Ryan Lucas
Ryan Lucas covers the Justice Department for NPR.
He focuses on the national security side of the Justice beat, including counterterrorism and counterintelligence. Lucas also covers a host of other justice issues, including the Trump administration's "tough-on-crime" agenda and anti-trust enforcement.
Before joining NPR, Lucas worked for a decade as a foreign correspondent for The Associated Press based in Poland, Egypt and Lebanon. In Poland, he covered the fallout from the revelations about secret CIA prisons in Eastern Europe. In the Middle East, he reported on the ouster of Hosni Mubarak in 2011 and the turmoil that followed. He also covered the Libyan civil war, the Syrian conflict and the rise of the Islamic State. He reported from Iraq during the U.S. occupation and later during the Islamic State takeover of Mosul in 2014.
He also covered intelligence and national security for Congressional Quarterly.
Lucas earned a bachelor's degree from The College of William and Mary, and a master's degree from Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland.
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Attorney General William Barr asked President Trump to "stop tweeting" about Department of Justice cases in an ABC News interview. He said Trump has "never asked me to do anything in a criminal case."
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President Trump had called the seven-to-nine-year sentence prosecutors had initially sought "unfair." His Justice Department then requested a lesser sentence.
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The credit agency Equifax was compromised by a cyberattack that permitted China's military to steal names, Social Security numbers and other personally identifiable information.
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The attorney general himself must approve opening a case into an active presidential race. President Trump and supporters have decried what they've called bias by the FBI during the 2016 campaign.
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New evidence related to Rudy Giuliani's effort to use Ukraine to help President Trump win reelection were among documents provided by Lev Parnas, an associate of Giuliani. How credible is Parnas?
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Critics inside and outside officialdom are calling for, at very least, the FBI to validate its practices in requesting surveillance. Will congressional action follow?
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The secret court that oversees foreign intelligence work rebuked the FBI and Justice Department, essentially asking for the government to prove why its judges should believe what they submit.
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The Justice Department's internal watchdog determined the FBI had sufficient evidence to open the Russia probe but criticized the bureau over its surveillance of a former Trump campaign adviser.
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Inspector General Michael Horowitz's report enumerates multiple issues with the FISA application for former Trump aide Carter Page.
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The pair of Soviet-born business contacts was indicted in connection with alleged campaign finance violations. They had a status conference in their case on Monday in New York City.
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A federal judge in Washington, D.C., ruled Monday that President Trump's former White House Counsel Don McGahn has to comply with a congressional subpoena and testify before lawmakers.
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Impeachment hearings continued Wednesday, with Gordon Sondland, President Trump's ambassador to the European Union, taking questions about his involvement pressing Ukraine for investigations.