Ryan Lucas
Ryan Lucas covers the Justice Department for NPR.
He focuses on the national security side of the Justice beat, including counterterrorism, 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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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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Inspector General Michael Horowitz's report enumerates multiple issues with the FISA application for former Trump aide Carter Page.
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One year after the ouster of Jeff Sessions, it's become clear that his replacement, William Barr, enjoys the president's confidence in a way Sessions never did. Not everyone is pleased.
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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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Stone faced charges that he lied to congressional investigators and obstructed an official proceeding. He pleaded not guilty and said he had done nothing wrong.
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President Trump confidant Roger Stone has pleaded not guilty on multiple charges in a case brought by former special counsel Robert Mueller as part of the Russia influence investigation.
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Attorney General Bill Barr commissioned U.S. Attorney John Durham to look into the early phases of the Russia investigation. Democrats say he is turning the Justice Department into a political weapon.
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Majority Democrats in the House subpoenaed President Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani on Monday for documents related to his communications with Ukraine.
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The two men with links to President Trump's personal lawyer were part of efforts to have Ukraine investigate former Vice President Joe Biden. The indictment deals with a separate matter.