Trump advisors reportedly recommended in a memo to the transition team that private firms, rather than the FBI, conduct ...

Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar emphasized Sunday the importance of FBI background checks for Trump’s Cabinet nominees, which ...

Last week, CNN reported that Trump’s transition team is bypassing standard FBI background checks for some of his Cabinet ...

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) said Sunday that President-elect Trump’s picks for his next administration have “got to get ...

In the end, it is the Republicans that are going to have to make a decision if these people are qualified for these jobs,” ...

Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), who was rumored to be on Trump’s shortlist to serve as Treasury secretary, said most American’s ...

Senate Republicans are rejecting a proposal floated by some advisers to President-elect Trump to take the job of conducting ...

Learn more. More than 4 million Americans currently hold a security clearance. Every one of them had a background check that was conducted by the FBI. During my 30 years of federal government service, ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team's decision to bypass the traditional FBI background checks for some of its nominees is concerning some in the legal and national security communities.