Former President Donald Trump’s legal team has asked the House Intelligence Committee to intervene in the Department of Justice’s investigation of Trump’s retention of classified documents. “DOJ is not the appropriate agency to conduct investigations pertaining to the mishandling or spillage of classified material,” Timothy C. Parlatore and other Trump attorneys argue in the April…

Donald Trump’s legal team has asked the House Intelligence Committee to intervene in the Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation of the former president’s retention of classified documents. “DOJ is not the appropriate agency to conduct investigations pertaining to the mishandling or spillage of classified material,” Timothy C. Parlatore and other Trump attorneys stated in a…

March for Life participants who were ordered to cover or remove their pro-life attire during a Jan. 20 visit to the National Archives will receive a personal tour as part of a preliminary agreement the two parties reached in litigation. News of the agreement comes after the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) issued a…

Former Vice President Mike Pence on Friday acknowledged his responsibility for classified documents found at his residence in Indiana and pledged to participate in any investigation into the matter. Pence said that during his final days in office, materials were packaged and shipped, including to his personal residence, and mistakes were made during this process….

The National Archives said it has to consult with the Department of Justice (DOJ) before providing Republican lawmakers with information related to the discovery of classified documents from the Obama administration linked to President Joe Biden. Debra Steidel Wall, head of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), said the agency is willing to share…

House oversight GOP figures cast doubt on the accuracy of the National Archives’ previous letter on its role in a raid of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in light of recent reports. Republican members of the Oversight Committee Republicans, led by ranking member James Comer (R-Ky.), wrote a letter (pdf) to U.S. Acting Archivist…

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) responded Friday to former President Donald Trump’s statements that former President Barrack Obama took classified records from the White House when his term ended in 2016. “President Barack Hussein Obama kept 33 million pages of documents, much of them classified. How many of them pertained to nuclear? Word…

Oversight GOP figures are requesting the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) provide information on the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) raid of former president Donald Trump’s resort in Mar-a-Lago. “NARA’s singling out of President Trump’s handling of official records stands starkly in contrast to the way NARA has treated far clearer violations committed by politicians…

Oversight GOP figures are requesting the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) provide information on the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) raid of former president Donald Trump’s resort in Mar-a-Lago. “NARA’s singling out of President Trump’s handling of official records stands starkly in contrast to the way NARA has treated far clearer violations committed by politicians…

Commentary Statesmen come along only once in a great while. Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was murdered on July 8 in Nara, Japan, was a statesman. He was the first of the 20-odd Japanese prime ministers to deserve the title in the last 35 years since Yasuhiro Nakasone held office. Even though Abe…