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Bondi signals chat investigation unlikely, despite long history of similar inquiries

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FBI Director Kash Patel was not part of a Signal chat in which other national security officials discussed detailed attack plans.

The Justice Department has broad discretion to open an investigation, though Attorney General Pam Bondi signaled at an unrelated news conference that she was disinclined to do so.

There’s precedent for public officials to avoid criminal charges or be spared meaningful punishment.

Trump was charged with hoarding top-secret records at his Mar -a-Lago estate in Florida .

The case was dismissed by a Florida -based judge who concluded that special counsel Jack Smith had been improperly appointed.

Former CIA officer Sterling was convicted of leaking to a reporter details of a secret mission to thwart Iran ’s nuclear ambitions.

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