The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency. Operating under the jurisdiction of the United States Department of Justice,the FBI is also a member of the U.S. Intelligence Community and reports to both the Attorney General and the Director of National Intelligence. A leading U.S. counterterrorism,counterintelligence,and criminal investigative organization,the FBI has jurisdiction over violations of more than 200 categories of federal crimes.
The Department of Public Safety of the State of Texas,commonly known as the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS),is a department of the state government of Texas. The DPS is responsible for statewide law enforcement and driver license administration. The Public Safety Commission oversees the DPS. However,under state law,the Governor of Texas may assume command of the department during a public disaster,riot,insurrection,formation of a dangerous resistance to enforcement of law,or to perform his constitutional duty to enforce law. The commission's five members are appointed by the governor and confirmed by the Texas Senate,to serve without pay for staggered,six-year terms. The commission formulates plans and policies for enforcing criminal,traffic and safety laws,preventing and detecting crime,apprehending law violators,and educating citizens about laws and public safety.
Sheldon Whitehouse is an American lawyer and politician serving as the junior United States senator from Rhode Island since 2007. A member of the Democratic Party,he served as a United States Attorney from 1993 to 1998 and the 71st attorney general of Rhode Island from 1999 to 2003.
James Andrew Baker is a former American government official at the Department of Justice who served as general counsel for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and later served as deputy general counsel at Twitter,Inc. before being fired by Elon Musk in December 2022.
Beth Ann Wilkinson is an American lawyer based in Washington,D.C. She is a founding partner of Wilkinson Stekloff,a specialty trial and litigation law firm. Formerly,she was a partner in the Paul,Weiss,Rifkind,Wharton &Garrison law firm,where she worked in their Washington,D.C. office focusing on white collar criminal defense. Wilkinson began her legal career as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Corps,and she has also served as an Assistant United States Attorney in New York City.
Martin Edward Whelan III is an American lawyer,legal activist and political commentator. Whelan's legal career included clerking for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and serving as a deputy assistant attorney general during the George W. Bush administration. Since 2004,he has served as the president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center,a conservative think tank "dedicated to applying the Judeo-Christian moral tradition to critical issues of public policy".
Rod Jay Rosenstein is an American attorney who served as the 37th United States deputy attorney general from April 2017 until May 2019. Prior to his appointment,he served as a United States attorney for the District of Maryland. At the time of his confirmation as deputy attorney general in April 2017,he was the longest-serving U.S. attorney. Rosenstein had also been nominated to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in 2007,but his nomination was never considered by the U.S. Senate.
Louis Joseph Freeh is an American attorney and former judge who served as the fifth Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from September 1993 to June 2001.
Brett Michael Kavanaugh is an American lawyer and jurist serving as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated by President Donald Trump on July 9,2018,and has served since October 6,2018. He was previously a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
The Apple–FBI encryption dispute concerns whether and to what extent courts in the United States can compel manufacturers to assist in unlocking cell phones whose data are cryptographically protected. There is much debate over public access to strong encryption.
Carter William Page is an American petroleum industry consultant and a former foreign-policy adviser to Donald Trump during his 2016 presidential election campaign. Page is the founder and managing partner of Global Energy Capital,a one-man investment fund and consulting firm specializing in the Russian and Central Asian oil and gas business.
Christopher Asher Wray is an American attorney who is the current director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). He was nominated by president Donald Trump on June 7,2017,and has served since August 2,2017.
Joseph diGenova is an American lawyer and political commentator who served as the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia from 1983 to 1988. He and his wife,Victoria Toensing,are partners in the Washington,D.C.,law firm diGenova and Toensing. He is known for promoting conspiracy theories about the Department of Justice and the FBI. He and Toensing frequently appeared on Fox News and Fox Business channels,until diGenova used a November 2019 appearance to spread conspiracy theories about George Soros,leading to widespread calls for him to be banned from the network.
On July 9,2018,President Donald Trump nominated Brett Kavanaugh for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States to succeed retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy. When nominated,Kavanaugh was a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit,a position he was appointed to in 2006 by President George W. Bush.
The 2017-2019 Special Counsel investigation involved multiple legal teams,specifically the attorneys,supervised by Special Counsel Robert Mueller,taking part in the investigation;the team representing President Trump in his personal capacity;and the team representing the White House as an institution separate from the President.
Christine Margaret Blasey Ford is an American professor of psychology at Palo Alto University and a research psychologist at the Stanford University School of Medicine. She specializes in designing statistical models for research projects. During her academic career,Ford has worked as a professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine Collaborative Clinical Psychology Program.
Mark Gauvreau Judge is an American author and journalist known for books about his suburban Washington,D.C. youth,recovery from alcoholism,and the role of music in American popular culture.
Ricki Lynn Seidman is an American political adviser,government official,and Democratic Party activist. Seidman is nationally recognized for her involvement in the Supreme Court confirmation hearings of Robert Bork,Clarence Thomas,Sonia Sotomayor,and Brett Kavanaugh.
Wasted:Tales of a GenX Drunk is a 1997 memoir about alcoholism,binge drinking,and hookup culture at Georgetown Preparatory School,written by Mark Judge. Judge recounts his early formative experiences growing up in suburbs of Washington,D.C. under Catholic school education. The author describes his secondary education at Georgetown Preparatory School as filled with heavy drinking and experiences of teenage alcoholism. The book criticizes Alcoholics Anonymous for its lack of acknowledgement of physiological causes of alcoholism as a disease process.
Rachel Hope Mitchell is an American attorney serving as the County Attorney for Maricopa County,Arizona since April 2022. She was appointed to the position following the resignation of Allister Adel and won the 2022 special election. In 2019,she briefly served as the acting County Attorney after the appointment of Bill Montgomery to the Arizona Supreme Court. Previously,she was the Chief Deputy County Attorney,and chief of the Special Victims Division.
