The Obama administration has taken a first step toward opening a criminal investigation into the purported leaking of classified documents related to the federal government tracking Americans’ phone calls and emails, a source familiar with the high-level discussions told Fox News.
Documents obtained by The Associated Press show the Justice Department is conducting a criminal investigation into possible contract rigging by the general counsel at the government agency that distributes foreign aid.
Local police in Arlington, Va., have opened a criminal investigation after a secretly recorded video showed the son of a Democratic congressman apparently advising someone who claimed to be looking for ways to commit voter fraud.
The U.S. Army has opened a criminal investigation after a video surfaced that appears to show senior security contractors in Afghanistan stumbling around drunk and high on their base in Kabul.
Attorney General Eric Holder is cutting short an overseas trip and will return to Washington immediately to manage a criminal investigation into the deaths of the four people who died in an attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
Federal authorities said Friday that they’re closing their abuse-of-power investigation into a sheriff in Arizona without filing charges against him.
The owner of several Connecticut nursing homes is asking the state for a formal criminal investigation into alleged acts of vandalism and sabotage – including switching the IDs of Alzheimer patients – hours before union workers went on strike this month.
Attorney General Eric Holder’s announcement that two U.S. attorneys have been assigned to lead a criminal investigation into possible, unauthorized leaks of classified information is being met with skepticism by GOP lawmakers questioning whether the attorneys will be able to act independently of the Obama administration.