documents on FBI Targeting ‘Radical Traditional Catholics’
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Daily Signal filed a Freedom of Information Act request this week demanding that the FBI turn over all documents related to "radical traditional Catholics" and the Southern Poverty Law Center, as news broke that the FBI had published an internal memo about "radical traditional Catholics" citing the SPLC, which brands…