(Copyright 2017 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.) Welcome to FOX News First. Not signed up yet? Click here. Developing now, Thursday, June 14, 2018, Flag Day – and President Trump’s birthday New details on the Hillary Clinton email investigation are expected Thursday when the Justice Department’s inspector general releases his report Following the Trump-Kim summit, the Pentagon is expected to cancel the next scheduled joint military exercise with South Korea, a senior administration official says Republican lawmakers accuse Justice Department officials of trying ‘to hide information’ on the FBI’s alleged ‘spygate’ scandal as the war of words escalates between the GOP and DOJ White House press secretary Sarah Sanders pushes back on a report that she plans to leave the Trump administration The 2018 FIFA World Cup begins Thursday as host Russia squares off against Saudi Arabia, one day after a U.S.-led coalition won the right to host the 2026 tournament in North America THE LEAD STORY – THE INSPECTOR GENERAL’S REPORT, AT LAST: A slew of FBI and DOJ officials could face a reckoning when Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz on Thursday releases a long-awaited report detailing his review of the Hillary Clinton investigation during the 2016 presidential race … For more than a year, Horowitz has been reviewing the FBI and DOJ’s actions related to its investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server while she was secretary of state. The report is not expected to address the DOJ and FBI’s actions taken in the Trump-Russia investigation, or re-litigate the Clinton case. But it will mark the most definitive accounting of the email probe to date, looking at — among other things — whether “certain underlying investigative decisions were based on improper considerations.” Among the top Justice Department and FBI officials expected to face scrutiny in Horowitz’s report: fired FBI Director James Comey, then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch, fired Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe and FBI official Peter Strzok. NO MORE ‘WAR GAMES’? – The Pentagon is expected to cancel the next major joint military exercise between the United States and South Korea scheduled for August, a senior administration official told Fox News late Wednesday, the same week President Trump said he would move to stop U.S. war games at the Korean Peninsula … The official said the Pentagon likely would make the formal cancelation announcement in a press release Thursday. Trump discussed U.S. actions in the region in a news conference Tuesday following his historic summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. An agreement signed by Trump and Kim at the summit does not have any mention of suspending war games. Pentagon officials were surprised when the president referred to the war games as “provocative,” as the U.S. military had always characterized them as “defensive” in nature. The upcoming joint U.S.-South Korean military exercise is called Ulchi Freedom Guardian. A GAME OF SEEK-AND-HIDE: Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee said Wednesday that an upcoming Justice Department briefing on documents concerning the FBI’s alleged use of an informant linked to President Trump’s 2016 campaign does not satisfy an April 30 subpoena … In a letter sent to
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