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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 moment in America’s cultural and sexual revolution. Now
Read More »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 the records they requested. The study by the National Security Archive, a
Read More »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 secret FBI searches of reading records. President-elect Barack Obama’s nominee for attorney general has endorsed an extension of the
Read More »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 deceased prime suspect in the 2001 anthrax attacks despite lingering suspicions that
Read More »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 year announced with considerable fanfare a new partnership between his agency and civil rights organizations.
Read More »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 agents to open a national security or criminal investigation against someone without any clear basis for
Read More »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 for The New York Times and The Washington Post in the newspapers’ Indonesia bureaus in
Read More »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 as based on nothing but “innuendo and a staggering lack of real
Read More »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 rattled the nation, the Justice Department said Wednesday, buttressing its claim with the release of dozens
Read More »FBI used aggressive tactics in anthrax probe
Ap | WASHINGTON – Before killing himself last week, Army scientist Bruce Ivins told friends that government agents had stalked him and his family for months, offered his son $2.5 million to rat him
Read More »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 letters of 2001 to a single flask of the bacteria at the Army biodefense
Read More »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 pressed FBI Director Robert Mueller to prove it was a second-wave assault by Al Qaeda, but
Read More »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 Batson, director of Frederick County Public Libraries, said two FBI employees came to the downtown
Read More »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 driver told a pair of FBI agents that it was America’s fault that
Read More »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 and legal residents of the United States. Till now, DOJ guidelines have
Read More »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 had broken any laws. Now, critics fear the FBI may be gearing up to
Read More »FBI interviews of Bush, Cheney subpoenaed
McClatchy-Tribune | A House committee subpoenaed yesterday records of the FBI’s interviews with President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney during the investigation into the leak of a covert CIA officer’s name. The Committee
Read More »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 about how the FBI legally plugs into the nation’s telephone system, THREAT LEVEL discovered that
Read More »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’ physical characteristics, UK employers are being warned they need to think long and hard before
Read More »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 military and CIA operatives against terror suspects detained in U.S.-run detention centers.
Read More »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 this week was that agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation had formally opened a
Read More »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 call phone machine — repeating the same message over and
Read More »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 simpler time for a cop like Kallstrom, who
Read More »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 a probe into political misuse of the agency, the Wall Street
Read More »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 for “illegal activity.” The suggestion from FBI Director Robert Mueller, which came during a House
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