President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team is bypassing traditional FBI background checks for at least some of his Cabinet picks while using private companies to conduct vetting of ...
ABC News has reached out to the transition team to see if it intends to submit all Cabinet nominees for background checks. Though vetting of nominations has traditionally included an FBI ...
The nomination itself is a major violation of norms; the point of FBI directors’ lengthy terms is to span administrations and keep the position above partisan matters. Christopher Wray—Trump’s pick to ...