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☆ FBI Director Chris Wray announces plans to resign
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-11 | by ( Evan Perez | Holmes Lybrand | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —FBI Director Chris Wray will resign at the end of the Biden administration, according to a statement from the FBI Wednesday. President-elect Donald Trump previously announced he will nominate Kash Patel for the role, although Wray still had three years remaining on his 10-year term. Wray made his announcement at an FBI town hall. I love this place, I love our mission, and I love our people — but my focus is, and always has been, on us and doing what’s right for the FBI,” Wray added. Comey, whose FBI also investigated Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server, left the bureau in May 2017.

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☆ Trump’s DOJ secretly obtained records of his FBI pick Kash Patel, lawmakers, staffers and media in leak investigation
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-10 | by ( Hannah Rabinowitz | Evan Perez | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —The Justice Department secretly obtained phone records from two members of Congress and 43 staffers – including Kash Patel, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the FBI – during sweeping leak investigations during Trump’s first term, according to a watchdog report released Tuesday. Patel and the two members of Congress are not named in the report, but two sources familiar with the matter tell CNN that Patel was targeted along with Democratic Reps. Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell. Patel was a staffer for the GOP-led House Intelligence Committee at the time, and Schiff has since been elected to the Senate and took office Monday. Prosecutors also sought records including emails from journalists at CNN, The Washington Post and The New York Times, according to the report. The inspector general did not recommend charges against anyone in their review and did not find any indication that the career prosecutors assigned to the leak investigation were motivated by politics.

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Interviews with more than a dozen individuals who worked with Patel shed new light on his path to power. After joining the White House as a member of the National Security Council, Patel became known as an aggressive colleague, sources say, often clashing with others. “The (FBI) director leads an agency that’s going after Russian and Chinese spies, mobsters, kidnappers,” one source familiar with the transition’s discussions about the FBI job told CNN. Earl Matthews, a former Trump official who worked with Patel in the White House, said he brings a unique resume to the job. ‘Why is Kash here?’By 2019, after Republicans lost their House majority, Nunes worked to make good on his promise to help Patel get to the White House.

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☆ UnitedHealthcare CEO killing and Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting: Morning Rundown
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-05 | by ( Elizabeth Robinson | Elizabeth Robinson Is A Newsletter Editor For Nbc News | Based In Los Angeles. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +7 min

The manhunt for the gunman who fatally shot UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City goes on. A study suggests there are millions of psychiatric disorders linked to exposure to lead in gasoline. And Rockefeller Center gets in the holiday spirit with its annual Christmas tree lighting. Manhunt continues for shooter in UnitedHealthcare CEO killingThe manhunt for the person who fatally shot the CEO of UnitedHealthcare is still going on. Rockefeller Center tree lights up the holiday seasonIt’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas at Rockefeller Center, which celebrated its tree lighting with a star-studded show last night.

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☆ ‘Attempt to bully me’: Ex-Pence adviser reacts to Kash Patel’s threat of legal action
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-05 | by ( Ellen Rittiner | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

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