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Fannie Mae watchdogs were removed from their jobs after they had been probing whether Pulte had improperly obtained mortgage records of James and other Democrats, The Wall Street Journal previously reported.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

Joe Sullivan was found guilty of obstructing justice for keeping the breach from the Federal Trade Commission, which had been probing Uber’s privacy protections at the time, and of actively hiding a felony.

From Washington Post • Oct. 5, 2022

By this time, officials had been probing the vulnerability of automatic controls for a decade, but Aurora was the first tangible test of whether a physical object could be destroyed in a remote cyberattack.

From Slate • Feb. 9, 2021

Only last week, for instance, did the public learn that Mueller had been probing payments made by Fortune 500 companies to Cohen since at least last fall.

From Seattle Times • May 13, 2018

Hanlon had been probing Abrams' mind all this time, but had been unable to get any clue as to a plot that might upset the peace of his world, or the Federation.

From Man of Many Minds by Evans, E. Everett (Edward Everett)