• How FBI sought to block Deep Throat the movie

  One was a top FBI investigator, a legend of the Watergate affair. The other was a porn movie that came to be seen as a defining...

   

• FBI Declines 2 Of 3 Information Requests

  A private study said the FBI tells two out of every three Freedom of Information Act requesters that it can’t find...

   

• Holder OK with FBI Searches of Bookstore, Library Records

  By Phil Leggiere  At confirmation hearing attorney general nominee voices support for Patriot Act provision authorizing...

   

• FBI won’t release documents on anthrax suspect

  By MARISA TAYLOR | WASHINGTON – The FBI is declining to release at least 15,000 pages of documents related to the now...

   

• FBI’s civil rights initiative: no trials yet

  WASHINGTON – Flanked by officials from the NAACP and the Southern Poverty Law Center, FBI Director Robert Mueller last...

   

• New Guidelines Would Give F.B.I. Broader Powers

  By ERIC LICHTBLAU | A Justice Department plan would loosen restrictions on the Federal Bureau of Investigation to allow...

   

• F.B.I. Says It Obtained Reporters’ Phone Records

  WASHINGTON — The Federal Bureau of Investigation said Friday that it had improperly obtained the phone records of reporters...

   

• Anthrax case against bio-weapons expert ‘staggering for lack of evidence’

  The case against the lone suspect in the 2001 anthrax case, who killed himself last week, has been blasted by his lawyer...

   

• Feds say Irvins alone caused 2001 anthrax attacks

  Army scientist Bruce Ivins “was the only person responsible” for anthrax attacks in 2001 that killed five and...

   

• FBI used aggressive tactics in anthrax probe

  Ap | WASHINGTON – Before killing himself last week, Army scientist Bruce Ivins told friends that government agents...

   

• Pressure Grows for F.B.I.’s Anthrax Evidence

  WASHINGTON — After four years of painstaking scientific research, the F.B.I. by 2005 had traced the anthrax in the poisoned...

   

• FBI Told to Blame Anthrax on al-Qaeda

  BY JAMES GORDON MEEK - WASHINGTON | In the immediate aftermath of the 2001 anthrax attacks, White House officials repeatedly...

   

• FBI seizes local Md. library computers

  The FBI removed computer records from the C. Burr Artz Library this week, a library official confirmed Saturday. Darrell...

   

• Driver told FBI agents U.S. could have killed bin Laden

  By Carol Rosenberg | GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba — In his seventh of month of U.S. captivity, Osama bin Laden’s...

   

• The FBI’s Plan to ‘Profile’ Muslims

  By Juan Cole | The U.S. Justice Department is considering a change in the grounds on which the FBI can investigate citizens...

   

• Civil liberties group criticizes new FBI authority

  By LARA JAKES JORDAN | Nearly 40 years ago, the FBI was roundly criticized for investigating Americans without evidence they...

   

• FBI interviews of Bush, Cheney subpoenaed

  McClatchy-Tribune | A House committee subpoenaed yesterday records of the FBI’s interviews with President Bush and...

   

• Mobile Phone Number Moving Caused Feds to Wiretap Wrong American

  By Ryan Singel | In poring through the latest round of documents the FBI turned over to the Electronic Frontier Foundation...

   

• Biometric scans raise spectre of Big Brother workplaces

  Management-Issues | As the FBI embarks on a $1bn programme to build the world’s largest computer database of peoples’...

   

• The ‘War Crimes File’

  Hartford Courant | It comes as a relief to know that FBI agents were aghast at harsh interrogation techniques used by American...

   

• FBI files indict Bush, Cheney and Co. as war criminals

  By Bill Van Auken | The most stunning revelation in a 370-page Justice US Department Inspector General’s report released...

   

• Will the Mortgage Industry Pay for Its Crimes?

  By Danny Schechter | There is a time in the life of every writer when you find yourself fearing that you have become a robo...

   

• Roots of surveillance standoff go back decades

  By Shane Harris | In the old days, everyone was linked to a lug nut, and Jim Kallstrom liked it that way. It was 1985, a...

   

• FBI agents raid office protecting whistleblowers

  AFP | FBI agents on Tuesday raided the Office of Special Counsel and closed down its e-mail system in what appears to be...

   

• FBI wants widespread monitoring of ‘illegal’ web activity

  By Anne Broache | The FBI on Wednesday called for new legislation that would allow federal police to monitor the Internet...