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Alex van der Zwaan leaves Federal District Court in Washington, Feb. 20, 2018. The attorney formally pleaded guilty to a single charge of making false statements. <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-mueller-russia-charges-20180220-story.html" target="_blank">He admitted he lied to federal investigators</a> working for special counsel Robert Mueller. The charge does not involve election meddling or relate to the Trump campaign's operations. It stems from a part of the special counsel's investigation into Paul Manafort, Trump's former campaign chair, and Rick Gates, a former campaign aide and longtime business associate of Manafort.

Former security chief says he rejected offer of women for Trump during Moscow trip

August 22, 2019 at 1:35 a.m.

President Donald Trump's longtime director of security told House investigators this week that a foreigner offered to send five women to Trump's hotel room during his visit to Moscow in...

Secret Service might have broken protocol during Hillary Clinton’s exit from 9/11 event

August 21, 2019 at 8:04 p.m.

The U.S. Secret Service appears to have broken its own protocol with Hillary Clinton's early departure from Sunday's commemoration of the 15th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks...

Secret Service members stand watch as President Obama leaves Washington aboard Marine One en route to Los Angeles.

Secret Service agents disrupted bomb investigation at White House, officials say

June 21, 2019 at 10:50 p.m.

Two Secret Service agents suspected of driving under the influence and striking a White House security barricade disrupted an active bomb investigation and may have driven over the suspicious package...

Secret Service agents investigated after car hits White House barricade

June 24, 2019 at 12:18 a.m.

The Obama administration is investigating allegations that two senior Secret Service agents, including a top member of the president's protective detail, drove a government car into White House security barricades...

Libby lawyers open defense

August 21, 2021 at 7:23 p.m.

Six journalists testified Monday that Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, never mentioned an undercover CIA officer to them--and some said they learned about her...

Senators reject spying inquiry

August 21, 2021 at 7:29 a.m.

The Bush administration helped derail a Senate bid to investigate a program of warrantless eavesdropping. Senate Democrats said the Republican-led Congress was abdicating its obligations to oversee a controversial program...

U.S. judge on spy court resigns post

August 22, 2021 at 1:33 p.m.

A federal judge has resigned from the court that oversees government surveillance in intelligence cases in protest of President Bush's secret authorization of a domestic spying program, according to two...

Woodward: Top aide revealed Plame early

August 22, 2021 at 6:13 p.m.

Washington Post Assistant Managing Editor Bob Woodward has testified under oath in the CIA leak case that a senior administration official told him about CIA operative Valerie Plame and her...

Ruling suspends terror tribunals

August 19, 2021 at 11:14 a.m.

Special trials established to determine the guilt or innocence of prisoners at the U.S. military prison in Cuba are unlawful and cannot continue in their current form, a federal judge...

Judge: Detainees must have access to attorneys

August 19, 2021 at 1:09 p.m.

The military must give men imprisoned at the U.S. Navy base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, speedy access to their attorneys and cannot monitor their conversations with the lawyers, a federal...

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