Archive for the 'FBI' Category
Friday, September 12th, 2008
Rule Changes Would Give FBI Agents Extensive New Powers
By Carrie Johnson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, September 12, 2008; A02
The Justice Department will unveil changes to FBI ground rules today that would put much more power into the hands of line agents pursuing leads on national security, foreign intelligence and even ordinary criminal cases.
The overhaul, the most […]
Posted in FBI, Constitution, Bush, Department of Justice, Judge Mukasey |
Sunday, August 10th, 2008
Ford Told FBI of Skeptics on Warren Commission
By Joe Stephens
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, August 8, 2008; A05
Confidential FBI files released this week to The Washington Post detail the inner workings of a secret back channel that Gerald R. Ford opened in 1963 between J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI and the Warren Commission’s independent investigation into the […]
Posted in FBI, JFK, Gerald Ford, J. Edgar Hoover, Warren Commission |
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
$5.8 million buys a lot of CD cleaner.
*
*
Story.
Images: (Hatfill) via images.mirror.co.uk; (Anthrax) via farm1.static.flickr.com
Posted in News Media, FBI, Terror, Science, Steven Hatfill |
Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
*
“We just see ourselves very much at risk here,” said New York Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly. He said he does not want to rely solely on other agencies for the city’s protection. (By Helayne Seidman — The Washington Post)
In New York, a Turf War in the Battle Against Terrorism
By Dafna Linzer
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, […]
Posted in FBI, New York, Movies, Terrorism, Homeland Security, Drugs, Police |
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
*
National security officials testify at the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on Capitol Hill in Washington, February 5, 2008. Seated (L-R) are: Director of the FBI Robert “Curly” Mueller, Director of National Security Admiral Michael “Larry” McConnell, and Director of the CIA General Mike “Moe” Hayden.(Larry Downing/Reuters)
*
More FBI privacy violations confirmed
By LARA JAKES JORDAN, Associated […]
Posted in FBI, Constitution, Robert Mueller |
Sunday, January 27th, 2008
Because Part I of this series was so incredible, I could not believe it was true. Patapsco Creek Jack wrote the other day about a
Washington Post on-line discussion with Dana Priest.
Voila.
*
PART THE THIRD
From the Sunday London Times…
January 27, 2008
-
Tip-off thwarted nuclear spy ring probe
-
Insight: Chris Gourlay, Jonathan Calvert, Joe Lauria in Washington
AN investigation into […]
Posted in FBI, India, Nuclear Issues, CIA, State Department, North Korea, Pakistan, War, Weapons, Libya, Turkey |
Saturday, October 20th, 2007
IEDs Seen As Rising Threat in The U.S.
As Preparedness Is Criticized, Bush Works on a Plan
By Spencer S. Hsu and Mary Beth Sheridan
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, October 20, 2007; Page A01
The Department of Homeland Security and the FBI agree that the homemade explosive devices that have wreaked havoc in Iraq pose a rising threat to […]
Posted in FBI, Bush, Terrorism, Homeland Security, Chertoff |
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
August 21, 2007 2:22 PM
Brian Ross Reports:
Former CIA director George Tenet “bears ultimate responsibility” for failing to create a strategic plan to stop al Qaeda prior to 9/ll, according to a review by the CIA’s inspector general that was made public today, more than two years after it was written.
*
Overheard while George Bush awarded George […]
Posted in FBI, CIA, 9/11, Tenet |
Tuesday, July 10th, 2007
Gonzales Was Told of FBI Violations
After Bureau Sent Reports, Attorney General Said He Knew of No Wrongdoing
By John Solomon
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, July 10, 2007; Page A01
As he sought to renew the USA Patriot Act two years ago, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales assured lawmakers that the FBI had not abused its potent new terrorism-fighting […]
Posted in Congress, Bill of Rights, FBI, Gonzalez |
Wednesday, June 20th, 2007
Daily Times - Site Edition Thursday, June 21, 2007
Osama may have arranged family’s US exit: FBI
WASHINGTON: Al Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden might have chartered a plane that carried his family members and Saudi nationals out of the United States after the September 11 attacks, said FBI documents released on Wednesday.
The papers, obtained through […]
Posted in FBI, Osama bin Laden, 9/11 |
