July 26, 2024
The U.S. Department of Justice and two former FBI employees whose texts disparaging former President Donald Trump were made public told a Washington, D.C., federal judge Friday they have reached settlements in their privacy rights cases.
July 06, 2023
A D.C. federal judge on Thursday refused to reconsider her order allowing former President Donald Trump to be deposed by attorneys for former FBI employees suing the government after their texts were made public, shooting down the U.S. Department of Justice's bid to block the deposition.
February 23, 2023
Former President Donald Trump and FBI Director Christopher Wray can be deposed by attorneys for two former FBI employees who separately sued the government after their text messages criticizing the former president were made public, a D.C. federal judge ruled on Thursday.
January 26, 2021
A veteran FBI agent fired allegedly for sending anti-Trump text messages is urging a D.C. federal court to compel the ex-president's campaign to comply with a request for documents in an unfair termination suit against the agency, adding that the organization should also explain why it shouldn't be held in contempt.
September 25, 2020
Former FBI agent Peter Strzok and onetime prosecutor Lisa Page won green lights Friday to move ahead with their lawsuits accusing the Justice Department of violating privacy laws by publicly releasing anti-Trump texts the two exchanged during the 2016 presidential election.
March 17, 2020
The FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice have asked a D.C. federal judge to end a suit brought by a former FBI lawyer, who worked on investigations into both Hillary Clinton's private email server and Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections, saying releasing her text messages to the press was warranted and didn't violate her privacy.
December 10, 2019
Lisa Page, a former FBI attorney connected with both the investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server and Russian interference into the 2016 U.S. presidential elections, filed suit against both the bureau and the U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday, saying they violated her privacy by sharing her text messages with the press.