This is an adapted excerpt from the Dec. 11 episode of “Alex Wagner Tonight.” Just weeks before Donald Trump is set to return to the White House, we got the huge news that FBI Director Chris ...

President-elect Donald Trump's allies are excoriating the FBI for its initial characterization of the brutal car attack in New Orleans as not terror-related, before the nation’s top federal law ...

Sarah Burris is a long-time veteran of political campaigns, having worked as a fundraiser and media director across the United States. She transitioned into reporting while working for Rock the ...

Kash Patel must not be confirmed for FBI Director. Donald Trump has nominated a MAGA extremist and “deep state” conspiracist, Kash Patel, in charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

What many would consider the best endorsement for some of the president-elect’s nominees came courtesy of a centenarian intelligence expert’s calls for their rejection. Since his victory ...

The only man to lead both the FBI and CIA spoke out against Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard, two of President-elect Trump’s top intelligence picks, saying both positions require “complete ...

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House Speaker Mike Johnson has taken Washington by surprise with his endorsement of Kash Patel as the next FBI director. Patel, a staunch ally of former President Donald Trump and a controversial ...

William Webster, a Republican, is the only person to have led both the CIA and FBI, serving under the administrations of former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. In a letter to senators ...

The Reagan-era director of the FBI, and later the CIA, is urging the Senate to reject two of President-elect Trump's selections for top law enforcement and intelligence posts. In a letter to ...

When President-elect Donald Trump announced that Kash Patel will be his nominee for director of the FBI, my reaction wasn’t subtle. In an appearance on MSNBC, I warned that, if confirmed, Patel “would ...