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Smith & Wesson Model 459: The Chosen 9mm Autopistol of 1980s’ FBI SWAT
FBI SWAT purchased roughly 800 Smith & Wesson Model 459s on a trial run circa 1984.
Iran’s Election Provocation
The Iranians miscalculated. And they know it. During the 2024 election, the Islamic Republic not only engaged in political information warfare designed to defeat Donald Trump, but Tehran also contemplated...
Donald Trump Could Destroy the FBI and DOJ
Donald Trump has made a habit of trying to bend the Department of Justice (DOJ) and FBI to his will, ignoring norms and protocols. If he gets another shot at...
Handling—and Mishandling—Intelligence
The news about Alexander Smirnov, a dual U.S.-Israeli citizen with murky connections in former Soviet republics, was quite a comedown from what Republican members of Congress were making of the...
Congress Must Act to Deter Chinese Cyberattacks
Recent Congressional testimony highlighted the takedown of a Chinese hacking syndicate exploiting critical infrastructure. The FBI director, the head of Cyber Command, the Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security...
Jim Jordan Wants Revenge on U.S. Intelligence Agencies
The most significant and positive initiative by Congress to rein in any overstepping by government agencies involved in national security—including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Central Intelligence Agency, and National...
Durham Has Proven to Be the Big Hoax Himself
Special Counsel John Durham’s investigation, now more than three years old and with a cost in the millions, was purportedly about uncovering political motivations for the FBI’s investigation of Russia’s...
Americans Are Getting Extra Jail Time for Threatening Federal Judges
A fifty-five-year-old Arizona man was sentenced last week to time served, or twenty-five months, in connection with threats to a Social Security judge. The man had pled guilty, back in June, to...
Distributions to Madoff Victims Have Reached $4 Billion
Bernard Madoff died last year after his Ponzi scheme collapsed in 2008. But the U.S. government is still trying to claw back the billions of dollars that were lost to...
FBI Resumes Mar-a-Lago Probe as New York AG Sues Donald Trump
Wednesday was a very eventful day for former President Donald Trump and the many government investigations targeting him. In the morning, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced a major...
Trump’s Lawyers Balk When Pressed on Declassification
In the early stages of the court battle over the documents seized from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, Trump’s lawyers appear to have made some contradictory statements. According to...
Justice Department Appeals Mar-a-Lago Special Master Ruling
The Justice Department on Thursday appealed a court-ordered special master review of the highly sensitive documents seized from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, according to a new Politico report. In a new court...