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Stephen Dinan

Stephen Dinan

Stephen Dinan can be reached at sdinan@washingtontimes.com.

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FILE - In this July 9, 2012, file photo, with wanted posters off to the side, Laura E. Duffy, United States Attorney Southern District of California, and FBI Special Agent in Charge, James L. Turgal, Jr., right, announce the indictments on five suspects involved in the death of U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry in Tucson, Ariz. Mexican authorities have arrested the suspected shooter in the 2010 killing of Terry, whose death exposed a bungled gun-tracking operation by the federal government. In a joint statement issued by Mexico's navy and its federal Attorney General's Office on Thursday, April 13, in Mexico City that the suspect who's name wasn't released in Terry's death was arrested near the border between the states of Sinoloa and Chihuahua, a mountainous region note drug activity. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Mexico arrests suspect in murder of U.S. Border Patrol agent

Mexican authorities said Thursday they've arrested one of the fugitives wanted for the murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry -- a shooting that drew new attention to the dangerous border and exposed the Obama administration's botched gun-crimes policy. Published April 13, 2017

Former IRS executive Lois G. Lerner. (Associated Press/File)

Lois Lerner says she faced death threats over IRS tea party targeting

Former IRS senior executive Lois G. Lerner told a federal court this week that she faces the possibility of death threats if her role in the tax agency's tea party targeting becomes public, and asked a judge to forever seal her upcoming deposition in a class-action lawsuit brought by hundreds of groups that were targeted. Published April 13, 2017

Sharafat Ali Khan smuggled terrorist-linked immigrants

Federal authorities wrangled a guilty plea Wednesday from a Brazilian man who ran one of the Western Hemisphere's more flagrant alien smuggling operations, sneaking dozens of illegal immigrants from terrorism-connected countries into the U.S. from 2014 to 2016. Published April 12, 2017

In this June 22, 2016, file photo, a Border Patrol agent walks along a border structure in San Diego, Calif. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, file)

Feds net guilty plea from Middle East alien smuggling mastermind

Federal authorities wrangled a guilty plea Wednesday from a Brazilian man who ran one of the Western Hemisphere's more flagrant alien-smuggling operations, sneaking dozens of illegal immigrants from terrorist-connected countries into the U.S. from 2014 to 2016. Published April 12, 2017

Former IRS executive Lois G. Lerner. (Associated Press/File)

GOP wants Donald Trump to reopen criminal probe into IRS’s Lois Lerner

Two top Republicans asked the Justice Department on Wednesday to take a new look at the evidence against former IRS senior executive Lois G. Lerner to see if charges should still be brought against her for targeting tea party groups and losing key evidence in the case. Published April 12, 2017

Border agents searching cellphones and other electronics without warrants has raised privacy concerns among civil liberties groups and privacy advocates. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

U.S. border guards increase searches of electronic devices

U.S. border officials seized and searched nearly 15,000 computers, phones and tablets over the past six months as the federal government stepped up its traveler surveillance, saying it's just responding to the latest public safety threats. Published April 11, 2017

Protesters of President Trump's immigration policies defend San Francisco's sanctuary status. (Associated Press/File)

DHS suspends sanctuary city list after just three weeks

The Homeland Security Department suspended its sanctuary city report after just three weeks, with officials acknowledging Tuesday that they had goofed on some of the data and needed more time to refine the process of figuring out who ends up on the name-and-shame list. Published April 11, 2017

Eric C. Conn used these law offices in Stanville, Kentucky, to commit one of the biggest Social Security disability fraud cases in U.S. history. (Associated Press/File)

Eric Conn pleads guilty to Social Security disability fraud

A ringleader in one of the biggest Social Security disability fraud cases in U.S. history has pleaded guilty to filing more than 1,700 bogus applications, bilking the government out of potentially a half-billion dollars. Published April 10, 2017

Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican and a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is among a small but vocal group of lawmakers who say President Trump's missile strikes were illegal and insisted that any military action against a government that hasn't attacked the U.S. must get congressional approval first. (Associated Press)

Rand Paul urges AUMF before Trump military action

Sen. Rand Paul sounded one of the more discordant notes last week after President Trump's retaliatory missile strike against the Syrian regime, suggesting it was ill-advised and illegal, and insisting Congress needs to get involved. Published April 9, 2017

In this image provided by the U.S. Navy, the guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78) launches a tomahawk land attack missile in the Mediterranean Sea, Friday, April 7, 2017. The United States blasted a Syrian air base with a barrage of cruise missiles in fiery retaliation for this week's gruesome chemical weapons attack against civilians. (Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Ford Williams/U.S. Navy via AP)

MoveOn.org blasts Trump Syria strike, raises money off horror

Liberal pressure group MoveOn.org blasted President Trump's decision Thursday to launch a strike to punish Syria for using chemical weapons against its people, saying it was illegal - and begged supporters to send in cash because of it. Published April 6, 2017

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer

Charles Schumer fights for Supreme Court ideology

He may have lost the battle over Judge Neil Gorsuch, but Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer appears to have won a bigger fight: making ideology the focus of Supreme Court nominations. Published April 6, 2017

In this image provided by the U.S. Navy, the USS Ross (DDG 71) fires a tomahawk land attack missile Friday, April 7, 2017, from the Mediterranean Sea. The United States blasted a Syrian air base with a barrage of cruise missiles in fiery retaliation for this week's gruesome chemical weapons attack against civilians. (Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Robert S. Price/U.S. Navy via AP)

U.S. launches missile strike on a Syrian military airfield

American warships stationed off the Syrian coastline fired a salvo of cruise missiles against a Syrian military base in the western part of the country, days after a regime chemical strike left nearly 100 civilians wounded or dead. Published April 6, 2017

FILE - In this March 21, 2017, file photo, Supreme Court Justice nominee Judge Neil Gorsuch explains mutton busting, an event held at rodeos similar to bull riding or bronc riding, in which children ride or race sheep, as he testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. A Senate showdown is at hand over President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, and it could change the Senate and the court for years to come. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Democrats officialy vote to filibuster Gorsuch; ‘nuclear’ vote looms

Democrats voted Thursday morning to filibuster Judge Neil Gorsuch, igniting a series of votes that will end later in the day with Republicans triggering the "nuclear option," breaking the filibuster by changing the rules, and setting up a final vote Friday to confirm President Trump's first Supreme Court nominee. Published April 6, 2017

Sen. Jeff Merkley, Oregon Democrat, called the "nuclear option" a victory for democracy four years ago. Now, with his party in the minority, he is fighting to save the Senate power of the filibuster. (Associated Press)

‘Nuclear option’ views opposite for senators after 4 years

When Sen. Jeff Merkley arrived in Congress in 2009, one of his first crusades was to curtail the power of the filibuster, which he thought was halting much of Democrats' wish list under President Obama. Fast-forward to this year and Mr. Merkley is again on a crusade -- this time to save the filibuster from Republicans, who are looking to finish what Democrats started and eviscerate the 60-vote blockade of Supreme Court nominees. Published April 5, 2017