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Ken Dilanian @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social · 2d

EXCLUSIVE: Ex-DoJ officials say Trump is destroying the department. Most sweeping accusations against a president since Nixon

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Ex-Justice officials: 'It's our duty to sound the alarm'

Scores of officials who have resigned or been forced out of the Justice Department this year are speaking out against its "destruction."

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Ken Dilanian @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social · 6d

Sources tell me the line prosecutors in that office are devastated by what has transpired. Their new leader, interim U.S. Attorney, Lindsey Halligan, has never prosecuted a case.

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Ken Dilanian @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social · 6d

The EDVA US Attorney's Office is one of the country's most important because it handles complex national security and terrorism cases. After the Comey case and now this, that office is in shambles.

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Ken Dilanian @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social · 6d

He had been detailed to work for Deputy AG Lisa Monaco, who herself has been targeted by Kelly, and subsequently Trump. Monaco is now working for Microsoft.

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Ken Dilanian @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social · 6d

The Abbey Gate terrorist case is supposed to go trial in early December. Kash Patel and Pam Bondi made a point of going to the airport to meet the plane that brought the defendant to the U.S. Now the DoJ has fired the prosecutor for political reasons,

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Ken Dilanian @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social · 6d

Michael Ben’Ary was a DoJ lifer who worked his way up the career ranks. He was the lead prosecutor in a case the Trump administration has boasted about, against an accused terrorist alleged to have been involved in the 2021 suicide bombing in Afghanistan that killed 13 U.S. service members.

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Ken Dilanian @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social · 6d

As I reported last night: The DoJ fired the top national security prosecutor in the Eastern District of Virginia a few hours after MAGA activist Julie Kelly denounced him on X because he has been detailed to work for the deputy attorney general in the last administration.

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Ken Dilanian @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social · 8d

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How Tom Homan wound up ensnared in an FBI contracts-for-cash sting

A former associate of Trump’s border czar allegedly proposed a $1 million scheme last year that put FBI agents on Homan's trail.

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Ken Dilanian @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social · 12d

New: Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee are demanding that AG Bondi turn over documents relating to the firing of the EDVA prosecutor that paved the way for the Comey indictment. @durbin.senate.gov and others

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The Weeknight on MSNBC @weeknightmsnbc.bsky.social · 12d

BREAKING: Former FBI Director James Comey has been indicted on two counts by Virginia grand jury, a senior Justice Department official tells MSNBC. @msnbc.com Justice and Legal Correspondent @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social joins The Weeknight with the latest.

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 13d

3/ @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social confirms ABC News reporting

Prosecutors "presented newly sworn US attorney Lindsey Halligan with a memo explaining ... there isn’t enough evidence to establish probable cause a crime was committed, let alone enough to convince a jury to convict him."

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The Weeknight on MSNBC @weeknightmsnbc.bsky.social · 13d

BREAKING: Former FBI Director James Comey is expected to be indicted by Trump’s DOJ, according to new reporting from @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social and Carol Leonnig.

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Ken Dilanian @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social · 19d

Warner Accuses Trump Administration of Undermining National Security www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...

Warner Accuses Trump Administration of Undermining National Security

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Ken Dilanian @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social · 22d

Exclusive: FBI agents have been pulled off terrorism and child predator cases to chase undocumented immigrants

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President Trump's deportations are diverting FBI agents off child predator cases

Officials warn that President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown is leaving domestic terrorists, including online extremists who prey on children, unpoliced.

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MSNBC Reports @msnbcreports.msnbc.com · Aug 22

FBI and DOJ being 'politicized' in way 'we've never seen in modern history': @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social
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FBI and DOJ being 'politicized' in way 'we've never seen in modern history': Dilanian

The FBI is searching the home and office of former National Security Adviser John Bolton as part of a “national security investigation in search of classified records,” according to a source familiar ...

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Ken Dilanian @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social · Aug 19

FBI agents fear Trump is turning the bureau into a police force, at the expense of its national security mission. Latest plan: Equip FBI agents with tasers.

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Trump is turning the FBI away from investigating terrorism and corruption, sources say

Staffing cuts and a new focus on violent crime will leave fewer resources for the agency's other goals.

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Ken Dilanian @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social · Aug 17

Supporters have launched a fundraising appeal to help two veteran FBI agents recently fired for what appear to be political reasons:

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Support Their Service

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Mark Urban @markurban.bsky.social · Aug 14

The latest @crisisroompod.bsky.social has just dropped! Fiona Hill, once the president’s top Russia adviser & inside the room at the Helsinki Trump/Putin summit joins Amber Rudd @mpolymer1.bsky.social and I to discuss what’s about to happen in Alaska podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Who is playing who? Trump, Putin, and the Alaska ‘Peace Summit’

Podcast Episode · The Crisis Room · 14/08/2025 · 40m

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Ken Dilanian @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social · Aug 14

New and exclusive: Sen Durbin is asking the DoJ Inspector General to investigate the apparent politically-motivated firings of FBI leaders.

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Firings at FBI spark demand for probe from top Senate Democrat

Personnel purges and new physical requirements risk driving out women and people of color from the bureau’s staff, Sen. Dick Durbin warns in a letter exclusively obtained by MSNBC.

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Ken Dilanian @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social · Aug 9

Letter from FBI Director Kash Patel firing veteran FBI agent Walter Giardina, whose wife died of cancer last month at age 49. Patel accuses this agent, a Marine combat veteran, of “weaponization.” Many of his FBI colleagues told me he did his job scrupulously and ethically.

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Ken Dilanian @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social · Aug 7

Brian Driscoll, the former acting FBI director who refused to carry out Trump administration plans for mass firing of J6 agents, is being forced out of the bureau, according to a source directly familiar.

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Ken Dilanian @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social · Aug 5

Exclusive: An unprecedented purge of FBI leaders has disproportionally impacted women and people of color

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Analysis | High-ranking FBI job losses disproportionately hurt women, people of color

Leaders are undertaking an unprecedented campaign to force senior officials off the job.

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · Aug 1

Dallas Cowboys star Micah Parsons requests a trade from the team while suggesting the club has refused to negotiate a new contract.

Cowboys star Micah Parsons requests trade and says team won’t negotiate

The 26-year-old is entering the final year of his five-year rookie contract with a salary of $24 million but wants a long-term deal.

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Ken Dilanian @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social · Aug 1

New: Ghislaine Maxwell was technically ineligible to be transferred from to a minimum-security federal prison camp-- and the Bureau of Prisons had to waive a rule to facilitate the move, according to public records and a federal prison expert. With @lawofruby.bsky.social

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Ken Dilanian @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social · Jul 31

Unlike most allegations of wrongdoing levied against the Trump administration, these seem likely to be independently investigated by a federal judge with the power to put people under oath.

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DOJ approval of a corporate merger has exposed a rift in the MAGA movement

Meanwhile, Democratic senators have seized on the proposed merger between Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Juniper Networks as an example of possible misconduct.

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