While President-elect Donald Trump’s controversial pick for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, is beginning the process to ...
Senior Republicans have signaled they may use a third-party agency to conduct background checks on Donald Trump's Cabinet ...
Republicans senators returned to Washington after Thanksgiving recess to a renewed peppering of questions about ...
President Elect Donald Trump named Kash Patel to potentially lead the FBI. The nomination would require Trump to fire current ...
Donald Trump may have thought he could skip the vetting with his early Cabinet picks. He gave the news media time to subject ...
The FBI will not be able to withhold clearances from Trump's Cabinet nominees, a former FBI assistant director has said. Frank Figliuzzi was reacting to news that Trump's Cabinet is examining ...
Two former Senate counsels agreed in a New York Times op-ed published Friday that President-elect Trump’s nominations for his ...
Some people in Trump’s corner are suggesting allowing private investigators to vet high-level nominees instead of the FBI ...
Last week, CNN reported that Trump’s transition team is bypassing standard FBI background checks for some of his Cabinet ...
President-elect Donald Trump has virtually completed filling the top jobs in his new administration. His choices range from satisfactory to disastrous.
Donald Trump's pick for FBI director, Kash Patel, has vowed to target Trump's perceived enemies, including journalists.
President-elect Trump's transition team has signed on to an agreement for the FBI to vet the incoming administration's cabinet nominees, the transition team announced Tuesday. Trump's team says it ...