"Obviously, the FBI preferred to keep legislators in the dark about its participation in Section 215. An ill-informed legislature is more prone to rely on fear-mongering and other baseless assertions. With nothing stating otherwise, the FBI is free to operate under the illusion that its use of the program is by-the-book and that the program itself is effective and useful. Horowitz is one of the few government officials willing to stand up to the FBI. Unfortunately, it hasn't resulted in better behavior by the agency. Apparently, the FBI feels it does best with minimal oversight and isn't inclined to let anyone -- not even its in-house inspector -- in on its domestic surveillance tactics." - FBI Successfully Stonewalls Inspector General Into Irrelevance By Withholding Timely Section 215 Documents - FBI News Review

"Obviously, the FBI preferred to keep legislators in the dark about its participation in Section 215. An ill-informed legislature is more prone to rely on 

fear-mongering

 and other baseless assertions. With nothing stating otherwise, the FBI is free to operate under the illusion that its use of the program is by-the-book and that the program itself is effective and useful. 

Horowitz is one of the few government officials willing to stand up to the FBI. Unfortunately, it hasn't resulted in better behavior by the agency. Apparently, the FBI feels it does best with minimal oversight and isn't inclined to let anyone -- not even its in-house inspector -- in on its domestic surveillance tactics."

FBI Successfully Stonewalls Inspector General Into Irrelevance By Withholding Timely Section 215 Documents

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After nationwide protests against police and years of debate over sentencing guidelines, the U.S. House of Representatives' top judicial lawmaker plans to consider criminal justice reforms piece by piece, rather than as a single, broad reform package.

Republican Representative Bob Goodlatte announced on Wednesday that the House Judiciary Committee will hear ideas from members and then potentially weigh bills on topics such as easing long sentences for non-violent drug offenders, excessive criminal penalties and reforming some police practices.

U.S. House panel to address criminal justice reform piece by piece - News

“The goal of the committee’s initiative is to produce strong, bipartisan legislation so that the criminal justice system better reflects core American values and works for America,” Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and top Democrat John Conyers (Mich.) said in a joint statement announcing the plan on Wednesday.

House panel eyes criminal justice overhaul

Off-Ramp | Ray Bradbury's biographer: FBI spied on the author's kids

Thursday June 11th, 2015 at 3:12 PM

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Ray Bradbury's biographer, Sam Weller, says he was shocked by the FBI's incompetence and perfidy.

First, they got Bradbury's name wrong in their documents, consistently calling him "Raymond," when his given name was "Ray." And the FBI reported that Bradbury made repeated trips to Cuba, when he never went there in his life.

But the Red File, which Weller obtained through a Freedom of Information Request, also shows that FBI agents were parking their cars at night on Bradbury's street in Cheviot Hills, watching his children.

Bradbury, Weller says, "was quite startled by that. He was a pack rat, so he took that file out of my hand immediately and said, 'Mine! Mine!' He wanted to keep it."

Weller speaks Monday at the Central Library and promises to share Bradbury documents, photos, and letters the public has never seen before, including the Red File but also some of Bradbury's huge collection of celebrity photos. "He arrived in Hollywood (from Illinois) in April of 1934," Weller says, "and when he got there, he was this devotee of cinema, and he stalked the celebrities." So there are photos of Bradbury with George Burns, Marlene Dietrich, and Ida Lupino, among others.

And the movies affected his books. "I argue that Ray Bradbury is the first great literary writer to have his sense of narrative shaped by cinema. He was born in 1920, he started seeing movies when he was 3 years old, and they were vital to his sense of imagination."

Sam Weller is the author of "The Bradbury Chronicles: The Life of Ray Bradbury," and "Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews." Weller will be lecturing on Bradbury Monday, June 15, at noon, in Meeting Room A of the LA Public Library.

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Thursday June 11th, 2015 at 3:11 PM

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By Julia Edwards

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After nationwide protests against police and years of debate over sentencing guidelines, the U.S. House of Representatives' top judicial lawmaker plans to consider criminal justice reforms piece by piece, rather than as a single, broad reform package.

Republican Representative Bob Goodlatte announced on Wednesday that the House Judiciary Committee will hear ideas from members and then potentially weigh bills on topics such as easing long sentences for non-violent drug offenders, excessive criminal penalties and reforming some police practices.

The approach may disappoint some advocates who have said Congress is past due on passing a broad reform package and worry that a piecemeal approach may not lower mandatory minimum sentences.

Mandatory minimums currently dictate how many years a drug offender must serve based on the quantity of drugs possessed.

"Mandatory minimums don't work as advertised and the time to fix them is now," said Mike Riggs, a spokesman for Families Against Mandatory Minimums, a Washington policy advocate group.

Goodlatte has not said publicly where he stands on the issue.

The Justice Department and some lawmakers argue that mandatory minimums lead to overcrowded prisons and overly harsh penalties for people who pose no threat to society.

But some federal prosecutors have said reductions in sentencing would erode investigators' power to convince low-level drug offenders to hand over information on those higher up the chain.

Tensions between minorities and police represent another flashpoint to be addressed. They have been laid bare by altercations, some deadly, between unarmed black men and police over the past year and ensuing protests.

Increased attention to the issue has united some political foes. Conservatives point to the fiscal savings of lowering the prison population while Democrats argue high sentences fall disproportionately on minorities.

White House adviser Valerie Jarrett recently held a discussion on it with lawyers for conservative campaign financiers Charles and David Koch, an Obama administration official said.

In the Senate, conservative Mike Lee and long-serving Democrat Dick Durbin introduced a bill to reduce mandatory-minimum sentences. But so far such bills have stopped short of coming to the floor for a vote.

Goodlatte is betting that his approach will be more fruitful. "The goal of the committee's initiative is to produce strong, bipartisan legislation," Goodlatte and the committee's ranking member John Conyers said in a joint statement.

(Editing by Kevin Drawbaugh, Christian Plumb and Andrew Hay)

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Thursday June 11th, 2015 at 3:10 PM

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The House Judiciary Committee is planning a wide-ranging review of the nation’s criminal justice system, against the backdrop of heightened national tensions around violence involving police.

Starting with a listening session later this month, the committee will begin exploring reforms to the nation’s sentencing laws, prisons, criminal procedures and policing strategies, in a process that lawmakers expect could last for months.

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“The goal of the committee’s initiative is to produce strong, bipartisan legislation so that the criminal justice system better reflects core American values and works for America,” Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and top Democrat John Conyers (Mich.) said in a joint statement announcing the plan on Wednesday.

In the June 25 listening session, any member of the panel will be able to present a proposal to reform some portion of the nation’s criminal justice system. That will get the ball rolling, lawmakers said, for the broader review in coming months.  

The effort comes amid heightened scrutiny on the nation’s police officers following a string of violence involving cops, as well as new focus on sentencing reform. Lawmakers including Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) — a presidential candidate — have championed the need to reform sentencing laws, which critics say are too harsh and unfairly skewed towards impacting poor and minority families.

Incidents involving police officers have captured national attention in recent months. On Tuesday, a Texas police officer who drew his gun on unarmed teenagers at a pool party resigned from his job.

The Judiciary Committee had highlighted criminal justice issues last year and held a dozen hearing on the justice system. The process failed to produce any sweeping legislation.

FBI Successfully Stonewalls Inspector General Into Irrelevance By Withholding Timely Section 215 Documents

Thursday June 11th, 2015 at 3:10 PM

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The FBI doesn't just stonewall FOIA requesters. It also stonewalls its in-house investigator. Remember all those deferrals to "lawful authority" and "rigorous oversight" the agency makes when not commenting on controversial surveillance programs? Those really don't mean anything if you lock out the oversight and prevent his office from verifying whether surveillance is being carried out in accordance to laws and FBI policies.
Inspector General Michael Horowitz has been fighting a courageous, but losing, battle against FBI secrecy. As the head of the DOJ's OIG office, you'd think FBI officials would throw a small amount of deference his way. But no. They don't. It has obstructed his investigative work "for years," leading tothis sort of thing:

[Horowitz] said the refusal to grant routine requests stalls investigations, including a recent one on FBI material witnesses, such that officials who are under review have sometimes retired or left the agencies before the report is complete.

The FBI won't even release an 

organizational chart

 to him. Horowitz took these complaints to Congress earlier this year in hopes of prompting FBI document production by 

threatening its annual budget

.

Section 218 of the Appropriations Act does not permit the use of funds appropriated to the Department of Justice to deny the OIG access to records in the custody of the Department unless in accordance with an express limitation of Section 6(a) of the IG Act. The IG Act, Section 6(a), does not expressly or otherwise limit the OIG's access to the categories of information the FBI maintains it must review before providing records to the OIG. For this reason, we are reporting this matter to the Appropriations Committees in conformity with Section 218.

This, surprisingly, failed to have any effect -- not because the FBI might have deduced Horowitz was actually 

serious 

about obtaining the long-delayed documents, but because if there's anything government agencies fear more than a loss of power, it's a loss of funding. 

Marcy Wheeler points out that -- during the 

ruckus surrounding

 the expiration of Section 215 -- 

the FBI again passed several of its self-imposed deadlines for document delivery

.

The OIG has sent four letters to Congress to report that the FBI has failed to comply with Section 218 by refusing to provide the OIG, for reasons unrelated to any express limitation in Section 6(a) of the IG Act, with timely access to certain records in ongoing OIG reviews. Those reviews are:

• Two FBI whistleblower retaliation investigations, letter dated February 3, 2015, which is available here;
• The FBI documents related to review of the DEA’s use of administrative subpoenas, letter dated February 19, 2015, which is available here;
• The FBI’s use of information derived from collection of telephony metadata under Section 215 of the Patriot Act, letter dated February 25, 2015, which is available here; and
• The FBI’s security clearance adjudication process, letter dated March 4, 2015, which is available here.

As of March 31, 2015, the OIG document requests were outstanding in every one of the reviews and investigations that were the subject of the letters above.

Of particular importance is the delay of documents related to the FBI's use of Section 215 collections. Obviously, having the chance to review this 

before 

the vote on reauthorization would have been preferable. If there were any questions about the FBI's involvement, or its use of the collected data, these observations could have potentially played a key role in the provision's renewal, not to mention contributed to the debate surrounding the USA Freedom Act. 

Obviously, the FBI preferred to keep legislators in the dark about its participation in Section 215. An ill-informed legislature is more prone to rely on 

fear-mongering

 and other baseless assertions. With nothing stating otherwise, the FBI is free to operate under the illusion that its use of the program is by-the-book and that the program itself is effective and useful. 

Horowitz is one of the few government officials willing to stand up to the FBI. Unfortunately, it hasn't resulted in better behavior by the agency. Apparently, the FBI feels it does best with minimal oversight and isn't inclined to let anyone -- not even its in-house inspector -- in on its domestic surveillance tactics.

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US Government Notifies American Muslims, Who Refused to Be FBI Informants, of Removal from No Fly List

Thursday June 11th, 2015 at 3:09 PM

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The United States government sent four American Muslim men letters notifying them that they had been removed from the No Fly List. The men had no criminal records when they were put on the list and claim that they were put on the watch list in retaliation for not becoming FBI informants.

The notification came days before a major hearing in New York City on the government’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit by the four men—Muhammad Tanvir, Jameel Algibhah, Naveed Shinwari, and Awais Sajjad.

“I have no words. This is very big news for me,” Sajjad declared in a press release from the Center for Constitutional Rights, one of the organizations representing them.

“I hope next month I will travel to visit my grandmother in Pakistan. I miss my grandmother who is very sick and over 90 years old now. She raised me after my mother’s death.”

Sajjad has accused FBI agents of subjecting him to ““extensive interrogation, including a polygraph test, after which he was asked to work as an informant for the FBI.” And, his grandmother has been very sick since February 2012 but his placement on the No Fly List has kept him from traveling to see her.

Another plaintiff, Jameel Algibhah, stated, “They have done a lot of damage to me and to my life. They messed up my life. I haven’t seen my family in a long time. My youngest daughter doesn’t even know me. I want to continue this lawsuit.”

Algibhah declined a “request from FBI agents to attend certain mosques, to act ‘extremist,’ and to participate in online Islamic forums and report back to the FBI agents,” according to the filed lawsuit.

“After Mr. Algibhah learned that he was on the No Fly List, the same FBI agents again visited him, telling him that only they could remove his name from the No Fly List if he agreed to act as an informant.” He refused to become an informant, and, as a result, has not been able to visit his wife and three daughters in Yemen since 2009.

The Center for Constitutional Rights claims the men have lost their jobs, faced stigmas in their communities and “suffered severe financial and emotional distress.”

While the letters were clearly intended to convince the men to drop their lawsuit and help the government win dismissal, lawyers for the men will continue to seek redress for their placement on the No Fly List.

“These four men spent years not knowing whether they could fly, with the stigma of being on the list hanging over their heads,” CCR senior managing attorney Shayana Kadidal stated. “While we’re gratified that our clients can now get on with their lives, what happened here was not a simple error. It was an abuse invited by a system that lacks transparency and accountability.”

Kadidal added, “The courts need to ensure that people placed on the list solely as leverage to force them to spy on their communities can seek justice for the injuries they suffered.”

The notification is part of a new procedure adopted after a federal court in Oregon ruled in June of last year that US citizens placed on the No Fly List had their rights to “procedural due process” violated and instructed the government to provide a “new process” that satisfied the “constitutional requirements for due process.”

In the case of Gulet Mohamed, a US citizen who claims his constitutional rights were violated when he was placed on the No Fly List, was notified that he could use this procedure if he wanted.

His lawyer, Gadeir Abbas, was not persuaded that this improved the constitutionality of the No Fly List.

“What revisions have been made are essentially meaningless,” Abbas declared in April. “While it’s an extremely minuscule step forward that the government is now willing to confirm whether or not someone is on the No Fly List, the fact remains that people on the No Fly List don’t need the government to tell them whether or not they are on that list because they find out for themselves when they try to fly.”

The government is only willing to identify the criteria under which a person has been listed. That criteria is “so broad as to actually communicate no meaningful information to allow a person to rebut the designation,” Abbas added.

None of the changes would help American Muslims like Tanvir, Algibhah, Shinwari or Sajjad. The notification they received would not have to confirm that the FBI was responsible for their placement or that there was any wrongdoing by agents. It would not have to confirm that rights had been violated—and probably would not to protect the government from lawsuits.

“It remains far too easy for the government to place people on the No-Fly List and far too difficult for those people to challenge that decision,” Ramzi Kassem of the Creating Law Enforcement Accountability & Responsibility (CLEAR) Project, co-counsel in the lawsuit.

The notification letters suggest that the best way for American Muslims to get off the No Fly List is to sue the government, however, not every American Muslim on the watch list has the will to challenge the government and risk further intimidation and harassment.

The Justice Department maintains there is “no constitutional right not to become an informant.” No “religious burden” is imposed if an FBI agent demands that an American Muslim spy for the government. If it did burden them, it is an American Muslim’s responsibility to inform agents of their “religious objections.” And, despite losing multiple No Fly List lawsuits, the Justice Department is still unwilling to recognize that Americans have a “liberty interest” in air travel.

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Does FBI Use No-Fly List to Supply Informants?

Thursday June 11th, 2015 at 3:07 PM

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The U.S. government recently removed four law-abiding Muslim men from the no-fly list just days before a New York federal district court hears their case, scheduled for Friday.

Tanvir v. Lynch alleges that the FBI used the no-fly list to coerce Muslims into becoming informants on their community and that the government retaliated against them when they lawfully opted not to.

“The fact that the government has confirmed that all four of our clients now can fly really affirms our claims in this lawsuit that the only reason they were ever on a no-fly list is … they were refusing to be informants. There was never any valid reason for their placement,” said Diala Shamas, a senior staff attorney at CLEAR (Creating Law Enforcement Accountability and Responsibility) at the City University of New York School of Law, which brought the lawsuit along with the Center for Constitutional Rights and Debevoise & Plimpton.

According to the suit, Muhammed Tanvir, a resident of the New York City borough of Queens, was not allowed to travel after he refused multiple requests from FBI agents to work on their behalf, saying it would violate his religious beliefs. Furthermore, he said he had no useful information to share.

He was first approached by the FBI in early February 2007, and the suit alleges that the harassment continued for years and included a temporary confiscation of his passport and threats to deport him to Pakistan, where his wife and son lived.

The suit also alleges that the FBI believed him to be a “special,” “honest” and “hardworking” person and offered him incentives, help with his family’s travels to the U.S. and financial assistance for his parents to take religious trips to Saudi Arabia.

Tanvir believes he was placed on the no-fly list sometime before October 2010, after he refused to speak to the agents further.

“Had Mr. Tanvir actually presented a threat to aviation safety, [FBI agent Sanya] Garcia would not and could not have offered to remove Mr. Tanvir from the list merely in exchange for his willingness to become an informant,” the suit states.

The three other men included in the suit — Jameel Algibhah, Naveed Shinwari and Awais Sajjad — believe they too were prevented from traveling after refusing to work on behalf of the FBI, or they found themselves unable to travel and were told by the FBI that they could be removed from the list if they agreed to work as informants.

“I haven’t seen my family in a long time. My youngest daughter doesn’t even know me,” said Algibhah, whose wife and daughters live in Yemen, according to a Center for Constitutional Rights press release issued after the men were notified that they would again be able to fly in the U.S.

Sajjad said he would like to travel to Pakistan to see his ailing grandmother. Shinwari has been unable to visit his wife and family in Afghanistan since 2012.

The men say their First and Fifth Amendment rights to freedom of speech and association as well as freedom of religion and due process, among others, have been violated.  

The lawsuit names among the defendants the attorney general, FBI Director James Comey and more than a dozen FBI agents, some whose identities are not known.

The lawsuit is far from unique in its aim to make the government blacklist more transparent.

Last June, a federal judge in Oregon ruled in response to an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuitthat the government’s system for people to challenge their inclusion on the no-fly list was unconstitutional, noting that the redress process contained “a high risk of erroneous deprivation of plaintiffs’ constitutionally protected interests.” In response, seven of 13 American citizens or residents represented by the ACLU were cleared to fly, after having fought their ban for years. Two U.S. military veterans are among those who remain on the list.   

The government provided unclassified summaries about the ACLU clients regarding some of the reasons they may not have been able to fly. But none of those summaries included all the reasons, said Hugh Handeyside, a staff attorney in the ACLU's national security project.

The government “didn’t provide any actual evidence in support of the summaries,” he said. “They didn’t provide access to the witnesses against our clients … and there was no live hearing at which our clients could establish their credibility.”

The ACLU continues to fight the government regarding the constitutionality of the no-fly list, which the organization says “treats people as guilty without a trial and deprives them of their freedoms without due process.”

If someone is on the no-fly list, he or she cannot fly to or from the U.S. or in U.S. airspace. Several federal agencies — including the FBI, which administers the Terrorist Screening Center — can nominate someone for the list, but the government has not said what criteria are used to designate someone a threat.

The Department of Homeland Security alleges that if the government revealed this information, “terrorist organizations would be able to circumvent the watch list’s purpose by determining in advance which of their members were likely to be questioned or detained.”

The number of the people prevented from flying is unknown, but estimates range from more than 21,000 people in 2012 to about 48,000 in 2013 to 64,000 in 2014.

Nearly half the people in the U.S. terrorist screening database, of which the no-fly list is a subset, were found to have no connection to a terrorist group, according to a document obtained by online news site The Intercept last year.

The no-fly list is shared with 22 foreign governments, and people usually discover they are on the listonly when they try to fly and are not permitted to do so.  

If people believe they are on the list, they can submit a complaint to the Department of Homeland Security, which is then reviewed by the Terrorist Screening Center. They are notified by letter whether they are on the list and, if so, given instructions how to request additional information regarding why they were placed on the list.

But as the ACLU notes, a hearing is not provided.

The original primary guidelines of the government blacklist were to identify if a person was a threat to aviation and could be properly identified as such via “sufficient unclassified biographical data.”

There have long been allegations that the FBI has tried to coerce Americans, including law-abiding ones, to act as informants.

Former FBI Special Agent Michael German, who is now with the Brennan Center for Justice, said these allegations are true and are more acute for Americans living overseas. 

There needs to be proper redress and stronger regulations that are “constitutionally adequate” and don’t “deprive persons of the rights that they are entitled to,” he said, adding that coercing informants should not be part of the equation. Those put on the list, he said, must also have an “adequate forum to challenge the allegations against them.”

The case brought on behalf of Tanvir and the other men raises the larger issues of discriminatory policing, government surveillance and the profiling of Muslims.

“Post-9/11, the FBI has been very aggressively recruiting informants within the Muslim community, and they use a number of tools,” said CUNY’s Shamas. “Among them has been the no-fly list.”

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» FBI seized tech from home linked to celebrity hack - CNN
10/06/15 15:24 from fbi - Google News
CNN FBI seized tech from home linked to celebrity hack CNN Washington (CNN) FBI agents stormed a home in Chicago last fall and seized several computers, cell phones and storage drives in connection with the investigation into the hacking...

» FBI Arrests Two New York Correction Officers for Allegedly Beating an Inmate ... - Newsweek
10/06/15 14:30 from fbi - Google News
Newsweek FBI Arrests Two New York Correction Officers for Allegedly Beating an Inmate ... Newsweek FBI agents on Wednesday morning arrested two New York correction officers in the beating death of an inmate on Rikers Island, according to...

» FBI Arrests Two New York Correction Officers in Alleged Beating Death of Inmate - Newsweek
10/06/15 14:30 from fbi - Google News
Newsweek FBI Arrests Two New York Correction Officers in Alleged Beating Death of Inmate Newsweek FBI agents on Wednesday morning arrested two New York correction officers in the beating death of a Rikers Island inmate, according to the ...

» Internet Tax Ban Passes House, But Could Stall In Senate ...
10/06/15 13:01 from house judiciary committee - Google Blog Search

» Dennis Hastert Pleads Not Guilty to Lying to FBI - People Magazine
10/06/15 12:56 from fbi - Google News
People Magazine Dennis Hastert Pleads Not Guilty to Lying to FBI People Magazine Dennis Hastert pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges of lying to the FBI and making cash withdrawals designed to hide that he was paying someone off for his...

» FBI Arrests Two New York Correction Officers for Beating Death of Inmate - Newsweek
10/06/15 12:37 from fbi - Google News
Newsweek FBI Arrests Two New York Correction Officers for Beating Death of Inmate Newsweek The FBI on Wednesday reportedly arrested former officer Brian Coll and officer Byron Taylor in connection with Spear's death, according to a c...

» House panel to address criminal justice reform piece by piece - Reuters
10/06/15 12:25 from house judiciary committee - Google News
House panel to address criminal justice reform piece by piece Reuters Republican Representative Bob Goodlatte will announce on Wednesday, an aide said, that the House Judiciary Committee will hear ideas from members and then potentially ...

» FBI seizes computers involved in massive celebrity nudes ...
10/06/15 12:16 from fbi - Google Blog Search

» The FBI wants cracked encryption but Congress won't go along - Yahoo Finance
10/06/15 11:55 from fbi - Google News
Yahoo Finance The FBI wants cracked encryption but Congress won't go along Yahoo Finance The FBI is warning Congress that terrorists and other bad guys are keeping secrets using common messaging programs. Some members of Congress are...

» Ray Bradbury's biographer: FBI spied on the author's kids - 89.3 KPCC
10/06/15 11:44 from fbi - Google News
89.3 KPCC Ray Bradbury's biographer: FBI spied on the author's kids 89.3 KPCC Ray Bradbury's biographer, Sam Weller, says he was shocked by the FBI's incompetence and perfidy. First, they got Bradbury's name wrong in ...

» Black Panther informant - Contra Costa Times
10/06/15 11:26 from fbi - Google News
Black Panther informant Contra Costa Times Newly released FBI records reveal that Richard Masato Aoki, widely revered as a radical hero in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1960s, had a deep relationship with the FBI , informing on his f...

» Former FBI Cyber Division CTO Joins Consulting Firm K2 to Expand Security ... - Wall Street Journal (blog)
10/06/15 11:14 from fbi - Google News
Wall Street Journal (blog) Former FBI Cyber Division CTO Joins Consulting Firm K2 to Expand Security ... Wall Street Journal (blog) At the FBI , Mr. Patel led policy, strategy and tactical direction of technologies used in investigations...

» House Judiciary to Markup Innovation Act this Week - IPWatchdog.com
10/06/15 10:23 from house judiciary committee - Google News
IPWatchdog.com House Judiciary to Markup Innovation Act this Week IPWatchdog.com Yesterday, Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) gave an impassioned speech in the House of Representatives urging his colleagues on the House Judiciary Commi...

» TRUTH JIHAD RADIO: 9/11 truth filmmaker Art Olivier ...
10/06/15 09:34 from fbi - Google Blog Search

» Rep. Kate Klunk appointed to House Judiciary Committee - Evening Sun (subscription)
10/06/15 07:42 from house judiciary committee - Google News
Rep. Kate Klunk appointed to House Judiciary Committee Evening Sun (subscription) HARRISBURG >> Rep. Kate Klunk (R-York) has been appointed to serve on the House Judiciary Committee for the remainder of the 2015-16 Legislative Sess...

» 'Bandage Bandit' robs 7th bank, FBI says - WLS-TV
10/06/15 07:30 from fbi - Google News
WLS-TV 'Bandage Bandit' robs 7th bank, FBI says WLS-TV The man accused of robbing six banks in the Chicago area, nicknamed 'Bandage Bandit,' has allegedly robbed a seventh bank. He is believed to have robbed the Fifth Thi...

» US CIO defies the FBI, orders HTTPS for all government ...
10/06/15 06:57 from fbi - Google Blog Search

» FBI Alert Reveals 'Groups' Behind OPM Hack - Washington Free Beacon
10/06/15 05:01 from fbi - Google News
Washington Free Beacon FBI Alert Reveals 'Groups' Behind OPM Hack Washington Free Beacon The FBI has disclosed that multiple hacker groups carried out the cyber attack that compromised the records of 4 million government workers ...

» FBI Alert Reveals 'Groups' Behind OPM Hack | Washington ...
10/06/15 05:00 from fbi - Google Blog Search

» Analysis finds minorities arrested at a higher rate than whites in Mpls. - The Circle News
10/06/15 04:47 from fbi aclu report - Google News
Analysis finds minorities arrested at a higher rate than whites in Mpls. The Circle News Following FBI practice, the ACLU counts as an arrest encounters where people are merely stopped, ticketed and released. Minneapolis ... The ACLU rep...

» Almost 600 Accounts Breached in 'Celebgate' Nude Photo Hack, FBI Says - NBCNews.com
10/06/15 03:54 from fbi - Google News
NBCNews.com Almost 600 Accounts Breached in 'Celebgate' Nude Photo Hack, FBI Says NBCNews.com The stunning leak of nude and intimate photos of scores of celebrities may reach far wider than was previously known, involving the bre...

» Remarks Prepared for Delivery by ADIC Diego G. Rodriguez 
10/06/15 03:00 from Current
— New York

» Manhattan U.S. Attorney and FBI Announce Charges Against Three Correction Officers in Beating Death of Inmate at Rikers Island
10/06/15 03:00 from Current
— New York

» Missouri Man Pleads Guilty to Illinois Bank Robbery
10/06/15 03:00 from Current
— Springfield

» Deputy Sheriff Convicted for Withholding Evidence Favorable to a Defendant
10/06/15 03:00 from Current
— Atlanta

» Lincoln Couple Sentenced in Connection with Wire Fraud Scheme
10/06/15 03:00 from Current
— Omaha

» Eighteen Waco-Area Aryan Brotherhood Members and Associates Sentenced to Federal Prison for Role in Methamphetamine Distribution Operation
10/06/15 03:00 from Current
— San Antonio

» Former Youth Minister Pleads Guilty to Child Enticement Offense
10/06/15 03:00 from Current
— Dallas

» Washington Couple Admits Role in Scheme to Extort Money from Mother While Holding Her Children
10/06/15 03:00 from Current
— San Francisco

» Miami Dade College Student Sentenced to Five Years in Prison for His Involvement in a Stolen Identity Tax Refund Fraud Scheme Involving Student Financial Services Accounts
10/06/15 03:00 from Current
— Miami

» Correctional Officers Charged with Conspiracy to Violate Civil Rights
10/06/15 03:00 from Current
— Jacksonville

» Santa Fe Man Pleads Guilty to Unlawfully Trafficking Suboxone
10/06/15 03:00 from Current
— Albuquerque

» CFO Sentenced to Prison in Check Kiting Scheme and for Tax Evasion
10/06/15 03:00 from Current
— Pittsburgh

» Revelations on FBI spy fleet cloud surveillance reform - Al Jazeera America
10/06/15 02:07 from fbi - Google News
Al Jazeera America Revelations on FBI spy fleet cloud surveillance reform Al Jazeera America The FBI previously admitted it has used drone aircraft for surveillance, saying they are utilized only in select cases. At a hearing in 2013, FB...

» FBI pinpoints Chicago home, suspect in 2014 'Celebgate' nude photo leak - New York Daily News
10/06/15 01:21 from fbi - Google News
New York Daily News FBI pinpoints Chicago home, suspect in 2014 'Celebgate' nude photo leak New York Daily News No arrests have been made in the online hacking scandal that exposed intimate pics from the iCloud accounts of Jennif...

» NSA law now faces test: Will it actually work? - Columbia Daily Herald
10/06/15 01:21 from james b. comey - Google News
NSA law now faces test: Will it actually work? Columbia Daily Herald In a classified briefing for senators on May 12, FBI Director James B . Comey and the NSA's Rogers said the NSA's database had big gaps because of technical pro...

» Police-FBI task force executes Milwaukee gang crackdown - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
09/06/15 23:20 from fbi - Google News
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Police- FBI task force executes Milwaukee gang crackdown Milwaukee Journal Sentinel The MPD- FBI Gang Task Force fanned out across Milwaukee's north side just after dawn Tuesday, executing eight search warr...

» Minneapolis man who threatened FBI released prior to sentencing - Minneapolis Star Tribune
09/06/15 22:57 from fbi - Google News
Minneapolis Star Tribune Minneapolis man who threatened FBI released prior to sentencing Minneapolis Star Tribune A Minneapolis man convicted of threatening FBI agents who arrived on his doorstep to question his brother about alleged ter...

» Dennis Hastert pleads not guilty amid claims of hush money, lying to FBI - Chicago Tribune
09/06/15 20:31 from fbi - Google News
BuzzFeed News Dennis Hastert pleads not guilty amid claims of hush money, lying to FBI Chicago Tribune According to the charges, Hastert had already paid $1.7 million to the acquaintance, identified only as Individual A, then lied about ...

» US House votes for permanent ban on Internet access taxes - Yahoo News UK
09/06/15 19:12 from house judiciary committee - Google News
Yahoo News UK US House votes for permanent ban on Internet access taxes Yahoo News UK The bipartisan measure, passed by voice vote, also bans discriminatory taxes on e-commerce. "This legislation prevents a surprise tax hike on Amer...

» Computers 'at centre of Fappening celebrity nude photo ...
09/06/15 19:00 from fbi - Google Blog Search

» US House votes for permanent ban on Internet access taxes - Reuters
09/06/15 18:53 from house judiciary committee - Google News
Reuters US House votes for permanent ban on Internet access taxes Reuters "This legislation prevents a surprise tax hike on Americans' critical services this fall," said the bill's sponsor, Republican House Judiciary Co...

» Why social sciences are just as important as STEM disciplines - Washington Post
09/06/15 18:32 from james b. comey - Google News
Why social sciences are just as important as STEM disciplines Washington Post For example, FBI Director James B . Comey recently warned that some terror groups are increasing their reliance on social media to disseminate information and ...

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