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US Prosecutor Faces ‘Disciplinary Complaint’ Over FBI Raid Of Reporter

February 15, 2026 Kevin Gosztola, The Dissenter. , , ,
The Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) filed a "disciplinary complaint" against the federal prosecutor who signed off on the search warrant, which led to the FBI raid against Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson.  “Assistant United States Attorney Gordon Kromberg and the government omitted a federal law that should have prohibited the raid of Hannah Natanson’s home when applying for a search warrant,” declared FPF advocacy director Seth Stern. “That choice now threatens to expose Natanson’s sources and cripple her ability to report, while also sending a warning shot to journalists and whistleblowers nationwide.”

Prosecutors Resign As DOJ Pressures Them To Investigate Widow

January 14, 2026 Maddison Wheeldon, The Canary. , , , ,
US Attorney Joe Thompson and five other prosecutors have reportedly quit the US Department of Justice (DOJ) following undue pressure to investigate Renee Good and those around her, including her grieving widow. Six federal prosecutors have quit the DOJ in a shared refusal to ignore political interference from the Trump administration. Reports suggest that an investigation was ordered into Renee Good and associations, with a clear intention to investigate Good’s widow instead of the ICE agents responsible for her murder. This comes after reports that Trump’s MAGA officials have resisted a civil rights investigation into the fatal shooting of Renee Good by an ICE agent, instead choosing to limit the role of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.

Behind The DOJ’s Politicized Indictment Of Maduro

January 7, 2026 Max Blumenthal, The Grayzone. , , ,
The January 3 US military raid on Venezuela to kidnap President Nicolas Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores was followed by the Department of Justice’s release of its superseding indictment of the two abductees as well as their son, Nicolasito Maduro, and two close political allies: former Minister of Justice Ramon Chacin and ex-Minister of Interior, Justice and Peace Diosdado Cabello. The DOJ has also thrown Tren De Aragua (TDA) cartel leader Hector “Niño” Guerrero into the mix of defendants, situating him at the heart of its narrative.

DOJ Pressured Lawyers To ‘Find’ Evidence UCLA Tolerated Antisemitism

December 13, 2025 Peter Elkind and Katharine Mangan, Pro Publica. , , , ,
On the morning of Thursday, July 31, James B. Milliken was enjoying a round of golf at the remote Sand Hills club in Western Nebraska when his cellphone buzzed. Milliken was still days away from taking the helm of the sprawling University of California system, but his new office was on the line with disturbing news: The Trump administration was freezing hundreds of millions of dollars of research funding at the University of California, Los Angeles, UC’s biggest campus. Milliken quickly packed up and made the five-hour drive to Denver to catch the next flight to California. He landed on the front lines of one of the most confounding cultural battles waged by the Trump administration. 

University Of Alabama Shuts Down Two Student Magazines

December 6, 2025 Kevin Gosztola, The Dissenter. , , , ,
Administrators at the University of Alabama shut down two student-led publications and claimed that a memo from Attorney General Pam Bondi required them to censor journalism. On July 29, Bondi issued “non-binding suggestions” for “federal funding recipients to comply with antidiscrimination law.” The intent was to discourage diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies, and Bondi specifically stated that “unlawful proxies” could jeopardize funding. Bondi also insisted that universities may not direct funds and other resources to organizations “primarily because of their racial or ethnic composition rather than other legitimate factors.”

DOJ Appears To Have Violated Luigi Mangione’s Right To A Fair Trial

September 25, 2025 By Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg, Truthout. , , ,
A federal judge has ordered prosecutors to respond to a letter from Luigi Mangione’s legal team alleging that Trump administration officials’ recent social media posts about the case appear to have violated his right to a fair trial. “It appears … that multiple employees at the Department of Justice may have violated Local Criminal Rule 23.1, and this Court’s order of April 25, 2025 specifically identifying the strictures of this rule,” U.S. District Judge Margaret M. Garnett wrote in her order on September 24 in response to the letter. The rule stipulates that “non-lawyer personnel employed by a lawyer’s office or subject to a lawyer’s supervision” in a criminal case have a duty not to release an “opinion that a reasonable person would expect to be disseminated by means of public communication” if there is a chance that the opinion will “interfere with a fair trial or otherwise prejudice the due administration of justice.”

Trump DOJ Adopts Policy Permitting Journalist Arrests

April 28, 2025 Kevin Gosztola, The Dissenter. , , , , ,
United States Attorney General Pam Bondi ended a Justice Department (DOJ) policy that explicitly discouraged federal prosecutors from forcing journalists to reveal their sources and other sensitive information, including information obtained from potential leaks. With new guidelines, members of the news media who refuse to cooperate with prosecutors could be arrested for contempt. If accused of contempt, they could be fined or jailed. The move by Bondi comes as Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has “referred” three alleged “intelligence leakers” to the DOJ for criminal prosecution.

Trump Department Of Justice To Seek Death Penalty For Luigi Mangione

April 2, 2025 Eloise Goldsmith, Scheer Post. , , ,
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Tuesday that she is directing federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty in the case of Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old man accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December. Federal prosecutors in New York City filed murder charges against Mangione in mid-December after Mangione was arrested in a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, five days after Thompson was gunned down in front of a hotel in midtown Manhattan on December 4. UnitedHealthcare is the largest health insurer in the country, though the company has said Mangione was never insured by them.

Top Prosecutor Resigns After Ordered To Investigate Biden Climate Funding

February 20, 2025 Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, EcoWatch. , , ,
Denise Cheung, the top criminal prosecutor with the United States Attorney’s Office in Washington, DC, resigned on Tuesday after she declined to follow an order from a Trump-appointed superior at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to start a grand jury investigation, people with knowledge of the matter said, as CNN reported. Acting U.S. Attorney General Emil Bove initially gave the instruction to Ed Martin — a Donald Trump nominee for U.S. Attorney in DC. — for Cheung to direct an investigation of a Biden EPA funding decision, then freeze the funding.

Biden’s Record And What That Means For The Next Administration

December 30, 2024 Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. , , , , , ,
As the Biden presidency comes to a close, Clearing the FOG speaks with author and journalist Kevin Gosztola about his current series on Biden's legacy. Gosztola reports in The Dissenter on Biden's failure to fulfill his campaign promises when it comes to government transparency, accountability and press freedom, as well as how these have eroded through successive presidencies this century. Gosztola describes how it has become more difficult to access information about what the government is doing and the abuse of the state secrets privilege to hide crimes being committed by entities such as the CIA. He also discusses what we can expect from the incoming Trump administration.

Report: Assange In Plea Deal Talks

March 21, 2024 Joe Lauria, Consortium News. , , ,
Lawyers for Julian Assange and officials of the U.S. Justice Department are engaged in talks for a possible plea deal that could see Assange walk out of Belmarsh Prison in London as a free man, according to a report Wednesday in The Wall Street Journal. The newspaper said the DOJ was considering whether to allow Assange to “plead guilty to a reduced charge of mishandling classified information,” which is a misdemeanor. He is currently charged with felonies for allegedly violating the U.S. Espionage Act and for conspiracy to commit computer intrusion, charges that carry as much as 175 years in prison.

US Government Treats Use Of Privacy Tools As Criminal Activity

February 2, 2024 Kevin Gosztola, The Dissenter. , , , , ,
In Espionage Act prosecutions involving leaks, attorneys at the United States (DOJ) consistently treat the use of privacy tools as evidence of criminality. This tendency should alarm journalists and news media organizations that rely on such tools for newsgathering. A jury convicted former CIA programmer Joshua Schulte of disclosing CIA cyber warfare materials to WikiLeaks in July 2022. Schulte is scheduled to be sentenced in the U.S. Southern District Court of New York on February 1. The U.S. government’s sentencing memo [PDF] asserted that “between April 18 and May 5, 2016, Schulte took a number of steps to transmit the stolen CIA files to WikiLeaks.

Australian Parliamentarians Speak Outside DOJ After Assange Talks

September 21, 2023 Consortium News. , , , , ,
Six members of the Australian parliament landed in Washington D.C. on Tuesday armed with a bi-partisan agenda and the backing of an entire nation as they try to convince Congressmen and State and Justice Department officials that the American pursuit of Australian publisher Julian Assange is wrong and must be stopped. The cross-party delegation is spending two days in the U.S. capital arguing Assange’s case ahead of Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s state visit to the White House at the end of October, where it is expected that Assange will be brought up (as well as Australia being used to test U.S. hypersonic missiles).

Randy Credico Leads Blockade Of DOJ Entrance For Julian Assange

August 17, 2023 Ford Fischer, News2Share. , , , ,
Randy Credico attempted a civil disobedience rally/blockade Wednesday of the Department of Justice in Washington DC along along with Kathy Boylan of Dorothy Day Catholic Worker demanding a meeting to request the release of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Kathy Boylan, protesting in front of the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building in DC, was wearing a Kennedy 2024 shirt. She tells News2Share that "when he is elected, Robert Kennedy Jr has promised to free Julian Assange, truth-tellers, and whistleblowers." Ultimately, Credico allowed people past his blockade, and police didn't arrest him, instead waiting it out.

Biden Is Preparing To Crush A Historic Climate Change Lawsuit

August 16, 2023 Julia Rock, The Lever. , , ,
Any day now, a federal district court is expected to deliver a ruling that would allow a historic climate change lawsuit to proceed to trial. If and when the case moves forward, however, it faces a major obstacle: President Joe Biden’s Justice Department. The lawsuit, Juliana v. United States, was brought by 21 young plaintiffs in 2015 and seeks to establish a federal, constitutional right to a livable planet. If the case is successful, any federal policies that enable more fossil fuel development could be challenged as unconstitutional. But the Obama and Trump administrations both vehemently fought the lawsuit, and now those close to the case say that Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) has indicated it will also use every procedural tool at its disposal to prevent the lawsuit from ever getting a trial.
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