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Recordings Capture Brutal FBI Tactics to Recruit a Potential Informant

For two years, the FBI has followed and harassed Refaie as part of an apparent effort to recruit him to become an informant or cooperate in some way with counterterrorism investigations. The FBI has …

Rick Pitino Is Out at Louisville Amid F.B.I. Investigation

One of college basketball’s most illustrious coaching careers seemed to come to an ignominious close on Wednesday as Rick Pitino was ousted by the University of Louisville. “Effective immediately, Co…

In Warrantless Cellphone Search Case, It’s the Trump Administration vs. the 4th Amendment

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments sometime in its coming term in one of the most significant Fourth Amendment cases in years. At issue in Carpenter v. United States is the question of …

Formerly Jailed CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou: Jeff Sessions Is Extending Obama's War on Leaks

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has announced that the FBI has formed a new team focused on investigating potential leaks to the press. During a press conference on Friday, Sessions said that leak inv…

An Alternative History of Al Qaeda: The 9/11 Intelligence ‘Failure’

ClandesTime 117 - The 9/11 Intelligence 'Failure' from Tom Secker on Vimeo . In the five years running up to 9/11 the NSA were monitoring Osama Bin Laden’s satellite phone and Al Qaeda’s co…

If The FBI Has Your Biometrics, It Doesn't Have to Tell You

A new rule will prevent millions of people from finding out if their fingerprints, iris scans and other biometric information is stored in a massive federal database. The FBI’s Next Generation Identi…

Jim Garrison’s incendiary JFK probe protected him from fraud charges

While popular media has often portrayed Jim Garrison, the New Orleans District Attorney behind the infamous Clay Shaw trial, as having been targeted by the federal government for retribution, a look …

Feds arrest IT staffer for Wasserman Schultz trying to leave country

A House IT staffer at the center of a congressional computer equipment scandal has been arrested by federal officials and charged with bank fraud, Fox News has learned. Fox News is told officers and …

EXCLUSIVE: FBI Seized Smashed Hard Drives From Wasserman Schultz IT Aide’s Home

FBI agents seized smashed computer hard drives from the home of Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s information technology (IT) administrator, according to two sources with knowledge o…

JFK Assassination Records - 2017 Additional Documents Release

NEW: 3,810 JFK assassination documents. 441 never seen before. 3,369 now unredacted https://t.co/P9d8lqMX0F pic.twitter.com/9C2JWrAqT3 — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) July 24, 2017 The National Archives an…

Miami judge rules out FOIA trial, says FBI document on 9/11 funding to remain secret

Secret FBI information about who funded the 9/11 attacks will remain hidden indefinitely after a Miami federal judge reversed herself last week and decided that the FBI was not improperly withholding…

U.S. appeals court upholds gag orders on FBI data surveillance

A U.S. federal appeals court on Monday upheld nondisclosure rules that allow the FBI to secretly issue surveillance orders for customer data to communications firms, a ruling that dealt a blow to pri…

9/11 Research for Grown Ups

FBI didn’t need warrant for stingray in attempted murder case, DOJ says

Weeks before a key hearing, federal prosecutors have submitted their formal opposition to an attempted murder suspect’s recent efforts to suppress evidence found through the warrantless use of an FBI…

During the Vietnam War, FBI used the press as a cover to “avoid embarrassment” while surveilling protests

Files on Howard Zinn show the Bureau hiring a freelance photographer to capture Selective Service protest on Boston Common A memo from Howard Zinn’s FBI file shows how the Bureau relied on third-par…

Hackers are Targeting Nuclear Facilities, Homeland Security Dept. and F.B.I. Say

Since May, hackers have been penetrating the computer networks of companies that operate nuclear power stations and other energy facilities, as well as manufacturing plants in the United States and o…

9/11 — Two Unanswered Questions

The two questions that have never been addressed are: Why was the Central Intelligence Report (known as a CIR), drafted by FBI Special Agent Douglas J. Miller (who was detailed to the CIA’s Alec Stat…

Paid FBI Informant Leading Counterterror Case Ran Wire Fraud Scams on the Side

A CONFIDENTIAL INFORMANT who helped ensnare three Florida men as ISIS supporters in an FBI sting was simultaneously running wire fraud scams on the side. Gregory Hubbard, Dayne Antani Christian, and …

A bullet hole, a mystery and an FBI agent's indictment — the messy aftermath of an Oregon standoff

The shooting of Robert “LaVoy” Finicum on a snowy Oregon highway on Jan. 26, 2016, was one of those instant American dramas in which every photo, every eyewitness account and every millisecond of vid…

FBI agent charged with lying about his role in Oregon standoff activist's killing

An FBI special agent lied about his involvement in the fatal shooting of a protester who helped lead an armed takeover of an Oregon wildlife refuge, according to a federal indictment on obstruction o…
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