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The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) in the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is a statutorily created independent entity whose mission is to promote integrity, efficiency, and accountability within the Department of Justice. The OIG investigates alleged violations of criminal and civil laws by DOJ employees and also audits and inspects DOJ programs. The Inspector General, who is appointed by the President subject to Senate confirmation, reports to the Attorney General and Congress.

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Aug 31, 2026	White Supremacists Spin DOJ’s SPLC Indictment To Legitimize Extremism & Expand Recruitment	This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. In April 2026, a federal grand jury returned indictments charging the Southern Poverty Law Center with wire fraud, bank fraud and...
Aug 28, 2026	FBI no longer treating an applicant’s experience with prostitution as automatic bar against hiring	Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By ERIC TUCKER WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI is dropping a categorical hiring ban on applicants who have had sexual encounters with prostitutes and will instead consider in a more holistic manner at le...
Aug 19, 2026	The Blacklist’s DNA Plot Was Proven Real in 2009: Scientists Beat Fiction by Five Years	By William Chan Published: Aug 19 2026, 5:52 AM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard
Aug 17, 2026	Justice Department watchdog to review DEA tactic that permitted deadly fentanyl to hit streets	Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By JIM MUSTIAN and JOSHUA GOODMAN WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department’s internal watchdog on Monday announced a review of a controversial tactic in which federal law enforcement allowed f...
Aug 6, 2026	FBI Secretly Opened Probe Alleging Trump Fired Comey Because He Was a Russian Asset, Declassified Memos Show	By John Solomon The FBI opened a criminal probe specifically targeting Donald Trump in May 2017, alleging the newly elected president may have been acting as a Russian asset when he fired then-Director James Comey even though the bureau’s o...
Aug 4, 2026	FBI Agent Charged: Memorized Crypto Seed Phrases, Stole $925K Undetected	By Clark Johnson Published: Aug 04 2026, 9:06 AM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard
Apr 23, 2026	DOJ watchdog investigating handling of Jeffrey Epstein files	The Department of Justice’s internal watchdog is investigating the DOJ’s compliance with a law requiring the full disclosure of department files about the notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The audit by the Office of the Inspector Gene...
Sep 29, 2025	FACT FOCUS: Alleged FBI documents do not prove federal agents incited Jan. 6 Capitol attack	By MELISSA GOLDIN President Donald Trump bolstered a years-old conspiracy theory over the weekend, claiming that 50 pages of alleged FBI documents recently made public prove that 274 FBI agents at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, were ther...
Jun 27, 2025	Pardon applications are being carefully crafted with one man in mind: Donald Trump	FILE – This booking photo provided by the St. Charles, La., Parish Sheriff’s Office shows former DEA agent Chad Scott. (St. Charles Parish Sheriff’s Office via AP, File) This photo provided by his attorneys shows former U.S. Drug Enforcemen...
Apr 26, 2025	A Judicial Storm: The Arrest of Judge Hannah Dugan and Its Implications	In a dramatic turn of events, Judge Hannah Dugan of Milwaukee County found herself at the center of a legal tempest. Arrested by the FBI on April 25, 2025, Dugan faces serious charges for allegedly aiding a man in evading immigration author...
Apr 25, 2025	As immigrant arrests surge, complaints of abuse mount at America’s oldest detention center in Miami	A copy of the text exchange and several other documents were shared with The Associated Press by a federal employee on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation. Other documents include detainee complaints as well as an account of ...
Jan 30, 2025	FBI wrestles with a spike in sexual misconduct claims and male-dominated culture	“We have come a long way in addressing it in various ways using all the policy tools and legal means at our disposal,” the FBI said in a statement, “but we absolutely have more to do in accomplishing a meaningful and long-lasting cultural e...
Dec 13, 2024	Watchdog finds FBI intelligence missteps before Jan. 6 riot, but no undercover agents were present	The report did find that 26 FBI informants were in Washington for election-related protests on Jan. 6, including three who had been tasked with traveling to the city to report on others who were potentially planning to attend the day’s even...
Nov 19, 2024	Senate Unanimously Passes Bipartisan Bill to Crack Down on Cellphones in Federal Prisons; Legislation Stalled in House	The Lieutenant Osvaldo Albarati Stopping Prison Contraband Act Senate Unanimously Passes Bipartisan Bill to Crack Down on Contraband Cellphones in Federal Prisons; Legislation Stalled in House THOMSON, IL, UNITED STATES, November 19, 2024 /...
Aug 28, 2024	FBI Wants More Access To Everything, Can’t Be Bothered To Protect The Stuff It Already Has	The FBI has been pulled right up to the national security table for years. Having switched from regular law enforcement agency to being a major player in the counter-terrorism field has seen it avail itself of vast collections of data obtai...
Apr 17, 2024	Justice Department nears settlement with Larry Nassar victims over FBI failures	The United States government and victims of former USA Gymnastics physician Larry Nassar are close to finalizing a deal that will resolve claims by abuse victims that the FBI failed to properly investigate allegations of wrongdoing against ...
Feb 20, 2024	‘Sam didn’t snitch on anyone’: First image of Bankman-Fried behind bars surfaces	The first photograph of Sam Bankman-Fried—who committed “one of the biggest financial frauds in American history,” according to U.S. Attorney Damian Williams—alongside fellow inmates at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center, has surfaced...
Oct 24, 2023	Efforts to keep FBI headquarters in D.C. not motivated by "improper" Trump influence, DOJ watchdog finds	Washington — The federal government's ongoing and sometimes contentious evaluation of sites for the construction of a new FBI headquarters was not impeded or unduly affected by the Trump White House, a new report from the Justice Department...
Jul 23, 2023	Patrol dogs are terrorizing and mauling prisoners inside the United States	Redeem now In a photo taken in December 2003, two US military dog handlers, Sgts. Santos Cardona and Michael Smith, corner a detainee at Abu Ghraib, the prison in Iraq used by the US-led coalition and the Iraqi government. Smith holds back ...
Jun 1, 2023	Male guards at Elizabeth Holmes’ womens’-only prison conducted ‘shower checks,’ ex-prisoner shockingly claims	More On: elizabeth holmes Make-up free Elizabeth Holmes seen sporting glasses, sweat pants in first prison photos Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes flashes smile as she reports to prison in Texas to serve out 11-year sentence CNN gues...
May 17, 2023	Massachusetts US attorney accused of election meddling and lying	Legal Ethics Public Policy Government Employment Massachusetts US attorney accused of election meddling and lying By Sarah N. Lynch May 17, 20235:54 PM UTCUpdated ago U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Rachael Rollins, with Boston Mayor Michel...
Apr 17, 2023	Can Whistleblowing Save Tech?	In 2021, former Facebook product manager Frances Haugen disclosed tens of thousands of pages of internal Facebook documents to the Securities and Exchange Commission, Congress, and the Wall Street Journal. The so-called Facebook Files expos...
Apr 12, 2023	A Brief History of Programmatic Collection Pre-Section 702	Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) will expire at the end of this year unless renewed by Congress. This section of FISA is part of the critical foundation for the intelligence community’s ability to collect fore...
Mar 9, 2023	The Justice Department investigated Jeffrey Epstein's death. Then it went silent.	Redeem now Jeffrey Epstein's death in a federal jail was seen as a shocking Justice Department failure. Over three years later, the DOJ inspector general hasn't released the results of its investigation. Epstein's accusers — and his brother...
Feb 8, 2023	Exclusive: The FBI's McGonigal labyrinth	Redeem now Allison Guerriero still remembers the day her ex-boyfriend, Charlie McGonigal, bought a second phone. The FBI had just ordered its staff to delete WhatsApp from their bureau-issued phones, and McGonigal was panicking. No longer c...
Dec 27, 2022	The Drone Is Quickly Becoming A Federal Prison Contraband Nightmare	Prisons are increasingly seeing drone drops used to bring in illicit contraband.Getty Images
Dec 23, 2022	Inspector General Reform in the NDAA	The National Defense Authorization Act, which President Biden signed into law today, contains important reforms to protect inspectors general from opportunistic removal and replacement by the president. This appears to be the first statutor...
Dec 7, 2022	Prison inmates placed bets on how long Whitey Bulger would survive after being transferred, a watchdog report found. The notorious gangster was beaten to death in less than 24 hours.	News Prison inmates placed bets on how long Whitey Bulger would survive after being transferred, a watchdog report found. The notorious gangster was beaten to death in less than 24 hours. Jake Epstein 2022-12-07T18:10:31Z Share icon An curv...
Nov 1, 2022	Taking the Pelosi Attack Seriously	Of all the recordings of the violence on Jan. 6, some of the most disturbing video documents insurrectionists searching for Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. “Oh Nancy—where are you, Nancy?” one rioter calls out as he saunters through the ...
Jul 28, 2022	How to Evaluate Progress in the Justice Department's Jan. 6 Investigation	On Tuesday evening, July 26, the Washington Post broke the news that the Justice Department is investigating the actions of President Donald Trump in connection with its criminal probe into the Jan. 6 insurrection. According to the Post, “i...
May 24, 2022	New Statistics Confirm the Continuing Decline in the Use of National Surveillance Authorities	April is “reporting season” regarding the annual activities of the U.S. intelligence community under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) with both the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) releasing its Annual ...
Mar 16, 2022	The Federal Bureau of Investigation and Foreign Intelligence Collection	Foreign intelligence is present both abroad and domestically. While multiple elements of the U.S. intelligence community (IC) focus on collecting foreign intelligence—in all its forms—outside the U.S., the setup of the IC does not neatly ad...
Jan 11, 2022	James Comey and Our Poisoned Politics	This week marks the fifth anniversary of perhaps the greatest media scandal of our age. Outlets like CNN and BuzzFeed flogged a bogus dossier of salacious claims funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign, even while admitting they didn’t know ...
Dec 31, 2021	A Review Of The Federal Prison In Atlanta Shows An Agency In Crisis	The Atlanta Journal Constitution reported in 2017 about the “Wild West” atmosphere that defined USP Atlanta and its satellite minimum prison camp. The camp was like an open campus with inmates possessing an assortment of contraband and shut...
Nov 17, 2021	Former Inmate Claims Federal Bureau Of Prisons Was Running A ‘Fast And Furious’ Operation At FCI Miami	According to a recent article in the Associated Press, over 100 federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) workers have been arrested, convicted or sentenced for crimes since the start of 2019, including a warden indicted for sexual abuse and an assoc...
Oct 22, 2021	The Sussmann Indictment, Human Source Handling, and the FBI’s Declining FISA Numbers	Late in the evening of Oct. 6, attorneys for former Department of Justice attorney and former Perkins Coie partner Michael Sussmann filed a motion for a bill of particulars relating to his indictment by Special Counsel John Durham. The indi...
Oct 19, 2021	What the Inspector General’s Latest FISA Report Can (and Can’t) Tell Us	In early October, Michael Horowitz, the Department of Justice’s Inspector General, issued another report on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA. This report, his third major release on the subject in two years, concludes the ...
Oct 5, 2021	The FBI’s FISA Mess	If you only read the executive summary of the Justice Department inspector general’s latest report on the FBI’s handling of FISA applications, the headlines the report has generated make sense. “Justice Department inspector general finds 'w...
Sep 16, 2021	Simone Biles condemns U.S. Olympic Committee, FBI for sex-abuse crisis	September 16, 20216:56 AM UTCLast Updated ago SportsSimone Biles condemns U.S. Olympic Committee, FBI for sex-abuse crisis By Sarah N. Lynch 5 minute read WASHINGTON, Sept 15 (Reuters) - Olympic gymnast Simone Biles held back tears on Wedne...
Jun 29, 2021	Why Didn’t the FBI Review Social Media Posts Announcing Plans for the Capitol Riot?	Half a year after the failed insurrection at the Capitol, a swath of crucial questions remains about what happened on that day and in the weeks and months leading up to it. Central among those mysteries is why law enforcement failed to anti...
Jun 16, 2021	U.S. Marshals Service lacks resources to protect federal judges even as threats surge 81%, report says	The U.S. Marshals Service lacks adequate resources to protect federal judges and prosecutors even as threats to protected people spiked, a new report says. The Justice Department's Inspector General's office, which issued the report, said &...
Jun 12, 2021	Watergate figure John Dean described the Trump DOJ’s surveillance of House Democrats as ‘Nixon on stilts and steroids’	John Dean is seen testifying before the House Judiciary Committee hearing about Lessons from the Mueller Report on June 10, 2019. Saul Loeb/AFP John Dean described the Trump DOJ’s surveillance of Democrats as “Nixon on stilts and steroids.”...
Jun 7, 2021	Office Of Inspector General Releases Report On Rise Of Escapes From Federal Prison Camps	The Department of Justice Office of Inspector General (OIG) released its findings on multiple investigations involving prison escapes, including an investigation at the Federal Correctional Complex (FCC), SPC, Beaumont, Texas, where the esc...
May 20, 2021	Adding Domestic Extremists to the No-Fly List	Introduction Recent reports have indicated that the Biden administration is contemplating adding domestic extremists—including some of the Jan. 6 riot participants—to the terrorism No Fly List. These stories come in the aftermath of the att...
Apr 19, 2021	Biden’s Border Problem, and How to Fix It	President Biden has a border problem. The U.S. is seeing a deeply troubling increase both in total unaccompanied children (UACs) and in very young UACs—children as young as six or seven years old. The current problems at the border have bot...
Apr 15, 2021	Banks Should Follow And Expand On Biden’s Lead And Divest From Mass Incarceration	Randell Leach, a corporate entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience in financial services, serves as Beneficial State Bank’s CEO.
Feb 22, 2021	If the Biden Administration Is Serious About Protecting Voting Rights, Here's What It Should Do Immediately	On Jan. 6, 2021, millions watched, horrified, as agitators hellbent on overturning the election results and disenfranchising Black and Brown voters staged an insurrection on the Capitol, fueled by demonstrably false allegations of voter fra...
Feb 5, 2021	Can an Investigative Commission for the Trump Era Actually Work? A Proposal	How should Americans, and Congress and the Biden administration, think about the problem of accountability for the past four years? On a routine basis, commentators and politicians throw around concepts that are more mood than they are oper...
Jan 24, 2021	5 people died in the Capitol insurrection. Experts say it could have been so much worse.	Rioters clash with police using big ladder trying to enter Capitol building through the front doors. Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images Five people died in the Capitol insurrection on January 6, including a Capitol Police ...
Jan 21, 2021	Department Of Justice Lays Plans For Federal Inmates On Home Confinement To Return To Prison	The current Director of the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), Michael Carvajal, was named as head of the agency in February 2020 and inherited management of federal correctional institutions at one of the most challenging times in the agency...
Jan 16, 2021	Federal Bureau Of Prisons Locks Down All Facilities In Advance Of Inauguration	Every American viewed with horror the tragic events of the hostile actions on Capitol Hill on January 6. Now the country is on edge as more protests are likely to occur across the country. There are more than 22,000 National Guard troops in...
Jan 15, 2021	How Could Law Enforcement Have Investigated Before the Capitol Riot?	The day after what he called “the siege at the Capitol,” FBI Director Christopher Wray vowed that the bureau “will hold accountable those who participated in” the attack. Arrests have already been made, but it is equally clear that the FBI ...
Jan 15, 2021	Trump and top White House aides ‘aggressively’ pushed for the family separation policy at the border, new Justice Department Inspector General report finds	A new Justice Department report directly implicated President Donald Trump in the zero-tolerance family separation policy at the US-Mexico border. Trump has repeatedly tried to distance himself from the policy that stripped children away fr...
Jan 11, 2021	My Brush With Covid-19 Was No Picnic, But Federal Inmates Have It A Lot Worse	I have been able to connect with readers here on Forbes because of my own past experiences and the many brilliant people who have shared their knowledge with me. Prison, federal criminal justice and complex litigation have all been a part o...
Sep 14, 2020	FISC Declassifies Opinion about Retention of Carter Page FISA Information	On Friday, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) released a declassified opinion by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) detailing limited circumstances under which the government may sequester information...
Jul 9, 2020	The Durham Investigation: What We Know and What It Means	In May 2019, Attorney General William Barr tapped Connecticut’s U.S. Attorney John Durham to look into issues related to the origins of the FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation. Durham is a longtime federal prosecutor in Connecticut known for l...
May 27, 2020	Federal audit finds Colorado nonprofit failed to properly manage more than $450K meant to help human trafficking survivors	The Colorado Organization for Victim Assistance improperly used $10,161 of federal grant money and did not have adequate records to back up $467,780 in other spending from the grants dedicated to helping survivors of human trafficking, a fe...
May 27, 2020	What Hard National Security Choices Would a Biden Administration Face?	No one can predict the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, but what should Americans expect if Joe Biden wins? In particular, and in keeping with Lawfare’s motto, what are the “hard national security choices” that would confront an i...
Apr 24, 2020	What Is and Isn’t New in the Unredacted Footnotes From the Inspector General’s Russia Report	At the request of Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson, the Trump administration recently declassified portions of footnotes in the Justice Department inspector general’s report on the early stages of the FBI’s Trump-Russia inves...
Apr 4, 2020	AG William Barr’s Memo To Bureau Of Prisons: ‘Time Is Of The Essence’	The Federal Bureau of Prisons has 177,000 inmates under its care. In the past week, seven have died from COVID-19 and the BOP is reporting 91 inmates tested positive along with 50 staff members. It is believed that those numbers understate ...
Apr 1, 2020	Summary: Justice Department Inspector General Memorandum on FBI Compliance With FISA Procedures	A new report released by the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General found errors or lost information in all the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) applications concerning U.S. persons it reviewed following its report...
Mar 31, 2020	DOJ watchdog finds flaws in FISA process beyond Carter Page application	Sign up for our daily briefingMake your busy days simpler with Axios AM/PM. Catch up on what's new and why it matters in just 5 minutes. Enter your email address Please enter a valid email. Please enter a valid email. Subscription failedSub...
Mar 31, 2020	Justice Department Inspector General Finds Broader Pattern of Errors in FISA Applications	A new report released by the Justice Department inspector general found errors or lost information in all of the U.S. Person FISA applications it reviewed following its report on the FBI’s “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation into members of...
Mar 31, 2020	We Know The FBI Can't Count Phones. A New Report Shows It Can't Count Guns And Ammo Either.	We know the FBI can’t accurately track how many encrypted devices it has in its possession. Two consecutive directors have pushed a “going dark” narrative using an inflated number of uncracked phones. At one point the FBI claimed it had nea...
Mar 31, 2020	We Know The FBI Can't Count Phones. A New Report Shows It Can't Count Guns And Ammo Either.	We know the FBI can't accurately track how many encrypted devices it has in its possession. Two consecutive directors have pushed a "going dark" narrative using an inflated number of uncracked phones. At one point the FBI claimed ...
Feb 28, 2020	If We Build It (They Will Break In)	Attorney General William Barr has staked his ground in the long-running debate over law enforcement access to encrypted communications. Last fall, Barr decried end-to-end encryption as “enabling dangerous criminals to cloak their communicat...
Dec 18, 2019	The Justice Department’s New, Unprecedented Use of the Foreign Agents Registration Act	The U.S. Department of Justice is using a once-obscure law, most commonly used today to require the registration of those who lobby in the United States on behalf of foreign governments, to target foreign-based anonymous disinformation acto...
Dec 9, 2019	Notable Statements on Inspector General's Report	Attorney General Bill Barr, U.S. Attorney for Connecticut John Durham, FBI Director Christopher Wray and President Donald Trump have each released statements about the release of the Justice Department's inspector general's report into the ...
Oct 31, 2019	Oculus Founder Palmer Luckey Has Ideas For Nonprofit Prisons And Petroleum-Based Food	Palmer Luckey spoke on stage at Forbes' Under 30 Summit in Detroit. Forbes
Oct 1, 2019	Report: DEA did too little to constrain opioid supply even as crisis escalated	WASHINGTON — The Drug Enforcement Administration fell dramatically short in regulating the prescription opioid supply over the past two decades — even as the country’s addiction and overdose crisis escalated, according to a new report from ...
Sep 24, 2019	Getting to the Bottom of the (Attempted) McCabe Prosecution	One of the great political mysteries of the last few weeks involves what has happened to the possible criminal indictment of former Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, who is accused of having made false statements regarding his role in cert...
Sep 13, 2019	High-Level DOJ Official Latest Gov't Employee To Be Caught Watching Porn While On The Clock	It's good to know government employees are hard at work. (This statement mainly applies to male employees.)
Sep 13, 2019	High-Level DOJ Official Latest Gov't Employee To Be Caught Watching Porn While On The Clock	It’s good to know government employees are hard at work. (This statement mainly applies to male employees.)
Aug 29, 2019	Justice Department Inspector General Report on Handling of Comey Memos	The Justice Department Office of the Inspector General has released its report on former FBI Director James Comey's handling of his memos recording conversations with President Donald Trump. The report is available here and below. o1902 (PD...
Aug 27, 2019	Thoughts on the Impending Prosecution of Andrew McCabe	I confess that this story shocks me. The New York Times reported yesterday that “Federal prosecutors in Washington appear to be in the final stages of deciding whether to seek an indictment of Andrew G. McCabe, the former deputy F.B.I. dire...
Apr 26, 2019	The U.S. military wants your opinion on AI ethics	We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) visited Sili...
Apr 26, 2019	The U.S. military wants your opinion on AI ethics	The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) visited Silicon Valley Thursday to ask for ethical guidance on how the military should develop or acquire autonomous systems. The public comment meeting was held as part of a Defense Innovation Board eff...
Mar 28, 2019	DEA says AT&T still provides access to billions of phone records	A program that allows drug agents to obtain a pool of billions of call records from AT&T is “still active,” according to a watchdog report. The report, published Thursday by the Justice Department inspector general, confirmed the progra...
Dec 26, 2018	Exceptional Access: The Devil is in the Details	Lawfare has run a series of posts concerning exceptional access. Josh Benaloh presents an excellent discussion of the irresponsibility of so-called “responsible encryption,” and Cindy Cohn persuasively argues that the computer security comm...
Aug 24, 2018	Donald Trump, Twitter and Presidential Power to Interpret the Law for the Executive Branch	The president’s former attorney Michael Cohen pleaded guilty Tuesday to several federal criminal violations, including making certain unlawful campaign contributions. The case was brought by the United States Attorney’s Office for the South...
Jul 27, 2018	No, Mariia Butina Wasn’t Charged With Violating FARA	To read a lot of media coverage, and to listen to her lawyer, you would think Mariia Butina, the Russian national accused of conspiring to influence U.S. policy as an agent of the Russian Federation, was charged with violating the Foreign A...
Jul 11, 2018	What’s in Australia’s New Laws on Foreign Interference in Domestic Politics	Australia passed national security and foreign interference laws at the end of June that Attorney General Christian Porter has called the country’s biggest counterintelligence overhaul in decades. The legislation includes tougher penalties ...
Jun 6, 2018	Was Trump’s Demand of the Justice Department Appropriate? Let the People Decide.	Over the past week, President Trump has done a great many things that have raised alarm within the national security establishment. He has attacked his attorney general’s recusal from the Russia investigation, approvingly quoted a column de...
May 21, 2018	Real Security Begins At Home (On Your Smartphone)	When the FBI sued Apple a couple of years ago to compel Apple’s help in cracking an iPhone 5c belonging to alleged terrorist Syed Rizwan Farook, the lines seemed clearly drawn. On the one hand, the U.S. government was asserting its right (u...
Mar 30, 2018	Revelations on the FBI’s Unlocking of the San Bernardino iPhone: Maybe the Future Isn't Going Dark After All	Lawfare readers may be familiar with the San Bernardino case in which the FBI took Apple to court over the locked iPhone of the dead terrorist. I certainly am. I testified in Congress about the case in March 2016 and recently published a bo...
Mar 28, 2018	DOJ: FBI’s battle with Apple over iPhone security could have been avoided	A new report from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) reveals that the FBI’s dispute with Apple over a locked iPhone may have been all for naught. If you recall, the FBI in late 2015 came into possession of a locked iPhone 5c belongin...
Mar 27, 2018	Inquiry finds FBI sued Apple to unlock phone without considering all options	The Office of the Inspector General has issued its report on the circumstances surrounding the FBI’s 2016 lawsuit attempting to force Apple to unlock an iPhone as part of a criminal investigation. While it stops short of saying the FBI was ...
Jan 30, 2018	Independence and Accountability at the Department of Justice	Over the weekend some conservative commentators pushed back on my tweet-claim that President Trump has “threaten[ed] DOJ/FBI over and over in gross violation of independence norms.” The Justice Department and its component the FBI “aren’t i...
Dec 8, 2017	A Roundtable of Hackers Dissects 'Mr. Robot' Season 3 Episode 9: 'Stage 3'	It’s the penultimate episode of Mr. Robot’s third season, and the stakes are higher than ever. We discussed Sentinel, keyloggers, RFID readers, pwning the Dark Army, and more. (The chat transcript has been edited for brevity, clarity, and c...
Oct 3, 2017	Known Terrorists Under Witness Protection Roaming The Country Pretty Much Unattended	The FBI loves its counterterrorism work. Loves it so much, it’s pretty much abandoned all pretense of being a law enforcement agency. It acts as though it’s somewhere between the NSA and the ATF: interested mostly in picking through surveil...
Sep 12, 2017	DEA Agent Gave Convict Girlfriend Access To Evidence, Classified Info; Received Almost No Punishment	Routine misconduct by DEA agents? The DEA could not possibly care less. An Inspector General’s report released in 2015 in the aftermath of a sex-parties-and-harassment investigation showed 8 of the 14 agents investigated received bonuses an...
Sep 8, 2017	Expect Special Counsel Mueller to Follow the Money	“Follow the money.” Mark Felt, the deceased FBI executive who was Watergate’s “Deep Throat,” may not have actually whispered those words to reporter Bob Woodward. But they reflect a practice federal agents and prosecutors heed in criminal i...
Jul 14, 2017	Congress Should Reconsider Giving the FBI Director Independence from Presidential Control	Although Christopher Wray seems like a reasonable choice to lead the FBI, appointing a decent new director will do little to cure the terrible damage done by President Trump’s dismissal of James Comey in the middle of his ten-year term beca...
Jun 20, 2017	How Congress Should Fight Election Interference	Our Founders were well aware of the dangers of foreign influence. In his presidential farewell address, George Washington cautioned that, “Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence . . . a free people ought to be constantly awake.” B...
Jun 14, 2017	Consolidating the Terrorist Watchlisting Bureaucracy	President Donald Trump and his advisors have demonstrated an intense focus on “protecting the nation from foreign terrorist entry.” Although much public and media attention has justifiably centered on the travel restrictions in the relevant...
Jun 2, 2017	The USA FREEDOM Act Turns Two	Today marks two years since enactment of the bipartisan USA FREEDOM Act (USAF), the first major government surveillance reform legislation in decades, and a lot has happened in the law's short life. Most notably, the world did not come to a...
May 24, 2017	It's nearly impossible to know who's working for a foreign government	Rep. Dana Rohrabacher can’t remember if he knew Paul Manafort was working for a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine when the two old friends got together in March 2013. But the California Republican lawmaker is sure that Russia came up i...
May 16, 2017	How Do Leak Investigations Work?	Yesterday, citing unnamed officials, the Washington Post broke the news that President Trump disclosed highly classified intelligence to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador. A slew of outlets soon confirmed the story with White Hous...
May 11, 2017	The Spotlight Shifts to the DOJ Inspector General	As Daphna Renan and David Pozen note, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s memorandum to Attorney General Sessions on Comey’s action last summer, which was the ostensible basis for firing FBI Director James Comey, circumvented the ongoi...

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