Ken Dilanian
Justice and Intelligence Correspondent, NBC News. Reach me at DilanianNBC@proton.me
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- Reposted by Ken DilanianDems on the House Oversight Committee released never-before-seen videos and images of Jeffrey Epstein's private home in the Caribbean dubbed "Epstein Island". @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social, @lawofruby.bsky.social and @kevinjfrey.bsky.social join Chris Jansing with more. www.ms.now/chris-jansin...
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- “What I don’t understand is why some Democrats are hopping on this bandwagon. They may believe the Epstein file release will hurt Trump. But they are undermining public trust and sowing public cynicism in ways that make the entire progressive project impossible.“ . www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
- Reposted by Ken DilanianEXCLUSIVE: Grand jury investigating Trump admin officials @carolleonnig.bsky.social and @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social join Katy Tur with more of their exclusive reporting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUvN...
- SCOOP: A federal grand jury in Maryland is investigating whether FHFA director Bill Pulte and Justice Department prosecutor Ed Martin improperly appointed unauthorized people to help in mortgage fraud investigations of President Trump's critics. With @carolleonnig.bsky.social
- New: In private correspondence with Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein wrote in 2011 that Donald Trump, “spent hours at my house” with a victim of sex trafficking, referring to Trump as the “dog that hasn’t barked.” Emails obtained by @housedemocrats.bsky.social
- Ghislaine Maxwell, the Epstein confidante and child sex trafficker, is being waited on “hand and foot” by the staff at her minimum security prison camp while she prepares a request that Donald Trump commute her sentence, according to whistleblower revelations. More on @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social
- New: Two federal prosecutors have been placed on leave at the direction of the White House after they filed a sentencing memo describing a defendant as having been part of “a mob of rioters” who “attacked the U.S. Capitol.”
- Here's one of the alleged mob guys charged in the NBA-related gambling takedown today: "Joe Brooklyn" Lanni, an alleged Gambino family capo. nypost.com/2025/10/17/u...
- This federal gambling takedown is absolutely wild. Mafia soldiers, an NBA coach, rigged poker games with crooked shuffling machines and hidden cameras…and an allegation that an NBA player fixed a game to profit from a bet.
- EXCLUSIVE: Ex-DoJ officials say Trump is destroying the department. Most sweeping accusations against a president since Nixon www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/e...
- As I reported last night: The DoJ fired the top national security prosecutor in the Eastern District of Virginia a few hours after MAGA activist Julie Kelly denounced him on X because he has been detailed to work for the deputy attorney general in the last administration.
- Michael Ben’Ary was a DoJ lifer who worked his way up the career ranks. He was the lead prosecutor in a case the Trump administration has boasted about, against an accused terrorist alleged to have been involved in the 2021 suicide bombing in Afghanistan that killed 13 U.S. service members.
- The Abbey Gate terrorist case is supposed to go trial in early December. Kash Patel and Pam Bondi made a point of going to the airport to meet the plane that brought the defendant to the U.S. Now the DoJ has fired the prosecutor for political reasons,
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View full threadSources tell me the line prosecutors in that office are devastated by what has transpired. Their new leader, interim U.S. Attorney, Lindsey Halligan, has never prosecuted a case.
- New: Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee are demanding that AG Bondi turn over documents relating to the firing of the EDVA prosecutor that paved the way for the Comey indictment. @durbin.senate.gov and others
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- Warner Accuses Trump Administration of Undermining National Security www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...
- Exclusive: FBI agents have been pulled off terrorism and child predator cases to chase undocumented immigrants www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...
- Reposted by Ken DilanianFBI and DOJ being 'politicized' in way 'we've never seen in modern history': @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social www.msnbc.com/katy-tur/wat...
- FBI agents fear Trump is turning the bureau into a police force, at the expense of its national security mission. Latest plan: Equip FBI agents with tasers. www.msnbc.com/news/news-an...
- Supporters have launched a fundraising appeal to help two veteran FBI agents recently fired for what appear to be political reasons: www.supporttheirservice.com
- Reposted by Ken DilanianThe latest @crisisroompod.bsky.social has just dropped! Fiona Hill, once the president’s top Russia adviser & inside the room at the Helsinki Trump/Putin summit joins Amber Rudd @mpolymer1.bsky.social and I to discuss what’s about to happen in Alaska podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
- New and exclusive: Sen Durbin is asking the DoJ Inspector General to investigate the apparent politically-motivated firings of FBI leaders. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/f...
- Letter from FBI Director Kash Patel firing veteran FBI agent Walter Giardina, whose wife died of cancer last month at age 49. Patel accuses this agent, a Marine combat veteran, of “weaponization.” Many of his FBI colleagues told me he did his job scrupulously and ethically.
- Brian Driscoll, the former acting FBI director who refused to carry out Trump administration plans for mass firing of J6 agents, is being forced out of the bureau, according to a source directly familiar.
- Exclusive: An unprecedented purge of FBI leaders has disproportionally impacted women and people of color www.msnbc.com/opinion/anal...
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- New: Ghislaine Maxwell was technically ineligible to be transferred from to a minimum-security federal prison camp-- and the Bureau of Prisons had to waive a rule to facilitate the move, according to public records and a federal prison expert. With @lawofruby.bsky.social
- Unlike most allegations of wrongdoing levied against the Trump administration, these seem likely to be independently investigated by a federal judge with the power to put people under oath. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/msnbc/...
- Before you ponder what Hunter Biden has to say about politics, perhaps read this story first. Those of us who covered the trial will not soon forget this testimony. www.cnbc.com/2024/06/06/h...
- More than 1300 employees were forced out of the State Department Friday, leaving their offices with small boxes of plants and old coffee mugs and taking with them decades of specialized skills and on the job training as part of the United States Diplomatic Corps. Reporting by Abigail Williams
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- "Nowhere does it conclude that the 2016 assessment’s findings were wrong or politically skewed...In fact, it found that the supporting intelligence was sound, and the tradecraft behind the assessment was robust and defensible.” www.thebulwark.com/p/the-cia-di...
- New: The Justice Department has opened criminal investigations into the conduct of former CIA Director John Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey, two of Donald Trump’s political foes who have long been the target of MAGA conspiracy theories, according to a DoJ spokesman.
- Trump’s Politicized F.B.I. Has Made Americans Less Safe www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/o...
- The directors of the FBI and CIA say newly declassified documents show intelligence officials acting of a political motive to harm Donald Trump. Read them yourself. They do not. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
- Israeli pilots trained for years and intelligence forces built up networks for its multipart offensive in Iran, which included elements called “Red Wedding” and “Operation Narnia.”
- New: How the Trump Administration has smashed the government’s bulwarks against corruption www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
- Exclusive: The Trump Adm. has decided to permit the sale of "forced reset trigger" devices that enable regular firearms to fire like machine guns, a move that one person familiar with the matter said was “by far the most dangerous thing this administration has done” on gun policy.
- There is a ton of fraud in government programs—as much as $1 trillion a year. But DOGE so far doesn’t seem to be tackling the real problem. “The rampant federal fraud that DOGE is largely ignoring” www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
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- A federal judge has blocked a portion of Pres. Trump’s Executive Order and AG Pam Bondi’s directive blocking federal funding for several cities and counties because they are considered sanctuary jurisdictions, @GaryGrumbach reports.
- New: How the Trump Administration has re-purposed the DoJ’s Civil Rights Division, ousting career public servants and implementing a sweeping new set of MAGA priorities. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
- Electronics, clothes and coffee: What you're still set to pay more for under Trump's tariffs
- Federal spending is higher since President Trump took office even as the Department of Government Efficiency slashes contracts, cuts jobs and ends diversity programs
- Exclusive: The FBI is recruiting a multiagent bodyguard team to protect Dan Bongino, the first ever deputy director to have a full security detail. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
- After the the DoJ said it would seek to execute Luigi Mangione, he raised thousands more for his legal defense fund. My reporitng for Top Story with Tom Llamas: www.nbcnews.com/now/video/at...
- A federal judge has just dismissed the corruption case against the New York mayor *with prejudice* in a ruling that completely repudiates the Justice Department's arguments in the case, calling DoJ's contentions "fundamentally incompatible with the basic promise of equal justice under law."
- New: We spent time with the DEA in Phoenix, where drug warriors who have spent years trying to slow the flow of fentanyl say Trump’s policies are helping. www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news...
