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FBI Joins East Timor Probe

Three FBI agents arrived in East Timor on Wednesday to join the investigation into attacks last week on the tiny nation's president and prime minister.

G-Man Charged in Cruise Payoff

An FBI employee was indicted Tuesday for allegedly accepting an all-expenses-paid Caribbean cruise for his family's vacation after helping a shredding machine company win a $2 million contract.

FBI Preps Award for Biometric Database

Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and IBM are vying for a multibillion-dollar contract to build a database for fingerprints and other biometric information that the FBI is set to award this week.

FBI Director: Mortgage Fraud Substantial

FBI Director Robert Mueller said Thursday that the agency is committed to investigating and prosecuting companies involved in mortgage fraud and other violations in connection with home loans made to risky borrowers.

Reputed Crime Boss Arrested in Moscow

Police charged a reputed international crime boss with tax evasion Wednesday, pursuing prosecution of a man wanted in the U.S. and suspected of playing a key role in Russia's lucrative natural-gas trade with Europe.

FBI Probes 14 Companies Over Home Loans

The FBI on Tuesday said it is investigating 14 companies for possible accounting fraud, insider trading or other violations in connection with home loans made to risky borrowers.

Suspected Crime Lord Arrested in Moscow

A suspected crime boss sought by the FBI for years has been arrested on a Moscow street in connection with a tax evasion probe into owners of a cosmetic-shop chain, officials said Friday.

FBI Agent Faults Counterterrorism Work

The FBI's counterterrorism agents lack the language skills and cultural understanding needed to succeed, an agency whistle-blower charged Saturday.

FBI Wiretaps Dropped Due to Unpaid Bills

Telephone companies have cut off FBI wiretaps used to eavesdrop on suspected criminals because of the bureau's repeated failures to pay phone bills on time.

Ex-FBI Agent Pleads Guilty to Abduction

A former FBI supervisor who once headed the bureau's Toledo, Ohio, office pleaded guilty Tuesday to abducting a girlfriend, holding her captive and forcing a gun into her mouth in a jealous rage.

NY Case Against Ex-FBI Agent Could Sink

The interview was done for a book that was never published. But a decade later, the shelved project may sink what authorities billed as one of the worst law enforcement corruption cases in U.S. history.

FBI Watched McCarthy Anti-Hoover Effort

When Eugene McCarthy ran for president in 1968, he pledged to fire J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI director who had outlasted presidents from Calvin Coolidge to John F. Kennedy.

Documents Show FBI Spied on King's Widow

Federal agents spied on the widow of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. for several years after his assassination in 1968, according to newly released documents that reveal the FBI worried about her following in the footsteps of the slain civil rights icon.

Data on Americans Mined for Terror Risk

The FBI is gathering and sorting information about Americans to help search for potential terrorists, insurance cheats and crooked pharmacists, according to a government report obtained Tuesday.

Mueller Defends Patriot Act Authority

FBI Director Robert Mueller struggled Tuesday to convince skeptical senators that — despite recent abuses — the FBI should retain Patriot Act authority to gather telephone, e-mail and financial records without a judge's approval.

Mueller: FBI Can Properly Use Its Powers

FBI Director Robert Mueller labored Tuesday to persuade skeptical senators that the FBI can properly use its Patriot Act authority to gather telephone, e-mail and financial records of Americans and foreigners while pursuing terrorists.

Lawmakers Warn FBI Over Spy Power Abuse

Republicans and Democrats alike sternly warned the FBI on Tuesday that it risks losing its broad power to collect telephone, e-mail and financial records to hunt terrorists because of rampant abuses of the authority.

Russian Expert Shot Near D.C.-Area Home

An expert on Russian intelligence was critically injured in a shooting in front of his suburban Washington home, authorities said.

Justice Report Faults FBI in Foley Case

The FBI should have acted to protect teenage House pages when it initially learned last July that Rep. Mark Foley had sent disturbing e-mails to a former page, a Justice Department report concluded Monday.

FBI: Cleric's Illness May Spark Attack

The health of terrorist cleric Omar Abdel-Rahman, known as the Blind Sheik, is deteriorating — renewing fears that his death in prison could trigger an attack on the United States, officials said Thursday.

Alaska Lawmaker Arrested in FBI Probe

A state legislator was arrested on a federal bribery warrant, three months after federal agents raided the offices of at least six Alaska lawmakers in an investigation into a large oil field services company.

FBI Agent Killed While Training

An FBI agent was killed Wednesday during a live-fire training exercise, the agency said.

Wrongly Accused Man Settles Bomb Suit

The federal government has agreed to pay an Oregon lawyer $2 million to settle part of a lawsuit he filed after the FBI misidentified a fingerprint and wrongly arrested him in the 2004 Madrid terrorist bombings.

Report: Feds Refusing FBI Terror Cases

The Justice Department increasingly has refused to prosecute FBI cases targeting suspected terrorists over the past five years, according to private researchers who reviewed department records.

N.Y. Times Must Disclose Anthrax Sources

A federal judge upheld an order requiring The New York Times to disclose a columnist's confidential sources as part of a libel lawsuit filed over its coverage of the 2001 anthrax attacks.

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Supreme Court Denies Petition to Hear WireTapping Case

Source: ACLU

From Tuesday February 19th, ACLU...This morning, we got some bad news: the Supreme Court turned down our petition for it to hear ACLU v. NSA, our landmark case against the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program.

Defense Intel Director Maps Out Greatest Danger to Nation

Source: WTOP

In his first broadcast interview, an exclusive with WTOP, Maples says sensitive information is "more readily available to groups or individuals, who would like to acquire that technology" than ever before.

INTELWIRE Releases FBI Documents Given To The 9/11 Commission

Source: intelwire.egoplex.com

INTELWIRE has obtained more than 1,700 pages of FBI documents cited in the end notes of the Final Report of the 9/11 Commission.

Regulators eye Wall Street role in housing bust; State, cities go to court and may pave way for private suits

Source: MSNBC

GOOD!!!! I believe this investigation should take place, many of these lenders oversold to people who should never have gotten the level of financing they did. The consumer does have a responsibility to self-educate and should bear some responsibility. replytoj001

Paul Reveres or Benedict Arnolds: Whistleblowing in the Post-9/11 Age

Source:

This is a video of Sibel Edmonds, President of the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition, discusssing being fired by the FBI in March 2002 for reporting shoddy work and security breaches that may have prevented the 9/11 attacks.

Error Gave F.B.I. Unauthorized Access to E-Mail

Source: The New York Times

"WASHINGTON — A technical glitch gave the F.B.I.

F.B.I. Received Unauthorized E-Mail Access for Possibly Hundreds of Accounts

Source: The New York Times

WASHINGTON — A technical glitch gave the F.B.I.

F.B.I. Received Unauthorized E-Mail Access

A glitch gave the FBI unauthorized access to e-mail messages on an entire network. The estimated amount of accounts is some were along the lines of one hundred or more. That goes against the judges decision to allow access to to a much smaller amount of e-mail address.

F.B.I. Received Unauthorized E-Mail Access

Source: The New York Times

As government surveillance has increased, violations of federal wiretap law have become a regular if little-noticed occurrence.

Lockheed Awarded $1 Billion Contract to Create World's Largest Biometric Database; will Enable Global Iris Sharing

Source: The Washington Post

The FBI yesterday announced the award of a $1 billion, 10-year contract to Lockheed Martin to develop what is expected to be the world's largest crime-fighting computer database of biometric information, including fingerprints, palm prints, iris patterns and face images.

Privatising US Law Enforcement: The FBI Deputizes Business

Source: The Progressive

Today, more than 23,000 representatives of private industry are working quietly with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security.

FBI program alleged to prepare businesses for martial law

Source: globalresearch.ca

A public-private partnership program on infrastructure preparedness and protection run by the Federal Bureau of Investigation allegedly has briefed its corporate members on the possibility of martial law and the use of lethal force, according to an exclusive report in the magazin …

Watch for those nasty E-mail Valentine's cards

Source: Canada.com

Be careful if you get an e-mailed Valentine card - it may not be from a secret admirer, rather a nasty virus.

FBI Proposes To Notify Private Sector Employers Of Employee Arrests

Source: justanothercoverup.com

The FBI stated they have awarded Lockheed Martin a Billion Dollar contract "to develop what is expected to be the world's largest crime-fighting computer database of biometric information." We knew it was coming as the Bush administration presses forward with efforts to kee …

Death of Hezbollah kingpin: A war awaits : :Asia Times

Source: atimes.com

Those who live by the sword must die by the sword. Imad Mughniyeh must have known the adage, and now he, like all of his alleged victims, has met a violent death, of all places, in Syria, where he was hiding because that was perceived to be the safest place for him.

Bush Administration Tries to Clense Tainted Evidence

Source: AlterNet.org

Timing is everything. Yesterday the Pentagon announced that it will seek the death penalty against six men accused of masterminding the terrorist attacks of September 11th.

FBI warns of Valentines Day Storm Worm virus

Source: computerworld.com.au

The FBI and the US Internet Crime Complaint Center today said that with Valentine's Day approaching, users should be on the lookout for spam e-mails spreading Storm Worm malware.

Lockheed wins $1 billion FBI biometric contract

Source: Yahoo! News

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has awarded Lockheed Martin a $1 billion contract to build a next-generation biometrics-based identification system.

U.S. Security Agencies warn Americans to be on Guard against Pregnant Women

Source: CNN

Terrorists increasingly favor using women as suicide bombers to thwart security and draw attention to their causes, a new FBI-Department of Homeland Security assessment concludes.

White House Pushes Waterboarding As Legal

Source: The Washington Post

After years of refusing public comment on a particularly harsh CIA interrogation method, top Bush administration officials have suddenly begun pressing a controversial argument that it was legal for the CIA to strap prisoners to a board and pour water over their face to make them …

Where do mob nicknames come from?

Source: Slate

On Friday, the convicted Chicago mobster Frank "Frankie Breeze" Calabrese pleaded innocent to a new charge of racketeering. Calabrese is one of 14 alleged mobsters who were indicted two weeks ago, at the conclusion of a long-running FBI investigation.

Non-coercive Interrogation Techniques Yeild Same Information in 9/11 Case as Torture

Source: MSNBC

Agency tried non-coercive techniques to protect case against six detainees

FBI tracks book sales for terrorism leads

Source: WorldNetDaily

Counterterrorist analysts at the FBI have been monitoring the sales velocity of books dealing with aviation and other security issues, WND has learned.

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