Bob Ortega
@Bob_Ortega
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Senior writer, CNN Investigations. Retweets and links are not endorsements.
Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Joined May 2011
Inside ICE's messy effort to hire 100,000 more deportation officers: https://t.co/EFm2qZQVv9 via @priscialva
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The Trump administration has been ill-prepared to onboard a surge of immigration agents, resulting in cut corners and people slipping through the cracks, sources tell CNN.
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Arizona sues over House Speaker Mike Johnson’s refusal to swear in Democratic Rep. Adelita Grijalva
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Arizona’s attorney general has sued the US House of Representatives over Republican Speaker Mike Johnson’s refusal to seat an Arizona member of Congress – who was elected in late September – due to...
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Trump’s False Claims About the Insurrection Act
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President Donald Trump has made a series of inaccurate claims in recent days about the Insurrection Act, the old law he has mused about invoking to deploy troops to some US cities.
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'Don't try to escape' - Inside the shadowy world of crypto ATM scams
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Scammers increasingly push victims to send them money through crypto ATMs. Records reviewed by CNN reveal the con artists’ tricks.
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White House's Chicago 'chaos' video uses footage from other cities, past years
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A dramatic voiceover video shared by the White House and US President Donald Trump claims to show immigration agents responding to the "mess" in Chicago as the Republican seeks to justify deploying...
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What’s powerful about this document from 2001 is that it states the proper relationship of citizens to their government. Citizens are the employers of the military. They, Congress and the press have a right to information, not a privilege.
Found today as the press corps packs up to leave the Pentagon. Signed Nov. 2001, less than two months after the 9/11 terror attacks.
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As of today, America no longer has a resident press corps at the Pentagon. Here is the statement from the Pentagon Press Association. Please read and share.
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When the Colombian president recently suggested the administration had struck Colombians rather than Venezuelans, the White House denied it: "The United States looks forward to President Petro publicly retracting his baseless and reprehensible statement ..."
Breaking: At least one US military strike in the Caribbean targeted Colombians on a boat leaving from Colombia, sources tell me and @ZcohenCNN The deliberate targeting of Colombians suggests the US military’s campaign is wider than previously believed https://t.co/eedgiiCDWB
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“They’re de-regulating an industry that sells tools that can take people’s lives in seconds,” said one ATF agent. “We’ll have guns getting into the hands of people who definitely shouldn’t have them.” https://t.co/Tm9TR6EoZU New reporting with @Bob_Ortega
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ATF is just one of several federal law enforcement agencies that have felt a notable impact on normal duties while assisting with the immigration mission, a CNN review has found.
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How the Pentagon sidelined its own lawyers while testing the legal limits of military action
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For weeks earlier this year, the Army’s top uniformed lawyer had been raising legal concerns inside the Pentagon about some of the new policies being rolled out dictating how the military can be used...
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“Since January, there’s been a total 180º on our authority,” said an ATF investigator, who asked not to be named because they were speaking without authorization. “As soon as the new administration was in, we got directed to....stop all revocations of federal firearms licenses.”
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At the FBI, 23% of agents have been detailed to focus on immigration, according to statistics shared with CNN by Virginia Sen. Mark Warner’s office – including about 45% of agents in the 25 biggest field offices.
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As a result, ATF did not move to revoke a single dealer’s license in the first four and a half months of this year, a former senior official said, adding that the bureau was on pace for at least a 90% drop in revocations from last year under President Joe Biden.
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As part of a surge of 23,000 federal officers from a slew of agencies sent to work on Trump’s deportation efforts, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has reassigned 80% of special agents to immigration cases.
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Our latest: Gun crime cases fall as ATF, FBI, other federal agents shift to immigration crackdown https://t.co/spaQDF7JDe
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ATF is just one of several federal law enforcement agencies that have felt a notable impact on normal duties while assisting with the immigration mission, a CNN review has found.
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Strong statement from the Pentagon Press Association, noting that most members on Wednesday will have their credentials confiscated by the Pentagon and won’t be given new ones because the reporters can’t and won’t “acknowledge a policy that gags Pentagon employees and threatens
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CNN, Fox News, NBC, ABC and CBS just issued a joint statement: "We join virtually every other news organization in declining to agree to the Pentagon’s new requirements, which would restrict journalists’ ability to keep the nation and the world informed of important national
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Watch how scam victims lose millions in a crypto con
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Scammers are convincing Americans to feed millions into ATMs that turn cash into cryptocurrency. CNN’s Kyung Lah reports
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